阅读理解。 Our particular parenting style reflects our own way o f"looking". Here
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Our particular parenting style reflects our own way o f"looking". Here"s a great piece of writing reflecting
parent"s particular ways on the parenting style that have become known humorously as helicopter parenting
and submarine (潜水艇) parenting. Helicopter parents hover over their children, managing every aspect of their
child"s life. On the contrary, submarine parents remain"hidden" coming to the surface when guidance is needed.
While helicopter parents may have the best intentions, in reality, they are raising children with few problem
solving skills. Children with hovering parents never get the chance to face disappointment and build up their
ability to recover from misfortune.
Think about your typical submarine. Submarines usually remain underwater. In case of a need for
emergency surfacing, submarines can rise so quickly they are driven partially out of the water. Submarine
parents also remain out of sight, yet able to pop up in the case of an emergency.
I admit I"m a submarine mom. My job as a parent is to have fun with my daughters while letting them
explore and learn natural consequences.
My older daughter found herself acting in commercials and making more than minimum wage as a teen.
To give her a sense of the real world, I insisted she spend three weeks every summer, picking strawberries
and earning $3.50 on a good day.
When my youngest daughter Sondra was six, she wanted a very expensive American Girl Doll. I cut the
full color 18" picture out of the American Girl catalogue and had it laminated (压膜)."Here"s your American
Girl Doll." I said"When you turn nine, I"ll buy you the 3D doll on your birthday." Sondra played with her flat
doll for months, making clothes and furniture for her. She learned creativity. I saved $88.00. |
| 1. What is the text mainly about? |
A. Various means of transportation.
B. Funny experiences of a mom.
C. Humorous stories about parents.
D. Different styles of parenting. |
| 2. The underlined phrase "hover over" in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to"______". |
A. leave behind
B. fly around
C. watch over
D. set aside |
| 3. Which of the following is true of helicopter parents? |
A. They give their children proper guidance.
B. They try to do everything for their children.
C. They teach their children how to face failures.
D. They help their children explore by themselves. |
| 4. It can be inferred from the last two paragraphs that Mom _______. |
A. has good parenting skills
B. is always making promises
C. is strict with her daughter
D. tries her best to save money |
| 5. The author supports her point of view mainly by________. |
A. stating facts and offering advice
B. using figures and giving evidence
C. analyzing data and drawing conclusions
D. making comparisons and giving examples |
答案
| 1-5: DCBAD |
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| 阅读理解。 |
What is the color of the universe? Astronomers had not answered this question until two months ago. That
is when two American astronomers reported on their study of all the light in the universe. They said that the
universe would appear to the human eyes to be a light greenish color.
Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, reported their finding
in January. They presented the research at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. They said that
finding the color of the universe was not part of their more serious scientific research. They did it for fun.
However, earlier this month, the scientists admitted making a mistake. They said their finding was much
more colorful than it should have been. They now say the light from our universe is closer to white. It is more
like a milky or creamy white color.
Their study attempted to show what people might see if they could observe the universe from far away.
The scientists found the average color by combining light from about two-hundred-thousand star systems.
Their information came from an observatory in New South Wales, Australia. The scientists gave a number
value to the colors of the different star systems. Then they added the numbers together and found the average
measurement. The scientists used this average to identify the color of the universe. They said it was a very
pretty light green. Many newspapers and television stations reported their finding.
Other scientists and color engineers attempted to reproduce the result. Mark Fairchild of the Rochester
Institute discovered a mistake in the computer software program used by the Johns Hopkins scientists.
When the mistake was corrected, the results changed. The new color of the universe is much less colorful.
It is very close to white. |
| 1. The color of the universe is _____. |
A. close to white
B. black
C. blue
D. light greenish |
| 2. The two scientists found the color of the universe by _____. |
A. combining light from about 200,000 star systems
B. observing at an observatory in India
C .making long-term scientific research
D. using computer software programs |
| 3. Who found the true color of the universe? |
A. Karl Glazebrook.
B. Ivan Baldry.
C. Mark Fairchild
D. Johns Hopkins. |
| 4. This passage mainly tells us ______. |
A. what the color of the universe is
B. the light from our universe is a light greenish color
C. the new color of the universe is much more colorful
D. the finding of the color of the universe is difficult |
| 阅读理解。 |
We all know that teenagers like to sleep late. But more and more research is showing that this is not just
a preference-or even the result of late-night studying or instant messaging-but is rooted in their biological
rhythms(节律). All of this would be little more than an interesting observation except that most high schools
start so early, and so many teenagers are having a hard time staying awake.
A recent article in The Times cited a National Sleep Foundation survey in which more than a quarter of
the students reported that they fell asleep in class at least once a week. Researchers say this is true because
youngsters - beginning around age 12 until they reach their mid-20s-only start producing melatonin, the
sleep-inducing hormone(荷尔蒙), around 11:00 pm and that production lasts until about 7:00 am. In adults,
melatonin lasts to around 4:00 am. Trying to wake up a teenager before 7:00 am is like trying to awake an
adult before 4:00 am.
The obvious remedy(补救)would be for high schools to start later-well, after 8:00 am. A handful of
schools that have switched have reported beneficial results. School officials in Minneapolis say that
attendance improved and students" grades rose slightly after they changed to start at 8:40 am several years
ago. In Wilton, Conn., where the high school start time was pushed back to 8:20 am from 7:35 am, teachers
and parents reported better student behavior and greater alertness. Surveys of students in both districts
indicated that they did not use the later starts as an excuse to go to bed later.
Numerous districts have considered the idea of later high school hours, only to drop it because of fierce
adult opposition. Coaches complain that the later classroom hours in the afternoon would take time from
their training programs and teams" success. School bus companies would be forced to change their
schedules. And many parents complained that they would have to adjust their own schedules.
Many schools officials say more research is needed. We"re all for that and for remembering that the goal
is to educate youngsters-and for that they need to be awake. |
| 1. According to the new research, teenagers like to sleep late because ______. |
A. they have to study till late at night
B. they waste too much rest time sending instant messages
C. they prefer to stay in bed rather than get up early
D. their biological systems make them do so |
| 2. We can learn from the second paragraph that melatonin makes _______. |
A. youngsters awake after 7:00 am
B. adults sleepy after 4:00 am
C. youngsters sleepy before 7:00 am
D. adults awake after 4:00 am |
| 3. The third paragraph is written to show that _____. |
A. many high schools start after 8:00 am
B. later high school start time made students go to bed late
C. students don"t go to bed late even though they have later high school hours
D. later high school start time is a very effective measure |
4. According to the passage, who are fiercely against later high school hours?
① School team coaches.
② Many parents.
③ School teachers.
④ School bus companies. |
A. ①②③
B. ①②④
C. ①③④
D. ②③④ |
| 5. We can infer from the passage that the author"s attitude towards later high school hours is _____. |
A. positive
B. negative
C. indifferent
D. unclear |
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It"s natural to greet friends with a smile and a wave. When you do this, your face and body work together
to show your friends that you"re happy to see them. But what happens if your face and body send mixed
messages? Scientists have recently deal with these questions. They found that when a person is looking at your
face, he or she might not believe what he or she sees if your body language doesn"t match the feeling that your
face shows.
Studying such mixed messages is nothing new for scientists. Previously, they had found that the tone of a
person"s voice can be more important than the words that are spoken. For example, most people tend not to
believe a person who says in a flat voice,"I"m so excited."
When it came to emotions conveyed by facial expressions and body language, most scientists suspected
that the face was more important. To test if this was true, psychologists from the Netherlands and Boston
showed people a number of pictures of isolated faces and isolated bodies (with faces blurred out) that showed
anger or fear. They also showed pictures in which angry or scared faces were paired with angry or scared
bodies.
An angry face had low eyebrows and tight lips. A scared face had high eyebrows and a slightly open
mouth. An angry body had arms back and shoulders at an angle, as if ready to fight. A scared body had arms
forward and shoulders square, as if ready to defend.
Using the pictures, the researchers asked people to quickly press a button that matched the correct facial
emotion: anger or fear. When people looked only at faces, they chose the right emotion about 81 percent of
the time. But when people looked at a mismatched picture-a scared face with an angry body, for example-they
correctly guessed the emotion on the face only 64 percent of the time.
These results told the researchers that mixed signals can confuse people. Even when people pay attention
to the face, body language subtly influences which emotion they read.
So, your body language is important for telling people how you feel. And if you want to be understood, it
helps to avoid sending mixed messages. |
1. What"s the best title of the passage? ( No more than 5 words)
___________________________________________________________________________________
2. What question have scientists recently dealt with? ( No more than 15 words)
___________________________________________________________________________________
3. Please explain the underlined word"confused" in English. ( No more than 5 words)
___________________________________________________________________________________
4. Why do people tend to look at other"s faces to know their real feelings when their body language
doesn"t match the feelings their faces show? ( No more than 30 words)
_____________________________________________________________________________________
5. What did most scientists suspect according to the passage? ( No more than 10 words)
_____________________________________________________________________________________ |
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When most people think of giant pandas, the pictures of the cute, black-and-white bears from China that
eat bamboo will immediately jump into their mind. Scientists from Mississippi State University, however, are
interested in what the bears leave behind; their poop (排泄物). At a recent meeting in Denver, Professor Brown
at the university presented her research showing how panda poop could inspire a new way to obtain energy
from plants, which are a renewable energy source. Usually, plants can be called biomass (有机燃料) when
they are used as an energy source.
Burning biomass is one way to capture its energy, but Brown hopes panda poop can teach scientists
something about breaking down biomass. Pandas - or at least the bacteria in their stomachs - are very good at
getting energy out of bamboo. Unlike cows, which use 4 stomachs to digest large amounts of grass, a panda
has only one stomach. Bamboo comes in, and poop goes out.
Every day for 14 months, Brown and her team on this project, counted the bacteria in the poop of the two
pandas. Ya Ya and Le Le living at the Memphis Zoo. Her studies turned up 12 species of bacteria that break
down biomass, including one that had never been found in pandas. Brown says that because the poop contains
bacteria that break down biomass, it could also be used to break down other types of biomass.
Now the scientists hope to identify the chemicals that help with the process of breaking down biomass and
then figure out how the bacteria work. If those chemicals can be made in the lab, they could be used to turn
biomass - like grass or other plants - into fuel.
Brown says she doesn"t mind handling panda poop."It"s probably the most pleasant material to work with,"
she says,"My colleagues and I have been working with other poop for a long time, and we can assure you it
has a fairly pleasant smell associated with it." |
| 1. The importance of studying panda poop is _______. |
A. to explore a new way to get energy from plants
B. to create a renewable energy from plants
C. to learn a lesson of energy from panda poop
D. to figure out how the bacteria work for us mankind |
2. The process of the panda poop project can be described as ______.
a. Identify the chemicals helpful to break down biomass.
b. Find the bacteria in panda poop which break down bamboo.
c. Reproduce the chemicals in the lab to turn biomass into energy.
d. Analyze how the bacteria in panda poop work in panda"s stomach. |
A. a, b, d, e
B. a, d, c, b
C. b, d, a, c
D. b, a, d, c |
| 3. What does the author mainly want to express in the 2nd paragraph? |
A. Pandas don"t digest bamboo the same way as cows.
B. Pandas are capable of getting energy using stomachs.
C. Scientists have learn something new from panda poop.
D. Pandas can get energy from bamboo more efficiently. |
| 4. What does Professor Brown think of working with panda poop? |
A. Enjoyable.
B. Challenging.
C. Inspiring.
D. Sick. |
| 阅读理解。 |
Scientists used to explore (探测 ) on the surface of the ocean. Now they are exploring below the surface,
too. They want to know about ocean water and the plant and animal life deep in the ocean.
In 1934 the scientist William Beebe dived 3,000 feet below the surface in a hollow steel ball. In 1935
August Piccard dived 10,330 feet. In 1960 his son Jean dived to a depth of 35 ,800 feet.
All these early dives were deep. But the divers could not stay down for very long. They had to come back
up to the surface after a few seconds. Scientists needed to stay down longer to study life below surface.
Gradually they succeeded. Cousteau, a Frenchman, was able to keep down to a depth of 36 feet for one month
and to a depth of 90 feet for a week.
Now scientists are developing even better equipment. With this new equipment, man can stay below the
surface for days or even weeks. In 1962 Cousteau set up a research station 35 feet below the surface. Then,
in 1964,he set up another station on the ocean floor of the Red Sea. This was the first undersea station to
operate without help from the surface.
Many countries are now studying undersea living. The former Soviet Union has an undersea laboratory in
the Crimean Sea. The United States has a laboratory 50 feet down on the ocean floor off the Virgin Islands. In
1970 five men lived there for two weeks. Then a team of five women scientists stayed in the laboratory. Next
came other teams of men. All were there to explore the ocean depths and to make plans for the use of its
resources. Scientists hope to find enough mineral, vegetable, and animal wealth there to provide food for the
entire world. |
| 1. In order to _____,scientists are exploring below the surface of the ocean. |
A. know about the ocean water deep in the ocean
B. stay down longer to study life of the plant and animal below the surface
C. know about the plant and animal life deep in the ocean
D. both A and C |
| 2. Who made the deepest dive? |
A. William Beebe.
B. August Piccard.
C. Jean Piccard.
D. Cousteau. |
| 3. Who set up the first undersea station? |
A. A Frenchman.
B. An American.
C. A Russian.
D. The passage made no mention. |
| 4. Which of the following statement is true? |
A. The early divers could not stay down for very long.
B. Up to now only five women scientists have stayed in the undersea laboratory.
C. The purpose of setting up the undersea laboratories is to make plans for the use
of the resources in the ocean.
D. None of the above is true. |
| 5. The author wants to tell us _____. |
A. that scientists try to explore the ocean depths
B. that scientists try to make use of resources in the ocean
C. about the secret of the plant and animal life in the ocean
D. both A and B |
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