【推荐1】Organizing Yourself

Many new students find it hard to do all the study that has to be done; they find themselves putting off reading assignment, jumping from subject to another and rarely being quite certain what they are trying to do during a particular study session. The best way to overcome these difficulties and to start studying efficiently is to plan your time and organize your work. Let us suppose that you have 15 hours per week of classes and that you decide to allow yourself a 40-hour working week (a reasonable figure, leaving you 70 waking hours for other activities).

You now have to decide how to divide the remaining 25 hours of private study. Naturally the decisions you make will change from week to week according to what essays have to be written and what reading has to be done. Many people find it helpful to draw up each week a seven-day timetable showing the occasions on which they will be working privately and the particular subjects that will be studying on each occasion. By checking such a plan at times during the week, you can see what you have done and what you have still to do: the whole plan becomes more manageable. There are a number of places where you can study—college library, public library, home, empty classrooms, on bus or train—and each has several obvious advantages and disadvantages. The college library is least busy in the evening, on Wednesday afternoon, and all day Friday and Saturday.

When you are deciding where to study, keep the following suggestions in mind:

1.Try to study always in the same place. After a while the familiar surroundings will help you to switch into the right frame of mind as soon as you sit down.
2.Find somewhere with as few distractions as possible.
3.Make sure that your study place has a good light and is warm (but not hot ) and well aired.
1. What’s the main idea of this passage?

A．Plan your time and organize your work.

B．Overcome your difficulties.

C．Be certain what you can do.

D．Find a quiet place for study.

2. A student’s organization of his work will need to change according to____.

A．how many hours he is awake	B．how many subjects are required
C．how many lectures he misses	D．what he has to write and read that week

3. A student is advised to make a weekly plan and to check it from time to time in order to   __________.

A．see whether he has calculated it properly

B．see what day of the week is

C．see what work still needs doing

D．see how he feels at the whole week

4. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a place where you can study?

A．The bus

B．The train

C．Home

D．A public house

【推荐3】Many students want to know the best ways to improve their learning.     1    

Focus

One of the best ways to organize your study session is to use the Pomodoro Technique.     2     The idea is to use a timer(计时器). For example, you set the timer for 20 minutes, and focus only on your studies during that time. You cannot check email, or do anything aside from your task. When the timer goes off, you can reward yourself by listening to some music or having a drink of tea.

Test yourself

When you are studying, you should test yourself often.     3    You can also find all kinds of online tests for many subjects.

Mixing

    4     For example, while studying maths, you could mix multiplication(乘法) and division(除法) problems. It may be better for long-term learning.

Teaching

Teaching is also a powerful way to learn. Researchers compared different groups of students. Some did not expect to have to teach information, while others did. When they actually teach a lesson, they develop a deeper understanding of the material.

In a word, you can create your own plan based on what you need to learn. You might organize your study periods with the Pomodoro technique. Then, you can test yourself and mix different topics. There are many choices.     5    

A．Here are a few useful methods.

B．In other words, they only study one topic at a time.

C．This method is a technique that means you mix different topics.

D．All of these methods can be put together to make a powerful study plan.

E．It is a powerful, but simple method that helps people focus on a task.

F．When you focus and do tasks that are at the right difficulty level, your brain will become tired.

G．If you are using a textbook, then you can do practice questions from the end of each chapter to test yourself.

【推荐1】Once upon a time, sewing and mending clothes was common.     1     Why have people stopped mending their clothing? Schools stopped offering home economics classes, technology boomed and fast fashion became increasingly popular. All of a sudden, it’s more inconvenient to fix something than it is to buy something new.

But all hope is not lost.     2     On one of the most pleasant corners of the Internet, you’ll find lots of videos showcasing everything from visible mending to beginner sewing journeys.

    3     It is a great way to reject consumerism. As anyone will tell you, the best thing you can do is buy less to begin with. That means shopping for quality items that will stand the test of time, but also learning a few key skills so you can repair those items as needed rather than sentencing them to life in an already-overflowing landfill. It’s also helpful to customize (改制) secondhand items which might not be exactly the right size or a little out of date.     4    

Beyond the functional benefits, mending is about using what you have, embracing imperfections, fixing what’s broken, and rejecting the idea that newer is better. The other aspect of mending is mindfulness.     5     It’s meditative (冥想的), slow work. It’s productive, and deeply satisfying. And an added bonus: It’s sustainable.

If you are interested in sewing and mending, it is the perfect time to learn the new skill, which can especially have a positive impact on the world.

A．Why should you learn to mend?

B．Buying secondhand goods makes it possible to be sustainable.

C．Recently, it seems there’s a growing interest in sewing and mending.

D．Mending, a slow fashion, also serves as a means of making a living.

E．This way, you may find yourself upcycling pieces into ones that suit you.

F．At some point in the last few decades, though, it became something of a lost art.

G．You focus on the task at hand and use your creativity to make your clothes unique.

【推荐2】Most of the students really don’t know what they actually doing during a school day.     1     Once you follow these ideas and tips, you will be a right person at school and home.

    2     The first you have to write in a paper is, what are the activities you missed on that day and why. The other is, what are the activities you have to do on next day. Keep this paper with you. So next day, this paper helps you to complete every activity you wrote down last night.

Don’t afraid to say NO to anyone if it affects your personal tasks. Let’s say you have homework to finish before going to bed. In this situation, your friend asks you to come for a movie.     3     But if you are a successful time management student, simply you would say NO to him and use that valuable time for your personal tasks.

Find what will be your right time to do more activities. Some students prefer morning time and some prefer evening time.     4    

As a school student, you must have to play games or watching TV.     5     Don’t mess up your studying time with these extra activities. For instance, you can schedule one or two hours for watching TV or playing games after school, but concentrate more time on homework.

A．Make a careful plan in advance and carry it out.

B．Take a paper and write about 2 things before going to bed every day.

C．But schedule a particular time for these extra activities.

D．Determine your preferable time and get to use most at that particular time.

E．If you aren’t managing your time, you may go.

F．Therefore, it is necessary to understand the true meaning of time management.

G．Here is some advice about time management to students.

【推荐3】Due to Covid-19, moms have had a rough year. Day care centers are closed.     1     At the same time they're homeschooling and cleaning everything.

Looking back 50 years or so, I found that my own mother was a mysteriously effective role model. She never hit me or raised her voice. She didn't directly boss anyone around. She indirectly gave my sisters and me very clear guidance on what behaviors were expected in our home, and out in the world.

    2     But once, when an African American family moved into our all-white neighborhood, she quietly and firmly sat my sisters and me down and told us that we would always treat them with respect. We did. When my mom got serious, we never questioned her authority. My mother taught us to love our neighbors, showed us how to treat everyone with kindness and respect and modeled how we could be generous with our time and energy by focusing on the needs and interests of others.

One time, she was driving and a car roared past us in a no-passing zone.     3     She said, "I'll be very disappointed if you ever drive like that." For the next 5 decades, including my teen years, my friends and family have laughed at me for my slow, conservative driving.     4     I remembered what she said. I still don't want to disappoint her.

Once, when the family was out watching a film, a violent scene started.     5     I was taken away from the theater. My mom didn't want me to see or hear things that might lead me down the wrong path. She would cover my eyes and ears to stop me from being exposed to negative influences.

She'd always find a way to show us how we should admit our mistakes, take personal responsibility, and resist the temptation to blame others.

A．My mother said it once.

B．Moms are working from home.

C．She would gather us for a lesson.

D．She sighed and glanced over at me.

E．Rarely did my mother tell us how to behave.

F．Immediately, my mom patted my dad on the shoulder.

G．All this led me to wonder how my mother would handle it.