This brief book is aimed at high school students, but speaks to anyone learning at any stage of life.

Its formal, serious style closely matches its content, a school-masterly book on schooling. The author, W. H. Armstrong, starts with the basics: reading and writing. In his opinion, reading doesn’t just mean recognizing each word on the page; it means taking in the information, digesting it and incorporating it into oneself just as one digests a sandwich and makes it a part of himself. The goal is to bring the information back to life, not just to treat it as dead facts on paper from dead trees. Reading and writing cannot be completely separated from each other; in fact, the aim of reading is to express the information you have got from the text. I’ve seen it again and again: someone who can’t express an idea after reading a text is just as ineffective as someone who hasn’t read it at all.

Only a third of the book remains after that discussion, which Armstrong devotes to specific tips for studying languages, math, science and history. He generally handles these topics thoroughly  and equally, except for some weakness in the science and math sections and a bit too much passion regarding history. Well, he was a history teacher —if conveyed only a tenth of his passion to his students, that was a hundred times more than my history teachers ever got across.

To my disappointment, in this part of the book he ignores the arts．As a matter of fact, they demand all the concentration, and study that math arid science do, though the study differs slightly in kind．Although it's commonly believed that the arts can only be naturally acquired, actually, learning the arts is no more natural than learning French or mathematics．

       My other comment is that tke text aged．The first edition apparently dates to the 1960s—none of the references （参考文献） seem newer than the late 1950s．As a result, the discussion misses the entire computer age．

       These are small points, though, and don't affect the main discussion．I recommend it to any student and any teacher, including the self-taught student．

According to Armstrong, the goal of reading is to ____        .

A．gain knowledge and expand one's view

B．understand the meaning between the lines           

C．express ideas based on what one has read            

D．get information and keep it alive in memory

The author of the passage insists that learning the arts___        .

A．requires great efforts       B．demands real passion

C．is less natural than learning maths   D．is as natural as learning a language

What is a shortcoming of Armstrong's work．according to- the author?

A．Some ideas are slightly contradictory．

B．There is too much discussion on studying science．

C．The style is too serious．

D．It lacks new information．

This passage can be classified as ___．

A．an advertisement         B．a book review

C．a feature story            D．a news report

阅读下面短文,根据以下提示:1)汉语提示,2)首字母提示,3)语境提示,在每个空格内填入一个适当的单词,并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上. 所填单词要求意义准确,拼写正确.

An American best-seller has been popular among the students in our

School_______(最近)．It is so inspiring that I would like             76._____

to recommend it to you．This book，Chicken Soup for the Soul,

 w        by Jack   Canfield                                 77.______                                                           first appeared______1993 and soon became a best-seller．            78.______

It will surely inspire readers of all______(年龄)．                   79.______

It has been put into many languages，spreading love to

all over the world. B      ，an English     version                 80._____    

 is of g ___  help to us English learners as it will help               81.____

improve our English．It costs 64 yuan, ______you can get            82.____

 it for 54.4 yuan through online shopping，which will__ (节省)        83.____

you 9.6 yuan．You can order it at www.dangdang.com，and g ___      84.____   

 the book within one week after   your payment．

For more ______please visit the website．                          85.______

根据对话情景和内容，从对话后所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两个为多余选项（注意：如选E在答题卡中涂黑AB;如选F在答题卡中涂黑AC;如选G在答题卡中涂黑AD;）

M:  Remember Paul from our old school?

w:  1. 

M:I met him at the checkout．n the supermarket the other day, and he was queuing right in front of me．

w:   2.___

M: Well, he started out as a manager in charge of sales．____3.__ He teaches commercial English there.

W: Why did he get this new job?    4.   

M: Yes．It is tiring, though． After all, he has got a family to take care of

W:I see．____5. __

M: Exactly!

A．Isn't he working in a company as a sales manager?

    B．Then he transferred to work for an international giant．

    C．Of course I do．

    D．But he ended up getting a job at the local university．

    E．Isn't it interesting to travel around as a sales manager?

    F．Why not?

    G．Sometimes it is a painful choice, career or family．

第二卷（共35分）

第四部分写作（共两节,满分35分）

第一节对话填空（共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分）

认真阅读下面对话, 并根据各题所给的首字母的提示,在标有题号的右边横线上写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式，使对话通顺。

M: Hi, Rebecca, haven’t seen you for (76) y_____! You seem to have lost a lot  76. _________

in the weight.

W: Yes, I have. I have been on a (77) d______ and exercising a lot.            77. ________

M: There will be a baseball game in the stadium this afternoon. Would you

like to (78) w ______ it ?                                           78. ________

W: No, I think baseball games are (79) b______.                           79. _________

M: Do you like volleyball?

W: Yes, I do, but I (80) p   ___ soccer to volleyball.                       80. _________

M: Did you (81) e___  _ play soccer in high school?                      81. _________

W: Yes, I was on the school team. We were required to (82) p______ four      82. ________

hours a day.

M: Did you often play (83) a______ other school and play well?             83. _________

W: Yes, we often did. We almost always won the championship.

M: You (84) m______ have had very good teamwork.                      84. _________

W: Yes, we did. Teamwork is the most (85) i______ element（因素）in winning.  85. __________

根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。（每小题1分，共5分）

W：Hi, John.    

M：Hi,  Mary.  I've been studying a lot for my final exam.

W：Well.             

M：Yes.  My brother is coming for a visit this winter helically and we'd like to see some

     of the country.      

W：      

M：Camping? I have never done that.       .

W：I think you'll like it.  It's much cheaper than staying at a hotel.  And being close to nature is a good way to forget about our school for a while.

M：  We can go by bike until we find a nice place and just camp.

A．You should do that.

B．What a good idea.!

C．But traveling is so expensive.

D．Have you thought of camping?

E．There are many beautiful sceneries.

F．I haven't seen you for a few weeks.

G．The term is almost over now.