Sometimes you’ll hear people say that you can’t love others until you love yourself. Sometimes you’ll hear people say that you can’t expect someone else to love you until you love yourself. Either way, you’ve got to love yourself first and this can be tricky(棘手的). Sure we all know that we’re the apple of our parents’ eyes, and that our Grandmas think we’re great talents and our Uncle Roberts think that we will go to the Olympics, but sometimes it’s a lot harder to think such nice thoughts about ourselves. If you find that believing in yourself is a challenge, it is time you build a positive self-image and learn to love yourself.
Self-image is your own mind’s picture of yourself. This image includes the way you look, the way you act, the way you talk and the way you think. Interestingly, our self-images are often quite different from the images others hold about us. Unfortunately, most of these images are more negative than they should be. Thus changing the way you think about yourself is the key to changing your self-image and your whole world.
The best way to defeat a passive self-image is to step back and decide to stress your successes. That is, make a list if you need to, but write down all of the great things you do every day. Don’t allow doubts to occur in it.
It very well might be that you are experiencing a negative self-image because you can’t move past one flaw or weakness that you see about yourself. Well, roll up your sleeves（袖子） and make a change of it as your primary task. If you think you’re silly because you aren’t good at math, find a tutor. If you think you’re weak because you can’t run a mile, get to the track and practice. If you think you’re dull because you don’t wear the latest trends（潮流）, buy a few new clothes. But remember, just because you think it doesn’t mean it’s true.
The best way to get rid of a negative self-image is to realize that your image is far from objective（客觀的）, and to actively convince（使確信） yourself of your positive qualities. Changing the way you think and working on those you need to improve will go a long way towards promoting（促進，晉升） a positive self-image. When you can pat (拍) yourself on the back, you’ll know you’re well on your way. Good luck!
【小題1】You need to build a positive self-image when you _________.

第二節(jié)：完形填空（30分）
When I come across a good article in reading newspapers, I often want to cut and keep it. But just as I am about to do so I find the article on the _41_ side is as much interesting. It may be a discussion of the way to __42__ in good health, or __43__ about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to __44__ damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text __45__ the title. Therefore, the scissors would __46__ before they start, __47__ halfway done when I find out the __48__result.
Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth your __49__. You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be __50__ up. But you know the future is unpredictable --- the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left __51__. Thus you are __52__ in a difficult position and feel sad. How __53_nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life __54__ greatly on our preference of one choice to the other.
In fact that is what __55__ is like: we are often __56_ with the two opposite sides of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting. It often occurs that our attention is drawn to one thing only __57__we get into another. The __58__ may be more important than the latter and give rise to a divided mind. I __59__ remember a philosopher’s remarks: “When one door shuts, another opens in life.” So a casual or passive __60__ may not be a bad one.
Whatever we do in our lifetime, wherever life’s storm tosses us, there must be
something we can achieve, some shore we can land, that opens up new vistas to us.
41. A. front                  B. same                        C. either                       D. opposite
42. A. get                        B. keep                        C. lead                         D. bring
43. A. advice            B. news                        C. a theory                   D. a report
44. A. suffer                 B. reduce                  C. prevent                    D. cause
45. A. on                  B. for                           C. without                    D. off
46. A. use                     B. handle                  C. prepare                    D. stay
47. A. or                  B. but                          C. so                            D. for
48. A. satisfying            B. regretful                   C. surprising                 D. impossible
49. A. courage                 B. strength                    C. attention                   D. patience
50. A. given                  B. held                         C. made                       D. picked
51. A. near                   B. alone                       C. about                       D. behind
52. A. filled                  B. attracted                   C. caught                  D. struck
53. A. dare                   B. come                       C. deal                         D. do
54. A. improves            B. changes                    C. progresses            D. goes
55. A. study                  B. society                        C. nature                  D. life
56. A. faced                  B. supplied                   C. connected                 D. fixed
57. A. before                B. after                        C. until                        D. as
58. A. following            B. next                     C. above                   D. former
59. A. still                    B. also                         C. once                        D. almost
60. A. treatment            B. action                  C. choice                  D. remark

課文填空

1.But as the moon gave ___________________________, I didn’t dare open a window.

2.The dark, rainy evening, the wind, the thundering clouds held me ________________________; it was the        first time in a year and a half that I’d seen the night face to face.

3.Actually all languages change and develop _____________________________________with each other.

4.Then gradually between about AD 800 AND 1150, English became less like German because those          ___________________________________spoke first Danish and later French.

5.She gave me a _______________________---the kind that said she would not change her mind.

6.When I told her the air would be ___________________________and it would be very cold, she said it    would be an interesting experience.

7.Jasper has put up “No Parking” signs outside his gate, but these have not _______________________.

8.Once he landed on the roof of a block of flats and __________________________, he landed in a deserted      car park.

9.The Wayle is a small river that ____________________the park near my home.

10.I turned to look at the children, but there weren’t any ___________________: they had all run away.

Elaine Yu Yee-nee, 15, Creative Secondary School
Lockers are designed in a way to hide their contents for a reason. Otherwise, they’d have open fronts like cupboards. Searching students’ lockers would be total invasion(侵犯) of privacy. Having a locker is more than having a place to store your stuff. A locker also gives you the freedom to keep certain things hidden. These can include harmless personal items like diaries, letters and photos. Searching lockers could discomfit students and others might make fun of them.
Yes, lockers are school property(財產(chǎn)). But that doesn’t give schools the right to inspect lockers as they please. While students are using lockers, they have the right to keep their contents private. Teachers could ask for permission to take a look inside a student’s locker and if the student is OK with that, then it would be fine. Searching students’ lockers without their permission would result in the loss of trust.
I doubt that students who have something dangerous to hide, such as weapons or drugs, would put them in their lockers. They would not want to risk being caught so easily.
Giving schools the right to search lockers would not help catch those who commit crimes. But it would certainly create an environment in which students would be embarrassed to have their belongings shown in public for no good reason.
Ronald Ling Pak-ki, 20, University of Hong Kong
Many students see their lockers as personal property. They would never agree that schools should have the right to inspect their lockers. But I think schools have an absolute right to do so.
It is the schools that actually own the lockers. Students just use them to store some of their things safely and conveniently. There are clear rules on what items students can and cannot keep in their lockers. Schools have both the duty and the right to check if students are following the rules.
I don’t think school authorities would decide to search a student’s locker unless they felt the need to do so. They might, for instance, suspect students of hiding drugs. To make sure that the process remains open and fair, only authorized teachers should have the right to search lockers. The search should be carried out in such a way as not to embarrass students in front of others.
【小題1】What are .the two students talking about?

He’s particular about food, I dare not serve him the dish, __________ his scolding.

A．with fear of　　　　　　　　　　 B．in fear of

C．for fear of　　　　　　　　　　　D．on fear of