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阅读理解。     Encouraging pupils to keep noise to a minimum should be a valuable component of all children"s
education, according to new research.
    Dr. Helen Lees, from Stirling University"s school of education, says that "enforced(强制的)silence
" is seen as a punishment and often acts to suppress children"s natural ability. But she says that teaching
children about the benefits of "enforced silence",--- deliberate stillness that gives them the opportunity
to focus and reflect in a stress-free environment--- can have a significant effect on pupils" concentration
and behavior.
    It is the latest in a string of researches to establish a link between the classroom environment and
pupils" academic ability.
    A study almost a decade ago in London found that children"s exam results were cut by as much as
a third if they were taught in noisy classrooms. Teaching unions have also called for a limit of 26℃ to
be put on classroom temperatures because teachers and pupils struggle to work in hot conditions, and
some educationalists claim that too much clutter(杂乱的东西)on classroom walls can prevent children
from concentrating.
    Dr. Lees said, "When we take some research on school settings and put it all together, what we see
is that education without silence does not make much sense. In areas of better learning outcomes, better
self- confidence and well-being measures, enforced silence in a person"s life and an individual"s
education is shown throughout the relevant research to be a benefit."
    Dozens of schools across Britain have already introduced periods of "reflective silence" into the
timetable.
    Kevin Hogston, head of Sheringdale Primary, south London, has just introduced a minute"s silence
at the start of twice-weekly meetings in which children are taught breathing techniques and encouraged
to reflect. The school plans to introduce it into classrooms every day.1. According to Dr. Helen Lees, "enforced silence"_____.A. is an effective way of punishment
B. does not make much sense in class
C. can improve pupils" confidence
D. makes pupils more creative2. The underlined word, "suppress", in the second paragraph probably means "_________".A. prevent
B. improve
C. apply
D. reveal3. What can be inferred from the research on school settings?  A. Students are more active if taught in noisy classrooms.
B. Silence makes a great difference to pupils.
C. Clutter on the walls can help students concentrate.
D. Most schools are not satisfactory in terms of classroom temperatures.4. What would be the best title for the text?A. Arranging classroom settings benefits studies
B. Achieving silence is beneficial for people
C. Using enforced silence is effective punishment
D. Keeping quiet in class improves academic performance

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阅读理解。     "A good parent" can be a confusing phrase. It is almost impossible for one person to be "a good
parent" at all stages of a child"s life. Some parents are at their best before their children begin to speak.
Others are most successful before their children enter elementary school. Still others make their finest
contribution to older children or teenagers. Every parent can understand one stage of a child"s
development better than another. It is hard for a person to possess superior capacities throughout the
entire period of a child"s growth.
     A mother might be "a good parent" from her baby"s birth until it is three; that is the period when it
needs her protection and loving care. Then the start of her child"s independence might upset and alarm
her, and she might then become less helpful for a few years. A father might be awkward and
uncomfortable with a younger child, but could turn into an excellent parent when the child is old enough
to be taught the skills of cycling, fishing and so on, or to be taken on trips. Some parents feel easier with
boys, and others with girls - and then only at certain ages or stages.
     It is important for parents to understand and accept their own limitations in these matters, just as they
must accept the child"s faults of personality and limitations of talent. Otherwise, fathers and mothers will
feel guilty and blame themselves for weaknesses that may not be their faults. Much of the guilt
experienced by modern parents comes from the mistaken feeling that they ought to be all things at all
times to the child, which is clearly mistaken. In past ages, grandparents and uncles and aunts lived with
the family, and provided different kinds of support; in our present "nuclear" family, too many roles are
demanded of the two parents, which they cannot possibly fulfill.1. Confusion arises about what it means to be "a good parent" because __________.A. it is normal to be a successful parent during most stages of a child"s development
B. most parents are only good at helping older children or teenagers
C. parents are usually at their best before their children go to school
D. parents do not realize they cannot perform equally well through a child"s growth2. Parents would feel guilty if __________.A. their children can"t accept their own limitations of talent
B. they realize their weaknesses in raising children
C. their grandfathers and uncles and aunts don"t live with them
D. they don"t know their limitations in raising children3. Parents of "nuclear" families sometimes feel at a loss because __________.A. they believe that such a family prevents the healthy growth of a child"s personality and talent
B. they dislike the support that other family members give to their children
C. they do not always have the help of other family members in child-raising
D. they no longer regard grandparents, uncles and aunts as good educators of their children

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     Six-month-old babies are strictly limited in what they can remember about the objects they
see in the world. If you hide several objects from babies, they will only remember one of those
objects. But a new study, which was published in an issue of Psychological Science, a journal
of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that when babies “forget” about an object,
not all is lost. Researchers used to think that babies less than two years old did not understand
than an object continues to exist when it is not in the baby’s view. But in the mid-1980s, new
ways of doing experiments with babies found that they do, if fact, know that objects don’t
disappear when they are not looking at them- a concept know as object permanence. But it
was still unknown what babies needed to remember about objects in order to remember their
existence.
     Now Melissa Kibbe, of Johns Hopkins University, and Alan Leslie, of Rutgers University, are
working to figure out exactly what it is that babies remember about objects. For the new study,
they showed six-month-old babies two objects, a disk and a triangle. Then they hid the objects
behind small screens, first one shape, then the other. Earlier research has shown that young babies
can remember what was hidden most recently, but have more trouble remembering the first object
that was hidden. Once the shapes were hidden, they lifted the screen in front of the first object.
Sometimes they showed babies the shape that was hidden there originally, but sometimes it was
the other shape, and sometimes the object had vanished completely.
     Psychologists measure how long babies look at something to see how surprised they are. In
Kibbe and Leslie’s study, babies weren’t particularly surprised to see that the shape hidden behind
the screen had changed, for example, from a triangle to a disk. But if the object was gone altogether,
the babies looked significantly longer, indicating surprise at an unexpected outcome. “This shows
that even though babies don’t remember the shape of the object, they know that it should continue
to exist,” Kibbe says. “They remember the object without remembering the features that identify that
object.”
     This helps explain how the young brain processes information about objects, Leslie says. He
thinks the brain has a structure that acts like a kind of pointer, a mental finger that points at an object.

1. Before the study, which of the following was unclear?A. Whether babies know objects are gone.
B. Why babies were interested in what was hidden.
C. What made babies remember objects’ existence.
D. Whether babies can remember what was hidden first.2. In the second paragraph, the underlined word “vanished” probably means ______.A. disappeared
B. forgotten
C. discovered
D. hidden3. The study is beneficial to know ______.A. whether babies can remember features of hidden objects
B. how the young brain deals with information about objects
C. whether babies were surprised when they found the objects disappeared
D. why babies less than two years did not understand a hidden object still existed4. Which would be the best title for the passage?A. A new concept- object permanence
B. What babies remember about objects
C. A new study on psychology
D. All remembered isn’t lost

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阅读理解。     Consider the following three facts from a research about 1,292 kindergartens, elementary schools,
middle schools and high schools.
     78% of the schools have at least one fastfood place within less than a half mile or about a 10minute
walk.
     Half the area"s schools have a fastfood restaurant a third of a mile or closer, about a fiveminute walk.
In some cases, the restaurant is right next door or across the street.
     There are three to four times as many fastfood restaurants within less than a mile of schools than they
would be expected.
     Most public and private schools in Chicago are only a fiveto10minute walk from at least one fastfood
restaurant. The city is facing the same problem like other areas. Children and teens are surrounded by
unhealthy options.
    Students can pick up fast foods, including hamburgers, French fries, fried chicken and doughnuts, on
the way to and from school. Some high school students can go off campus at lunchtime to eat it. "Five
days a week we send children to an environment where there"s an abundance of highcalorie,
lownutritionalquality, inexpensive food," says Bryn Austin.
     The research comes from growing concerns that American schoolchildren are gaining weight. About
31% of kids aged 6 to 19 are overweight or at risk of becoming so. On days when kids eat fast food,
they have more calories, more fat, more sugar and fewer fruits and vegetables than on other days.
     Kelly Brownell from Yale University said, "Just like there are drugfree zones around schools, there
should be zones around schools that are free of junk food, including fastfood restaurants, minimarkets
and gas stations that sell food inside."1. The passage mainly wants to show that ________. A. the number of fastfood restaurants is increasing
B. fastfood restaurants are doing harm to students
C. there are many fastfood restaurants around schools
D. fastfood restaurants around schools have been a problem2. According to the passage, the "junk food" that Kelly Brownell mentioned should be foods ________.  A. that are popular with the students
B. high in calories and low in nutrition
C. inexpensive for students to buy
D. high in nutrition and low in calories3. According to Kelly Brownell, the best way to solve the problem is to ________.A. have rules to stop students from going out for food
B. set up zones free of junk food around schools
C. charge fastfood restaurants around school
D. close all the gas stations around schools4. What would be the best title for the passage? A. Students Are Taking More Calories than They Need
B. Zones Free of Junk Food in Need Around Schools
C. FastFood Restaurants Crowd Chicago Schools
D. FastFood Restaurants Should Not Be Allowed

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阅读理解     On a PC (个人电脑), having to fill out a form and type in a credit card number to buy something
is only mildly annoying. On a cellphone, it could make you want to skip the purchase entirely.
     This is why investors, startups (初创企业) and major corporations are pouring money into
services that make it easier to use cellphones to buy goods and transfer money. The aim is to turn
phones into virtual credit cards or checkbooks, enabling the kind of clickandbuy commerce and online
banking that people have come to expect on their PCs. But shrinking down (缩小) those services
presents serious challenges.
     The services must work on many different phones and through many cellphone service providers,
which usually control the billing relationships with customers. That adds complexity to the already tricky
business of safely and securely transferring funds among financial institutions and merchants.
     Mobile payment systems have been tried before, with only modest success. Driving a new flurry
(一阵兴奋) of deal making, industry analysts and executives say, is the success of the iPhone,
BlackBerry and other sophisticated (尖端的) devices. These phones make complex interactions easier.
     Now the race is on to develop new payment systems-and to get several percentage points in fees
from each transaction. They"re seeing that returns could be so huge. Obopay, a startup that lets people
transmit money to one another via text message, raised $ 35 million from Nokia"s investment. Also, a
mobile payments startup called Boku announced that it had received $ 13 million in venture capital
financing.
     When people can use their phone numbers to make a purchase, they are 10 times as likely to follow
through on a transaction as when they have to type in credit card and billing information, said David
Marcus, chief executive of a startup called Zong.
     Mobile payment companies also need to get cooperation from merchants, which must add a payment
option to their mobile sites or applications.
     But the potential opportunity to get fees from the growing number of mobile transactions is too
__juicy__to__pass__up,__despite the risks, said an analyst with IDC Financial Insights, a market
research company.1. From the passage, we should face ________ great difficulties while purchasing
    through cellphones instead of PCs.A. one
B. two
C. three
D. four2. According to the passage, using phones to make a purchase is ________.A. expensive
B. convenient
C. troublesome
D. impossible3. What does the underlined phrase "too juicy to pass up" in the last paragraph probably mean?A. Too profitable to ignore.
B. Too difficult to seize.
C. Too heavy to lift.
D. Too unsafe to handle.4. What would be the best title for the passage? A. The Benefit of Purchasing via Cellphone
B. The Great Risks on Payments via Cellphone
C. How to Deal with Payments via Cellphone
D. Investors Bet on Payments via Cellphone

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阅读理解     Similar things continuously happened in Haiti and Chile. Thousands of people were buried in the
earthquake and lost their lives. What if we could have warned them? People are always trying hard
to find a way of preventing building collapsing (倒塌). Better materials and technology help, but are
not a solution. Just like humans, a building has its own life circle from "birth" to "death". If we know
when a building is going to collapse, we can repair it in advance or get out before it falls.
     Now, scientists at the University of Illinois have developed a material that turns red before it breaks.
The invention could be used in things like climbing ropes, or bridge supports. The secret behind the
colorchanging material is a type of molecule (分子).  A molecule is a group of atoms held together by
chemical bonds (化学键).  Imagine you and your friends standing in a circle, holding hands. Each
person stands for one atom, your hands represent the bonds, and the entire circle represents a molecule.
If one person lets go of his or her hands, the molecule changes color. The research team put the
molecule into a soft material.  When the researchers stretched (拉紧) the material, it turned bright red
a few seconds before it broke into two pieces. When they repeatedly stretched and relaxed the
material,  without breaking it,  it only turned a little red.
    The major problem is, light can get rid of the red color. When the team shone a bright light on the
molecule, the broken bond was fixed, and the color disappeared. If bright light keeps the red color
from appearing, the material"s warning system will be useless. Scientists still have a lot of work to do
before  the  colorchanging  molecule  can  be  used  outside the lab.1. The passage mainly about ________. A. a way of preventing buildings from breaking down
B. a way of warning before buildings collapse
C. a series of earthquakes in Haiti and Chile
D. a newlydiscovered structure of a molecule2. According to the passage, we can conclude that ________. A. scientists have found the life circle of buildings from "birth" to "death"
B. there are problems to solve before putting the new material to use
C. bright light makes the red color visible to human eyes
D. the new material is unlikely to be used in building bridges3. The colorchanging molecule can ________. A. remind people to leave buildings before they fall
B. help building materials get stretched if necessary
C. prevent the earthquake from killing people
D. make building materials much stronger4. The warning system is based on the fact that ________.   A. red color won"t show up when it meets bright light
B. a building has its own life circle of "birth" to "death"
C. a material with a certain type of molecule can turn red when stretched
D. the broken bond will fix itself when a molecule meets bright light

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