Every country has its heroes. The heroes are the people the nation and especially the young people admire. If you get a list of the heroes of a nation, it will tell you the potential of that nation.

If today in America, you ask the high school students to list their heroes, their choice would probably fall into three groups. The first group of heroes would be the rock stars —the people connected with rock music. There is no doubt that such people do have talent but one wonders if one should regard rock stars as a model. The rock stars too often are involved with drugs and their personal life is not all that good. The rock stars are rich and wear the latest fashion styles. However, one should seek more in a hero than such things as money and good clothes.

A second type of hero for the American youth is the sports star. Again you have a person who has a great ability in one area — SPORTS. However, too often the personal life of the sports star is a bit of a mess. Too frequently drugs and drinking are a part of life of the sports star.

A third type of hero is the TV or movie star. This person may have lots of acting talent and is quite handsome. However, the personal life of too many actors is quite sad and they should not be held up as a model for young people.

Today, the rock star, the athlete and the actor all have become the models of the youth in America. Really, do you hear a young person say that his hero is a doctor, a teacher, or a scientist? These people are not rich and do not wear fashionable clothes. However, they are talented people who work hard to make the world a better place for everyone.

What is really sad is that the young try to imitate their heroes. They like to wear the same clothes and follow their styles. If the heroes of today for the American youngsters are limited only to rock stars, athletes and actors, the future does not look too bright.

The hero discussed in this article means a person ______.

A. who has done something brave   

B. who plays an important role in a play

C. whom people greatly admire     

D. who rides the waves and moves with the tides

What is true of the groups mentioned in this article?

A. They are not fright but are good-looking.

B. They are rich but are strict with themselves.

C. They are talented in some area but lead an indecent life.

D. They are perfect in every way.

American young people will not admire ______.

A. a university professor              B. a popular singer

C. a football player               D. a film actress

According to the writer, people should hold up as their model those______.

A. who are rich and wear the latest fashion clothes

B. whose personal life is good

C. who can express people’s feelings

D. who work in the interests of the people

After we meet people, it is up to us to make them our friends．Let us stop a moment and consider what really makes a friend. The major qualities like faithfulness, devotion, friendliness，flash through our minds. But it is the large number of very small particular qualities that make up one’s whole character, such as cheerfulness, friendliness and punctuality. After all, “to make a friend, be a friend” is not such a big and difficult order. There are particular favorable qualities, which attract others to us, and some fundamental psychological do’s and don’ts．

    If you are in the presence of a shy person, talking and asking casual questions may bring him out of his shell. Think of what would be most acceptable to the other person for you to talk, or to listen. Either way, the goal is to make yourself pleasant．

    Always remember to listen, but listen intelligently. To have anyone “hang on our words” is the most unnoticeably clever way in the world to please somebody．For a few extremely happy seconds we are the center of attraction，but when it is our turn to be audience，let us remember how we felt as the actor，and let’s be genuinely interested in what the other fellow is saying．

    Other people will like us, if we like them. If you want friends, keep your mind and heart open to friendship. Be alive to the other person’s world．

This passage is mainly about________.

      A. the way of talking to a shy person

      B. some favorable qualities to be a psychologist

      C. how to make yourself attractive to listeners

      D. how to make a friend and be a friend

The underlined part “bring him out of his shell” in the second paragraph most probably means________.

      A. make him become active                B. make him feel more nervous

      C. help him understand the question better    D．help him listen intelligently

According to the passage，an important way in making friends is to________.

      A. attract them       B. be attracted      C. listen attentively     D. talk widely

Of the qualities in a friend，which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

      A. Faithfulness.      B. Devotion．      C. Punctuality.         D. Unselfishness.

 

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Babies are not just passing idle time when they stare goggle-eyed at the television—they are actually learning about the world, U.S. researchers said. Parents may want t limit what their babies see on television , based on the study, said Donna Mumme, assistant professor of psychology at Tufts University in Boston, who led the research. “Children as young as 12 months are making decisions based n the emotional(情感的)reactions of adults around them,” Mumme said in a statement. “It turns out they can also use emotional information they pick up from television. This means that adults might want to think twice before they speak in a loud and harsh voice or let a baby see television programs meant for information about the world. A mother urging her baby to eat some  “yummy” soup on a brother crying in fear when a dog approaches can influence a baby’s reaction. Mumme’s team tested babies to determine. If television has the same influence, showing actors reacting on a videotape to objects such as red spiral letter holder, a blue humpy ball, and a yellow garden hose attachment. Babies aged 10 months or 12 months were later given the same objects to play with. Ten-month-olds did not seem to e influenced by the video buy the 1-year-olds were. When the actors acted neutrally or positively to an object, the babies happily played with them. But if the actor had seemed afraid or disgusted, the babies would avoid the object.

72．Psychology is the study of             .

A．human’s society and its growth

B．human’s hopes had dreams

C．human’s mind and behaviors

D．human’s languages and cultures

73．Which of the following is Mumme’s conclusion?

A．Small babies should not be allowed to watch television programs.

B．Adults need to think twice before they act in front of small babies.

C．TV programs provide small babies with all the information they need.

D．One-year-olds can be emotionally influenced by TV programs.

74．Mumme reached his conclusion by            .

A．measuring the time babies spent in front of TV.

B．making TV programs and advertisements for kids.

C．showing actors how to react to blue bumpy balls

D．observing small babies’ reactions to TV programs

75．Which of the following may the study lead to according to the researchers?

A．Parents may want to limit what their babies see on television.

B．Actors may try to behave themselves well in front of babies.

C．Babies may be allowed to choose what they see on TV.

D．Scientists may stop ignoring babies’ emotional world.

 

 

                  To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor; you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.

  Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he does not sit still before his class： he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality (音色) and the musical note of his voice always changing according to what he is talking about.

  The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn’t mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s. The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand (预先). What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.

  A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part in his play: they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don’t understand something, they say so. The teacher therefore has to meet the needs of his audience, which is his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.

  I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were unable to take part in a stage-play because they could not keep strictly to what another had written.

51. What is the text about ?

A. How to become a good teacher.

B. What a good teacher should do outside the classroom.

C. What teachers and actors could learn from each other.

D. The similarities and differences between a teacher’s work and an actor’s.

52. The word “audience” in the fourth paragraph means ____ .

A. students                        B. people who watch a play

C. people who not on the stage        D. people who listen to something

53. A good teacher ____ .

A. knows how to hold the interest of his students

B. must have a good voice

C. knows how to act on the stage  

D. stands or sits still while teaching

54. In what way is a teacher’s work different from an actor’s ?

A. The teacher must learn everything by heart .

B. He knows how to control his voice better than an actor .

C. He has to deal with unexpected situations .

D. He has to use more facial expressions .

55. The main difference between students in class and a theatre audience is that ____.

A. students can move around in the classroom

B. students must keep silent while theatre audience needn’t

C. no memory work is needed for the students

D. the students must take part in their teachers’ plays

 

After we meet people, it is up to us to make them our friends．Let us stop a moment and consider what really makes a friend. The major qualities like faithfulness, devotion, friendliness，flash through our minds. But it is the large number of very small particular qualities that make up one’s whole character, such as cheerfulness, friendliness and punctuality. After all, “to make a friend, be a friend” is not such a big and difficult order. There are particular favorable qualities, which attract others to us, and some fundamental psychological do’s and don’ts．
If you are in the presence of a shy person, talking and asking casual questions may bring him out of his shell. Think of what would be most acceptable to the other person for you to talk, or to listen. Either way, the goal is to make yourself pleasant．
Always remember to listen, but listen intelligently. To have anyone “hang on our words” is the most unnoticeably clever way in the world to please somebody．For a few extremely happy seconds we are the center of attraction，but when it is our turn to be audience，let us remember how we felt as the actor，and let’s be genuinely interested in what the other fellow is saying．
Other people will like us, if we like them. If you want friends, keep your mind and heart open to friendship. Be alive to the other person’s world．
【小题1】This passage is mainly about________.

A．the way of talking to a shy person

B．some favorable qualities to be a psychologist

C．how to make yourself attractive to listeners

D．how to make a friend and be a friend

【小题2】 The underlined part “bring him out of his shell” in the second paragraph most probably means________.

A．make him become active	B．make him feel more nervous
C．help him understand the question better	D．help him listen intelligently

【小题3】According to the passage，an important way in making friends is to________.

A．attract them

B．be attracted

C．listen attentively

D．talk widely

【小题4】Of the qualities in a friend，which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A．Faithfulness.

B．Devotion．

C．Punctuality.

D．Unselfishness.