You want to know about my staying in America, right? Well, to tell you the truth

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You want to know about my staying in America, right? Well, to tell you the truth, it is really an eye-opening experience study here.
In China, I had English classes five times a week since fifth grade. However, I didn’t know how different textbook English could be from everyday English until I came to Hotchkiss School, Connecticut.
When I first studied English, I was told to say, “I am fine.” when people say “How are you?” But in the US, I found that people say, “I am good.” or “I’m tired.”
One day, someone greeted me with “What’s up?” It made me confused. I thought for a moment and then smiled because I didn’t know what to say.
Since then, I have discovered more and more differences between Chinese and US cultures.
To my surprise, US girls spend a lot of time in the burning sun to get a tan. However, in China, girls try every possible way to get their skin paler, or “whiter.” I also surprised by how hard-working US students are. In China, schoolwork is almost everything, so we study hard and that’s it. But here, a “good” student gets good grades, does a l

ot for the public and plays sports or music.
The kids here are so talented, I am starting to be sorry that I gave up playing the piano at an early age and that I have never thought about sports.
小题1: What does the word “tan” in the sixth paragraph mean in Chinese?

A．晒黑

B．晒白

C．能量

D．保护

小题2: A good US student spends his/her time ________.

A．only in doing homework

B．only on sports

C．only on music

D．on studies, sports or music and public work

小题3:Which of the following is NOT true?

A．The writer is now in US.

B．American girls love to have white skin.

C．American girls love to have brown skin.

D．US students are talented and hard-working.

小题4: Which is the best title for the passage?

A．My Own Travel in the US

B．My Studying in the US

C．My Opinion about the US

D．My Studying in China

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Are you intere

sted in country music? I like it very much! It will take me away for a while after I am tired .The guitars and songs will take me to mountains and fields.
Country music usually talks of everyday life and feelings. It’s the spirit of America, easy to understand, slow and simple.
Country music developed in the Southern United States. It was the folk music of American countryside. Many of songs tell about the lives of

famers .They talk about love, crops or death.
The life of the countryside can be hard, so the words in country music are often sad. At first, people played the music only at family parties. But it became more popular later. In the 1920s, people played country songs on the radio, and they made them into records.
When people in the countryside moved to towns and cities to look for work, they took their music with them. Country music continued to change and became popular across America.
John Denver was one of America’s most f

amous country singers in the 1970s.His song “Take Me home, Country Roads” is well-known and people still play it today.
小题1:Country music is usually about _______.

A．everyday life and feelings

B．farmers’ feelings

C．the lives of workers

D．the lives of farmers

小题2:People began to make country song records _______.

A．in the 1920s	B．in 1920
C．in the 1970s	D．in 1970

小题3: Why did Country music become popular in America?

A．Because city people liked the music.
B．Because farmers moved to cities with their music and it continued to change.	C．Because country music talked about city people’s lives.
D．Because country music developed in the Southern Africa

小题4:Who is famous for the song “Take Me Home, Country Roads”?

A．A farmer in the countryside.

B．A person who moved to towns

C．John Denver.

D．John Denver’s brother

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The first MP4 player was born years ago. Soon many music fans were wondering how fantastic it is! If you have been into technology enough, perhaps you may have a knowledge of the MP4. If not, you do need to know something before buying one, even if you are familiar with MP3. MP3 is the CD-like disc with greater capacity. How about MP4? This small digital product will really enrich the joy from listening to music. You can even feel the “touch” of music to your soul!
Now, some similar digital products advertised as “MP4 player” are simply MP3 players, which do not play video and MPEG format and also lack other particular functions. These products confuse some buyers, as they may think the “MP4” players simply mean they can do more than MP3.
What is MP4?
It is a multimedia container. It is not only used to store digital audio

and digital video streams, especially those of MPEG, but can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and pictures. As a most modern container format, it allows streaming over the Internet.
With the help of a piece of MP4 video equipment, you can change various programs such as MPEG to MP4, ASX to MP4, AVI to MP4 and so

on, which can be done very quickly and easily without any effect on the sound quality. By installing DVD-MP4 software, you can transfer particular music from a DVD to an MP4 video file. It really excites your listening music experience.
Then, there is MP4 advanced and you can set your own collection of all the programs—TV shows, games, and music. Y

ou can even see movies which are still running in cinema. What else digital product could you possibly ask for?
小题1:

. It is suggested here that you should ______ before buying an MP4 player.

A．first be a music fan	B．have a knowledge of MP4
C．get familiar with MP3	D．buy a CD-like disc

小题2:. From the passage, we can see that MP4 is ______ MP3.

A．much bigger than	B．just as advanced as
C．not so particular as	D．more functional than

小题3:.Which function of MP4 is NOT directly mentioned in this passage?
A.Storing digital audio and video streams.
B.Recording some movies in cinema.
C.Playing TV shows, games and movies.
D.Transferring particular music from a DVD.
小题4:.From the last sentence, it’s clear that the writer tries to tell us it is ______.

A．reasonable to buy other digital products

B．impossible to buy something else

C．a very wise choice to buy an MP4

D．an exciting experience to buy an MP3

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Shopping is not as simple as you may think! There are all sorts of tricks each time we reach out for that particular brand（品牌）of product on the shelf.
Colouring, for example, varies according to what the producers are trying to sell. Health foods are packaged（包装）in greens, yellows or browns because we think of these as healthy colours. Ice cream packets（包装） are often blue and expensive goods, like chocolates, are gold or silver.
When some kind of pain-killer （止痛药） was brought out recently, researchers found that the colours turned the customers off because they made the product look weak and ineffective. Eventually, it came on the market in a dark blue and white package — blue because we think of it as safe, and white as calm.
The size of a product can attract a shopper. But quite often a bottle doesn’t contain as much as it appears to.
It is believed that the better-known companies spend, on average, 70 percent of the total cost of the product itself on packaging!
The most successful producers know that it’s not enough to have a good product. The founder of Pears Soap, who for 25 year has used pretty little girls to promote（促销）their goods, came to the conclusion: “Any fool can make soap, but it takes a genius（天才） to sell it.”
小题1:. Which of the following may trick a shopper into buying a product according to the text?

A．The cost of its package	B．The price of the product
C．The colour of its package	D．The brand name of the product

小题2:. The underlined part “the colours turned the customers off” (in Para.3) means that the colours ________ .

A．attracted the customers strongly	B．had weak effects on the customers
C．tricked the customers into shopping	D．caused the customers to lose interest

小题3:. Which of the following is the key to the success in product sales?

A．The way to promote goods.	B．The team to produce a good product
C．The discovery of a genius.	D．The brand name used by successful producers.

小题4:. Which of the following would be the best title for this text?

A．Choice of Good Products.	B．Disadvantages of Products.
C．Effect of Packaging on Shopping.	D．Brand Name and Shopping Tricks.

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One of the greatest sources of unhappiness, in my experience, is the difficulty we have in accepting things as they are.
When we see something we don’t like, we wish it could be different -- we cry out for something better. That may be human nature, or perhaps it’s something that’s ingrained（根深蒂固的）in our culture.
The root of unhappiness is that we decided we didn’t like it in the first place. We’ve judged it as bad, rather than saying, “It’s not bad or good, as it just is.”
An example: in my recent post（帖子）, A Beautiful Method to Find Peace of Mind, quite a few commentators thought my outlook was negative, pessimistic, or fatalistic（听天由命的）... because I said you should expect people to mess up, expect things to go differently from what you planned. Above all, you should embrace that.
It’s too negative to expect something to go wrong, they said. However, I think it’s only negative if you see it as negative, or if you judge i

t as bad.
Instead, you could accept it as the way the world works -- as the way things actually are. And try to understand why they are that way.
Does it mean you can never change things? Not at all. But changing things is not because you can’t accept things as they are, but because you enjoy the process of change of learning and growing.
Can we make this world a better place? Again, that’s an assumption that it’s a bad place fight now. But instead, you could say the world is just what it is -- and that’s neither good nor bad. You can say that you’ll continue to try to do things to help others, to grow as a person, to make a difference in this world -- not because you’re such a bad person now, but because that’s the path you choose to take, because you enjoy that path.
As you catch yourself judging, and wishing for different -- try a different approach: accept, and understand. It might lead to some interesting results.
小题1: Which of the following statements is correct according to the author?

A．We can never change things because we can’t accept them.

B．We shouldn’t try to do whatever we can to help others and make a difference.

C．It’s wrong of you to expect things to go differently.

D．There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

小题2: What’s the main idea of the whole passage?

A．The world is a good place for us to live in.

B．Unhappiness comes from what we want to be different.

C．You might as well accept the world as it is and try to embrace it.

D．Let’s make the world more beautiful.

小题3:Where does the passage probably come from?

A．A novel.

B．A news story.

C．A travel guide.

D．A magazine.

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How Many Lies Do the Children Tell You?
Mothers who feel their children don’t appreciate them can add another complaint to the list: half the time, their children are lying to them. A study designed to expose the

truth about lying shows that undergraduates lie to their mothers in 46% of their conversations. Still, mums should feel

better than-total strangers, who are told lies an aston

ishing 77% of the time.
Bella DePaulo and a team of psychologists from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, asked 77 undergraduates to keep a record of all their conversations for a week, and write down whether they lied at any time. DePaulo named lying broadly, as “when you intentionally try to mislead someone”, so she would catch the smallest of lies.
The students told an average of two lies a day. They said they had been studying when they had been out drinking. One told his parents that a textbook cost $50 rather than $20 so that

they would send him extra money. Female students constantly told their plain-looking roommates that they were pretty. “They are everyday lies,” says DePaulo.
DePaulo and her colleagues conclude that people tend to tell fewer lies to those they feel closest to. College students lied to their best friends 28% of the time but lied to acquaintances 48% of the time. In close relationships, people were more likely to tell “kind-hearted” lies, designed to protect feelings, rather than self-serving lies.
DePaulo finds that unmarried lovers can expect less honesty than best friends because of the insecurity that comes with romance.
Mothers can take heart from one other finding. They may have been lied to, but at least their children talked to them. The students were recorded telling few lies to their fathers because they had little interaction with them.
小题1: Female students lied to their roommates to ________.

A．get money from them	B．offer them the services
C．gain more security	D．make them happy

小题2: According to the passage, college students told fewer lies to ________.

A．mothers	B．best friends
C．acquaintances	D．romantic partners

小题3: Which of the following statements is correct ?

A．Undergraduates lie to their mothers in 77% of their conversations.

B．Strangers become very annoyed when children tell lies to them.

C．Compared with mothers, students’ fathers are told fewer lies.

D．Best friends can expect more insecurity than unmarried lovers.

小题4:What is the purpose of this article ?

A．To present a fact.	B．To argue an idea.
C．To tell a story.	D．To explain a theory.

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