Do you know how to study better and make your study more effective(有效)? We all know that Chinese students usually study very hard for a long 35. This is very good, but it doesn't 36 a lot. An effective student must have enough sleep, enough food, enough rest and exercise. You need to go out for a walk or visit some friends or some nice places. It's good for your study.

When you return  37  your studies, your mind will be refreshed(清醒的) and you'll learn more  38  study better. Psychologists（心理學(xué)家）39  that learning takes place in this way. Here take English learning  40  an example. In the first few months you can make progress and you feel happy. Then your language study seems 41  on the same level. So you will think you're learning  42   and you may give up. This can last for days or even weeks, yet you needn't give up. At some point your language study will take another big  43  again. You'll see that you really have been learning all along. If you get enough sleep, food, rest and exercise, studying English can be very effective and interesting. Don't  44   along the way. Learn slowly and you're sure to get a good result.

1.A. dayB. timeC. hourD. week

2.A. helpB. give C. makeD. take

3.A. afterB. forC. atD. to

4.A. yetB. andC. orD. but

5.A. findB. teach  C. tellD. remember

6.A. withB. forC. as D. to

7.A. to haveB. to makeC. to takeD. to stay

8.A. somethingB. anything C. nothingD. everything

9.A. workB. jump  C. walk D. result

10.A. get upB. set up C. give up D. wake up

Last week I went to a supermarket. After I  36  the bill and was passing through the door, the alarm suddenly started to ring. Suddenly, a young guard ran toward me and ordered me to  37 him. I felt so upset and   38 . He took me to a small room, but I was   39  frightened that I stopped at the door. Finding me  40to enter the room, he shouted that I had to go into the room.
He closed the door. I thought he was going to hurt me. Suddenly, a   41  voice said in my ear: “Take out the things you’ve stolen!” “I stole nothing.” I said. “Do as I tell you. If we find them, you’ll be in trouble.” “There is nothing.” I answered. “I didn’t take anything.” I said, taking everything out of my pockets and bag.
  42  this point, a guard came in and asked a salesgirl to   43  me.   44 , they found nothing.
But they didn’t believe that I hadn’t stolen anything. So the young guard ordered me to pass through the door alarm again.
I was   45 when it rang again. I felt   46  and burst into tears. I didn’t know how to prove   47  I was innocent(清白的).
They made me go into the small room again.
“Take out the stolen things quickly,  48  we will dial 110.” They said.
“OK, call the police. I’ m not afraid.” I said  49.
Suddenly,  they  50 their tone. After a while, a salesgirl asked me to raise my feet. I did   51  she had told me. There was a label (標(biāo)簽) on the bottom of my shoe. That was it! That was the  52 thing that had brought me such great trouble. But it  53my innocence.（清白）
After that, they 54  to me in the small room, But they should have apologized 55 , shouldn’t they? A lot of people were there when I was taken away. What did they think of me?

My aunt bought me a bicycle on my ninth birthday. She told me to learn to ride by ___36___. But I really didn’t know___37___to ride a bike. What should I do? First, I watched the other people ride. Then I pushed out the bicycle from my house. I was ___38___ I'd fall down and hurt my knees. But I knew I had to get on it sooner or later. So I___39___ to get on just like what the other people did. But I fell off twenty___40___later. Just at that time, my aunt came out from the ___41___. She told me to practice again and again. So I got on the bike a second time, and fell off a second time. But I never gave up. I practiced a third time, a fourth time …. I could be on it ___43___every time I tried again then before, 5 minutes, ten minutes, half an hour… until I could.

Like anything in life that you want to learn how to do or to be good at, you have to practice to ___44___it happen. Diligent practice is the key to success___45___you really want to learn to do a thing. More practice helps you to improve on the skills that you learn and ingrains （使根深蒂固）them in you until you can do it.  

1.  A. herself           B. yourself            C. myself       D. himself

2.A. how             B. what             C. where          D. when

3.A. happy           B. surprised          C. interested      D. afraid

4.  A. had           B. tried                C. like          D. hate

5.A. seconds        B. minutes               C. hours        D. days

6.  A. school         B. house             C. farm          D. village

7.A. fifth           B. fourth             C. third          D. second

8.  A. shorter      B. longer            C.    safer         D. dangerous

9.A. practice        B. enjoy              C.   make         D. set

10. A. if             B. when               C. until         D. after

"Eyes are windows of the soul." Everyone knows the 36 of the eyes.  37 more and more students are becoming near-sighted(近視). So how to protect the eyes is still a serious problem. Here is some advice on 38 protect your eyesight(視力).
You should not keep your eyes 39 for a long time. When reading, you should keep the books about a foot away from you. After reading for an hour 40 two, you 'd better have a 41 by looking into the distance(遠(yuǎn)處).
You must remember not to read in dark light or in 42, not to read on a moving bus or in bed. Doing eye exercises will help 43 to protect your eyesight.
In a 44 , to keep 45 eyesight, we must have good studying habits.

One summer evening, a 10-year-old boy was trying to hit a bottle with a slingshot(彈弓). The bottle was about 7 to 8 meters __36__. The boy tried many times but still couldn’t hit it. His mother just kept passing him small stones.

   A girl walked by. She __37__ the boy for some time and said to the mother, “Let me show him how to shoot.”

   “No, thank you,” said the __38__, “he is blind.”

   The girl was surprised and asked, “How can he hit the bottle then?” “I tell him he can do it,” said the mother, “__39__ he tries hard enough.”

   The little boy tried again and again. The mother always told him that he was doing __40__. The boy became more confident. After a long time, it __41__ dark. The girl said goodbye to the mother and son. When she turned to leave, she heard a stone hit the __42_! The little boy finally made it!

   With confidence and patience, nothing is impossible.

1.A. long            B. tall            C. away          

2.A. said            B. watched         C. wondered     

3.A. mother          B. boy             C. girl          

4.A. before          B. after             C. if             

5.A. good           B. better            C. well           

6.A. went           B. become           C. got           

7.A. bottle           B. slingshot          C. stone