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We all, at one time or another, have pretended to be a rock star, singing and dancing along to our favorite song. Most of us have done this in the privacy of our own room when we were kids and as adults, in the privacy of our homes. Me? I love to do that when I drive! I turn on the radio, find a song that I can sing along too and pretty soon my arms are in the air and I am moving along to the rhythm. Most of the time, I do this on my way to work.
  Yes, that is true. I will be in my nice work clothes, jamming while driving or stopped at a traffic light. I get weird looks from some people and others laugh. Personally, I love to get lost in the rhythm of a song which leads me to share with you the importance of being silly!
  The definition for the word silly, according to the dictionary is: stupid, foolish and nonsensical. I know many people do not want to look foolish. So they walk around all serious, which in all honesty, is foolish!
  No one is perfect, I repeat: no one is perfect. I don’t care how educated, how thin, how beautiful, how simple, how frugal, how rich, and so on… No one is perfect! So why pretend to be something you are not?
Life is so short… You never know when this beautiful journey will be over, so why waste a single second on being so full of rigidity(呆板)? Here is a quote by Souza, that I think says it all and is a great recipe for life:
  "Dance as though no one is watching you,
  Love as though you have never been hurt before,
  Sing as though no one can hear you,
  Live as though heaven is on earth."
  When we were kids, we had no idea of what limitations were and we had no care in the world so we could do things without worrying about how we appeared to others. However, as we grew up, we lost that childlike innocence.
  So don’t lose the child that still lives within you. The next time you feel down, go turn on your favorite song, and sing and dance along like there is no tomorrow. Or watch something that makes you laugh. Laughter is the best medicine to whatever ails you and nothing is better than laughing so hard that your tummy hurts. Trust me, you will feel a whole lot better, and who doesn’t want to feel good?
小题1: According to the passage, what does the writer usually do?
A.He pretends to be a rock star.B.He dances in his own home.
C.He sings songs while going to work.D.He gets jammed on his way to work.
小题2:What do other people think of the writer?
A.They think that the writer is strange.B.They look down upon the writer.
C.They believe that the writer is lonely.D.No one is interested in the writer.
小题3: What is the writer’s opinion about the people who look very serious?
A.They are honest.B.They are silly.
C.They are perfect.D.They are educated.
小题4: The writer quotes Souza to show that _______.
A.life is a beautiful journeyB.life is full of rigidity
C.life is like a great recipeD.life is to be treasured
小题5:The underlined part “the child” in the last paragraph probably refers to _______.
A.the writerB.any child
C.the feeling of being a childD.the time of being a child

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  If you don’t want people to know too much about you, then you had better keep your fridge contents secret according to a British market research document released         Finally, a fridge filled with nothing more than a bottle of white wine and some sparkling mineral water implies an owner who is single, lives in a big city and enjoys the finer things in life.The fridge is empty because this person regularly eats in restaurants.

小题1:We can know from the first two paragraphs that _________________.
A.some researchers are fond of staring at other people’s fridges
B.people don’t want others to know about their secrets
C.the food you put in the fridge has something to do with your personality
D.there are mainly five kinds of lifestyles among British people
小题2:According to the passage, people who belong to “food faddies” ____________.
A.don’t care much about money when buying things
B.will try their best to stay healthy
C.often stay up late to finish their job
D.prefer to ask others about what to do next
小题3:What will those who often dine out put in the fridge?
A.All kinds of food they like.B.Food rich in vitamins.
C.Fruit, vegetables and meat.D.Only something to drink
小题4:What might be the most suitable title for the text?
A.Keep your fridge a secretB.You are what’s in your fridge
C.What to put in the fridge?D.Be careful about your fridge

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Announcers on China Central Television (CCTV) will need to do some fast talking to replace the popular English acronyms(首字母缩略词) they’re now forbidden to use. Shanghai Daily reports that “anchors at China Central Television [CCTV] have been banned from saying the English acronyms NBA, CBA, GDP, and the like in their programs.”
The replacement for those handy acronyms? Chinese presenters must use the full Chinese name, standardized by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.
Although CCTV (oops, we mean China Central Television) presenters must already have a score of at least 94 in their government-rated oral Mandarin proficiency exam(普通话等级考试), saying the full name of organizations like the CBA or WTO ― 10 and 6 character’s long separately ― is sure to challenge even the most skillful anchors. CCTV sports anchor Sun Zhengping tells Shanghai Daily, “A full Chinese explanation of the English acronyms must be followed if my tongue slips. It is a little trouble but a necessary one because not every audience member can understand the acronyms.”
Although the government isn’t giving any official explanation for the shift, it is believed to have to do with a proposal (提案) by Huang Youyi, director of the China International Publishing Group, at March’s NPC meeting. In his speech, Huang said, “With more and more publications mixing Chinese with English, measures and regulations should be adopted to avoid English invading Chinese. If we don’t pay attention and don’t take measures to stop the expansion of mixing Chinese with English, Chinese won’t be a pure language in a couple of years.”
Although China is far from the first country to take measures to protect local languages (the French and Québécois beat them to it by a long way), acronyms are more about saving time than they are about corrupting a language, we would think. Good luck to the CCTV anchors. 
1. CCTV anchors have to “do some fast talking” because they can no longer ______.
A.speak as slowly as they likeB.mix English into Chinese
C.use shortened Chinese expressionsD.have so much time for their program

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Two worlds come together
Imagine landing in a foreign country where you cannot speak the language, understand the culture and don’t know anybody. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a friend who could help you out?
John Smith, an English explorer who landed in America in 1607, found the best friend ever. She was a Native American named Pocahontas (1595-1617). And she did more than teach Smith the language: she saved his life, twice.   
Smith was captured(捕获) by members of Pocahontas’s tribe (部落) and was going to be killed. But for some reason, the Chief’s daughter, Pocahontas, felt sorry for Smith (who was probably the first white man she had ever seen) and threw her body over his to protect him. Smith returned safely to the small village he was living in.
During the winter the English settlers did not know how to get food from nature. Pocahontas often brought food for Smith and his friends.
A year later Pocahontas’s father tried to kill Smith again because the Native Americans were very scared the English would try to take over their land. Pocahontas warned him and he was able to escape.
Later she became a Christian and eventually married an Englishman named John Rolfe.
She spent the last year of her life in London.
Pocahontas has become an American legend. Her life story has been re-created in many books and films, including Disney’s 1995 film, Pocahontas.
One of the reasons she is so popular is that many Europeans look at Pocahontas as an excellent example of how a minority can adjust into the majority. Pocahontas is also respected because of her selfless love. She proved that people can be kind and loving even to people of a different race or culture. John Smith was very different from Pocahontas but she could see he was a good man and that was all that mattered. No race or country owns goodness, love and loyalty.
小题1: What difficulties might early European settlers meet in America EXCEPT ________?
A.the fierce conflict with Native AmericansB.bad-tempered natives who enjoyed killing
C.unfamiliarity with a foreign landD.lack of food in winter
小题2: Pocahontas saved John Smith twice because ______.
A.he was the first white man she had ever seen in her life
B.she wanted to become a Christian and marry an Englishman
C.she believed in general kindness even to people of a different race
D.she was on the settlers’ side and against her cruel father
小题3: According to the text, Europeans think Pocahontas _____.
A.was brave to break away from her own tribe
B.set a good example for other natives to accept the white settlers
C.was a selfless Christian who can love her enemy
D.was open to a more advanced culture
小题4: What can we infer from the passage?
A.The battles between early settlers and Native Americans resulted from their fighting for land.
B.The Europeans think the early settlers should have learned to adjust to the local cultures.
C.The creation of America is based on the settlers’ victory over the Native Americans.
D.People from different cultures can never really get along well with each other.

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You have heard of Webster Toys. Websters have made good safe and interesting toys for more than a hundred years. Now we sell them, and children play with them, in countries from New Zealand to Norway(挪威), and from Japan to Brazil(巴西). We are looking for someone to sell our toys in the Far East. He(She) will be between the ages of thirty and forty. He will already have some years of selling in world markets behind him. He will speak good English and at least one other language of the Far East.
The person we are looking for will live in Singapore, and work in our office there but he will travel for up to six months in other countries in one year. He will know the Far East well. He should know how to sell in established(建立) markets and where to find new ones. He will know to make more money than ever, for himself and for Webster Toys.
Websters want someone who can stand on his own feet. If you think you are the person we are looking for, write to Mr.J.Sloman at our office. Webster Toys Company Church Mill Watford.
小题1:. What are Webster Toys?
A.An old kind of toys.
B.Factories where good, safe and interesting toys are made.
C.People who are famous for making toys for children.
D.A company that has been making and selling toys.
小题2:. We can most probably read the text _______.
A.in a bookB.in a dictionaryC.in a novel D.in a newspaper
小题3: . Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A.If you are thirty years old, you can apply for the position.
B.If you live in Singaore, you can get the position.
C.If you speak good English , you can get the position.
D.The company is looking for some salesmen or saleswomen.

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Instead of hitting the beach, fourteen high school students traded swimming suits for lab coats last summer and turned their attention to scientific experiments.
The High School Research Program offers high school students guidance with researchers in Texas A&M’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.Jennifer Funkhouser, academic adviser for the Department of Rangeland Ecology and Management, directs this four-week summer program designed to increase understanding of research and its career potential (潜能).
Several considerations go into selecting students, including grades, school involvement and interest in science and agriculture.And many students come from poorer school districts, Funkhouser says.“This is their chance to learn techniques and do experiments they never would have a chance to do in high school.”
Warner Ervin of Houston is interested in animal science and learned how to tell male from female mosquitoes (蚊子).His adviser, Craig Coates, studies the genes(基因) of mosquitoes that allow them to fight against malaria and yellow fever.Coates thought this experience would be fun and helpful to the high school students.
The agricultural research at A&M differs from stereotypes(模式化,老一套).It’s “molecular (分子) science on the cutting edge,” Funkhouser says.The program broadened students’ knowledge.Victor Garcia of Rio Grande City hopes to become a biology teacher and says he learned a lot about chemistry from the program.
At the end of the program, the students presented papers on their research.They’re also paid $ 600 for their work—another way this program differs from others, which often charge a fee.
Fourteen students got paid to learn that science is fun, that agriculture is a lot more than milking and plowing and that research can open many doors.
小题1:.The research program is mainly designed for ______.
A.high school advisers from Houston
B.college students majoring in agriculture
C.high school students from different places
D.researchers at the College of Agriculture and Life Science
小题2:.It can be inferred from the text that the students in poorer areas ____.
A.had little chance to go to college
B.could often take part in the program
C.found the program useful to their future
D.showed much interest in their high school experiments
小题3:.When the program was over, the students ______.
A.entered that college
B.wrote research reports
C.paid for their research
D.found way to make money
小题4:.The underlined expression “on the cutting edge” in paragraph 5 means “on the most _____ position.”
A.important B.favourableC.astonishing D.advanced
小题5:.What would be the best title for the text?
A.A Program for Agricultural Science Students
B.A Program for Animal Science Students
C.A Program for Medical Science Lovers
D.A Program for Future Science Lovers

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