A This is the only book that offers valuable study guide designed by experienced teachers. | |||||||
B This is one of the most popular and effective American history textbook, tracing the history of the United States from the arrival of first Indian people to the present day. It includes numerous interesting history stories. | |||||||
C This book is designed as a 12-week program in memory of an artist. The author introduces the artist"s dates and others tools. Each week follows a particular theme. The 12 weeks described in the Artists Studios are: safety, power, honesty, connection, strength, self-protection, independence, faith and so on. | |||||||
D This book just tells stories of how people cook at a particular point in time. It is a must-have in your kitchen. It is the excellent reference guide that you want to use for years. | |||||||
E This book encourages students and weaknesses, and causes them to recognize themselves in ways they probably haven"t thought before, It is really helpful to those who have difficulty with studying and time management. | |||||||
F This is the most widely used music textbooks that presents a solid foundation in musical theory while conveying the importance of music in life. It helps students understand essential roles of music in other fields. | |||||||
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Do you remember the game "Telephone"? A message gets passed from person to person, and everyone laughs at how distorted (曲解) it becomes. As a game, telephone can be fun. In real life, sending messages through third parties fouls things up. It is important for family members who have "business" with other family members to take it up directly. When tension arises in a relationship between two people, a frequent way of dealing with this is to send messages through a third person. Family doctors refer to the process as triangulation. Following a quarrel, a mother may say to her son, "Tell your father to pass the salt," which may be answered by, "Tell your mother to get her own salt." In many long cases of triangulation, the middleman becomes severely disturbed. Two years ago, Ruth and Ralph Gordon brought their 17-year-old daughter for treatment. Lucille was not doing well in school, using drugs heavily. When I began to work with her, she was uncommunicative and aggressive. After some time, however, she opened up and told me her parents rarely talked to each other, but both used her as a middleman. Mrs. Cordon was sexually unsatisfied and suggested to Lucille that she ask her father to go for marriage advice. Mr. Cordon told Lucille that he was seeing another woman, and he urged Lucille to speak to her mother about improving her behaviour. Caught in this confusing situation, Lucille became more and more troubled. It wasn"t until she refused to play middleman that she began to improve. When either parent began to send a message through her, she learned to say, "Tell him/her yourself!" You"ll find that when family members learn to dial each other directly, there"s rarely a busy signal or wrong number. With direct dialing, a sense of freshness is created. | |||||||
1. The underlined words "fouls things up" in the 1st paragraph means, ____. | |||||||
A. create things B. improve things C. remove things D. ruins things | |||||||
2. "triangulation" in the second sentence of the 2nd paragraph refers to ____. | |||||||
A. the process of sending messages through a 3rd person B. the middleman who becomes severely disturbed C. the tension in a relationship between two people D. the argument between a mother and a father | |||||||
3. Through the example of Lucille and her parents, the writer hopes to tell the readers that ____. | |||||||
A. family members should learn to get their messages across directly B. parents should send their children taking drugs for treatment C. children can hardly get used to their parents" troubles D. children should refuse the requests of their parents | |||||||
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What will city life be like in the future? Some people think that life in the cities is going to be 1 . They 2 that cities will become more and more crowded. 3 the number of people increases, there will be less space for each person. This 4 will cause other problems-more crimes, dirtier streets, and worse problems with traffic 50 we have now. How will people find enough drinking water, energy (such as gas and electricity), and housing? 6 life will be hard, people who live in cities will worry more, and they may become sick. 7 these reasons, some say that nobody will want to live in urban areas. How can we 8 such problems as overcrowding, crime, and traffic? In some cities, thousands of people are already 9 in the streets because there is so little suitable housing-and because 10 are so high. The crime rate isn"t going down. 11 , it is, 12 so fast that many people are afraid to go out at night. Traffic jams are so bad that cars don"t move at all for several blocks. These 13 problems have been getting worse, not better, so many people see no 14 for the future of the city. However, not all people believe in the horrible 15 for cities of the future. Instead, they feel that they can solve present urban problems and 16 future ones. The disadvantages of any modem city are not unique (独特的) to that city. 17 , all the cities in the world have to solve the problems of traffic jams, crime, housing, energy, drinking water and overcrowding. Yet many cities have found answers to one or more of these difficulties. Some European cities, such as Stockholm, Sweden, or London, England, have planned communities that 18 people with apartments, jobs, shopping centers, green space, entertainment and transportation. Many U.S. cities are building their downtown areas. Urban 19 can learn from one another. They can 20 solutions that have been successful in other parts of the world. | |||||||
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