If you want to become a fluent English speaker you should take some advice. There are four skills in learning English. They are reading, listening, speaking, and writing. The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills you should first master the skills of reading and listening.

Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentence, the meaning of the unfamiliar words, etc. There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across, but the fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them, for example in other passages or books, is enough. It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or sentences in it.

As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only pay attention to your reading and become skilful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. Since you have lots of inputs (输入) in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not practise listening.

For listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children. Their languages are easy. Or if you are good at listening you can listen to VOA or BBC programmes every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably taking some notes.

If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will improve automatically, and you can be sure that with a little effort they will become perfect.

60. To improve your reading, when you read, you should ______.

A. look up all the new words in the dictionary

B. spend more time studying grammars

C. think about what you are reading actively

D. copy as many words and sentences as possible

61. The underlined phrase “come across” in the second paragraph can probably be replaced by “______”

A. discover     B. find on purpose        C. look for            D. meet by accident

62. The author seems to agree with the view that ______.

A. being good at reading is helpful in improving your listening

B. everyone should listen to VOA or BBC programmes every day

C. you needn't practise listening if you keep on reading every day

D. you should take notes of whatever you are hearing in class

63. The passage is mainly about how to ______.

A. choose suitable listening materials

B. become fluent in English speaking and writing

C. deal with new words in reading

D. improve your English as quickly as possible

请从以下选项（A、B、C、D、E和F）中选出符合各段意思的小标题，并在答题纸上将相应选项的标号涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。

A. Arguments are pointless.

B. Your parents only want what's best for you.

C. Everyone's opinion matters only as much as you want them to.

D. You learn by doing.

E. Your emotions are under your control.

F. You aren't stuck in any situation.

Life is the greatest teacher

There always comes a moment when I wonder where I will end up and this moment always serves as a strong motivation for me to learn a life lesson. I've learned a great many things, but these are the lessons that I wish I'd learned earlier:

61. _________

There was a time when everyone's opinion was mine as well. Whatever preferences I formerly held were dashed in the face of another's. This most likely came from a need to please others. Remember that your opinion matters just as much as the next guy's, whether they make more money than you or are less popular than you. Everyone's opinion holds the same weight.

62. _________

Drama, chaos, and emotional unrest — these were what took up most of my time as a teenager. If I had heard someone said bad things behind my back, I'd be angry. Go crazy. Looking back on those tantrums(发怒) now, I'm not too surprised. After all, when you have little self control, anything is possible. The lessons here is, remain aware of how you react.

63. _________

Will one small quarrel among friends decide the fate of the entire universe? In my world it felt like it. I just wanted so much to be right and for them so much to be wrong. But in the end, it only resulted in me wasting my time and in the other person storming off in frustration. Is there really a point to arguing? Unless it's absolutely necessary, I've learned that it's better to hold your breath on things you can't control at all. Arguing to change someone's mind is one of them.

64. _________

I'm not saying every parent wants what's best for you (there are outliers), but in general, parents do what they do for you in your best interest. My parents used to make me do the dishes, cook dinner, sweep the floors, mow the lawn, take out the garbage… the list goes on and on. And at every turn, I'd whine and complain. I'd eventually end up doing it. Now, I honestly see the value in having learned those skills. I can efficiently cook and clean up after myself.

65. _________

Whenever I’d lose a friend, get an awful grade, or disappoint my parents, I stewed in my own muck. Waiting for the bad moments to go away seemed to be the only solution. Fortunately, I know now that you don’t have to be stuck in bad situations. You can go out and create better ones. It all depends on perspective; on how you see the situation. Viewing everything as a learning experience makes life more pleasurable, even during the hard times. You aren't stuck. You can move on.

I'm glad to have learned these lessons the way I did. Each experience helped shape me to become a better person. I don't know if any young people are reading this, but if they are, I'd like to say this: “Listen to life and its experiences. Everyone goes through mostly the same things.”

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　　When I come across a good essay in reading newspapers, I am often eager to cut and keep it. But just as I am about to do so I find the article 1 is as much interesting. It may be a discussion of the way to keep 2 , or advice about how to behave and conduct 3 in society. If I cut the front essay, the opposite one is sure to suffer damage, 4 half of it or keeping the text without the subject. 5 , the scissors would 6 before they start, or halfway done when I find out the regretful result.

　　Sometimes two things are to be done 7 , both deserving your attention. You can only 8 one of them, the other has to wait or 9 . But you know the future is unpredictable (无法预测)—the changed situation may not allow you to do what 10 . 11 you are caught in a fix and feel sad. How come that nice opportunities and brilliant ideas should gather around 12 . It may happen that your life changes greatly on your preference of one choice to the other.

　　In fact that is what life is like: we are often 13 the two opposite sides of a thing which are both desirable like newspaper cutting. It often happens that our 14 is drawn to one thing only 15 we are engaged in another. The former may be more important than the latter and give rise to a divided mind. I still remember a philosopher's remarks: “When one door shuts, another opens in life. ” 16 a casual(随意)or passive choice may not be a 17 one.

　　 18 we do in our lifetime, wherever life's storm lasses ( throw) us, there 19 we can achieve, some shore we can land, that opens up new vistas to us. Don't forget God always helps those who help themselves. While the front door is closed, there must be 20 for you.

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Friendships can be difficult — because often people aren't as honest and open as they should be. Sometimes, people finally get hurt.

Most problems with friendships come up because people are just too selfish to care about the things that their friends need. They care about their own needs much more, which makes it hard for friendships to work. However, being selfish is part of human nature. A person is put together in order to take care of themselves and their own needs, not necessarily those needs of other people. Even though being selfish is something that all humans are born with, it is something that everyone should be against.

The best thing to remember when you are a friend to anyone is that you need to treat your friends the same way that you'd like to be treated(对待). This is wonderful advice for a friendship, because it is really the only way to make sure that you are giving your friends everything you would want to be given in a friendship. Whenever you have a question about how you should treat a friend, it is easy to find an answer simply by asking yourself what you would like your friend to do for you, if he or she was in your shoes.

Even if you're always thinking about how you'd like to be treated, and your friends are too, there are problems that come up from time to time in each friendship, and it is important to understand how to deal with these problems so that you can build stronger and healthier friendships. Problems like friends getting boyfriends or girlfriends and not spending enough time with their friends, or even friends finding new friends and leaving old friends behind are problems that will probably come up with one or more of your friendships. It is important to know how to deal with these friend problems so that you can keep your friends and make new ones. No one wants to have a broken friendship.

1.This passage mainly talks about ________.

A. the importance of friendship

B. the advantages(益处) of friendship

C. the problems of friendship

D. the disadvantages(劣势) of friendship

2.According to the writer, problems with friendship may appear when ________.

A. one is honest                 B. one is selfish       C. one is open                   D. one is kind

3.According to the passage, the first and most important thing to be other people's friend is ________.

A. to treat your friend as you like to be

B. to give your friends whatever you have

C. not to hurt your friends' feelings

D. not to think of your own need any more

4.What's the purpose of understanding how to deal with friendship problems?

A. To have a comfortable life.

B. To build stronger and healthier friendships.

C. To be treated the way you want.

D. To get a boyfriend or girlfriend more quickly.