People who speak or perform before the public sometimes may suffer from “Stage Fright. ” Stage fright makes a person nervous. In the worst case(情况) it can make one's mind go back and forget what one ought to say, or to act. Actors, musicians, dancers, lawyers, even radio show hosts(节目主持人) have suffered from stage fright at one time or another.
Diana Nichols is an expert in helping people free from stage fright at a medical centre in New York City. She helps actors learn to control themselves. Miss Nichols says some people have always been afraid to perform before the audience. Others, she says, develop stage fright after a fearful experience.
She offers them ways to control the fear. One way is to smile before going onto the stage. Taking two deep breaths also helps. Deep breathing helps you get control of your body.
Miss Nichols persuades her patients to tell themselves that their speech or performance does not have to the perfect. It's all right to make a mistake. She tells them they should not be too cautions(谨慎的) while they are performing. It is important that they should continue to perform while she is helping them. After each performance, they discuss what happened and find out what advice helped and what did not. As they perform more and more, they will fear less and less as much as 50%. Miss Nichols says the aim is only to reduce stage fright, not to eliminate it completely. This is because a little stage fright makes a person more cautious, and improves the performance.
1 One who is suffering stage fright may .
A. forget one's part before the audience
B. smile all the time on the stage
C. make a speech fast than ever
D. be cautious to improve his performance
2 The underlined word “eliminate” in the last paragraph means .
A. keep B. reduce C. change D. get rid of
3 The wrong way to overcome stage fright is .
A. to smile before going to the stage.
B. to take two deep breaths to calm oneself
C. to pay less attention to one's mistakes in performance
D. to perform less and to watch more
4 Which of the following statements is right?
A. We can get rid of stage fright completely.
B. A little stage fright can make actors perform better.
C. We can reduce stage fright as much as one third.
D. A little stage fright leads to complete failure.
第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（ A、B、C、D ）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A Businessman ordered ten goldsmiths to make ten coins each. Each coin was to weigh exactly ten gram of pure gold.
One of the goldsmiths was a bad man. He decided to cheat. He made all his coins one gram short. Now the businessman heard that one of them had cheated. He also heard that this man had made each of his coins one gram short.
The businessman was a clever person. He took a certain number of coins from each of the smiths, weighed them together once only and found their weight to be 540 grams. This was enough for him to find out which one of the goldsmiths had cheated.
1 The word “goldsmith” means .
A. a person named Smith who sells articles(物品) made of gold
B. a thief who steal gold
C. a worker who makes articles of gold
D. a person who works for the man named Smith
2 The businessman found the cheat by .
A. looking each man in the eye
B. weighing one coin after another
C. weighing coins
D. asking who hadn't made coins according to his request
3 In order to find the cheat, the businessman weighed coins altogether .
A. fifty B. fifty-four C. fifth-five D. sixty
4 Suppose the businessman took one coin from the first smith, two from the second,
and ten from the tenth, he found out that he goldsmith was the cheat.
A. first B. sixth C. ninth D. tenth
第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分, 满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。
Education is not only the teaching and learning of 36 , but also the developing of a person's 37 .
Now liberal(开明) education has a great 38 on the world. Much work has been done to 39 better ways of teaching. Students are 40 to have their own thoughts and their own ideas when they have lessons which are often held in the form of group discussions. They are 41 guided to use the knowledge 42 . In liberal education punishment 43 exists. Teachers and students are just like 44 . The idea is of course a perfect one if it can really be carried out. However, it only 45 in the imagination and will never be 46 . We must admit that children should 47 be guided properly. Just close your eyes and think how many students 48 in every hundred 49 will carry out the duties of a student if they are not 50 ? What is the use of advice only if it is not supported by a 51 degree of control and punishment? It is 52 for us to judge the success and failure of this kind of education now, but from the bad behavior of children that is actually the 53 of 54 , we can see that something must be done to 55 these children.
36. A. schools B. knowledge C. books D. teachers
37. A. politeness B. habit C. interests D. character
38. A. effect B. interest C. power D. strength
39. A. master B. find C. make D. hold
40. A. ordered B. encouraged C. used D. driven
41. A. strictly B. wrongly C. properly D. carefully
42. A. seen B. noticed C. learned D. met
43. A. still B. no longer C. always D. forever
44. A. enemies B. quarrelers C. players D. friends
45. A. goes B. lives C. comes D. exists
46. A. realized B. supported C. understood D. produced
47. A. at last B. in the end C. ever D. in life
48. A. it is B. it seems C. there are D. are
49. A. which B. that C. he D. they
50. A. pulled B. pushed C. permitted D. protected
51. A. reasonable B. remarkable C. strict D. small
52. A. easy B. hard C. possible D. proper
53. A. effect B. result C. power D. end
54. A. liberal education B. group discussion C. education D. teaching
55. A. punish B. excuse C. help D. trust
. She’s pretty _______ with money. She wouldn’t give even a cent to help the poor child.
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A．mean |
B．optimistic |
C．miserable |
D．cheerful |
As the young people in Nanning, we ought to do everything we can ________ our city more beautiful from now on.
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A．make |
B．made |
C．to make |
D．will make |
. The new English teacher as well as the excited students _____ a new English song on the Internet.
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A．are learning |
B．is learning |
C．have learned |
D．has been learned |
