Class 101

This class is intended for adolescents to learn social skills all of us need. We'll cover everything from how to begin conversations with strangers to ways of calming your nerves when you do. You'll learn what makes some people more popular than others and simple things you can do to feel more like you fit it.

Place: Karman Executive Center, Bellevue

Time: From 6:30 PM to 8:30PM, on Saturday in May Fee:＄135.00 includes workbooks Class 102

We design this class to help to get over fears. In this class, we'll cover the basics--- the origins of shyness, strategies for focusing on the kind of shyness your child experiences, social skills you can teach in your home, and tips for working with teachers to help your child fit in at school.

Place: Karman Executive Center, Bellevue

Time: From 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM, on Sunday in May

Fee: $85.00

Class 103

Do you find yourself searching for something to say when you meet someone new in your work?

Then why not ,join us in learning the secret of successful conversation? In this fun-filled evening,

we'll demystify(深入浅出地解释)the art of conversation and practice some easy techniques to put

yourself and others at ease.

Place: North Campus, Bellevue

Time: 6:30PM to 9:30PM on Thursday, May 23rd

hee: $49.00

C1ass 104

1.If a student wants to be popular with others, he or she should choose ．

A. Class 101 B. Class 104

C. Class 102 D. Class 103

2. The class that can help a child to improve their EQ costs ．

A.＄135,00 B.85.00 C.＄59.00 D.$ 49.00

3.We can learn from the text that

A，most of the classes are given in the same building

B. all of the classes are given on weekends

C.all the classes are given in May

D. fees for most classes include workbooks

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Unplug Your Weekends or Ruin Your life

Researchers have found that people who unplug(不插电）over the weekend have higher satisfaction with life than people who spend their Saturday stuck in their electronics. 1. Give yourself an Internet break and keep yourself busy with other activities, and consider taking up any of the following pastimes:

Reading

Reading may seem like a very boring activity, though, in comparison to visiting social media for hours on end, it's attractive. You don't need to read the classic novels, but pick some text. Reading

will keep your stress at bay.

2.

It is the most ancient set of activities in the world. Playing a sport is not only good for your health, but it is good for developing intelligence and motivation, too. Going for a run and listening to your favorite music may increase your self-confidence and productivity. Going for a walk is also a good choice for you.

Spend time with your famely

3. They have always supported you, helped you whenever you were in trouble and when they're gone, you' 11 be regretful that you didn't make the most of the time you had.

Learn new skills

Learn a new language, play a musical instrument, make something with your own hands, try cooking or anything really. The best part about learning something new is that you will meet new people. 4.

Above are the suggestions on what to do when you are unplugged. However, there is no need to abandon your social network accounts, but at least try to turn off your computer and do something different on weekends. 5.

A. Running

B. Playing a sport

C. Don't abandon your family.

D. Spend more free time with your family and friends.

E. Moreover, by choosing a new thing to make a try you' 11 get inspiration and moral satisfaction.

F. It's important for us to live in a real world to have fun with the real life people who are close to us.

G. What's more, more time spent unplugging will lead to more lasting relationships.

短文改错：（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

假段定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用（＼）划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

In the past, my hometown was very small. People there lived poor life and the houses.were very old and shabby, even some of which were shaking in the wind. As for the traffic，it was very inconvenient that almost no tourists came.

However, there has been many changes in my hometown until now . Life has become better．The houses become larger and brighter，but more people get their own cars. Everywhere is decorated with green trees and beautiful flowers and grass. What's more，thousands of tourist from the world came here every year, that is really splendid. I believe my hometown will become more and more developed and beautifully. Everything in it will represent the advancing science and technology. At the same time，I will always keep it in my mind that my hometown must be greater in the future.

In this information age, there are plenty of mindless activities to keep a child busy. Yet despite the competition, my 8-year-old daughter Alice wants to spend her leisure time writing short stories. She wants to enter one of her stories into a writing contest, a competition which she won last year.

As a writer, I know about winning contests---and about losing them. I know what it is like to work hard on a story only to receive a rejection letter from the publisher. I also know the pressure of trying to live up to a reputation created by previous victories. What if she doesn’t win the contest again? That’s the strange thing about being a parent. So many of our own past scars and destroyed hopes can resurface in our children.

A revelation(启示) came last week when I asked her, “Don’t you want to win again?” “No,” she replied, “I just want to tell the story of an angel going to first grade.”

I had just spent weeks correcting her stories as she spontaneously(自发地)told them. Telling myself that I was merely an experienced writer guiding the young writer across the hall, I offered suggestions for characters, conflicts and endings for her tales. The story about a fearful angel starting first grade was quickly “guided” by me into the tale of a little girl with a wild imagination taking her first music lesson. I had turned her contest into my contest without even realizing it.

Staying back and giving kids space to grow is not as easy as it looks. Because I know very little about farm animals who use tools or angels who go to first grade, I had to accept the fact that I was co-opting my daughter’s experience.

While stepping back was difficult for me, it was certainly a good first step that I will quickly follow with more steps, putting myself far enough away to give her room but close enough to help if asked. All the while I will be reminding myself that children need room to experiment, grow and find their own voices.

1. What do we know about the author’s own writing experience?

A. She was constantly under pressure to write more.

B. Her road to success was full of pain and frustrations.

C. Most of her stories had been rejected by publishers.

D. She did not quite live up to her reputation as a writer.

2. Why did Alice want to enter this year’s writing contest?

A. She wanted to share her stories with readers.

B. She had won a prize in the previous contest.

C. She believed she possessed real talent for writing.

D. She was sure of winning with her mother’s help.

3.The underlined sentence probably means that the author was .

A. trying not to let her daughter enjoy her own life

B. helping her daughter develop real skills for writing

C. making sure that her daughter would win the contest

D. trying to get her daughter to do the thing as the author wished

4. What does the writer mean to tell us in the last two paragraphs?

A. Children need more room to develop.

B. Parents should co-opt children’s experience.

C. Children should be provided enough help.

D. Parents need to remind their children of their own choices.

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In this constantly changing world, how to put the knowledge 1. (gain) every day into 2. (real) has interested numerous people. As a proverb goes, “Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key 3. it.” Apparently, this saying 4. (try) to deliver the message 5. we ought not to stop practicing it if we 6. (true) want to master the knowledge we learn,

There are several reasons 7. (account) for this statement. To begin with, human beings are forgetful beings; therefore, only when we use knowledge, make 8. (mistake), and try to use it again will we be able to remember it by our heart. Moreover, knowledge has become growingly complicated and we can seldom grasp the essence of it if we do not practice it again and again.

Practicing, to sum up, 9. (be) of greatest importance for those who are determined to learn knowledge well. As a student, I hope that the young can focus more attention on practicing 10. they learn.

1.Who will probably take part in the event “BABY AND ME”？

A. Book lovers. B. Businessmen.

C. Infants. D. Adults 50＋.

2.Where will you go if you want to learn about computer technology?

A. Muhlenberg Library. B. St. George Library Center.

C. Kips Bay Library. D. 67th Street Library.

3.In which event can you work as a volunteer?

A. BABY AND ME.

B. OPEN LAB.

C. I NEED A DOCTOR: HEALTH INFO ONLINE.

D. QUIET STUDY ROOM.

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Many people talk about how reading books can expand your knowledge and improve your life. __1.__ Reading books is indeed good. But there is one aspect of it that many people tend to forget: the value of rereading books.

In fact, I’d argue that rereading books is just as important as reading new ones.Here are some reasons why rereading books is good：

1. __2.__

Research shows that in just 24 hours people would forget most of what they’ve read. You might get a lot of good ideas from a book, but it’s easy to forget most of them. Rereading a book helps you refresh those ideas in your mind.

2. _3.__

Just as it’s easy to forget ideas, it’s also easy to have some ideas skip your attention when you first read a book. Rereading the book helps you notice them.

3. It gives you a new perspective.

__4.__ The ideas that didn’t make sense before could now make sense. The things that didn’t matter before could now be connected to your experience.

4. It helps you apply the ideas.

In my opinion, the primary value of reading is the application and not the reading itself. Reading alone could expand your knowledge but application could change your life. By rereading a book, you can see which parts of it you have applied and which parts haven’t. __5._

A. It helps you refresh yourself.

B. It reminds you of the good ideas.

C. There’s nothing wrong with that, of course.

D. Rereading a book allows you to see it with fresh eyes.

E. It helps you notice the ideas that you didn’t notice before.

F. You can then focus your effort on the parts that need more work.

G. Later, when you’ve applied them, you can find reading all kinds of materials really works.

某天你收到如下一封来自笔友的电子邮件，请根据邮件内容回复一封100字左右的邮件，表示对Tom的欢迎，并询问他来长沙的具体时间、住宿安排、课程时间并说明你需要了解这些的原因。

Dear Li Hua,

Surprise! I enrolled in a camp organized by Chinese Bridge in August and will spend about a week in Changsha. So, we can finally see each other. Learning the Chinese language and visiting some places of interest like Shaoshan Mountain will be part of the camp. I just can’t wait to see you.

Tom.

Some people collect stamps. Other people collect works of art or musical instruments. But a man in the American state of Maryland collects secrets.

For the past 10 years, people have been sending Frank Warren postcards and other objects with secrets written on them. He now has a million secrets. “It’s a drawing of a lift. And the secret says: ‘I feel guilty when I take lifts for one floor, so I limp when I get out.’” Frank said.

Ten years ago, Mr. Warren created an art project called PostSecret. People then began to send him postcards, other objects and emails telling their secrets. Every Sunday, he chooses 10 secrets and puts them on the website.

Mr. Warren says he created PostSecret so people could share their secrets in a safe place. “I was struggling with secrets in my own life. And it was by creating this safe place where others could share their secrets with me, I think that space was something I needed just as much as they did.”

He has published six books full of the secrets people have shared with him. One secret in each book is his. Eric Perry delivers mail for the U.S. Postal Service. He has brought thousands of secrets to Frank’s home over the past three years. “I have a couple of the books that Frank’s given me and I’ve read them all and my family has read them all and it’s wild!”

The project itself was once one of Frank’s secrets. His wife Jan didn’t know exactly what he was doing until the first book was published. The publisher told him that the address was going to be on the book, and he refused. However, the address was there just because of the contract between them. Actually Warren wasn’t very happy about that.

Some people tell Frank of their secret desire to kill themselves. So he and the PostSecret community have raised more than $1 million to help prevent suicides（自杀）.

1.It is implied in Mr. Warren’s words in Paragraph 2 that ________.

A. the person was ashamed of using an elevator for one floor

B. Americans are not allowed to use an elevator for one floor

C. the person felt guilty when pretending to be a disabled one

D. he has received different secrets about using an elevator

2.Mr. Warren created PostSecret in order to ________.

A. satisfy his curiosity about others’ secrets

B. collect more materials for his series of books

C. offer a safe place for people to share their secrets

D. earn a lot of money by sharing others’ secrets online

3.What do we know about Eric Perry from the passage?

A. His family are eager to collect the books written by Frank.

B. His main job is to deliver mails and postcards for Frank.

C. He has been a postman who has a great many secrets.

D. He has developed a good relationship with Frank.

4.What was Mr. Warren’s secret according to the passage?

A. He once took the lift only for one floor.

B. He is interested in collecting others’ secrets.

C. He created an art project without telling his wife.

D. He helped prevent others from committing suicides.

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What do people do with their old, out of date but still useful computers? Most people don’t know 1. to do with them. Many old computers are put away in homes. Many more 2. (throw) away as rubbish.

Finally, some companies are thinking of ways 3. (bring) down the number of old computers. Sony has agreed to help recycle old Sony products. Dell, Hewlett Packard and other 4. (company) now also take back some old computers.

In some countries, laws have been passed, too. Computer companies have to pay for collecting and 5. (recycle) their used products. And 70% of computer waste must be recycled. The idea behind the laws 6. (be) that computer companies themselves should pay for the cost. That will encourage them to make computers 7. (easy) to repair and upgrade (升级).

Yet while many people are throwing away good computers, others cannot afford 8. at all. Hundreds of organizations are working to solve this problem. They collect and repair old computers. Some also teach others how to repair computers. 9. computers then go to schools, charities (慈善团体) and people who need them. Giving a used computer to one of these organizations can turn one person’s rubbish 10. someone else's useful things and cut down waste, too.