| ▲ Hong Kong"s pop star Kelly Chan will hold a concert in Hong Kong this month. She has been working on it for two years. She will dance with a group of 40 dancers. Chan is going to wear a dress with quite a number of diamonds on it. ▲ Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, 17, won the Japan Open on Saturday. She beat America"s Mashona Washington. It was her second win in a week. She also did well in South Korea. ▲ More than nine million American children have health problem because they are too fat. An American medical group announced this last week. The group said children should have less fast food and fewer soft drinks and that schools should have more sports for all students, not just the best athletes. |
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| It was graduation day at Etihad Training Academy, where the national airline of the United Arab Emirates holds a seven-week training course for new flight attendants. Despite her obvious pride, Ms. Fathi, a 22-year-old from Egypt, was amazed to find herself here. "I never in my life thought I"d work abroad," said Ms. Fathi, who was a university student in Cairo when she began noticing newspaper advertisements employing young Egyptians to work at airlines based in the Persian Gulf. A decade ago, unmarried Arab women like Ms. Fathi, working outside their home countries, were rare. But just as young men from poor Arab nations poured into the oil-rich Persian Gulf states for jobs, more young women are doing so. Flight attendants have become the public face of the new mobility for some young Arab women, just as they were the face of new freedoms for women in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. They have become a subject of social anxiety and fascination in much the same way. For many families, allowing a daughter to work may call her virtue into question. Yet this culture is changing, said Musa Shteiwi, a sociologist at Jordan University in Amman. "We"re noticing more and more single women going to the gulf these days," he said. "It"s still not exactly common, but over the last four or five years it"s become quite an observable phenomenon." Many of the young Arab women working in the Persian Gulf take delight in their status as pioneers, role models for their friends and younger female relatives. Young women brought up in a culture that highly values community, have learned to see themselves as individuals. The experience of living independently and working hard for high salaries has forever changed their beliefs about themselves, though it can also lead to a painful sense of separation from their home countries and their families. -From New York Times (December 22, 2009) |
| 1. It can be inferred from the passage that young Arab women _____. |
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| A. go to work abroad after American women"s example B. didn"t start to work abroad until the late 20th century C. are commonly used to living and working separately D. expect to take the same family responsibilities as men |
| 2. According to the passage, the Arab women flight attendants can be described as _____. |
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| A. proud, homesick or independent B. honest, outstanding or optimistic C. mature, enthusiastic or energetic D. painful, desperate or conservative |
| 3. How do the public respond to young Arab women"s new mobility? |
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| A. The public think highly of it. B. The public care very little about it. C. The public show both interest and anxiety. D. The public are strongly against it. |
| 4. The author intends to tell the readers that _____. |
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| A. Arab women can hardly find any work B. flight attendants are badly needed in the gulf C. flight attendants lead quite a different life D. young Arab women"s values are changing |
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| BEIJING, China (CNN)-Chinese workers and army soldiers were racing to sweep snow-covered highways and railway routes for millions of travelers trapped by cold weather. More than 67 million people have been affected by the weather and economic losses are expected to reach as much as $3 billion, Chinese officials say. In the past week, the snowstorms have hit the provinces in central, eastern and southern China-places that used to have mild winters. "We"ve never seen such a cold weather lasting for such a long time," said Tang Shan, a man in his 70s Changsha, Hunan Province. "The last time we had one here was over 50 years ago, and not this bad." The snow has blocked roads, railways and airports, leaving tens of millions of travelers stranded (滞留), officials say. Many of them are going home ahead of the traditional Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival. The Lunar New Year travel is China"s busiest travel period of the year.But the snow is changing travel plans. Railway and highway routes have been brought to a pause,a situation in which all activity or movement has stopped and several regional airports have been closed. In the southern city of Guangzhou, as many as 500,000 train passengers were stranded in the past few days when a power failure in neighboring Hunan seriously damaged the regular train services, local officials said. About 100,000 passengers crowded the square in front of the train station, while others found shelter in schools and other public buildings while waiting for their trains. More terrible weather is expected. China"s weather office on Monday issued a warning of more severe (恶 劣的) snowstorms in the coming days. If so, the number of stranded travelers will surely increase. |
| 1. What would be the best title for the passage? |
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| A. Travelers in China B. Snowstorms Cause Economic Losses C. Dealing with Terrible Weather D. Snowstorms Hit Parts of China |
| 2. The word "trapped" underlined in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by "_____". |
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| A. beaten B. disturbed C. blocked D. destroyed |
| 3. We can know from the passage that . |
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| A. the coming snowstorms will leave more people stranded B. there will be more snowstorms next year C. snowstorms usually cause a power failure D. more people are going home for Lunar New Year this year |
| 4. The passage is probably taken from a _____. |
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| A. guidebook B. news report C. science magazine D. textbook |
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| Now, it"s time for some brief news items. Teens Go Online Some 13 million European children under 18 use the Internet for schoolwork, games and music according to a research done by Nielsen"s "Net-rating". The study covered Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Experts advised parents to limit the time their kids spend on line and keep them away from chat rooms. Chat to the Magic Mum British author J. K. Rowling, mother of the magic boy Harry Potter, will do an Internet interview about her new book Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on June 26. Before the event,children are invited to send their questions about Harry Potter to the website. The book will hit stores in the US and UK on June 21and will arrive in China in August. School Soldiers Russian school students will have to do basic military training in their final year of school, the government has decided. The lesson will include learning to fire guns, marching drills and how to deal with a chemical, nuclear or biological attack. The activity is seen as part of a drive toward the education of their love for their country. Orlando, _____ Is it hard for you to get up early and get ready for classes? Some students at Winter Park High School just roll out of bed in their pajamas (睡衣) and go to class in their own bedrooms. Of course, their teachers and classmates do not see them because all their classwork is on the computer. The Florida High School The state"s only online school has 250 students who are taking classes at home by computer. Students in this first online program take classes in algebra, American government,chemistry, computer, economics, and web page design. They also have to go to regular school to attend other classes. |
| 1. In the first news item,which country is NOT covered in the research? |
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| A. Britain. B. France. C. Sweden. D. Spain. |
| 2. Why will Russian school students have basic military training? |
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| A. To get ready for a military parade. B. To learn to protect themselves. C. To gain some military knowledge. D. To develop their love for the country. |
| 3. The news from Orlando can be given a title "_____". |
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| A. Get Up Late B. Online School C. Magical Computers D. No Teachers |
| 4. About the Florida High School, which of these statements is true? |
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| A. Some of the students have to attend classes at home instead of" in the school. B. There are altogether 250 students who take classes in the classrooms. C. As the state"s only online school, it has 250 students who take classes by computer. D. Students can"t take classes in algebra, American government, chemistry computer and so on. |
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| EDGEWOOD-Every morning at Dixie Heights High School, customers pour into a special experiment: the district"s first coffee shop run mostly by students with special learning needs. Well before classes start, students and teachers order Lattes, Cappuccinos and Hot Chocolates. Then, during the first period, teachers call in orders on their room phones, and students make deliveries. By closing time at 9.20 a.m., the shop usually sells 90 drinks. "Whoever made the chi tea, Ms. Schatzman says it was good," Christy McKinley, a second year student, announced recently, after hanging up with the teacher. The shop is called the Dixie PIT, which stands for Power in Transition. Although some of the students are not disabled, many are, and the PIT helps them prepare for life after high school. They learn not only how to run a coffee shop but also how to deal with their affairs. They keep a timecard and receive paychecks, which they keep in check registers. Special-education teachers Kim Chevalier and Sue Casey introduced the Dixie PIT from a similar program at Kennesaw Mountain High School in Georgia. Not that it was easy. Chevalier"s first problem to overcome was product-related. Should schools be selling coffee? What about sugar content? Kenton County Food Service Director Ginger Gray helped. She made sure all the drinks, which use non-fat milk, fell within nutrition (营养) guidelines. The whole school has joined in to help. Teachers agreed to give up their lounge (休息室) in the mornings. Art students painted the name of the shop on the wall. Business students designed the paychecks. The basketball team helped pay for cups. |
| 1. What is the text mainly about? |
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| A. A best-selling coffee. B. A special educational program. C. Government support for schools. D. A new type of teacher-student relationship. |
| 2. The Dixie PIT program was introduced in order to _____. |
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| A. raise money for school affairs B. do some research on nutrition C. develop students" practical skills D. supply teachers with drinks |
| 3. How did Christy McKinley know Ms. Schatzman"s opinion of the chi tea? |
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| A. She met her in the shop. B. She heard her telling others. C. She talked to her on the phone. D. She went to her office to deliver the tea. |
| 4. We know from the text that Ginger Gray _____. |
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| A. manages the Dixie P1T program in Kenton County B. sees that the drinks meet health standards C. teaches at Dixie Heights High School D. owns the school"s coffee shop |