A punctual person is in the habit of doing a thing at the proper time and is never late in keeping an appointment．The unpunctual man, on the other hand, never does what he has to do at the right time．
There's a proverb which says，“Time flies never to be recalled．” This is true．The unpunctual man is forever wasting his most valuable possessions as well as others'．The unpunctual person is always complaining that he finds no time to answer letters, or return calls or keep appointments．
He knows that he can get through his huge amount of work only if he faithfully keeps every appointment and deals with every piece of work when it has to be attended to．
．If a person is invited to dinner and arrives later than the appointed time, he keeps all the other guests waiting for him．Usually this will be regarded as rude both to the host and the other guests．
Unpunctuality, moreover，is very harmful when it comes to one's duty．Imagine how it would be if those who are put in charge of important tasks failed to be at their proper place at the appointed time．
| A．They appear to be busy but never get well paid． |
| B．He is always in a hurry and ends up losing time． |
| C．Maybe nobody minds being kept waiting at a dinner party． |
| D．A lost thing may be found again, but lost time can never be regained． |
E．But the man who really has a great deal to do is very careful of his time．
F．A man who is known to be habitually unpunctual is never trusted by others．
G．Failure to be punctual in keeping one's appointment is a sign of disrespect towards others．
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To extinguish （熄灭） different kinds of fires, several types of fire extinguishers have
been invented． 1____. Most portable （手提式的） kinds operate for less than a minute,
so they are useful only on small fires．The law requires ships, trains, buses and planes to carry
extinguishers．
Since fuel, oxygen （氧气） and heat must be present in order for fire to exist, one or more of these things must be removed or reduced to extinguish a fire． 2_____． The cooling method is the most common way to put out a fire．Water is the best cooling material because it is low in cost and easy to get．
____3____. This is usually done by covering the fire with sand, steam or some other things．A blanket may be used do cover a small fire．
A third me
thod is called separation．_____4______．
The method that is used to put out a fire depends upon the type of fire．Fires have been grouped in three classes．____5____. These materials usually help keep the fire on．Such fires can be stopped most readily by cooling with water．
| A．Fire extinguishers should be available everywhere in our life． |
B．They must be ready for immediate use when fire breaks out． |
| C．Where a fire breaks out, there will surely be unavoidable damage． |
| D．Fires in wood, paper, cloth and the like are called Class A fires． |
E．Another method of extinguishing fire is by cutting off the oxygen．
F．If the heat is reduced by cooling the material below a certain temperature, the fire goes out．
G．It includes removing the fuel, or material easy to burn, from a fire, so that it can find no fuel.
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Dialogue:
---- Please sit down. Let’s see, you are Mr Walsh. Are you looking for a job?
---- Yes, I am. 61 I’m majoring in architecture.
---- I see. Have you ever done any work in this field?
---- No, nothing. We did some practice work in class though.
---- _ 62
---- From what I’ve just read it seems that a starting salary would be around $12,000 a year.
---- Here you would start at $10,500 for the first year— a kind of training period. Then you would go to $15,000. After that our rises will depend on how well you work.
---- 63 What about other benefits, things like vacation?
---- Those are all explained in this introduction. You can take it along and read it at home.
---- What do you think the chances I’ll get a job are?
---- 64 We’ll hire two people.
---- 65 But I guess I’ll just have to go home and wait.
---- You’ll hear, sometime next month. Good luck and thanks for coming in today.
A , I’ll graduate from college next June.
B , Are you satisfied with your salary here?
C , That sounds fair enough.
D ,Well. I’m talking to three people today and four tomorrow.
E , I’ll get it.
F , I surely hope that I can work here.
G , Now what kind of salary are you hoping to get?
71.______ People use money to buy food, furniture, books, bicycles and hundreds of other things they need or want. When they work, they usually get paid in money.
Most of the money today is made of metal or paper.7 2.____One of the first kinds
of money was shells.
Shells were not the only things used as money. In China , cloth and knives were used. In the Philippine Islands, rice was used as money for a long time . Elephant tusks, monkey tails and salt were used as money in parts of Africa.
The first metal coins were made in China. They were round and had a square hole in the center. 73____
Different countries have used different metals and designs for their money.74____Sweden and Russia used copper to make their money. Later some countries began to make coins of gold and silver
But even gold and silver were inconvenient if you had to buy something expensive. Again the Chinese thought of a way to improve money. 75_____The first paper money looked more like a note from one person to another than the paper money used today
Money has had an interesting history from the days of shells money until today.
| A．The first coins in England were made of tin . |
| B．But people used to use all kinds of things as money. |
| C．No one knows for certain when people began to use money |
| D．People strung them together and carried them from place to plae |
E. Money, as we all know ,is made of paper
F. They began to use paper money
G. Today anyone will accept money in exchange for goods and services
In a national spelling contest in America, an 11-year-old girl was asked to spell a certain word. But with her soft voice the judges were not sure if she spelled the word with the letter A or E. 71 By now, the girl knew she had misspelled the word. But instead of lying and telling the judges she had said the correct letter, she told the truth that she had said the wrong letter. 72
As the girl walked off the stage, the entire audience stood on their feet clapping to applaud her honesty. Later, dozens of newspaper reporters wrote about this 11-year-old girl’s courage and honesty, even when it cost her the contest. 73
Probably the biggest test of our character and honesty is what we would do if we knew we would never get caught.
This young girl could easily have lied, and nobody would have known it but her. But that’s just it: She would know she did wrong. 74
This young girl was strong and smart enough to prize her own conscience and character more than the prize from a spelling contest. Her respect for herself was more important than any respect others might give her for winning a contest. She knew she would have to live with herself and the choice she made at the moment.
75
| A．So she won the contest. |
| B．As a result, she lost the contest. |
| C．The judges wanted to give her another chance. |
| D．It’s been said, “If you cheat, you make yourself cheap.” |
E. It’s so true that the choices you make today make what you are tomorrow.
F. They talked it over and finally decided to simply ask her what she had said.
G. But the fact is that she won the biggest contest that day: the contest of her character.
Let children learn to judge their work. 71 If corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people’s. 72 They learn to do without being taught to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle, compare their own performances with those
of more skilled people, and slowly mak
e the needed changes.
But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes and correct them for himself. 73 we act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.
If it is a matter of 
right answer, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. 74 Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work? 75 Let the children learn what all educated people must some day learn, how to measure their own understanding, and how to know what they know or do not know.
| A．Children learn to do all the other things in the same way. |
| B．Let him correct his own papers. |
| C．Point out his mistakes. |
| D．We do it all for him. |
E. We allow him to learn from other children.
F. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time.
G. Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’t find the way to get the right answer.
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