选用方框内所给词的适当形式填空。

they       potato      cry     excite      suggest

1.I’d like to buy a kilo of ________ and beef.

2.—What do you think of the soccer game today?

         —It was very _________. We had a lot of fun.

3. The work is so difficult. They can’t do it by __________.

4.Follow the doctor’s _________, and you’ll get well soon.

5.Let’s do something to stop the girl from _________.

 

Have you ever had the strange feeling that you were being watched? You turned around and, sure enough, someone was looking right at you!

Parapsychologists (灵学家) say that humans have a natural ability to sense when someone is looking at them. To research whether such a“sixth sense”really exists, Robert Baker, a psychologist (心理学家) at the University of Kentucky, did two experiments.

In the first one, Baker sat behind unknowing people in public places and stared(盯着）at the backs of their heads for 5 to 15 minutes. The subjects（受试者）were eating, drinking, reading, studying, watching TV, or working at a computer. Baker made sure that the people could not tell that he was sitting behind them during those periods. Later, when he questioned the subjects, almost all of them said they had no sense that someone was staring at them.

For the second experiment, Baker told the subjects that they would be stared at from time to time from behind in a laboratory setting. The people had to write down when they felt they were being stared at and when they weren’t. Baker found that the subjects were no better at telling when they were stared at and when they weren’t.

Baker concludes that people do not have the ability to sense when they’re being stared at. If people doubt the outcome of his two experiments, said Baker,“I suggest they repeat the experiments and see for themselves.”

1.The aim of the two experiments is to ________.

A．explain when people can have a sixth sense

B．study how people act while being watched in the lab

C．study whether humans can sense when they are stared at

D．prove why humans have a sixth sense

2.The underlined word “outcome” in the last paragraph most probably means ________.

A．value             B．result             C．performance       D．connection

3.In the second experiment, the subjects _________.

A．could tell when they were stared at

B．could tell where they weren’t stared at

C．couldn’t tell who they were stared at or who they stared at

D．couldn’t tell when they were stared at or when they weren’t

4.What can be learned from the passage?

A．People are born with a sixth sense.

B．The experiments support parapsychologists’ idea.

C．The subjects do not have a sixth sense in the experiments.

D．People have a sixth sense in all places.

 

US teenagers may be facing a challenge (挑战) today. A recent survey suggests (表明) that they are less honest than previous generations (上一代人).
The survey was done among 29,760 students at 100 US high schools. The results suggest that in the past year, 30 percent of US high school students have stolen from a store. And 64 percent may have cheated on a test.
However, 93 percent of the students said they were satisfied (满意) with their honesty. And 77 percent said,“when it comes to doing what is right, I am better than most people I know.”
Some teachers were unhappy about the survey results. Some, however, defended (为……辩护) today’s students.
“The competition is greater and the pressures (压力) on kids have increased greatly,”said Mel Riddle, who was a high school teacher and headmaster for 40 years.“It is the pressures that make it easy for students to be dishonest.”
“I think these students are better than other generations,”he said.“I find them more active, better to work with and more thankful for support.”“ We have to create situations where it’s easy for kids to do the right things, ”he added.“We need to create classrooms where learning is more important than having the right answer.”
【小题1】According to the survey, what challenge do US teenagers face today?

A．They have trouble getting pocket money

B．They don’t get along well with teachers

C．They are not so honest as older generations

D．They have too many tests to take each week

【小题2】We can learn from the survey that children in the US nowadays         .

A．behave worse

B．work harder

C．are less healthy

D．are busier at school

【小题3】According to the survey results,   _ percent of the students are satisfied with their honesty.

A．30

B．64

C．77

D．93

【小题4】What’s Mel Riddle’s opinion about the idea that students are dishonest?

A．He gets really angry about it

B．He thinks parents must do something to stop it

C．He thinks the students should change their behavior

D．He thinks there are some reasons for being dishonest

【小题5】What advice does Mel Riddle give on improving the honesty of students?

A．Do not let students do anything

B．Make it easier for them to learn

C．Ask students to find right answers

D．Give students more free time to have fun

补全对话。（共4小题，每小题1分；计4分）

Li Yang: Good morning. Mathew.

Mathew: Good morning, Li Yang.    1.  

Li Yang: There's still smog (雾霾) today. We'll have to go to school with face masks(口罩).

Mathew:    2.  According to the news, PM2.5 pollution is the main problem with air pollution.

Li Yang: Yes, and air pollution has done harm to people's health.

Mathew: So the Chinese government and Chinese people must take action to fight it.

Li Yang:    3.   

Mathew: Yeah. Since PM2.5 is mainly caused by vehicles(机动车)and factories, cars with large

emissions(排放)should not be allowed and factories should be closely watched.

Li Yang: I agree.   4.    And we suggest making the blue skies return for good.

Mathew: I hope so, too.

 

What’s the most important thing for you to have in your life? Somebody mentions hard-work, others suggest knowledge, love and luck.

If you arrange the 26 English letters alphabetically and use numbers to represent each of them, for example, 1 for a, 2 for b, 3 for c…, you can change an English word into a number. So hard-work becomes 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11= 98, meaning 98 is its mark; knowledge: 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5=96, while love: 12+15+22+5=54, and luck: 12+21+3+11=47, a small mark. None of these words can give one a full mark. What about money or prayer? They can’t, either.

Then what else? Don’t be worried. You can always find an answer to a problem in your life, when you change your way of looking at things or doing things, which is your attitude. Yes, attitude is the word. See for yourself: attitude: 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100，a full mark!

Different attitudes lead to different courses of life. Most times people hope for a better life. It is possible that one will have a change for the better after one has changed one’s attitude.

When you change your manner and became friendly towards others, you’ll meet more smiling faces towards you. In the same way, if you take a positive attitude towards failure, you’ll find it’s also rewarding though it has caused you losses.

1.Some people think it is important to have hard-work, knowledge, _______in their life.

2.According to the passage, the mark of the word “money” is _________.

3.From the passage, we know it’s possible for you_______if you change your attitude.

4.People will meet_______ towards them when they change their manners and become friendly to others.

5.The main idea of the passage is that ___________.