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I thought that I had great skills in 1.(deal) with kids, so I applied for a job to teach kids. The day of my interview was also my first day of work. My first mistake led to my first lesson. Don’t try to make 2.(friend) with managers, but be respectful. After going through some work with 3.
couple of kids I learned I was not as good as I thought I was, and it was 4.(good) to ask for help than do what you thought was right.
A few days after work, feeling pressured to do a good job, I found repetition 5.(make) it more comfortable. It wasn’t long 6. I learned how to develop respectful relationships with my bosses and what tone of voice 7.(use) with kids. I started sounding more confident and realized that the more confident you sound, the more 8. seems that you know what you are doing.
What surprised me most after a few months was how little money I had spent．Money from working long hours seemed to be more valuable to me than money 9.(give) by my parents. I kept it firmly
in my hands and suddenly shopping was a 10.(total) different experience. The cost of items translated into how many hours I needed to work to pay for it.
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It took a great deal of courage to admit that all their efforts had been ________.
A．in danger B．in vain
C．in return D．in turn
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Last weekend Peter had a great deal of fun with his family________kites in a park.
A．fly B．flew C．to fly D．flying
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单句改错
1.He has made so great progress that we all admire him.
2.Losing in deep thought, he almost ran into the car in front of him.
3.Facing up to your problems is the best approach to work things out.
4.People have a better access to health care than they used to, and now they are living longer.
5.The teacher was seen enter the reading room just now.
6.Tony stood up and accepted the prize, surprised but happily.
7.The hospital, situating in the western part of the city, can be reached by many bus lines.
8.This is the first time I visited your hometown.
9.Can you describe the influence that taking part-time jobs has to your study?
10.We study in a classroom, measured 30 feet long and 20 feet wide.
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The chief problem in dealing with foreign motorists is not so much remembering that they are different from you, but that they are largely variable. Cross a frontier(边境) without adjusting and you can be in deep trouble.
One of the greatest gulfs separating the driving nations is the Atlantic Ocean. Or rather, it is the mental distance between the European and the American motorist, particularly the South American motorist. Compare, for example, an English driver at a set of traffic lights with a Brazilian.
Very rarely will an Englishman try to anticipate(预先准备) the green light by moving off. You will find the occasional someone who watches for the yellow light to come up on the set of lights. However, he will not go until he receives the lawful signal. Brazilians view the thing quite differently. If, in fact, they see traffic lights, they regard them as a kind of roadside decoration.
The natives of North America are much more disciplined. They show this in their addiction to driving in one lane(车道) and sticking to it—even if it means settling behind some great truck for many miles.
To prevent other drivers from falling into wrong ways, American motorists try always to stay close behind the vehicle in front which can make it impossible to make a real lane change. European visitors are always falling into this trap. They return to the Old World still waving their arms in disappointment because while driving in the State in their cars they kept failing to get off the highway when they wanted to and were swept along to the next city.
However, one nation above all others lives cautiously by its traffic regulations — the Swiss. In Switzerland, if you were simply to anticipate a traffic light, the chances are that the motorist behind you would take your number and report you to the police. There are slight regional variations among the French, German and Italian speaking areas, but it is generally safe to assume that any car bearing a CH sticker will be driven with a high degree of discipline.
1.How do American drivers behave on the road according to the passage?
A.They run the red light sometimes.
B.They drive close behind other drivers.
C.They care little about the traffic light.
D.They start their car at the yellow light.
2.Which people take the traffic light most seriously?
A.The Swiss. B.The Brazilians.
C.The English. D.The French.
3.The passage is mainly developed by ____.
A.analyzing causes B.describing changes
C.making comparisons D.pointing out similarities
4.Which part of a newspaper is the passage probably taken from?
A.Culture. B.Business.
C.Entertainment. D.Geography.
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There is nowadays in schools a great movement that places major emphasis on higher order skills, these being those skills that encourage the ability to reason. This group of skills involves recalling information, basic concept formation, critical thinking, and creative idea formation. Formerly viewed as the tools of mathematics, these skills are now recognized as necessary to abilities across the curriculum.
Higher order thinking skills are now recognized as important for those who will enter the twenty-first century work force. Preparing young learners for their future requires that teachers employ a great deal of inventiveness and creativity in designing lessons that meet the dual challenge of providing the basics as in reading, language arts, and mathematics, and developing the ability to reason.
This unit uses detective fiction to address both of these challenges, and the activities that lie here are designed to draw the learner along a path that moves him from the simple skills, such as recalling information, to the more difficult area of creative thinking. Activities may be modified, simplified, lengthened, or deleted to meet the needs of the intellectual diversity found in most classrooms.
For this unit I have chosen three separate series of children’s detective fiction. The easiest to read are the Private Eyes club mysteries, written and illustrated by Crosby Bonsall. This series centers on the activities of four neighborhood boys who along with their cat Mildred keep the area they live in free of crime. Each title is centered on one issue and the list of titles is expanding. The reading levels range from about 1.6 to 2.0 and the print is large and well organized on the page. Snitch, Wizard, Skinny, and Tubby are funny and engaging, and are represented in lively color illustrations. The only issue that could be a problem is that the private eyes are all boys. However, girls are well represented among the peripheral (次要的) peer group.
1.What can we know from the above passage?
A. Children have different abilities.
B. Reading for information needs more skills.
C. Reasoning is higher than reading and writing in school.
D. Mathematics is the most difficult in school.
2.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in this passage?
A. Basic reading skills.
B. Ways of thinking.
C. Who wrote the detective fiction.
D. How much to pay for the course.
3.What is the chosen series of fiction mainly about?
A. How some brave boys find their cats.
B. How some brave children help find the lost cat.
C. How people help the boys solve the crime.
D. How some brave boys fight against crime.
4.What will mostly likely be presented after this passage?
A. The Private Eyes club mysteries.
B. Other ways to interest the readers.
C. How girls can keep on reading the stories.
D. Where to buy these interesting stories.
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The girl thought her boyfriend had bought her a necklace of great value ________ in fact it was made of glass.
A.when B.while C.that D.as
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七选五。
1. I thought I might be the only person left in the world who hadn't done an eBay deal. So, I decided to try my hand at online auction(拍卖).
Buying for beginners: Sign up on www. ebay. co. uk. Most items (e. g. tables, computers, and books)ready for auction will come with a picture and a short description; others may be marked with "Buy It Now" and have a fixed price. 2.
If the item is being auctioned, you offer the highest price you are prepared to pay and eBay bids(出价)for you. The bid will be increased little by little until it goes beyond your highest bid, then you are emailed and asked if you would like to bid again. Auctions last up to 10-days and when they finish you get an email
telling you whether you have won the item.
3._: Sellers decide how they would like to be paid and you need to check this before placing a bid as you might not want to post a cheque or postal orders. The easiest way is through PayPal, an online payment system that takes the money away from your credit card.
Selling made simple: If you plan to sell on eBay, it helps to include a picture of the item. 1 followed my friends' advice and put up the items I wanted to sell for a 10-day auction, starting on a Thursday. 4.
The big things in life: It's easy to post a small item, but furniture is a big part of eBay and this has to be collected or sent by deliverymen. 5._
A. How to pay.
B. Pay exact money before buying.
C. You can buy these right away.
D. Make sure the item you want to buy.
E. Everyone's at it, even my neighbors.
F. Check the ways of delivery before you bid.
G. This way buyers had two weekends to bid.
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Several years ago, I had a huge falling out with one of my best friends. So huge, in fact, that now I can’t even remember what happened.
In the past nine years, I’ve seen her twice, and each time we’ve been polite but distant. And that troubles me because we were once inseparable. I’d like nothing more than to go back nine years, and continue our friendship. But how? How do you reconnect with friends you’ve lost throughout the years?
Linking to your past
The desire to reconnect with lost friends isn’t unusual. Why? Because friends link us to the past. “Friends from years ago are custodians (监护人) of our past,” says Sandy Sheehy.
Although you can share information about your past with friends you’ve met recently, you don’t have a shared history with them. So you wind up only telling them about your past, rather than sharing it with them.
But many people never try to reconnect. Women especially have trouble taking the first step. Shyness or fear that the other person doesn’t want to reconnect often stops many women. And that shouldn’t be. Your friends probably want to be in touch with you as much as you want to be in touch with them.
Searching for friends
Fortunately, finding lost friends isn’t as difficult as it once was, thanks to tools like the Internet. Our experts offer these suggestions for locating contact information:
Search Internet sites designed to locate people like classmates.com and switchboard.com.
Contact your high school or college alumni (校友) office to request current address information.
Surf online yellow pages. Check current phone records from your friend’s hometown.
Network with other friends who might have known your friend.
Get in touch with any of her relatives, if you know where they live. If you know where she works, find the company’s website and search the directory of personnel.
1.What is the subject discussed in the passage?
A. How to make new friends.
B. How to rebuild friendship.
C. How to develop healthy friendship.
D. How to keep in touch with friends.
2.The underlined sentence “friends from years ago are custodians of our past” in Paragraph 3 means _____.
A. years ago old friends kept something for us
B. in the past old friends took care of us
C. old friends are part of our life history
D. old friends know what wrongs we did
3.What makes us unwilling to reconnect old friends?
A. Lack of money. B. Busy time. C. Regret and shame. D. Fear and shyness.
4.How can we make contact with the lost friends?
A. By asking other friends of the information on your lost friends.
B. By searching your friends’ telephone number on the Net.
C. By asking the local post office about your friends’ new address.
D. By putting an advertisement in your friends’ local town.
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It is believed that some of animals think a great deal. Many of them are like children in their sports. Some birds are very lively in their sports; and the same is true with some insects. The ants, hardworking as they are, have their times for play. They run races; they wrestle; and sometimes they have mock fights together. Very busy must be their thoughts while engaged in these sports.
Animals think much while building their houses. The bird searches for what it can use in building its nest, and in doing this it thinks. The beavers think as they build their dams and their houses. They think in getting their materials, and also in arranging them, and in plastering them together with mud. Some spiders build houses which could scarcely have been made except by some thinking creature.
As animals think, they learn. Some learn more than others. The parrot learns to talk, though in some other respects it is quite stupid. The mocking bird learns to imitate a great many different sounds. The shepherd dog does not know as much about most things as some other dogs, and yet he understands very well how to take care of sheep.
Though animals think and learn, they do not make any real improvement in their ways of doing things, as men do. Each kind of bird has its own way of building a nest, and it is always the same way. They have no new fashions, and learn none from each other.
It is plain that, while animals learn about things by their senses as we do, they do not think nearly as much about what they learn, and this is the reason why they do not improve more rapidly. Even the wisest of them, as the elephant and the dog, do not think very much about what they see and hear. Nor is this all. There are some things that we understand, but about which animals know nothing. They have no knowledge of anything that happens outside of their own observation. Their minds are so much unlike ours that they do not know the difference between right and wrong.
1.Why does the author mention that some birds and insects are very lively in their sports?
A. To illustrate that some animals probably think in the sports.
B. To tell us that some birds and insects are more lively than others.
C. To show us that ants are the cleverest insects in the animal kingdom.
D. To attract readers by introducing some interesting facts about animals.
2.“Animals think much while building their houses” because ________.
A. they have to communicate with each other in getting their material
B. they have to calculate something to arrange all the material
C. no animals have a must to build a “house” except some thinking creatures
D. it is unimaginable to build “houses” without thinking work involved
3.The underlined word "plain" in Paragraph 5 can be replaced by ______.
A. flat B. clear
C. vital D. reasonable
4.The author will probably agree that ________.
A. animals can’t think as a matter of fact
B. animals can’t really learn to do something
C. animals can think and learn but limitedly
D. each kind of animal has their own language
in my hands and suddenly shopping was a 10.(total) different experience. The cost of items translated into how many hours I needed to work to pay for it.