【推荐1】The following skills can be greatly helpful to make you an effective learner.

Find the right hours.     1     It’s better to get a good night’s sleep after studying for a short time than to push on at two in the morning. You won’t remember much and are likely to see a performance drop the next day.

Start as early as possible. Cramming(填鸭式的用功) the night before is proven to be ineffective.     2     Studying before and going over it many times really is the best way to learn the material. Always study when you have the chance, even for 15 or 20 minutes. These short study periods add up fast!

    3     If you’re a visual learner, using pictures can help. Auditory(听觉的) learners should record themselves saying notes and recite it afterwards. If you are a physical person, speak to yourself (out loud) while also using your hands or moving around.

Adjust your learning ways to fit your subjects. Subjects like math require a lot of practice with problem sets in order to become familiar with the processes required.     4     In order to actually learn, you need to take an active role in knowledge creation as well as information review.

Ask for help. If you need help, ask someone who is good at these subjects.     5     If you don't understand what the person helping you is communicating, don’t be afraid to ask them to explain in detail.

A．Study for your learning style.

B．Study for what you are good at.

C．Don’t study when you’re really tired.

D．In fact, you’ll hardly remember anything.

E．This way it will be easier for you to memorize.

F．Friends, family, tutors, and teachers are all good options.

G．Subjects such as history may require more information memorization.

【推荐2】What is IQ—and how much does it matter?     1     In short, it is supposed to measure how well someone can use information and logic to answer questions or make predictions. IQ tests begin to assess this by measuring short- and long-term memory. They also measure how well people can solve puzzles and recall information they’ve heard—and how quickly.

    2     But some students struggle in school because of a weakness in one specific area of intelligence. These students often benefit from special education programs. There, they get extra help in the areas where they’re struggling. IQ tests can help teachers figure out which students would benefit from such extra help.

IQ tests can also help identify students who would do well in fast-paced “gifted education” programs.     3     And the US government uses IQ tests when choosing who to hire. These tests help predict which people would make good leaders, or be better at certain specific skills.

    4     Most non-experts think intelligence is the reason why successful people do so well. Psychologists who study intelligence find this is only partly true. IQ tests can predict how well people will do in particular situations, such as thinking abstractly in science, nearing or art. or lending teams of people. But there’s more to the story. Extraordinary achievement depends on many things. And those extra categories include ambition, persistence, opportunity the ability to think dearly—even luck.     5    

A．IQ plays a role in how successful we become.

B．IQ is a measure of a person’s reasoning ability.

C．Every student can learn, no matter how intelligent.

D．Intelligence helps, but so does interest and patience.

E．It’s tempting for people to read a lot into someone’s IQ score.

F．In a word, intelligence matters, but not as much as you might think.

G．Many colleges and universities also use exams similar to IQ tests to select students.

【推荐3】When I first arrived in Terrassa, Spain, I was excited and nervous to start a new adventure in a country I love. The first few days seem so long ago now, trying to find a place to live, organising my timetable with the schools, meeting new people.

After a couple of weeks, the excitement started to fade, however, and homesickness started to set in. It wasn’t a powerful homesickness but enough to make me spend more than a few nights thinking about family and friends back home, wondering if I should be there with them.

All that started to change after meeting some new friends and spending good time with them, practising languages, eating together and seeing new places as a group. I suppose we should never forget how important it is to have good friends in your life, because they can make such a difference.

Coming back to Terrassa after visiting home for Christmas felt like returning to a second home, to a place that was mine with people I cared about. Things got even busier and more people came into my life; new friends, romance and a whole lot of good food flowed by in what seems to have been weeks, not months.

Now, looking forward, there are some decisions to make. Should I return home to Scotland and move on with life there or try to extend my time here, perhaps make it something permanent? To travel and visit other places is one of the most fulfilling things you can do in life. Experiencing other cultures, learning about the world, it’s such an important thing to do if you have the means.

My advice from my experience so far is to travel and try new things whenever you get the opportunity. You may find somewhere you were always supposed to be.

1. For what purpose did the writer go to Terrassa?

A．To settle there.	B．To study there.
C．To have a holiday.	D．To visit friends.

2. Which has the similar meaning as the underlined word “fade” in Paragraph 2?

A．die away	B．increase
C．deepen	D．set off

3. What made the writer less homesick?

A．Making new friends.	B．Learning a language.
C．Experiencing a new culture.	D．Going back home during Christmas.

4. What might the writer do next?

A．To leave Terrassa.	B．To travel and learn.
C．To extend his stay there.	D．To go back to Scotland.

【推荐1】No one is happy about missing his/her bus. When Thomas Daniel missed his school bus last week, he met Officer Lynema. Lynema was with the Grand Rapids Police Department in Michigan early in the morning. He said that he saw the 9-year-old boy running after a school bus. Lynema asked Thomas if he wanted a ride to school, which the young boy gratefully accepted (after his mother nodded).

On the way to school, Thomas invited Lynema to his birthday party that evening. The boy also said that he was afraid that none of his classmates would show up for the party because he was often bullied in school.

When Lynema attended the party later in the day, he was heartbroken. He discovered that he and Thomas’s brothers and sisters were the only people who had shown up for the party — and the young boy didn’t even have a cake. The next day, Lynema called together other police officers and returned to Thomas’ house to throw him a second birthday party.

After Thomas got back from school, he was astounded to come home and find presents, a Krispy Kreme donut cake and a band waiting to surprise him. Thomas later said that it was the “best birthday ever”.

The police department posted photos of the boy and his new friends in the hope that it would encourage other people to take action against bullying. “No kid should get bullied, and no kid should worry if anyone will come to his/her birthday party,” wrote the police department Internet page. “Next year, Thomas Daniel, make sure you invite us a little earlier. We wouldn’t want to miss it!”

1. What can we learn from the first paragraph ?

A．Thomas and Lynema met by accident.	B．Thomas knew Lynema would help him.
C．Thomas actually disliked going to school.	D．Thomas’ mom was worried about his safety.

2. Why was Lynema sad when he attended the party?

A．No other policemen came to the party.	B．Thomas’ family was very poor and small.
C．There were only a few people in the party.	D．Thomas didn’t invite classmates to his party.

3. What does the underlined word “astounded” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．frustrated	B．awkward
C．astonished	D．embarrassed

4. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A．Lynema organized another birthday party for Thomas.

B．Thomas will probably have a good time on his birthday next year.

C．The police department called on people to fight against bullying through Internet.

D．Thomas invited Lynema to his birthday party because he was often bullied in school.

【推荐1】We were standing at the top of a church tower. My father had brought me to this spot in a small town not far from our home in Rome. I wondered why.

“Look down, Elsa,” father said. I gathered all my courage and looked down. I saw the square in the center of the village. And I saw the crisscross (十字形) of twisting, turning streets leading to the square. “See, my dear,” father said gently. “There is more than one way to the square. Life is like that. If you can’t get to the place where you want to go by one road, try another.”

Now I understood why I was there. Earlier that day I had begged my mother to do something about the awful lunches that were served at school. But she refused because she could not believe the lunches were as bad as I said.

When I turned to father for help, he didn’t say anything. Instead, he brought me to this high tower to give me a lesson. By the time we reached home, I had a plan.

At school the next day, I secretly poured my lunch soup into a bottle and brought it home. Then I asked our cook to serve it to mother at dinner. The plan worked perfectly. She swallowed one spoonful and sputtered (喷溅出). “The cook must have gone mad!” Quickly I told her what I had done, and mother stated firmly that she would take up the matter of lunches at school the next day!

In the years that followed, I often remembered the lesson father taught me. I began to work as a fashion designer two years ago. I wouldn’t stop working until I tried every possible means to my goal. Father’s wise words always remind me that there is more than one way to the square.

1. The author’s father took her to the top of a church tower to _________.

A．enjoy the beautiful scenery of the whole town

B．find out how many ways lead to the square

C．inspire her to find out another way to solve her problem

D．help her forget some unpleasant things earlier that day

2. What did the author want her mother to do earlier that day?

A．Do something delicious for lunch.

B．Taste her awful lunch.

C．Dismiss the mad cook.

D．Speak to the school about lunch.

3. What did the author’s mother think of her lunch soup after she tasted it?

A．It was delicious.

B．It wasn’t so bad as the author said.

C．It is terrible.

D．It was as good as her cook did.

4. By sharing her own experiences, the author tries to tell us _________.

A．when one road is blocked, try another

B．how bad the lunch of her school is

C．how wise her father is

D．about the church tower near her home