【推荐1】It’s Friday morning, and you’re taking another test. Are you ready? Students who do well on tests often have good study skills, but good study skills involve a lot of preparations as well as studying. Here are a few simple strategies（策略）that will help.

Read ahead.     1    . Highlight or make notes of things that you feel are important, and share your thoughts during classroom discussions. Also, by reading ahead, class time can be used more efficiently to discuss questions or topics that need clarification. Clarifying questions in class will free up more time to review and study the new material at home.

Take good notes. Good notes make great studying tools. Good note taking involves a lot more than copying notes from the board.     2    . Pay attention to textbook pages that are relevant to the discussion.

Make flashcards. Flashcards are great review tools for basic math facts or word definitions. Write the word or question on one side and the definition or answer on the other side.     3    . Make one pile for flashcards that were remembered, and make one pile for flashcards not remembered. The more you review the flashcards, the smaller the flashcards pile not remembered should be.

    4    . Get together with a few friends and quiz each other on the material and notes you’ve collected for the test. Explain or describe in your own words what the material is about, and compare the information you have collected with each other.

    5    . Being prepared for class, participating during class, and reviewing after class are good strategies so that you have the most accurate and best materials to study.

A．Study in a group

B．Review notes daily

C．As you review them, make two piles

D．Doing it helps you better prepare for class

E．There are many things you can do to improve your studying skills

F．You are becoming more familiar with the concepts and topics discussed

G．Make sure to include any relevant information from the classroom discussions

【推荐2】阅读下面短文，根据题目要求用英文回答问题。

Nobody likes to feel anxious. Anxiety is among the most common and criticized of human emotions. It seems, then, that our efforts to contain (克制) anxiety aren’t working.

As a clinical psychologist and neuroscience researcher, I believe that we mental health professionals have made a terrible mistake. Feeling anxious isn’t the problem. The problem is that we don’t understand how to respond constructively to anxiety. That’s why it’s increasingly hard to know how to feel good.

This “bad” feeling isn’t a failure of mental health. It’s a triumph (巨大胜利) of human evolution: the ability to think about the uncertain future and prepare for it. Anxiety turns you into a mental time traveler, drawing your attention to what lies ahead. Will you succeed or fail in that interview for a job you desperately want? Anxiety prompts (推动) your mind and body into action. Your worries force you to prepare thoroughly for the interview, while your heart races and pumps blood to your brain so that you stay sharp and focused, prepared to pursue your goals.

Research has also shown something that many scientists didn’t expect: higher levels of dopamine (多巴胺) when we’re anxious. We have long known that dopamine soars when an experience is pleasurable. The fact that anxiety also boosts dopamine levels points to its role in making positive possibilities into reality.

Many of us feel overwhelmed by lasting anxiety and don’t see any benefit from it. Treating anxiety like a disease prevents us from distinguishing between ordinary anxiety and anxiety disorders. We need to develop a new mindset about this misunderstood emotion. We don’t need to like anxiety-just to use it in the right way.

1. Why is it increasingly hard for us to know how to feel good?
2. How does anxiety help one in a job interview?
3. Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why.
Research has shown that dopamine soars when an experience is pleasurable, but it is in lower levels when we are anxious.
4. How do you cope with anxiety positively in your daily life?(In about 40 words)

【推荐3】How did you learn how to ride your bike? Someone probably gave you a few lessons and then you practiced a lot.     1     No one is born to know how to study. You need to learn a few study skills and then practice them.

    2     Do you have trouble paying attention in class? Are you sitting next to a loud person? Is it hard to see the board? Make sure you’re sitting in a good seat that lets you pay attention. Tell your teacher or parents about any problems that are preventing you from paying attention and taking good notes.

    3     Waiting until Thursday night to study for Friday’s test will make a homework night no fun! It also makes it hard to do your best. We’re all guilty of putting things off sometimes. One of the best ways to make sure that doesn’t happen is to plan ahead.

Break it up! When there’s a lot to study, it can help to break things into chunks(大块). Let’s say you have a test on 20 spelling words. Instead of thinking about all of the words at once, try breaking them down into a five-word chunks and working on one or two different chunks each night.

Ask for help. You can’t study effectively if you don’t understand the material.     4     You can check yourself by reading through your notes. Does it all make sense? If not, ask your teacher to go over it with you.

Get a good night’s sleep. So the test is tomorrow and you’ve followed your study plan—but suddenly you can’t remember anything, not even 2+2! Don’t worry. Your brain needs time to digest(消化) all the information you’ve given it. Try to get a good night’s sleep.     5    

A．Plan ahead for tests and projects.

B．Study regularly instead of just the night before.

C．You can learn how to study in much the same way.

D．You’ll be surprised by what comes back to you in the morning.

E．If you’re studying math or science, do some practice problems.

F．Be sure to ask your teacher for help if you’re confused about something.

G．Good studying starts in class.

【推荐1】As a first responder, you never know what type of situation you might walk into, or who you’ll meet along the way. That’s definitely been the case for Jeffrey Lanenberg, a 51-year-old paramedic(急救医务人员) since 1984.

Ten years into the job, Lanenberg received a call that reported that a man in his early 30s had fallen down in the Mall of America. When Lanenberg and his partner arrived at the scene, they found the young male face down on the ground. He had gone unconscious, making weak attempts to breathe. His wife stood beside him holding their small son in horror. They quickly rushed to defibrillate(除颤) and calm the man to keep him under control. After Lanenberg dropped the patient off at the neighboring hospital, he thought about the man and his family for a long time.

Lanenberg thought he had experienced everything under the sun until one random visit to Office Max three years ago, where he met a man repeatedly walk back and forth while staring at him. As it turned out, the man was the patient he had saved 20 years earlier.

＂You gave me 20 years more than I ever thought I’d have,＂ the man said. He thanked Lanenberg repeatedly and told him he had someone he wanted him to meet. He stepped around the corner and reappeared with a 20-something-year-old man. Lanenberg instantly knew that it was the son he had seen standing by his mother all those years ago.

＂That day changed my life,＂ Lanenberg said. ＂Before that, everything was about work…When I talk to my beginner-training class, I tell them you never know the impact you can have on someone’s life.＂

1. What did Lanenberg do with the young man?

A．He gave the man the first aid.	B．He cured the man at the scene.
C．He only sent the man to hospital.	D．He took care of the man’s wife and son.

2. What did Lanenberg think of the encounter with the man?

A．It was unbelievable.	B．It was a common routine.
C．It was a matter of course.	D．It was a dangerous situation.

3. Why was the man thankful to Lanenberg?

A．Lanenberg helped bring up his little son.

B．Lanenberg donated to support his family.

C．Lanenberg gave him the present happy life.

D．Lanenberg taught his son to be a new doctor.

4. How did the meeting change Lanenberg’s life?

A．He changed his attitude to his job.

B．He was rewarded with much money.

C．He got a promotion to be a team leader.

D．He took up teaching work to train newcomers.

【推荐2】Galaxy saw a man and a woman who communicated with the sign language at the train station when she was on the way home one evening. She noticed that the woman asked the man for the direction. He told her that he did not know. Galaxy decided to help them. She had learned the sign language when she served as a volunteer in the deaf and mute （聋哑） school. Then she showed the woman the direction and left her email address to them in case they needed her help later.

She received an email from that man the next day. Kazrim was his name. Galaxy replied his mail sincerely，They both started chatting online soon after and began seeing each other. Although they only communicated with the sign language, it never bothered her.

Galaxy was fond of him gradually. Obviously, Kazrim was the same too. He presented Galaxy with a bunch of sunflowers and asked her sincerely, “Are you willing to be my girlfriend?”

Galaxy was pleasantly surprised. She requested him to give her some time to persuade her parents.

As she had expected，her parents were very angry after they had learned of their love story.

Galaxy explained，“Kazrim is an excellent and a very optimistic person. He has a very positive attitude towards life and work. He cares for others always. He is 100％ better than the normal. Moreover, the mute is still a human. He should possess a perfect and wonderful love. ”

Her parents asked to see him，then. The very worried Galaxy took Kazrim home a few days later. When they were on the train，Kazrim told her,“I'm going to tell your parents that I'll be looking after you well with all my life!” Galaxy was deeply moved.

As soon as they had entered the house，Galaxy introduced him to her parents. She said,“This is Kazrim. ”Just right after her speech，an unbelievable thing happened. Kazrim threw the gift away and held her in his arms tightly.

He said. “YOU CAN TALK?”It was the same question that Galaxy wanted to ask，too.

The four people were shocked all of a sudden. As a matter of fact, Kazrim always believed that Galaxy was a mute and he still fell in love with her deeply.

1. How did Galaxy and Kazrim get to know each other?

A．They met each other by chance.

B．They were introduced to each other

C．They once studied at the same university.

D．They both served in a special needs school.

2. How did Galaxy probably communicate with Kazrim before she took him home?

A．Writing words on paper.	B．Using the sign language.
C．Judging from his expression.	D．Speaking her native language.

3. What did Galaxy expect her parents to do?

A．To have a talk with Kazrim.	B．To prepare for her marriage.
C．To treat Kazrim as a normal man.	D．To accept Kazrim as her boyfriend.

4. What can we learn about the two young people from the passage?

A．They fell in love at the first sight.

B．They cheated each other to win love.

C．They mistook each other for being mutes.

D．They ignored the anger of Galaxy's parents.