阅读理解。 The elephant was lying heavily on its side,fast asleep. A few dogs sta
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woke up in a terrible anger: it chased the dogs into the village where they ran for safety. That didn"t stop
the elephant. It destroyed a dozen houses and injured several people. The villagers were scared and
angry. Then someone suggested calling Parbati,the elephant princess.
Parbati Barua"s father was a hunter of tigers and an elephant tamer. He taught Parbati to ride an
elephant before she could even walk. He also taught her the dangerous art of the elephant roundup-how
to catch wild elephants.
Parbati hasn"t always lived in the jungle. After a happy childhood hunting with her father,she was sent
to a boarding school in the city. But Parbati never got used to being there and many years later she went
back to her old life. "Life in the city is too dull. Catching elephants is an adventure and the excitement lasts
for days after the chase,"she says.
But Parbati doesn"t catch elephants just for fun."My work," she says,"is to rescue man from the
elephants,and to keep the elephants safe from man." And this is exactly what Parbati has been doing for
many years. Increasingly,the Indian elephant is angry: for many years,illegal hunters have attacked it and
its home in the jungle has been reduced to small pieces of land. It is now fighting back. Whenever wild
elephants enter a tea garden or a village,Parbati is called to guide the animals back to the jungle before
they can kill.
The work of an elephant tamer also involves love and devotion. A good elephant tamer will spend
hours a day singing love songs to a newly captured elephant."Eventually they grow to love their tamers
and never forget them. They are also more loyal than humans,"she said,as she climbed up one of her
elephants and sat on the giant,happy animal. An elephant princess indeed!
B．keep both man and elephants safe
C．send them back to the jungle
D．make the angry elephants tame
B．she learned how to sing love songs
C．she had already been called an elephant princess
D．she was taught how to hunt tigers
B．illegal hunters capture them and kill them
C．they are attacked and their land gets limited
D．dogs often bark at them and chase them
B．the manelephant relationship is getting worse
C．elephant tamers are in short supply
D．dogs are as powerful as elephants
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paid parking at public hospitals.
Visitors had been paying up to $5 a day to park at Canberra and Calvary hospitals under the scheme
introduced in September, 2010.
Health Minister Katy Gallagher announced yesterday visitors would no longer pay these fees because
the idea had proved unworkable and unpopular.
The Government would also spend $29 million over two years to build a multistorey car park with 1,
400 spaces at Canberra Hospital. But she could not rule out that visitors would be charged to park in the
new structure.
Ms Gallagher said the Government had listened to the public concerns. "It is clear that, in spite of a
generous policy, many visitors to the hospitals don"t support the present system," she said.
The public would have access to twohour and threehour parking spaces from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm
weekdays.
Opposition spokesman on urban services Steve Pratt congratulated the Government for "adopting"
Liberal policy to put an end to paid parking.
"Finally, the Stanhope Government has been forced to reduce the unfair burden that they put on ACT
residents," Mr Pratt said, "Why was it so necessary to put so many ACT residents particularly those who have to visit loved ones frequently or could hardly afford it through so much inconvenience and for so long before finally coming to their sense?"
Mr McGowan said the Government must come up with other ways to deal with problems such as
people parking at the hospital to avoid fees in Woden and Belconnen.
parking there.
A．unable
B．likely
C．free
D．sure
B．new things are hard to become popular
C．the Government accepts public views
D．people park far away from the hospitals
B．freely provided
C．badly influenced
D．slowly developed
B．the problem with hospital parking should also be solved in other places
C．the paid parking policy has not been supported by most hospital visitors
D．the Government"s latest decision is supposed to be still further improved
In the New York Knicks" 92-85 won over the Los Angles Lakers last Saturday, Lin had a
career-high 38 points．A day later, he led the Knicks to their fifth victory, 100-98 to Minnesota
Timberwolves．In his previous games, Lin, 23, had 23 points against the Washington, 25 points
against New Jersey and 28 against Utah in his first start．
Lin is smart．Before graduating from high school in California, he had sent his application to
all the Ivy League Schools (常青藤联盟)．He only got into Harvard and Brown, and he chose
Harvard．In 2010, Lin graduated with a degree in economics．
Lin is the first Chinese-American player in the NBA．He was born in the US and his family is
Asian．Although not born in China, Lin has attracted nearly all Yao Ming"s old fans, who see him
as a powerful role model．
He started off on the Golden State Warriors．Lin first signed with the Warriors in July, 2010,
but seldom played in games before the start of the fourth quarter．His first time on the court for the
Warriors earned him seven points, three rebounds (篮板球) and two assists in just 11 minutes．
He is really perfect for the Knicks．The New York Knicks has been in need of a reliable point
guard and to Mike D"Antoni, the Knicks coach who"s going through a difficult season, Lin is a most
unexpected figure．"Lin just does everything easy and the rest of the guys around him are playing the
way we want to," D"Antoni said．"I think it"s for real, and it can only get better．"
B．The Golden State Warriors．
C．Minnesota Timberwolves．
D．The Los Angles Lakers．
B．Lin is an American-Chinese basketball player
C．most of Yao Ming"s fans take Lin as a great role model
D．after graduation from Harvard, Lin signed with the Knicks
B．the Knicks" success only depends on Lin
C．the Knicks"coach puts strong hopes on Lin
D．the Knicks is sure to win the season this year
B．to express his love for Jeremy Lin
C．to report the progress of the Knicks
D．to introduce a newest rising NBA star
you knew? If so, you were suffering from what is known as test anxiety.
According to psychologist Ralph Trimble, test anxiety is a very real problem for many people.
When you"re worried over your performance on an exam, your heart beats faster and your pulse
speeds up. These reactions start others: You may sweat more than normal or suffer from a stomachache
or headache. Your field of vision narrows and becomes tunnel-like. Before you know it, you"re having
difficulty focusing.
"What I hear students say over and over again," says Dr. Trimble, who is working at the
Psychological and Counseling Center at the University of Illinois, "is, "My mind went blank.""
For a number of years, Dr. Trimble helped many students learn how to perform better during exams
and to bring up their grades. Some of these students were interested in sharing what they learned and,
with Trimble"s help, began holding workshops on overcoming test anxiety. For many students, just
being in a workshop(讨论会,实验班) with other sufferers made them feel better. They realized that
they were not the only ones who had done poorly on tests because of tension.
The workshops were so successful that they are still given.
In the workshops, students are taught that anxiety is normal. You just have to prevent it from getting
the best of you. The first step is to learn to relax. If before or during an examination you start to panic,
stretch as hard as you can, tensing the muscles in your arms and legs; then suddenly relax all of them.
This will help relieve tension. But keep in mind that you don"t want to be too relaxed. Being
completely relaxed is no better than being too tense. "If you are so calm you don"t care how you
do on an examination, you won"t do well," Trimble says. "There is an optimum level of concern when
you perform at your best. Some stress helps. There are people who can"t take even slight stress. They
have to learn that in a challenging situation, being anxiously excited is good and will help them to do
better. But if they call it anxiety and say, "It"s going to hit me again," that will make them nervous and
worried."
As a student you must also realize that if you leave too much studying until a day or two before the
examination, you can"t do the impossible and learn it all. Instead, concentrate on what you can do and
try to think what questions are likely to be asked and what you can do in the time left for studying.
When you sit down to study, set a moderate pace and vary it by reading, writing notes, and going
over any papers you have already written for the course, as well as the textbooks and notes you took
in class. Review what you know. Take breaks and go to sleep early enough to get a good night"s rest
before the exam. You should also eat a moderate breakfast or lunch, avoid drinks like coffee and stay
away from fellow students who get tense. Panic spreads easily.
Get to the exam room a few minutes early so that you will have a chance to familiarize yourself with
the surroundings and get out your supplies. When the examination is handed out, read the directions
twice and underline the significant instructions, making sure you understand them. Ask the teacher to
explain if you don"t. First answer the easiest questions, then go back to the more difficult.
On essay questions, instead of starting right away, take a few minutes to organize your thoughts,
make a brief outline, and then start off with a summary sentence. Keep working steadily, and even
when time starts to run out, don"t speed up.
B. can lead to physical discomfort
C. can have a negative effect on a person"s eyesight
D. often affects those who are physically weak
B. they had difficulty focusing on the test items
C. they could not think of a way to get rid of text anxiety
D. they began panicking well ahead of a test
B. that test anxiety is normal and would go away in time
C. certain mental exercises that would help them relax
D. how to concentrate on what they could do
B. can also be harmful to a person"s performance in the test
C. helps a student to cope with a challenging situation better
D. may be more harmful that getting too worried over tests
B. you should not think that you will be affected by your fellow student"s anxiety
C. you should get together with other sufferers of test anxiety in order to feel better
D. you should eat a big meal and drink some coffee to keep yourself in high spirits
US President Barack Obama has just made life more difficult for cigarette makers. He has just signed
a law that will set tough new rules for the tobacco industry. The new law gives the US Food and Drug
Administration the power to strictly limit the making and marketing of tobacco products.
At a White House signing ceremony Monday, Obama said that he was among the nearly 90% of
smokers who took up the habit before their 18 th birthday.
Obama, who has publicly struggled to give up smoking, said he still hadn"t completely kicked the habit.
Every now and then he still smokes in secret.
"As a former smoker I struggle with it all the time. Do I still smoke sometimes? Yes. Am I a daily
smoker, a constant smoker? No." Obama said at a news conference.
"I don" t do it in front of my lads．I don ?t do it in front of my family．I would say that I am 95%
cured, but there are times when I mess up, " he said．
"Once you go down this path, it" s something you continually struggle with, which is exactly why the law
is so important．The new law is not about me, it" s about the next generation of kids coming up．What
we don " t want is kids going down that path," he said．
Nearly 20% of Americans smoke and tobacco use kills about 440,000 people a year in the United
States due to cancer, heart disease, and other serious diseases．
B．tobacco industry
C．White House
D．US Food and Drug Administratio
B．He still smokes as usual．
C．He began to smoke at eighteen．
D．He is trying hard to give up smoking．
B．officials
C．his family
D．businessmen
by nearly 17 million
people. That can cause no end of confusion when Mas get together, especially if those Mas also share the same given name, as many Chinese do.Ma Cheng’s book-loving grandfather came up with an elegant solution to this common problem.
Twenty-six years ago, when his granddaughter was born, he consulted his library of Chinese dictionaries
and lighted upon a character pronounced “cheng”. Cheng looks just like the character for horse, except
that it is condensed (压缩) and written three times in a row.
The character is so rare that once people see it, Miss Ma said, they tend to remember both her and her name. That is one reason she likes it so much.
Chinese parents’ desire to give their children a spark of individuality (个性) is colliding (冲突) with the Chinese government’s desire for order. Seeking to modernize its vast database on China’s 1.3 billion
citizens, the government’s Public Security Bureau has been replacing the handwritten identity card that
every Chinese must carry with a computer-readable one, complete with color photos and microchips. The new cards are harder to forge (伪造) and can be scanned at places like airports where security is a
priority.
The bureau’s computers, however, are programmed to read
only 32,252 of the roughly 55,000 Chinese characters according to a 2006 government report. The result is that Miss Ma and at least some
of the 60 million other Chinese with obscure characters in their names cannot get new cards - unless they
change their names to something more common.
Moreover, the situation is about to get worse or, in the government’s view, better. Since at least 2003, China has been working on a standardized list of characters for people to use in everyday life, including
when naming children. The list will aim to control the use of obscure names.
1. Which of the following can describe the function of Paragraph 1?
A. Lead-in.
B. Main idea.
C. Summary.
D. Argument.
2. This passage is somewhat like a(n) ________.
A. advertisement
B. official document
C. special report
D. study plan
3. What can we know about Ma Cheng according to the passage?
A. She has got her new ID card.
B. She was named after her grandfather.
C. She is 26 years old now.
D. She wants to change her name.
4. The underlined word “obscure” in the fifth paragraph is closest in meaning to "________".
A. common
B. poor
C. puzzling
D. meaningless
5. What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?
A. China’s Public Security Bureau’s computers can read 55,000 Chinese characters.
B. The usage of Chinese characters would be more and more standard.
C. Standardized list of Chinese characters has been given out to the public.
D. Those who have stra
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