Since every coin has two sides, living in large modern cities offers us many advantages, meanwhile, causes many troubles. Better education and better jobs are easy to get, and better medical care is convenient to receive in large modern cities.
People are usually well informed due to the advanced media, such as television, newspaper and net PC. Large modern cities also provide various night-life activities for the city-dwellers(城市居民). The public places like cinema, bar, disco-ball are everywhere.
On the other hand, large modern cities are too big to control, so the traffic jams and traffic accidents often happen, and the social security is a headache problem. And city-dwellers have to face the housing problem. Usually a house is too expensive for the salary earning class to buy and the rent is also high. Moreover, noise and pollution in large cities bring harm to people’s health.
Living in large modern cities
| Advantages |
● It’s easy to get better education, better jobs and 53._________. ● People are usually 54.______________ because of the advanced media. ● People can have various night-life activities in modern cities. |
| 55.___________ |
● The society is not 56. ___________. ● Citizens have to face the housing problem. ● Noise and pollution in large cities 57. __________ people’s health. |
Directions: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions or complete the statements in no more than 12 words．
The iPad is a tablet computer designed and developed by Apple．It is particularly marketed as a platform for audio and visual media such as books, periodicals, movies, music, and games, as well as web content．At about 700 grams （25 ounces）, its size and weight are between those of most contemporary smart phones and laptop computers．Apple released the iPad in April 2010, and sold 3 million of the devices in 80 days．
The iPad runs the same operating system as the earlier iPod Touch and iPhone．It can run its own applications as well as ones developed for the iPhone．Without modification, it will only run programs approved by Apple and distributed via its online store．
Like iPhone and iPod Touch, the iPad is controlled by a multi-touch display ?a break from most previous tablet computers, which used a pressure-triggered stylus（尖笔）．The iPad uses a Wi-Fi data connection to browse the Internet, load and stream media, and install software．Some models also have a 3G wireless data connection, The device is managed and synced（同步） by iTunes on a personal computer via USB cable．
Media reaction to the device has generally been neutral or positive, with more positive reaction after the device was launched．
（Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN 12 WORDS．）
1．The Marketing Strategy of iPad is to make it ____ for audio and visual media．
2．The programs approved by Apple can only be bought from ____．
3．How do people control some previous tablet computers?
4．What's the media reaction to the device prior to its launch?
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Hello, everyone! I would like to share with you my first travel abroad．
Last summer vacation, I took part in a/an ________ （交流） programme __________
with an American school．D__________ our visit, we stayed with host _________
families, _______ gave us an opportunity to learn more about the _________
American society．The main part of our programme was to ______（体验） _________
The school life．_________ with Chinese students, American students __________
are more open and active．Besides, they have _____________ homework __________
and fewer exams．But we a__________ have a lot in common, like being _________
crazy about NB A．When the visit was over, I made f________ with _________
some American students, who are very interested in Chinese______（文化）． __________
The programme is of great b__________ to us the American students _________
As well．
We’ve all been hurt by another person at one time or another. This pain causes problems
. It not only causes us to be unhappy, but can ruin relationships, distract(使分心) us from work and family and other important things, make us unwilling to open up new things.
We need to learn to let go. We need to be able to forgive, so we can move on and be happy. Forgiveness does not mean you erase the past, or forget what has happened. All it means is that you are letting go of the anger and pain, and moving on to a better place.
It’s not easy, but you can learn to d
o it.
Think about the advantages and disadvanges. Think of all the problems this pain causes you, and realize you need to change. Then think of the benefits of forgiveness—— how it will make you happier, free you from the past and the pain, and improve your relationships and life in general.
Try to put yourself in that person’s situation. Try to understand why the person did what he did. What could he have felt as he did it, and what did he feel afterward? How does he feel now? You aren’t saying what he did is right, but are trying to understand instead.
Understand your responsibility. Try to figure out how you could have been partly responsible for what happened. This isn’t to say you’re taking all the blame, or taking responsibility away from the other person, but to realize that we are not victims(受害者) but participants in life.
Allow peace to enter your life. As you focus on the present, try focusing on your breathing. Imagine each breath going out is the pain and the past, and imagine each breath coming in is peace, entering you and filling you up.
Title: How to let go and forgive
| Making us unhappy; distracting from daily life; Ruining relationships; making us close to new things. |
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| Definition of forgiveness |
●Letting go of the ●Moving on to a better place. |
| Benefits of forgiveness |
●Making you happier; ● ●Improving your relationships and life in general |
| |
●Thinking about the advantages and disavantages; ●Trying to understand the other person as if you were in the same situation； ●Figuring out ●Allowing peace to enter your life. |
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Goal setting is simply having a clear plan of where you want to be in the future. In order to set goals, you must first know where you want to be in the future, or you must have some kind of a dream, something that you really want.
How to set a goal needs a lot of thought about what you really want to do in your life. Take some time by asking yourself about the reason behind your goal. If you are struggling to find direction, then learn to set goals.
Set goals that you can achieve. Divide them into simple tasks that you can achieve every day, every month, every year. Set your goals for success. Often people fail to achieve their dreams, not for lack of hard work and motivation, but simply because they failed to define（界定）their dreams and goals in a way that allowed them to effectively move toward their goals.
Here are some other important points to consider when setting a goal. The goal should be clear enough so that we know exactly what we are struggling for and when the goal has been reached. It should be realistic, that is to say, it is practical and can be achieved. Moreover, it should have necessary resources and a deadline for completion.
Goal setting helps us get organized, make big decisions and realize our dreams. Goals will take you to places you’ve only dreamed of. They’ll help you achieve your life’s dreams. They will give you confidence. And most of all, they’ll motivate you to keep on trying. So just like any other tool, you must know how to properly use goal setting so that you’ll be successful in achieving your dreams.
| The goal setting |
To plan |
A goal |
Think about what you really want to do in your life and the |
| Divide your goals into simple tasks and |
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| Other important points to take into |
Make sure that the goals are clear and |
| Find necessary resources and |
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| The significance |
Goal setting can help you work in an effective way, make big decisions and make your dreams come |
Christopher Reeve was born in September, 1952. He was in his first school play when he was eight and he started (act) in TV shows and films while he was still in college. He made many successful films and TV shows but he is
(famous) for his Superman films.
Unfortunately, disaster came in 1995 he fell from his horse and broke his back. The doctors did not expect him to live.
, he made
(amaze) progress. At first, he couldn’t breathe
a machine, but he learnt to breathe on his own. He would never walk again
he started a new life with great courage.
The second year after his accident, Christopher returned to film making. He also raised a lot of money to promote medical research into back (injure). He made speeches all over the USA about
experiences. This not only drew public attention
research into back injuries but also encouraged a lot of people living with all kinds of problems.
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[1] The year 2008 has one extra day in it--February 29th, why does this happen? Well, it actually takes the planet Earth a little more than 365 days to revolve completely around the sun. After four years an extra 24 hours have accumulated so an extra day is added to the calendar.
[2] It is called a leap year because hundreds of years ago in England, the extra day wasn't legally recognized. The British just leapt over that day. Therefore a year with 29 days in February is consequently called a leap year and that . If you are born on 29th February in a leap year, there are difficulties in celebrating your birthday. So people tend to celebrate on either 28th February or 1st March every year.
[3] There is a well-known tradition in the UK associated with 29th February, introduced many centuries ago. Women are allowed to break with tradition and propose (求婚) to their boyfriends on this day. This all started back in the 5th Century, when a famous Irish saint, Bridget, complained to Saint Patrick, another famous Irish saint, that women had to wait too long for men to propose. According to the legend, Saint Patrick said any female longing for a proposal could ask their boyfriend to marry them on this additional day in February.
[4] Now in 2008, there are calls for 29th February to become a public holiday. Some people believe that it should be an official day off, because no one gets paid for working in a leap day. For the moment though, the British still have to go to work on this day.What is the main idea of the text? ( no more than 8 words)
Complete the following statement with proper words. ( no more than 5 words)
Hundreds of years ago, a popular tradition in England was recommended
Which 29th February. How long does it take the planet Earth to revolve completely around the sun? (no more than 9 words)
Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words. ( no more than 8 words)
What does the word "them" (Line 5, Paragraph 3) probably refer to? ( no more than 3 words)
Some people live in the world for body while others for dignity(尊严).
I once took a walk along the street a Saturday dusk, with a Pepsi can in my hand. An old woman in ragged clothes,
was living on collecting used cans, jars and tins, moved slowly towards me, with a bag on the back!
(walk) nearer, she looked up at me and then fixed her eyes on my can. At that time, I hadn’t finished my cola, so I gave
several coins instead.
She stared at me for a few seconds handed back the money. Quite confused, I asked: “Why not? Isn’t that
you want?”
“I am not a beggar,” she said (serious), word by word.
Instantly, I felt so sorry. I had intended (help) her, completely misunderstanding her. Thus I hurt her. What I could do at that moment was only to drink up the cola and handed her
emptied can. This time, she gave me a smile with
(satisfy) and gratitude in her eyes. The woman is poor in material life but is so respectable as a man. I am not only moved but also have learned a good lesson.
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When difficult people expresses themselves orally, they generally want at least two things: they’ve been heard and they’ve been understood. As a good communicator should be a good listener, five steps are advocated toward good listening.
The first step is cooperating. How does a difficult person know that you’re listening and understanding? In fact, it’s through the way you look and sound while he is talking. You may help him to fully express his thoughts and feelings. You do this by nodding your head in agreement, making certain sounds of understanding.
When the person begins to repeat what’s been said, it’s a signal of step two: turning back. It means that you repeat back some words he is using, sending a clear signal that you’ve listening carefully and that you think what he is saying is important.
Having heard what he has to say, the next step is clarifying. At this point, you start to gather information about what is being communicated. Ask same open-ended questions, which will allow you to figure out what intention he is hoping to satisfy.
The fourth step is to summarize what you’ve heard. This allows you to make sure that both you and the difficult person the same page. When you do this, two things happen. First, if you’ve missed something, he can fill in the details. Second you’ve shown that you’re making an effort to understand completely. This increases possibility of gaining cooperation from him.
Having listened carefully, you’ve now arrived at the point of confirming with the person that he feels satisfied that his thoughts have been fully voiced. Ask if he feels understood.
Then enough sincere listening, questioning, and remembering are brought together, understanding is usually achieved and a difficult person becomes less difficult and more cooperative.
| Listen to understand |
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| Reason |
Difficult people hope they have been heard and |
| ◆ ◆Repeat some ◆Collect information about the person’s expressions and find his ◆Give a ◆Confirm that the person gains |
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| Result |
A difficult person will be |
| You may unlock the doors to difficult people’s minds after you listen and understand. |
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Should doctors ever lie to benefit their patients to speed recovery or to cover the coming of death? In medicine as in law, government, and other lines of work, the requirements of honesty often seem dwarfed by greater needs; the need to protect patients from brutal news, to uphold a promise of secrecy or to advance the public interest.
What should doctors say, for example, to a 46-year-old man coming in for a routine physical checkup just before going on vacation with his family who, though he feels in perfect health, is found to have a form of cancer that will cause him to die within six months? Is it best to tell him the truth? If he asks, should doctors reject that he is ill, or minimize the gravity of the illness? Should they at least hide the truth until after the family vacation?
Doctors face such choices often. At times, they see important reasons to lie for the patients’ own sake; in their eyes, such lies differ sharply from self-serving ones.
Studies show that most doctors sincerely believe that the seriously ill patients do not want to know the truth about their condition, and that informing them of risks destroys their hope, so that they may recover more slowly, or deteriorate faster, perhaps even commit suicide.
But other studies show that, contrary to the belief of many physicians, a great majority of patients do want to be told the truth, even about serious illness, and feel cheated when they learn that they have been misled. We are also learning that truthful information, humanely conveyed, helps patients cope with illness; help them tolerate pain better with less medicine, and even recover faster after surgery.
There is an urgent need to debate this issue openly. Not only in medicine, but in other professions as well, practitioners may find themselves repeatedly in difficulty where serious consequences seem avoidable only through deception. Yet the public has every reason to know the professional deception, for such practices are peculiarly likely to become deeply rooted, to spread, and to trust. Neither in medicine, nor in law, government, or the social sciences can there be comfort in the old saying, “What you don’t know can’t hurt you.”
Title: 1 Or Not
| Different 2 |
·Most doctors are in 3 of lying for the patients’ own sake. |
| ·A great majority of patients 4 on being told the truth. |
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| Reasons for 5 lying to patients |
·Informing patients of the truth about their condition destroys their hope, 6 to recovering more slowly, or deteriorating faster, perhaps even 7 themselves. |
| Reasons 8 lying to patients |
·The truthful information helps patients to 9 their illness, help them tolerate pain better with less medicine, and even recover faster after surgery. ·Most patients feel 10 when they learn that they have been misled. |
动词填空（共10题，每小题0.5分，共5分）
1. The 8,892-kilometre-long border is said to be the longest border in the world not __________ (defend) by an army
or the police.
2. I am sure that the people in the disaster areas are on their way to__________ (live) a better life.
3. With all the cartoon books I needed__________ (buy), I left the bookstore.
4. The little girl, who has been spoiled has got used to __________(offer) everything she needs.
5. After getting lost, the hiker spent several days walking through wild, lonely countryside before__________.(find)
6. It is such a small problem that it is hardly worth __________ (trouble) about.
7. I’d be the first__________ (admit) that I might be wrong.
8. One aim of genetically modified research is__________ (produce)food which will make us healthier.
9. At first he refused to accept any responsibility but he ended up __________.(apologize)
10.__________(expose)to lead does great harm to children’s learning ability.
课文和新概念填空（共10题；每小题1分，共10分）
John Snow was a famous doctor in London - so 1 , indeed, that he 2 Queen Victoria as her personal physician. But he became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people 3 to cholera. This was the 4 disease of its day. Neither its cause nor its cure was understood. So many thousands of terrified people died every time there was an outbreak. John Snow wanted to face the 5 and solve this problem. He knew that cholera would never be controlled until its cause was found.
At last firemen have put out a big forest fire in California. Since then, they have been trying to find out how the fire began. Forest fires are often caused by broken glass or by cigarette ends which people carelessly throw away. Yesterday the firemen 6 the ground carefully, but were not able to find any broken glass. They were also quite sure that a cigarette end did not start the fire. This morning, however, a fireman 7 discovered the cause. He noticed the 8 of a snake which was wound round the electric wires of a 16,000-volt power line. In this way, he was able to solve the mystery. The 9 was simple but very unusual. A bird had 10 the snake from the ground and then dropped it on to the wires. The snake then wound itself round the wires. When it did so, it sent sparks down to the ground and these immediately started a fire.
If your family is like many in the United States, unloading the week’s groceries includes hauling a case or two of bottled water into your home. On your way to a soccer game or activity, it’s easy to grab a cold one right out of the fridge, right?
But all those plastic bottles use a lot of fossil fuels and pollute the environment. In fact, Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, adding 29 billion water bottles a year to the problem. In order to make all these bottles, manufacturers use 17 million barrels of crude oil. That’s enough oil to keep a million cars going for twelve months.
Imagine a water bottle filled a quarter of the way up with oil. That’s about how much oil was needed to produce the bottle.
So why don’t more people drink water straight from the kitchen faucet? Some people drink bottled water because they think it is better for them than water out of the tap, but that’s not true. In the United States, local governments make sure water from the faucet is safe. There is also growing concern that chemicals in the bottles themselves may leach into the water.
People love the convenience of bottled water. But maybe if they realized the problems it causes, they would try drinking from a glass at home or carrying water in a refillable steel container instead of plastic.
Plastic bottle recycling can help—instead of going out with the trash, plastic bottles can be turned into items like carpeting or cozy fleece clothing.
Unfortunately, for every six water bottles we use, only one makes it to the recycling bin. The rest are sent to landfills. Or, even worse, they end up as trash on the land and in rivers, lakes, and the ocean. Plastic bottles take many hundreds of years to disintegrate.
Water is good for you, so keep drinking it. But think about how often you use water bottles, and see if you can make a change.
Betty McLaughlin, who runs an organization called the Container Recycling Institute, says we should try using fewer bottles: “If you take one to school in your lunch, don’t throw it away—bring it home and refill it from the tap for the next day. Keep track of how many times you refill a bottle before you recycle it.”
And yes, you can make a difference. Remember this: Recycling one plastic bottle can save enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for six hours.
| Title |
Drinking Water: Bottled or From the Tap? |
| Americans consume the |
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| Bottled water is of higher |
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| It’s more |
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| Problems with bottled water |
The |
| Water bottles we use cause serious |
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In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth quality — independent will — that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in agreement with th
em. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to actively carry out the program we have developed through the other three qualities.
The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has overcome unbelievable difficulties. The Helen Kellers of this world give dramatic(给人深刻印象的) evidence to the value, the power of the independent will.
But as we examine this quality in the context of effective self-management, we realize it’s usually not the dramatic, the visible, the once-in-a-lifetime, up-by-the-bootstraps(自立自强的) effort that brings lasting success. This special ability comes from learning how to use this great quality in the decisions we make every day.
The degree to which we have developed our independent will in our everyday lives is measured by our personal honesty. Honesty is, fundamentally, the value we place on ourselves. It’s our ability to make and keep promises to ourselves, to “walk our talk.”
Effective management is putting first things first. While leadership decides what “first things” are, it is management that puts them first, day-by-day, moment-by-moment. Management is discipline (training to be self-controlled), carrying it out.
Discipline obtains from belief—belief in a set of values, belief in an overriding(最主要的) purpose, to a long-term or short term goal that must be carried out.
In other words, if you are an effective manager of 
yourself, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a follower of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the quality to control your feelings and moods rather than depend on others or have your work half done.
| Title |
The power of independent will |
| Theme |
Independent will makes self-management |
| Reasons |
·The example given to ·Power of independent will helps to make one’s · ·It’s our ability to have our promises made and |
| Suggestions |
·Effective managers should know ·Effective managers with discipline should |
| ·You ·Your feelings and moods are able to be |
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Bicycles are very popular around the world today. People ride their bicycles for exercise and enjoyment. In some places, people use a bicycle to get to work. In other places, bicycle riding is a very popular exercise to people who live in cities. But who invented the first bicycle?
In 1791, a Frenchman named Comte de Siverac invented and owned the first bicycle. Mrs. Sivrac rode the bicycle in Paris. The handles(把手) and the seat were wooden. This bicycle was very difficult to move. A rider even had to pick up the front wheel to change direction. Finally, the bicycle had no brakes for stopping or pedals for the feet! Riding a bicycle was a great risk!
In 1817, a German named Baron von Draus de Sauerbrun made the first bicycle better. The seat became more comfortable. The wheel could now change direction. His ride in the forest took only one hour instead of three hours on foot, which surprised people at that time.
Sauerbrun brought this kind of bicycle from Germany to France. Then Denis Johnson, an Englishman, made a bicycle for women. It had spaces for their dresses to hang down. But these bicycles still had no brakes or pedals, and riders often got hurt. These bicycles and the people who rode them were not very popular.
It took another forty-five years for the bicycle to become popular. More than 100 years later, bicycle riding is more popular than ever. In fact, in India and China, there are still many more bicycles than cars.
The Great Invention
| Time |
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Features |
| In 1791 |
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Baron von Daris de Sauerbrun |
Made the first bicycle better |
Easier to ride |
| Unknown |
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Having space for dresses to hang down |
| Functions of riding bicycles —for exercise, |
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