Many couples feel lonely at home when their children to go to college.
A. grow upB. have grown upC. grew upD. had grown up
I couldn’t stand the of not being able to help when my best friend was in trouble.
A. frustrationB. motivationC. expectationD. Confusion
It seemed that the birthday party was great success and everyone had fun.
A. / ; aB. a; aC. /; /D. a; much
假如你是李华, 你的美国笔友John想了解你进入高中后的英语课外阅读情况。请你根据下面提示, 给他回一封电子邮件。
阅读现状 | 以英文报纸为主； 偶尔简单的故事书……；几乎没有经典类的英语读物 |
原因分析 | 1. 阅读时间少； 2. 没有养成阅读英语的习惯； 3. 词汇量小, 认为经典类太难, 没有尝试或不感兴趣…… |
未来打算 | …… |
注意：1. 根据所给提示, 适当发挥, 要求内容充实, 语意连贯。
2. 词数120-150。开头和结尾已经写好, 不计入总词数。
3. 参考词汇：
英语课外阅读 English extracurricular reading;
经典英语读物classic English books.
Dear John,
Thank you for your email. Now I would like to tell you something about my English reading in senior high school.
Best wishes!
Yours,
Li Hua
[1] Have you ever had the wish to live another 100 years or more? Experts say that scientific advances will some day enable us to live tens of years longer than what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span.
[2] “I guess we are knocking at the door of living longer,” said Michael Zey, a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. “I think by 2075 we will ____________ and that’s a conservative estimate（保守的估计）.”
[3]At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Louris, a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology（纳米技术） make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what has been possible in the past. “There is a great push so that people can live from 120 to 180 years,” he said.
[4]However, many scientists who specialize in aging are doubtful about it and say the human body is just not designed to live past about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease, they say failure of the brain and organs will finally lead all humans to death.
[5]Scientists also differ on what kind of life the super aged might live. “It remains to be seen if you pass 120, you know; could you be healthy enough to have a good quality of life?” said Leonard Poon, director of the University of Georgia Gerontology Centre. “At present people who could get to that point are not in good health at all.”
1.What is the main idea of the passage? （no more than 10 words）
2.Please fill in the blanks in the second paragraph with proper words.（no more than 5 words）
3.According to Donald Louris, what will enable humans to live longer?（no more than 8 words）
4.What does the word “it” （Line 1, Paragraph 4) probably refer to? （no more than 10 words）
5.What did Leonard Poon worry about? （no more than 15 words）
It has become the modern substitute of glancing at your watch—the furtive(偷偷的)look at a phone screen to check for new messages or have a quick look at Facebook. Researchers have now found why we often feel such a strong urge to glance at our handset. Using your mobile, they say, is easily affected by other people.
A University of Michigan team say people are twice as likely to pull out their phones to check their messages or emails if they’re with someone who has just done the same. It also found that females were more likely to use their mobile than men because it was more ‘consistent ’ with the daily lives of women.
The team watched students in dining halls and coffee shops around campus, observing pairs of students sitting at tables for as long as 20 minutes and recorded their cellphone use at 10-second intervals.
“What we found most interesting was just how often people were using their mobile phones, ” Dr Daniel Kruger, the study’s co-author, said. “Every person we observed used his／her phone at least once while one woman was on hers about half of the time. You may see others checking their incoming messages and be encouraged to check your own. ’’
Overall, the students used their cellphones in an average of 24 percent, the researchers found. But they were significantly more likely to use their phones (39.5 percent) when their companion had just done so in the previous 10-second interval than without the social clue, the researchers said, adding that this behavior was often repeated.
Cell phones create an alternative way for one’s attention and may both promote and interrupt ongoing social activities, the researchers wrote.
Kruger believes this pattern could be related to the effects of social acceptance and rejection. If one person in a pair engages in another conversation through their phone, his or her companion may feel rejected. That companion then might be forced to connect with others from outside so as not to feel left out.
1.People’s strong desire to check their messages partly results from ___________.
A. the same behavior of other people
B. the new messages of their handsets
C. the update service of Facebook
D. the modern substitute of their watches
2.Why do women use their phones more frequently?
A. They want to show off their modern mobiles.
B. They desire to meet the demands of society.
C. They try to set a good example for others.
D. They are more likely to be influenced by others.
3.How might one feel when his companion is busy checking messages?
A. Relaxed. B. Ashamed.
C. Ignored. D. Surprised.
4.The underlined part “this behavior” in Paragraph 5 refers to _______________.
A. receiving social clues B. using the cellphones
C. joining in activities D. engaging in conversations
5.Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
A. Social Acceptance And Rejection
B. Females Use Mobiles More than Men
C. How Do People Check Messages?
D. Cellphone Use Is Spreading
