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explore                              impression                       feel confident        senior                                experiment                         concentrate on

Li Huang is a new student in a    1    school in China. He is studying in England as an exchange student. He     2    that he can get used to his new school life. His biggest challenge is English lesson where he finds it difficult to     3    what the teacher says. He is fond of doing     4    in the chemistry lessons.   His new classmate and teachers are helpful and friendly. He is hardworking and makes a good     5    on his new classmates   There is so much     6    in his new school. He is excited to learn more.

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It was     1    that students did not write details of how they arrived at their answers or conclusions. I decided to help students write in more detail about what they were thinking when they solved their problems or when they wrote about their ideas.

I chose a common, everyday task that all of us     2     in: choosing what to wear. When I asked them how they decided what they wore that day, there was a(n)     3     moment of silence. It seemed a     4     silly question. A few just said “they wore what they wore.” This was a perfect beginning as it was the same kind of response they were giving as to how they were getting their math answers. I told them how I decided what I wore that day.

First I checked the weather in the paper and by looking outside. I had to decide between wearing a dress or skirt since either one could make a difference in the     5     I wish to give. Most of the girls related to this one. I had to be sure what I wanted to wear was clean and ironed. They     6     no one ironed clothes any more. I had to check to see if I had shoes that went with the possible outfit. I thought about what I had worn     7     as I usually don’t wear the same clothes in the same week. I thought about the color I felt like wearing. I thought about the     8     I would be doing that day both at school and after school.

Each new consideration brought out comments from the students. I could expand on each or just mention it and go on,     9     on how long I wanted the lesson to go. After this discussion, it was clear to students that their thinking process is richer than they first suspected. It was a good lesson for showing details of the thinking process of which we weren’t     10    .

【推荐1】Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

The Historical Change of Reader’s Digest

During World War I, Mr. DeWitt Wallace was wounded in a battle. During his recovery in the hospital, he read a lot of magazines and     1     a lot of interesting information. At the same time, he also found that few people had time to read so many magazines that he realized the idea of excerpting (摘录) these articles and publishing them.

He was     2     to publish a pocket magazine they called Reader’s Digest with his wife Lila Acheson. They opened an office downstairs in an illegal hotel in Greenwich Village, New York, and spent only $5,000 in capital and began     3     subscribers. After a period of hard work, the first volume was     4     published on February 5, 1922. Its purpose is to inform the readers in daily life and give the readers entertainment, encouragement and guidance. The first article,     5     How to Stay Young Mentally, was one and a half pages long.

In 1920, he put     6     selected articles into Reader’s Digest samples and displayed them to major publishers in the United States. He hoped that someone would be willing to publish them, but they were all     7    . Mr. Wallace did not give up and decided to publish it himself. He worked at home with his wife, and finally published the first issue of Reader’s Digest in February 1922. The first was printed in 5,000 copies,     8     at 25 cents, and sent to 1,500 payment subscribers by mail. By 1935, the circulation of Reader’s Digest had reached one million copies.

The Chinese     9     of Reader’s Digest was first published in March 1965. The first editor-in-chief was Lin Taiyi, the daughter of Mr. Lin Yutang, master of literature. In November 2004, Reader’s Digest and Shanghai Press and Publication Bureau announced the       10     of a long-term publishing cooperation.

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reject   from   marriage   responded   complain   in   majority   physician       Scholarship   hire   serve   affect   decades        publish

As a five-year-old girl, Lin Qiaozhi was deeply     1     by her mother’s death. At age 18, instead of following the traditional marriage path of like the     2    of girls, she chose to study medicine. “Why should girls learn so much? Finding a good husband should be their final goal!” her brother     3    , thinking of the high tuition fees. She     4    , “I’d rather stay single to study all my life!”

Eight years later, Lin graduated     5     Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) with the Wenhai     6    , the highest prize given to graduates. She immediately became the first woman ever to be     7     as a resident physician in the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital. Within six months, she was named a chief resident       8    , a position that usually took four years to achieve. After working for a few years, she was sent to study in Europe and then, in 1939, in the US. She greatly impressed her American colleagues, who invited her to stay. Dr Lin, however,     9    the offer. She wanted to     10     the women and children at home.