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As most university students are packing their bags，boarding trains or flying home for the Spring Festival，some will stay behind to spend the holiday on campus．
Zhou Yunyun，22，a senior finance major at Jilin University，has decided that instead of traveling to Hainan province，he will kill the time by playing computer games with his online friends．
“I"m used to chatting and playing with them every day．It’s just fun to make friends this way，”he said．“When I returned home in past years，my relatives always asked me a lot of questions about my plans after graduation．They had high expectations of me，which made me feel stressed，” said Zhou．
The campus，usually lively，will probably turn into a death town，with most restaurants，shops and student centers closed during the break．But there are also a few advantages，according to Jia Debao，2 1，a junior majoring in administration at China Agricultural University．“I might feel a bit lonely，but at least I can stay away from my parents’ complaining and enjoy the peaceful and quiet stay，” he said．“More importantly，I can enjoy the high speed of the Internet，I can always find empty seats in classrooms，and I don’t have to wait to use the bathroorm” But education experts recommend students who stay on campus to come up with more interactive plans．That’s because communication on the Internet can’t replace real life interpersonal relationships．
Society has promoted a kind of“couch potato" or close-in culture among some young people, according to Shi Tongyu, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He warned that this kind of lifestyle can damage students’ mental and physical development.
“When you constantly stare at a computer screen and type on your keyboard，you gradually lose the ability to socialize and survive normally，"said Shi．“A human’s most important task is to survive，which cannot be completed by staying at home all the time． Instead，it must be achieved through real life experience and communication．”
小题1:What can we learn about Zhou Yunyun?| A．He feels very lonely on campus． | | B．He will promote close-in culture． | | C．He will spend the Spring Festival with relatives． | | D．He will spend the Spring Festival with on-line friends． |
小题2:Spending the Spring Festival on campus for Jia Debao means .| A．he will miss his parents a little bit | | B．there will be more seats in classrooms | | C．he will have a quiet and peaceful break | | D．the speed of the Internet will get faster |
小题3:The underlined phrase“couch potato” is closest in meaning to .| A．inactive person | B．close friend | | C．sociable student | D．addicted gamer |
小题4:What do education experts recommend students to do?| A．To do some traveling． | | B．To stay more with families． | | C．To find empty seats in classrooms． | | D．To experience real lire and communication． |
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答案
小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:D |
解析
试题分析：这篇短文主要介绍了现在社会上产生的一种新型的人——沙发土豆。他们挣钱坐在电脑前或者电视前，无所事事，缺少真实的生活体验，不进行人际交流。
小题1:根据短文第二段描述，可知周云云打算和他的网友在线过春节。故选D。
小题2:根据第四段“I might feel a bit lonely，but at least I can stay away from my parents’ complaining and enjoy the peaceful and quiet stay，”描述，可知对于他来说将会有一段安静祥和的休息时间。故选C。
小题3:联系上文二三段及下文He warned that this kind of lifestyle can damage students’ mental and physical development.描述，可知此处指的是，社会上产生了一种极为懒惰的人。故选A，不积极的人。
小题4:根据最后一段Instead，it must be achieved through real life experience and communication．”描述，可知专家建议学生们去体验真实的生活和人际交流。故选D。 |
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WASHINGTON(Reuters)‑People who drink two or more sweetened soft drinks a week have a much higher risk of pancreatic cancer (胰腺癌), an unusual but deadly cancer, researchers reported on Monday.
People who drank mostly fruit juice instead of sodas did not have the same risk, the study of 60,000 people in Singapore found.
“Sugar may be to blame but people who drink sweetened sodas regularly often have other poor health habits,” said Mark Pereira of the University of Minnesota, who led the study.
“The high levels of sugar in soft drinks may be increasing the level of insulin(胰岛素) in the body, which we think contributes to pancreatic cancer cell growth,” President said in a statement.
Writing in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, Pereira and his colleagues said they followed 60,524 men and women in the Singapore—Chinese Health Study for 14 years.
Over that time, 140 of the volunteers developed pancreatic cancer. Those who drank two or more sweetened soft drinks a week had an 87 percent higher risk of being among those who got pancreatic cancer.
Pereira said he believed the findings would apply elsewhere.
“Singapore is a wealthy country with excellent healthcare. Favorite pastimes(消遣) are eating and shopping, so the findings should apply to other western countries.” he said.
But Susan Mayne of the Yale Cancer Center at Yale University in Connecticut was cautious.
“Although this study found a risk, the finding was based on a relatively small number of cases and it remains unclear whether it was a causal(因果的) connection or not.” Said Mayne, who serves on thee board of the journal, which is published by the American Association for Cancer Research.
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest form of cancer, with 230,000 cases globally. In the United States, 37,680 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in a year and 34, 290 die of it.
小题1:We can infer from Pereira’s word that_________| A．the healthcare in Singapore should be greatly improved | | B．2 soft drinks a day are considered harmful to health | | C．87 out of 140 volunteers developed pancreatic cancer | | D．sugar might not be the only cause of pancreatic cancer. |
小题2:How does Susan seem to feel about the findings of the study?| A．Satisfied | B．Doubtful | C．Worried | D．Hopeful |
小题3:The best title of the text might be_______| A．The Deadliest Forms of Cancer | | B．Drink Fruit Juice Instead of Sodas | | C．A Study in University of Minnesota | | D．Sugary Soft Drinks Lead to Cancer |
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Tre’S mom，Christina Thompson, cannot believe how much her son already learned this year in his full-day, free pre-school class in Oklahoma City. “Since he’s been in school his vocabulary has increased surprisingly,” Thompson says. “The other day he came home and said, ‘You know what ，mom? You are being ridiculous，” Thompson laughs quietly. “And then he asked, ‘Do you know what ‘ridiculous’ means, mom?’” Tre knows the entire alphabet, his numbers to 100，and he’s starting to read. And letters and numbers aside, Thompson is most struck by how fast Tre is absorbing vocabulary and language.
Of course, not all pre-school is created equal. High quality pre-schools have well-trained, well-educated teachers in the classroom (much like Tre Thompson’s teacher Mrs. Wallace, who uses play-based learning to teach both academics and social skills and can rattle off (飞快说出） a battery of data on how well her students are progressing towards their year-end goals). Texas can also offer a model for educator development: its Texas School Ready! Campaign has proven to increase the quality of participating pre-schools by providing early childhood teachers with coaching, professional development, research-based curriculum (课程)，and progress monitoring. States and districts should also combine pre-school with the K-12 system, as Oklahoma does ，so that children enter kindergarten smoothly.
Oklahoma is one of the leading states in providing students like Tre with free ，full-day pre-school. And the results are already paying off: According to a 2012 study, Oklahoma kids that went through pre-school showed vocabulary gains 28% higher than those of children without pre-school, and math gains 44% higher than non-pre-school kids. And we know that high-quality pre-school doesn’t just mean higher scores in elementary school. They were more likely to have graduated from high school and less likely to have committed a violent crime. They also earned more money and were more likely to be employed.
We know pre-school works, so let’s stop talking and start building a system where all children have access to excellent early childhood education. As any well-educated four year old could tell us, not doing so would be ridiculous.
小题1:The case of Tre in the first paragraph serves as the evidence of______.| A．children’s disrespect towards parents | | B．the bad performance of students at school | | C．the positive effect of pre-school on children | | D．Thompson’s doubt about her son’s education |
小题2:At high quality pre-schools, children may learn by______| A．playing | B．modelling | C．researching | D．monitoring |
小题3:It can be inferred that______.| A．children can not enter kindergarten without pre-school | | B．Oklahoma is the best state offering full-day pre-school | | C．all pre-schools have well-trained, well-educated teachers | | D．kids with pre-school may be better equipped for their future |
小题4:What would be the best title for the passage?| A．Not all pre-school works | | B．All pre-school is created equal | | C．We owe our kids universal pre-school | | D．Pre-school goes well with K-12 system |
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Every time you go to the supermarket, you come away with your purchases in plastic bags. But wouldn’t it be kinder to the environment if you asked for paper bags instead?
The answer is not the easy as it might seem. Environmentalists say there are drawbacks to using both plastic bags and paper bags.
According to the American Plastics Council 80 percent of groceries in the US are packed in plastic bags.
“The numbers are becoming huge,” said Vincent Cobb, a businessman from Chicago who set up “reusable bags. com” on the Internet. He notes that consumers use between 500 billion and 1 trillion plastic bags per year worldwide.
Some experts believe that all these bags harm the environment. Plastic takes hundreds of years to break down and, as it does so, poisonous materials are released into the water and soil.
Further damage is caused if plastic bags enter the sea. For example, endangered sea turtles cannot tell the bags from jellyfish(水母), their main source of food, and often choke on them.
Floating plastic bags have been spotted as far north as the Arctic Ocean and as far south as the southern end of South America. One expert predicts that, within ten years, plastic bags will wash up in Antarctica!
However, this kind of bag does have its advantages.
“Plastic grocery bags are some of the most reused things around the house,” explained Laurie Kusek of the American Plastics Council.
According to the Film and Bag Federation, a trade group in the US plastics industry, paper bags use more energy and create more waste than plastic bags. Plastic bags require 40 per cent less energy to produce and cause 70 per cent less air pollution, the group explained. They also release as much as 94 percent less waste into the water than paper ones.
But paper bags do break down more quickly than plastic bags. They don’t endanger wildlife, either.
So what should we do? One possible solution would be to use biodegradable(能被生物分解的)plastic bags. But until biodegradable technology improves, it might be easier to pack things you buy in reusable cloth bags.
小题1:The best title of the passage is _____.| A．Paper Causes Less Pollution | | B．Plastic Causes Less Pollution | | C．Paper and Plastics Cause Pollution | | D．Paper Bags Break Down More Quickly |
小题2:The underlined word “drawbacks” might mean “_____”.| A．Advantages | B．disadvantages | C．air pollution | D．waste |
小题3:According to the passage, which of the following in NOT true? | A．Plastic takes longer to break down than paper. | | B．Sea turtles usually mistake the plastic bags for jellyfish. | | C．Paper bags require less energy than plastic bags. | | D．You’d better pack things in reusable cloth bags. |
小题4:Which of the following shows that paper bags are better than plastic ones?| A．Paper bags take less time to rot. | | B．Paper bags cause less air pollution. | | C．Paper bags are more reusable. | | D．Paper bags cause less water pollution. |
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A successful scientist is generally a good observer. He makes full 36 of the facts he observes. He doesn’t accept ideas which are not 37 on obvious facts, and therefore refuses to accept authority as the only 38 for truth. He always 39 ideas carefully and makes experiments to prove them.
The rise of 40 science may perhaps be considered to 41 as far back as the 42 of Roger Bacon, the wonderful philosopher of Oxford, who live 43 the years 1214 and 1292. He was probably the first in the Middle 44 to suggest that we must learn science 45 observing and experimenting on the things around us, and he himself 46 many important discoveries.
Galileo, however, who lived more than 300 years later (1564-1642), was the greatest of several great men, 47 in Italy, France, Germany, or England, began by 48 to show how many important 49 could be discovered by observation. Before Galileo, learned men believed that large bodies fell more 50 towards the earth than small ones, 51 Aristotle said so. But Galileo, going to the 52 of the leaning Tower of Pisa, let fall two 53 stones and proved Aristotle was wrong. It was Galileo’s 54 of going direct to Nature, and proving our 55 and theories by experiment, that has led to all the discoveries of modern science.
| 小题1: | | A．use | B．time | C．speed | D．trust |
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| 小题2: | | A．worked | B．based | C．lived | D．written |
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| 小题3: | | A．reason | B．cause | C．advice | D．result |
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| 小题4: | | A．thinks | B．checks | C．has | D．learn |
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| 小题5: | | A．natural | B．physical | C．ancient | D．modern |
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| 小题7: | | A．study | B．time | C．year | D．birth |
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| 小题8: | | A．both | B．each | C．between | D．among |
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| 小题9: | | A．Schools | B．Ages | C．Days | D．Count |
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| 小题13: | | A．ways | B．degrees | C．levels | D．chance |
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| 小题14: | | A．truths | B．problems | C．people | D．subjects |
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| 小题15: | | A．slowly | B．rapidly | C．lightly | D．heavily |
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| 小题16: | | A．although | B．because | C．when | D．If |
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| 小题17: | | A．place | B．foot | C．top | D．ceiling |
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| 小题18: | | A．big | B．small | C．equal | D．unequal |
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| 小题19: | | A．spirit | B．skill | C．theory | D．discovery |
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| 小题20: | | A．plans | B．opinions | C．world | D．ability |
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However, research has proved this method inefficient and ineffective. The truth is, the human brain simply cannot consciously remember process and use hundreds of or thousands of grammar rules. Real speech is too fast.
Native speakers do not learn grammar in this way, but rather intuitively (凭直觉地) and unconsciously. They learn in a complete way, not by attempting to memorize individual grammar rules. As a result, native speakers use correct grammar fluently and easily.
Fortunately, it is possible for English learners to learn grammar this way. Language teacher Blaine Ray has developed a unique "intuitive" approach to teach English grammar. Her system uses "point of view" stories to teach the patterns of English grammar, allowing students unconsciously to acquire correct grammar without ever studying grammar rules.
In this system, the teacher first tells a simple story from one point of view. It may be told about the past, then repeated, but beginning with "since he was a child"; then repeated again, but this time about the future.
Listening to these stories allows students intuitively and effortlessly to learn English grammar and makes them be able to use it correctly when they speak.
Point of View Stories is a creative new way to study English grammar, and offers hope to millions of frustrated English learners.
小题1:Which of the following ways is approved by the author?| A．Remembering grammar rules | | B．Taking grammar tests. | | C．Analyzing grammatical structure | | D．Applying language to situations. |
小题2:What does the underlined part "this way" in the fourth paragraph refer to?| A．Talking to native speakers when learning. | | B．Learning English grammar in a complete way. | | C．Using correct English grammar. | | D．Learning English grammar 4from a teacher. |
小题3:From this passage we learn that ______.| A．native speakers learn English grammar by listening to stories | | B．Blaine Ray’s method gets students to grasp correct grammar unconsciously | | C．Blaine Ray teaches grammar rules by asking students to tell stories | | D．it’s hard for students to speak correct English in the new system |
小题4: This passage wants to ______. | A．criticize the traditional way of learning grammar | | B．introduce a new way to study English grammar | | C．ask students to learn English grammar by listening to stories | | D．tell us how the native speakers learn English grammar |
小题5:why shouldn’t the English learners use an analytical approach?| A．because the analytical approach can let them learn English grammar effortlessly | | B．because the analytical approach makes them be able to use English correctly when they speak. | | C．because the analytical approach can’t let them memorize and then apply a great number of rules. | | D．because Real speech is too fast. |
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