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a young boy sat down at the next table, I couldn"t help overhearing parts of their conversation. At
one point the woman asked: "So, how have you been?" And the boy-who could not have been
more than seven or eight years old-replied. "Frankly, I"ve been feeling a little depressed lately."
This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are changing.
As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn"t find out we were "depressed" until we were in high
school.
The evidence of a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don"t seem
childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like
adults than they used to.
Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once
was no longer exists, Why?
Human development is based not only on innate (天生的) biological states, but also on patterns
of access to social knowledge. Movement from one social rote to another usually involves learning
the secrets of the new status. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages:
traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders.
In the last 30 years, however, a secret-revelation (揭示. machine has been installed in 98 percent
of American homes. It is called television, Television passes information, and indiscriminately (不加
区分地), to all viewers alike, be they children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation, many children
turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more vivid moving pictures.
Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social
information to which children have access. Reading and writing involve a complex code of symbols
that must be memorized and practices. Children must read simple books before they can read complex
materials.
B. something hardly to be expected in a young child
C. an inevitable has of children"s mental development
D. a mental scale present in all humans, including children
B. gradually and under guidance
C. naturally and by biological instinct
D. through exposure to social information
B. the poor arrangement of teaching content
C. the fast pace of human intellectual development
D. the constantly rising standard of living
B. It develops children"s interest in reading and writing.
C. It helps children to memorize and practice more.
D. It can control what children are to learn.
B. He thinks it is a phenomenon worthy of note.
C. He considers it a positive development.
D. He seems to be upset about it.
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mother had helped me practice my lines. But once on stage, every word disappeared from my head.
Then my teacher told me she had written a narrator"s part for the play, and asked me to change roles.
Though I didn"t tell my mother what had happened that day, she sensed my unhappiness and asked if
I wanted to take a walk in the yard. It was a lovely spring day. We could see dandelions(蒲公英)
popping through the grass in bunches, as if a painter had touched our landscape with bits of gold. I
watched my mother carelessly bend down by one of the bunches. "I think I am going to dig up all
these weeds," she said. "From now on, we"ll have only roses in this garden." "But I like dandelions," I
protested. "All flowers are beautiful-even dandelions!" My mother looked at me seriously. "Yes, every
flower gives pleasure in its own way, doesn"t it?" she asked thoughtfully. I nodded. "And that is true of
people, too," she added. When I realized that she had guessed my pain, I started to cry and told her
the fact. "But you will be a beautiful narrator," she said, reminding me of how much I loved to read
stories aloud to her. Over the next few weeks, with her continuous encouragement, I learned to take
pride in the role. The big day finally came. A few minutes before the play, my teacher came over to
me. "Your mother asked me to give this to you," she said, handing me a dandelion. After the play, I
took home the flower, laughing that I was perhaps the only person who would keep such a weed.
B. she lost her interest in that role.
C. she preferred the role of the narrator
D. she had difficulty memorizing her words
B. To enjoy the garden scene
C. to help her daughter with the play.
D. to have a talk with her daughter.
B. Everybody should learn to play different roles
C. Everybody has his or her own value in the world.
D. Everybody has some unforgettable memory.
caught by the police because he never took chances. He was always prepared for any
unforeseen event or emergency.
Confidently,he stood outside the house of his intended victim(受害者)and read
the sign on the front gate of the house. "Don"t worry about the dog-be aware of the owner!" it said.
Buster smiled and found his way in.
The house looked quite normal outside,but inside it was very exotic with fascinating objects on
display. As he began putting them into his bag,a dog came into the room. It stopped when it saw
Buster,then wagged its tail madly and went over to him,licking his outstretched hand. "Good boy,"
Buster whispered. "What a great
guard dog you are-trying to lick me to death." Satisfied he"d made friends with the dog,Bluster began
to wander round the house,choosing items to put in his bag. His skilled eye picked out only the best
antiques(古董):a pair of silver candleholders,a silver tea-and-coffee service,etc. . His new friend, the
dog,sat and watched,as if wondering what was happening.
"Well,boy," Buster whispered,finally. "That might do. Any more and I won"t be able to carry it!"
He swung the heavy bag onto his shoulders, just as the lights came on, nearly blinding him. He
shielded his eyes with his hand.
"You"re a very silly person," the figure in the doorway said, his voice dry and dust. As the man
came closer, Buster could see he was well dressed. His face seemed familiar, but Buster couldn"t
quite place where he had seen him before.
"You should have taken more notice of the sign outside," the man rasped. "I knew about this
attempted robbery last week and I also know you will end up behind bars for 20 years. Fancy trying
to rob the house of the world"s greatest fortune-teller!"
B. He knew the owner of the house lived alone.
C. The house had no security alarm.
D. He had never been caught by the police.
B. Rich and expensive.
C. Foreign and unusual.
D. Comfortable and calming.
B. He took only the best antiques.
C. He took those that he knew he could sell easily.
D. He looked for silver objects.
B. A prison sentence with hard labor.
C. A heavy fine.
D. Community service for 20 years.
he would be flying to France to __1__ a different life. It was a transitional (过渡的) period in
Daniel"s life. I wanted to __2__ him some words of significance. But nothing came from my lips,
and this was not the __3__ time I had let such moments pass.
When Daniel was five, I took him to the bus stop on his first day of kindergarten. He asked,
"What is it going to be like, Dad? Can I do it?" Then he walked __4__ the steps of the bus and
disappeared inside. The bus drove away and I said nothing. A decade later, a similar __5__ was
played out. I drove him to college. As I started to leave, I tried to think of something to say to give
him __6__ and confidence as he started this new stage of life. Again, words __7__ me.
Now, as I stood before him, I thought of those __8__ opportunities. How many times have I let
such moments __9__? I don"t find a quiet moment to tell him what he has __10__ to me or what
he might __11__ to face in the years that followed. Maybe I thought it was not necessary to say
anything.
What does it matter in the course of a lifetime if a father never tells a son what he really thinks
of him? __14__ as I stood before Daniel, I knew that it did matter. My father and I loved each
other. Yet I always __13__ never hearing him put his __14__ into words. Now I could feel my
palms sweat and my throat tighten. Why is it so __15__ to tell a son something from the heart?
My mouth turned __16__, and I knew I would be able to get out only a few words clearly.
"Daniel," I said, "if I could have picked one, I would have picked you."That"s all I could say. He
hugged me. For a moment, the world __17__, and there were just Daniel and me. He was saying
something, but tears misted my eyes, and I couldn"t understand what he was saying. All I was
__18__ of was the stubble (胡子茬) on his chin as his face pressed against mine. What I had said
to Daniel was __19__. It was nothing. And yet, it was __20__.
( )2.A.show
( )3.A.last
( )4.A.along
( )5.A.sign
( )6.A.interest
( )7.A.failed
( )8.A.future
( )9.A.last
( )10.A.counted
( )11.A.think
( )12.A.But
( )13.A.wondered
( )14.A.views
( )15.A.important
( )16.A.blue
( )17.A.disappeared
( )18.A.sensitive
( )19.A.clumsy
( )20.A.none
B．give
B．first
B．into
B．scene
B．instruction
B．discouraged
B．embarrassing
B．pass
B．meant
B．want
B．And
B．regretted
B．actions
B．easy
B．dry
B．changed
B．convinced
B．gentle
B．all
C．make
C．very
C．down
C．scenery
C．courage
C．struck
C．obvious
C．fly
C．valued
C．expect
C．Instead
C．minded
C．feelings
C．hard
C．sweet
C．progressed
C．aware
C．absurd
C．anything
D．instruct
D．next
D．up
D．sight
D．direction
D．embarrassed
D．lost
D．remain
D．cared
D．wish
D．So
D．tried
D．attitudes
D．complex
D．bitter
D．advanced
D．tired
D．moving
D．everything
swim from Cuba to Key West. Because of the currents in the Florida Straits, Nyad would have to last
60 hours-if everything went perfectly.
For two years, this dream of swimming from Cuba to Florida had been part of her every waking
hour. She was about to turn 60. "I wanted to be filled with commitment to the best of myself so that 1
wasn"t looking back later saying, "What have I done with my life?""" says Nyad.
Those extreme physical struggles are not new to her. In 1974, 25-year-old Nyad became the first
person to swim across Lake Ontario against the current. A year later, Nyad"s 28-mile swim around the
island of Manhattan made the front page of the New York Times.
"Physically, I"m stronger. I weigh a lot more," Nyad said after a training swim in Key West in June.
"There are also mental advantages to being older," says Steven Munatones, an expert in swimming.
Feeling a sharp pain in her right shoulder, she changed the angle of stroke (划), telling herself to go
gently until her hand caught the water. In the 17th hour, she swam over to the boat, and the crew
located a pain reliever. Nyad took it. She lay on her back, rolled onto her belly and continued swimming,
and then she"d turn on her back again, gasping(喘气), unable to fill her lungs. "I"m trying to make it. I"m
barely going forward. I feel so sick. This has been my dream forever, but I can hardly make it another
hour," Nyad told David Marchant, the boat"s navigator (领航员). Between the 23rd and 27th hours,
Nyad had gone just five miles. "OK, Diana, I"m going to touch you, and it"s going to be over," Stoll said.
Nyad agreed. And with that, 29 hours and 43 minutes after she"d jumped into the water, the swim came
to an end.
"She just wouldn"t quit. It was more amazing to see her not make it the way she fought than if
everything had gone exactly right and she"d made it the whole way," says Mark Sollinger, who piloted Nyad"s lead boat.
At a press conference in Key West after being pulled onto the support boat, Nyad choked back
tears and said, "Sometimes the will is so strong. But I was shaking and freezing, and I thought, "There"s
no mind over matter anymore." I think I"m going to have to go to my tomb without swimming from Cuba
to Florida."
But when Nyad returned home to Los Angeles, the pain began to fade. "Something says to me the
goal is still there," says Nyad.
B. wanted to prove she was stronger than before
C. had David Marchant as her navigator
D. wanted very much to fulfill her dream
B. has given up the dream of swimming across the Florida Straits
C. appeared on the front page of the New York Times at the age of 25
D. began the swim from Cuba to Florida when she was about 60 years old
B. He was disappointed at Nyad"s failure.
C. He really admired Nyad for her struggle.
D. He was not sure about Nyad"s success.
B. The Unsinkable Diana Nyad
C. A Regrettable Experience
D. The Inspiring Adventure
fast food restaurant. On my way in, a __1__ man approached me and asked, "Do you have any
bottles lying around?" I knew he would __2__ them for a few cents, but I didn"t have any, so I
said no. And again he asked, "Can you spare some __3__?" I smiled, and say no again. He was
very __4__； he smiled back and said, "OK, thank you." Even though he didn"t have anything,
he was still in good __5__. From the way he spoke I could tell he was __6__.
Then I bought one hamburger and enjoyed my meal, but in the back of my __7__ I wondered
whether the homeless man was hungry. After I finished my __8__ I decided to order another one
for him. At this point I didn"t know if he was still around, but I __9__ anyway.
At the __10__ I ordered a hamburger and also a hot chocolate, because it w
as __11__ outside, and I thought it would help warm him up. They delivered me the hot chocolate first and
as I waited for my _
_12__, I noticed the homeless man was standing right beside me. I looked at him and smiled, "This hot chocolate is for you." He replied like a __13__, "Thank you so much.
That"s very kind of you."
I always believe no matter how hardup(缺钱) I am, there are always those who are worse off
than I. When you help someone, it"s not always about money but about love. The love you give
today, someone might __14__ tomorrow. It doesn"t matter. Love anyway, because the __15__
thing you can give is love.