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Here's one very simple but lifechanging advice that I first heard from Brian Tracy. Cut down on the TV at night by just one hour. Instead, use that hour to read books that could improve your life.

If you're a salesman, google for the best and most useful books on improving your sales.

This applies (适用) to all fields, not just the work-related (与工作相关的) ones. Maybe you want to improve your health, become a more energetic person. Or maybe you want to improve your study, your relations or perhaps do some personal development.

One hour a day is not much. But if you read for one hour a day on weekdays, that's about 260 hours a year. That's a large number of books and a lot of useful advice.

If you follow the ideas, who knows what great things and feelings could come into your life. Also, all that information and advice will start to open up your mind. You will start to see more chances in your life.

Now, you might think something like this:

1. I really don't have the money...

Answer: Visit your public library or search the database (数据库). Or look for books that are used in places like amazon.com.

2. I really don't have the time...

Answer: Buy audiobooks and listen to them in the car while driving to and from work. Or copy them to your MP3-player and listen while riding your bike /bus to work or school. Recently selling audiobooks through MP3-downloads has become popular...

Shut off the TV a little earlier and start reading.

51. What is Brian Tracy’s lifechanging advice about？

A. Watching TV. B. Listening to MP3.

C. Surfing the internet. D. Reading helpful books.

52. If you’d like to improve your work, you should_______ according to the writer.

A. read work-related books B. become more energetic

C. improve your study D. improve your relations

53. Which is NOT true about reading an hour a day？

A. It will open up your mind.

B. You will have about 260 hours a year to read.

C. You will read lots of books and get much useful advice.

D. It will probably bring great things and feelings into your life.

54. What should you do if you really don't have the money to read?

A. To buy some books from amazon.com. B. To download MP3 free.

C. To visit the public library. D. To borrow audiobooks and listen to them.

55. What is the writer’s idea about audiobooks?

A. They are more useful.

B. Listening to audiobooks is easier than reading books.

C. It’s dangerous to listen to audiobooks while driving or riding.

D. Audiobooks are a good solution to the problem of having no time to read.

第Ⅱ卷 （非选择题， 共55分）

四、听力填表（共5小题，计5分）

录音中有一篇短文，听短文两遍后，根据所听内容完成下面的表格(每空不多于三个词)。（录音播放前你有40秒钟的读题时间）

Note: tip/tip/ n. 建议、提示

五、动词填空（共10空，计10分）

阅读下面短文，用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空 (必要时可加情态动词或助动词)。

Afel was only a small boy when he first saw snow in a picture book. In the pictures he saw a lot of children (61) ______ (play) in the snow.

Afel didn’t understand what snow was. But he dreamed about snow all the time. He dreamed of being able (62) ______ (fly) across the snow.

One day when he was twelve, Afel (63) ______ (watch) TV at his uncle’s house. The program was full of snow. Not only snow – there were people flying across the snow.

“Look! They (64) ______ (fly)!” he shouted excitedly.

The snow, and the people… It was just like one of his dreams.

“They’re skiing. It needs snow,” said his uncle, “it’s the Winter Olympics. It (65) ______ (hold) every four years.”

Afel (66)_________ （find）out that the next Winter Olympics would be in Sochi, Russia in 2014.

“Perfect,” he thought. “Enough time for me to become a good skier. I (67) ______ (go) to the Winter Olympics, and win the gold medal for skiing.”

“But there’s no snow here!” people told him. “Where are you going to ski?”

Afel made himself a pair of skis and skied across the sand. At first he couldn’t move, but he practised and practised until he could move quite quickly.

“How will you go to the Winter Olympics?” people asked him. “Our country (68) ______ (not, have) a team at all. Why (69) ______ (not, do) athletics (田径) instead? We have lots of good runners. And we (70) ______ (win) lots of medals at the Olympics.”

Now Afel is practising skiing down sand dunes (沙丘). He dreams that the yellow sand and brown earth of the desert (沙漠) is the white snow.

六、综合填空（共10空，计10分）

阅读短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示，在空白处填入一个适当的单词。

I wrote my first poem when I was 5 years old. It was (71) f_______ Mother’s Day.

The poem was not my best work, but my mom kept it – just like she kept every other piece of writing and artwork I ever made. She (72) a________ kept my baby clothes and a piece of hair from my first haircut. Sometimes I feel like my mom runs a museum of (73) m_______ life, and she is the only visitor.

But it feels (74) n________ to be loved like that. Who else would care enough to keep all of my terrible drawings and silly poems? Only a (75) m_________.

(76) O________ Mother’s Day when I was little, I used to bring my mom breakfast in bed, (77) m________ her a card, give her kisses and tell her I loved her. I’d say to her: “You’re the (78) b________ mom in the whole world!”

I don’t get to see my mother very much these days. Now I live in China, 11,200 km from my parents’ home in the US. I’m too far away to bring my mom breakfast in bed or give her kisses. (79)B_______ when Mother’s Day comes, I’ll call my mom from China. Over the (80) p________, I’ll tell her I love her. No matter how far away I go, she’s always in my heart.

七、阅读表达 (共5小题，计10分)

阅读短文，根据要求完成下面各小题。

In 1998, I wrote a letter for my future self with instructions not to open until my birthday 2010. It was now 2011, so I decided to open it. This is what it said:

Dear Sherri,

By the time you read this, you will be 30. At the age of 18 I had many hopes and dreams about you. Right now I hope you have traveled and seen everything you've always wanted to, both in Canada and abroad, maybe you have even settled (定居) down somewhere in France, and maybe you are working in the field of art. I hope you're married to Gwynn -- the man of your dreams. You'll probably have two children – a girl and a boy.

If everything goes okay, you'll be living in France in a big house in a small town with Gwynn and your two children. You are doing research in painting. Gwynn will be a computer programmer and you will be doing all right for yourselves.

However, if things don't go according to plan, I wish you love, happiness and joy.

Love,

Sherri "18"

When I read this, I was surprised. So much of what I wanted has come true.

I did travel to a few more places in Canada. I've traveled to the UK, Australia and Egypt. 83I have been living in France for nearly 4 years in a big house, in a small suburb (郊区), in a major city. I am an art teacher in a university. I have two lovely kids.

But not everything went as what I hoped. I married a man named Tom Rees, and he is an excellent artist. We are doing all right for ourselves.

84I find it cool how the dreams of a young girl can become a grown woman's reality (现实).

A. 根据短文内容简要回答问题。

81. How many hopes and dreams did the 18-year-old Sherri have?

________________________________________________________________________

82. Which of her hopes and dreams didn’t come true?

________________________________________________________________________

B．将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。

83.________________________________________________________________________

84. _______________________________________________________________________

C. 请给短文拟一个适当的英文标题。

85. _______________________________________________________________________

八、书面表达（共１题，计20分）

你在求学的过程中肯定遇到过很多好老师，你最喜欢哪位呢？请你以The Teacher I Like Best为题, 用英语写一篇短文，参加美国杂志Weekly Reader的征文活动。

内容可涉及：他（她）是谁、教什么学科；你喜欢他（她）的原因。可以适当发挥。

要求：1、80-100词；

2、文中不得出现真实姓名及校名，老师姓名统一使用Mr./Mrs./Miss XX，例如：Mr. Ma。

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