1、Unit 7 Art第一篇Color is fundamental in-home designsomething youll always have in every room. A grasp of how to manage color in your spaces is one of the first steps to creating rooms youll love to live in. Do you want a room thats full of life? Professional? Or are you just looking for a place to rela
2、x after a long day? 1._, color is the key to making a room feel the way you want it to feel. Over the years, there have been a number of different techniques to help designers approach this important point. 2._, they can get a little complex. But good news is that therere really only three kinds of
3、decisions you need to make about color in your home: the small ones, the medium ones, and the large ones. 3._. Theyre the little spots of color like throw pillows, mirrors and baskets that most of us use to add visual interest to our rooms. Less tiring than painting your walls and less expensive tha
4、n buying a colorful sofa, small color choices bring with them the significant benefit of being easily changeable. Medium color choices are generally furniture pieces such as sofas, dinner tables or bookshelves. 4._. They require a bigger commitment than smaller ones, and they have a more powerful ef
5、fect on the feeling of a space. The large color decisions in your rooms concern the walls, ceilings, and floors. Whether youre looking at wallpaper or paint, the time, effort and relative expense put into it are significant. 5._. A. While all of them are usefulB. Whatever youre looking forC. If your
6、e experimenting with a colorD. Small color choices are the ones were most familiar withE. Its not really a good idea to use too many small color piecesF. So it pays to be sure, because you want to get it right the first timeG. Color choices in this range are a step up from the small ones in two majo
7、r ways第二篇Most Valuable Possessions on EarthMarie was a single mother of two children in a rural Missouri community. 1._She also dedicated much spare time to numerous charities and community projects.Then one day Marie received some shocking news from her doctor. She had cancer, and it was spreading
8、rapidly.2._Soon, Marie witnessed what she had always known: although she was not financially wealthy, she already had the most valuable possessions on earth. Hundreds in her community and surrounding areas teamed up to help her and her family.Many people she had touched in caring ways demonstrated(演
9、示) appreciation for Maries life. 3._ However, she lived long enough to feel the love of those she had cheerfully served.The spirits of love and gratitude multiply(增加) when they are shared. 4._Giving selflessly was a value that Marie displayed all her life, and her spirit of giving lived after her in
10、 those who knew and loved her.All her life, Marie had demonstrated the truth of this simple principle：5. _ Rather, it is an attitude that comes from appreciating what we already have. We can find the happiness we seek if we will first share it with others. Then and only thenwe will have the most val
11、uable possessions on earth: love, happiness, and increasing gratitude.A. Happiness is the result of sharing love and gratitude.B. She worked fulltime during the day and sold handcrafted leather gifts on weekends.C. She lived a rather poor and hard life with the two children.D. Marie didnt live to se
12、e the day when her bills were fully paid.E. Love is second to none.F. She had barely enough resources to put a cent in the medical treatments she would need.G. Happiness will not come from worldly possessions of fortune.Unit 8 Green living第一篇Do you want to know how to live an environmentally friendl
13、y lifestyle? Here is a short list of ways that you can help protect the environment. Prevent energy leaks (泄漏) at home. Heating and cooling can make up to 50 percent of your energy bill each month. 1._ So youll save money and reduce your influence on the environment. Plant trees in your yard and com
14、munity. Everyone knows that planting trees can help the environment. 2._ Trees cool your home, reducing the energy used for cooling. Trees improve mental health. Trees reduce noise pollution. 3._If you use ceiling fans during hot summer days, you can create a cooling environment. A few ceiling or re
15、gular fans properly placed in your home can reduce the amount of time you spend with the air conditioning on. Use solar energy more often. 4._ There are lots of inexpensive solar products you can try out. For example, solar-powered lights. How about solar cell phone chargers? Additionally, there are
16、 many forms of passive solar energy that can help you take advantage of the sun. Think about green transportation. Just sit and think about a few environmentally friendly ways you can get from one place to another. 5._ You can walk or bike to the corner store. Walking instead of driving to a store i
17、s a great way to help the environment!A. Trees have many good influences. B. Use natural wind to dry your clothes. C. There are many ways to use solar power. D. Use ceiling fans to cool off in summer. E. You can take a bus when going to the movie theater. F. Turn off lights and electronic devices wh
18、en youre not using them. G. You can heat and cool your home more efficiently by fixing leaks. 第二篇Dont you just love ice skating every winter? I am sure that since winter is approaching, your skates are set to come out, just waiting to be used. Impress your friends with your new trick on how to ice-s
19、kate backwards with the help of these tips.Stand straightThe first thing that you need to do is, stand straight. 1._, if you feel that you are falling backwards. Dont worry; this happens to all.Confidence is what you needThe most important step while learning how to skate backwards, is having enough
20、 confidence in yourself and in what you are doing. How can you achieve this? By practice. One of the important ice-skating tips and techniques is that if you feel that you are losing your balance, then scissor(做剪式运动)your skates. 2. Maintain speedTry sculling(滑)with one skate while rolling in a strai
21、ght line with the other. 3._. Now bring the skate which you are using to scull, and then again, repeat the same process. Make sure that you put most of your weight on the skate which is moving straight and not the one with which you are sculling. Now, try the same thing using the other foot.4._Once
22、you are confident that you can scull with either foot, the next thing that you have to do is increase your speed. Try some of your own tricks now. Scull with either foot or with both at the same time.Scull and be awareWhile you keep one foot straight, keep sculling with the other. You can do that wi
23、th both feet at the same time. 5._, but dont get so involved that you dont see where you are going. If you are not watching your back, you might just bang against something or someone.A. That is, keep pushing yourself backwards with an outwards stroke(滑动)B. While going backwards, just get used to th
24、e feeling of moving backwardsC. Keep practicing this till you are confident about itD. Increase your speed nowE. One must be brave enough to learn to ice-skate backwardsF. Concentrate on what you are doingG. Just put your chin up and slightly bend your kneesUnit9 Learning第一篇How to Remember What You
25、ReadReading is important. But the next step is to make sure that you remember what youve read! 1._ You may have just read the text, but the ideas, concepts and images (形象) may fly right out of your head. Here are a few tricks for remembering what you read.2. _If the plot, characters, or word usage i
26、s confusing for you, you probably wont be able to remember what you read. Its a bit like reading a foreign language. If you dont understand what youre reading, how would you remember it? But there are a few things you can do Use a dictionary; look up the difficult words.Are you connected?Does a char
27、acter remind you of a friend? Does the setting make you want to visit the place? Does the book inspire you, and make you want to read more? With some books, you may feel a connection right away. 3._ How willing are you to make the connections happen?Read it; hear it; be it!Read the lines. Then, spea
28、k them out loud. And, put some characters into the words. When he was writing his novels, Charles Dickens would act out the parts of the characters. Hed make faces in the mirror, and change his voice for each character. 4. _How often do you read?If you read frequently, youll likely have an easier ti
29、me with remembering what youre reading (and what youve read). 5._ As you make reading a regular part of your life, youll make more connections, stay more focused and understand the text better. Youll learn to enjoy literatureas you remember what you read!A. Are you confused?B. Practice makes perfect
30、.C. Whats your motivation?D. Memory is sometimes a tricky thing.E. Marking helps you remember what you read.F. But other books require a bit more work on your part.G. You can do the same thing when you are reading the text!第二篇In the villages of Mexico, as in some other parts of the world, shopping i
31、s a kind of game. In the fine department stores, of course, buyers pay the prices listed on the tags(标签). 1._Suppose a merchant is a Mexican shopkeeper who sells handmade silver jewelry to tourists. 2._ The merchant names a price. Immediately the tourist makes a much lower offer. The price the merch
32、ant puts on an article is not usually the price which will finally be paid. But the merchant pretends to be shocked. 3._It takes a long time to make such remarkable earrings. But at great sacrifice the merchant will let the tourist have the earrings at a lower price. The two bargain. The tourist com
33、es up a little, and then the merchant comes down a little. At last, they agree on what both consider to be a fair price.4._ The merchant may talk about life in the village or mention interesting sights the tourist should see before leaving Mexico.The merchants way of doing business is much older tha
34、n the supermarket way. It dates back to Old World times when the town market was the only place where people could exchange news and visit with friends.5._ In Mexico today, bargaining still makes life interesting for some merchants.A. The buyers found bargaining really interesting.B. Bargaining made
35、 their lives a little more colorful.C. While the two bargain, they speak of other things as well.D. Among the items of jewelry is a pair of earrings a tourist wants to buy.E. But in most villages, bargaining is a game both buyers and sellers enjoy.F. While in mountain areas, the buyers and sellers have to bargain every day.G. The tourist is told that the earrings are real silver, made by people living in the mountains.KeysUnit7第一篇BADGF 第二篇BFDAG Unit8第一篇GADCE第二篇GCADFUnit9第一篇DAFGB第二篇EDGCB 7 / 7学科网（北京）股份有限公司
