We high school students do have some growing pains,1. we can get rid of them correctly and wisely. First, some of us are upset 2. their body styles and looks. It’s unnecessary and it’s not important at all. We needn’t care about it. It is one’s inner beauty 3. matters. Second, we sometimes seem to be misunderstood by our teachers, parents and classmates.4. (face) with this, we can find 5. proper time to have a heart-to-heart talk with them, trying to remove the 6. (understand). Some of us have fewer in ends. I think being open-minded and friendly 7. (do) you good. Third, we may fall behind others,8. makes us stressed. Actually we can encourage 9. to work efficiently, full of determination. Lastly, some of us don’t have much pocket money, so they feel unhappy. Isn’t it strange? So long as we have some, that’s enough. And we can learn 10. to spend money.
Mike was cycling along a road in Canada’s Yukon, halfway through a 2,750-mile bike tour to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. He was carrying a 30-pound camping bag,______ he wasn’t moving very fast. Suddenly he heard loud breathing behind him. “Man, that’s a big dog!” he thought. He looked to the side, but to his great ______, he saw, that it wasn’t a dog, but a wolf, running hard to ______ him.
Mike’s heart jumped. He reached for the ______ from his bag. With one hand on the handlebar, he ______ the spray. A bright red cloud ______ the wolf in time, and it fell back, shaking its head. But a minute later it was by his side again. He sprayed a second time, and the wolf fell back again, but only to quickly restart its ______.
The wolf was getting closer and closer,______ a dozen yards away. Mike waved and yelled at passing motorists, but meanwhile ______ hard. He knew clearly that he must be ______ not to slow down. Otherwise, he would become a ______ of the wolf.
Paul and Becky were driving along the same road. From a distance, they spotted what they ______ was a dog running after a man on a bike. As they get ______, they realized it was a wolf.
Mike heard a car coming up behind him, and he slowed down. The car veered around the ______, and then suddenly stopped in front of him. Mike ______ off his bike and dashed for the back ______ of the car. It was locked. Paul quickly ______ the door so as to let Mike in, and the ______ man dived in, shutting the door behind him.
It was quite a while ______ Mike became calm and cried out: “I thought I was going to die!” And Paul and Becky were ______ that they had given a helping hand to people in need.
1.A. but B. so C. for D. or
2.A. regret B. disappointment C. fear D. anger
3.A. catch up with B. break away from C. give in to D. come back to
4.A. hammer B. stick C. gun D. spray
5.A. pressed B. dropped C. threw D. held
6.A. wrapped B. put C. enveloped D. spilt
7.A. journey B. chase C. attack D. run
8.A. still B. just C. also D. even
9.A. rode B. walked C. kicked D. yelled
10.A. crazy B. careful C. wrong D. fair
11.A. killer B. rival C. competitor D. victim
12.A. found B. saw C. assumed D. decided
13.A. closer B. faster C. stronger D. wiser
14.A. pedestrian B. climber C. runner D. cyclist
15.A. sent B. jumped C. fell D. turned
16.A. trunk B. seat C. door D. window
17.A. uploaded B. unfastened C. uncovered D. unlocked
18.A. scary B. frightened C. worried D. confused
19.A. after B. until C. before D. as
20.A. confident B. brave C. glad D. calm
Thanks to expensive data fees, you might be tempted to log onto that free public Wi-Fi service while you’re out and about. 1.
“Think about the cost of being connected all the time. Nothing is free,” David Lee, a product manager for Norton, told CNBC. “2.” The Harvard Business Review agrees: “You’re taking a risk every time you log on to a free network in a coffee shop, hotel lobby, or airport lounge.”
3. According to a survey by the company Symantic, 87 percent of U.S. consumers have used a public internet connection. And it was found that over 70 percent of them checked their personal email through public Wi-Fi, while 11 percent logged onto their online banking account.
No matter how safe the Wi-Fi connection seems to be, using it leaves your computer or smart phone easy to be attacked by hackers and data thieves. You don’t really know who owns and monitors that router, nor who has access to the data that posses through it. Not to mention, hackers have dozens of ways to compromise public Wi-Fi accounts, from creating a network that appears legal to creating pop-ups that trick the user into downloading malware (恶意软件) onto their computers.4.
To protect yourself against hackers, experts say your best defense is a virtual private network (VPN), which encrypts (加密) your online activity. You can download your very own VPN through an app for Apple or Android devices, or by using the free encryption service CyberGhost.5. But before you even start browsing, use this website to make a password that keeps you safe from hackers.
A. These are all of the tricks hackers use to hack your Internet security.
B. That can save you a lot of trouble.
C. The biggest threat is that your data and identity could be completely exposed.
D. Don’t let convenience outweigh the consequences, though.
E. Setting up firewalls and antivirus software will also defend your computer against hackers.
F. Unfortunately, most people are unaware of the dangers.
G Hackers usually steal data in this way.
Language learning begins with listening. Children are greatly different in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and later starters are often long listeners. Most children will “obey” spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word “obey” is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gesture and by making questioning noises.
Any attempt to study the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves as particularly expressive as delight, pain, friendliness, and so on. But since these can’t be said to show the baby’s intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new words to their store. This self-imitation leads on to deliberate imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.
It is a problem we need to get our teeth into. The meaning of a word depends on what a particular person means by it in a particular situation and it is clear that what a child means by a word will change as he gains more experience of the world. Thus the use at seven months of “mama” as a greeting for his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply because he also uses it at other times for his father, his dog, or anything else he likes. Playful and meaningless imitation of what other people say continues after the child has begun to speak for himself. I doubt, however, whether anything is gained when parents take advantage of this ability in an attempt to teach new sounds.
1.Before children start speaking .
A. they need equal amount of listening
B. they need different amounts of listening
C. they are all eager to cooperate with the adults by obeying spoken instructions
D. they can’t understand and obey the adult’s oral instructions
2.Children who start speaking late .
A. may have problems with their listening
B. probably do not hear enough language spoken around them
C. usually pay close attention to what they hear
D. often take a long time in learning to listen property
3.A baby’s first noises are .
A. an expression of his moods and feelings
B. an early form of language
C. a sign that he means to tell you something
D. an imitation of the speech of adults
4.The writer implies .
A. parents can never hope to teach their children new sounds
B. children no longer imitate people after they begin to speak
C. children who are good at imitating learn new words more quickly
D. even after they have learnt to speak, children still enjoy imitating
Fear is a fact of life everyone faces from time to time. In most cases fear is a healthy reaction to a dangerous situation. But sometimes fear can be so extreme that it interferes with normal living. That is what happened to me driving cross-country last summer.
I’d agreed to help my brother, Mac, move from the East Coast to California. He would drive a rental truck loaded with his belongings and I would follow him in his car, then fly back. We figured it would be a simple trip, with four or five motel (motorists’ hotel) stops along the way.
Living and working in coastal Georgia for most of my life, I did not have a great deal of long-distance driving experience. Looking back on it today, I can see that I’d always felt a sudden, sharp pain of fear when driving over small bridges and along hilly highways. And as I was getting ready for the trip I had an unclear concern about the steep mountain roads that lay ahead. But I thought I would get used to them.
As we crossed some high bridges near the Blue Ridge Mountains on the first leg of our trip, a kind of breathlessness gripped me, a sinking, rolling feeling in the pit of my stomach. I tended to move slightly away from the edge of the roadway and the drop-off beyond. My knuckles (指关节) whitened from my tense grip on the steering wheel. At the end of each bridge, a great rush of relief would come over me, only to be replaced in short order by fear of the next obstacle.
When we stopped in Nashville the first night, I mentioned my feelings lo Mac, who is the practical sort. “Oh, that’s nothing.” he said cheerfully. “Lots of people hale driving on mountain roads and high bridges. Just turn up the music on your radio and focus on that. Keep your mind occupied.”
1.Which is NOT the author’s attitude towards fear?
A. Fear can sometimes disturb your life.
B. It is natural to feel fear in everyday life.
C. In dangerous situations, fear may do good to your body.
D. Whenever you feel fear, you are likely to make a wrong decision.
2.How did the author and his brother go to California?
A. They rented a truck and drove it in turn.
B. The author and his brother drove different vehicles.
C. The author drove while his brother flew to California.
D. The author drove a rented car while his brother drove the truck.
3.To the author the trip is .
A. frightening B. pleasant
C. exciting D. exhausting
4.Mac asked his brother to turn on the radio and focus on that in order to let him .
A. keep using his brains
B. kill time during the long trip
C. think of other things instead of fear
D. enjoy the beautiful music along the way
I Was the Doughnut Lady
In university I bad a part-time job at a shop that sold doughnuts and coffee. Situated on a block where several buses stopped, it served the people who had a few minutes to wait for their bus.
Every afternoon around four o’clock, a group of schoolchildren would burst into the shop, and business would come to a stop. Adults would glance in, see the crowd and pass on. But I didn’t mind if the children waited for their bus inside. Sometimes I would hand out a bus fare when a ticket went missing-always repaid the next day. On snowy days I would give away some doughnuts. I would lock the door at closing time, and we waited in the warm shop until their bus finally arrived.
I enjoyed ray young friends, but it never occurred to me that I played an important role in their lives—until one afternoon when a man came and asked if I was the girl working on weekdays around four o’clock. He identified himself as the father of two of my favorites.
“I want you to know I appreciate what you do for my children. I worry about them taking two buses to get borne. It means a lot that they can wait here and you keep an eye on them. When they are with the doughnut lady, I know they are safe.” I told him it wasn’t a big deal, and that I enjoyed the kids.
So I was the Doughnut Lady. I not only received a title, but became a landmark.
Now I think about all the people who keep an eye on my own children. They become, well, Doughnut Ladies. Like the men at the skating rink (滑冰场) who let my boys ring home; Or the bus driver who drove my daughter to her stop at the end of the route at night but wouldn’t leave until I arrived to pick her up; Or that nice police officer who took pity on my boys walking home in the rain when I was at work—even though the phone rang all the next day with calls from curious neighbors. “Was that a police car I saw at your house last night?”
That wasn’t a police car. That was a Doughnut Lady.
1.According to the passage, the author sometimes .
A. sold bus tickets to the children
B. gave the children free doughnuts
C. did business with the children’s help
D. called the children’s parents to pick them up
2.By saying “...it wasn’t a big deal (Para. 4),” the author meant that .
A. she hadn’t done anything significant
B. she hadn’t spent much time with the children
C. she hadn’t made a lot of money from the children
D. she hadn’t found it hard to get along with the children
3.What can we learn about the police officer?
A. He took the boys to the police station.
B. He helped the boys look for their mother.
C. He drove the boys back home in a police car.
D. He managed to make sure of the boys’ identity.
4.The passage suggests that .
A. running a business requires skill
B. taking responsibility is a moral virtue
C. devotion should be everything in life
D. there are always no small acts of kindness
