Dreams for Better We all have plans and dreams for a better more __31__ life. Yet only a small percentage of people actually achieve their __32__ . A good question is: why? Recently I was working with a young man who was __33__ to get on his feet. He had written out his goals, and he had powerful rea sons why he wanted to achieve these goals. But after weeks of trying he was still not much further along. So we took some time to try to understand what was holding him __34__ . As we examined his average day it became apparent to me was much too __35__ . He was spending lots of time doing lots of different things. I __36__ that most of what he was doing was not very important in the greater scheme of things. We did some exercises to __37__ which activities were important which ones were urgent and which ones were filling(or killing) time. As it turned out, most of the things he was doing throughout the day were filling time. He wasn't comfortable __38__ he was very busy so he created things that needed to be done He was always working on something--yet at the end of the day, he had rarely accomplished any tasks to move him closer to the life he wanted. This behavior is fairly easy for an outside observer to spot but extremely difficult to self-diagnose. The __39__ is to slow down and get comfortable with being still, with contempl'ating what we really want and whether our actions are suitable for our goals. Many of our activities are avoidance activities: we do things to fill up the time and thus avoid having to do more difficult tasks. It wasn't easy, but once the young man finally accepted that he needed to do less overall but more of the important things his life took a dramatic __40__ for the better. 請在第__31__處填上正確答案。 A.identify B.solution C.fulfilling D.busy E.back F.unless G.prevent H.turn I.dreams J.believe K.suspected L.struggling 32、請在第__32__處填上正確答案。 A.identify B.solution C.fulfilling D.busy E.back F.unless G.prevent H.turn I.dreams J.believe K.suspected L.struggling 33、請在第__33__處填上正確答案。 A.identify B.solution C.fulfilling D.busy E.back F.unless G.prevent H.turn I.dreams J.believe K.suspected L.struggling 34、請在第__34__處填上正確答案。 A.identify B.solution C.fulfilling D.busy E.back F.unless G.prevent H.turn I.dreams J.believe K.suspected L.struggling 35、請在第__35__處填上正確答案。 A.identify B.solution C.fulfilling D.busy E.back F.unless G.prevent H.turn I.dreams J.believe K.suspected L.struggling 36、請在第__36__處填上正確答案。 A.identify B.solution C.fulfilling D.busy E.back F.unless G.prevent H.turn I.dreams J.believe K.suspected L.struggling 37、請在第__37__處填上正確答案。 A.identify B.solution C.fulfilling D.busy E.back F.unless G.prevent H.turn I.dreams J.believe K.suspected L.struggling 38、請在第__38__處填上正確答案。 A.identify B.solution C.fulfilling D.busy E.back F.unless G.prevent H.turn I.dreams J.believe K.suspected L.struggling 39、請在第__39__處填上正確答案。 A.identify B.solution C.fulfilling D.busy E.back F.unless G.prevent H.turn I.dreams J.believe K.suspected L.struggling 40、請在第__40__處填上正確答案。 A.identify B.solution C.fulfilling D.busy E.back F.unless G.prevent H.turn I.dreams J.believe K.suspected L.struggling第六部分：完形補文(第41～50題。每題1.5分，共15分)下面的短文有10處空白，每處空白后的括號內有一個詞，請根據短文內容將其正確的形式埴入文中。以恢復文章原貌。
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Yoga
The most important thing in yoga is the inner voice. The inner voice is the voice of your own truth and __41__ (wise). It is your feeling of rightness. You combine your intend your feeling. Then you will find the way to __42__ (your). Follow your own wisdom. Find your personal meditation practice.
What do you want from meditation? __43__ (happy), healing enlightenment? Inform yourself. Read medibooks visit meditation groups, look for the right meditation __44__ (teach) for you. Then learn meditation. Find out what is the best way for you to practice. And practice every day.
Always be in good contact with your body and your soul. Feel what they want and need. And give it to them. Follow the five __45__ (feature) : truth, peace, love, self-discipline and happiness. Then you will find your way into the light. Feel the light of God, the energy of peace and love within you. Be happy and be good. That is the essence of yoga philosophy.
If you want to heal an __46__ (ill) ,it might be good to go to a health or wellness professional. Yoga is a way to relax and to __47__ (awake)inner happiness. You can heal some diseases with yoga meditation but you must be __48__ (care)and listen to your inner voice. Many people feel it is best to follow the advice of the doctors and any relevant __49__(medicine) books. Keep in mind, however, that medical education is prima-rily geared to disease __50__ (treat) not wellness.
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Nowadays, there appears a phenomenon that the western customs are spreading into the east countries step by step, thus making many inhabitants who live in big cities enjoy themselves on these western festivals such as Christmas Day, April Fool's Day, etc. What is your opinion?回答1-10題
Coming Soon to a Theater Near You!
What are special effects? Do you enjoy movies that use a lot of speciai effects Dinosaurs from the distant past! Space battles from the distant future! There has been a revolution in special effects, and it has transformed the movies we see.
The revolution began in the mid 1970s with George Lucas’s Star Wars ,a film that stunned audiences. That revolution continues to the present, with dramatic changes in special-effects technology. The company behind these changes is Lucas’s Industrial Light&- Magic(ILM). And the man behind the company is Dennis Muren, who has worked with Lucas since Star Wars.
Muren’s interest in special effects began very early. At the age of6,he was photographing toy dinosaurs and spaceships. At 10, he had an 8 millimeter movie camera and was making these things move through stop-motion. (Stop-motion is a process in which objects are shot with a camera, moved slightly, shot again, and so on. When the shots are put together,the objects appear to move)
Talk to Muren and you’ll understand what ILM is all about:tak-ing on new challenges. By 1989,Muren decided he had pushed the old technology as far as it would go.
He saw computer graphics(圖像)(CG) technology as the wave of the future and took a year off to master it.
With CG technology,images can be scanned into a computer for processing, for example, and many separate shots can be combined in- to a single image. CG technology has now reached the point, Muren says,where special effects can be used to do just about anything so that movies can tell stories better than ever before. The huge success of Jurassic Park and its sequel(續(xù)集), The Lost World, the stars of which were computer-generated dinosaurs.
The special-effects revolution began in the mid 1980s with Star Wars. ()
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Dennis Muren,one good friends of Lucas,worked for ILM. ()
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ILM is the company responsible for many of the changes in specialeffects technology.()
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Muren dedicated himself to the improvement of old technology. ()
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Dennis Muren started his schooling at a very early age. ()
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At the age of 10，Muren was able to use computer graphics technology to make things move.()
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By the stop—motion process，many separate shots can be combined into a single image.()
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Muren feels that with CG technology，speeial effects can be used to make movies more expressive.()
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Today’S film makers emphasize special effects at the expense of the story.()
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Computer-generated images have beenused in many films. ()
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Goal of American Education
Education is an enormous and expensive part of American Lfie Its size is matched by its variety.
Differences in American schools compared with those found in the majority of other comuntries lie in the fact that education here has long been intended for everyone--not just for a privileged elite.
Schools are expected to meet the needs of every child, regardless of ability,and also the needs of society itself. This means that public schools offer more than academic subjects. It surprises many people when they come here to find high schools offering such courses as typing,sewing, radio repair, computer programming or driver training,along with traditional academic subjects such as mathematics, history,and languages. Students choose their curricula depending on their interests,future goals, and level of ability. The underlying goal of American education is to develop every child to the utmost of his or her own possibilities,and to give each one a sense of civic and community consciousness.
Schools have traditionally played an important role in creating national unity and "Americanizing" the millions of immigrants who have poured into this country from many different backgrounds and origins. Schools still play a large role in the community, especially in the small towns.
The approach to teaching may seem unfamiliar to many, not only because it is informal, but also because there is not much emphasis on learning facts. Instead, Americans try to teach their children to think for themselves and to develop their own intellectual and creative abili- ties. Students spend much time,learning how to use resource materi- als,libraries,statistics and computers. Americans believe that if chil- dren are taught to reason well and to research well, they will be able to find whatever facts they need throughout the rest of their lives. Knowing how to solve problems is considered more important than the accumulation of facts.
This is America’s answer to the searching question that thought- ful parents all over the world are asking themselves in the fast-mov- ing time:"How can one prepare today’s child for a tomorrow that one can neither predict nor understand?"
Which of the following best states the goal of American education? ()
A.To teach every learner some practical skills.
B.To provide every learner with rich knowledge.
C.To give every student the opportunity to fully develop his/herability.
D.To train every student to be a responsible citizen.
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It is implied in the passage that ()
A.all high-school students take same courses
B.every high-school student must take some practical ability training courses
C.every public school offers the same academic subjects
D.the subjects every student takes may vary
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Americanschoolsplace great emphasison the learner’s ()
A.ment of knowledge
B.accumulation of facts
C.acquisition of the ability to be creative
D.acquisition of the ability to work with his hands
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According to the passage,American education meets the needs of all the following EXCEPT ()
A.the brightest students ()
B.the slow students
C.the students from foreign countries
D.the immigrants
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Which of the following best states the feature of American education that makes it different from education in other countries? ()
A.The large number of its schools.
B.The variety of the courses offered in its shcools.
C.Its special consideration given to immigrants.
D.Its underlying goal to develop every child’s abilities to the fullest extent.
