【题目】Having a shy style isn’t necessarily a problem. It’s perfectly OK to take time to warm up new people and situations. Here are some tips for beating shy feelings.

Start small with people you know. Practice social behaviors like eye contact, confident body language, introductions, small talk, asking questions, and invitations with the people you feel most comfortable around. Smile. Build your confidence this way.【1】.

Think of some conversation starters【2】. Think of conversation openers, like introducing yourself, giving a compliment, or asking a question. Being ready with a conversation starter (or a few) makes it easier to approach someone.

Rehearse(排练) what to say.【3】 Rehearse it out loud, maybe even in front of the mirror. Then just do it. Don’t worry if it’s not exactly like you have practiced or if it’s not perfect. Also few of the things confident people do are perfect. Next time, it’ll be better because it will be easier.

【4】. Find group activities where you can be with people who share your interests. Give yourself a chance to practice socializing (社交) with these new people, and get to know them slowly. People who are shy often worry about failing or how others will think about them. So treat yourself like your own best friend. Encourage yourself instead of expecting to fail.

Most of all, be yourself. It’s OK to try out different conversational ways you see others use.【5】. Being the real you and daring to let yourself be noticed are what attract friends.

A. It’s important to make friends.

B. Then try to do this with new friends, too.

C. Give yourself a chance to take part in activities.

D. Write down what you want to say beforehand.

E. Often, the hardest part of talking to someone new is getting started.

F. But say and do what fits your style.

G. Shyness is an obvious shortcoming.

【题目】Body language is the quietest, most secret and most powerful language of all. It is said that our body movements communicate about 50% of what we really mean while words themselves only do 7%. So while your mouth is closed, just it is your body language that is saying.

When it comes to body language at the office, you may be making some big mistakes that could cause you trouble. The following are some tips on what you should not do when using body language at your office.

Don’t touch your co-workers, even if it’s on the back of the arm or shoulder. Many of your co-workers are not comfortable with any body contact(接触)with others. Be careful not to touch everyone at your office.

Don’t avoid eye contact. Eyes can speak. Lack of eye contact means cheat, and it can also point to no safety or lack of confidence. Trust and confidence are things you will communicate to the other person if you hold eye contact 50% of the time.

Don’t have a bad handshake. You’re going to show your kindness at once with a firm palm(手掌)to palm handshake. Showing the palms of your hands is an amiable gesture as it shows that you have a peaceful purpose. It means acceptance, and that you’re open to new ideas. Be careful of the dead fish handshake.

Don’t lean(倾斜) your head while listening to others. When listening to others, you should listen to him or her carefully with your head straight. For women especially, you think you are expressing interest by leaning your head when you are listening to others, but you actually come across as if you don’t understand what’s going on.

【1】What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A. The importance of body language.

B. The development of body language.

C. The best way to communicate with others.

D. How to avoid making mistakes at the office.

【2】The underlined word “amiable” in paragraph 5 can be replaced with______.

A. common B. polite C. friendly D. strange

【3】It can be known from the passage that _____.

A. The stronger you shake hands with others the better.

B. Leaning your head when listening expresses interest.

C. Leaning back and forward shows you are thoughtful.

D. Eye contact is very important in communications.

【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A. Pay attention to your body language at the office.

B. How to get along with your co-workers.

C. The meaning of body language you should know.

D. Different countries have different body language.

【题目】When you tidy your messy bedroom, it gets a lot easier to find things. Dreams may work the same way for a messy brain, helping you learn by organizing memories and ideas.

To test how much dreams can help learning, Robert Stickgold had some students play a shape-fitting game called Tetris (饿罗斯方块) for a few hours and then go to sleep. Soon they were dreaming of falling Tetris shapes. Interestingly, the worst Tetris players had the most Tetris dreams and improved their game the most. Similar tests have shown the same results for all kinds of skills.

As we dream, many important tasks are getting done. The brain decides what to keep and what to forget. It is connecting new experiences to older learning. In fact, the brain is learning all night long.

Another important task of dreams may be to help us deal with emotions(情绪). At night, emotions are in the driver's seat. People who have had an upsetting experience often dream about it afterward. Often the dream event changes somehow--another way the brain tries to make the memory less upset. So if your best friend moves away, you might dream that you're the one who's moving. In fact, dreams have a proven power to improve mood, and people who dream about what's bothering them usually feel better sooner than those who don't.

Everybody dreams for a couple of hours every night--in the course of your life, you'll spend about 25 years asleep and 6 years dreaming. There's probably no single answer to the question why we dream, but there doesn't have to be. One dream might help you remember your math facts, while another might lead to a new invention, or give you a fun, crazy story to tell your friends. It's all in a night's work for our busy, mysterious brains.

【1】Robert Stickgold's test shows that________.

A. games are useful for memory

B. tasks can only be settled through dreams

C. players stop learning in dreams

D. dreams can help improve skills

【2】We can learn from Paragraph 4 that_______ .

A. dreams can get rid of sufferings

B. only drivers can deal with emotions

C. one may be less upset after a dream

D. dreams can copy what one experienced

【3】Which of the following does the author probably agree with?

A. Dreaming does harm to one's mood.

B. Dreaming affects the quality of sleep.

C. It's not so important to know the cause of dreaming.

D. It's hard to find out the secrets of dreaming.

【4】What does the text focus on?

A. Dreams and memories. B. The patterns of dreams.

C. Dreams and emotions. D. The benefits of dreams.

【题目】书面表达

学校对于人们扔垃圾的行为进行了一次社会调查,结果发现人们扔掉了很多只是陈旧却还有利用价值的东西，这造成了资源的极大浪费。假设你是调查小组组长，请你写一篇英文短文告知同学们此事。

内容包括： 1.垃圾增多，很多还有用的东西被当成垃圾扔掉；

2.说明2-3点人们会这样做的原因；

3.说明其危害性并提醒同学们尽量避免为之。

注意： 1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

【题目】短文改错文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（ \）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从11处起）不计分。

Mental health is important to us and it decide our quality of life. Have such a state of mind is beneficial to our study and work. It can also help us be energy in life. Here are my advice, that may show what you should do every day. First, be aware your advantages and accept you. Remember: nobody likes loneliness and you should go out of your house to make friend with others. What’s more, enjoy your life and to work in your own way. Little by little much will be found to help you keep mental healthy.

【题目】阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

One rainy afternoon Betty 【1】 (seat)on the stairs of a temple in Nepal, before which lay a muddy square. People had to walk on 【2】 artificial path made by a line of bricks 【3】 (get) to the other side. A friend of 【4】 complained all the way while 【5】 (step)on the bricks walking towards her. Looking around, her friend said extremely 【6】 (patience), “Disgusting indeed! What if I fall into the dirty water?” Since he was her 【7】 (acquaint), she nodded cautiously, hoping to comfort him by her silent sympathy.

A few minutes later another friend turned 【8】 at the same scene. She walked on the same brick path dancing briskly and singing merrily, “Jump, jump, jump!” until she reached the dirty ground. She couldn’t help shouting, “ 【9】 fun it is!” Eyes beaming with joy, she made the remarks, “The most pleasant thing of the rainy season is 【10】 one can entirely be free from dust.”

【题目】单词拼写

【1】The walk has given me a good __________.（胃口）

【2】People have realized the need to be in ___________ （融洽；一致）with our environment.

【3】She is always polite and c____________（考虑周到的；体贴的） towards her employees.

【4】You ___________（应得；值得）a good rest after all that hard work.

【5】She seems totally a____________（全神贯注） in her book.

【6】As a child, he was _________（控制；支配）by his father.

【7】Every one in the class seems e_________（热切的；渴望的）to learn.

【8】Stores are getting _________ （绝望的）after two years of poor sale.

【9】They have ___________ （任命）a new head teacher at my son’s school.

【10】We didn’t receive any news during his long __________.（缺席；不在）

【题目】根据短文内容,从短文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。

Any car accident is frightening, but an accident in which your vehicle is thrown into the water, with you trapped inside, is absolutely terrifying. 【1】 However, most deaths result from panic, without a plan or understanding what is happening to the car in the water. By adopting a brace(支撑) position, acting decisively and getting out fast，you can save yourself from a sinking vehicle.

Brace yourself for impact(撞击力)．As soon as you're aware that you're going off the road and into a body of water，adopt a brace position. The impact could set off the airbag system in your vehicle，so you should place both hands on the steering wheel in the “ten and two” position.

Undo your seatbelt. 【2】 Unbuckle the children，starting with the oldest first. Forget the cell phone call. Your car isn't going to wait for you to make the call.

【3】 Leave the door alone at this stage and concentrate on the window. A car's electrical system should work for up to three minutes in water，so try the method of opening it electronically first. Many people don't think about the window as an escape option either because of panic or misinformation about doors and sinking.

Break the window. If you aren't able to open the window，or it only opens halfway，you'll need to break it with an object or your foot. It may feel counterintuitive(有悖常理的) to let water into the car. 【4】

Escape when the car has equalized. If it has reached the dramatic stage where the car cabin has been filld with water and it has become balanced，you must move quickly and effectively to ensure your survival. 【5】 While there is still air in the car，take slow，deep breaths and focus on what you're doing.

A．Open the window as soon as you hit the water.

B．Surviving a sinking car is not as difficult as you think.

C．It takes 60 to 120 seconds for a car to fill up with water usually.

D．Such accidents are particularly dangerous to the risk of drowning.

E．In conclusion，if you know what to do in the water，you will be safe.

F．This is the first thing to attend to，yet it often gets forgotten in the panic.

G．But the sooner the window is open，the sooner you can escape directly through it.

【题目】Experiments aboard the spaceship Columbia have disproved a theory on the human nervous system which won an Austrian professor a Nobel prize 79 years ago.

West German astronaut Ulf Merbold disproved the theory during tests aboard the spaceship yesterday. His discovery is connected with the workings of the inner ear, the body’s balance mechanism(机制).

In l914 Professor Robert Barany won the Nobel prize for Physiology(生理学) and Medicine when he announced that temperature differences affected the inner ear and caused the eyes to blink(眨眼). His theory was accepted by scientists.

But Merbold carried out tests to find if the theory was correct and shocked himself and space officials when he proved it wrong.

According to Barany’s theory the eyes would blink when cold air was blown into one ear and hot air blown into the other.

But if this theory was correct such a movement would be impossible in zero gravity(重力）.

Both Merbold’s eyes continually blinked when the test was carried out.

【1】Tests were carried out in outer space in order to _______.

A. find what causes the eyes to blink

B. shock the world

C. win the prize

D. prove the theory

【2】Barany’s theory declared to prove _______.

A. how our hearing mechanism works

B. why we constantly move our eyes

C. that eye movement is affected by temperature

D. how hearing reacts(反应)

【3】Barany’s theory was proved incorrect in space by the effects of _______.

A. having no weight B. having no air

C. the pull of gravity D. hot and cold air streams

【题目】短文改错

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号()，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Dear Sir,

I’m writing to request the valuable chance to be one of the host families for the British students.

Locating in a beautiful and quiet neighborhood, our large fully-equipped apartment meets all their needs. In addition the convenient public transportation, our own car can also bring them to

Some nearby places of interest. With fluency English, I’m sure I will have no difficulty communicate with them. Above all, we have hosted two British students last year, through it we have gained lots of experience. What’s more, my mother is a good cooker and can guarantee them a wonderful chance of tasting delicious Chinese food.

I would greatly appreciate you if I could have the chance to host them and make friends with them. I am looking forward to your reply.

Yours’

Li Hua