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Driving in a foreign country is always different in at least some ways from driving in your own country. Here are some general points regarding driving in New Zealand.
l Visitors wishing to drive in New Zealand do not require an international driver’s license but are required to carry their local driver’s licens

e whenever driving.
l Vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road as they do in Britain, Australia, and Japan. Most rental vehicles will have a sticker reminding you of this important fact.
l When the traffic light is red, you must stop. There is no left turn rule as in North America.
l New Zealand road rules follow international standards but please note that in New Zealand vehicles turning left must give way to traffic turning right.
l In general, if you are turning left (where there are give-way signs or no signs), give way to vehicles that not turning. In all other situations, give way to vehicles crossing or coming from your right.
l Seat belts must be worn at all times while driving in New Zealand. This stands for the driver and passengers. The driver is responsible for ensuring all passengers are wearing their seatbelts.
l Do not drink alcohol before driving in New Zealand—drinking and driving laws are strictly enforced.
l Speed limits are in kilometres per hour (kph), not miles per hour (mph).
Speed conversion: 1 kph equals 0.621 mph; 1 mph equals 1.61 kph.
l The speed limit on the open road is 100km/h. In towns and cities the speed limit is 50km/h. Be sure to obey all school crossing speed reductions as speed cameras operate regularly throughout New Zealand.
For further information and up to date road conditions visit: http://www.transit.govt.nz
小题1:What can be learned from the passage?

A．A passenger’s not wearing the seat belt has little to do with the driver.

B．There will be a reminder for drivers to remember to drive on the left side.

C．Cars passing a school in towns should drive at a speed of less than 31 mph.

D．A foreign driver is expected to have a driving license issued by New Zealand.

小题2:Which of the following statements correctly explains road rules in New Zealand?
A. In Figure 1, Car B must give way to Car A.
B. In Figure 2, Car B must give way to Car A.
C. In Figure 3, Car B must give way to Car A.
D. In Figure 4, Car B must give way to Car A.

小题3:This passage is most likely ____________.

A．a travel brochure for locals

B．a website travel introduction

C．an advertisement of travel

D．a travel column in a geographical magazine

答案

小题1:C
小题1:D
小题1:B

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The best way of learning a language is using it. The best way of learning English is talking in English as much as possible. Sometimes you’ll get your words mixed up(混合)and people will not understand you. Sometimes people will say things too quickly and you can’t understand them. But if you keep your sense of humor(幽默感),you can always have a good laugh at the mistakes you make. Don’t be unhappy if people seem to be laughing at your

mistakes. It’s better for people to laugh at your mistakes than to be angry with you, because they don’t understand what you are saying.The most important thing for learning English is:“Don’t be afraid of making mistakes because everyone makes mistakes.”
小题1:What should you do in learning English?

A．Be careful not to make any mistake.	B．Write as quickly as you can.
C．Speak English as much as you can.	D．Laugh all the way.

小题2:When people laugh at your mistakes, you should______.

A．not care　

B．be happy

C．feel worried

D．be unhappy

小题3:When you make a mistake, you should______.

A．keep quiet

B．get angry

C．be kind

D．keep your sense of humor

小题4: The story tells us: “________”

A．Only foolish people make mistakes	B．Few people make mistakes
C．People never make mistakes	D．There is no one who doesn’t make mistakes

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Light travels at a speed which is about a million times faster than the speed of sound. In one second, light travels about 300,000km, but sound travels only 344m. You can get some idea of this difference by watching the start of a race. If you stand some distance away from the starter, you can see smoke come from his gun before the sound reaches your ears. This great speed of light produces some strange facts. Sunlight takes about 8 minutes to reach us. If you look at the light of the moon tonight, remember that the light rays（光线）left the moon 1.3 seconds before they reached you. The nearest star is so far away that the light which you can see from it tonight started to travel towards you four years ago at a speed of nearly 2 million km per minute. In some cases the light from one of tonight’s stars started on its journey to you before you were born.
Thus, if we want to be honest, we cannot say “ The stars are shining tonight.” We have to say, “ The stars look pretty. They were shining four years ago but their light has only just reached Earth.”
小题1: Light speed is ________ than sound speed.

A．millions times faster	B．a million times slower
C．about millions of times faster	D．about a million times faster

小题2:If you stand 200 meters away from a man who is firing a gun to start a race, you will find out that _____.

A．you can hear the gun before you see the smoke.

B．sound does not travel as fast as light.

C．the sound of the gun will reach you before the man fires his gun.

D．sound travels about a million times faster than light.

小题3:What does “ it” refer to?

A．moon light

B．light rays

C．the nearest star

D．the moon

小题4:The scientific way of saying “ The stars are shining tonight” should be________.

A．the stars have been shining all the time.

B．the stars seen tonight will be shining four years later.

C．the stars were shining long ago but are seen tonight.

D．the starlight seen today could be seen four years ago.

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The saying that children don’t like reading any more has been proved untrue. A new study finds that 75 percent of kids between five and 17 say that although they love technology, they still want to read books．
The Kids & Family Reading Report also says that 62 percent of kids prefer reading printed books rather than those on a computer．At the same time, those who search an author’s website or use the Internet to find books by a particular author, are more likely to read books for fun every day．
The study also once again proves that the time kids spend reading books for fun decreases after the age of eight and continues to drop through the teen years．The report is a follow-up to a 2006 study．But this time the focus is on the role of technology and when kids’ interest in reading starts to drop．
“Despite the fact that after the age of eight more children go online daily than read for fun daily, high frequency Internet users are more likely to read books for fun every day,” says Heather Carter, a writer of the report．
One in four kids between five and 17 say they read books for fun every day and more than half of kids say they read books for fun at least two to three times a week．One of the key reasons kids say they don’t read more often is that they have trouble finding books they like - a requirement that parents underestimate(低估)．
The study also finds that parents have a strong influence on kids’ reading, but only about half of all parents begin reading to their kids before their first birthday．The percent of children who are read to every day drops from 38 percent among five-to eight-year-olds to 23 percent among nine-to 11-year-olds - exactly the same time that kids’ daily reading for fun starts to drop．
“Parents’ engagement in their child’s reading from birth all the way through the teen years can have a great influence on how often their children read and how much they enjoy reading,” adds Carter．
小题1:What can we learn from the text?

A．Children don’t like reading any more after the age of 8.

B．Most children like reading as well as going online.

C．All kids like reading e – books instead of printed ones.

D．Most children like going online instead of reading.

小题2:It can be inferred from the passage that .

A．the study of kids’ reading has been made before

B．most parents begin reading to their kids from their birth

C．all kids like to get information using the Internet

D．nowadays all children still like to read books

小题3:Which of the following is true according to the text?

A．The kids who often go online don’t like reading books.

B．Parents should teach their kids reading from an early age.

C．Sometimes it is difficult for kids to get the books they like.

D．When kids get older, parents spend more time with them.

小题4:According to the text, contributes a lot to children’s interest in reading.

A．the Internet	B．parents’ engagement
C．short supply of books	D．new technology

小题5:What’s the best title of the passage?

A．Do kids still like reading?	B．Kids’ interest in reading drops
C．New technology on kids’ reading	D．Parents’ influence on kids’ reading

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If you want to improve your child’s results at school, you could do a lot worse than ensuring that they do plenty of exercise. Scientists have already shown that physical activity can make you brainier. But a team in America has used scans to show that an important part of the brain actually grows in children who are fit. These youngsters tend to be more intelligent and have better memories than those who are inactive.
　　Scientists also found that one of the most important parts of their brains was 12 percent larger than those of unfit children. They believe that encouraging children to take exercise from a very young age could help them do better at school later. Researchers from the University of Illinois, in the U.S., studied the brains of 49 children aged nine and ten using a magnetic resonance imaging scan (核磁共振摄影扫描), a technique which provides very detailed pictures of organs and tissues in the body.
　　They also tested the fitness levels of the children by making them run on a treadmill (跑步机). The scientists found that the hippocampus, a part of the brain responsible for memory and learning, was around 12 percent larger in the fitter children.
　　Professor Art Kramer, who led the study published in the journal Brain Research, said the findings had important implications for encouraging individuals to take part in sport from a young age. “We knew that experience and environmental factors and socioeconomic status all impact brain development,” he said. “If you get some terrible genes from your parents, you can’t really fix that, and it’s not easy to do something about your economic status. But here’s something that we can do something about.”
小题1: If you want to improve your children’s result in school, ____________.

A．it is worse to ensure that they do plenty of exercise

B．you can have their brain scanned

C．it could be better to make sure that they do a lot of exercise

D．you can do a lot except ensuring that they do exercise

小题2: According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?

A．The fitness level of the children is linked to their intelligence.

B．Children who have a larger hippocampus will probably have better memories.

C．You can do something about the genes from your parents.

D．Unhealthy children will probably have a smaller hippocampus than others.

小题3:All the following factors that have some influence on one’s brain are mentioned EXCEPT ____________.

A．genetic factor

B．economic status

C．physical fitness

D．economic development

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The German shepherd runs off and noses around in the grass of Kenya’s Laikipia Plateau. “OK, Oakley,” the dog’s handler orders, “Find it!”
Oakley sniffs (嗅) until he comes to a bush, then stops, sits, and looks up at his handler. She bends to see what he has found: the waste of an endangered African wild dog. “Good dog!” she praises. The handler pulls a tennis ball from her pocket. Oakley jumps for his reward.
“He doesn’t actually want the waste,” says Aimee Hurt, a founding member of the U.S.-based group Working Dogs for Conservation. Hurt is in Kenya to train both Oakley and his handler. “He finds it so he can play with his ball. We’re the ones who want the waste.”
Detection dogs are sometimes taught to locate actual animals. Black-footed ferrets (雪貂) have been studied with their help. But more often the dogs learn to locate the waste of creatures such as bears, wolves and mountain lions.
What the dogs find provides scientists with data about a species. Scientists can use the DNA collected from animal waste to identify individuals, sex, and population sizes — all without ever seeing the animal itself. “It can take years to gather this kind of information if you have to trap animals,” Hurt explains.
Waste analysis might make a huge difference when wild species are accused of attacking domestic livestock (家畜). Hurt says, “A good detection dog will find the waste so we can see what the animal is actually eating.” This may help reduce problems between people and wildlife.
小题1: The underlined word “She” in Paragraph 2 refers to “_____”.

A．the German shepherd

B．an African wild dog

C．Aimee Hurt

D．the handler

小题2: Oakley is interested in finding the waste because _____.

A．he wants to study endangered animals

B．he can get a tennis ball to play with

C．he wants to eat it

D．he wants to play with it

小题3:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Trapping animals is not difficult.

B．People are making efforts to protect the environment.

C．Detection dogs attack domestic livestock frequently.

D．Collecting animal waste is a good way to gather information.

小题4:What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Detection dogs can help scientists study wildlife.

B．Detection dogs can defend wildlife.

C．Detection dogs can help the police catch the criminals.

D．Detection dogs can help local people defend domestic livestock.

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