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     People in China are among the  most fearful of getting old, a new global survey suggests.
     According to Bupa, a British healthcare organization, which asked 12262 people in 12
countries about their attitudes toward aging, 28  percent of the Chinese polled said they feel
depressed when they think about getting old.
     And although 72 percent of all respondents aged 65 and over  said they do not feel old,
the survey conducted in June and July this year found more than half of those aged 45 to 54
in China already consider themselves to be elderly. About 30 percent  of Chinese respondents
said they worry about who will look after them in later years, while 91 percent agreed the
government of the world"s most populous nation  should improve care for the elderly.
     However, because people in China think about their future earlier, research suggests the
country could be one of the best prepared for addressing the aging problem. About one third
of Chinese respondents--more than double the global average-said they have put money aside
for retirement, while 46 percent have taken out insurance, the poll showed. Despite being one
of the best prepared nations, three fifths of those surveyed in China expect their family to care
for them when they can no longer do so themselves.
     A Bupa-sponsored report,however, revealed that the "informal care network"  (the traditional
pattern of families looking after the elderly) is disintegrating. This is due to a number of factors,
said the report, including structural changes to the population, the increase of women in employment,
the increase of one-person households and the rise in divorce rates.
     The first batch of Chinese couples with only one child are largely in their 50s or 60s because the
country"s family planning policy was adopted in the late 1970s.
     Li Yinping, 55, a retired accountant, said she thinks only people in their 70s can be called old.
She said her pension is enough to support her in later years and that her only hope is that her son
can visit regularly. "I don"t worry about my later years at all," said Li. "When I"m old, I can turn to a
rest home. The local hospital can deliver the medicine I need with just a phone call."
     Xiao Zhe, a 26-year-old computer engineer in Beijing, is an only child whose parents live in his
hometown of Chongqing. "I"m so busy with my work that I can"t go back to visit them often," he said.
"When they"re not able to care for themselves, I will hire a nurse to look after them."
     China will become the oldest society in the world by 2030, according to a recent report by a
Beijing-based government think tank. The United Nations also forecasts that people aged 60 and
over will account for 28 percent of the country"s total population by 2040.

1. Which of the following can be best title of the passage? ________.A. the Aging problem of China    
B. Who is to look after the elders
C. Chinese are afraid of getting old
D. Old Home Is Popular in China2. Many factors EXCEPT _______ have a great impact on informal care network.A. structural changes to the population
B. the increase of women in employment
C. the development of economy
D. the rise in divorce rates3. According to the passage, most Chinese people are ________ to guarantee the late life. A. putting away some money
B. giving birth to more children
C. hiring a nurse
D. turning to a rest home4. What can be inferred from the last four paragraphs? ________ 

A. Chinese government put forward family planning policy in the late 1970s.
B. Senior citizens will account for a high percentage of the country"s total population by 2040.
C. The local hospital can deliver the medicine to senior citizens in need.
D. There is a trend that grown-up children live apart from parents

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完形填空     The market for children"s products in China will double within the next five years, a report
made public at a kids expo in east China"s Zhejiang Province has predicted.
     The market   1  for children"s products in China was more than 1 trillion yuan (152 billion
U. S. dollars) in 2010 and that   2   is expected to hit 2 trillion yuan by 2015, according to
the report.
     The report said that the   3   growth of the business had a lot to do with the country"s large
population, steady consumption (消费) and   4   attention to child health and education in
recent years.
     It is   5   that China has a population of about 200 million   6   under the age of 10 according
to the report.
     A Chinese family will spend an   7   of 5,000 yuan (758 dollars) per child each year, according
to a   8  by the Hangzhou Association of Industries on Children. This money goes to a variety of
companies   9  child products and   10   such as baby milk powder, clothing, toys, education and
entertainment.
     According to a report by the China E-commerce Research Center, online shopping of baby
milk powder from overseas companies   11   reached 2.4 billion yuan in 2010. __12  is another
area that has   13   investors (投资者) at home and abroad. Twelve Chinese educational
institutions (机构) have won __14   support from overseas investors, with   15   totaling 100 million
dollars so far.
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(     ) 1.A. request    
(     ) 2.A. figure    
(     ) 3.A. smooth    
(     ) 4.A. existed    
(     ) 5.A. recorded  
(     ) 6.A. children  
(     ) 7.A. offer      
(     ) 8.A. survey    
(     ) 9.A. making    
(     )10.A. prices    
(     )11.A. hopefully  
(     )12.A. Education  
(     )13.A. surprised  
(     )14.A. entertaining
(     )15.A. materials  
B. demand      
B. result      
B. small      
B. reduced    
B. advertised  
B. adults      
B. amount      
B. record      
B. sending    
B. services    
B. unexpectedly
B. Entertainment
B. influenced  
B. financial   
B. exports    
C. requirement
C. production  
C. rapid      
C. drawn      
C. said        
C. teenagers  
C. expense    
C. document    
C. providing  
C. cares      
C. theoretically
C. Culture    
C. shocked    
C. training    
C. investments
D. devotion      
D. money        
D. slow          
D. increased    
D. admired      
D. students      
D. average      
D. finding      
D. leading      
D. qualities    
D. fortunately  
D. Agriculture  
D. attracted    
D. cultural      
D. products      
阅读理解。
     The US Department of Labor statistics show that there is an oversupply of college trained
workers and that this oversupply is increasing. Already there have been more than enough
teachers, engineers, physicists, aerospace experts, and other specialists. Yet colleges and
graduate schools continue every year to turn out highly trained people to compete for jobs
that aren"t there. The result is that graduates cannot enter the professions for which they were
trained and must take temporary jobs which do not require a college degree.
     On the other hand, there is a great need for skilled workers of all sorts: carpenters,
electricians, mechanics, plumbers, TV repairmen. These people have more work than they
can deal with, and their annual incomes are often higher than those of college graduates. The
old gap that white-collar workers make a better living than blue collar workers no longer holds
true. The law of supply and demand now favors the skilled workmen.
     The reason for this situation is the traditional myth that college degree is a passport to a
prosperous future. A large part of American society matches success in life equally with a
college degree. Parents begin indoctrinating (灌输) their children with this myth before they
are out of grade school. High school teachers play their part by acting as if high school
education were a preparation for college rather than for life. Under this pressure the kids fall
in line. Whether they want to go to college or not doesn"t matter. Everybody should go to
college, so of course they must go. And every year college enrollments go up and up, and
more and more graduates are overeducated for the kinds of jobs available to them.
     One result of this emphasis on a college education is that many people go to college who
do not belong there
. Of the sixty percent of high school graduates who enter college, half of
them do not graduate with their class. Many of them drop out within the first year. Some
struggle on for two or three years and then give up.
1. It"s implied but not stated in the passage that ______.
A. many other countries are facing the same problem
B. fewer students will prefer to go to college in the future
C. the law of supply and demand has a strong effect on American higher education
D. white-collar workers in the US used to make more money than blue-collar workers
2. Which of the following is NOT a reason why the number of college students goes up every year?
A. Many parents want their children to go to college.
B. Every young man and woman wants to go to college.
C. High school teachers urge their students to go to college.
D. Many people believe that the only way to success is a college education.
3. By saying that "many people go to college who do not belong there", the author means that______.
A. many people who do not have enough money go to college
B. many people who go to college have their hopes destroyed
C. many people who go to college drop out within the first year
D. many people who are not fit for college education go to college
4. We can infer from the passage that the author believes that ______.
A. college education is a bad thing
B. every young man and woman should go to college
C. people with a college education should receive higher pay
D. fewer people should go to college while more should be trained for skilled jobs
阅读理解。
请认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格的空格处里填入最恰当的单词。
                                                                  Profits of Praise
     Are we too quick to blame and slow to praise? It seems we are. Praise is like sunlight to the
human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too
ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow unwilling to give others
the warm sunshine of praise.
     It"s strange how mean we are about praising. Perhaps it"s because few of us know how to
accept praise gracefully. Instead, we are embarrassed and shrug off the words we are really
so glad to hear. Because of this defensive reaction, direct compliments are surprisingly difficult
to give. That is why some of the most valued pats on the back are those which come to us
indirectly, in a letter or passed on by a friend.
     Do you ever go into a house and say, "What a tidy room!" Hardly anybody does. That"s why
housework is considered such a boring job. Shakespeare said, "Our praises are our wages."
Since so often praise is the only wage a housewife receives, surely she is well worth praising.
Mothers know naturally that for children an ounce of praise is worth a pound of scolding. Still,
we"re not always aware of children"s small achievements and we seldom apply the rule. One day
I was criticizing my children for quarreling. "Can you never play peacefully?" I shouted. Susanna
looked at me, confused. "Of course we can," she said. "But you don"t notice us when we do."
Teachers agree about the value of praise. "I believe that a student knows when he has handed
in something above his usual standard," writes a teacher, "and that he waits and is hungry for a
brief comment in the margin to show him that the teacher is aware of it, too."
     Behavioral scientists have done countless experiments to prove that any human being have
a tendency to repeat an act which has been immediately followed by a pleasant result. In one
such experiment, a number of schoolchildren were divided into three groups and given arithmetic
tests daily for five days. One group was consistently praised for its previous performance; another
group was criticized; the third was ignored. Not surprisingly, those who were praised improved
dramatically. Those who were criticized improved also, bus not so much. And the scores of the
children who were ignored hardly improved at all. Interestingly the brightest children were helped
just as much by criticism as by praise, but the less able children reacted badly to criticism,
needed praise the most. Yet the latter are the very youngsters who, in most schools, fail to get
the pat on the back.
     To give praise costs the giver nothing but a moment"s thought and a moment"s effort-perhaps
a quick phone call to pass on your praise, or five minutes spent writing an appreciative letter. It
is such a small investment-and yet consider the results it may produce. "I can live for two months
on a good compliment," said Mark Twain. So, let"s be alert to the small excellences around us-and
comment on them. We will not only bring joy into other people"s lives, but also, very often, added
happiness into our own.
                                                              Title: Profits of Praise
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Theme

 Compared with (1)    , praise should be valued and appreciated more.


Reasons for
unwillingness to
give praise
We feel embarrassed and ignore the words pleasant to our ears (2)    
than accept them gracefully.
We have (3)     giving direct praise because of our so-called defensive
reaction.
Importance of
praise in some cases
A house wife is (4)    to be praised for her sacrifices and devotion.  
A mother is supposed to be aware of their children"s small achievements
and (5)     the rule of giving praise.
A student waits (6)    for a good comment form his teacher when he
hands in his homework above his usual standard.
Findings of
experiments on profits of praise

Everybody (7)     to repeat an act if praised more often.
Those who receive constant praise have made dramatic improvement.
Unlike brilliant children, less able children (8)     badly to criticism
desperately need praise.
(9)  
It pays to make a moment"s (10)     to pass on praise, for it brings added joy and happiness to our lives as well as others".
阅读理解。
     We often hear people talking about a generation gap (代沟). The name is new, but the idea
is old. Young people and their parents don"t understand each other. The world has always kept
changing. During the second century after Christ a wise man said, "Bury me on my face because
in a little while everything will be turned upside down."
    There has always been a gap between generations, but more people talk about it now. Old
Mr. Ellis thinks he understands what has happened.
    "When I was a boy, I thought the world was a beautiful place. My life was very pleasant. But
when I was older, I learned about people who were treated badly, people who didn"t have enough
to eat. I wanted to help them, and I married a girl who wanted to help them, too. We went to
meetings and talked a lot, but it didn"t seem to make much difference. "
    "Our children grew up in a world at war. They didn"t know when the fighting would stop. They
wanted their children to have nice clothes and toys. They didn"t want to think about the future.
They thought nothing could be done about it."
    "Now I have grandchildren, and they have their own ideas. They are trying to make the world
better. They are trying to help other people. They"re making people listen to them. I am proud
of their generation."
1. The wise man mentioned in the text told people to bury him on his face so that when everything
is turned upside down he will _____.
A. lie on his stomach        
B. lie on his back
C. stand quietly        
D. sit in peace
2. Which generation did NOT want to do anything to make the world a better one?
A. Mr. Ellis" generation      
B. His children"s generation
C. His grandchildren"s generation  
D. None of the above.
3. Which generation is/was more efficient in making the world better one?
A. Mr. Ellis" generation.          
B. His children"s generation.
C. His grandchildren"s generation.
D. None of the above.
4. What is the writer"s attitude towards the generation gap?
A. Unacceptable.    
B. Awful.    
C. Funny.      
D. Common.
阅读理解。
     Technology is the application(应用) of knowledge to production. Thanks to modern
technology, we have been able to increase greatly the efficiency of our work force. New
machines and new methods have helped cut down time and expense while increasing overall
output. This has meant more production and a higher standard of living. For most of us in
America, modern technology is thought of as the reason why we can have cars and television
sets. However, technology has also increased the amount of food available to us, by means of
modern farming machinery and animal breeding techniques, and has extended our life span via
(通过) medical technology.
     Will mankind continue to live longer and have a higher quality of life? In large measure the
answer depends on technology and our ability to use it widely. If we keep making progress as
we have over the past fifty years, the answer is definitely yes. The advancement of technology
depends upon research and development, and the latest statistics(统计) show that the United
States is continuing to pump billions of dollars annually(每年) into such efforts. So while we are
running out of some scarce resources(少的资源) we may well find technological substitutes
(代用品)for many of them through our research programs.
     Therefore, in the final analysis the three major factors of production(land, labor and capital)
are all influenced by technology. When we need new skills, on techniques in medicine, people
will start developing new technology to meet those needs. As equipment proves to be slow or
inefficient, new machines will be invented. Technology responds to our needs in helping us
maintain our standard of living.
1. What is the best title for the passage?
A. The definition of technology
B. Modern technology
C. The application of technology
D. The development of technology
2. Which is the main idea of the passage?
A. Modern technology is the key to the improvement of standard of living.
B. The three major factors of production (land, labor and capital) are all influenced by technology.
C. Technology is the response to our needs.
D. The United States is making great efforts to advance its technology.
3. According to the passage, people can live a long life with the help of _______.
A. higher quality of life
B. medical technology
C. modern farming machinery
D. technological substitute