第二节（共8小题；每小题1分，满分8分）

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，在表格中第63至第70小题的空格里填上适当的单词，使信息完整。每空填一个词。（注意：请将本题答案写在二卷指定位置）

Maybe you think you will never be a top student. However, this is not necessarily so. Anyone can become a better student if he or she wants to. Here’s how.

1. Plan your time in a careful way. 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, you 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(利用) class time to listen to everything the teacher says. Really listening in class means you don’t need to work as much later. Taking notes will help you remember what the teacher says.

4. Study regularly. When you get home from school, go over your notes and 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 how much knowledge you have learned about a subject. They help you remember what you have learned. 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.

(63) ___________ to be a top student

第二节（共8小题；每小题1分，满分8分）

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，在表格中第63至第70小题的空格里填上适当的单词，使信息完整。每空填一个词。 （注意：请将本题答案写在二卷指定位置）

Maybe you think you will never be a top student. However, this is not necessarily so. Anyone can become a better student if he or she wants to. Here’s how.

1. Plan your time in a careful way. 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, you 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(利用) class time to listen to everything the teacher says. Really listening in class means you don’t need to work as much later. Taking notes will help you remember what the teacher says.

4. Study regularly. When you get home from school, go over your notes and 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 how much knowledge you have learned about a subject. They help you remember what you have learned. 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.

                     (63) ___________ to be a top student

第二节：语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卷标号为31-40的相应位置上。
As settlers moved to California ___31     the mid-nineteenth century, they became
concerned about the lack of rapid _____32    (communicate) with the eastern United States. Because of the dangers and hardships of ___33   (cross) the West, mail often did not arrive. Therefore the most important mails _____34    (send)  via Panama, ____35    took a month or more. In 1860 a stagecoach company decided to meet the problem by beginning the Pony Express. The company hired __36   bravest riders and bought the fastest horses __37   (use) as relay(替换) teams between Missouri and California, and the company promised __38     mails would be sent in ten days. The company established two hundred stations along the route at which riders could rest and change horses. In less than two years, __39  , telegraph lines were completed and the Pony Express was ___40     longer needed.

第二节：语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31-40的相应位置上。
Few people would even think of beginning a new job at the age of 76, _31_____ one of America’s most famous artists did just that. Anna Mary Robertson, better known as “Grandma Moses”, turned to painting _32_____ she was too old to work on her farm.
Grandma Moses was crazy about painting soon after she picked it up and worked hard at it. She painted _33_____(care) and her works were nice. She first painted only to please _34_____, and then began to sell her works _35_____a little money. In 1993, a collector, Louis Caldor happened to see several of Grandma Moses’ works _36_____(hang) in a shop. He liked them, __37____(buy) them at once, and set out to look for _38_____. Caldor held __39____ show to introduce the works of Grandma Moses to other artists. Grandma Moses, _40_____ was world-famous, died on December 13, 1961, at the age of 101.

第二节：语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31—40的相应位置上。
In the past few years, quite a number of men and women have chosen to do something less competitive. They are afraid that the stress and strains of work will rob them ____31____ joy and happiness and ____32____ them harm both physically and mentally.
In fact, however, stress isn’t the bad thing ____33____ it is often supposed to be. Above all, ____34____ it gets out of control, a certain amount of stress is vital to provide motivation and challenge, and to give purpose and significance to ____35____, otherwise meaningless, idle life. ____36___, people under stress tend to express their full range of potential and to actualize their own _____37____(person) worth—the very aim of a human life.
Stress is a natural part of everyday life and _____38 ___ is no way to avoid it. What we can do is ____39____(develop) our adaptive abilities to deal with it rather than to escape ____40___ it.