How to Graduate from College with a High GPA(Grade Point Average)
One Hour a Day
One of the most challenging things about college is time management. It’s not that you don’t have enough. In fact you usually have too much time, and as a result time gets wasted. If you take good notes in class, and spend one hour reviewing your notes every day before going to sleep, you will make use of the power of the subconscious(下意识)to absorb information and by the time exams come around you’ll know all the material on a subconscious level, and you don’t have to sit up the night before exams.
Select Easy Courses
The reason why selecting easy courses is powerful is that it allows you to start off your college career with an extremely high GPA. Good grades have less and less of an impact on your GPA later in your college career and raising your GPA becomes much more difficult. Selecting easy courses in the first term also leaves room for the occasional failure when coursework become more challenging.
Join (or Form) Study Groups
If you go to a large public school where classes often have 700 plus people, study groups are an extremely effective way to ensure good grades. Study groups are often led by older students who have taken the course and received A’s in that particular course. They also often provide you with resources such as practice tests, practice problems, and many others that might not be provided by professors.
Use Personal Development
I can honestly say I didn’t involve myself in personal development when I was in college. Looking back I realize that I suffered from low self-respect and a very unhealthy self-image. But, if I had combined personal development techniques with the three steps above, my college career would have turned out very differently.
If you have already started school, I recommend developing a strategy that applies these four ideas to your current schedule. If you haven’t started school yet, do some research on easier courses and what study groups might be available. If you follow through and commit to the four recommendations above, you’ll set yourself up for a very successful first term, and hopefully a very successful college career.
1.According to the passage, managing your time wisely leads to __________.
A. sitting up late before exams
B. spending less time each day
C. mastering what you learn in an easy way
D. benefiting from the notes
2.Group study is meant to let the students ___________.
A. study effectively
B. get along well with one another
C. practice solving problems
D. study independently
3.The winter attached least importance to ___________ when he was at college.
A. reviewing his lessons one hour a day
B. selecting easier courses to learn
C. involving a study group led by senior students
D. applying personal development techniques
4.From the passage we can infer that _____________.
A. every college student is to get a high GPA when graduated
B. personal development is that most important techniques of the 4 steps
C. the earlier you choose easy courses, the better performance you’ll have
D. the fist school year’s success plays an important role in your college career
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How to Graduate from College with a High GPA(Grade Point Average)
One Hour a Day
One of the most challenging things about college is time management. It’s not that you don’t have enough. In fact you usually have too much time, and as a result time gets wasted. If you take good notes in class, and spend one hour reviewing your notes every day before going to sleep, you will make use of the power of the subconscious(下意识)to absorb information and by the time exams come around you’ll know all the material on a subconscious level, and you don’t have to sit up the night before exams.
Select Easy Courses
The reason why selecting easy courses is powerful is that it allows you to start off your college career with an extremely high GPA. Good grades have less and less of an impact on your GPA later in your college career and raising your GPA becomes much more difficult. Selecting easy courses in the first term also leaves room for the occasional failure when coursework become more challenging.
Join (or Form) Study Groups
If you go to a large public school where classes often have 700 plus people, study groups are an extremely effective way to ensure good grades. Study groups are often led by older students who have taken the course and received A’s in that particular course. They also often provide you with resources such as practice tests, practice problems, and many others that might not be provided by professors.
Use Personal Development
I can honestly say I didn’t involve myself in personal development when I was in college. Looking back I realize that I suffered from low self-respect and a very unhealthy self-image. But, if I had combined personal development techniques with the three steps above, my college career would have turned out very differently.
If you have already started school, I recommend developing a strategy that applies these four ideas to your current schedule. If you haven’t started school yet, do some research on easier courses and what study groups might be available. If you follow through and commit to the four recommendations above, you’ll set yourself up for a very successful first term, and hopefully a very successful college career.
1.According to the passage, managing your time wisely leads to __________.
A. sitting up late before exams
B. spending less time each day
C. mastering what you learn in an easy way
D. benefiting from the notes
2.Group study is meant to let the students ___________.
A. study effectively
B. get along well with one another
C. practice solving problems
D. study independently
3.The winter attached least importance to ___________ when he was at college.
A. reviewing his lessons one hour a day
B. selecting easier courses to learn
C. involving a study group led by senior students
D. applying personal development techniques
4.From the passage we can infer that _____________.
A. every college student is to get a high GPA when graduated
B. personal development is that most important techniques of the 4 steps
C. the earlier you choose easy courses, the better performance you’ll have
D. the fist school year’s success plays an important role in your college career
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Children with attention problems in early childhood were 40% less likely to graduate from high school, says a new study from Duke University.
The study included 386 kindergarteners from schools in the Fast Track Project, a multi-site clinical trial in the U.S. that in 1991 began tracking how children developed across their lives. With this study, researchers examined early academic attention and socio-emotional skills and how each contributed to academic success into young adulthood. They found that early attention skills were the most consistent predictor of academic success, and that likability by peers (同龄人) also had a modest effect on academic performance.
By fifth grade, children with early attention difficulties had lower grades and reading achievement scores than their peers. As fifth-graders, children with early attention problems obtained average reading scores at least 3% lower and grades at least 8% lower than those of their peers. This was after controlling for IQ, socio-economic status and academic skills at school entry.
Although these may not seem like large effects, the impact of early attention problems continued throughout the children’s academic careers. Lower reading achievement scores and grades in fifth grade contributed to reduced grades in middle school, thus contributing to a 40% lower high school graduation rate.
Social acceptance by peers in early childhood also predicted grades in fifth grade. Children not as liked by their first-grade peers had slightly lower grades in fifth grade, while those with higher social acceptance had higher grades.
“This study shows the importance of so-called non-cognitive’ or soft skills in contributing to children’s positive peer relationships, which, in turn contribute to their academic success,” said Kenneth Dodge, director of the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy.
The results highlight the need to develop effective early interventions (干预) to help those with attention problems stay on track academically and for educators to encourage positive peer relationships, the researchers said.
“We’re learning that student success requires a more comprehensive approach, one that includes not only academic skills but also social, self-regulatory and attention skills,” Dodge said. “If we ignore any of these areas, the child’s development struggles. If we attend to these areas, a child’s success may strengthen itself with positive feedback.”
1.What is the focus of the new study from Duke University?
A.The contributors to children’s early attention.
B.The predictors of children’s academic success.
C.The factors that affect children’s emotional well-being.
D.The factors that determine children’s development of social skills.
2.What do we learn from the findings of the Duke study?
A.Modest students are generally more attentive than their peers.
B.There are more children with attention difficulties than previously thought.
C.Attention problem accounts for most academic failures.
D.Children with worse attention skills are less likely to succeed academically.
3.What does the Duke study find about children better accepted by peers?
A.They do better academically. B.They are teachers’ favorites.
C.They are easy to get on with. D.They care less about grades.
4.What can we conclude from the Duke study?
A.Children’s success is related to their learning environment.
B.School curriculum should cover a greater variety of subjects.
C.Social skills are playing a key role in children’s development.
D.An all-round approach should be adopted in school education.
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To my understanding, a high school graduate has already reached a point in his/her life ______ he/she is supposed to make decisions of his/her own.
A．which B．where C．how D．why
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Is packing important to you?
A young man was ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car. Knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.
As Graduation Day approached, his anxiety grew. Finally, on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his study and handed him a beautiful wrapped gift box. Curious, but somewhat disappointed, the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible, with the young man's name stormed out of the house, leaving the Bible.
Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. He had a beautiful home and a wonderful family. Realizing his father was very old, he thought perhaps he should go to see him. He had not seen him since that graduation day. Then, a telegram arrived, telling him his father had passed away, and willed all his possessions to the son.
When he arrived at home, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart. He began to search through his father's important papers and saw the still new Bible, just as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened the bible and turned the pages. From the back of the Bible dropped a car key. It had a tag with the dealer's name and the words "PAID IN FULL".
How many times do we miss blessings because they are not packaged as we expected? Remember, what may appear as bad fortune may in fact be the door that is just waiting to be opened.
1.As graduation day approached the young man became anxious, because______.
A. the young man?s father was seriously ill.
B. he was anxious to know whether he had passed the exams.
C. he was anxiously waiting for the new car
D. he felt upset to leave college
2.Which is the correct order of the following events?
a. The young man got away from home angrily.
b. He became a successful businessman.
c. The young man told his father he wanted a new car.
d. The young man prepared to see his father.
e. The father gave his son a beautiful wrapped gift box.
f. A telegram arrived, saying his father died.
g. The young man found a car key in the bible.
A. ecabdfg B. ceabdfg
C. acebgdf D. ceabfdg
3.How do you suppose the young man feel when finding the car key?
A. excited and regretful
B. happy and excited
C. surprised and happy
D. surprised and regretful
4.From this passage we can learn that __________.
A. Upon graduation , the young man asked his father for a car.
B. The father bought his son a bible instead of a car.
C. The young man later visited his father a couple of times.
D. The young man finally realized that he misunderstood his father.
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Devon Gallagher, a college graduate from Philadelphia, wants the world to know exactly where she’s been while she’s on her worldwide vacation in a special way. The traveler, who was born with a bone disease, had her right leg amputated (截肢) at the age of four. Although the amputation caused inconvenience for Gallagher early on, she now sees it as nothing short of inspiration for living her best life.
To spread that message. Gallagher has gone to social media, where she shares photos of her travels across the world, but instead of simply using a geo-tag(地理位置标签), she writes her location on her artificial leg before taking a picture.
Now she has been taking pictures across the Continent, which show her cycling over the canal in Amsterdam relaxing on a wall overlooking the city of Barcelona, posing with a waffle in Brussels, taking in the beautiful Parthenon temple in Athens and enjoying a river ride in Budapest, all with the well-known locations written on her artificial leg.
“I get a new leg every two years and I can choose the design on it. One day I had a sudden thought to get a chalk-board,” Gallagher said. “My mum and grandmother didn’t like the idea, but my friends thought it was great and told me to go for it, so I did.”
Gallagher said people often stare when she’s writing on her leg, but once she shares the photos, she receives only positive feedback(反馈), “My leg hasn’t stopped me from doing anything I’ve wanted to do,” she said. “I don’t know if it’s my determination to prove to myself that I can do it, anyway, I’ve been able to keep up with people at my age and lead a pretty great life.”
Gallagher shows us that you should never let anything stand in the way of your dreams. And if life gives you an artificial leg, make art.
1.What message did Gallapher want to spread in her special way?
A.She enjoys her travelling across the globe.
B.She suffers little from her leg’s amputation.
C.she looks on her misfortune as another form of blessing.
D.She has exactly fallen in love with posting photos online.
2.What does the word “which” underlined in paragraph 3 refer to?
A.the continent B.the pictures C.the leg D.the location
3.Gallapher can best be described as ________.
A.helpful and ambitious B.friendly and generous
C.determined and creative D.independent and sensible
4.Which of the following might be the best title for the text?
A.Never Too Late to share B.A Special Artificial Leg
C.An Outstanding Photographer D.Gallagher’s Summer Holidays
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Devon Gallagher, a college graduate from Philadelphia, wants the world to know exactly here she's been during her worldwide vacation in a special way.
The traveler, who was born with a bone disease, had her right leg amputated( k)at the age of four. Although the amputation caused setbacks for Gallagher early on, she now sees it as nothing short of inspiration for living her best life.
To spread that message, Gallagher has taken to social media, where she shares photos of her travels across the globe, but instead of simply using a geo-tag, she writes her location across her artificial leg before taking a picture.
Now she has been taking pictures across the Continent, which show her cycling over the canal in Amsterdam relaxing on a wall overlooking the city of Barcelona, posing with a waffle in Brussels, taking in the spectacular Parthenon temple in Athens and enjoying a river cruise in Budapest, all with the well-known locations written on her artificial leg “I get a new leg every two years and I can choose the design on it. One day I had a sudden thought to get a chalk-board, "Gallagher said. "My mum and grand-mother weren’t too keen on the idea, but my friends thought it was great and told me to go for it, so I did.”
Gallagher said people often stare when shes writing on her leg, but once she shares the photos she receives only positive feedback."My leg hasn,t stopped me from doing anything I've wanted to do, " she said. "I don,t know if it's my determination to prove to myself that I can do it, but regardless, I've been able to keep up with my peers and lead a pretty great life, Gallagher shows us that you should never let anything stand in the way of your dreams. And if life gives you an artificial leg, make art
1.What message did Gallapher want to spread in her special way?
A. She enjoys her travelling across the globe
B. She suffers little from her legs amputation
C. She looks on her misfortune as another form of blessing
D. She has exactly fallen in love with posting photos online
2.Gallapher can best be described as_______
A. helpful and ambitious B. friendly and generous
C. determined and creative D. independent and sensible
3.Which of the following might be the best title for the text?
A. Never Too Late to Share B. A Special Artificial Leg
C. An Outstanding Photographer D. Gallaghers Summer Holiday
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A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had 1 a beautiful sports car in a dealer’s showroom, and 2 his father could well 3it, he told him that was all he wanted.
On the morning of his graduation day his father called him into his own study and told him how4 he was to have such a fine son. He handed his son a beautiful gift box.5but slightly disappointed, the young man 6 the box and found a lovely book. 7, he raised his voice at his father and said, “with all your money you give me a book?” And rushed out of the house,8 the book in the study.
He did not contact his father for a whole year until one day he saw in the street an old man who looked like his father, he 9 he had to go back home and see his father.
When he arrived at his father’s house, he was told that his father had been in hospital for a week. The moment he was about to 10 the hospital, he saw on the desk the still new book, just as he had left it one year ago. He opened it and began to 11 the pages. Suddenly, a car key 12 from an envelope taped behind the book. It had a tag(标签) with the dealer’s name, the 13 dealer who had the sports car he had 14. On the tag was the date of his graduation and the 15 PAID IN FULL.
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A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer’s showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.
As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his private study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son a beautiful wrapped gift box. Curious, but somewhat frustrated, the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible, with the young man’s name embossed in gold. Angrily, he raised his voice to his father and said, “With all your money you give me a Bible?” He then stormed out of the house, leaving the Bible.
Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. He had a beautiful home and a wonderful family, but realizing his father was very old, he thought perhaps he should go to see him. He had not seen him since that graduation day. Before he could make the arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had passed away, and willed all of his possessions to his son. He needed to come home immediately and take care of things.
When he arrived at his father’s house, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart. He began to search through his father’s important papers and saw the still new Bible, just as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. As he was reading, a car key dropped from the back of the Bible. It had a tag with the dealer’s name, the same dealer who had the sports car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the words… “PAID IN FULL”.
How many times do we miss blessings because they are not packaged as we expected? Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Sometimes we don’t realize the good fortune we have or we could have because we expect “the packaging” to be different. What may appear as bad fortune may in fact be the door that is just waiting to be opened.
1.What’s the best title for this passage?
A.A Kind Father. B.A Key of a Car.
C.A leather-bound Bible. D.An Unforgettable Graduation Ceremony.
2.What does the underlined word “frustrated” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A.Disappointed. B.Unconcerned. C.Puzzled. D.Bored.
3.What does the last paragraph want to tell us?
A.There is no fence for ill fortune.
B.Good fortune favors the brave and courageous.
C.We must not look only at the surface of things.
D.A strong man will struggle with the storms of fate.
4.From the passage, we can learn that _________.
A.the young man accepted the gift at first
B.the young man regretted what he’d done to his father
C.the young man accompanied his father for a long time
D.the young man was successful in business with the help of his father
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A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. He had wanted a beautiful 1in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his father could well 2it. He told his father that was all he wanted.
As Graduation Day came near, the young man expected3that his father had bought the gift. 4, on the morning of' his graduation, his father called him into his own 5. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He 6his son a beautifully wrapped gift box.
Curious, and somewhat7, the young man opened the box and found a lovely leather-bound Bible (圣经) , with the young man's name written in gold. Angry, he8his voice to his father, and said, "With all your money you give me a Bible?" and 9out of the house.
Many years passed and the young man was very 10in business. He had a beautiful home and wonderful family, but 11his father was very old, and thought perhaps he should go to see him. 12he could make arrangements, he received a telegram 13him his father had passed away and willed all of his14to his son. When he arrived at his father's, sudden sadness and regret15his heart, he began to16his father's important papers and saw the still gift-wrapped Bible, just as he had 17it years ago. With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. His father had carefully 18a verse (诗) , Matthew 7 - 11 , "And if you, being evil, know how to give good gifts lo your children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father which is in Heaven, give to those who ask him?"
As he read those words, a car key 19from the back of the Bible. It had a tag (标签) with the dealer's name, the same dealer who had the sports car he had desired. On the tag was the20of his graduation, and the words: PAlD IN FULL
1.A. computer B. bike C. car D. recorder
2.A. pay B. buy C. support D. afford
3.A. signs B. facts C. marks D. results
4.A. However B. Finally C. Quietly D. Actually
5.A. house B. room C. study D. office
6.A. gave B. handed C. showed D. presented
7.A. excited B. nervous C. interested D. disappointed
8.A. raised B. changed C. improved D. increased
9.A. ran B. went C. walked D. stormed
10.A. busy B. successful C. comfortable D. happy
11.A. remembered B. realized C. knew D. considered
12.A. When B. As C. After D. Before
13.A. informing B. announcing C. telling D. discovering
14.A. treasures B. possessions C. wealths D. eagerness
15.A. filled B. caught C. attacked D. beat
16.A. pick up B. remind of C. search through D. refer to
17.A. seen B. got C. left D. thrown
18.A. made B. written C. underlined D. designed
19.A. dropped B. appeared C. rolled D. showed
20.A. year B. date C. moment D. day
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A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had _______a beautiful sports car in a showroom, and knowing his father could well_______it, he told him that was all he wanted.
As Graduation Day came near, the young man awaited _______ that his father had bought the car. _______, on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his_______ study room. His father told him how _______ he was to have such a fine son, and told him how _______ he loved him. He handed his son a beautifully_______ gift box.
Curious, and somewhat disappointed, the young man opened the box and _______ a lovely, leather- bound (皮纸封面) Bible, ________ the young man's name pressed in gold. ________, he raised his voice to his father, and said “With ________ your money, you give me a Bible?” and stormed out of the house.
Many years passed and the young man was very successful in ________. He had a beautiful home and wonderful family, but realized his father was very ________, and thought perhaps he should go to him. He had not seen him ________ that graduation day.
Before he could make arrangements, he received a telegram________ him his father had passed away, and gave all his possessions to his son. He needed to come home immediately and ________things.
When he arrived at his father's house, sudden ________and regret filled his heart. He began to search through his father's important papers and saw the still gift — wrapped Bible ________ as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. Suddenly, a car key dropped from the back of the ________. It had a tag (标签) with the date of his graduation on it, and the words PAID IN FULL.
1.A. admired B. watched C. seen D. noticed
2.A. offer B. afford C. serve D. supply
3.A. marks B. supports C. signs D. promises
4.A. Finally B. Instead C. So D. Shortly
5.A. public B. hard C. lazy D. private
6.A. proud B. sad C. upset D. puzzled
7.A. many B. far C. much D. often
8.A. typed B. wrapped C. written D. painted
9.A. looked B. reached C. showed D. found
10.A. with B. while C. after D. when
11.A. Interested B. Pleased C. Angry D. Disappointed
12.A. none B. all C. little D. bit
13.A. business B. study C. city D. home
14.A. healthy B. strong C. young D. old
15.A. on B. until C. since D. after
16.A. telling B. showing C. saying D. talking
17.A. look for B. take care of C. care D. mind
18.A. excitement B. disappointment C. surprise D. sadness
19.A. but B. right C. just D. only
20.A. Bible B. bed C. desk D. door
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