Every Saturday or Sunday night my family and I go out and feed the homeless peop
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Every Saturday or Sunday night my family and I go out and feed the homeless people in the city of Orlando. There are thousands of people across the United States without any food or shelter. My family and I have been doing this for several months.
We all get together in the kitchen and prepare the food. Some of the meals are sandwiches, cookies and a bottle of water. Sometimes my mom prepares a steaming hot delicious meal. We then bag them all up to feed 30 or more people.
I like to write special notes on the bags like “God loves you.” Before my family and I get into the car we ask God for protection in a family prayer. A lot of people misunderstand homeless people. Not all homeless people are drug addicts or bad people. Some are really nice. Some of them just had bad things that happened to them.
At first when my family and I went out on the street we had to earn their trust. A lot of people are unkind to them for no good reason. But now that they see us every week, they trust us. We even know some of their names. We all have to remember that these are people that have feelings. Some of them shake our hands for giving them food, and thank us. Some of them do really funny dances because they are happy.
We have become really close with this man named Tony and his wife. They have all of their personal belongings in shopping carts. After meeting with them several times he has told us a lot about his life. He graduated from Harvard University and has a PHD. He used to teach French and Spanish. He lost his job after the economic crisis began.
After we get done feeding the homeless, it makes me appreciate what I have at home. Sometimes it makes me sad, and makes my mom cry. I love feeding the homeless, and making a difference in someone’s life.
小题1:The following statements are all right except _________. | A．we feed the homeless every Saturday or Sunday night | | B．I write some encouraging words on the food | | C．we offer food for about 30 or more people every Saturday or Sunday night | | D．my family and I have been feeding the poor for several months |
小题2:What do many people think of the homeless in America?| A．They are homeless because of taking drugs. | | B．They are bad people against the society. | | C．They must have done something bad. | | D．All of above. |
小题3:Why do the homeless believe in the author and his family?| A．They don’t ask the homeless to do something bad. | | B．They always bring more food every time. | | C．They often give food to them at fixed time. | | D．They never ask about the names of the homeless. |
小题4:What made Tony lose his job?| A．The falling economy across the whole country. | | B．He hasn’t got a suitable university degree. | | C．He graduated from a common university. | | D．He doesn’t like the teaching of the French language. |
小题5:The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph most probably refers to _________.| A．the loss of the job of Tony | | B．the poverty of the author’s family | | C．the feeding of the homeless | | D．the leaving from the homeless |
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答案
小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:C
小题4:A
小题5:C |
解析
试题分析：本文介绍了我们一家人经常帮助那些无家可归的人，给他们食物，最终得到了他们的信任，与他们也有了很多的沟通与交流。
小题1:B 细节题。根据第三段第一行I like to write special notes on the bags like “God loves you.”说明我只是写下来“上帝爱你”等字，并没有别的鼓励的话，故B项与课文内容不符，B符合题目的要求。
小题2:D 细节题。根据第三段3,4行Not all homeless people are drug addicts or bad people. Some are really nice. Some of them just had bad things that happened to them.说明ABC三项都是人们对于那些无家可归的人的误解，故D项包括了上面所有的内容。故D项正确。
小题3:C 根据第4段2,3行But now that they see us every week, they trust us.说明他们每个星期都能看见我们给他们食物，所以才会对我们产生信任，故C正确。
小题4:A 细节题。根据文章倒数第四行He used to teach French and Spanish. He lost his job after the economic crisis began.说明是经济危机的爆发导致她失去了工作，故A正确。
小题5:C 推理题。根据本行After we get done feeding the homeless, it makes me appreciate what I have at home.在我们给那些无家可归的人食物以后，这样的事情让我对自己所做的事情很自豪，故这里的It是指帮助那些无家可归的人，故C项正确。
点评：本文介绍了我们一家人经常帮助那些无家可归的人，给他们食物，最终得到了他们的信任，与他们也有了很多的沟通与交流。在解题时要仔细审题，结合各选项内容以及文本提供信息，并做适当的延伸，做出准确的判断和推理。 |
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An experiment was carried out at British school into the performance of new pupils. At the start of the year, the pupils were each given a rating, ranging from “excellent prospect” to “unlikely to do well”. These were totally untrue ratings and did not reflect how well the pupils had previously performed. However, these ratings were given to the teachers. At the end of the year, the experimenters compared the pupils’ performance with the ratings. Despite their real abilities, there was an astonishingly high connection between performance and ratings. It seems that people perform as well as we expect them to.
The Self-fulfilling Effect is also known as the Pygmalion Effect. This comes from an old Greek story. The story was also the basis of George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion”, later turned into the musical “My Fair Lady”. In Shaw’s play, Professor Henry Higgins claims he can turn a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle into a duchess. But, as Eliza herself points out to Higgins’ friend Pickering, it isn’t what she learns or does that determines whether she will become a duchess, but how she’s treated.
The implication (含义) of the Pygmalion Effect for leaders and managers is massive. It means that the performance of your team depends less on them than it does on you. The performance you get from people is no more or less than what you expect, which means you must always expect the best. As Goethe said, “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”
小题1:The underlined word in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by “_________”.| A．program | B．regulation | C．correction | D．classification |
小题2:What’s the passage mainly about?| A．A new scientific experiment. | | B．The Self-fulfilling Effect. | | C．Shaw’s play “Pygmalion”. | | D．An improved teaching method. |
小题3:The experiment was made in order to _________.| A．try out a new teaching method | | B．pick out the most excellent pupils | | C．learn if expectations affect performance | | D．give each pupil a proper rating |
小题4:What made Eliza change into a duchess according to Eliza herself?| A．Strict training from Higgins. | | B．Her own strong will and hard work. | | C．The proper way she was regarded. | | D．Warm encouragement from Pickering. |
小题5:According to the Pygmalion Effect, if you want a man to finish a hard task in a short time, you should say, “_________”.| A．I’m sure you can make it | B．I will help you any time | | C．It is as easy as pie | D．It doesn’t matter if you fail |
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Many teenagers feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends.They believe that their family members don’t know them as well as their friends do.In large families，it is quite often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they can only go to their friends for some ideas.It is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or a group of friends.Even when they are not with their friends，they usually spend a lot of time talking among themselves on the phone.This communication is very important in children’s growing up，because friends can discuss something.These things are difficult to tell their family members. However，parents often try to choose their children’s friends for them.Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their good friends.Have you ever thought of the following questions?
Who chooses your friends?
Do you choose your friends or your friends choose you?
Have you got a good friend your parents don’t like?Your answers are welcome.
小题1:Many teenagers think that________can understand them better.| A．friends | B．brothers | C．sisters | D．parents |
小题2:When teenagers have something difficult to tell their parents，they usually________.| A．stay alone at home | B．fight with their parents | | C．discuss it with their friends | D．go to their brothers and sisters for help |
小题3:The underlined sentence “Your answers are welcome.” means “________”.| A．You are welcome to discuss the questions with us. | | B．We’ve got no idea，so your answers are welcome. | | C．Your answers are always right. | | D．You can give us all the right answers. |
小题4:Which of the following is the writer’s attitude(态度)?| A．Parents should choose friends for their children. | | B．Children should choose everything they like. | | C．Parents should understand their children better. | | D．Teenagers should only go to their friends for help. |
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During the week days,they are luckily busy office people; but on weekends,they are just a brood of(一窝)stay home animals.A recent survey shows that office workers in China prefer quiet and easy ways to spend their weekends.
In the survey,conducted by job seeking and offering website Zhaopin.com,32.8 percent of the 6000 respondents choose to stay home at weekends and have a good rest,the Beijing Morning Post reported.
Twenty percent use their days off to do housework. And only 19.3 percent are willing to have fun during the break time from work.Their first choice of fun is shopping. Other choices,though practiced by few,include meeting friends,accompanying the children,trips to the suburbs,and lessons for more skills. When they go shopping,54.5 percent of the white collars actually shop in supermarkets,while 27.9 percent attend other stores,especially when discounts are offered. These activities don’t seem to cost much,as 60 percent spend average less than 200 yuan(US$26)during weekends,and 30 percent no more than 500 yuan.
When asked whom they would spend the weekends with,about 40 percent mention their partners,and 30 percent prefer a weekend all by themselves.Less than 20 percent hang out with friends. Only 5.8 percent would kill the time with their colleagues.This is because we tend to avoid too many personal contacts with our coworkers when we don’t have to work with them,according to some experts.
小题1:How many of the office workers who are the respondents do the housework at weekends? | A．1968. | B．1158. | C．1200. | D．1674. |
小题2:Why will less than ten percent of office workers kill the time with their colleagues at weekends? | A．Because they can’t spare time to play with them. | | B．Because they tend to avoid too many personal contacts with them when they don’t have to. | | C．Because they have many things to deal with at weekends. | | D．Because some experts suggest they should not keep in touch with their colleagues. |
小题3:Which of the following is TRUE according to the survey? | A．There is the same percentage about people preferring a weekend all by themselves and people spending no more than 500 yuan during weekends. | | B．Most office workers can’t afford things in supermarkets,so they prefer to attend other stores,especially when discounts are offered. | | C．More than one fifth of office workers like to hang out with friends. | | D．All the office workers prefer to relax themselves and no one is willing to learn more skills. |
小题4:What is the best title of the passage? | A．How to spend the weekends | | B．Several ways of spending their weekends for office people | | C．How to go shopping on the weekends for office people | | D．Office people prefer easy weekends |
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He wasn’t sick. He wasn’t old. And he wasn’t losing. He had a very good final season and won his last game in 2008. And then he walked away.
Lloyd Carr was 62. That’s a few years earlier than retirement(退休) age in America and many years earlier than some college football coaches say goodbye. How was Carr, who coached University of Michigan, able to leave so easily?
“ It can be intoxicating,” Carr admits. “The Saturday afternoons and the crowds. And when you win, there’s nothing like it.”
But the job needs hard work. The pressure to win. The endless training. The hours are so long that sleeping at the office is a normal thing. I reported Carr’s career at Michigan from 1995 to 2007. I saw him run onto the field before 100,000 cheering fans, saw him enjoy a share of a national championship with a 12-0 season.
And when I visited him recently in retirement, the difference was noticeable. He seems much calmer, relaxed, more at peace. He says, “As much fun as it is, there’s a period when you have other things to deal with.”
Carr knew he wanted to travel, see the world, read more, do other work. He is now connected with a children’s hospital, does some speaking, plays golf, and enjoys relaxing with his wife, Laurie, and their many grandchildren.
Several of today’s big-name coaches are all about Carr’s retirement age. Nick Saban turns 59 this month. Jim Tressel is 57. Frank Beamer is already 63. None of them seems to be slowing down.
So when, I ask Carr, is the right moment to leave such a great job?
He thinks. Finally, he says, “When you love it and can still walk away from it. That’s the right moment.”
小题1:Lloyd Carr stopped working as a coach because he _______.| A．was too old | B．was injured seriously | | C．had other things to experience | D．followed others’ examples |
小题2:The underlined word “intoxicating” in Paragraph 3 probably means ______.| A．exciting | B．disappointing | C．surprising | D．puzzling |
小题3:It can be inferred from the text that Lloyd Carr ________.| A．was always free after retirement | | B．was a failure as a football coach | | C．missed the time when he coached | | D．enjoyed his retirement life very much |
小题4:The author is most probably ________.| A．a football player | B．Lloyd Carr’s assistant | | C．a retired coach | D．a sports reporter |
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A recent survey made by BUPA, an international healthcare provider, shows that 54 percent of Chinese people aged between 45 and 54 consider themselves old, while 28 percent say that the thought of getting old upsets them. 25 percent are afraid of getting old, and a third worry about life in old age.
BUPA made the survey among 12,262 people from 12 countries over 2 months, starting in June 2010. The survey shows that 72 percent of international participants(参加者) aged over 65 don’t feel old and that 67 percent still feel healthy. On the other hand, 65 percent of Chinese feel old even before reaching 60. About one third of those surveyed in China said they have enough savings(存款), and 46 percent are insured(参加保险). Around 60 percent of the Chinese participants hope they will be taken care of by family members.
According to the survey, the French hold the most positive attitude towards getting old, with 32 percent of them considering age 80 and up old. 17 percent of Brazilians look forward to old age, compared with 3 percent globally. Indians are not bothered by old age, as 70 percent said that they don’t feel that they will be affected by old age and 71 percent say they have already made preparations for this stage of life. The illnesses that most people around the world are worried about are cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.
小题1:According to the survey, many Chinese people surveyed feel old before they are ______.| A．50 year old | B．60 years old | | C．70 years old | D．80 years old |
小题2:Most of Chinese people surveyed expect help from _________.| A．the government | B．family members | | C．insurance companies | D．healthcare providers |
小题3:Who are the youngest at heart according to the survey?| A．The Indians. | B．The Brazilians | | C．The French | D．The Chinese |
小题4:Why are the Indians not afraid of getting old?| A．Because they have got ready for old age. | | B．Because old people are respected in India. | | C．Because getting old means enjoying life. | | D．Because they will get more help from society. |
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