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Although the sisters had requested rooms in different dorms, they were placed in the same, Ada on the eighth
floor and Rita one floor higher. While Ada lived in harmony with her roommate, Rita was unhappy. She and
her roommate had a quarrel over matters like the smallest thing-the time of lights being turned off-and the
biggest thing-the arrangement of the furniture. Finally, they communicated primarily through short notes rather
than by speaking. Rita kept running down along the stairs to ask Ada for help. Before long, the two wanted to
live together again. Rita"s roommate finally had to move out.
Rita"s ability to solve her problem by rooming with her twin is unusual, but the conflict she faced is not.
Despite great efforts by many schools to make good roommate matches, unpleasant outcomes are common.
Most conflicts between roommates develop from small, annoying differences. In extreme cases, the
conflicts can lead to serious violence and affect roommates" psychological (心理的) health.
Learning to tolerate a stranger"s habits may teach students the art of compromise, hut the learning process
is often painful.
Many schools have started conflict solution programs to calm tensions that could build up like a volcano
preparing to explode, resulting in physical violence. Some schools try to prevent conflicts by using
computerized matching. Students are put together on the basis of their answers to housing form questions
about preferred hours of study and sleep, and self-described tendencies toward tidiness or disorder. Parents
sometimes weaken the process by taking the forms and filling in false data about their children"s habits.
If only conflicts between roommates could disappear!
| Title | Roommate (1)_______ | ||||||||||||||||
| Example | Rita, living on the (2)_______ floor, quarreled with her roommate over matters (3)_______ from when lights should be turned off to how the furniture should be arranged before they gave up on oral communication. Rita kept running (4)_______ to seek comfort from her twin sister. They finally (5)_______ the room again. | ||||||||||||||||
| (6)_______ | Though many schools try to make (7)_______ roommates, conflicts between roommates still exist. | ||||||||||||||||
| Bad results | ● Leading to serious physical violence. ● (8)_______ roommates" psychological health. | ||||||||||||||||
| Solutions | ● Learning the art of (9)_______. ● Tolerating a stranger"s habits. ● Using computerized matching. | ||||||||||||||||
| Wish | Conflicts between roommates could be (10)_______. | ||||||||||||||||
| 1. Conflicts/conflicts 2. ninth 3. ranging 4. downstairs 5. shared 6. Problem 7. well-matched/suitable 8. Affecting 9. compromise 10. gone/solved/settled | |||||||||||||||||
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| Researchers in Britain are driving the environmental movement to a new level. A team from the University of Warwick has built what it calls the world"s first completely environmentally friendly Formula Three racing car. The car is made mainly of renewable materials, like plants and vegetables. The structure around the car is made from natural plant fibers and potatoes. The steering wheel (方向盘) is made from root vegetables like carrots. The engine uses bio-fuel made from vegetable oil and waste chocolate. The new racing car is extremely fast. The car has a top speed of two hundred fifteen kilometers an hour. And it can go from zero to ninety-five kilometers an hour in just two and a half seconds. The racing car meets all of the Formula Three racing requirements except for its biodiesel (生物柴油) engine. Automobile racing is one of the most widely watched sports in the world. But it is also considered one of the least friendly sports to the environment. Racing cars burn a lot of fuel, and create a lot of air pollution. In recent years, the racing industry has taken steps to protect the environment. More racing companies are now producing cars that use less energy. These cars produce less pollution than cars that depend on traditional fuel, like gasoline. Last month, the new racing car was set to run in its first competitive race at the Formula Three Championship Final at Brands Hatch. It would have been the first biodiesel-powered car to race at Formula Three. Current Formula Three rules let only gasoline-powered car to compete. Officials needed permission from all of the Formula Three racers for the biodiesel-powered car to compete. They were unable to contact one of the drivers, so the new racing car didn"t appear in the event. In test runs, the new racing car was the fifth fastest among the Formula Three race cars. Supporters are hoping to have the fuel problem solved in time to compete in the next season. | |||||||||||||||||
| 1. What"s the second paragraph mainly about? | |||||||||||||||||
| A. What materials the new racing car is made of. B. Why researchers built the new racing car. C. The characteristics of the new racing car. D. The process of the new racing car being designed. | |||||||||||||||||
| 2. According to the passage, the of the new racing car doesn"t meet the Formula Three racing requirements. | |||||||||||||||||
| A. speed B. appearance C. weight D. engine | |||||||||||||||||
| 3. It can be inferred from the passage that _____. | |||||||||||||||||
| A. the new racing car is the first environmentally friendly car B. automobile racing could be forbidden in the near future C. many people like to watch automobile racing D. the new racing car will be allowed to compete in the next season of Formula Three racing | |||||||||||||||||
| 4. In recent years, racing companies are producing cars that _____. | |||||||||||||||||
| A. burn more fuel B. go more quickly C. produce less pollution D. cost less money | |||||||||||||||||
| 5. Why didn"t the new racing car compete at the Formula Three Championship Final last month? | |||||||||||||||||
| A. Because the new racing car still needs testing. B. Because officials needed each racer"s permission but failed to contact one. C. Because there"re some technical problems to be solved. D. Because few drivers think it is fast enough. | |||||||||||||||||
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| [1]Medical research is leading American education officials to consider having high school classes start later in the morning. The research says that teenagers are more awake later at night than adults are. When staying up late at night, the teenagers have problems learning early in the morning. [2]Researchers in the state of Rhode Island measured the amount of the hormone (荷尔蒙) melatonin (降黑素) in people"s mouths at different times of the day. Melatonin causes people to feel sleepy. [3]They found that melatonin levels rise later at night in teenagers than they do in children and adults. It remains at higher levels in teenagers later in the morning. They said this shows that teenagers have difficulty learning early in the morning. Yet most school systems in the United States begin high school classes at about seven o"clock. [4]A few school districts have made some changes. In 1996, school officials in Edina, Minnesota, changed the start of classes from seven thirty to eight thirty. Two years later, the nearby city of Minneapolis did the same. Teachers there reported that students were no longer sleepy in class and were happier. Staying in school later in the day did not seem to be a problem for students who had jobs after school either. [5]Health experts say that teenagers need between eight and nine hours of sleep a night. Students _____ are likely to be late for school, fail to do their homework, fall asleep in class and have trouble taking part in class discussions. [6]Some people, however, don"t support a later start time because they say that it would limit the time for practicing sports after school. However, the Minnesota schools found that this did not hurt school sports competitions. [7]More American school districts are discussing the possibility of changing high school start times. Researchers and teenagers say that they cannot make the change quickly enough. | |||||||||||||||||
| 1. What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 8 words.) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Please fill in the blank in the fifth paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 8 words.) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Complete the following statement with proper words. (Please answer within 5 words.) If they go to bed very late at night, teenagers _____ early in the morning. _______________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Do you think the change is necessary? Why? (Please answer within 15 words.) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 5. What does the word "this"(line 3, paragraph 6) probably refer to? (No more than 4 words.) _______________________________________________________________________________________ | |||||||||||||||||
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| As we all know, Chinese handwriting has infinite power to express differences of character and cultivation. But we have to admit that traditional handwriting has become a 1 art, now that kids start using keyboards as soon as they begin school. However, writing things out by hand may be a 2 way we train our brains, several studies suggest. Many psychologists think that handwriting can make you 3 ! Writing by hand is different from 4 because it requires using strokes to create a letter, 5 just selecting the whole letter by touching a key, says Virginia Berninger, a professor of psychology at the University of Washington. These 6 movements activate large regions of the brain 7 in thinking, memory, and language. Handwriting helps children learn letters and shapes, improves their composition of ideas, and may also 8 fine- motor skills development. A study by Berninger found that in grades two, four, and six, children wrote more words, faster, and expressed more 9 when writing essays by hand than when typing on a keyboard. A separate study by researchers at Indiana University found that children who practiced printing by hand had more active 10 than kids who 11 looked at letters. It"s not just children who 12 from writing things out by hand, says a study in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Adults learning a new language remember its 13 better if they write them out by hand than if they produce them with a keyboard. As more people 14 their days on the computer, says neuroscientist P. Murali Doraiswamy of Duke University, " 15 people in handwriting skills could be a useful cognitive exercise." | |||||||||||||||||
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