Psychology（心理学）tells us that many people hate to take risks. But it is good for us to take risks, especially when the risk is to achieve a desired(渴望的) result. In that way, we become stronger and braver.
Our human nature should be to take risks, but some people just sit and wish they didn’t have the fear to move on. This is because they failed a few times in their lives. Please step out and don’t let the past hold you back from living life to the fullest. Move forward and move on! In studying the psychology of taking risks, we find that human nature provides us with the desire to experiment and take chances.
Risk taking is a great advantage that allowed our ancestors(祖先) to become stronger and stronger day by day. By taking risks they fought off enemies and discovered new territories（领土）. This attitude has become a part of our modern culture. Riding a roller coaster is a common risk taking activity. Even each person seems to enjoy the risk although they have the understanding that it is dangerous. This psychological and biological (生物学的) connection creates an interesting connection between what is unsafe and what humans enjoy.
Getting in a car each day is a risk. Getting out of bed is a risk, too. We need to take risks so that we can complete many things. Astronauts take risks when they get inside a rocket(火箭); however, the things they achieve are great. Businessmen take a risk when they buy parts of a company. However, without doing that, they could not make more money.
We need to take risks so that we can gain(获得) something. It is impossible to move forward in life, earn money, enjoy a relationship, play a sport, or do anything else without taking a risk. It is all part of the game. It’s one of the most important parts of life.
小题1:Some people don’t want to take risks, mainly because ___________.| A．they are too lazy to move on | | B．they feel pleased with the present life | | C．they have failed several times before | | D．they show little interest in the strange world outside |
小题2:What does the underlined part “This attitude” in Paragraph 3 mean?| A．Taking risks | B．Fighting off enemies | | C．Discovering new territories | D．Becoming stronger and stronger |
小题3:What can we infer from the passage?| A．Daily life is full of risks. | | B．The safest place has the greatest risk. | | C．People should take risks when they are young. | | D．We can always achieve our goals by taking risks. |
小题4: Businessmen take a risk in order to __________.| A．sell parts of a company | | B．complete many things | | C．make more money | | D．get inside a rocket |
小题5:What would be the title for the passage?| A．Taking risks is easier said than done | B．Risks taken by ancestors | | C．Live our life to the fullest | D．No risk, no gain. |
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小题1:根据This is because they failed a few times in their lives.可知选C。
小题1:根据By taking risks they fought off enemies and discovered new territories（领土）. This attitude has 可知选A。
小题1:根据短文最后一段描述可知日常生活充满了风险，故选A。
小题1:根据Businessmen take a risk when they buy parts of a company.可知选C。
小题1:根据短文描述可知本文主要是介绍了风险与回报关系，故选D，没有风险，就没有收获。 |
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While I was waiting to enter university, I saw in a newspaper a teaching job wanted at a school about ten miles from where I 16 . Because I was in great need of 17 and wanted to do something useful, I applied（申请）.
Three days later, a letter 18 . It asked me to see the 19 at Croydon. It proved to be an 20 journey—a train to Croydon station, a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at 21 a quarter of a mile. It was clearly that the headmaster himself opened the door. He was 22 and round.
“The school” he said, “has a group of twenty-four boys 23 seven and thirteen.”
I should have to teach all the 24 except art, 45 he taught himself. I should have to divide the class into 26 groups and teach them at three different 27 , and I was not 28 at the thought of teaching maths—a subject which I didn’t do very well in at school. It was 29 that I had to teach them on Saturday afternoon because most of my friends would be 30 themselves at that time.
Before I had time to ask about my salary（薪水）, he got up to his feet. “ Now,” he said. “ you’d better meet my wife. She is the one who really runs this school.
| 小题1: | | A．lived | | B．played | | C．studied | | D．worked |
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| | 小题2: | | A．help | | B．money | | C．rest | | D．force |
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| | 小题3: | | A．arrived | | B．received | | C．returned | | D．wrote |
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| | 小题4: | | A．editor | | B．teacher | | C．headmaster | | D．student |
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| | 小题5: | | A．comfortable | | B．difficult | | C．unpleasant | | D．short |
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| | 小题6: | | A．first | | B．last | | C．least | | D．most |
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| | 小题7: | | A．bad | | B．glad | | C．short | | D．smiling |
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| | 小题8: | | A．between | | B．from | | C．by | | D．under |
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| | 小题9: | | A．people | | B．subjects | | C．boys | | D．knowledge |
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| | 小题10: | | A．who | | B．where | | C．what | | D．which |
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| | | 小题12: | | A．subjects | | B．lessons | | C．levels | | D．regions |
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| | 小题13: | | A．glad | | B．surprised | | C．angry | | D．sad |
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Traditional Chinese festivals are now getting their own logos(标识).Here’re logos for China’s seven important traditional festivals.
| Chunjie, Spring Festival, China’s lunar new year, is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. People usually get together, watch fireworks and the lion dance, eat dumplings and put on new clothes. They pay New Year calls to their relatives and friends. Children usually get red packets.
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| Yuanxiao, Lantern Festival is on the 15th day of the first month in the Chinese calendar. People watch lanterns and eat sweet dumplings.
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| Qixi, the Night of Sevens is on the seventh day of the seventh month in the Chinese calendar. It’s Chinese version(版本)of Valentine’s Day(情人节).
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| Qingming, Tomb-Sweeping Festival is around April 5.People from home and abroad go to the graves(墓)of the dead in memory of(纪念)them.
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| Zhongqiu, Mid-Autumn Festival, is on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar. Families enjoy moon cakes and tell the story of Chang’e.
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| Duanwu, Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth month in the Chinese calendar. People eat rice dumplings and remember the poet Qu Yuan.
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| Chongyang, Double Ninth Festival is on the ninth day of the ninth month in the Chinese calendar. It’s the date to pay respect(尊敬)to the old.
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小题1:Mid-Autumn Festival is ________ in the Chinese calendar.| A．on 15th of August | B．on 7th of July | | C．on 15th of January | D．on 5th of May |
小题2:What do Chinese people eat at Dragon Boat Festival?| A．Dumplings. | B．Moon cakes. | | C．Rice dumplings. | D．Sweet dumplings. |
小题3:Chinese version of Valentine’s Day is ________.| A．Lantern Festival | B．the Night of Sevens | | C．Spring Festival | D．Tomb-Sweeping Festival |
小题4:At Tomb-Sweeping Festival, people go to the graves in memory of ________.| A．Qu Yuan | B．the elderly | C．Chang’e | D．the dead |
小题5:At Double Ninth Festival, what do people usually do?| A．They watch lanterns. | B．They pay respect to old people. | | C．They visit their relatives. | D．They get together to tell stories. |
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 The Aborigines (澳洲土著) have lived in Australia for about 60,000 years. They painted pictures inside caves, and these are the rock paintings that have given us so much information about Aboriginal life. For example, some of the paintings that are about 10,000 years old show men with boomerangs. From this we know that the Aborigines started using boomerangs for hunting at that time. Other pictures show kangaroos, so we know that there were kangaroos at that time.
The Aborigines believed that spirits made people, animals and plants, and that these spirits still live in the earth. For Aborigines, no one can own the earth—the earth belongs to the spirits.
In 1700, there were many Aboriginal groups with a population of 750,000 all over Australia, and there were probably more than 240 different Aboriginal languages. The groups did not have a leader. Instead, things were decided by the older men in a group. People from different groups often travelled hundreds of miles to meet each other.
Aboriginal life changed when an English boat arrived in Australia in 1770. Many Aborigines were killed in the wars that they had with the English. More Europeans came, and they started taking land from the Aborigines. The Europeans also brought new illnesses that killed the Aborigines. The result is that today there are only about 300,000 Aborigines in Australia.
小题1:The Aborigines painted pictures .| A．on animals’ fur | B．on the land | | C．on the tree | D．on the rock |
小题2:What do you think the Aborigines used boomerangs to do?| A．To paint. | B．To hunt. | C．To fight. | D．To play. |
小题3:The Aborigines thought were the most important on the earth.| A．people | B．animals | C．spirits | D．plants |
小题4:In an Aboriginal group decided things.| A．the older men | B．the leader | | C．the English | D．the Europeans |
小题5:The number of the Aborigines is small today .| A．because their living condition was very bad | | B．because the English killed a lot of them in the wars | | C．because of the new illnesses the Europeans brought them | | D．because of the wars and the new illnesses |
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“I believe you’re the right person to write an advice column (专栏) for the students called Dear Amy!” Jenny, editor of the school newspaper, said to Andy, who finally agreed to accept the job if Jenny promised not to tell it to anyone else.
At first it wasn’t too bad. Most of the letters he received were interesting and quite easy to answer. Then came a letter from a person named Joe.
“Dear Amy,” it began, “I’m in real trouble. I’ve wanted to be a songwriter all my life, but my parents won’t even let me take music lessons. I have a guitar, but they both get angry if I play. I’ve tried explaining, but they won’t listen. I feel sad. Should I run away from home? Maybe that will make my parents agree.” The letter signed “Joe”.
Andy thought about this letter for a long time. Should he advise someone to run away from home? Probably not. But didn’t Joe have a right to be a songwriter if he wanted to? Andy thought hard, but couldn’t think out a good answer. Andy couldn’t sleep. He just worried about poor Joe.
At a bar a few days later, Eleanor, a girl in Andy’s math class, sat down next to him and asked, “ What’s wrong with you? You look a little worried.”
“I guess I do,” said Andy.
“If you got an problem, why don’t you try writing to Dear Amy about it?” asked Eleanor.
Andy sighed; but she continued, “in fact, I guess Dear Amy is rather busy with other problems. She still hasn’t answered the phony letter I wrote her last week. You’d better read it – it may even make the most hard-hearted person cry! It was supposed to be from a songwriter named Joe.”
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小题2:It’s clear “Dear Amy” ______.| A．helps students who want to run away from home | B．answers letters from the students | | C．writes songs for the students | D．meets readers at a bar |
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小题5:The underlined word “ phony ” perhaps means ______.| A．unreal | B．boyish | C．popular | D．favourite |
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In the past, large numbers of American people liked to use tomorrow’s money. However, since the economic depression(经济萧条), many have learnt to live 16 . Here is a true story about an American girl, Anna. After graduation, she began to live in Los Angeles on her own. She 17 a job in a publishing house(出版社) and earned 18 $30,000 a year. Her parents thought Anna’s life would be 19 , but Anna was able to live on her money and still 20 $5000 in the first year. How could she do so in 21 expensive city?
Cheap living always starts with keeping the 22 cost small. For people, that 23 housing. So Anna chose to share a flat with three other friends. Her next biggest cost was 24 . When she ate 25 , she went to cheap restaurants. 26 she bought a $9.99 whole chicken at a local restaurant. She then took the chicken bones home and made soup out of them. Today young people often 27 a lot of money on entertainment. But Anna loved going to museums and parks as the 28 for these places were free. Did Anna feel poor by cheap living? Not really. She even 29 to take two trips, one to the Netherlands, 30 to Portland.
“Don’t think of saving money as something hard. It’s a kind of game,” said Anna.
| 小题1: | | A．happily | B．luckily | C．hopefully | D．cheaply |
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| 小题2: | | A．found | B．gets | C．looked for | D．makes |
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| 小题3: | | A．more than | B．less than | C．more | D．less |
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| 小题4: | | A．dangerous | B．hard | C．easy | D．comfortable |
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| 小题5: | | A．made | B．gave | C．took | D．saved |
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| 小题6: | | A．so an | B．such an | C．so | D．such |
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| 小题7: | | A．expensive | B．much | C．big | D．heavy |
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| 小题8: | | A．does | B．becomes | C．helps | D．means |
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| 小题9: | | A．food | B．clothes | C．studying | D．traveling |
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| 小题11: | | A．Soon | B．Finally | C．Once | D．Again |
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| 小题13: | | A．tickets | B．seats | C．exhibition | D．tea |
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| 小题14: | | A．tried | B．had | C．needed | D．managed |
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| 小题15: | | A．another | B．the other | C．other | D．other |
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