阅读下面的文章，按要求完成下题。

　　You might be reading this article and saying, “Hey, that sounds just like me!” If so, we’re glad you recognize that this happens to you．Now you can start taking steps to lessen your test anxiety．Here are some ways to do that：

　　Ask for help．Talk to your mom or dad, your teacher, or your school guidance counselor．Just talking to someone about test anxiety can make you feel better．Describe what happens to you when you’re taking a test and these people can help you figure out some solutions．For instance, learning study skills can boost your test－day confidence．

　　Be prepared．Pay attention in class．Do your homework．Study for the test．On test day, you’re more likely to feel like you know the material．

　　Block bad thoughts．Watch out for any negative messages you might be sending yourself about the test(“I’m no good at taking tests” or “I’m going to freak out if I get a bad grade”)．These thoughts can make anxiety worse and make it harder for you to do well on the test．

　　________．Everyone makes mistakes．Be more forgiving of your own mistakes, especially if you prepared for the test and are set to do your best．

　　Breathe better．OK, so you already know how to breathe．But did you know that breathing exercises can help calm you down?(Just try not to take in too much air because it might make you feel dizzy．)Here’s how to do it：Inhale(breathe in)slowly and deeply through your nose, and then exhale(breathe out)slowly through your mouth．Do this two to four times and you just might breathe easier the next time you’re taking a test!

1．What is the best title of the passage?(Please answer within 10 words．)

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2．Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

Having too many negative messages in mind leads to worse test anxiety, which may stop you doing well on the test．

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3．Please fill in the blank in the last but one paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence．(Please answer within 10 words．)

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4．Which of the tips do you think is the most useful?

(Please answer within 30 words．)

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5．Translate the underlined sentence in the 6th paragraph into Chinese．

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　　Breakfast is not only the most important meal of the day, it is also the most neglected(忽视)．Common reasons for not eating breakfast include lack of time, not feeling hungry, traditional dislike for breakfast, and dieting．

　　Breakfast simply means “Breakfast the fast”．Your body spends at least 6 to 12 hours each night in a fasting state．In the morning your body needs energy for the day’s work ahead．

　　A good breakfast should provide up to 1/3 of your total calorie needs for the day．On average, we eat 400 less calories for breakfast than for dinner．If breakfast doesn’t interest you, try eating a lighter dinner earlier in the evening or save half your dinner for breakfast ________．

　　So, you say you’re on a diet．Some people fear eating breakfast will make them hungrier during the day and they will eat more．It is true that eating breakfast is likely to make you feel hungry throughout the day．That’s because your body is working correctly．Although you may feel as if you eating more all day long, in reality you are probably not．

　　Not eating breakfast can also cause you to overeat, since a fall in blood sugar often makes you feel very hungry later．To make matters worse, since your body is in a slowed state it will not be able to burn those extra calories very efficiently(有效地)．If you feed your body healthy snacks(小吃)and meals throughout and day, you are less likely to become hungry and stuff(填饱)yourself as soon as you begin to eat．

　　Since breakfast is the first important meal of the day, choosing the right fuel is important．The best breakfast foods are fruits, juice, lean(精瘦的)meat, and grain products such as bread, rice, noodles and so on．

1．What is the best title of the passage?(Please answer within 8 words．)

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2．Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

It is a fact that you’ll feel hungry all the day if you have breakfast．

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3．Please fill in the blank in the third paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence．(Please answer within 10 words．)

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4．Do you think breakfast is important or not? Why?

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5．Translate the underlined sentence in the first paragraph into Chinese．

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阅读下面短文，然后根据文章后的题目要求回答问题。

　　You do not need every word to understand the meaning of what you read．In fact, too much emphasis on separate words both ________ and reduces your comprehension．

　　First, any habit which you slows down your silent reading to the speed at which you speak, or read aloud, is inefficient．If you point to each word as you read, or move your head, or form the words with your lips, you read poorly．Less obvious habits also hold back reading efficiency(效率)．One is “saying” each word silently by moving your tongue or throat; another is “hearing” each word as you read．

　　These are habits which should have been outgrown long ago．The beginning reader is learning how letters can make words, how written words are pronounced, and how sentences are put together．Your reading purpose is quite different; it is to understand meaning．

　　It has been supposed that up to 75％ of the words in English sentences are not really necessary for expressing the meaning．The secret of silent reading is to find out those key words and phrases which carry the thought, and to pay less attention to words which exist only for grammatical completeness．

　　An efficient reader can grasp the meaning from a page at least twice as fast as he can read the page aloud．He takes in a whole phrase or thought unit at a time．If he “says” or “hears” words to himself, they are selected ones, said for emphasis．

1．What is the best title of the passage?(Please answer within 10 words．)

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2．Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

These habits are formed when readers are young and they should have got rid of them as they grow up．

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3．Please fill in the blank in the first paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence．(Please answer within 10 words．)

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4．What do you think is your bad reading habit? Why?(Please answer within 30 words．)

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5．Translate the underlined sentence in the second paragraph into Chinese．

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　　Maybe you are an average student．You probably think you will never be a top student．This is not necessary so, however．Anyone can become a better student if he or she wants to．Here’s how．

　　1)Plan your time carefully．When you plan your week, you should make a list of things that you have to do．After making this list, you should make a schedule of your time．First your time for eating, sleeping, dressing, etc．Then decide a good, regular time for studying．Don’t forget to set aside enough time for entertainment．A weekly schedule may not solve all your problems, but it will force you to realize what is happening to your time．

　　2)Find a good place to study．Look around the house for a good study area．Keep this space, which may be a desk or simply a corner of your room, free of everything but study materials．No games, radios, or television! When you sit down to study, concentrate on the subject．

　　3)Make good use of your time in class．Take advantage of class time to listen to everything the teacher says．Really listening in class means less work later．Taking notes will help you remember what the teacher says．

　　4)Study regularly．When you get home from school, go over your notes．Review the important points that your teacher mentioned in class．If you know what your teacher is going to discuss the next day, read that material．This will help you understand the next class．If you do these things regularly, the material will become more meaningful, and you will remember it longer．

　　5)Develop a good attitude about tests．The purpose of a test is to show what you have learned about a subject．They help you remember your new knowledge．The world won’t end if you don’t pass a test, so don’t be overly worried．

　　There are other methods that might help you with your studying．You will probably discover many others after you have tried these．

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　　A friend of mine named Paul received an expensive car from his brother as a Christmas present．On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin was walking around the shining car．“Is this your car, Paul?” he asked．

　　Paul answered, “Yes, my brother gave it to me for Christmas．”The boy was surprised．“You mean your brother gave it to you and it cost you nothing? Boy, I wish…”he hesitated．

　　Of course Paul knew what he was going to wish for．He was going to wish he had a brother like that．But what the boy said surprised Paul greatly．

　　“I wish,” the boy went on, “that I could be a brother like that．”Paul looked at the boy ________, then he said again, “Would you like to take a ride in my car?”

　　“Oh yes, I’d love that．”

　　After a short ride, the boy turned and with his eyes shining, said, “Paul, would you mind driving in front of my house?”

　　Paul smiled a little．He thought he knew what the boy wanted．He wanted to show his neighbours that he could ride home in a big car．But Paul was wrong again．“Will you stop where those two steps are?” the boy asked．

　　He ran up to the steps．Then in a short while Paul heard him coming back, but he was not coming fast．He was carrying his little crippled brother．He sat him down on the step and pointed to the car．

　　“There she is, Buddy, just like I told you upstairs．His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it didn’t cost him a cent．And some day I’m going to give you one just like it…then you can see for yourself all the nice things in the Christmas windows that I’ve been trying to tell you about．”

　　Paul got out and lifted the boy to the front seat of his car．The shining-eyed older brother climbed in beside him and the three of them began an unforgettable holiday ride．

　　注：urchin顽童　hesitate犹豫　neighbour邻居　crippled残疾　cent分

1．What is the best title of the passage?(Please answer within 10 words．)

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2．Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

The boy’s words came as a complete surprise to Paul．

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3．Please fill in the blank in the fourth paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence．(Please answer within 10 words．)

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4．What can you infer(推断)from the story about the relation between the urchin and his brother?(Please answer within 30 words．)

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5．Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese．

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阅读对话，完成问题

A：Do you like roses?

B：Yes, I do．

A：Do you know how to plant a rose?

B：I don’t know．Can you tell me?

A：First, a hole should be dug．It should be as deep as the root．Oh, no, you’d better put the root in the warm water for 24 hours first．You can dig the hole when you wait．

B：Oh, I see．Next?

A：Next, put the rose into the hole．You should do this gently．After that, some loose soil should be put into the hole．

B：Anything else?

A：Before watering it, you need to press down the soil hard with your hands．

B：Is that all? It’s easy．I will try it．

回答下列问题。

How do you plant a rose?

A．A hole as deep as the root should be dug．

B．Put some root in warm water．

C．Don’t forget to water it．

D．Put some loose soil into the hole．

E．Press down the soil hard．

F．Put the rose in the hole gently．

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　　Making an advertisement for television ________．For example, a two-hour movie costs ＄6 million to make．A TV commercial can cost more than ＄6000 a second．And that does not include cost of paying for air time．Which is more valuable, the program or the ad? In terms of money－and making money is what television is all about－the commercial is by far the more important．

　　Research, market testing, talent, time and money－all come together to make us want to buy a product．No matter how bad we think a commercial is, it works．The sales of Charm went up once the ads began．TV commercials actually buy their way into our head．We, in turn, buy the product．

　　And the ads work because so much time and attention are given to them．Here are some rules of commercial ad making．If you want to get the low middle-class buyer, make sure the announcer has a tough, manly voice．Put some people in the ad who work with their hands．If you want to sell to upper-class audience, make sure that the house, the furniture, and the hair style are the types that the group identifies(认同)with．If you want the buyer feel superior to the character selling the product, then make that person so stupid or silly that everyone will feel great about himself or herself．

　　We laugh at commercials．We don't think we pay that much attention to them．But evidence shows we are kidding ourselves．The making of a commercial that costs so much money is not kid stuff．It's big, big business．And it's telling us what to think, what we need, and what to buy．

　　To put simply, the TV commercial is a form of brainwashing．

1．What's the best title of this passage?

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2．Please fill in the blank in the first paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence．(Please answer within 10 words．)

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3．What's the main idea of the third paragraph?(Please answer within 10 words．)

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4．Which sentence can be replaced by the following one?

TV ads are making far more money than TV programs．

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5．Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese．

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　　In the world today, an often-heard term is“team work”, which is regarded as something utmost important for any companies, schools, businesses or whatever related to human work．So true is it that almost none would say anything against it once there are things, especially those we call hard nuts to be cracked that need to be done on a large scale．

　　Take, for example, a can-only-be-worked-out-by-at-least-8-people software program．No matter how talented any of the eight advanced software engineers is, he or she is only part of the team who cannot, for one thing or another, complete the whole program alone whatever efforts he/she makes or however diligent① he/she is, for, a software program, often needed badly and calling for lots of time and extremely pains-taking efforts of a programmer, ________．Time, as everyone who keeps in mind that this is a world of fierce competition knows, is money! Days', even minutes' delay would cause a business to lose thousands, even millions of dollars．From this point of view, the example tells everything－team work!

　　A recent survey done by WEIO, shortened form of the Working Efficiency Investigation Organization, of University of Detroit, shows that all over the world 95％ of work needs team work in one way or another unless it is completely personal－say, brushing one's teeth．The organization concludes that team work stands for unity of a team and efficiency of human abilities．“Have you heard that ancient Chinese story of'One Chopstick and Nine Chopsticks'?”says the director of WEIO smilingly,“besides unity, it has a spirit of team work in it!”

1．What's the main idea of the passage?(Please answer within ten words．)

2．What does the proverb“One Chopstick and Nine Chopsticks”mean?(Please answer within ten words．)

3．What's the purpose of the second paragraph?(Please answer within ten words．)

4．Please fill the blanks in the second paragraph with proper words and phrases．(Please answer within ten words．)

5．Translate the underlined sentence in the first paragraph into Chinese．

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　　George and Robert Stephenson invented the railway steam engine(蒸汽机车)，but this would never have been possible if James Watt had not first invented the steam engine itself．

　　1851 was the year of the Great Exhibition in England．This was a showcase for the best ideas across the world．The British Empire was expanding while English explorers(探险者)like David Livingstone discovered distant lands across the world．As the world became smaller, it was important to send messages as quickly as possible, New inventions ________．There were telegraph, Morse code(莫尔斯电码)，Penny Post(便士邮政)and then Alexander Graham Bell's telephone allowed people to communicate more effectively with each other．

　　At this time, the railways also made great differences to the lives of people across the world．Suddenly poor people were able to travel from where they lived; heavy goods were carried by rail to places very quickly．The engineers building the railways were slowed down by obstacles(障碍物)such as mountains, rivers and valleys．To complete the railways, people like Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed and built large bridges to carry the trains over these obstacles．Brunel was an inspired(有创作力的)inventor who went on to build great steamships as well as steam trains．

　　Perhaps one of the most important inventions of this era was the electric light bulb made possible by Thomas Edison in America and Joseph Swan in England．Both men created the same solution and completed their work within days of each other, but on opposite sides of the Atlantic．

1．What is the best title of the passage?(Please answer within 10 words．)

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2．Which sentence can be replaced by the following one?

They found the same way and invented the bulb soon．

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3．Please fill in the blank with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence．(Please answer within 10 words．)

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4．What part do you think the First Industry Revolution play?(Please answer within 30 words．)

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5．Translate the underlined sentence in the third paragraph into Chinese．

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　　Mark was walking home from school one day when he saw the boy in front of him fall over and drop all of the books he was carrying, along with two sweaters(羊毛衫), a baseball(棒球)and a walkman(随身听)Mark stopped and helped the boy pick up these things．Since they were going the same way．He helped to carry some of his things．As they walked, Mark knew that the boy's name was Bill, that he loved computer games, baseball and history, and that he was having lots of troubles with his other subjects and that he had just broken up with his girlfriend．

　　They arrived at Bill's home first and Mark was invited in for a Coke(商标名：可口可乐)and to watch some television．The afternoon passed happily with a few laughs and some small talk(闲谈), and then Mark went home．They often saw each other at school, had lunch together once or twice, and then they both finished middle school．They ended up in the same high school, where they sometimes saw and talked with each other over the years．At last just three weeks before they finished high school, Bill asked Mark if they could talk．

　　Bill asked Mark if he still remembered the day years ago when they had first met．“Did you ever think why I was carrying so many things home that day?”asked Bill．“You see, I cleaned out my locker(锁柜)because I didn't want to leave anything for anyone else．I had put away some of my mother's sleeping pills and I was going home to kill myself．But after we spent some time together talking and laughing, I began to understand that if I killed myself, I would have missed that time and so many others that might follow．So you see, Mark, when you picked up those books that day, you did a lot more．________．”

1．What is the best title of the passage?(Please answer within 10 words．)

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2．Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

His girlfriend said goodbye to him．

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3．Please fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words or phrases or phrases to complete the sentence．(Please answer within 10 words．)

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4．From what Bill was carrying, we can know that he

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5．Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese．

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