Winners Club

Winners Club is a bank account (账户) specially for teenagers. It has been sep up to help you better manage your money. The club is a bank account where you receive a key-card, so you can enjoy dealing with your money 24/7 — that’s 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!

Here are the features (特点) of the club.

?   No account keeping fees (费用)!

You’re not a rich man, so we don’t expect you to pay large fees. In fact, it’s free for all the service!

?   Excellent interest rates (利率)!

You want your money to grow, right? If you put money into the club without taking it out for a year, the club will give you a good rate of interest.

?   Convenient (方便)！

Teenagers are busy — we get that. You may never need to come to a bank at all. With the club you can choose to use handy tellers and to bank from home using the phone and the Internet. This could be your pocket money or your pay from your part-time job!

?   A free magazine included！

Besides your account report, you will receive a free magazine full of good ideas about making more money. There are also other fantastic offers only for the club members.

?   Easy to be a member！

It is so easy to join. Simply fill in an application form (申请表). By the way, one of your parents must agree on it. Then you can become a member of the club.

Now you see the club is a great choice for teenagers. We can’t wait to have you as a Winners Club member.

1.Is Winners Club specially for teenagers?

2.How many features of Winners Club are mentioned in the passage?

3.How do you make your money in Winners Club grow?

4.What ideas can the club members read on the magazine?

5.What does the writer mainly tell teenagers?

What’s the most important thing for you to have in your life? Somebody mentions hard-work, others suggest knowledge, love and luck.

If you arrange the 26 English letters alphabetically(按字母表的顺序)and use numbers to represent each of them, for example, 1 for a, 2 for b, 3 for c…, you can change an English word into a number. So hard-work becomes 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11=98, meaning 98 is its mark; knowledge: 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5=96, while love :12+15+22+5=54, and luck : 12+21+3+11=47, a small mark. None of these words can give one a full mark. What about money or prayer(祈祷)? They can’t, either.

Then what else? Don’t be worried. You can always find an answer to a problem in your life, when you change your way of looking at things or doing things, or your attitude. Yes, attitude is the word. See for yourself: attitude:1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100，a full mark.

Different attitudes lead to different courses of life. Most times people hope for a better life. It is possible that one will have a change for the better after one has changed one’s attitude.

When you change your manner and become friendly towards others, you’ll meet more smiling faces towards you. In the same way, if you take a positive attitude towards failure(失败), you’ll find it’s also rewarding though it has caused you losses.

1.In the writer’s opinion, what is the most important things in a person’s life?

   A. Hard-work.         B. Knowledge.                 C. Money.            D. Attitude.

2.According to the passage, what’s the mark of the word “succeed”?

A. 50                B. 60                      C. 70                D. 80

3. What does the underlined word “positive” mean in the text?

   A. 正面                    B. 反面                    C.积极的        D.消极的

4.According to the passage, if you meet with problems, the best way out is to ___________.

   A. change your attitude                          B. say your prayers to God

   C. ask for help from others                   D. try math-solving methods

5.From the passage we can learn that ______________.

   A. different attitudes come from different courses of life.

   B. mathematics can solve every problem easily in our daily life

   C. failure sometimes can bring you good if you take a positive attitude

   D. none of the English words except “attitude” equals to 100 or more

词语填空（共10小题，计10分）
用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、正确、连贯（每个单词限用一次）。
listen, down, you, on, during, become, easy, pleasant, able, clear,
Stress is a bit of a fashionable buzz word. There are similarities and links between stress and anxiety - both can lead to   1 symptoms.（症状）
So try these ten easy relaxation（放松）tips to feel more relaxed.
1.Take a short break and leave a stressful situation. If you are at work, offer to run or go for a short walk. A few minutes away can help you think   2  .
2.Take a break from the activity you are working   3  and do something different. Sometimes it helps to come back to a task later when you feel more relaxed .
3. Listen to relaxing music while you are working.  4  to classical or nature music has been shown to lower heart rate and slow breathing.
4. Take regular breaks  5   the day. Spend 5-10 minutes to read something uplifting（使人开心的） or humorous, or chat with a friend.
5. Practice mindfulness（警觉）. Mindfulness is the   6  to be fully aware of the present moment.
6. Change your focus. As people feel more stressed,their attention   7  focused on what they believe to be the cause of their stress and they ignore（忽视）other information.
7. Have a hot bath or shower. This will help to get rid of the tension in your muscles which is a normal result of stress.
8. Write  8  the things that are worrying you. If you are worried, it is very difficult to relax easily.
9. Keep things in a correct way. Ask   9  “how important is it?” “How important will it be in a year’s time?”Many of the things that cause stress are not important when we look at the big picture.
10.Slow your breathing and purposefully(有目的地) relax your body for quick results. This will be   10 than before if you have learned easy relaxation methods that you can use when you need them.

When people want to know about the weather, they usually go to their radios, TVs, newspapers, or to the Internet. However, you can also find many weather signs among wildlife, because of their highly developed senses. Drops in air pressure produce an effect on small animals in many ways. Mice and deer are good weather indicators. People who spend a lot of time outdoors have observed that, before a storm, field mice come out of their holes and run around. Deer leave high ground and come down from the mountains.

Birds are especially good weather indicators because they also show the effect of a pressure drop in many ways. For example, some birds become irritable(暴躁) and quarrelsome and will fight over a piece of bread. Other birds chirp and sing just before a storm. It seems they know they won’t get another chance for an hour or two. Birds also look for safe places before a storm. You will sometimes see birds settling in trees or gathering together on a wire close to a building. Pre-storm low pressure make the air so thin that birds have difficulty flying.

It is unusual to see many birds flying overhead in the summertime, rather than during the periods in the spring or autumn. Watch for other weather signs if you see this. If they fly in the wrong direction, they may be flying ahead of a storm.

By paying closer attention to some important signs in nature, we can become better prepared for any kind of weather.

【小题 1】The word “indicators” in paragraph 1 probably means          .

A. maps                 B. services             C. signs        D. stations

【小题 2】How can birds sense the coming of a storm?

A. By feeling a drop in air temperature.

B. By noticing the change of wind directions.

C. By feeling a drop in air pressure.

D. By noticing the movements of other animals.

【小题3 】The best title for the text would be         .

  A. Signs of a Storm                           B. Drops in Air Pressure

  C. Animals’ Sharp Senses                     D. Nature’s Weather Signs

综合填空（共10小题，每小题1分；满分10分）

根据短文意思，用方框中所给词语的适当形式填空，使文章通顺、完整（其中有两个多余选项）。

Travel is useful to us in at least three ways.

First, by 1._ we can enjoy the beautiful scenery （风景）of different places. We can see2.our own eyes many things which can not be read about in books, and__3.__some famous cities and scenic spots.

4._, we will meet people with different interests and see strange and different things when we travel. We can get ideas of the conditions and customs of  5._ people, taste different foods and local favors （偏爱） if we like._ 6._ this way, we can understand how different other people live.

Third, travel will not only help us gain （获得）7._ of geography and history and other knowledge,_ 8.__will also help us keep healthy and make us less narrow-minded （才智有限的）.

With all these _9._ of travel, it is no wonder(难怪) that travel has now become more10. than ever in China.