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The world’s oldest person, Ms. Baines, died. She celebrated her 115th birthday w

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The world’s oldest person, Ms. Baines, died. She celebrated her 115th birthday with congratulations from Barack Obama, President of the United States.  Over her life she lived through the terms of 21 US presidents.
Gertrude Baines passed away(去世) peacefully in her sleep at the Western Convalescent Hospital in Los Angeles, where she had lived for her last ten years. Emma Camanag , the hospital’s leader ,said she was a respectable lady. "It is really an honor for the hospital to take care of her over the last 10 years and we will greatly miss her. It is just like we have lost a relative(亲戚)," said Emma.
Ms. Baines, who was born in Shellman, Georgia, in 1894, had no living relatives. She grew up in the southern US during difficult times. During that time, African American people were required to use separate, often poor, public services. She married young and later divorced (离婚). Her only child, a daughter, was born in 1909 and died of a terrible disease at the age of 18. Ms. Baines worked as a maid (女佣) in Ohio before moving to Los Angeles where she lived on her own until she was well over 100.
She once told an interviewer(记者), "As for the secrets of long life, I do not have any disappointments(失望) in my own life."
She gained some fame when she voted for Mr. Obama in the US presidential election(总统大选), saying she supported him "because he’s for the colored people". It was only the second time in her life she had voted, the first time being for John F. Kennedy.
Ms. Baines became the world’s oldest person in January. Japanese woman, Kama Chien, 114, has now taken over the title.
小题1:It was an honor for the hospital to take care of Ms. Baines because ________.
A.she was a respectable lady
B.she was a relative of the hospital’s leader
C.she lived in the hospital for years
D.she voted for Mr. Obama in the election
小题2:Ms. Baines voted for Mr. Obama because he ________.
A.was very popular in the hospital
B.did even better than John F. Kennedy
C.did good things for African Americans
D.congratulated her on her birthday
小题3:Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A.Ms. Baines used to serve others in Ohio.
B.Ms. Baines died in a hospital in Los Angeles.
C.Ms. Baines and her husband had only one child.
D.Ms. Baines liked to live alone.
小题4:The passage is mainly about ________.
A.the world’s oldest person, Ms. Baines
B.why Ms. Baines voted for Mr. Obama
C.how Ms. Baines lived for so long
D.Ms. Baines and President Obama

答案

小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:A
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试题分析:文章大意:本文报道了世界上最长寿的人贝恩斯女士去世的消息。
小题1:A细节理解题。根据第二段Emma Camanag , the hospital’s leader ,said she was a respectable lady.可知她是位值得尊敬的女士。故A正确。
小题2:C细节理解题。根据倒数第二段She gained some fame when she voted for Mr. Obama in the US presidential election(总统大选), saying she supported him "because he’s for the colored people".可以得出答案。故C正确。
小题3:D推理判断题。根据全文叙述及文章第三段的内容,我们可以推测出D项与文章事实不相符合。故D正确。
小题4:A主旨大意题。根据全文的大意:本文报道了世界上最长寿的人贝恩斯女士去世的消息。故A正确。
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LONDON, Feb. 18,2014 (Xinhua News agency) —Britain will send experts to East China"s Shanghai to learn from the city"s experience in maths teaching in an attempt to raise the teaching standards.
British Education Minister Elizabeth Truss is to lead a delegation of experts on a fact-finding mission to Shanghai"s schools next week to see how children there have become the best in the world at maths, to get a first-hand look at maths classes and teaching methods there, and particularly to investigate why the performance of almost all children in Shanghai is high, regardless of gender or income.
Britain was last year placed 50th out of 148 countries and regions in the World Economic Forum"s competitiveness ranking in quality of maths and science education. Two years ago, Shanghai topped the 2012 international PISA tables for maths, while England was ranked in 26th place. The top five were all in Southeast Asia, with 15-year-olds in Shanghai judged to be three years ahead of their peers in maths.
The education department said: "England"s performance in maths has lagged behind while other countries have improved and overtaken us, including Poland and Germany." Actually, it is the latest step in the government"s drive to raise standards in maths, looking at what has made schools in the far East the most successful in the world in teaching the subject.
"Shanghai is the top-performing part of the world for maths—their children are streets ahead. Shanghai and Singapore have teaching practices and a positive mind that make the difference. They have a belief that diligence makes up for lack of ability," Truss said. "Our new curriculum has borrowed from theirs because we know it works—early learning of key arithmetic, and a focus on times tables and long division(长除法), for instance."
She was determined to change the situation as performance in maths is weakening the country"s skills base and threatening the productivity and growth. The government is emphasizing maths because of the importance of good grades in the subject to young people competing for good jobs in a global labor market and to the economy more generally.
An education and skills survey released by the Confederation of British Industry last year showed that 30 percent of employers reported dissatisfaction with the standard of school and college leavers" numeracy. More than two-thirds of employers said they wanted both maths and science promoted more in schools.
小题1:Why does the British government send a delegation of experts to Shanghai?
A.To see how children from rich families have become the best at maths.
B.To investigate why the performance of almost all children in China is high.
C.To get a first-hand look at science classes and teaching methods there.
D.To raise the teaching standards in maths in Britain.
小题2:Which of the following statements is true according to the two international competition results?
A.British students performed better in 2013 than in 2012.
B.British students did better than the students from Poland in 2013.
C.The students from Singapore did better than the students from Germany.
D.The students from Germany did better than the students from Poland.
小题3:What has made schools in Shanghai the most successful in teaching maths in the eye of Truss?
A.Curriculum and teaching methods.
B.Teaching practices and a positive mind.
C.Early learning of key arithmetic and times tables.
D.A focus on times tables and long division.
小题4:How will students’ poor performance in maths affect the country eventually?
A.By threatening the country"s competitiveness of economy.
B.By weakening the country"s political system.
C.By losing international competitions in education.
D.By failing to find jobs in a global labor market.
小题5:What can we infer from the news?
A.The students in Britain don’t work hard at Maths.
B.The students in shanghai are the smartest in the world.
C.The education of science in Britain is no better than that of maths.
D.Most British citizens are dissatisfied with teachers’ work.

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The kindly “Chinese Fortune Grandpa” wearing Han Chinese clothing and holding a fortune bag debuted(亮相) at the Imperial Ancestral Shrine in Beijing on the day after Christmas. The final image of the Chinese gift-giver was selected through a global design competition that cost millions of yuan. Its debut seems to be a sign of competition against “Santa Claus”, according to a report by Guangming Daily.

Many Chinese cities have been filled with Christmas neon lights, Christmas songs, Christmas trees, and the images of “Santa Claus” in recent days. As a matter of fact, foreign festivals are becoming more popular than certain traditional Chinese festivals among the Chinese people, particularly the youth. “Certain traditional festivals have died out because people have forgotten their spiritual meanings,” said noted writer Feng Jicai. More and more Chinese people are beginning to exchange gifts on Valentine’s Day and Christmas. However, many of them know nothing about Chinese New Year pictures or sugarcoated figurines(小糖人), and have never heard suona music. Certain folk customs on the Dragon Boat Festival, Tomb Sweeping Day, and other traditional festivals have gradually disappeared. Under such circumstances, even the “Chinese Fortune Grandpa” is unlikely to defeat “Santa Claus”.
However, it is not a bad thing to some extent. It constantly reminds people to restore the “true face” of traditional festivals. China has listed traditional Tomb Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival as legal holidays, which brings more paid leaves to the public, and helps to awaken the public awareness of traditional festivals.
In modern society, festival is a carrier of culture and its meaning largely depends on their understandings and usages by people. Compared with foreign festivals, traditional Chinese festivals are not inferior(次于) in cultural meanings, but lack of fashion sought by modern people. If people do not appreciate the historical culture contained by traditional festivals, and only take pleasure-seeking as the most important, the significance of traditional festivals will fade away and the inheritance(继承) of fine traditional culture will be cut off.
小题1:The second paragraph implies that______________.
A.traditional festivals should co-exist with foreign festivals
B.all the Chinese festivals are disappearing in the near future
C.western festivals are constantly impacting on our festivals
D.Chinese people have the public awareness of traditional festivals
小题2:We can learn from the passage that _________.
A.an image design by Chinese people will be displayed
B.many foreigners know nothing about Chinese Festivals
C.the Chinese gift-giver was intended to symbolize traditional culture
D.the Chinese are beginning to exchange gifts on the Mid-Autumn Festival
小题3:Many Chinese youth dislike traditional festivals because they think _________.
A.traditional festivals are out of fashion now
B.the historical culture is more difficult to understand
C.western festivals contain more cultural meanings
D.the inheritance will cut off their contact with western festivals
小题4:What would be the best title of the passage?
A.Gone are Chinese Traditional Festivals
B.True Face of Chinese Traditional Culture
C.Foreign Festivals Popular with Chinese
D.Chinese Fortune Grandpa VS. Santa Claus

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This year the selfie earned its place as the Oxford English Dictionary’s 2013 Word Of The Year. It has taken over our culture --- and our smartphones. The rise of the selfie has become universal–between presidents, celebrities(名人) and citizens alike–and the trend is only continuing to grow.

A recent survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 54 percent of Internet users have posted original photos online. And of those hundreds of millions of photos, many are of selfie photos.
For example, currently there are nearly 62 million posted selfie photos on Instagram, the social media tool that has significantly contributed to the personal photo’s popularity. That figure, which continues to rise every day, doesn’t even begin to include the selfies shared on Facebook and Twitter.
What makes the selfie so attractive -- and why do we feel it a must to take one? According to Dr. Pamela Rutledge, psychologist and director of the Media Psychology Research Center, the desire to take, post and get “likes” on selfies goes back to a biological behavior of all humans.
“I think it influences our sense of social connection in the same way as it does when you go to a party and people say ‘Oh I love your dress,’” Rutledge told The Huffington Post. “Biological, social recognition is a real need and there is even an area of the brain that contributes to social activity.”
There is a way to adapt to the growing selfie culture. Whether you’re a selfie novice or an advanced poster, there are always things to be mindful of when you’re posting, Rutledge advises.
She offered two main principles to follow when it comes to posting on social media:
1. The Grandmother Rule
“Don’t post anything online, whether text or visual, that you don’t want grandmother or future employer to see,” Rutledge said. “Selfies especially.”
2. The Elevator Rule
“You wouldn’t say something in an elevator that you or no one else wants to hear -- the whole world of social media is an elevator,” Rutledge said. “Be aware of the breadth (宽度) of platform. It’s easy to think you’re sharing a photo with a few people, but Instagram is public and people can come across things.”
小题1:What’s the main idea of the first paragraph?
A.The selfie is taking the lead.
B.Many people are fond of smartphones.
C.The selfie will take over everything.
D.The selfie is an important new word.
小题2: According to the passage, people like “selfie” so much, because they ___________.
A.want to show off their new dresses
B.need to be acknowledged in social life
C.desire to share good things
D.mean to amuse the public
小题3: The underlined word “novice” in Paragraph 6 probably means “________”.
A.greenhandB.publisher C.novelistD.celebrity
小题4:When it comes to posting on social media, Rutledge advises people to ______.
A.share photos only on Instagram
B.talk about your photos in an elevator
C.be cautious in posting things online
D.follow rules set by your grandmothers

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A Smashing tradition: MIT Students Drop Piano
One of the highlights of the school year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology only lasts a few seconds but has a big influence. Residents of an MIT dormitory dropped an upright piano from their roof on 26th April to celebrate the last day students can drop classes without having them appear on their college report.
About 200 onlookers watched as the piano crashed into a second piano, a baby grand, positioned on the ground six stories below for a better smash. People scrambled (争先恐后) for souvenir pieces-keys, hammers, strings and splinters. The tradition began in 1972 at the Baker House dormitory and has been observed irregularly until 2006 when it became an annual event.
Crafton Family Comes Back Home after 7 Years at Sea
While most of us will love to go on a vacation for a week or two on a small private sailboat, without doubt, spending seven precious years on sea is something most of us will never imagine or dare to do. However, that is what an American family has done. Tom Crafton and Kathy Crafton along with their three children have traveled across the world on their 43-foot sailboat named Nueva Vida. Over the past seven years the family had sailed 30,000 miles and visited more than 20 different countries. The family has recently come back to their homeland.
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Living in the limelight(聚光灯)can be difficult but as these splendid pictures show for one bear the tourist train never stops. This arctic animal loves nothing more than an audience and will even climb out of his snowy bed to give the crowd a wave. The funny poses(姿态) of the friendly polar bear were caught on camera by Swedish photographer, Hams Strand.
小题1:Which of the following is true about the first incident?
A.The typical style of celebration has been kept alive every year since1972.
B.Another small piano on the ground is meant to hold the falling one.
C.The students dropped the piano in celebration of their graduation.
D.The tradition became an annual event for MIT students several years ago.
小题2:The writer thinks Crafton family’s seven-year sailing is ______.
A.unusualB.strangeC.commonD.doubtful
小题3:What would be the best subtitle for the third incident?
A.The Limelight Makes Polar Bear Live Hard
B.Splendid Pictures of Polar Bear Attract Tourists
C.The Tourist Train Would Stop without Polar Bear
D.Polar Bear Says Hello to Tourists with a Friendly Wave
小题4:The passage is probably taken out of ______.
A.a novelB.a magazineC.a diaryD.a report

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Tiangong -- 1(or.Heavenly Palace)space module(舱)is the first step toward China’s plan to build a space station around 2020.Its launch(发射)by China has upset some countries,which are asking why China did not add on to the International Space Station that has been in place since 1998. After all, the Americans,Russians,Europeans and Japanese are using one platform to experiment in space.
Questions have also been asked about China’s final purpose in space and suggestions made that there is something as unpleasant as the theme in a James Bond movie,in which Chinese-looking enemies were at the root of some evil(邪恶的)plot to control the world.
Chinese don’t see themselves that way, and never in history have they been flag-planting settlers.Most Westerners are educated in the adventures of the great European explorers,headed by Christopher Columbus and James Cook,and followed closely by the groups of culture egotists(自大者)with a mix of guns,gold and the Bible in their hands.
In comparison,Zheng He,the great Chinese sailing master,took groups of ships to Africa and the Middle East to promote goodwill, with gifts of chinaware and art.No flags claiming(宣称) possession of distant areas.But this is strange to Western society.
In this century,it is clear that space cannot be claimed by one nation.Yet advantage of technology in space does seem to be on some minds.Former US president Ronald Reagan caused shocks and worries with his Star Wars program.So when China shot down its own satellite as a test in January 2010 there were anxieties in the West about Star Wars 1ike scenario(剧本)becoming reality in the near future.
小题1:The launch of Tiangong -- 1 __________.
A.is appreciated by countries like the USA and Japan
B.will bring trouble to the western countries in space
C.is part of China’s plan to set up a station in space
D.will help China be a member of the Space Station
小题2:It is most probable that the US,Russia,Europe and Japan ______­­­­__.
A.are competing against one another in space wars
B.feel anxious about China’s setting up a space station
C.are cooperating to compete against China in space
D.have warned the world of China’s final purpose
小题3:The author of the passage mentions Zheng He _________.
A.to tell people China’s will never be enemies of world peace
B.to compare him to the great European explorers like Columbus
C.to indicate that he is the pride of the Chinese people
D.to show that the Chinese people are as great as other peoples
小题4:From the last paragraph,we can infer that _________.
A.China’s shooting down its satellite made the scenario become reality
B.some countries are trying to be ahead of the others in space exploration
C.China will be in control of the world if she starts space exploration
D.if a nation has a better technology in space,it will start a star war

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