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Parents feel that it is difficult to live with teenagers. Then again, teenagers have        feelings about their parents, saying that it is not easy living with them. According to a recent research, the most common         between parents and teenagers is that regarding untidiness and daily routine tasks. On the one hand, parents go mad over         rooms, clothes thrown on the floor and their children’s refusal to help with the        . On the other hand, teenagers lose their patience continually when parents blame them for         the towel in the bathroom, not cleaning up their room or refusing to do the shopping at the supermarket.
The research, conducted by St. George University, shows that different parents have different          to these problems. However, some approaches are more         than others. For example, those parents who yell at their children for their untidiness, but         clean the room for them, have fewer chances of changing their children’s        . On the contrary, those who let teenagers experience the         of their actions can do better. For example, when teenagers who don’t help their parents with the shopping don’t find their favorite drink in the refrigerator, they are forced to         their actions.
Psychologists say that       is the most important thing in parent-child relationships. Parents should      to their children but at the same time they should lend an ear to what they have to say. Parents may       their children when they are untidy but they should also understand that their room is their own private space. Communication is a two-way process. It is only by listening to and       each other that problems between parents and children can be settled.
小题1:
A.naturalB.strongC.guiltyD.similar
小题2:
A.interestB.argumentC.linkD.knowledge
小题3:
A.noisyB.crowdedC.messyD.locked
小题4:
A.homeworkB.houseworkC.problemD.research
小题5:
A.washing B.using C.dropping D.replacing
小题6:
A.approachesB.contributions C.introductions D.attitudes
小题7:
A.complex B.popular C.scientific D.successful
小题8:
A.later B.deliberately C.seldom D.thoroughly
小题9:
A.behavior B.taste C.future D.nature
小题10:
A.failures B.changes C.consequencesD.thrills
小题11:
A.defend B.delay C.repeat D.reconsider
小题12:
A.communicationB.bond C.friendship D.trust
小题13:
A.reply B.attend C.attach D.talk
小题14:
A.hate B.scold C.frighten D.stop
小题15:
A.loving B.observingC.understanding D.praising

答案

小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:B
小题5:C
小题6:A
小题7:D
小题8:A
小题9:A
小题10:C
小题11:D
小题12:A
小题13:D
小题14:B
小题15:C
解析

试题分析:本文是一篇议论文。讨论了家长和孩子如何相处的问题。一味的责备会使得亲情疏远。父母也应该倾听孩子的心里话。沟通是一个双向的过程。做一个聪明的善解人意的家长更受孩子的欢迎。
小题1:D。考查形容词词义辨析及语境理解。父母觉得很难与青少年生活。然后青少年也有和父母相似的感受,说和他们一起生活不容易。 此处natural自然的;strong强壮的;guilty犯罪的;similar相似的。根据空前、空后的提示可知,父母和孩子有着相似的感觉。故选D。
小题2:B。考查名词词义辨析及语境理解。根据最近的一项研究,父母与青少年之间的最常见的争吵是关于邋遢和每日的例行任务。此处interest兴趣;argument争论,争吵;link联系;knowledge知识。根据下文可知,因为父母不满意孩子不能保持自己房间的干净、整齐、卫生而发生争吵。故选B。
小题3:C。考查形容词词义辨析及语境理解。 根据:扔在地板上的衣服,可知房间很凌乱。 此处noisy喧闹的;crowded拥挤的;messy杂乱的;locked上锁的。故选C。
小题4:B。考查名词词义辨析及语境理解。凌乱的房间,扔在地板上的衣服等这些都是家务方面的事。此处 homework作业;housework家务;problem难题;research 研究,调查。故选B。
小题5:C。考查动词词义辨析及语境理解。另一方面,青少年认为父母因为仅仅是把浴室里的毛巾掉在地上等一些小事而责怪他们而不耐烦。 此处washing 洗;using 使用;dropping 落下;replacing 更换,替代。drop the towel 把毛巾掉在地上。故选C。
小题6:A。考查名词词义辨析及语境理解。圣乔治大学的研究表明不同的父母对这些问题有不同的方法。此处approaches 方法,途径;contributions 贡献;introductions 介绍,入门;attitudes 态度;看法。下一句有approaches一词。故选A。
小题7:D。考查形容词词义辨析及语境理解。然而,一些方法比其他人的更成功。 此处 complex 复杂的;popular 受欢迎的;scientific 科学的;successful成功的。接下来列举了一些成功的父母的做法。故选D。
小题8:A。考查副词词义辨析及语境理解。例如,父母先因为孩子邋遢而大吼大叫,后来又为他们收拾房间。此处later后来;deliberately故意地; seldom很少;thoroughly彻底。这样的父母我们生活中不少见。故选A。
小题9:A。考查名词词义辨析及语境理解。例如,那些因为孩子邋遢而大吼大叫但是后来又为他们房间打扫的的父母有更少的机会改变他们孩子的行为。此处behavior行为;taste味道;future未来;nature自然。孩子不改变行为是因为父母责备了他们然后又帮他们收拾使孩子认为被批评了就可以不做了。自然行为得不到改变。故选A。
小题10:C。考查名词词义辨析及语境理解。根据后面可知,与此相反,那些让青少年体验他们的行为的结果的父母可以做得更好。此处failures失败;changes变化;consequences结果;thrills兴奋、震颤。故选C。
小题11:D。考查动词词义辨析及语境理解。例如,当青少年不购物帮助他们的父母购物时,他们在冰箱里就找不到他们最喜爱的饮料,这样他们就被迫重新考虑他们的行动。 此处defend防御;delay耽搁;repeat重复;reconsider重新考虑。根据语境和词的意义可知,选D。
小题12:A。考查名词词义辨析及语境理解。心理学家说交流是家长和孩子关系中最重要的事。此处communication 交流;bond结合; friendship友谊;trust信任。有沟通才会消除隔阂和误解。故选A。
小题13:D。考查动词词义辨析及语境理解。父母应和子女交谈 ,但同时也应该听一听他们要说什么。此处reply回答;attend参加;attach 附加、系;talk谈论。talk to和……交流。故选D。
小题14:B。考查动词词义辨析及语境理解。父母责备他们的孩子当他们的房间凌乱时,但他们也应该明白他们的房间是他们自己的私人空间。此处 hate讨厌;scold责备;frighten 吓唬;stop停止。代入四个词分析,只有B符合语境。故选B。
小题15:C。考查动词词义辨析及语境理解。沟通是一个双向的过程。它只有通过倾听和理解对方,父母与子女之间的问题才可以得到解决。此处 loving爱;observing观察;understanding理解;praising表扬。代入四个词分析, C更符合语境。故选C。
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Scientists today are making greater effort to study ocean currents (洋流) . Most do it using satellites and other high-tech equipment. However, ocean expert Curtis Ebbesmeyer does it in a special way -- by studying movements of random floating garbage. A scientist with many years’ experience, he started this type of research in the early 1990s when he heard about hundreds of athletic shoes washing up on the shores of the northwest coast of the United States. There were so many shoes that people were setting up swap meets to try and match left and right shoes to sell or wear.
Ebbesmeyer found out in his researches that the shoes — about 60,000 in total — fell into the ocean in a shipping accident. He phoned the shoe company and asked if they wanted the shoes back. As expected, the company told him that they didn"t. Ebbesmeyer realized this could be a great experiment. If he learned when and where the shoes went into the water and tracked where they landed, he could learn a lot about the patterns of ocean currents.
The Pacific Northwest is one of the world"s best areas for beachcombing(海滩搜寻) because winds and currents join here, and as a result, there is a group of serious beachcombers in the area. Ebbesmeyer got to know a lot of them and asked for their help in collecting information about where the shoes landed. In a year he collected reliable information on 1, 600 shoes. With this data, he and a colleague were able to test and improve a computer program designed to model ocean currents, and publish the findings of their study.
As the result of his work, Ebbesmeyer has become known as the scientist to call with questions about any unusual objects found floating in the ocean. He has even started an association of beachcombers and ocean experts, with 500 subscribers from West Africa to New Zealand. They have recorded all lost objects ranging from potatoes to golf gloves.
小题1:The underlined phrase swap meets in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______________.
A.fitting rooms
B.trading fairs
C.business talks
D.group meetings
小题2:Ebbesmeyer phoned the shoe company to find out _____________.
A.what caused the shipping accident
B.when and where the shoes went missing
C.whether it was all right to use their shoes
D.how much they lost in the shipping accident
小题3:How did Ebbesmeyer prove his assumption?
A.By collecting information from beachcombers.
B.By studying the shoes found by beachcomber.
C.By searching the web for ocean currents models.
D.By researching ocean currents data in the library.
小题4:Ebbesmeyer is most famous for ___________________.
A.traveling widely the coastal cities of the world
B.making records for any lost objects on the sea
C.running a global currents research association
D.phoning about any doubtful objects on the sea
小题5:What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?
A.To call people"s attention to ocean pollution.
B.To warn people of shipping safety in the ocean.
C.To explain a unique way of studying ocean currents.
D.To give tips on how to search for lost objects on the beach.

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Before I had my son, I spent two years working with children with disabilities. I learned that shouting and threats of punishment would result in a disaster. Coming up against their behaviour could only make the job harder and their behaviour more extreme. I found something that worked, though.
There was a very naughty boy in the nursery and a teacher who was generally very confident with the children was asked to take charge of him. One day the boy joined a session in the room next to mine. His appearance created an atmosphere of tension. He spent the entire session running around, hitting and kicking, and destroying property.
I was in the craft room working with some other children when my co-worker told me that this boy’s teacher was in tears, and could not get control of the situation. As we were talking,the boy ran in. I told my co-worker that I would take care of him.
I closed the door. He was full of energy, throwing things around and making a huge mess. But I could see that he was doing all these to annoy me. He needed connection, and this was the only way he knew how to ask for it. So I sat back down and kept quiet. Then he slowed down and began making a rocket. I talked to him about it. We continued like this for a few minutes before I slipped into the conversation:
“So what happened today?”
It was purely a question, no blame or anger in my tone. I believe that if I had criticized him, the gate that was slowly opening would have shut firmly closed. He told me that the teacher didn’t let him do what he knew well due to safety but asked him to do what he disliked. He also admitted that he had enjoyed making her run around and saw it as a game. I explained that his teacher had not seen it as a game and was very upset. This again was stated simply as a fact. I suggested that next time he had a session, he talk about what he hoped to do at the start,which might be easier for everyone. He agreed and was quiet for a moment. Then he looked at me with tears in his eyes before quietly asking if he could go to find his teacher to apologize.
小题1:The boy made trouble for his teacher because he_____   .
A.was accused of destroying property
B.was told not to yell at other children
C.was made to do things against his will
D.was blamed for creating an air of tension
小题2:Why didn’t the author do anything about the boy’s bad behavior at first?
A.She didn’t want to make it worse.
B.She didn’t mind the huge mess at all.
C.She was tired of shouting and threats.
D.She hadn’t thought of a coping strategy.
小题3:The author managed to get the boy to talk to her by    _____.
A.playing games with him
B.giving him a good suggestion
C.describing his teacher’s feelings
D.avoiding making critical remarks
小题4:Why did the boy have tears in his eyes in the end?
A.He was sorry about his reputation.
B.He was regretful about his behavior.
C.He was fearful of the author’s warning.
D.He was sad for the author’s misunderstanding.

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The behaviour of a building’s users may be at least as important as its design when it comes to energy use, according to new research from the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC). The UK promises to reduce its carbon emissions (排放)by 80 percent by 2050, part of which will be achieved by all new homes being zero-carbon by 2016. But this report shows that sustainable building design on its own — though extremely important- is not enough to achieve such reductions: the behaviour of the people using the building has to change too.
The study suggests that the ways that people use and live in their homes have been largely ignored by existing efforts to improve energy efficiency (效率),which instead focus on architectural and technological developments.
‘Technology is going to assist but it is not going to do everything,’explains Katy Janda, a UKERC senior researcher,‘consumption patterns of building users can defeat the most careful design. ’In other words,old habits die hard, even in the best-designed eco-home.
Another part of the problem is information. Households and bill-payers don’t have the knowledge they need to change their energy-use habits. Without specific information,it’s hard to estimate the costs and benefits of making different choices. Feedback (反馈) facilities, like smart meters and energy monitors,could help bridge this information gap by helping people see how changing their behaviour directly affects their energy use; some studies have shown that households can achieve up to 15 percent energy savings using smart meters.
Social science research has added a further dimension (方面),suggesting that individuals’behaviour in the home can be personal and cannot be predicted 一 whether people throw open their windows rather than turn down the thermostat (恒温器) , for example.
Janda argues that education is the key. She calls for a focused programme to teach people about buildings and their own behaviour in them.
小题1:As to energy use, the new research from UKERC stresses the importance of________.
A. zero-carbon homesB.the behaviour of building users
C. sustainable building designD.the reduction of carbon emissions
小题2:The underlined word “which” in Paragraph 2 refers to”________.”
A.the waysB.their homes
C. developmentsD.existing efforts
小题3:What are Katy Janda’s words mainly about?
A. The importance of changing building users, habits.
B. The necessity of making a careful building design.
C. The variety of consumption patterns of building users.
D. The role of technology in improving energy efficiency.
小题4:The information gap in energy use _______.
A. can be bridged by feedback facilities
B. affects the study on energy monitors
C. brings about problems for smart meters
D. will be caused by building users’ old habits
小题5:What does the dimension added by social science research suggest?
A. The social science research is to be furthered.
B. The education programme is under discussion.
C. The behaviour of building users is unpredictable.
D. The behaviour preference of building users is similar.

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Most damagingly, anger weakens a person’s ability to think clearly and keep control over his behaviour. The angry person loses objectivity in evaluating the emotional significance of the person or situation that arouses his anger.
Not everyone experiences anger in the same way; what angers one person may amuse another. The specific expression of anger also differs from person to person based on biological and cultural forces. In contemporary culture, physical expressions of anger are generally considered too socially harmful to be tolerated. We no longer regard duels (决斗) as an appropriate expression of anger resulting from one person’s awareness of insulting behaviour on the part of another.
Anger can be identified in the brain, where the electrical activity changes. Under most conditions EEG (脑电图) measures of electrical activity show balanced activity between the right and left prefrontal (额叶前部) areas. Behaviourally this corresponds to the general even-handed disposition (意向) that most of us possess most of the time. But when we are angry the EEG of the right and left prefrontal areas aren’t balanced and, as a result of this, we’re likely to react. And our behavioural response to anger is different from our response to other emotions, whether positive or negative.
Most positive emotions are associated with approach behaviour: we move closer to people we like. Most negative emotions, in contrast, are associated with avoidance behaviour: we move away from people and things that we dislike or that make us anxious. But anger is an exception to this pattern. The angrier we are, the more likely we are to move towards the object of our anger. This corresponds to what psychologists refer to as of ensive anger: the angry person moves closer in order to influence and control the person or situation causing his anger. This approach-and-confront behaviour is accompanied by a leftward prefrontal asymmetry (不对称) of EEG activity. Interestingly, this asymmetry lessens if the angry person can experience empathy (同感) towards the individual who is bringing forth the angry response. In defensive anger, in contrast, the EEG asymmetry is directed to the right and the angry person feels helpless in the face of the anger-inspiring situation.
小题1:The “duels” example in Paragraph 2 proves that the expression of anger ________.
A.usually has a biological basis
B.varies among people
C.is socially and culturally shaped
D.influences one’s thinking and evaluation
小题2:What changes can be found in an angry brain?
A.Balanced electrical activity can be spotted.
B.Unbalanced patterns are found in prefrontal areas.
C.Electrical activity corresponds to one’s behaviour.
D.Electrical activity agrees with one’s disposition.
小题3:Which of the following is typical of offensive anger?
A.Approaching the source of anger.
B.Trying to control what is disliked.
C.Moving away from what is disliked.
D.Feeling helpless in the face of anger.
小题4:What is the key message of the last paragraph?
A.How anger differs from other emotions.
B.How anger relates to other emotions.
C.Behavioural responses to anger.
D.Behavioural patterns of anger.

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Larry was on another of his underwater expeditions(探险)but this time, it was different. He decided to take his daughter along with him. She was only ten years old. This would be her first trip with her father on what he had always been famous for.
Larry first began diving when he was his daughter’s age. Similarly, his father had taken him along on one of his expeditions. Since then, he had never looked back. Larry started out by renting diving suits from the small diving shop just along the shore. He had hated them. They were either too big or too small. Then, there was the instructor. He gave him a short lesson before allowing him into the water with his father. He had made an exception. Larry would never have been able to go down without at least five hours of theory and another similar number of hours on practical lessons with a guide. Children his age were not even allowed to dive.
After the first expedition, Larry’s later diving adventures only got better and better. There was never a dull moment. In his black and blue suit and with an oxygen tank fastened on his back, Larry dived from boats into the middle of the ocean. Dangerous areas did not prevent him from continuing his search. Sometimes, he was limited to a cage underwater but that did not bother him. At least, he was still able to take photographs of the underwater creatures.
Larry’s first expedition without his father was in the Cayman Islands. There were numerous diving spots in the area and Larry was determined to visit all of them. Fortunately for him, a man offered to take him around the different Spots for free. Larry didn’t even know what the time was, how many spots he dived into or how many photographs he had taken. The diving spots afforded such a wide array of fish and sea creatures that Larry saw more than thirty varieties of creatures.
Larry looked at his daughter. She looked as excited as he had been when he was her age. He hoped she would be able to continue the family tradition. Already, she looked like she was much braver than had been then. This was the key to a successful underwater expedition.
小题1:In what way was this expedition different for Larry?
A.His daughter had grown up.
B.He had become a famous diver.
C.His father would dive with him.
D.His daughter would dive with him.
小题2:What can be inferred from Paragraph2?
A.Larry had some privileges.
B.Larry liked the rented diving suits.
C.Divers had to buy diving equipment.
D.Ten-year-old children were permitted to dive.
小题3:Why did Larry have to stay in a cage underwater sometimes?
A.To protect himself from danger.
B.To dive into the deep water.
C.To admire the underwater view.
D.To take photo more conveniently.
小题4:What can be learned from the underlined sentence?
A.Larry didn’t wear a watch.
B.Larry was not good at math.
C.Larry had a poor memory.
D.Larry enjoyed the adventure.
小题5:What did Larry expect his daughter to do?
A.Become a successful diver.
B.Make a good diving guide.
C.Take a lot of photo underwater.
D.Have longer hours of training.

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