Nowadays, we have tons of high-tech gadgets to help us keep connected to our fri

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Nowadays, we have tons of high-tech gadgets to help us keep connected to our friends and family. Many of us have cellphones to ___16__ calls and write text messages; the Internet to chat with friends and __17__ e-mails. But being in touch with your friends and family also means __18__ in touch with some strangers. We often get spam(网上垃圾邮件) in our inbox, calls from strangers, and messages from __19__ people. So what should we __20__ with all of these?
__21__ you might want to answer the call from an unknown number, or respond to the message from someone you don’t know, try __22__. You are not sure __23__ they are contacting you, and it could be ill-spirited. It is __24__ not to respond to calls or messages from numbers that you are not familiar __25__. The same rule applies to (应用于) e-mails. There are many people who create viruses that __26__ harm your computer, and these viruses are disguised(假装) as e-mails. __27__ opening these e-mails, you are risking getting a virus __28__ could destroy your computer.
In other words, all the new technology is great for keeping in touch, but also comes with some bad things. __29__ yourself out of trouble, it is best to __30__ from messages and calls that you don’t know.

小题1:

A．make

B．do

C．receive

D．ring

小题2:

A．write

B．send

C．answer

D．read

小题3:

A．to be

B．being

C．be

D．are

小题4:

A．known

B．well-known

C．unknown

D．better-known

小题5:

A．manage

B．compare

C．deal

D．do

小题6:

A．But

B．Since

C．Because

D．Although

小题7:

A．not

B．not doing

C．not to do

D．not to

小题8:

A．that

B．what

C．why

D．how

小题9:

A．most dangerous

B．safest

C．necessary

D．valuable

小题10:

A．by

B．with

C．at

D．into

小题11:

A．should

B．could

C．would

D．need

小题12:

A．In

B．By

C．With

D．At

小题13:

A．that

B．what

C．if

D．whether

小题14:

A．To keep

B．Keep

C．Keeping

D．Kept

小题15:

A．refuse

B．get close

C．stay away

D．stop

答案

小题1:A
小题1:B
小题1:B
小题1:C
小题1:D
小题1:D
小题1:D
小题1:C
小题1:B
小题1:B
小题1:B
小题1:B
小题1:A
小题1:A
小题1:C

解析

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You wake up in the morning，the day is beautiful and the plans for the day are what you have been looking forward to for a long time．Then the telephone rings，you say hello, and the drama starts．The person on the other end has a depressing(令人沮丧的) tone in his voice as he starts to tell you how terrible his morning is and that there is nothing to look forward to．Yon are still in a wonderful mood? Impossible!
Communicating with negative people can wash out your happiness．It may not change what you think，but communicating long enough with them will make you feel depressed for a moment or a long time．
Life brings ups and downs，but some people are stuck in the wrong idea that life has no happiness to offer．They only feel glad when they make others feel bad．No wonder they can hardly win others’pity or respect．
When you communicate with positive people，your spirit stays happy and therefore more positive things are attracted．When the dagger(匕首)of a negative person is put in you, you feel the heavy feeling that all in all，brings you down．
Sometimes we have no choice but to communicate with negative people．This could be a co-worker，or relative．In this case，say what needs to be said as little as possible． Sometimes it feels good to let out-your anger back to a negative person，but all this does is to lower you to that same negative level and they won’t feel ashamed of themselves about that．
Negativity often affects happiness without even being realized．The negative words of another at the start of the day can cling to(附着)you throughout the rest of your day，which makes you feel bad and steals your happiness．Life is too short to feel negative．Stay positive and avoid negativity as much as possible．
小题1:The purpose of the first paragraph is to ．

A．make a comparison	B．offer an evidence
C．introduce a topic	D．describe a daily scene

小题2:How can negative people have effect on us?

A．By influencing our emotion．	B．By telling US the nature of life．
C．By changing our way of thinking．	D．By comparing their attitude to life with ours．

小题3:Some negative people base their happiness on ．

A．other people’s pity for them

B．making other people unhappy

C．building up a positive attitude

D．other people’s respect for t hem

小题4:According to the passage， to reduce negative people’s influence on us，we are advised ．

A．to change negative people’s attitude to life

B．to show our dissatisfaction to negative people

C．to make negative people feel ashamed of themselves

D．to communicate with negative people as little as possible

小题5:What can we learn about negativity?

A．Its effect can last．

B．Its effect can be completely avoided．

C．It hardly happens among family members．

D．Its effect is smaller than the effect created by a positive person．

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Talking on a mobile phone is expensive, so a lot of people send text messages. Text messages are much cheaper than talking on a mobile phone, and you can make it cheaper by making the words shorter. You can do this by taking out “unimportant” letters in the words and using numbers instead of words (2 =" to," 3 =" free," 4 =" for," 8 =" ate," so h8 =" hate," etc.). You can also keep away from using punctuation (标点). Here is an example: Do U wnt 2 g 2 th cnma tnite (Do you want to go to the cinema tonight?)
What do you think these text messages mean?
Whr hv U bn? Iv bn wtng hrs fr a cll.
Im hm nw, why nt gv me a cll.
I gt a txt mssge frm my frnd. Shes hvng a prty on Strdy.
Mobile phone users have developed a group of symbols (符号) to show how they feel. They are called emoticons, and there are some examples below. To read an emoticon, you have to look at it sideways. For example, if you say something in a text message that is a joke, you can follow it with a smiling face. Like this: Why didt u call me? I’m so sad.   (
Here are some others. Can you think of text messages where you could use them?
) laughing     ( sad    ＜ really sad
Ⅴ shouting    |·| asleep   ：0 shocked
8·| surprised    ·o bored
小题1:Why are text messages popular?

A．Because they are expensive.	B．Because they are cheap.
C．Because they are hard to write.	D．Because they are not important.

小题2:The first paragraph tells us that we can make the text messages shorter in ways.

A．one

B．two

C．three

D．four

小题3: What does this text message “Do U wnt 2 cm?” mean? It means “ ?”.

A．Do you want to come	B．Do you wear two caps
C．Do you want two cakes	D．Do you go home early

小题4:Why do people use emoticons?

A．Because they can show how users feel.	B．Because the symbols are beautiful.
C．Because text messages are short.	D．Because the users can’t make the words shorter.

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阅读下列材料, 从所给的四个选项(A、Ｂ、Ｃ、Ｄ) 中，选出符合各小题要求的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The people below are needed to take part in a sport. After the description of these people, there is information about four sports(A-D). Decide which sport would be most suitable for the person mentioned in questions 58-61 and then mark the correct letter(A-D) on your answer sheet.
小题1:Bob is a very active man. He is very strong and healthy. He’d like to take part in an exciting sport. But he is afraid of water.
小题2:Simon is very fat. He would like to lose his weight. But he is not interested in double quick and excitement activity. He enjoys water sports.
小题3:Mathew hates to take part in the violent sports. He is in poor health. He wants to build up his body.
小题4:Jack is brave and risky and a good swimmer. He enjoys water game. He looks for excitement with his friend when they are on holiday.

A．Hiking is a great way to travel. You will get close to nature and take exercise at the same time. Hiking is easy to do and doesn’t have to be very expensive. You can hike close to home or travel to other places. The basic equipment you need for hiking is simple: good shoes, clothes and a backpack. You can hike in the mountains, in a forest or along a river. You can also go for a hike in the city. Hiking is fun and exciting, but you shouldn’t forget safety.

B．Rafting is a good way to experience nature. If you want a normal rafting trip, choose a quiet stream or river that is wide and has few fallen trees or rocks. If you are looking for more excitement you may want to try whitewater rafting. You should always think about your safety and wear good clothes. You also need to learn the basic skills of rafting, such as how to handle the raft, how to paddle and how to get in and out of the raft. You should not go rafting unless you know how to swim, and you should always wear a life jacket.

C．Swimming is a good way for swim lovers. You can reduce your weight and become slim by swimming. You can train your willpower and increase your energy of your lung. You can swim in the swimming pool, in the lake, in the river or even in the sea.

D．Long running is a good sport, for example, Marathom is very popular with young people especially people with strong body and will. If you have hypertension or heart disease, perhaps, it is not suitable for you.

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The new studies show that fewer than half of the 9th graders in many of the nation’s largest cities, can ever graduate. The studies clearly show that the dropout rate isn’t dropping. And, in particular, the dropout rate isn’t dropping for poor and minority students.
Amazingly, though so many regret the rising dropout rate, our schools continue to lack formal plans--or any plans--to teach students motivation(动机). Most schools have no game plan to ensure that students understand that school will be completely necessary. Schools expect youth and children to act as though school is important, but they never teach them to believe that.
Years ago, families ensured that the offspring recognized the value of school. But in many modern families, the children may fail to recognize the importance of school life just because these families may actually tell the child that school is not important. Since many families are not motivating their children to be interested students, youth professionals, like teachers may need to provide this training. Otherwise, it is likely the dropout rate will continue not to drop, but only worsen.
Here are some strategies to convince even the most apathetic (无动于衷的) students that they must stay in school.
Ask students if they will ever need to work: The world has changed. 100 years ago, factory work was the booming job, and it required no education. Today, factories are increasingly automated. Most computer-related jobs require education and at least a high school diploma.
Ask students which century they will be prepared for: In 1900, the most common jobs were farm laborer and domestic servant—education not needed. Now, the most common jobs are office and sales worker—education and diploma usually needed. An amazing 6 out of 10 people today work in a store or office.
Ask students to devise a way that the employee could be replaced. For example, the coming trend in fast food is to use computers rather than people to run the restaurant. A prototype is apparently already being tested. The students should discover that most jobs that lack education and diploma requirements may be ripe for automation.
小题1: What does the underlined part mean in Paragraph1?

A．Few students can afford to go to school in large cities.

B．A large number of the 9^th grades can graduate now.

C．There are still quite a few 9^th graders leaving school early.

D．Most schools in large cities have fewer and fewer students.

小题2:Without the help of youth professionals,_____.

A．more and more families will gradually recognize the value of school.

B．some parents will be more convinced of their children’s future.

C．it is likely that the dropout rate in schools won’t continue to drop.

D．the schools will make proper plans to solve the problems with dropout.

小题3:The author takes factory work for example mainly to ______.

A．tell us that many jobs requires certain education in the past

B．show that there are more factory work and employment in modern society

C．show that employment in the computer field grows at a high rate

D．emphasize that modern jobs require education and schools are necessary

小题4:It can be inferred that______.

A．both schools and families should answer for the high dropout rate

B．many new jobs don’t need children’s high school diploma

C．working in a store doesn’t require a high school diploma

D．most schools are ready to help students recognize the importance of study

小题5: If students play the “Replace Me” game, the result would be “______”.

A．They will know that they can ‘always’ do without a diploma

B．More of them will drop out early to go to work

C．They will discover that lack education is a disadvantage in choosing jobs

D．They will become better at using computers to hunt for a job

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Drunken driving –sometimes called America’s socially accepted form of murder—has become a national epidemic (流行病). Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are killed by drunken drivers, adding up to an incredible 250,000 over the past ten years. A drunken driver is usually referred to as one with 0.10-blood alcohol content or roughly three beer glasses of wine or shots of whisky drunk within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part of the American manly image and judges were lenient in most courts, but the drunken killing has recently caused so many well-publicized tragedies, especially concerning young children, that public opinion is no longer so tolerant.
Twenty states have raised the legal drinking age to 21, reversing a trend in the 1960s to reduce it to 18. After New Jersey lowered it to 18, the number of people killed by 18-20 years old drivers more than doubled, so the state recently upped it back to 21.
Reformers, however, fear raising the drinking age will have little effect unless accompanied by educational programs to help young people to develop “responsible attitudes” about drinking and teach them to resist peer pressure to drink.
Though new laws have led to increased arrests and tests in many areas already, to a marked drop in accidents, some states are also punishing bars for serving customers too many drinks. A bar in Massachusetts was fined for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who was “obviously drunk” and later drove off the road, killing a 9-year-old boy.
As the accidents continue to occur daily in every state, some Americans are even beginning to speak well of the 13 years national prohibition of alcohol that began in 1919, which President Hoover called the “noble experiment”. They forgot that legal prohibition didn’t stop drinking, but encouraged political corruption and organized crime. As with the booming drug trade generally, there is no easy solution.
小题1: From paragraph one, we can know that ____________.

A．most Americans like drinking

B．heavy drinking is hard to avoid

C．many Americans are killed by drunk drivers

D．Americans are not shocked by traffic accidents

小题2:What can be inferred from the fact of the traffic accidents in New Jersey?

A．The legal drinking age should be raised.

B．Young drivers were usually bad.

C．Most drivers hoped to raise the legal drinking age.

D．Drivers should not be allowed to drink.

小题3:The underlined word “lenient” in the first paragraph means “_________”.

A．serious

B．cruel

C．merciful

D．determined

小题4:In America, public opinion about drunken driving has changed because __________.

A．judges are no longer lenient

B．new laws are introduced in some states

C．the problem has attracted public attention

D．drivers do not appreciate their manly image

小题5:Which of the following best shows the writer’s opinion of drunken driving?

A．It may lead to organized crime.

B．It is difficult to solve this problem.

C．The new laws can stop heavy drinking.

D．There should be no bars to serve drinks.

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