Do you ever feel like you are studying a mad rush of one subject after another? When things happen at such a pace, it is easy to lose sight of what you are learning. It is important to every now and then to think about what you have been learning.
Self reflection(反思)means stopping the mad rush and yourself so that your brain can evaluate what it has already .Some people prefer to do their self reflections _ _, while others keep a journal. Either method can work, depending on what your own personal is.
School textbooks are often divided into units. This can make it for someone to begin the process of self reflection. Watch for the times when you complete a unit of study. Sometimes you are reminded that the unit is _ because there is some kind of test or quiz. Use these natural as opportunities to stop and reflect.
You should find a place---anywhere without noise is OK. This can even be sitting at your desk at school when you finish something and the other students are still working. If you are going to take notes, take out your journal Write down some notes on things that you learned in this unit. Let your mind think about the notes you have written and make some .
Sometimes just pausing to think deeply allows your brain to make connections _ new information can quickly appear when you it again. Next, think about things that you still wonder about. , maybe you learned about a certain body system, but you don't how it works with the other body systems. Maybe you learned a new way to solve a math problem, but you are not sure when to use it. Writing down your will help you remember to continue seeking answers the next time your the same topic.
Self reflection is an essential skill for a student. If you have never taken the time to reflect, try it now.
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Up in Smoke
It’s two in the morning, and we’re all running and fighting the smoke.
The smoke is so ______ that I can’t see more than three feet in front of me. I’m sweating and ______, and if my lungs weren’t black and cloudy, I would be screaming. Flashes, light, flames here and there, and for a second I think I am ______.
We run back and forth, side to side looking for a ______ out with our painful blind eyes. Things are blowing up in the next room. I can’t think about anything. I can’t ______ my brothers. My mother’s crazy screams can’t get to me. I’m ______ focused on myself: my life, to get out, to survive, me, me, me. I can’t ______.
Glass pieces, from the fist of a brave man. He seizes me first and ______ me out the broken window. My bare feet hit the ground and glass from the window ______ into them. Air races into my lungs.
I’m sitting on a sofa letting someone wash the black from my face. My family is crying. Why can’t I ______? I hear my mom say she thinks I’m still ______. For the first time I make eye contact with her and try to squeeze out a tear. It doesn’t ______.
I go to school, come home, go to my room, and by 5 a. m. I have ______ myself to sleep. I hate this new town and this huge house. The only thing that keeps me ______ is my sister and a Saosin CD. Because it never stops playing, I ______ start sleeping with it on. I don’t know if it’s the comfort of Anthony Green’s voice, or time, but sleep becomes ______.
I wonder if my sister hears me crying in the next room. I wonder if she is as ______ as I am. I wonder if to her this brick house replaces our old green house. In my heart it doesn’t ______.
I’ve shared with you the darkest of my life. I am much better now. I can convince you,______, that I’ve not perfectly recovered. I am still homesick. I sleep with a nightlight and often an old Saosin CD. The fire ______ me. It scarred me.
A．thick B．serious C．thorough D．swift
A．rushing B．crying C．hurrying D．speaking
A．conflicting B．escaping C．fighting D．dying
A．passage B．solution C．way D．door
A．worry about B．depend on C．hear from D．come across
A．rarely B．approximately C．naturally D．completely
A．describe B．breathe C．survive D．continue
A．pushes B．divides C．pulls D．drags
A．slips B．digs C．slides D．drops
A．see B．cry C．laugh D．shout
A．in shock B．in trouble C．in vain D．in danger
A．come B．do C．work D．pause
A．allowed B．informed C．expected D．cried
A．awake B．acute C．alive D．active
A．severely B．eventually C．slightly D．explicitly
A．harder B．shorter C．easier D．longer
A．homegrown B．home-like C．home-made D．homesick
A．compare B．pass C．imagine D．decide
A．then B．besides C．though D．meanwhile
A．inspired B．changed C．motivated D．polished
To a watching world, Mike and Mary Murray were a perfect couple. They had been high school sweethearts.
And they ______ to have a happy marriage. Mike had a good job, and Mary was able to ______ home with their children. They owned their home and ______ kids, two cars, and a family dog. ______ to Mike, after seven years of marriage, something was terribly wrong. The Murrays had ______ their material goals and Mike ______, “Now what?” He began to look to his job for fulfillment and often worked 60 hour ______. Mary poured herself into the children. It was so ______ for her to turn her focus from Mike to 6-month-old Eric and 2-year-old Brittany.
And now the marriage seemed ______. Their lives were traveling in two different directions. They no longer really communicated---yes, they answered ______ questions, but they didn’t talk ______ as they had in the early years of their marriage. Mike felt trapped. “I ______ had time to do things that I wanted to,” he said. Mike did not share his feelings with Mary. Instead, he followed the slippery path of many others---he became involved with (与……纠缠不清) a woman at work, who was ______ her husband. It began as a simple friendship. “I was able to listen and she was able to listen,” Mike recalls.
Mary ______ the battle in Mike’s soul. “He wasn’t home as much, and we weren’t talking as much, ” she said. “I was wrapped up in the kids and I just couldn’t imagine anything ever ______.” The situation became worse when the Murrays attended a wedding and began to argue. Mary asked Mike if he was seeing ______ and he said, “Yes. It’s just an emotional(情感的)thing.” Mike can still remember the ______ of hurt and total surprise on Mary’s face. She was troubled, and he knew that he had turned against his best friend ______ high school. The expression on her face jarred(刺激) him into ______, and he began to understand the ______ he was doing to his family.
A．happened B．appeared C．looked D．had
A．live in B．study at C．stay at D．be out of
A．one B．no C．three D．two
A．Luckily B．As C．Thanks D．But
A．arrived B．reached C．got to D．made
A．surprised B．understood C．wondered D．asked
A．a week B．for a week C．on a week D．over a week
A．difficult B．comfortable C．apply D．easy
A．empty B．separate C．full of job D．true of life
A．simple B．surface C．scientific D．social
A．at all B．anything C．heart to heart D．in pain
A．really B．likely C．always D．never
A．loved by B．separated from C．different from D．cared by
A．knew B．understood C．admitted D．had no idea of
A．to take place B．to happen C．happening D．done
A．her B．someone else C．the matter D．anything
A．look B．face C．feeling D．want
A．since B．from C．to D．of
A．fact B．reality C．her life D．his life
A．good B．wrong C．harm D．harmful
A young girl, Hattie, stood outside a small church from where she had been turned away because it was too crowded. A kind pastor carried her ______ and found a place for her to sit in the back. He also told
her they could build a ______ Sunday school by raising money.
The pastor didn't see ______ again until he heard from her parents some two years later. Hattie had sadly died and her parents called for the kind-hearted pastor, who had treated their daughter ______, to handle the final arrangements. As her poor little body was ______, a worn and wrinkled purse appeared in front of them. Inside was found 57 cents and ______, reading "This is to help to build the little church bigger ______ more children can go to Sunday school."
For two years she had saved for this offering of ______. When the pastor ______ read that note, he knew immediately what he would do. ______ this note and the cracked, red pocketbook to the pulpit, he ______ the story of her unselfish love and devotion.He challenged his deacons (助祭) to get busy and raise enough money for the larger building. ______ the story doesn't end there!
A newspaper learned of the story and ______ it.It was ______ by a rich man who offered them a parcel of land worth many thousands.When told that the church couldn't pay so ______, he offered it for a(n) ______payment.
Church members made large donations.Checks _____ from far and wide.Within five years the little girl's ______ had increased to $250,000.00,Her unselfish love had paid large shares.
When you visit Philadelphia, look up Temple Baptist Church, with a ______ capacity of 3,300.In one room may be seen the ______ of the sweet face of the little girl, whose 57 cents made such remarkable history.
A．away B．off C．inside D．out
A．new B．larger C．higher D．modern
A．Hattie B．children C．church D．school
A．fairly B．badly C．well D．equally
A．buried B．hidden C．burnt D．moved
A．a note B．a letter C．a purse D．a box
A．in case B．now that C．even if D．so that
A．money B．love C．friendship D．donation
A．hopefully B．tearfully C．quietly D．excitedly
A．Carrying B．Holding C．Seizing D．Catching
A．stated B．announced C．spoke D．told
A．So B．But C．And D．Or
A．published B．interviewed C．broadcast D．released
A．discovered B．heard C．read D．watched
A．much B．little C．more D．less
A．$1,000 B．57-cent C．nothing D．$100
A．filled B．paid C．ran D．flied
A．gift B．help C．idea D．thought
A．sitting B．covering C．seating D．including
A．memory B．picture C．bill D．expression
Mr. Glen is a millionaire. Five years ago, after returning from abroad to his motherland, he ______ his small company. Speaking of success, Glen often tells us a story about his extra expensive “school” fee. He always ______ his success to it.
At that time, Glen, who already got a Ph.D. degree, ______ to return to the homeland, starting a company. Before leaving, he bought a Rolex watch with the ______ made through years of work after school and the scholarships. At the airport he had to accept the ______ customs check. The watch on his wrist was also demanded to be taken down for ______. Glen knew that carrying the specific goods out had to pay the tax, and he worried about paying ______ for his watch. So when he was checked, he told a lie that his watch was a ______ fake（假货）. When he was ______ of his “smarts”, immediately, in the presence of Glen, the officers hit the watch,______ cost nearly 100,000, into pieces ______ hearing Glen’s words. Glen was ______. Before he understood why, he was taken to the office to be examined ______. For many times of entry-exit ______ he knew that only those people in the “blacklist” would “enjoy” this special treatment. The officers looked over everything carefully in the box, and ______ him no matter what time of entry and exit he must accept the check and if ______ reusing and carrying fake and shoddy goods, he would be ______ according to law! Suddenly, his face turned red, and he had nothing in mind after boarding the plane for long.
After returning to the homeland, he often told the story to his family, and his employees, too. He said that this made a deep ______ on him, because the additional high “school” fee that he had ever paid made him realize the value of ______, which he would remember as the ______ of his success forever.
A．set up B．took up C．went up D．picked up
A．honors B．mentions C．brings D．owes
A．decided B．refused C．objected D．asked
A．books B．things C．savings D．pounds
A．ordinary B．routine C．regular D．common
A．look B．inspection C．test D．experiment
A．one B．it C．them D．these
A．priceless B．useful C．worthless D．valuable
A．afraid B．proud C．ashamed D．hard
A．that B．what C．as D． which
A．on B．at C．who D．in
A．disappointed B．delighted C．amazed D．satisfied
A．strictly B．quietly C．quickly D．curiously
A．conditions B．experiences C．experiments D．chances
A．stopped B．hoped C．warned D．urged
A．came out B．found out C．sent out D．set out
A．hit B．blamed C．praised D．charged
A．expression B．idea C．thought D．impression
A．honesty B．lies C．goods D．bravery
A．secret B．lesson C．choice D．belief
One cold night, I was growing sick of my life in San Francisco. There I was walking home around one o’clock in the morning after a ______ practice at the theatre. With the opening night only a week away, I was still learning my lines by heart. I was having ________ handling my part-time job at the bank in the daytime and my acting at night at the same time. As I walked, I thought seriously about ________ both acting and San Francisco. I had ________ too much of the city life.
As I walked down the ________ streets under the tall buildings, I felt very small and cold, so I began ________ both to keep warm and to keep away from any possible robbers. Very few people were still out ________ a few homeless people under blankets.
About a block from my ________, I heard a sound behind me. I ______ quickly, half expecting to see someone with a knife or a gun. The street was empty. All I saw was a shining streetlight. Still, the noise had made me ________ so I started to run faster. Not until I reached my apartment building and unlocked the door did I ________ what the noise had been. It had been my wallet ________ to the sidewalk.
Suddenly I wasn’t cold or tired anymore. I ran out of the door and back to where I’d heard the noise. Although I searched the sidewalk ________ for 15 minutes, my wallet was ________ to be found.
Just as I was about to quit the ________, I heard the garbage truck stop to the sidewalk next to ________. When a voice came from the inside, “Alisa Camcho? ” I thought I was dreaming. How could this man know my name? The door opened and out jumped a small blonde man with an ________ look in his eyes. “Is this ________ you’re looking for? ” He asked, holding up something like a wallet.
Finally, I got my wallet back. I also got back some ________ of city life. I realized the city couldn’t be a bad place as soon as people were willing to ________ each other.
A．comfortable B．serious C．tiresome D．fortunate
A．comfort B．desire C．pain D．trouble
A．setting up B．giving up C．holding up D．picking up
A．expected B．changed C．controlled D．possessed
A．deserted B．crowded C．blank D．narrow
A．running B．jumping C．moving D．marching
A．towards B．except C．including D．between
A．bank B．theatre C．apartment D．office
A．stood B．walked C．turned D．left
A．satisfied B．confused C．frightened D．annoyed
A．turn out B．figure out C．give out D．pull out
A．belonging B．adding C．sticking D．falling
A．gratefully B．anxiously C．skilfully D．delightedly
A．nowhere B．anywhere C．everywhere D．somewhere
A．instruction B．training C．search D．acting
A．it B．him C．someone D．me
A．amused B．unpleasant C．uneasy D．embarrassed
A．what B．who C．whichever D．whomever
A．production B．judgment C．friendship D．appreciation
A．expect B．help C．share D．love