Almost two-thirds of children want their parents to spend more time reading to
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Almost two-thirds of children want their parents to spend more time reading to them before bed, and most prefer Mum’s storytelling to Dad’s, researchers said.
They conducted a study that showed younger children aged 3-4 were most hungry for more stories, with over three-quarters saying they wished their parents read to them more often.
More than half of all children aged 3-8 said story time was their favourite pastime with their parents.
"The results of our research confirm the traditional activity of storytelling continues to be a powerful learning and emotional resource in children’s lives," said child psychologist Richard Woolfson.
Storytelling ranked higher than television or video games among pastimes for kids, and 82 percent said reading a story with their parents helped them sleep better, according the survey of 500 children aged 3-8 in Britain.
The best storytellers were mothers who used funny voices to illustrate different characters or made their own special sound effects to keep the story moving, researchers said.
When mum and dad are not at hand, celebrities will do: over 30 percent of children said they would like to hear a bedtime story from Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, with teen idols Zac Efron, Miley Cyrus and Emma Watson.
"It can be very difficult for parents to find the time to read with their children, but these moments can help build strong bonds and play a vital part in their child’s development," said Woolfson.
小题1:The underlined word “pastime” in the passage mot probably means .| A．old time | B．entertainment | C．emotion | D．character |
小题2:The author develops the passage mainly by .| A．pointing out similarities and differences | B．following the natural time order | | C．comparing opinions from different fields | D．providing examples and statistics |
小题3:Reading a story with their parents helped most kids aged 3-8 .| A．grow stronger | B．become more emotional | | C．sleep better | D．become more powerful |
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答案
小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:C |
解析
1． 本题根据上下文和四个选项的词义来判断，“old time”过去的时光”， ”entertainment”娱乐，消遣，”emotion”情感，”character”人物。第一段说三分之二的孩子睡前想父母亲花更多的时间读故事给他们，这是他们最喜欢的娱乐活动或休闲时光。且文章第三段第一句话出现了提示“pastimes”,因此本题应该选B。
2． A选项我说文中通过比较相似点和不同点，B选项说根据时间顺序，C选项说比较不同领域的观点，这些都没有提及，D选项说提供例子和数据，根据文中，第四段举了例子说最好的讲故事者是母亲，第五段说如果父母亲不在身边，孩子喜欢听像哈利波特一类名人的故事。且从头到尾出现了很多数字，因此D是正确答案。
3． 根据文中第三段可知答案是C。 |
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完形填空 (共20 小题；每小题1分；满分20分)
阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从1---20各题所给的四个选项中,选出最佳选项.
Seven loyal readers came to the Teens’ office two weeks ago. They had a wonderful day learning how to make a newspaper. But what 1 made them excited was that they had their say(发言权).
"What most 2 me was when I was saying something, I found all eyes were on me," said Tang Shining, one of the students. Her friend, Li Chunbei 3 , and felt very glad that when she was talking, the editors nodded and 4 took notes.
Students are happy to see the editors listen to their 5 . You may often 6 about being neglected（忽视） by teachers and parents. 7 before complaining please make sure that you have already spoken about your 8 .
Traditionally in China, teachers at school and parents were 9 the ones to tell teenagers what they should and shouldn’t do. The young are 10 to doing what they are told, rather than thinking by themselves. But then their ideas would be locked in their brain and not be 11 .
A girl wrote to Teens about her family story. She 12 to be very sad because her father seldom talked and played with her. After years of consideration, she 13 decided to write her father a letter, telling him about her sadness. To her 14 , the father 15 , saying that he didn’t realize his mistake. From then on, he really 16 .
Sometimes, we need to let our 17 be heard, so others can understand our thoughts and feelings.
Don’ t be afraid of being 18 for what you have done. You know it is your 19 to speak your mind. Even if your suggestions are denied, at least you have tried your best. You will not be left with any 20 .
| 小题1: | | A．really | B．directly | C．completely | D．immediately |
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| 小题2: | | A．disappointed | B．impressed | C．frightened | D．horrified |
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| 小题3: | | A．refused | B．disagreed | C．agreed | D．disliked |
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| 小题4: | | A．still | B．yet | C．already | D．even |
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小题5:A. opinions B. speeches C. songs C. articles
| 小题6: | | A．talk | B．complain | C．write | D．speak |
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| 小题8: | | A．pleasure | B．love | C．hatred | D．worry |
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| 小题9: | | A．seldom | B．never | C．always | D．sometimes |
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| 小题10: | | A．used | B．reduced | C．devoted | D．told |
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| 小题11: | | A．remembered | B．reused | C．touched | D．heard |
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| 小题12: | | A．used | B．pretended | C．seemed | D．had |
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| 小题13: | | A．sadly | B．suddenly | C．angrily | D．finally |
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| 小题14: | | A．sorrow | B．disappointment | C．surprise | D．satisfaction |
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| 小题15: | | A．apologized | B．smiled | C．laughed | D．sighed |
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| 小题16: | | A．exchanged | B．changed | C．left | D．played |
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| 小题17: | | A．voices | B．decisions | C．suggestions | D．secrets |
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| 小题18: | | A．published | B．blamed | C．beaten | D．fined |
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| 小题19: | | A．duty | B．task | C．right | D．pleasure |
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| 小题20: | | A．regret | B．sadness | C．trouble | D．difficulty |
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Professor Reason recently persuaded 35 people to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for two weeks. When he came to analyze their embarrassing errors, he was surprised to find that nearly all of them fell into a few groups.
One of the women, for instance, on leaving her house for work one morning threw her pet dog her earrings and tried to fix a dog biscuit on her ear. “The explanation for this is that the brain is like a computer,” explains the professor. “People programme themselves to do certain activities regularly.” It was the woman’s custom every morning to throw her dog two biscuits and then put on her earrings. “But somehow the action got reversed（颠倒）in the programme.” About one in twenty of the incidents the volunteers reported were these “programme assembly failures.”
Twenty percent of all errors were “test failures” — mainly due to not verifying the progress of what the body was doing. A man about to get his car out of the garage passed through the back yard where his garden jacket and boots were kept, put them on — much to his surprise. A woman reported, “I got into the bath with my socks on.”
The commonest problem was information “storage failures”. People forgot the names of people whose faces they knew, went into a room and forgot why they were there, mislaid something, or smoked a cigarette without realizing it.
The research so far suggests that while the central processor of the brain is liberated from second-to-second control of a well-practiced routine, it must repeatedly switch back its attention at important decision points to check that the action goes on as intended. Otherwise the activity may be gotten by another frequently and recently used programme, resulting in embarrassing errors.
小题1:The purpose of the professor’s research is to __________.| A．show the difference between men and women | | B．sort and explain some errors in human actions | | C．find the causes which lead to computer failures | | D．compare computer functions with brain working |
小题2:Which of the following might be grouped under “programme assembly failures”?| A．A woman went to a shop and forgot what to buy. | | B．A man returning home after work left his key in the lock. | | C．A lady fell as she was paying attention to each step her feet were taking. | | D．An old man, with his shoes on, was trying to put on his socks. |
小题3:The underlined word “verifying” (in paragraph 3) can be replaced by “_______”.| A．improving | B．changing | C．checking | D．stopping |
小题4:According to the passage, the information “storage failure” refers to “_______”.| A．information collecting system being destroyed | | B．one’s total memory being removed | | C．the loss of part of one’s memory for a time | | D．the separation of one’s action from words |
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完形填空（共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Isabel Powell likes to swim. It’s a（n） 1 thing that she shares with a movie star she’ll
be meeting later this year—a star whose life story is coming to a theater near you this month.
Who’s the star? A dolphin named Winter. And 2 is not the only thing that she and Isabel have in common.
Winter lost her 3 when she was a baby. She got it caught in a trap used to 4__ crabs. Isabel, who had a similar experience to Winter, once had a 5 life. 6 , when she was 2 a tumor（肿瘤）on her foot 7 her leg.
Now, both Winter and Isabel 8 artificial limbs. In Isabel’s case, it’s an artificial leg and foot. In Winter’s case, it’s an artificial tail.
In November, Isabel will travel from her home to Clearwater, Florida, to 9 Winter. Clearwater is the site of the aquarium（水族馆）where Winter has lived since she was 10 from that trap.
According to the Kitsap Sun, the meeting was set up by the man who designed Winter’s artificial tail—Kevin Carroll. Carroll also 11 artificial limbs for people.
He and Isabel 12 met last month in Bremerton, Washington, at the 13 where she got her artificial leg, which freed her of the 14 that had troubled her for years. 15__ Carroll met Isabel and found out she wants to be a veterinarian （兽医）, he decided to set up the meeting.
She 16 people who’ve lost limbs by 17 them they can still do the things they used to do. According to the Kitsap Sun, she plays softball, 18 karate competition and chases after her dog, too. For years, she didn’t know anybody else who had an artificial limb. Now, she’s about to meet a movie star who has one, too.
And she no longer feels so 19 . “I think it’s pretty cool,” Isabel told Kitsap Sun reporter Chris Henry. “Winter has an artificial tail. That makes me think that I’m not the only 20 one. There are thousands more.”
| 小题1: | | A．interesting | B．disappointing | C．terrifying | D．frightening |
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| 小题2: | | A．playing | B．swimming | C．sailing | D．exploring |
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| 小题4: | | A．attract | B．attack | C．hit | D．catch |
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| 小题5: | | A．happy | B．miserable | C．sad | D．dull |
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| 小题6: | | A．Undoubtedly | B．Unfortunately | C．Strangely | D．Surprisingly |
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| 小题7: | | A．took over | B．cut down | C．took away | D．cut out |
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| 小题8: | | A．purchase | B．enjoy | C．prefer | D．wear |
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| 小题9: | | A．meet | B．welcome | C．interview | D．study |
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| 小题10: | | A．operated | B．rescued | C．caught | D．killed |
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| 小题11: | | A．creates | B．builds | C．designs | D．invents |
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| 小题12: | | A．purposely | B．deliberately | C．willingly | D．reportedly |
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| 小题13: | | A．studio | B．lab | C．cinema | D．clinic |
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| 小题14: | | A．pressure | B．debt | C．pain | D．pleasure |
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| 小题15: | | A．Before | B．Until | C．After | D．While |
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| 小题16: | | A．puzzles | B．inspires | C．amuses | D．shocks |
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| 小题17: | | A．showing | B．warning | C．admiring | D．calling |
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| 小题18: | | A．participates in | B．struggles for | C．calls on | D．turns down |
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| 小题19: | | A．strange | B．common | C．usual | D．different |
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| 小题20: | | A．particular | B．positive | C．unlucky | D．enthusiastic |
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完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
About ten years ago, I was on a plane going west, and a young woman 1 and sat across the aisle (过道) from me. I noticed her for two reasons. She was very attractive, and she was holding a teddy bear about half her 2 . I teased her by asking if she had a 3 for the bear.She laughed and said no.
About halfway through the flight she 4 over and told me she was going to Tucson to enter rehab（康复治疗）. She 5 to share her life story with me. She had been working as a dancer in a nightclub. That 6 had led her down a dark 7 to drugs and alcohol. As I listened to her story, I was 8 at all she had gone through. I listened to all she shared and told her I was sure she was going to 9 it. At the end of the 10 , she thanked me for listening to her.
A few years later, I got a 11 in the mail saying, “Wow, it’s been five years since we met on that plane. It is 12 how you touched my life.” She went on to tell me that she had 13 to stay away from drugs, and had been working for a radio station. She felt she had achieved things she could not have 14 that
day on the plane. We agreed to set up a time to get 15 .
When I saw her, she was 16 _ the attractive young woman I remembered. She told me that that little 17 we had had turned her life around. She had got on the plane 18 anything would work in her life, and my affirmation of her as a person and of her 19 had given her the last bit of 20 she needed to work through her problems.
The young woman taught me it’s never too late to make a new start in life.
| 小题1: | | A．turned | B．boarded | C．bent | D．slipped |
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| 小题2: | | A．shape | B．weight | C．size | D．leg |
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| 小题3: | | A．ticket | B．friend | C．name | D．cloth |
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| 小题4: | | A．moved | B．pulled | C．looked | D．leaned |
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| 小题5: | | A．agreed | B．learned | C．continued | D．refused |
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| 小题6: | | A．manner | B．lifestyle | C．event | D．feeling |
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| 小题7: | | A．path | B．door | C．key | D．point |
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| 小题8: | | A．disappointed | B．worried | C．blamed | D．surprised |
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| 小题9: | | A．own | B．make | C．leave | D．reach |
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| 小题10: | | A．journey | B．flight | C．speech | D．conversation |
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| 小题12: | | A．effective | B．amazing | C．easy | D．clear |
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| 小题13: | | A．worked | B．tried | C．decided | D．managed |
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| 小题14: | | A．realized | B．imagined | C．required | D．produced |
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| 小题15: | | A．through | B．along | C．together | D．off |
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| 小题16: | | A．still | B．once | C．never | D．even |
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| 小题17: | | A．expectation | B．conversation | C．information | D．explanation |
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| 小题18: | | A．doubting | B．promising | C．believing | D．admitting |
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| 小题19: | | A．condition | B．Possibilities | C．criticism | D．discoveries |
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| 小题20: | | A．delight | B．interest | C．strength | D．character |
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Anthony was sad. He was, as he put it, “not very bright” and couldn’t win the attention of his very wealthy parents, who preferred his “clever” older brother. At age 8, Anthony was sent away to a boarding school in his native England, even though he screamed and pleaded with（恳求）his parents year after year not to send
him. “The thought was ,it would be good for me,” he recalled.
It was not. Anthony did badly in his studies, had few friends and was bullied for five years. “My teachers couldn’t have had a lower opinion of me,” he said. “I wasn’t even smart enough to rebel. The one thing I remember from the very earliest age was the desire to write. When I was 10 years old, I remember asking my parents to get me a typewriter for my birthday because I wanted to be a writer.”
Now, at 55, Anthony is one of the world’s most successful children’s book authors. His Alex Rider series has sold more than 5 million copies，and the eighth book featuring the young spy, Crocodile Tears, has come out.
The Alex Rider books tell the adventures of 14-year-old Alex Rider, an agent for the British intelligence agency M16.
Anthony says he doesn’t try to write for kids; it just comes out that way.“ I have a feeling that it has something to do with purity and simplicity. I give as little information as is necessary to describe the room, the character in the room, and get on with the action,” he said.
The style has also made Anthony a successful writer of television shows for adults in Britain because, he says, writing books for kids is a lot like writing television for grown-ups: In both cases, it’s all about entertaining people with a good story.
Now, Anthony couldn’t be happier with his life. He sums up his success:“…you can be anything you want to be if you just believe in yourself. I do believe it completely.”
小题1:Which of the following is true of Anthony?| A．He was the beloved child of his family. | | B．Although he is successful, he isn’t very happy. | | C．He places more emphasis on the characters’ behavior in his stories. | | D．Studying in a boarding school proved a good choice for him. |
小题2:At boarding school , Anthony’s teachers_____________.| A．often criticized him. | B．showed great concern for him. | | C．encouraged him to be a writer. | D．thought little of his ability. |
小题3:What would be the best title for the passage?| A．Anthony’s popular books—Alex Rider series | | B．Alex Rider, a popular character | | C．Anthony, a successful children’s book author | | D．Special writing style |
小题4:What advice does Anthony give to readers?| A．Confidence is the key to success. | B．Hardship teaches valuable lessons. | | C．Internet is the best teacher. | D．Failure is the mother of success. |
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