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阅读理解。     Last August, Joe and Mary Mahoney began looking at colleges for their 17-year-old daughter, Maureen.
With a checklist of criteria in hand, the Dallas family looked around the country visiting half a dozen schools.
They sought a university that offered the teenager"s intended major, one located neat a large city, and a
campus where their daughter would be safe. "The safety issue is a big one," says Joe Mahoney, who quickly
discovered he wasn"t alone in his worries. On campus tours other parents voiced similar concerns, and the
same question was always asked: what about crime? But when college officials always gave the same
answer- "That"s not a problem here," --Mahoney began to feel uneasy.
     "No crime whatsoever?" comments Mahoney today." I just don"t buy it." Nor should he: in 1999 the U.S.
Department of education had reports of nearly 400,000 serious crimes on or around our campuses."Parents
need to understand that times have changed since they went to college," says David Nichols, author of Creating
a Safe Campus. "Campus crime mirrors the rest of the nation."
     But getting accurate information isn"t easy. Colleges must report crime statistics (统计数字) by law, but
some hold back for fear of bad publicity, leaving the honest ones looking dangerous. "The truth may not
always be serious," warms S. Daniel Carter of Security on Campus, Inc., the nation"s leading campus
safety watchdog group.
     To help concerned parents, Carter promised to visit campuses and talk to experts around the country to find
out major crime issues and effective solutions. 1. The Mahoneys visited quite a few colleges last August ______. A. to express the opinions of many parents
B. to choose a right one four their daughter
C. to check the cost of college education
D. to find a tight one near a large city 2. It is often difficult to get correct information on campus crime because some colleges ______. A. receive too many visitors
B. mirror the rest of the nation
C. hide the truth of campus crime
D. have too many watchdog groups 3. The underlined word"buy" in the third paragraph means _______. A. mind
B. admit
C. believe
D. expect 4. We learn from the text that"the honest ones" in the fourth paragraph most probably refers to colleges _____. A. that are protected by campus security
B. that report campus crimes by law
C. that are free from campus crime
D. that enjoy very good publicity 5. What is the text mainly about?A. Exact campus crime statistics
B. Crimes on or around campuses
C. Effective solutions to campus crime
D. Concerns about kids" campus safety

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阅读理解。     A device that stops drivers from falling asleep at the wheel is about to undergo testing at Department
of Transport laboratories and could go on sale within 12 months. The system, called driver Alert, aims to
reduce deadly road accidents by 20%-40% that are caused by tiredness. Airline pilots can also use it to
reduce the 30% of all pilot-error accidents that are related to fatigue.
    Driver Alert is based on a computerized wristband. The device, worn by drivers or pilots gives out a
sound about every four minutes during a car journey. After each sound the driver must respond by squeezing
the steering wheel (方向盘). A sensor in the wristband detects this pressing action and measures the time
between the sound and the driver"s response.
    Tiredness is directly related to a driver"s response time. Usually, a watchful driver would take about 400
milliseconds to respond, but once that falls to more than 500 milliseconds, it suggests that the driver is getting
sleepy.
    In such cases the device gives out more regular and louder sounds, showing that the driver should open a
window or stop for a rest. If the driver"s response continues to slow down, the sounds become more frequent
until a nonstop alarm warms that the driver must stop as soon as possible.
     The device has been delivered to the department"s laboratories for testing. If these tests, scheduled for six
months" time, are successful, the markers will bring the product to market within about a year. 1. According to the text, Driver Alert ______. A. aims to reduce tiredness-related accidents
B. has gone through testing at laboratories
C. aims to prevent drivers from sleeping
D. has been on sale for 12 months 2. How should a driver respond to the sounds from Driver Alert? A. By sounding a warning
B. By touching the wristband
C. By checking the driving time
D. By pressing the steering wheel 3. We can learn from the text that the driver needs to stop for a break when his response time is ______. A. About 400 milliseconds
B. below 500 milliseconds
C. over 500 milliseconds
D. about 400 minutes 4. When the driver gets sleepy while driving, Driver Alert ______. A. moves more regularly
B. stops working properly
C. opens the window for the driver
D. sounds more frequently and loudly

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阅读理解。 How to Make a Budget (预算)
Most likely, you aren"t the family breadwinner. But doing a small job or getting a weekly allowance (零花钱)
would put some money in your pocket. For kids and grown-ups alike, money is easy to spend. If you aren"t
careful, it can be gone in no time. Being responsible with your money is an important skill to learn－and the
sooner you start the better. Whether you are tracking your spending or saving for something special, creating
a budget can help you deal with your expenses and plan for the future. All you need are paper and a pencil－and
some self-control. First, take a look at our sample monthly budget. Then, use a separate sheet of paper to plan
your own. In the first two columns (栏), list your sources (来源) of income and how much you expect to earn
form them. In the third and fourth columns, list what you expect to spend your money on and the amount.

The left-hand total should
be more than or equal to the
right-hand total. If it is, you
have an effective budget.
Budgets are not complex,
but sticking to them can be
tough. When planning your
budget, be realistic about
your expenses. If you know

Sample Monthly Budget

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Monthly Income

Amount

Monthly Expenses

Amount

Allowance

$ 20.00

Snacks

$ 26.00

Money earned
Selling drinks

$ 25.00

Music downloads

$ 12.00

Money earned
babysitting

$ 12.50

Movies

$ 18.00

Money earned

$ 30.00

Video rentals

$ 10.00

阅读理解。

     While parents, particularly mothers, have always been attached to their infants (婴儿). Societal conditions
frequently made this attachment difficult to maintain (保持). First of all, the high infant death rate in the
premodern times meant that such attachments often ended in hopelessness. Perhaps to prevent the sadness
that infant death caused, a number of societal practices developed which worked against early attachment of
mother and child.
     One of these premodern attachment discouraging practices was to leave infants unnamed until they had
survived into the second year. Another practice that discouraged maternal (母亲的) attachment was tightly
wrapping (包裹) infants. Wrapping effectively prevented the close physical interactions like stroking (抚摸)
and kissing that are so much a part of modern mothers" and fathers" affection for their infants.
     A third practice which had the same distancing effect was wet-nursing. Breast-feeding (母乳哺育) was
not popular among the well-to-do in the early modern times; infants were often fed by wet nurses hired for
the purpose. In some places, such as nineteenth-century France, city infants were sent to wet nurses in the
country. Often a wet nurse would feed her own child first, leaving little milk for the city infant－who, in
many cases, died. In Rouen, the death rate for children sent to a wet nurse was 35 percent.

1. Babies were unnamed until they were two so that ______.

A. an old social custom could be kept up
B. maternal attachment could be maintained
C. they could have better chances to survive
D. their parents would not be too sad if they died

2. Why were babies wrapped?

A. To protect them from the cold.
B. To distance their mothers from them.
C. To make them feel more comfortable.
D. To make it easy for their mothers to hold them.

3. Wet nurses were women who ______.

A. babysat city infants
B. fed babies of other families
C. sent their babies to the country
D. failed to look after their babies

4. Wet nurses were women who ______.

A. babysat city infants
B. fed babies of other families
C. sent their babies to the country
D. failed to look after their babies

Cloze.

     Adults are often surprised by how well they remember something they learned as children but have never
practised in the meantime. A man who has not had an opportunity to go swimming for years can   1   swim
as well as ever when he gets back in the water. He can get on a bicycle after several decades and still   2
away. A mother who has not   3   the words for years can teach her daughter the poem that begins "Twinkle,
twinkle, little star" or recite the story of Cinderella or Snow White.
     One explanation is the law of overlearning, which can be stated as follows:   4   we have learned something,
additional learning increases the   5 of time we will remember it.
     In childhood, we usually continue to practise such skills as swimming, bicycle riding long after we have
learned them. We continue to listen to and   6   ourselves of poems such as "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" and
childhood tales such as Cinderella or Snow White. We not only learn but   7 .
     The law of overlearning explains why cramming (突击学习) for an examination,   8   it may result in a
passing grade, is not a   9   way to learn a school course. By cramming, a student may learn the subject well
enough to get by on the examination, but he is likely soon to forget almost everything he learned. A little
overlearning;  10 , is usually a good investment toward the future.

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(     )1. A. only
(     )2. A. more
(     )3. A. thought about
(     )4. A. Before
(     )5. A. accuracy
(     )6. A. remind
(     )7. A. recite
(     )8. A. though
(     )9. A. convenient
(     )10. A. at most

B. hardly
B. drive
B. cared for
B. Once
B. unit
B. inform
B. overlearn
B. so
B. demanding
B. by the way

C. still
C. travel
C. showed up
C. Until
C. limit
C. warm
C. research
C. if
C. satisfactory
C. on the other hand

D. even
D. ride
D. brought up
D. Unless
D. length
D. recall
D. improve
D. after
D. swift
D. in the end

Cloze.

     The birthrate in Europe has been in a steady decrease since the 1960s. European countries, realizing crisis
is at hand, are providing great encouragement for parents to create more babies in the 21st century.
     Affairs Ministry concluded last year that,   1   cash encouragement, some women just don"t want to be
2   holding the baby. "What we know is that it"s good for the   3   if men and women share the burden of
having children," says Soren Kindlund, family policy adviser at the Swedish ministry.   4   Swedish parents
can take their paid leave as they wish, men use a mere 12% of it; 60% of fathers do not take even a(n)   5
day off work.
     Experts fear that the tendency for women to use most of the parental leave could make employers   6
go give young women the permanent jobs they need to qualify for paid maternity leave (产假). In January.
Sweden decided to allow new fathers two months" paid leave, with a warning: use it or   7   it.
     Kindlund admits that men are under   8   to stay at work, even though parental pay comes out of the public
purse. "It"s not popular among bosses and perhaps with other men in the workplace," he says. "But it"s good
for the father and for the child if they can   9   a relationship."
     In Norway, a(n)  10  policy has worked wonders. 70% of dads in Norway now take parental leave, and
the birthrate of 1.85 children per woman is one of the highest in Europe.

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