1.It rained yesterday and as a c_________ (结果) the match was canceled.
2.People who c___________ (吃) large amounts of animal fats are more likely to get cancer and heart disease.
3.She used to be terribly shy, but a year abroad has completely t__________(转变) her.
4.Glasses are f_________(易碎的) and must be handled with great care.
5.In an ________ (紧急情况), dial 911 for police, the fire department or an ambulance.7 percent.
6.“You can go if you want, but I’m staying,” Mary said __________ (瞪着) at Tom.
7. Doctors are required to keep patients’ records completely _______________(机密的).
8.The recipe says you can s______________ (代替) yogurt for the sour cream.
9.Starting with an ______________ (趣闻)or joke will warm up the audience.
10.Workers are ________ (困陷) in the ship’s engine room by the fire.
Fleming was a poor Scottish farmer. One day while working in a field, he heard a cry for help. He immediately 1.(throw) his tools away. Following the sound, Fleming came to a deep bog (沼泽), in which a boy was screaming and sinking. Fleming tied a rope around 2. own waist and the other end 3. a tree, and walked into the bog. With great effort he pulled himself
and the boy to 4. (safe). He quickly took the boy to his farmhouse, where Mrs. Fleming fed him, 5. (dry) his clothes, and sent him home.
The next day a carriage arrived. A well-dressed man stepped out, 6. (say) he was the father of the boy. “You saved my son’s life.” said the man. “7. can I repay you?”
“I don’t want payment.” Fleming replied, “Anyone would have done the same.”
Just then, Fleming’s son appeared at the door.
“Is he your son?” the man asked. “Yes.” said Fleming 8.(happy).
“I have an idea. Let me pay for his education. If he’s like his father, he’ll grow to be a man we’ll both be proud of.”
And so he did. Thus 9. farmer’s son attended the best schools, graduated from a medical college, and became the world-famous Nobel prize-winning scientist and discoverer of penicillin, Sir Alexander Fleming.
It’s said 10. many years later the man saved from the bog caught pneumonia(肺炎).
Penicillin saved his life. His name? Sir Winston Churchill.
I stood up from the bench. Then I ______ my army uniform, while studying the crowd of people _______their way through Grand Central Station. I was looking for the girl whose heart I knew but whose ______ I didn’t, the girl with the rose.
My interest in her had begun thirteen months ______ in a Florida library. Taking a book off the _____, I found myself intrigued（着迷的）, not with the words of the book, _____ with the notes penciled in the margin (页边空白). The soft ______ reflected a thoughtful soul and a insightful mind. In the front of the ______, I discovered the previous owner’s______, Miss May Nell.
With time and ______ I discovered her address. She lived in New York City. I ______ her a letter introducing myself and inviting her to correspond（通信）. The next day I was ______ overseas for ______ in World War II. During the next year and one month we two _______ to know each other ______ the mail. Each letter was a _______falling on a fertile（肥沃的）heart. Then, I______ a photograph, but she refused. She said that if I really ______, it wouldn’t ______ what she looked like.
When the day finally came for me to return from Europe, we arranged for our first meeting—7:00 pm at the Grand Central Station in New York. “ You will ______ me,” she wrote, “by the red rose I’ll be wearing in my lapel(翻领).” So at 7:00 I was in the station looking for the girl whose heart I loved, but whose looks I’d never seen.
1.A. appreciated B. put on C. cleaned D. straightened
2.A. making B. taking C. losing D. finding
3.A. mouth B. face C. legs D. hands[
4.A. after B. later C. ago D. before
5.A. bench B. chair C. desk D. shelf
6.A. however B. so C. but D. therefore
7.A. cover B. notebook C. handwriting D. pencil[
8.A. book B. notes C. library D. station
9.A. friend B. name C. sister D. neighbor
10.A. money B. effort C. excitement D. enjoyment
11.A. got B. received C. read D. wrote
12.A. shipped B. brought C. killed D. wounded
13.A. pleasure B. travel C. service D. further education
14.A. had B. grew C. were D. wanted
15.A. in B. with C. across D. through
16.A. plant B. seed C. fire D. greeting
17.A. asked B. sent C. took D. requested
18.A. helped B. cared C. refused D. hated[
19.A. matter B. occur C. last D. continue
20.A. know B. understand C. see D. recognize
Nature's cheats
Mary is digging in the ground for a potato，when along comes John．Seeing that there is no one in sight, John starts to scream．John's angry mother rushes over and drives Mary away．Once his mum has gone，John helps himself to Mary's potato．
We've a
ll experienced similar annoying tricks when we were young-the brother who stole your ball and then got you into trouble by telling your parents you had hit him．But Mary and John are not humans．They're African baboons（狒狒）．1.
John's scream and his mother's attack on Mary could have been a matter of chance, but John was later seen playing the same tricks on others．2.
Studying behavior like this is complicated, but scientists discovered apes（猿）clearly showed that they intended to cheat and knew when they themselves had been cheated．3. An ape was annoying him, so he tricked her into going away by pretending he had seen something interesting．When she found nothing, she "walked back, hit me over the head with her hand and ignored me for the rest of the day．"
Another way to decide whether an animal's behavior is deliberate is to look for actions that are not normal for that animal．A zoo worker describes how an ape dealt with an enemy．"He slowly stole up behind the other ape, walking on tiptoe．When he got close to his enemy, he pushed him violently in the back, then ran indoors．" Wild apes do not normally walk on tiptoe．4. But looking at the many cases of deliberate trickery in apes, it is impossible to explain them all as simple copying．
It seems that trickery does play an important part in ape societies．5. Studying the intelligence of our closest relative could be the way to understand the development of human intelligence．
A．In most cases the animal probably doesn't know it is cheating．
B．An amusing example of this comes from a psychologist working in Tanzania．
C．And playing tricks is as much a part of monkey behavior as it is of human behavior．
D．So the psychologists asked his colleagues if they had noticed this kind of trickery．
E．The ability of animals to cheat may be a better measure of their intelligence than their use
of tools．
F．This use of a third individual to achieve a goal is only one of the many tricks commonly
used by baboons．
G．Of course it's possible that it could have learnt from humans that such behavior works, without understanding why．
According to a new US study, couples who expect their children to help care for them in old age should hope they have daughters because they are likely to be twice as attentive as sons overall.
The research by Angelina Grigoryeva, a sociologist at Princeton University, found that, while women provide as much care for their elderly parents as they can manage, men do as little as they can get away with and often leave it to female family members.
Her analysis of the family networks of 26,000 older Americans concluded that gender(性别) is the most important predictor(预示物) of whether or not people will actively care for elderly parents.
In a paper being presented at the annual conference of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco, she concludes that simply having a sister makes men statistically likely provide less care.
Using data from the University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study, a study which has been tracking a cross-section of over-50s for the last decade, she calculated that women provide an average of 12.3 hours a month of care for elderly parents while men offer only 5.6 hours.
“Whereas the amount of elderly parent care daughters provide is associated with limitations they face, such as employment or childcare, sons’ caregiving is associated only with the presence or absence of other helpers, such as sisters or a parent’s spouse(配偶),” she explained.
“Sons reduce their relative caregiving efforts when they have a sister, while daughters increase theirs when they have a brother.”
“This suggests that sons pass on parent caregiving responsibilities to their sisters.”
In the UK, the 2011 census(人口普查) showed that there are now around 6.5 million people with caring responsibilities – a figure which has risen by a tenth in a decade.
But many are doing so at the risk of their own health. The census showed that those who provide 50 hours or more of care a week while trying to hold down a full- time job are three times more likely to be struggling with ill health than their working counterparts(相对应的人) who are not carers.
1.What’s the most important factor to predict if people will actively care for the elderly?
A. Gender. B. Education.
C. Career. D. Family networks.
2.The US study finds that _______.
A. sons are twice as likely as daughters to care for parents in old age
B. having a sister makes men less likely to do their fair share
C. sons and daughters seem to give equal care to their parents
D. sons are unwilling to leave caregiving responsibilities to female family members
3.What does the author stress in the last paragraph?
A. People should give up their jobs to care for the elderly.
B. Many care providers work longer hours than others.
C. People shouldn’t pass on caring responsibilities to others.
D. Many care providers have potential health problems.
4.The author develops the text by _______.
A. explaining social networks of careers
B. describing people’s experiences
C. analyzing various research and data
D. comparing different gender behavior
The son of a piano producer, Elwyn Brooks White was born in Mount Vernon in a wealthy family．And he was raised with the mix of sophistication（富有经验）and common sense that would mark his writing．
After graduation, White spent a year as a newspaper reporter in New York City, then decided to drive across the country with a friend．The trip gave White a lifetime of anecdotes．“When they ran out of money," White's friend, James Thurber, noted, "they played for their supper and their gasoline on an interesting musical instrument that White had made out of some pieces of wire and an old shoe．"
When White returned to New York City in the mid-1920s, he spent a few years bouncing between advertising jobs and unemployment before trying his hand again at writing．Not very seriously, he sent some essays to a new magazine called The New Yorker．Since its founding in 1925, the magazine had struggled to find its niche, and White's work helped put The New Yorker on the map．His essays were funny and sophisticated; they spoke equally to socialites(社会名流）and cab drivers, professors and repairmen．Through his essays, which he wrote for nearly 50 years, White helped give The New Yor
ker its voice and identity．
In 1945, already a leading literary figure, White switched to his second occupation writing children's books．He moved from New York to a farm in Maine, where he raised chickens and geese． Seeking a way to amuse his nieces and nephews, White started to write stories for them．“Children were always after me to tell them a story and I found I couldn't do it," he said．“ So I had to get it down on paper．”
By the time he died from Alzheimer's disease in 1985, White's essays had appeared in more literary collections in colleges than those of any other writer．Many said his essays matched his personality: sophisticated without being simple, critical without being mean．
1.What do we learn from Paragraph 2?
A. White took the trip to realize his lifelong dream．
B. The trip had a lasting effect on White's personality．
C. The travelling companion found White's music talent．
D. White had many experiences to talk about after the trip．
2.The underlined part "its niche" means something that ．
A. suits its sponsors' tastes
B. protects its social identity
C. helps to build its own style
D. voices its authors' concern
3.What do we know about White's works?
A. They originally came from the stories told by his nieces．
B. They were intended for people of different social status．
C. They helped The New Yorker find its position on the map．
D. They were chosen by college textbooks when they came out．
