Grandpa my heroMy grandfather had only one child and that was my mother. He always wanted a son but it never happened. ____1____. When my mom got pregnant, he thought he finally had a boy in the family, but it turned out that her first child was my older sister. When I was born, grandpa was very happy.He was the first person to give me a baseball glove and to play baseball with me. My first glove was as small as my whole hand is now. When grandpa gave me that glove, I was very excited. ___2____. It was my pride and joy.When I was five, I played on my first baseball team and grandpa was the coach. He wanted me to play one position, but I want to play another. _____3____. I tried so hard that I made good progress. Grandpa was very proud of me. Ever since then, he has worked with me to make me a better player.Grandpa has helped me become not only a better player, but a better person. ____4____. Today grandpa does not play baseball with me so often, but he still comes to every practice and game. He sits and watches my practices through rain and shine. _____5_____. I love him and hope he will be around for many more years to support me and baseball.4___.A. I was so happy I even slept with it at my side.B. He wanted a son because he wanted to teach him to play baseball.C. I owe him all my success in baseball and in my life.D. in order to make me happy, he let me play what I wanted.E. He was named our baseball team’s number one fan by my coach.F. My grandpa is still working at a store

Grandpa my heroMy grandfather had only one child and that was my mother. He always wanted a son but it never happened. ____1____. When my mom got pregnant, he thought he finally had a boy in the family, but it turned out that her first child was my older sister. When I was born, grandpa was very happy.He was the first person to give me a baseball glove and to play baseball with me. My first glove was as small as my whole hand is now. When grandpa gave me that glove, I was very excited. ___2____. It was my pride and joy.When I was five, I played on my first baseball team and grandpa was the coach. He wanted me to play one position, but I want to play another. _____3____. I tried so hard that I made good progress. Grandpa was very proud of me. Ever since then, he has worked with me to make me a better player.Grandpa has helped me become not only a better player, but a better person. ____4____. Today grandpa does not play baseball with me so often, but he still comes to every practice and game. He sits and watches my practices through rain and shine. _____5_____. I love him and hope he will be around for many more years to support me and baseball.5___.A.I was so happy I even slept with it at my side.B.He wanted a son because he wanted to teach him to play baseball.C.I owe him all my success in baseball and in my life.D.in order to make me happy, he let me play what I wanted.E.He was named our baseball team’s number one fan by my coach.F.My grandpa is still working at a store

Protecting the fewHow we live our lives affects the environment. The environment is all the things around you. All across earth, humans are ____1____the environment in small and large ways. We cut done trees to build houses. We plow fields to ____2____ crops. We pour waste into rivers, lakes and oceans. We use larger nets and bigger boats to catch ___3___numbers of fish. Activities like these affect plants and animal. They ___4___ affect things like the soil and water.Sometimes our actions make the number of a ____5___ plant or animal get larger. For example, if you planted roses in your yard, there would be more roses in your area.Our activities can also ____6___ to a smaller number of plants and animals. If a park were turned into an apartment building, what would happen to the plants and animals there? Well, they would ____7____ die or move to other ___8____. There would be fewer plants and animals.Pollution and other activities sometimes cause the number of a species(物种) to become so ___9___ that it cannot survive. A species that is in ____10___ of dying out is called an endangered(濒危的) species.A.changingE.hugeI.increaseB.growF.placesJ.smallC.leadG.certainK.survivalD.eitherH.alsoL.danger

The power of languageLanguage is something that defines (define) us as humans. When language is ____1___(use) well, it can bring out very deep feelings in others, and encourages others to take ____2___ ( act). Sometimes in poetry a certain phrase can bring __3___(tear) to the eyes and move us deeply. When we use language to express our true feelings to someone, it can open and ___4___(deep) the connection between us. Language is a very ___5__(power) tool. How we use language shapes our world. How we use self-talk ___6____(direct) shapes our experience of both ourselves and the world. How we deliver ____7____( communicate) shapes the way the world ___8___ ( respond) to us. We can use language more ___9___ (effective). And this clearly influences the health and power of our ___10___ (person) relationships and business relationships.

There was a time when most people expected to get out of school, find a job, and stick with it pretty much for the rest of their lives. Today, the opposite is true. People tend to change jobs fairly often, for various reasons. When you graduate from college, will you be committed to a lifetime career or job-hop often? Give your reasons.There was a time when most people expected to get out of school, find a job, and stick with it pretty much for the rest of their lives. Today, the opposite is true. People tend to change jobs fairly often, for various reasons. When you graduate from college, will you be committed to a lifetime career or job-hop often? Give your reasons.

How to Interview PeopleInterviewing （采访） is one of those skills that you can only get better at. You will never again feel so ill at ease as when you try it for the first time, and probably you'll never feel entirely comfortable trying to get from another person answers that he or she may be too shy to reveal.___1__ The rest is instinct, which can all be learned with experience. The basic tools for an interview are paper and two or three well-sharpened pencils. But keep your notebook or paper out of sight until you need it. There's nothing less likely to relax a person than the arrival of someone with a note-taking pad. 2___Take a while just to chat, judging what sort of person you're dealing with, getting him or her to trust you. Never go into an interview without doing whatever homework you can. If you are interviewing a town official, know his voting record. If it's an actor, know what plays he has been in. __3___ Many beginning interviewers are afraid that they are forcing the other person to answer questions and have no right to inquire about his personal secrets. ___4___Unless the person really hates being interviewed, he is delighted that somebody wants to interview him. Most men and women lead lives that are uninteresting, and they grasp any chance to talk to an outsider who seems eager to listen. This doesn't necessarily mean that it will go well. In general you will be talking to people who have never been interviewed before, and they will get used to the process awkwardly, perhaps not giving you anything that you can use. ___5____You will both even begin to enjoy it - proof that you aren't forcing your victim to do something he doesn't really want to.1___.A.Come back another day; it will go betterB.But at least half of the skill is mechanicalC.As one philosopher interviewed in the film notes, they lack ironyD.You will not be liked if you inquire about facts that you could have learned in advance.E.This fear is almost 100 percent unnecessaryF.Both of you need time to get to know each other

How to Interview PeopleInterviewing （采访） is one of those skills that you can only get better at. You will never again feel so ill at ease as when you try it for the first time, and probably you'll never feel entirely comfortable trying to get from another person answers that he or she may be too shy to reveal.___1__ The rest is instinct, which can all be learned with experience. The basic tools for an interview are paper and two or three well-sharpened pencils. But keep your notebook or paper out of sight until you need it. There's nothing less likely to relax a person than the arrival of someone with a note-taking pad. 2___Take a while just to chat, judging what sort of person you're dealing with, getting him or her to trust you. Never go into an interview without doing whatever homework you can. If you are interviewing a town official, know his voting record. If it's an actor, know what plays he has been in. __3___ Many beginning interviewers are afraid that they are forcing the other person to answer questions and have no right to inquire about his personal secrets. ___4___Unless the person really hates being interviewed, he is delighted that somebody wants to interview him. Most men and women lead lives that are uninteresting, and they grasp any chance to talk to an outsider who seems eager to listen. This doesn't necessarily mean that it will go well. In general you will be talking to people who have never been interviewed before, and they will get used to the process awkwardly, perhaps not giving you anything that you can use. ___5____You will both even begin to enjoy it—proof that you aren't forcing your victim to do something he doesn't really want to.2___.A.Come back another day; it will go betterB.But at least half of the skill is mechanicalC.As one philosopher interviewed in the film notes, they lack ironyD.You will not be liked if you inquire about facts that you could have learned in advance.E.This fear is almost 100 percent unnecessaryF.Both of you need time to get to know each other

How to Interview PeopleInterviewing （采访） is one of those skills that you can only get better at. You will never again feel so ill at ease as when you try it for the first time, and probably you'll never feel entirely comfortable trying to get from another person answers that he or she may be too shy to reveal.___1__ The rest is instinct, which can all be learned with experience. The basic tools for an interview are paper and two or three well-sharpened pencils. But keep your notebook or paper out of sight until you need it. There's nothing less likely to relax a person than the arrival of someone with a note-taking pad. 2___Take a while just to chat, judging what sort of person you're dealing with, getting him or her to trust you. Never go into an interview without doing whatever homework you can. If you are interviewing a town official, know his voting record. If it's an actor, know what plays he has been in. __3___ Many beginning interviewers are afraid that they are forcing the other person to answer questions and have no right to inquire about his personal secrets. ___4___Unless the person really hates being interviewed, he is delighted that somebody wants to interview him. Most men and women lead lives that are uninteresting, and they grasp any chance to talk to an outsider who seems eager to listen. This doesn't necessarily mean that it will go well. In general you will be talking to people who have never been interviewed before, and they will get used to the process awkwardly, perhaps not giving you anything that you can use. ___5____You will both even begin to enjoy it—proof that you aren't forcing your victim to do something he doesn't really want to.3___.A.Come back another day; it will go betterB.But at least half of the skill is mechanicalC.As one philosopher interviewed in the film notes, they lack ironyD.You will not be liked if you inquire about facts that you could have learned in advance.E.This fear is almost 100 percent unnecessaryF.Both of you need time to get to know each other

How to Interview PeopleInterviewing （采访） is one of those skills that you can only get better at. You will never again feel so ill at ease as when you try it for the first time, and probably you'll never feel entirely comfortable trying to get from another person answers that he or she may be too shy to reveal.___1__ The rest is instinct, which can all be learned with experience. The basic tools for an interview are paper and two or three well-sharpened pencils. But keep your notebook or paper out of sight until you need it. There's nothing less likely to relax a person than the arrival of someone with a note-taking pad. 2___Take a while just to chat, judging what sort of person you're dealing with, getting him or her to trust you. Never go into an interview without doing whatever homework you can. If you are interviewing a town official, know his voting record. If it's an actor, know what plays he has been in. __3___ Many beginning interviewers are afraid that they are forcing the other person to answer questions and have no right to inquire about his personal secrets. ___4___Unless the person really hates being interviewed, he is delighted that somebody wants to interview him. Most men and women lead lives that are uninteresting, and they grasp any chance to talk to an outsider who seems eager to listen. This doesn't necessarily mean that it will go well. In general you will be talking to people who have never been interviewed before, and they will get used to the process awkwardly, perhaps not giving you anything that you can use. ___5____You will both even begin to enjoy it—proof that you aren't forcing your victim to do something he doesn't really want to.4___.A.Come back another day; it will go betterB.But at least half of the skill is mechanicalC.As one philosopher interviewed in the film notes, they lack ironyD.You will not be liked if you inquire about facts that you could have learned in advance.E.This fear is almost 100 percent unnecessaryF.Both of you need time to get to know each other

How to Interview PeopleInterviewing （采访） is one of those skills that you can only get better at. You will never again feel so ill at ease as when you try it for the first time, and probably you'll never feel entirely comfortable trying to get from another person answers that he or she may be too shy to reveal.___1__ The rest is instinct, which can all be learned with experience. The basic tools for an interview are paper and two or three well-sharpened pencils. But keep your notebook or paper out of sight until you need it. There's nothing less likely to relax a person than the arrival of someone with a note-taking pad. 2___Take a while just to chat, judging what sort of person you're dealing with, getting him or her to trust you. Never go into an interview without doing whatever homework you can. If you are interviewing a town official, know his voting record. If it's an actor, know what plays he has been in. __3___ Many beginning interviewers are afraid that they are forcing the other person to answer questions and have no right to inquire about his personal secrets. ___4___Unless the person really hates being interviewed, he is delighted that somebody wants to interview him. Most men and women lead lives that are uninteresting, and they grasp any chance to talk to an outsider who seems eager to listen. This doesn't necessarily mean that it will go well. In general you will be talking to people who have never been interviewed before, and they will get used to the process awkwardly, perhaps not giving you anything that you can use. ___5____You will both even begin to enjoy it—proof that you aren't forcing your victim to do something he doesn't really want to.5___.A.Come back another day; it will go betterB.But at least half of the skill is mechanicalC.As one philosopher interviewed in the film notes, they lack ironyD.You will not be liked if you inquire about facts that you could have learned in advance.E.This fear is almost 100 percent unnecessaryF.Both of you need time to get to know each other