A life coach is somebody who helps you reach all kinds of personal and professional goals . Each of us has the ability to be our own life coach. Here are some tips for you:

 Pay attention to your relationships with others

Ask yourself the following questions: How do you deal with disagreements? When was the last time you showed your family members that you care for them? Your relationships with friends, family members and teachers show a lot about the kind of person you are.

 Face the fears about the future

Now, imagine that one of your good friends told you that he or she was not strong enough to go back to school. ① We often give better advice than we are willing to take ourselves. Remember that even the most successful people were probably told that what they wanted to do was impossible, but they followed their dreams and succeed.

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If you want to reach your goals,③you will have to spend more time developing the talentsyou already have, and uncovering any hidden talents that you haven't discovered yet. So you can take classes in subjects that you are interested in, even if you have no experience.

 Be thankful

Take some time to be thankful for the things you do have. Remember positive memories.

④Think of the best dav(s) you have had in the past month or year.Remember special parties, vacations and holidays. Appreciate the wonderful people you have in your life.

任务一.根据短文内容简要回答问题。

(1)How many tips are mentioned in the passage?

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任务二. 将短文中划线的句子①④译成汉语。

(2) ①句的意思: __________________________________________________________________

(3) ④句的意思：______________________________________________________________

任务三. 

(4)选择合适的短语填入②处，使文章合理通顺。________________

 A. Develop your talents  B. Don’t be lazy  C. Choose your favorite life

任务四.

(5)将短文中划线的句子③变成被动语态____________________________________

任务五.

(6)用英语简要概括本文的主旨大意。

It’s mainly about ___________________________________________________________.

先阅读（A）、（B）、（C）三篇短文，然后根据题目要求及所给语境完成下列五项任务。

（A）

My English teacher’s name is Cathy Brown. She is from Canada. She is very beautiful. She   (1)   big eyes and a small nose. She is 1.65 meters tall. She is very thin and likes   (2)   white clothes. She wears Size 37 shoes. Her favorite sport is   (3)  . She usually goes to school on   (4)  . She loves us and always helps us with   (5)   study and life. We all like her very much and we are very thankful to her.

（B）

My name is Bill. I am fourteen years old. I have a brother. He is two years younger than me. We look like the same and we have the same food. We both have big blue eyes and short hair. And we like eating fruit. We also have a lot of hobbies（爱好）. We both like playing football, swimming and singing. But we still have many differences. We love each other and live happily together.

（C）

I have three good friends. We like sports very much. My favorite sport is basketball.  I have three balls. I think playing basketball is interesting. Jim and Tim think it is boring to play basketball. Their favorite sport is soccer. They play soccer every afternoon. They have four soccer balls. Mary is a nice girl. Her favorite sport is volleyball. She plays it very well. It’s relaxing for her to play volleyball. But she has only one ball. Sports are good for us.

任务1：阅读短文（A），用方框中所给词的适当形式填空，是文章通顺、连贯、合理。（每空一词，每词限用一次）

任务2：阅读短文（B），根据英文释义及首字母提示拼写单词。

任务3：阅读短文（B），同义句转换，每空一词。

We also have a lot of hobbies

We also have （1） （2）hobbies.

任务4：根据短文（B）内容简答问题。

What do we like eating?

任务5：根据短文（C）内容完成表格，每空一词。

先阅读（A）、（B）、（C）三篇短文，然后根据题目要求及所给语境完成下列五项任务。

（A）

There are four skills（技能）to study English: listening, speaking,   (1)   and writing. First, we should be brave to talk with others in English, which can improve our talking and listening skills. Second, we should try to listen to all  (2)   of English programs as much as possible. We can  (3)   improve our spoken English. Third, we should often read English books. When we meet a new word, we should guess its  (4)   through context（上下文）first and then look it up in the dictionary. Fourthly, we should practice our writing skills. Whenever we have any idea, we should get the pen and write it down. As long as we listen, speak, read and write   (5)   , we are sure to learn English better.

（B）

A special day in the United States is Thanksgiving Day. It is on the fourth Thursday in November. As English learners, we all know that turkey is the traditional food for Americans to eat on Thanksgiving Day. Now let’s learn one of the ways to make turkey for a Thanksgiving dinner. First, mix（混合）together some bread pieces, onions, salt and pepper. Next, fill the turkey with the bread mix. Then we’ll put the turkey with bread mix in a hot oven（微波炉）to cook for a few hours. Now it’s ready. We’ll put it on a big plate and cover it with gravy（肉汁）. OK, finally, it’s time to taste. We can cut it into thin pieces and eat the meat with vegetables like carrots and potatoes.

（C）

Now let me tell you something about our museum. To you, maybe it’s just a house, but to us, it’s a treasure（财富）. Here you’ll see some of the best British physicists（物理学家）.For example, you’ll see Newton, who was born（出生）in 1642. He went to study at college in 1661. He found the most important things. It is said that Newton got his idea when an apple fell on his head! Another British physicist, William Thomson, went to study at college when he was just ten years old. He became a professor（教授）when he was 22. He found clear relationships among heat（热量）,work and energy（能量）. And of course, James Watt, the famous engineer! When he was twenty, he began to make useful things at college. He improved the steam engine（蒸汽机）and made it more powerful（有力的）.

任务1：阅读短文（A），用方框中所给词的适当形式填空，是文章通顺、连贯、合理。（每空一词，每词限用一次）

任务2：阅读短文（B），根据英文释义及首字母提示拼写单词。

任务3：阅读短文（B），同义句转换，每空一词。

Now let’s learn one of the ways to make turkey for a Thanksgiving dinner.

Now let’s learn   （1）    （2）  to make turkey for a Thanksgiving dinner.

任务4：根据短文（B）内容简答问题。

What is the traditional food for Americans to eat on Thanksgiving Day ?

任务5：根据短文（C）内容完成表格，每空一词。

Mr. Ma, a famous mental doctor from Beijing once said at an important meeting, “Now many young students can have problems with their minds. Some students become worried because they have to study very hard. Others have trouble getting on well with people around them like their parents and classmates. Parents and teachers should care more about this problem.”

Then Mr. Ma gave some examples. One patient, a middle school student from Xi’an was doing badly in his lessons. He thought his teachers and friends often laughed at him, and he became so nervous and worried that one night he left his home without telling parents. Another student, a 14-year-old schoolgirl from Shanghai, was very afraid of exams. While she was reading the exam paper, she couldn’t think of anything to write.

A recent report from Jiefang Daily says about 18% of the young students in Shanghai havementalproblems. They often feel worried and very unhappy. Unluckily, many of them won’t go and ask for help. Some think they will look stupid if they go to see a doctor. Others won’t talk about their secrets.

At the end of the meeting, Mr. Ma offered some good ideas to young people:

★Talk to your parents or teachers often.

★Take part in group activities.

★Try to get on well with the people around you.

★unhappy, go, often, see, to, if, feel, a, you, doctor.

(1)List the teenagers’ problems mentioned in the first paragraph (段).

____________________________________________________________________________

(2)Why did the boy left his home without telling parents?

____________________________________________________________________________

(3)The schoolgirl’s problem happened whenever she _____________________.

(4)The Chinese meaning of the word “mental” is _______________.

(5)将文中划线部分的单词连词成句。

____________________________________________________________________________

How do you spend your free time? There may be different answers according to our interests. But how can we make it more meaningful? Most of us can’t tell it clearly. Here I have some advice for you.

Do some housework. Each of us wants to live comfortably. We have grown up, so we can’t depend on our parents any more. What’s more, how to live a normal life is a basic skill in our life. Our parents can’t take care of our whole life. Sooner or later, we will learn to live by ourselves.

Develop some hobbies. Hobbies can bring us positive feelings, increase happiness, reduce stress and improve work performance. As it is said, a man with hobbies is happy. Hobbies can make us grow as a person. They can help us learn new skills. Even some hobbies can become our lifelong career.

Make friends. Everyone needs friends. A person without friends will not get happiness in his or her life. Friends can help us know various people and open our eyes. We can learn a lot of things from them, such as how to communicate, how to care about others and how to learn to be independent.

In a word, we can’t spend our free time in the bed. The more active you are, the more successful you will be!

Bill is a good student and an intelligent boy. He likes to study (A)___________, and he can do all of the math easily in his book.  

One day on (B)his way to school Bill passed a fruit (C)store. There was a sign in the window which said, "Apple — six for 5 cents (美分)." An idea came to Bill and he went into the store.

"How much are the apples?" he asked the store.

"Six for 5 cents."

"But I don't want (D) _________ apples."

"How many apples do you want?"

"It is not a question of how many apples I want. (E)这是一道数学题."

"What do you mean by a math problem?" asked the man.

"Well, if six apples are worth (值) 5 cents, then five apples are worth 4 cents, four apples are worth 3 cents, three apples are worth 2 cents, two apples are worth 1 cent and one apple is worth nothing. I (F) only want one apple."

Bill picked out a good apple, began to eat it, and walked happily out of the store. (G)The man looked at the young boy with such surprise that he could not say a word.

A giant panda is a kind of bear. It has a white face with black patches around its eyes. It also has black ears, shoulders and legs. The (A)_______of its body is white.

Pandas like to live (B)on their own，They need to eat a lot to (C) stay healthy so they (D) _______ more than 12 hours a day eating. (E) Although they are big and heay, it is not difficult for them to climb trees. They are strong enough to protect themselves.

People are cutting down forests, so the pandas are losing their homes. Some people are（F）为了他们的皮毛捕杀他们. It is cruel of them to do so. There are not many pandas in the world. It is important to protect them.

Operation Smile was (A) __________ by a doctor and his wife, a nurse. In 1982 they went                   to the Philippines, with a group of volunteers (志愿者）to help children who had problems with their faces. These children had holes in their lips or inside their mouths. It was very (B) difficult for these children to eat.

They helped many children in the Philippines, but they were sad, because (C)他们没有足够的钱to help all the children. They decided to start a charity(慈善机构）so that they could help them. They called it Operation Smile.

Now Operation Smile helps children in (D) more than twenty developing countries and has cured(治愈)about ten thousand children. Operation Smile has won many prizes for (E) its work and in 1999, another special activity was started, which was called "The World Journey of Hope". During this activity, more than five thousand children with holes in their mouths and lips were cured in eighteen different countries around the world.

Operation Smile also trains doctors in developing countries so that they can continue to help children even (F)         the Operation Smile team has left the country. Children with serious problems are brought to the USA for treatment (治疗).

(G) All of this costs a lot, so please give as much as possible. Many thanks from the children who can now smile.

 In fact, there’s little we can do to stop natural disasters (自然灾害)such as earthquakes happening. But, there are  some ways that

may help us when an earthquake happens.

◆Drop down onto your hands and knees. This way can protect you from falling.

◆Cover your head under a strong table or desk. You can also stay along a wall and cover your head with your arms and  hands.

◆Hold on to your shelter(遮蔽物) until the shaking stops. Be sure to move with your shelter if the shaking continues.

   Schools can normally take the earthquake drills（演练）to help students stay alive.