Dear Expert:
I was asked to retrieve my 14-year-old daughter from a five-day camping trip. She was suffering
from such severe separation anxiety, her teacher thought she should go home. She hadn"t eaten
anything and had refused to participate in any activities. The thing is my daughter is extremely bright
and has many friends; she organized a few friends into a band, and it belongs to several school clubs.
She"s just always had an extreme fear of being away from home. I don"t want her to miss out on
other trips.
Yours truly,
Jonathan |
答案
Dear Jonathan:
Sometimes kids can push through homesickness, but in other instances they become hurt
mentally and develop greater anxiety around outings, which can worsen and prolong (延长) the
problem. Separation anxiety can be the result of many complex interactions some genetic (遗传的)
and some learned. People with high anxiety tend to be fearful and worried, ever when the sense of
threat is minimum (最低程度). Lots of talented, creative and successful people are exceedingly
anxious.
I believe your daughter is bright, active and popular, but simply can"t do well outside her home
base. My suggestion is to take things in small steps, so your daughter can experience success, and
always have a fallback (退却) plan if she needs it. For instance, she can plan an overnight with a
friend, but assure her it"s no big deal to pick her up at midnight if she changes her mind. What"s
important is to recognize the fear, and make plans to deal with whatever may cause distress. In other
words, don"t try to talk your daughter out of her fears, equip her to master them. This way she"ll
eventually gain the confidence to go on further trips.
Expert |
解析 | 1-3: BAD |
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Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once.
Note that there is one word more than you need. | A. additional B. producing C. regular D. predicted E. identified F. atmosphere G. matched
H. reducing I. carried J. increase | | 阅读理解。 | Boiler rooms are often dirty and steamy, but this one is el.ean and cool. Fox Point is a very new47-unit
living building in South Bronx, one of the city"s poorest areas. Two-thirds of the people living there are
formerly (以前) homeless people, whose rent is paid by the government. The rest are low-income families.
The boiler room has special equipment, which produces energy for electricity and heat. It reuses heat that
would otherwise be lost to the air, reducing carbon emissions (碳排放) while also cutting costs.
Fox Point is operated by Palladia, a group that specializes in providing housing and services to needy,
people. Palladia received support from Enterprise Community Partners (ECP), which helps build affordable
housing by providing support to housing developers.
ECP has created national standards for healthy, environmentally (环境方面) clever and affordable homes
which are called, the Green Communities Standards. These standards include water keeping, energy saving
and the use of environmentally friendly building materials. Meeting the standards increases housing
construction costs by 2%, which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs. Even the positioning of a
window to get most daylight can help save energy.
Michael Bloomberg, New York"s mayor, plans to create 165,000 affordable housing units for 500,000
New Yorkers. Almost 80% of New York City"s greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings, and 40%
of those are caused, by housing. So he recently announced that the city"s Department of Housing and
Preservation and Development (DHPD), whose duty is to develop and keep the city"s supply of affordable
housing, will require all its new projects to follow ECP"s green standards.
Similar measures have been taken by other cities such as Cleveland and Denver, but New York"s DHPD
is the largest city developer of affordable housing in the country. | | 1. What is the purpose of describing the boiler room in the first paragraph? | | [ ] | A. To explain the measures the city takes to care for poor people.
B. To suggest that affordable housing is possible in all areas.
C. To show how the environment-friendly building works.
D. To compare old and new boiler rooms. | | 2. What is an advantage of the buildings meeting the Green Communities Standards? | | [ ] | A. Lower running costs.
B. Costing less in construction.
C. Less air to be lost in hot days.
D. Better prices for homeless people. | | 3. It can be learned from the text that, _____. | | [ ] | A. New York City is seriously polluted
B. people"s daily life causes many carbon emissions in New York City
C. a great number of people in New York City don"t have houses to live in
D. some other cities have developed more affordable housing than New York City | | 4. What is the main purpose of this text? | | [ ] | A. To call on people to pay more attention to housing problems.
B. To prove that some standards are needed for affordable housing.
C. To ask society to help homeless people and low-income families.
D. To introduce healthy, environmentally clever-and affordable housing. | | 阅读所给短文，并根据短文后题目的要求进行简答。(注意题后的字数要求) | _____. Fifty years ago, only 4 out of every 100 people in the United States were 65 or older. Today, 10
out of every 100 Americans are over 65. The aging of the population will affect American society in many
ways: education, medicine, and business. Quietly, the growing of America has made it a very different society,
one in which people have a quite different idea of what kind of behavior is suitable at various ages.
A person"s age no longer tells you anything about his or her social position, marriage or health. There"s no
longer a particular year in which one goes to school or goes to work or gets married or starts a family. The
social clock that kept us on time and told us when to go to school, get a job, or stop working isn"t as strong
as it used to be. It doesn"t surprise us to hear of a 29-year-old university president or a 35-year-old grandmother,
or a 70-year-old man who has become a father for the first time. Public ideas are changing.
Many people say, "I am much younger than my mother or my father was at my age." No one says, "Act
your age" any more. We"ve stopped looking with surprise at older people who act in youthful ways. | 1. What is mainly talked about in the passage? (Within 12 words)
_____________________________________________________________________________
2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one? We no longer feel astonished when
older people behave as young people.
_____________________________________________________________________________
3. Fill in the blank with proper word to complete the sentence. (Within 6 words)
_____________________________________________________________________________
4. What does "Act your age" mean?
_____________________________________________________________________________
5. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
_____________________________________________________________________________ | | 阅读理解。 | How can you find out what is going on inside a person"s body without opening the patient up? Regular
X-rays can show a lot. CAT scans can show even more. They can give three-dimensional (三维) view of
body organs(器官).
What is a CAT scan? CAT stands for Computerized Axial Tomography (层面X线照相术). It is a special
X-ray machine that gets a 360 - degree picture of a small area of a patient"s body.
Doctors use X-rays to study and examine diseases and injuries within the body. X-rays can find foreign
objects inside the body or to take pictures of some organs inside if special things as dyes or special liquids
are added to the organs to be X-rayed.
A CAT scanner, however, uses a beam (光束) of X-rays to give a cross-sectional view of a particular
part of the body. A fine beam of X-rays is scanned across the body and circled around the patient from many
different angles (角度). A computer analyzes (分析) the information from each angle and produces a clear
cross-sectional picture on the screen. This picture is then photographed for later use. Several cross-sections,
taken one after another, can give a clear "photo" of the entire body or of any body organs. The newest CAT
scanners can even give a clear picture of active, moving organs just as a fast-action camera can "stop the
action" giving clear pictures of what appear only mistily (模糊) to the eye. And because of the 360-degree
pictures, CAT scans show 3-dimensional views of organs in a manner that was once only seen during surgery
or autopsy (examining a dead body). | | 1. According to the first two paragraphs, doctors can see the inside of a patient"s body by _____. | | [ ] | A. giving the patient an operation
B. checking body organs
C. getting a 360-degree picture of a small area of a patient"s body
D. examining the CAT | | 2. From the last paragraph, we can infer that _____. | | [ ] | A. the newest pictures become more misty
B. many pictures can be taken at the same time
C. the information about the scanned patient is not highly valued
D. some pictures of the scanned parts of the body are developed for further examinations in the future | | 3. The best title of this passage might be _____. | | [ ] | A. Modern X-ray
B. Three-dimensional View
C. Fast - moving Camera
D. CAT Scan | | 阅读理解。 | The hole in the Earth"s ozone layer (臭氧层) has until now protected Antarctica from the worst effects of
global warming. But scientists have warned that as the hole closes up in the next few decades, temperatures
on the continent could rise by around 3oC on average, with melting ice contributing to a global sea level
increase of up to 1.4 metres.
In the past decades the western Antarctic has seen rapid ice loss as the world has warmed, but the other
parts of the continent have, paradoxically, been cooling, resulting in a 10% increase in ice in the seas around
the region. This is because the hole in the ozone layer has increased cold winds in Antarctica, making much
of the continent surface colder than usual.
But now that the gasses that cause the ozone hole have been banned, scientists expect the hole to repair
itself within the next 50 to 60 years. By then the cooling effect will have faded out and the Antarctic will face
the full impact of global warming. This means an increase in average air temperatures of around 3OC and a
reduction in sea ice by around a third.
The biggest threat to the continent comes from warming seas. Robert Johnson, a scientist who monitors
Antarctica ice sheets, said, "The ice sheets in Antarctica are hundreds of metres thick. But once warm ocean
waters start flowing underneath, the ice will begin thinning and could break up very quickly." Thinning ice
sheets cause ice to break away from the continent and to melt even faster. Escaping ice from western
Antarctica has already resulted in a 10% rise in global sea level in recent decades.
Johnson believes that international action to reduce global warming is required immediately or it may be too
late. "Everything is connected-Antarctica may be a long way away but it is an important part of the Earth"s
system," said Johnson. "It contains 90% of the world"s ice, 70% of the world"s fresh water and that is enough,
if it melts completely, to raise sea levels by 63 metres."
Even in a worse-case situation scientists don"t expect the ice to entirely disappear, but predict that, because
of the melting ice sheets, average sea level rise will be around 1.4 metres higher by the end of the century. | | 1. The underlined word "paradoxically" (in Paragraph 2) most probably means "_____". | | [ ] | A. rapidly
B. approximately
C. contradictorily
D. apparently | | 2. What is the effect of the hole in the ozone layer on Antarctica? | | [ ] | A. It is causing the ice to melt faster.
B. It is making much of the continent colder.
C. It is making the effects of global warming in the region worse.
D. It is reducing the amount of water in Antarctica. | | 3. What do scientists think is the biggest danger facing Antarctica? | | [ ] | A. Rising sea levels.
B. Warming sea water temperature.
C. Water pollution.
D. Growing ice sheets. | | 4. Which of the following is true according to the passage? | | [ ] | A. Antarctica is currently experiencing the full effects of global warming.
B. The average temperature has increased by 3OC in recent decades.
C. Antarctica contains most of the world"s fresh water.
D. Ten percent of Antarctica"s ice has already been lost. | | 5. The best title for the passage is _____. | | [ ] | A. Our planet in danger
B. Antarctica melting away
C. Action plan to save Antarctica
D. Let"s save the ozone layer | 最新试题
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