On Christmas Eve a few years ago an English couple received a very special telep
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On Christmas Eve a few years ago an English couple received a very special telephone call. It was only a 20-second call but it was very important. The Haydens’ 15-year-old daughter had disappeared six months before. On Christmas Eve she rang them. “I’m phoning to wish a happy Christmas,” she said, “I love you.”
Ronals and Edwine Hayden were so happy that they started a special telephone service called “Alive and Well”. The service helps parents to get in touch with children who have run away from home.
Young people can phone “Alive and Well” and leave a message for their parents. The telephones are answered by answering machines. So no one can speak to the child of making him return home.
Parents of runaway children who are under eighteen can ask the police to bring their children home, so children do not want to tell their parents where they are. Through “Alive and Well” they can telephone their parents without worrying about this or giving out their addresses.
The Haydens and their helpers write down the tape recorded telephone messages and connect the address given. Many of the 30,000 British teenagers who have left home are probably in London. For only two pence they can go into a telephone coin box and call their parents. They can dial (拨) 5675339 and stop a parent’s worry: Is he dead or alive?
小题1:The Haydens’ daughter rang her parents .| A．because she knew she had done something wrong | | B．in order to give them her address | | C．to say she was coming home soon | | D．in order to comfort her worried parents |
小题2:If you ring “Alive and Well”, .| A．you will get the information you want | | B．your message will be passed over to your parents | | C．the police will bring you home | | D．your parents will know where you are |
小题3:From the passage, we can know that ________.| A．the Haydens received an “Alive and Well” call before Christmas | | B．an “Alive and Well” call usually costs a lot | | C．30,000 British teenagers enjoyed the “Alive and Well” service | | D．an “Alive and Well” call is very important for worrying parents |
小题4:Through “Alive and Well”, parents of runaway children .| A．often fail to persuade their children to return home | | B．know nothing from their children | | C．can say nothing to their children | | D．can ask the police to help them to find lost children |
小题5:What can we know about the Haydens’ daughter from the passage?| A．She died six months ago. | | B．She had a quarrel with her parents. | | C．She worked in “Alive and Well”. | | D．She ran away from home half a year ago. |
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答案
小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:C
小题5:D |
解析
试题分析：
本文介绍了一种叫做“Alive and Well ”的专线电话。离家出走的孩子只要拨通家里电话，“Alive and Well”就会自动向所拨通的号码发送语音信息，以告知家人自己平安、让家人放心。因为接听电话的人与拨打电话的人相互之间不能通话，所以拨打电话的孩子不必担心暴露自己的行踪从而被警察强行遣送回家。
小题1:推断题。Ronals and Edinwin Hayden夫妇正是受到女儿来电的启发创设了“Alive and Well”专线电话。从文章第四段可知，这种专线电话是由应答机接听来电的，然后自动向被拨打电话发送语音信息，这期间实际上没有人能够与拨打人直接通话。离家出走的孩子通过该专线向家人报平安，而无需担心被遣送回家或泄露自己的处所。据此推断，Ronals and Edinwin Hayden夫妇离家出走的女儿给他们打电话也是为了报个平安。从来电看不出来她有“认错”或者“告知地址”、“说要回家”的意思。故D项正确。
小题2:文章第四段介绍了“Alive and Well”专线电话的功能及操作，故而可以排除A,C,D三项。故B项正确。
小题3:“Alive and Well”专线helps parents to get in touch with children who have run away from home（第二段），可以让担心之中的父母得知孩子平安，所以对他们很“重要”。该专线就是Ronals and Edwine Hayden夫妇设立的，所以A项错误。For only two pence they can go into a telephone coin box and call their parents（最后一段）. 只需两个便士就可以拨打该专线，因此排除B项。文章最后一段Many of the 30,000 British teenagers who have left home are probably in London.说英国三万离家出走的儿童有许多在伦敦，并没有说这三万人都拨打了专线，排除C项。故D项正确。
小题4:根据该专线电话的功能和操作可知，父母不能与孩子直接通话，也不会知道孩子在什么地方，因而排除A,D两项。接到电话的父母至少知道孩子是平安的，所以B项错误。故选择C项。。
小题5:细节题。由第一段The Haydens’ 15-year-old daughter had disappeared six months before. 一句可知，他们的女儿是六个月前出走的。故D项正确。 |
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Everyone wants to have a healthy heart. Still, heart diseases affect more than 1 in 3 adults in the United States. The good news is that some simple, everyday habits can make a big difference in your ability to live a healthy lifestyle. Here are some worst habits for your heart, and how to avoid them.
Watching TV
Sitting for hours on end increases your risk of heart attack and stroke(中风),“some exercise doesn’t make up for the time you sit,”says Harmony R. Reynolds, Why? The lack of movement may affect blood levels of fats and sugars. Dr. Reynolds advises walking around regularly and, if you’re at work, standing up to talk on the phone.
Leaving hostility and depression unchecked
Are you feeling stressed or sad? It can do harm to your heart. While everyone feels this way some of the time, how you handle these emotions can affect your heart health.“Those with stress are in greater danger; research has shown a benefit to laughter and social support,” Dr. Reynolds says. “And it’s helpful to be able to go to someone and talk about your problems.”
Cutting off from the world
It"s no secret that on some days, other human beings can seem annoying and too difficult to get along with.
However, it makes sense to strengthen your connections to the ones you actually like. People with stronger connections to family, friends, and society in general tend to live longer, healthier lives.
Everyone needs alone time, but you should still reach out to others and keep in touch whenever you can.
Drinking (too much) alcohol
Sure, studies suggest a small amount of alcohol may be good for your heart. However, too many of us drink over. Too much alcohol is linked to a greater risk of high blood pressure, high levels of blood fats, and heart failure.
小题1:Watching TV for a long time may ______________.| A．help you live a healthy life | B．lead to heart attack | | C．make up for the time you sit | D．make you feel stressed |
小题2:Which of the following is bad for those with stress and sadness?| A．Laughing a lot | B．Talking about their own problems. | | C．Getting social support | D．Leaving these emotions alone. |
小题3:If you want a long healthy life, you should____________.| A．cut off from the world | B．get along well with others | | C．stay alone as much as possible | D．drink no alcohol |
小题4:From the passage we can infer that _____________.| A．some everyday habits can help avoid heart attacks | | B．standing up to talk on the phone is not a good idea | | C．it’s easy to strengthen your connections to others | | D．too much alcohol is not linked to heart failure |
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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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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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