Nobody likes making mistakes. But, no one is perfect. If you can learn from mistakes correctly, they can move you forward. Therefore, we should analyse how you can learn from them.

If you have made mistakes that harm other people, it is important to offer a sincere apology (道歉)in person. A good apology will likely make the other person forgive you. If you refuse to apologize, the person hurt by you will hold it against you.

If you go through life afraid to make a mistake, you will spend most of you life doing nothing. There is no harm in making mistakes; it is an essential part of going forward. The more duties you take, the more likely you will make mistakes.

Unluckily, it is our natural instinct（本能） to justify（为……辩解） our actions. When you make a mistake, you will first blame someone else. When mistakes are made, the boss is unlikely to be interested in justifications. Sometimes it is best to say, very simply--yes, I made a mistake.

Mistakes happen for various reasons. To avoid（避免）repeating them, you need to understand the main reason. For example, you may have made a mistake by saying some unkind words. If you make mistakes because you are tired, try to get more sleep; if you are stressed, look at ways to relax and keep away from the stress of work.

You should avoid feeling guilty about making mistakes, but at the same time, you should make a decision to learn from them. If you repeat the same mistakes, it shows you aren’t making progress and they cause repeating suffering. Often mistakes are caused by bad habits. To avoid making the same mistakes you need to break these bad habits. The sooner, the better.

The plane for Yunnan will______ in two hours. Let’s go to the airport as soon as possible.

Waste can bring a lot of problems. Although China is rich in some resources (资源) , we are short of others, for example, fresh water. It is reported that we will have no coal or oil to use in 100 years. So if we go on wasting our resources, what can we use in the future and where can we move? Think about it. 38. I think we should say no to the students who waste things every day. Everyone should stop wasting as soon as possible.
39. In our everyday life, we can do many things to prevent (阻止) wastefrom happening, for example, turn off the water taps when we finish washing, turn off the lights when we leave the classroom, try not to order more food than we need, and so on. Little by little, everything will be changed. 40. Waste canbe stopped one day, if we do our best.

Andrew Engel was puzzled. He was sitting in class, but had no idea what the other students were talking about. He had done his homework, paid attention to lectures, and taken notes, but nothing was familiar. “Everyone is so much cleverer than I am,” he thought. It was a strange feeling, as he was always a good student in high school.

He felt even more puzzled a few days later. He got lost on his way to his favorite cinema. What’s worse, he began having trouble finding the right words when speaking. He asked, “What’s for dinner, Mom?” after he had just eaten. Poor Andrew, he was only 15!

His parents were worried and took Andrew to see a doctor. A brain scan（扫描） made it clear: Andrew had a malignant brain tumor(恶性脑肿瘤) . It was pressing on the part of the brain that makes new memory. He should be operated on as soon as possible. Andrew was scared!

Doctors removed the tumor, but Andrew’s memory was still poor. He was told he would probably never go back to school. Andrew was eager to enter a university, but it seemed that his dream wouldn’t come true.

“Even though they told me this, I knew I wanted to go back to school,” Andrew said. “I wanted to get my memory back.”

Andrew began by auditing(旁听) an English class at a nearby school. In class, he took notes carefully and read his notes several times a day, then typed them again and again. He studied twelve hours a day, seven days a week. He worked ten times harder than other students. In 2007, at age 29, he graduated from a local university. Six months later, Andrew found a job.

1.Andrew’s strange behavior(行为) including all the following except_________.

A．having no idea what the other students were talking about

B．getting lost on his way to his favorite cinema

C．having trouble finding the right words when speaking

D．not knowing who he was

2.The underlined word "scared" in the third paragraph means “ __________”.

A．very frightened                         B．very excited

C．very surprised                          D．very happy

3.The tumor in Andrew’s brain __________.

A．didn’t damage his memory

B．didn’t have to be removed

C．caused his forgetfulness

D．is still in his brain

4.Andrew studied very hard at the nearby school because ___________.

A．he wanted to realize his dream

B．he liked to stay with other students

C．he wanted to forget his illness

D．his parents wanted him to do so

5.Which of the following is the best title of the article?

A．A man with an amazing brain

B．An unusual story of memory lost and found

C．How to improve your memory

D．Never lose your memory

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Waste can be seen everywhere in our school. Some students ask for more food than they can eat and others often forget  1 (turn)off the lights when they leave the classroom. They say they can afford these things. But I  2 (not agree)with them.Waste can bring a lot of problems. Although China is rich in some resources (资源), we’re short of others, for example, fresh water(淡水). It  3 (report) that we will have no coal(煤) or oil to use in 100 years. So if we go on  4 (waste) our resources,what can we use in the future? Think about it. I think we should

say to the students who waste things every day. Everybody  5 (stop) wasting as soon as possible.

In our everyday life, we can do many things  6 (prevent) waste from happening, turn off the water taps(龙头) when we 7 (finish) washing, turn off the lights when we leave the classroom, try not to order more food than we need, and so on. Little by little, everything will be changed. Waste can be stopped one day if we do our best.