It’s the test system，________ the teachers，that is to blame for the heavy burden of middle school students.
A．other than B．or rather
C．rather than D．more than
假如你是李华，女，17岁。请根据所给中、英文提示，用英文邮件形式向学生会写申请。
情况简介 | 申请理由 |
英语成绩优异；英语家教经验两年； | 愿意帮助儿童； |
学校“英语俱乐部”成员 | 增长见识，了解社会； |
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注意： 1.词数：100左右。
2.邮件开头和结尾已为你写好。
3.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
4.参考词汇：tutor vi. & n.家教
短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
When I was a child, I spent more than ten years learn the violin. Therefore, I couldn’t understand “real music”. After I graduated at high school, a friend of mine suggested that we started to learn the guitar because we all thought it was cool. I will never forget the day on that we went to buy guitars in the guitar store. There I saw a guitar player playing the guitar, which I really enjoyed, and he became my the first guitar teacher. It took me such a long time choose a guitar among several wonderful model. Now the guitar is the most importantly part of my life and I practice it every day.
A man came to the USA from other country. After 1. (settle) down at an island, he went into a cafeteria to get something 2. (eat). He sat down at an empty table and waited for someone to take his order, but nobody did. 3. (final), a woman with a tray full of food sat down opposite him and informed him 4. the cafeteria worked.
“Start out at that end,” she said. “Just go along the line and pick out what you want. At 5. other end they’ll tell you how much you have to pay.”
“I soon 6. (learn) how everything worked in the USA,” the man told his friend. “Life’s a cafeteria there. You can get anything you want as long as you are willing to pay the price.You can even get success, 7. you’ll never get it if you wait for someone to bring it to you. You have to get up and get it 8. .”
You can’t change the inevitable. The only thing you can do 9. (be)to control your attitude. Once you reach that point in life, happiness and 10. (satisfy) can’t be too far away.
I arrived in the classroom, ready to share my knowledge and experience with 75 students who would be my English Literature class. Having taught in for 17 years, I had no about my ability to hold their attention and to on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue.
I was shocked when the monitor shouted, “ !” and the entire class rose as I entered the room, and I was somewhat about how to get them to sit down again, but once that awkwardness (尴尬) was over, I quickly my calmness and began what I thought was a fact-packed lecture, sure to gain their respect --- perhaps their admiration. I went back to my office with the rosy glow which comes from a sense of achievements.
My students diaries. However, as I read them, the rosy glow was gradually by a strong sense of sadness. The first diary said, “Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today. her next lecture will be better.” Greatly surprised , I read diary after diary , each expressing a theme (主题). “Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical (哲学的) framework of Western thought and laid the historical for all the works we’ll study in class,” I complained. “How they say I didn’t teach them anything?”
It was a long term, and it became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as of my students. I thought a teacher’s job was to raise questions and provide enough background so that students could their own conclusions. My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide information as directly and clearly as possible. What a difference!
, I also learned a lot, and my experience with my Chinese students has made me a American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.
1.A．the UK B．the US C. China D．Australia
2.A．worry B．idea C. doubt D．experience
3.A．impress B．put C．leave D．fix
4.A．Attention B．Look out C. At ease D．Stand up
5.A．puzzled B．sure C. curious D．worried
6.A．found B．returned C. regained D．followed
7.A．more B．even C. yet D．still
8.A．wrote B．borrowed C. kept D．read
9.A．replaced B．taken C. caught D．moved
10.A．Naturally B. Perhaps C. Fortunately D．Reasonably
11.A．different B．same C. similar D．usual
12.A．happenings B. characters C. development D. background
13.A．should B．can C. will D．must
14.A．immediately B．certainly C. simply D．gradually
15.A．that B．what C. those D．ones
16.A．difficult B．interesting C. ordinary D．unusual
17.A．draw B．get C. decide D．give
18.A．strange B. standard C. exact D．serious
19.A. Therefore B．However C. Besides D．Though
20.A．normal B. happy C.good D．better
Tips to Become More Confident
Our confidence plays an important role in ability to achieve success and happiness. It affects our mental thought patterns, the way we speak and act, and the decisions we make in all areas of our lives. Confident people take more action, perform better, and are more likely to attain their goals. 1. Lucky for us, confidence can be built and strengthened until it becomes natural, just as any other habit. It simply takes a little time, some effort, and a bit of attention.
1. Fail more often.
The more challenges you take on, the more failures you’ll have, but learning that you can recover, get up and push forward builds confidence.
2. 2.
Keep a list of successes, big and small. It’ll help you to see your abilities in a more positive and realistic light.
3. Start a con
versation.
When you find yourself in a social situation, don’t always turn to those people you’re comfortable with. 3. Eventually getting to know new people will become easier.
4. Don’t compare.
Stop measuring yourself against others. 4. Making comparisons is 
a damaging and an inaccurate measure of success anyway.
Confidence helps you to be more secure in your abilities and more positive in your attitude. It also encourages you to be more assertive(坚定自信的) to take on more challenges, and to improve your skills. 5. The end result is a better outlook, more success, and a higher quality of life in all areas.
