Knowing the best way to study will help you to be a better student. By using your time properly, you can do your homework more quickly. Learning to study is not difficult.

The first thing to remember is that you must be willing to learn. It doesn’t mean that you must always like the subject. It does mean, however, that you must be wil1ing to do whatever is necessary to learn. Try to understand why it is important and how it will help you now and later to do and learn other things. Knowing mathematics facts will be useful in your whole life. Knowing how to spell makes any kind of writing easier. Sometimes the subject that you think is going to be uninteresting will be exciting when you begin to work at it and understand it more clearly. Learning things can be fun if you are willing to work with them.

Here’s some advice for you: have a certain time each day and a quiet place with good lighting for study, so that you can concentrate on your study without interruptions(中断); have everything ready before you sit down to study, a dictionary, paper, a pen and books; be sure you understand what you should learn before you start; read carefully and pay special attention to the most important things; when memorizing, first find out the main parts and then recite the whole thing; check your homework after you finish it; never forget the importance of review and preview.

    Don’t try to spend a lot of time researching learning methods. There are many students who know many good learning methods but don’t study well. They forget that the most useful learning method is to study hard.

The main goal of the article is______

A. to prove that learning is not difficult

   B. to make the readers be interested in study

C. to tell the importance of self teaching

D. to tell the students how to study well

The first thing to remember in studying is that

A. you must like the subject               

B. you must follow the teacher

C. you must enjoy learning            

D. you must study hard

We learn things because______

A. our parents want us to learn         

B. every student learns at school

C. we may use these things in the future  

D. we like the subjects

Which of the following is NOT the advice given in the article?

A. To put a pen, paper and books beside you before study.

B. To study at any possible time and place.

C. To review and preview

D. To pay attention to the most important things.

Which of the following statements is true?

  A. The more learning methods we have, the better we will study.

  B. Finding the best learning method is the most important in learning.

  C. If you don’t work hard, though you have a good learning method, you can’t be good at study.

  D. Once we have mastered a good learning method, we can improve our study greatly.

  根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳的选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Although many Chinese students say that their knowledge of English grammar is good, most would admit that their spoken English is poor. Whenever I speak to a Chinese student, they always say,“My spoken English is poor.”      I would like to suggest that there may be some reasons for their problems with spoken English.

First, they fail to find suitable words to express themselves due to a limited vocabulary. However, you can speak with a limited vocabulary, if you choose a positive attitude. Others will follow you as long as you use the words that you know.

    Sometimes they make mistakes when they are speaking because they are shy and nervous. Yet students should remember that their goal should be FLUENCY NOT ACCURACY. Your aim in writing is to be accurate following the rules for grammar and using the right words and spelling them correctly. However, in speaking your aim is fluency. You want to get your message across, to talk to someone in English, as quickly and as well as you can, even though sometimes you may use a wrong word or tense, but it doesn't matter.  

The third reason is that not enough attention is paid to listening. You have one mouth but two ears! All that hearing is necessary for you to start speaking.

Fourth, most Chinese students are reactive rather than proactive language learners. Instead of actively seeking out opportunities to improve their spoken English they passively wait for speaking  opportunities to come to them and wonder why their English always remains poor.   

A. The person you are speaking to will understand you and make allowances for any mistakes he hears.

B. They may try to avoid making similar mistakes next time.

C. Obviously the better answer is to expand their vocabulary.

D. If you have this proactive outlook, then you will see English opportunities wherever you go.

E. However, their spoken English does not have to remain“poor”!

F. Second, they are afraid of making mistakes.

G. The second reason lies in the reluctance of using what has just been learned.

It’s __________ great fun to talk with you. 

A. a     B. the       C. /        D. an

when the newspaper boy got to a blue door, _________, which frightened him away as fast as possible.

A. out a fierce dog rushed                B. out did a fierce dog rush

C. out rushed a fierce dog                D. rushed out a fierce dog

_______ is obviously right is that all children have equal opportunities to get education. 

A. Which      B. What      C. That     D. It 

To ______ good relationships with your teachers and classmates, you should learn to share ups and downs with them．

    A．bring up B．add up   C．keep up  D．take up

There’s a(n) ___ of peace and calm in the countryside, completely different from that in the city. 

A. character   B. atmosphere   C. situation   D. strength

Every evening after dinner, if not _________ from work, I will spend some time walking my dogs.

    A. being tired      B. tiring      C. tired      D. to be tired

The deserts of the world are not all covered with sand. Many of them have surfaces of rock or clay or small stones. They are not flat, either. They often have high hills and deep valleys. There is some plants’ life in many parts of the desert. There is little rain in the desert, but it does fall often enough for most plants.

The deserts of the world are not uninhabited(not lived by people). People also live outside oases(绿洲), but these people are not farmers. They have camels, goats, donkeys, sheep, etc. These animals can live on the desert plants and do not need much water.

The people of the desert have to move constantly from place to place, they must always look for grass or desert plants for their animals. They usually live in tents. When there is no more food for their animals, they fold up their tents, pat them on their camels and donkeys, and move to another place. In good years, when there is enough food for their animals, they trade their skins and their goats and camel hairs with the people of oases for wheat and fruit. But in bad years, when there is not enough food for their animals, the people of the desert would attack the oases people. But they are also hospitable, no man in the desert would ever refuse to give a stranger food and water.

According to the passage, deserts are mostly made up of _______.

A. clay   B. rock    C. sand      D. stones

The underlined word “hospitable” has the meaning of being _______.

A. brave    B. cruel         C. strange    D. kind

In the desert _______.

A. it rains in spring only

B. it rains for a short time every month

C. there is some rain, but far from enough

D. the rainfall is just enough for the plants

People live _______.

A. only inside the oases    B. only outside the oases

C. both inside and outside the oases    D. in places with regular rainfalls

From the passage we know that life _______.

A. is hard in deserts   B. is happy in deserts

C. is impossible in deserts D. in deserts is much better now

Heavy downpours last month in Rhode Island led to widespread flooding, causing millions of dollars in property damage and leaving thousands homeless. The floodwaters also poured vast amounts of raw sewage (污水) into the rivers and streams that flow into Narragansett Bay.

    It sounds like the makings of an environmental nightmare, but in fact it’s just the opposite. To scientists’ delight, the sewage-loaded floodwaters have caused a well-timed growth of phytoplankton, the microscopic creatures that form the foundation of marine food chains. With more food available for fish, clams and other sea creatures, the bay’s fisheries industry is expected to benefit.

    In decades past, Narragansett Bay typically experienced a late winter/early spring algal (海藻) bloom that fed creatures up and down the water column. But in recent years, the waters of Narragansett Bay have warmed greatly, interrupting this seasonal event.

    Mark Berman, an oceanographer with the National Marine Fisheries Service, said the flood seemed to have sent the bay back to its normal state.

     However, local, state and federal officials in Rhode Island have been battling other algal blooms that, by contrast, are causing widespread harm to the Narragansett Bay ecosystem. During summer months, sewage and agricultural runoff flows into the bay, causing large blooms. But instead of becoming food for sea creatures, much of the phytoplankton is consumed by bacteria, which grow fast in the warmer waters. The rapid bacteria growth leads to hypoxia – a decrease of oxygen in the water that can cause large fish kills. One such die-off occurred in 2003, when millions of oxygen-starved fish washed up on the beaches of Narragansett Bay.

The flood’s positive impact will probably be a one-time event, Mr. Berman said. Meanwhile, efforts to curb the harmful summer blooms continue; in 2008, for instance, Providence completed a $359 million sewage tunnel under the city designed to reduce the polluted storm overflow into Narragansett Bay.

Scientists believe that the raw sewage flowing into the bay will _______.

A. pollute the island’s environment                  B. cause lots of property damage

C. increase the fisheries production                   D. destroy the food chains in the bay

The potential benefit of fisheries industry relies on the _______.

A. warm temperatures of the bay         B. growth of phytoplankton

C. large summer alga blooms             D. consumption of oxygen by bacteria

People struggle against the summer blooms because they will ________.

A. pollute the local natural environment     B. increase the production of fishery industry

C. cause large fish kills of the bay indirectly  D. provide too much food for sea creatures

It can be inferred that _______.

A. money spent on the summer blooms has been wasted

B. the government is investing to promote the local fisheries

C. research of oceanology should be encouraged

D. opinions on the raw sewage impact are currently contradictory

The underlined word “curb” in the last paragraph can be defined as “______”.

A. control            B. consume          C. cause           D. cure