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阅读理解。     On the outside Betsy Lueth"s school looks like any other in Minneapolis. Yet inside, it is Yinghua Academy,
a public school where elementary (小学) students study subjects ranging from math to American history in
Chinese.
    Yinghua, the first such immersion (沉浸式) program in the Midwest is on the leading edge of a movement
that in recent years has seen Chinese language programs spread rapidly throughout the U.S.
    The idea behind Yinghua is to introduce kids to the language and culture as early as possible-ideally, before
age 12. Kindergarteners and first graders are taught in Chinese and a single period of English is introduced in
second grade. By sixth grade, kids are learning half in English and half in Chinese, with the expectation of
fluency in both. In Yinghua"s classrooms, the walls are covered not with ABCs but with pictures and Chinese
characters.
     There are many challenges at Yinghua. Most teachers come from Taiwan or mainland China, and cultural
misunderstandings are very common. Lueth"s teachers are learning to be tolerant of local customs-as well as
a lot more parental input than they are used to. "In China, teachers are respected. They are not questioned,"
says Luyi Lien, Yinghua"s Taiwan-born director. "In America, parents are more expressive of their opinions."
     Research has shown that in the long run, immersion programs can provide benefits, including more flexible,
creative thinking. Though students from the programs fall behind for a few years in English, by fifth grade
they perform as well as or better than their monolingual (单语言) peers on standardized reading and math tests.
For multicultural families, the psychological help can also be important. Lueth, a former teacher, co-founded
the school as a way to expose her adopted Chinese daughter Lucy to her native culture. Lucy used to be
annoyed when cousins asked why her skin color was different from theirs; before she started at Yinghua, she
resisted exploring anything related to China Now, Lueth says, Lucy proudly answers her cousins, "Yeah, I was
born in China." 1. Yinghua is different from other schools in Minneapolis in the way that _____.[     ]
A. it offers subjects to students mostly in Chinese
B. its language program is popular in the U.S.A.
C. kids there begin to learn Chinese at the age of 12
D. its students learn subjects half in English and half in Chinese 2. One of the challenges at Yinghua is that _____. [     ]
A. most parents do not respect its teachers
B. teachers need to get used to the local culture
C. its students are mostly from nontraditional families
D. there is misunderstanding between teachers and students 3. We can learn from the last paragraph that immersion program _____. [     ]
A. enables students pass tests more easily
B. benefits students in learning psychology
C. helps some students accept the local customs
D. contributes to the better development of students 4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? [     ]
A. Teachers in Yinghua have difficulty in understanding the local culture.
B. Parents are discouraged to speak out their opinions of the school in Yinghua.
C. The students in Yinghua are expected to speak English and Chinese fluently.
D. Yinghua is the first school in the U.S.A. to introduce Chinese culture to students.

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阅读理解。     Though "nanometer" (纳米) is now a fashionable term all over the world, few people know exactly what
it is. It has become a new favorite of producers and sellers in recent years. Many "high-tech" products bearing
the name "nano" have entered the market, bringing more mysterious feeling to surprised consumers.
     Nanometer is a very small length unit of measure, and is very small. One millimeter is 1000 micrometers,
and one micrometer is 1 000 nanometers. That is, one nanometer is one billionth of a meter. Nano materials
are solid materials made up of particles (粒子) or crystallites (晶体) of less than 100 nanometers in size. Then,
is a cup made of nano material really any different from an ordinary cup in function as far as how it works?
     Are nano cups really so wonderful? A reporter went to the Institute of Nanomedicine, which is the first
such institute of such a sort in the world and the only one in China, specializing in researching the investigation
of the application of nano technology into medicine.
     A water molecule (分子) is made up of 2 hydrogen atoms and l oxygen atom. It can be changed only by a
special way of controlling of the atoms. The material made into the cup can have nanometer particles. But it
cannot change the chemical and physical properties of the water contained in the cup. The water in it is still
water. When people drink it, it will produce no special effect on human body.
     Professor Ji who worked in the Institute of Nanomedicine told the reporter, so far, the investigation of nano
materials is still limited in the laboratory. No commercial micro products can be produced yet. With the present
level of science and technology, the time of everyday goods made of nanometer materials is still years away.
    The products labeled with nano marks in the market now are only traditional products coated with a thin
layer of nanometer material, which makes them more abrasion resistant (耐磨), much easier to be cleaned, or
oil resisting or moth proof (防蛀).
     Professor Ji explained that nano cup is a real cup. It can also be included in the list of nano products in a
certain sense. But the nano cup has not changed its property and function as a cup. It is not a magical medicine
for curing and health care. 1. Which of the following shows the right relationship? [     ]
A. nanometer<millimeter<micrometer<meter
B. micrometer<millimeter<nanometer<meter
C. nanometer<micrometer<millimeter<meter
D. millimeter<micrometer<nanometer<meter2. It can be inferred from the passage that _____. [     ]
A. nano materials have been put into use in daily goods
B. real nano products haven"t become available for people
C. the nano cup is very effective in curing and health care
D. real nano products are being produced by some companies 3. The underlined word "properties" in the fourth paragraph probably means _____. [     ]
A. possessions
B. qualities
C. reactions
D. symbols 4. What would be the best title for the passage?[     ]
A. High-tech Products
B. Nano Cups
C. Nano Materials
D. High-tech Research

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阅读理解。 Research shows that humans switch from selfish to unselfish behaviour when they are watched. Do you?

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A picture of a set of eyes on a computer screen can cause a change in the way people act. Even images of eyes on a charity donation, collection box encourage people to be unselfish, because people put more money in a collection box that has a picture of eyes on it than they do when a flower symbol is on the box. Manfred Milinski from the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Germany and Bettina Rockenbach of the University of Berlin, the authors of a new study, found that people act better when they are being watched because they feel they will be rewarded for good behaviour.
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Students will need to use all of their skills in order to understand the reading selections in Reader"s Choice. 1_____ These selections provide practice on employing different reading skills to get the message of the writer. They also give students practice in four basic reading skills: skimming, scanning, reading for thorough comprehension, and critical reading. Skimming involves reading quickly through a text to get an overall idea of its contents. This kind of rapid reading is suitable when you are trying to decide if careful reading is desirable or 2_____ Like skimming, scanning is also quick reading. However, in this case the search is more concentrated. 3_____ When you read to find a particular date, or number you are scanning. Reading for thorough comprehension is carefully reading in order to understand the total meaning of the passage. At this level of comprehension the reader is able to summarize the author"s ideas 4_____ Critical reading demands that a reader makes judgments about what he or she reads. This kind of read requires posting arid answering questions such as "5_____", "Do I share the author"s point of view?" and "Am I convinced by the author"s arguments and evidence?"
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At age 61, identical twins Jeanne and Susan no longer look exactly alike. Susan smoked for many years and is an admitted sun worshipper, whose habits Jeanne does not share. A new study of twins suggests you can blame those coarse (粗糙的) wrinkles, brown or pink spots on too much time in the sun, smoking, and being overweight. Because twins share genes, but may have different exposures to environmental factors, studying twins allows an "opportunity to control for genetic susceptibility (易受影响性)," Dr. Elma D. Baron, at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, and his colleagues explain in the Jatest issue of Archives of Dermatology. Their analysis of environmental skin-damaging factors in 65 pairs of twins hints that skin aging is related more to environment and lifestyle than genetic factors. But when it comes to skin cancer, the researchers say their findings support previous reports that both environment and genes affect skin cancer risk. Baron"s team examined facial skin of 130 twins, 18 to 77 years old, who lived mostly in the northern Midwest and Eastern regions of the US, who were attending the Twins Days Festivalin Ohio in August 2002. At this time, each of the twins also separately reported how their skin burned or tanned (晒黑) without sunscreen, their weight, and their history of skin cancer, smoking, and alcohol drinking. The study group consisted of 52 fraternal (异卵双生) and 10 identical twin pairs, plus 3 pairs who were unsure of their twin status. From these data, the researchers noted strong ties, outside of twin status, between smoking, older age, and being overweight, and having facial skin with evidence of environmental damage. By contrast, sunscreen use and drinking alcohol appeared related to less skin damage. Baron and his colleagues say the current findings, which highlight ties between facial aging and potentially avoidable environmental factors-such as smoking, being overweight, and unprotected overexposure to the sun"s damaging rays-may help motivate people to minimize these risky behaviors.
1. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
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A. Jeanne and Susan share all the habits including smoking. B. Skin aging is related more to environment and lifestyle than genetic factors. C. Only identical twins can take part in the research. D. Sunscreen use cannot help people have less skin damage.
2. Why did Baron"s team do the research on twins?
[ ]
A. Twins are more likely to suffer from skin cancer. B. It may guarantee the research is not influenced by genetic factors. C. It gives others an opportunity to control twins" genes. D. It helps find twins are exposed to different environments.
3. What can you infer from the last paragraph?
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A. This research makes people aware of dangerous lifestyles. B. The environmental factors are unavoidable. C. Being exposed to the sun is absolutely damaging. D. There is little relationship between skin aging and environment.
4. The passage is mainly concerned with _____.
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A. skin cancer and environment B. identical twins research C. aging skin and environmental factors D. genes and lifestyles
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