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2005. You have a job, a family and you"re about 40 years old welcome to your future life.
Getting ready for work, you pause in front of the mirror. "Turn red," you say. Your shirt changes from
sky blue to deep red. Tiny preprogrammed electronics (智能电子元件) are rearranged in your shirt to change
its color. Looking into the mirror, you find it hard to believe you"re 40. You look much younger. With amazing
advances in medicine, people in your generation may live to be 150 years old. You"re not even middle-aged!
As you go into the kitchen and prepare to pour your breakfast cereal into a bowl, you bear, "To lose weight,
you shouldn"t eat that," from your shoes. They read the tiny electronic (电子源码) on the cereal box to find
out the nutrition details. You decide to listen to your shoes. "Kitchen, what can I have for breakfast?" A list of
possible foods appears on the counter as the kitchen checks its food supplies.
"Ready for your trip to space?" you ask your son and daughter. In 2005 only specially trained astronauts
went into space-and very few of them. Today anyone can go to space for day trips or longer vacations. Your
best friend even works in space. Handing your children three strawberries each, you "The doctor said you need
these for space travel" Thanks to medical advances, vaccination shots (防疫针) are a thing of the past.
Ordinary foods contain specific vaccines. With the berries in their mouths, the kids bead for the front door.
It"s time for you to go to work. Your car checks your fingerprints and unlocks the doors "My office.
Autopilot," you command. Your car drives itself down the road and moves smoothly into traffic on the highway.
You sit back and unroll your e-newspaper. The latest news down loads and fills the viewer. Looking through
the pages you watch the news as video film rather than read it.
B. The shirt itself.
C. The counter.
D. The medicine.
B. By listening to the doctor"s advice.
C. By testing the food supplies in the kitchen.
D. By checking the nutrition details of the food.
B. lunch
C. vaccines
D. nutrition
B. In order of frequency.
C. In order of preference.
D. In order of importance.
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old-fashioned but nice, like dolls" houses. I loved the countryside and the pubs, and I loved London.
I"ve slightly changed my mind after seventeen years because I think it"s an ugly town now.
Things have changed. For everybody, England meant gentlemen, fair play, and good man-ners.
The fair play is going, unfortunately, and so are the gentlemanly attitudes and good man-ners-people
shut doors heavily in your face and politeness is disappearing.
I regret that there are so few comfortable meeting places. You"re forced to live indoors. In Paris
I go out much more, to restaurants and nightclubs. To meet friends here it usually has to be in a pub,
and it can be difficult to go there alone as a woman. The cafes are not terribly nice.
As a woman, I feel unsafe here. I spend a bomb on taxis because I will not take public trans-port
after 10 p. m. I used to use it, but now I"m afraid.
The idea of family seems to be more or less non-existent in England. My family is well united and
that"s typically French. In Middlesex I had a neighbour who is 82 now. His family only lived two miles
away, but I took him to France for Christmas once because he was always alone.
B. has lived there for seventeen years
C. prefers to live in an old-fashioned house
D. has to be polite to everyone she meets there
B. In a restaurant.
C. In a nightclub.
D. In a pub.
B. the money
C. a bomb
D. public transport
B. had never been to France
C. was from a typical French family
D. didn"t like the British idea of family
for that particular brand (品牌) of product on the shelf.
Colouring, for example, varies according to what the producers are trying to sell. Health foods are
packaged (包装) in greens, yellows or browns because we think of these as healthy colours. Ice cream
packets are often blue and expensive goods, like chocolates, are gold or silver.
When some kind of pain killer was brought out recently, researchers found that the colours turned the
customers off because they made the product look weak and ineffective. Eventually, it came on the market in
a dark blue and white package-blue because we think of it as safe, and white as calm.
The size of a product can attract a shopper. But quite often a bottle doesn"t contain as much as it appears
to.
It is believed that the better-known companies spend, on average, 70 per cent of the total cost of the
product itself on packaging!
The most successful producers know that it"s not enough to have a good product. The founder of Pears
soap, who for 25 years has used pretty little girls to promote (推销) their goods, came to the conclusion: "Any
fool can make soap, but it takes a genius (天才) to sell it."
B. The price of the product.
C. The colour of its package.
D. The brand name of the product.
B. had weak effects on the customers
C. tricked the customers into shopping
D. caused the customers to lose interest
B. The discovery of a genius.
C. The team to produce a good product.
D. The brand name used by successful producers.
B. Disadvantages of Products
C. Effect of Packaging on Shopping
D. Brand Names and Shopping Tricks
writers. Next term he will become a senior student. He thinks it"s time that he read more of their works
andlearned to write about them.
( )2. Joseph is good at the language arts, and in his spare time he likes to write short stories. It is his wish
that his stories would be printed in local newspapers. So he is thinking of taking a course to develop his
writingskills, such as wording and paragraph organization.
( )3. A lively and caring girl, Anna takes an active part in social activities. She is trying to write reports
fornewspapers about what she sees and hears. But few of them are accepted because of poor organization
ofinformation. She feels the need to improve her writing and communication skills next term.
( )4. Ian traveled worldwide with his parents when he was very young. Under their influence, he becomes
greatly interested in stories of travel and adventure.He hopes to write his own stories in the future. So next
term, he will choose a course to study the best writing of this type.
( )5. Susan comes from China. As a junior back home, she wrote quite a lot of short stories, some of
which were published in newspapers. Her parents suggest she read some classics by Asian and Western
writers. She thinks it helpful in her writing. So she is going to take a course of this kind next term.
| A Creative Writing —by Mrs.A McClellan Creative writing is a course in which we study and apply the methods used in various forms of fiction writing. Writing is a skill of art in itself. We are guided by Ezra Pound’ sopinion:“Make it new.” Creative writing does not only provide us with an opportunity to express ourselves, but also holds our attentionto word choice, paragraph development, and other skills useful in writing. | D Technical Writing —by Mr.J.Allen What is technical writing? It is the course devotedto improving your communication skills in, for, and through technology. Activities for this course will help you develop communication skills that arenecessary for writers and speakers working with technology or in business. |
| B Journalism —by Dr.E.Brandt Journalism is a course for seniors, in which we will cover how to gather, write, and reportthe news. We will discuss how information is,or can be, organized.This course also aims todevelop communication skills required of journalists. | E Non-fiction —by Dr.M.Timm The course is a study of non-fiction through reading many different types of non-fiction. The course will also be about the possible changes injournalistic reporting and the sharing of personalstories of various people on various topics such as travel and adventure.We will examine some ofthe best writing in the world and deal with thetechniques used in this text type. |
| C American & British Classics —by Dr.E.Walter A classic is a literary work that has stood thetest of time. Generations of readers have turned to classics to discover that which is ever-lasting.Through both the works themselves and the peoplethey mirror, we may better be able to see ourselves.In this course, we will read words in both British and American literature (文学). We will write reviewsof what we read. | F World Literature —by Mrs. A.McClellanWorld Literature examines the common people found in quality literature worldwide, from Europe to America, from Asia to Africa, andintroduces a variety of culture of background or different paints in history.In these worlds, we find not only what is unique to each culture, but what is universal. We are also able to tell what makes for a good story, no matter fromwhere or whom the story springs. |
| 阅读理解。 | |
| I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I hardly saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely. I had the only child"s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions (文学志向) were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated (孤独) and undervalued. I knew that I had a natural ability with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. However, the quantity of serious writing which I produced all through my childhood would not add up to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation. I can not remember anything about it except that it was about a tiger and the tiger had "chair-like teeth"-a good enough expression. At eleven, when the war of 1914-18 broke out, I wrote a poem which was printed in the local (地方 的) newspaper, as was another, two years later, on the death of Kitchener. From time to time, when I was a bit older, I wrote bad and usually unfinished "nature poems". I also, about twice, attempted a short story which was a failure. That was the total of the would-be serious work that I actually set down on paper during all those years. | |
| 1. The underlined word "it" in paragraph 2 refers to _____. | |
| A. the quantity of serious writing B. the writer"s first poem C. the writer"s childhood D. the tiger in the poem | |
| 2. From the text, we learn that as a little boy the writer _____. | |
| A. had no playmates B. showed his gift for writing C. put out lots of poems and stories D. got his first poem published in 1916 | |
| 3. What can be inferred about the writer? | |
| A. He was least favored in his family. B. He had much difficulty in talking with others. C. He had an unhappy childhood for lack of care. D. His loneliness resulted in his interest in writing. | |
| 阅读理解。 | |
| EAT YOUR VEGETABLES. Wash your hands. Always say "please" and "thank you". We are full of advice for our children, but when it comes to money, we often have little to say. As a result, our children may grow up with clean hands and good manners, but without any idea how to manage their money. Here are some basics that will help guide them their entire lives: Show them the future. If your 13-year-old girl were to save $1.000, invest (投资) it at 8% and add $100 every month, by the time she"s 65, she would have $980,983! Be careful of credit (信用). Credit cards can help you buy necessary things and build a credit history, but they must be used responsibly, which means paying off your debt in time. Explain to your children that when you buy something using a credit card, you can easily end up paying two or three times what you would have paid if you used cash. Teach patience. Suppose your child wants a new bicycle that costs $150.Rather than paying the cash, give him some regular pocket money and explain that by putting aside,say,$15 each week, he will be able to buy it for himself in only ten weeks. Provide incentive. Tell your children the importance of saving. "For every dollar he or she agrees to save and invest rather than spend, you agree to add another dollar to the pot," says Cathy Pareto, expert in money planning. Explain your values. Values and money are deeply intertwined, says Eileen Gallo, co-author of The Financially Intelligent Parent. When your child demands that you buy something, explain why you really don"t want to buy it. "You might say, "I"d rather save that money for your education,"" advises Gallo. Every time you spend or don"t spend money, you have a chance to share your values. | |
| 1. The writer gives some basics to help _____ in a proper way. | |
| A. parents teach their children how to deal with money B. children follow their parents" instructions C. children manage their money D. parents save their money | |
| 2. The writer thinks that, if a child wants to buy something, his parents should _____. | |
| A. give him some regular pocket money B. encourage him to put money away for it C. explain to him the importance of investment D. tell him to save some money by using a credit card | |
| 3. The underlined word "incentive" in paragraph 6 means _____. | |
| A. honor B. praise C. excitement D. encouragement | |
| 4. What leads the writer to write this article? | |
| A. Parents want to know how to educate their children. B. He wants to share his good ideas about money matters. C. He thinks money management the most important for children. D. Parents care little about their children"s management of money. |