There is a boy called Bill in my gym class who has unbearably yellow teeth that almost make everyone feel unpleasant．Recently another boy told Bill that he should "go Ajax" his teeth．Bill was crushed．If the other boy had been thinking, he would have realized that there is a better way to handle such a situation．He could have dealt with it with tact．He could have showed this hurtful truth in a more careful, sensitive way—that's "tact"．
If a person isn't sensitive to another's feelings, there is no way he or she can be tactful．Yesterday, my 5-year-old brother proudly announced that he had cleaned the screen on our television set．Unfortunately, he used furniture polish, which produced an oily film on the television screen．My mother smiled arid thanked him for his efforts—and then showed how to clean the screen properly．Her sensitivity enables my brother to keep his self-respect．Yet, sensitivity alone does not make tact．
"Tactfulness" also requires "truthfulness"．Doctors, for example must be truthful．If a patient has just been disabled in an accident, a tactful doctor will tell the truth—but express it with sensitivity．The doctor may try to give the patient hope by telling them curing techniques under study or about advanced equipment now available．Doctors must use tact with patients' relatives as well．Instead of bluntly saying, "Your husband is disabled," a doctor might say, "I'm sorry, but your husband has lost feeling in his legs and．．．"
Tact should not be confused with trickery．Trickery occurs when a nurse is about to give a patient an injection（注射） and says, "This won't hurt a bit．" Instead of trickery, the nurse might guarantee the patient that the discomfort of the injection is a small thing compared to the benefits of it．It would also be thoughtful for the nurse to tell the patients about some of these benefits．
Tact is a wonderful skill to have, and tactful people are usually admired and respected．Without tact our society would become an intolerable place to live in．
【小題1】The underlined word "crushed" in the first paragraph probably means____．

Here are some patients(病人), each of whom wants to see a doctor . Decide which doctor is suitable for the patient mentioned. There is an extra doctor that is not suitable for any of the patients.
1. _____ Patient one. He has a running nose all day. He has a fever and constant cough.
2. _____ Patient two . She sleeps poorly . She has difficulty in sleeping , and is unable to concentrate. She also has nightmares（惡夢(mèng)）occasionally.
3. _____ Patient three. His tongue is red and sore (痛) all over . His breath smells bad and he has
a bad taste in his mouth .
4. _____ Patient four. His blood pressure is really high. His head aches when he bends over or lies down.

A．Brown , a medical student majoring in oral cavity (口腔), is having his practice in a teaching hospital . Every day he meets quite a few people with a toothache , throat trouble and so on.

B．Tom is a psychologist (心理學(xué)家) . He keeps in touch with his mental patients by phone.

C．Wood , an adviser and doctor in a hospital , thinks we should pay more attention to what we eat . It is a problem that many people are becoming fatter and fatter. In his opinion, blood pressure is connected with it and he is trying his best to solve this kind of problem.

D．Mary , a female doctor , is doing research in breast-cancer . A lot of woman , she thinks , are suffering from this kind of disease all over the world . She has made up her mind to help these women.

When it comes to hard, noisy traveling, we’ve found that sometimes we’d rather read about it than actually go. Here are some bestsellers for armchair travelers.

The Station by Robert Byron. In 1928, the 22-year-old man made a journey to Mount Athos, resulting in one of the best travel books ever written, matched only by Byron’s own, much more famous The Road to Osciana.

In Darkest Africa by Henry Monton Stanley. It’s about his great efforts to save an unlucky German doctor Eduard Schnitzer, who had no desire to be rescued at all.

A Traveler’s Alphabet: Partial Memoirs by Sir Steven Runciman. A to Z and around the world. He provides priceless information of long-gone princesses, priests, and places.

South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage by Sir Ernest Shackleton. As the planet started the global war, Shackleton and his brave group of explorers made an unsuccessful but heroic journey to cross Antarctica from 1914 to 1917.

The Michelin Red Guide: France 2005 Reading through this final listing of all the nice hotels and wonderful restaurants in France is better than going there, listening to Chirac talk about the poisonous American culture, and spending the price of this book for a tiny cup of tea and a cookie the size of your thumb.

The Past Is a Foreign Country by David Lowenthal. This great book of an armchair exploration tells us what has happened in the past and shows the relationship between us and the past travelers.

This passage is written            .

A. to warn readers against traveling     

B. as an introduction to famous travelers

C to sell more books about travels

D. to tell people where to travel

The underlined phrase “armchair travelers” in the first paragraph refers to those who                .

A. like to read about travels instead of travel themselves

B. find fun teaching others how to travel to other places

C. like to write about their strange traveling experiences

D. can only travel with special equipment for the disabled

which of the books has a very low price according to the passage?

A. A Traveler’s Alphabet: Partial Memoirs.

B. South: A Memoir to the Endurance Voyage.

C. The Michelin Red Guide: France 2005.

D. The Past Is a Foreign Country.

What can we learn from the passage?

A. Henry Monton Stanley, was saved by a German doctor in Africa.

B. In his book, Lowenthal focuses more on history than the present.

C. It took Shackleton and his men 3 years to cross Antarctica.

D. The Station is no more famous than The Road to Osciana.

My house is made out of wood, glass and stone. It is also made out of software.
If you come to visit, you’ll probably be surprised when you come in. Someone will give you an electronic PIN （個(gè)人身份號(hào)碼）to wear. This PIN tells the house who and where you are. The house uses this information to give you what you need. When it’s dark outside, the PIN turns on the lights nearest you, and then turns them off as you walk away from them. Music moves with you too. If the house knows your favorite music, it plays it. The music seems to be everywhere, but in fact other people in the house hear different music or no music. If you get a telephone call, only the nearest telephone rings.
Of course, you are also able to tell the house if you want something. There is a home control console (控制臺(tái)), a small machine that turns things on and off around you.
The PIN and the console are new ideas, but they are in fact like many things we have today. If you want to go to a movie, you need a ticket. If I give you my car keys, you can use my car. The car works for you because you have the keys. My house works for you because you wear the PIN or hold the console.
I believe that ten years from now, most new homes will have the systems that I’ve put in my house. The systems will probably be even bigger and better than the ones I’ve put in today.
I like to try new ideas. I know that some of my ideas will work better than others. But I hope that one day I will stop thinking of these systems as new, and ask myself instead, “How will I live without them?”
【小題1】What does the passage mainly discuss?

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Walter’s goal in life was become a successfully doctor. He knew he had to finish high school first, so he put his heart into his study – in particular, biology, chemistry, and maths. Because he worked hard at these subjects, Walter became good at it. However, Walter forgot that he needed to master some other subjects beside those he had been chosen. As a result, Walter fails both English and Latin in the end of the second school year. But he had to repeat these subjects and he was almost unable to graduate like pawned. Walter learned a good lesson.