When I was going home to India last year, I called up my mother to ask if she wa
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When I was going home to India last year, I called up my mother to ask if she wanted anything from china,
When India had not opened up its markers to the world, I carried suitcase loads of dark glasses and jeans. Thankfully, we can get all these anywhere in India now,
Still ,her answer surprised me: “Green tea,”
As long as I can remember she didn’t even drink Indian tea.
I dutifully bought a big packet of Longjing and headed home to hear the story. My mother and her brother, both regular newspaper readers, believed that Chinese green tea was the wonder drug for all illnesses
At the turn of the century, China was not really familiar to the average Indian, It was a strange country
How things change [And how soon]
Now every town of any size seems to have a “China Market”. And everyone is talking about China
The government of India has planned to send a team to China to see how things are done A minister once said that India must open the doors for more foreign investment（投资）and such a step would “work wonders as it did for China”.
But it’s a two-way street, I just heard about a thousand Shenzhen office workers who have gone to Rangalore to train in software. Meanwhile, all the IT majors are setting up a strong presence in China,
No wonder that trade, which was only in the millions just ten years ago, is expected to his about us$15 billion for last year and us$20 billion by 2008, a goal set by both governments,
No wonder, my colleague wrote some weeks ago about this being the Sino-Indian（中印）century as the two countries started on January I the Sino-Indian Friendship Year,
小题1:But what is still a wonder to me is my mother drinking Chinese tea.
Why did the mother ask for Chinese green tea? | A．she was tired of Indian tea | | B．she had a son working in China. | | C．she believed it had a curing effect | | D．she was fond of Chinese products, |
小题2:What does the author mean by “it’s a two-way street’ in paragraph 10? | A．China and India have different traffic rules | | B．Tea trade works wonders in both India and China | | C．Chinese products are popular in both China and India, | | D．The exchanges between India and China benefit both |
小题3:hat do we know about the Indian IT industry? | A．It will move its head office to Shenzhen | | B．It is seeking further development in China | | C．It has attracted an investment of US$15 billion | | D．It caught up with the US IT industry in2008. |
小题4:In the text the author expresses_____, | A．his concern for his mother’s health | | B．his support for drinking Chinese green tea | | C．his surprise at China’s recent development | | D．his wonder at the growth of India’s IT industry |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:C |
解析
小题1:细节理解题。由第五段的---believed that Chinese green tea was the wonder drug for all illnesses
可知他们认为中国茶能治好病，选C。
小题2:词义猜测题。由它上面的第九段The government of India has planned to send a team to China to see，可知双双开放，实现双赢，选D符合。
小题3:推理判断题。由a thousand Shenzhen office workers who have gone to Rangalore to train in software.可知印度领先，选B。
小题4:推理判断题。由倒数后三段No wonder可知作者对中国的发展，很惊奇，选C。其他不和句意。 |
举一反三
It is true that good writers rewrite and rewrite and then rewrite some more. But in order to work up the desire to rewrite, it is important to learn to like what you write at the early stage.
I am surprised at the number of famous writers I know who say that they so dislike reading their own writing later that they even hate to look over the publishers’ opinions. One reason we may dislike reading our own work is that we’re often disappointed that the rich ideas in our minds seem very thin and plain when first written down. Jerry Fodor and Steven Pinker suggest that this fact may be a result of how our minds work. .
Different from popular belief ,we do not usually think in the works and sentences of ordinary language but in symbols for ideas （known as “mentalese”）, and writing our ideas down is an act of translation from that symbolic language . But while mentalese contains our thoughts in the form of a complex tapestry （织锦），writing can only be composed one thread at a time . Therefore it should not be surprising that our first attempt at expressing ideas should look so simple. It is only by repeatedly rewriting that we produces new threads and connect them to get closer to the ideas formed in our minds.
When people write as if some strict critics （批评家） are looking over their shoulder , they are so worried about what this critic might say that they get stuck before they even start. Peter Elbow makes an excellent suggestion to deal with this problem. When writing we should have two different minds. At the first stage, we should see every idea, as well as the words we use to express it ,as wonderful and worth putting down . It is only during rewrites that we should examine what we excitedly wrote in the first stage and check for weaknesses.
小题1:What do we learn from the text about those famous writers? | A．They often regret writing poor works | | B．Some of them write surprisingly much. | | C．Many of them hate reading their own works | | D．They are happy to review the publishers’ opinions. |
小题2:What do people generally believe about the way human minds work? | A．People think in words and sentences. | | B．Human ideas are translated into symbols | | C．People think by connecting threads of ideas. | | D．Human thoughts are expressed through pictures. |
小题3:What can we conclude from the text? | A．Most people believe we think in symbols. | | B．Loving our own writing is scientifically reasonable. | | C．The writers and critics can never reach an agreement. | | D．Thinking and writing are different stages of mind at work. |
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Every year, on the International Volunteers Day, the world thinks highly of the work of millions of people who give their time to help others. The work they are doing is important. As Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations said“…each contribution—no matter how small—can help make a difference.” Lu Hao and Meng Yu are just two examples of the 13.5 million young Chinese Volunteers who want to make a contribution to society.
Lu Hao is a middle school student, who joined the “1 helps 1” scheme1 of the Youth Volunteer Community Development Project last year. Every Tuesday and Friday he visits an elderly gentleman who lives alone. “Mr. Zhao is weak and cannot do much for himself, so I help with shopping, do jobs in the house, or read the newspaper to him. With his help, Mr. Zhao’s health has improved, and he feels more energetic. Lu Hao has also found their relationship beneficial2. In the past history was his weakest subject, but it is one which greatly interests Mr. Zhao and they often discuss it. Mr. Zhao has encourages Lu Hao to study history lessons harder and his grades have improved a great deal.
Meng Yu is studying for her master’s degree in Canada. She has a busy timetable, but still finds time for voluntary activities during the weekends. “Last month I took part in an event to help starving children in some of the least developed countries. Twenty-two of us went without food for 30 hours! It was a challenge. We wanted to improve awareness3 of hunger because every day children are dying of starvation. It was a great success. The local newspaper and TV reported it and we received many money.” Meng Yu and her classmates organized this activity to raise money for a good cause, and in the process she formed strong friendships.
Lu Hao and Meng Yu are helping to make other people’s lives better, and they also make great friends, gain new skills and increase their chances of getting the job of their dreams. Would you like to make a difference by becoming a volunteer?
阅读短文，回答问题。
小题1:According to the text, what is the reason why young people choose to do voluntary work?
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小题2:Lu Hao has chosen to volunteer on two evenings every week . How has Meng Yu chosen to give her time? Why has she made a different choice?
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小题3:What benefits has his voluntary work brought Lu Hao?
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小题4:What benefits did MengYu’s voluntary work bring the starving children?
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Peter and Paul had a permission from their parents to camp in a field close to their farm. But, being adventurous boys, they know it would be more 36 to camp in the woods that lay beyond the river. Excitedly, the boys 37 with their tent and food.
Carrying their heavy 38 , the two brothers walked along the riverbank, hardly noticing the distance or the sun beating down. . They were eager to reach their 39 before lunchtime. As they entered the cool, shadowy woods, they began to search for a suitable camping spot. Peter wanted to 40 close to the river at the edge of the woods, 41 Paul, who was older, insisted that they camp further away. 42 Peter followed his brother deeper into the 43 . “This really is a wonderful setting!” said Paul in excitement. They 44 the tent , and settled down to eat the sandwiches they had made, then decided to find their way 45 to the river to catch some fish.
“Are you sure that this is the right 46 ?” whispered Peter shakily. “I’m sure we passed that hollow tree just a while ago. ” Paul walked 47 silently. “Look, there it is again. We’re lost, aren’t we?” complained Peter. Paul had to admit that he didn’t know where they were. 48 , they were a long distance from where they were 49 to be. They were not even 50 of where they had set up their camp. They set in 51 for a few minutes until Peter had a bright idea. “Why don’t we look for clues（线索） the way trackers 52 in the movies? We weren’t careful about how we walked, so I’m sure we would have left 53 some broken tree branches and leaves. ”
Carefully, the boys 54 the marks that they had left, until finally they found their campsite. Hurriedly, they packed their belongings and set off 55 the direction of the river.
What would their parents think of their adventure?
36. A. surprising B. exciting C. annoying D. frightening
37. A. went round B. went back C. went away D. went though
38. A. load B. torn C. food D. storage
39. A. grassland B. destination C. field D. river
40. A. live B. lie C. wait D. stay
41. A. but B. and C. or D. so
42. A. Unconsciously B. Unfortunately C. Unwillingly D. Uninterestingly
43. A. woods B. farm C. setting D. camp
44. A. put off B. put on C. put down D. put up
45. A. forward B. near C. back D. further
46. A. place B. mark C. way D. time
47. A. alone B. about C. in D. on
48. A. After all B. At last C. Above all D. At first
49. A. discovered B. encouraged C. persuaded D. supposed
50. A. afraid B. sure C. informed D. reminded
51. A. enjoyment B. satisfaction C. disappointment D. imagination
52. A. appear B. do C. work D. behave
53. A. behind B. out C. aside D. amount
54. A. fetched B. watched C. followed D. collected
55. A. for B. to C. at D. in |
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S: Right. Now you are feeling a bit better, it’s your turn to help me. Could you give me a hand with my maths homework?
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Four people in England back in 1953, stared at Photo 51,It wasn’t much—a picture showing a black X. But three of these people won the Nobel Prize for figuring out what the photo really showed –the shape of DNA The discovery brought fame and fortune to scientists James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins. The fourth, the one who actually made the picture, was left out.
Her name was Rosalind Franklin.”She should have been up there,” says historian Mary Bowden.” If her photos hadn’t been there, the others couldn’t have come up with the structure.” One reason Franklin was missing was that she had died of cancer four years before the Nobel decision. But now scholars doubt that Franklin was not only robbed of her life by disease but robbed of credit by her competitors
At Cambridge University in the 1950s, Watson and Click tried to make models by cutting up shapes of DNA’s parts and then putting them together. In the meantime, at King’s College in London, Franklin and Wilkins shone X-rays at the molecule(分子). The rays produced patterns reflection the shape.
But Wilkins and Franklin’s relationship was a lot rockier than the celebrated teamwork of Watson and Crick, Wilkins thought Franklin was hired to be his assistant .But the college actually employed her to take over the DNA project.
What she did was produce X-ray pictures that told Watson and Crick that one of their early models was inside out. And she was not shy about saying so. That angered Watson, who attacked her in return, “Mere inspection suggested that she would not easily bend. Clearly she had to to go or be put in her place.”
As Franklin’s competitors, Wilkins, Watson and Crick had much to gain by cutting her out of the little group of researchers, says historian Pnina Abir-Am. In 1962 at the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony, Wilkins thanked 13 colleagues by name before he mentioned Franklin, Watson wrote his book laughing at her. Crick wrote in 1974 that “Franklin was only two steps away from the solution.”
No, Franklin was the solution. “She contributed more than any other player to solving the structure of DNA . She must be considered a co-discoverer,” Abir-Am says. This was backed up by Aaron Klug, who worked with Franklin and later won a Nobel Prize himself. Once described as the “Dark Lady of DNA”, Franklin is finally coming into the light.
小题1:What is the text mainly about?
A. The disagreements among DNA researchers.
B. The unfair treatment of Franklin.
C. The process of discovering DNA.
D. The race between two teams of scientists.
小题2:Watson was angry with Franklin because she .| A．took the lead in the competition | B．kept her results from him | | C．proved some of his findings wrong | D．shared her data with other scientists |
小题3:Why is Franklin described as “Dark Lady of DNA”?
A. She developed pictures in dark labs.
B. She discovered the black X-the shape of DNA.
C. Her name was forgotten after her death.
D. Her contribution was unknown to the public.
小题4:What is the writer’s attitude toward Wilkins, Watson and Crick?| A．Disapproving. | B．Respectful. | C． Admiring. | D．Doubtful. |
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