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Students who say they never or hardly ever used dictionaries may speak English well but usually write poorly, because they make many mistakes.
The students who use dict

ionaries most do not learn especially well either. The ones who look up every new word do not read fast. Therefore they do not have time to read much. Those who use small two-language dictionaries have the worst problems. Their dictionaries often give only one or two words as translations of English. But one English word often has many translations in a foreign language and one foreign word has many translations in English.
The most successful students are those who use large college edition dictionaries with about 100,000 words but do not use them too often. When they are reading, these students first try to get the general idea and understand new words from the context. Then they reread and use the dictionary to look up only key words that they still do not understand. They use dictionaries more for writing. If they are not sure how to spell a word, they always use a dictionary. Also, if they think a noun might have an unusual plural form, they check this in a dictionary.
小题1:The writer thinks that .

A．choose a good dictionary, and you’ll be successful in learning English

B．dictionaries are not necessary to the students who learn English

C．it is very important for students to use good dictionaries properly

D．using dictionaries very often can’t help to improve writing

小题2: According to the passa

ge, which of the following is WRONG?

A．Dictionaries have little effect on learning to speak English.

B．Whatever new words you meet while reading, never use dictionaries.

C．Small two-language dicti

onaries have serious shortcomings.

D．Reading something for the first time, you’d better not use dictionaries.

小题3: When in the reading does the writer advise studen

ts to use a good dictionary?

A．At the beginning of the reading

B．At the end of the reading

C．During the first reading

D．After the first reading

小题4: This passage mainly tells us .

A．that students shouldn’t use small two-language dictionaries

B．what were the shortcomings of small two-language dictionaries

C．why students should use large college edition dictionaries

D．what dictionary students should choose and how to use it

答案

小题1:C
小题1:B
小题1:D
小题1:D

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Good sportsmanship occurs when teammates, opponents（对手）, coaches, and officials treat each other with respect. Kids learn the basics of sportsmanship from the adults in their lives, especially their parents and their coaches. Kids who see adults behaving in a sportsmanlike way gradually come to understand that the real winners in sports are those who know how to keep on trying an

d to behave well - whether they win or lose a game.
Parents can help their kids understand that good sportsmanship includes both small gestures and heroic efforts. It starts with something as simple as shaking hands with opponents before a game and includes acknowledging good plays made by others and accepting bad calls gracefully. Showing good sportsmanship isn"t always easy: It can be hard to congratulate the opposing team after losing a close or important game. But the kids who learn how to do it will benefit in many ways.
A child who bullies or laugh at others on the playing field isn"t likely to change the behavior when in the classroom or in social situations. In the same way, a child who practices good sportsmanship is likely to carry the respect (尊重) and appreciation of other people into every other aspect of life
The best coaches - and parents - encourage their kids to play fair, to have fun, and to concentrate(专心于) on helping the team while improving their own skills.
小题1:The most important feature of good sportsmanship is ______.

A．respecting others.	B．concentrating on winning
C．improving one’s own skills.	D．beating the opposing team

小题2:Which of the following is NOT the behavior of good sportsmanship?

A．Shaking hands with opponents	B．Playing on the field like heroes.
C．Praising good playing of others	D．Accepting unfriendly viewers’ opinions

小题3: As a child with good sportsmanship, he / she will ______.

A．treat winning as the most important thing.

B．be proud of the success of his / her team

C．look down on others’ playing skills.

D．not get discouraged when defeated

小题4:It can be inferred from the passage ______.

A．a child who bullies others can’t play well on the field.

B．the real winners are those who play with best skills.

C．a child with good sportsmanship behaves well in society

D．it is simple and easy to show one’s good sportsmanship

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The Ocean Institute welcomes people to the City of Dana Point’s Festival of Whales celebration on both weekends．The event celebrates the migration(迁徙)of the whales off our coast．Respected ocean scientists of the ocean Institute introduce visitors to the world of whales．The speakers are arranged as the following．
Saturday，March 5，12：30 pm
Dr Gwen Goodmanlowe from Califomia State University is a full-time lecturer in the Department of Biology，and advises students working on degrees in marine(海洋的) biology．She received her doctorate in zoology from the University of Hawaii-Honolulu．
Sunday，March 6，12：30 pm
Matt Leslie，from Scripps Institute of Oceanography，has studied whales off the coast of Australia．Some of his current research projects include population structure analysis of whales using performance testing．He will lecture on guides for treatment of marine animals.
Saturday，March 12，12：30 pm
Dr Merkens，from Scripps Institute of Oceanography，will present her latest research on how sound or music can be used as a means to identify characteristics of whales and to find out how whales communicate with one another in the environment．
Sunday，March 13, 2 pm
Robert L. Pitman is a marine ecologist working for the National Marine Fishing Service．He began his career 35 years ago，studying seabirds and whales，and spends much of his time at sea on vessels at locations all over the world．His main interest is the ecology of the Antarctic killer whale．
The Festival will allow visitors to know about new discoveries in marine animal research and to explore a variety of information on whales．Visitors will have the opportunity to listen to underwater whale sounds，and enjoy hands-on activities．Guests will tour the tall ship Pilgrim．
Cost：$6.50 adults，$4.50 children(ages 4-12)．For more information, please visit www.ocean-institute.org or call(949) 496-2274．
小题1:What do we know from the passage?

A．A large number of scientists will attend the Festival of Whales celebration．

B．The Festival of Whales celebration will be held from March 5 to March 13．

C．The Ocean Institute will hold the City of Dana Point’s Festival of Whales．

D．Four ocean scientists will tell visitors some information about whales．

小题2:What time should you attend the festival if you want to leam how to treat marine animals?

A．At 12：30 pm on Saturday, March 5．

B．At 12：30 pm on Sunday, March 6．

C．At 12：30 pm on Saturday, March 12．

D．At 2 pm on Sunday, March 1

3．

小题3:If you only have time after l pm on weekends，you can listen to a lecture delivered by_________ ．

A．Gwen Goodmanlowe

B．Mart Leslie

C．Merkens

D．Robert L.Pitman

小题4:Which of the following things can NOT visitors do according to the passage?

A．Have close contact with underwater whales．

B．Leam about new discoveries in marine animal research．

C．Explore some information on whales．

D．Tour the tall ship Pilgrim．

小题5:If a couple and their 13-year-old child attend the event，they would need to pay_________．

A．13 dollars

B．17.50 dollars

C．19.50 dollars

D．11 dollars

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Who cares if money can’t buy you love? But it can still be your best friend forever．That’s one of the surprising findings in a new research paper, “The Power of Money”，published in me journal Psychological Science．
Like any best friend forever，money demonstrated to researchers its ability to soothe us，reduce our sense of social exclusion and even reduce life’s painful moments．
“I was surprised” says Katherine Vohs，one of the researchers and professor at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management．“The findings were surprising because no one had connected the meaning of money to pain．The money wasn’t buying the subjects more friends；it was only psychologically helpful.”
In the research ,students were told they would be participating in a test of finger dexterity(敏捷度)．One group was given some paper money to count，while the other group was given blank pieces of paper．Once the counting was complete, all the test subjects were asked to dip their fingers into bowls of water heated to 122 degrees—roughly the temperature of a very hot bath．
Result? Those who had been counting money reported less pain than those who had not．Subjects also were asked about their feelings．Those who handled actual money reported feeling stronger even 10 minutes after they put down the cash．
Combined with previous experiments，the findings confirmed what researchers have long doubted，that money acts as a general panacea(万能药)in the brain，giving us social self-confidence and reducing physical pain without having to spend a dime on aspirin．
But can we get the same effect by using credit cards? “No，credit cards do not have the same effect，” Vohs says．“They are scary for most people，and they in fact represent debt m many ways．”The findings could have an interesting effect in the business world, where recent trends have been to issue non-monetary rewards and bonuses instead of what was thought of as “cold, hard cash”．
小题1:The underlined word “soothe” in Paragraph 2 is the closest in meaning to“____________” .

A．encourage

B．remind

C．calm

D．trust

小题2:What’s Katherine Vohs’s attitude towards the result of the study?

A．He found it totally unexpected．

B．He had no doubt about it．

C．He thought it needed further experiments．

D．He thought it was not convincing．

小题3:What do we know about the students involved in the study?

A．They were divided into two groups according to their ages．

B．One group was given paper money while the other was given coins．

C．They were holding

the money while dipping fingers into hot wat

er．

D．Both groups were asked to dip fingers into hot water．

小题4:We can 1earn from the passage that_________．

A．the effect of money can only last until we put it down

B．money is both psychologically and socially helpful to us

C．the result of the research hasn’t been confirmed（证实） by experts

D．credit cards have the same effect on us as money

小题5:The last paragraph suggests that___________．

A．the recent trend in the business world is to give cash as rewards

B．employers should give non-monetary rewards to employees

C．cash is a better way to reward employees than credit cards

D．more and more employees prefer non-monetary rewards to cash

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Forty-two of the fifty American states offered some kind of public online learning this past school year．One state，Michigan，now requires all students to have an online learning experience before they finish high school．Even the idea of a school has changed since the rise ofthe Internet in the 1990s．
A new report from the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University says eighteen states have full-time virtual schools．There are no buildings．All classes are online．
Florida started the first statewide public virtual school in the United States in 1997．Today，the Florida Virtual School offers more man ninety courses．56,000 students were enrolled as of December．Almost sixty percent were female．The school"s website says each student was enrolled in an average of two classes．
Florida Virtual School has now opened the Florida Virtual Global School．Students in other countries pay for classes．Janet Heiking teaches an English class．She lives in Indianapolis, Indiana．Her students live as far away as Africa and Japan．She says they are taking her Advanced Placement class to prepare for attending an American college．They can earn college credits by passing the AP test．
So how good are virtual schools? Studies have shown mixed results, as a new report from Indiana University notes．For example, students at Florida Virtual School earned higher grades than those taking the same courses the traditional way．And they scored higher on a statewide
test．But virtual school students in Kansas and Colorado had lower test scores or performed at a lower level than traditional learners．Studies also find that virtual schools may not save much in operating costs．
Education experts say the mixed results suggest the need for more research to find the best ways to teach in virtual schools．A1so, they say schools of education need to train more teachers to work in both real and virtual classrooms．
小题1:A virtual school is one that___________．

A．is set up after the rise of the Internet

B．uses textbooks as a main teaching resource

C．uses computer-based resources and has no teachers

D．has online classes and no real classrooms

小题2:The first statewide public virtual school in the USA was started in ________ ．

A．Florida

B．Indiana

C．Michigan

D．Colorado

小题3:Florida Virtual School is open to ________．

A．students in Indiana

B．students only around the USA

C．students across the world

D．only foreign students

小题4:Foreign students take Advanced Placement classes for the eventual purpose of __________ ．

A．earning college credits

B．entering an American college

C．learning advanced science

D．passin

g the AP test

小题5:From the passage we learn that________．

A．the majority of virtual school students in Florida are male

B．all senior students m Michigan have an online learning experience

C．virtual schools are better than traditional schools

D．both real and virtual classrooms need more trained teachers

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Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are words or expressions marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
In the past, man did not have to think about the protection of the environment. There were few people on the earth, and natural resources seemed to be 36 ___________ .
Today things are different, the world has become too 37________. We’re using up our natural resources too quickly, and at the same time we are 38__________our environment with dangerous chemicals. If we continue to do this, human life on the earth will not survive.
Everyone realizes today that if too many fish are taken from the sea, there will soon be none left. Yet, with modern fishingmethods, more and more fish are caught. We know that if too many 39_____ are cut down, forests will disappear and nothing will grow on the land. Yet, we 40______ to use bigger and more powerful machines to 41_________more and more trees.
We realize that if rivers are polluted with waste products from factories, we will die. 42_____, in most countries wastes are still put into rivers or into the sea, and there are 43__________laws to stop this.
We know, too, that if the 44_______ of the world continues to rise at the present rate, in a few years there will not be enoughfood. 45________ can we deal with these problems ?
If we eat more vegetables and lessmeat, there will be more food available for everyone. Land that is used to grow cropson feeds five times more people than land 46_____ animals are kept. Our natural resources will last longer if we learn to recycle them. The world population will not rise so quickly if people use modern methods of birth control. Finally, if we educate people to think about the problems, we 47_____ have a better and clearer planet in the future.

小题1:

A．beautiful

B．unlimited

C．rare

D．valuable

小题2:

A．crowded

B．small

C．dirty

D．busy

小题3:

A．protecting

B．saving

C．polluting

D．fighting

小题4:

A．mountains

B．flowers

C．trees

D．grass

小题5:

A．continue

B．have

C．ought

D．go on

小题6:

A．grow

B．plant

C．save

D．cut down

小题7:

A．Thus

B．However

C．Generally speaking

D．Therefore

小题8:

A．too many

B．a few

C．some

D．few

小题9:

A．production

B．pollution

C．population

D．revolution

小题10:

A．What

B．How

C．Why

D．Where

小题11:

A．that

B．which

C．where

D．what

小题12:

A．may

B．can

C．should

D．shall

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