The movie was______ for an important international prize but it got nothing in the end.
A. made B. designed C. intended D. supposed
—Brain, did you have a good time during the holiday?
— ______. I had to do homework most of the time.
A. No doubt B. Why not C. Forget it D. Not really
今年，你将高三毕业。为使即将升入本校的高一新生的高中生活更顺利，学校的《英语学习园地》请你给他们留言，提出一些中肯的建议。请根据下面的提示，用英语写一篇短文。
1．合理分配学习、锻炼和休息时间；
2．搞好与老帅和同学之间的关系；
3．积极参加校社团活动。
注意：1．词数：不少于100词；
2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Everyone has talent, but not everyone succeeds with their talent. More factors than mere talent attribute to a greater personal success. Having talent or being talented is never enough to find success in life.
Dr. John Maxwell has written a new book to explain that there is more to success than just being talented. He says that the only way to find success in life is to apply good choices to talent and rise above the crowd. He believes that talented people need more than their gifts or abilities to succeed in life. There must be something more than just talent to become successful. A talent-plus person, a person who rises above the understanding of mere talent, is much more likely to find success than those with just talent alone.
People who have talent must be willing to make the right choices to maximize their talent. Wrong choices will minimize their talent, preventing them from rising to higher levels in life. Maximizing talent requires people to make good choices, but understanding that there are specific things in life requires no talent at all. Maxwell lists many different choices that people make to become a talent-plus persons including Belief lifts talent, Relationships influence talent, Responsibility strengthens talent, Teamwork multiplies talent, etc.
Following the simple principles found in the book can not only help people raise the level of their talent but also raise their level of living. When people combine the principles with their talents they can become a talent-plus person. The choice becomes one of willingness and personal change. Talent-plus people have the ability to change their life and the world.
1.What’s the possible name of Maxwell’s new book?
(no more than 8 words)
2.What should one do if he wants to become a talent-plus person?
(no more than 8 words)
3.List three specific things which can maximize one’s talent according to Paragraph 3 ?
(no more than 5 words)
4.What does the underlined word “maximize” in Paragraph 3 mean in English?
(no more than 8 words)
5.Do you want to be a talent-plus person? Why or why not? Please give one or two reasons.
(No more than 25 words)
Was the London Olympics a success? Many people hold different opinions. However one thing is certain, London could win a gold medal for hosting the “greenest” Games ever, BBC News reported.
Previous Olympic hosts have been criticized for the environmental damage they have caused through construction, waste. and transport. But things had to be different in London because seven years ago it bid for the Olympics through the concept of “a One Planet Olympics”.
What is most impressive is that London used the construction of the Olympic Park as an opportunity to clean up polluted areas — 2 million tons of contaminated (被污染的) soil were removed and 200 old factory buildings, were torn down, according to sustainablebusiness.com. But that’s not all —. 99 percent of the debris (废瓦砾) were reused to build the Olympic Park. For example, part of the Olympic Stadium’s roof is made from 2,500 tons of steel tubes recycled from old gas pipelines.
As well as using recycled materials, all venues were built with green building techniques. The Olympic Stadium is the lightest one ever built, which minimized the amount of steel and concrete needed. Also, the handball field has lighting pipes on the roof that reduce electricity use by 40 percent, according to sustainablebusiness.com.
The effort that London made to deal with waste also deserves praise. Water used for drinking and watering plants was from collected rainwater or recycled wastewater. In this way. about 30-40 percent less water was used in total. Waste food packages were either recycled or processed and turned into renewable energy.
As one of the best connected places in Europe, London tried to solve traffic jams by encouraging the use of public transport. For example, it had trains deliver half of the building materials, instead of cars, which greatly reduced carbon emissions.
The clean anti-doping (反兴奋剂) result also added to the greenness of the Games. The International Olympics Committee (IOC) said that the devices used this time were the most accurate and advanced. Only one athlete tested positive for a banned drug on the day of competing, which is why the IOC President, Jacques Rogge, has praised anti-doping efforts at the London Games.
1.To make the Olympic Park green, London _______.
A. recycled 2 million tons of contaminated soil
B. removed 99 percent of the debris from the city
C. built the Olympic Stadium mostly with recycled materials
D. applied green building techniques to the construction work
2.The underlined word “minimized” in the fourth paragraph probably means
A. increased as much as possible
B. reduced as much as possible
C. made good use of
D. took little notice
3.What can we conclude from the article?
A. The London Olympics cost less than the other Olympics ever held.
B. London has possessed the most advanced techniques to deal with waste.
C. Public transport is made good use of in London during the Olympic games.
D. The anti-doping result in the London Olympics turned out to be dissatisfactory.
4.Which of the following best shows the structure of the text?
5.What is the best title of the passage?
A. How to deal with the anti-doping
B. How to use recycled materials
C. London’s green games
D. London’s public transport
Growing up, I remember my father as a silent, serious man not the sort of person around whom one could laugh. As a teenager arriving in America, knowing nothing, I wanted a father who could explain the human journey. In college, when friends called home for advice, 1 would sink into deep depression for what I did not have.
Today. at twenty-seven, I have come to rediscover them in ways that my teenage mind would not allow — as adults and as friends with their own faults and weaknesses.
One night after my move back home, I overheard my father on the telephone. There was some trouble. Later, Dad shared the problem with me. Apparently my legal training had earned me some privileges in his eyes. I talked through the problem with Dad. analyzing the purposes of the people involved and offering several negotiation strategies. He listened patiently before finally admitting, “I can’t think like that. I am a simple man.”
Dad is a brilliant scientist who can deconstruct (解构) the building blocks of nature. Yet human nature is a mystery to him. That night I realized that he was simply not skilled at dealing with people, much less the trouble of a conflicted teenager. It’s not in his nature to understand human desires.
And so, there it was — it was no one’s fault that my father held no interest in human lives while 1 placed great importance in them. We are at times born more sensitive, wide-eyed, and dreamy than our parents and become more curious and idealistic than them. Dad perhaps never expected me for a child. And I, who knew Dad as an intelligent man, had never understood that his intelligence did not cover all of my feelings.
It has saved me years of questioning and confusion. I now see my parents as people who have other relationships than just Father and Mother. I now overlook their many faults and weaknesses, which once annoyed me.
I now know my parents as friends: people who ask me for advice; people who need my support and understanding. And I’ve come to see my past clearly.
1.What was the author’s impression of her father when she was a teenager?
A. Friendly but irresponsible.
B. Intelligent but severe.
C. Cold and aggressive.
D. Caring and communicative.
2.Why did the author feel depressed when her friends called home?
A. She did not have a phone to a1l home.
B. Her father did not care about her human journey.
C. Her father was too busy to answer her phone.
D. Her father couldn’t give her appropriate advice.
3.After the author overheard her father on the telephone.
A. he blamed her for impoliteness
B. he rediscovered human nature
C. he consulted with her about his problem
D. he changed his attitude towards the author
4.The author realized that ______.
A. her father had too many faults and weaknesses
B. her father was not as intelligent as she had thought
C. her father was not good at interpersonal relationships
D. her father placed too much importance in social activities
5.Which of the following is the best title of this passage?
A. My Parents as Friends
B. My Parents as Advisors
C. My Father — a Serious Man
D. My Father — an Intelligent Scientist
