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Millions of young people are writing blogs. Millions of others are reading them. The word "blog" is a short way of saying Web log. Many popular Web sites now offer free, easy ways to create personal Web pages and fill them with writings and pictures. Web sites called "Facebook" and "My Space" are some of the most popular blog sites for young people. Many young adults use their blogs to write about daily activities and events in their lives. They also provide a place for people to write their ideas and opinions and how they think of others" ideas. Blogs offer young people a place to show their writings and feelings. They can also be helpful to connect young people with others. But blogs can become dangerous when they are read on the Internet by millions of people all over the world. Recent studies show that young people often provide their names, age and where they live on the Internet. That may not be safe for them. This personal information puts them at risk of being searched out by dangerous people who want to hurt them. Many students do not know about privacy and are surprised to learn that adults can read their personal daily records easily. Students can also get into trouble when they put information about others on their blogs. As a result, many schools have banned the use of blogging web sites on school computers. Many schools have also begun teaching parents about the web sites. Parents should know what their children are doing online and should read their blogs to make sure they are not giving out private information. One way to keep away from these problems is to use programs so that blogs can be read by "friends only". People can read the website only if they know a secret word chosen by the blogger. |
1. Blogs may be dangerous because _______. |
A. they get in the way of studies B. they are not allowed for school students C. surfing the Internet is bad for eyes D. personal information can be found in blogs easily |
2. The underlined word"banned" in Paragraph 5 may mean _______. |
A. allowed B. encouraged C. refused to allow D. tried |
3. This passage is mainly about _______. |
A. the safety of children"s blogs B. how to search the internet C. students" behavior at school D. communicating with parents at home |
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Sorry to say, our brains naturally start slowing down at the young age of 30. It used to be thought that this couldn"t be helped, but new studies show that people of any age can train their brains to work faster. "Your brain is a learning machine," says University of California scientist Dr. Michael Merzenich. Given the right tools, we can train our brains to act like they did when we were younger. All that"s required is the practice designed just for the purpose: a few exercises for the mind. Merzenich has developed a computer-based training method to speed up the process (过程) in which the brain deals with information (positscience.com). Since much of the data we receive comes through speech, the Brain Fitness Program works with language and hearing to better speed and accuracy (准确性). Over the course of training, the program starts asking you to distinguish (tell) sounds (between "dog" and "bog", for example) at an increasingly faster speed. It"s a bit like tennis instructor, says Merzenich, hitting balls at you faster and faster to keep you challenged. You may start out slow, but before long you"re pretty quick. The biggest finding in brain research in the last ten years is that the brain at any age is highly plastic. If you ask your brain to learn, it will learn. And it may even speed up while in the process. To keep your brain young and plastic you can do one of a million new activities that challenge and excite you:playing table tennis or bridge, doing crossword puzzles, learning a language...."When it comes to preventing ageing, you really do "use it or lose it"," says Barbara Sahakian, professor at Cambridge University. |
1. People"s brains _______ according to the new studies. |
A. will not start slowing down until the age of 30 B. will start working slowly after the age of 30 C. can work as well as at a young age through certain exercises D. can not be improved once they start to slow down |
2.What can we learn from the text? |
A. Using right tools is important for brains" work. B. Brain research deals with information from the Internet. C. Dr. Merzenich is a scientist in computer. D. Many activities can keep our brains young. |
3. Which of the following agrees with the writer"s idea? |
A. The train methods work better for the old. B. People should use the brain to stop it from ageing. C. The training of the brain should start at an early age. D. It is necessary to take part in as many activities as possible. |
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Young children don"t have the skills or knowledge to stay safe in heavy traffic. The following tips (忠告) will be helpful for you to keep your children safe in heavy traffic. Children learn about road safety by watching others. Make sure that you always set good examples. Your children will follow you and think it"s OK to do like you. Teach your children to pay attention to traffic lights when you cross the road together with them. This helps them understand when it"s safe to cross. Make sure that you walk between your children and traffic, and hold their hands all the time. When your children are a little older, you can start to tell them the importance of traffic knowledge. Let them start to understand the reasons why they need to be so careful. Talk with them about road signs and traffic rules. Ask your children to play in a safe place. Never let them ride bikes on the road without an adult present at rush hour. The most important thing you can do to keep your children from getting hurt is to encourage them to follow traffic rules. After knowing about traffic rules, they"ll volunteer to obey them. In this way, they"ll be careful enough to keep themselves away from danger. |
1. Do young children know how to stay safe in heavy traffic? _____________________________________________________ 2. Who should set good examples to young children on roads? _____________________________________________________ 3. When do young children never ride their bikes alone on the road? _____________________________________________________ 4. How will children be able to stay safe on the road by themselves? _____________________________________________________ 5. What is the passage mainly about? _____________________________________________________ |
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We are often asked to make a speech in life. Most of us are afraid of it and don"t do a good job. Here are some simple steps to make your speech a successful one. First of all,find out everything about your subject and at the same time find out as much as you can about your audience. Who are they? What do they know about your subject? Put yourself in their shoes as you prepare your speech. Then try to arrange your material so that your speech is clear and easy to follow. Use as many examples as possible. Never forget your audience. Don"t talk over their heads or talk down to them. When you are giving your speech,speak slowly and clearly and look at your audience. Pause for a few seconds from time to time to give your audience chance to think over what you"ve said. Just remember: be prepared,know your subject and your audience,say what you have to say and be yourself so that your ideas will bring you and your audience together. |
1. We see the word "audience" many times. It infers to _______. |
A. subjects B. listeners C. viewers D. trainers |
2. When one is giving his speech, he should _______. |
A. let his eyes rest to the subject B. follow the audience step by step C. face the audience in a natural way D. look up and down from time to time |
3. Which title best gives the main idea of the passage? |
A. How to Improve One"s Speech B. How to Remember the Audience C. How to Prepare the Material for a Speech D. How to Pick Out the Topic for a Speech |
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If you watch the sky about an hour after the sun goes down, you may see some "moving stars". But they aren"t real stars. They"re satellites, a machine that has been sent into space and goes around the Earth, moon, etc. And the biggest of all is the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS is the biggest satellite because scientists want to live on it. They think that the best way to learn more about space is to live there. The space shuttle Discovery has taken off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida several times and carried a few groups of astronauts to the International Space Station. When the space station is finished, it will be like a city in space. People will stay and study there with many of the things they have at home. Laboratories, living rooms and power stations are being built. The ISS is the most expensive space program ever. Millions and millions of dollars are being spent on it every year. Scientists hope that the ISS will be a stepping stone for future space exploration. "The ISS will help us better understand the human body, explore (know more about) space and study the earth. It can help us make life on the earth better," said Kathryn Clark, an ISS scientist. Sixteen countries are in the program: The US, Russia, Canada, Japan, Brazil and 11 European countries. China is not an ISS country, but it has helped with some of the experiments. In 2003, China sent some rice up to the ISS to find out what space would do to it. Twenty Chinese students talked directly to an astronaut (spaceman) in the International Space Station (ISS) on radio in Nanjing, capital of east China"s Jiangsu Province on Sunday, 2007. The 20 students, aged 10 to 19 from Shanghai, Guangzhou and Nanjing, began talking to Clayton C. Anderson, a 48-year-old American astronaut at 18:50 p.m. at Nanjing No. 3 Middle School when the ISS was passing over Nanjing. After it"s finished, more than 90 percnt of the world"s population will be able to see the space station. So keep looking up, and maybe you"ll see it get bigger and brighter. |
1. It seems that _______. |
A. we can probably see the ISS when the sun goes down B. some students from Nanjing have been to the ISS C. China is one of the members in the ISS group D. the ISS is still in the space but has stopped working |
2. Power stations" in the third paragraph infers _______. |
A. houses for people to live in, to study and do research work B. machines that go around the earth, the moon and some stars C. buildings where electricity is produced to supply a large area D. some countries which help send the ISS up into space |
3. —Why did the scientists send up the International Space Station (ISS)? —Because they _______. |
A. would send up most of the earth people to live there B. could talk with some Chinese school students C. hoped to travel to Mars and Venus some day D. wanted to live in space and do better research |
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When I was at university, I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just enough to pass exams. Others didn"t do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time drinking in the Students" Union than working in the library. Once at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred questions. In my room the night before the test, Fred was watching TV. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But on that night he looked perfectly calm. Then he told me of his plan. "It"s very simple. There are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty correct to pass the test. I"ll take a coin into the examination room. I haven"t studied a chemistry book for months, so I"ll just toss the coin. That way, I"m sure I"ll get half the questions right." The next day, Fred came happily into the exam room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour he marked down his answers. Then he left, half an hour before the rest of us. The next day, he saw the chemistry professor in the corridor. "Oh, good," he said, "Have you got the result of the test?" The professor looked at him and smiled, "Ah, it"s you, Baines. Just a minute." Then he reached into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it. "I"m terribly sorry, Baines," he said, "You failed!" |
1. This story mainly wants to tell us ________. |
A. chemistry is really hard to learn B. there were too many questions for students to prepare for C. good exam results needs hard study D. tossing a coin can not always decide the result |
2. Fred Baines was one of those who ________. |
A. did just enough to pass the exam B. didn"t work hard enough for their studies C. had too much other work for the Students" Union D. were quite good at passing exams |
3. Fred came happily into the exam room because ________. |
A. he had got ready for the exam B. he knew the answers already C. the other students would be behind him D. he had his way to finish the exam |
4. The chemistry exam in fact ________. |
A. was not very hard B. took the other students an hour to finish C. had more than one hundred questions D. needed to be done by tossing a coin |
5. The professor tossed the coin to tell Baines that ________. |
A. he was satisfied with his way for the exam B. he wanted to make friends with him C. his way for the exam would never work D. the exam result depended on the coin |
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