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Is cheating acceptable, a natural way of surviving and being successful? Or is it something that should be frowned on, and young people discouraged from doing? If it’s the latter how can we explain to children why so many bend the rules?
Take sport for example. The Word Cup was filled with cheating. Whether diving, pretending to be hurt or denying a handball, footballers will do anything for a free – kick or a penalty shot. France striker Henry denied cheating to win the free – kick which led to his side’s second goal in their 3 – 1 victory over Spain. Many footballers, however, are often putting it on. Whatever the nationality there’s one common ploy: the player rolls over holding their leg, ankle or head seeming to be in great pain. As a result a yellow card and / or free – kick is given for the foul and then, a few seconds later, the player is up and about as if nothing had happened ! The ref (裁判) may be taken in by it but youngsters watching the game aren’t. they also see their heroes getting away with it.
Of course it’s not just football. In 1998 the Tour de France, the world’s greatest cycling event, was hit by a drug – taking scandal (丑闻). The 40 bottles of forbidden drugs found with the Fustian team caused a massive investigation that almost caused the Tour to be abandoned. One rider, Veronique, was banned for 9 months. He claimed: “You have cheats in sport, just as you do in business – there will always be people trying to take a short cut. At least we’re not turning a blind eye to the problem, which other sports are.”
Is it all unavoidable? There’s huge pressure on all athletes to perform for their fans and for their sponsors. It’s success, money and power that rule professional sport rather than an honest at tempt to do the best one can.
Meanwhile companies around the world are losing billions of dollars to fake products. From cut price CDs and DVDs to sportswear, cheap fake products are everywhere. It has become socially acceptable to buy fake Gucci bags and illegal copies of films. If parents are doing this, their children will follow.
So perhaps it’s not surprising that around the world more pupils than ever are caught cheating during exams. In one case missing exam papers were put up for sale on the Internet. In another, widespread cheating took place by pupils using their mobile phones to receive tested answers. They blame the pressure put on them to do well in exams. It doesn’t help that their role models are also cheats. Surely we can’t complain when we’re setting such a bad example.
小题1:According to the passage, in which way can a game show player cheat?
A.By taking an indirect way. | B.By gaining aid from a friend. |
C.By taking forbidden drugs. | D.By selling fake products. |
A.to be disapproved of | B.to be pushed forward |
C.to be taken the place of | D.to be stuck with |
A.explain why people in almost every field cheat |
B.complain about cheats in school education |
C.persuade young people not to cheat in exams |
D.blame the society for tolerating cheats |
A.show cheating is a common phenomenon nowadays |
B.discuss the relationship between sport and cheating |
C.explore the nature of cheating in important events |
D.warn coaches and athletes of the danger of cheating |
A.Exams are not a good way of testing children. |
B.Children are natural cheats. |
C.If adults cheat, children will cheat too. |
D.Everyone including children cheats. |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:D
小题4:A
小题5:C
解析
试题分析:本文作者批判了社会上作弊普遍的社会现象。作者列举了世界杯足球赛的假装受伤而罚对方的例子,也举了世界环法自行车比赛,抄近路的作弊案例,还有学生考试通过手机发短信作弊。作者指责人人在作弊。并且提到我们作弊为孩子树立了坏的榜样。
小题1:细节理解题。第一段的the game show competitors who worked with a friend in the audience or win a million pounds游戏节目的选手与一个在观众中的朋友合作或赢得一百万英镑。故选B。
小题2:词义猜测题。第二段的and young people discouraged from doing?阻止年轻人这样做,and前后意思相近。阻止也就是不赞成。故选A。
小题3:作者意图题。第一段的Everybody cheats; nobody’s playing the game每个人都作弊,没有人真正的比赛。说社会上作弊的事太多了,作者有列举了世界杯足球比赛,环法自行车比赛,揭露了里面作弊的内幕,及在责备世人对作弊过于忍受。故选D。
小题4:推理判断题。第三段的Many footballers, however, are often putting it on.说明足球比赛经常有作弊的,作弊是很常见的。故选A。
小题5:主旨大意题。最后一段的Surely we can’t complain when we’re setting such a bad example.
当然当我们设置这样一个坏榜样时,我们不能抱怨。故选C。
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The bedroom door opened and a light went on, signaling an end to nap time.The toddle(初学走路的婴儿), sleepy-eyed, clambered to a swinging stand in his crib.He smiled, reached out to his father, and uttered what is fast becoming the cry of his generation: "iPhone!"Just as adults have a hard time putting down their iPhones, so the device is now the Toy of Choice for many 1-, 2- and 3-year-olds.The phenomenon is attracting the attention and concern of some childhood development specialists.
Natasha Sykes, a mother of two in Atlanta, remembers the first time her daughter, Kelsey, now 3 but then barely 2 years old, held her husband"s iPhone."She pressed the button and it lit up.I just remember her eyes.It was like "Whoa!" "The parents were charmed by their daughter"s fascination.But then, said Ms.Sykes (herself a Black Berry user), "She got serious about the phone." Kelsey would ask for it.Then she"d cry for it."It was like she"d always want the phone," Ms.Sykes said.
Apple, the iPhone"s designer and manufacturer, has built its success on machines so user-friendly that even technologically blinded adults can figure out how to work them, so it makes sense that sophisticated children would follow.Tap a picture on the screen and something happens.What could be more fun?
The sleepy-eyed toddler who called for the iPhone is one of hundreds of iPhone-loving toddlers whose parents are often proud of their offspring"s ability to slide fat fingers across the gadget"s screen and pull up photographs of their choice.
Many iPhone apps on the market are aimed directly at preschoolers, many of them labeled "educational," such as Toddler Teasers: Shapes, which asks the child to tap a circle or square or triangle; and Pocket Zoo, which streams live video of animals at zoos around the world.
Along with fears about dropping and damage, however, many parents sharing iPhones with their young ones feel guilty.They wonder whether it is indeed an educational tool, or a passive amusement like television.The American Academy of Pediatrics is continually reassessing its guidelines to address new forms of "screen time." Dr.Gwenn Schurgin O"Keeffe, a member of the academy"s council, said, "We always try to throw in the latest technology, but the cellphone industry is becoming so complex that we always come back to the table and wonder- Should we have a specific guideline for them?"
Tovah P. Klein, the director of a research center for Toddler Development worries that fixation on the iPhone screen every time a child is out with parents will limit the child"s ability to experience the wider world.
As with TV in earlier generations, the world is increasingly divided into those parents who do allow iPhone use and those who don"t. A recent post on UrbanBaby.com, asked if anyone had found that their child was more interested in playing with their iPhone than with real toys. The Don"t mothers said on the Website: "We don"t let our toddler touch our iPhones ... it takes away from creative play." "Please ... just say no. It is not too hard to distract a toddler with, say ... a book."
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a psychology professor who specializes in early language development, sides with the Don"ts. Research shows that children learn best through activities that help them adapt to the particular situation at hand and interacting with a screen doesn"t qualify, she said.
Still, Dr. Hirsh-Pasek, struck on a recent visit to New York City by how many parents were handing over their iPhones to their little children in the subway, said she understands the impulse (冲动). "This is a magical phone," she said. "I must admit I"m addicted to this phone."
小题1:The first paragraph in the passage intends to ______.
A.get us to know a cute sleepy-eyed child in a family |
B.show us how harmful the iPhone is |
C.lead us to the topic of the toddlers" iPhone-addict |
D.explain how iPhone appeals to toddlers |
A.easy to use | B.beautiful in appearance |
C.cheap in price | D.powerful in battery volume |
A.televisions | B.cellphones | C.iPhones | D.screens |
A.negative | B.subjective | C.objective | D.supportive |
A.children"s iPhone addict is becoming a concern |
B.iPhone is winning the hearts of the toddlers |
C.Apple is developing more user-friendly products |
D.ways to avoid children"s being addicted to iPhone games |
Chia-Jung Tsay, from University College London, UK, is the study’s author and herself a concert pianist. She was interested in how music was judged and found that even professional musicians were unaware of how much they were using visual information over sound. “For the last two decades, I’ve taken part in various competitions. Through this experience, I found that depending on what type of evaluations were used, the results might vary widely. This led me to wonder about how much visual information really affects these important decisions,” she explained.
More than 1,000 participants in the study were given samples of either audio, silent video or video with sound, and asked to rate the top three finalists from 10 international classical music competitions. The actual competition winners were only correctly identified by those who were randomly assigned(分配) the silent videos.
Dr Tasy said the findings were quite surprising, especially because both trained musicians and those without training had stated that sound was most important for their evaluation. “Regardless of levels of expertise, we still seem to be led primarily by visual information, even in this field of music,” she said. “Classical music training is often focused on improving the quality of the sound, but this research is about getting to the bottom of what is really being evaluated at the highest levels of competitive performance. She added, “We must be more mindful of our inclination(倾向) to depend on visual information at the expense of the content that we actually value as more relevant to our decisions.”
小题1:According to the study, who would most probably win a piano competition?
A.One who plays with great passion. |
B.One who plays unique music. |
C.One who plays creatively. |
D.One who has a sense of vision. |
A.watch classical music competitions |
B.assign the silent videos |
C.pick out the best three competitors |
D.decide who the winner is |
A.Her love for music. |
B.Her desire to explore. |
C.Her experience as a competitor. |
D.Her curiosity in musical education. |
A.A text book. | B.A sports magazine. |
C.A story book. | D.A science website. |
People often fall ill because of me. 36 , they can hardly blame me; it is largely their own 37 . A tired person may get 38 , especially when he goes to crowded places with polluted air. A sudden change in 39 is another factor. In hot summer, people turn on the air-conditioner upon returning home. They will catch a cold easily.
My latest victim is an energetic student. After school, he played football hard for two hours. Though 40 , he still went to the cinema .Then he got back home and took a cold shower immediately.
I seized this golden chance to 41 him .He reacted, trying to 42 me , but I was already 43 deep in his throat. He kept sneezing(打喷嚏) and his nose was running. 44 he put on some warm clothes, it didn’t work, for there were too many of us. Besides, his sore throat kept 45 him, and he developed a cough to force me and my family out, but 46 .
The next day he couldn’t go to 47 . He had lost his appetite and was not as 48 as before. His mother made him orange juice every few hours for more vitamin C, which would help his 49
For two days he was 50 by his mother. As he rested more, his defense strengthened and I began to feel the 51 . I knew I had to 52 him before long. But I am not the one who gives up easily, and I made every effort to fight back. 53 , it was my turn to feel 54 now, for his defense system was starting an all-out attack against me. I became 55 and finally my time was over.
Do you know what I am?
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And those college hopefuls are just the first edge of a wave of US students who no longer get much handwriting instructions in the primary grades, frequently 10 minutes a day or less. As a result, more and more students struggle to read and write cursive.
At Keene Mill Elementary School in Springfield, all their poems and stories are typed. Children in Fairfax County schools are taught keyboarding beginning in kindergarten. Older students who never mastered handwriting say it doesn"t affect their grades.
There are those who say the culture is at a crossing, turning from the written word to the typed one. If handwriting becomes a lost form of communication, does it matter?
It was at University of Virginia that researchers recently discovered a previously unknown poem by Robert, written in his unique script. Handwritten documents are more valuable to researchers, historians say, because their authenticity (真实性)can be confirmed. Students also find them more fascinating.
The loss of handwriting also may be a cognitive (认知的)opportunity missed. Several academic studies have found that good handwriting skills at a young age can help children express their thoughts better-a lifelong benefit.
It doesn"t take much to teach better handwriting skills. At some schools in Prince George"s County, elementary school students use a program called Handwriting Without Tears for 15 minutes a day. They learn the correct formation of manuscript letters through second grade, and cursive letters in third grade.
There are always going to be some kids who struggle with handwriting because of their particular neurological (神经系统的)wiring, learning issues or poor motor skills. Educators often point to this factor in support of keyboarding.
小题1:What is the author concerned about after 2011 SAT exams?
A.Keyboarding. | B.Shorthand |
C.Handwriting. | D.Block letters. |
A.prove how valuable handwriting is |
B.explain what a famous poet he is |
C.show how unique his poem is |
D.stress how fascinating the documents are |
A.the schools are responsible for the loss of handwriting |
B.the loss of handwriting is a cognitive opportunity missed |
C.it doesn"t take much to teach better handwriting skills |
D.the culture is turning from the written word to the typed one |
A.Kindergarten. | B.Primary school. | C.High school. | D.College. |
A.Devotion. | B.Encouragement. | C.critical. | D.Objective. |
Parents in low-income countries don"t send their daughters to school because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else"s family and bear children.Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and are kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school----the prophecy (预言) becomes self-fulfilling, trapping women in a vicious circle (恶性循环)of abandonment.
An educated mother, on the other hand.has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices.She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children, ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance.The education of her daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls, as well as of boys.will be educated and healthy. The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle (良性循环).
Few will argue that educating women has great social benefits.But it has enormous economic advantages as well.Most obviously, there is the direct effect of education on the wages of female workers.Wages rise by 10 to 20 per cent for each additional year of schooling.Such big returns are impressive by the standard of other available deal, but they are just the beginning.Educating women also has a significant impact on health practices, including family planning.
小题1:The author argues that educating girls in developing countries is _______.
A.expensive | B.troublesome |
C.rewarding | D.labor-saving |
A.It has developed the interest of a growing number of economists |
B.It is in the first place in many developing countries |
C.It deserves greater attention than other social project |
D.It will get greater returns than other known deal |
A.unequal treatment of boys and girls in developing countries |
B.the economic and social benefits of educating women |
C.the major contributions of educated women to society |
D.the potential earning power of well-educated women |
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