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The light from the campfire brightened the darkness, but it could not prevent the damp cold of Dennis’s Swamp (沼泽地) creeping into their bones. It was a strange place. Martin and Tom wished that they had not accepted Jack’s dare. They liked camping, but not near this swamp.
“So,” Martin asked as they sat watching the hot coals. “How did this place get its name?”
“Are you sure you want to hear it ? It’s a scary story,” warned Jack.
“Of course!” cried out Tom. “If there were anything to be scared of, you wouldn’t have chosen this place!”
“Ok, but don’t say I didn’t warn you,” said Jack, and he began this tale.
“Way back in time, a man called Dennis tried to start a farm here. He built that cottage over there to live in. In those days, the area looked quite different ---- it was covered with tall trees and the swamp was a crystal-clear river. After three hard years, Dennis had cleared several fields and planted crops. He was so proud of his success that he refused to listen to advice.
“‘You are clearing too much land,’ warned one old man. ‘ The land is a living thing. It will hit back at you if you abuse it. ’
“‘Silly fool,’ said Dennis to himself. ‘If I clear more land, I can grow more crops. I’ll become wealthier. He’s just jealous!’”
“Dennis continued to chop down trees. Small animals that relied on them for food and shelter were destroyed. He was so eager to expand his farm that he did not notice the river flowing slowly towards his door. He did not notice salt seeping to the surface of the land. He did not notice swamp plants choking all the native plants.”
“What happened?” Martin asked. It was growing colder. He trembled, twisting his body closer to the fire.
“The land hit back ---- just as the old man warned,” Jack shrugged. “Dennis disappeared. Old folks around here believe that swamp plants moved up from the river and dragged him underwater. His body was never found.”
“What a stupid story,” laughed Tom. “Plants can’t …” Before he had finished speaking, he screamed and fainted (晕倒). The other two boys jumped up with fright, staring at Tom. Suddenly, they burst out laughing. Some green swamp ivy (常春藤) had covered Tom’s face. It was a while before Tom could appreciate the joke.
1.The underlined word “dare” in Paragraph 1 is closed in meaning to ________.
A．courage B．assistance C．instruction D．challenge
2.Why did Jack tell Tom and Martin the story?
A．To frighten them.
B．To satisfy their curiosity.
C．To warn them of the danger of the place.
D．To persuade them to camp in the swamp.
3.Why did Dennis ignore the warning of the old man?
A．The old man envied him. B．The old man was foolish
C．He was too busy to listen to others. D．He was greedy for more crops.
4.Why did Tom scream and faint?
A．He saw Dennis’s shadow B．He was scared by a plant
C．His friends played a joke on him. D．The weather became extremely cold.
5.What lesson can we learn from the story of Dennis?
A．Grasp all, lose all
B．No sweat, no sweet.
C．It is no use crying over spilt milk
D．He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech. At some point in every speech, every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned. Fortunately, the moments are usually not obvious to the listeners. Why? Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say. They hear only what the speaker does say. If you lose your place for a moment, wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences, or forget to pause at a certain point, no one will be any the wiser. When such moments occur, don’t worry about them. Just continue as if nothing happened.
Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that doesn’t really matter .If you have ever listened to Martin Luther King’s famous speech — “ I have a dream”, you may notice that he stumbles（结巴）his words twice during the speech. Most likely, however, you don’t remember. Why? Because you were fixing your attention on his message rather than on his way of speech-making. People care a lot about making mistakes in a speech because they regard speech-making as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication. They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competition. But, in fact, the listeners are not looking for a perfect performer. They are looking for a well-thought-out speech that expresses the speaker’s ideas clearly and directly. Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making him more human.
As you work on your speech, don’t worry about being imperfect. Once you free your mind of this, you will find it much easier to give your speech freely.
The underlined part in the first paragraph means that no one will ______ .
A. be smarter than you
B. notice your mistakes
C. do better than you
D. know what you are talking about
You don’t remember obvious mistakes in a speech because ___________.
A. your attention is on the content
B. you don’t fully understand the speech
C. you know what the speaker plans to say
D. you find the way of speech-making more important
It can be inferred from the passage that ___________.
A. giving a speech is like giving a performance
B. one or two mistakes in a speech may not be bad
C. the listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is made
D. the more mistakes a speaker makes, the more attractive he will be
What would be the best title of the passage?
A. How to Be a Perfect Speaker
B. How to Make a Perfect Speech
C. Don’t Expect a Perfect Speech
D. Don’t Expect Mistakes in a Speech
Which of the following statements is true?
A. If you are careful enough, you can make a perfect speech.
B. Speech-making is a kind of performance.
C. Listeners are not judges and they pay more attention to the message.
D. Martin Luther King is not a good speaker.
完形填空(共20小题; 每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从所给的 A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Time is the easiest thing in the world to waste—the most difficult to control. When you look ahead, it may appear you have 36 you need. Yet it has a way of slipping 37 your fingers like quicksand. You may suddenly find that there is no way to stretch the little time you have 38 to cover all your obligations. For example, 39 a beginning student looking ahead to a full term you may feel that you have an oversupply of time on your hands.40 toward the end of the term you may be 41 because you are running out of time. How can you do? —Control!
Time is 42 . If you don't control it, it will control you. If you don't make it work for you, it will 43 you. You must become the master of time, not the servant. “Study hard and play hard” is an old saying, but it still 44 . You have plenty of time for classes, study, work, and play if you use your time 45 . It is not how much time you allocate for study that 46 but how much you learn when you do study.
Too much wasted time is 47 medicine. The more time you waste, the easier it is to continue wasting time. Soon, doing nothing becomes a habit you can't 48 . You will be 49 to wasting time. When this happens, you 50 your feeling of accomplishment and you fall by the wayside. A full schedule is a good schedule. Some students 51 to hear the time message. They refuse to 52 the fact that college life demands some53 of time control. There is no escape. So what's the next step? If you seriously want to get the time message, the next passage will give it to you. 54 — it will not only improve your grades but also free you to 55 college life more.
1.A．less than B．more than C．rather than D．other than
2.A．by B．between C．through D．on
3.A．saved B．left C．remained D．wasted
4.A．since B．because C．for D．as
5.A．Although B．But C．Therefore D．Otherwise
6.A．angry B．brave C．worried D．eager
7.A．money B．friendly C．enough D．dangerous
8.A．work out B．work on C．work at D．work against
9.A．makes sense B．makes no use C．makes up D．makes it
10.A．immediately B．properly C．apparently D．shortly
11.A．counts B．accounts C．approves D．collects
12.A．bad B．good C．useful D．alternative
13.A．get along with B．get close to C．get rid of D．get down to
14.A．crazy B．determined C．addicted D．devoted
15.A. achieve B. appreciate C. loss D. lose
16.A．hesitate B．refuse C．.like D．want
17.A．accept B．receive C．ignore D．imagine
18.A．disagreement B．agreement C．degree D．standard
19.A．Forget B．Remind C．Think D．Remember
20.A．hate B．enjoy C．dislike D．assess
It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech.At some point in every speech,every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned.Fortunately,such moments are usually not obvious(明显的) to the listeners.Why?Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say.They hear only what the speaker does say.If you lose your place for a moment,wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences,or forget to pause at a certain point,no one will be any the wiser.When such moments occur,don’t worry about them.Just continue as if nothing happened.
Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech,that doesn’t really matter.If you have ever listened to Martin Luther King’s famous speech—“I Have a Dream”,you may notice that he stumbles(结巴) over his words twice during the speech.Most likely,however,you don’t remember.Why?Because you were fixing your attention on his message rather than on his way of speech-making.
People care a lot about making a mistake in a speech because they regard speech-making as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication(交流).They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competition.But,in fact,the listeners are not looking for a perfect performance.They are looking for a well-thought-out speech that expresses the speaker’s ideas clearly and directly.Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making him more human.
As you work on your speech,don’t worry about being perfect.Once you free your mind of this,you will find it much easier to give your speech freely.
1.The underlined part in the first paragraph means that no one will _______.
A.be smarter than you B.notice your mistakes
C.do better than you D.know what you are talking about
2.You don’t remember obvious mistakes in a speech because _______.
A.your attention is on the content
B.you don’t fully understand the speech
C.you don’t know what the speaker plans to say
D.you find the way of speech-making more important
3.It can be inferred from the passage that _______.
A.giving a speech is like giving a performance
B.one or two mistakes in a speech may not be bad
C.the listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is made
D.the more mistakes a speaker makes,the more attractive he will be
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A.How to Be a Perfect Speaker
B.How to Make a Perfect Speech
C.Don’t Expect a Perfect Speech
D.Don’t Expect Mistakes in a Speech
完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白出的最佳选项。
?Long time ago, if a child had some problems in his life, he might go home and write in his 21 . Now, a child with the same problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog（博客. In many ways, a diary and a blog are very 22 .So, what makes blogging different from writing in a 23 diary?
The biggest difference is that blogging is much more 24 than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats her diary like a book full of 25 that she does not want to 26 .
It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog 27 a diary will probably write nearly the same information.
I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her blog. She 28 about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test. 29 I was her age, I wrote about the same things, but 30 in my diary. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was 31 that my sister might read it!
The biggest 32 with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I were angry with a friend during high school and wrote something 33 about her in my diary, she would never know. 34 , if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend 35 read her blog and get angry.
There are also 36 to blogging, of course. If I were feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary, “Nobody cares about me,” 37 would know about it. However if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friends would 38 respond（回应）and tell her how much they like her. Blogs help people 39 in contact with their friends and to hear what the people 40 them are doing.
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