Listening test is one of the most important parts of the English exam. Here are some tips for you.
Before you start to listen, you need to relax. Don't be stressed out. And try to read the questions. These questions usually help you understand the conversation or the passage.
Then listen carefully to the first sentence. It usually tells you the main idea of the passage. When you're listening, try to do some thinking and take some notes, such as: What happened? When, where, and how? What does the speaker want to tell us? In this way, you may understand the passage better.
Please remember not to think about one or two words for a long time.When you hear some words you don't know, don't spend too much time on them. Very often, you'll find out what they mean later when you go on with the listening.
1. This passage mainly talks about some________.| A．tips on listening | B．tips on speaking |
| C．tips on reading | D．tips on writing |
| A．excited | B．relaxed |
| C．stressed out | D．worried |
| A．the answers to the questions | B．where to write the answers |
| C．the main idea of the passage | D．how much time left for the listening test |
| A．remember every word | B．take some notes |
| C．understand all the words | D．think about one or two words for a long time |
| A．questions | B．first sentence | C．notes | D．A, B and C |
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【推荐1】Problems between parents and children are common and timeless. If you are looking to improve your relationship with your parents, you are not alone. There are a number of steps that can be taken to make that happen.
This is not to say that you should not care for and love your parents. But, if you are less emotionally attached to your parents, you may be less invested in arguments or disagreements with them. This way you can walk away from a situation more easily and not let it damage the relationship.
Take their perspective.
Develop your own identity.
It is OK and even healthy for you to think for yourself and to have your own opinion on matters.
Don’t ask for their advice unless you really want it.
Sometimes problems arise between parents and children, particularly at the teenage years and beyond, because parents try to give advice in an overpowering way that makes the kids feeling uncomfortable.
Establish boundaries and make rules.
If you want to maintain a positive relationship with parents, but find that you always end up disagreeing, consider setting up some topics as off-limits. This may work better if you are older or no longer live with your parents.
| A．In this way, you gain your own identity. |
| B．Separate from your parents emotionally. |
| C．Parents’ opinions on your issues are constructive. |
| D．Construct strong emotional attachment with your parents. |
| E．Also try creating rules that both you and your parents agree to abide by (遵守). |
| F．Often, kids and parents do not get along because they fail to consider each other’s perspectives. |
| G．To get around this, try only asking for their advice when you are sure that you really want their view. |
【推荐2】Firefighters put their lives in danger every day to save lives and to battle fires before they can spread any further.
It could happen to you.
People have the mindset in many cases that fires will never happen to them.
Never hide from or attempt to fight a fire.
In the event of a fire, the only thing that should be on your mind is escaping. Never try to fight a fire or hide from one. Instead, try to escape as soon as possible. Then waste no time in calling the fire department.
You only have one to two minutes to escape.
If you were taught fire safety in school 40 years ago, you may have heard you have around 17 minutes to escape a fire.
Being in a burning building gets people injured and even killed. Once you're out, stay out, and let the fire department do its job. If someone or a pet is trapped, please know that firefighters are trained in escape and lifesaving measures.
| A．That can be a deadly assumption. |
| B．Never enter or go back into a fire. |
| C．Life and safety is of the first importance. |
| D．While it was true then, it's not true anymore. |
| E．The faster firefighters are informed, the earlier they will arrive. |
| F．Pay attention to potential fire dangers that may be in your home. |
| G．They're a vast source of knowledge when it comes to preventing and surviving house fires. |
Waste can bring a lot of problems. Although China is rich in some resources， 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. I think we should say no to the students who waste things every day. Everybody should stop wasting as soon as possible.
In our everyday life， we can do many things to prevent waste from 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. Waste can be stopped one day， if we do our best.
1. From the passage we know that some students often _______ in the school.
| A．eat too much | B．don‘t work hard |
| C．waste things | D．throw rubbish everywhere |
| A．We may still have enough oil. |
| B．We may still have enough coal. |
| C．We may have a little oil |
| D．We may have no coal or oil to use. |
| A．Waste brings problems. |
| B．Waste can bring no problem. |
| C．China is rich in fresh water. |
| D．Students never waste things. |
| A．Stop Wasting |
| B．School life |
| C．Waste in the School |
| D．Rich Resources in China |
【推荐1】People decide to learn another language for many different reasons. Some learn another language because they would like to live in another country.
Here are some “dos” and “don’ts” to help other language learners.
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Learning a new language can be a hard process that requires a lot of motivation. Try different activities to make your language learning more enjoyable. Why not try watching your favourite TV series in that language or listening to music in that language?
·Do write down your mistakes.
·Don’t set unrealistic expectations.
If you have recently started learning another language, it may be unrealistic to expect to be fluent within a couple of months. Be aware that it could take a while.
·Don’t be scared.
| A．Be confident. |
| B．Do enjoy it. |
| C．The same thing goes for accents. |
| D．Others decide to learn a language because of their job. |
| E．I wasn’t confident when I first started speaking French. |
| F．Take your time and celebrate the progress that you’ve made so far. |
| G．A person correcting you is a good thing and it will help you improve. |
【推荐2】“Suzanne Meyer, the assistant director of the English Language Institute at the University of Tennessee, says that many students need to learn how to collect information, and then evaluate the information and apply it to a new context. Meyer says: “
How can you practice asking questions? There are many strategies to improve question-asking and develop critical thinking skills.
If students were reading a new text, they would design a series of questions using three different steps. In the first step, students create questions about information in the text that they are reading. In the second step, students create questions about how the information in the text connects to their own life. In the third step, students create questions about abstract ideas – ideas that came up in the questions about themselves.
Practical Tips: Meyer says that when teachers tell students which questions to answer, students are less likely to be creative about the types of questions that they ask.
| A．So, practice developing your own questions! |
| B．People who can ask questions should be very confident. |
| C．People can ask questions freely when they feel relaxed. |
| D．If people take some steps, they can find some useful question-asking patterns. |
| E．There are many benefits to using question-asking activities with English learners. |
| F．One possible strategy is to use question-asking patterns that start with concrete questions and move to abstract questions. |
| G．If students follow these three steps, they have not only practiced creative ways to ask questions, they have also started practicing critical thinking. |
【推荐3】For adults, communicating in our first language feels easy and natural. Yet learning language is a complex process that is influenced by several factors. When young children are beginning to learn language, some influences, such as the amount of speech a child hears and the amount of time they spend in back-and-forth language interactions with others, have what may appear to be obvious connections to language learning. Perhaps less obvious is that children’s own physical experiences with their environment help them learn new words.
In new research in the cognitive sciences, we investigated how this is the case by considering how children learn words that refer to something they can touch, grasp and interact with. We asked parents to rate how easily a child can physically interact with the object, idea or experiences that a word refers to. We found words that refer to objects that are easy for children to interact with are also words that are learned at an earlier age.
For instance, a word such as spoon is usually learned earlier than a word such as sky. And this relationship remains even when we consider other things that can affect word learning, such as how common a word is in everyday language. Words such as spoon and sky are both relevant to everyday life, and so children will probably hear those words quite early in their development. One difference between them is that spoon refers to something they can touch, grasp and interact with, whereas sky does not.
Our findings agree with those of studies where babies wore small head-mounted body cameras to record their interactions with objects. Those studies show that the children’s own physical experiences helps them learn new words. For instance, in one study researchers found that 18-month-old babies were more likely to learn the name of a new object when they held that object, and less likely to learn the name if their parent held the new object. Another study found that 15-month-olds who spent more time using new objects had learned more nouns by the time they were 21 months old.
1. What is the aim of the new research?| A．To see if babies’ physical experiences help them learn new words. |
| B．To investigate how a baby learns names of everyday objects. |
| C．To find out what influences a baby’s language learning. |
| D．To study how a baby interacts with everyday objects. |
| A．Bag. | B．Heart. | C．Milk. | D．Leaf. |
| A．To further support their finding. | B．To summarize the research result. |
| C．To point out new research directions. | D．To introduce results of other findings. |
| A．The author is a parent. | B．The author is a researcher. |
| C．The author is a professor. | D．The author is a journalist. |
【推荐1】A sheet of transparent new material at a University of Maryland lab looks like it might be plastic. But it’s actually wood—and it could eventually be used to make energy-efficient windows or even see-through buildings. “Compared to glass, wood has lower heat conductivity, and it’s lighter, stronger, and more environmentally friendly,” says Liangbing Hu, a materials science professor at the University of Maryland.
The idea is to employ the material in buildings. With a window made from transparent wood instead of glass, for example, a building would take less energy to heat and cool. Because of the structure of the wood, the windows could also reduce glare from the sun while allowing in natural light.
Researchers have experimented with transparent wood in the past, but the new method is more sustainable. Other methods usually put the wood in a chemical compound Nacl to remove lignin, part of the wood that gives it structure. But this can weaken the wood, and produces unrecyclable waste. Hu and his team made slight changes. They removed only the parts of the lignin that give it color by brushing hydrogen peroxide (过氧化物) over the wood and leaving it under a UV light.
It’s just one of the ways scientists and engineers are rethinking how we can use this renewable resource in construction. Skyscrapers made entirely out of wood are gaining popularity in cities around the world. And scientists recently discovered a technique to grow wood in a lab, opening up the possibility of using wood without cutting down a forest.
The transparent wood is 50% stronger than previous transparent wood and could even be used to build load-bearing walls in a building. It could also potentially be used in other ways, such as layers used in solar cells. A new company called InventWood is working to commercialize the technology.
1. Why would people like to choose transparent wood in their buildings in preference to glass?| A．It can conduct heat more quickly. | B．It can let light in with less heat. |
| C．It is lighter and more delicate. | D．It has higher energy consumption. |
| A．Researchers brushed Nacl over the wood. |
| B．The new method can make the wood weaker. |
| C．The new method is less environmentally friendly. |
| D．Researchers only took away the lignin related to color. |
| A．This see-through wood is in mass production. |
| B．This see-through wood may replace glass windows. |
| C．This transparent wood has been grown in labs. |
| D．This transparent wood is only popular in cities. |
| A．The advantages of transparent wood. | B．The production of transparent wood. |
| C．The outlook of transparent wood. | D．The companies of transparent wood. |
【推荐2】While an entire month free of homework or tests may sound too good to be true, that is exactly what the students at Sturenskolan School in Boden, Sweden were treated to in April. What’s more, if the results of the experiment prove encouraging, starting 2019, the middle schoolers will never have to worry about after－school work or tests, aside from the national examinations, which are compulsive for students across the country.
The school’s principal, Petronella Sirkka, who came up with the idea, said, “We are constantly receiving new reports that our children feel bad. And that’s because they have a high level of stress all the time. This is our way of trying to reduce that stress.”
The educator says that while banning homework and tests sounds radical(激进的), it makes sense given the changes in the curriculum and approaches to education. While in the past students were primarily subjected to memorizing facts, learning today is all about reflection and analysis. As a result, it is often harder for kids, especially those with little support at home, to comprehend the material by themselves.
Sirkka is not the only one who believes after－school work does not help students learn. In March 2018, another principal in Canada also decided to do away with homework. They hope parents will spend the extra time reading to their kids.
While the long－term impact of the recent decisions made by the two educators remains to be seen, the experiment has already proved successful in Finland which has done away with homework, grades, and even teaching by subjects for many years. Yet, Finnish students always rank high in the PISA(Programme for International Student Assessment) tests especially in math and science but they have the least homework! Hopefully, it will only be a matter of time before US educators follow their lead and ban after－school work as well!
1. The students at Sturenskolan School had no homework in April because ________.| A．the headmaster was experimenting with her idea |
| B．they needed to do some experiments during the month |
| C．they were busy preparing for the national examinations |
| D．the headmaster had to carry out the government’s policy |
| A．Children have to do more analyzing. |
| B．The approach to education is complex. |
| C．Children get no support at home and school. |
| D．There are more facts to memorize. |
| A．Help children with their homework. |
| B．Free children from after－school housework. |
| C．Spend more time reading to their children. |
| D．Communicate with teachers from time to time. |
| A．They study the hardest at school. |
| B．They have a more relaxing school life. |
| C．They enjoy great success after graduation. |
| D．They all have a talent for math and science. |
【推荐3】When we talk about positive thinking, we often use terms having to do with our hearts — open heart, pure heart or joyful heart. But new research from Duke University is making a closer connection, finding that a positive attitude may be helpful to people who have angina (心绞痛)，a common heart condition.
Symptoms of this condition include chest pain or pressure because the heart is not receiving sufficient oxygen. Patients who displayed optimistic thought patterns, including having positive expectations about recovery, were 40 percent less likely to be hospitalized or require surgery than those who were not optimistic, according to the study. The researchers collected data from 2,400 patients who had diagnoses of angina.
An interesting additional finding from the patients' questionnaires was that the most optimistic patients were also the least likely to have histories of heart attack, heart failure or heart disease.
The researchers did not declare a causal relationship between positive thinking and better heart disease outcomes, however. There are multiple possible reasons for the results of the study, including the idea that patients who are healthier to begin with are more likely to expect to recover and regain good health.
But the study does represent a new way of looking at the situation. Now, in addition to a body of research that examines the relationship between depression and heart health, there is a new way of inquiry that asks whether positive thinking could be used as a strategy to improve outcomes.
Lead researcher Alexander Fanaroff, a fellow in the department of cardiology (心脏病学) at the Duke University Medical Center, told the Duke Chronicle that his next research question will find ways to improve attitudes among heart patients.
Perhaps his subjects could reflect on the word of the writer Anthony J. D'Angelo: "Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart."
1. How can people with angina get better according to the study?| A．By expecting more. | B．By thinking positively. |
| C．By getting timely surgery. | D．By taking more exercise. |
| A．To explore how to improve patients’ attitudes. |
| B．To find out the ways to treat heart patients. |
| C．To learn the causes of heart diseases. |
| D．To test if positive attitudes help with health. |
| A．Optimistic people hardly get heart attack. |
| B．People's attitudes decide their overall health. |
| C．How positive thinking benefits heart health is unclear. |
| D．The reason why patients recover well is that they have no depression. |
| A．Keep positive to get rid of illness |
| B．Angina, a kind of serious condition |
| C．Depression, a key cause of heart attack |
| D．Positive thinking makes hearts healthier |
【推荐1】Originating back in 1869 in Cincinnati, Ohio, baseball has been a game played and loved by millions for nearly 150 years. From its origin to the present day, there have been hundreds of fantastic baseball players who have gone on to inspire new players. Here are our top inspirational baseball stars.
Curtis Pride
Pride served as a strong-armed outfielder between 1993 and 2006, playing on seven different teams throughout his baseball career. What sets Pride apart from his peers is that he has been deaf since birth. When you think of how important verbal communication is in baseball, it is remarkable how Pride was able to manage.
Pete Gray
Gray was one of the players that started his career in wartime, appearing in 77 games as a player of St. Louis Browns. Gray had an accident when he was six years old, resulting in the loss of an arm, but he never let his disability stop him from achieving his dreams.
Jim Morris
Morris attended a Tampa Bay Devil Rays tryout in 1999 and ended up leaving a great impression which saw him sign a contract with the team at 35 years old. The film "The Rookie" is based on Morris's story, letting you learn about the troubles and problems that Morris faced and overcame.
Jimmie Foxx
Born in 1907, Jimmie Foxx was described as a fearsome hitter whose strength earned him the title" The Beast". Foxx was only the second batter in baseball history to top 500 home runs(本垒打). With all his achievements, it is easy to see why Jimmie Foxx was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1951.
1. What made Curtis Pride different from his partners?| A．The top position he had in his team | B．The number of teams he had served. |
| C．His success in overcoming his disability | D．His excellent communication skills in baseball. |
| A．Pete Gray’s | B．Jim Morris’s | C．Curtis Pride's | D．Jimmie Foxx's |
| A．He was a powerful player. | B．He always behaved rudely |
| C．He made great achievements. | D．He was a hitter without fear |
【推荐2】Most of the time, people wear hats to protect themselves from harsh weather conditions. Hats are also worn to show politeness and as signs of social position. But nowadays, hats, especially women’s hats, are much more than that. More exactly, hats have changed into fashion and style symbols by many movie stars. What’s more, people now consider many different features when choosing even a simple hat. Many designers point out that, when choosing the right hat, it’s important to consider the color of your skin as well as your hair, your height, and the shape of your face.
First of all, the color of the hat should match the color of your skin and hair. For instance, black hats should be avoided if you are dark skinned. If a purple hat is placed on top of red hair, one will look as attractive as a summer flower. Second, the height of the hat is also an important point. Tall women should not go for hats with tall crowns, just as short women should choose hats with upturned brims to give the look of height. Third, and most importantly, the shape of the face decides the kind of hat one should pick. A small, gentle hat that fits the head looks good on a small face. However, women with big, round faces should choose a different style.
As the saying goes, “Fine feathers make fine birds.” A good hat can not only help your dress but also support your features, so why not choose the best possible one next time you want to be in public?
1. People wear hats to ________.| A．change weather |
| B．show their social position |
| C．work with others |
| D．choose a job |
| A．good |
| B．cool |
| C．bad |
| D．pretty |
| A．A short red-haired woman who wears a purple hat. |
| B．A big-faced woman who wears a small, nice hat. |
| C．A tall woman who wears a hat with a huge upturned brim. |
| D．A small dark-skinned woman who wears a black hat with a tall crown. |
| A．Hats are worn on the head to keep warm. |
| B．Hats can help you look better in public. |
| C．Hats are not as important as character. |
| D．Hats can make you look much taller. |
| A．How to Show Your Social Position |
| B．How to Improve Your Features |
| C．How to Design a Nice Hat |
| D．How to Choose a Proper Hat |
【推荐3】More than 1,800 teen researchers came to the Valley of the Sun this week (May 12-17). Those who shone brightest took home big prizes. The prizes are from the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). Top winner Krithik Ramesh took home $75,000. He developed a system to help doctors do spinal surgery (脊椎外科手术) better. Using the technology, doctors can finish the surgery more quickly.
Krithik’s system can map a patient’s spine. It can give doctors advice about how to carry out spinal surgery. It can be used not only in cities, but also in the countryside. The new system could take the place of the methods being used by today’s doctors, says Krithik,16, who attends Cherry Creek High School in Greenwood Village, Colo, USA. Krithik’s project won the Gordon E. Moore Award. It’s named for a founder of Intel. Other winners took home sizeable awards as well, this year. Together, these awards totaled about $5 million.
The Intel ISEF has been honoring (表扬) young researchers since 1950. This competition was created and is still run by Society for Science & the Public(SSP). It is the world’s largest international pre-college science competition. Now supported by Intel, the 2019 ISEF brought together students from more than 80 countries and areas.
“I am inspired by all of the creativity on show this week,” said SSP President Maya Ajmera. “Congratulations to our winners and all our finalists. They are, showing that world-changing ideas can come from anywhere in the world.”.
1. Krithik Ramesh won the prize for his ________.| A．computer skills |
| B．wonderful results |
| C．advice about surgery |
| D．system to help doctors |
| A．Intel. | B．Competition. |
| C．Prize. | D．System |
| A．Teenagers. | B．Scientists. |
| C．Engineers. | D．Doctors. |
| A．To praise the Intel ISEF. |
| B．To admire the young winners. |
| C．To encourage the competition. |
| D．To introduce a new technology. |
