I am an English teacher, with over 15 years’ experience of teaching in London. I started the DailyStep audio email lesson service because I noticed that when I started their English course, my students’ speaking and listening skills were much weaker than their reading and writing skills. In my view, this is because education in school does not focus enough on communication skills. DailyStep is designed to remedy this situation by offering more practice in speaking, listening and vocabulary.
I am crazy about the English language and it is a real pleasure for me to see the development of my students’ language skills.
I majored in (以….为专业)law at university and then worked for three years as a researcher and journalist for Sky television and BBC magazines. I decided to change to English teaching because of my love of the English language and my wish to move into more satisfying work.
Then I qualified (取得资格)as an English teacher in 1992. My first teaching job was at a language school in Covent Garden, London, where I taught examination classes and Business English . After two years, I moved to the Nippon Club where I taught General English and Business English courses for 9 years. I also developed a unique course called British Society & Culture, covering all areas of British life, such as politics, law, education & music. At the same time, taught Business， Financial& Law English in the financial centre of London. My students included staff （工作人员）from banks and law firms.
As well as running the DailyStep website, I also provide in-company English speech training for companies in London. If you have an important speech coming up and would like some information about how I can help you, please email me at jane@dailystep.com.
小题1:DailyStep audio email lesson service __________

A．is an in-company service

B．teaches English communication skills

C．is designed for working people

D．provides English training for free

小题2:What does the underlined word “remedy” in Paragraph mean?

A．report

B．judge

C．improve

D．practise

小题3:What’s the CORRECT time order of the following events?
a. The author qualified as an English teacher
b.The author taught at a language school in Covent Garden
c.The author worked as a journalist for Sky television
d.The author taught in the Noppon Club.

A．cabd

B．cadb

C．cbad

D．cdab

小题4:We can learn from the passage that_______.

A．the author enjoys teaching English

B．all of the author’s students are adults

C．the author majored in English at university

D．the author knows little about how to make a speech

Robert Frost was at heart a mean-spirited human being, not the kind of man one would expect to write poetry. He was born in San Francisco. Frost entered Dartmouth University in 1893, but dropped out, and switched to Harvard, which he attended for two years. He started a brief teaching career, where he was inspired to become a poet by some of his students’ work. Frost stopped teaching and became a farmer. During this time he wrote numerous poems, and a couple of short stories. While he was a farmer he started to think seriously about becoming a famous poet.
In almost all of his poems, Frost wrote in the first person. The first widely-read poem that he published was called My Butterfly. At first his audience was very small, but with his Collected Poems he became famous. Robert Frost received almost all the awards that there were for poetry. His poetry describes the forces of nature, and the violence and deep emotional(情感的) needs of human beings, which reflect the experiences of his childhood.
Robert Frost will always be known as one of the best poets in history. His way of putting emotion and violence into words is remarkable(非同寻常的). His talent for poetry is natural-born and he had discovered this when he started to farm. Even though he treated his wife and children terribly, he still became one of the best-known poets of his and our day.
小题1:We can learn from the passage that ________.

A．Robert Frost had been a famous writer before he started teaching

B．Robert Frost wrote his poems mostly in the first person

C．Robert Frost was very famous at the beginning of his writing career

D．Robert Frost began to write poems when he was a teacher

小题2: According to the passage, Robert Frost was famous for ________.

A．his teaching career	B．his life experiences
C．showing strong feeling in his poems	D．his interest in poems

小题3:The last paragraph of the passage mainly tells us ________.

A．why Robert Frost stopped farming

B．why Robert Frost was so famous

C．about his masterpieces(杰作)

D．about the way he treated his wife and children

小题4:From the passage we know that ________.

A．Robert Frost’s most famous poem is My Butterfly

B．Robert Frost began to write when he was in college

C．Robert Frost gave up studying at Dartmouth University

D．his poetry showed the violence of war and his childhood

A few months ago I was at a bus stop in town in the evening. The bus came on time and I took the window seat. The bus route was by the seashore and I was enjoying the breeze (微风) while watching the sea waves. After a few minutes the bus made its next stop. A young boy and a girl got on. They were standing on my left when the bus pulled off. I looked at them curiously and realized that all the window seats were occupied (占据). They could sit but not together. Suddenly a different wave passed through my body and my inner mind gave me the advice to get up. I got up and offered them my seat. The young lady smiled kindly and said thanks. I occupied another seat and we parted our ways. I don’t remember whether I got off the bus before them or not.
Months passed by. Suddenly one day while I was standing at the same bus stop waiting some time for the bus to arrive I heard a voice.
“Excuse me, Uncle.” I looked in the direction of the voice. It was a beautiful young lady.
Puzzled, I said, “I do not recognize you.”
She said, “Do you remember you gave us your window seat?”
Puzzled, I said, “Maybe, but what is so great in that?”
She said, “If you had not given your seat that day, perhaps I would have not sat with my friend. By sitting together it helped us bridge a misunderstanding that had been between us forever. Do you know we are getting married next month?”
“Good! God bless both of you,” I replied.
The young lady again said thank you and went on her journey. I realized the importance of giving that day.
小题1: Why were the young boy and the girl standing on the bus?

A．Because they wanted to enjoy the sea view.

B．Because they couldn’t sit together.

C．Because there were no empty seats.

D．Because they preferred to stand.

小题2: The underlined sentence in the first paragraph probably means that the author had a feeling that ______.

A．he wanted to do something special

B．the sea wave made him upset

C．a wave from the sea flooded him

D．he wanted to make a sea wave in his heart

小题3:From the story, we can conclude that ______.

A．small things can create great happenings in life

B．it is giving rather than receiving that matters

C．offering one’s seat to others may win respect

D．we sometimes forget what happened in the past

Last Monday, at the beginning of class, I   31  asked my students how their weekend had been. One young man said that his weekend had not been so   32 . He had his wisdom teeth removed. Then the young man asked me why I   33  seemed to be so cheerful.
His question reminded me of something I’d read somewhere before: “Every morning when you get up, you have a choice about   34  you want to approach life that day,” I said. “I choose to be cheerful.”
“Let me give you an example.   35  teaching here, I also teach out at the community college in Henderson, 17 miles down the freeway from where I live. One day, I drove those 17 miles to Henderson. I   36  the freeway and turned onto College Drive, only another quarter mile ahead to the college. But just then my car died. I tried to start it again, but the engine   37  turn over. So I put my flashers on, grabbed my books, and marched down the road to the college.”
“  38  getting there I called AAA and arranged for a tow truck to meet me at my car after class. The secretary asked me what had happened. ‘This is my lucky day,’ I replied, smiling.”
“ ‘Your car breaks down and today is your lucky day?’ She was   39 . ‘What do you mean?’ ’’ “I live 17 miles from here.” I replied. “My car   40  have broken down   41  along the freeway. It didn’t.   42 , it broke down in the perfect place: off the freeway,   43  walking distance of here. I’m still able to teach my class, and I’ve been able to arrange for the tow truck to meet me after class.”
“The secretary’s eyes opened wide, and then she    44 . I smiled back and headed for class.” So ended my story.
I scanned the sixty faces in my class. Despite the early hour, no one seemed to be   45 . Somehow, my story had touched them.

小题1:	A．calmly B．seriously C．cheerfully D．curiously

小题2:	A．bad B．good C．exciting D．scary

小题3:	A．often B．always C．usually D．seldom

小题4:	A．how B．why C．where D．that

小题5:	A．As well as B．As to C．In exchange for D．In addition to

小题6:	A．entered B．left C．found D．hit

小题7:	A．wouldn’t B．shouldn’t C．couldn’t D．won’t

小题8:	A．While B．In C．Before D．After

小题9:	A．surprising B．astonishing C．puzzled D．shaken

小题10:

A．could B．can C．would D．must

小题11:

A．somewhere B．anywhere C．nowhere D．wherever

小题12:

A．However B．Instead C．Though D．So

小题13:

A．between B．in C．within D．beyond

小题14:

A．left B．understood C．paused D．smiled

小题15:

A．clear B．asleep C．tired D．interested

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A Special Relationship
This novel is about a woman whose entire life is turned upside down in a very foreign place despite the fact that people there speak her language. Sally Good child is a 37-year-old American who, after nearly two decades as a highly independent journalist, finds herself pregnant and in London. She married an English foreign correspondent, Tony Thompson, whom she met while they were both on assignment in Cairo. From the beginning, Sally’s relationship with both Tony and London is an uneasy one: She finds her husband and his city to be far more foreign than imagined. But her adjustment problems soon turn into a nightmare(噩梦). She discovers that everything can be taken down and used against you, especially by a spouse (配偶) who now considers you an unfit mother and wants to prevent you from ever seeing your child again.
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Sayre Lynch decided never to return to her hometown Destiny, after she changed her last name and finally escaped from the influence of her controlling father, Huff Hoyle, who owns the iron foundry that the town is built around.
But when Danny, her younger brother, is found dead with a shotgun in his mouth, Sayre unwillingly goes back for his funeral and is annoyed when her father’s handsome lawyer, Beck Merchant, tries to please her.
When the young officer investigating(调查) the case notes that some of the evidence points to murder rather than suicide(自杀), Sayre finds herself unable to leave Destiny. She’s annoyed by Beck’s constant presence, and she is not sure if he’s trying to help or throw her off the trail. Nor does she trust her father or her older brother, Chris, who is as prime suspect in Danny’s murder.
As she tries to figure out how the handsome, charming Beck fits into the picture, she finds herself deeply attracted to him.]
Sandra Brown is the author of 51 New York Times top-five bestsellers. She began her writing career in 1981 and has since published 65 novels.
小题1:From the brief introduction of “A Special Relationship” we can imagine _____.

A．Sally and Tony’s marriage is pleasant.	B．Sally and Tony may break up.
C．Sally and Tony often quarrel about their jobs.	D．Sally is hard to get on with.

小题2:The story of Sally and Tony mainly happens in _____.

A．America

B．London

C．Cairo

D．Cairo & London

小题3:It can be learned from the passage that______.

A．Chris killed Danny.	B．Lynch is Sayre’s real family name.
C．Huff Hoyle knows who killed Danny.	D．Sayre fell in love with Beck.

小题4:In the introduction of White Hot, the underlined phrase suggests_____.

A．Sayre thinks Beck has something to do with Danny’s death.

B．Sayre thinks Beck is the right person she wants to marry.

C．Sayre likes the handsome Beck in the picture.

D．Sayre doesn’t know whether Beck likes her.

Monty Roberts, owner of a horse ranch (牧场) in San Ysidro, once told us a story. “When a young man was a senior, he was asked to write a paper about what he wanted to __ 36__  and do when he grew up. In his seven-page paper he described his __37__ of someday owning a horse ranch. He drew a __ 38__ floor plan（平面图）for a 4,000-square-foot house that would __ 39__ on a 200-acre dream ranch. Two days later he received his__40__back. On the front page was a __41__red F. The teacher said, “This is an __42__dream for a young boy like you. You have no money. Owning a horse ranch requires a lot of money. ” Then the teacher__43 __, “If you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal, I will reconsider your __44__.” The boy asked his father what he should do. His father said, “Look, son, you have to make up your own__45__on this. However, I think it is a very__46__decision for you.” __47__, after a week, the boy__48__the same paper, making no__49__at all. He stated, “You can keep the F and I’ll keep my __50__.”
Monty then turned to us and said, “I tell you this story__51__you are sitting in my 4,000-square-foot house in the middle of my 200-acre horse ranch. I still have that school paper framed (装框) over the fireplace.” He added, “The best part of the __52__is that two summers ago that same schoolteacher brought 30 kids to camp out on my ranch for a week. When the teacher was leaving, he said, “Look, Monty, I can tell you this now. When I was your teacher, I was __53__of a dream stealer. During those years I stole a lot of kids’ dreams. __54__you had enough determination not to give up on yours.”
Don’t let anyone__55__ your dreams. Follow your heart, no matter what.
小题1: 

A．be

B．find

C．learn

D．see

小题2:	A．reason B．goal C．purpose D．way

小题3:	A．rough B．new C．secret D．detailed

小题4:	A．live B．locate C．sit D．run

小题5:	A．mark B．paper C．plan D．idea

小题6:	A．large B．tiny C．beautiful D．long

小题7:	A．old B．imaginative C．impractical D．interesting

小题8:	A．shouted B．smiled C．replied D．added

小题9:	A．grade B．need C．honesty D．ability

小题10:

A．time B．energy C．mind D．money

小题11:

A．urgent B．quick C．important D．good

小题12: 

A．Actually

B．Finally

C．Gradually

D．Usually

小题13:

A．turned down B．turned around C．turned to D．turned in

小题14: 

A．comments

B．changes

C．judgment

D．answer

小题15:

A．dream B．courage C．interest D．spirit

小题16:

A．though B．because C．until D．if

小题17:

A．incident B．event C．story D．lesson

小题18:

A．anything B．nothing C．everything D．something

小题19: 

A．Fortunately

B．Strangely

C．Curiously

D．Probably

小题20:

A．forget B．steal C．know D．realize

On a cold November afternoon，my mother and 1 were walking home from a   21  ．We were dressed   22  ．1 was feeling a little   23 as 1 was carrying our shopping，and decided to throw away something．So I started to walk towards a   24 when I noticed a poor man walking out of the restaurant in front of us．He   25  over to another nearby dustbin and started looking through it．
I suddenly felt very guilty because 1 was about to throw away a new drink just because it was
  26 ．1 walked up to him and handed the   27  and some snacks over to him．The man looked up   28  and took what I gave him．
A huge smile   29  across his face and this   30   me to feel indescribable satisfaction．I felt I couldn’t be happier   31  myself．But then he said：“Wow，this is my son’s lucky day!”
With that，he thanked me happily and started off on his bike，I    32  heard him whistling a song as he rode away．
I got a warm  33 inside．I now understand  34 is meant by the saying “giving is getting”．
Although it only   35  a little action and a few words，I gained and learned more in those two minutes than I did in the rest of the month．Everyone in the world needs   36  ，everyone can   37  help and everyone will be helped by   38  kindness．
The image of that man’s happiness caused by my small gift appears in my mind every   39 I have the chance to do something nice．
This is the   40   of charity．

小题1:	A．store B．school C．hospital D．factory

小题2:	A．poorly B．coldly C．warmly D．expensively

小题3:	A．glad B．interested C．bored D．tired

小题4:	A．street B．dustbin C．toilet D．corner

小题5:	A．walked B．looked C．thought D．took

小题6:	A．cheap B．heavy C．tasteless D．full

小题7:	A．money B．toys C．drink D．clothes

小题8:	A．in silence B．in surprise C．in interest D．in a hurry

小题9:	A．spread B．came C．went D．ran

小题10:

A．forced B．helped C．made D．caused

小题11:

A．with B．to C．at D．for

小题12:

A．still B．never C．even D．ever

小题13:

A．opinion B．mind C．idea D．feeling

小题14:

A．which B．what C．that D．it

小题15:

A．cost B．took C．spent D．asked

小题16:

A．1ove B．money C．help D．drink

小题17:

A．give B．send C．offer D．have

小题18:

A．showing B．expressing C．1ending D．saying

小题19:

A．moment B．day C．minute D．time

小题20:

A．aim B．meaning C．strength D．power

I shall never forget the night, a few years ago, when Marion J. Douglas was a student in one of my adult-education classes. He told us how tragedy had struck at his home, not once, but twice. The first time he had lost his five-year-old daughter. He and his wife thought they couldn’t bear that first loss; but, as he said, “Ten months later, God gave us another little girl and she died in five days.”
This double bereavement was almost too much to bear. “I couldn’t take it,” this father told us. “I couldn’t sleep, eat, rest or relax. My nerves were entirely shaken and my confidence gone.” At last he went to the doctors: one recommended sleeping pills and another recommended a trip, but neither helped. He said, “My body felt as if it was surrounded in a vice(大钳子), and the jaws of the vice were being drawn tighter and tighter.” The tension of grief(悲伤) --- if you have ever been paralyzed(使瘫痪) by sorrow, you know what the meant.
“But thank God, I had one child left --- a four-year-old son. He gave me the solution to the problem. One afternoon as I sat around feeling sorry for myself, he asked, ‘Daddy, will you build a boat for me?’ I was in no mood to build a boat; in fact, I was in no mood to do anything. But my son is a persistent fellow! I had to give in. Building that toy boat took me about three hours. By the time it was finished, I realized that those three hours spent building that boat were first hours of mental relaxation and peace that I had had in months! I realized that it is difficult to worry while you are busy doing something that requires planning and thinking. In my case, building the boat had knocked worry out of the ring. So I determined to keep busy.”
“The following night, I made a list of jobs that ought to be done. Scores of items needed to be repaired. Amazingly, I had made a list of 242 items that needed attention. During the last two years I have completed most of them. I am so busy now that I have no time for worry.”
No time for worry! That is exactly what Winston Churchill said when he was working eighteen hours a day at the height of the war. When he was asked if he worried about his huge responsibilities, he said, “I am too busy. I have no time for worry.”
小题1: The underlined word “bereavement” in the second paragraph refers to _________.

A．having lost a loved one B．having lost a valuable article C．having lost a profit-making business D．having lost a well-paid job

小题2:Marion felt his body as if it was caught in a vice because _________.

A．he couldn’t earn enough money to support his family B．he was suffering from sleeplessness disease C．he couldn’t get out of mental pressure D．he felt tired of adult-education classes

小题3: Marion made a list of over 200 items that needed to be repaired because _________.

A．he hadn’t been able to spare time to mend them B．he wanted to kill his free time by repairing them C．the items had actually been broken and needed attention D．repairing the items helped crowd worry out of his mind

小题4: At the end of the passage, the author wrote about Winston Churchill in order to ________.

A．prove that he followed Churchill’s example B．support his student’s solution to his problem C．show that he was successful in his career D．make it clear how his conclusion was reached 查看答案和解析>> 科目： 来源：不详 题型：阅读理解 A traveler hurried down to the hall of an American hotel and went to the cash-desk. He had just 15 minutes to pay his bill and get to the station. Suddenly he remembered that he had left something in his room. "Look here, boy," he said to the bellboy, "run up to my room and see if I have left a parcel on the table there. Be quick about it." The boy ran upstairs. Five minutes passed. The traveler was walking up and down the hall, looking very angry. At last the boy appeared. "Yes, sir," he reported to the traveler," you have left the parcel there, it's right on the table in your room." 小题1: The traveler _______. A．ran down the street B．came downstairs hurriedly C．ran so quickly that he fell down D．came into the hotel hall very quickly 小题2:Which statement is true? A．He had to pay his bill and arrived at the station in 15 minutes . B．It took him 15 minutes to go to the station from the hotel. C．He could pay his bill in 15 minutes and then go to the station . D．He had nothing but 15 minutes. 小题3: According to the passage, a bellboy is _____. A．a boy whose work is to ring the bell B．a boy who plays with a bell C．a boy whose work in a hotel is to help guests with their bags D．the hotel owner's boy 小题4: The traveler asked the boy _____ . A．to go upstairs B．to look for his parcel C．to fetch the parcel he had left in his room D．only to see if the parcel was on the table in his room 小题5:Five minutes later, the boy ______ . A．ran up to the room B．came downstairs C．reported to the traveler in the room D．came down to the hall but brought nothing back 查看答案和解析>> 科目： 来源：不详 题型：阅读理解 Mark Twain left school when he was twelve. Though he had little school education, he became the most famous writer of his time. He made millions of dollars by writing. His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clements, but he is better known all over the world as Mark Twain, his penname. Mark Twain was born in 1835 and he was not a healthy baby. In fact, he was not expected to live through the first winter. But with his mother’s tender care, he managed to survive. As a boy, he caused much trouble to his parents. He used to play jokes on all his friends and neighbors. He didn’t like to go to school, and he ran away from home from time to time. He always went in the direction of the nearby Mississippi. He was nearly drowned(淹死) nine times. After his father’s death in 1847, Mark Twain began to work for a printer, who only provided him with food and clothing. Then, he worked as a river-boat pilot and later joined the army. But shortly after that he became a miner, during this period, he started to write short stories.  Afterwards he became a full-time writer. In 1870, Mark Twain got married. In the years that followed he wrote many books including Tom Sawyer in 1876, and Huckleberry Finn in 1884, which made him famous, and brought him a great fortune（财富）.Unfortunately, Mark Twain got into debts in bad investments（投资） and he had to write large numbers of stories to pay these debts. In 1904, his wife died and then three of their children passed away. He died on April 21, 1910 at the age of 70. 小题1:Mark Twain was ________ in his childhood.     A．a naughty boy B．a good student C．a handsome boy D．a strong boy 小题2:Mark Twain began to write short stories when he _______. A．was at school B．was in the army C．worked for a printer D．was a miner 小题3:Before he became a full time writer Mark Twain had not been ___ A．a printer. B．a miner C．a tailor D．a soldier 小题4:Mark Twain’s wife died _________ A．soon after she give birth to three children B．at the same time with her children C．before three of her children died D．after Mark Twain had died 查看答案和解析>> 同步练习册答案 全品作业本答案 同步测控优化设计答案 长江作业本同步练习册答案 同步导学案课时练答案 仁爱英语同步练习册答案 一课一练创新练习答案 时代新课程答案 新编基础训练答案 能力培养与测试答案 更多练习册答案 国际学校优选 - 练习册列表 - 试题列表 湖北省互联网违法和不良信息举报平台 | 网上有害信息举报专区 | 电信诈骗举报专区 | 涉历史虚无主义有害信息举报专区 | 涉企侵权举报专区 违法和不良信息举报电话：027-86699610 举报邮箱：58377363@163.com 版权声明：本站所有文章，图片来源于网络，著作权及版权归原作者所有，转载无意侵犯版权，如有侵权，请作者速来函告知，我们将尽快处理，联系qq：3310059649。 ICP备案序号: 沪ICP备07509807号-10 鄂公网安备42018502000812号