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erested! Ive been trying to get tickets everywhere. Question: What does the man mean？

A．He"d like to get tickets for the game very much.

B．He"s not interested in the game.

C．He"s already got some tickets for the game.

D．He feels sorry that the woman has misunderstood him.

as a teacher. So welcome Alex. How do you enjoy teaching English as a foreign language？ M: I like teaching students how to speak. And I really enjoy seeing them learn and improve. Ive been teaching for five years now, and Ive got good experience from my classes. I teach in institutes and also universities and theyre a bit different. People who come to institutes are highly motivated because they come with their own legs. As they say, and as we say, theyre quite interested. They try to be active. But for the students at universities, because they have to pass some courses, they might not be interested enough most of the time. W: Well, you say that recently youve been trying to be a creative teacher, and to stimulate students. So tell me about that. M: Well, most of the time I try to make them motivated by just making the class more fun and interesting. W: What do you find is the hardest part of being a teacher？ M: Well, the hardest part is that a teacher has to forget everything in his life before going to a class. W: What do you mean by that？ M: You see, if you are sad, if you have a lot of ups and downs in your life, when you enter a class, you have to be a teacher full of energy, very happy. You have to forget about all your problems. If you just take your problems to the class, you wont be a good teacher. Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 13. Why does Alex enjoy his teaching job？ 14. What is the characteristic of institute students？ 15. What is the hardest part of being a teacher according to Alex？14．

A．They are more interesting.

B．They are more tired of studying.

C．They are more highly motivated in class.

D．They are burdened with passing all examinations.

Ive never been able to work her out. The underlined part means______.

A．to work together with her

B．to understand her

C．to ask her out

D．to persuade her

her animal species. It is true we may【M1】______ have hastened the disappearance of some species, but abundant evidence suggests that mankind has actually had few impact Biologists【M2】______ point out that 50 species can be expected to disappear in the 20th century but also remind us that about 50 species became extinct in the 19th century, and 50 species in each of the centuries after that Dr. T. H.【M3】______ Jukes at the University of California has pointed out that about 100 million animal species have become extinct since life began on the earth about 3 billion years before. Thus, animals come and animals【M4】______ go as a consequence of natural selection as Mr. Darwin had invented.【M5】______ The human race is a recent newcomer to the scene, so weve had nothing whatsoever to do with the disappearance of millions of species. In fact, when it comes right down it, were a miserable failure【M6】______ at genocide. In spite of an all-out centuries-old war against rats, but【M7】______ we havent made a dent in its numbers, much less extinguished a【M8】______ single species. And in spite of all our high technology we have not been successful on eliminating a single undesirable insect species!【M9】______ Ive come to the conclusion that the people who are trying to save world are probably quite sincere about it, therefore they dont know【M10】______ much about science and certainly nothing about systems engineering.

【M1】

Ive never been to Lhasa, but thats the city______.

A．I"d most like to visit

B．where I like to visit

C．which I like to visit mostly

D．I"d like much to visit

fe. The book Writing Without Teachers introduced me to one distinctionand one practice that has helped my writing processes tremendously. The distinction is between the creative mindand the critical mind. While you need to employ both to get to a finished result, they cannot work in parallel nomatter how much we might like to think so. Trying to criticize writing on the fly is possibly the single greatest barrier to writing that most of us encounter.If you are listening to that 5th grade English teacher correct your grammar while you are trying to capture afleeting (稍纵即逝的) thought, the thought will die. If you capture the fleeting thought and simply share it withthe world in raw form; no one is likely to understand. You must learn to create first and then criticize if you want tomake writing the tool for thinking that it is. The practice that can help you past your learned bad habits of trying to edit as you write is what Elbow calls"free writing". In free writing, the objective is to get words down on paper non-stop, usually for 15-20 minutes. Nostopping, no going back, no criticizing. The goal is to get the words flowing. As the words begin to flow, the ideaswill come out from the shadows and let themselves be captured on your notepad or your screen. Now you have taw materials that you can begin to work with using the critical mind that youve persuaded tosit on the side and watch quietly. Most likely, you will believe that this will take more time than you actually haveand you will end up staring blankly at the page as the deadline draws near. Instead of staring at a blank screen, start filling it with words no matter how bad. Halfway through youravailable time, stop and rework your raw writing into something closer to finished product. Move back and forthuntil you run out of time and the final result will most likely be far better than your current practices. When the author says the creative mind and the critical mind "cannot work in parallel" (Line 3, Para.1 ) in the writing process, he means ____

A.no one can be both creative and critical

B.they cannot be regarded as equally important

C.they are in constant conflict with each other

D.one cannot use them at the same time

A: Ive just heard that the tickets for Swan Lake have been sold out! B: Oh, no! ______

A．It doesn"t matter.

B．It"s not at all interesting.

C．I was looking forward to it.

D．I knew it already.

I_________ far too hard today and Ive got such a headache now.

A.had worked

B.have been working

C.shall work

D.work

—Glad to see you again. I______you for weeks. —I______in beijing. Ive just got back.

A．didn"t see: am

B．wasn"t seeing: am

C．hadn"t see: have been

D．haven"t seen: was

e been under a lot of pressure lately. W: Whats up？ M: Ive got a million things to do. Im busy at work. Im working on the house too, you know. Im trying to fix it up. I need to finish it before winter. Just lots of deadlines. W: Any way I can help？ M: Thanks, but not really. Its just things I have to do. W: Well, you need to manage that stress a little better. Are you getting any exercise？ M: Who has time？ W: You really should ride a bicycle to the store, or walk to work a couple of days a week, or go swimming at the community centre. It helps me to get exercise when Im busy. M: That is a good suggestion. Its just the time, you know. Im always thinking of what I should be doing. W: No wonder you cant sleep. A lot of people learn to meditate or learn yoga. Meditation and yoga are supposed to be good ways to deal with stress. M: Yoga？ Maybe Ill call the community centre. They might have some classes there. W: You know, another thing you can do is to take vitamins. You use up a lot of vitamins and you dont get them in your meals all the time. They wont help the stress, but they might help your body handle it better. You really should take vitamins every day. M: Yeah, I should get some. Thanks. W: How about going out with Rosa and me this Friday？ Itll do you good. M: You know, youre right about all of this. Lets go somewhere Friday night, have dinner, see a movie. Thatll be fun. Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 12. Whats the mans problem？ 13. What does the woman suggest the man do to deal with stress？ 14. What does the woman say about vitamins？ 15. What does the man suggest doing this Friday night？12．

A．Learn to meditate or learn yoga.

B．Walk to the supermarkets.

C．Go mountain-climbing once a week.

D．Take part in a bicycle race.

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B./

C.with

D.on