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Find a quiet location. Keep a routine. Focus on one subject at a time. It all seems like sound advice for students who need to hit the books, but recent studies indicate the conventional wisdom is all wrong.

Here's a list of tips from Carey, a sc ientist, for getting the most out of your study time：

Test yourself：Doing practice quizzes can help you retrieve information on test day. “Tests have a very bad reputation as a measurement tool,” Carey says. But psychologists have found self-tests slow down the forgetting of material you've studied. “If you study something once, and then you test yourself on it,” Carey says, “you do better than if you study it twice over.”

Move around: Changing up where you study can help you retain more information. “If you move around and study the same material in several places,” he says, “you may be forming…multiple associations for the same material, the same words and so on. So it's better organized in your brain, and you can pull it out easier.”

Mix it up：Think about a football player who does strength training, speed training and drills. Carey says alternating between different facets of a subject in a single sitting can “leave a deeper impression on the brain”. For example, when studying French, do some verbs, some speaking and some reading. Spending your time in deep concentration on just verbs, say, isn't as effective.

Space it out：Information learned in a hurry is lost just as fast. Carey lik es cramming your brain to speed-packing a cheap suitcase—it all falls out. So if you really want to learn, space out shorter, hour-long study sessions. “There's no doubt you can cram your way through an exam,” Carey says. The problem is that it's so easy to forget what you just crammed—and once it's gone, Carey says, “It's gone. You're not getting it back.”

Of course, nothing can replace the power of motivation and discipline. But Carey says the overall message is encouraging：“Studying can sort of be incorporated into a more varied life, much more easily than we thought.”

1.According to the text, the best way to learn is ________．

A．to learn one's subject at a time in a quiet place

B．to be strongly motivated to learn something

C．to mix up everything that you will learn

D．to do self-tests after you learn immediately

2.Why are you advised to move around while learning?

A. Because it can make your brain focus on learning.

B. Because you can save time by missing the same words.

C. Because you can connect materials with different things.

D. Because it keeps your brain in a completely resting state.

3.How did the writer develop the fifth paragraph?

A．By telling an interesting story.

B．By presenting in the time order.

C．By analyzing causes and effects.

D．By making a comparison.

4.It can be inferred from what Carey said in the third paragraph that ________．

A．tests used to be treated as a tool to judge learners

B．tests would slow down your study

C．tests were the best way to learn new information

D．tests do good to you more than learning itself

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Find a quiet location. Keep a routine. Focus on one subject at a time. It all seems like sound advice for students who need to hit the books, 1. . Here’s a list of tips from Carey, a scientist, for getting the most out of your study time:

2.

Doing practice quizzes can help you retrieve（检索）information on test day. “Tests have a very bad reputation as a measurement tool,” Carey says. But psychologists have found self-tests slow down the forgetting of material you’ve studied. “If you study something once, and then you test yourself on it,” Carey says, “you do better than if you study it twice over.”

Move around

3. . “If you move around and study the same material in several places,” he says, “you may be forming multiple associations for the same material. So it’s better anchored in your brain, and you can pull it out easier.”

Mix it up

Think about a football who does strength training, speed training and drills. Carey says alternating between different facets facts of a subject in a single sitting can “leave a deeper impression on the brain”. For example, when studying French, do some verbs, some speaking and some reading. 4. .

Space it out

Information learned in a hurry is lost just as fast. So if you really want to learn, space out shorter, hour-long study sessions. “There’s no doubt that you can cram for（突击备考）an exam.” Carey says, “5. . And once it’s gone, “it’s gone. You’re not getting it back.”

A. Test yourself

B. Study it and practice more

C. and it turns out that some of them are in great help

D. but recent studies indicate the conventional wisdom is wrong

E. The problem is that it’s so easy to forget what you just crammed

F. Changing up where you study can help you keep more information

G. Spending your time in deep concentration on just verbs isn’t effective

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In meditation(冥想),people sit quietly and focus their attention on their breath.As they breathe in and out,they attend to their feelings.As thoughts go through their minds,they let them go.Breathe.Let go.Breathe.Let go.

According to a recent study at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre,Massachusetts,three months of training in this kind of meditation causes a marked change in how the brain allocates(分配)attention.It appears that the ability to let go thoughts that come into mind frees the brain to attend to more rapidly changing things and events in the outside world.Expert meditators are better than other people at catching such fast-changing stimuli(刺激),like facial expressions.

The study provides evidence for changes in the workings of the brain with mental training.People can learn and improve abilities of all sorts with practice,everything from driving to playing the piano.The study has shown that meditating is good for the brain.It appears to reduce pressure and promote a sense of well-being.

In an experiment,17 volunteers with no meditation experience in the experimental group spent three months meditating 10 to 12 hours a day.A control group also with no meditation experience meditated for 20 minutes a day over the same period.Both groups were then given the tests with two numbers in a group of letters.As both groups looked for the numbers,their brain activity was recorded.

Everyone could catch the first number.But the brain recordings showed that the less experienced meditators tended to grasp the first number and hang onto it,so they missed the second number.Those with more experience gave less attention to the first number,as if letting it go,which led to an increased ability to grasp the second number.This shows that attention can change with practice.

Just ask Daniel Levsion,who meditated for three months as part of the study.“I’m a much better listener,”he said.“I don’t get lost in my own personal reaction to what people are saying.”

1.The underlined word“them”in Paragraph 1 refers to ________.

A.feelings          B.minds             C.people                D.thoughts

2.Meditators manage their daily tasks better because they ________.

A.are given less pressure

B.allocate their attention better

C.have more stimuli for life

D.practice them more frequently

3.In the experiment,volunteers doing meditation for longer hours ________.

A.were more likely to catch both of the numbers

B.were used to memorizing numbers in groups

C.usually ignored the first number observed

D.paid more attention to numbers than to letters

4.The study proves that ________.

A.meditation improves one’s health

B.brain activity can be recorded

C.human attention can be trained

D.meditators have a good sense of hearing

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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1.Why does Greg ask the woman to keep quiet?

A.To find birds. B.To avoid scaring birds. C.To listen for his words.

2.How often does Greg go birdwatching?

A.Once a week. B.Twice a month. C.Once a month.

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According to the latest survey, most students focus more on how to find ________ good job when they leave ________ college.

A. a; the            B. a; a            C. a; 不填            D. 不填; 不填

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One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault. It’s like looking at the tiled（铺瓦的）ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is .

Once I heard a bald man said, “whenever I enter a room ________  I see is hair.” Once you’ve  ________what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will ________ make you happy. Then do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different ________, or forget about it and ________ the tiles in your life that are not missing.

We all know people who have a relatively ________ life, yet are essentially unhappy. while people who have suffered a great deal but ________ remain happy.

The first ________ is gratitude. All happy people are ________ . Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to ________ , but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

The second secret is ________ that happiness is a byproduct of something else. The most obvious ________ are those pursuit that give our lives purpose — anything ________ studying insects to playing baseball. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are  ________ to experience.

Finally, the belief that something permanent goes beyond us and that our ________ has some larger meaning can help us to feel happier. We ________  a spiritual faith, or a philosophy, it should ________ this truth: if you choose to find the________in every situation, you will be blessed, and if you choose to find the awful, you will be cursed. As with happiness itself, this is ________ your decision to make.

1.A、different                    B、missing                           C、short                         D、broken

2.A、nothing                       B、none                               C、all                               D、anything

3.A、determined                    B、predicted        C、assumed          D、imagined

4.A、completely                    B、naturally                    C、hopefully          D、really

5.A、tile                               B、brick                          C、ceiling               D、house

6.A、look on                       B、focus on                         C、count on                   D、rely on

7.A、peaceful                     B、difficult                     C、easy                            D、ordinary

8.A、certainly               B、merely                   C、hardly              D、generally

9.A、secret                             B、factor                         C、rule                             D、key

10.A、wealthy                    B、grateful                          C、proud              D、generous

11.A、upset                            B、quarrel                            C、complain                  D、depress

12.A、admitting                           B、assuming                        C、proving                      D、realizing

13.A、sources                    B、results                            C、answers                    D、goals

14.A、among                          B、from                                 C、through           D、for

15.A、probable                           B、possible                         C、likely                D、capable

16.A、value                            B、destination            C、survival                     D、existence

17.A、need                                  B、lack                                 C、demand                    D、expect

18.A、involve                     B、include                           C、absorb                      D、mean

19.A、worst                            B、best                                  C、positive                     D、negative

20.A、absolutely                    B、totally                     C、exactly                      D、largely

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Usually, a wedding's main focus is on the bride and groom. However, one couple were upstaged by a huge brown bear that they invited to be a part of their special day.

Denis and Nelya, both 30, from Moscow, Russia, hired 21-stone Stepan to play the role of ringbearer — and he even turned up to their ceremony wearing a black bow tie.

The bear, which stands seven-foot tall, was very involved with the ceremony, even posing for photos with both bride and groom.

At one point he even acted as the registrar and joins paws with the couple as they professed their love for each other. Standing underneath a cream fabric canopy(华盖) and surrounded by greenery, flowers and fruit, Stepan helped the couple on their wedding day.

Denis said, “We both knew Stepan is a very kind bear but still it is a huge, unpredictable animal so we were a bit scared, but still happy to be able to make our dream come true. It was a fantastic experience to have this photo shoot with Stepan. We will absolutely remember this day forever.”

Stepan the bear first found fame in May 2016, when a series of photos of the tame animal were published. He was adopted by Russian couple Svetlana and Yuriy Panteleenko aged just three months after being discovered by hunters in the forest, having lost his mother.

Svetlana said, “Stepan likes nothing more than to cuddle up with us on the sofa at night while we're watching television. He absolutely loves people and is a really sociable bear — despite what people might think, he is not aggressive at all. We have never been bitten by Stepan.”

1.The underlined word “upstage” in paragraph 1 probably means ________.

A. attract            B. over-drop            C. bite            D. surprise

2.What do we know about Stepan?

A. Stepan is not happy at all at the wedding ceremony.

B. Stepan was discovered by Denis and Nelya.

C. Stepan is popular since he was born.

D. Stepan caught the guests’ attention.

3.Where might the passage be taken from?

A. A travel brochure.                        B. A newspaper.

C. A science fiction.                        D. A popular novel.

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________

1.If a boy wants to improve the skill of writing poems he can call            ．

A．（415） 744-6827                    B．（415）557-4268

C．（415） 557-4497                    D．（415）557-4400

2.Who would be most likely to attend the event on Wednesday, January 9？

A．A science teacher                      B．A retired worker．

C．A school headmaster．                   D．A supermarket owner．

3.Which event doesn’t need booking in advance?

A．One-on-One Computer or Internet Training Session．

B．Beyond Journal Writing for Teens．

C．Power Panels and Films by World Savvy．

D．Business Counseling Sessions．

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When you’re working your way through one of life’s storms, it is human nature to focus on getting back to normal, to “bounce back” as quickly as possible to a place where things are calm, familiar and comfortable.

However, actually it is unrealistic to think we can ever truly return emotionally and intelligently to where we were before the storm because every experience changes us in some way. For example, when we experience a major health scare, possibly involving some hospital time, we can never go back to being the person we were before the event even if we fully recover because we have experienced firsthand the fragility(脆弱) of life, not to mention coming face to face with death.

So, now that we can never return, what should we do?

Consider this …how is it that two people can be faced with the same hardship and while one becomes hopeless and feels anger and upset, the other is able to overcome their circumstances and grow stronger than ever as a result of the experience?

At one extreme, we may choose to accept the role of unlucky victim, or become trapped in the “Why is it always me!” negative and frustrating(令人沮丧的) situations. Either way is the result of a fixed mindset(思维模式) that is resistant to growth and change. If this is your approach to life, you will be far less likely to be active in effectively managing change and recovering from bad situations.

But there is another choice. If you are honest enough, you may consider what was once “normal” for you was just the main cause of your storm. You can choose to hug change and uncertainty and learn to grow forward through all of your experiences. Of course, this means doing the work to develop the skills and habits that will enable you to handle life’s occasional storms.

In conclusion, it is up to each of us to choose the meaning we apply to our situations at all times. Different choices will lead to different lives. Of course you can grow forward if you are determined to choose live a positive life regardless of whatever hardships you are facing.

1.What does the author try to convey with the example in the second paragraph?

A. We will understand life much better after an escape from death.

B. It usually takes a long time to recover from a health problem.

C. It’s unlikely to return to where we were after certain events.

D. We can recover from an emotional problem much more easily.

2.When faced with hardships, some people choose to be a victim because of ________.

A. their terrible experiences　　 B. their negative thoughts

C. their poor health　　 D. their bad luck

3.What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A. To advise us to manage bad emotions.

B. To persuade us to get back to normal.

C. To offer us useful skills to work with.

D. To encourage us to overcome hardships.

4.If you’re determined to grow forward you have to ________.

A. experience life’s fragility　　 B. welcome uncertainty and change

C. develop new skills and habits　　 D. overcome the fear of death

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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

When you concentrate, you focus on one thing and get other thoughts out of your mind. You concentrate on schoolwork, on sports, or on some music which requires serious ________effort. The point is that you think of only one________at a time, do it and leave it behind you.

________to concentrate is important. Any adult will tell you they________have at least a dozen things on their minds. When they must complete a project by a certain day and hour, they concentrate on it and________several people into a work team. This________a clear focus on the work—and on getting others to do their________.

Adults have a(n) ________life which may include a husband or a wife, children, and all the work of running a household. Supper must be________and the broken back staircase must be fixed before someone gets________. If a child is sick, he or she must go to the________.

With all these things on their minds, how do adults________the day? They know they cannot fight all their battles at one time, so they concentrate on the most ________task, get it done, and go onto the next.

The martial arts (武术) ________ you this kind of concentration. To do a movement________, you must watch and imitate the master. Since you do not always get things right the first time, you must figure out your________and correct it. The instructor is there to________, but you are still responsible for your personal progress. As you move up in rank (等级), more and more is demanded of you. The________are increasingly complex. You have ________time in class and want to get the most from it. But since you have learned to concentrate on________movements and get them right, you confidently accept—and meet—these greater challenges.

1.A. technical　　 B. political 　　　 C. mental　　　　 D. social

2.A. opinion 　　　 B. person 　　　　　 C. question　　 D. task

3.A. Learning 　　 B. Agreeing　　　　 C. Promising 　　 D. Preparing

4.A. sometimes 　　 B. always 　　　　　 C. hardly 　　　　 D. probably

5.A. organize　　 B. order　　　　　　 C. send　　　　　 D. divide

6.A. offers 　　　　 B. changes　　　　 C. adjusts　　　 D. requires

7.A. lesson 　　　　 B. favorite 　　　　 C. best 　　　　　 D. favor

8.A. city 　　　　　 B. home　　　　　　 C. country 　　　 D. art

9.A. sold　　　　　 B. eaten 　　　　　　 C. cooked 　　　　 D. bought

10.A. hurt　　　　 B. cheated　　　　 C. punished 　　 D. beaten

11.A. professor 　 B. movie 　　　　　　 C. class 　　　　 D. doctor

12.A. refer to 　　 B. dream of　 　　　 C. get through D. hope for

13.A. pleasant 　　 B. hopeful　　　　 C. difficult　　 D. urgent

14.A. teach 　　　　 B. lend 　　　　　　 C. leave　　　　 D. spare

15.A. quickly 　　 B. correctly　　　 C. carefully 　　 D. graciously

16.A. mistake　　 B. pain 　　　　　　 C. disadvantage D. regret

17.A. practice 　　 B. pay 　　　　　　　 C. watch 　　　　 D. help

18.A. ideas　　　　 B. cultures　　　　 C. movements 　　 D. situations

19.A. fixed 　　　　 B. limited 　　　　 C. appointed 　　 D. wasted

20.A. direct 　　　 B. simple 　　　　　 C. smart 　　　　 D. Wise

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