I am an English teacher, with over 15 years’ experience of teaching in London. I started the DailyStep audio email lesson service because I noticed that when I started their English course, my students’ speaking and listening skills were much weaker than their reading and writing skills. In my view, this is because education in school does not focus enough on communication skills. DailyStep is designed to remedy this situation by offering more practice in speaking, listening and vocabulary.
I am crazy about the English language and it is a real pleasure for me to see the development of my students’ language skills.
I majored in (以….為專業(yè))law at university and then worked for three years as a researcher and journalist for Sky television and BBC magazines. I decided to change to English teaching because of my love of the English language and my wish to move into more satisfying work.
Then I qualified (取得資格)as an English teacher in 1992. My first teaching job was at a language school in Covent Garden, London, where I taught examination classes and Business English . After two years, I moved to the Nippon Club where I taught General English and Business English courses for 9 years. I also developed a unique course called British Society & Culture, covering all areas of British life, such as politics, law, education & music. At the same time, taught Business， Financial& Law English in the financial centre of London. My students included staff （工作人員）from banks and law firms.
As well as running the DailyStep website, I also provide in-company English speech training for companies in London. If you have an important speech coming up and would like some information about how I can help you, please email me at jane@dailystep.com.
小題1:DailyStep audio email lesson service __________
A．is an in-company service
B．teaches English communication skills
C．is designed for working people
D．provides English training for free
小題2:What does the underlined word “remedy” in Paragraph mean?
A．reportB．judgeC．improveD．practise
小題3:What’s the CORRECT time order of the following events?
a. The author qualified as an English teacher
b.The author taught at a language school in Covent Garden
c.The author worked as a journalist for Sky television
d.The author taught in the Noppon Club.
A．cabdB．cadbC．cbadD．cdab
小題4:We can learn from the passage that_______.
A．the author enjoys teaching English
B．a(chǎn)ll of the author’s students are adults
C．the author majored in English at university
D．the author knows little about how to make a speech

小題1:B
小題2:C
小題3:A
小題4:A
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"Sure," said the farmer.
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B．Because he could learn more about nuns.
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B．a(chǎn)te so much at dinner
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Dear Sir,
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The timetable says that there are buses from Souk Road to the airport every ten minutes． If this is so, why do I have to wait half an hour for a bus nearly every day?
The regulations say that if there are empty seats on a bus, the bus must stop at every stop where people are waiting． Why do the half-empty buses go straight past me when I am standing at the bus stop?
The regulations say that no bus may carry more than 40 seated passengers  and 20 standing passengers． Yesterday I was the first to get off the bus when it reached the airport． I counted the other passengers as they got off． There were 129 of them．
It is clear that our bus companies break the regulations and think little of their passengers． Can nothing be done to make your service  better?
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A．it arrives on timeB．it is not always full
C．it travels fasterD．it has fewer seats on it
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A．Ten minutes．B．One hour．
C．Half an hour.D．Nearly a day．
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A．20B．40C．60D．129
小題4:From the passage we can see that      ．
A．the bus service was poor
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Driving to a friend’s house on a recent evening, I was struck by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftops, huge and round, yellow through the dust and smoke of the city. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking what a pity it was that most city livers---myself included---usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.
My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.
I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest house with no electricity or hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon.
Today our lives are connected with glass, metal, plastic and fiber-glass. We eat and breathe things our bodies were not designed to process. We have televisions, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters, air-conditioners, cars and computers. White noise and pollution is in the air. Radio waves and strange lights are constantly disturbing our minds and bodies.
Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I saw the moon and remembered these things. And I thought: before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains and perhaps write. I may grow old there. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.
小題1:What was the author’s pity in this passage?
A．Most people living in the city failed to see the beautiful moon.
B．There was too much pollution in the city.
C．There were too many modern inventions.
D．There was too much traffic on the road.
小題2:What attracted the author most according to the passage?
A．The mountainous jungle of India.B．The fullest moon.
C．The high mountains in India.D．All kinds of modern inventions.
小題3:The author longs for ________.
A．Camping outside at nightB．Returning to the nature
C．Writing booksD．Watching the moon
小題4:The main idea of this passage probably is “________”.
A．Disadvantage of Living in Cities
B．The Pleasure of Being out at Night
C．Touched by the Moon
D．Pollution Caused by Modern Technology

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