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Look out for these learning points: 1. Problem solving 2. Identifying key moral issues 3. Creative thinking and teamwork 4. Exploration of the oral tradition of storytelling using theatre Written and directed by Brian Seward. Music composed and arranged by Bang Wenfu. Official Sponsors: Supported by: ntuc a.r.t.s. fund 56. 57. How do schools enquire about the free resource pack? A. Contact A-Theatre at 6333 2222 B. Contact SISTIC hotline at 6123 4567 C. Email enquiries to grimms@atheatre.org D. Visit any SISTIC authorized agents island-wide Which of the following statement is TRUE? A. Grimm‘s Fairy Tales is recommended only for children above 4 years of age. B. The stories, subtext and performances are designed mainly to attract children. C. People can buy tickets more than one month ahead of the show date. D. Bang Wenfu is the writer, director and music composer of the event. B

Manchester on the rise

IT is its soccer culture that has put the city on the world map. But the UK Prime Minister David Cameron is hoping that Manchester has more to offer than just successful soccer teams. He wants more from the city, aiming to make it as successful as US cities Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta, according to a Daily Mail report from last week.

Cameron said the UK cannot just rely on London‘s success: ―We need a strong London, but we need a northern powerhouse too.‖

You may be wondering what can be found in Manchester to make it a ―powerhouse‖. Well, it turns out the city has a rich history and an interesting present to explore. As with many northern British cities, it has a working class past as a factory town from Britain‘s

industrialization (工业化), far away from posh (优雅的) London. It was also the place where Germans Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels began to write the Communist Manifesto (《共产党宣言》) at Chetham Library, the oldest library in the English-speaking world.

In addition, Manchester has long had a reputation for having a great cultural scene. Popular bands such as Oasis started out in Manchester, and the city‘s music scene was so famous in the late 1980s and 1990s that it had its own name ―Madchester‖. Even nowadays the city‘s many students and other young people keep nightclubs busy into the early hours. There is also a great media tradition, as The Guardian newspaper started there and a lot of the BBC has now moved from London to MediaCityUK in Manchester.

Manchester is still a major city in the UK, and its locals will not be shy to tell you that

because they are “known for many virtues (美德) but not for their modesty”, according to The Economist. Why not look beyond London and pay it a visit? It has much more to offer than two successful soccer teams, after all.

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58. What is the author‘s main purpose in writing the article? A. To report on David Cameron‘s impression of Manchester. B. To show all the differences between Manchester and London. C. To explain what makes Manchester stand out in the UK.

D. To introduce the reader to the history of Manchester‘s splendid football culture. 59. Which of the following statements is TRUE about Manchester according to the article? A. Located in the south of Britain, it is where the industrial revolution began. B. Karl Marx once worked as a librarian at Chetham Library in the city. C. It is where The Guardian newspaper and the BBC started. D. A music scene named ―Madchester‖ developed in the city. 60. How is Paragraph 4 mainly developed? A. By giving examples. B. By making comparisons. C. By following the order of time. D. By analyzing causes and effects.

C

One problem with much personality research is that it examines and rates whatever traits the researchers are interested in at the time: conscientiousness, emotional stability and so on. But when we describe someone in real life, we don‘t consider an array(大量) of personality measures; instead, we focus on a few distinctive traits that sum up the essence of the person. One is particularly anxious, another is consistently reliable, yet another is a ―live wire‖. While we might hesitate to characterize individuals along every personality dimension, we can accurately identify them by their key characteristics.

In research at Stanford University, Daryl Ben and Andrea Allen tested this idea by first asking college students if they were consistently or only occasionally friendly and then asking their parents and friends how friendly the students were. Ben and Allen observed how the students acted under two specific conditions: how much they spoke in small groups and how quickly they started up a conversation with strangers. The researchers found that students who considered themselves consistently friendly were indeed more likely to be friendly in both circumstances than were those who rated themselves only occasionally friendly. Beyond that, the friendliness ratings by parents and peers of the students who were consistently friendly were very similar to the students‘ self-ratings and predicted accurately how they would act in two conditions. It seems that we can judge ourselves accurately and that others can rate us very well on traits that serve as our trademarks.

To predict how someone will behave in a given situation, we must match the requirements of the situation with the trademark characteristics of the person involved. People who are strongly of one type or another should react predictably in a given situation, while the behavior of other more diffuse(分散的) personalities is harder to anticipate. Ben and David formalized this approach in their ?ideal‘ matching strategy.

The two psychologists suggest that certain ?ideal‘ approaches to life can be described and used to predict behavior under certain circumstances. If we then measure how close to this ?ideal type‘ any actual person is, we should be able to anticipate the likelihood that this person will behave in a certain way. For example, people adopt very different strategies in a game called ?The Prisoner‘s Dilemma‘, which is often used in psychological experiments. In it, participants must choose to be cooperative or competitive. Bern and Charles Lord of Princeton University

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found that students‘ playing styles could be accurately predicted from roommates‘ assessments of them. Those rated as most negative and unhelpful in life usually employed a competitive strategy rather than a cooperative one. 61. According to the author, _______.

A. everyone‘s personality can be clearly predicted if we classify our personality into fine

details as conscientiousness, emotional stability and so on

B. only the personality of a few people who have very strong characters can be predicted C. people‘s personality is hard to predict since they often act differently on different

conditions

D. most people can be classified as one kind of personality or another according to certain personality

62. The ?trademark‘ (Line2, Para3) most probably means ?______‘. A. the brand of goods B. the most representative C. a term used in trade D. matching strategy 63. Most people‘s self-ratings about their personality are _______. A. similar to what their parents and peers think them to be B. different from what is expected of them by researchers C. usually not true to their actual behavior D. true on one occasion but unreal on another

64. People who rated themselves as friendly are most probably more _______. A. competitive B. challenging C. cooperative D. stylish 65. From the passage, we can infer that______.

A. people with different personality act consistently in different situations B. a variety of characteristics affects how an individual reacts to an event C. people with different personality act differently in different situations

D. a variety of characteristics affects how an individual reacts to routine tasks.

D

You may have heard of the man who decided to repair the roof of his house. To be safe, he tied a rope around his waist and threw the other end of it over the top of the house. He asked his son to tie it to something secure. The boy fastened the safety rope to the bumper of their car parked in the driveway. It seemed like a good idea at the time. But a little while later, his wife, unaware of the rope securing her husband, she started the car and drove away. Imagine what the result would be.

This story, factual or not, points to a great truth. It is a truth about where we place our security; about those things to which we‘ve tied our safety lines. What is your rope tied to? Think about it. What do you depend on to keep you from disaster? Is your rope tied to a good job? Is it tied to a relationship with somebody you rely on? Is it tied to a company or an organization?

Writer Susan Taylor tells of discovering how unreliable some of our safety lines really are. She tells of lying in bed in the early hours of the morning when an earthquake struck. As her house shook, she fell out of bed and managed to go to the doorway, watching in horror as her whole house cracked down around her. Where her bed had once stood, she later discovered nothing but a pile of bricks. She lost everything — every button, every dish, her automobile,

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every article of clothing. Susan trembled, scared and crying, in the darkness. In the early morning she cried and called out for help.

Thoroughly exhausted, she thought that maybe she should be listening for rescuers instead of crying. So she grew still and listened. In the silence around her, the only sound she heard was the beating of her own heart. It occurred to her then that at least she was still alive and, amazingly enough, unhurt.

She thought about her situation. In the stillness, fear abandoned her and a feeling of indescribable peace and happiness flooded in, the likes of which she had never before known. It was an experience that was to change her life forever.

In the deepest part of her being, Susan realized a remarkable truth. She realized she had nothing to fear. Amazingly, whether or not she was ever rescued, whether she ever made it out alive, she sensed she had nothing to fear.

For the first time in her life she understood that her true security did not depend on those things in which she had placed her trust. It lay deep within. And also for the first time, she knew what it was to be content in all circumstances. She realized that whether she had plenty or hardly enough, somehow she would be all right. She just knew it. She later wrote, ―Before the quake I appeared very successful, but my life was out of balance. I wasn‘t happy because I had been making money and always wanting more. My home, my job, my clothes, a relationship — I thought they were my security. It took an earthquake and losing everything I owned for me to discover that my security had been with me all along…There‘s a power within us that we can depend upon no matter what is happening around us.‖

She had tied her rope to the wrong things. It took a disaster for her to understand that those things are not trustworthy. So she let go of the rope and discovered peace. She found that her true security was a power within- dependable and sure.

What is your rope tied to? And what would happen if you found the courage to let go of it? 66. If the story of the man was true, the most probable result would be that___________. A. the bumper of the car broke up B. the house was destroyed by the car

C. the wife was scolded by her husband D. the man was badly injured or even killed 67. Why was Susan crying in the darkness?

A. Because she was afraid of staying in the dark. B. Because she wanted to be heard by the rescuers. C. Because she was frightened and felt helpless. D. Because she had tied her rope to the wrong thing.

68. What did Susan feel after she thought about her situation? A. She felt very peaceful. B. She felt she was still alive. C. She felt completely hopeless. D. She wanted to change her life forever. 69. What did Susan think of interpersonal relationship and income before the earthquake? A. They were alternative. B. They were unnecessary. C. They were very important. D. They were among some choices. 70. Which of the following should be the best title? A. A Rope Tied to a Car. B. What to Depend on. C. Please Let Go of Your Trust. D. An Experience from an Earthquake.

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第II卷（满分35分） 第四部分 任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后图表中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空只能填1个单词。

Why should you have a purpose? Do you think people like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Mother Theresa, Winston Churchill, Helen Keller and Oprah Winfrey, have life purposes?

Of course they do! Grand, visionary purposes which other people scoffed(laughed) at an earlier point in their lives! And it was their purposes which led them to their level of greatness that no one would have thought possible.

Having a purpose gives you an entirely new latitude in life. It is like your secret access pass which unlocks benefits like fulfillment, happiness and success – things people spend their entire lives trying to seek.

What is important is to understand things like abundance, success, wealth, fulfillment, etc. are the results of discovering and pursuing your purpose – as long as you find and live your purpose fully and truly, everything will fall into place. It is as simple as that.

Understanding Your Role in Creating Your Purpose

If you are an apathetic (冷淡的) person, maybe you will say ―I don‘t care about having a purpose.‖ Or if you are nihilistic（虚无主义的）, you may say ―Life is meaningless. There is no point in trying to assign a meaning.‖ Maybe you are just generally okay with the way your life is right now and you think that having a purpose is“for other people‖.

If life has no meaning or purpose, then why are you here? Why are you getting up every day and going through the motions with the rest of the world? Why are you breathing the air and walking the earth? If life really has no meaning for you, isn‘t it logically better to end it than to wait for your time to end?

Without a purpose, your everyday life is filled with actions not guided by a focal point. It‘ll be a combination of mish-mesh, random forces around you which end up canceling out each other in the larger spectrum of life. The end product is an average life and an average existence.

Look at the people around you. Have you ever known people who truly, really feel like they are alive? When they talk, their eyes widen and sparkle; everything they talk about just seems so exciting and interesting. Life through their eyes seems so positive and appealing all the time. These people are in tune with their life purpose and they are living and breathing it.

On the other hand, there is another group of people who are unaware or disconnected with their purpose. They content themselves with what is within their reach and are often oriented in negativity, complaints, and dissatisfaction. Life seems plain, monotonous (dull) and uninspiring from their eyes.

Which scenario (situation) do you think best describes your life right now? And which one would you rather lead?

As long as you don‘t have clarity on what your purpose is, what you are effectively doing every day is living out other people‘s purpose. There are 2 ways to live your life – the first, and what most people do, is to live aimlessly without a direction. The other, less trod (踩，踏) path, is to define your purpose and live by it.

If you choose to live, you are better off creating meaning for your existence. This means to

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