If you have to attend a party or other social events where a lot of people will be present, do you feel confident that you will make a good impression on others? Or do you feel shy? In any case, you should increase your confidence at social events.
Whenever you are meeting new people at any social event, you should wear proper clothes. Before you attend the event, try to find out how other people will be dressing. If everyone else is wearing business clothes, you should, too. If the event is informal, you should wear informal clothes so that you fit in.
If you are going to meet people from a certain business or profession, try looking through a few professional magazines or checking on the Internet ahead of time to get some conversation ideas which are related to their fields of interest. This can prevent you getting tongue-tied at the event.
When you are at the event, don’t worry about whether or not other people you are talking with like you. Instead, try your best to find reasons to like them. When you are making conversation with people, be sure to keep good eye contact, and make your facial expression soft. Nod to show you’re listening. Let your face and body relax so that you can make natural gestures.
After the event is over, take a bit of time to think of your social performance and the conversation you had with people. Tell yourself exactly what you did very well at the event. For example, perhaps you made a big effort to really listen to the people you were talking with, or you may have asked several people some good questions that really got them talking. By doing so, your conversation confidence will gradually improved.
1.What should you find out before attending a social event?
A. how other people will be dressing. B. a few professional magazines
C. some conversation ideas D. reasons to like other people
2.What should you avoid in a social event according to the 4th paragraph?
A. Attending a party with your good friends
B. Ignoring eye contact with others
C. Wearing informal clothes and shoes
D. Caring much about what others think of you
3.After coming back from a social party, we need to form the habit of _____.
A. Looking for the positive things in our performance
B. Calling the host to show that we are thankful
C. Communicating with the people we met once again
D. Thinking about how to improve our social ability
4.What is the passage mainly about?
A. How to take part in social events.
B. How to believe in ourselves in daily life.
C. How to be more confident at social events.
D. How to get along with others at social events.
句子翻译
1.你最好现在出发，在交通变堵塞之前。（had better）
2.自从我六岁开始学习英语，到现在已经10年了。（It…since…）
3.这是我第一次被那家知名公司录用。（…first time…）
4.中国人口众多，其中大部分居住在城市。(非限制性定语从句)
5.随着冬天的来临，春天也不远了。（as conj. ; approach v.）
6.看！唯一的幸存者过来了。（完全倒装句）
7.你学得越努力，就会得到更多知识。（the+比较级…, the+比较级…）
8.我喜欢成都，因为这里的气候和食物特别适合我。（agree v.）
9.聆听朋友对你读过的书的反应会带来额外的乐趣。（动名词短语做主语; hearing n.; added adj.）
10.虽然这位吉他手很悲观，但他仍然相信发行的首支单曲会取得成功。（让步状语从句;hit n.）
下列句子中各有一个错误，请把错处改正。每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；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：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
1.I’m sorry to bother with you, but can you show me how to use the new equipment?
2.Not known the local language, Alice found it difficult to make herself understood.
3.Part-time jobs are usually paid by hour in Britain.
4.Please add upon all these figures and see how much you finally get.
5.The reason why he didn’t come is because he never got the notice.
6.The teacher as well as the students enjoy listening to English songs every Wednesday morning.
7.The traditional approach to deal with complex problems is to break them down to smaller ones.
8.Isn’t it rude for him to talk to his father in that way?
9.What made the kid so upset was that the medal he was proud had been gone.
10.He is the only one of the students who have the same book as you borrowed from Amy.
语篇语法填空
As an old saying goes, “Friends are like wine, the older, the better.” Because of that, nowadays many people think old friends to be 1. (important) than new ones. For example, if two pieces of advice 2.(give) to solve a problem, one from a new friend and the other from an old friend, people always tend to choose the latter one, although the new friend’s advice may be better.
I, however, 3.(agree) with the old saying, believing that new friends are not 4.(necessary) worse than old friends. Why? Because the 5.(long) of time cannot tell whether your friendship is better or not.
Once you call someone friend, he must be a person 6.is reliable and whose interests are in common with 7.(you). Maybe a friend’s outside look 8.(change) all the time, but the inside characters of him and his interests won’t change at all. It is just these unchangeable characters and interests 9.make him a friend to you. 10., on this point, there is no difference between old friends and new ones.
单句语法填空
1.After class, some students remained ___________(seat)in the classroom and didn’t go out.
2.We lost our way in that small village, otherwise we ___________(visit) more places of interest yesterday.
3.Before you quit your job, ___________（consider）how your family would feel about your decision.
4.The book, The Little Prince, is so ___________(fascinate) that I cannot put it down.
5.One-third of the town ___________(cover) with trees and the majority of the residents are African American.
6.The fact that he can’t speak even one foreign language put him at a ___________(advantage)when he travelled abroad alone.
7.When___________(compare) different cultures, we often pay attention only to the differences without noticing the similarities.
8.Of the two sisters, Betty is ___________(attract) one, and she is also the one who loves to be quiet.
9.---Haven’t seen you for ages! Where have you been?
---I went to Gansu and_____________(stay) there for a year, teaching as a volunteer.
10.My chemistry teacher told us that when you heat a metal, it _____________(expand).
首字母填空
1.She was so angry with him because he took her car without p__________.
2.Tom finds the new school satisfying because he has free a_________to all the good resources there.
3.To tell you the truth, we are running out of money so we can’t a________ to go abroad travelling this summer holiday.
4.He has gotten used to living alone all these years. He felt e ______at being at the center of attention.
5.The wonderful world that has e________ in his dream for the whole life suddenly disappears.
6.My poor elder brother became j_________ of me when my career took off at last.
7.Adults who watched more than two hours of TV a day were more l________ to be overweight.
8.They have just built a system that uses a__________ intelligence to predict people’s needs.
9.He suffered from brain d_________ that affects his speech and leaves gaps in his memory.
10.Currently, even young people are well aware of the importance of being healthy and long life, so they keep exercising regularly and expect a greater l______________.
