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I joined a band as a drummer (鼓手) in my middle school. I thought it would be fun playing 1 drum and meeting new friends. At first it was easy, but a few months later, it got even 2 . I was the only one who couldn't catch up with the other players.

Our teacher, Angie, chose me out to practise 3 everyone else got to relax. I felt ashamed (羞愧的) as my teammates were always watching me. Finally I got very 4 of practicing, and I didn't care about doing it right.

"Are you giving up on me, Steve?" Angie asked.

"Yes, I am," I 5 and cried out. Then she said, "Don't be sad, I believe you can make it!" I finally realized Angie was right — 6 giving up, I not only gave up myself but also the team.

With her comfort, I decided 7 my best. However, I still couldn't play well. Knowing my trouble, my teammates gave me a hand. They spent about three more 8 staying with me every week. Thanks to 9 support (支持) and help, I began to keep up with them. Later, we performed wonderfully in an important show.

From the experience, I learned that we each had our own job to do in a show, but imagine 10 great the show would be if all of us work together!

提示：

1. What are your good habits?

2. How do the habits influence (影响) you?

要求：

1. 短文须包括提示中的两个要点，可适当发挥。

2. 文中不得出现真实的地名、校名和人名。词数80个左右（开头已给出，不计入总词数）。

Dear classmates,

I am here to share with you my good habits.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A: Hi, Jim. I called you an hour ago, but you didn't answer me. ?

B: I was practicing basketball with all the teammates.

A: But you look unhappy. Is everything OK?

B: Well, I think the new member of the basketball team is unfriendly.

A: ?

B: He often laughs at me when I make small mistakes during the practice. That makes me unhappy.

A: ?

B: I've tried, but it didn't work. What can I do?

A: I suggest you can have another heart-to-heart talk with him. If it still doesn't work, ask your teacher for help.

B: . By the way, why did you call me?

A: Oh, I'd like to try the new Indian food in Green Street. ?

B: Yeah, sure. I'm hungry now. Let's go.

Do you know of SQ3R? It is a reading method named for its five steps: survey, question, read, recite and review. Many students have begun using this method to better understand what they're reading.

S=Survey

Survey here means to skim (略读) a book. This step helps you gather the information. Go through the pictures, the title or tables, if there are any. Read the first sentence. This survey step only takes 5-10 minutes, but it is very important.

Q=Question

Question means to ask yourself, "What's the book about? What's the writer trying to tell me?" Once you get an idea of what you're going to read, then you can read with a better understanding.

3R=Read, Recite, Review

★Read the book, looking for the answers to the questions you have had. Picture in your mind what the words are saying.

★Recite the main ideas of what you just read in your mind, or write down the main ideas on paper in your own words.

★Review what you have learned. Make notes to help you review.

Now you have a valuable study tool. Use it to help study for a test. Use it to help remember what you read. Use it to help understand important information.

②We often find ourselves in an endless thought loop (圈). And every so often, we try to stop this endless flow of thoughts by telling ourselves to just stop thinking. But do we or can we ever really stop thinking?

③It depends on your definition (定义) of "thinking", according to Michael Halassa, a researcher at MIT, the US. We basically go through each day in one of the two states—we either realize that we're thinking or we don't. Our brains won't stop thinking completely until we die.

④"The brain never stops thinking in a sense. Most thoughts are actually in the background without us noticing them and there's not really a way to turn these things." Halassa said.

⑤You can compare this to how a computer works. When you aren't using your computer while it's turned on, it is still running operations "in the background". Your computer, much like your brain, is always "thinking", even if you' re not actively using it.

⑥"If you see a familiar face in a crowd and think you know them, you might not be able to come up with how you know them right away,"Halassa said. "But maybe hours later, you'll suddenly remember. That's a result of your brain thinking in the background."

⑦We even make decisions mostly unconsciously or without realizing them. For example, some of this background "thinking" results in what we call a "gut feeling (直觉)". During our brain's decision-making process, sometimes we create a story to explain the decision—sometimes it's accurate (精确的), sometimes it's not.

⑧Even sitting here reading this, thinking about "thinking" is sending messages across a chain of neurons (神经元) in the brain. So if we somehow manage to stop ourselves from "thinking", the brain won't sign off. It will continue to have thoughts—we just won't realize them.

The Venus flytrap is perhaps the most famous killer plant. However, scientists have only recently started to understand how it hunts (猎取) and eats. After years of study, plant scientist Alexander Volkov believes he now knows the Venus flytrap's secret. "This," says Volkov, "is an electrical plant."

There are three small hairs along each of the Venus flytrap's two leaves. When an insect touches a hair, it creates an electrical signal (信号) in the leaf. The insect can continue feeding—for now. But if it touches another hair within 20 seconds, the leaf traps suddenly shut. This allows the plant to tell the difference between a drop of water, for example, and a moving insect.

Once trapped, an insect has little chance of staying alive. Instead of nectar, the Venus flytrap now releases (释放) a different liquid—one that slowly eats away at the insect. Ten days later, almost nothing is left. The plant's leaves open again, and the Venus flytrap is ready for its next meal.

Pi Day is celebrated around the world on March 14, since how we write this date, 3/14, looks just like the number pi.

For some people, the appeal (吸引力) of Pi Day goes far beyond math and science. Pi shows up throughout popular culture. You can see it in movies, comics, music and more works that show creativity. "In modern movies, any time the filmmaker wants to evoke (唤起) a sense of mystery, often the symbol pi is used," said David Blatner, a Jewish-American writer of The Joy of Pi.

People also love trying to memorize the digits (数字) of pi and competing against others to see who can remember the most. Many teachers hold class contests to see how many numbers their students can memorize. The Guinness World Record for reciting (背诵) the most digits of pi is held by Lyu Chao of China, who successfully recited pi out to nearly 67, 890 decimal places.

Above all, Pi Day is about having fun with the number. People celebrate Pi Day by eating or throwing pie and with fun pi-related games and activities. In 2016, Princeton, New Jersey, held a birthday party for Albert Einstein whose birthday also falls on March 14. There was also a "Walk a Pi Event" where people walked 3.14 miles together. Just like the number itself, the possibilities for Pi Day are truly endless.

A 15-year-old schoolgirl Catherine Cook and her brother David, 16, wanted more than this. They thought, "We don't really know our classmates from just a picture, so why not have a yearbook online? You could learn about people's musical tastes, the movies they like and so on." With their hard work, a website named my Yearbook was set up, which soon became popular among schoolmates.

On the website, members can connect with each other by sharing movies, music, photos and study guides. Some students feel that they don't fit in at school, but can make friends more easily online. My Yearbook users can also make virtual (虚拟的) "Lunch Money" by completing activities on the website. They then give it away to charities (慈善机构) in the my Yearbook "causes" programme, which has sent 22,000 books to Africa, and bought 20,000 kilos of rice for people without enough food.

Running the website did not stop Catherine and David from completing their schoolwork successfully. Now, they go on to university, but still manage to put in 50 hours a week to develop the website.

My name is Lily, and I am a student in the (nine) grade.

When I first entered middle school, I (be) nervous and didn't know what to expect. However, as time went by, I started to get used to the new environment and make new (friend).

One of the (big) challenges for me was learning how to study well. In middle school, we have more subjects to learn and more homework to do, in primary school, I learned to make study plan and break down my tasks into smaller parts. So I can finish my homework time and still have time to do things like reading books and playing sports.

Another challenge for me was public speaking. I used to be very shy and afraid of (make) mistakes. However, my English teacher encouraged me and gave me some (use) tips. With her help, I became more confident and improved my speaking. Now, I feel (complete) relaxed when speaking in class.

I learned this lesson from an1 many years ago. I took the head coaching job at a school in Georgia. It was a small school with a2 football program.

It was a tradition for the school's old team to play3 the new team at the end of spring practice. The old team had no coach, and they didn't even practice to4 the game. As the coach of the new team, I was5 because I knew we were going to win, but we lost. I couldn't6 I had got into such a situation. Thinking about it7, I came to realize I had to change my attitude (态度) towards their8.

I began to help them build confidence. Most9, I started to treat them like winners. That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their vacation, we10 hard every day, passing and kicking the football.

Six months after our failure, we finally faced the No.1 team on the field. I felt it would be a11 for us even though we lost the game. But that was not what happened. My team beat the12 in Georgia!

From the experience, I learned how the attitude of the leader can13 the members of a team. Instead of seeing my team as14, I encouraged them. I helped them see themselves differently, and they built themselves into winners.

Winners are15, not born! When you have a dream, go for it!

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1. 紧扣主题、语言流畅、书写规范、卷面整洁，词数不少于80个；

2. 文中不得使用考生的真实姓名、校名，否则以零分计；

3. 请将短文写在答题卡上，写在本试题卷上无效。

The Beauty Around Us

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