Be aware of problem

First of all,it is important to know and understand the problem clearly.【2】.Following questions like why,what, how,when,where and who will take you to the root cause of the problem.

Analyze the problem

Analyzing the problem will give you time to think of a proper solution.【3】.They can be diagrams（圖表）, flowcharts or a lists,etc.

Plan a strategy（策略）

Planning a strategy will help you waste less energy and time in attempting all the solutions.This step includes knowing the advantages and disadvantages of applying a solution.In this way,you can abandon the strategy that you don't find worthy to apply.

【4】

Leave out the information that is not required for the solving of the problem.You need to be accurate with the details.Keeping the unrelated information can sometimes complicate the simple problems as we tend to overlook the important information.

Carry out the solution

Putting the solution into effect in a correct way to get the result expected is important while solving a problem. You need to be creative while actualizing（實(shí)施）a solution just in case some other problem arises while applying the solution.【5】

A.Remove unrelated information.

B.You can use various tools to study the problem.

C.Use yes or no questions to get better information.

D.Knowing the problem means solving half the problem itself.

E.They can be social problems,relationship problems,or problems at work.

F.Being ready with alternatives is also important in case a solution works only half way.

G.Spend 10% of the time analyzing the problem and 90% on the solution,not the opposite.

Airplane travel is obviously one of the most efficient ways to travel around the world. More and more people choose it ___【1】__ the way of travelling. We all know that our lives have been changed by air travel. It is much ___【2】___ (fast) to travel by plane, and air travel makes it possible to get to the other side of the world in less than one day.

In terms of ___【3】__ (safe), air travel is one of the ___【4】___ (option) transportation methods if you are looking for a safe way to travel. It is considered to be the safest way to travel. What’s more, it is now possible to get to destinations all over the world at __【5】___ affordable price since there are cheap flights available.

There are still some __【6】___ (weak) of air travel these days. Bad weather can delay flights by hours, even days. This may waste passengers’ precious time, and may even leave you ___【7】__ (abandon) at the airport. ___【8】___, unfortunately, your flight is canceled, there will be much more unexpected troubles __【9】___ (wait) for you ahead. Besides, most airports are built far away from the downtown, so it often takes passengers quite a long time ___【10】___ (get) to the airport.

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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I feel great honored to be speaking on behalf of all the camp members. First of all, I’d like to express my sincere thank to all the teachers and host families which have given us a lot of help in life and in study. During past few weeks we have had a wonderful time and achieve a lot. The host parents took care of us, which made us feeling at home. But with the help of the teachers we have made great progress in English. Meanwhile, we have got to know more about western history and culture before seeing so many places of interest. What’s more, the visit to such famous universities as Harvard University and Stanford University that has broadened our horizons.

What they have gained from this camp is not only knowledge, but also friendship. I hope our friendship will last forever. Thank you!

Here are some opinions from the panel:

Harris Cooper, psychologist, Duke University: “The long summer vacation disrupts the rhythm of instruction, leads to forgetting and requires time be spent reviewing old material when students return to school in the fall. My advice? Teachers, you need to be careful about what and how much summer homework you assign. Summer homework shouldn’t be expected to overcome a student’s learning deficits; that’s what summer school is for. Parents, if the assignments are clear and reasonable, support the teachers.”

Nancy Kalish, co-author of the Case Against Homework: “Schools should rethink summer homework, and not just because it stresses out kids (and parents). The truth is, homework doesn’t accomplish what we assume it does. According to a Duke University review of more than 175 studies, there is little or no connection between homework and standardized test score or long-term achievement in primary school.”

Mark Bauerlein, professor of English at Emory University: “To the general question of whether or not schools should assign summer homework, the answer is ‘Yes.’ The reason comes not only from the brain drain of summer. It relates also to an attitude young people take toward education. They tie knowledge to the syllabus, not to themselves. They read and study to write the paper and score highly in the test, not to furnish their minds. In a word, they regard learning as a classroom thing. That’s all.”

It seems to me that summer homework is a good idea to keep the brain cells moving, but like everything else it should be given in moderation.

【1】Harris Cooper seems to believe that ________.

A. more summer homework causes students’ learning difficulties

B. students should go to summer school if they have no homework

C. teachers should give careful consideration to summer homework

D. parents should tell teachers how much homework their kids need

【2】In the 4th paragraph, Nancy Kalish explains her idea by________.

A. making comparisons B. giving research findings

C. raising questions D. telling stories

【3】Mark Bauerlein might agree that summer homework ________.

A. should be based on the school’s teaching program

B. has no direct connection to students’ higher grades

C. brings more pressure to both students and their parents

D. helps students develop the right attitude toward learning

Opportunities don’t come often. They come every once in a while. Very often, they come quietly and go by without 【1】 (notice). Therefore, it is advisable 【2】 you should value and treat them with care. When an opportunity comes, it brings a promise but never realizes it

【3】 its own. If you want to achieve something 【4】 intend to fulfill one of your ambitions, you must work hard, make efforts and get prepared. 【5】, you will take no advantage of opportunities when they come to visit you. The difference between a man who succeeds and 【6】 who does not lies only in the way each treats opportunities. The successful person always makes adequate preparations to meet opportunities as they duly arrive. The 【7】 (success) person, on 【8】 other hand, works little and just waits to see them pass by. 1n my opinion, there are plenty of opportunities for everyone in our society, but only those who are prepared adequately and qualified 【9】 (high) can make use of them to achieve 【10】 purposes.

In the United States, there were 222 people 【1】（report） to be billionaires（億萬(wàn)富翁） in 2003．The 【2】（rich） of these is Bill Gates, worth at least $ 41 billion, 【3】made his money 【4】 starting the company Microsoft．Mr．Gates was only 21 years old 【5】he first helped to set up the company in 1976．He was a billionaire by the time he was 31 years old．【6】, there are still some other people who have made lots【7】 money at even younger ages．Other young people who have struck it rich include Jackie Coogan and Shirley Temple．【8】 of these child actors made over a million dollars 【9】 （act） in movies before they were 14．But _【10】 youngest billionaire is Albert von Thurn und Taxis of Germany, who, in 2001, inherited （繼承） a billion dollars when he turned 18!

For Kim LeBlanc, knowing that her son Tyler’s organs, eyes and other tissues have given life or healing to others is helping her cope with the loss of her child, who was struck by a truck in Guelph on May 31.

Tyler was believed to have been texting a friend when he stepped onto a high-traffic road against the green light and was struck by the truck. Then he was sent to a Hamilton hospital. Surgery was performed to ease the pressure in his brain, but .the family was told he would not recover.

“With all of his injuries, I just prayed all night for a miracle. And I was granted a miracle, but not in the way I’d expected,” says LeBlanc, her voice choked by emotion.

The family decided to donate Tyler’s organs, a choice she believes her kind and considerate son would have made on his own. It’s also a choice that transplant programs wish would be made more often, because the need for donor organs is far more than the supply worldwide. More than 1,500 people in Ontario are on the waiting list for life-saving organs, and one dies every day because an organ has not become available in time. Across Canada, the gap between donations and the need for organs continues to widen. At the end of 2010, more than 4,400 Canadians were on the waiting list for donor organs, including 3,362 needing a kidney. That year, 229 died before the organs they needed became available.

LeBlanc recalls the morning when her son was taken off life support and his organs were removed. Despite living what she calls a parent’s absolute worst nightmare, LeBlanc says she has got the strength to bear such an unbearable loss. “He’s still there. He’s still living. And he’s still breathing. And he’s brought so much joy to families,” she says. “He’s my hero. He really is my hero.”

【1】Tyler was struck by the truck mainly because________.

A. he broke the traffic rule

B. he was talking with his friends

C. the truck ignored him

D. the truck ran at a high speed

【2】The figures in paragraph 4 show that ________.

A. more people begin to donate their organs

B. more people are dying during organ transplant operations

C. many people don’t know how to donate their organs

D. many people are in great need of organ transplant worldwide

【3】It is implied in the last paragraph that ________.

A. LeBlanc was desperate about Tyler’s death

B. LeBlanc will never forget Tyler’s contribution

C. LeBlanc felt relieved with Tyler’s organ donated

D. LeBlanc has never thought that Tyler will be a hero

Nowadays more and more people are talking about genetically modified foods ( GM foods). GM foods develop from genetically modified organisms (有機(jī)體), which have had specific changes introduced into their DNA by genetic engineering techniques. These techniques are much more precise where an organism is exposed to chemicals to create a non-specific but stable change. For many people, the high-tech production raises all kinds, of environmental, ethical(倫理的), health and safety problems. Particularly in countries with long farming traditions, the idea seems against nature.

In fact, GM foods are already very much a part of our lives. They were first put on the market in 1996. A third of the corn and more than half the cotton grown in the US last year was the product of biotechnology, according to the Department of Agriculture. More than 65 million acres of genetically modified crops will be planted in the US this year. The genetic genie is out of the bottle.

However, like any new product entering the food chain, GM foods must be subjected to careful testing. In wealthy countries, the debate about biotech is not so fierce by the fact that they have a large number of foods to choose from, and a supply that goes beyond the needs. In developing countries desperate to feed fast-growing and under fed populations, the matter is simpler and much more urgent: do the benefits of biotech outweigh the risks?

The statistics on population growth and hunger are disturbing. Last year the world’s population reached 6 billion. The UN states that nearly 800 million people around the world are unhealthy. About 400 million women of childbearing age don’t have enough iron, which means their babies are exposed to various birth defeats. As many as 100 million children suffer from vitamin A deficiency, a leading cause of blindness.

How can biotech help? Genetic engineering is widely used to produce plants and animals with better nutritional values. Biotechnologists have developed genetically modified rice and they are working on other kinds of nutritionally improved crops. Biotech can also improve farming productivity in places where food shortage are caused by crop damage attributable to drought, poor soil and crop viruses.

【1】The passage mainly talks about _______.

A. the world’s food problem

B. the development in biotech

C. the genetically modified foods

D. the way to solve food shortage

【2】According to the passage, GM foods ________.

A. will replace naturally grown foods

B. are far better than naturally grown foods

C. may help to solve the problem of poor nutrition

D. can cause serious trouble in developing countries

【3】The underlined sentence “The genetic genie is out of the bottle.” in paragraph 2 probably means that _______.

A. GM foods are available everywhere

B. the technology in producing GM foods is advanced

C. genetic technology may have uncontrollable powers

D. genetic technology has come out of laboratories into markets

However, traditions change with the times, and 【3】do mooncake flavors. Today, many people like Hong Kong-style mooncakes, 【4】(go) crazy for that unbeatable melt-in-the-mouth feeling 【5】comes from sinking your teeth into these mouth-watering cakes.

Another popular style is the mooncake with a crayfish(小龍蝦) flavor. The crayfish 【6】(select) for mooncakes should be fresh and alive. Because of limited ingredients, only a small number of crayfish mooncakes 【7】(put) on sale each day, forcing many to queue up for hours.

The thoroughly modern mooncake is not only about new flavors, 【8】involves designing distinct patterns. Sangxindui museum in Sichuan Province that is famous 【9】the masks and sculptures from China’s Bronze Age has introduced a special range of mooncakes with bronze statue patterns, a creative design that is sure 【10】(please) mooncake lovers.