阅读理解。 Many people easily feel disappointed whenever they fail in their busin
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| 阅读理解。 |
Many people easily feel disappointed whenever they fail in their business. The failures may lead them to
pessimism (悲观主义). The following saying" Failure is the mother of success" has been used to encourage
these sorts of people.
At first," everything is difficult at the beginning". When we start carrying out a certain plan, although it is
carefully planned, we still meet some unexpected difficulties. For example, a farmer tried to sow a new kind
of seeds. To his disappointment, the new seeds did not produce him a good crop as expected, while his
neighbor farmer sowed the same seeds but harvested better. Our unfortunate farmer did not lose hope and was
determined to find out the causes of his failure: he tried to better his soil and finally succeeded in collecting 5
tons of rice per hectare.
If you lose one go, try another. The patience and persistence (坚持) are important. Drawing experience
from failures, finally we"ll succeed. Our success comes from our determination after failures. Demosthenes,
the greatest Athenian orator (雄辩家 ), before becoming famous, had to suffer so many failures. The audience
paid little attention to his political speeches because of his weak voice. He determined to get rid of this defect.
Day after day, he went to the sea, shouting with very loud sounds of waves and in the end he got a convincing (令人信服的) voice.
The above saying is quite right when used in pupils" lives. If you are weak at certain subjects, don"t be
disappointed. Go on with your study. You should learn more from your friends, your teachers and others and
listen to their advice. In this way, you can get over your defects and weaknesses. |
| 1. This passage is most probably written for ______. |
A. parents
B. teachers
C. students
D. businessmen |
| 2. We can learn from the passage that ______. |
A. the value of failures is to get experience from them
B. he who laughs last laughs best
C. you can"t judge a book by its cover
D. all successes are followed by failures |
| 3. The underlined word" defect" in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to" ______ . |
A. weakness
B. power
C. idea
D. thought |
| 4. The saying "Failure is the mother of success" can serve as a guide for those who____. |
A. dare not carry out a certain plan
B. show pessimism after their failures
C. don"t know what the saying means
D. have never failed before in their lives |
答案
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| 阅读理解。 |
Babies can learn new words if they are connected with objects that catch their attention, researchers at the
Infant Lab at Temple University in Philadelphia have found.
"They hear every word," said Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, professor of psychology at Temple University. "And they
are also paying attention to the things that are interesting to them."
Previous studies showed babies as young as 10 months old may understand about 10 words. But Infant Lab
researchers wanted to figure out how these infants actually learned words. So they tested more than 75 babies,
showing them a series of objects and attaching made-up names to them. They would ask the babies questions,
and then track their eyes to measure their responses.
So, could the babies remember the names? They found infants could match words with objects. But they
also discovered babies only associated the new words with the objects that caught their attention-interesting
objects. They did not associate words with the boring, dull objects.
For parents, the message in all this is that very young children are listening and learning language. And they
learn about the things that specifically interest them.
Twins Mark and Anita Farrell took part in the study when they were 10 months old, and their mother,
Penni Farrell, took home what she learned about baby behavior.
"I decided to go out and buy a couple of books that and more colorful images, words, things that would
draw their attention," she said.
Researchers say parents should follow a baby" s lead.
Another lesson for parents, researchers say, is to talk with your children starting at a very young age, and
make sure that conversation is about something your child finds interesting. |
| 1. The purpose of this research is _____. |
A. to help parents teach their babies
B. to figure out how parents teach their babies
C. to find out how babies learn words
D. to help babies learn words |
| 2. The research showed that _____. |
A. a ten-month-old baby can" t understand 10 words
B. babies can" t remember interesting names
C. babies can associate words with boring objects too
D. babies can match the new words with interesting objects |
| 3. From the results of the research, parents can develop babies" talking ability by _____. |
A. talking with babies time and time again
B. talking with babies as much as possible
C. talking with babies about topics interesting them at a very young age
D. talking to babies before they are born |
| 4. The best title of this passage probably is ______. |
A. Attractive Objects Help Babies Learn New Words
B. How To Talk With Babies At Their Very Young Age
C. The Importance of Teaching Babies to Learn New Words
D. How do Make Babies Talk With Their Parents |
| 阅读理解。 |
Whatever our differences as human beings are we all think we"re more like the rest of the animal world
than we realize. It is said that we share 40 percent of our genetic (遗传的) structure with the simple worm.
But that fact has helped Sir John Sulston win the 2002 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Sir John is the founder
of the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, which was set up in 1992 to get further understanding of the human
genome (染色体组).
To help them do this, they turned to the worm. The nematode (线虫类的) worm is one of the earliest
creatures on planet earth. It is less than one millimeter long, completely transparent and spends its entire life
digging holes through sand. But it still has lots to say about human life, and what can be done to make it
better.
What the worm told Sir John and his colleagues was that each of the cells in the human body is
programmed like a computer. They grow, develop and die according to a set of instructions that are coded
in our genetic make-up.
Many of the diseases that humans suffer from happen when these instructions go wrong or are not
obeyed. When the cell refuses to die but carries on growing instead, this leads to cancer. Heart attacks and
diseases like AIDS cause more cell deaths than normal, increasing the damage they do to the body. Sir John
was the first scientist to prove the existence of programmed cell death. |
| 1. Sir John Sulston got a Nobel Prize for Medicine because he has _____ . |
A. found that human beings are similar to the worm
B. got the fact we share 40 percent of our genetic structure with the simple worm
C. found the computer which controls each of the cells in the human body
D. proved that cell death is programmed |
| 2. People might be seriously ill if the cells in their body _____. |
A. grow without being instructed
B. die regularly
C. fail to follow people"s instructions
D. develop in the human body |
| 3. The underlined word " they" in Paragraph 5 refers to _____. |
A. cell deaths
B. diseases
C. instructions
D. cells |
| 4. What is the subject discussed in the text? |
A. The theory of programmed cell deaths.
B. A great scientist-Sir John Sulston.
C. The programmed human life.
D. Dangerous diseases. |
| 阅读理解。 |
Fish have ears. Really. They" re quite small and have no opening to the outside world carrying sound
through the body. For the past seven years, Simon Thorrold, a university professor, has been examining
fish ears, small round ear bones called otoliths. |
| What can we learn about fish ears from the text? |
A. They are small soft rings.
B. They are not seen from the outside.
C. They are openings only on food fish.
D. They are not used to receive sound. |
| 阅读理解。 |
Computer technology has become a major part of people"s lives. This technology has its own special
words. One example is the word " mouse". A computer mouse is not a small animal that lives in buildings
and open fields. It is a small device (装置) that you move around on a flat surface in front of a computer.
The mouse moves the cursor (光标) on the computer screen.
Computer expert Douglas Engelbart developed the idea for the mouse in the early nineteen-sixties. The
first computer mouse was a carved block of wood with two metal wheels. It was called a mouse because
it had a tail at one end. The tail was the wire that connected it to the computer.
Using a computer takes some training. People who are experts are sometimes called hackers. A hacker
is usually a person who writes software programs in a special computer language. But the word" hacker"
is also used to describe a person who tries to steal information from computer systems.
Another well known computer word is Google. It is the name of a popular search engine for the Internet.
People use the search engine to find information about almost any subject on the Internet. The people who
started the company named it Google because in mathematics, googol, spelled g-o-o-g-o-l,is an extremely
large number. It is the number one followed by one hundred zeros.
When you "Google" a subject, you can get a large amount of information about it. Some people like to
Google their friends or themselves to see how many times their name appears on the Internet.
If you Google someone, you might find that persons name on a blog. A blog is the shortened name for
a Web log. A blog is a personal Web page. It may contain stories, comments, pictures and links to other
websites. Some people add information to their blogs every day. People who have blogs are called bloggers. |
| 1. What is the main idea of the second paragraph? |
A. Douglas Engelbart was a great inventor.
B. The first mouse was made from wood.
C. How the first computer mouse was invented.
D. Why the mouse has a tail. |
| 2. If someone is called a hacker, _____. |
A. he is good at repairing computers
B. he is skilled at computer technology
C. he always loads the newest softwares
D. he always stays at home developing softwares |
| 3. According to the passage, a blog ______. |
A. must be updated every day
B. is a company"s Web page
C. is linked to all search engines
D. usually contains information about personal experiences |
| 4. Which of the following is TRUE about Google? |
A. It can help you find useful information.
B. It can help people communicate with each other.
C. It is used to do mathematical analysis.
D. It is the largest number in mathematics. |
| 阅读以下1-5段材料，然后从A-f中选出各段的主题。有一项为多余选项。 |
A. A good teacher acts in class
B. Acting: repetition of fixed words and movements
C. Teaching: a student-centered creative process
D. Similarities between teaching and acting
E. ( = AB) Differences between teaching and acting
F. ( = AC) A good teacher, not necessarily a good actor |
1 To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor: you must be able to hold the
attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice
which is fully under your control; and you must be a- ble to act what you are teaching, In order to make
its meaning clear.
2 Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he does not sit unmoved before his class: he stands
the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, his hands and fingers to help him in his
explanations, and his face to express feeling. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality and
the musical note if his voice always changing according to what he is talking a- bout.
3 The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn"t mean that he will indeed
be able to act well in the stage, for there are very important differences between the teacher"s work and the
actor"s. The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words
each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually
fixed beforehand. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on
the stage.
4 A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part in his play: they
ask questions, they obey orders, and if they don"t understand something, they say so, the teacher therefore
has to suit his act to the needs of his audience. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he
goes along.
5 As a good teacher presently, you must take your au- dience as your friends, take care of them, help
them and give them enough freedom and space. I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class
but were unable to take part in a stage play be- cause their brains wouldn"t keep discipline: they could not
keep strictly to what another had written. |
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