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When I was a kid, I was just like other kid. I didn?t like the rule of learning ,and studying,memorizing,etc. As I got into high school, things changed for me. I started reading a lot of books. Books taught me about life an helped me learn about the world.I read around 30 books during each senior year. I learned to love reading then.
Little did I know at that time that I would write books by myself. I?ve written 7 books since then. One book, I wrote ,Powerful Attitudes, was a huge success within a network marketing company in the USA.
When I was 17 years old, I took about a dozen guitar lessons.Recently, I bought myself a piano and began to learn to play it. My knowledge of music and playing guitar has helped me a lot in learning the piano.
Last week, I employed a Chinese teacher to teach me Chinese. I?ve learned about 200 words in my first week. I?m inspired and motivated to learn. In fact, I feel a bit obsessed, thinking of learning Chinese. It?s like a mountain I want to climb and conquer. I?m 56 years old and my love to learn it runs deep in my heart, mind and soul.
What I certainly learned while growing up is to love learning. I never want to stop learning. I never want to stop studying people, life ,processes and new things.I think the openness of admitting what you don?t know makes you a good learner. You never lie to yourself or to others about your knowledge and experience. I have the attitude that if I don?t know something, I will learn to know it. 1. What can we learn about the author from the passage? A. He feel in love with reading when he was a child. B. One of his books enjoyed a lot of success. C. He began to love music recently. D. He is good at Chinese
2. What does the underlined word “obsess”mean?
A. Absorbed B. Satisfied C. Concerned D. Difficult 3. What is the main idea of the passage? A. learning skills. B. Learning methods C. learning attitudes
D. learning experience. BAC B
The BBC was founded in 1922, including radio and television services. It is based at Broadcasting House in London.
The BBC is controlled by some governors chosen by the government,but these people have complete freedom and government can?t interfere(干涉). That is, the BBC is not the mouthpiece (代言人)of the government.It has to be as far as possible in giving radio and television time to, for example, political parties and religious groups.
There is a kind of interesting services in Britain —(租借)services. Many people prefer to rent their television sets instead of buying them.The rent for a black and white set is about 80 pence a week. The rent of a color set is more than twice that of a black and white set. If the sets go wrong, people can have them repaired free of charge or replaced immediately.
Everyone who owns or rents a television set has to pay a yearly license. There is no advertising on BBC radio or television.It is from the sale of licence that the BBC gets most of its money. A licence for a black and white set costs 8 pounds, and for a color set 18 pounds a year.
There are four specialized radio channels, which broadcast different kinds of programmes.Radio 1 is mainly pop music. Radio 2 deals with light music, sports and other programmes. Radio 3 broadcasts serious music, talks on serious subjects,etc. News broadcasts are mainly given by radio 4.
There are special programmes for Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and certain parts of England.It also broadcasts programmes about Britain—in many different languages as well as in English to all parts of the world.
4The BBC Broadcasting House lies in __________
A. England B. Scotland C. Wales D. Northern Ireland. 5. If you want to listen to news broadcasts, you should choose_______.
A. Radio 1 B. Radio 2 C. Radio 3 D. Radio 4 6. The BBC get most of its money _________.
A. from the government B. from rental services C. by advertising D. by selling licences 7.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. The BBC special programmes are not only for different areas in
its own country but also for foreign countries.
B. If you rent a TV set and there is wrong with it, you should fix it
with your own money.
C. You can listen to classical music from Radio 1
D. The BBC broadcasts to foreign countries only in English. A D DA
C.
Bad news sells. If it bleeds, it leads. No news is good news, and good news is no news. Those are the classic rules for the evening broadcasts and the morning papers. But now that information is being spread and monitored in different ways, researchers are discovering new rules. By tracking people?s e-mails and online posts, scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters and sob stories.
“The ?if it bleeds? rule works for mass media,”says Jonah Berger, a scholar at the university of Pennsylvania. “ They want your eyeballs and don?t care how you are feeling.But when you share a story with our friends, you care a lot more how they react. You don?t want them to think of you as a Debbie Downer.”
Researchers analyzing word-of-mouth communication ___ e-mails,Web posts and reviews, face-to-face conversations___ found that it tended to be more positive than negative, but that didn?t necessarily mean people preferred positive news.Was positive news shared more often simply because people experienced more good things than bad things? To test for that possibility, Dr. Berger looked at how people spread a particular set of news stories:thousands of articles on the The New York Times? website. He and a Penn colleague analyzed the “most e-mailed”list for six months. One of his first findings was that articles in the science section were much more likely to make the list than non-science articles. He found that science amazed Times? readers and made them want to share this positive feeling with others.
Readers also tended to share articles that were exciting or funny,
or that inspired negative feelings like anger or anxiety, but not articles that left them merely sad. They needed to be aroused one way or the other, and they preferred good news to bad. The more positive an article was, the more likely it was to be shared, as Dr. Berger explains in his new book, Contagious(感染性的): Why Things Catch on.
8. What do the classic rules mentioned in the text apply to ? A. News reports B. Research papers C. Private e-mails D. Daily conversations 9. What can we infer about people like Debbie Downer? A. They?re socially inactive B. They?re good at telling stories C. They?re inconsiderate of others D. They?re careful with their words.
10. Which tended to be the most e-mailed according to Dr. Berger?s
research?
A. Sports news B. Science articles C. Personal accounts D. Financial reviews 11. What can be a suitable title for the text? A. Sad Stories Travel Far and Wide B. Online News Attract More People
C. Reading Habits Change with The times D. Good News Beats Bad on Social Networks. ACBD
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Reading can be a social activity. Think of the people who belong to book groups. They choose books to read and then meet to discuss them. Now, the website Book Crossing.com turns the page on the traditional idea of a book group.
Members go on the site and register the books they own and would like to share. Book Crossing provides an identification number to stick inside the book. Then the person leaves it in a public place, hoping that the book will have an adventure, traveling far and wide with each new reader who finds it. Bruce Pederson, the managing director of Book Crossing, says, “The two things that change your life are the people you meet and books you read. Book Crossing combines both.”
Members leave books on park benches and buses, in train stations and coffee shops. Whoever finds their book will go to the site and record where they found it.
People who find a book can also leave a journal entry describing what they thought of it. E-mails are then sent to the Book Crossing to keep them updated about where their books have been found. Bruce Peterson says the idea is for people not to be selfish by keeping a book to gather dust on a shelf at home.
BookCrossing is part of a trend among people who want to get back to the “real” and not the virtual(虚拟).The site now has more than one million members in more than one hundred thirty-five countries.
12. Why does the author mention book groups in the first paragraph? A. To explain what they are B. To introduce BookCrossing
C. To stress the importance of reading
D. To encourage readers to share their ideas. 13. What does the underlined “it”refer to ?
A. The book B. An adventure
C. A public place D. The identification number 14. What will a Book Crosser do with a book after reading it? A. Meet other readers to discuss it. B. Keep it safe in his bookcase.
C. Pass it on to another reader. D. Mail it back to its owner.
15. What is the best title for the text?
A. Online Reading:A Virtual Tour B. Electronic Books: A New Trend
C. A Book Group Brings Tradition Back D. A Website Links People through Books. BACD
We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear. Fear can totally destroy our ambitions.Fear can destroy fortunes. Fear can destroy relationships. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies living inside us. ___16___
The first enemy we face is indecision9（优柔寡断）. Indecision is