Even if you are naturally shy, these three tricks will help you to quickly build a new social circle in any new city.
1. Take pictures
One of the great things about taking pictures at an event or party is that it gives you an excuse to get in touch with the person later. Everybody loves seeing pictures of themselves, and it’s very easy after taking a picture to say “If you’d like I can email it to you”. This can be the seed that leads to new connections. The next time you hear about a fun event email your new contacts to let them know about it.
2. Eat alone in public
You might feel self-conscious eating by yourself but it has an important benefit: you are much easier to approach when you are alone. People may be afraid of interrupting you or being rude if you are in a conversation with someone else. Bring a book or newspaper to read (this will make you feel less self-conscious). Plus, having an interesting book with you will give others an excuse to start a conversation if they’ve read it.
3. Join a class, sports team, or club
Yoga, salsa dancing, volleyball, Toastmasters (a public speaking club), a class for work, etc. Take up a new hobby or continue an old one!
These are all great places to meet new people, primarily because you will be forced to see the same people over and over again in the class. You will automatically make friends with them if you have a common interest and are forced to see each other again.
Tips:
* In the beginning, never turn down an invitation from someone, even if it’s something you wouldn’t normally do.
* Email your new friends with fun things to do instead of always asking what their plans are. If they have a better plan you can drop yours and join them. This will help establish you as someone who is contributing value instead of just taking it (people want this in a friend).
* Don’t let little things in life upset you or be a negative person. People don’t want to be around someone like that!
1.____ can give you an excuse to start new connections.
A. Taking pictures of others B. Eating by yourself in public
C. Reading interesting books D. Joining group activities
2.When having meals, you’d better ____ if you want to make new friends.
A. sit on your own in public places
B. start a conversation with those who have friends aside
C. invite others to your apartment to eat together
D. approach others to show conscious friendliness
3.According to the text, which of the following is NOT mentioned as an advantage of joining a class?
A. It helps you find out your interest and take up a new hobby.
B. It helps you find out people who share a common interest with you.
C. It offers an opportunity to meet the same people repeatedly.
D. It is a good way to meet new people and make friends in a new city.
4. Which of the following pieces of advice is a tip from the text?
A. Try to be outgoing and talkative instead of being shy.
B. Never turn down an invitation from your friends.
C. Offer suggestions on how to spend time together.
D. Don’t give a negative response to any request.
5.By writing the text, the author intends to tell us ____.
A. why you should change when you move to a new city
B. why you should make new friends in a new city
C. how you can make new friends in a new city
D. how you can keep in touch with strangers
OSLO — Excited with pride, Norwegians sang in the streets of Oslo on Sunday, celebrating Norway’s National Day and the country’s Eurovision Song Contest victory.
Hundreds of Norwegians sang along to Alexander Rybak’s winning song Fairytale as they walked in the country’s traditional National Day parade (游行) celebrating the Norwegian constitution.
Alexander Rybak — called “Alexander the Great” by the Norwegian media — won a great victory in the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) by gaining the most votes in its 53-year history in Moscow on Saturday.
Alexander has played violin and piano since he was five years old, and he also composes his own music and sings. In 2006 he won the Norwegian talent show Kjempesjansen with his own song Foolin. Alexander has performed with one of the world’s most celebrated violinists, Pinchas Zukerman, won the Anders Jahres Culture Price and has been the concertmaster for Norway’s largest symphony orchestra (交响乐队) for youths, Ung Symfoni.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said there was clearly something special about the 23-year-old and his folk music. “This is a phenomenal performance by a young and talented musician,” Stoltenberg said in a statement.
Rybak is expected to draw a large crowd of fans to Oslo’s Gardermoen airport when he arrives next Sunday, after having invited all his countrymen from the stage in Moscow.
With Rybak’s win, Norway will host next year’s Eurovision finals, a show that reaches a television audience of over 100 million people. Norway’s Minister of Culture, Trond Giske, promised that Norway would put on a splendid show next year but without spending as much as Moscow, which spent 24 million euros this year. “I don’t think that is necessary,” he told national broadcaster NRK.
The win was Norway’s third. The Nordic country also won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1985 and 1995.
1.What do Norwegians usually do on the country’s National Day?
A. Sing Fairytale. B. Have a parade. C. Hold a song test. D. Watch the ESC.
2.Which of the following statements about Rybak is TRUE?
A. He has a lot of fans all over the world.
B. He is the first Norwegian to win the ESC.
C. He is called “Alexander the Great” when he was born.
D. He showed a great talent for music before this ESC.
3.The underlined word “phenomenal” in Para. 5 means “____”.
A. very unusual and impressive B. too special to be understood
C. with an educational purpose D. able to draw a large audience
4.What’s Trond Giske’s opinion?
A. Norway will host next year’s Eurovision finals.
B. It doesn’t require too much money to win the finals.
C. Norway is determined to win next year’s Eurovision finals.
D. It doesn’t require a lot of money to make the finals splendid.
5.The main idea of the text is that ______________________________.
A. the Eurovision Song Contest belongs to the world
B. National Day is being celebrated in Norway
C. Crazy fans expect to meet their idol at the airport in Norway
D. Norway celebrates a Eurovision win on National Day.
Saturday, October 7th, was a marathon of sad tasks for Anna Politkovskaya. Two weeks earlier, her father, a retired official in the department of foreign affairs, had died of a heart attack as he emerged from the Moscow Metro while on his way to visit Politkovskaya’s mother, Raisa Mazepa, in the hospital. She had just been diagnosed(诊断) with cancer and was too weak even to attend her husband’s funeral. “Your father will forgive me, because he knows that I have always loved him,” she told Anna and her sister, Elena Kudimova, the day he was buried. A week later, she had an operation and since then Anna and Elena had been taking turns helping her deal with her grief.
Politkovskaya was supposed to spend the day at the hospital, but her twenty-six-year-old daughter, who was pregnant, had just moved into Politkovskaya’s apartment, on Lesnaya Street, while her own place was being prepared for the baby. “Anna had so much on her mind,” Elena Kudimova told me when we met in London, before Christmas. “And she was trying to finish her article.” Politkovskaya was a special reporter for the small newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and, like most of her work, the piece focused on the terror that can be seen all over the southern republic of Chechnya. This time, she had been trying to report repeated cruel acts done by people faithful to the Prime Minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, who are in favour of Russia. In the past seven years, Politkovskaya had written dozens of accounts of life during wartime; many had been collected in her book “A Small Corner of Hell: reports from Chechnya.” Politkovskaya was far more likely to spend time in a hospital than on a battlefield, and her writing bore frequent witness to robbery, and the uncontrolled cruelty of life in a place that few other Russians—and almost no other reporters—cared to think about.
1. Politkovskaya’s father died of ______.
A. tiredness B. a disease C. an attack D. an accident
2.From the text we know that Raisa Mazepa ______.
A. didn’t love her husband
B. didn’t attend her husband’s funeral
C. was having an operation the day her husband was buried
D. was too sad to attend her husband’s funeral
3.The underlined word “emerged” most likely means ______.
A. came out B. went into C. looked into D. left for
4.How many family members of Anna are mentioned in the passage?
A. Three. B. Four C. Five D. Six
5.Which of the following words can best describe Politkovskaya’s character?
A. curious B. easy-going C. careless D. responsible
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的语法的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16—25的相应位置上。
Last summer, I went to Hanwang, an area severely damaged during the Wenchuan earthquake. I visited some of the ______1.______(survive) and helped the local volunteers.
At Hanwang, there were no tall buildings and the air was very dirty and people were crowded. I lived with volunteers ___2.____all around China in makeshift (临时的) accommodation. They had been working there for more than six months, some giving up jobs to help with educating the kids. They never complained ____3.____the poor conditions that I couldn’t bear at first. Rather, they were thankful to have the chance _4._____(rebuild) the damaged areas. I respected their work.
My main task was to visit some of the children__5.___ charity organization was supporting. One of them was disabled, having broken a leg during the earthquake. A ____6.____(poison) spider had bitten another girl while she ____7.______(live)in a tent after the earthquake. She had had to endure (忍受) the transplant of a piece of skin from one leg to the other. These children had had terrible bad luck,____ 8.____ they were still full of hope despite the situation. Their grades were amazingly good, ___9.____was one reason the charity group chose to help them. All the people I visited were grateful, not only for surviving but to the country for helping____10._____.
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—15各题所给出的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
What is Math Anxiety?
Math anxiety or fear of math is actually quite common. Math anxiety is quite 1 to stage-fright. Why does someone suffer stage-fright? Fear of something going wrong in front of a crowd? Fear of 2 the lines? Fear of being judged 3 ? Fear of going completely blank? Math anxiety shows fear of some type. The fear that one won't be able to do the math or the fear that it's too hard or the fear of failure which often results from having a lack of 4 . For the most part, math anxiety is the 5 about doing the math right, our minds draw a 6 and we think we'll fail and of course the more frustrated and anxious our minds become, the 7__ the chance for drawing blanks.
Where Does Math Anxiety Come From?
Usually math anxiety results from 8 experiences in mathematics. Math anxiety is often due to poor teaching and poor experiences in math which typically leads to math __9___. When one tries to memorize procedures, rules and routines without much 10 , the math is quickly forgotten and 11 soon sets in. Think about your experiences with one concept --- the division of fractions(分数). You probably learned about reciprocals（倒数） and inverses(倒转). Well, you memorized the rule and it 12 . Why does it work? Think of math as memorizing all the procedures -- what if you forget a few? Therefore, with this type of strategy, a good 13 will help, but, what if you don’t have a good memory? Understanding the math is critical. Once students 14 they can do the math, the whole notion of math anxiety can be overcome. Teachers and parents play an important 15 in ensuring students understand the math being presented to them.
1.A. different B. similar C. far D. familiar
2.A. understanding B. memorizing C. forgetting D. reading
3.A. poorly B. crazily C. highly D. publicly .
4.A. wish B. conscience C. determination D. confidence
5.A. fear B. joy C. pleasure D. interest
6.A .conclusion B. choice C. blank D. comparison
7.A. further B. greater C. less D. smaller
8.A. unpleasant B. unfair C. unimportant D. unfortunate
9.A. worry B. anxiety C. failure D. misunderstanding
10.A. forgetting B. using C. understanding D. knowing
11.A. panic B. excitement C. agreement D. encouragement
12.A. opens B. works C. starts D. runs
13.A. memory B. method C. brain D. body
14.A. fill B. realize C. confirm D. recognize
15.A. task B. aim C. appointment D. role
读写任务(共l小题，满分25分)
阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
The following story took place long ago in Israel. One day when government officials were using smoke to force the mice inside a hole to come out, they saw two mice, after all the others escaped, squeezing slowly out at the exit of the hole. The strange thing was that after they came out, they did not run away immediately. Instead, one chased after the other near the exit of the hole. It seemed that one was trying to bite the tail of the other.
Everyone was puzzled, so they stepped closer to take a look. They realized that one of the mice was blind and could not see anything, and the other one was trying to allow the blind mouse to bite on his tail so he could pull the blind one with him to escape.
After witnessing what happened, everyone was speechless and lost in thought. Then, one serious Rome official said: “I think the relationship between those two mice was that of emperor and minister.” A smart Israeli said: “I think husband and wife.” A Chinese, who was accustomed to the firm tradition of loyalty to parents, said: “I think mother and son.” And a pure Samaritan said......
【写作内容】
1、以约30个词概括这段短文的内容。
2、然后以约120词就这个主题发表看法，并包括以下要点：
1）你认为这两只老鼠最有可能是什么关系，为什么？
2） 以你或他人的亲身经历说明你的体会。
【写作要求】
你可以使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料中的内容，但不得直接引用原文的句子；
【评分标准】
概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。
