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STUDY BOOKS
Basic Study Manual____ Hardcover: $37.50
Future success depends on the ability to learn. Here are the answers to the questions most often asked by parents, teachers, business trainers and by students themselves. Read this book and learn:
* What the three barriers(障碍)to study are what to do about them
* What to do if you get tired of a subject you are studying
* Twenty-six simple drills to help you learn how to study easily, rapidly and with full understanding
Buy and read the Basic Study Manual and use it to dramatically improve your ability to study.
Study Skills for Life____Hardcover:$31.99
L. Ron Hubbard’s study technology for teenagers opens the door to their future success by giving them the ability to study and learn. Fully illustrated (插图)for easy comprehension.
Learning How to Learn____Hardcover: $24.99
The basics of effective study for 8 to 12-year-olds, fully illustrated. Children who read and apply the materials in this book regain their liking for study and their ability to apply this knowledge in life. Get this book for a child you want to see win at his studies!
How to Use a Dictionary Picture Book for Children____Hardcover: $34.90
In spite of billions of dollars spent on “educational research”, children are not taught the most basic skills of learning, even the most basic of these: how to use a dictionary. In fact, a search of educational books for children found no book that told them how to use a dictionary or that one should. Written for children 8 to 12-year-olds, this fully illustrated book will teach your child:
* How to find words in a dictionary
* The different ways that words are used
* What the different marks and symbols that are used in a dictionary mean
* How to use a dictionary to correctly pronounce words
It includes a section for parents and teachers showing you how to use this book with children. Buy this book and give it to your children to unlock their education. What’s more, you’ll just pay 50% for it before May 1, 2005.
53. According to the advertisements, the four books are all intended for ____.
A. teachersB. adultsC. childrenD. women
54. How much do you have to pay if you buy the fourth book on April 1, 2005?
A. $ 12.99B. $ 17.45C. $ 34.90D. $64.69
55. The purpose of the passage is to _________.
A. comment on the four booksB. help children to learn English
C. enrich students knowledge about natureD. try to sell the books
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Believe it or not, optical illusion(错觉) can cut high-way crashes.
Japan is a case in point. It has reduced automobile crashes on some roads by nearly 75 percent using a simple optical illusion. Bent chevrons(人字型), painted on the roads make drivers think that they are driving faster than they really are, and thus drivers slow down.
Now the American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety in Washington D. C. is planning to repeat Japan’s success. Starting next year, the foundation will paint chevrons and other patterns of stripes on selected roads around the country to test how well the patterns reduce highway crashes. Excessive speed plays a major role in as fifth all fatal traffic accidents, according to the foundation. To help reduce those accidents, the foundation will conduct its tests in areas where speed-related hazards（危险地带）are the greatest-curves, exit slopes, traffic circles, and bridges.
Some studies suggest that straight, horizontal bars painted across roads can initially cut the average speed of drivers in half. However, traffic often returns to full speed within months as drivers become used to seeing the painted bars.
Chevrons, scientists say, not only give drivers the impression that they are driving faster than they really are but also make a lane to be narrow. The result is a longer lasting reduction in highway speed and the number of traffic accidents.
56. The passage mainly discuss____________.
A. a new way of highway speed controlB. a new pattern for painting highways
C. a new approach to training driversD. a new type of optical illusion
57. On roads painted with chevrons, drivers tend to feel that____________.
A. they should avoid speed-related hazardsB. they are driving in the wrong lane
C. they should slow their speedD. they are approaching the speed limit
58. The advantage of chevrons over straight, horizontal bars is that the former____ .
A. can keep drivers awakeB. can cut roads accidents in half
C. will have a long effect on driversD. will look more attractive
59. The American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety plans to________.
A. try out the Japanese methods in certain areas
B. change the roads signs across the country
C. replace straight, horizontal bars with chevrons
D. repeat the Japanese road patterns
60. What does the author say straight, horizontal bars painted across roads?
A. They are falling out of use in the United States.
B. They tend to be ignored by drivers in a short period of time.
C. They are applicable only on broad roads.
D. They can't be applied successfully to traffic circles.
补全对话根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出选项。选项中有两项是多余选项。
—Hello!
—Hello, Mona! This is Vic, Charlie’s pal.
—Sorry, wrong girl! This is Renee. 61 Oh, Mona, it’s Vic on the phone.
—Thanks Renee, I’ve got it. Hi Vic!
—62
—Pretty good. What’s up?
— 63
—This Friday? 64
—Well then. 65
—Saturday is cool
A. Glad to hear you!
B. No, I’m sorry, I’m already tied up.
C. Mona, how about going to the cinema? Are you free this Friday?
D. Hold on, I’ll get Mona for you.
E. How about Saturday?
F. Mona, nice to hear your voice again! How have you been?
G. I remember now.