阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Last year, I was sent to work at an office near my mother’s house. ________, I stayed with her for a month. During that time, I helped her out with the housework and the ________.
After a week, I started ________ the groceries were running out pretty quickly. ________, I began observing what my mother did every day for two weeks. To my ________, I found she would pack a paper bag full of canned goods and ________ every morning at about nine. She took the food to the slums(贫民窟) and gave it out to street ________. I asked around and ________ my mum was popular in the area. The kids looked up to her as if she were their own mother. Then it hit me — why didn’t she want to tell me about what she’d been doing? Was she ________ that I would stop buying the groceries if I knew the truth? When she got home, I told her about my discovery and ________ she could say something, I gave her a big hug and told her she didn’t need to keep it a ________ from me. She told me that the ________ of the children lived with an old lady in a makeshift home while others ________ on the streets. For years, my mum had been helping out by ________ whatever food she could ________. I was so touched by how ________ she was. She used what was ________ for her to help others in need. And I was so ________ of her. I ________ to buy groceries for my mum. But now, I always add a(n) ________ bag for her other children.
1.A. HoweverB. MoreoverC. ThereforeD. Anyway
2.A. cansB. groceriesC. goodsD. bags
3.A. to ignoreB. to judgeC. to complainD. to notice
4.A. ConfusedB. UpsetC. MovedD. Trapped
5.A. frightB. angerC. surpriseD. terror
6.A. work outB. set outC. dig outD. burst out
7.A. childrenB. cyclistsC. youthsD. teenagers
8.A. turned outB. came outC. pointed outD. found out
9.A. gratefulB. hopefulC. concernedD. buried
10.A. onceB. beforeC. untilD. since
11.A. secretB. requestC. presentD. shelter
12.A. numberB. manyC. someD. majority
13.A. layB. ateC. sleptD. played
14.A. giving awayB. giving inC. giving offD. giving up
15.A. devoteB. spareC. affordD. found
16.A. wiseB. activeC. powerfulD. selfless
17.A. meantB. cookedC. scheduledD. rewarded
18.A. tiredB. fondC. frightenedD. proud
19.A. dreamB. preferC. continueD. agree
20.A. entireB. extraC. exactD. sincere
根据短文内容, 从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项
Getting your children to study can be a little like getting them to eat their vegetables.
1. Make a study time and have it at the same time every day. This will help your kids to learn to schedule their day and will give them a sense of control over how they spend their time.
Allow them to study in blocks of time, such as for half an hour with a fiveminute break in the middle. 2. Ideal(理想的) study times are after dinner or right after school before dinner.
Never allow your children to study in front of the television, for that will encourage passive activity. 3.
You'll also need to help your kids find the right place to study. After you've set up a good study time for little learners, set up a good place where they can get those creative juices flowing. 4. Make sure there is a table or a desk and a comfortable chair at this place.
5. This includes helping them out with their homework sometimes and being there for them with the answers to any questions. The input you give your children during study periods will help form a bond and help make studying enjoyable.
A. Pick a place where your children can study properly.
B. Hold them to the schedule they create for themselves.
C. Finally, spend time with your kids when they're studying.
D. Try to stop this bad habit by offering some sort of reward.
E. Keep the atmosphere light and offer lots of encouragement. too.
F. Instead, use TV as a treat or a reward when the homework is completed.
G. One of the best ways to form good study habits for your kids is to design a schedule that they keep to.
There have been big changes in the attitudes of most parents over the last few years. Physical punishment is banned(被禁止) in schools in most countries, and in many countries, there are moves to ban all physical punishment of children even at home. However, many parents still believe that they have the right to use some physical punishments to deal with certain misbehavior at certain ages.
It’s easy to find reasons to allow some physical punishments. One issue is that many parents find it very difficult to give up physical punishment completely. Parents argue that this was the way they were brought up and that it didn’t do any harm to them. They believe that for the child’s sake they have the right to discipline (惩罚) the child in any way they consider fit, including using some physical punishments. The other one is that physical punishment can be quick and effective. There is not much point reasoning with a screaming child in the supermarket.
However, there are several reasons why we should stop using physical punishment. One point is that most parents are not trained to deal with misbehaving children. They don’t have enough resources or choices to handle the situation. As a result, they immediately react by hitting the child even if there are other solutions to the problem. Another point is that unless people are challenged or forced to change their belief, they may keep following negative habits. An example is seat belt use — now most people wear seat belts without thinking, while years ago the idea of using seat belts was strange to most people. In the same way, banning physical punishment will force people to change their habits.
In conclusion, parents have to change some of their belief and ideas about how children should be raised. It is possible to avoid the use of physical force, and doing so will help us move closer to the dream of removing violence from our society.
1.According to the first paragraph, many parents think that ________.
A．most of the children behave badly in their daily life
B．they have changed their attitudes towards their children
C．physical punishment is effective to educate their children
D．they are free to use physical punishment on their children
2.Many parents won’t give up physical punishment because ________.
A．they are disappointed with their children
B．they don’t want to hurt their children badly
C．they were brought up just in the same way
D．they don’t know what to do with their children
3.The author gives the example of using seat belts in order to show ________.
A．most people are used to wearing seat belts
B．people won’t change their old habits unless forced
C．seat belts are really very necessary and useful
D．it’s not difficult to change some negative habits
4.The main purpose of the author in writing this passage is to ________.
A．talk about a ban on using physical punishment
B．tell us we should educate our children in other ways
C．advise parents to give up using physical punishment
D．suggest physical punishment should be used at home
Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new material that can move heat out of buildings and into space. The researchers say the material can cool buildings even on hot days. The cooling material is a very thin sheet with many layers that could be placed on a roof like solar panels(板). However, instead of turning sunlight into energy as solar panels do, the material turns heat into radiation.
Shanhui Fan is an electrical engineering professor at Stanford University. He says that the panels have a layer of material that is like sand. The panels act like a mirror. They take heat out of buildings and reflect the light from the sun. And he says both the heat and sunlight are sent 100 kilometers into outer space. "It's a structure(构造) that cools itself without electricity input, even under the sun. So, what it does is basically radiate heat to outer space and also reflect the sunlight so it doesn't get heated up by the sun. Mr. Fan says it is like having a window into space. The heat is sent directly into space without warming the air.”
He says buildings in developing countries that do not have electricity or air conditioning could use the panels. "In areas where electricity is out of reach for many people, there is a potential (潜在的) benefit for storing medicine or even food. In many of these situations, being able to reduce the temperature is important. And this would provide a way to do it.”
The researchers say the main problem is creating actual cooling systems using the high-tech panels. They say it may be possible to develop a cooling spray(喷涂) that could be used on present solid structures. They believe the cooling spray technology could be developed in the next three to five years. They say as much as 15 percent of the energy used in the United States is spent providing power to air conditioning systems.
1.The first paragraph mainly tells us ________.
A. living on hot days is no longer a big problem now
B. a new material is created to cool the buildings
C. researchers are developing new solar panels on roofs
D. the new material is a very thin sheet with many layers
2.How does the panel work?
A. It takes in the heat and cools it down.
B. It uses a mirror to reflect the sunlight.
C. It sends heat away right into space.
D. It has a window to let out the heat.
3.The new material is especially useful in areas that ________.
A. suffer high temperature
B. have poor air conditioning
C. have plenty of food
D. are short of power
4.What can you infer from the passage?
A. The appliance of the new panel is still under research.
B. Some people got benefits from producing the panels.
C. People may have problems in using the new material.
D. The new panels may save 15 percent of the energy.
You have probably heard of the Mozart effect. It’s the idea that if children or even babies listen to music composed by Mozart, they will become more intelligent. A quick Internet search suggests plenty of products to assist you in the task. Whatever your age there are CDs and books to help you taste the power of Mozart’s music, but when it comes to scientific evidence that it can make you more clever, the picture is more mixed.
The phrase “the Mozart effect” was made up in 1991, but it was a study described two years later in the journal Nature that sparked real media and public interest about the idea that listening to classical music somehow improves the brain. It is one of those ideas that sound reasonable. Mozart was undoubtedly a genius himself; his music is complex （复杂的）and there is a hope that if we listen to enough of it, we’ll become more intelligent.
The idea got across to the public, with thousands of parents playing Mozart to their children, and in 1998 Zell Miller, the Governor of the state of Georgia in the US, even asked for money to be set aside in the state budget so that every newborn baby could be sent a CD of classical music. It was not just babies and children who were exposed to Mozart’s music on purpose, even an Italian farmer proudly explained that the cows were played Mozart three times a day to help them to produce better milk.
I’ll leave the debate on the impact on milk yield to farmers, but what about the evidence that listening to Mozart makes people more intelligent? More research was carried out but an analysis of sixteen different studies confirmed that listening to music does lead to a temporary improvement in the ability to handle shapes mentally, but the benefits are short-lived and it doesn’t make us more intelligent.
1.What can we learn from paragraph 1?
A. Mozart composed many musical pieces for children.
B. Children listening to Mozart will be more intelligent.
C. There are few products on the Internet about Mozart’s music.
D. There is little scientific evidence to support Mozart effect.
2.The underlined sentence in paragraph 3 suggests that ________.
A. the idea was accepted by many people
B. people were strongly against the idea
C. Mozart played an important part in people’s life
D. the US government helped promote the idea
3.What is the author’s attitude towards the Mozart effect?
A. Favorable.B. Objective.C. Positive.D. Doubtful.
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Listening to Mozart, necessary?
B. What music is beneficial?
C. What is the Mozart effect?
D. To accept Mozart or not to?
留意一下我们的周边，可以发现陪读现象蔚然成风。请你根据以下要点写一篇短文，内容应包括：
1．简要描述陪读现象；
2．分析父母陪读的原因(2至3个)；
3．发表你对此的看法。
注意：1. 短文必须写在指定区域。
2. 词数100左右。
3. 内容充实，结构完整，语意连贯。
4. 书写需清晰、工整。
Should our parents accompany us in studying at school?
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