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Among the Boys is a unique after-school program for boys living in the Highland Park neighborhood of our city. The organizational task is to provide males living in low-income and public housing with opportunities to discover their ability to change challenges into possibilities. The program includes an academic part as well as specific plans for supporting the overall development of the participants. Among the Boys uses painting as an instrument for helping boys examine their world, discuss it, and develop positive ways of handling the challenges they face daily. Young men present personal challenges to the group, such as a recent fight or the long-term drug abuse they observe in their neighborhood. After guided discussion, the youth work as a team, determining how to best represent the issue at hand in a painting. The resulting paintings and explanations of these paintings provided by the young people suggest that something profound(深远的) occurs through this process. These young men are learning a healthy way to express and cope with the pain and suffering they feel. Art serves as a healing process and a structured method of teaching teamwork, nonviolent values, conflict handling and problem-solving skills.
Activities in Among the Boys are in agreement with the best practices in the prevention of high-risk behavior. First, community-based youth development programs are considered important parts of a comprehensive prevention method, particularly in high-risk neighborhoods. Second, compensatory(补偿) education that targets at risk youth for academic failure is also considered an effective prevention method. Third, interventions(介入) aimed at improving youth’s moral reasoning, social problem-solving, and thinking skills are reported to be effective methods for reducing violence in high-risk populations, especially when carried out with elementary school-aged boys. Finally, Among the Boys has an adapted tutoring part, considered an effective prevention tool. Tutoring is typically a one-to-one match between a tutor and a youth, but Among the Boys employs what is referred to as “group tutoring.” Among the Boys makes up for its high student-tutor ratio(比例) with quality and quantity of time, as the program meets after school, on Saturdays, and all day during the summer, and is staffed primarily by males, an unusual quality among educational programs.
Among the Boys is rare and successful form of grassroots program, and represents the dream of a successful male who grew up in the Highland Park neighborhood and has returned to make a valuable contribution to his community. 
小题1:Which of the following most accurately describes the organization of the second paragraph?
A.A theory is presented and proved with data.
B.A statement is made and supported with examples.
C.A problem is put forward and solutions are suggested
D.A situation is described and a prediction is provided
小题2: Which of the following statements is implied in the passage?
A.Art programs can promote painting but cannot prevent school failure.
B.Social problem-solving skills are not important for high school-age youth.
C.Most educational programs have some female staff members.
D.Teamwork produces better paintings than does independent work.
小题3: In discussing Among the Boys’ tutoring part, the author implies that ______.
A.Among the Boys employs a traditional tutoring model
B.tutoring is effective only with elementary school-age boys
C.tutoring prevents the youth’s attention from wandering off
D.increased hours with a group can be as effective as a one-to-one tutoring relationship
小题4:The founder of the program described in the passage ______.
A.sought contributions to make his program successful
B.designed the program for the same neighborhood in which he grew up
C.is seeking reelection for the Highland Park community school board
D.was a successful graduate of Among the Boys when he was a youth
小题5: The attitude of the author of the passage toward Among the Boys is ______.
A.forgivingB.doubtfulC.praisingD.ignorant

答案

小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:B
小题5:C
解析

试题分析:文章是关于一项成功的社区课外活动Among the Boys。文中介绍了这项活动的教育理念,培养目标,以及教育方式方法等。
小题1:B推理判断题。第二段开头提出“Activities in Among the Boys are in agreement with the best practices in the prevention of high-risk behavior.”论点,然后从四个方面去论证解释。所以B选项正确。
小题2:C 推理判断题。从文章倒数第二段“ and is staffed primarily by males, an unusual quality among educational programs.”判断应该有一小部分females。所以C选项正确。
小题3:D 细节理解题。从第二段“but Among the Boys employs what is referred to as “group tutoring.” Among the Boys makes up for its high student-tutor ratio(比例) with quality and quantity of time,”可知作者认为group tutorig 是和a one-to-one tutoring一样有效的方式。所以D为正确选项。
小题4:B推理判断题。从文章最后“ represents the dream of a successful male who grew up in the Highland Park neighborhood and has returned to make a valuable contribution to his community. ”判断可知B选项正确。这是一个在the Highland Park neighborhood长大的成功人士的梦想,并且他回来为他的社区做贡献。所以B为正确选项
小题5:C 推理判断题。从最后一段“a successful form of grassroots program,”和“make a valuable contribution”中褒义形容词“successful”“valuable”可知作者对这个活动是持赞赏的态度。正确选项为C。
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Last week Jay McCarroll and The HSUS (The Humane Society of the United States) made a bold fur-free statement on the runway, marking a new chapter for the fashion industry and animal protection. The encouraging response to McCarroll’s show confirmed that change is happening in fashion.
McCarroll has good reasons for rejecting fur. Each year, tens of millions of amimals, including dogs and cats, needlessly suffer and die to fuel the fur industry. But what did Jay McCarroll use in place of fur?“I have patchwork pieces that contain all sorts of combinations of fabrics. The rest is cotton, nylon, polyester…you name it. I even have some stuff made out of bamboo / cotton blend. Anything but fur and leather,”he told Fashion Wire Daily.
“So many people want to protect animals and live their lives without causing unnecessary cruelty. More than two thirds of Americans have pets, and we share a bond with animals every day. Saying no to fur can help millions of animals, and we want to show our respect to leading designers like Jay who embrace compassion(同情) as the fashion,”said Michael Markarian, executive vice president of The HSUS.“It is great to see leaders in the fashion industry recognizing that the animals need their fur more than we do.”
小题1:Which of the following is true about Jay McCarroll?
A.He is a famous fashion designer.
B.He is the executive vice president of the HSUS.
C.He is an editor of Fashion Wire Daily.
D.He is the head of an animal protection organization.
小题2:What does“a new chapter”in line 2,paragraph 1 mean?
A.A new unit of a book.B.The beginning of a new trend.
C.The latest issue of a magazine.D.A newly established organization.
小题3:Which of the following is NOT recommended for clothing by Jay McCarroll?
A.Polyester.B.Bamboo.C.Leather.D.Patchwork pieces.
小题4:What do we learn from this passage?
A.Human beings depend emotionally on animals.
B.Fashion can go hand in hand with compassion for life.
C.Fur is more effective than bamboo/cotton blend for clothing.
D.Fur is more expensive than other materials for fashion designers.

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Here is an astonishing and significant fact: Mental work alone can’t make us tire. It sounds absurd. But a years ago, scientists tried to find out how long the human brain could labor without reaching a stage of fatigue (疲劳). To the amazement of these scientists, they discovered that blood passing through the brain, when it is active, shows no fatigue at all! If we took a drop of blood from a day laborer, we would find it full of fatigue toxins(毒素) and fatigue products. But if we took blood from the brain of an Albert Einstein, it would show no fatigue toxins at the end of the day.
So far as the brain is concerned, it can work as well and swiftly at the end of eight or even twelve hours of effort as at the beginning. The brain is totally tireless. So what makes us tired?
Some scientists declare that most of our fatigue comes from our mental and emotional(情绪的) attitudes. One of England’s most outstanding scientists, J.A. Hadfield, says, “The greater part of the fatigue from which we suffer is of mental origin. In fact, fatigue of purely physical origin is rare.” Dr. Brill, a famous American scientist, goes even further. He declares, “One hundred percent of the fatigue of sitting worker in good health is due to emotional problems.”
What kinds of emotions make sitting workers tired? Joy? Satisfaction? No! A feeling of being bored, anger, anxiety, tenseness, worry, a feeling of not being appreciated---those are the emotions that tire sitting workers. Hard work by itself seldom causes fatigue. We get tired because our emotions produce nervousness in the body.
小题1: What surprised the scientists a few years ago?
A.Fatigue toxins could hardly be found in a laborer’s blood.
B.Albert Einstein didn’t feel worn after a day’s work.
C.The brain could work for many hours without fatigue.
D.A mental worker’s blood was filled with fatigue toxins.
小题2:According to the author, which of the following can make sitting workers tired?
A.Challenging mental work.B.Unpleasant emotions.
C.Endless tasks.D.Physical labor.
小题3:What’s the author’s attitude towards the scientists’ idea?
A.He agrees with them.B.He doubts them.
C.He argues against them.D.He hesitates to accept them.
小题4: We can infer from the passage that in order to stay energetic, sitting workers need to ___________.
A.have some good food.B.enjoy their work
C.exercise regularlyD.discover fatigue toxins

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In tradition (传统的) education, the teacher may feel that the students are not very grown up. Usually, teachers are older than students, and teachers feel that students are young and do not know much about the world. The teachers feel that they must tell the students what to do most of the time, and that they must also make the students study specific (特殊的) things. In open education, the teacher’s methods are very different. These teachers feel that the students are human beings (人) first, and students second. They expect the students to be responsible for the things that they do, just as adults are. A student’s ideas and feelings are just as important as the teacher’s. The teacher allows the students to decide what they want to do, and does not make them study what they do not want to. The teacher lets them decide what to study and how much to study. It’s very important for the teacher to show how he or she feels about students.
小题1:Which is the topic for the passage?
A.Traditional Education
B.Open Education
C.The Students Are Human Beings First
D.Two Kinds of Different Education
小题2:What’s the theory of open education?
A.The students are human beings first, and students second.
B.The students should be responsible for what they do.
C.The students’ ideas and feelings are very important.
D.The teachers should allow the students to do what they want to do.
小题3:In traditional education, the teachers consider that __________.
A.they should praise the students all the time
B.they should tell the students what to do all the time
C.the students should know much about the world
D.the students should learn much about the world from their teachers
小题4:We can infer (推断) that ____________.
A.students needn’t study as hard as they did before
B.students can learn more about the world in open education
C.most of the teachers don’t agree with the idea of open education
D.most of the students prefer traditional education to open education

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Legends about the development of coffee are varied and interesting, involving chance occurrences, political tricks, and the pursuit of wealth and power.
According to one story, a sheepherder named Kaldi, as he tended his sheep, noticed the effect of coffee beans. He noticed that the sheep became excited after eating the red “cherries" from a certain plant when they changed pastures (牧场). He tried it himself, and was soon as overactive as his sheep. Another story relates that a monk happened to discover that this fruit from the shiny green plant could help him stay awake.
Another legend gives us the name for coffee, “mocha”. Omar, an Arabian was thrown to the desert with his followers to die of starvation. In desperation, Omar had his friends boil and eat the fruit from an unknown plant. Not only did the soup save the group, but the residents of the nearest town, Mocha, took their survival as a religious sign. The plant and its beverage (饮料) were named Mocha to honor this event.
Coffee was introduced much later to countries beyond Arabia, whose inhabitants believed it to be a tasty thing and guarded its secret as if they were top secret military plans. The government forbade transportation of the plant out of the Moslem nations. The actual spread of coffee was started illegally. One Arab named Baba Budan smuggled (走私) beans to some mountains near Mysore, India, and started a farm there. Early in this century, some of those original plants were found still growing fruitfully in the region.
Coffee today is grown and enjoyed worldwide, and is one of the few crops that small farmers in third-world countries can profitably export.
小题1:What does the second paragraph mainly talk about?
A.A sheepherder used coffee beans to keep sheep excited.
B.Coffee was a special kind of red cherry from a certain plant.
C.A sheepherder and a monk accidently discovered coffee’s effect.
D.Sheep ate a lot of coffee beans while they changed pastures.
小题2:Which of the following involves political tricks?
A.Kaldi’s story.B.The monk’s story.
C.Omar’s story.D.Baba Budan’s story.
小题3:Mocha is originally the name of ______.
A.a townB.an ArabianC.a kind of coffee D.a sheepherder
小题4:What can be the best title for the text?
A.The Secret of CoffeeB.The Tales of Coffee
C.People’s Love for CoffeeD.The Function of Coffee

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Environmental problems are becoming more and more serious all over the world. For example, cars have made the air unhealthy for people to breathe and poisonous gas is given off by factories. Trees on the hills have been cut down and waste water is being poured continuously into rivers. Furthermore, wherever we go today, we can find rubbish carelessly disposed.
There are different kinds of pollutants, each of which comes from different sources. It is necessary to identify the source of pollution, in order to make a policy to eliminate them.
Different products, processes and activities of our industrialized world together form the major source of pollution. The forms of pollution can be mainly divided into three kinds—solid, liquid and gas.
These pollutions have greatly damaged our planet and continue to do so. In fact, pollution is threatening our existence. The whole ecological balance of the earth is changing. Massive destruction of environment has brought about negative effects and even posed a great threat to man’s existence.
We must face the situation that exists and take action to solve our environmental problems. For instance, new laws must be passed to place strict control over industrial pollution, the public must receive the education about the danger of pollution and so on.
The earth is our home and we have the duty to take care of it for ourselves and our later generation. Fortunately, more and more people have realized these problems. Measures have been taken to deal with these situations by the government. Laws have been passed to stop pollution, I hope the problems will be solved in the near future and our home will become better and better.
小题1: How many examples of environmental problems are given in the first paragraph?
A.2 B.3 C.4 D.5
小题2: Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A.In all there are three kinds of pollution
B.If people continue to pollute our planet, there will be no trees.
C.Industrial pollution has been completely controlled.
D.Laws have been passed to stop pollution and protect our environment.
小题3: The sentence “We hope that all these measures will be effective and bring back a healthy environment” can best be put at the end of paragraph _____.
A.2 B.3 C.5 D.6
小题4: The writer’s attitude towards the future of the earth is _____.
A.despair B.negative C.optimistic D.hopeless

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