阅读理解 It is often considered that the schoolyard is where bullies(欺负)go to ma

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     It is often considered that the schoolyard is where bullies(欺负)go to make other kids a miserable
school life, but a new study suggests that classrooms are another popular place.
     The study, presented recently at the American Public Health Association"s yearly meeting in
Philadelphia, is based on the results of the research from more than 10,000 middleschool students
who answered questions online.
     Of those researched,43%said they"d been physically bullied within the last month.A bit more than
half said they"d been laughed at in an unfriendly way, and half reported being called hurtful names.
About onethird said groups had excluded (排斥)them to hurt their feelings.28% said their belongings
had been taken or broken；21%said someone threatened to hurt them.According to the results,
twothirds of the students said they"d been bullied in more than one way over the previous month.
     The study authors mentioned that 8% of the students who answered said they"d missed school at
least once during the school year because of fear of being bullied. 25% said they"d taken other actions,
such as missing recess(课间), not going to the bathroom or lunch, missing classes, or staying away from
some area of the school to escape from experiencing a bully.
Bullies did too much to the school life.

1. Bullies can happen in the following places except________.A. schoolyards
B. classrooms
C. bathrooms
D. teachers" offices2. Which of the following is the best title?A. Bad School Life
B. Fear at School
C. Bullies at School
D. School Problems3. Some students might ________ to protect themselves from bullies.A. leave the school
B. go for lunch
C. hurt others
D. break others" belongings4. The writer feels ________ about bullies at school.A. excited
B. disappointed
C. worried
D. puzzled

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阅读理解     The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five
young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularlyheld image of unhappy
teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.
     An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more
harmonious than it has ever been in the past."We were surprised by just how positive today"s young
people seem to be about their families, "said one member of the research team."They"re expected to
be rebellious(叛逆的 )and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car
and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well.There"s more negotiation(商议) and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family
decisionmaking process.They don" t want to rock the boat. "
     So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat
their children as friends."My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me, "
says 17yearold Daniel Lazall. "I always tell them when I"m going out clubbing.As long as they know
what I"m doing, they"re fine with it."Susan Crome, who is now 21, agrees."Looking back on the last 10
years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. For example, as long as I"d done all my
homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my
parents than that."
     Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of
teenage rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments, "Our surprise that teenagers say
they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history when
teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their
parents really happened during the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout
history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over."1. What is the popular images of teenagers today?A. They worry about school.
B. They dislike living with their parents.
C. They have to be locked in to avoid troubles.
D. They quarrel a lot with other family members.2. The study shows that teenagers don"t want to ________.A. share family responsibility
B. cause trouble in their families
C. go boating with their family
D. make family decisions3. Compared with parents of 30 years ago, today"s parents________.A. go to clubs more often with their children
B. are much stricter with their children
C. careless about their children"s life
D. give their children more freedom4. According to the author, teenage rebellion________.A. may be a false belief
B. is common nowadays
C. existed only in the 1960s
D. resulted from changes in families

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阅读理解。      A new study suggests that the roundtheclock(24小时的)availability that cell phones
have brought to people"s lives may be taking_a_toll_on family life.The study,which followed
more than 1,300 adults over 2 years, found that those who consistently used a mobile phone
throughout the study period were more likely to report negative "spillover" between work and
home life-and,in turn,less satisfaction with their family life.
     Spillover essentially(本质上)means that the line between work and home begins to become
unclear.Work life may invade home life when a parent is taking jobrelated calls at home,for
instance-or family issues may start to take up work time.For example,a child may call mum at
work,telling her "microwave exploded",explained Noelle Chesley,an assistant professor of
sociology at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee and the author of the study. The problem
with cell phones seems to be that they are allowing for even more spillover between work and
home.
      This may be especially true for working women,the study found. Among men,consistent use
of mobile phones seemed to allow more work issues to creep (潜入)into family time.But for
women,the spillover tended to go in both directions. Being "connected" meant that work cut into
home time,and family issues came into work life.
       Cell phones seem to be opening more lines for stressful exchanges among family members.
But there may be ways to control the spillover,according to Chesley.Employers, she said,could
look at their policies on contacting employees after hours to make sure their expectations are
"reasonable"．For their part,employees could decide that cell phones go off during family time,
Chesley said.1．What does the underlined phrase "taking a toll on" probably mean in Paragraph 1A．Explaining.
B．Founding.
C. Damaging.
D．Extending2．According to Chesley,what is the best solution to the problem caused by cell phones?A．Refuse to use cell phones.
B. Separate work hours from family time.
C. Ignore coming calls during family time.
D. Encourage women to stay at home.3．We can learn from the passage that ________.A．cell phones make the line between work and home unclear
B．cell phones seem to be convenient to families
C．cell phones affect men as much as women
D．we can do nothing to solve the problem4．What is the main idea of the passage?A．How to control the negative spillover caused by cell phones.
B. Cell phones cause negative "spillover" between work life and home life.
C. Consistent use of cell phones makes people feel less satisfied with their work.
D. How work life invades home life.

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完形填空。There are times when people are so tired that they fall asleep almost anywhere. We can see there is
a lot of sleeping on the bus or train on the__1__home from work in the evenings.A man will be__2__
the newspaper，and seconds later it__3__as if he is trying to__4__it.Or he will fall asleep on the
shoulder of the stranger__5__next to him.__6__place where unplanned short sleep__7__is in the
lecture hall where a student will start snoring(打鼾)so__8__that the professor has to ask another
student to__9__the sleeper awake. A more embarrassing(尴尬)situation occurs when a student
starts falling into sleep and the__10__of the head pushes the arm off the__11__，and the movement
carries the__12__of the body along.The student wakes up on the floor with no__13__of getting there.
The worst time to fall asleep is when__14__.Police reports are full of__15__that occur when people
fall into sleep and go__16__the road.If the drivers are__17__，they are not seriously hurt. One
woman"s car，__18__，went into the river.She woke up in four feet of__19__and thought it was
raining.When people are really__20__，nothing will stop them from falling asleep no matter where
they are.(     )1.A.way
(     )2.A.buying
(     )3.A.acts
(     )4.A.open
(     )5.A.lying
(     )6.A.Next
(     )7.A.goes on
(     )8.A.bravely
(     )9.A.leave
(     )10.A.size
(     )11.A.cushion
(     )12.A.action
(     )13.A.memory
(     )14.A.thinking
(     )15.A.changes
(     )16.A.up
(     )17.A.lucky
(     )18.A.in time
(     )19.A.dust
(     )20.A.tired   B．track
B．folding
B．shows
B．eat
B．waiting
B．Every
B．ends up
B．happily
B．shake
B．shape
B．desk
B．position
B．reason
B．working
B．events
B．off
B．awake
B．at first
B．water
B．drunk     C．path
C．delivering
C．appears
C．find
C．talking
C．Another
C．lasts
C．loudly
C．keep
C．weight
C．shoulder
C．rest
C．question
C．walking
C．ideas
C．along
C．calm
C．as usual
C．grass
C．lonely      D．road
D．reading
D．sounds
D．finish
D．sitting
D．One
D．returns
D．carelessly
D．watch
D．strength
D．book
D．side
D．purpose
D．driving
D．accidents
D．down
D．strong
D．for example
D．bush
D．lazy

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     The regular use of text messages and emails can lower the IQ more than twice as much
as smoking marijuana(大麻). That is the claim of psychologists who have found that tapping
away on a mobile phone or computer keypad or checking_them_for_electronic_messages
_temporarily_knocks_up_to_ten_points_off_the_user"s_IQ.
     This rate of decline in intelligence compares unfavorably with the fourpoint drop in IQ
associated with smoking marijuana, according to British researchers, who have labeled(把
……称为)the fleeting phenomenon of enhanced stupidity as "infomania"．
     The noticeable drop in IQ is believed to be the result of the constant distraction of "always
on" technology when employees should be concentrating on what they are paid to do. Infomania
means that they lose concentration as their minds remain fixed in an almost permanent state of
readiness to react to technology instead of focusing on the tasks in hand.
     The brain also finds it hard to deal with keeping lots of tasks in motion at once, reducing its
overall effectiveness. While modern technology can have huge benefits, excessive(过度的)use
can be damaging not only to a person"s mind, but to his or her social life.
     Eighty volunteers took part in clinical trials on IQ damage and 1,100 adults were interviewed.
     More than six in ten people polled admitted that they were addicted to checking their emails
and text messages so that they examined workrelated ones even when at home or on holiday.
Half said that they always responded immediately to an email and one in five would interrupt a
meeting to do so.
     Furthermore, infomania is having a negative effect on work colleagues, increasing stress and
disagreeing feelings. Nine out of ten polled thought that colleagues who answered emails or
messages during a facetoface meeting were extremely rude. Yet one in three Britons believed
that it was not only acceptable, but actually diligent and efficient to do so.1．What does the underlined part mean?A．A person"s IQ drops ten points if he or she always checks electronic messages.
B. The person who has a higher IQ enjoys checking electronic messages.
C. The person who has a lower IQ enjoys checking electronic messages.
D. A person"s IQ is ten points higher if he or she always checks electronic messages.2．What happens to people with infomania?A．People with infomania can only concentrate on their tasks in hand.
B. People with infomania are addicted to smoking marijuana.
C. People with infomania can"t respond to technology immediately.
D. People with infomania can"t concentrate on their tasks in hand.3. From the passage, we can learn that________.A．about 550 interviewees responded to an email immediately
B. about 670 interviewees responded to an email immediately
C. about 50 taking part in clinical trials on IQ were addicted to checking emails
D. about 16 taking part in clinical trials on IQ refused to answer emails immediately4．What is the main idea of this passage?A．The regular use of text messages and emails can be compared to smoking marijuana.
B. Modern technology can damage a person"s mind.
C. The regular use of text messages and emails can harm your IQ.
D. Electronic messages have side effects on the user"s life.

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阅读理解。     A Northern Ireland team is leading a research to develop a thinking computer which can
sense a user"s mood.Researchers at Queen"s University in Belfast hope to complete the 10
million Euro project for an emotionsensitive computer within four years.
     The aim is to enable computers to think and behave more like humans.The Europewide
project is being led by the university"s School of Psychology and involves 160 researchers
from 27 institutions.The university"s researchers developed the scheme and signed the
contract with the European Commission.The academics said the work will build upon attempts
to create "multimodal interfaces (多模式界面)" which allow machines to sense and respond
to the moods of the user.
     Programme leader Professor Roddy Cowie said while it sounds like science fiction, computers
which respond to human emotion will appear in the future."At the moment, our use of computers
is limited by the fact that we need a keyboard and a screen to access them," he said."It would make
a big difference if we could interact with them by speaking normally-perhaps through a microphone
and a transmitter (传感器)．" But emotion is part of normal speech, and experience has shown that
most users are deeply uncomfortable with speech interfaces that ignore it-too uncomfortable to use
them very much."If we can make computers more intuitive (富于直觉的) and expressive, and also
less challenging to use, there is great potential to let people make fuller use of information technology."
     The emotionsensitive computer would have its own "personality" and establish a social relationship
with the user."It"s a fair bet that in 30 years" time, emotionsensitive interfaces will be as much part of
life as windowandmouse interfaces are now," said Professor Cowie.The project team believes such
computers will play a major role in teaching and learning.1．Which of the following statements is TRUE about the project?A．It aims to create an emotionsensitive computer.
B．It can create a 10 million Euro profit.
C．It is led by a Southern Ireland team.
D．It has been completed within four years.2．How will computers sense users" moods?A．Through a screen.
B．Through a keyboard.
C．Through the voice of users.
D．Through multimodal interfaces.3．We can infer from the passage that a person"s emotion________.A．varies from time to time
B．is determined by his own personality
C．plays an important role in normal speech
D．makes people uncomfortable when one is speaking4．What conclusion can we draw from the last paragraph?A．Emotionsensitive computers can talk freely as human beings.
B．It will be difficult for people to use emotionsensitive computers.
C．Emotionsensitive computers have been widely used in teaching.
D．It will be common for people to use emotionsensitive computers in the future.

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