Dearfellowstudents，MayIhaveyou-优题课

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Have you complained your family, your boss, or even your life? Maybe everyone has, but after reading this story, you may change your view and treat the world with another attitude.
An ass (驴), (belong) to an herb-seller who gave him too little food and too much work, could not bear the life any longer. So he made a petition (请求) to God, to be released from his present service and provided with master. After warning him he would regret doing it, God made him to be sold to a tile-maker. Shortly afterwards, the ass found that he had (heavy) loads to carry and harder work in the brick-field, and asked for another change again. God, telling him that it would be last time that he could satisfy his request, made him sold to a tanner (皮革工). The ass found that he (fall) into worse hands. Knowing his new master’s occupation, he said, “It would have been better for me either to have been starved by the first owner to have been overworked by the second. But now I have already been bought by my present owner, will peel off my skin even after I am dead, and make me useful .”
We can see that people with dissatisfaction in a place are not (like) to find happiness in another.

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Once upon a time, a poor traveler stopped under a tree. From his bag he took out a bowl of _______ (boil) rice and started to eat. Nearby was a small shop,______ a woman was selling fried fish to travelers able to pay for it. When the man finished eating and got up to leave, she shouted, “You have not paid me for your meal!”
“But I ordered ______ from you!” he said.
“______ everyone sees, you enjoyed the smell of my fried fish with your rice,” argued the woman. “If you hadn’t smelt the fish, your meal would not have been so_______ (please)!”
Soon a crowd gathered,_______ supported the traveler, but also agreed that the wind was blowing from the shop to the place where he had eaten, ______ (carry) the smell of the fried fish to him.
At last, the woman took him to a judge and after_______ (tell) the judge the story, she insisted that _______ the man had enjoyed her fish smell, he should pay 25 cents. After hearing the evidence, the judge asked the man to drop a 25-cent coin on the ground. “Here is your payment, the sound of 25 cents _______ the smell of the fried fish.”

How do learning habits influence learning results? It’s useful and necessary to discuss learning habits. There is a famous（say）“Good habits lead to good endings”, which shows the importance of habits.
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” also（show） a healthy everyday habit helps to build up our body. Thus, good learning habits can help us gain great learning results, high scores and abundant knowledge （include）. At first, learning habits form our ways of thinking and （attitude） to the content of our learning. （obvious）, a good habit can help us to speed up to reach our destinations. As we can see, developing a good habit is so important that I would like to introduce one kind of good learning habits — keeping learning diary every day. We can start the habit by （write）a learning summary and remember to record something impressive and meaningful. Keep it in mind, gradually we can gain this good learning habit and benefit from it.
What’s（much）, I find out that I still have some bad learning habits well. I can only concentrate on reading for a short time, and I will conquer this problem by spending more efforts on concentration practice.
I believe that through my efforts, I can gain good learning results by having good habits.

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Mike: I’d like to buy a computer. Could you please give meadvice?
Rose: Yes, with (please). I’ve got some information about computers. Computers with a P4 work much(fast) than other ones.
Mike : How about computers with a P3 ?
Rose: Oh, very good,they don’t work as fast as P4 computers, yet they are much cheaper. Generally (speak), they can meet people’s very well.
Mike: I think I buy the fastest one I can get. My old computer was out of work lately. It(work) slowly. I’ve got tired of that working speed.
Rose: I don’t think is necessary for you to buy the fastest one. It would be a waste of money. A P3 computer is ( probable) good enough for you.
Mike: Thank you for your advice. Can you help me choose one?

SECTION C （共8小题；每小题 1.5分，满分12分）
Directions: Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one word that best fits the context.
In most colleges and universities the examination is used as a chief means of deciding whether a student succeeds or fails in mastering a particular subject. Although it does the job quite efficiently,side effects are also enormous.
To begin, examinations lower the standards of teaching. Since teachers are often judged examination results, they are reduced to training their students in exam techniques. No subjects can be taught successfully merely through being approached with intent to take examinations. In addition, the most undesirable effect isexaminations encourage bad study habits. Asexamination score is the only criterion for his academic performance, a student is driven to memorize mechanically ratherto think creatively.
In fact, fewus admit that examinations can contribute anything really important to the students’ academic development. If that is the case,cannot we make a change and devise something more efficient and reliable than examinations?