still under our stairs after all those years. When would the Big Day come?
Well, the Big Day eventually did arrive; only it was different than expected. My wife, always more accepting changes than I am, finally talked me into clearing out the entire mess.
The pain I experienced was also unexpected. What hurt me was to come across those terrible papers I'd written, which reminded me of my poor study habits, and an embarrassing lack of comprehension. It was great to get rid of them. But it was also a clearing of personal history.
At first, I struggled with this. The truth was in the record that my books, my notes, and my papers were primary source materials, documenting an important time in my life. To clear them out was to clear out the truth.
What I've learned since taking this leap is that the process is more important than the truth. I feel as if much of my real education during my college years isn't in the documents but now in me.
So I am glad to free myself of this physical burden. And what's better is that I don't need to look back to those painful moments. They belong to the past.
You might want to consider doing something similar, either under the stairs of your basement or in your mind.
What is the personal rubbish piling in your life? Clear it out and make your life awesome.
语篇解读：本文是一篇夹叙夹议文。作者下决心清除了堆积多年的大学课本和笔记后，从开始纠结“清除了过去的记录，就清除了过去的历史”到最终明白“过程才最重要”的道理。
5．Why was the author finally determined to desert all the college materials? A．Because his wife persuaded him to. B．Because they were of no use at all. C．Because they were heavy on the moves. D．Because they occupied space too long.
解析：选A 细节理解题。根据文章第三段的第二句“My wife ... finally talked me into clearing out the entire mess.”可知，作者的妻子说服了作者，故选A项。
6．The author struggled at the very beginning for ________. A．a sense of pain
B．a sense of embarrassment C．a sense of regret for the past D．a sense of losing part of his history
解析：选D 细节理解题。根据文章第四段中的“But it was also a clearing of personal
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history.”及第五段中的“To clear them out was to clear out the truth.”可知，作者纠结的是“清除了过去的记录，就清除了过去的历史”，故选D项。
7．What does the underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refer to? A．The past experiences.
B．The wasted college-related materials. C．The rubbish in the basement. D．Physical and psychological mess.
解析：选D 代词指代题。根据文章最后两段中的“either under the stairs of your basement or in your mind”以及“What is the personal rubbish piling in your life？”可知，it指代的是物质上和心理上的垃圾，故D项正确。
8．What would be the best title for the passage? A．Let It Go B．Sort It Out C．Give up the Past
D．Forget the History
解析：选A 标题归纳题。结合全文内容可知，本文主要讲述的是该放弃生活中的“垃圾”的时候，我们就应该任凭它去，并且文章在篇末点题，“Clear it out”是关键词，故A项最适合作文章标题。
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(2016·四川省南充市第三次适应性考试)Two recent studies have found that punishment is not the best way to influence behavior.
One showed that adults are much more cooperative if they work in a system based on rewards. Researchers at Harvard University in the United States and the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden did the study.
They had about two hundred college students play a version of the game known as the Prisoner's Dilemma. The game is based on the tension (紧张气氛) between the interests of an individual and a group. The students played in groups of four. Each player could win points for the group, so they would all gain equally. But each player could also reward or punish each of the other three players, at a cost to the punisher.
Harvard researcher David Rand says the most successful behavior proved to be cooperation. The groups that rewarded it the most earned about twice as much in the game as the groups that rewarded it the least. And the more a group punished itself, the lower its earnings were. The group with the most punishment earned twenty-five percent less than the group with the least punishment. The study appeared last month in the journal
Science.
The other study involved children. It was presented last month in California at a
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conference on violence and abuse. Researchers used intelligence tests given to two groups. More
than eight hundred children aged two to four the first time they were tested. More than seven hundred children aged five to nine.
The two groups were retested four years later, and the study compared the results with the first test. Both groups contained children whose parents used physical punishment and children whose parents did not. The study says the IQs — or intelligence quotients — of the younger children who were not spanked were five points higher than those who were. In the older group, the difference was almost three points.
Murray Strauss from the University of New Hampshire worked with Mallie Paschall from the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. Professor Strauss has written extensively about physical punishment of children. He says the more they are spanked, the slower their mental development. He also looked at average IQs in other nations and found them lower where spanking was more common.
语篇解读：本文是一篇议论文。文章通过两项研究的数据和结果证明了体罚不是规范行为举止的最好方法。
9．Which could be the best title of the passage? A．Punishment
B．The Best Way to Influence Behavior
C．Punishment or Reward: Which Works Better on Behavior? D．Two Recent Studies
解析：选C 标题归纳题。通读全文可知，文章通过两项研究来证明：表扬和惩罚这两种方式哪种在规范人的行为方面更有效。C项概括了文章内容，适合做标题。故答案选C。
10．The underlined word “spanked” probably means “______”． A．won C．tested
B．punished D．praised
解析：选B 词义猜测题。根据第六段第二句可知，两组都有父母实行体罚和不实行体罚的孩子。画线词所在句意为“这个研究表明，在年龄较小的孩子中，没有受到体罚的孩子的智商比受到体罚的孩子高五分”。因此画线词的意思与“体罚”意思相近。故答案选B。
11．According to the passage, the researchers may agree the best way to influence behavior is ________.
A．rewarding good behavior B．correcting bad behavior
C．punishing badly-behaved children
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D．praising well-behaved children
解析：选A 推理判断题。根据第四段可知，成员之间互相奖励的团队要比互相惩罚的团队得分高。由此可推知，专家认为规范行为举止的最好方式是表扬好的行为。故答案选A。
12．The author develops the passage ________. A．in order of time B．in order of importance C．by describing his experiences
D．by using quotations (引证) and statistics
解析：选D 写作手法题。通读全文可知，文章通过两项研究的数据和结果证明了体罚不是规范行为举止的最好方法。故答案选D。
Module 2 My New Teachers
Ⅰ.单词—在语境中默写，在联想中积累
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1.nervous adj. 紧张的；焦虑的
2.avoid vt. (故意)避开 3.admit vt. 承认 4.wave vt. 挥(手)；招(手) 5.amusing adj.有趣的；可笑的→amuse vt.使快乐；逗乐→amusement n．娱乐；快乐→amused adj.被逗乐的人 6.energetic adj.精力充沛的→energy n．精力；能源 7.intelligent adj.聪明的→intelligence n．智力 8.organised adj.有组织的；有系统的；做事有条理的→organise
vt.组织
→organisation n．组织 9.patient adj.耐心的n.病人→patience n．耐心 10.completely adv.十分地；完全地→complete adj.完全的
11.immediately adv.立即；即刻→immediate adj.立即的；即刻的
12.appreciate vt.欣赏；感激→appreciation n．欣赏；感激
13.respect vt.& n．尊敬；尊重→respectful adj.有礼貌的；恭敬的→respectable
adj. 体面的；令人尊敬的
14.relaxed adj.轻松的；松懈的；宽松的→relax vt.使
用所给词的适当形式填空
1.Mr. Wang is an amusing person who often amuses us with amusing stories. So staying with him is really a kind of amusement.(amuse) 2.The leader of the organisation is a highly
organised
person and we all like the activities he
organises.(organise) 3.Don't lose patience
with
patients! As a nurse, you should be patient with them all the time.(patient) 4.Our English teacher often respects
our
opinions. Everyone in our class says he is a respectable teacher and we should be respectful to him.(respect) 5.Fishing is his favourite
1.“聪明”有几何？ ①intelligent adj.
聪明的
②clever adj. 聪明的 ③smart adj. 机灵的 ④bright adj. 聪明的 ⑤wise adj. 英明的 2.“立即，即刻”全接触
①immediately adv.
立即
②instantly adv. 即刻
③at once 立即 ④in no time 立刻 ⑤in a flash 即刻 ⑥right now/away 立
刻
3.“感激，感谢”大观园
①appreciate vt. 感激
→appreciation n. 感激
②thank vt. 感谢 →thanks n. 感谢 →thankful adj. 感谢的
③grateful adj. 感激的
4.聚焦否定前缀in-形容词
①incorrect 不正确的
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