I learnt about the Pygmalion effect (皮格玛丽翁效应) when I was 7 years old at Riverdale School in Palmerston North and I copied Melissa Crawford’s answers in a spelling test. Before that I was average at school but after that, because Melissa Crawford was smart, and I got all the right answers, I got put in all the smart kids groups.
From then on, I did really well at school because it was believed by the teachers that I would and I also got grouped with the smart kids. This experience that occurred at my primary school shows just how important the Pygmalion effect is in terms of being around mentors (导师) that expect that you' re going to do well and also being around people who are smart.
The Pygmalion effect is one principle you want to use if you want to make money fast. Have mentors that expect you will make money fast and as an extra boost hang around, copy and learn from other people who are also making money fast.
Yesterday this site had over 5,000 unique visitors and the traffic to it is increasing all the time. A year ago I contacted a group of people who got lots of traffic on their websites and I learnt from them. Truthfully I didn’t know if they expected me to start getting such traffic to websites but 1 imagined they did.
So there you have it the Pygmalion effect.
P. S. My grammar and spelling are not that great nowadays but that's actually completely irrelevant (不相关的) when it comes to getting lots of visitors to your site.
1.When did the author learn about the Pygmalion effect?
A. Before he took the spelling test.
B. After he cheated in the spelling test.
C. When he did badly in exams.
D. After he finished primary school.
2.The author got grouped with the smart kids because ______.
A. he was an average pupil at school
B. he did better than expected
C. Melissa Crawford was smart
D. he did better than all the others at school
3. What does the underlined word “contacted” mean in the passage?
A. Lost touch with B. Made friends with
C. Got in touch with D. Was concerned about
4.Where does this passage probably taken from?
A. A science report B. A newspaper.
C. A website. D. A magazine.
感恩，是我们生活中永恒的话题。假设你校正在举行一场有关“感恩”的演讲比赛，请你在“父母、老师、朋友”中选择一个感恩对象，写一篇英语演讲稿参加比赛，内容包括：
1为何感恩；
2如何感恩
注意：1词数100左右；
2开头与结语已为你写好，不计人总词数
Good afternoon, everyone! Its a great honor to have the opportunity to be with you today. The topic my speech is
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Thank you for listening.
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。
侧除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，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。
Last Tuesday, our class invited a old craftsman to teach us how to make dough figurines（面人）．When the crafts man entered into the classroom, we gave him a warmly welcome and two boys helped him with the tool box. First, she showed us the basic steps and skills of make dough figurines，We stood around him and watched attentively，after that we started to try by ourselves. The old man walks around and helped us patiently. Finally, the figurines we made put on the table. Looking at the figurines, we were all very exciting.
We. hope we will have much activities of this kind！
Global warming could make humans shorter. Scientists claim to have found evidence that it caused the world's first horses 1. （shrink） nearly 50 million years ago. In fact,a team from the universities of Florida and Nebreaks says 2. has found a link between the Earth heating up and the size of mammals-homes，during the last time the world heated up. The scientists used fossils to follow the evolution of homes from their earliest 3. （appear) 56 million years ago. As temperatures went up．their size went 4. . The scientists say that the current warming could have the same effect 5. mammals and could even make humans 6. （small）．“Horses started out small，about the size of a small dog. What's 7. （surprise）is that after they first appeared，they then became even smaller and then dramatically increased in size, and that8.（exact）corresponds to the global warming event, followed by cooling.”"It had been known that mammals 9. small during the last warm time， 10. we hadn't realized that temperature specifically was driving the evolution of body size”Dr. Bloch said in the "Science”journal.
阅读下面短文．从短文后各题所给的四个选项( A, B, C和D)中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Falling off a box car and landing on my head，I lost my sight when I was four years old . Now I am thirty two. I can remember the brightness of sunshine. It would be wonderful to see again, a tragedy can do strange things to people.
It to me that I might not have come to love life as I do now if I hadn't been blind. My parents and my teacher saw something me,and they made me want to against blindness.
The hardest I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have down and become a chair rocker for the rest of my life. When I say in myself I am not talking about the kind of self-confidence that me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am real positive person imperfections.
It took me years to obtain this . It had to start with the . Once a man gave me an indoor . “I can’t use this.” I said. “Take it with you,” he me, “and roll it around.” The stuck in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought . At the School for the Blind I a new kind of baseball called ground ball.
All my life I have set a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my . I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made .
1.A. randomly B. abruptly C. roughly D. completely
2.A. so B.but C. thus D. and
3.A. occurred B. refereed C. brought D. turned
4.A. of B. for C. to D. in
5.A.get B．fight C. find D. drop
6.A. method B. experience C. lesson D. manner
7.A. broken B. put C. settled D. lay
8.A．courage B. ambition C. belief D. power
9.A．Only B. simply C. fairly D. slightly
10.A. stop. B. helps C. finds D. given
11.A. despite B．except C. unless D. unlike
12.A. description B. existence C. intelligence D. recognition
13.A. accident B. incident C. trouble D. event
14.A. chair B. baseball C.game D. design
15.A. urged B. blamed C. greeted D. teased
16.A. goals B. words C. baseballs D. ideas
17.A. valuable B. reasonable C. impossible D. unbearable.
18.A．discovered B. equipped C. formed D. invented
19.A．limitations B. advantages. C. puzzles D. personalities
20.A. sense B. progress C. mistakes D. friends
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Learning English can be a difficult task. While many people learn English in the classroom, the vast majority of English learning takes place outside of it.
1. ，it is important to know how it is used in everyday life. One of the best things you can do is to read. First ask yourself what you enjoy reading in your native language. If the subject matter. is interesting to you, you will he more likely to keep going.
Read a variety of different media in English, from magazines to novels. 2. ,New York Times is going to take a more formal approach to the English language than somebody's personal blog .Consider your English level when selecting reading material. 3. , but do not frustrate yourself needlessly by selecting a complex text . You can choose to be a side-by-side reader, with the English text on one page and its translation on the other page，if you have only been studying English for a couple of years.
4. So do not look up every word you don't know as you read. It will only slow things down and make the reading process much less fun. Instead，rely on what you have already known. When you come across a difficult word or phrase，use context clues to guess at its meaning. Write down or underline any words or phrases you cannot figure out. When you have finished reading, go to your list of new words. Now you can get your dictionary and look them up one by one ． 5. .You will be more likely m keep reading the interesting subject.
A. Challenge yourself
B. To better understand a language
C. When you want to learn English, try New York Times
D. Turn them into flash cards, keep them in mind and use them
E. Putting a dictionary at hand is a good way of learning English
F. Your reading goal is to briefly understand what the piece is saying
G. English usage will very depending on the content and the audience
