that is rich and fulfilling?

______you are not in a place to pursue a new career based on your gifts,look for ways to make your gifts_____to others and demonstrate them in as many areas of your life as possible.The more your gifts are______,the more naturally you will fully accept and promote those gifts.The more you express your life through your innate gifts,the more you will excel.It’s beautifully self-perpetuating process once you make the decision to begin.

Your gifts are your signature,your unique paintbrushes－use them to express your greatness and make your______on the world! IV.Translation Section A

Directions:Translate the following sentences into English,using the words or phrases in the brackets.

1.The exchange students__________________________________(发现适应新学校很困难)。（adapt to）

2.Mother knew that she was the person who_______________________________(孩子们愿意把自己的故事与她分享)。（share...with）

3.After heated discussion,the group finally_________________________________(推举他们中的一员作为发言人)。（elect）

4.The team tried hard to apply for government funds,______________________________(却发现他们必须自己克服财政困难)。（only to find;overcome）

5.Doctors always______________________________________________(强调平衡饮食的重要性)。（stress the importance of） Section B

Directions:Translate the following paragraph into Chinese.

There will be moments when the only thing left is for us to question our existence.There are always days when we get to lonely and depressed and the world has lost its co1ours.There will be times when we lose all reasons for living and life will seem so hard that we wish there was no such thing as tomorrow.But then again,we should also know that problems are just another bitterness in life trying to twist the personage in each of us and corrupt our perceptions about life.When these times happen,do not succumb to the temptations of giving up.Yes,the only way to be happy is to suffer willingly. V.Organizing Your Ideas

Directions:Put the following sentences in the proper order so that they make a complete paragraph.

1.It was,in fact,the little known C1eisthenes. 2.Who is the father of democracy?

3.Not Thomas Jefferson,as many people oddly seem to think.

4.From 508 to 502 BC,he began to develop a series of major reforms,leading to the formation of Athenian Democracy.

5.He first introduced democracy to the Greek city states in 508BC,after he gained political power in Athens.

6.All citizens over the age of thirty were eligible to sit on the council,encouraging public involvement in the government.

7.He made all free men living in Athens and Attica citizens,giving them the right to vote as part of a democratic society.

8.While the format may not be the same as the many democracies around the world today,there is no doubt that this was the first step. 9.He also established a council. VI.Reflecting on the Text

Text B An Unwanted Baby,Steve Jobs Exercises

I.Checking Your Comprehension Section A

Directions:Read the following statements and mark Y (for Yes)if the statement agrees with the information given in the text;N(for No)if the statement contradicts the information given in the text;NG(for Not Given)if the information is not given in the text.

( )1.Steve Jobs achieved great successful in the fields of computer technology,the movie industry and the music business.

( )2.Steve Jobs had both a successful career and a harmonious family. ( )3.Steve Jobs was abandoned by his mother due to disability.

( )4.Steve Jobs unfortunately quit school due to finacia1 constraints.

( )5.The period of recovering from depression,rusu1ting from unemployment,enabled Steve Jobs to become more creative.

( )6.Within 5 years after being fired,Steve Jobs founded NeXT and pixar,both achieving equally success. Section B

Directions:Complete the following sentences with the information given in the text. 1.Steve Jobs had realized his big dream and led a revolution in_______.

2.Around 1976,Steve Jobs and his partner were obliged to sell their possessions in order to______. 3.Confronted with the fierce competition from IBM’s new PC in 1982,Steve Jobs’ company_____. 4.As Steve Jobs the competition in the control over Apple,he was______.

5.Apple felt great pressure from its rival Microsoft and in 1996 announced a loss of______.

6.Under Steve Jobs’ leadership,Apple returned to a place where it can contribute______to the computer world.

II.Building Your Vocabulary Section A

Directions:Complete each of the following sentences with the correct choice of the words given in the brackets.

1.All this should provide a spur to the waste industry and speed the______of new technology.(adopt,adoption)

2.If you have made an______with a customer,you should try to keep it.(appoint,appointment)

3.Could you give me a______reason why I am mot allowed to accept that scholarship?(convince,convincing)

4.Even if the genes are not______hazardous,you can’t imagine how they will evolve.(initial,initially)

5.The personnel department is responsible for drafting______policy.(recruit,recruitment)

6.The team enjoyed a high reputation for having had five______victories in the World Championships.(successive,succession) Section B

Directions:Fill in the blanks with the words given below.Change the form where necessary. Episode foundation innovation immense Unexpected possession introduce insanely 1.The issue strikes at the very______of our community.

2.Apple is regularly voted the most_______company in the world.

3.It is a pity that so many useful discoveries should be in the______of a silent man. 4.He got______angry at being made a fool of.

5.Some of the industry’s innovations have caused______damage. 6.I confess to being astonished at this______statement. III.Translation Sections A

Directions:Translate the following sentences into English,using the words or phrases in the brackets. Section B

Directions:Translate the following paragraph into Chinese.

Steve Jobs was adopted by a family in Mountain View,California.While still in high school,Jobs’ interest in electronics prompted him to call William Hewlett to ask for some parts for a school project.Hewlett provided the parts and then made an offer to Jobs to intern at Hewlett-Packard for a summer.There,Jobs met Steve Wozniak,a talented and knowledgeable engineer five years older than the high school student.Their friendship would eventually be the foundation on which Apple was built. IV.Writing Section A

Directions:Rewrite the following sentences,and give them some variety in length and structure. Example:Mary has many books.and Jack has many books too. Revision:Both Mary and Jack have many books.

1.To be with you here this evening is a great pleasure.

2.The speaker can’t some,and we will have to cancel the meeting.

3.If he wins the support of the minority groups,he will be able to win the election. 4.John spoke through a microphone so that he could be heard in every room. 5.The woman was accompanied by a porter,and he delivers heavy luggage. Section B

Directions:Renumber the sentences given below to arrange them in what you think is the best order.

1.When most people sign on to their computers,they are greeted with a flood of get-rich-quick schemes,invitations to pornographic websites,and ads for a variety of unwanted products.

2.The third and best category of e-mail is genuine personal e-mail from genuine personal friends. 3.E-mail users quickly become good at hitting the”delete”button to get rid of this garbage.

4.The second category that clogs most people’s electronic mailbox is forwarded mail,most of which also gets deleted without being read.

5.Getting such real,thoughtful e-mail can almost make up for the irritation of the other two categories.

6.As more and more people take advantage of e-mailing,three categories of e-mail have emerged. 7.One category of e-mail is junk mail. Section C

Directions:Write a short essay with a clear central idea and effective development in about 150words.You should base your writing on the following situation and give consideration to the unity,coherence and variety of each paragraph.

Positive psychology advocates that helping people in need,to a certain extent.How do you understand kind deeds,small or big,and the realization of the value of your life?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Self-Assessment 2 第一部分：阅读判断

下面的短文后列出了10个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子作出判断；如果该句提供的是正确信息，选择A；如果该句提供的是错误信息，选择B；如果词句的信息文中没有提及，选择C。

Lucky’s Greatest Treasure

Mary and her husband Jim had a dog named”Lucky.”Lucky was a real character.Whenever Mary and Jim had company come for a weekend visit,they would warn their friends not to leave their luggage open because Lucky would help himself to whatever struck his fancy.Inevitably,someone would forget and something would come up missing.

Mary or Jim would go to Lucky’s toy box in the basement and there the treasure would be,amid all of Lucky’s other favourite toys.Lucky always stored his finds in his toy box.

It happened that Mary found out she had breast cancer.Something told her she was going to die of this disease.She scheduled a double mastectomy(乳房切除术)，fear riding her shoulders.

The night before she was to go to the hospital,she hugged Lucky closely in her arms.A thought struck her－what would happen to Lucky?Although the three-year-old dog liked Jim,he was Mary’s dog through.”If I die,Lucky will be abandoned,”Mary thought,”He won’t understand that I didn’t want to leave him.”The thought made her sadder than that of her own death.

The double mastectomy was harder on Mary than her doctors had anticipated and Mary was hospitalized for over two weeks.Jim faithfully took Lucky for his evening walk,but the little dog just hung down,whining(哀鸣)and miserable.

Finally the day came for Mary to leave the hospital.When she arrived home,Mary was so exhausted that she couldn’t even make it up the steps to her bedroom.Jim made his wife comfortable on the couch and left her to nap.

Lucky stood watching Mary but he didn’t come to her when she called.It made Mary sad,but sleep soon overcame her and she dozed.

When Mary woke,for a second she couldn’t understand what was wrong.She couldn’t