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I was the youngest of five boys and also had four sisters who had to pull together and take care of each other. Dad wasn't around, so I never knew him well. He killed himself when I was three years old, leaving mom with the job of raising nine kids. She was a very hard worker, and in order to make ends meet, she hardly ever rested. With my mom as my example, I learned that hard work is the best way to get what you want. Even as a little boy, I knew I was going to be successful. Regardless of what I chose, I wanted to make my brothers, sisters and mom proud of me—not only by being successful in what I chose to do, but also as a person who could be looked up to for the right reasons. Surprising as it might seem, basketball wasn't in my plans. One day, my mom cut a rim(边缘) off an old water barrel(水桶) and then held it up for me to throw an old rubber ball through. By junior high, I started playing basketball on a team. I loved to compete. For me, it paid off. I always put the effort in, every day. I am grateful for the life I've enjoyed as a basketball star. Basketball is not life. It can be exciting. But the most important thing about basketball is that it gives me a way to do good things for others as I move through this journey called life.
1.
It can be inferred that the author's________.
A.
brothers were more famous than him
B.
mother had a great influence on his career
C.
father loved his children and wife very much
D.
family was rich and happy when he was a child
2.
Why did the author's father kill himself?
A.
Because the family was poor.
B.
Because he often quarreled with his wife.
C.
Because he was seriously ill.
D.
The passage didn't tell us the reason.
3.
From the second paragraph, we can infer that________.
A.
the author was respected as a brave boy
B.
the author's family didn't like his career
C.
the author got on well with his mother, brothers and sisters
D.
the author helped his brothers and sisters succeed
A team of US psychologists have found that talking to another person for ten minutes a day helps with memory. "Socializing is just as effective as more traditional kinds of mental exercise in boosting memory and intellectual performance," Oscar Ybarra, a psychologist at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, said in a statement. In one investigation, they analyzed data on 3610 people, aged 24 to 96. They found that the higher their level of social interaction (交流), the better their cognitive (认知的) functioning. Social interaction includes getting together or having phone chats with relatives, freinds and neighbors. In another experiment, the researchers conducted lab tests on 76 college students, aged 18 to 21, to evaluate how social interactions and intellectual exercises affected the results of memory and mental performance tests. The students were divided into three groups: the social interaction group had a discussion of a social issue for 10 minutes before taking the tests; the intellectual activities group completed three tasks (including a reading comprehension exercise and a crossword puzzle) before the tests; and a control group (对照组) watched a 10-minute clip (电源片段) of the Seinfeld television show. "We found that short-term social interaction lasting for just 10 minutes improved participants’ intellectual performance as much as engaging in so-called ’intellectual’ activities for the same amount of time," Ybarra said. The study was expected to be published in the February issue of the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
1.
The underlined word "boosting" in the second paragraph can be replaced by ______.
A.
improving
B.
decreasing
C.
preventing
D.
training
2.
Which is not included in social interaction?
A.
Having a talk with a neighbor.
B.
Attending a birthday party.
C.
Watching TV at home alone.
D.
Calling your classmates
3.
What’s the purpose of the experiment on 76 college students?
A.
To judge the effect of social interaction on memory and intelligence.
B.
To find out what is real social interaction.
C.
To learn how much time is needed for social interaction.
D.
To show the function of people’s cognition.
4.
Which of the following questions may be asked in the social interaction group in the experiment?
A.
What does the author want to show us?
B.
Do you like living in a big city or a small one?
C.
Which word can be used to fill in the blank?
D.
What is the main idea of the second paragraph?
5.
What’s the main idea of the passage?
A.
Intellectual exercises improve memory.
B.
Different people have different ways of communication
About ten years ago when I was an undergraduate in college in New York, I was working as a practice student at my University's Museum of Natural History. One day while I was working at the cash register in the gift shop, I saw an elderly couple come in with a little girl in wheelchair. As I looked closer at this girl, I saw that she was seated on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and the trunk of the human body. She was wearing a little white dress with the patterns of red roses and yellow dots. As the couple wheeled her up to me I was looking down at the register. I turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink(眨眼示意). As I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the most beautiful, largest smile I have ever seen All of a sudden her handicap was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile just melted me and almost instantly gave me a completely new sense of what life is all about. I immediately felt full of hope and confidence. She took me, a poor, unhappy college student, into her world, a world of smiles, love and warmth. That was ten years ago, but I still remember it clearly as if it happened just yesterday. I'm a successful business person now and whenever I get down and think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught me.
1.
What was the writer a decade ago?
A.
A worker working in a university.
B.
A teacher teaching in a college.
C.
A clerk working in a museum.
D.
A university student who had not yet taken a degree.
2.
What does the underlined world “handicap” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A.
Life difficulty.
B.
Troublesome problem.
C.
Failure in work.
D.
Physical disability.
3.
How did the writer probably feel before meeting the disabled girl?
A.
She felt full of hope.
B.
She was filled with confidence.
C.
She felt unhappy because of poverty.
D.
She felt life was beautiful.
4.
Which of the following title suits this passage best?
Recently a Beijing father sent in a question at an Internet forum (论坛) asking what "PK" meant. "My family has been watching the 'Super Girl' singing competition TV programme. My little daughter asked me what 'PK' meant, but I had no idea," explained the puzzled father. To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing games online, it is impossible not to know this term. In such Internet games, "PK" is short for "Player Kill", in which two players fight until one ends the life of the other. In the case of the "Super Girl" singing competition, "PK" was used to refer to the stage where two singers have to compete with each other for only one chance to go up in competition ranking. Like this father, Chinese teachers at high schools have also been finding their students' compositions using Internet jargons which are difficult to understand. A high school teacher from Tianjin asked her students to write compositions with simple language, but they came up with a lot of Internet jargons that she didn't understand. "My 'GG' came back this summer from college. He told me I've grown up to be a 'PLMM'. I loved to 'FB' with him together; he always took me to the 'KPM'," went one composition. "GG" means Ge Ge (Chinese pinyin for brother). "PLMM" refers to Piao Liang Mei Mei (beautiful girl). "FB" means Fu Bai (corruption). "KPM" is short for KFC, Pizza Hut and McDonald's. Some specialists welcome Internet jargons as a new development in language. If you do not even know what a Kong Long (dinosaur, referring to an ugly looking female) or a Qing Wa (frog, referring to an ugly looking male) is, you will possibly be regarded as a Cai Niao!
1.
By writing the article, the writer tries to ________
A.
explain some Internet language
B.
suggest common Internet language
C.
laugh at the Beijing father
D.
draw our attention to Internet language
2.
What does the writer think about the term "PK"?
A.
Fathers can't possibly know it
B.
The daughter should understand it
C.
Online game players may know it
D.
"Super Girl" shouldn't have used it
3.
The examples of the Beijing father and the Tianjin teacher are used to show that Internet jargons ________
A.
are used not only online
B.
can be understood very well
C.
are welcomed by all the people
D.
cause trouble to our mother tongue
4.
The underlined word "jargons" means " ________ " in Chinese
As the Internet’s influence grows, the potential for danger also escalates (逐步上升). One of these dangers is from cyber-bullying. Cyber-bullying (网络欺凌) is repeatedly hurting someone else through the use of technology. It consists of sending or posting cruel messages, photos, or videos on the Internet or other electronic media with the intent of damaging the reputation of the target. Imagine being a 13-year-old girl discovering a cell phone picture of her changing clothes for gym class has been sent to all her classmates. Or imagine being an 11-year-old boy who is scared to go to school because an unknown bully sent him an instant message saying that he is so fat that he should kill himself. Cases such as these are happening every day, leading kids to be depressed and unable to concentrate. Worse yet, parents are oblivious (忽视的) to what is happening. Only 15 percent of parents even know what cyber-bullying is. And anyone who thinks that their child is not a victim or a bully is probably wrong. 90 percent of middle school students have had their feelings hurt online and 75 percent have admitted to visiting a website attacking another student. Unlike traditional schoolyard bullying, where a bully has a name and a face, cyber-bullying gets much of its power from anonymity (匿名). A cyber bully might design a website posting cruel remarks about a classmate and never tell anyone that he or she was the creator. The cyber-bullying also gets its power from the scope (范围) of its audience. Within seconds, a cyber bully can send an e-mail to everyone he or she knows, inviting them to take part in an online poll (民意测验) of who is the ugliest kid in their class. Victims can be picked on day and night from any place. The good news is that you can help stop cyber-bullying. By making parents and educators aware of what is going on and encouraging them to take quick and strong action when cyber-bullying cases happen, you can help make technology constructive, not destructive, for young people.
1.
What can we learn from the second paragraph?
A.
Not many students have known of cyber-bullying.
B.
Parents may not know their child is a victim of cyber-bullying.
C.
Parents know a lot of cyber-bullying.
D.
Most of the students have not been hurt by cyber-bullying.
2.
What does the author think of the cyber-bullying?
A.
It is not as harmful as people think.
B.
It is too complex a problem to settle.
C.
It will not affect the relationship between classmates.
D.
It can be stopped through our efforts.
3.
What will probably be discussed in the following passage?
A.
How to prevent cyber-bullying.
B.
What parents and educators think of cyber-bullying.
