I used to be the messiest person alive．Over the years, through watching others and by trial and error, I have finally found ways to come up with plans, organize them and follow through with them．
Make an outline of everything you need to have and do to make your plan happen．Make a list of all of the steps that need to be accomplished and think about what needs to be done．
Detail everything thoroughly and read over it so you can start coming up with some mental solutions of how to carry out your plans．
You should ensure that if for some reason way one doesn’t work, you have way two and way three to lean back on．Therefore, different ways are needed at hand．It’s just a matter of being organized．Chances are that there is always more than one way of doing things, and chances are that if one of those ways doesn’t work, one of the other ones will．
Commit yourself to finishing at least part if not all of your plan at once is also necessary．It will show that you not only have initiative to get things rolling, but that you are interested in the results obtained with making the move to get everything done．
If you make a commitment to finish before a specific time, make sure that you carry that out, and be sure to do everything in the way you said you would, within the time-frame you set for yourself．
Don’t try to tackle more things all at a time．All that does is delay your progress, distract you and make you lose your interest, motivation and energy．
Carrying out an effective plan requires being as organized as possible．You will only achieve this by sticking to the order of the plan and not deviating or trying to do more at a time．
Last but not least, you should never abandon things mid-project．It will only annoy everyone around you including yourself．Unfinished plans are a waste of time, energy and, in some cases, even money．
So, don’t be afraid of organization．The older we get, the more necessary it becomes to have the skills to follow through with confidence and to be able to carry through plans in an organized and manageable way．It pays to be organized, after all．
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Stick to the order of your plan |
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| Finish what you have started |
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| You shouldn’t be afraid of organization because it’s really worthwhile． |
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完形填空 (共20 小题；每小题1分；满分20分)
阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从1---20各题所给的四个选项中,选出最佳选项.
Seven loyal readers came to the Teens’ office two weeks ago. They had a wonderful day learning how to make a newspaper. But what 1 made them excited was that they had their say(发言权).
"What most 2 me was when I was saying something, I found all eyes were on me," said Tang Shining, one of the students. Her friend, Li Chunbei 3 , and felt very glad that when she was talking, the editors nodded and 4 took notes.
Students are happy to see the editors listen to their 5 . You may often 6 about being neglected（忽视） by teachers and parents. 7 before complaining please make sure that you have already spoken about your 8 .
Traditionally in China, teachers at school and parents were 9 the ones to tell teenagers what they should and shouldn’t do. The young are 10 to doing what they are told, rather than thinking by themselves. But then their ideas would be locked in their brain and not be 11 .
A girl wrote to Teens about her family story. She 12 to be very sad because her father seldom talked and played with her. After years of consideration, she 13 decided to write her father a letter, telling him about her sadness. To her 14 , the father 15 , saying that he didn’t realize his mistake. From then on, he really 16 .
Sometimes, we need to let our 17 be heard, so others can understand our thoughts and feelings.
Don’ t be afraid of being 18 for what you have done. You know it is your 19 to speak your mind. Even if your suggestions are denied, at least you have tried your best. You will not be left with any 20 .
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短文填词(共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分)
阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1)汉语提示，2)首字母提示，3)语境提示，在每个空格内填人一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。
Visiting friends is probably one of the most common occurrences, in daily
life. Generally s, it is polite to call a friend before
you visit, but often very close friends just drop in each other
without calling. Some people enjoy a （惊喜）visit from a friend,__
but many people do not. Take Americans for example, those don’t
like surprise visits may tell their friends to call first they come.
This is （可接受的）because most people are vey busy. Dropping
in at a busy time can lto some problems for the person visiting
and the person visited. It is a good idea to ask a friend whe or
she minds your just visiting wcalling. If you are not
sure your friend （欢迎）surprise visits, call first.
Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the numbered blanks by using the information from the passage.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
Maybe you are an average student. You probably think you will never be a top student. This is not necessary so, however. Anyone can become a better student if he or she wants to. Here’s how:
1. Plan your time carefully. When you plan your week, you should make a list of things that you have to do. After making this list, you should make a schedule of your time. First your time for eating, sleeping, dressing, etc. then decide a good, regular time for studying. Don’t forget to set aside enough time for entertainment. A weekly schedule may not solve all your problems, but it will force you to realize what is happening to your time.
2. Find a good place to study. Look around the house for a good study area. Keep this space, which may be a desk or simply a corner of your room, free of everything but study materials. No games, radios, or television! When you sit down to study, concentrate on the subject.
3. Make good use of your time in class. Take advantage of class time to listen to everything the teachers say. Really listening in class means less work later. Taking notes will help you remember what the teacher says.
4. Study regularly. When you get home from school, go over your notes. Review the important points that your teacher mentioned in class. If you know what your teacher is going to discuss the next day, read that material will become more meaningful, and you will remember it longer.
5. Develop a good attitude about tests. The purpose of a test is to show what you have learned about a subject. They help you remember your new knowledge. The world won’t end if you don’t pass a test, so don’t be overly worried.
There are other methods that might help you with your studying. You will probably discover many others after you have tried these.
How to become a better student
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| Plan your time carefully |
Make a list |
Force you to realize(6) ____ is happening to your time |
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Free of everything but (2) ______ |
You can (7) ______on the subject |
| Make good use of your time in class |
Listen to everything the teachers say |
Really listening in class means (8) ______ |
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Go over your notes |
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Help you (9) _____it better , remember it longer |
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Don’t be (5) ______ worried |
Remember your new (10) ______ |
阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在表格中的空白处填入恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填一个单词，并请将答案写在答题纸上。
The family sphere (范围) used to be defined by its isolation from the public realm. There was the public male realm (领域) of "rational accomplishment" and cruel competition, and the private female and child-rearing sphere of home, intuition (直觉) and emotion. The private realm was supposed to be isolated from the realities of adult life. For both better and worse, television and other electronic media tend to break down the difference between those two worlds. The membrane around the family sphere is much more permeable (可渗透的). TV takes public events and transforms them into dramas that are played out in the privacy of our living rooms, kitchens and bedrooms.
Parents used to be the channel through which children learned about the outside world. They could decide what to tell their children and when to tell it to them. Since children learn to read in stages, books provide a kind of natural screening process, where adults can decide what to tell and not tell children of different reading abilities. Television destroyed the system that separated adult from child knowledge and separated information into year-by-year slices for children of different ages. Instead, it presents the same information directly to children of all ages, without going through adult filters.
So television presents a real challenge to adults. While a parent can read a newspaper without sharing it with children in the same room, television is accessible to everyone in that space. And unlike books, television doesn’t allow us to flip (翻转) through it and see what’s coming up. We may think we’re giving our children a lesson in science by having them watch the Challenger take off, and then suddenly they learn about death, disaster and adult mistakes.
Books allow adults to discuss privately what to tell or not tell children. This also allows parents to keep adult material secret from children and keep their secret keeping secret. Take that same material and put it on The Today Show and you have 800,000 children hearing the very things the adults are trying to keep from them. "Television takes our kids across the globe before parents give them permission to cross the street."
More importantly, children gradually learn that adults are worried and anxious about being parents. Actually, television has also places families under a lot of stress.
How Television Changes Childhood?
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| Distance between 1and the outside. |
Homes used to be isolated from the 2realm. |
| Homes nowadays are 3to the outside world. |
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| Media through which children can obtain information |
In the past, children might learn 4about the outside world with the help of parents and 5. |
| More information is got directly through TV and other electronic media, which breaks down the 6between adult world and the child world. |
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Traditionally, kids could only knew what they should learn at their age, carefully 8by their parents. |
| Everything can possibly be known by children, including many aspects of 9life. |
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Families are now under greater stress than before. Adults are anxious about being parents and faced with new 10. |
请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入1个最恰当的单词。
注意：每个空格只填1个单词。
How we look and how we appear to others probably worries us more when we are in our teens or early twenties than at any other time in our life. Few of us are content to accept ourselves as we are, and few are brave enough to ignore the trends of fashion.
Most fashion magazines or TV advertisements try to persuade us that we should dress in a certain way or behave in a certain manner. If we do, they tell us, we will be able to meet new people with confidence and deal with every situation confidently and without embarrassment. Changing fashion, of course, does not apply just to dress. A barber today does not cut a boy’s hair in the same way as he used to, and girls do not make up in the same way as their mothers and grandmothers did. The advertisers show us the latest fashionable styles and we are constantly under pressure to follow the fashion in case our friends think we are odd or dull.
What causes fashions to change? Sometimes convenience or practical necessity or just the fancy of an influential person can establish a fashion. Take hats for example. In cold climates, early buildings were cold inside, so people wore hats indoors as well as outside. In recent times, the late President Kennedy caused a depression in the American hat industry by not wearing hats, and more American men followed his example.
There is also a cyclical(周期性的) pattern in fashion. In the 1920s in Europe and America, short skirts became fashionable. After World War II, they dropped to ankle length. Then they got shorter and shorter until the miniskirt was in fashion. After a few more years, skirts became longer again.
Today, society is much freer and easier than it used to be. It is no longer necessary to dress like everyone else. Within reason, you can dress as you like or do your hair the way you like instead of the way you should because it is the fashion. The popularity of jeans and the “untidy” look seems to be a reaction against the increasingly expensive fashion of the top fashion houses.
At the same time, appearance is still important in certain circumstances and then we must choose our clothes carefully. It would be foolish to go to an interview for a job in a law firm wearing jeans and a sweater, and it would be discourteous(失礼的) to visit some distinguished scholar looking as if we were going to the beach or a night club. However, you need never feel depressed if you don’t look like the latest fashion photo. Look around you and you’ll see that no one else does either!
Fashion Change
| People’s (1)▲ towards fashion |
Ordinary people just (2)▲ the trends of fashion passively. |
| Influences of fashion |
People are able to feel more confident or less (3)▲ if they dress themselves fashionably. |
| Fashion or dressing (4)▲ may have to rush constantly to keep up with the fashion. |
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| (5)▲ of fashion changing |
Sometimes a fashion comes into existence (6)▲ to convenience or practical necessity, or just because people (7)▲ an influential person. |
| Cyclical pattern in fashion |
Some old fashion may come back to (8)▲ after a certain period of time. |
| Fashion today |
People tend to dress freely to show their personal (9)▲ instead of going after popularity. |
| Writer’s attitude |
We do need to dress ourselves properly on some (10)▲ but we don’t have to be in fashion all the way. |