Separate lives, similar dreams As we know, some children live in the countryside

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Separate lives, similar dreams
As we know, some children live in the countryside, and some live in the city. Their lives are a little different, but they also have many of the same dreams.

	In the countryside	In the city
Travel to school	On foot	By bus or car
Classroom facilities（设施）	Recorders and radios.	Multimedia classrooms, VCD, DVD, TVs, recorders, radios, loud-speakers.
Ways of learning	Classes only, without many reference books.	Many extra classes, tutor, lots of reference books.
Eyesight	Less than 45% are near-sighted.	About 75% are near-sighted.
After-class activities	Playing with balls.	English corners and other school clubs.
Homework	Homework can usually be finished at school.	Homework never ends.
Chores to do	Washing, cleaning, farming, looking after younger sisters or brothers, cooking.	Usually no chores.
Family members	Big families with three generations.	Small families with three members.
Ideal jobs	Teachers, drivers, scientists, nurses, secretaries.	Scientists, professors, doctors, computer programmers, managers, university presidents, the UN chief.

小题1: The survey was done among the ______ between in the countryside and the city.

A．teachers.

B．students.

C．parents.

D．adults.

小题2:. About ______ of children in the countryside have good eyesight, but only ______ of children in the city have good eyesight.

A．45%,75%.

B．55%,75%.

C．55%,25%.

D．45%,25%.

小题3: Which of the following is not included in the survey?

A．Ideal jobs.	B．After-class activities.
C．Ways of learning.	D．Results of tests.

小题4:. A classroom in the countryside often has ______ according to the survey.
A. records. B. DVD. C. TVs. D. loud-speakers.
小题5: Which of the following is WRONG according to the survey?

A．Children in the countryside often go to school on foot.

B．Children in the city often have too much homework to do.

C．Children in the countryside often have lots of chores to do.

D．Children in the city are difficult to find ideal jobs.

答案

小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:A
小题5:D

解析

试题分析：
小题1:.B 细节题。根据文章前两行some children live in the countryside, and some live in the city. Their lives are a little different, but they also have many of the same dreams.说明文章是比较住在城里和住在乡下的学生的比较。故B正确。
小题2:.C 计算题。根据Eyesight那一行说明住在乡下的孩子Less than 45% are near-sighted.那么百分之55左右是不近视的。住在城里的孩子About 75% are near-sighted.说明百分之25左右是不近视的。故C项正确。
小题3:D 细节题。根据文章第一列说明ABC三项都是调查的内容，只有Ｄ项不是。
小题4:.A 细节题。根据表格第三行第二列的Recorders and radios.说明在乡下主要的教学设备就是records.故A正确。
小题5:D 推理题。文章最后最后一列最后一行Scientists, professors, doctors, computer programmers, managers, university presidents, the UN chief.说明城里的孩子的工作选择面很宽，比较容易找到工作，那么D项的说法是错误的。
点评：文章比较了城里的学生和乡下的学生在很多方面的区别。文章所设试题主要考察细节查找，做题关键是找出原文的根据，认真核查题支和原文的异同，常犯错误有：绝对化语言，范围扩大或缩小，以偏概全，张冠李戴等。

举一反三

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余项。
What is your favorite color? Do you like yellow, orange, and red? 71 Do you prefer grays and blues? Then you are probably quiet, shy, and you would rather follow than lead. You tend to be a pessimist（悲观者）. At least, this is what psychologists（心理专家） tell us, and they should know, because they have been seriously studying the meaning of colors preference, as well as the effect that colors have on human beings. 72 If you happen to love brown, you did so, as soon as you opened your eyes, or at least as soon as you could see clearly.
73 A yellow room makes most people feel more cheerful and more relaxed than a dark green one; and a red dress brings warmth and cheer to the saddest winter day. 74 A black bridge over the Thames River, near London, used to be the scene of more suicides than any other bridge in the area ---until it was repainted green. The number of suicide attempts immediately fell sharply; perhaps it would have fallen even more if the bridge had been done in pink or baby blue.
75 It is an established fact that factory workers work better, harder, and have fewer accidents when their machines are painted orange rather than black or grey.

A．On the other hand, black is depressing.

B．They tells us that we do not choose our favorite color as we grow up——we are born
with our preference.

C．The rooms are painted in different colors as you like.

D．If you do, you must be an optimist（乐观者）, a leader, an active person who enjoys

life, people and excitement.
E. Light and bright colors make people not only happier but more active.
F. Life is like a picture or a poem, full of different colors.
G. Colors do influence our moods——there is no doubt about it .

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We live in a technological society where most goods are mass-produced by unskilled labor. Because of this, most people think that craft no longer exists.
One of the ways these people wrongly support their view is by pointing to 100-year-old homes which are still solid, and arguing that it is the craftsmanship that is responsible for their durability. “Homes in those days were well-built,” they say. No doubt these homes were well-built, but what these people have done is mix up the quality of material used in the house with the quality of the craftsmanship.
Homes today could be built to last just as long as those old homes if people were willing or able to pay the price. For example, most people can no longer afford solid oak stairways, although they were once fairly common in older homes. Nor can they afford the high labor cost of employing a carpenter to build the stairway. Yet if someone can pay the high cost, there are still plenty of carpenters around able to make those stairways. And not only would these carpenters know how to build them, they would probably do a better job than carpenters of old.
One thing the modern carpenter has which enables him to do a better job is much more advanced tools. Such tools as laser beams and powerplanes help them lay out a house better and make more precision cuts on the wood. Also, it is not uncommon say more to find carpenters with college degrees and carpenters with a solid knowledge of mathematics, which would enable them to deal with more difficult house designs.
The problem of modern quality, then, really boils down to the problem of material, for the modern carpenter is just as able to produce craftsmanship as the carpenter of fifty years ago, but only if given proper material.
小题1: Compared to the carpenters in the past, modern carpenters are .

A．more successful	B．more learned
C．more imaginative	D．more hardworking

小题2: What does the underlined work “they” (paragraph 2) refer to?

A．Carpenters who are fond of oak stairways.

B．Carpenters who have college degrees.

C．People who think highly of carpenters of old.

D．People who think that modern material is of low quality.

小题3:What does the third paragraph mainly discuss?

A．People in the past preferred to use oak to build stairways.

B．It is now expensive to employ a carpenter.

C．Modern houses last as long as the old ones.

D．Good carpenters still exist in modern times.

小题4: What would be the best title for the text?

A．Is Craft Dead?	B．Craft, Back to Life?
C．History of Craftsmanship	D．Carpenters Today and Yesterday

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Don’t shoot butterflies with guns.
Can you    36    someone running after a butterfly with a gun in his hands? Won’t such stupidity make you burst out laughing? But wait. Stop and consider how often you might have done something    37   .
A hen, Henny-Penny, lived in a forest with many other animals and birds. One fine, sunny morning, she was busy looking for    38    in the ground. Suddenly she let out a frightened cackle (咯咯叫) with wings flapping    39   . A dry leaf had fallen down on her, and she went 40   at whoever she met, “Run, run for your lives; the sky is falling.” The other creatures stopped whatever they were doing. Some ran behind Henny-Penny, screaming warnings with her, while others    41    the unfounded story that the sky was falling.
We all have    42    people like this hen. The rest of us are like the other foolish creatures who didn’t stop to verify (证实) the    43    for themselves. They shoot butterflies with guns. They just will not think for themselves. Why don’t people think for themselves? Often because of laziness, or because they don’t want to be    44    for their way of thinking.
Walking through life    45    is more dangerous than crossing a busy road with eyes closed. Our thoughts should lead us towards the light of wisdom and sense. Our thinking should be high, 46    us to the ranks of the sensible. We have been blessed with reasoning, sensitive minds. Let us make use of them and be    47    of our own minds. Don’t let your mind be enslaved by someone else. Stop, think and then go ahead.
小题1:.

A．suggest

B．imagine

C．recall

D．prevent

小题2:.

A．different

B．extraordinary

C．unusual

D．similar

小题3:

A．trees

B．worms

C．nests

D．leaves

小题4:.

A．in delight

B．in cheer

C．in fear

D．in amazement

小题5:.

A．screaming

B．staring

C．praising

D．criticizing

小题6:.

A．recite

B．edit

C．spread

D．print

小题7:.

A．come across

B．searched for

C．looked after

D．cared about

小题8:.

A．impact

B．process

C．advantage

D．truth

小题9:

A．desperate

B．good

C．regretful

D．responsible

小题10:.

A．speechlessly

B．hopelessly

C．mindlessly

D．homelessly

小题11:

A．declining

B．raising

C．wiping

D．smoothing

小题12:.

A．masters

B．slaves

C．authors

D．employees

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Clothes can make phone calls, play music, dial your pal’s number, keep you warm during cold weather and operate your computer?
This is not a fantasy. A British company, called Electrotextiles, has created a wide range of clothes — clothes that have minds of their own! Scientists, working for the company, have invented a kind of fabric that can be blended(混合) with flexible electronic materials to create intelligent clothing. The result are electronic garments.
If you think the wearer has to be wired to different devices, think again. These designer clothes are wire-free, soft to touch and washable!! Like any electronic device, these high-tech clothes have to be powered. Currently, a tiny nine-volt battery serves the purpose. But the researchers hope that in the near future the clothes will generate electricity by using body heat. These clothes are 100 percent shock proof, they say.
The Electrotextiles team has also created the world’s first cloth keyboard. This keyboard can be sewn into your trousers or skirt. To use this device, you will have to sit down and tap on your lap! These ‘lap- tap’ gadgets(器具) are all set to take over laptop computers!
Another useful garment is the shirt-cum-mobile phone. This handy invention enables drivers to chat comfortably with others at the wheel! Other popular electronic wear include the denim(牛仔布) jacket with flexible earphones sewn into the hood(风帽) and the electronic ski jacket with a built-in heater. The ski jacket is also programmed to send signals to a satellite. This technology is known as global positioning system and can be used to track lost skiers and wandering kids.
Having completed the cloth keyboard, scientists have already started to work on a new project—a necktie that can be used as a computer mouse. What is the next? Do you have any idea?
小题1:. The electronic garments are similar to other electronic devices in that ______.

A．they feel smooth and soft

B．they use electricity as power

C．they can be washed in water

D．they are made from flexible materials

小题2:. How will researchers improve these high-tech clothes?

A．Body heat will be used as power.

B．The wearer will not get shocked.

C．A tiny nine-volt battery will work.

D．They will get charged automatically.

小题3: What does the underlined phrase “This handy invention” in Paragraph 5 refer to?

A．The laptop computer.	B．The electronic ski jacket.
C．The shirt-cum-mobile phone.	D．The world’s first cloth keyboard.

小题4:. If you are going on a ski adventure, which device do you need?

A．The cloth keyboard.	B．The electronic ski jacket.
C．The necktie to be used as a mouse.	D．The denim jacket with earphones.

小题5:. The main purpose of the text is ______.

A．to advertise for an English company	B．to predict the future trend of science
C．to show how rapidly science develops	D．to introduce some intelligent clothing

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Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization led by Annan, the former United Nations secretary general.
The report, to be released Friday, analyzed data and existing studies of health, disaster, population and economic trends. It found that human-influenced climate change was raising the global death rates from illnesses including malnutrition (营养不良) and heat-related health problems.
But even before its release, the report drew criticism from some experts on climate and risk, who questioned its methods and conclusions.
Along with the deaths, the report said that the lives of 325 million people, primarily in poor countries, were being seriously affected by climate change. It projected that the number would double by 2030.
Roger Pielke Jr., a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies disaster trends, said the Forum’s report was “a methodological embarrassment” because there was no way to distinguish deaths or economic losses related to human-driven global warming amid the much larger losses resulting from the growth in populations and economic development in vulnerable (易受伤害的) regions. Dr. Pielke said that “climate change is an important problem requiring our utmost (极度的) attention.” But the report, he said, “will harm the cause for action on both climate change and disasters because it is so deeply flawed (有瑕疵的).”
However, Soren Andreasen, a social scientist at Dalberg Global Development Partners who supervised the writing of the report, defended it, saying that it was clear that the numbers were rough estimates. He said the report was aimed at world leaders, who will meet in Copenhagen in December to negotiate a new international climate treaty.
In a press release describing the report, Mr. Annan stressed the need for the negotiations to focus on increasing the flow of money from rich to poor regions to help reduce their vulnerability(弱点) to climate hazards(危害)while still curbing (限制) the emissions of the heat-trapping gases. More than 90% of the human and economic losses from climate change are occurring in poor countries, according to the report.
小题1:What is the finding of the Global Humanitarian Forum?

A．Global temperatures affect the rate of economic development.

B．Rates of death from illnesses have risen due to global warming.

C．Malnutrition has caused serious health problems in poor countries.

D．Economic trends have to do with population and natural disasters.

小题2: What do we learn about the Forum’s report from the passage?

A．It was challenged by some climate and risk experts.

B．It aroused a lot of interest in the scientific circles.

C．It was warmly received by environmentalists.

D．It caused a big stir in developing countries.

小题3: What does Dr. Pielke say about the Forum’s report?

A．Its statistics look embarrassing.

B．It is invalid in terms of methodology.

C．It deserves our closest attention.

D．Its conclusion is purposely exaggerated.

小题4: What is Soren Andreasen’s view of the report?

A．Its conclusions are based on carefully collected data.

B．It is vulnerable to criticism if the statistics are closely examined.

C．It will give rise to heated discussions at the Copenhagen conference.

D．Its rough estimates are meant to draw the attention of world leaders.

小题5: What does Kofi Annan say should be the focus of the Copenhagen conference?

A．How rich and poor regions can share responsibility in curbing global warming.

B．How human and economic losses from climate change can be reduced.

C．How emissions of heat-trapping gases can be reduced on a global scale.

D．How rich countries can better help poor regions reduce climate hazards.

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