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首字母训练1.How can you study well? I think you should have good study habits. With good study habits, you can spend less time studying and learn m_1_.First, make f_2_ use of your time. Are your books open? If so, please turn off the TV and stay away from your snacks. Of course, you need some time to play, but you should play after studying. Remember that studying comes first. Secondly, listen to your teachers c_3_ in class. It is very important. If you have any questions, just ask your teachers. They will be very glad to help you.Thirdly, do your homework by y_4_. When you cant work out a problem, ask for help. Do not just copy others answer. Make s_5_ that you understand it.Fourthly, take a notebook with you. When you have some ideas or questions, write them d_6_. Then you can talk to your teachers, parents or friends.These four tips are very useful. Have a try! You will s_7_ if you have good study habits. 2.People in different countries have different ways of doing things. Something that is polite in one country may be i 1 in another. In Britain, you mustnt lift your bowl to your m 2 when you are having some liquid food. But its different in China. And in Japan you even neednt worry about making noise when you have it. It shows that you are e 3 it. But it is regarded (认为) as bad manners in Britain. If you are a visitor in Mongolia, what manners do they wish you to have? They wish you to give a loud burp (打嗝) a 4 you finish eating. Burping shows that you like the food.In Britain, you should t 5 not to put your hands on the table when you are having a meal. In Mexico, however, guests are expected to keep their hands on the table during a meal. But in Arabian (阿拉伯) countries you must be very c 6 with your hands. You mustnt eat with your left hand. So, what should you do if you are on a visit in a 7 country? Well, just do in Rome as the Romans do.3Some people have the feeling that nothing can be done about their poor reading ability. They feel hopeless about it. Can you learn to read better, or must you agree that nothing can be done about it? To be sure, people are different. You cannot do everything as w_1_ as certain other people do. If all the students in a class tried out for basketball, some would be very good players; others would be very poor; and the r_2_ would be in between. But even the very poor players can become much better players if they are guided in the right way, and with plenty of p_3_ It is the same with reading. Some seem to enjoy reading and to read happily without any s_4_ help. Many experiments have shown that just about every poor reader can improve his reading ability. In these experiments, the poor readers were given tests of reading ability. After some of the causes of their poor reading were d_5_, they were given some instruction and training in reading. After a few months, another test of the same kind was given. In nearly all cases, these people had raised their reading s_6_. So dont worry about your reading ability. Everyone can be better readers.4.There are many kinds of entertainment for children today - books, movies, games, and sports are only a few of the possibilities. Television is one of the most influential kinds of (1) e_. Studies show that elementary school children in the United States watch TV about twenty-five hours a week. Some people think that television has had a good (2) i_ on children because it offers educational programs for them. One of the best and most (3)p_ programs is Sesame Street. One study claims that Sesame Street helps children do better in school. Many people hope that programs like this will (4)p_ a better education for children from poor communities and schools. Other people think that television is bad for children. They say that there are too many programs about crime and violence, and that even educational programs dont help a childs education. Children simply watch too (5) m_ television, and therefore they dont do a lot of other things that are important to them. Preschool children need to learn to speak their language and (6) c_ with people. When they are watching television, they are only listening to the (7)1_, and they arent communicating with anyone. When elementary school children watch television, they read a lot less. So they dont learn to read and write quickly at school. All children learn by doing, and they need time to play in order to learn about the world. When they watch television, they play less. They also have less time to develop relationships with their parents and friends, and they have less time to exercise and develop their bodies.5. Yin Zixi, a 12-year-old boy form No. 159 Middle School in Beijing, started to w 1 glasses at the age of nine. His parents think he read too many cartoons in bed. In Yins class, more than 20 children out of 46 are short-sighted. They are part of the growing number of kids with eye p 2 . A new Education Ministry(教育部) survey s 3 over 55 per cent of junior school students in China are short- sighted. Too much TV, l 4 exercise and bad reading habits are the top causes. More Chinese teenagers wear glasses than any other c 5 in the world after Japan. An eye expert at Peking Universitys medical school advises students to:1. Do more outdoor a _6_ such as basketball and cycling.2. Keep a distance while reading or writing.3. Do eye exercises d_ your school time.6.Mr Gregory Gale is one of the few people in England who are 100 years old, but this is not the only thing that makes him remarkable On the day of his birthday, he p_1_ a game of tennis and went for a long walk. A few days later a radio reporter came to his house and asked him if he had any secret of life. This is w_2_ Mr Gale said, No, I dont know any secrets l_3_that, but there are a few simple rules of good life. Ive always kept them all my l_4_. The first is this: Dont listen to those fools who tell you have to give up all the pleasures of life! Thats absolute nonsense!The second is to enjoy all the pleasures of life in a suitable way. F_5_ instance, Ive always smoked a few good cigars every day. Not many, mind you! Only two or three! Ive also always d_6_ a little good wine with my meals, perhaps two or three glasses.The third rule is to take a little e_7_ every day. Ive always1 taken a little every day and on Saturdays, Ive always played a little tennis or golf. 7.A pair of giant pandas are leaving their home in southwest China on Friday to start the first leg of their journey to Madrid, where they will stay for 10 years as a goodwill gesture promised during a visit by Spanish King Juan Carlos to Beijing earlier this year.The pair, seven-year-old Bing Xing and four-year-old Hua Zui Ba, will be flown from their home at a giant panda breeding and research base in Chengdu to Shanghai on Friday afternoon, sources with the base said.They will s_1_ one night at Shanghai Pudong International Airport and will take a plane to Madrid early on Saturday.At the zoologists request, airport authorities have arranged a comfortable room for the panda pair and air-conditioned the indoor temperature to 20 degrees Celsius, s_2_ to their natural habitats(栖息地) in mountains of southwest China.The pandas will be accompanied by their own keepers from the Chengdu base and three zoo workers from Madrid throughout the trip, which is to l_3_ 30 hours at least.King Juan Carlos is scheduled to host a grand ceremony around next Friday to welcome the pair, said Jesus Fernandez, general manager of the Madrid Zoo.He said the pair are due to go on display two weeks after their arrival, but it d_4_ on how fast they will adapt to their new home.Fernandez said the zoo has arranged a comfortable pen(圈；围栏) for each of them equipped with air-conditioners and closed-circuit surveillance(闭路监视) systems to k_5_an eye on them 24 hours a day.They will also have an outdoor sports ground, where a small pond and sliding board type of facilities will help them to keep f_6_.Fernandez said the lush bamboo forests in the suburbs of Madrid will p_7_ plenty of food for the pandas, and in case of shortage, fresh bamboo can also be imported from the neighboring countries including France and Portugal.8.Stockholm is the capital of Sweden, and it is perhaps one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. In winter, the water here freezes hard enough for people to walk on and see the city from a new point of v_1_.There are a lot of people on the ice, taking a walk or w_2_ their dogs. Probably for them it is quite normal , but for other people it is wonderful to see these wide sea waters c_3_ frozen with a very thick layer of ice/ No more sound of waves against the docks, no more boats sailing up and down the waters. People would see one small boat struggling its way through a small stretch of loose ice, disappearing in the white ice fields.In Stockholm there are m_4_ ice bars. Before you enter an ice bar, youll get protective clothes, which not only include a coat but also a furry hat and gloves. Although this seems exaggerated at first, you might change your mind after some time in the bar. The bar has two doors, and the lady at the e_5_ who puts on the clothes for you, asks you to go inside the first door and wait u_6_ it is closed, before you open the second one. This obviously keeps the cold inside as much as possible. The next step takes you into a fridge-like cold room. The walls are ice blocks, the tables are big pieces of ice, the counter is ice, the lamp is m_7_ of ice, and, of course, so are the glasses.9.If you are out at lunch time, you can eat in a restaurant or to McDonalds or Kentucky Fried Chicken to have fast food. When you went to eat in a restaurant, you first go and sit down at a table. Then you read a menu and give your order, and then your d 1 are cooked. You pay the bill after eating. All this takes you a lot of time. But in a fast food restaurant, things are quite d 2 . You just stand in a line in front of a counter. Above the counter you see p 3 offood and soft drinks, such as hamburgers, potatoes hot dogsYou can c 4 any of them right away. After you give you your order, people behind the counter get your food for you quickly. They give you your food on a p 5 , you pay for it before you eat. And you can eat right there or take it away. Now many People counter like to go to fast food restaurants, because it s 6 time. This is w 7 fast food has become very popular. However, more and more People counter now know that too much fast food is not good for their health.10. Millions of words have been written about young people in the United States. There are r 1 for this great interest in the ideas, feelings, and actions of youth(青年). Today there are about seven million Americans in colleges and universities. Young persons under twenty-five make up nearly