2011年高一英语上学期25分钟限时阅读天天练—第11天
阅读理解（30分） A
Your first term is sure to be manic (躁狂的)，but there’s no need to panic. Read the following suggestions on how to make your first months unforgetable.
Wake up
You’ve just finished spending the long summer holiday and now is the time to wake up and ready to work hard.
Eat properly
Eat fruit and vegetables every day, eat breakfast and avoid (避免) fatty, salty food; they all lead to a happier and healthier you.
Check stock
Make sure you’ve got everything you need, such as textbooks, pens, pencils, paper and anything else that’s specific to your lessons.
Question everything
Don’t be in a “Why am I here?”way, but try to get your head around anything you’ve not sure of. For example, if you don’t understand something that has come up in a textbook, ask your teachers.
Write stuff
Early on it’s worth making even more notes than you might usually, just to make sure you don’t miss anything that you will need later. As you progress you’ll get a better idea of how many notes you need to make.
Compare notes
Once you have made those notes, why not discuss them with your classmates? It’s a good way to get to know them better and make sure you haven’t missed anything in the process.
Get involved (参与)
When you sign up for all those clubs, don’t forget to go along to them! This is a chance to meet new people and learn new things.
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Let friends and relatives know how you’re getting on, while it’s also good to hear from the people you love. However, don’t go home on your first weekend if you live at the school; settle in your new surroundings first.
1. The underlined word “panic” in Paragragh 1 can be replaced by “_____”
A. be enthusiastic
B. be disappointed
C. be amazing
D.be afraid and anxious
2. What’s the writer’s purpose of giving suggestions to the new students？
A. to make them eat properly.
B. to make them make as many notes as possible.
C. to make their first term memorable and colorful.
D. to tell them to campare notes with their classmates.
3. What does the underlined word “It” in Paragraph 7 refer to?
A. to get to know your lessons better.
B. to discuss your notes with your classmates.
C. to make sure you have’t missed anything in the process.
D. to make your notes.
4. Which of the following can be filled in the blank of Paragragh 9?
A. Phone home.
B. Eat out.
C. Go home.
D. Make friends.
B
Q:
I’d like to know about fluency. What can I do to feel better when I’m talking to other people? Do you have some ways to learn it faster? Please help me!
---Roberto in Brazil
A:
Roberto wants to know how to become more fluent in English, and this is something you want to be able to do “fast”.
First, if you get to meet English speakers much, the important rule is to listen not just to native speakers of English, but aslo to very good users of English. If you don’t, then listen to the radio, TV or films in English.
The next step is to notice what it is that speakers of English do, which makes them sound fluent. The first trick (诀窍) is to probobly have confidence. Some people think they might make mistakes. Don’t worry about that. Your listeners will usually try hard to understand you---a few grammar mistakes aren’t going to worry them. What you do need to worry about is pronunciation, especially stress (重音). When you learn a new word or expression, learn it with its stress. Notice how a native speaker says it or look it up in a dictionary.
Another good thing that speakers of English do is to have a few tricks up their sleeves (袖子) for when they need to give themselves thinking time. Sometimes they use “filler sounds” like er, um, and so on.
It is also useful to know how to bring other speakers into your conversation so that you keep them interested---and this is often done by asking questions like “What do you think?”“How do you feel about this?” and so on.
So, to become a fluent speaker, you’ll need to put into practice all these kinds of things. And there’s the key: practisce, practise, practise.
---Susan Fearn
5. Roberto wants to know how to_____
A. learn English
B. speak English fluently
C. talk to other people
D. become confident
6. When mentioning pronunciation, Susan pays special attention to_____
A. stress
B. expressions
C.dictionaries
D. words
7. What do the underlined words “to have a few tricks up their sleeves” probably mean?
A. To wear a lot of clothes.
B. To have a secret plan or idea.
C. To hide some tricks into their sleeves.
D. To have sleeves covering their whole arms.
8. What do we know from the passage?
A. One can only learn stress from dictionaries.
B. Grammar mistakes worry one’s listeners a lot.
C. Asking questions can make one’s conversation attractive.
