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阅读理解。     Just as adults have a hard time putting down their iPhones, so the device is now the toy of choice for
many 1- 3 years old children. It"s a phenomenon that is attracting the attention of some childhood
development specialists.
     Natasha Sykes, a mother of two in Atlanta, remembers the first time her daughter, Kelsey, then
barely 2 years old, held her husband"s iPhone. "She pressed the button and it lit up. I just remember her
eyes. It was like "Whoa!" "The parents were charmed by their daughter"s fascination. But then, said Ms.
Sykes, "She got serious about the phone."Kelsey would ask for it. Then she"d cry for it. "It was like she"d
always want the phone," Ms. Sykes said.
     Apple, the iPhone"s designer and manufacturer, has built its success on machines so simple and
intuitive(直观的) that even technologically confused adults can figure out how to work them, so it makes
sense that expert children would follow. Tap a picture on the screen and something happens. What could
be more fun?
     Many iPhone on the market are aimed directly at preschoolers, many of them labeled "educational,"
such as Toddler Teasers: Shapes, which asks the child to tap a circle or square or triangle; and Pocket
Zoo, which broadcasts live video of animals at zoos around the world.
     There are "flash cards" aimed at teaching children to read and spell, and a "Wheels on the Bus"
program that sings the popular song in multiple languages. Then there"s the new iGo Potty program, with
automated phone calls reminding toddlers that it"s time to "go ".
     Along with fears about dropping and damage, however, many parents sharing iPhones with their
young ones feel guilty. They wonder whether it is indeed an educational tool, or a passive amusement like
television. The American Academy of Pediatrics has long advised parents not to let their children watch
any TV until they are past their second birthday.
     Jane M. Healy, an educational psychologist in Vail, Colo. said: "Any parent who thinks a spelling
program is educational for that age is missing the whole idea of how the preschool brain grows. What
children need at that age is whole body movement, the skills of playing lots of objects and not some
difficult technology. You"re not learning to read by lining up the letters in the word "cat." You"re learning to
read by understanding language, by listening."1. The main purpose of Kelsey referred to in the passage is to ____. A. not only adults but children are crazy about iPhones
B. encourage people to buy this toy for their children
C. advertise for the toy
D. show Kelsey likes the toy very much 2. The underlined words "it"s time to "go" "in Paragraph 3 mean ______. A. it"s time to stop playing the toy
B. it"s time to go to sleep
C. it"s tie to go to the washroom
D. it"s time to go home 3. The parents asking their young children to play iPhones feel guilty because _____. A. they know the toy has a negative effect on them
B. the children damage the toy
C. they are not sure of the real effect of the toy
D. they ask their children to watch live video of animals 4. In Jane"s mind, in educating preschoolers parents should _____. A. buy this toy for their children.
B. ask their children to play as many toys as possible
C. ask their children to learn a spelling program
D. know how the preschool brain grows

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完形填空。                                                           You Can"t Be Replaced
     As a teenager, I felt I was always letting people down. I was rebellious (叛逆的) on the outside,     1
on the inside I wanted people to   2    me.
    Once I left home to hitchhike (搭便车) to California with my friend Penelope. The trip wasn"t    3   and
there were many times I didn"t feel safe. One situation in particular left me   4   for still being alive. When I
returned home, I was different -not so outwardly (外表上) sure of myself.
    I was happy to be home. But then I noticed that Penelope, who was  5 with us, was wearing my clothes. And my     6    seemed to like her better than me. I wondered if I would be   7   if I weren"t there.
     I told my mom, and she explained that   8    Penelope was a lovely girl, no one could   9   me. I pointed out, "She is more patient and is neater than I have ever been." My mom said these were wonderful   10
but I was the only person who could fill my 11 . She made me realize that even with my   12 , -and they
were many-I was a loved member of the family who couldn"t be replaced.
     I became a searcher,   13  who I was and what made me unique. My   14    of myself was changing. I
wanted a solid base to start from. I started to resist pressure to   15   in ways that I didn"t like any more,
and I    16 who I really was. I came to feel much more   17    that no one can ever take my place.
    Each of us holds a unique place in the world. You are   18   no matter what others say or what you may
think. So  19   about being replaced. You   20     be.

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(     )1. A. and
(     )2. A. leave
(     )3. A. easy
(     )4. A. wonderful
(     )5. A. playing
(     )6. A. family
(     )7. A. loved
(     )8. A. since
(     )9. A. scold
(     )10. A. qualities
(     )11. A. character
(     )12. A. faults
(     )13. A. looking for
(     )14. A. picture
(     )15. A. think
(     )16. A. hated
(     )17. A. sure
(     )18. A. lovely
(     )19. A. talk
(     )20. A. mustn"t

B. but
B. replace
B. hard
B. careful
B. eating
B. friends
B. mentioned
B. as
B. compare
B. girls
B. role
B. advantages
B. looking back
B. view
B. learn
B. celebrated
B. doubtful
B. sure
B. forget
B. shouldn"t

C. as
C. receive
C. fun
C. grateful
C. staying
C. relatives
C. cared
C. while
C. replace
C. people
C. task
C. manners
C. seeking out
C. sense
C. change
C. wished
C. happy
C. wonderful
C. care
C. can"t

D. for
D. like
D. long
D. helpful
D. traveling
D. neighbors
D. missed
D. unless
D. match
D. times
D. form
D. pities
D. giving up
D. idea
D. act
D. expected
D. lonely
D. special
D. argue
D. needn"t

阅读理解。

                                                 Trapped on the 37th Floor
     Melinda Skaar wasn"t expecting any phone calls. Skaar was working late in her office at the First
Interstate bank of California. By 10:45 that night she was almost ready to go home when the phone rang.
Picking it up, she heard a guard shouting. "There is a fire! Get out of there!"
     Skaar didn"t panic. She figured that it was just a small fire. Her office building was huge. There were
62 floors and her desk was on the 37th floor.
     Skaar called out to office mate Stephen Oksas, who also stayed late to work. But when they got to
the hallway, they were met by a cloud of black smoke. Rushing back, Skaar shut the door and filled the
space at the bottom of the door with her jacket to keep the smoke out.
     Then they called 911. Before they could call their families, however, the line went dead. That meant
that they were completely cut off from the outside world. All they could do was wait and hope someone
would come to rescue them.
     Minutes ticked by. Smoke began to float into the office. Soon it became hard for  them to breathe.
     Looking around, Skaar noticed a small workroom. It seemed to have cleaner air. So they crowded
there. That helped for a while, but in time even the workroom was filled with deadly smoke.
     Hopeless, they tried to break the windows, but the glass was not breakable. Everything they threw at
just bounced back.
     Defeated, they struggled back to the workroom. They felt weak and dizzy . Soon Skaar found Oksas
had passed out.
     As Skaar and Oksas lay near death, rescuers were rushing to find them. At last, at about 4 a.m.,
firefighters found them.
     Skaar and Oksas knew they were lucky to be alive. "Sunday is my birthday," Skaar told a reporter.
She would be turning 29. But she knew she had already got the best present possible--the gift of life.

1. What did Skaar and Oksas do when they were stopped by the fire?

A. They called their families.
B. They waited where they were.
C. They tried to run down the stairs.
D. They rushed back and shut the door.

2. The first sentence of the passage is to _______.

A. introduce Skaar
B. get the reader"s attention
C. explain the cause of the event
D. tell the background information

3. The following helped Skaar and Oksas survive the fire except _______.

A. calling 911 for help
B. breaking the windows to get some fresh air
C. crowding in a small workroom for clean air
D. shutting the door and keeping the smoke out with a jacket

4. What can we conclude from Skaar"s action in the fire?

A. She is cleverer than Oksas.
B. She was trained as a firefighter.
C. She remained calm in the face of danger.
D. She had had the experience of being caught in fire.

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     Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on the way, she did what she
could to help her three-year-old son, Michael, prepare for a new baby. They found out that it was going
to be a girl, and day after day, night after night, Michael   1   to his sister in Mommy"s tummy.
   The pregnancy progressed   2 for Karen. Then the labor pains came. Every five minutes ... every
minute. But complications    3 during delivery. Finally, Michael"s little sister was born. But she was in
serious   4  With siren (警报)howling in the night, the ambulance   5   the infant to the Intensive Care unit
at St. Mary"s Hospital in Knoxville, Tennessee.
      6   inched by. The little girl got worse. The doctors told the parents, "There is very little hope. " Karen
and her husband contacted a local cemetery (墓地) about a burial plot. They had   7 a special room in
their home for the new baby - now they planned a funeral.
    Week two in Intensive Care. It looked as if a funeral would come   8 the week was over. Michael,
kept begging his parents to let him see his sister, "I want to sing to her," he said. Kids were never   9 in
Intensive Care. But Karen made up her mind. She would take Michael 10 they liked it or not.
    She   11 him in an oversized scrub suit and   12 him into ICU. He looked like a walking laundry
basket, but the head nurse  13 him as a child, "Get that kid out of here now! " The usually   14 lady
glared into the head nurse"s face, her lips a   15 line. "He is not leaving until he sings to his sister!" Karen
towed Michael to his sister"s bedside. He gazed at the tiny baby   16 the battle to live. And he began to
sing   17 the pure hearted voice of a 3-year-old, Michael sang:
   "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are gray"
    18 the baby girl responded. The pulse rate became   19   and steady.
    Keep on singing, Michael. "You never know, dear, how much I love you. Please don"t take my sunshine
away - " The breathing became as smooth as a kitten"s purr.
     Keep on singing, Michael. "The other night, dear, as I lay sleeping,…

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(     )1. A. talked
(     )2. A. quietly
(     )3. A. arose
(     )4. A. situation
(     )5. A. took
(     )6. A. The years
(     )7. A. fixed up
(     )8. A. until
(     )9. A. asked
(     )10. A. no matter
(     )11. A. put
(     )12. A. marched
(     )13. A. required
(     )14. A. warm-hearted
(     )15. A. firm
(     )16. A. losing
(     )17. A. in
(     )18. A. Finally
(     )19. A. calm
(     )20. A. put off

B. sang
B. peacefully
B. raised
B. condition
B. sent
B. The months
B. made up
B. before
B. allowed
B. even if
B. dressed
B. forced
B. replied
B. well-managed
B. strong
B. lost
B. on
B. Instantly
B. quiet
B. put away

C. played
C. hopefully
C. rose
C. place
C. carried
C. The weeks
C. built up
C. after
C. admitted
C. whether
C. wore
C. hid
C. recognized
C. mild-mannered
C. hard
C. to lose
C. at
C. Patiently
C. slow
C. put up

D. whispered
D. normally
D. aroused
D. position
D. rushed
D. The days
D. set up
D. when
D. acquired
D. as if
D. fit
D. followed
D. regarded
D. cold-blooded
D. tough
D. having lost
D. with
D. Interestingly
D. fast
D. put down

阅读理解。

     I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare and the tortoise. At the end I said, "Son, remember:
Slow and steady wins the race. Don"t you think there"s something to learn from the tortoise?" He opened
his eyes wide. "Do you mean next time when I"m entering the 60-metre race I should wish Billy and Tony
and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway?"
     I was surprised. "But the tortoise didn"t wish the hare would fall asleep."
     "He must have wished that," Sonny said, "Otherwise how could he be so stupid as to race with the
hare? He knew very well the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did."
     "He didn"t have such a wish." I insisted. "He won the race by perseverance(毅力), by pushing on
steadily."
     Sonny thought for a while. "That"s a lie," he said. "He won the race because he was lucky. If the hare
hadn"t happened to fall asleep, the tortoise would never have won the race. He could be as steady as you
like, or a hundred times steadier, but he"d never have won the race! That"s for sure."

1. The writer argued with his son because _______.

A. he liked tortoises while his son liked hares
B. they disagreed about whether the tortoise was stupid
C. he liked the story of the hare and the tortoise while his son didn"t
D. he tried to teach his son the moral lesson of the story but the son refused it

2. Sonny believed that the tortoise ________.

A. won the race by his effort
B. took a risk by agreeing to the race
C. was not given a fair chance in the race
D. in fact did not win the race

3. According to the passage, who do you think learned a lesson?

A. The tortoise.
B. The hare.
C. Sonny.
D. Sonny"s father.

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     Mark Gibson is a former gymnastics coach who once worked with many excellent athletes. He often
tells a wonderful story about a 15-year-old   1   girl, Cindy, whose attitude brought out the best in
everyone.
     Cindy wasn"t a great   2  , but when she was in the gym, everyone complained less, worked harder,
and, not   3 , achieved more. Cindy was such a powerful motivator   4 she could see nothing. When it was
her turn to do the vault (跳马), mother would also  5 alongside her, and tell her how close she was to the
vault. When her mom said, "Vault!", Cindy would reach out and jump,   6 her mother and herself.
     Cindy loved the sport and kept   7 because she and her mom refused to be defeated by her   8  .
Mark called her the most   9  member of the team, not because of her   10  ability, but because of her
heart and because she   11  a standard of perseverance (坚持) and courage that inspired others to get
more out of themselves. Everyone who   12  her work hard to be the best  13   how much more they
could get out of themselves.
     This is leadership---leadership by   14  . And we see this sort of leadership not only in   15   but also
in families and in the workplace. Often the most important members of the team are not the   16  , most
skilled, or most powerful. Instead, their   17   is in their attitude and their ability to inspire and   18   others
with their optimism, enthusiasm, and determination.
     People who know how to get the best out of themselves get the best of others.
There"s no doubt that Cindy"s   19   has a great effect on her teammates. A person"s personality matters
most because it comes from within and does not depend on   20   alone.

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