In China, many people are leaving the countryside to find jobs in the cities, be

In China, many people are leaving the countryside to find jobs in the cities, be

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In China, many people are leaving the countryside to find jobs in the cities, because the countryside is much poorer than the city, and often there isn"t much work there. Services such as hospital and transport are usually much better in the city than in the countryside. They hope that their lives will improve when they move to the city.
But in the big cities of Europe like London or Paris, people are moving out of the city. These rich families want to live a quieter life. They are tired of the noise and the dirt of the city, and they are tired of the crowded streets, crowded trains and buses. They don"t want to live in the cities any more. They want a house with a garden in the countryside, and breathe the fresh air there.
So they move out of the cities. Some don"t go very far, just a little way out of the city, to the towns near the cities, other people move to the real countryside with sheep, cows and green fields. There, they start new lives and try to make new friends.
Not all those who move from the city to the countryside are happy. After two or three years, many people who have done this feel that it was a big mistake. They don"t make so much money and there isn"t much work to do. People in the countryside are very different and aren"t always very friendly.
As a result, quite a lot of people who have moved to the countryside move back to the city. “It’s wonderful to see crowds in the streets and cinema lights,” they say.
小题1:Which is NOT the reason for people moving to the cities in China?
A.The countryside is much poorer than me city.
B.People in the countryside have nothing to eat.
C.People in the countryside don"t have much work to do there.
D.Services in cities are usually much better than those in the countryside.
小题2:Why do some rich families in Europe move to the countryside?
A.Because they will find good jobs.
B.Because they are tired of living in the city.
C.Because they can make more money there.
D.Because they like feeding sheep and cows in the green fields.
小题3:After moving to the countryside, some people in Europe feel unhappy because      .
A.they can’t make much money
B.there isn’t much work for them to do in the countryside
C.some people in the countryside aren’t always very friendly to them
D.A, B and C
小题4:The underlined sentence in the last paragraph shows      .
A.they are happy to move back to the city
B.they will miss their friends in the countryside
C.they still want to move to the countryside
D.they are tired of the noise and the crowded streets in the city
小题5:The best title of this passage may be “    ”.
A.A happy life!B.Living in the city!
C.Moving out or moving back?D.Living in the countryside!

答案

小题1:B
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:A
小题5:C
解析

小题1:细节理解题,依据文章第一段。
小题2:细节理解题,依据They are tired of the noise and the dirt (尘土) of the city, and they are tired of the crowded streets, crowded trains and buses
小题3:细节理解题,依据They don"t make so much money and there isn"t much work to do. People in the countryside are very different and aren"t always very friendly
小题4:句意理解题。结合句意“看见街道上的人群和电影院灯光的感觉真好”可知答案。
小题5:文章标题题。结合文章大意“在中国,由于贫穷与缺少工作机会,许多农村人背井离乡,来到城市寻找工作。但在欧洲,在像伦敦这样的大都市里,人们却在离开城市。”可知C项比较符合。
举一反三
Facial expressions carry meaning that is determined by situations and relationships. For example, in American culture the smile is in general an expression of pleasure. Yet it also has other uses. A woman’s smile at a police officer does not carry the same meaning as the smile she gives to a young child. A smile may show love or politeness. It can also hide true feelings. For example, many people in Russia consider smiling at strangers in public to be unusual and even improper. Yet many Americans smile freely at strangers in public places (although this is less common in big cities). Some Russians believe that Americans smile in the wrong places; some Americans believe that Russians don’t smile enough. In Southeast Asian culture, a smile is frequently used to cover painful feelings. Vietnamese people may tell a sad story but end the story with a smile.
Our faces show emotions (情感), but we should not attempt(尝试)to “read” people from another culture as we would “read” someone from our own culture. The fact that members of one culture do not express their emotions as openly as do members of another does not mean that they do not experience emotions. Rather, there are cultural differences in the amount of facial expressions permitted. For example, in public and in formal situations many Japanese do not show their emotions as freely as Americans do. When with friends, Japanese and Americans seem to show their emotions similarly.
It is difficult to conclude about Americans and facial expressiveness because of personal and cultural differences in the United States. People from certain cultural backgrounds in the United States seem to be more facially expressive than others. The key is to try not to judge people whose ways of showing emotion are different. If we judge according to our own cultural habits, we may make the mistake of “reading” the other person incorrectly.
小题1:What does the smile usually mean in the U.S.?
A.Love.B.Politeness.C.Joy. D.Thankfulness.
小题2:The author mentions the smile of the Vietnamese to prove that smile can ___ .
A.show friendliness to strangersB.be used to hide true feelings
C.be used in the wrong placesD.show personal habits
小题3:What should we do before attempting to “read” people?
A.Learn about their relations with others.
B.Understand their cultural backgrounds.
C.Find out about their past experience.
D.Figure out what they will do next.
小题4:What would be the best title for the test?
A.Cultural Differences B.Smiles and Relationship
C.Facial ExpressivenessD.Habits and Emotions

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As many as one in five US teenagers have some degree of hearing loss, according to researchers. They say the problem is growing.
“Teenagers really don’t pay attention to how much noise they are exposed to(接触),” Josef Shargorodsky of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston told Reuters. “Often people won’t notice it, but even very little hearing loss may influence language development,” said Shargorodsky, one of the researchers.
The study compared surveys from the early 1990s and the mid-2000s. Each included a few thousand teenagers. In the first survey, about 15 percent of teenagers had some degree of hearing loss. Some 15 years later, that number had risen by a third, to nearly 20 percent.
“This certainly is big news,” said Alison Grimes, an ear doctor. “Hearing loss is very common in old people,” Grimes said, but she added that it was worrying to see it happen in the younger age group.
In babies and young children, hearing problems are known to slow language development. The science is less clear for teenagers, but it is easy to imagine how being hard of hearing could influence learning, said Grimes.
The reasons for the rise are still unclear. When researchers asked teenagers about noise exposure – on the job, at school or from activities, for example – the teenagers didn’t report any change. But Shargorodsky said that might not be true. “We know from before that it is difficult to ask this age group about noise exposure – they underestimate it.” Few people would call it noise when they listen to music on their MP3 player, for example. “There is a difference between what we think is loud and what is harmful to the ear,” said Grimes.
Although it’s not clear that the MP3 players cause teenagers’ hearing loss, Grimes said it was still a good idea to turn down the sound and take short breaks from listening.
小题1:The writer advises teenagers __________.
A.to turn the sound down
B.to stop using MP3 players
C.to be clear about the problem
D.to report the change in hearing loss
小题2:The underlined sentence “they underestimate it” means __________.
A.their love for music prevent them realizing the harm
B.their hearing loss is happening without being noticed
C.they think music can be taken as noise to some degree
D.they think it’s harmful sometimes although it’s not loud
小题3:Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A.Hearing loss may lead to slow language development.
B.Hearing loss in old people is as common as in young people.
C.Researchers have already found some causes of hearing loss.
D.Teenagers know MP3 is harmful, but they can’t stop listening to it.
小题4:What is the best title for the passage?
A.A word short and simpleB.A report by teenagers
C.A message loud and clearD.A letter from MP3 users

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Today most Chinese teenagers are happy to be favored by two parents and four grandparents in their families. But have you ever thought about how to take care of four to twelve old people when you grow up and get married? This could be a problem for most Chinese youths as China is entering a new stage of an aging society.
An aging society refers to one where 10 percent or more of its population is over 60. By the end of 2007, Chinese over 60 years old have made up 11.7 percent of the nation’s total population. “China is getting old before becoming rich,”said Cai Chuang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The population increase that has powered Chinese growth for three decades will give way over the next ten years to a rapid aging of the society. This will lead to weaker economic growth, because of a lack of labor resources.
As a result of the family planning policy, it is expected that the country’s total working population will decrease after 2015.
China is not the only country getting old. More that 60 countries have become aging societies and one in three people in the European Union is a senior citizen.
However, experts said that China doesn"t have a highly developed social security network to support the old. Social security is an insurance program protecting those in need, including the old, the disabled and others.
小题1:An aging society is a society that _________.       
A.less that 10% of its population is over 60
B.10% or more of its population is over 60
C.there are four old people in a family
D.most of its population is over 60
小题2:If China enters an aging society, __________.     
A.there will not be enough labor resources
B.the family planning policy will be ended
C.everyone needs to take care of four to twelve old people
D.China will have a highly developed social security network
小题3:What does Cai Chuang mean by saying“China is getting old before becoming rich.”?
A.China will be an aging society, then be a developed country.
B.China will be a rich country before being an aging society.
C.An aging society will affect Chinese economy development.
D.China will stop developing because of its aging problem.
小题4:The passage mainly talks about         .
A.an aging societyB.Chinese social problem
C.family panning policyD.aging problem in China

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Jack London had endured more hardships by the age of twenty-one than most people experience in a lifetime. His struggles developed in him sympathy for the working class and a lasting dislike of hard work and provided inspiration for his career as a writer.
London grew up in San Francisco in extreme poverty. At an early age, he left school and supported himself through a succession of un skilled jobs ----working as a paper boy, in bowling alleys, on ice wagons, and in canneries(罐头食品厂) and mills. Despite working long hours at these jobs, London was able to read constantly, borrowing travel and adventure books from the library.
The books London read inspired him to travel, and his job experiences led him to become active in fighting for the fights of workers. He sailed to Japan on a journey aiming at catching seals and joined a cross-country protest march with a group of unemployed workers. After being arrested for vagrancy near Buffalo, New York, London decided to educate himself and reshape his life. He quickly completed high school and entered the University of California.
After only one term, however, the appeal of fortune and adventure proved uncontrollable. London gave up his studies and traveled to the Alaskan Yukon in 1897 in search of gold. Jack London was among the first of these miners. He may have searched for more than gold, however. London once commented, “ True, the new region was mostly poor; but its several hundred thousand square miles of coldness at least gave breathing space to those who else would have choked at home.” Although he was unsuccessful as a miner, London’s experiences in Alaska taught him about the human desire for wealth and power and about humankind’s inability to control the forces of nature. While in Alaska, London also absorbed memories and stories that would make him known one hundred years later.
Once back in California, London became determined to earn a living as a writer. He rented a typewriter and worked up to fifteen hours a day, spinning his Alaskan adventures into short stories and novels.
According to legend, London’s piles of rejection slips from publishers grew to five feet in height!
Even so, London preserved. In 1903, he earned national fame when he published the popular novel The Call of the Wild. He soon became the highest paid and most industrious writer in the country. During his career, he produced more than fifty books and earned more than a million dollars. Several of his novels, including The Call of the Wild(1903),the Sea-Wolf(1904),the White Fang(1906),have become American classics. In fact, he was a creative writer whose fiction explored several regions and their cultures: the Yukon, California, Hawaii, and the Solomon Islands. He experimented with many literary forms, from traditional love stories and dystopias(反面乌托邦小说)to science fantasy. His noted journalism included war communication, boxing stories, and the life of Molokai lepers(麻风病患者). He was among the most influential figures of his day, who understood how to create a public persona and use the media to market his self-created image of poor-boy-turned-success. London"s great passion was agriculture, and he was well on the way of creating a new model for spreading through his Beauty Ranch when he died of kidney disease at age 40. He left over fifty books of novels, stories, journalism, and essays, many of which have been translated and continue to be read around the world. His best works describe a person’s struggle for survival against the powerful forces of nature. “To Build a Fire”, for example, tells the story of a man’s fight to survive the harsh cold of the Alaskan winter.
小题1:_________made Jack London reconsider his life in the future.
A.His job experienceB.The books he read
C.Being arrestedD.Long-hour work
小题2:What is TRUE about Jack London?
A.Jack London was poor all his life.
B.Jack London got enough money while in the search of gold.
C.The books Jack London read inspired him to travel and become active.
D.The experience of gold searching made Jack London determined to write novels about Alaska adventures.
小题3:After the experience in Alaska, Jack London ________________.
A.realized the nature of human beings.
B.knew people could control the nature finally.
C.regretted being there.
D.thought highly of himself.
小题4:In paragraph 4, the sentence “True, the new region was mostly poor; but its several hundred thousand square miles of coldness at least gave breathing space to those who else would have choked at home.”  implies_______________________________.
A.Jack London regarded Alaska a poor place as he never got any gold there.
B.people would have been ill at home if they had never been Alaska.
C.People searching for gold there still have chance to win.
D.Alaska was a poor but large region.
小题5:Which one of following works doesn’t belong to Jack London according to the passage?
A.love storiesB.poetryC.journalism D.essays
小题6:What can we learn from Jack London’s final success?
A.Failure is the mother of success.
B.Practice makes perfect.
C.Knowledge is powerful.
D.All of above.

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Maybelle said she wouldn"t be coming with me to the library. I asked why, and she said she could get all the short stories she wanted off the Internet. Saved walking all the way to the library, and putting up with my long chat on the way there, and on the way back. Maybelle is very direct like that, always has been.
"But, Maybelle, we"ve been walking to the library every" Monday for the last fifty years!"
She said," Why don"t you get Internet"? We can send each other emails."
So I had to get Internet. I called the local high school. They said they"d send me a good student to tell me all about computers and such.
Evil thing, this Internet. Makes you lose old friends, forces you to learn new complex ideas, even if you"re too old. But Maybelle said you have to be modern; otherwise, you"re dead.
The kid came the next day. Tall skinny black kid, by tile name of Arsenius, said his work would cost me.
I said, "All right. As long as I get Internet."
"You need a computer, then you need to get hooked up," he said.
"Let"s buy a computer and get hooked up, then."
"How much you want to spend?"
"Whatever it takes."
"How many rams you want?"
I wasn"t going to show him my ignorance, so I said, "Whatever it takes."
"Let"s go to the mall. You got a car?"
"In the garage."
When I opened the garage door, he gasped. Daddy"s car is still there, a"57 Chevy. I never drive it. Walk everywhere.
I said," Let"s walk. It"s only a mile or so."
He said," Let"s drive, or you will faint on me in this heat."
"Young man, I don"t faint, never have. We"re walking."
"I get paid by the hour," he said. "Walking will cost you a lot more. Also, you feel like carrying a computer a mile or so?"
小题1:What kind of person is Maybelle?
A.She always says what she means in an honest way.
B.She no longer likes reading in her old age.
C.She doesn"t want to be friends with the writer any mort.
D.She doesn"t want to keep up with the time.
小题2:Why does the writer want to have Internet at his place?
A.Because the writer believes that one is never too old to learn.
B.Because the writer thinks that it is better late than never.
C.Because of the pressure from people of his age.
D.Because of the convenience the Internet will bring.
小题3:Arsenius gives _________ reasons for driving to the mall.
A.twoB.threeC.fourD.five

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