题目
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According to a recent study, however, if you really think about it, something about that simple answer doesn’t quite make sense. In fact, it turns out that sometimes it’s having will power that really gets you into trouble.
Think back to the time you took your very first sip (啜饮) of beer. Disgusting, wasn’t it? When my father gave me my first taste of beer as a teenager, I wondered why anyone would voluntarily drink it. And smoking? No one enjoys their first cigarette — it tastes awful. So even though smoking, and drinking alcohol or coffee, can become temptation (诱惑) you need will power to resist, they never, ever start out that way.
Just getting past those first horrible experiences actually requires a lot of self-control. Ironically (讽刺的是), only those who can control themselves well, rather than give in to them, can ever come to someday develop a “taste” for Budweiser beer, Marlboro cigarettes, or dark-roasted Starbucks coffee. We do it for social acceptance. We force ourselves to consume alcohol, cigarettes, coffee and even illegal drugs, in order to seem experienced, grown-up, and cool.
These bad habits aren’t self-control failures — far from it. They are voluntary choices, and they are in fact self-control successes. Self-control is simply a tool to be put to some use, helpful or harmful. To live happy and productive lives, we need to develop not only our self-control, but also the wisdom to make good decisions about when and where to apply it.
小题1:What do most people think causes bad behavior?
A.Being forced by others. |
B.Not having enough will power. |
C.Enjoying their first experiences. |
D.Following the examples of their friends. |
A.will power helps develop bad habits sometimes |
B.drinking beer is harmful to the health of teenagers |
C.self-control should be developed when one is young |
D.everyone can be challenged by different temptations |
A.without self-control, no one can succeed |
B.bad habits don’t always lead to bad results |
C.applying self-control correctly is important |
D.people can develop wisdom from bad behavior |
A.My First Sip of Beer |
B.Do You Have Will Power ? |
C.Will Power Benefits Us |
D.Dark Side of Self-control |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:D
解析
小题1:B 细节题。根据第一段最后两行they are all examples of failures of self-control, lacking the will power to resist them.可知B正确。
小题2:A 推理题。根据第三段最后三行. So even though smoking, and drinking alcohol or coffee, can become temptation (诱惑) you need will power to resist, they never, ever start out that way.可知正是我们的意志力让我们染上了那些坏的习惯。故A正确。
小题3:C 推理题。根据文章最后一句the wisdom to make good decisions about when and where to apply it.可知做出明智的决定是最重要的。也就是正确运用自我控制力很重要。故C正确。
小题4:D 主旨大意题。文章讲述的是我们的很多坏习惯都是由自我控制引起的。故文章讲述的是自我控制的不好的一方面。
核心考点
试题【Why do people drink too much, eat too much, smoke cigarettes or take drugs? What】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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“In the hunt for a safer cigarette,ecigarettes are becoming a popular choice among those either trying to quit or looking to replace standard tobacco smoke with an alternative that manufacturers claim to be safer,” Zogby International,which conducted the survey,said in a statement.
About half of the 4,611 adults who took part in the survey had heard about ecigarettes,which are batterypowered,or rechargeable cigarettes that vaporize a liquid nicotine solution.They do not produce smoke but a water vapor without smell.Sold mostly on the Internet,ecigarettes were first made in China.
Last year the World Health Organization (WHO) warned against using ecigarettes,saying there was no evidence to prove they were safe or helped smokers break the habit.The WHO said people who smoke ecigarettes breathe in a fine fog of nicotine into the lungs.
Nearly a third of people questioned in the survey think that ecigarettes should be allowed in places where smoking is forbidden,because they don’t produce smoke,but 46 percent disagree.Men who were aware of the availability of ecigarettes were more likely than women to say they should be a choice available to smokers who want to quit.Young people,aged 18-29,and singles were the groups most open to trying ecigarettes.Smoking is the single largest cause of preventable death worldwide,according to the WHO.
小题1:What can we learn from Paragraph 1?
A.American smokers ought to try ecigarettes. |
B.Americans have different opinions about ecigarettes. |
C.Every kind of cigarettes should be forbidden in America. |
D.Most of the Americans don’t like ecigarettes. |
A.are much safer than common cigarettes |
B.are popular among people who want to quit smoking |
C.will take the place of traditional cigarettes |
D.are produced in a safer way by manufacturers |
A.Most Americans are familiar with them. |
B.They are a good choice as there is no nicotine. |
C.They produce a water vapor that can’t be seen. |
D.Most people buy them on the Internet. |
A.Negative | B.Supportive | C.Doubtful | D.Indifferent |
The United Nations Development Program says a billion and a half people have no electricity. A billion others have an undependable supply.
Professor DeBolt went on a study trip to rural Indonesia. He saw that there was very little waste in the use of agricultural products. Everything that farmers grew was used for something. Even the remains of fruit that people did not eat were fed to chickens.
Little waste meant there was little that could be used for fuel. Growing a separate fuel crop would take land away from food crops. That was something Professor DeBolt did not want to do.
DeBOLT said, "The people at most risk with respect to energy poverty, typically they"re the same people who have food insecurity issues as it is. And then any change in availability would be most damaging to that group of people."
But he found one item that was in plentiful supply and would not create competition between food and fuel. Coconut shells are generally thrown out. Yet Professor DeBolt says it has an "excellent" heating value. All someone needs is a way to release that energy.
DeBolt says he and his team see possibilities for coconut power. "Coconuts are growing here and these are the areas where there is possibility for energy poverty to be eased at least in part by these small-scale production systems."
The researchers say these systems could provide as much as thirteen percent of the energy needs of a country like Indonesia. Other tropical countries with large crops of coconuts and similar fruit could benefit, as well.
But DeBolt says this is not a perfect solution. There are technical questions, like how to safely deal with the dangerous waste produced in the process. And there needs to be money to get these projects started.
小题1:Professor DeBolt went on a study trip to rural areas of developing countries to .
A.help farmers make full use of waste |
B.seek certain materials to make electricity |
C.persuade farmers to grow more coconuts |
D.find a suitable place to carry out the experiment |
A.there are plenty of coconuts |
B.local farmers have no interest in it |
C.it would make food problems worse |
D.fuel crop has little use for local farmers |
A.needs further experiments and efforts |
B.can help solve energy problem perfectly |
C.will cause technique and money problems |
D.has drawn Indonesia"s government attention |
A.Make Full Use Of Coconuts | B.Make Power From Coconuts |
C.A Perfect Solution | D.Food And Energy Problems |
From my wheelchair experience, I see the best in people, but sometimes I feel sad because those who appear independent miss the kindness I see daily. They don’t get to see this soft side of others. Often, we try every way possible to avoid showing our weakness, which includes a lot of pretending. But only when we stop pretending we’ re brave or strong do we allow people to show the kindness that’ s in them.
Last month, when I was driving home on a busy highway, I began to feel unwell and drove more slowly than usual. People behind me began to get impatient and angry, with some speeding up alongside me, horning (按喇叭) or even shouting at me. At that moment,I decided to do something I had never done in twenty-four years of driving. I put on the car flashlights and drove on at a really low speed.
No more angry shouts and no more horns!
When I put on my flashlights, I was saying to the other drivers, “I have a problem here. I am weak and doing the best I can.” And everyone understood. Several times, I saw drivers who wanted to pass. They couldn’t get around me because of the stream of passing traffic. But instead of getting impatient and angry, they waited, knowing the driver in front of them was in some way weak.
Sometimes situations call for us to act strong and brave even when we don’t feel that way. But those are few and far between. More often, it would be better if we don’t pretend we feel strong when we feel weak or pretend that we"re brave when we’re scared.
小题1:The author has discovered that people will feel happy when ________.
A.they offer their help |
B.they receive others’ help |
C.they feel others’ kindness |
D.they show their weakness |
A.he has a soft heart |
B.he relies much on others |
C.some people pretend to be kind |
D.some people fail to see the kindness in others |
A.They speeded up to pass. |
B.They waited with patience. |
C.They tried their best to help. |
D.They put on their flashlights too. |
A.handle problems by ourselves |
B.accept help from others |
C.admit our weakness |
D.show our bravery |
It is the same in history .Many things have been forgotten because we do not have any written account of them .Sometimes men did keep a record of the most important happenings in their country,but often it was destroyed by fire or in a war.Sometimes there was never any written record at all because the people of that time and place did not know how to write.For example,we know a good deal about the people who lived in China 4,000 years ago, because they could write and leave written records for those who lived after them.But we know almost nothing about the people who lived even 200 years ago in central Africa, because they had not learned to write.
Sometimes, of course,even if the people cannot write,they may know something of the past.They have heard about it from older people,and often songs and dances and stories have been made about the most important happenings,and these have been sung and acted and told for many generations, for most people are proud to tell what their fathers did in the past.This we may call “remembered history”.Some of it has now been written down. It is not so exact or so valuable to us as written history is,because words are much more easily changed when used again and again in speech than when copied in writing.But where there are no written records,such spoken stories are often very helpful.
小题1:Which of the following ideas is not suggested in the passage?
A.“Remembered history”,compared with written history,is less reliable |
B.Written records of the past play the most important role in our learning of the human history. |
C.A written account of our daily activities helps US to be able to answer many questions. |
D.Where there are no written records.there is no history. |
A.there was nothing worth being written down at that time |
B.the people there ignored the importance of keeping a record |
C.the written records were perhaps destroyed by a fire |
D.the people there did not know how to write |
A.history based on a person’s imagination |
B.stories of important happenings passed down from mouth to mouth |
C.songs and dances about the most important events |
D.both B and C |
A.it is written down | B.no written account is available |
C.it proves to be time | D.people are interested in it |
A.kept a written record of every past event |
B.not burnt their written records in wars |
C.told exact stories of the most important happenings |
D.made more songs and dances |
Life today has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. Water pollution has made our rivers and lakes dirty. It kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us talk louder and become angry more easily. Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution. It’s bad to all living things in the world.
Cars, planes and factories all pollute our air every day. Sometimes the polluted air is so thick that it is like a quilt over a city. This kind of quilt is called smog.
Many countries are making rules to flight pollution. Factories must now clean their water before it is thrown away, and they mustn’t blow dirty smoke into the air.
We need to do many other things. We can put waste things in the dustbin and do not throw them on the ground, there will be less pollution.
Rules are not enough. Every person must help to fight pollution.
小题1:Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today because ______.
A.there were not any modern machines |
B.there was no modern medicine |
C.both A and B |
D.there were not many people |
A.Water pollution |
B.Air pollution |
C.Noise |
D.Pollution |
A.noise pollution |
B.air pollution |
C.water pollution |
D.A, B and C |
A.before they are thrown away |
B.when they are thrown away |
C.after it is thrown away |
D.before it is thrown away |
A.a few years ago, there was no smog at all |
B.today people don’t have to talk to each other in a loud voice |
C.we can drink water from the polluted rivers and lakes |
D.people are making rules in order to fight pollution |
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