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where we choose to live, what we wear, our moods, and perhaps even our national characteristics.
Studies have shown that changeable weather can make it difficult to concentrate, cloudy skies slow down
reaction, and high humidity with hot, dry winds makes many people badtempered.
If you live in a place like Britain, where the weather seem to change daily if not hourly, you could be
forgiven for thinking that the weather is random. In fact the weather is controlled by systems which move
around areas of the globe. In the UK the weather depends on depressions, often called lows, and
anticyclones, also known as highs. These systems start in the Atlantic Ocean, and make their way across
the British Isles from the west to the east.
Highs bring sunny weather, while lows bring rain and wind. In modern times, human activities seems
to be altering weather patterns. Gases produced by heavy industry change the temperature of the Earth"s
surface, and affect cloud formation. Some researchers say that factories in Europe and North America
may have been one of the causes of the droughts in Africa in the 1980s.
The human race has always tried to guess the weather, especially in areas of the world where there
are frequent changes. Traditional rhymes point to early attempts to identify weather patterns, popular
poems include:
Red sky at night, shepherds" delight; Red sky in the morning, shepherds" warning.
Flies will swarm before a storm.
Rain before 7, clear by 11.
While folk wisdom can still provide a guide to help forecast weather, today"s methods of prediction
increasingly rely on technology. Satellites, balloons, ships, aircraft and weather centres with sensitive
monitoring equipment, send data to computers. The data is then processed, and the weather predicted.
However, even this system cannot predict weather for longer than about a week.
1. When weather keeps changing, ________.
A. people become badtempered
B. people"s reaction slow down
C. people find it hard to focus on their work
D. people become hungrier
2. Which of the following questions could have the answer in the second paragraph?
A. What causes changes in the weather?
B. What"s the weather like in Britain?
C. Who should be responsible for the droughts in Africa in the 1980s?
D. Why does the weather in the UK make people badtempered?
3. The weather in Britain is ________.
A. random
B. moist
C. depressing
D. satisfying
4. According to a traditional rhyme, if there is a red sky at night, the next day will be ________.
A. windy
B. rainy
C. fine
D. snowy
5. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Anticyclones often bring rain and wind.
B. Weather forecasting has been done for a long time.
C. Weather could never be predicted.
D. Modern methods of weather prediction are developed from folk wisdom.
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cup of tea. packed a small case and was never seen or heard of again.Eileen was astonished and in a state of despair.They had been a happy family and. as far as she knew. there had been nothing wrong with their marriage.
Every day of the year a small group of men and women quietly pack a few belongings and without so
much as a note or a goodbye close the front door for the last time. leaving their debts. their worries and
their confused families behind them.Last year. more than 1,200 men and nearly as many women were
reported missing from home-the highest in 15 years.Many did return home within a year. but others
rejected the past completely and are now living a new life somewhere under a different identity.
To those left behind. this form of desertion is a terrible blow to their pride and selfconfidence.Even the
finality of death might be preferable.At least it does not imply rejection or failure.Worse than that. people
can be left with an unfinished marriage. not knowing whether they will have to wait seven years before they are free to start a fresh life.
Clinical psychologist Paul Brown believes most departures of this kind to be well planned rather than
impulsive."It"s typical of the kind of personality which seems able to ignore other people"s pain and
difficulties.Running away. like killing yourself. is a highly aggressive act.By creating an absence the people
left behind feel guilty. upset and empty."
1．When her husband left home. Eileen Doyle ________.
A．could not forgive him for taking the children
B．had been expecting it to happen for some time
C．could not understand why
D．blamed herself for what had happened
2．Most people who leave their families behind them ________.
A．do so without warning
B．do so because of their debts
C．come back immediately
D．change their names
3．Some people would even prefer the death to the running away of their spouse because ________.
A．their spouse would feel no pain during the death
B．their spouse death would not blow their pride and confidence
C．a desertion would not bring a feeling of rejection or failure
D．their spouse death would make them feel less painful
4．Which might be the title of the passage?
A．Broken marriage
B．New life after desertion
C．A new social problem
D．Desertion and its influence
5．What can be inferred from the passage?
A．Many people choose to leave home quietly because they hate their family.
B．Paul Brown regards leaving home as an act of selfishness.
C．Those who are left behind will lose confidence and won"t marry again.
D．Eileen"s husband. together with his four kids. was probably killed in an accident.
Residents built walls to 1 influence from the other town.
In Pressure, 2 struggled to be the very best. When women 3 birth, they would compete to
have the baby with the loudest cry. There was violent competition in every aspect of life. Because
4 was the index (指数) of success, people were 5 busy making money, with no time for relaxation.
Some young people couldn"t bear the intensity and resorted to drink or drugs to escape.
6 , over in Pleasure, the motto was "As long as you like it, do it." People grew up without 7 and
could do anything 8 liked. Children played computer games day and night. At school, teachers didn"t
care 9 students showed up or not.Workers might sit around the office 10 sipping coffee and doing
nothing. 11 the lack of regulations, nobody worried about losing their jobs. It was 12 that mattered.
No one had the slightest thought of moving 13 , either for themselves or for the town. The computers
they used 14 old models from Pressure.
Some of the young were addicted to 15 because of the emptiness of their lives. Then, people in
the two towns began asking themselves, "What is life 16 ?" But, just before life in the two towns
completely failed, there came a saint - Mr. Reason. He went from door to door, 17 with people
and giving advice. People in Pressure learnt to be 18 with what they had, while people in Pleasure
began to make plans. They 19 the walls between them and built a road to connect the two. The
towns" people 20 to realize the truth - there is no space between Pressure and Pleasure if they
don"t go to extremes.
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| 语法填空 阅读下面短文, 按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求, 在空格处填入一个适当的 词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. We always say "we are the future". Indeed.We, the younger generation, represent modern knowledge, new concepts, ambition and great desire __1__ success.But, have you ever thought of this question:how can we be successful in the 21st century, __2__ is full of great challenges and fierce competitions?In my opinion, there are __3__ important factors. Firstly, we have to catch the opportunities and face the challenges.China has __4__(successful)entered the World Trade Organization, Beijing __5__(host)the 2008 Olympic Games successfully... If we want to be successful, we have to seize these opportunities.SARS and AIDS, environmental pollution, growing population...We have no choice but __6__(solve)these problems with our own hands.Thus, catching the opportunities and trying our best to cope with the difficulties __7__(be)necessary for us to succeed in the 21st century. __8__, we have to learn to cooperate and compete.For example, when SARS __9__(spread)rapidly in China, scientists all over the world cooperated with each other and prevented the disease from spreading in a short period of time.At the same time, they were also competing against each other to see who could conquer the disease first.By cooperating and competing, the world develops day by day.__10__, we, the younger generation, must know how to cooperate and compete. I believe, if we can seize the opportunities, face the challenges, cooperate and compete, success in the 21st century belongs to him, to you and to me. | |||
| People tend to become more personal and hide much more of themselves when u________ e-mail. Researchers from Open 1._____________ University in Britain have f________ in a recent study that there 2._____________ are good reasons ________ this. The researchers asked 83 pairs 3._____________ of students, all strangers to one another, to s________ a problem. 4._____________ They had to discuss this question: If ________(仅仅) five people 5._____________ in the world could be saved from a world disaster, w________ should 6._____________ they be? The pairs of students had to talk over the problem ________ 7._____________ face to face or by computers. Dr. Johnson said, "They told their________ (搭档) four times as much about themselves when they talked 8._____________ over the Internet ________ when they talked face to face. When the 9._____________ computers were fitted with cameras so that students could see eachother, this ________(限制) the personal side of the conversation." 10._____________ | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| We can achieve knowledge either actively or passively. We achieve it actively by direct experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning. We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is passive. Conditioned as we are to passive learning, it"s not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday communication with friends and co-workers. Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious problem. It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay and rumor(谣言). Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesn"t show it to anyone. Then the person whispers it, word for word, to another person. That person, in turn, whispers it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game. The last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears it. Then the two written statements are compared. Typically, the original message has changed. That"s what happens in daily life. The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story. Then, too, most people listen imperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own creative touch to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping(打上标记)it with their own personal style. Yet those who hear it think they know. This process is also found among scholars and authors: A statement of opinion by one writer may be restated as a fact by another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another; and this process may continue, unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the original writer based his opinion or to challenge the interpretation he placed upon those facts. | |||
| 1. According to the passage, passive learning may occur in _______. | |||
| A. doing a medical experiment B. solving a math problem C. visiting an exhibition D. doing scientific reasoning | |||
| 2. The underlined word "it" in Paragraph 2 refers to _____. | |||
| A. active learning B. knowledge C. communication D. passive learning | |||
| 3. The author mentions the game Rumor to show that _____. | |||
| A. a message may be changed when being passed on B. a message should be delivered in different ways C. people may have problems with their sense of hearing D. people tend not to believe in what they know as rumor | |||
| 4. What can we infer from the passage? | |||
| A. Active learning is less important. B. Passive learning may not be reliable. C. Active learning occurs more frequently. D. Passive learning is not found among scholars. |