Habits to Be a Highly Effective Student
Some students are able to get straight A’s and at the same time serve as the president of three clubs. However, some students struggle to keep their GPA (Grade-Point Average) above a 3.0. 1.Although it’s true that everyone’s IQ is different, good study habits are very important. Here are several habits you should adopt to get good grades.
2. If you haven’t had a planner (规划薄), get one. Many people use their computers and smartphones to make a schedule. The problem with that approach is that they are major distractions. Instead, get an old-fashioned paper and pen planner.
Create a weekly schedule. 3. Include time that will be spent eating, sleeping and doing anything not related to school work. That way you know exactly how much you can accomplish each day.
Take frequent, short breaks. Taking a break from studying for 15 minutes every hour will help keep you refreshed. 4. If you don’t take a break, you may find yourself daydreaming or even falling asleep. Take some time for some water, a snack or a quick chat with a friend.
Take care of yourself. During final exam week, it is common for students to fall behind on sleep and meals. Make sure you get a good night’s sleep and have regular meals. Studying while hungry or sleepy is ineffective and will slow you down in the long run. Also try to make time for friends and family. 5.
A. Keep things organized.
B. Keep away from your computers.
C. Of course, not everyone needs breaks.
D. Our brains are not meant to work for hours nonstop.
E. Having a good support system will help with all the stress.
F. And they seem to spend all of their time in studying.
G. Then under each day, make a list of things to do each hour.
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In fairy tales, it's usually the princess that needs protecting. At Google in Silicon Valley, the princess is the one defending the castle. Parisa Tabriz is a 31-year-old with perhaps the most unique job title in engineering- “Google Security Princess”. Her job is to hack into the most popular web browser（浏览器）on the planet, trying to find weaknesses in the system before the “black hats” do. To defeat Google's attackers, Tabriz must firstly think like them.
Tabriz's role has evolved dramatically in the eight years since she first started working at Google. Back then, the young graduate from Illinois University was one of 50 security engineers---today there are over 500.
Cybercrime（网络犯罪）has come a long way in the past decade - from the Nigerian Prince Scam to credit card theft. Tabriz's biggest concern now is the people who find bugs in Google's software, and sell the information to governments or criminals. To fight against this, the company has set up a Vulnerability Rewards Program, paying anywhere from $100 to $ 20, 000 for reported mistakes.
It's a world away from Tabriz's computer-free childhood home in Chicago. The daughter of an Iranian-American doctor father, and Polish-American nurse mother, Tabriz had little contact with computers until she started studying engineering at college. Gaze across a line-up of Google security staff today and you'll find women like Tabriz are few and far between（稀少的）--- though in the last few years she has hired more female tech geniuses. She admits there's an obvious gender disequilibrium in Silicon Valley.
Funnily enough, during training sessions Tabriz first asks new colleagues to hack into not a computer, but a vending machine. Tabriz's job is as much about technological know-how（专门知识）as understanding the psychology of attackers.
1.What can we learn about Tabriz from the passage?
A. She was the first female engineer at Google.
B. She must think differently so as to defeat the attackers.
C. Her job relates to not only technology but also psychology.
D. Her frequent contact with computers in childhood benefits her a lot.
2.Why has Google set up a Vulnerability Rewards Program?
A. To protect Google against cybercrime.
B. To monitor the normal operation of Google.
C. To help the government locate the cybercriminals.
D. To raise people's awareness of personal information safety.
3.What does the underlined word “disequilibrium” in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A. Imbalance. B. Preference.
C. Difference. D. Discrimination.
4.Which of the following could be the best title of this passage?
A. What leads to cybercrime
B. The “Security Princess” who guards Google
C. Measures taken by Google to protect its users
D. How to become an excellent security engineer
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When one California construction worker, Colin Blevin arrived at work at around 7 a.m. on Monday morning, he noticed a car was blocking the entranceway to the construction site. While asking the driver to move, Colin spotted a baby in a car seat. “He moved the car and I pulled in,” Blevin said. “The back door was cracked open and I saw a baby.”
Blevin had no idea that earlier that morning, a car with a 1-year-old had been stolen about 90 miles away while the baby’s father ran inside to order his lunch. “I didn’t know what was going on. I didn’t know initially the baby was in danger and there was an AMBER Alert,” Blevin said.
Even though everything appeared pretty normal, Blevin’s instincts told him something was wrong. After parking his car, a local woman walked over and confirmed his suspicions. The lady told him quietly, “Help me save this baby.” She said, “You have to save this baby. The guy tried to give it to me.” He looked into the car and there was a beautiful chunky baby looking at him. The baby was calm, clean, with a bottle on his chest.
Blevin met the man, 44-year-old Raymond Randy Gutierrez, and asked whose baby was in the car. “He said a lady gave him the car and left the baby in the car,” Blevin said. “And right away I thought that makes no sense. The baby was well taken care of and this guy was dirty, skinny and nervous.” Blevin grabbed the baby from the car and Gutierrez ran away when he called 911. Police caught Gutierrez later that day and were able to reunite the baby with his parents.
1.How did the driver get the car?
A. A father left it to him. B. He stole it.
C. A lady gave it to him. D. He bought it.
2.What did the driver decide to do with the baby?
A. To sell it to a father. B. To take care of it himself.
C. To leave it in the car. D. To give it to a woman.
3.What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. The baby. B. The car.
C. A bottle. D. His lunch.
4.What made Blevin suspect the baby didn’t belong to the driver?
A. The expression of the driver.
B. The appearance of the baby and the driver.
C. The time when he found the baby
D. The place where the car parked.
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The American Robin (知更鸟)
Characteristics
The American robin is 8 to 11 inches in length and 12 to 16 inches in width when its wings are spread. The male American robins have dark gray or brown back and wing feathers and reddish－orange chest feathers. The females have the same pattern, but they are a little duller in color.
Range
The American robins can be found in all of the United States and Canada except for Hawaii and the northernmost parts of Alaska and Canada. They can also be found in parts of Mexico and Central America. The American robins are migratory and populations move south in winter, although some populations stay in place.
Life Cycle
Robins mate (交配) in the spring from April through to July. A female robin may breed two or three times a season. A female robin builds a cup－shaped nest with soft tree branches, grass and feathers. She spreads mud on the inside of the nest with her breast. After she lines the nest with the mud, she will add grass and other soft materials. Sometimes a male robin helps to collect materials for the nest. The nest is built five to fifteen feet above the ground in a tree or bush. Sometimes a robin builds its nest on a window ledge. A female robin will lay three to five eggs at a time and it will take about two weeks before the baby robins are born.
1.What is the color of male American robins' chest feathers?
A. Dark gray. B. Brown
C. Gray. D. Reddish－orange.
2.What do we know about American robins' life cycle，according to the last paragraph?
A. Robins only mate in April and July.
B. Male robins help to spread mud on the inside of the nest.
C. A robin's nest may be found on a window ledge.
D. A female robin may lay two or three eggs at a time.
3.The passage is most likely to be taken from ________．
A. a news report B. a nature magazine
C. a history book D. a learning website
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It’s hard to find Alice Munro in the media. Even after she won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Canadian writer just appeared for a quick interview and then dropped out of sight. On Dec 29th, she still didn’t seek the spotlight when she was named one of the five Women of the Year by the Financial Times.
In Munro’s eyes, ordinary lives always hide larger dramas. So she records what we casually think of as the everyday actions of normal people. She often focuses on life in her hometown, a small village in Ontario which she is most familiar with. She writes about the ordinary things in the village — trees in the Ontario wilderness, poor country schools and long last illnesses. Above all, she talks about girls and women who have seemingly ordinary lives but struggle against daily misfortune.
She has a special talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary. These are ordinary people, ordinary stories, but she has the magic. Her precise language, depth of detail and the logic of her storytelling have made her stories inviting.
Runaway, one of Munro’s representative works, is a good example of her writing style. One of the stories centers on the life of an ordinary woman Carla, who lives in a small Canadian town with her husband Clark. The story slowly forms a picture of Carla, trapped in a bad marriage, her unhappiness building into desperation until she decides to flee. The story of Carla is a story of the power and betrayals of love. It is about lost children and lost chances that we can all find in life. There is pain beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart.
Since she published her first collection of short stories in 1968, Munro has won many awards, with the Nobel Prize being her biggest honor. On Oct 10th, 2013, the Nobel Prize committee named Munro the “master of the contemporary short story”.
1.We learn from Paragraph 1 that Alice Munro ________. .
A. didn’t get on well with the media
B. was surprised at winning the Nobel Prize
C. didn’t value the title of Women of the Year
D. remained modest though very successful
2.Many of Alice Munro’s works ________. .
A. center on the happy life of country women
B. are about betrayals of love and violence
C. focus on everyday life of ordinary people
D. are romantic stories setting in her hometown
3.What makes Alice Munro’s stories fascinating according to the text?
A. The complicated plots.
B. Her rich imagination.
C. The humorous language.
D. Her writing techniques.
4.What is the text mainly about?
A. Alice Munro and her hometown.
B. Alice Munro and her writing style.
C. Alice Munro's representative works.
D. The awards Alice Munro won.
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English is a subject ___________ we should attach great importance.
A. which B. that
C. to which D. for which
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--- Have we ________ water? --- Yes, ________. We’d better get some.
A. given out; we have run it out B. run out of; our water has run out
C. used up; our water has been run out D. run out; our water is running out
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The local people are now________ Hong Kong, which was once ________the British for one and half a century.
A. in charge of; in charge of B. in the charge of;in the charge of
C. in the charge of; in charge of D. in charge of; in the charge of
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（题文）Life is___,but there is no limit_____.
A. limited,to learn B. limit,to learn
C. limited, to learning D. limited,of learning
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There are many famous cultural relics in our country, many ______ thousands of years ago.
A. dating back to B. date back to
C. dated back to D. were dated back to
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We have planted many trees in order to ______wind and sand in the desert.
A. hold down B. hold up
C. hold back D. hold out
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（题文）What annoys(使生气) us is that he usually does nothing but about having so many things to do at weekends.
A. to complain B. complain
C. complains D. to complaining
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They are of _______ height, but I think Mary_______ the job.
A. equally; is equal B. equal; is equal to
C. equal; equals D. equally; is equaled
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The firm was badly in ______need of a manager with ______better command of French.
A. a; / B. the; a
C. /;a D. /;the
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How did you let such a significant fact_________you?
A. fall B. escape
C. fail D. fade
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One morning in early fall, I spotted a pair of wild geese on our pond. The beautiful sight caught me by________because we’d never seen geese there before. Thinking they would soon leave, I__________the chance to get close to them. I wondered where they came from and why they’d chosen our pond.
The next morning, the geese were still my________. I walked round to the mailbox, showing them I meant no harm.________, I couldn’t resist getting a ________ look. I hid behind some trees and ________ the handsome pair quietly through the branches. I was surprised to see they were staring at me, too!
As days passed, I started ________ to them on my trips to the mailbox. They craned their necks and raised their heads________, but seemed to realize I was their friend. By then, my curiosity about ________ they were staying so long on the pond changed to ________. As they were feeling in the grass the other day, I discovered the reason for their ________: the male had a broken left wing. He couldn’t________, and his faithful mate wouldn’t leave him behind.
I asked a biologist what to do. He explained that sometimes a ________ wing would heal by itself and suggested letting nature take its course.
On the first day of November, I was working in the neighborhood of the geese with my tractor. As I bent to fasten a chain from the tractor, I ________ some movement from the corner of my eye. Both geese were running towards the pond. Their wing were _________ like crazy, struggling for take-off. Gradually, they flew over the pond. They________ enough altitude to fly past a neighbor’s house, and then circled back towards me, flying no more than 50 feet over my head as if to say goodbye. Then they were out of __________.
The season’s first snowflake fell the very next day. The birds must have_______that winter was coming, and it was time to go. I became fond of them during their _________visit to our pond, and now I miss them. I’ll never forget their ________ to each other.
1.A. accident B. surprise C. nature D. fortune
2.A. increased B. created C. deserved D. valued
3.A. guests B. puzzles C. fellows D. friends
4.A. Instead B. Therefore C. Still D. Anyhow
5.A. closer B. quicker C. quieter D. broader
6.A. approached B. calmed C. observed D. protected
7.A. turning B. attending C. driving D. talking
8.A. firmly B. cautiously C. warmly D. proudly
9.A. why B. when C. how D. whether
10.A. sympathy B. rescue C. pleasure D. concern
11.A. companion B. visit C. settlement D. care
12.A. recover B. survive C. fly D. return
13.A. weak B. folded C. broken D. flightless
14.A. held B. caught C. directed D. made
15.A. spreading B. sweeping C. trembling D. beating
16.A. gained B. set C. discovered D. lost
17.A. reach B. sight C. control D. help
18.A. concluded B. indicated C. sensed D. confirmed
19.A. unexpected B. causal C. regular D. short
20.A. contribution B. promise C. treat D. devotion
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
High-speed railways, electronic payments, shared bicycles and online shopping are China’s four new ways of life. They are most appealing to youths from 20 countries participating 1.the Belt and Road Initiative. The new four great inventions are all related to China’s high-tech innovation,2.has improved the quality of people’s lives, “My wallet is no longer in use. I can buy and eat whatever I want 3. (simple) with a tap of my phone,” said Lin Jinlong, an overseas Chinese student from Cambodia,4.(add) that even pancake sellers are using Alipay (mobile payment).
In 5.word, China is leading in many ways. Bike sharing, for example, is not new itself. But China has made it much more convenient and6.(enjoy) both in China and overseas. Leading Chinese bike-sharing 7.(company) Mobike and Ofo are now operating in foreign countries such as Singapore and Britain. Users in the countries felt excited and 8.(post) photos of themselves riding the Chinese bikes on social media. A growing number of foreigners hope 9.(promote) economic development in 10.(they) home countries by paying more attention to the achievements of China.
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单词拼写
1.Every year, the CCTV chooses ten most i____________(有影响的)figures among ordinary people, whose actions can move China.
2.On a f____________（极冷的）cold night, the little match girl was frozen to death on a street corner.
3.Since the 1980s, it has been possible to listen to British and American English at the f___________ (轻打，轻弹)of a switch.
4.We should recognize our own s___________(强项) and weaknesses.
5.An increasing number of countries have been looking on China as a t___________(具有威胁的) power recently.
6.In our work quality counts for as much as q___________ (数量).
7.They are f___________（禁止）to use chemical fertilizers in the field by law.
8.She had a n___________（勉强的）escape when a lorry crashed into her car.
9.They have always treated us with open hands and we must be g___________(慷慨的) in return.
10.I felt very ___________（好奇的）, so I put my head round the door..
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单句改错
1.Their work has influenced on other writers ever since.
2.What difficulty we meet with , we must finish it on time ,because the opportunity is valuable.
3.Only after they had discussed the matter for several hours they reach a final decision.
4.The woman loves the children deeply as if she was their mother.
5.To my great surprises, at the door stood a girl trembling in wet clothes.
6.New technologies have made that possible to turn out new products faster and at a lower cost.
7.To make our country strongly, we should try our best to make contributions to society.
8.The poorly-dressed old woman was charged of stealing.
9.The boss demanded that Jack completed the task within a week.
10.I’ll be with you direct I’ve finished this letter.
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假定你是李华，从互联网(the Internet)上得知一个国际中学生组织将在新加坡(Singapore) 举办夏令营，欢迎各国学生参加。请写一封电子邮件申请参加。
内容主要包括:
1. 自我介绍(包括英语能力)；
2. 参加意图(介绍中国、了解其他国家)；
3. 希望获准。
注意：（1） 词数不少于100；
（2） 可适当加入细节，是内容充实、行文连贯；
（3） 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Sir or Madam,
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Yours,
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