An old man was sitting on the sofa with Mike，his 45﹣year﹣old son．Suddenly a dove（鸽子）landed on the ground．
The father asked his son，"What is this？"
The son replied，"It is a dove．"
After a few minutes，the father asked his son for the second time，"What is this？"
The son said，"Father，I have just told you．It's a dove．"
After a little while，the old father asked his son for the third time，"What is this？"
This time Mike could not control his anger and shouted，"It's a dove，a dove．Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again？I have told you so many times'IT IS A DOVE'Don't you understand this？"
The old man silently took out an old diary，turned to a page and showed it to Mike．Though a little impatient （不耐烦），Mike began to read it．
"Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa，when a dove landed on the ground．and my son asked me what it was．I smiled at him，said it was a dove and hugged him．After a while Mike asked me again and I did the same．Pointing to the same dove，little Mike asked me what it was 23 times and I kept on answering his question and hugging him every time．"
Something gently touched Mike's heart．His face turned red with shame for being so impatient to his father and he hugged him tightly（紧紧地）．
Your parents have given you many things in their lifetime，but you may not realize that until they are gone．
46．Why did the old man ask his son the question again and again？
| A． |
He didn't know the dove． |
| B． |
He liked to ask questions． |
| C． |
He couldn't remember anything． |
| D． |
He tried to teach his son something in his lifetime． |
47．How many times did the father ask his son the same question？
| A． |
Twice． |
| B． |
Three times． |
| C． |
Five times． |
| D． |
Twenty﹣three times． |
48．What did the father do after Mike asked him the question？
| A． |
Shouting at him． |
| B． |
Hugging him． |
| C． |
Keeping silent． |
| D． |
Being angry with him． |
49．Why did Mike's face turn red？
| A． |
He was shy． |
| B． |
He felt surprised． |
| C． |
He felt shamed． |
| D． |
He was afraid of his father． |
50．What really touched Mike's heart according to the passage？
| A． |
His father's diary． |
| B． |
His father's love． |
| C． |
His father's answers． |
| D． |
His father's hugs． |
Thousands of teenagers will be able to move to a new wave of “studio schools” at the age of 14 to improve their chances of finding a job in UK. Twelve new-style schools are open to act as a bridge to the workplace and cut the number of NEETs.
Under plans, schools will operate longer days and work outside standard school terms.
Each teenager will be expected to spend between four hours and two days a week on work placements with business related to the school and a personal coach will be sent to the teenagers to act as a school “line manager”.
The reforms (改革) are put forward because of the fears that too many teenagers are finishing full-time education at present but they are short of the skills needed to succeed in the workplace. According to a recent report, more than two thirds of employers (雇主) believe school and college leavers have less important employability skills, while 55% say they are unable to manage their time or daily routine. And the number of NEETs who are not in education has hit a record high, with almost one-in-five young people being left without a job or a training place.
The Department for Education will tell the public the building of 12 studio schools – providing for around 3,600 teenagers – in areas such as Liverpool, Stevenage, Stock-on-Trent and Fulham, west London. Each one will be connected to the local employers. Under plans, teenagers will be able to move out of ordinary schools to attend them between the ages of 14 and 19.
The government said all subjects would be taught “through projects, often prepared with employers” – with rules such as science being connected directly to local engineering companies or hospitals. Schools will operate a longer day to give teenagers a better understanding of the needs of the workplace. Along with their studies, students will carry out work placements for four hours a week, rising to two days a week of paid work for those aged 16 to 19. They will also get the chance to take professional qualifications (专业资历) connected directly to the needs of local employers.According to the passage, NEETs refer to those who ______.
| A．often miss classes from studio school |
| B．prefer studio schools to ordinary schools |
| C．refuse to take any part-time job after school |
| D．are not in education, employment or training |
Compared to ordinary schools, studio schools will offer the young more ______.
| A．skills to finish full-time education |
| B．personal coaches to help with the work |
| C．chances to get future jobs with job training |
| D．jobs to make money without going outside |
What makes the government decide to build studio schools?
| A．The worry about educated teenagers short of working skills. |
| B．The doubt about whether full-time education is perfect. |
| C．The decision to solve the problems of unemployment. |
| D．The increasing number of teens who drop out early. |
What can be the best title for the passage?
| A．Studio schools are popular in UK at present. |
| B．More NEETs will find jobs from Studio schools. |
| C．Teenagers will get jobs without full-time education. |
| D．Studio schools are built to improve teens’ employability skills. |
Time can be categorized (分类) into three general types:
Predictable Time: Such activities as classes, team practice, eating and sleeping. If you know the restaurant is open between 7:00am and 7:30pm, you should plan to eat sometime between that block of time.
Discretionary Time: This is free time that can be planned in a manner matching with your lifestyle and to carry through the most important considerations in your life.
Imposed Time: Activities including unexpected and difficult or dangerous situations which happen suddenly and which require quick action to deal with them.
How to manage your Time:
Value Your Own Situation. The first step is to know yourself. People work differently. Some people are very active in the early morning and can carry out much at that time. Others find that their most powerful time is later in the day.
Get Organized. Make a shopping list or make some type of planned notebook. This may seem simple but you would be surprised how many people do not use these necessary things.
Prepare a To-Do List. Consider all that you wish to complete and make a list. Prioritize (优先排序) these items using three rules A, B, C:
A=" Most" important goal that needs to be completed very soon
B=" Next" important goal that does not have immediate necessity
C=" Finally," do all other things.
Plan Your Time. Fill in any spaces purposely left blank, and block out time to sleep. Be realistic, most college students don’t go to bed at 9 pm. Choose time for recreation each day.
Plan Study Time. Students should study 2-3 hours for every unit, for a total of 25-35 hours per week.
Time management is a system of learning to give first concern to the tasks you wish to complete. The key to being a good time manager is to learn to make full use of discretionary time and try to use it successfully.What does the underlined phrase “Imposed Time” mean?
| A．Unreasonable time. | B．Valuable time. |
| C．Busy time. | D．Unpredictable time. |
Which of the following can be considered as Rule A according to the To-Do List?
| A．Study for the final exam. |
| B．Play in the sports club in free time. |
| C．Visit an art museum at the weekend. |
| D．Hand in the history report tomorrow morning. |
What is the passage mainly about?
| A．Time preference. | B．Time management. |
| C．Importance of managing time. | D．Instructions of saving time. |
Give this memory test a try. Mix up 52 playing cards. Now look at the top seven for a second. Can you remember them in order?
Players at the World Memory Championships can. In fact, the 2002 champion (冠军), Andi, memorized the order of 1196 cards after looking at them for only an hour! And a German girl, Lara, only ten years old, memorized 75 faces and names in fifteen minutes!
In 1987, a Japanese man, Mr. Tomoyori, wanted to prove that his memory was the best in the world by remembering by heart pi (π), a number in math which starts 3.14159…This number never repeats itself or ends. He recited pi to 40,000 decimal places (小数位). It took the fifty-five-year-old man more than twelve hours to say the numbers, but he did it without making a mistake!
To remember pi, Mr. Tomoyori connected each number with a sound. He then made up stories to help him remember the words he made from the sounds. In an interview after his achievement, he said, “I decided to go ahead and memorize the value of pi up to one thousand places. But it wasn’t easy – in fact, it took me three years. To get to 40,000 decimal places it took me about ten years.”
Unluckily for Mr. Tomoyori, his record was broken in 1995, when another Japanese man, Mr. Goto, memorized pi to 42,195 places.Why was Lara’s success special?
| A．She was just a little girl. | B．She was the 2002 champion. |
| C．She was from Germany. | D．She remembered more words. |
What is true about Mr. Tomoyori?
| A．He found pi easy to remember. |
| B．His memory was the best in the world. |
| C．He used stories to help remember words. |
| D．He only made one mistake while saying pi. |
Who remembered the greatest numbers according to the passage?
| A．Andi. | B．Lara. | C．Mr. Goto. | D．Mr. Tomoyori. |
| THEME PARKS – FUN AND MORE THAN FUN |
 Disneyland will bring you into a magic world. As you walk around Disneyland, you may see Snow White and Mickey Mouse in a parade or on the street. If you want to have fun and more than fun, come to Disneyland! |
 Dollywood, in the beautiful Smoky Mountains in the southeastern USA. Although Dollywood has rides, the park’s main attraction（吸引力） is its culture. You can even take a ride on the only steam-engine train still working in the southeast USA. Come to Dollywood to have fun learning all about America’s historical southeast culture! |
 If you want to experience the ancient days, England’s Camelot Park is the place for you. Every area of the park is modeled after life in the days of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. To enter a world of ancient England, come to Camelot Park! |
 Some theme parks are not only for fun but also educational. Take the Polynesian Cultural Center(PCC) in Hawaii as an example. It not only shows visitors the Polynesian way of life but also protects their skills and culture for the future. |
Which park will bring you into a magic world?
A. Disneyland. B. Dollywood.
C. Camelot Park. D. The PCC.What’s Dollywood’s main attraction?
| A．Magic shows. | B．King Arthur’s life. |
| C．Polynesian culture. | D．America’s southeast culture. |
What can you enjoy in Camelot Park?
| A．Meeting Snow White. |
| B．Experiencing ancient England. |
| C．Riding on the steam-engine train. |
| D．Feeling the Polynesian way of life. |
Have you ever complained(抱怨) why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? Are your studies sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time. If you see the world with your warm heart, you’ll find that the whole world smiles to you.
While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you ever noticed the happy smile on your teacher’s face when you did a good job?
One day it is fine. Just before you want to go out, it suddenly starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start complaining about the weather. But dear friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the free concert that the nature offers you? And with the timely rain, crops in the fields will grow better and better, so farmers will have a good harvest.
Although everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, sometimes failure(失败) can’t be avoided. I think failure is not terrible, and the terrible thing is that we are afraid of it and give up hope. When we face failure, we must be confident in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best to finish what we have decided to do. As a popular saying goes, “Failure is the mother of success.”
Attitude decides everything. With an optimistic(乐观的) attitude life is easy and pleasant. Let’s smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us. What will you find if you see the world with your warm heart?
Why will farmers have a good harvest according to the passage?
What is the terrible thing when we face failure?
How do we make life easy and pleasant?
What’s the best title of this passage?
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