In ancient Egypt, the pharaoh(法老) treated the message runner like a prince when he arrived at the palace, if he brought good news. However, if the exhausted runner had the misfortune to bring the pharaoh unhappy news, his head was cut off.
Shades of that spirit spread over today’s conversations. Once a friend and I packed up some peanut butter and sandwiches for an outing. As we walked light-heartedly out of the door, picnic basket in hand, a smiling neighbor looked up at the sky and said, “Oh boy, bad day for a picnic. The weatherman says it’s going to rain.” I wanted to strike him on the face with the peanut butter and sandwiches. Not for his stupid weather report, but for his smile.
Several months ago I was racing to catch a bus. As I breathlessly put my handful of cash across the Greyhound counter, the sales agent said with a broad smile, “Oh, that bus left five minutes ago.” Dreams of head cutting!
It’s not the news that makes someone angry. It’s the unsympathetic attitude with which it’s delivered(传送). Everyone must give bad news from time to time, and winning professionals do it with the proper attitude. A doctor advising a patient that she needs an operation does it in a caring way. A boss informing an employee he didn’t get the job takes on a sympathetic tone. Big winners know，when delivering any bad news, they should share the feeling of the receiver.
Unfortunately, many people are not aware of this. When you’re tired from a long flight, has a hotel clerk cheerfully said that your room isn’t ready yet？When you had your heart set on the toast beef, has your waiter merrily told you that he just served the last piece? It makes you as a traveler or diner want to land your fist right on their unsympathetic faces.
Had my neighbor told me of the upcoming rainstorm with sympathy, I would have appreciated his warning. Had the Greyhound salesclerk sympathetically informed me that my bus had already left, I probably would have said, “Oh, that’s all right. I’ll catch the next one.” Big winners, when they bear bad news, deliver bombs with the emotion the bombarded(被轰炸的)person is sure to have.
1. In Paragraph 1, the writer tells the story of the pharaoh to________.
A. make a comparison B. describe a scene
C. introduce a topic D. offer an argument
2. In the writer’s opinion, his neighbor was________.
A. not helpful B. not considerate
C. friendly D. warm-hearted
3. From “Dreams of head-cutting!” (Paragraph 3), we learn that the writer________.
A. was reminded of the cruel pharaoh
B. was mad at the sales agent
C. wished that the sales agent would have bad dreams
D. dreamed of cutting the sales agent’s head that night
4. Which of the following is true?
A. The author really appreciated the neighbor’s warning.
B. From the passage we know that it is the bad news that makes someone angry.
C. If the runner brought to the pharaoh unhappy news, he would be treated like a prince.
D. When we want to deliver any bad news, we should share the feeling of the receiver.
5. What is the main idea of the text?
A. Delivering bad news with sympathy is important in communication.
B. Helping others sincerely is the key to business success.
C. Receiving bad news requires great courage.
D. Learning ancient traditions can be useful.
Teachers and parents usually call attention to the pictures when they read storybooks to pre-school children. But a new study suggests that calling attention to the words and letters on the page may lead to better readers.
The two-year study compared children who were read in this way in class with children who were not. Those whose teachers most often discussed the print showed clearly higher skills in reading, spelling and understanding. These results were found one year and even two years later.
Shayne Piasta, an assistant professor of teaching and learning at Ohio State University, was an author of the study. She says most pre-school teachers would find this method manageable and would need only a small change in the way they teach. They already read story-books in class. The only difference would be increased attention to the printed text. “If you get children to pay attention to letters and words, it makes sense that they will do better at word recognition and spelling.” But she says research suggests that very few parents and teachers do this in a systematic way.
More than 300 children aged four and five were observed in classrooms. They came from poor families and were below average in their language skills. This put them at risk for reading problems later. For thirty weeks, the children took part in a program called Project STAR--- Sit Together and Read. The project is based at Ohio State. It tests the short-term and long-term results of reading regularly to pre-school children in their classrooms.
There are different ways that adults can talk to children about print. They can point to a letter and discuss it, and even trace the shape with a finger. They can point out a word and discuss the meaning of the print or how the words tell the story. And they can talk about the organization of the print--- for instance, showing how words are written left to right in English.
1.What do we know about the ways pre-school children are usually taught?
A. Equal attention is paid to the texts and the pictures.
B. Teachers prefer to talk about the organization of the print.
C. Parents focus on bringing children up to be good readers.
D. More attention is paid to the pictures, with words and letters being ignored.
2. What does Shayne Piasta suggest pre-school teachers should do in class?
A. Use different methods according to the students’ difference in reading skills.
B. Teach children how to draw pictures to get an idea of what they mean.
C. Change the way they teach and pay more attention to words and letters.
D. Read storybooks to children rather than explain the meaning of the pictures.
3.What put more than three hundred children at risk for reading problems?
A. They were poor and lacked language skills.
B. They were four and five.
C. They were forced to leave school.
D. They were observed.
4.Which of the following is TRUE about the study on language skills of pre-school children?
A. Project STAR aims to find the results of reading to pre-school children in the classrooms.
B. Attention on the pictures has made the children uninterested in reading.
C. Many teachers want to change their way of teaching pre-school children.
D. Teachers are often prevented from taking different approaches to language teaching.
5.Adults can talk to children about print in the following ways except________.
A. Discussing the meaning of the print.
B. Showing them all kinds of pictures.
C. Talking about the organization of the print.
D. Tracing the shape of a letter with a finger.
This was Larry’s another underwater expeditions(探险). However, this time, it was quite different. He decided to take his daughter along with him. She was only ten years old. This would be her first trip with her father on what he had always been famous for.
Larry first began diving when he was his daughter’s age. Similarly, his father had taken him along on one of his expeditions. Since then, he had never looked back. Larry started out by renting diving suits from the small diving shop just along the shore. He had hated them. They were either too big or too small. Then, there was the instructor. He gave him a short lesson before allowing him into the water with his father. He had made an exception. Larry would never have been able to go down without at least five hours of theory and another similar number of hours on practical lessons with a guide. Children his age were not even allowed to dive.
After the first expedition, Larry’s later diving adventures only got better and better. There was never a dull moment. In his black and blue suit and with an oxygen tank fastened on his back, Larry dived from boats into the middle of the ocean. Dangerous areas did not prevent him from continuing his search. Sometimes, he was limited to a cage underwater but that did not bother him. At least, he was still able to take photographs of the underwater creatures.
Larry’s first expedition without his father was in the Cayman Islands. There were numerous diving spots in the area and Larry was determined to visit all of them. Fortunately for him, a man offered to take him around the different spots for free. Larry didn’t even know what the time was, how many spots he dived into or how many photographs he had taken. The diving spots afforded such a wide array of fish and sea creatures that Larry saw more than thirty varieties of creatures.
Larry looked at his daughter. She looked as excited as he had been when he was her age. He hoped she would be able to continue the family tradition. Already, she looked like she was much braver than Lorry had been then. This was the key to a successful underwater expedition.
1.In what way was this expedition different for Larry?
A. His daughter had grown up.
B. He had become a famous diver.
C. His daughter would dive with him.
D. His father would dive with him.
2.What can be inferred from Paragraph2?
A. Larry was lucky to have got such a chance to dive.
B. Larry liked the rented diving suits.
C. Ten-year-old children were permitted to dive.
D. Divers had to buy diving equipment.
3.Why did Larry have to stay in a cage underwater sometimes?
A. To take photos more conveniently.
B. To dive into the deep water.
C. To admire the underwater view.
D. To protect himself from danger.
4. What can be learned from the underlined sentence?
A. Larry didn’t wear a watch.
B. Larry enjoyed the adventure.
C. Larry had a poor memory.
D. Larry was not good at math.
5.What did Larry expect his daughter to do?
A. Make a good diving guide.
B. Have longer hours of training.
C. Take a lot of photo underwater.
D. Become a successful diver.
书面表达
高二我们来到新的班级，生活中难免发生冲突。假如你班同学苏华和李江打篮球时发生争执，
导致关系紧张。请你结合此事，并根据以下提示，用英语写一篇短文，向学校英语报投稿。
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短文改错
文中共有10 处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。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(＼)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.允许修改10 处，多者（从第11 处起）不计分。
Dear Sally,
It feels such a long time since last time I see you. So far my summer in Xiamen has been great! I spent all my weekends at the beach. I am getting a nice tan(黝黑) and you can not longer say I am paler than you . I’ve been playing lots of beach volleyballs, and just this passed weekend I got the first place in a match! On weekends I work in a club which I teach kids to draw. Although the pay isn’t high, but I love the job very much, because I like drawing and I love kids a lot. I hope the summer’s been going good for you too. There is only one month left in the summer vacation and after that it’s time to school. Would you like to meet up some time before school starting? I want to share with you the photos I’ve taken. I’ll give you call when I return home. See you soon!
Love,
Mary
单词填空
根据下列汉语提示或首字母提示，用单词的正确形式填空，一空一词。
1.We’re i_______________(大大地) relieved when our friends returned safely from Syria.
2.Beijing has had the city council pass a law f_________(禁止) smoking in public places.
3.He listened to me with a s__________(怀疑的) expression.
4.He is u_____________(难以捉摸), weeping one moment, laughing the next.
5.What do you think of those teenage boys c________(漫游兜风) the streets in their father’s cars?
6.They had long debates as to whether birds ___________(进化) from dinosaurs.
7.He made a f__________ (激烈的)speech, urging them to fight.
8.Tibet consists of a __________(高原) between the Himalayas and the Kunlum Mountains.
9.____________(语言学) is a scientific study of the property of language.
10.When Miles Davis died, jazz was robbed of its most d_________(与众不同)voice.
