For Cronus, Gaia made a sickle out of her hardest flint, sharp enough to cut through anything. Together the two of them made a plan to overthrow Uranus, and to free Gaia’s children.

Reading for A's

Where and when and what you study are all important. But the nearest desk and the best desk light, the world's regular schedule, the best leather-covered notebook and the most expensive textbooks you can buy will do you no good unless you know how to study. And how to study, it' you don't already have some clue, is probably the hardest thing you will have to learn in college. Some students who can master the entire system of imaginary numbers mom easily than other students can discover how to study the first chapter in the algebra book. Methods of studying vary. But two things are sure; nobody else can do your studying for you, and unless you do find a system that works, you won't get through college.

Meantime, there are a few rules that work for everybody.

Rule 1

The first is don't get behind. ]he problem of studying, hard enough to start with, becomes almost impossible when you are trying to do three weeks' work in one weekend. Even the fastest readers have trouble doing that. And if you are behind in written work that must be turned in, the teacher who accepts it that late will probably not give you full credit. Perhaps he may not accept it at all.

Getting behind in one class because you are spending so much time on another is really no excuse. Feeling pretty virtuous about the seven hours you spend on chemistry won't help one bit if the history

teacher pops a quiz. And many freshmen do get into trouble by spending too much time on one class at the expense of the others, either because they like one class much better or because they find it so much harder that they think they should devote ail their time to it. Whatever the mason, going whole hog for one class and neglecting the rest of them is a mistake, If you face this temptation, begin with the shortest and easiest assignments. Get them out of the way and then go on to the more difficult, time-consuming work. Uuless you do the easy work first, you are likely to spend so much time on the long, hard work that when midnight comes, you'll say to yourself, "Oh, that English assignment was so easy, I can do it any time," and go on to bed. The English assignment, easy as it was, won't get done.

If everything seems equally easy (or equally hard), leave whatever you like best until the end. There will be more incentive at half past eleven to read a political that sounded really interesting than to begin memorizing French irregular verbs, a necessary task that strikes you as pretty dull.

In spite of the noblest efforts, however, everybody does get a little behind in .something some time. When this happens to you, catch up. Don't skip the parts you missed and try to go ahead with the rest of the class while there is still a big gap showing. What you missed may make it impossible, or at least difficult, to understand what the rest of the class is doing now. If you are behind, lengthen your study periods for a few days until you catch up. Skip .the movie you meant to see or the nap you planned to take. Stay up a little later, if you have to. But catch up.

Rule 2

The second role that works for everybody is don't be afraid to mark in textbooks. A good student's books don't finish the term looking as fresh and clean as the day they were purchased: they look used, well used. In fact, the books look as though somebody had studied them... To get your money's worth from your textbooks, you must do more with them than just read them.

To begin with, when you first get a new textbook, look at the table of contents to see what material the book covers. Flip through the pages to see what study aids the author has provided: subheadings, summaries, charts, pictures, review questions at the end of each chapter. After you have found what the whole book covers, you will be better prepared to begin studying the chapter you h

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B．N

C．NG

听力原文： Thank you all for coming today to hear about the new recycling program on campus. Right now all recycling is volunteering, but in the near future, it will most likely be mandatory. The recycling we planned is a really 3-part program. Sorting, collecting and distributing. The first part sorting is the hardest to get people to do. Most people don't like to take the time to separate their trash. This is usually where most recycling programs fail. However we are determined to make ours work. Instead of seeing the usual brown trash cans all over the campus, from now on you will see different colors of trash cans. Pink trash cans are for paper; green cans are for glass; maroon ones are for metal and white ones are for all other wastes. Just remember pink paper; green glass; maroon metal and white waste. After the trash is sorted, it needs to be collected and then distributed to the correct recycling facilities. That's where all of you come in. Since this program is still a volunteer program, we are asking students to give a little of their time to the project, probably no more than 6 hours per person each week and again your job will be to collect the sort of trash and take to the different centers for each type of trash. If you are willing to help us with the program by giving 6 hours a week, please write your names and phone number on this notepad.

What's the main purpose of this talk?

A．To explain why recycling is important.

B．To describe the recycling is program.

C．To discuss whether or not recycling should be mandatory(命令性的).

D．To explain how to find the recycling facilities.

听力原文： Thank you all for coming today to hear about the new recycling program on campus. Right now all recycling is voluntary, but in the near future, it will most likely be mandatory. The recycling we have planned is really a 3-part program. Sorting, collecting and distributing. The first part sorting is the hardest to get people to do. Most people don't like to take the time to separate their trash. This is usually where most recycling programs fail. However we are determined to make ours work. Instead of seeing the usual brown trash cans all over the campus, from now on you will see different colors of trash cans. Pink trash cans are for paper; green cans are for glass; maroon ones are for metal and white ones are for all other wastes. Just remember pink paper; green glass; maroon metal and white waste. After the trash is sorted, it needs to be collected and then distributed to the correct recycling facilities. That's where all of you come in. Since this pro- gram is still a volunteer program, we are asking students to give a little of their time to the project, probably no more than 6 hours per person each week and again your job will be to collect and sort the trash and take if to the different centers for each type of trash. If you are willing to help us with the program by giving 6 hours a week, Please write your names and phone numbers on this notepad.

What's the main purpose of this talk?

A．To explain why recycling important.

B．To describe the recycling program.

C．To discuss whether or not recycling should be mandatory (命令性的).

D．To explain how to find the recycling facilities.

Which of the following is true?

[A] Sound travels fastest through the hardest things.

[B] Sound travels at different speed in different temperatures and in different media.

[C] Sound travels fastest in hottest temperature.

[D] Sound travels fastest in coldest temperature.

Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the

Choosing what to do in life is one of the hardest decisions that a person has to make. Some people choose too early and【B1】______ their choices, while others choose too late and miss the【B2】______ that they had earlier. In order to make the correct【B3】______ people must understand themselves and their【B4】______ .

Everyone has dreams which they want to make real, but many people try to reach goals which are【B5】______ their grasp. Often taking the time to look at things from a different【B6】______ will allow one to see other options that were【B7】______ hidden.

Some things are very difficult to change—it is hard to change an【B8】______ person into an extroverted person, for example.

It takes a large amount of time and larger amount of work. It would be【B9】______ . Also, choose a specialty that fits your talents. If you are good at singing, then you should consider being a singer. If you do not sing well【B10】______ .

Making a good choice is tough but possible if you remember to consider your habits and your personality.【B11】______ .

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