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2.Find a learning partner Choose a friend to keep you moving to your goal. Your friend doesn’t need to be a language learner. He can be someone who wants to start exercise. He can be someone who wants to write a novel. It is best if you both have a goal. 3.Write out howyour life will change when you reach your goal If I improve my English, I will be able to get a better job. If I take the TOEFL test, I will be able to get into an American university. If I improve my pronunciation, foreigners will understand me better. 4.Keep track of your progress Write down your effort in a notebook. Share them with your partner. When you reach 21 days, reward yourself! Go out for a dinner or a movie. It will be easier to stay on your program now that you are in the habit. If you ever fall off again, put yourself back on the 21-day challenge. 65. What can be inferred from the passage? A. Life sometimes makes people give up their plans or decisions. B. An English learner should find a language learner as a partner. C. A long-term goal is important to develop a good habit. D. It is necessary to spend an hour on each language skill every day. 66. Why does the author advise an English learner to reward himself when he reaches 21 days? A. Because he should share his progress with his partner. B. Because he has had a good knowledge of English. C. Because he would put himself on another 21-day challenge. D. Because he has developed a good habit of learning English. 67. The best title of the passage would be “________”. A. Taking 21 days to form a good habit B. A research on learning English C. Make learning English a habit D. Setting a goal in life D Everyone knows the story of Benjamin Franklin’s famous kite experiment. He was a man of many gifts and interests. His natural curiosity(好奇心) about things made him try to find ways to make them work better. Although he made important discoveries, Ben didn’t “invent” electricity. He did, however, invent the lightning rod (避雷针) which protected buildings and ships from lightning damage. In America, most people warmed their homes by building a fire in a fireplace even though it was kind of dangerous and used a lot of wood. Ben said that he had another better way. His invented an iron stove which allowed people to warm their home less dangerously and with less wood. The stove that he invented is called a Franklin stove. Ben also set up the first fire company and the first fire insurance company in order to help people live more safely. As the postmaster, Ben had to find out the best way for delivering(发送) the mail. He went out riding in his carriage(马车) to measure(测量) the routes and needed a way to record the miles. He invented a simple odometer for it. In his old age, Ben retired from business and public service and wanted to spend his time reading and studying. He found, however, that his old age had made it difficult for him to reach books from the high shelves. Even though he had many grandchildren to help him, he invented a tool called a long arm to reach the high books. The long arm was a long wooden pole with a grasping claw at the end. Later, other famous inventors, like Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, would follow in Ben’s footsteps by trying to find ways to help people live better. Today’s curious thinkers are keeping Ben’s traditions alive by inventing new and improved ways to make things work. 68. We can learn from the passage that Benjamin Franklin ______. A. made his first invention using a kite B. made his living by delivering the mail C. set up some companies to help people to live better D. made a stove which used other fuels instead of wood 69. The underlined word “odometer” in Paragraph 3 refers to something that _______. A. contains the mailB. tells the direction C. makes the carriage go fast D. records total miles covered 70. Benjamin Franklin invented a long arm in order to _________. A. replace his disabled arm B. play games with his grandchildren C. get books from the bookshelf more easily D. clean and tidy his house and the bookshelf 71. The last paragraph mainly wants to tell us that _______. A. Ben was the most famous inventor. B. other inventors learned a lot from Ben. C. Ben’s spirit of inventing are still with us. D. thinkers are probably to become inventors E Shelly Nielsen sees students fall asleep in class at least twice a week. “When I see teens asleep in my class, I wonder if I am really that boring”, said Nielsen, a teacher. “I also wonder why they are so tired.” Neilson first tried to wake up sleeping students quietly. If the snoozing (呼噜声) continues, she may call a student’s parents to find out how much sleep the students is getting at night and why. (责任编辑：admin) |