轻松寒假，快乐复习30天 第13天

I like getting up very early in summer. The morning air is so good______.

---What do you think of his talk on Information Technology?
---Oh, excellent. It’s worth_____________.

The mobile phone has become a major means of communication, _____us to keep in touch as well as to surf the Internet to keep us _____of the latest news.

AIDS is said________the biggest challenge to both men and women in that area over the past few years.

Every evening after dinner, if not      from work, I will spend some time walking my dog.

The girl is a student at Oxford University, _____ for a degree in English literature.

________ late in the morning，Bob turned off the alarm.

Clearly and thoughtfully________, the book inspires confidence in students who wish to seek their own answers.

What worried the child most was _______ to visit his mother in the hospital.

__________ the program , they have to stay there for another two weeks.

Dale Carnegie rose from the unknown of a Missouri farm to international fame because he found a way to fill a universal human need.
It was a need that he first          back in 1906 when young Dale was a junior at State Teachers College in Warrensburg. To get an        , he was struggling against many difficulties. His family was poor. His Dad couldn’t afford the
       at college, so Dale had to ride horseback 12 miles to attend classes. Study had to be done          his farm-work routines. He withdrew from many school activities          he didn’t have the time or the       . He had only one good suit. He tried        the football team, but the coach turned him down for being too        . During this period Dale was slowly        an inferiority complex (自卑感), which his mother knew could         him from achieving his real potential. She        that Dale join the debating team, believing that       in speaking could give him the confidence and recognition that he needed.
Dale took his mother’s advice, tried desperately and after several attempts
    made it. This proved to be a        point in his life. Speaking before groups did help him gain the        he needed. By the time Dale was a senior, he had won every top honor in        . Now other students were coming to him for coaching and they,        , were winning contests.
Out of this early struggle to        his feelings of inferiority, Dale came to understand that the ability to       an idea to an audience builds a person’s confidence. And,        it, Dale knew he could do anything he wanted to do—and so could others.

A．admitted B．filled C．supplied D．recognized

A．assignment B．education C．advantage D．instruction

A．training B．board C．teaching D．equipment

A．between B．during C．over D．through

A．while B．when C．because D．though

A．permits B．interest C．talent D．clothes

A．on B．for C．in D．with

A．light B．flexible C．optimistic D．outgoing

A．gaining B．achieving C．developing D．obtaining

A．prevent B．protect C．save D．free

A．suggested B．demanded C．required D．insisted

A．presence B．practice C．patience D．potential

A．hopefully B．certainly C．finally D．naturally

A．key B．breaking C．basic D．turning

A．progress B．experience C．competence D．confidence

A．horse-riding B．football C．speech D．farming

A．in return B．in brief C．in turn D．in fact

A．convey B．overcome C．understand D．build

A．express B．stress C．contribute D．repeat

A．besides B．beyond C．like D．with

Choosing the Right Resolution (决定)
Millions of Americans began 2014 with the same resolution they started 2013 with, a goal of losing weight. However, setting weight loss as a goal is a mistake.
To reach our goal of losing weight --- the output, we need to control what we eat --- the input ( 输入). That is, we tend to care about the output but not to control the input. This is a bad way to construct goals. The alternative is to focus your resolution on the input. Instead of resolving to lose weight, try an actionable resolution: “I’ll stop having desert for lunch,” or “I’ll walk every day for 20 minutes.” Creating a goal that focuses on a well-specified input will likely be more effective than concentrating on the outcome.
Recently a new science behind incentives (激励) , including in education, has been discussed. For example, researcher Roland Fryer wanted to see what works best in motivating children to do better in school. In some cases, he gave students incentives based on input, like reading certain books, while in others, the incentives were based on output, like results on exams. His main finding was that incentives increased achievement when based on input but had no effect on output. Fryer’s conclusion was that the intensives for inputs might be more effective because do not know how to do better on exam, aside from general rules like “study harder.” Reading certain books, on the other hand, is a well-set task over which they have much more control.
As long as you have direct control over your goal, you have a much higher chance of success. And it’s easier to start again if you fail, because you know exactly what you need to do.
If you want to cut down on your spending, a good goal would be making morning coffee at home instead of going to a cafe, for example. This is a well-specified action-based goal for which you can measure your success easily. Spending less money isn’t a goal because it’s too general. Similarly, if you want to spend more time with your family, don’t stop with this general wish. Think about an actionable habit that you could adopt and stick to, like a family movie night every Wednesday.
In the long run, these new goals could become a habit.
The writer thinks that setting weight loss as a goal is a mistake because _______ .

In Roland Fryer’s research, some students did better than the others because ______ .

According to the writer, which of the following statements is a good goal?

The writer strongly believes that we should ________ .

假设你是Li Hua，初中阶段的学习已经结束，回想自己在师长的关爱和帮助下的成长过程，心中充满感激之情。请用英语给初中的老师写一封100词左右的信表示感谢。
Dear Miss/Mr….，
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Yours,
Li Hua

（）There is no greater pleasure than lying on my back in the middle of the grassland, _____at the night sky.