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The Salt Lake City Public Library is sold on the idea. “Literacy specialists admit that children who read below the level of their fellow pupils are often afraid of reading aloud in a group, often have lower self-respect, and regard reading as a headache,” said Lisa Myron, manager of the children’s department.
Last November, the two groups started “Dog Day Afternoon” in the children"s department of the main library. About 25 children attended each of the four Saturday-afternoon classes, reading for half an hour. Those who attended three of the four classes received a “paw graphed” book at the last class.
The program was so successful that the library plans to repeat it in April, according to Dana Thumpowsky, public relations manager.
小题1:What is mainly discussed in the text?
A.Children’s reading difficulties. |
B.Advantages of raising dogs. |
C.Service in public library. |
D.A special reading program. |
A.dogs are young children"s best friends |
B.children can play with dogs while reading |
C.dogs can provide encouragement for shy children |
D.children and dogs understand each other |
A. uses dogs to attract children.
B. accepts the idea put forward by ITA.
C. has opened a children"s department.
D. has decided to train some dogs.
小题4: A “paw graphed” book is most probably_____________.
A.a book used in Saturday classes |
B.a book written by the children |
C.a prize for the children |
D.a gift from parents |
答案
小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:C
解析
试题分析:本文主要介绍了一中独特的阅读计划:对着小狗阅读。在文章中作者详细解释了这个活动的具体内容。
小题1:D 推理题。根据文章第一段前3行Reading to dogs is an unusual way to help children improve their literacy skills. With their shining brown eyes, wagging tails, and unconditional love, dogs can provide the nonjudgmental listeners needed for a beginning reader to gain confidence, according to Intermountain Therapy Animals可知本文主要讲述的是一种新型的阅读计划—读给小狗听。故D正确。
小题2:C 细节题。根据第一段第二行dogs can provide the nonjudgmental listeners needed for a beginning reader to gain confidence可知孩子们可以从这个活动中得到足够的自信。故C正确。
小题3:B 推理题。根据The Salt Lake City Public Library is sold on the idea.以及接下来的内容,可知这家图书馆接受了这样的做法。故B正确。
小题4:C 推理题。根据本句Those who attended three of the four classes received a “paw graphed” book at the last class. 可知参加了3次的孩子会得到奖励。故C正确。
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试题【Reading to dogs is an unusual way to help children improve their literacy skills】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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The conversation soon turned into complaints about ____ in work and life. Offering his__ coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and ____ with a large pot of coffee and a ____ of cups---porcelain(陶瓷), plastic, glass, crystal(水晶), some plain-looking, some expensive, some beautiful—telling them to ____ themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said,“If you have ____all the nice-looking expensive cups have been ____, leaving behind the plain and ____ ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves , that is the ____ of your problems and stress.”
“Be assured that the cup ____ adds no quality to the coffee. ____ it is just more expensive and in some cases ____ hides what we drink.”
“____ all of you really want is coffee, not the cup, ____ you consciously went for the best cups…. And then you began ____ each other’s cups.”
Now consider this:__ __ is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. ____ are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the ____ of life we live. Sometimes , by concentrating only on the cup, we ____ to enjoy the coffee. Value the coffee, not the cups! Don’t let the cups ____ you...enjoy the coffee instead.
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A few months later, the wife came to the husband with a piece of advice, “I read in a magazine, a while ago, about how we can strengthen our marriage,” she offered. “Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit annoying with the other person. Then, we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives happier together.”
The husband agreed. So each of them tried to think of the things that annoyed them about the other and wrote down what they came up with. The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their lists.
“I’ll start,” offered the wife. She took out her list. It had many items on it, enough to fill three pages. In fact, as she started reading the list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears were starting to appear in her husband’s eyes because he never thought that he had so many shortcomings.
The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages to her husband. “Now, you read your list and then we’ll talk about the things on both of our lists,” she said happily.
Quietly the husband stated, “I don’t have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect. I don’t want you to change anything for me. You are lovely and wonderful and I wouldn’t want to try and change anything about you.” The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her and his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.
In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don’t really have to go looking for them. We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise. Why waste time in this world looking for the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around us and see the wonderful things before us?
小题1:Why were there tears in the husband’s eyes when the wife read his annoyances?
A.Because he had no courage to face his shortcomings. |
B.Because he never thought he had so many annoyances in his wife’s eyes. |
C.Because he was sorry that he didn’t find any annoyance about his wife. |
D.Because he didn’t think he deserved to have such a perfect wife. |
A.moved and ashamed | B.sad and disappointed |
C.satisfied and proud | D.surprised and confused |
A.disappointment cannot be avoided in our life |
B.young couples should be more tolerant (宽容的) to each other |
C.we should turn a blind eye to other people’s blame |
D.we should try to look for and see the wonderful things around us |
Yes, there really is a job where you can get paid to taste ice-cream. Just ask John Harrison, an"Official Taste Tester"for the past 21 years. Testing helps manufacturers to be sure of a product’s quality. During his career Harrison has been responsible for approving large quantities of the sweet ice cream--as well as for developing over 75 flavors (味道).
Some people think that it would be easy to do this job: after all, you just have to like ice cream, right? No--there’s more to the job than that, says Harrison, who has a degree in chemistry. He points out that a dairy or food-science degree would be very useful to someone wanting a career in this"cool"field.
In a typical morning on the job, Harrison tastes and assesses 60 ice-cream samples. He lets the ice cream warm up to about 12℉. Harrison explains,"You get more flavor from warmer ice cream, which is why some kids like to stir it, creating ice-cream soup."
While the ice cream warms up, Harrison looks over the samples and grades each one on its appearance."Tasting begins with the eyes,"he explains. He checks to see if the ice cream is attractive and asks himself,"Does the product have the color expected from that flavor?"Next it’s time to taste!
Continuing to think up new ideas, try out new flavors, and test samples from so many kinds of ice cream each day keeps Harrison busy but happy--working at one cool job.
小题1:What is John Harrison’s job?
A.An official. | B.An ice-cream taster. |
C.A chemist. | D.An ice-cream manufacturer. |
A.keep a diary of work | B.have a degree in related subjects |
C.have new ideas every day | D.find out new flavors each day |
A.He stirs the ice cream. |
B.He examines the color of the ice cream. |
C.He tastes the flavor of the ice cream. |
D.He lets the ice cream warm up. |
A.Tasting with Eyes | B.Flavors of Ice Cream |
C.John Harrison’s Life | D.One Cool Job |
Today, at twenty-seven, I have come to rediscover them in ways that my teenage mind would not allow—as adults and as friends with their own faults and weaknesses.
One night after my move back home, I overheard my father on the telephone. There was some trouble. Later, Dad shared the problem with me. Apparently my legal training had earned me some privileges in his eyes. I talked through the problem with Dad, analyzing the purposes of the people involved and offering several negotiation strategies(策略).He listened patiently before finally admitting, “I can’t think like that. I am a simple man.”
Dad is a brilliant scientist who can deconstruct the building blocks of nature. Yet human nature is a mystery to him. That night I realized that he was simply not skilled at dealing with people, much less the trouble of a conflicted teenager. It’s not in his nature to understand human desires.
And so, there it was—it was no one’s fault that my father held no interest in human lives while I placed great importance in them. We are at times born more sensitive, wide-eyed, and dreamy than our parents and become more curious and idealistic than them. Dad perhaps never expected me for a child. And I, who knew Dad as an intelligent man, had never understood that his intelligence did not cover all of my feelings.
It has saved me years of questioning and confusion. I now see my parents as people who have other relationships than just Father and Mother. I now overlook their many faults and weaknesses, which once annoyed me.
I now know my parents as friends: people who ask me for advice; people who need my support and understanding. And I have come to see my past clearer.
小题1:What was the author’s impression of her father when she was a teenager?
A.Friendly but irresponsible. |
B.Intelligent but severe. |
C.Cold and aggressive. |
D.Caring and communicative. |
A.She did not have a phone to call home. |
B.Her father did not care about her human journey. |
C.Her father was too busy to answer her phone. |
D.Her father could not give her appropriate advice. |
A.he blamed her for impoliteness. |
B.he rediscovered human nature. |
C.he consulted with her about his problem. |
D.he changed his attitude towards the author. |
A.My Parents as Friends. |
B.My Parents as advisers. |
C.My father—a serious man. |
D.My father—an intelligent scientist. |
She took off her vest and leather boots, got into the icy water, and swam to the car, where she found Cameron Dorsey, five, trapped into his car as the swirling water rose around him.
Hawkinson tried to open the door, but it was locked. So she pushed and pulled hard on the partially open window until she could reach through and unlock the door. She pulled the boy free, swam to shore, and handed him off to onlookers who were only watching them on a dock. The driver, the boy’s suicidal father, swam back to land on his own. Afterward, Hawkinson sat on the shore wrapped in a blanket. “For ten or 15 minutes, I couldn’t stop shaking,” she said.
There’s nothing visibly extraordinary about Melissa Hawkinson, an energetic stay-at-home mom with brown hair and a sweet smile. Yet something made her different from the dockside onlookers that day. Why do some people act quickly, willing to take a risk for a stranger? What makes them run toward danger rather than away from it? Hawkinson, the Granite Mountain Hotshots (能手,高手)---19 of whom lost their life this past summer in Arizona--- every hero who puts his or her life on the line to save another: what makes them brave?
Moreover, can bravery be learned, or is it a quality with which you are born? The answer is complex. Bravery taps the mind, brain and heart. It comes from instinct, training and sympathy. Today, neurologists, psychologists and other researchers are studying bravery, trying to uncover the mystery.
小题1:It can be learned from the passage that _______.
A.Melissa Hawkinson was a 41-year-old nurse |
B.it was spring when the accident happened |
C.Melissa Hawkinson was picking up her five-year-old son |
D.Melissa Hawkinson was kind and courageous. |
A.Not everyone was ready to risk saving the five-year-old boy.. |
B.The father committed suicide because of the divorce. |
C.The father was saved in the end by Melissa Hawkinson. |
D.No one else was available except Melissa Hawkinson. |
A.Warm and ready to help | B.Thoughtful |
C.Kind of cold-blooded | D.Not skillful at swimming |
A.To set us thinking what makes people brave. |
B.To call on us to learn from such people as Hawkinson. |
C.To remind people of risk while saving others. |
D.To show people bravery can be learned. |
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