— She must be missing her parents        . She has been away from home for so long after all.

— It could be         . I think she is feeling very nervous.

— I'm not surprised.        , she didn't prepare at all.

    My six-year-old granddaughter, Cindy, and I stopped at a food shop for some bread. Cindy had 1 it for several days. As we were going out of the door, a young teenage boy was coming in.

    The boy had no hair on sides of his head but a set of blue spiked(竖起的) hair on top of it. His nose was 2 , and a ring ran through the hole. A chain went across his face and it was connected to his earring. He held a skateboard under one arm and a basketball under the other.

    Cindy, who was walking ahead of me, 3 stopped when she saw the boy. I thought he had4 my granddaughter. But I was wrong. My granddaughter backed up against the door and opened it as wide as it would go. Now I came face to face with the young man. I stepped aside and let him 5 , he replied very6, "Thank you very much."

    On our way to the car, I 7Cindy for holding open the door for the boy. To my surprise, she didn't seem to be troubled by the young boy's8 . But I wanted to make sure. I wanted to be ready to talk about freedom of expressing themselves and allowing people's9.

    As it turned out, the person10 needed the talk was me. The only thing Cindy noticed about the boy was the fact that his arms were11. “He held a skateboard under one arm and a basketball under the other. He would have a 12time to open the door,” said Cindy.

    I just paid attention to the partially shaved(部分剃光的)head, the set of spiked hair, the piercing and the chain. She saw a person carrying13under each arm and heading toward a(n)14door.

    What my granddaughter said reminded me that I should change my ways of judging people and15 my granddaughter to be open-minded and warm-hearted.

    Even in early times, people could realize the importance of dreams and knew that dreams gave meaning      life.

    Every great achievement has been the result of years of dreaming. If a person has a dream and        holds to it, he or she will find a way to make it come true.

    Normally, children don't have much experience or       .However, they are natural dreamers. With their rich imagination, children are       than adults and they can come up with their fantastic dreams. History is full of examples. Many great men were dreamers when they were little children. One such dreamer was Thomas Edison. He used to be      at when he was in primary school, but his achievements were greater than everyone else's in his time.

    Teenagers and young people should also be encouraged to      . Their dreams change their lives and even the world. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are the good examples. They have       technology and brought great progress to human. The world is full of the      teenagers and young people like them.

    Everyone was born with the      to dream. Olympic records were broken by players who were brave enough to dream. Nobody is too young      too old to dream.

    Science and technology can be seen everywhere. They are making our life more convenient(方便的) and comfortable. Some scientists recently added amazing ideas to four common things and made great changes to them.

Does Success Come with a High EQ or IQ?

    Most students feel that their IQs are what determines(决定) how well they are going to do in life. When they see other students doing better than them, they usually believe that those students have a higher IQ and that there is nothing they can do to change facts. However, new research into EQ suggests that success is not simple the result of a high IQ.

    While your IQ tells you how intelligent you are, your EQ tells you how well you use your intelligence. Professor Salovey who invented the term EQ suggests that when predicting someone's future success, their character, as measured (测量)by EQ tests, might actually matter than their IQs.

    It is generally believed that people with high EQs are open to new ideas and have positive attitudes towards life. They are also less likely to be troubled by problems.

    People generally believe that a person's IQ is determined by birth. However, most social scientists agree that EQ has a lot to do with education. Some are trying to study the possibility of improving a person's EQ, especially in terms of "people skills", such as understanding and communication.

    Professor Mayer, recognized by many as a leading expert in the study of changes to people's EQs, recently said the results of a study on senior high school students. When normal students were introduced to students with disabilities, they found that, afterwards, the normal students were more willing to help people with difficulties. They also showed a better understanding of the disabled students' feelings compared to students who had not been involved in the study. There was also an obvious change in the disabled students' attitudes. They became more positive about life and more willing to try new things.

    The results of the study show that EQ is important. To get ahead in the world and lead a happy successful life means getting on with other people and being able to understand and react to the situations in the best way possible. This requires a high EQ, the higher the better. And the fact that it might be possible to raise EQs means that schools need to make sure that their students are receiving the education they really need, and know that their futures are not entirely determined by their IQs.

    Our brains believe information automatically(自动地)-even if it's false-because we can learn efficiently this way. "We're learning false information not because we're poor learners or not working hard," says David Rapp, a psychology and education professor at Northwestern University. "In many cases, it's a useful skill for us to accept what people tell us, because often what people tell us is true."

    When we hear new information, those fresh facts don't cover what we knew before. We'll draw on old or new information when the situation comes up.                 . Short-term memories are easier for our brains to access than facts we heard longer ago, because they're fresher in our minds-even if they're wrong. Since we have to think back further to remember old information, we will often ignore it in favour of new inaccurate (不准确的)information. New information is what we're currently thinking about or has been recently presented to us, while the old one isn't as readily available.

    We also buy into the facts that seem more reasonable. Often, this means they fit better with what we want to believe, which can explain why people quote different facts in political debates. Both candidates said something that was objectively true or not, but people would go with what they hope to be true.

    Things get even trickier when truth and falsehood coexist in the information. For instance, our brains aren't sure whether to believe the descriptions of London in Harry Potter. "Don't look for that train station to Hogwarts, but there might be streets mentioned that are real," says Dr. Rapp. In fact, our brains can keep track of what's true or false by mentally tagging(标记)facts as either true or false, but sorting all that information takes time. In many cases, we are unlikely to think critically to get information, especially when we are reading for pleasure.

    However, it's worth putting in the extra effort to have a second thought about the information that seems doubtful. "With the ease that we can look things up on the Internet," says Dr. Rapp, "there's no reason not to." "Seek out reliable sources," he adds.

    I recently watched a TV program Real Sports where the presenter looked into the culture of handing out participation (参与)trophies to children. There's no doubt that today's kids live in a world of scoreless games and everyone gets a trophy. Sometimes when a league decides to award(奖励)just the winners instead of all participants, the parents buy their own trophies for the whole team!

    However, when we try to protect children from losing at the early ages, are they less prepared when real competition kicks in? People who support giving trophies say they want to make each child feel special, but how does this make them feel special? Stanford University looked at this recently and found that although kids react positively to praise-they enjoy hearing that they're talented, smart and so on, they break down at the first experience of difficulty. Discouraged by their failure, they say they'd rather cheat than risk failing again.

    There are also endless social-science studies showing the harmful effects of easy competition, not just on the psyche(精神)but more surprisingly on achievement. If children know they will get an award simply by showing up, what is the reason for improvement? Jean Twenge, writer of Generation Me, warns that when living rooms are filled with participation trophies, it's part of a larger cultural message: to succeed, you just have to show up. In college, those who've grown up receiving these endless awards do the required work, but don't see the need to do it well. In the office, they still believe that attendance is all it takes to get a promotion(晋升).

    When I was a child, I earned my fair share of trophies but none of them was for just showing up. I also missed out on even more and had to watch my friends collect them while I stood by and clapped. I realized that in life, I'm going to lose more often than I win, even if I'm good at something, and I've got to get used to that to keep going.

    When children make mistakes, our job should not be to turn those losses into decorated(装饰性的) victories. Instead, our job is to help kids overcome difficulties, to help them see that progress over time is more important than a certain win or loss, and to help them politely congratulate those who succeed when they fail. To do that, we need to refuse all the meaningless trophies.

    Starting high school is a great experience for any teenager. Whether you are coming from a middle school (grades six through eight) or a junior high school (grades seven through nine), there are many things about high that are different from your old school environment      .

    You will face being in a new school, making new friends in an unfamiliar class and getting to know new teachers. These new teachers will usually have higher academic (学术的) level than your middle and junior-high schoolteachers.       In return, they expect you to work hard and develop your skills, On top of all this, peer pressure (同伴压力) to drink and smoke often increases in high school.       

    Although there is a lot of pressure, it is nothing you cannot deal with. If you are feeling pressure to do something that you feel is wrong, talk to a friend, parent or counselor to find a solution (解决).      

    If you are not succeeding academically, find someone to help you. If you feel lonely, try to join a school club or group to make new friends.

            With time, you will come to be thankful for everything about your experience. On the point of starting you high school, are you ready?

A. They want to help you get into college.

B. Those memories will be your treasures forever.

C. You will experience many changes.

D. High school may seem discouraging at first.

E. They are there to help you get into this great new time in your life.

F. These new teachers will also have more professional skills than your former teachers. G. Besides, the pressure could also come from grades, loneliness and so on.

(Sandra and Luke plan their trip to Cape Town.

S＝Sandra L＝Luke)

S: OK, that's the flight(航班). Let's look for a hotel now.       

L: Three nights—Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Are there any hotels near the airport?

S: Yes, there are. But they are expensive. Just a minute…no, there aren't any cheap hotels near the airport. They are all expensive.       

L: Wow! Well, what about a youth hostel(青年旅社)? Is there a youth hostel near the airport?

S: OK, let's see. I don't think so, no, there isn't. I don't like youth hostels.      

L: OK. Let's look in the city centre. Are there any cheap hotels there?

S: Yes, of course there are. 

L: Well, that's good. And is there a bus to the city centre?

S: A bus from the airport? Yes, there is.      There isn't a train, but that's OK.

L: And there are taxis, too.

S:        OK, so let's look at these hotels.

A. I think the bus is fine.

B. We need a room for two.

C. Do you like a youth hostel?

D. Is it for two nights or three?

E. They aren't very comfortable.

F. There's a bus every twenty minutes.

G. This one is four hundred dollars a night.

要点如下：1）中国产品物美价廉，深受美国人的喜爱；

2）中国产品种类繁多，满足美国人的需要；

3）中国部分产品有创造性，美国工厂自己不能生产，没有其他替代产品； 4）……

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