[1]While the Amazon may seem far away, we are all closely connected to it throug

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[1]While the Amazon may seem far away, we are all closely connected to it through our actions. Now there are largely the results of great demand for forest products and agriculture land, which makes its plant and animal species in danger. Fortunately, we can help save the Amazon rainforest by making the right choices in our daily lives. By being smart consumers, we can make a difference and help reduce human pressures on the forests and rivers.
[2]Look for forest products that you don’t need to destroy forests to get. We can choose many rainforest products like Brazil nuts and coffee, which can be got without destroying forests. And at the same time the money you provide can help local people to _______________.
[3]Recycle everything possible. Such items as batteries, cloth, glass, paper in our daily life can be recycled with different techniques. For example, the collected glass pieces are taken to a glass recycling factory where they are made into new glass bottles through a series of processing.
[4]Buy the right pets. Many wild animals are illegally caught in the Amazon and sold as pets and large numbers of these animals die in the process. It’s important to ask where the animal comes from and to require a store to give you proof when you decide to buy a pet.
[5]Carefully select the appliances(家用电器) in your home. For example, order low-flow shower heads (喷头), which can reduce your use of hot water and use of energy to heat the water. So it’s wise to select the appliances which can save energy.
[6]Turn off appliances that you are not using and take the plug off them. Switch off TVs, computers, lights, etc. even when they are not being used and make sure the plug off the switch of some appliances that use electricity including TVs, video and audio systems, computers.
小题1:What is the main idea of the text ? (no more than 8 words)
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小题2:Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words. (no more than 4 words)
And at the same time the money you provide can help local people to ________________________
小题3:List two threats to the wildlife in Amazon.(no more than 5 words)
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小题4:What’s the purpose of choosing the appliances carefully ?(no more than 4 words)
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小题5:What does the word “they” (Line 2, Paragraph 6) probably refer to?(no more than 1 word)
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答案

小题1:Tips / Advice on helping save the Amazon rainforest. / How to help save the Amazon rainforest.
小题2:protect the forests.
小题3:Forest products, (and)agricultural land
小题4:To save energy
小题5:Appliances

解析

试题分析：这篇文章是给了一些帮助拯救亚马逊雨林的建议，每个人可以尽自己的一份力量来保护雨林。
小题1:主旨题：从第一段的句子： Fortunately, we can help save the Amazon rainforest by making the right choices in our daily lives. By being smart consumers, we can make a difference and help reduce human pressures on the forests and rivers.可知这篇文章是给了一些帮助拯救亚马逊雨林的建议： Tips / Advice on helping save the Amazon rainforest. / How to help save the Amazon rainforest.
小题2:从前面的句子：which can be got without destroying forests.可知这么做是保护森林的：protect the forests.
小题3:细节题：从第一段的句子：Now there are largely the results of great demand for forest products and agriculture land, which makes its plant and animal species in danger. 可知对野生动物造成危害的是森林的产品和农业用地：Forest products, (and)agricultural land
小题4:细节题：从第五段的句子：So it’s wise to select the appliances which can save energy.可知选择正确的电器是为了节约能源。To save energy
小题5:猜词题：从前面的Switch off TVs, computers, lights, etc.可知这些都是些电器： Appliances

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[1]People with lower intelligence are more likely to be unhappy than their brighter colleagues, according to UK researchers, Their study of 6,870 people showed low intelligence was often linked with lower income and poor mental health, which contributed to unhappiness. The researchers are calling for more help and support to be targeted at people with lower IQs. Their findings were published in the journal Psychological Medicine.
[2]The researchers analyzed data from the Adult Psychiatric Morbity Survey in England. One of the questions was：“Taking all things together, how would you say you were these days—very happy ,fairly happy or not too happy?” The highest part saying they were “        ”was found in people with an IQ between 120 and 129-43% said they were very happy..
[3]However, the highest proportion saying “not too happy”was found in people with an IQ between 70 and 79. The study said lower intelligence was linked to lower income, worse health and needing help with daily life, such as shopping or housework—all of which contributed to unhappiness.
[4]Dr Hassiotis said：“There is some evidence that long term strategies directed at young children from poor backgrounds can have a positive impact on IQ, wellbeing and life opportunities”. Such interventions(干涉)are likely to be costly, but the initial costs may be offset（抵消）by future benefits such as a reduced reliance on state benefits and better mental and physical health”.
[5]He added that the study was particularly helpful as it identified some of the factors（因素）that influence the association between IQ and happiness. The study also emphasized the interventions to prevent lower IQ leading to greater unhappiness.
小题1:What does the passage mainly talk about?(no more than 10 words)

小题2:Fill in the blank in paragraph2 with proper words.(no more than3 words)

小题3:Costly as the interventions(干涉)are , why is it worthwhile to do so ?.(no more than 10 words)

小题4:What did Hassiotis want to stress in the last paragraph?(no more than 6 words)

小题5:What does the word “which” referred to in paragraph one ?(no more than 6 words)

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A vast dust storm that blew in from the deserts of Australia’s red centre has blanketed the country’s largest city and eastern coast in a red fog，causing widespread traffic chaos and severe flight delays.
Residents from Sydney in New South Wales to Canberra inland and towns in southern Queensland awoke to a red sky and greatly reduced visibility after the country’s worst dust storm in 70 years blew in overnight. The Sydney Harbor Bridge and Opera House were covered in the red fog and hundreds of people were reported to have breathing problems. Children，the elderly and those suffering from asthma (哮喘) or heart or lung diseases were advised to stay indoors ,as even healthy adults reported "itchy throats" and a metallic aftertaste in their mouths after walking through the thick fog.
Commuters used face masks，originally intended to protect them from the spread of swine flu, to hurry across the blocked streets on their way to work. Some schools were closed and sports activities were called off as the conditions pushed air pollution levels to 1500 times their normal levels – the highest on record.
Passengers at the busy Sydney Airport faced delays of up to six hours for international flights and three hours for domestic trips，and even some international flights were cancelled as visibility was reduced to just a few feet.
Locals，phoning radio stations to express their shock at the red dawn.” It’s like a nuclear winter morning，" tourist Peter Wilson told Daily Telegraph, "It is so terrible." adding that when he awoke the sky was "bright red" and "all the cars were covered in dirt".
The dust hanging over Sydney had largely cleared by midafternoon, although national carrier Qantas said severe delays would last all day because of direction-changed and late-running flights.
The sand storm，which measured more than 310 miles wide and 620 miles long， was caused by dust clouds blowing east from Australia’s dry places，which has been attacked by the worst drought on record. It covered dozens of towns and cities in two states as strong winds swept away tons of topsoil threw it high into the sky and carried it hundreds of miles.
小题1:What was the face mask originally intended for? (No more than 10 words) (2 marks)[
小题2:When did most residents of Sydney discover the vast storm ? (No more than 3 words) (3 marks)
小题3:What do you think the underlined wordQantas is? (No more than 3 words)(2 marks)
小题4:What is the main idea of the last paragraph ? (No more than 10 words) (3 marks)

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In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared to a greater or lesser extent, notions of superiority are hard to maintain. The pattern of sharing in tasks and in decisions makes for equality, and this in turn leads to further sharing. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept that equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized by cooperation rather than by the “battle of sexes”.
If the process goes too far and man’s role is regarded as less important—and that has happened in some cases—we are as badly off as before, only in reverse.
It is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. We are getting a little tired of “Momism”— but we don’t want to exchange it for a “neo-Popism”. What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. There are signs that psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and specialists on the family are becoming more aware of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receive all the credits nor all the blame. We have almost given up saying that a woman’s place is in the home. We are beginning, however, to analyze man’s place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child.
The family is a cooperative enterprise for which it is difficult to lay down rules, because each family needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems. Excessive authoritarianism has unhappy consequences, whether it wears skirts or trousers, and the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is closely linked not only to a healthy democracy, but also to a healthy family.
(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN THIRTEEN WORDS.)
小题1:Children raised in a family where roles of men and women are not sharply separated are more likely to
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小题2:According to the author, the ideal family pattern should have ________________________________.
小题3:In a family being aware of the roles men play, women will not _______________________________.
小题4:What is the passage mainly about?

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[1] Mental and health experts believe personality plays an important part in how we experience stress. Personality is the way a person acts, feels and thinks.
[2] Some people are aggressive and always in a hurry. They often become angry when things do not happen the way they planned. They are called “Type A” personalities. Studies suggest that these people often get stress-related disorders. The “Type B” personality is calmer. These people are able to deal with all kinds of situations more easily. As a result, they are less affected by stress.
[3] Studies have also shown that men and women deal with stress differently. Women seem to be better able to deal with stress than men are. However, experts say women are three times more likely to develop depression（抑郁） in reaction to the stress in their lives. American writer John Gray became famous for his book Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus（金星）. He notes that men and women have opposite ways of dealing with stress. For a man, the best way is to rest and forget about daily problems. But a woman suffering from stress needs to talk about her problems.
[4] Experts say there are several ways to deal with stress, including deep breathing, exercise, eating healthy foods, getting enough rest and balancing the time spent working and playing. Exercise is one of the most effective stress- reduction measures, as physical changes from exercise make you feel better. In addition, exercise can also improve the body’s defense system against disease.
[5] Keeping stress to yourself can make problems worse. Experts say that expressing emotions to friends or family members or writing down your feeling can help reduce stress. And they also suggest that people should attempt to accept or change stressful situations whenever possible.
小题1: What does Paragragh 2 mainly talk about？ ( No more than 15 words)
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小题2:Please explain the underlined word “ aggressive” in paragraph 2. ( No more than 5 words)
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小题3:According to this passage, why does physical exercise help reduce stress?( No more than 20 words)
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小题4:What shouldn’t you do when you have stress problems and why?( No more than 15 words)
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小题5:Are you a “Type A” personality or a “Type B” personality? How should you deal with stress in your daily life? ( No more than 25 words)

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It was at least two months before Christmas when nine-year-old Almie Rose told her father and me that she wanted a new bicycle.
As Christmas drew nearer, her dream for a bicycle seemed to fade(逐渐消失), for she didn’t mention it again. We bought some beautiful story books for her and thought she would be happy to see them. However, on December 24, she said that she wanted a bike more than anything else.
It was just too late. We were busy with Christmas dinner and parking presents till midnight. So there was no time to buy a bicycle for our little girl. Thinking she would feel unhappy with the gift we gave her, we felt sad. We didn’t know what to do.
Suddenly my husband had a good idea. “ What if I make a little bicycle out of clay(泥) and write a note to tell her that she could trade the clay model in for a real bike?” My husband asked. I agreed. So he spent the next four hours patiently working with clay to make a tiny bike.
On Christmas morning, we were excited for Almie to open the little box with the beautiful red and white clay bike and the note. Finally, she opened it and read the note aloud.
Then she asked, “Does this mean that I can trade in this bike that Daddy made me for a real one?” Smiling, I said, “Yes.”
Almie had tears in her eyes when she replied, “I will never trade in this beautiful bicycle that Daddy made for me. I’d rather keep this than get a real bike.” Hearing this, I gave her a big hug.(拥抱).
小题1:What did Rose hope to get on Christmas Day?
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小题2:Why didn’t Rose’s parents buy a bicycle for her?
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小题3:What did Rose’s father decide to do then?
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小题4:When did Rose open the box and read the note in a loud voice?
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小题5:What do we know from Rose’s words in the last paragraph?
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