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A federal agency on Tuesday called for a ban on all cellphone use by drivers -- the most far-reaching recommendation up to now — saying its decision was based on a decade of investigations into distraction-related(与分散注意力有关的) accidents, as well as growing concerns that powerful mobile devices are giving drivers even more reasons to look away from the road.
As part of its recommendation, the National Transportation Safety Board is urging states to ban drivers from using hands-free devices, including wireless headsets. No state now has made laws to ban such activity, but the Board said that drivers faced serious risks from talking on wireless headsets, just as they do by taking a hand off the wheel to hold a phone to their ears.
However, the concern was heightened by increasingly powerful phones that people can use to send e-mails, watch movies and play games.
"Every year, new devices are being on sale." she said. "People are attracted to update their Facebook page, to play music with cellphone, as if sitting at a desk. But they are driving a car."
The agency based its recommendation on evidence from its investigation of numerous crashes in which electronic distraction was a major contributing factor.
Ms. Hersman said she understood that this recommendation would be unwelcome in some circles, given the number of drivers who talk and text. But she compared distracted driving to drunken driving and even smoking, which required wholesale cultural shifts to change behavior.
"It"s going to be very unpopular with some people." she said. "We"re not here to win a popularity contest. We"re here to do the right thing. This is a difficult recommendation, but it"s the right recommendation and it is time."
The agency"s recommendation is not required for states to adopt such a ban. And it won"t likely be agreed upon by state lawmakers who are unwillingly to anger those who have grown accustomed to using their device behind the wheel.
The ban also deserves attention because it is the first call by a federal agency to end the practice completely, rather than the partial ban that some lawmakers have put in place by allowing hands-free talking.
小题1:The ban on all cellphone use by drivers was put forward______.
A.after a long discussion and recommendation
B.after about ten years" investigation in it
C.because of the most powerful mobile devices
D.for the reason of heading away from the road
小题2:From the second paragraph we know that now______.
A.it is legal to use wireless headsets while driving
B.wireless headsets are illegal in some states
C.it is safe to talk on wireless headsets while driving
D.hands-free devices can be used in some states
小题3:We can know from the passage that______.
A.electronic distraction resulted in numerous crashes
B.numerous crashes were caused by drunk driving
C.electronic distraction contributed much to the ban
D.the recommendation was based on electronic distraction
小题4:Ms Hersman thinks that distracted driving, drunken driving and smoking______.
A.are just common behaviorsB.can be shifted to behaviors
C.are behaviors to be changedD.are just cultural behaviors
小题5:Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A.Cellphone Ban inCarsB.Valuable Ban for Cellphones
C.Drivers Ban CellphonesD.Cellphone Ban while Driving

答案

小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:A
小题4:C
小题5:D
解析
主旨讨论的主要就是开车时候禁止使用手机这一建议。
小题1:B 细节题。根据第1段2,3行its decision was based on a decade of investigations into distraction-related(与分散注意力有关的) accidents中的decade(十年)可知B正确,经过10年的调查,提出了这样的禁令。故B正确。
小题2:A 推理题。文章中提出,一家机构提出这样的建议禁止司机开车时用手机,说明现在仍然是可以使用的,还是合法的。故A正确。
小题3:A 推理题、根据文章第五段  The agency based its recommendation on evidence from its investigation of numerous crashes in which electronic distraction was a major contributing factor知道在很多事故中,因为使用手机的电子设备而导致注意力分散最后导致了事故的发生,故A正确。
小题4:C 根据文章第六段第2句she compared distracted driving to drunken driving and even smoking, which required wholesale cultural shifts to change behavior.可知她认为现在是整个文化转变和行为转变的时间了,故C正确。
小题5:D 主旨大意题。主旨讨论的主要就是开车时候禁止使用手机这一建议。
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The prestigious (久负盛名) Peking University and Tsinghua University held graduation ceremonies on the same day this year. The presidents of the two universities delivered excellent speeches at the ceremonies as they used words, phrases or ways of expression that are very popular on the Internet currently. At the same time, graduation speeches by other university presidents were also under the spotlight for the same reason. Their speeches were warmly welcomed by students as they contained many fashionable words today, such as "floating clouds" ( meaning "too small and of little importance to mention") and "gelivable" (meaning " very helpful") . In the speeches , these university presidents recalled campus life together with students and finally moved all the audiences. They were very different from the usual run of lectures.
Many university presidents have changed their regular manner of addressing graduation ceremonies from an advising and preaching (说教) mode to a more fashionable and funny approach. They try to use those words popular among young people in their speeches.
In the past, university presidents" speeches were criticized for being too standard and lacking sentiment. Now , they quote fashionable words in their addresses, reflecting they are starting to adopt more everyday attitudes to students. The use of these new expressions has triggered a heated discussion. It focuses on the question of whether university presidents should speak in an informal way at graduation ceremonies.
Supporters agree with the new approach. They consider it good to build close ties with students by using the youth"s own words. Opponents argue the new ways have no practical value or significance for education but are merely to please those leaving university.
小题1:What would be the best title for this passage?
A.Should University Heads Use Terms of Youth
B.Must University Presidents Learn to Please Students
C.Must University Presidents Meet Students" Needs
D.Should University Heads Use Newly-created Words
小题2:What can we infer from the passage?
A.University presidents consider it good to build close ties with students.
B.More and more students are eager to make speeches in public.
C.The new ways of making speeches are popular with the young.
D.University presidents have special opinions about the world.
小题3:What dose the underlined word "triggered " in Paragraph 3 probably mean ?
A.Break offB.Set offC.Sum upD.Focus on
小题4:Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A.Many people are likely to be influenced by the Internet.
B.The writer thinks it necessary for us to follow the traditional customs.
C.More and more words are changing with the development of technology.
D.People argue about whether to use fashionable words on formal occasions.

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Microblogging is a broadcast medium in the form of blogging. A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically much smaller, in both actual size and aggregate file size. Microblogs “allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links”.
As with traditional blogging, microbloggers post about topics ranging from the simple, such as "what I"m doing right now," to the thematic(主题的), such as "sports cars.” Commercial microblogs also exist, to promote (促进) websites, services and/or products, and to promote collaboration within an organization.
Some microblogging services offer features such as privacy settings, which allow users to control who can read their microblogs, or other ways of publishing rights besides entering the web-based interface.(界面) These may include text messaging, instant messaging, E-mail, or digital audio.
The first microblogs were known as tumblelogs. The term was invented in a blog post on April 12, 2005. However, by 2006 and 2007, the term microblog came into greater usage for such services provided by Tumblr and Twitter. Other leading social networking websites Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and XING also have their own microblogging features, better known as status updates.
Several studies, especially by Harvard Business School have tried to analyze the usage behavior of Microblogging services. Many of these studies show that for services such as Twitter, there is a small group of active users contributing to most of the activity.
Twitter, Facebook and other microblogging services are also becoming a platform for marketing and public relations, with a sharp growth in the number of social media marketers. The Sysomos study shows that this specific group of marketers on Twitter is much more active than general user population, with 15% following more than 2,000 people.
小题1:Why is a microblog different from a traditional blog?
A.Because a microblog doesn’t include pictures, but a traditional blog does.
B.Because a microblog doesn’t include videos, but a traditional blog does.
C.Because a microblog has smaller contents than a traditional blog in actual and total file size.
D.Because a microblog can only be written on the cell-phones.
小题2:What is the meaning of the underlined word “collaboration” in the second paragraph?
A.Competition.B.Discussion.C.Tradition.D.Cooperation
小题3:Microblogging can protect the following privacy EXCEPT_______.
A.deciding the readers of the microblogs
B.allowing readers to publish their views
C.readers’ deleting what a microblog says
D.deciding whether readers can enter it
小题4:We can infer from the passage that______.
A.microbloggers always post about the thematic topics instead of the simple ones
B.microblogging has developed so quickly and brought the owners more and more benefits.
C.microblogging protects both the owners’ and the readers’ privacy
D.the studies by Harward Business School have analyzed the usage of microblogging services

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A friend is better than fortune. A friend is worse than poison in some cases. 
The two sentences above have opposite meanings and seem to be unreasonable, but they can be explained as follows: the first refers to all good friends who drive us towards good while the second all bad ones who lead us into bad ways.
  My ideal friend is of course a good friend whose goodness is shown below — he has no bad habits, such as smoking and drinking. He lives in frugality (节俭). He studies hard so as not to waste his golden time. At home he honors his parents and loves his brothers; at school he respects his teachers and shares the feelings of his classmates. He treats those truly who are true to him. In a word, he has all the good characteristics that I don’t have. I can follow him as a model. With his help I can be free from all difficulties.
Indeed, if I have such a person as my friend, I shall never fear difficulty and I shall never know the existence of the word “failure”.
小题1:This passage tells us ____.
A.how to make friends with others
B.how to help friends
C.what kind of person the writer’s friend is
D.what kind of person we should make friends with
小题2:According to the writer, an ideal friend refers to _______. 
A.a friend without bad habits
B.a famous man
C.a perfect man
D.a respectable man
小题3:From the passage we can learn that ________. 
A.the writer and his ideal friend have a lot to learn from each other
B.the writer has a lot to learn from his ideal friend
C.the writer’s ideal friend has a lot to learn from him
D.the writer has only a little to learn from his ideal friend
小题4:From the second paragraph, we can infer the writer is sure that _______. 
A.friendship means a great deal to him
B.nothing can be done without friends
C.he who does not smoke or drink must be a good friend
D.good friends should always help each other

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Read the following directions on a bottle of medicine:
“Take two tablets(药片)with water, followed by one tablet every eight hours, as required, For maximum(最大量) night-time and early morning relief(缓解疼痛), take two tablets at bed - time, Do not take more than six tablets in twenty-four hours.
For children six to twelve years old, give half the amount for a grownup. For children under six years old, ask for your doctor’s advice.
Reduce the amount if nervousness, restlessness, or sleeplessness occurs,”
小题1:The directions on this medicine bottle clearly warn the patient not to take more than _____ .
A.twenty-four tablets a day.B.eight tablets a day.
C.six tablets a day.D.three tablets a day.
小题2:We can infer from the directions that ______ .
A.the medicine could cause some people to feel nervous.
B.children may take the same amount that grown-ups take.
C.one may not take this medicine before going to bed.
D.the medicine is a liquid.
小题3:If one cannot sleep, it is suggested that he _____ .
A.take two tablets before going to bed.
B.take less than two tablets before going to bed.
C.stop taking the medicine.
D.ask advice of a doctor.
小题4:Obviously the medicine _______ .
A.may be dangerous to small children.
B.cannot be taken by children under twelve years old.
C.may be taken by children but not by grown-ups.
D.may be taken by grown-ups but not by children.

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It was a cold winter afternoon. Robert stopped for a moment as he crossed the bridge and looked down at the river below. There were hardly any   36   on the river. Near the bridge, however, almost direct below,   37   was a small canoe (独木舟), with a boy in it. The boy was wearing  38   and shivering (颤抖) with cold, Robert noticed.  Just then he heard a cry, “Help! Help!” The cry   39   from the river. Robert looked down. The boy was   40   the water and his canoe was floating away. “Help! Help!” he called again.
Robert was a good   41  . Taking off his clothes, he  42   into the river. The   43   water made him tremble all over,   44   in a few seconds he reached the boy. “Don’t be afraid,” he said and started to swim towards the river bank,  45   the boy with him. But at that   46   he noticed a large motor boat under the bridge. There were several people on the boat, all   47   in his direction. Robert   48   to swim towards the boat.
“Give me a hand,” he shouted   49   he got near the boat. He   50   up into a row of faces. “It’s funny,” he thought. “They look so   51  .” Silently they helped the boy into the boat and   52   him in a blanket (毯子). But they did not move to   53   Robert.
“Aren’t you going to pull me   54  , too?”
“You!” said one of the men. Robert noticed that he was standing next to a large   55  . “You! Why, we were making a film and you spoiled (破坏) a whole afternoon’s work! You can stay in the water!”
小题1:
A.fish B.boatsC.wavesD.birds
小题2:
A.thereB.itC.where D.that
小题3:
A.moreB.manyC.much D.little
小题4:
A.happenedB.wentC.arrivedD.came
小题5:
A.onB.withinC.inD.under
小题6:
A.swimmer B.guardC.soldierD.player
小题7:
A.threwB.lookedC.jumped D.turned
小题8:
A.deepB.coolC.dirtyD.cold
小题9:
A.butB.soC.andD.or
小题10:
A.pushingB.draggingC.holdingD.catching
小题11:
A.placeB.periodC.second D.moment
小题12:
A.seeingB.smilingC.lookingD.shouting
小题13:
A.decidedB.wentC.agreed D.promised
小题14:
A.whileB.tillC.forD.as
小题15:
A.turnedB.lookedC.hurriedD.stood
小题16:
A.nervousB.afraidC.excitedD.angry
小题17:
A.wrappedB.leftC.placed D.threw
小题18:
A.saveB.thankC.wrapD.help
小题19:
A.onB.outC.awayD.off
小题20:
A.boatB.blanketC.cameraD.screen

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