Not all memories are sweet. Some people spend all their lives trying to forget bad experiences.
Now American researchers think they are close to developing a pill, 61
will help people forget bad memories. The pill is designed to 62 (take) immediately after a frightening experience. They hope it might reduce, or 63
(possible) erase(抹去) the effect of painful memories.
In November, experts tested a drug on people in the U.S. and France. The drug stops the body 64 (release) chemicals that fix memories in the brain. So far, the research 65 (suggest) that only the emotional effects of memories may be reduced, not that memories are wiped out. They are not sure to 66 degree people’s memories are affected.
The research has caused a great deal of 67 (argue). Some think it is a bad idea, while others support it. Supporters say it could lead to pills which prevent or treat soldiers’ troubling memories after war. They say that there are many people who suffer from terrible memories. 68 , those who are 69 the research say that maybe the pills can change people’s memories and changing memories is very 70
(danger) because memories give us our identity.
As students, _________full use we have made of our time to study, there’s still room for
improvement.
A. whichever B. whatever C. though D. however
假设你是李华,你的外国朋友Peter听说你暑假期间在社区医院做义工,给你发来邮 件询问相关情况。请根据下面文字信息给他回封邮件。
1.工作时间:7月15日-7月31曰,上午6:30-11:30;
2.工作内容:为55岁以上老人免费体检时提供帮助,包括组织排队,引路,帮助填表 格等;
3.你的收获。
注意:
1.词数100左右;
2.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;
3.开头和结尾己给出,不计入总词数。
可能用到的单词:社区医院community hospital
Dear Peter,
Nice to hear from you.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How was your holiday?
Yours,
Li hua
Sports and games are very important for us. They keep us healthy and fit. They offer us a change form the boring daily life. They are useful means of entertainment and physical activity. Sports and games help in character building. The give us energy and strength . Sports and games are also means of mental and physical growth. During sports we come to learn many things. We learn how to keep mental balance between hopes and sadness. They make us learn how to deal with the difficult situations. Sports develop a sense of friendliness and team spirit.
Sports and games improve our ability. Either study or work alone makes us tired. We remain no longer active to do any work. Sports remove our mental tiredness. Sports are important part of education. Education without sports is not complete. Sports are particularly important for the youth. They help in their physical and mental growth. They are good for their development of character. Therefore, sports competition is held at school and college levels. The students who perform well in this competition are promoted to play at the national and international level .
Sports and games give us chance to grow in life. They have become a good means of earning money. The sports person who does well in sports is given good name and wealth. He becomes a hero quickly. Sports have great possibility to offer job chances. So we should take them very seriously from the very early age of our life. Sports offer chances to prove talents.
Thus, sports have great value in life. Sports equipment is being developed in the countryside and city. There are playgrounds in villages. Sports infrastructure(基础设施) is being developed everywhere so as to promote them. Various sport organizations are also doing well in the promotion of sports.
29. What can we learn from Paragraph 1?
A. Sports are very tiring.
B. Sports make us healthy and delighted.
C. Character-building comes mainly from sports.
D. Sports can keep our life away from grief.
30. What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about?
A. Career growth for the youth.
B. Different kinds of sports at school.
C. How to become an international player.
D. Educational effects of sports.
31. It is likely that sports can _________.
A. help a person avoid any disease
B. offer a person a chance to be famous quickly
C. improve a student’s school performance in all aspects
D. prove that an athlete is the most talented person
32. What’s the best title for this text?
A. When to Play Sports B. How to Play Sports
C. How to Become a Healthy Person D. The Importance of Sports
Taking good notes is a time-saving skill that will help you to become a batter student in several ways 36 Second, your notes are excellent materials to refer to when you are studying for a test. Third, note-taking offers variety to your study time and helps you to hold your interest.
You will want to take notes during classroom discussions and while
reading a textbook or doing research for a report. 37 Whenever or however you take notes, keep in mind that note-taking is a selective process. 38
The following methods may work best for you.
● Read the text quickly to find the main facts and ideas in it.
● Carefully read the text and watch for words that can show main points and
supporting facts.
● Write your notes in your own words.
● 39
● Note any questions or ideas you may have about what was said or written.
As you take notes, you may want to use your own shorthand(速记). When you do, be sure that you understand your symbols and that you use them
all the time. 40
A. Use words, not complete sentences.
B. There are three practical note-taking methods.
C. You must write your notes on separate paper.
D. Otherwise, you may not be able to read your notes later.
E. you will also want to develop your own method for taking notes.
F. That means you must first decide what is important enough to include in your
notes.
G. First, the simple act of writing something down makes it easier for you to understand and remember it.
Knowing how much her own children loved presents at Christmas, Ann Sutton
always tried to seek help for one or two poor families. With a social worker mother, the
Sutton children. had inherited(继承)her commitment to service, and knew never to take
their good fortune at Christmas for granted. This year, Kinzie, her seven-year-old
daughter was thrilled that Santa Claus would make a special visit to a 22-year-old
mother named Ashley who worked in a factory raising her 12-month-old son by herself.
The phone rang on Sunday. A representative from a local organization was calling
to say that the aid Ann had reques
ted for Ashley had fallen through. No Santa Claus,
no presents, nothing.
Ann saw the cheer fade away from her children's faces at the news. Without a
word, Kinzie ran into her bedroom. She returned, her face set with determination.
Opening up her piggy bank, she put all the coins onto the table: $3.30. Everything
she had.
“Mom," she told Ann, “I know it's not much. But maybe this will buy a present
for the baby.”
At a breakfast meeting the next day, Ann told her coworkers about her daughter
story. To her surprise, staff members began to open their purses. and empty their
pockets to help Kinzie .
On Christmas Eve, Ann drove through the pouring rain to the small trailer where
the Ashley’s lived. Then she began to unload the gifts from the car, handing them to
Ashley one by one.
Ashley was very moved. Reflecting on a little girl's generosity, Ashley says she'll
one day be able to do something similar for someone else in need. "Kinzie could have
used that money for herself, but she gave it away," Ashley says. "She's the type of kid
I'd like my son to grow up to be."
21. According to the text, Ann Sutton .
A. only cares about poor children
B. has possessed a good fortune
C. is warm-hearted and ready to help others
D. is a single mother with a 12-month-old boy
'.
22. When hearing the aid had fallen through,, Kinzie
A. was not sad but cheerfu1
B. put all her coins away immediately
C. told her mother to ask the coworkers for help
D. decided to buy a present for the baby with all her allowance
23. From the text we can learn that .
A. Ann would act as Santa Claus to hand out the Christmas presents
B. the Sutton children always got lots of presents at Christmas
C. Kinzie's generosity influenced others and they clici something similar
D. Ashley was moved and promised to return the money
24. What does the text mainly talk about?
A. How a warm-hearted mother shows her love to a poor family.
B. How a mother and her young daughter helped a poor family.
C. Many people make contributions to those in need. '
D. What happened to a poor family on Christmas Eve.
_______ local customs can often lead to misunderstandings when people go abroad.
A. Not having known B. Not to be known
C. Not knowing D. Not to have known
I was on my way to the Taiyetos Mountains. The sun was setting 61. my car broke down near a remote village. Cursing my 62. (fortune), I was wondering where I was going to spend the night when I realized that the villagers who had gathered around me 63. (argue) as to who should have the honour of receiving me 64. a guest in their house. Finally, I accepted the offer of 65. 80-year-old peasant woman who lived alone in a little house. While she was getting me settled into a tiny but clean room, the head of the village was tying up his horse 66. my car to pull it to a small town some 20 kilometers away 67. there was a garage.
I had noticed three hens 68. (run) free in my hostess’ courtyard and that night one of them ended up in a dish on my table. Other villagers brought me goat’s cheese and honey. We drank together and talked 69. (merry) till far into the night.
When the time came for me to say goodbye to my friends in the village, I wanted to reward the old woman for the trouble I 70. (cause) her. But she refused.
How can we reduce the risk?
There are four general approaches to dealing with volcanic(火山似的) dangers. We can try to keep the danger from occurring-often an impossible task. We can try to change its path or reduce its impact on existing development. We can take steps to protect future development. We can also do our best to have disaster response plans in place before they are needed.
Removing the Threat
Clearly, there is no way to stop an eruption. We can, however, attempt to reduce the eruption’s effects by strengthening structures, for example, building protective works such as walls to make lava(熔岩) flow away from developed areas. Such efforts can be and have been successful, but are of limited use in a large-scale(范围)eruption.
Planning for the Future
Protecting future development from volcanic dangers is a simple task. Before building houses, we should judge the risk. If the risk seems too great, a safer location should be found. This type of planning is very effective, but all too often, people are drawn to the lush(葱郁的),rolling land of a quiet volcano.
Disaster Preparedness(预案)
When a volcano comes to life, a few weeks may not be enough time to avoid a tragedy. Planning is the key to saving lives. Well before the warning signs occur, people must be educated about volcanic dangers. Escape plans must be in place. Communication between scientists, officials, the media, and the general public should be practiced. Emergency measures must be thought out and agreed upon.
If you doubt the importance of these efforts, take another look at past volcanic tragedies, such as the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz. Communication failures left the town of Armero unprepared for escape. When a deadly mudflow came down the slope(斜坡), 21,000 people--90 percent of the town’s people--died.
25. The passage is intended for ________.
A. the general public B. architects
C. adventurers D. geographers
26. When building houses , people tend to ________.
A. judge volcanic dangers carefully
B. take volcanic dangers seriously
C. like to live near a quiet volcano
D. find a safer place far away from a volcano
27. The writer mentioned Nevado del Ruiz to prove ________.
A. The failure to keep volcanic dangers from happening
B. The importance of preparing for a volcanic eruption
C. The bravery of the people in Armero Town
D. The uncertainty of volcano’s damage
28. The passage is mainly about ________.
A. why volcanoes can erupt suddenly
B. who can predict the eruption of volcanoes
C. where the volcanoes are most active
D. how we can reduce the risk of volcanoes
The film stars out as a normal day at a typical American high school. Friends chat in the dining room and boys play football. But there's big surprise when the movie ends with two students going crazy in the school-shooting and killing people.![]()
This is Elephant. It stars real school kids. American director Gus Van Sant had no ready-made lines. The student actors made up their own dialogue, with Van Sant asking them to base their characters on their own lives.
Although it may not sound very high quality, the film won the Palme d'Or (金棕奖) for Best Film and the award for Best Director at the Cannes film festival.
The film is based on the shootings at a high school in the US, where two boys killed 13 people and then themselves in 1999.
The title of the movie refers to the old expression about a problem that's as hard to ignore as an elephant in the house.
The film takes a close look at a few hours in the lives of the victims and the killers. It shows how high school is a different experience for everyone---fun and friendly, or hard and lonely.
In many ways, the two boys, who
carry out the shooting, act like ordinary kids. They joke around with one boy's mother as she serves them cakes and play the piano.
But there're hints of the anger they feel inside. One of the boys is bullied (欺负) at school. The other plays violent video games. But Van Sant isn't blaming their killings on either bullying or violent games. In fact, the film doesn't offer any reason for why school violence happens.
"I didn't want to explain anything. It's up to the audience to draw its own conclusions," said the 51-year-old director.
11.The lines of the film were ________.
A. given by the director
B. created by student actors
C. thought out by the director during the acting
D. carefully designed by professional people
12. The film doesn't tell why school shootings happen________.
A. so as to leave room for the audience to think and judge
B. because life itself is the problem maker
C. because the mental problems of students are hard to explain
D. but there are some hints of the reasons
13.The film is named Elephant because ________.
A. an elephant is always gentl
e and never causes trouble
B. an elephant is a symbol of big problems in American schools
C. elephant is used to suggest that the school crime is a big problem
D. the two boys liked elephants when alive
14.What’s the passage mainly about?
A. It shows American school life.
B. It introduces the film Elephant.
C. It tells people to be careful while in peace.
D. It reports a school killing in a US school.
The students________ to solve the problem were brought to the lecture hall for a meeting.
A. chosen B. to choose C. choosing D. to be chosen
On the eve of our daughters’ weddings, I gave both of them what I considered to be excellent marital advice: never leave your husband unsupervised (无人监督的) with pruning shears (修枝剪).
If only I had taken my own advice. I recently let my guard down. Thirty-some years of marriage can do that to a woman. Give a man pruning shears and electric trimmers (电动修剪器) and he will give new meaning to “armed and dangerous.”
One day earlier this year, my husband said that the crab apple tree was dead.
“Why do you think it is dead?” I asked.
“Look at it. There’s not a leaf on it.”
“There’s not a leaf on anything. It’s March,” I said.
“It looked sick last fall and with this bitter winter we had, I’m convinced it’s dead.”
The truth is he’s never liked the crab apple. Sure, it has beautiful blooms in the spring, but then it gets a disease, the leaves curl, and it drops those little apples that sit on the driveway.
Each passing week he pronounced the tree dead. Eventually I began to believe him. Though he agreed it would be a regrettable loss, there was a twinkle in his eye. He armed himself a couple of weeks ago and began trimming. A branch here, a branch there, a small limb, then a large limb. I watched and then decided to check the wood on some of the branches closer to the trunk. I broke one off and saw green.
The crab apple was not dead. It just hadn’t had time to leaf out. The tree was now falling to one side, but it was not dead. I would have told him so, but he had moved on to a maple. Once the man starts, he can’t stop. One trim leads to another.
“Please, stop!” I called.
He smiled and nodded, but he couldn’t hear because he had started the hedge (树篱) trimmers and was getting ready to fix a line of hedges.
Zip (飕飕声), zip, zip.
“What do you think?” he shouted.
“It’s supposed to be a privacy hedge; now all that will be private are our ankles.”
He started the trimmers again. “Stop!” I called, “Come back!”
“Why?” he shouted.
“You’re in the neighbor’s yard.”
12. By saying “if only I had taken my own advice.” the author means that _____.
A. she should have kept a closer watch on her husband
B. she feels regretful about her marriage after many years
C. she didn’t follow her own advice about pruning shears
D. she shouldn’t have given that marital advice to her daughters
13. We can learn from the article that the author’s husband ______.
A. has a great talent for gardening
B. had never used pruning shears before
C. mistook their crab apple tree for a maple tree
D. nearly ruined their neighbor’s garden
14. What does the article mainly talk about?
A. Why husbands shouldn’t be left to trim trees alone.
B. Why the author’s husband insisted on trimming their crab apple tree.
C. How the author has survived her “thirty-some” years of marriage.
D. How the author’s husband killed their crab apple tree.
15. What is the tone of the article?
A. Anxious. B. Humorous. C. Serious. D. Critical.
Modern inventions have speeded up people's lives amazingly. Motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour, aircraft cross the world a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, our passion for speed appears endless. Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts (吹嘘) of saving precious seconds in handling tasks.
All this saves time, but at a price. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the terrible feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel that they have been left behind on another time zone. Again, spending too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their danger, according to some scientists; too much use may transmit harmful radiation into our brains, a consequence we do not like to think about.
However, what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so accustomed to constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing, or even just one thing at a time. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imaginations take us into another world.
There was a time when some people's lives were devoted simply to the cultivation of the land or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestors faced; they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modem machinery has freed people from that primitive existence..
32. The new products become more and more time-saving because ______.
A. our love on speed seems never-ending B. time is limited
C. the prices are increasingly high D. the manufacturers boast a lot
33. What does “the days” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Imaginary life. B. Simple life in the past.
C. Times of inventions. D. Time for constant activity.
34. What is the author's attitude towards the modern technology?
A. Critical. B. Objective. C. Optimistic. D. Negative.
35. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The present and past times. B. Machinery and human beings.
C. Imaginations and inventions. D. Modern technology and its influence.
Is your child not included in activities or invited to play games during the break? If so, here are some ways you can help him.
Acknowledge your child's concerns. Let him know and understand that what he is going through is hard for him and that you will do whatever you can to help. 36 Or set up a meeting with his teachers.
37 If your child talks about not fitting in or being picked on, comfort him and show concern about him. Help him learn some social skills and read social situations. Let him know that many children have experienced similar feelings or situations and try to help him come up with some solutions.
Be your child's coach and teacher. As a coach, you need to remind him of the skills he already has. Meanwhile, just like a teacher, help him develop the skills he needs to solve the problem. 38
Get involved. 39 That will allow you to observe interactions between the other children. Seeing what the kids most enjoy, talk about, or play can give you enough information to help your children better fit in.
40 Sign him up for a team or activity such as an art or dance class outside his school, and observe whether he is left out by a new group of children. If so, try to find out what might discourage friendships from forming.
A. Comfort your child.
B. Identify your child's strengths.
C. Look for new social outlets for your child.
D. Consider volunteering or helping out in his class.
E. It is important for your child to develop his confidence.
F. Suggest searching the Internet or finding a book together that might be useful.
G. This will help him solve his problems on his own, which will serve him all his life.
However much money you have, it can not ________ a healthy body.
A. compare B. earn C. defeat D. match
International Book Club
Have you ever thought of joining a book club and buying new books through the post? Here at the International Book Club, we already have many members buying books from us by mail.
Immediate benefits:
●As a special offer, you may choose any reduced-price books from our new members' book list, to the value of $6 in total (plus postage and packing). By doing this, you will save pounds on the publishers prices.
●Tick the box on your form to order a free watch.
●If you reply within seven days, we will send you another free gift carefully chosen from our book list by our staff.
●Order a DVD from the many on offer in our list, at half the recommended retail price.
●When you've joined:
As a member, you'll enjoy savings of between 30% and 50% off the publisher's price on every book you buy, and what's more, they'll come straight to your door. Your free club magazine arrives once a month, to keep you up-to-date with the latest best-sellers. This means that every year we offer over 1,000 books to choose from. On the Internet, you can find all our titles for the year on our exclusive members' website.
Being a member:
All we are asking you to do while you are a member is to choose four books during your first year. After that, you can decide on the number of books you wish to take.
In each of our monthly club magazines, our experienced staff choose a Club Choice book — a work of fiction or a reference title which they feel is particularly worth buying, and which is offered at an extra-special price. However, if you do not want this book, just say so in the space provided on the form. We will always send the book if we do not receive this.
So, return your application form today, but hurry — it's not every day we can make you an offer like this. To apply to become a member, all you need to do is simply fill in the enclosed form and return it in the postage-paid envelope supplied.
Before you know it, your books will be with you. Please don't send any money now, as we will send you your bill with the books. And remember, you have up to a fortnight to decide if you wish to keep the books you have ordered. You should then either return the books or send your payment.
32. Which of the following doesn't belong to the benefits of being a club member?
A.Get a gift for nothing. B.Order a free watch
C.Get four books for free in the first year.
D.Order a DVD at a low price.
33. Every month the club provides a free club magazine in order to ________.
A.let readers know the number of books to be sold
B.attract more and more readers to join the club
C.make readers know the club's development
D.keep readers well informed of recent best-selling books
34. If a book is worth $100, how much will a member probably save if he buys one?
A.$20. B.$70. C.$60. D.$40.
35. After you get your books, you should ________.
A.express your idea in the space provided in the book
B.choose whether to keep them or not after you read them carefully
C.decide whether to keep them or not within a certain period of time
D.send money to the club at once
Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States. It has been regarded as the beginning of the holiday shopping season. Although it’s not an official holiday, millions of employers give their employees the day off, and many people use that day to get a jump-start on their holiday shopping. A similar day in Canada and Great Britain is called “Boxing Day”.
Black Friday has become somewhat of a marketing sensation in recent years. Since 2005, it has been the busiest shopping day of the year. To lure shoppers, retailers (零售商) routinely open their doors as early as 4 a.m. and offer special sales and promotions to the shoppers that arrive early. Some of the special deals offered by stores are only available in limited quantities. That is why some shoppers intent on getting the best deals often camp out in front of stores overnight so that they’ll be the first in line when the doors open.
But why Black Friday? Historians believe the name started in Philadelphia in the mid-1960s. Bus drivers and police used “Black Friday” to describe the heavy traffic that would block city streets the day after Thanksgiving as shoppers headed to the stores.
Businesses, however, didn’t like the negative tone associated with the “Black Friday” name. In the early 1980s, a more positive explanation of the name began to circulate. According to this alternative explanation, Black Friday is the day when retailers finally begin to turn a profit for the year. In accounting terms (会计行业), operating at a loss is called being “in the red” because accountants traditionally used red ink to show negative amounts. Positive amounts were usually shown in black ink. Thus, being “in the black” is a good thing because it means stores are operating at a profit.
Recently, for those who are too busy to shop on Black Friday or who just don’t want to fight the crowds, the Monday following Black Friday has become known as Cyber Monday (网络星期一) for the many online deals.
28. On Black Friday, the Americans ______.
| A. don’t have to go to work as usual |
| B. look exactly like the Canadians |
| C. are usually busy doing shopping |
| D. stay at home and relax themselves |
29. The underlined word “lure” (in Paragraph 2) probably means ______.
| A. protect | B. attract |
| C. persuade | D. remind |
30. How do the retailers understand Black Friday?
| A. It is totally different from Boxing Day. |
| B. They usually lose some money on the day. |
| C. It never keeps them very busy. |
| D. It probably brings them more money. |
31. The author writes this passage in order to _____.
| A. state the development of Cyber Monday |
| B. tell the difference between red and black |
| C. introduce Black Friday to the readers |
| D. explain the meaning of Boxing Day |
This is a true story which happened in the States. 61 man came out of his home to admire his new truck. To his puzzlement, his three-year-old son was 62 (happy) hammering dents(凹痕) into the shiny paint of the truck. The man ran to his son, knocked him away, hammered the little boy's hands into pulp(果浆汁) as 63 (punish). When the father calmed down, he rushed his son to the hospital.
64 the doctor tried desperately to save the crushed bones, he finally had to cut the fingers from both the boy's hands. When the boy 65 (wake) up from the operation and saw his bandaged stubs, he innocently said, “Daddy, I'm sorry about your truck, 66 when are my fingers going to grow back?”
The father went home and committed suicide.
Think about this story 67 next time someone steps on your feet or you wish to take revenge(报复). Think first 68 you lose your patience with someone you love. Trucks can 69 (repair). Broken bones and hurt feelings often can't. Too often we fail to recognize the difference between the person and the performance. We forget that forgiveness is 70 (great) than revenge.
People make mistakes. We are allowed to make mistakes. But the actions we take while in a rage(一怒之下) will impress us forever.
Summer Camps for Teenagers
There are many types of summer camps for teenagers to attend. They’re a great way for teens to make friends and leam valuable lessons about life. If you’re seeking a good summer camp to attend, the first thing you should do is decide what type of camp would be most suitable to your interests and goals.
Traditional Camps
When you just want the sort of camp in classic films, a traditional overnight camp might be just what you need to grow, learn, and relax this coming summer. These sorts of camps offer more vigorous outdoors activities, yet often allow campers to customize their camping experiences.
Chewonki Camp
As one of the best summer camps in the country by Boston Magazine, this camp aims to help teens learn about natural history and ecology, and the campers get treats like sailing trips and hiking excursions, besides formal instruction in such things as kayaking, swimming, field sports, and photography.
Camp Wicosuta
As a top-rated, traditional four-week sleep away camp especially for young ladies, Camp Wicosuta has more than 30 different activities to help teens learn to cook and wash themselves, which aim to help young girls focus on building their self-confidence.
Academic Camps
Many teens like to advance their education during the summer months while also having fun. There are hundreds of academic camps for them to choose from that specialize in various academic subjects like journalism, languages, law, computers, and sciences.
1. You should decide what camp to attend according to _______.
A. camping time and place B. your values and customs
C. items and activities D. personal interests and goals
2. Which can be the most suitable for a person who likes sailing and hiking?
A. Traditional Camps. B. Chewonki Camp.
C. Camp Wicosuta. D. Academic Camps.
3. What is the purpose of the activities that teach teens to cook themselves?
A. To let teens learn and get relaxed. B. To help girls learn practical skills.
C. To help girls build self-confidence. D. To make teens focus on science.
Mary will never forget the first time she saw him. He suddenly appeared in the class one day, 61. (wear) sun glasses. He walked in as if he 62. (buy) the school. And the word quickly got around that he was from New York City.
For some reason he sat beside Mary. Mary felt 63. (please), because there were many empty seats in the room. But she quickly realized that it wasn’t her, it was probably the fact that she sat in 64. last row.
____65. he thought he could escape attention by sitting at the back, he was wrong. It might have made it a little 66. (hard) for everybody because it meant they had to turn around, but that didn’t stop the kids in the class. Of course whenever they turned to look at him, they had to look at Mary, 67. made her feel like a star.
“Do you need those glasses for medical reasons?” the teacher asked. The new boy_68. (shake) his head. “Then I’d appreciate 69. if you didn’t wear them in the class. I like to look your eyes when I’m speaking to you.” The new boy looked at the teacher for a few seconds and all the other students wondered 70. the boy would do. Then he took them off, gave a big smile and said, “That is cool.”