It’s 10:30 p.m., and 11-year-old Brandon Blanco is sound asleep at home. Suddenly, a loud noise wakes him up. Naturally, Brandon reaches for his cell phone. He blinks twice, and the message on the screen becomes clear: “R U awake?”
But the late-night text does not annoy Brandon. He gets frequent messages and calls, even after bedtime. And he can’t imagine life without them. “If I didn’t have a cell phone, I wouldn’t be able to talk to my friends or family as often,” he told the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Brandon’s use of technology doesn’t stop there. He also has a computer, a TV and three video-game consoles（控制台）in his room. With so many devices, it is no surprise that when he is not at school, he spends nearly every waking minute using one or more of these devices. Brandon is hardly alone. According to a recent study by TFK, kids aged 8 to 18 are spending more time than ever before using electronic devices. How much time? More than seven and a half hours a day on average, the study found. That’s about an hour more than just five years ago.
The jump is the result of a huge explosion in mobile devices, says Victoria Rideout, the lead author of the study. “These devices have opened up many more opportunities for young people to use media, whether it’s on the bus, on the way to school or waiting in line at the pizza parlor,” says Rideout.
Often, kids multitask, or use more than one device at a time. “If you’ve got a chance to do something on your computer and take a phone call and have the TV on in the background, why not?” Media expert Cheryl Olson says. Most experts agree technology has much to offer kids. But some worry the kids could be missing out on other activities like playing outside or hanging out with friends. “It’s a matter of balance,” says Olson.
Multitasking while doing homework is another concern. Some kids listen to music, watch TV or use the phone while doing their homework. “It’s important to make sure that you can stop and concentrate on one thing deeply,” says Rideout.
With new and exciting devices hitting stores every year, keeping technology use in check is more important than ever. “Kids should try,” adds Rideout. “But parents might have to step in sometimes.”
小题1:It can be learned from the text that _________. | A．many teenagers lack friends in their middle school | | B．kids have too many electronic devices to choose from | | C．Brandon feels annoyed about his late-night message | | D．Olson is against teenagers’ using mobile phones |
小题2:Which of the following is an example of multitasking?| A．Watching TV when using the computer. | | B．Talking on the phone when lying on the sofa. | | C．Playing video games after having lunch. | | D．Listening to loud music while relaxing. |
小题3:The underlined phrase “in check” in the last paragraph can be replaced by _________. | A．in order | B．in store | C．in control | D．in sight |
小题4:According to the text, Victoria Rideout would probably agree that kids should ______. | A．do homework while watching TV | | B．have less homework | | C．spend more time on homework | | D．do homework in a place without disturbance |
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小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:D |
小题1:B推理判断题。结合With so many devices, it is no surprise that when he is not at school可知答案。
小题2:A细节理解题。结合Often, kids multitask, or use more than one device at a time.可知multitask就是use more than one device at a time，所以选A。
小题3:C词义理解题。结合倒数1、2、3段的内容可知，in check在句中的含义是“控制住。”
小题4:D推理判断题。结合It’s important to make sure that you can stop and concentrate on one thing deeply可知答案。 |
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The story happened years ago，when my daughter was still little.
I was driving across the country with my daughter to 1 my husband. Since I intended to get to my destination before supper time, I drove 2 for a long time without a stop. Then after driving for many miles, I became tired and needed to stop for a break to get 3 .
I found a rest area. It was mostly deserted, in a quiet area of the highway. I parked the car and carried my 4 into the restroom. When I came out I saw a middle-aged 5 wandering around. Feeling 6 about that, I asked the lady. What 7 me was: they were waiting for us!
The lady told me that she and her husband wanted to see us safely back into our 8 . She explained that sometimes rest areas could be a 9 place for a young lady like me. She told me that she had a daughter almost my age, so they wanted to make sure that I got safely back on my way.
I was very touched by their 10 . Being young, and probably naive to the potential 11 of rest areas, it had never occurred to me that there was any possibility of something going wrong. I 12 them for their kindness. My daughter and I continued our journey and 13 our destination safely.
I never got their names but years have passed and their kindness is still not 14 . Sometimes angels come in make-up and just because you can’t see their 15 it doesn’t mean they aren’t angels.
| 小题1: | | A．desert | B．stop | C．join | D．save |
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| 小题2: | | A．slowly | B．quickly | C．safely | D．quietly |
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| 小题3: | | A．excited | B．bored | C．interested | D．refreshed |
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| 小题4: | | A．daughter | B．luggage | C．license | D．car |
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| 小题5: | | A．lady | B．man | C．couple | D．angel |
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| 小题6: | | A．angry | B．curious | C．jealous | D．terrible |
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| 小题7: | | A．surprised | B．worried | C．annoyed | D．upset |
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| 小题9: | | A．quiet | B．noisy | C．dangerous | D．safe |
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| 小题10: | | A．devotion | B．honesty | C．potential | D．consideration |
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| 小题11: | | A．stops | B．dangers | C．mistakes | D．changes |
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| 小题12: | | A．forgave | B．asked | C．thanked | D．blamed |
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| 小题13: | | A．reached | B．left | C．missed | D．passed |
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| 小题14: | | A．seen | B．forgotten | C．deserted | D．recognized |
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| 小题15: | | A．kindness | B．safety | C．faces | D．wings |
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What on earth does happiness mean? I can’t give you its exact definition, but I’m sure if you love and help 16. , you’ll get it.
I’ll never forget an old lady. She lives in 17. small house alone. It is said that her husband and her son 18. （die）in a road accident years ago. Her life is bitter, but she often helps others 19 . a smile. Whenever it snows, she is always the first to clean the paths. She looks after several children living nearby. I am one of them. I often remember the stories she told us and her kind smile. Perhaps she is unlucky, but I think she is a happy person. Her life is full of 20. （laugh）and love.
But I’m sad to see some people getting their happiness in bad ways. They talk 21. （noisy）in cinemas and meeting rooms; they destroy trees to enjoy themselves and they laugh at others’ shortcomings. Perhaps they feel happy at that time, 22. they will never get true happiness because they 23. （lose）their personality already.
Now I know what happiness is. 24. means kindness, love and unselfishness. Above all, I have come to understand that 25. （bring）happiness to others is getting ourselves happiness. |
The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life.
Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer’s life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she was a child. She started working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One photograph of Ms. Mitchell, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains: “Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as ‘Would you really marry a woman who works?’ And today it’d be ‘Would you marry one who doesn’t?’ ”
The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms. Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it “The Dump ” .
Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell had stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
小题1:The book Gone with the Wind was _________.| A．first published on a newspaper | | B．awarded ten Academy Awards | | C．written in “The Dump” | | D．adapted from a movie |
小题2:The underlined phrase “tower over” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to_________.| A．be very pleased with | | B．show great respect for | | C．be much taller than | | D．show little interest in |
小题3:Why did Ms. Mitchell stop working as a reporter according to the passage?| A．Because she was rich enough. | | B．Because she was injured then. | | C．Because her husband didn’t like it. | | D．Because she wanted to write books. |
小题4:We can know about Margaret Mitchell from the passage that _________.| A．her height made her marriage unhappy | | B．her interest in writing continued as an adult | | C．writing stopped her working as a reporter | | D．her life was full of hardship and sadness |
小题5:Which is the best title for the passage?| A．A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell. | | B． Gone with the Wind: A Huge Success. | | C．An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House. | | D．Margaret Mitchell: A Great Female Writer. |
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When I was a kid, I used to spend hours listening to Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew Pinsky on their Sunday night radio show Loveline. I listened so often that I began to use one of their well-known phrases—“good times”—in my daily conversations. Scientists have a name for this phenomenon: behavioral mimicry.
You’ve probably experienced this before: after spending enough time with another person, you might start to pick up on his or her behavior or speech habits. You might even start to develop your friend’s habits without realizing it. There is a large body of literature concerning this sort of phenomenon, and it regularly happens for everything from body postures to accents to drink patterns. For example, one study found that young adults were more likely to drink their drink directly after their same-sex drinking partners, than for the two individuals to drink at their own paces.
And the effect isn’t limited to real-life face-to-face activities. Another study found that the same you-drink-then-I-drink pattern held even when watching a movie! In other words, people were more likely to take a drink of their drinks in a theater after watching the actors on the screen enjoy a drink. At least I don’t feel so strange anymore, having picked up on Adam Carolla’s “good times”.
New research published today in the journal PLOS ONE indicates that the same sort of behavioral mimicry is responsible for social eating, at least among university-age women of normal weight. That’s right: the young women were more likely to adjust their eating according to the eating pace of their same-sex dining companion.
As with most experiments, these results raise a whole new set of questions. Still, the finding that behavioral mimicry may at least partly account for eating behavior is important, and has real effects on health. The researchers note that “as long as people don’t fully recognize such important influences on intake, it will be difficult to make healthy food choices and keep a healthy diet, especially when people are exposed to the eating behavior of others”.
小题1:The author takes his own example of using “good times” to _________.| A．express his love for radio shows | | B．prove the popularity of the show | | C．show the influence of the hosts’ words | | D．introduce the topic of the passage |
小题2:The underlined word “mimicry” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _________.| A．copying | | B．adjusting | | C．recognition | | D．observation |
小题3:Which of the following is NOT an example of behavioral mimicry?| A．A boy eats his popcorn after watching the actor eat. | | B．A boy buys a Nike shirt when he finds his desk-mate has one. | | C．A girl unconsciously sits straight just as others do. | | D．A girl takes on the Yorkshire accent after a month’s stay. |
小题4:It can be inferred from the last paragraph that _________.| A．behavioral mimicry is beneficial to our health | | B．behavioral mimicry decides our eating behavior | | C．there are doubts on the research results | | D．there are people always exposed to bad eating habits |
小题5:What is probably the author’s purpose of writing this passage?| A．To draw readers’ attention to popular radio shows. | | B．To introduce behavioral mimicry and its influence. | | C．To appeal to readers not to fall into others’ habits. | | D．To advocate healthy food choices among readers. |
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Emma Hart Willard (1787—1870) was an American pioneer educator. In her time, colleges and universities were open only to men, and women were not permitted to attend.
Emma received advanced education at home from her father and became a school teacher at twenty. She continued to teach at school for several years after her marriage. Then began offer college lessons in her home to women students. Later she founded a school in New York State, which was the first school that offered higher education in the US for women.
Emma Willard also tried to persuade New York State to pass a law to allow women to attend public colleges and universities, though that did not come about until after her death. Some years later people remembered her for her life-long efforts and elected her to the US Hall of Fame (荣誉) in 1905.
小题1:Emma received advanced education at home because _________.| A．universities were only for men at that time | | B．her father did not trust the schools | | C．her family was poor when she was young | | D．she was too shy to go to a public college |
小题2:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?| A．She managed to persuade her state to pass a law allowing women to go to universties. | | B．She went on with her teaching after she got married. | | C．She received advanced education by teaching herself. | | D．She was elected to work in the US Hall of Fame. |
小题3:What do you suppose the US Hall of Fame is?| A．It is a grand hall where honoured people receive prizes from the government. | | B．It is a place where honoured people in the US are buried. | | C．It is a building set up in memory of great American people. | | D．It is a house of representatives to which respected people are elected. |
小题4:Why was Emma Willard considered an important person?| A．She was the first woman to get college education. | | B．She fought for equal rights for women in the US. | | C．She was the first American woman to become a college teacher. | | D．She was a pioneer in winning higher education for women in the US. |
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