题目
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Some teenagers are crossing their dream colleges off their lists. Others are thinking of skipping(略过)their senior trips or reducing prom(毕业舞会)costs. Many are finding their work hours cut while their expenses rise.
So, who exactly is punishing them?Is it their parents, teachers or employers?No, it’s the economy(经济状况).
If you are like most teenagers, you probably don’t understand what “recession”, “negative economic growth” and “subprime mortgage crisis (次贷危机)”actually mean. And you probably don’t spend your days watching the ups and downs of the stock market.
It’s safe to say that most teens don’t know much about the economy except for one thing:it’s bad. But just how exactly is the economy affecting teens?
“The single largest thing I have noticed is the recession’s ability to affect my college choice, “said Heather Richars from Downey High School in California, US. “With the economic situation the way it is, I have thought less about going to a private or out-of-state university, and more about public schools in California, mainly because of the price of tuition, “said Richars. “I had been a fan of attending a private school up until this year.”
The economy cuts into other areas of teenagers’ lives, too.
Joey Camarda, a student at Modesto High School in California, who works at an ice cream store, said,“ Probably due to the economy, I have been getting less hours at my job, and because of that, I am not getting enough money to help pay for college.”
Tara Mooney, a senior at Beyer High School, has also begun to notice that money is tight.
“Things are getting expensive,” she said. “When it comes to applying for colleges and wanting to go on senior trips, I have to pick and choose instead of doing it all.”
小题1:The purpose of writing the passage is mainly to tell us ________.
A.the economic recession has had a big effect on teens’ work, life and study |
B.teenagers are now having difficulty in deciding which colleges to apply for |
C.teenagers don’t know much about the economic recession |
D.teenagers are considering giving up their senior trips to save money |
A.go to a private university |
B.attend an out-of-state college |
C.attend a public college in California |
D.find a good university as he planned |
A.He has to find more part-time jobs. |
B.He has to help his mother do more chores. |
C.He has found that he had more time to study. |
D.His plan to pay for college will be hard to realize. |
A.Parents punish their teens by giving them less money. |
B.Most teens understand what negative economic growth means. |
C.Teenagers are finding it harder to do what they want than before. |
D.Teenagers have realized the importance of managing their own money. |
答案
小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:C
解析
试题分析:本文通过举例讲了经济衰退对青少年的工作、生活及学习的影响。
小题1:根据Teens’ lives hit by economy.故选A。
小题2:根据 “With the economic situation the way it is, I have thought less about going to a private or outofstate university, and more about public schools in California, mainly because of the price of tuition,”said Richars.故答案应为C。
小题3:根据Joey Camarda, a student at Modesto High School in California, who works at an ice
cream store, said,“ Probably due to the economy, I have been getting less hours at my job, and because of that, I am not getting enough money to help pay for college.”,故选D。
小题4:根据It’s safe to say that most teens don’t know much about the economy except for one thing:it’s bad.以及全文内容,故选C。
点评:这类文章比较枯燥,需要学生有比较好的耐心。从题目设置的角度看,本题侧重对学生把握文章中心段落和各段落的中心句的能力的考查,所以遇到这类题后,要注意把握好文章结构,了解文章中心意思,找到各段落中心句。不要让文中的一些生词影响了注意力。
核心考点
试题【Teens’ lives hit by economySome teenagers are crossing their dream colleges off 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Recent reports found that lodging with a student of a different race may decrease prejudice and force students to engage in more ethnically diverse friendships.
An Ohio State University study also found that black students living with a white roommate saw higher academic success throughout their college careers. Researchers believe this may be caused by social pressure.
In a New York Times article, Sam Boakye – the only black student on his freshman year floor -said that "if you"re surrounded by whites, you have something to prove."
Researchers also observed problems resulting from pairing interracial students in residences.
According to two recent studies, randomly assigned roommates of different races are more likely to experience conflicts so strained that one roommate will move out.
An Indiana University study found that interracial roommates were three times as likely as two white roommates to no longer live together by the end of the semester.
Grace Kao, a professor at Penn said she was not surprised by the findings. "This may be the first time that some of these students have interacted, and lived, with someone of a different race," she said.
At Penn, students are not asked to indicate race when applying for housing.
"One of the great things about freshman housing is that, with some exceptions, the process throws you together randomly," said Undergraduate Assembly chairman Alec Webley. "This is the definition of integration."
"I"ve experienced roommate conflicts between interracial students that have both broken down stereotypes(模式化形象) and strengthened stereotypes," said one Penn resident advisor (RA). The RA of two years added that while some conflicts "provided more multicultural acceptance and melding (融合)," there were also "jarring cultural resistance."
The RA said that these conflicts have also occurred among roommates of the same race.
Kao said she cautions against forming any generalizations based on any one of the studies, noting that more background characteristics of the students need to be studied and explained.
小题1:What can we learn from some recent studies?
A.Conflicts between students of different races are unavoidable. |
B.Interracial lodging may have diverse outcomes. |
C.Students of different races are prejudiced against each other. |
D.Interracial lodging does more harm than good. |
A.Few white students like sharing a room with a black peer. |
B.Roommates of different races just don"t get along. |
C.Interracial roommates are more likely to fall out. |
D.Assigning students" lodging randomly is not a good policy. |
A.The school randomly assigns roommates without regard to race. |
B.Students of different races are required to share a room. |
C.Interracial lodging is arranged by the school for freshmen. |
D.Lodging is assigned to students of different races without exception. |
A.Schools should be cautious when making decisions about student lodging. |
B.Students" racial background should be considered before lodging is assigned. |
C.Experienced resident advisors should be assigned to handle the problems. |
D.It is unscientific to make generalizations about it without further study. |
Some students who steal essays wholly from the Web, they said, are so lazy they don’t even bother to take the ads off the cut-and-pasted text. 58 percent of the teachers interviewed in the Association of Teachers and Lectures(ALT) questionnaire had come across plagiarism among their pupils. Gill Bullen from Itchen College in Southampton, for example, said pieces handed in by two students were the same and significantly better than either of them could have done.” “Not only that, the essays given in didn’t quite answer the title question I had set.” A teacher from Leeds said, “ I had one piece of work so obviously ‘cut and pasted’ that it still contained ads from the Web page” Connie Robinson from Stockton Riverside College, Stockton, said, “ With less able students, it is easy to spot plagiarism as the writing style changes mid-assignment, but with more able students, it is sometimes necessary for teachers to carry out Internet research to find out the source of the plagiarism.” Mary Bousted, general secretary of the ALT, said, “Teachers are struggling under a mountain of cut-and-pasting to spot whether work was the student’s own or plagiarism.” She called for strong policies to oppose plagiarism, and asked for help from the government in providing resources and techniques to delete cheats.
小题1:What does the underlined word “plagiarism” in Para 1 probably mean?
A.making quotations |
B.stealing others’ works or ideas |
C.cutting and pasting on the Internet |
D.surfing others’ works or ideas |
A.bother to remove the ads |
B.want to steal the whole essay |
C.check the mistakes on the Internet |
D.bother to do the work of cutting and pasting |
A.the government doesn’t complete its duty to stop plagiarism |
B.it’s very easy for teachers to spot plagiarism |
C.plagiarism causes the teachers great trouble |
D.only the government can find cheats |
A.UK students are lazy |
B.punishment on plagiarism |
C.Internet plagiarism –a problem in UK |
D.Hard to prevent plagiarism from the Internet |
attention, and even throws in a nice little moral about friendship.What can I say? I"m pleasantly surprised.
The promising Mae Whitman voices Tinker Bell herself, a far more dynamic character than we met in Peter Pan.Though Tinker still possesses her fiery temper, it doesn"t manifest itself immediately, and takes a backseat to this pixie"s many good qualities. As it turns out, Tinker Bell is extremely skilled at tinkering (修补 ), so she is a natural choice to build a special scepter(拐杖),for Pixie Hollow"s Autumn Celebration.The scepter will hold the moonstone through which the light of the Blue Moon will pass, supplying Pixie Hollow with enough pixie dust for the year ahead.
For days, Tinkers works hard on the perfect scepter design while her good friend Terrence does his best to assist. When Terrence accidentally breaks the Moon Stone, Tinker Bell "explodes and sends him away.One of Tinker"s more literal friends finds this extremely concerning, as she doesn"t" quite understand
that the outburst was emotional rather than physical - very funny indeed.
After hearing the legend of the lost treasure, Tinker Bell strikes out on her own to find a new Moon Stone.She faces many difficulties and meets new friends along the way, but when Terrence comes to the rescue at Tinker"s darkest hour, she realizes the value of a truly loyal friend. Though the film offers a positive message to young viewers, it"s the animation that makes Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure stand out.Pixie Hollow is a charming, visually stunning world basked in lush colors.It"s so lovely, so detailed, so
three - dimensional that you almost want to step inside.
小题1:From the first paragraph, we can learn that .
A.many famous actors acted important roles in the film |
B.the plot of the film is attractive and easy to understand |
C.the write feels surprised at the message of friendship in the film |
D.the film Tinker Bill and the Lost Treasure may disappoint you if you love magic tales |
A.occur | B.hide | C.display | D.contradict |
a. Tinker Bell realizes the value of a truly loyal friend.
b.Terrence breaks the Moon Stone by accident.
c. Tinker Bell is determined to build a special scepter.
d. Terrence comes to the rescue when Tinkers was in trouble.
A.c b d a | B.b.c d a | C.b c a d | D.c d a b |
A.the attractive details |
B.the lively animation characters |
C.the three - dimensional animation |
D.the moving love story between Tinker Bell and Terrence. |
A.movie poster | B.movie review |
C.introduction to a book | D.person introduction |
Local media reported that the boats finished their protest at 9:15 a.m. and are expected to return to a port in northeast Taiwan"s Yilan county at noon Wednesday.
Although the boats originally numbered 75,they were joined at sea by other boats from different parts of Taiwan, raising the total number to about 100 vessels. Organizers said the voyage was made to protect Taiwanese fishing rights in nearby waters and to protest Japan"s "purchase" of part of the Diaoyu Islands.
The Japanese government announced a plan to "purchase" part of the islands earlier this month despite repeated protests from the Chinese government. The action aroused demonstrations across China as well as consumers" boycott of Japanese products in recent weeks. Local authorities in Taiwan have also protested the move.
"Japan"s purchase and nationalization of China"s Diaoyu Islands are putting China-Japan economic and trade ties at risk due to man-made factors." An official spokesman from Beijing warned .
China-Japan economic and trade relations was back on track in 1952 when the two countries signed their first non-governmental trade agreement. Currently, China has been Japan"s largest trade partner since 2007 while Japan is China’s fourth largest trade partner, after the EU, U.S. and the ASEAN. Meanwhile, China is the biggest destination for Japanese exports and biggest source of imports. In the first half of 2012, Japan"s exports to China totaled 73.54 billion U.S. dollars, down 6.2 percent from the same period last year, while its import from China was 91.29 billion U.S. dollars, up 7 percent from the same period last year.
Now, China-Japan economic and trade relations are at a crossroads. Negotiation could be the way out of the rift.
小题1:Why are China-Japan economic and trade relations at a crossroads?
A.Because Taiwan fishing boats sailed to the island to protest Japan. |
B.Because Taiwanese are deprived of their fishing right. |
C.Because Japan is not China"s largest trade partner. |
D.Because Japan announced to purchase China"s Diaoyu Islands. |
A.About 100 boats joined the original team later. |
B.Negotiation will bring both countries out of the conflict. |
C.Japan"s “purchase”has cast a shadow on China-Japan export and import. |
D.Japan"s exports to China totaled 78 billion U.S. dollars in 2011. |
A.gap | B.conflict | C.crash | D.quarrel |
A.Japan declared to purchase China"s Diaoyu Islands. |
B.Japan"s purchase of Diaoyu Islands aroused nationwide protest. |
C.The Diaoyu Islands belong to China! |
D.China plays an important part in Japan"s economy development. |
But history has a way of uncovering its secrets. On November 5 , this year, three members of a family from Finland arrived at Halifax and laid fresh flowers at the grave. "This is our baby," says Magda Schleifer,68,a banker. She grew up hearing stories about a great-aunt named Maria Panula, 42, who had sailed on the Titanic for America to be reunited with her husband. According to the information Mrs Schleifer had gathered, Panula gave up her seat on a lifeboat to search for her five children----including a 13-month-old boy named Eino--from whom she had become separated during the final minutes of the crossing. "We thought they were all lost in the sea." says Schleifer.
Now, using teeth and bone pieces taken from the baby"s grave, scientists have compared the DNA from the Unknown Child with those collected from members of five families who lost relatives on the Titanic and never recovered the bodies. The result of the test points only to one possible person: young Eino. Now the family see no need for a new grave. "he belongs to the people of Halifax," says Schleifer. “ They"ve taken care of him for 90 years.”
Adapted from people,November 25 ,2002
小题1:The baby traveled on the Titanic with his________.
A.mother | B.parents | C.aunt | D.relatives |
A.Schleifer | B.Eino | C.Magad | D.Panula |
A.1912 | B.1954 | C.2002 | D.2004 |
A.the unknown baby"body was taken from the north Atlantic |
B.the unknown baby was buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia |
C.people found out who the unknown baby was |
D.people took care of the unknown baby for 90 years |
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