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After I came back China, I discovered not one but two instant messaging crazes. The first, which brought back memories of my previous addiction to the computer, was QQ. I can see evidence that the Chinese have the same kind of separate instant messaging language, even when they chat in English. My first word in this language, for example, was “ft”. This abbreviation for “faint” is used whenever there is a need to express surprise. I also discovered that Chinese use the same kind of abbreviation for a laugh. And there is an extraordinary number of smileys (表情符) to the “vomit” and “army soldier” smileys. There is even a SARA smiley.
After QQ, there is another, perhaps more widespread messaging trend. You guessed it --- cell phone text messaging. I now understand how useful text messaging is and why it is so common. I admit that I have been guilty of sending text messages while walking outside or sitting on the subway. Who hasn’t ? No matter where I go, I see people on their cell phones, messaging. In fact, it’s rare to see someone actually talking on their phone!
So it looks as if there is no escape from the instant messaging crazes, no matter where in the world I go. And that’s plainly not going to change. In the end, though, I can’t complain: instant messaging is quick, it’s cheap, it’s easy and it’s extremely fun too. And after all, everyone’s doing it.
小题1:The underlined phrase “went out of the window” in Paragraph 1 probably means .
| A．increased | B．occurred | C．disappeared | D．changed |
| A．Grammar and correct spelling are very important while chatting online. |
| B．There are enough smileys and icons to express yourselves while chatting on line. |
| C．The writer is skilled at typing and once was addicted to online games. |
| D．It is impolite to leave out some unimportant words or letters while chatting online. |
| A．full of fun but time-consuming |
| B．widespread but unnecessary |
| C．quick but difficult to do |
| D．common, used and cheap |
| A．Who can escape QQ and cell phone text messaging? |
| B．Why is instant messaging so popular? |
| C．Chatting online is good for your typing skill. |
| D．Chatting on QQ is natural for people. |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:A
解析
小题1:猜测词义题。根据下一句You see instant messages have their own shorthand language and grammar isn’t important可知语法规则渐渐消失，也就是人们越来越不注重语法规则了。
小题2:细节题。根据文章第二段倒数第二行there is an extraordinary number of smileys (表情符) to the “vomit” and “army soldier” smileys. There is even a SARA smiley.
小题3:细节题。倒数第二段第二行it is so common；文章最后一行it’s cheap, everyone’s doing it.可知短信很普遍，便宜，人们都在使用。D正确。
小题4:主旨大意题。通读全文可知文章正是向我们解释QQ和手机是如此的普遍，以至于没有人可以摆脱它们。
核心考点
试题【I credit my typing skill to so many hours of chatting online. Unfortunately, as 】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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The new work by Sonya M. Kahlenberg and Richard W. Wrangham, described this week in the journal Current Biology, provides the first evidence of a wild nonhuman species playing with dolls, as well as the first known sex difference in a wild animal’s choice of playthings.
The two researchers say their work adds to a growing body of evidence that human children are probably born with their own ideas of how they want to behave, rather than simply mirroring other girls who play with dolls and boys who play with trucks. Doll play among humans could have its origins in object—carrying by earlier apes (猿类), they say, suggesting that toy selection is probably not due entirely to socialization.
“In humans, there are obvious sex differences in children’s toy play, and these are remarkably similar across cultures,” says Kahlenberg. “While socialization by elders and peers has been the primary explanation, our work suggests that biology may also have an important role to play in activity preferences.”
In 14 years of data on chimpanzee behavior at the Kibale National Park in Uganda, Kahlenberg and Wrangham counted more than 100 examples of stickcarrying. Some young chimpanzees carried sticks into the nest to sleep with them and on one occasion built a separate nest for the stick. “We have seen juveniles occasionally carrying sticks for many years, and because they sometimes treated them rather like dolls, we wanted to know if in general this behavior tended to represent something like playing with dolls,” says Wrangham, a Professor at Harvard. “If the doll hypothesis (假设) was right, we thought that females should carry sticks more than males do, and that the chimpanzees should stop carrying sticks when they had their first child. We have now watched enough young chimpanzees to prove both points.”
小题1:What does a female chimpanzee do with sticks?
| A．She gives them to her child to play with. |
| B．She treats them as dolls. |
| C．She makes useful tools from them. |
| D．She treats them as weapons. |
| A．Sex difference. | B．Socialization. |
| C．Environment. | D．Cultural difference. |
| A．socialization has nothing to do with human’s choice of playthings |
| B．sex difference is the only factor in human’s choice of playthings |
| C．the biology factor may also influence toy choice |
| D．people choose different toys in different cultures |
| A．both humans and chimpanzees choose their playthings due to sex difference |
| B．different factors cause humans and chimpanzees to choose different playthings |
| C．only female chimpanzees have playthings |
| D．chimpanzees usually choose playthings for their children |
UFO is short for Unidentified Flying Object. It’s also called Flying Saucer. It is one of the most popular topics in the 20th century. With films like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and ET in the 1970s came a rapid increase in reports of flying saucers and men from Mars. More than 20 countries said their people once saw the UFO and there were over 1,200 reports about the UFO. Some even said they saw aliens.
In July, 1916, Gaynor was a nine-year-old girl and lived in North Wales. One day, on her way home from school, she saw a silver object in a field not far from her home. The object looked like a saucer. Gaynor was very scared. She stayed in the tall grass and watched the door of the strange object open. She saw two aliens wearing silver suits get ou. Then they use something to examine the ground. They were short and had pink eyes. After about half an hour, the two aliens went back into the object. Then it took off. When Gaynor got home, she told her mother about her unusual experience, but her family decided to keep quiet about it. They didn’t want others to laugh at their daughter. However, 18 months later, Gaynor told her story to UFO scientists. They found out that Gaynor told the truth.
小题1:What does UFO stand for? (No more than 3 words)
小题2:How did Gaynor feel when she saw the silver object like a saucer? (No more than 4 words)
小题3:Why did Gaynor’s parents keep quiet about her experience ? (No more than 10 words)
David teaches his three children at home. He 43 that his children learn very differently from children in school. Learning starts with the children’s 44 and questions. For example, when there is snowfall on a winter day, it may 45 a discussion about climate, snow removal 46 , Alaska, etc. Or a spring evening when the family is out 47 the stars is a good time to ask questions about the sky. If the Brazilian rain forests are on TV, it 48 be a perfect time to talk about how rain forests influence the climate, how deserts are 49 and how the polar ice caps 50 ocean levels.
Home schooling is often more interesting than 51 schools, but critics (批评家) say home-schoolers might be uncomfortable 52 with other people in adult life. Critics also say that most parents are not 53 to teach their children. However, most parents don’t have the time or the 54 to teach their children at home, so schools will continue to be 55 most children get their formal education.
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His grandson Caden would be taken off life support in a matter of hours in Denver, Colorado, with or without his grandfather"s presence, according to CNN affiliate KABC.
“I was kind of panicking because I was running late, and I really thought I wasn"t going to make the flight，” Dickinson told KABC.
That"s when a pilot from Southwest Airlines stepped up and held the flight at the gate until Dickinson arrived. The pilot was standing by the air bridge waiting for him when Dickinson arrived in socks, so rushed that he just grabbed his shoes at security and ran through the terminal.
“I told him, ‘Thank you so much. I can"t tell you how much I appreciated that.’ And he said, ‘No problem. They can"t leave without me anyway，’”Dickinson told KABC.
Authorities say Dickinson"s grandson, Caden Rodgers, suffered a head injury after his mother"s boyfriend threw him across the room. The boyfriend reportedly told police he was drunk and high on marijuana(大麻) at the time. The child later died and the boyfriend has been charged with first－degree murder, according to the Aurora Sentinel.
Thanks to the pilot, Dickinson made it to Colorado in time to say goodbye to his grandson. Most airlines would punish any staff member who holds up a flight, according to consumer advocate Christopher Elliott, who broke the story of the sympathetic pilot on his blog. However, a Southwest spokeswoman said the pilot"s actions were praiseworthy.
“You can"t hold a plane for every late customer, but I think we would all agree that these were extenuating(可以原谅的) circumstances and the pilot absolutely made the right decision，” Southwest spokeswoman Marilee McInnis said. “I don"t think you could ask for a better example of great service for our customers.”
小题1:According to the passage, which is the correct order of the following events?
a. The pilot held the plane for Dickinson.
b. People read the story of the pilot on the Internet.
c. Caden suffered a head injury.
d. Dickinson was waiting in line at the security checking point.
d. Marilee McInnis praised the pilot"s actions.
| A．d，c，a，b，e | B．c，a，d，b，e | C．c，d，a，b，e | D．d，a，b，c，e |
| A．The security staff prohibited Dickinson from getting to his gate on time. |
| B．The plane couldn"t leave without Dickinson according to the regulations. |
| C．Dickinson made it to see his grandson one last time. |
| D．Christopher Elliott holds the view that all the airlines should advocate similar actions. |
| A．The boyfriend of Caden"s mother hates him very much. |
| B．The boyfriend has been accused of first－degree murder. |
| C．Many pilots enjoy writing blog. |
| D．Dickinson had to take off his shoes at the security cheekpoint. |
| A．an unlucky man from Los Angeles making his flight |
| B．a poor boy being killed by his mother"s boyfriend |
| C．Southwest Airlines" decision not to punish a pilot who held up the flight |
| D．a pilot holding the flight for a man going to see his dying grandson |
Southern California itself, however, has not so far been a big user of its own technology. This is surprising, given that the whole American south－west faces a water problem. But now as the climate gets warmer and the population increases, there is more agreement that the existing infrastructure, consisting of vast pipes that carry water from the Sacramento Delta in the north and the Colorado River in the east, will not be enough. In places such as San Diego, which has inadequate and salty groundwater and currently imports 90% or its water, the answers must be greater conservation, reusing as much water as possible, and getting most of the rest from the sea.
The first part, conservation, has been widely accepted by the public. San Diego today uses less water with a larger population than it did in 1989, the year water consumption peaked. The second part, water recycling has been a hard sell, because of an unpleasant factor. Americans still use the term “toilet－to－tap” for recycling, even though properly treated waste－water is nowadays completely clean. Singapore made its programme acceptable in part by renaming it as NEWater.
This is where desalination comes in, which means taking the salt out of salt water. A firm called Poseidon Resources is now close to building the biggest desalination plant in America behind a power station by the beach in Carlsbad. The power plant sucks in 304m gallons of seawater a day for cooling, so Poseidon plans to change 104m gallons a day by using the RO spiral module.
Lots of people like the idea. Once fully running in 2015, the plant could produce 10% of the region"s water. And there are plans for more desalination plants. Many places would need to take much less water from the endangered Colorado River. But a few people hate it a lot. Joe Geever, an expert in biology, says desalination uses too much energy and that Poseidon plant would kill too much sea life. He understands that there is a role for desalination, he says, but would rather not have it right there, right now, and on this scale.
小题1:Which of the following is WRONG about the RO spiral module according to the passage?
| A．This technology is not widely used in its birthplace. |
| B．Today there are about 13，000 RO plants in the Persian Gulf, Israel, Australia and China. |
| C．This technology can be used in desalination plants to make sea water drinkable. |
| D．It is a promising water treatment technology welcomed by a lot of people. |
| A．2. | B．3. | C．4. | D．5. |
| A．The Colorado River is the main water source for California. |
| B．Americans still use the term “toilet－to－tap” for recycling water. |
| C．NEWater serves as a brand for recycled clean water in Singapore. |
| D．Poseidon Resources stands for the power station by the beach in Carlsbad. |
| A．Supportive. | B．Negative. | C．Optimistic. | D．Vague. |
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