【推荐1】The beauty of confidence is that it is possible to learn it, no matter who you are! Follow these simple steps to be confident.

Consider your strengths and success.    1    When did you help others? What are you good at? When have you taken pride in yourselves? What are you working hard for? If you have difficulty thinking of your strengths and success, ask your family member or a close friend.

Have goals. Sitting around and doing nothing will make you feel worse. Start with a small goal.    2    You'Il get more confidence achieving a small goal. Once you've achieved many smaller goals, you can set bigger goals.

    3    Failure is the mother of success. When you fail, view it as a learning experience. Often we have to fail on our own to gain experience. By failing, you have at least taken a chance.

Pick a role model. Pick a role model that is always confident and always learn from them.

Study their action, their manners and how they communicate with others.    4    However, it's a great place to start. Smile. Confident people smile often, and without much reason.    5    It tells the people around you that you're comfortable in yourself and enjoying your time

A．Learn from failure.

B．Otherwise, you'll get discouraged.

C．Smiling is a friendly and open gesture.

D．After reaching a goal, reward yourself.

E．Start projecting a more powerful you today.

F．If possible, write them down so that you can look back at them later.

G．Of course you don't want to spend your entire life copying someone else

【推荐2】阅读七选五。

We have all seen nervous presenters in classrooms and meetings. One effect of being nervous is moving from side to side.     1     In fact, the audience can lose interest in a speaker who does not move. How a speaker moves is important. Whole-body movement should be slow and planned to command attention. Such movement helps to communicate confidence.     2    But they look at their notes on a paper or at the screen if they have an electronic presentation.

With posture, the typical problem for new speakers is that they are often moving back and forth, and they’re not facing the audience. They’ll often be facing the white board or the screen with slides and be talking to that rather than talking to the audience. The same thing with eye contact with the audience, they find it really, really difficult, because they’ll be looking at their notes, they’ll be looking at their computer, they’ll be looking at the screen, or they will be looking at the floor. The problem of having notes and trying to talk from notes often is a big problem.     3    The best way to avoid this problem is to use images and few words for notes instead of sentences. The image should help communicate the point you want to make. Writing a few words with the image on your slide helps you remember that point. Then you can look at the audience while speaking.

    4     When you practice, remember these important tips: be aware of your posture, eye contact, and gestures.     5     Then step by step, you’ll become an excellent speaker.

A．So they usually have eye contact with the audience.

B．So they have trouble with eye contact.

C．An important part of public speaking is practice.

D．New public speakers know that they should look at the audience while they speak.

E．A presenter does not need to stand perfectly still.

F．Improve your public speaking with body language.

G．Look for opportunities to speak and gain more confidence.

【推荐3】One evening last summer, 11-year-old Owen and his mom put on white suits and taped their rain boots to their pant legs. Then they each grabbed a wooden pole with a large white cloth attached to it and started dragging the tools through the trees and grass in their Wisconsin backyard.

They were looking for ticks(扁虱虫). Owen’s mom, Amy Prunuske, teaches microbiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Wausau. She studies diseases that ticks carry. Owen, though, is known as a citizen scientist. Citizen scientists are people—young or old—who help collect data for research projects. They usually aren’t professional scientists, or if they are, not in the field of the project. Still, their work can be incredibly important. Citizen scientists can help trained scientists gather data from all over the world—even from space. They can provide new ideas and new ways of thinking.

Kids often make great citizen scientists because they tend to be curious and good at following precise directions. Sometimes they’re even better at these things than adults. And schools are convenient places for scientists to recruit big groups of helpers. As a bonus, citizen science often gets kids more excited about science.

Citizen science takes advantage not just of many sets of eyeballs, but also of many minds. When professional European scientists in Austria were trying to find how best to encourage people to use less energy, they partnered with student citizen scientists. The adult scientists had a long list of questions for people about how much energy they used. Right away, the students noticed some problems the adults hadn’t thought of. There were too many questions, the kids said. And some of those questions were too complicated.

The day in the backyard, Owen found two black-legged ticks, animals so tiny they’re often hard to see. He and his mom took the pests to a summer program she was teaching. There, he and other young citizen scientists tested the ticks for the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, which causes fever and headaches and can make a person extremely tired.

1. Why did Owen go to catch ticks with his mom?

A．To provide data for professional scientists.

B．To prepare for his own future research.

C．To help her study the diseases carried by ticks.

D．To prevent ticks from spreading diseases.

2. What do we learn from paragraph 4?

A．Citizen science is mostly carried out at school.

B．Students only help find answers to basic questions.

C．Student scientists are more creative in scientific research.

D．Young citizen scientists help professional scientists a lot.

3. Which of the following is the best title for the text?

A．Scientists Find New Ways of Research	B．Kids Make Great Citizen Scientists
C．Scientists Need New Ideas from Kids	D．Kids Show Great Interest in Science

【推荐1】We humans are sweet on sugar. That makes sense. All animals need sugar to live. It ' s the fuel that powers our cells. So it' s not surprising that we ' re born to want the sweet stuff.

Sugar stores the sun' s energy like a battery. After a meal,your body breaks down foods into their building blocks. It uses some sugars for energy right away. The rest get stored for the body to break down later. It ' s a myth that sugar makes you extremely excited, but having a sugary snack can give you a quick burst of energy. That ' s because the sugars in sweet foods are easy for your body to turn into fuel. When you eat other kinds of foods,like vegetables, it takes longer for your body to break the sugars down.

These days it' s easy to find sweet snacks. Sodas, candy, cakes and even foods that seem healthy , such as yogurt,can be packed with sugar. Food makers add sugar,because they know that to humans, sweet makes everything taste better. Americans eat about 20 teaspoons of extra sugar everyday. That' s way more than what is good for us.

Eating too much sugar can cause more than a stomach-ache. It can make people overweight, decay the teeth and even cause diabetes. However, experts aren ' t worried about naturally sweet foods- the problem is added sugar. So go ahead and enjoy a sweet apple or even a sugar-rich carrot that are also full of vitamins and other good stuff.

Even cake   is great once in a while , as long as you don ' t overdo it. After all, no one wants life to be dull. And your body needs its fuel!

1. The first two paragraphs are mainly developed by _'

A．cause and effect.	B．problem and solution.
C．giving examples .	D．making comparisons.

2. People may be tncked into eating too much sugar because            .

A．no one wants life to be boring.

B．we ' re born to want the sweet stuff.

C．so-called healthy food can be packed with sugar.

D．sugar is the fuel for the plants and animals on the Earth.

3. What does the author want to stress in Para. 4?

A．We' d better say no to sweet foods.

B．Experts are worried about added sugar.

C．Eating too much sugar is bad for our health.

D．We ' d better consume sugar from natural sources.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Sugar Is Everywhere.	B．Sugar Brings Happiness.
C．Why Does Sugar Taste So good?	D．Why Does Sugar Make Us Fat?

【推荐3】Will it matter if you don't take your breakfast? Recently a test was given in the United States. Those tested included people of different ages, from 12 to 83. During the experi­ment, these people were given all kinds of breakfasts, and sometimes they got no breakfast at all. Special tests were set up to see how well their bodies worked when they had eaten a certain kind of breakfast. The results show that if a person eats a proper breakfast, he or she will work with better effect than if he or she has no breakfast. This fact appears to be especially true if a person works with his brains. If a student eats fruit, eggs, bread and milk before going to school, he will learn more quickly and listen with more attention to class.
Opposite to what many people believe, if you don't eat breakfast, you will not lose weight. This is because people become so hungry at noon that they eat too much for lunch, and end up gaining weight instead of losing. You will probably lose more weight if you reduce your other meals.
1. During the test, those who were tested were given ________.

A．no breakfast at all

B．very rich breakfast

C．little food for breakfast

D．different breakfast or none

2. The passage mentions that many people believe that if you don't eat breakfast, you will _________.

A．lose weight	B．not lose weight
C．be healthier	D．gain a lot of weight

3. Which of the following is not true according to the passage?

A．Poor breakfasts affect those who work with brains.

B．Morning diet may cause one to get fatter.

C．Reducing lunch and supper is of less value in weight losing.

D．Eating less in lunch and supper may help to lose weight.

4. According to the passage, if a student does not eat breakfast, ___________.

A．he will fall ill

B．he will fail to listen to his teacher

C．he will not make progress in his study

D．his mind will work more slowly