Newspapers in Great Britain vary greatly in their ways of carrying the news. The
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Newspapers in Great Britain vary greatly in their ways of carrying the news. There are serious papers for those who want to know about important happenings everywhere, both at home and abroad. There are popular newspapers for those who prefer entertainment to information.
The London newspaper that is best known outside Great Britain is probably the Times. It began in 1785, and is well accepted for believable news and serious opinions on the news. It calls itself an independent paper, which means that it does not give its support to a particular political party. Its leading articles give the opinions of the editors, not those of the owners of the paper.
Letters to the editor are printed in the newspaper. These parts of the Times are always interesting. Most of the letters are serious subjects. But from time to time there will be long letters on the subject which is not at all serious, perhaps on a new fashion of dress, or the bad manners of the young people, compared with manners of thirty years ago.
小题1: If you want to get pleasure, please buy yourself .| A．a serious newspaper | B．foreign newspaper | | C．any independent paper | D．a popular newspaper |
小题2:The Times is an independent paper because .| A．it supports no political parties | | B．it is not controlled by the British Government | | C．it gives special support to all the political parties. | | D．the editor’s opinions are not examined by the owners of the paper |
小题3: The underlined word “vary” in the passage probably means “ ”.| A．improve | B．compete with each other | | C．are different | D．keep in touch with each other |
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答案
小题1:D
小题2:A
小题3:C |
解析
试题分析：在英国有各种各样的报纸，如果人们想了解国内外新闻则可以看一些像《泰晤士报》《卫报》等严肃性报纸； 而如果只是想放松娱乐，则可以看以娱乐性、生活性为主的大众化报纸。在本文中作者对英国的报纸做了简单的介绍。
小题1:D由文章第一段There are popular papers for those who prefer entertainment to information.判断大众化报纸是以娱乐性、生活性和社会新闻为主，由此可知D为正确选项。
小题2:A根据文章第二段It calls itself an independent paper, which means that it does not give its support to a particular political party.可知独立的报纸指的是不支持任何政治党派，所以答案选A。
小题3:C词义猜测题。下文介绍报纸的种类There are serious papers和There are serious papers，由此可知vary指的是报纸的种类不同，所以答案选C。 |
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Your youngest son or daughter has just graduated from high school, and soon he or she will trade his or her bedroom in your home for a college residence hall. You’re starting to worry about the coming silence in your home and are wondering how you will fill the hours that you previously spent with your son or daughter attending his or her school and sporting events.
Take heart — the empty nest “is often worse in anticipation (预料) than in day-to-day practice”, says psychologist Bert Hayslip Jr.
Hayslip, who has studied retirement adjustment (调整) and other aging problems, such as aging sleeplessness, for many years, points out that, more often than not, children who leave do not completely cut off contact with their parents. He advises parents to think of it as a series of life events, instead of a sudden change. He also says an empty nest can cause bigger problems to surface “if a couple hasn’t looked after their marriage while raising their children”. According to Hayslip, some couples may find they no longer have anything in common once the children are out of the house.
Thinking of an empty nest as the loss of children makes the adjustment more difficult. “With the empty-nest syndrome (综合症), parents actually need to deal with the loss of the parenting control over children, not with having really lost their children,” Hayslip says. “They just have to find a new way to get along with their children.”
“Relating to their college-age children in this new way will come easily to parents as the months pass. As with many things, the passage of time heals the pain of loss,” Hayslip says.
小题1:What does the “empty nest” mean?| A．Children’s cutting off contact with their parents. | | B．Children’s not liking spending time with their parents. | | C．Children’s growing up and leaving home. | | D．Children’s not accepting parents’ care and love. |
小题2:What does the underlined word “it” in the third paragraph refer to? | A．Retirement adjustment. | B．Aging problem. | | C．Sleeplessness. | D．The reality of empty nest. |
小题3:Why do many parents find it hard to adjust to the empty-nest life？ | A．Because they think they have actually lost their children. | | B．Because they often disagree with their children on many things. | | C．Because their children completely cut off contact with them. | | D．Because these parents don’t have anything in common. |
小题4:According to Hayslip, what parents actually lose in an “empty nest” is _______. | A．their children’s love for them | | B．their control over children | | C．their interest in life | | D．their contact with children |
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Friendships can be difficult — because often people aren"t as honest and open as they should be. Sometimes, people finally get hurt.
Most problems with friendships come up because people are just too selfish to care about the things that their friends need. They care about their own needs much more, which makes it hard for friendships to work. However, being selfish is part of human nature. A person is put together in order to take care of themselves and their own needs, not necessarily those needs of other people. Even though being selfish is something that all humans are born with, it is something that everyone should be against.
The best thing to remember when you are a friend to anyone is that you need to treat your friends the same way that you"d like to be treated(对待). This is wonderful advice for a friendship, because it is really the only way to make sure that you are giving your friends everything you would want to be given in a friendship. Whenever you have a question about how you should treat a friend, it is easy to find an answer simply by asking yourself what you would like your friend to do for you, if he or she was in your shoes.
Even if you"re always thinking about how you"d like to be treated, and your friends are too, there are problems that come up from time to time in each friendship, and it is important to understand how to deal with these problems so that you can build stronger and healthier friendships. Problems like friends getting boyfriends or girlfriends and not spending enough time with their friends, or even friends finding new friends and leaving old friends behind are problems that will probably come up with one or more of your friendships. It is important to know how to deal with these friend problems so that you can keep your friends and make new ones. No one wants to have a broken friendship.
小题1:This passage mainly talks about ________.| A．the importance of friendship | | B．the advantages(益处) of friendship | | C．the problems of friendship | | D．the disadvantages(劣势) of friendship |
小题2:According to the writer, problems with friendship may appear when ________.| A．one is honest | B．one is selfish | C．one is open | D．one is kind |
小题3:According to the passage, the first and most important thing to be other people"s friend is ________.| A．to treat your friend as you like to be | | B．to give your friends whatever you have | | C．not to hurt your friends" feelings | | D．not to think of your own need any more |
小题4:What"s the purpose of understanding how to deal with friendship problems?| A．To have a comfortable life. | | B．To build stronger and healthier friendships. | | C．To be treated the way you want. | | D．To get a boyfriend or girlfriend more quickly. |
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Earlier this year I traveled to Turkana in Kenya. I was there to take pictures of the “broken food system”.
As a special visitor, I was greeted with songs and dances. The locals used to sing and dance all the time but now Turkana is silent and has been for some years. No one is singing or dancing any more because they have no food, nothing to celebrate. Many of them are surviving on a little corn a day and water, which they can get just every two days.
I met Tede Lokapelo, a local farmer who described the experience of a six-year drought(干旱). Tede used to have 200 goats, but now he has only seven left. He told me that this drought has taught him a hard lesson: It is too difficult to keep animals. He lives on animals. His traditional way of life has been completely destroyed now. Without the food aid(援助) they got, Tede is certain that they would starve because there are no other ways to feed themselves left.
Sadly, the same can be heard in almost any developing country around the world. Almost one billion people go to bed hungry each night. The food system is broken. In Turkana, not enough rain has fallen since 2005. They measure(测量) rainfall not in days or weeks but in minutes. More and more people are being forced to rely on food aid, but people like Tede don’t want food aid. They want to work and develop their country. It’s our responsibility(责任) to change the situation so that they can support themselves.
Drought is impossible to avoid but famine(饥荒) is manmade, and unless enough money is provided to develop a basic infrastructure(基础设施) for people in the area, thousands more lives are sure to be lost.
小题1: Why do people in Turkana no longer sing or dance any more?| A．Because they have no time. | | B．Because they are tired of them. | | C．Because they are always hungry. | | D．Because they have other interesting things to do. |
小题2:During the drought Tede had experienced, ______of his goats were killed.小题3: Which of the following is NOT true about Tede Lokapelo?| A．He was a farmer in Kenya. | | B．He has never received any food aid. | | C．His traditional way of life ha s been changed. | | D．He found it hard to raise animals after the drought. |
小题4:What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text?| A．To show drought is serious in the world. | | B．To tell readers the serious situation of food shortage(短缺). | | C．To ask more people to give food aid to people in Kenya. | | D．To make it clear what is the right way to help people suffering from drought. |
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Fans of US television dramas watch their favorite series for different reasons: some want to improve their English skills, others just want to kill time.
Some TV series are more than pure entertainment―they have a certain depth. Mad Men, which returned with a sixth season recently; Monday Mornings, which just finished its first season; and Modern Family, which sweeps the awards every year, are just a few examples.
Why do these shows stand out among so many similar ones? TV critics Raymond Zhou will give you an idea of why some shows are better than others.
Period drama—More than time travel
Period dramas are intended to capture the ambience (气氛) of a particular era. Directors must therefore attract audiences as much by their recreation of a historical setting as by an interesting storyline.
Mad Men is an excellent example of this balance being struck. Set in New York during the 1960s, it accurately shows US attitudes in the workplace through the alcoholism and chain-smoking common of the time, and places an absorbing plot right in its center.
But rather than merely presenting a past decade, Mad Men’s subtle (微妙的) description of the struggles of white-collar workers at the time, both male and female, makes it stand out.
“The series’ attention to detail is superb,” Raymond Zhou said. “For example, creator Matthew Weiner makes Don Draper―the leading role of the series―drive a Buick instead of a Cadillac, because Weiner thinks the ad man lacks the self-pride to buy a luxury car. It’s this kind of attentiveness that raises the show’s artistic value.”
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Another period drama that works is Broadwalk Empire, set during the prohibition period of the 1920s and 1930s in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Heather Havrilesky at Salon magazine noted how the show “revels in the oddities(怪事) of its time, peeling back the layers of polite society to reveal a shadow world of criminals and politicians working together to keep the liquor flowing.”
Why does it appeal to viewers? Because they know that the “liquor” is a metaphor (暗喻) for today’s political scandals (丑闻).
小题1: How many US TV series are mentioned in this passage?| A．One. | B．Two. | C．Three. | D．Four. |
小题2: The following statements are the reasons why many people are attracted by US television dramas EXCEPT that __________.| A．US television dramas merely present a past decade | | B．directors recreate a historical setting and adopt interesting storylines | | C．the dramas can improve their English skills, and help people kill time | | D．some TV series are more than pure entertainment, and they have a certain depth |
小题3: According to Raymond Zhou, Don Draper’s driving a Buick instead of a Cadillac shows __________.| A．Mad Men attaches much importance to details | | B．Mad Men places an absorbing plot right in its center | | C．the director wants to raise the show’s artistic value | | D．Mad Men’s description of the struggling white-collar workers makes it stand out |
小题4: What does the passage mainly talk about?| A．Directors of US dramas. | B．US dramas and their storylines. | | C．US period dramas to kill time. | D．US dramas and their magic touch. |
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When something goes wrong, it can be very satisfying to say, “Well, it’s so-and-so’s fault.” or “I know I’m late, but it’s not my fault; the car broke down.” It is probably not your fault, but once you form the habit of blaming somebody or something else for a bad situation, you are a loser. You have no power and could do nothing that helps change the situation. However, you can have great power over what happens to you if you stop focusing on whom to blame and start focusing on how to remedy the situation. This is the winner’s key to success.
Winners are great at overcoming problems. For example, if you were late because your car broke down, maybe you need to have your car examined more regularly. Or, you might start to carry along with you the useful phone numbers, so you could call for help when in need. For another example, if your colleague causes you problems on the job for lack of responsibility or ability, find ways of dealing with his irresponsibility or inability rather than simply blame the person. Ask to work with a different person, or don’t rely on this person. You should accept that the person is not reliable and find creative ways to work successfully regardless of how your colleague fails to do his job well.
Being a winner is all about creatively using your skills and talents so that you are successful no matter what happens. Winners don’t have fewer problems in their lives; they have just as many difficult situations to face as anybody else. They are just better at seeing those problems as challenges and opportunities to develop their own talents. So, stop focusing on “whose fault it is.” Once you are confident about your power over bad situations, problems are just stepping stones for success.
小题1:According to the passage, winners .| A．deal with problems rather than blame others | | B．meet with fewer difficulties in their lives | | C．have responsible and able colleagues | | D．blame themselves rather than others |
小题2:The underlined word remedy in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to .| A．avoid | B．accept | C．improve | D．consider |
小题3:When your colleague brings about a problem, you should .| A．blame him for his lack of responsibility | | B．find a better way to handle the problem | | C．tell him to find the cause of the problem | | D．ask a more able colleague for help |
小题4:When problems occur, winners take them as .| A．excuses for their failures | | B．barriers to greater power | | C．challenges to their colleagues | | D．chances for self-development |
小题5:Which of the following is the best title for the passage?| A．A Winner’s Secret | B．A Winner’s Problem | | C．A Winner’s Opportunity | D．A Winner’s Achievement |
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