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Italians like to say that when it comes to alcohol, they have a sipping (小酌) culture rather than a drinking
culture. That means that while Italians may enjoy a glass of wine or beer, they don"t usually get very drunk.
That"s not true any more. The new study by the Italian National Health Institute found that 63 percent of
Italians under age 18 get drunk on the weekends. Now, the city of Milan has created a law that will stop anyone under 16 from buying alcohol. Anyone who sells or gives alcohol to a person under 16 can be fined up to $700.
Young people who feel that the new law is unfair should go to the US for some perspective (观点). The US
has the highest drinking age in the world: It"s illegal for anyone under 21 to buy alcohol, and stores or restaurants that are caught selling alcohol to people under the legal age risk losing their licenses.
Many young Americans complain that the drinking laws are unfair: They are allowed to vote in elections and
join the army at age 18, so why wait another three years just to buy a bottle of beer?
These young people have found help in an unusual place. Last year, more than 100 presidents of US
universities joined together to ask lawmakers to consider changing the drinking age. They argued that the law
doesn"t stop underage college kids from getting drunk - it just makes them want to drink more.
For now, the law seems unlikely to change. But US teenagers who want alcohol can go north to Canada,
where the drinking age is 18-19, or south to Mexico where the legal age is 18. Throughout much of Asia,
Africa and Europe, the legal drinking age ranges 16-18.
In plenty of places though, the official drinking age is ignored, and even young children can buy alcohol if
they have the money to pay for it.
No matter how old you are, you should always be responsible with alcohol. Teenagers in Milan are now
learning that their reckless (不顾后果的) drinking behavior may come at a high price. By Ariel Lown Lewiton,
21st Teens Staff |
| 1. The new law by the city of Milan _______. |
A. aims to keep Italy"s sipping culture alive
B. forbids selling alcohol to people under 16
C. is welcomed by Italian young people
D. has reduced the number of underage youths getting drunk |
| 2. Which of the following places has the lowest drinking age? |
A. Milan
B. New York
C. Mexico
D. Canada |
| 3. Many US university presidents want lawmakers to consider changing the drinking age because ______. |
A. they"ve received complaints from many young Americans about the unfairness of the laws
B. they agree that people old enough to vote and join the army should be allowed to drink
C. they believe the law is pushing underage youths toward alcohol instead of stopping them
D. they don"t want to see US teenagers going to neighboring countries for a drink |
| 4. What can we infer from the passage? |
A. Restaurants in the US don"t sell alcohol to people under 21 for fear of a $700 fine.
B. The author thinks that US teenagers should go to Canada or Mexico to drink.
C. In many places, shop owners don"t mind selling alcohol to underage customers.
D. Teens in Milan have to pay a lot of money for their reckless drinking behavior. |
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| 1-4: BACC |
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1 Very few people choose ideal and perfect jobs for themselves and they do not do the same job for
the rest of their lives. With technology and everything else changing so fast, it"s ridiculous to expect to stay
in one job from the time you leave school to the time you retire. Even staying in the same company can be
a huge challenge. 2
The first thing you should consider is what kinds of things you enjoy doing and what you are naturally
good at. You have to look at practicality issues. You have to look at what you like to do and take a realistic
look at whether the market is ever going to pay you an income for doing it. Your loving doing something
doesn"t mean that the world is going to love giving you money for doing it. 3 And then narrow the list
down by deciding which are at your level.
4 For example, if you want to be a doctor, you must graduate with all the papers saying you can be
a doctor. The job requires a high education and an extreme amount of practice.
Many community colleges have tests that tell you what kinds of work you"d be happy to do. 5 For
example, do you want to travel in your career or stay at home? How much money do you want to make?
After you answer these questions, the computer will show you what careers you would be suited to. Keep
in mind that what interests you at twenty isn"t likely to be the same as what interests you at forty. You would
also find some tests online. These will give you some ideas you have never considered. |
A. Then how will you choose your first career?
B. What type of jobs are you interested in most?
C. So pick a number of different things that you love at first.
D. Most people"s jobs change at least once or twice in their lifetime.
E. They ask you a series of multiple-choice (多项选择的) questions.
F. However, many companies will offer you job training before you start the work.
G. Another thing to consider is how much education or special training s required. |
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Is bottled water better for you than tap? Or should you choose vitamin-enriched water? Experts say,
skip it all. None of these products is likely to make you any healthier. Below, we look at four major myths
about the benefits of drinking water. 1 Experts say there"s an easy way to judge. If you are not thirsty,
your fluid intake is likely "just right"
Myth No 1: Drink eight glasses each day.
Scientists say there"s no clear health benefit of drinking so much water a day. 2 "Nobody really
knows," says Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a kidney expert at the University of Pennsylvania.
Myth No.2: Lots of water equals healthier skin.
The body is already 60 percent water. 3 Adding a few extra glasses of water each day has a limited
effect."It"s such a tiny part of what"s in the body," says Goldfarb." It"s very unlikely that one"s getting any
benefit."
Myth No.3: 4
A more accurate statement may be: Drinking water is a helpful tool for dieters."Water is a great strategy
for dieters because it has no calories," says Madeline Fernstrom of the University of Pittsburgh."So you
can keep your mouth busy without food and get a sense of satisfaction." But water is not magical, she adds.
"Other zero-calorie options such as diet sodas are fine, too."
Myth No. 4: It"s easy to get dehydrated (脱水的) during a workout.
Dehydration sets in when a person has lost 2 percent of his or her body weight. 5 "It"s also obvious
that individuals in hot, dry climates have an increased need for water," says Goldfarb. "But for a walk in
the park, no water bottle is necessary." ? |
A. So where does the standard advice come from?
B. But it"s unclear whether these changes are clinically significant.
C. So for a 200-pound man, this means losing 4 pounds of water.
D. Drinking extra water leads to weight loss.
E. Drink as much water as you can.
F. So, if you take a 200-pound man, he"s 120 pounds of water.
G. But first, how do you know if you"re drinking enough water |
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Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in her life, she might go home and write in her diary. Now,
a teenager with 1 problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog. In many ways, a
diary and a blog are very 2 . So, what makes blogging different from writing in 3 diary?
The biggest difference is that blogging is much more 4 than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats her diary
like a book full of 5 that she does not want to 6 . It"s interesting that someone who writes in a blog 7 a
diary will probably write nearly the same information.
I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her 8 . She writes about things like waking up early
for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test. 9 I was her age, I wrote about the
same things, but 10 in my diary. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place
because I was 11 that my sister might read it!
The biggest 12 with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I was angry with a friend during
high school and wrote something 13 about her in my diary, she would never know. 14 , if my sister ever
wrote something bad about a friend, that friend 15 read her blog and get a"cry".
There are also 16 of blogging, of course. If I was feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary,"Nobody
cares about me," 17 would know about it. However, if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her
best friends would 18 respond (回应) and tell her how much they 19 her. Blogs help people 20 in contact
with their friends and to hear what the people around them are doing. |
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D. find | | 阅读理解。 | Editor,
Brockingham is run by people who are more interested in tourists than its residents. The problem is that
the people running the government refuse to accept new ideas. By banning all fast-food restaurants and
discount stores, they take away all the places kids can afford to shop.
These people forget that when they were young, they could go to the South Street Soda Fountain and get
an ice-cream soda for 25 cents. Today you can"t find an ice-cream soda anywhere in Brockingham for less
than $2! Where can kids go for a snack?
There is not a single restaurant in Brockingham where a family of four can eat dinner for less than $100.
Add a 15% tip and sales tax and you have spent nearly $125 to eat a meal you could prepare at home for
about $12. Have you noticed that Brockingham families never dine in Brockingham?
Fast-food restaurants are also a good place for school kids to get an after-school job. Fast-food restaurants
are busiest during the early supper hours when students are able to work, whereas the fancy food restaurants
cater to late-night diners. Working in one of these establishments requires working shifts that are too late for
most students.
The City Council claims that local merchants, rather than national chains, should benefit from the tourist
business. I agree that it is important to support local businesses, but I think the fast-food restaurants would
encourage more people to shop in Brockingham.
Another thing that disturbs me is that we must travel 25 miles to the nearest discount store. If I need a
tire for my bike, I have a choice of buying one at Surf and Peddle Sport Shop for $15 or driving to
Parkersburg Discount Center where I can buy the some kind of tire for $9. Again, I think the ban on all food
chains and discount houses is counterproductive for our city. Wes Woodrow 9th-Grade Student at
Brockingham High School | | 1. Why does Wes Woodrow write this letter to the editor? | A. Because the government bans all fastfood restaurants and discount stores in Brockingham.
B. Because the writer can"t find an icecream soda anywhere in Brockingham for less than $2.
C. Because a family of four can"t find a restaurant in Brockingham to eat dinner for less than $100.
D. Because the writer has to travel 25 miles to the nearest discount store. | | 2. From the letter we can infer that _____. | A. the writer used to buy a lot of icecream soda
B. the students refuse to work in fancy food restaurants
C. the government"s ban benefits local merchants much
D. discount stores usually offer a discount of 40%. | | 3. The underlined word "counterproductive" in Paragraph 6 of the letter probably means _______. | A. cheap, not expensive
B. surprising, not expected
C. harmful, not helpful
D. doubtful, not sure | | 4. One way the writer of this letter tries to convince the reader is by _____. | A. complaining that someone has to drive him to Parkersburg
B. getting an after-school job in fast-food restaurant himself
C. suggesting that many businessmen have the same opinion
D. giving specific examples of the high costs in Brockingham | | 阅读理解。 | In this fast-shifting world, there can be no guarantees attached to any particular job. But there is much
that you can do to protect yourself from the change of society, by equipping yourself with the skills to
manage your career more effectively. You need to be a career activist.
If you lost your main source of income tomorrow, could you find a different source to replace it? The
most im-portant thing in protecting yourself now and in the future is ensuring that you have choices. Don"t
let yourself be held back by a lack of skill development, or fear of change. Some people have been good
performers in their own or-ganization but discovered that they are stuck. Because they are so closely related
to a particular company or indus-try, their skills are not readily transferred to other jobs.
Don"t put all your eggs in one basket. If you limit yourself to one particular area or sector, you limit your
opportuni-ty, too. In a global market place, many jobs come and go quickly as changes in the stock market.
Today"s hottest job may not exist tomorrow. If you love computers, then this work represents a great
choice. But don"t enter a field just because you think that"s where the hot jobs are; even if the job is available,
it may not match well with your own skills and abili-ties. Start with entry of your own strengths and interests,
then see where you may match up best in the job market. | | 1. How can we ensure that we have choices if we lose the main source of income? | A. Be a good performer in our own organization.
B. Try to develop our skills and be a career activist.
C. Enter a field where the hot jobs are.
D. Transfer to other jobs that use computers. | | 2. Some people are afraid of change because _______. | A. they have got a hot job
B. they have no other better choices
C. they have got used to a certain job
D. they have no other skills and interests | | 3. "Put your eggs in one basket" in Paragraph 3 means ______. | A. sticking to only one particular job
B. trying your best to do something well
C. many jobs come and go quickly
D. entering a field where the hot jobs are | | 4. What is the best job for you to choose according to the writer? | A. Something that is both hot and interesting.
B. Something that brings you good source of income.
C. Something that will always exist in the future.
D. Something involving your strengths and interests. | 最新试题
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