高中毕业在即，你将作为学生代表在金华一中2010届毕业生典礼上发言。请按以下要点写一篇发言稿。
1．感谢老师教会我们如何学习和做人；
2．感谢母校提供良好的生活、学习环境；
3．同学将来都能回报母校、回报社会。
注意：1．词数：100词左右，发言稿的开头和结尾为写好，不计入词数。
2．可适当增加细。以使行文连贯。
3．参考词汇：乐观optimistic；回报reward
Good morning, dear teacher and students. I am greatly honoured to stand here on behalf of all the graduates to make a speech at the graduation ceremony.
Thank you for your listening.
第二节：阅读下面几段文字，为它们从A到F中选出适当的标题。注意：有一个标题是多余的。
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A. The most common problem is a “wandering” mind B. Selective listening is also a mental barrier C. Listening isn’t an easy skill to master D. Attitudes can also interfere with good listening E. Noise and background music makes listening more difficult F. Listening is also related to the level of the listener’s knowledge |
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Listening is not as easy as someone thought. Even good listeners may recall only fifty percent of what they hear. Retention, the ability to remember and recall information, decreases about twenty to twenty – five percent after a few days. So no matter how well you listen in class, you’re always going to have to refresh your memory before a test! Unfortunately, many people have poor listening habits, and little listening training. To improve your listening skills, it’s important to understand what causes poor listening.
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If you find it difficult to concentrate solely on what a speaker is saying, there’s good reason. The mind processes information much faster than a speaker can speak. The brain can process over 500 words per minute, while the average speaker talks as a rate of 124 to 250 words per minute. That means the mind can hear what’s being said and can think about something else at the same time.
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If you have a negative idea about the speaker or the topic, you’ll find it difficult to listen attentively. Hostile or captive audiences often have more difficultly listening than do favorable or voluntary ones.
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If a speaker speaks “above the heads” of an audience, people find it difficult to concentrate. Speakers who use unfamiliar words or who use incomplete explanations make it more difficult to listen. Speakers who “speak down” to audiences, failing to acknowledge what the audience already knows, also create mental blocks.
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When people listen selectively, they simply block out what they don’t want to hear. For instance, many people have habits that are dangerous to their health, like smoking. However, they often choose to block out what a speaker says about health risks. They may listen to a speech and think that the speaker’s message applies to other people, not them. In other words, they hear what they want to hear and ignore what they don’t want to hear.
Below is an advertisement in a travel brochure.
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Book this package There are few areas better than Lake Myvatn for viewing the Northern Lights and discovering the wonders of the Icelandic winter. Day 1 Reykjavik—Akureyri—Lake Myvatn Flight to Akureyri from where you will be picked up. Transfer to Lake Myvatn. Sightseeing tour of the Lake Myvatn area. After the tour an introduction of the activities available. Day 2 Free day at Lake Myvatn: optional tours available. Please note that all tours are dependent on weather and road conditions, and therefore only booked locally at Lake Myvatn. Day 3 Akureyri—Reykjavik The morning will be spent at Lake Myvatn and then in the afternoon a transfer to Akureyri where you will go on a short sightseeing tour of Akureyri enjoying the beautiful sights. Afternoon flight back to Reykjavik. Activities available at Lake Myvatn Snowmobile Take an exciting adventure on our snowmobiles out on the frozen Lake Myvatn or travel deep into the Highlands with one of our guides. 30 min and 1 hour tour available. Super-jeep Sightseeing at Myvatn and a super-jeep adventure. 3 tours available: around the area of Lake Myvatn; a tour to Dettifoss, the most powerful waterfall in Europe and unforgettable at winter time; a tour further into the Myvatn area. Sightseeing tours Sightseeing tours to some spectacular places: Icelandic farms, power station, museums and a search for the northern lights. These tours are recommended for all nature lovers. Cross-country skiing The Lake Myvatn area and surrounding Highlands are great for cross-country skiing. There is a good mixture of areas from easy to more demanding and the length of each tour also depends on one’s ability. Horse riding A wonderful area that offers a great variation of trekking（跋涉）routes. On offer are tours from one hour to a day tour with different destinations, something to match your desire. Go-carts on ice Experience the adventure of driving on the ice of the lake. The snow is taken away and you drive with “nailed” tires. Also available is go-carts in the snow. Winter garden Different kinds of amusements on the frozen lake: bowling, cricket, skating, mini golf etc. |
1.What is the purpose of the ad?
A. To inform the timetable of a trip.
B. To list the steps to see the Northern Lights.
C. To introduce a special traveling package.
D. To introduce the wonders of the Icelandic winter.
2.Where will you spend most of the time during the trip?
A. Reykjavik. B. Akureyri. C. Lake Myvatn. D. Icelandic farms.
3.Which activity is not included in the travel package?
A. Sighteeing tour of Akureyri.
B. Sightseeing tour of Reykjavik.
C. Sightseeing tour in the Lake Myvatn area.
D. Seeing the most powerful waterfall in Europe.
4.If you want to view the Northern Lights, you will join in _________.
A. Horse riding B. Cross-country skiing
C. Super-jeep D. Sightseeing tours
The kids at Shute Country Primary School in Devon are surprisingly quiet when it’s time to go home in the afternoon, instead of the usual shouting and running you can hear them asking each other, “ Are the lights all off?”, “Shall we check the taps in case they are dripping (滴水)?”, “How many paper towels did we use today?”
But it’s not unusual here. The kids have declared a war on waste.
“We’ve never made the children do anything,” explains Liz Templar, the school’s head teacher, “they came up with all ideas themselves. They’re doing this because they want to.”
If you take a look around the school you won’t see anything thrown away unnecessarily. Everything is collected and reused, or sent to be recycled.
Shute School started its green revolution two years ago. They looked carefully at every party of school life－from the teaching to the cleaning. They looked at the way stationery(文具) was used－especially photocopying, the way cleaning was carried out, and how food was used and wasted!
Even parents were looked at: how many children came in each car? Did they use unleaded petrol? Could they bring more children in fewer cars?
High on the list was the waste of paper. Next came unfriendly cleaning products. Paper towels were replaced with recycled paper. But the hardest thing for the kids was when they found out how much rubbish was created by the chocolate, crisps and other snacks(小吃) eaten at lunch time. Of their own accord(自愿地), the children gave them up. Now they bring apples and home-made snacks.
The school has its own garden where they grow vegetables and flowers so that they can learn about the environment. They also use this area for their recycling store-large containers to collect aluminum, bottles, plate and fabric(织物).
Even the school’s play area is made from recycled things.
Since the children started, the school’s heating and lighting bills have fallen obviously and the number of rubbish bags has gone down from seven a week to two or three.
Everywhere in Shute School there are bright posters asking everyone to take their rubbish home, to save energy and paper and to keep the green flag flying.
1.Which of the following best describes the writer’s idea?
A. The pupils at Shute School are fighting against pollution.
B. The pupils at Shute School are learning to save things.
C. The pupils at Shute School have declared a war on waste.
D. The pupils at Shute School have found a way to recycle waste things.
2.We can infer from the text that “green revolution” means _______.
A. beautifying schoolyard B. activity against waste
C. planting green plants D. throwing away waste
3.What do the children think creates the most waste?
A. Paper towels. B. Cleaning products. C. Snacks. D. Paper.
4.We learn from the text that the children’s behavior ____________.
A. has brought arguments B. has saved the school’s cost
C. was against by their parents D. was forced by their head teacher
WILD WEATHERMAN
Name: Sam Champion
Hot job: TV Weatherman
Where: WABC-TV, New York City
When you were a child, did you plan to forecast wind, rain, and snow on TV?
I wanted to be a foreign journalist. I took courses in weather science at Eastern Kentucky University, but I majored in broadcasting news.
How did you finally become a weatherman?
My first job in the early 80’s was at the local TV station in Paducah, Kentucky. I did everything from turning on the lights in the morning to writing and delivering morning news. I put together weather forecasts, and became interested in them.
Back then, how did you forecast weather?
Independent companies collected computer information that showed, for example, how a single weather system might split into snow or snow mixed with rain. The information was often opposite and the job of a weatherman was to study the information and make the best educated guess about the storm.
Has weather forecasting changed much with new technology?
Advanced computers, satellites, and Doppler radar (sound waves used to track storms) have made forecasting more exact. But we still know very little about how weather is shaped. So far, we just have theories.
Any advice for children who’d like to become weather scientists?
To me, weather is the most exciting field in the world. There are still so many more questions about weather than answers. After all, if we can’t foresee floods or hurricanes, how safe a society are we? Weather forecasting is wide open for scientists who love to solve puzzling problems. The next generation of meteorologists (weather scientists) will unlock many of Earth’s weather secrets. So get a general knowledge of Earth science, and study meteorology (weather science) in college.
Thanks, Sam.
1.Judging from the writing style, the text is ________.
A. a diary B. an interview C. a news story D.an announcement
2.As a child, ABC-TV’s Sam Champion wanted to be a ________.
A. space scientist B. weatherman C. news reporter D. meteorologist
3.Present weather forecasting technology ________.
A. has made weather report more exact than ever B. is still not perfect
C. hasn’t changed much in the last 50 years D. both A and B
4.The study of weather science is called ________.
A meteorology B forecasting C geography D earth science
Do dogs understand us?
Be careful what you say around your dog. It might understand more than you think.
A border collie named Rico recognizes the names of about 200 objects, say researchers in Germany. The dog also appears to be able to learn new words as easily as a 3-year-old child. Its word-learning skills are as good as those of a parrot or chimpanzee.
In one experiment, the researchers took all 200 items that Rico is supposed to know and divided them into 20 groups of 10 objects. Then the owner told the dog to go and fetch one of the items and bring it back. In four tests, Rico got 37 out of 40 commands right. As the dog couldn't see anyone to get clues, the scientists believe Rico must understand the meanings of certain words.
In another experiment, the scientists took one toy that Rico had never seen before and put it in a room with seven toys whose names the dog already knew. The owner then told Rico to fetch the object, using a word the dog had never heard before.
The correct object was chosen in seven out of ten tests, suggesting that the dog had worked
out the answer by process of elimination(排除法). A month later, Rico remembered half of the new names, which is even more impressive.
Rico is thought to be smarter than the average dog. For one thing, Rico is a border collie, a breed (品种)known for its mental abilities. In addition, the 9-year-old dog has been trained to fetch toys by their names since the age of nine months.
It's hard to know if all dogs understand at least some of the words we say. Even if they do, they can't talk back. Still, it wouldn't hurt to sweet-talk your dog every now and then. You might just get a big, wet kiss in return!
1.From paragraph 2 we know that __ .
A. animals are as clever as human beings
B. chimpanzees have very good word-learning skills
C. dogs are smarter than parrots and chimpanzees
D. dogs have similar learning abilities as 3-year-old children
2.Both experiments show that .
A. Rico is smart enough to get all commands right
B. Rico can recognize different things including toys
C. Rico has developed the ability of learning mathematics
D. Rico won't forget the names of objects once recognizing them
3.Which of the following statements is true?
A. Rico has a better memory partly because of its proper early training.
B. The purpose of the experiments is to show the border collie's mental abilities.
C. The border collie is world-famous for recognizing objects.
D. Rico is born to understand its owner's commands.
4.What does the writer want to tell us?
A. To train your dog. B. To talk to your dog.
C. To be careful with your dog. D. To be friendly to your dog.
