that it is responsible for social progress and prosperity. Others say that competition is bad; that it sets one
person against another; that it leads to unfriendly relationship between people.
I have taught many children who held the belief that their self-worth relied (依赖) on how well they
performed at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life-and-death affairs.
In their single-minded pursuit (追求) of success, the development of many other human qualities is sadly
forgotten.
However, while some seem to be lost in the desire to succeed, others take an opposite attitude. In a
culture which values only the winner and pays no attention to the ordinary players, they strongly blame
competition. Among the most vocal are youngsters who have suffered under competitive pressures from
their parents or society. Teaching these young people, I often observe in them a desire to fail. They seem
to seek failure by not trying to win or achieve success. By not trying, they always have an excuse: " I may
have lost, but it doesn"t matter because I really didn"t try." What is not usually admitted by themselves is the
belief that if they had really tried and lost, that would mean a lot. Such a loss would be a measure of their
worth. Clearly, this belief is the same as that of true competitors who try to prove themselves. Both are
based on the mistaken belief that one"s self-respect relies on how well one performs in comparison with
others. Both are afraid of not being… Only as this basic and often troublesome fear begins to dissolve (缓解)
can we discover a …meaning in competition.
B. Opinions about competition are different among people.
C. Competition is harmful to personal quality development.
D. Failures are necessary experience in competition.
B. It builds up a sense of duty.
C. It improves personal abilities.
D. It encourages individual efforts.
B. those who value competitionj most highly
C. those who are against competition most strongly
D. those who rely on others most for success
B. One"s success in competition needs great efforts.
C. One"s achievement is determined by his particular skills.
D. One"s success is based on how hard he has tried.
B. Competition should be encouraged.
C. Winning should be a life-and-death matter.
D. Fear of failure should be removed in competition.
3 个单词。
Host family accommodation, or living with host families, remains popular among language travel students
for its advantages. These days, host families are trying to offer more in terms of quality, for they still have
something to worry about.
Host family accommodation is often seen as the number-one choice for its advantages in language study,
cultural communication and cost of living. Staying alongside host families enables students to get enough
practice for the short time of their studying so that their language acquisition is likely to become faster. Living
in host families also has the advantage for students of being able to spend a lot of time communicating with
their "host parents", and get to know the local way of life, people and culture. Another advantage is that host
family accommodation can sometimes be the least expensive. It attracts students for it ensures them a family
type of living at a low cost.
The advantages, however, have not prevented host families form worrying. On one hand, some host families
are losing their unique selling point. The problem is that the majority of hosts in big cites, now generally single
and young, have less times available for students but the selling point for host family accommodation is
communication practice. One the other hand, students"expectations have risen. They are becoming more
demanding and asking for more than ever from their accommodation, as they come mainly from high socio-
economic groups in their own countries.
To get out of the difficult situation, host families are now making efforts to improve the quality of service.
They are trying to making living conditions better, including broadband Internet service, private bathroom,
and access to plenty of hot water for long showers. They are also providing students with structured family
activities.
It is believed that host family accommodation will keep the popularity vote with language travel students.
of the 350 000 street addresses in the city. When firefighters answer a call,the computer will give them
important information about the burning building: its position, size and so on. In fact, the computer system has
a lot of ways of helping firefighters with the problems facing them. For example, it can give medical information about invalids (伤残者) living in a burning building. With this information, the firefighters can take special care
to find these sick persons and save them. The Kansas City computer system also keeps a medical record of
each of the city"s 900 firefighters. This kind of information is especially useful when a fireman is injured. With
this medical information, doctors can treat the injured firefighters more quickly and easily.
The firefighters themselves need the computer"s help. They know about possible dangers and prepare for
them. Many times the computer information helps to save lives and property. Sometimes the lives are those of
firefighters themselves!
B. a city smaller but more famous than Kansas
C. one of the states of America
D. the centre of the computer system
B. good information about everybody in the city
C. useful information about every street address in the city
D. nice pictures about each building on fire
B. have a few ways of helping the firefighters
C. hardly give any useful information for the firefighters
D. put out every fire quickly and safely
B. want information from the computer
C. cannot see the dangers
D. need special help
phone and talk to them. lf fire 2 out to your house, you 3 call the fire department. If somebody 4 sick,
you could not call a doctor.
In our 5 life we need to communicate with 6 .We do this 7 by speaking to other people and listening
to what they have to say to us, and when we are 8 to them, we can do this very easily. 9 ,our voices will
not travel very far even when we 10 , and it is thanks to the 11 of the telephone that we are 12 able to
communicate with each other 13 hold talks when we are far apart. We can hear each other 14 clearly as if
we 15 in the same room.
The man who made this 16 was Alexander Graham Bell, a Scotsman, born in Edinburgh in 1847. Bell, a
teacher of visible speech (可视语言 ), who later moved to Canada, 17 all his time experimenting. 18
enthusiastic(热情的) was he in his research for means for 19 speech by electricity that he left 20 time for
his day-to-day work and at one time was almost penniless (身无分文).
| ( )1. A.get on ( )2. A.broke ( )3. A. should ( )4. A.is ( )5. A.daily ( )6. A. them ( )7. A. only ( )8. A. speaking ( )9. A. However ( )10. A. phone ( )11. A. experiment ( )12. A. not ( )13. A. to ( )14. A. as ( )15. A.are ( )16. A. machine ( )17. A.spent ( )18. A. Very ( )19. A. sending ( )20. A.some | B. listen B. went B. could B. are B. family B. another B. mostly B. listening B. Of course B. laugh B. improvement B. hardly B. nor B. so B. were B. possible B. spending B. So B. giving B. much | C. see C. set C. shouldn"t C. becomes C. school C. one another C. quickly C. close C. Therefore C. call in C. discovery C. yet C. and C. not so C. stay C. clear C. talking C. Much C. taking C. little | D. call up |
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| The Internet brings us many advantages. With the Internet, people can send and receive e-mails. On the Internet, people can skim over news. Using the Telnet, the user anywhere on the Internet can log into any other machine on which he has an account. It is possible to use the FIP program to copy files from one machine on the Internet to another. But the Internet also brings us troubles. Internet use seems to cause a fall in psychological (心理的) health, according to research at Camegie Mellon University. Even people who spent just a few hours a week on the Internet experienced more depression and loneliness than those who logged on less often, the two-year study showed. And it wasn"t that people who were already feeling bad spent more time on the Internet, but that using the Net actually seemed to cause the bad feelings. Researchers are puzzled over the results, which were completely opposite to what they had expected. They expected that the Net would prove socially healthier than television, since the Net allows users to choose their information and to communicate with others. The fact that Internet use reduces time used for family and friends may be the reason for the drop in health, researchers said. Faceless, bodiless"virtual" (虚拟的) communication may be less psychologically satisfying than actual conversations, and the relationships formed through it may not be so deep. Another possibility is that exposure to the wider world through the Net makes users less satisfied with their lives. "But it"s important to remember this is not about the technology; it"s about how it is used," said one of the researchers. "It really points to the need for considering social factors (因素) when you design new inventions." | |||
| 1. The writer mainly wants to tell us that _____. | |||
| A. the Internet can bring people many advantages B. the Internet use may cause psychological problems C. the Internet users are not satisfied with their lives D. we shouldn"t use the Internet | |||
| 2. Why are the researchers puzzled over the results? | |||
| A. Because the results were completely different from what they had thought. B. Because the Net proved socially healthier than television. C. Because the Internet users were all healthier. D. Because the Internet users experienced less depression and loneliness. | |||
| 3.What may be the reasons why the Internet use causes a fall in psychological health? | |||
| A. Internet use reduces time used for family and friends. B. Virtual communication is less psychologically satisfying than actual conversations. C. Exposure to the wider world through the Net makes users less satisfied with their lives. D. All the above. | |||
| 4. What does the underlined part in the last paragraph mean? | |||
| A. What matters is not the technology but how it is used. B. This passage is not about the technology but about how it is used. C. We should remember to learn about the technology. D. We should remember to learn how to use computers. | |||
| 完形填空。 | |||
Most of us can remember the days when we didn"t use e-mail as an everyday vehicle for communication. | |||