1 . 根据短文内容，从短文后面的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

Taking good notes is a time-saving skill that will help you to become a better student in several ways.     1     Second, your notes are excellent materials to refer to when you are studying for a test. Third, note-taking offers variety to your study time and helps you to hold your interest.

You will want to take notes during classroom discussions and while reading a textbook or doing research for a report.     2    Whenever or however you take notes, keep in mind that note-taking is a selective process.     3    

The following ways may work best for you.

Read the text quickly to find the main facts and ideas in it.

Carefully read the text and watch for words that can show main points and supporting facts.

Write your notes in your own words.

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Note any questions or ideas you may have about what was said or written.

As you take notes, you may want to use your own shorthand (速记). When you do, be sure that you understand your symbols and that you use them all the time.     5    

A．Use words, not complete sentences.

B．Otherwise, you may not be able to read your notes later.

C．You will also want to develop your own method for taking notes.

D．That means you must first decide what is important enough to include in your notes.

E．First, the simple act of writing something down makes it easier for you to understand and remember it.

2 . 阅读短文及文后 A-E 选项, 选出可以填入 1 至 5 各题空白处的最佳选项。

You’ve been learning words since you were a tiny baby. At first, you learned them only by hearing other people talk. Now that you’re a reader, you have another way to learn words. What should you do when you come to a word and you think you don’t know what it means?     1    

Say it

First sound it out. Then say it to yourself.     2     . Sometimes you know a word in your head but you don’t know what it looks like in print. So if you match up what you know and what you read-you have the word!

Use context

If this doesn’t work, take the next step: look at the context—the other words and sentences around it. Read this sentence: When it rained, the dog looked for shelter in the doorway.     3     . Rain and in the doorway might give you helpful information.

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If the context doesn’t help, look at the parts of the word. Does it have any parts you know? These can help you understand what it means. If you don’t know the meaning of miner, try looking at parts of the word. You might know that a mine is a place underground where people get coal and other valuable things. A lot of times, -er at the end of a word means “a person who does something”. So a miner might be someone who works in a mine.

Look it up

If the three steps above don’t work, you can look it up—     5     —either a book or online.

Nobody knows the meaning of every word, but good readers know how to understand words they don’t know.

A．Use word parts

B．It might sound like a word you know

C．You can find the word in a dictionary

D．Following some easy steps can help you

E．If the word shelter doesn’t look familiar, look at the words around it

3 . Good study habits(习惯) are important for all students. When you have good study habits, you’ll learn faster.

Do you usually study in the living room? This is not a good place for study because it is usually too noisy. You need to study in a quiet place, such as your bedroom. A quiet place will help you learn better.

Before you begin to study, do not forget to clean your desk. It helps you study well, too. Light is also important. You’ll feel tired easily if there is not enough light.

Of all the good study habits you can develop (养成), asking questions is the key. Just ask. No one knows everything, but we can always learn from each other by asking questions.

One easy but important habit is to tell yourself what you’re studying for. Put your target(目标) on the wall next to your bed or desk That means you’ll see and think about it every day.

When do you work best? Are you an early bird, a night owl (猫头鹰), or something in between? Find your most productive work time, and then plan to study at that time.

1. Why is the living room not a good place for study?

A．Because it is too quiet.	B．Because it is too small.
C．Because it is too noisy.	D．Because it doesn’t have the desk for study.

2. According to the passage, what should you do before you study?

A．Clean the desk.	B．Put your story books away.;
C．Ask questions.	D．Develop study habits.

3. Why should we put our targets on the wall?

A．To make us happy.	B．To make our parents happy.
C．To make the wall beautiful.	D．To tell us what we are studying for.

4. What docs the underlined word “productive” mean in Chinese?

A．有效的

B．有趣的

C．精彩的

D．愉快的

5. What is the best title for this passage?

A．Study in the Bedroom	B．Good Study Habits Are Important
C．How to Study	D．Light Is Important

4 . People at home keep asking me, “Is it hard to learn Chinese? Why have you learned it so well?” Well, there’s one thing that makes Chinese easy to learn: there are so many people to talk to. You’ve probably heard that it’s the most spoken language. Today it’s also one of the most written languages online. And with so many Chinese people interested in learning English, it couldn’t be easier to find a friend for language learning. You just have to know where to look for them.

The really good place to look for them is Wechat. Wechat has the same status in China as Facebook does in the US. It is reported that at any moment, up to 900,000,000 people are using Wechat. They’re at work, or in a web cafe, or at home, and the information of the users can be found. If you sign in with your address set to “abroad”, you’ll soon find that many thousands of them are interested in speaking to you! This is a great way for you to learn Chinese, and for them to learn English. I think that it’s a very interesting way of cultural contact too, for ordinary people from around the world to be able to have one-on-one contact.

1. What does the write tell us in paragraph 1?

A．Why his family members want to learn Chinese.

B．How the writer learnt Chinese.

C．The easiest thing to do is learning Chinese.

D．Chinese isn’t so hard to learn as his friends think.

2. According to paragraph 2, Wechat and Facebook are ________.

A．addresses for the Internet users	B．tools used by people to chat online
C．programmes of a computer	D．files you need to get online

3. What is the writer’s purpose to write this passage?

A．To show what the Chinese people are doing at the moment.

B．To tell his friends the importance of learning Chinese.

C．To tell a way of learning Chinese.

D．To explain the difference between Wechat and Facebook.

4. The writer of this passage is probably _________.

A．an engineer who has developed WeChat

B．a Chinese student studying abroad

C．an expert who works at home

D．an English-speaking person who works in China

7 . “Why are they the top students in my class?” “Do they have any secrets?” You may wonder. The children at the top of the class succeed by knowing a few basic skills that others can easily learn. According to the education experts and students themselves，here are the secrets of top students.

Study is the first thing. Once the books are open or the computer is on, phone calls are unanswered, TV shows unwatched, snacks unnoticed. Study is business. Business comes before everything.

Study anywhere or everywhere. Study times are different for different children. Some work late at night when the house is quiet. Others wake early. Still others study as soon as they come home from school. However, all agree that consistency (持之以恒) is needed.

Get organized. Don’t waste time looking for a pencil or missing paper. Keep everything right where one can put one’s hands on it. Even for a student who doesn’t keep his own study area organized, a bag or a drawer is needed to put things in to save time.

Learn how to read. The secret of good reading is to be an active reader—one who continually asks questions that lead to a full understanding of the writer’s message.

Use your time best. Even the best students put off their work sometimes. But when that happens, they face it. “If you want to be at the top, make sure to finish the work on time,” says Christi Anderson, a top student at Lyman High School.

Take good notes and use them. Reading the text is important, but tire teacher is going to test you on what he or she emphasized (强调). That’s what you find in your notes.

Another kind of important “secret” of the top students is not so secret at all. For almost all of them, their parents’ help is important.

1. If we want to save time for study, we had better ________.

A．keep everything in hand

B．get everything organized

C．prepare for our school things

D．organize ourselves into groups

2. According to the passage, which is NOT the secret of the top students?

A．Manage your time well.

B．Parents’ help is unnecessary.

C．Study comes before everything.

D．Write down what the teacher emphasized and try to use them.

3. According to the writer，the real secret in becoming a top student is ________.

A．some learning experience

B．the good teachers

C．some basic learning skills

D．the good education experts

8 . Taking good notes is a time-saving skill that will help you to become a better student.     1    

You usually take notes during classroom discussions and while reading books. Not everyone takes notes in the same way.     2     Whenever or however you take notes, keep in mind that note-taking is a selective（选择性的）process.     3    

The following methods may work best for you.

• Read the text quickly to find the main facts and ideas in it.

• Carefully read the text and watch for words that show main points and supporting facts.

• Write your notes in your own words.

•     4    

• Note any questions or ideas you may have about what was said or written.

As you take notes, you may want to use your own shorthand. When you do so, be sure that you understand your symbols and that you use them all the time.     5    

A．Use words, but not complete sentences.

B．Otherwise, you may not be able to read your notes later.

C．So it is important to develop your own method of taking notes.

D．The act of writing something down makes it easier for you to understand and remember it.

E．That means you must first decide what is important enough to include in your notes.

10 . Just like any other language, the earlier you learn English, the better you can speak it. But how can you learn English?

Learn English from books! There are many English books, and you can read and learn how to put words together to make sentences. If you just start to learn English, you need an English dictionary. The dictionary must have your native language (本国语). If you know most of the English words, you may get an English-English dictionary.

Learn English on the Internet! There are many websites that teach English as a second language. You can learn the pronunciation (发音) of the words or sentences on them. You can also find online dictionaries.

Practice spoken English as often as you can! Talk to other English-speaking people and listen carefully when they speak English.

You can learn English from TV as well. If you just start to learn the language, try to watch kids’ channels (频道) to learn the language.

1. As for learning English, which of the following ways is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A．Learning from books.	B．Learning from the Internet.
C．Learning from newspapers.	D．Learning from TV.

2. What does the underlined word “them” refer to?

A．Websites.

B．Words.

C．Sentences.

D．Dictionaries.

3. What dictionary should she buy if a woman from Japan wants to start learning English according to the passage?

A．An English-English dictionary.	B．An English-Japanese dictionary.
C．An English-Chinese dictionary.	D．An English-Korean dictionary.

4. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．The best time to learn English.	B．The best people to learn English.
C．Why we learn English.	D．How to learn English.