How old is “old”? The answer has changed over the years. Two Hundred years ago,

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How old is “old”? The answer has changed over the years. Two Hundred years ago, you were old at 35. At the beginning of the 20th century, the average life span (平均寿命) was 45. In 1950, 70-year-olds were really old. Today, a healthy 70-year-old is still thought young.
So, how old is “old”? The answer is one you’ve heard many times, from all kinds of people. “You are as old (or young) as you feel.” Your age simply tells you how many years you have lived. Your body tells you how well you’ve lived.
“Nobody grows old by living a number of years,” wrote a writer. “People grow old when they don’t have their ideals (理想).” People shouldn’t have the wrong ideas about aging. Sometimes, older minds can be as bright as young minds. Alice Brophy once said, “It makes me unhappy when people say, ‘You look young for your age.’ What does that mean? You know you can die old at 30 and live young at 80.”
小题1:About 100 years ago, the average life span was __________.

A．35

B．45

C．70

D．80

小题2: The meaning of the word “aging” is __________.

A．growing old

B．staying young

C．keeping healthy

D．feeling unhappy

小题3:According to the passage, which of the following is true?

A．Old people are not as bright at young people.

B．All older people are healthy and strong.

C．Aging does not mean you become unhealthy.

D．Most older people are unhealthy and poor.

小题4: The passage is mainly(主要地) about _________.

A．the average life span	B．aging
C．the 20th century	D．older people and young people

答案

小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:B

解析

试题分析：这篇短文中作者主要对“old”进行了解释，并以“aging”为话题展开讨论，意在教育人们要保持一颗不老的心灵；永怀远大理想。
小题1:细节理解题。根据短文第一段At the beginning of the 20th century, the average life span (平均寿命) was 45.可知在一百多年前，人们的平均寿命是45岁左右；故选B。
小题2:词义猜测题。根据短文第三段“Nobody grows old by living a number of years,” wrote a writer.可知，aging就是指的“逐渐的变老”，保持年轻、保持健康和感到不开心都与这个词的意思不搭边；故选A。
小题3:正误判断题。根据短文第三段Sometimes, older minds can be as bright as young minds.一句可知A项错误，C项正确；B和D项的说法都过于绝对；故选C。
小题4:主旨大意题。根据短文的内容描述和“old”及aging等关键词可知，这篇文章主要就是论述的“老龄、年长”问题；故选B。

举一反三

All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy, happy and help them to live longer．
Sports change with the season. People play different games in winter and summer. Games and sports often grow out of people’s work and everyday activities. The Arabs use horses or camels in much of their everyday life; they use them in their sports, too. Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere go in for them. Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. Some sports or games go back to thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese boxing, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet. People are inventing new sports or games all the time．
People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game they often become good friends. Sports help to train a person’s character. One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace(体面)
小题1:According to this passage we know that _____．

A．people began to play about one hundred years ago

B．about 100 years ago people ran or jumped when they played

C．basketball has a longer history than volleyball

D．not all the games have a long history

小题2:The writer didn’t tell us in this passage that _____．

A．basketball was invented in America

B．sports change with the season

C．games and sports often grow out of people’s work and everyday activities

D．football is played all over the world

小题3:People all over the world enjoy sports because _____．

A．sports are interesting

B．sports help to keep people healthy, happy and to live longer

C．sports help to train one’s character

D．all of the above

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It"s over three years since I began to learn English. I am glad that I am getting on well with it. I find English very interesting, but quite difficult. When I first started, I thought I had only to remember the new words and learn some grammar. I know little about English idioms(习语). I thought each English word had a word with the same meaning in Chinese. When I learned to say "I see a book on the desk", I thought the English word "see" was just like the Chinese word "kan". So one day when my teacher asked me, "What are you doing?" I answered, "I"m seeing a book." "That"s wrong," the teacher said. "You don"t see a book. You read a book. You can"t use an English word like a Chinese one. Be sure not to make the same mistake again."
After that I began to pay more attention to the differences between Chinese and English. For example, in English we say a "high mountain", but a "tall man". In Chinese we use the same word "gao" for both. Again in English we say "take part in the sports meeting", "attend a meeting" and "join the army", while in Chinese we can use "can jia" for all the three. It"s interesting, isn"t it? So to study English doesn"t only mean hard work, it can be great fun, too! We not only have to pay attention to pronunciation, grammar, spelling and handwriting, we also have to understand English idioms. We can learn English well only in that way!
But all this is only a beginning and I still have a long way to go. I"ll try my best and work even harder than before. I must speak and listen to English more both in and out of class. I must read and write more, too. I must learn English well so that I can work well when I grow up.
小题1:When I first started learning English, I thought __________.

A．I couldn’t learn it well because it is quite difficult

B．I could learn it well if I had remembered the new words and learned some grammar

C．English is interesting and easy to learn

D．each English word couldn"t find a Chinese word with the same meaning

小题2:Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the text?

A．To understand English idioms is a useful way to learn English.

B．To pay attention to pronunciation and grammar helps us learn English well.

C．To read and write more is helpful in learning English.

D．To study English only means working hard.

小题3:Which is the best topic of the passage?

A．How to study English well

B．The importance of English

C．English idioms

D．Do more reading

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Parents should stop blaming themselves because there’s not a lot they can do about it. I mean the teenager problem. Whatever you do or however you choose to deal with it, at certain times a wonderful, reasonable and helpful child will turn into a terrible animal.
I’ve seen friends deal with it in all kinds of different ways. One strict mother insisted that her son, right from a child, should stand up whenever anyone entered the room, open doors and shake hands like a gentleman. I saw him last week when I called round. Sprawling himself on the sofa in full length, he made no attempt to turn off the loud TV he was watching as I walked in, and his greeting was no more than a quick glance at me. His mother was ashamed. “I don’t know what to do with him these days,” she said. “He’s forgotten all the manners we taught him.” He hasn’t forgotten them. He’s just decided that he’s not going to use them. She confessed(坦白) that she would like to come up behind him and throw him down from the sofa onto the floor.
Another good friend of mine let her two daughters climb all over the furniture, reach across the table, stare at me and say, “I don’t like your dress; it’s ugly.” One of the daughters has recently been driven out of school. The other has left home.
“Where did we go wrong?” her parents are now very sad. Probably nowhere much. At least, no more than the rest of that unfortunate race, parents.
小题1: This text is most probably written by ______.

A．A specialist in teenager studies.

B．a headmaster of a middle school

C．a parent with teenage children

D．a doctor for mental health problems

小题2:The underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refers to ______.

A．the change from good to bad that’s seen in a child

B．the way that parents often blame themselves

C．the opinion that a child has of his parents

D．the advice that parents want their children to follow

小题3:The boy on the sofa would most probably be described as ______.

A．lazy

B．quiet

C．unusual

D．rude

小题4:From the second example we can infer that the parents of the two daughters ______.

A．pay no attention to them

B．are too busy to look after them

C．have come to hate them

D．feel helpless to do much about them

小题5:What is the author’s opinion about the sudden change in teenage children?

A．Parents have no choice but to try to accept it.

B．Parents should pay still more attention to the change.

C．Parents should work more closely with school teachers.

D．Parents are a fault for the change in their children.

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WARNING: Holding a cell phone against your ear or putting it in your pocket may be bad for your health.

This sentence is a warning that you’d better not put it close to you when a new phone is bought. Apple company, for example, doesn"t want IPhones to come closer to you than 1.5 centimeters; Research In Motion, BlackBerry"s producer, recommends 2.5 centimeters.
(1)If cell phone use can health problems, the will be very serious. Americans spend 2.26 trillion minutes chatting on cell phones every year, which brings $109 billion for the wireless businessmen.
Devra Davis, an epidemiologist(皮肤病专家) who has worked for the University of Pittsburgh, has published a book about mobile phone radiation（辐射）"Disconnect." Davis studies how often brain cancer happens during different age groups. She finds a big increase in brain cancer in the 20-to-29 age group and a drop for the older people.
Children are more easily hurt by radiation than grown-ups, Ms. Davis and other scientists point out. But no studies have yet been finished on cell phone radiation and children, she says.
Henry Lai, a research professor, began lab radiation studies in 1980 and found that mice exposed to(暴露在) radiofrequency（电波频率）radiation had destroyed DNA in their brains.
Ms. Davis recommends using wired earphones（有线耳机）or the phone"s speaker. (2)Children should send text messages rather than call, she said, and pregnant（***的） women should keep phones away from their bodies.
小题1:在（1）句空白处填入适当的词使句意完整、上下文通顺。
小题2:将（2）句翻译成中文。
小题3:回答问题：What kind of people with brain cancer are getting more and more?
小题4:找出同义句。
Scientists are still carrying on with the studies on cell phone radiation and children
小题5:找出或写出该短文的主题句。

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Inventors are always looking for ways to make our lives easier, greener and more fun. Here are just a few examples of inventions.

	Crayons were invented by Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith. They had a paint company in New York City. The new crayons were made of wax（蜡）and different pigments（颜料）. In 1903,Binney and Smith put the first box of eight“Crayola Crayons”on the market. These new crayons were a great success.
	Remote control technology(遥控技术)has been used since the early 1930s. During World War1, Germans used remote control boats. The TV remote control was first put on the market in 1950. Zenith Radio Company created the first TV remote control, called the “lazy Bone”. It could turn the TV on and off and could change programs.
	Bow Lingual（犬语翻译机），named by the US Time Magazine as a “BEST invention of 2002”， has two parts. A microphone is tied to the dog’s neck and sends out sound information to the gadget（小挂件）held by the owner. Then the translation is done in the gadget with kinds of dog barks.
	Some students in South Korea have a new language teacher :an robot of English-teaching ：The robot is 157cm tall and speaks both Korea and English .It can make16 kinds of faces .The robot-teachers are helping to solve a shortage of English teachers there. Could robots replace human teachers one day?