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Here's one very simple but lifechanging advice that I first heard from Brian Tracy. Cut down on the TV at night by just one hour. Instead, use that hour to read books that could improve your life.
If you're a salesman, google for the best and most useful books on improving your sales.
This applies (适用) to all fields, not just the work-related (与工作相关的) ones. Maybe you want to improve your health, become a more energetic person. Or maybe you want to improve your study, your relations or perhaps do some personal development.
One hour a day is not much. But if you read for one hour a day on weekdays, that's about 260 hours a year. That's a large number of books and a lot of useful advice.
If you follow the ideas, who knows what great things and feelings could come into your life. Also, all that information and advice will start to open up your mind. You will start to see more chances in your life.
Now, you might think something like this:
1. I really don't have the money...

Answer: Visit your public library or search the database (数据库). Or look for books that are used in places like amazon.com.
2. I really don't have the time...
Answer: Buy audiobooks and listen to them in the car while driving to and from work. Or copy them to your MP3-player and listen while riding your bike /bus to work or school. Recently selling audiobooks through MP3-downloads has become popular...
Shut off the TV a little earlier and start reading.
51. What is Brian Tracy’s lifechanging advice about？
A. Watching TV. B. Listening to MP3.
C. Surfing the internet. D. Reading helpful books.
52. If you’d like to improve your work, you should_______ according to the writer.
A. read work-related books B. become more energetic
C. improve your study D. improve your relations
53. Which is NOT true about reading an hour a day？
A. It will open up your mind.
B. You will have about 260 hours a year to read.
C. You will read lots of books and get much useful advice.

D. It will probably bring great things and feelings into your life.
54. What should you do if you really don't have the money to read?
A. To buy some books from amazon.com. B. To download MP3 free.
C. To visit the public library. D. To borrow audiobooks and listen to them.
55. What is the writer’s idea about audiobooks?
A. They are more useful.
B. Listening to audiobooks is easier than reading books.
C. It’s dangerous to listen to audiobooks while driving or riding.
D. Audiobooks are a good solution to the problem of having no time to read.

试卷类型 A
二0一二年东营市初中学生学业考试
英 语 试 题
第Ⅱ卷 （非选择题， 共55分）
注意事项：
1、第Ⅱ卷共4页，用钢笔或圆珠笔直接答在试卷上。
2、答卷前将密封线内的项目填写清楚。
四、听力填表（共5小题，计5分）
录音中有一篇短文，听短文两遍后，根据所听内容完成下面的表格(每空不多于三个词)。（录音播放前你有40秒钟的读题时间）
Note: tip/tip/ n. 建议、提示
Tips for the first school morning
The first one Get up (56) ________________ earlier.
The second one (57) _________________ the night before, such as choosing clothes, doing homework, (58) ________________ and other things.
The third one Don’t have breakfast in a hurry.
Make a (59) __________________ breakfast.
The passage is written for (60) ______________________.
五、动词填空（共10空，计10分）
阅读下面短文，用括号内所给动m.91zhongkao.com词的适当形式填空 (必要时可加情态动词或助动词)。
Afel was only a small boy when he first saw snow in a picture book. In the pictures he saw a lot of children (61) ______ (play) in the snow.

Afel didn’t understand what snow was. But he dreamed about snow all the time. He dreamed of being able (62) ______ (fly) across the snow.
One day when he was twelve, Afel (63) ______ (watch) TV at his uncle’s house. The program was full of snow. Not only snow – there were people flying across the snow.
“Look! They (64) ______ (fly)!” he shouted excitedly.
The snow, and the people… It was just like one of his dreams.
“They’re skiing. It needs snow,” said his uncle, “it’s the Winter Olympics. It (65) ______ (hold) every four years.”
Afel (66)_________ （find）out that the next Winter Olympics would be in Sochi, Russia in 2014.
“Perfect,” he thought. “Enough time for me to become a good skier. I (67) ______ (go) to the Winter Olympics, and win the gold medal for skiing.”
“But there’s no snow here!” people told him. “Where are you going to ski?”
Afel made himself a pair of skis and skied across the sand. At first he couldn’t move, but he practised and practised until he could move quite quickly.
“How will you go to the Winter Olympics?” people asked him. “Our country (68) ______ (not, have) a team at all. Why (69) ______ (not, do) athletics (田径) instead? We have lots of good runners. And we (70) ______ (win) lots of medals at the Olympics.”
Now Afel is practising skiing down sand dunes (沙丘). He dreams that the yellow sand and brown earth of the desert (沙漠) is the white snow.