Starting senior high school can be difficult. You may feel nervous ________ entering good high schools because you don’t know where to go for class. Meeting new friends might make you nervous, too. Don’t worry. You are not ________. You are going to school with a group of students of your age, and we have ________ to share.

No one likes a classmate with a bad smell. So you need to shower every day, brush your teeth and wash your hair. Try to make yourself look tidy, ________ you wear.

Take a deep breath and find your voice. Introduce yourself and start a conversation about something you have in common. Sit in the middle of the classroom with many new________ around you.

________ has his own opinion of the world and everyone believes in different things. You’ll find it good to have friends with different ideas. ________, you can share and learn a lot more from each other.

What clubs can you join? You can join the ones with the after-school activities that ________ you. Being in a club helps you be more social. If not, you will just go to class and then go home.

Are you sad being alone while others are playing happily? You will probably say “yes”. So remember to try to join the people around you. If you see someone sitting alone, invite him to ________ or play games together.

As the fifth of seven children, I went to the same public school as my three elder sisters and brother. Every year, each child from the third grade took part in an old school tradition—the plant sale held in early May, just before Mother’s Day.

That year I was old enough to take part in it. I wanted to surprise my mother, but I didn’t have any money. I told my elder sister about it and she gave me some money. When I arrived at the plant sale, I carefully chose my favorite. I watched each plant seriously to make sure that I could find the best geranium (天竺葵). After school, with the help of my sister, I hid it on the neighbor’s porch (门廊). On Mother’s Day, I remember how bright my mother’s eyes were and how surprised she was at my gift.

The year I was fifteen, my younger sister reached the third grade. She told me that she wanted to surprise our mother. Like my elder sister did for me, I gave her some money. And she bought the same gift and we hid it in the same place. When she gave the gift to my mother, I watched them proudly and happily. My mother noticed me watching and gave me a soft and secret smile. With a shock at my heart, I smiled back.

I wonder how my mother could pretend (假装) to be surprised at the same gift from her sixth child, but as I watched her eyes, I knew she was not pretending.

Everyone faces challenges in his life, but some are experiencing greater ones than others. Daniel Kish had serious problems with his eyes when he was born. And doctors took away both his eyes before he was fourteen months old.

Sooner after, however, he started to do an amazing thing. He started to make clicking (咔哒) sounds with his tongue to help him move around. Much like a bat (蝙蝠) , he now moves about using sonar (声呐). He is so good at it that he can ride a bicycle in traffic. He and his group, World Access for the Blind, teach others how to use sonar. In his interview with National Geographic, Kish explains how the process works.

How does sonar work?

“When I make a clicking sound, it makes sound waves. These waves reflect off surfaces all around and return to my ears. My brain then processes the sounds into an image. It is like having a conversation with the environment.

When you click, what do you see in your mind?

“Each click is like a camera flash. I make a 3D image of the things around me for hundreds of feet (英尺) in every direction.

What is it like riding a bike using sonar?

“It is exciting and enjoyable but requires a lot of attention. I click up to two times every second, much more than I usually do.”

Is it dangerous to move around the world in this way?

“Much of the world lives in fear of things that we mostly imagine. I have a habit of climbing anything and everything, but I never broke a bone as a kid.”

How challenging is it to teach people to use sonar?

“Many blind people are surprised how quickly they can learn. Seeing isn’t in the eyes, it is in the mind.”

For many tests and exams, you are tested on your abilities to communicate successfully. In order to speak English fluently (流利地), you need to think in English. If you don’t, your speech will be slow and it won’t sound natural.     46    

Look at objects around your home and school, and think of what they are called in English.     47    

    48     For example, think, “There is a man walking down the street. He is wearing a suit. I think he is going to work.” Try to think in English first, not in your first language.

When you have to say something in English, think first and ask yourself, “What words and phrases do I know in English that I can use in the situation?”     49     If you do, you will get frustrated (挫败的) very quickly.

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用方框中所给词或短语的正确形式填空，使文章通顺、连贯、合理。（每空只能填一个单词或一个短语，每个单词或短语限用一次）

We each have a memory (记忆).     61     is why we can remember things after a     62     time. A good memory helps us learn a language well. Everybody     63     his own language when he is a small child. He hears the sounds, remembers     64     and then learns to speak. Some     65     are living with their parents in foreign countries. They can learn two languages    66     because they hear, remember and speak the two languages every day. In school it is not easy to learn a foreign language because the students have little time for it and they have to learn other subjects, too. Our memory can get better if we do     67     exercises. Are you     68     learning a foreign language well? If so, you must do a lot of listening and speaking.

I am a student named Li Lei from No. 1 Middle School. You can also call me Peter, my English name. I have learned English for nine years at school. At first, it was hard for me to understand the teacher when she talked to the class. She spoke too quickly. Also, I was afraid to speak in class because I thought my classmates might laugh at me. I couldn’t always make complete sentences, either. But now I am enjoying learning English. I have come to realize that it doesn’t matter if you don’t understand every word. One of the secrets of becoming a good language learner is to do lots of learning practice. I often watch English programs on TV and listen to English songs. I’ve also joined the English club at school to improve my spoken English. And, my way to learn new words is reading English magazines. At the same time, I learn new words by looking them up in the dictionary. I take lots of grammar notes in class. In order to practice my writing, I keep a diary. Most importantly, I keep on trying and never give up.

April Fool’s Day is a celebration that takes place in different countries around the world. It happens on April 1st every year and it is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other.

Some famous tricks happened on April Fool’s Day. A reporter in England announced that there would be no more spaghetti because the spaghetti farmers in Italy had stopped growing spaghetti. Many people ran to their local supermarkets to buy as much spaghetti as they could. But the time people realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out. In another famous trick a TV show in England reported the discovery of special water. They said this water would help people get thinner and that one customer had already made it in just four months. By the end of the day, more than 10,000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get this water.

80. 假如你是李华，你的好友Amy想了解一下你的近况。面对新学期，她有点担心自己的学业成绩。请根据以下提示，给她写一封回信，并说说如何勇敢面对学习中遇到的困难。

How is everything going?

Best wishes!

Yours

Li Hua