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1、 1 another challenge margaret has to face is the reaction of other people when she tells them what she does for a living. “they think youre a cleaner because you dont know how to read and write,” said margaret. “i used to think what my parents would say if they knew what id been doing, but i dont th

2、ink that way any more. i dont dislike the work though i cant say im mad about it.”1. the underlined part in the last paragraph implies that margarets parents would _.a. help care for her children b. regret what they had saidc. show sympathy for her d. feel disappointed in her 2 we say this to one an

3、other as if our tireless efforts were a talent by nature and an ability to successfully deal with stress. the busier we are, the more important we seem to ourselves and, we imagine, to others. to be unavailable to our friends and family, and to be unable to find time to relaxthis has become the mode

4、l of a successful life.2. according to paragraph 4,a successful person is one who is believed to _.a. be able to work without stress b. be more talented than other peoplec. be more important than anyone else d. be busy working without time to rest 3 downing the last drop of an expensive famous brand

5、 h2o as well as remembering to throw the empty bottle in the recycling bin, makes you feel pretty good about yourself, right? it shouldnt. even when the bottles are recycled，there are all kinds of other consequences of swallowing bottled water，says melissa peffers，the air-quality program manager for

6、 environmental defense.3. .in the first paragraph, the underlined sentence “it shouldnt.”suggests that people_a. shouldnt feel pleased with finishing the water in the bottleb. shouldnt feel good about drinking an expensive brand h2oc. shouldnt be content with just recycling empty bottlesd. shouldnt

7、be satisfied with drinking only bottle water 4 bottled waters role as a status symbol needs to change, peffers points out. so when a waiter at an expensive restaurant offers“and whats your drink?”thats no reason to forget your conviction(信念).“dont be afraid to say,ill have tap.say it loud enough tha

8、t the other tables nearby can hear you，”peffers says,“and then spend that money on a dessert.”4. why does peffers ask people to say “ill have tap.”loudly?a.to encourage them to set an example for others to followb.to advise them to save the money for one more dessertc.to remind them to be aware of t

9、heir social statusd.to persuade them to speak confidently in public 5 michael fish may soon be replaced as a weather forecaster by something truly fishier-the shark(鯊魚).research by a british biology student suggests that sharks could be used to predict storms. lauren smith, 24, is close to completin

10、g her study on sharks ability to sense pressure.if her studies prove the theory, scientists may be able to monitor the behavior of sharks to predict bad weather.5. what do we learn from the first four paragraph of the passage?a. sharks may be used to predict bad weather. b. sharks behavior can be co

11、ntrolled.c. michael fish is not qualified for his job. d. lauren smith will become a weather forecaster. 6 we can achieve knowledge either actively or passively（被動地）. we achieve it actively by direct experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning.we achieve knowledge passively by being

12、told by someone else. most of the learning that takes place in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch tv or read newspapers or magazines is passive. conditioned as we are to passive learning, its not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday communication with friends and co-wor

13、kers.6. according to the passage, passive learning may occur in _. a. doing a medical experiment b. solving a math problem c. visiting an exhibition d. doing scientific reasoning 7 carskadon says her work suggests that adolescents may need more sleep than they did at childhood, no less, as commonly

14、thought.sleep patters change during adolescence, as any parent of an adolescent can prove. most adolescents prefer to stay up later at nigh and sleep later in the morning. but its not just a matter of choice their bodies are going through a change of sleep patters.all of this makes the transfer from

15、 middle school to high schoolwhich may start one hour earlier in the morning - all the more difficult , carskadon says. with their increased need for sleep and their biological clocks set on the “sleep late, rise late” pattern, adolescent are up against difficulties when it conics to trying to be up

16、 by 5 or 6 a.m. for a 7:30 a.m. first hell. a short sleep on a desktop may be their bodys way of saying. “i need a timeout.”7. what might be a reason for the hard transfer middle school to high school?a. adolescents depend more on their parents. b. adolescents have to choose their sleep patterns.c.

17、adolescents sleep better than they did at childhood. d. adolescents need more sleep than they used to. 8for a while, my neighborhood was taken ever by an army of joggers(慢跑者). they were there all the time: early morning, noon, and evening. there were little old ladies in gray sweats, young couples i

18、n adidas shoes, middle-aged men with red faces. “come on!” my friend alex encouraged me to join him as he jogged by my house every evening. “youll feel great.”well, i had nothing against feeling great and if alex could jog every day, anyone could. so i took up jogging seriously and gave it a good tw

19、o months of my life, and not a day more. based on my experience, jogging is the most overvalued form of exercise around, and judging from the number of the people who left our neighborhood jogging army. im not alone in my opinion.8. from the first paragraph, we learn that in the writers neighborhood

20、 _.a. jogging became very popular b. people jogged only during the daytimec. alex organized an army of joggers d. jogging provided a chance to get together9. what was the writers attitude towards jogging in the beginning?a. he felt it was worth a try. b. he was very fond of it.c. he was strongly aga

21、inst it. d. he thought it must be painful. 9while all my classmates seem to be crazy about a one-way ticket to mars, id rather say mars is totally unsuitable for human existence. people wont have enough food supplies there, and the terrible environment would make it impossible for them to live a lon

22、g life. besides, the journey wont be safe. can anybody explain to me just why people would go to mars, never to return?steve minear, uk here are the things you can think of: the desire to explore a foreign and unique environment, the excitement of being the first humans to open up a new world, the e

23、xpectation of fame and golry for scientists there is another reason. their observations and research will probably lead to great scientific achievements.donal trollop, canada there are already too many people on the earth. i think that sometime before the end of the century, there will be a human co

24、lony on mars. it will happen when people finally realize that two-way trips to the red planet mars are unnecessary. most of the danger of space flight is in the launches (發(fā)射) and landings. cutting the trip home would therefore reduce the danger of accidents, save a lot of money, and open the way to

25、building an everlasting human settlement on another world.enough supplies can be sent on ahead, and every two years more supplies and more people will be sent to the new colony. mars has all the materials for a colony to produce or make everything it needs, and mars is far more pleasant than the oth

26、er planets in the outer space.paul davies, usa10. the main purpose of steve minears writing is_.a. to report his classmates discussion b. to invite an answer to his questionc. to explain the natural state of mars d. to show his agreement on going to mars11. which of the following best states donal t

27、rollops idea?a. there is a plan to send humans to mars b, there are many reasons for going to marsc scientists become famous by doing research on mars d. it is possible to build an earth-like environment on mars12. paul davies points out that_.a. humans need only a one-way ticket to mars. b. two-way

28、 trips to mars will be made safe soonc it is easy to reduce the danger and cost of flights to marsd. it is cheap to build an everlasting human settlement on mars 10yocum and bell, who have just completed an art gallery for the city, feel that the experience from deoration of their building, focusing

29、 on the inside rather than the outside, has influenced their work. it has also given these architects a chance to show how they can make more out of less.60. according to the passage, it is for most young architects in big cities to work in a building of their own. a. easy b. unnecessary c. unrealis

30、tic d. common 11hugo critchley, a neuroscientist, has conducted an experiment recently, which will prove that happiness and sadness can spread like the common cold. according to critchley, our mind and body are in constant exchange about how were feeling. “emotions are closed linked with states of i

31、nternal(內(nèi)部的)responses, ”he explained. “there are also more visible changes in our gesture and facial expressions. when were in a group, these signals an spread to another person. for example, therere the obvious tendency to smile when smiled at and there are less obvious changes that reflect emotion

32、s of surprise, anger or sadness such as a change in our heart rate and blood pressure. ”67. from the passage we can learn _. a. sadness is as contagious as happiness b. anger is less contagious than friendlinessc. surprise is more contagious than smile d. surprise is the most contagious among emotio

33、ns 12however, for every success story, theres related warning tale of a celebrity who overvalued his consumer appeal. no matter how famous the products origin is, if it fails to impress consumers with its own qualities it begins to resemble an exercise in self-promotional marketing. and once the ini

34、tial(最初的) attention dies down, consumer interest might fade, loyalty(忠誠) returning to tired-and-true labels.today, celebrities face even more severe embarrassment. the pop-cultural circle might be bigger than ever, but its rate of turnover has speeded up as well. each misstep threatens to reduce a c

35、elebritys shelf life, and the same newspaper or magazine that once brought him fame has no problem picking him to pieces when the opportunity appears. still, the egos（自我的）potential for expansion is limitless. having already achieved great wealth and public recognition, many celebrities see fashion a

36、s the next frontier to be conquered. as the saying goes, success and failure always go hand in hand. their success as designers might last only a short time, but fashionlike celebrityhas always been temporary. 70. a change in the consumer market can be found today that . a. price rather than brand n

37、ame is more concerned b. producers prefer models to celebrities for advertisements c. producers prefer tv actresses to film stars for advertisements d. quality rather than the outside of products is more concerned71. the underlined sentence in paragraph 4 indicates that any wrong step will possibly

38、. a. decrease the popularity of a celebrity and the sales of his products b. damage the image of a celebrity in the eyes of the general public c. cut short the artistic career of a celebrity in show business d. influence the price of a celebritys products 13i was not really troubled by the loss. i h

39、ad always had a garden, but i dont thing i was ready for a large farm. i believe that as long as possible it is better to live free and uncommitted (無牽掛的). it makes but little difference whether you own a farm or not.55. what does the author believe as important in life?a. to own a farm b. to satisf

40、y his needs c. to be free from worries d. to live in the countryside 14researchers put a price on each chore, then tried to find out how long the average person takes doing them. they found housewives spend an average 70.7 hours a week on housework with looking after the children (17.9hours) and coo

41、king and cleaning (12.9 hours each) the most time-consuming(費時). a wife with a part-time job still works and average of 59 hours a week at home. those in full-time employment put in longer hours at home than in the workplace. the good news is that these hours sharply as children get older. while the average mother with child under one puts in 90 hours weekly, the figure drops to 80 hours from one to four and to 66 hours from five to ten.mother-of-four karen williams from london said, “paying the housewives may not be practical, but the government should recognize the value of house