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Those who are strongly against competition point out that in a competition, only one wins while the rest ____. They argue that competition leads children to define themselves by the outcome, tying their self-esteem(自尊心) up with their ability to ____ others. They further argue that competition causes anxiety, affects learning and causes children to view others as____ to their success. Competition restricts participation and ___ success. A “win-at-all-costs” mentality can cause children to pay little attention to honesty and fair play.
On the opposite side of the debate are those who view competition as a ____ part of American society. They argue that placing kids in a competitive situation such as sports helps prepare them for a(n) ____ life in our society that is full of competition. ____ is a normal part of human nature and part of everyday life. Other arguments ____ competitive sports are that they provide challenges, help kids develop skills, and teach them how to get along with others.
The third side of this debate says that a little competition can’t be that ____, as long as competition does not get out of hand and take on a “win-at-all-costs” mentality. They claim that competition in itself is not bad and it can serve as a ____ of social comparison, necessary for adolescents to see how ____ they are. Their advice is to introduce competition ____ while focusing more on mastery and cooperation during childhood. The gradual shift toward competition will allow children to build skills, participate fully, and focus on ____ rather than winning.
It is important that you consider all of the possible ____ of competition before you put your child in a competitive situation.
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小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:B
小题5:D
小题6:A
小题7:C
小题8:D
小题9:C
小题10:B
小题11:D
小题12:A
小题13:A
小题14:C
小题15:B
解析
试题分析：本文是议论文，讨论要不要把孩子放在竞争的环境中去，尽管各方意见不一致，但在做这事之前一定要慎重考虑。
小题1:B考查名词辨析。Alarm警钟；concern关心；optimism乐观主义；accident事件。句意：最后年轻人运动所呈现的过度竞争的本性似乎引起人们的关注。Cause for concern，引导关注。故选B项。
小题2:C 考查动词辨析 follow 跟着；stop 停止 ；fail失败；return 返回。句意：那些强烈反对竞争的人指出，在比赛中，只有一个人能赢，而其它人会输。While 表对比，故选C项。
小题3:A 考查动词辨析 beat 打败；change改变；study学习；control控制。句意：他们认为竞争会让孩子通过结果来评判自己，把他们的自尊心与打败别人的能力联系在一起。根据上文中提到in a competition, only one wins while the rest ____. 在竞争中，只有一个赢，而其它人会失败。所以打败别人的能力想联系。故选A项。
小题4:B 考查名词辨析 tickets票；barries屏障；roads道路；invitations邀请。句意：他们也认为竞争会导致焦虑，影响学习，使孩子认为这是他们成功的障碍。根据上文提到They argue that competition leads children to define themselves by the outcome他们会以结果来定义自己，这成为成功的障碍。所以选B项。
小题5:D 考查动词辨析 refuses 拒绝；limits限制；imagines想象；stressed强调。句意：竞争限制参与，强调成功。根据下方提到这种赢的代价会导致孩子不注重诚实与公平，所以只强调成功，故选D项。
小题6:A 考查形容词辨析 healthy健康的；popular流行的；hard困难的；msissing失去的；句意：反对的那些人把这做为美国社会健康的一部分。与第二段强烈反对竞争的人想对比，他们认为这是很健康的， 所以选A项。
小题7:C 考查形容词辨析political政治的；eaarly早的；adult成年的；daily每天的；句意：他们认为把孩子放在竞争的环境中可以帮助孩子为将来进入竞争社会做好准备。that is full of competition.是adult life 的定语从句，成年人的世界充满竞争。故选C项。
小题8:D 考查名词辨析 diagreement不同意；movtivation动机；difficulty困难；competition竞争。句意：竞争是人类本性的正常的一部分也是日常生活的一部分。这段是在讨论竞争是优点，所以选D项。
小题9:C 考查动词辨析 doubting怀疑；attacking进攻；supporting支持；ignoring忽视。句意：其它人认为支持竞争性的运动是提供挑战，帮助孩子发展技能，教会他们如何与人相处。这一段主在讲竞争的优点，所以选C项。
小题10:B 考查形容词辨析 necessary必要的；bad 不好的；interesting有趣的；boring令人厌烦的。句意：第三方认为竞争不是坏事，只要不过分，体现胜利不惜一切精神就可以。根据下句话提到只要不过分，所以认为竞争不是坏事，所以选B项。
小题11:D 考查名词辨析 sample 标本；product产品；subject科目；means方法。句意：竞争本身不是坏事，它体现社会比较的一种方法。Serve as 作为，根据语境选D项。
小题12:A 考查形容词辨析unique 独特性的；young年轻的；normal正常的；skillful有技术的；句意：有必要让青少年看到他们的独特性。Necessary to do ，有必要做某事，竞争是让孩子看到他的独特性，所以选A项。
小题13:A 考查副词辨析 gradually逐渐地；eventually最终；widely广泛地；forcefully有力地。句意：他们的建议是逐渐引入竞争与此同时在儿童时代多多关注合作与掌握。根据下文提到The gradual shift toward competition will allow children to build skills,逐步的转变允许孩子提高技能，所以选A项。
小题14:C 考查动词辨析 observing观察；teaching 教书；playing 玩；growing生长；句意：逐渐的转变引入竞争允许孩子增强自己的技能，充分参与，集中注意力于玩上而不是赢上。根据上文提到Their advice is to introduce competition ____ while focusing more on mastery and cooperation during childhood在儿童时代多关注合作与掌握，故让孩子玩而不是赢，故选C项。
小题15:B 考查名词辨析 benefits 利益；outcomes结果；responsibilities责任；methods方法。句意：在把你孩子放在竞争环境中之前，考虑到所以可能出现的结果是非常重要的。这是作者在深化主题，在做事之前充分考虑可能出现的结果，这是最好的办法，所以选B项。
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Although emigration has always been a choice for Italians, especially for those who left the country at the beginning of the twentieth century, more young Italians think leaving their home country is the only way to escape economic difficulty. These young Italians, however, are not poor farmers or laborers but bright university graduates and other talented young people.
Many of them want to go to richer places, like northern Europe, but they are also prepared to go elsewhere. Most of them describe a feeling of unhappiness and frustration. They are not sure which direction their country is heading and feel no longer proud of being Italians.
Many leave because they think that getting a good job is possible in other countries where all doors are open to you if you are young and dynamic. However, in Italy everything is boring and old-fashioned. Italy’s economic system is largely based on family structures and the elderly who don’t want to give up power. Corruption(腐败) is also a big problem that simply won’t go away.
The Italian government is aware of the problem and says it must create new opportunities for its younger generation. But even if it starts working on a new style economy right away it may take years before things in Italy really change. The government has already passed laws which will make it easier for doctors, lawyers and other academics to start a career in Italy.
Many economic experts claim that Italy is doing a lot for its older generation but very little for its youth. For example, it spends little on housing, childcare but a lot on pensions.
小题1:Some people are leaving Italy mainly because they _____ .
| A．want to get a job | B．want to travel abroad |
| C．prefer working abroad | D．no longer love their country |
| A．is blind to the problem of emigration |
| B．encourages young Italians to go abroad |
| C．has taken some measures to change the situation |
| D．promise to offer more jobs to young Italians soon |
| A．do more for its youth |
| B．try to improve its economy |
| C．stop its youth from going abroad |
| D．solve the problem as soon as possible |
| A．Most of its laborers are old. |
| B．There aren’t any truly talented youngsters. |
| C．The government officials’ attitude is old-fashioned. |
| D．People with power are doing illegal and dishonest things. |
| A．Italian emigration history |
| B．More care for old Italians |
| C．Young Italians are leaving Italy |
| D．The influence of economic difficulty |
Many intermediate groups grew up during the nineteenth century between the upper middle class and the working class. There were small-scale industrialists as well as large ones, small shopkeepers and tradesmen, officials and salaried employees, skilled and unskilled workers, and professional men such as doctors and teachers. Farmers and peasants continued in all countries as independent groups.
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the possession of wealth inevitably affected a person’s social position. Intelligent industrialists with initiative made fortunes by their wits which lifted them into an economic group far higher than that of their working-class parents. But they lacked social training of the upper class, who despised them as the “new rich.”
They often sent their sons and daughters to special schools to acquire social training. Here their children, mixed with the children of the upper classes, were accepted by them, and very often found marriage partners from among them. In the same way, a thrifty, hardworking labourer, though not clever himself, might save for his son enough to pay for an extended secondary school education in the hope that he would move in a “white-collar” occupation, carrying with it a higher salary and a move up in the social scale.
In the twentieth century the increased taxation of higher incomes, the growth of the social services, and the wider development of educational opportunity have considerably altered the social outlook. The upper classes no longer are the sole, or even the main possessors of wealth, power and education, though inherited social position still carries considerable prestige.
小题1:What criterion did Adam Smith seem to go by in his classification of social groups?
| A．The amount of wealth | B．The amount of money |
| C．The social status | D．The way of getting money |
| A．Officials and employees. | B．Peasants and farmers. |
| C．Doctors and teachers. | D．Tradesmen and landlords. |
| A．They were still the upper class people. |
| B．They were owners of large factories. |
| C．They were intelligent industrialists. |
| D．They were skilled workers who made their fortune. |
| A．They saved a lot of money for their children to receive higher education. |
| B．They tried to find marriage partners from the children of the upper class. |
| C．They made greater fortunes by their wits. |
| D．They worked even harder to acquire social training. |
| A．increased income and decreased taxation |
| B．taxation, social services and educational opportunities |
| C．education, the increase of income and industrial development |
| D．the decrease of the upper class population |
Spoken in Mexico for centuries, Ayapaneco is one of 68 surviving languages in the mainly Spanish-speaking nation. The two speakers are Manuel Segovia and Isidro Velazquez. Though they live only 500 meters from each other in the village, the two men seldom talk to each other. Daniel, an American expert, who is working to make a dictionary of Ayapaneco, says the two men “don’t have a lot in common,” and that Segovia can be “active” while Velasquez tends to mind his own business and stay at home.
While Segovia still speaks to his wife and son in Ayapaneco, neither of them can manage more than a few words. Velasquez hardly speaks his native tongue any more. Daniel is working to preserve the language in dictionary form before its last surviving speakers pass away. According to Daniel, Ayapaneco and the other languages began dying out with the introduction of public Spanish education in the mid-20th century. For decades, local children weren’t allowed to speak anything else. Many people to cities, starting in the 1970s, also helped the dying out of native languages.
Ayapaneco is the name given to the language; Segovia and Velazquez call it “Nuumte Oote”, which means “true voice”. Neither man, however, speaks the same language. The dictionary will contain two versions(版本) of the language when it comes out later this year. Those behind the dictionary aren’t the only ones trying to save Ayapaneco. The National Language Institute plans to hold classes so that Segovia and Velasquez can pass on what they know to children.
It is thought that there are about 6,000 languages spoken on earth and that about half will disappear over the next 100 years. Let’s hope the “true voice” isn’t one of them.
小题1:Segovia and Velasquez seldom talk to each other in Ayapaneco because they___________________.
| A．both dislike the language |
| B．don’t get along well with each other |
| C．are too busy to talk to each other |
| D．don’t share the same interests |
a. No teacher liked to teach it. b. Local children had to speak Spanish.
c. many villagers went to live in cities. d. The surviving speakers didn’t like to use it.
| A．a, b | B．a, c | C．b, d | D．b, c |
| A．Write a dictionary of Ayapaneco. |
| B．Let Ayapaneco be taught at school. |
| C．Introduce a public Ayapaneco education. |
| D．Ask villagers to speak Ayapaneco. |
| A．agrees that it is natural that Ayapaneco should die out |
| B．thinks Daniel’s effort to preserve Ayapaneco won’t work |
| C．thinks highly of Ayapaneco and wants people to learn it |
| D．hopes that Ayapaneco will not die out in the future |
Early in February, the Ministry of Education issued a new regulation that colleges and universities should carry out a minimum of 14 days compulsory military training for freshmen.
In a report by Beijing Evening News, Hou Zhengfang, a Beijing-based education PhD, questioned the benefits of military training. “The training routine does little to improve students’ physical fitness over only two weeks’ time. Maybe some disaster prevention training, such as earthquake survival or escaping from fires would be of greater benefit.”
Meng Yang, a 19-year-old freshman at Guangxi University, fainted during training. She said that many students, especially girls, are willing to train under direct sunshine. “For me, military training is physically challenging and even damages my health.”
According to Li Jian from the student affairs office of Guangzhou University, feeling dizzy happens frequently during military training and the school has received a lot of complaints from both students and parents: “But I still think military training is a good thing. Students are easier to manage after the military training. They became more positive about their new environment after the training.”
Although autumn is fast approaching Beijing, the noon heat burns 3300 freshmen on Tsinghua University’s campus. Chu Jinjing, a freshman majoring in medicine, did feel some discomfort while training in sweaty clothes in the glaring heat, the 18-year-old still enjoyed being part of group going through strict exercises. “By going through this tough training, students bond faster and a sense of belonging to the school can be formed. I’ve made a lot of friends already.”
According to the Ministry of Education, the purpose of military training is to teach students discipline, the spirit of teamwork and endurance. But in reality, according to Xiong Bingqi, deputy director of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, the effect is not satisfying. “Such goals require long-term development. It is unrealistic to expect military training to make a difference in only 14 days.” He thus suggests that it should be up to schools to conduct military training in a way that best suits their students.
However, Wang Wenhui, an 18-year-old freshman from Xi’an Jiaotong University, sees military training as a tradition that reaches beyond character building. “From junior and senior high school to college, we join military training to start a new journey. I would feel a bit incomplete without it.”
小题1:How many people expressing their opinions are mentioned in this passage?
| A．4 | B．5 | C．6 | D．7 |
| A．survival skills |
| B．military training |
| C．the spirit of teamwork and endurance |
| D．strict exercises |
| A．Supportive | B．Subjective | C．Objective | D．Rejective |
| A．A Policy Made by the Ministry of Education |
| B．Military Training under Fire |
| C．A New Journey |
| D．A Best Way to Teach Students Discipline |
If it"s a cloudy day outside when the groundhog pops from its cave, then spring will arrive early that year. However, if it is sunny outside, the groundhog will supposedly be scared by its own shadow, hiding underground for six more weeks of cold weather.
Of course, Punxsutawney Phil"s prediction is no more able to guarantee the extended forecast than your local weatherman. ABC News reports that an analysis by the National Climate Data Center found that Phil"s predictions are more often wrong than right.
Philis is also found to have made some unpleasant predictions. Ever since 1887, he has predicted 99 extended winters and just 16 early springs .Nine of the years" predictions were unavailable, according to ABC.
The holiday began as a German tradition in 18th century and became even more of a cultural phenomenon after the 1993 film Groundhog Day starring Bill Murray.
Punxsutawney Phil has become a celebrity in his own right. Each year, the fatter animal with long teeth is watched by millions as he emerges from a cave in the town he is named after. Phil has become so beloved by the town that he actually lives in the local library with his “wife" Phyllis.
Taking inspiration from the hard state of Bill Murray’s character in the classic film, Yahoo contributor Owen Rust says Groundhog Day is a good time to reflect on one’s routines.
小题1:The underlined word “pops” means “ ”.
| A．escapes | B．appears | C．increases | D．hides |
| A．some of the predictions were unavailable |
| B．Phil wants to do that for fun |
| C．Phil likes to make unpleasant predictions |
| D．he has predicted more late springs |
| A．By an accident. |
| B．From people"s life improving. |
| C．By his own attractive force |
| D．From much money raised by the town. |
| A．The National Climate Data Center |
| B．A German tradition |
| C．A tongue-twisting small town |
| D．Groundhog Day weather forecasting |
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