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Reading is not the only way to gain knowledge of the work in the past. There is another large reservoir (知识库) which may be called experience, and the college students will find that every craftsman (工匠) has something he can teach and will generally teach gladly to any college student who does not look down upon them. The information from them differs from that in textbooks and papers chiefly in that its theoretical (理论的) part -- the explanations of why things happen -- is frequently quite fantastic (神奇的) . But the demonstration (示范) and report of what happens, and how it happens are correct even if the reports are in completely unscientific terms. Presently the college students will learn, in this case also, what to accept and what to reject. One important thing for a college student to remember is that if Aristotle could talk to the fisherman, so can he.
  Another source of knowledge is the vast store of traditional practices handed down from father to son , or mother to daughter, of old country customs ,of folklore (风俗). All this is very difficult for a college student to examine, for much knowledge and personal experience is needed here to separate good plants from wild grass.The college students should learn to realize and remember how much of real value science has found in this wide, confused wilderness and how often scientific discoveries of what had existed in this area long age.
小题1: In the last paragraph the phrase "this wide, confused wilderness" refers to _____.
A.personal experience
B.wild weeds among good plants
C.the information from the parents
D.the vast store of traditional practices
小题2: Which of the following statements is supported by the passage?
A.The college students have trouble separating good plants from wild grass
B.Craftsman’s experience is usually unscientific
C.The contemptuous (傲慢的) college students will receive nothing from craftsmen
D.Traditional practices are as important as experience for the college students
小题3: The author advises the college students to ______ .
A.be contemptuous to the craftsman
B.be patient in helping the craftsman with scientific terms
C.learn the craftsman’s experience by judging it carefully
D.gain the craftsman’s experience without rejection
小题4: The main idea of this passage is about ________.
A.what to learn from the parentsB.how to gain knowledge
C.why to learn from craftsmanD.how to deal with experience

答案

小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:C
小题4:B
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试题分析:本文主要介绍了获得知识的途径。
小题1: 根据Another source of knowledge is the vast store of traditional practices handed down from father to son , or mother to daughter, of old country customs ,of folklore (风俗).故选D。
小题2: 根据and the college students will find that every craftsman (工匠) has something he can teach and will generally teach gladly to any college student who does not look down upon them.故选C。
小题3:根据Presently the college students will learn, in this case also, what to accept and what to reject.可知答案为 C。
小题4:根据全文内容以及Reading is not the only way to gain knowledge of the work in the past. There is another large reservoir (知识库) which may be called experience, and the college students will find that every craftsman (工匠) has something he can teach and will generally teach gladly to any college student who does not look down upon them.可知答案为 B。
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There are only about 1,000 Hawaiian monk seals(夏威夷僧海豹) left and its population is going down 4% a year. Hawaiian monk seals are found in the northwest part of the Hawaiian Islands. They spend a lot of time at sea. They are able to dive 600 feet deep, and can stay under water for up to 20 minutes. Adults grow up to seven feet long, and weigh between 400 and 600 pounds. They can live as long as 30 years.
These seals are born on land. Every year, usually in May or June, females find sandy beaches and give birth to a single baby. The female seals avoid beaches where the water becomes deep very quickly because this lets sharks swim close to land and catch the seals.
Mothers stay with their babies for six weeks. During that entire time, they do not leave the beach even to eat. Instead, they live off fat that they have stored up over the previous year and feed their babies with fat-rich milk. After six weeks, mothers go back to the sea. The young have to live on their own.
Human disturbance(打扰) has been regarded as the important factor in the decrease of the monk seals. In fact, if human come too near a mother seal too often, she will go out to the sea. Unfortunately, this usually means death for the baby. It is now against the law for people to come within 100 yards of a seal on a beach.
Recent research has shown that the decrease in the Hawaiian monk seal population is due to lack of survival of these seals at one of the most important breeding(繁殖) beaches at French Frigate Shoals. Also, seals often get trapped in fishermen and by changes in weather patterns. If these threats(威胁) were not enough, during the breeding season, males will attack females until they are badly injured or finally killed.
小题1:What can we learn about Hawaiian monk seals?
A.They are in danger of dying out.
B.They spend most of the time on the beach.
C.They are the largest animals on the Hawaiian Islands.
D.They can stay under water as long as they like.
小题2:According to the text, a seal baby______.
A.is born at sea
B.is fed on fat by the mother
C.stays with its parents all life
D.is looked after by its mother for 6 weeks
小题3:It can be inferred from the text that______.
A.sharks are a threat to Hawaiian monk seals
B.male monk seals fight each other for females in the breeding season
C.when disturbed by people, the mother seal will protect the baby seal
D.Hawaiian monk seals give birth usually in July
小题4:What are the last two paragraphs mainly about?
A.Ways to protect Hawaiian monk seals。
B.The struggle of Hawaiian monk seals to survive.
C.The reasons for the decline(减少) of Hawaiian monk seals.
D.The influence of climate change on Hawaiian monk seals.

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The following is a father’s advice to his son/daughter, who has just graduated(毕业) from high school:
First of all, congratulations on your graduation! Graduation from high school means that a new stage of life is ahead of you. 小题1:_____.
小题2:      . After you have messed up(弄乱) something, you should learn to clean it up yourself. Cleanliness is indeed close to good manners.
Don’t mistake knowledge for wisdom(智慧). No matter how much information or knowledge you have, you will never make right judgments if you don’t have wisdom. 小题3:_____. If you can imagine the possible future outcomes of your present decisions and actions, you can avoid mistakes. And if you can reflect(思考) on the mistake you have made, you can avoid making the same mistakes again and again. Such is wisdom.
Don’t complain(抱怨). When you take up a job, do your best to carry it out. 小题4:_____.
Finally, be an early bird. 小题5:______. And the sight of the rising sun will warm your heart and give you energy for the day ahead. Besides, being an early bird, you have plenty of time to take exercise or do a lot of work.
A.At the beginning of this new stage, I have some advice for you.
B.If you get up earlier than the sun, you can watch it rise up slowly into the sky
C.Once you start a job, you should try your best to do it well.
D.Clean your own room and do your own washing.
E. Don’t waste time complaining about it, no matter how difficult and boring it is.
F. Get up early and go for some morning exercises to build up your body.
G. Wisdom comes from imagination and reflection.
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The works of Shakespeare and Wordsworth are “rocket-boosters” to the brain and better therapy than self-help books, researchers will say this week.
Scientists, psychologists and English academics at Liverpool University have found that reading the works of the Bard and other classical writers has a beneficial effect on the mind, catches the reader’s attention and cause moments of self-reflection.
Using scanners, they monitored the brain activity of volunteers as they read works by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, T.S Eliot and others.
They then “translated” the texts into more “straightforward”, modern language and again monitored the readers’ brains as they read the words.
Scans showed that the more “challenging” prose (散文)and poetry set off far more electrical activity in the brain than the more pedestrian versions.
Scientists were able to study the brain activity as it responded to each word and record how it “lit up” as the readers encountered unusual words, surprising phrases or difficult sentence structure.
This “lighting up” of the mind lasts longer than the initial electrical spark, shifting the brain to a higher gear, encouraging further reading.
The research also found that reading poetry, in particular, increases activity in the right hemisphere (半球)of the brain, an area concerned with “autobiographical memory”, helping the reader to reflect on and reappraise their own experiences in light of what they have read. The academics said this meant the classics were more useful than self-help books.
Philip Davis, an English professor who has worked on the study with the university’s magnetic resonance centre, will tell a conference this week: “Serious literature acts like a rocket-booster to the brain.
"The research shows the power of literature to shift mental pathways, to create new thoughts, shapes and connections in the young and the elderly alike.”
小题1:How do classics such as Shakespeare and Wordsworth benefit the readers?
A.They set off far less electrical activity in the brain.
B.They light up the mind shorter than the initial electrical spark.
C.They shift physical pathways in the young and the elderly.
D.They draw readers’ attention and help make self-examination.
小题2:Why does the author mention” They then” translated”… modern language“?
A.To prove that classics are more useful than ordinary versions.
B.To show self-help books act like rocket-boosters to the brain.
C.To tell serious literature sets off far less electrical activity.
D.To make known ordinary versions set off more electrical activity
小题3:What can we conclude according to the researchers?
A.Self-help books are more valuable than classics.
B.Serious literature lights up the mind shorter than ordinary versions.
C.The right hemisphere of the brain is related to autobiographical memory.
D.Literature has a beneficial effect only on the mind of the young.
小题4:Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A.Ordinary Versions Create New Thoughts
B.Modern Language Increases the Brain
C.Classics Help lmprove the Brain Activity
D.Self-help Books, Rocket-boosters

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Dear Dr Fang,
How are you? I am writing to ask for some   36  about how to help my 15-year-old son. At the moment, he refuses to do almost anything his mother and I ask him to do. He is our only child and we treat him very   37 . Though his grandparents buy him many things, yet he is still   38  to them and often shouts at them. He also   39  to spend time with us or do as we tell him.
Recently, he has been refusing to do his homework, and instead insists on   40  his time listening to foreign music. I cannot understand that   41 , and I don’t like it. Meanwhile, he spends too much time in Internet cafes, where he either plays games   42  chats on the Internet. He is wasting valuable time during this   43  period in his life!
What shall I do? I am worried about it.   44  I keep allowing him to do what he wants, he may fail at school, or worse. How can I help my son   45  hurting our feelings?
Best regards
Liu Zhen     
小题1:A  questions      B  advice      C  problems      D  lessons
小题2:A  badly      B  ill          C  well        D  coldly
小题3:A  kind         B  good     C  polite        D  rude
小题4:A  prefers      B  wants       C  likes        D  refuses
小题5:A  saving        B  missing     C  wasting      D  winning
小题6:A  music         B  film      C  game      D  play
小题7:A  and          B  or         C  but        D  so
小题8:A  dark         B  old       C  sad       D  important
小题9:A  If            B  Until        C  Though      D  Before
小题10:A  for          B  in          C  without       D  about
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The possibility that pleasant smells might reduce pain has recently been suggested by new research. In a scientific study, doctors asked 20 men and 20 women to keep their hands in very hot water for as long as possible while breathing in different smells.
As people believe that strong smells can affect the senses, volunteers were asked not to eat or drink for eight hours before the experiment began. During the experiment, volunteers were asked to take in pleasant smells such as vanilla (香草), and unpleasant smells such as durians (榴莲). The volunteers kept their hands in the water until it became too hot for them. When they could not bear the pain any more, they took their hands out of the water.
Scientists are interested in whether the senses or smell is related to pain and whether men and women have the same senses. Now, the study has proved that for women, pleasant smells reduce pain. For men, there is no change.
Dr Finkelstein has been studying smells since 1999. He says that scientists already have data from 40 volunteers. He adds that this year, scientists will test another 60 volunteers and will be in a better position to explain the results.
One explanation is that women’s sense of smell developed long ago, and is linked to recognizing the smell of babies. Scientists used to believe that mothers recognized their children by sight only. Now, they have started to believe that the sense of smell also helps, but why pleasant smells do not reduce pain in men is a question still to be answered by scientists.
小题1:Before the experiment, volunteers ______.
A.are gathered and take a training
B.cannot eat or drink for several hours
C.must wash their hands carefully
D.will be interviewed by Dr Finkelstein
小题2:If both men and women are asked to keep their hands in hot water while taking in some pleasant smells, ______.
A.women may stand the pain of the hot water longer
B.men may keep their hands in the hot water longer
C.they will probably take their hands out at the same time
D.we are not quite sure who will take their hands out earlier
小题3:From the passage we learn that _________.
A.the reason why women are sensitive to smells is clear
B.the experiment for the sense of smell has come to an end
C.unpleasant smells affect men’s senses more than women’s
D.scientists have not totally explained the result of the study
小题4:Now scientists believe that _______.
A.mothers recognize their children only by sight
B.men’s sense of smell developed a long time ago
C.strong smells have a great influence on people’s senses
D.smells are helpful for mothers to spot their children
小题5:The writer wrote the passage in order to ________.
A.supply some entertainment to us
B.show women’s sharper senses than men’s
C.inform the readers of some knowledge
D.call for volunteers for the experiment

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