阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。

I’m a 34-year-old man, married, lived in anice house, and have a successful career as an educational consultant. But mylife was not always so great. I had a learning disability from an early age. Iwent to a special school where I got plenty of extra help. Still, I sufferedthe rest of my school days in public schools.

My life improved remarkably when Idiscovered art. The art world gave me a chance to express myself without words.I went to a workshop and gradually got good at making things with clay(黏土). Here I learned my firstimportant lesson: disabled as I was in language. I could still be smart andwell express myself with clay. And my confidence came along.

   I got my next lesson from rock climbing. Itwas a fun thing but I was scared from the start. I soon noticed it wasn’t atalent thing; it was practice. So I did it more. After about five years ofclimbing, I found myself in Yosemite Valley on a big wall. I learned that ifyou fall in love with something and do it all the time, you will get better atit.

Later I decided to apply my previous experience to learning how to read and write. Every day I practiced reading and writing, which I used to avoid as much as possible. After two hard years, I was literate.

Having gone through the long process with art, rock climbing, and reading and writing, now I’ve got to a point in my life where I know I am smart enough to dive into an area that is totally unknown, hard, but interesting.

56. What made the author’sschool days difficult? (No more than 5 words)

57. Why did artgive the author confidence? (No more than 10 words)

58. What lessondid the author learn from rock climbing? (No more than 15 words)

59. What is themeaning of the underlined part in Paragraph 4? (No more than 5 words)

60. How does theauthor’s story inspire you to overcome difficulties in life? Put it in your ownwords. (No more than 20 words)

假设你是晨光中学的学生会主席李津。一批来自英国的高中生与你校学生开展了为期两周的交流活动。现在，他们即将回国，你将在欢送会上致辞。请根据以下提示写一篇发言稿。

（1）      回顾双方的交流活动（如学习、生活、体育、文艺等方面）；

（2）      谈谈收获或感情；

（3）      表达祝愿语期望。

注意：

（1）      词数不少于100；

（2）      可适当加入细节，是内容充实、行文连贯；

（3）      开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear friends,

How time flies!                                                                 

Thank you.

阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。

I’m a 34-year-old man, married, lived in anice house, and have a successful career as an educational consultant. But mylife was not always so great. I had a learning disability from an early age. Iwent to a special school where I got plenty of extra help. Still, I sufferedthe rest of my school days in public schools.

My life improved remarkably when Idiscovered art. The art world gave me a chance to express myself without words.I went to a workshop and gradually got good at making things with clay(黏土). Here I learned my firstimportant lesson: disabled as I was in language. I could still be smart andwell express myself with clay. And my confidence came along.

   I got my next lesson from rock climbing. Itwas a fun thing but I was scared from the start. I soon noticed it wasn’t atalent thing; it was practice. So I did it more. After about five years ofclimbing, I found myself in Yosemite Valley on a big wall. I learned that ifyou fall in love with something and do it all the time, you will get better atit.

Later I decided to apply my previous experience to learning how to read and write. Every day I practiced reading and writing, which I used to avoid as much as possible. After two hard years, I was literate.

Having gone through the long process with art, rock climbing, and reading and writing, now I’ve got to a point in my life where I know I am smart enough to dive into an area that is totally unknown, hard, but interesting.

56. What made the author’sschool days difficult? (No more than 5 words)

57. Why did artgive the author confidence? (No more than 10 words)

58. What lessondid the author learn from rock climbing? (No more than 15 words)

59. What is themeaning of the underlined part in Paragraph 4? (No more than 5 words)

60. How does theauthor’s story inspire you to overcome difficulties in life? Put it in your ownwords. (No more than 20 words)

According to the author, the unconscious mind may help us .

On what occasion does a person probably suffer from performance fatigue?

What could be the best title for the passage?

What does the author recommend doing to prevent start-up fatigue?

D Failure is probably the most exhausting experience a person ever has. There is nothing more tiring than not succeeding.We experience this tiredness in two ways: as start-up fatigue(疲惫) and performance fatigue. In the former case, we keep putting off a task because it has either too boring or too difficult. And the longer we delay it, the more tired we feel. Such start-up fatigue is very real, even if not actually physical, not something in our muscles and bones. The solution is obvious though perhaps not easy to apply: always handle the most difficult job first.Years ago, I was asked to write 102 essays on the great ideas of some famous authors. Applying my own rule, I determined to write them in alphabetical(按字母顺序), never letting myself leave out a tough idea. And I always started the day’s work with the difficult task of essay-writing. Experience proved that the rule works.Performance fatigue is more difficult to handle. Though willing to get started, we cannot seem to do the job right. Its difficulties appear so great that, however hard we work, we fail again and again. In such a situation, I work as hard as I can-then let the unconscious take over. When planning Encyclopaedia Britannica (《大英百科全书》), I had to create a table of contents based on the topics of its articles. Nothing like this had ever been done before, and day after dat I kept coming up with solutions, but none of them worked. My fatigue became almost unbearable.One day, mentally exhausted, I wrote down all the reasons why this problem could not be solved. I tried to convince myself that the trouble was with the problem itself, not with me. Relived, I sat back in an easy chair and fell asleep. An hour later, I woke up suddenly with the solution clearly in mind. In the weeks that followed, the solution which had come up in my unconscious mind provided correct at every step. Though I worked as hard as before, I felt no fatigue. Success was now as exciting as failure had been depressing.Human beings, I believe must try to succeed. Success, then, means never feeling tired.51. People with start-up fatigue are most likely to .

delay tasks

work hard

seek help

What does the underlined word “sharp” probably mean in Paragraph 4?

What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

Vaillant’s team obtained their findings by _____.