Here's one very simple but lifechanging piece of advice that I first heard from Brian Tracy. Cut down on the TV at night by just one hour. Instead, use that hour to read books that could improve your life.
If you're a salesman, google for the best and most useful books on improving your sales.
This applies to all fields, not just the work-related ones. Maybe you want to improve your health, become a more energetic person. Or maybe you want to improve your study, your relations or perhaps do some personal development.
One hour a day is not much. But if you read for one hour a day on weekdays, that's about 260 hours a year. That's a large number of books and a lot of useful advice.
If you follow the ideas, who knows what great things and feelings could come into your life. Also, all that information and advice will start to open up your mind. You will start to see more chances in your life.
Now, you might think something like this:
1. I really don't have the money...
Answer: Visit your public library or search the database. Or look for books that are used in places like amazon.com.
2. I really don't have the time...
Answer: Buy audiobooks and listen to them in the car while driving to and from work. Or copy them to your MP3-player and listen while riding your bike /bus to work or school. Recently selling audiobooks through MP3-downloads has become popular...
Shut off the TV a little earlier and start reading.
1.What is Brian Tracy's lifechanging advice about?
A. Watching TV.
B. Listening to MP3.
C. Surfing the internet.
D. Reading helpful books.
2.Which is NOT true about reading an hour a day?
A. It will open up your mind.
B. You will have about 260 hours a year to read.
C. You will read lots of books and get much useful advice.
D. It will probably bring great things and feelings into your life.
3.What should you do if you really don't have the money to read?
A. To buy some books from amazon.com.
B. To download MP3 free.
C. To visit the public library.
D. To borrow audiobooks and listen to them.
4.What is the writer's idea about audiobooks?
A. They are more useful.
B. Listening to audiobooks is easier than reading books.
C. It's dangerous to listen to audiobooks while driving or riding.
D. Audiobooks are a good solution to the problem of having no time to read.
Imagine looking for your lost dog. You step into a cave（洞穴）. But instead of the dog, you find beautiful cave paintings. You see paintings of horses, deer, and bison that are drawn in black, brown, red and yellow. Your first question would probably be "Who did this?"
This is what happened to four French boys in 1940. They found the Lascaux caves. The paintings the boys discovered in those caves are 17,000 years old. They were drawn by the ancient people called Cro-Magnons.
Cro-Magnons looked much like people of today. They used tools, such as fishing nets. But their art was extremely good. The main cave at Lascaux is called the Great Hall of Bulls, which has a picture of bulls and horses in many colors. The largest animal is 18 feet long. There are smaller animals, such as bison, stags（雄鹿） and a bear. There is also a strange spotted two-horned (两只角的) animal.
To the left of the main cave are the most famous paintings that are the drawings of multicolored animals. One painting is called Little Horses. On the ceiling are horses and cows. The most unusual sight may be in the Shaft of the Dead Man where there is a thinoceros (犀牛), a carefully drawn dead man, a wounded bison and a bird.
Why did Cro-Magnon artists do these beautiful drawings on cave walls? Did the drawings call upon some magical power? Did the Cro-Magnon people hope that the drawings would bring good luck? There is one thing the paintings seem to tell us. The Cro- Magnons were interested in the world. They looked at beauty and they understood it.
1.The author uses the word "you" in the first paragraph to _____.
A. pull the reader into the story
B. make it clear that this is a true story
C. give the reader good directions to find the caves
D. compare present-day readers with the Cro-Magnon people
2.Most of the drawings in the caves are about _____.
A. boys B. tools C. dead men D. animals
3.What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Cave paintings are beautiful.
B. Who found the beautiful cave paintings.
C. The Lascanx caves hold ancient colorful paintings.
D. Drawings of horses are on the walls of the Lascaux caves.
一家英国网站专门为外国留学生提供住宿家庭的信息，假如你是李华，打算明年夏天去英国留学，因此你给他们发一封电子邮件，说明你的租房要求；
1. 提供单独的房间
2. 房子的地点
3. 免费提供生活用品（洗衣机等）
4. 每月房租
请根据以上内容写一篇100词左右的电子邮件，开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数，可适当增加细节。
参考词汇：住宿家庭 host family
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am going to study in the UK next summer.
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Yours sincerely，
Li Hua
短文改错
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。作文中共有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：在缺词处加一个漏子符号（∧）并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：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。
Yesterday, I saw the old lady fall down when I was hurrying to school. I was about to help her up while suddenly a passer-by stop me, saying that I might be accused of knocking her down. Heard his words, I began to hesitate and slow down my steps. At the same time, another student, that saw everything, went up to help. The old lady said nothing but lots of thank to the good boy. I felt ashamed.
As is known to all, help others is forever a good virtue. Even though some old people are becoming immorally, we can’t let it to disappear. I have made my mind that I will reach out my hand without hesitation next time.
语法填空
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
One day I heard two girls talking about making net friends in a café. One said that she ___1.___(meet) one of her net friends and the other told her not to because most people found their net friends __2.____ (disappoint) in real life.
We all know it is quite common now that many teenagers, especially ___3._ from one-child families, like to make net friends and spend lots of time ___4._____(chat)with them because they need someone to talk with and share their sorrow and ___5._____(happy). However, is it wise for them to do so?
In my opinion, it is possible ___6.__ you to find some real good friends with the help of new technology but you have to take care. When you talk with someone unknown on the Internet, you have no idea at all what kind of person he is and _7.___ he is telling you the truth. ___8.___, we can’t deny that some bad guys mask themselves very well so that they can get many nice people ___9.__ (trap). So, you’re taking the risk of meeting your net friends before you get any idea about him. In a word, you can never be careful enough when __10.___ (meet) your net friends.
完形填空
In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the first meeting of an introductory_______course about 20 years ago.
The professor _____the lecture hall, placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans（豆）, and invited the students to ______ow many beans the jar contained. After ______shouts of wildly wrong guesses, the professor smiled a thin, dry smile, announced the _____ answer, and went on saying, ”You have just ______an important lesson about science. That is Never______ your own senses.”
Twenty years later, the ____could guess what the professor had in mind. He _____himself, perhaps, as inviting his students to start an exciting ______into an unknown world
Invisible（无形的）to the ___ ,which can be discovered only through scientific___ .But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even ___ the invitation. She was just ____ to understand the world. And she ____ that her firsthand experience could be the ___ .The professor, however, said that it was ___.He was taking away her only ____ for knowing and was providing her with no substitute. “I remember feeling small and ___ ,”the women says, “and I did the only thing I could do. I ___ the course that afternoon and I haven’t gone near science since.”
1.A. artB. historyC. scienceD. math
2.A. searched forB. looked atC. got throughD. marched into
3.A. countB. guessC. reportD. watch
4.A. warning ofB. giving outC. turning awayD. listening to
5.A. readyB. possibleC. correctD. difficult
6.A. learnedB. preparedC. taughtD. taken
7.A. loseB. trustC. sharpenD. show
8.A. lecturerB. scientistC. speakerD. woman
9.A. describedB. respectedC. sawD. served
10.A. voyageB. movementC. changeD. rush
11.A. professorB. eyeC. knowledgeD. light
12.A. modelB. sensesC. spiritD. methods
13.A. hearB. makeC. presentD. refuse
14.A. suggestingB. beginningC .pretendingD. waiting
15.A. believedB. doubtedC. provedD. explained
16.A. growthB. strengthC. faithD. truth
17.A. firmB.interestingC. wrongD. acceptable
18.A. taskB. toolC. successD. connection
19.A. cruelB. proudC. frightenedD. brave
20.A. droppedB. startedC. passedD. missed
