"This past year has been one of great celebration for many. The enthusiasm which
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"This past year has been one of great celebration for many. The enthusiasm which greeted the Diamond Jubilee was, of course, especially memorable for me and my family.
It was humbling that so many chose to mark the anniversary of a duty which passed to me 60 years ago. People of all ages took the trouble to take part in various ways and in many nations. But perhaps most striking of all was to witness the strength of fellowship and friendship among those who had gathered together on these occasions.
On the barges and the bridges and the banks of the river there were people who had taken their places to cheer through the mist, undaunted by the rain. That day there was a tremendous sense of common determination to celebrate, triumphing(战胜) over the elements.
That same spirit was also in evidence from the moment the Olympic flame arrived on these shores. The flame itself drew hundreds and thousands of people on its journey around the British Isles, and was carried by every kind of deserving individual, many nominated for their own extraordinary service.
As London hosted a splendid summer of sport, all those who saw the achievement and courage at the Olympic and Paralympic Games were further inspired by the skill, dedication, training and teamwork of our athletes. In pursuing their own sporting goals, they gave the rest of us the opportunity to share something of the excitement and drama.
We were reminded, too, that the success of these great festivals depended to an enormous degree upon the dedication and effort of an army of volunteers. Those public-spirited people came forward in the great tradition of all those who devote themselves to keeping others safe, supported and comforted.
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. Those serving in our armed forces, in our emergency services and in our hospitals, whose sense of duty takes them away from family and friends, will be missing those they love.
At Christmas I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship(崇拜) the Christ child. From that day on he has inspired people to commit themselves to the best interests of others.
This is the time of year when we remember that God sent his only son "to serve, not to be served". He restored love and service to the centre of our lives in the person of Jesus Christ.
It is my prayer this Christmas Day that his example and teaching will continue to bring people together to give the best of themselves in the service of others.
I wish you all a very happy Christmas. "
小题1:Who most probably is the maker of this speech?| A．Queen of Great Britain. | B．King of Great Britain. | | C．Prime Minister of Great Britain. | D．Mayor of London. |
小题2: What might be the main purpose of this speech?| A．To make a summary of what has been done in the past years. | | B．To offer congratulations on the arrival of Christmas. | | C．To hold an anniversary celebration of an event. | | D．To express respect for and loyalty to God. |
小题3:Which of the following is NOT mentioned by the speaker?| A．Enthusiasm and Friendship. | | B．Dedication and effort. | | C．Sacrifice and service. | | D．Civilization and peace. |
小题4:Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?| A．The speaker was too busy to attend the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games. | | B．Volunteers played a key role in the success of the Diamond Jubilee. | | C．The speaker showed great respect for those still at work at Christmas. | | D．The strength of the Christmas story lies in the worship of Jesus Christ. |
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答案
小题1:A
小题２:B
小题３:D
小题４:C |
解析
试题分析：在圣诞来临之际，英国女王伊丽莎白二世于25日发表传统圣诞致词，今年的圣诞演讲首次以3D形式录制和在电视台上播放。女王在演讲中高度赞扬伦敦奥运会和残奥会志愿者们的无私奉献。
小题1:推理题：从文章第二段的句子：It was humbling that so many chose to mark the anniversary of a duty which passed to me 60 years ago. 可知这个做演讲的人是６０年前做这个职位的，推断出是英国女王，选A
小题２:推理题：从文章最后一段的句子：I wish you all a very happy Christmas. "可知英国女王伊丽莎白二世于25日在圣诞来临之际发表传统圣诞致词，选B
小题３:细节题：第一段的The enthusiasm which greeted the Diamond Jubilee was, of course, especially memorable for me and my family.和第二段的witness the strength of fellowship and friendship可知提到Ａ项，从第六段的句子：We were reminded, too, that the success of these great festivals depended to an enormous degree upon the dedication and effort of an army of volunteers.可知Ｂ提到了，第七段的句子：But for others, service will come first. Those serving in our armed forces, in our emergency services and in our hospitals, whose sense of duty takes them away from family and friends, will be missing those they love.可知Ｃ是提到了，文章没有提到Ｄ项。
小题４:推理题：从第六段和第七段的内容，可知演讲者高度赞扬在圣诞节还工作的人，选C |
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With his game-winning three-pointer at the buzzer, Jeremy Lin (林书豪) finished the New York Knicks" dramatic reversed(扭转) victory to defeat the Toronto Rapters.
The Knicks have won six games in a row, and Jeremy Lin has put up impressive numbers during the continuous period of competitions. Although the season is still young, the Knicks have reversed course in just one week from the NBA"s most disappointing team to a playoff (季后赛) contestant. Lin, not team"s high-paid stars, has saved the Knicks season and likely coach D"Antoni"s job.
After nearly 15 years of disappointing, sometimes unsuccessful seasons, Madison Square Garden is alive again, and New York City can"t stop talking about the Knicks. To put things into perspective（角度）, consider this: Just several years back, Knicks fans protested nightly outside of the Garden calling for the team"s ownership to fire their resented coach Isiah Thomas.
Now, Madison Square Garden Co. shares are at a record high, the Knicks" average household television rating is up 70 percent since Lin joined the starting lineup (首发阵容), and jersey sales are increasing very quickly. I watched the Knicks-Lakers game at a bar in Harlem, and have not felt that kind of energy from fans since the great playoff between the Knicks and Miami Heat in the late 1990s.
Beyond the Knicks, Lin may be saving the NBA as well. Just a few months back, the NBA took a massive credibility（威信）hit during a multi-month lockout（停工）, where the owners did not allow the players to go back to play until they accept the new salary levels. As a consequence, the season did not even begin until Christmas Day. Over the past few years, LeBron James" (勒布朗﹒詹姆斯) relatively long and unpleasant free-agent (自由职业球员) events, combined with poor play around the league, have angered fans and damaged the league"s brand.
Lin is leading a one-week NBA basketball revival. His legendary story has inspired Asian-Americans, increased NBA sales in China, and turned the basketball world upside down.
小题1:The passage is mainly about______ | A．why the New Yorkers thought well of Jeremy Lin | | B．why Jeremy Lin became a member of the Knicks | | C．how the Knicks defeated its opponents in a great playoff | | D．how Jeremy Lin saved the Knicks, probably including the NBA |
小题2:According to the passage, Jeremy Lin"s excellent performance saved the following except___ | A．The NBA | | B．Coach Isiah Thomas | | C．The Knicks | | D．Madison Square Garden Co.’s shares |
小题3:The underlined word “young” in Paragraph 2 probably means "______"| A．not old yet. | B．not completely grown. | | C．in the development | D．in the early stage |
小题4:The NBA suffered the credibility crisis months ago because____| A．The NBA delayed the season because of players’ wage disagreements | | B．the NBA was disappointed at James’ free-agent event. | | C．The NBA canceled the basketball match for the coming Christmas | | D．James had a bad performance in the basketball court |
小题5:Which one of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?| A．These Knicks’ stars who were paid well saved the Knicks season | | B．The Knicks didn’t satisfy its fans for nearly 15 years until this season | | C．The fans objected to dismissing Coach Isiah Thomas outside the Garden | | D．The owners and the players didn’t agree on raising the TV ratings |
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Chinese media and Internet users on Monday condemned(谴责) a lack of morals in society after a toddler(学步的小孩)was struck twice by two different vans and left bleeding on the road as more than a dozen bystanders did nothing to help the seriously injured girl.
The incident, captured by a surveillance camera and aired by Southern Television Guangdong (TVS), showed the two-year-old girl was knocked down and run over by a white van on a narrow market street on the afternoon of Oct. 13, in Foshan City of Guangdong Province.
The driver fled the scene of the accident, leaving the girl to bleed on the sidewalk. Over the next six minutes, more than a dozen people walked by the girl, yet not one individual did anything to help her. The girl was then hit a second time by another van before an elderly trash collector came to her aid and brought the attention of the girl’s mother, according to the video and eyewitnesses.
Doctors said that the girl, who was put on life support after being hospitalized, remains in a deep coma. The girl’s parents, who are migrants living in the city, are now with her. Police said the drivers of both vehicles have been arrested. However, the indifference of the bystanders shown in the video has shocked the public, as Internet forums have boiled with anger, and people are questioning the morality of society.
High moral standards were once triumphed as national pride in China where individuals known for selflessly helping others were adored by the public. But in recent years, the perception of a decline of morals has become a hot topic as profit and materialism are recognized to be affecting society’s values.
On Sept. 2. an 88-year-old man in central China collapsed, his face striking the pavement. Yet, no one came to his aid, and he ended up choking to death on the blood from his nose. Some have linked the absence of good models to a previous case in which a man trying to help an elderly woman who fell was accused of harming her.
A strong chorus of opinion on the Internet says laws should exempt（免除）models from responsibility, yet laws themselves cannot solve society’s morality dilemma.
Cao Lin, a China Youth Daily commentator, said in a signed article published on Monday that the worry of responsibility should not be an excuse for not helping, and this case exposes the decline of humanity in Chinese society.
小题1:What happened to the two-year-old girl?| A．Nobody helped her after she was struck by two different vans. | | B．She died immediately after she was hit a second time. | | C．An old trash collector saved her and attracted her mother’s attention. | | D．Journalists from TVS captured her story by using a camera. |
小题2:From the passage, what would happen if someone helped others selflessly in the past?| A．The public would feel proud of him/ her and showed love and respect for him/ her. | | B．He/she would be awarded by the government. | | C．He/she would be condemned by the public. | | D．He/she would have to worry about legal responsibility. |
小题3:In recent years, society’s values are believed to be affected by________.| A．people’s awareness | | B．the indifference of bystanders | | C．profit and materialism | | D．the morals of society |
小题4:According to Cao Lin, what is the fundamental reason for not helping the girl?| A．The worry of responsibility. | | B．Lack of laws that exempt role models from responsibility. | | C．The fear of being accused of harming her. | | D．The decline of humanity in society. |
小题5:Where is the article probably taken from?| A．A news report. | B．A fashion magazine. | | C．A science fiction. | D．An education column. |
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The iPhone, the iPad: each of Apple’s products sounds cool and has become a fad(一时的风尚). Apple has cleverly taken advantage of the power of the letter “i” –-- and many other brands are following suit. The BBC’s iPlayer --- which allows Web users to watch TV programs on the Internet ---used the title in 2008. A lovely bear --- popular in the US and UK --- that plays music and video is called “iTeddy”. A slimmed-down version(简装本) of London’s Independent newspaper was started last week under the name “i”.
In general, single-letter prefixes(前缀) have been popular since the 1990s, when terms such as e-mail and e-commerce(电子商务) first came into use.
Most “i” products are targeted at （针对）young people and considering the major readers of Independent’s“ i”, it’s no surprise that they’ve selected this fashionable name.
But it’s hard to see what’s so special about the letter “i”. Why not use “a”, “b”, or “c” instead? According to Tony Thorne, head of the Language Center at King’s College, London, “i” works because its meaning has become ambiguous. When Apple uses “i”, no one knows whether it means Internet, information, individual or interactive, Thorne told BBC Magazines. “Even when Apple created the iPod, it seems it didn’t have one clear definition（定义）,” he says.
“However, thanks to Apple, the term is now connected with portability (轻便) .”adds Thorne.
Clearly the letter “i” also agrees with the idea that the Western World is centered on the individual. Each person believes they have their own needs, and we love personalized products for this reason.
Along with “Google” and “blog”, readers of BBC Magazines voted “i” as one of the top 20 words that have come to define the last decade(十年).
But as history shows, people grow tired of fads. From the 1900s to 1990s, products with “2000” in their names became fashionable as the year was connected with all things advanced and modern. However, as we entered the new century, the fashion disappeared.
小题1:People use iPlayer to __________.| A．listen to music | B．make a call | | C．watch TV programs online | D．read newspapers |
小题2:We can infer that the Independent’s “i” is designed for _________.| A．young readers | B．old readers | C．fashionable women | D．engineers |
小题3:The underlined word “ambiguous” means “__________”.| A．popular | B．uncertain | C．clear | D．unique |
小题4: Nowadays, the “i” term often reminds people of the products which are __________.| A．portable | B．environmentally friendly | C．advanced | D．recyclable |
小题5:The writer suggests that __________.| A．“i” products are often of high quality | | B．iTeddy is alive bear | | C．the letter “b” replaces letter “i” to name the products | | D．the popularity of “i” products may not last long |
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It is found that American students spend less than 15% of their time in school. While there’s no doubt that school is important, a number of recent studies reminds us that parents are even more so. A study published earlier this month by researchers at North Carolina State University, for example, finds that parental involvement — checking homework, attending school meetings and events, discussing school activities at home — has a more powerful influence on students’ academic performance than anything about the school the students attend. Another study, published in the Review of Economics and Statistics, reports that the effort put forth by parents (reading stories aloud, meeting with teachers) has a bigger impact on their children’s educational achievement than the effort devoted by either teachers or the students themselves. And a third study concludes that schools would have to increase their spending by more than $1,000 per pupil in order to achieve the same results that are gained with parental involvement.
So parents matter. But it is also revealed in researches that parents, of all backgrounds, don’t need to buy expensive educational toys or digital devices for their kids in order to give them an advantage. They don’t need to drive their offspring (子孙，后代)to enrichment classes or test-preparation courses. What they need to do with their children is much simpler: talk.
But not just any talk. Recent research has indicated exactly what kinds of talk at home encourage children’s success at school. For example, a study conducted by researchers at the UCLA School of Public Health and published in the journal Pediatrics found that two-way adult-child conversations were six times as potent in promoting language development as the ones in which the adult did all the talking. Engaging in this reciprocal（双向的) back-and-forth gives children a chance to try out language for themselves, and also gives them the sense that their thoughts and opinions matter.
The content of parents’ conversations with kids matters, too. Children who hear talk about counting and numbers at home start school with much more extensive mathematical knowledge, report researchers from the University of Chicago. While the conversations parents have with their children change as kids grow older, the effect of these exchanges on academic achievement remains strong. Research finds that parents play an important role in what is called “academic socialization” — setting expectations and making connections between current behavior and future goals. Engaging in these sorts of conversations has a greater impact on educational accomplishment.
小题1:Parents are even more important than schools because ______.| A．parental involvement makes up for what schools are not able to do | | B．teachers and students themselves do not put in enough effort | | C．parental involvement saves money for schools and the local government | | D．students may well make greater achievements with parents" attention |
小题2:It can be inferred from the 2nd paragraph that ______.| A．educational toys are unaffordable nowadays | | B．digital devices can give children an advantage | | C．some parents believe in enrichment classes | | D．talking with children is a very simple task |
小题3:The word "potent" is closest in meaning to ______.| A．powerful | B．difficult | C．necessary | D．resistant |
小题4:Which of the following will more encourage children"s success at school according to the passage?| A．Parents order their children to stop playing video games. | | B．Parents discuss with their children the possible future career. | | C．Parents lecture their children on getting too low marks on tests. | | D．Parents introduce colleges around the US to their children. |
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Disease, poverty, hate, love-Charles Dickens" stories opened his readers" eyes to the most important themes of his age．Two hundred years on, his stories still speak volumes across the world, proving that Dickens" legacy （遗产） was far greater than just "great literature"．
February 7 marks the 200th anniversary of the writer"s birthday．To mark this date, BBC writer Alex Hudson listed six things Dickens gave the modern world．Let"s take a look at two of them．
A while Christmas
Dickens is described as "the man who invented Christmas" -not the religious festival, but the cultural aspects that we associate with the festive （喜庆的） season today．
In the early 19th century, Christmas was barely worth mentioning, according to critic and writer Leigh Hunt．The committee which ran the Conservative Party even held ordinary business meetings on Christmas Day - unthinkable in the West nowadays, when everyone, but the most necessary workers takes at least three days off．
Many people believe that Dickens" popular depictions（描绘） of the festive period became a blueprint for generations to come．In his classic novel, A Christmas Carol, he not only put forward the idea of snow at Christmas,but also painted a picture of glowing warmth-“home enjoyments, affections and hopes"．
In his biography of Dickens, Peter Ackroyd wrote, "Dickens can be said to have almost single-handedly created the modern idea of Christmas．"
"Dickensian" poverty
Dickens was one of the first to take an honest look at the underclass and the poor of Victorian （the period during British Queen Victoria"s reign from 1837 to 1901） London．
He helped popularize the term "red tape" to describe situations where people in power use needless amounts of bureaucracy （官僚作风） in a way that particularly hurts the weaker and poorer members of society．
"Dickensian" has now become a powerful word for describing an unacceptable level of poverty．In 2009, when the president of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers in the UK wanted to talk about deprivation in some areas, of Britain, she did not use words like "terrible" or "horrific", but rather described it as "life mirroring the times of Dickens"．
小题1:What is the main idea of the article?| A．Charles Dickens" impact on the world． | | B．An introduction to Charles Dickens" classic novels． | | C．Charles Dickens" amazing characters． | | D．Why Charles Dickens is popular across the world． |
小题2:Why is Dickens called "the man who invented Christmas"?| A．Because he created the religious festival. | | B．Because one of his novels helped to shape Christmas celebrations． | | C．Because many of his novels have something to do with Christmas． | | D．Because he was the first man to have proposed celebrating Christmas． |
小题3:According to the article, the phrase “red tape” refers to __.| A．rules or procedures that are required to accomplish a task | | B．a situation in which poor members of society are hurt | | C．conflict between people in power and weaker people | | D．pointlessly time-consuming official procedures |
小题4:What can we infer from the passage?| A．Dickens is still popular today in Britain． | | B．everyone takes at least three days off at Christmas． | | C．Dickens invented Christmas | | D．Dickens gave the modern world six things． |
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