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Most students do an IQ test early in their school career. Even if they never see their results, they feel that their IQ is 1. determines how well they are going to do in life. When they see other students doing 2. (good)than them, they usually believe that those students have 3. higher IQ and that there is nothing they can do 4. (change) facts. However, new research into EQ suggests that success is not 5.(simple) the result of a high IQ.
While your IQ tells you how 6.(intelligence) you are, your EQ tells you how well you use your intelligence. Professor Salovery, who 7. (invent) the term EQ, gives the following description: At work, it is IQ 8. gets you promoted. Supported by his academic research, Professor Salovery suggests that when 9.(predict) someone's future success, their character, 10.is measured by EQ tests, might actually matter more than their IQ.
Sometimes, people are required to fill in personal information when they register online, which may lead to some unexpected trouble. Recently, the BBC is reporting that a 17-year-old girl in Australia posted a ______ of her grandmother at home counting a large sum of cash that she ______ hidden in the house. Just eight hours later, two armed men ____the girl’s house. They demanded to speak to the girl to find out where her grandmother’s house was, ______ they could get the money they had seen ______ , the girl was not at home at the time, so the robbers ______ a small amount of cash from her mother and left.
Because the ______ is still under investigation, local police aren’t saying ______ else about it. It’s not known yet whether the girl had used privacy setting on the Facebook profile page, and even whether the robbers ______ the girl in the past.
Two other______were at home then, a 58-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy, the girl’s father and brother. Luckily, no one was _____. The robbers left peacefully after ______ that the girl was not at home and that no one else there knew anything about the ______ that had appeared in the photo.
Police in both Britain and Australia are using the case to______citizens of the dangers of posting personal information on social betworks and to suggest users of websites _____ doing so. The police say it is _____ that the girl posted a comment in the past that gave clues to the address, ______ that the robbers knew the girl in another way. ______ , they suggest, a posting by a friend on his or her site could have _____ such information. To find it, the robbers would only have had to search for those postings on other pages that ______ the girl’s name.
1.A. picture B. story C. blog D. video
2.A. got B. made C. remained D. kept
3.A. ran into B. broke into C. knocked at D. looked at
4.A. even if B. as if C. so that D. in case
5.A. Fortunately B. Usually C. Finally D. Suddenly
6.A. spent B. left C. took D. asked
7.A. robber B. family C. case D. girl
8.A. Few B. much C. little D. many
9.A. ignored B. followed C. remembered D. knew
10.A. Members B. adults C. characters D. neighbors
11.A. Escaped B. harmed C. killed D. buried
12.A. Showing B. understanding C. recognizing D. discovering
13.A. cash B. grandmother C. house D. website
14.A. inform B. warn C. rob D. accuse
15.A. Enjoy B. consider C. keep D. stop
16.A. Strange B. important C. necessary D. possible
17.A. Or B. so C. but D. and
18.A. Instead B. However C. Therefore D. Besides
19.A. Taken up B. set up C. given away D. put away
20.A. drew B. contained C. attracted D. called
You may ride on your bicycle in a rush to get to school every morning.1. You may also watch taxis crawl their way through traffic jams.
No matter where you are, all big cities around the world have traffic jams these days. But although they all have their problems, many cities also have a type of transport (交通) that has become a cultural icon (圣像).
In London, to avoid the traffic above ground, people use the "underground",also called the"tube".2. It brings a lot of convenience to its own residents and visitors and it is the pride of many Londoners. With 12 lines and 275 stations across the city, the tube, is normally the quickest and easiest way of getting around London. In London, you are never far from a tube station.
3.They serve as a quick and easy way of getting across Manhattan, where the subway doesn't take you everywhere. Stopping a cab is easy; just stick out your arm like you do in any city. But, with over 12,000 yellow cabs in the Big Apple, they also cause traffic jams.
Since 1873 when the first cable car started public service, the slow and noisy vehicle has been a symbol of San Francisco. Although once damaged by a serious earthquake and challenged by cars, it is never caught in traffic jams and provides better views than the subway. 4.
But there are no such symbols in Los Angeles. If you visit you' d better rent a car. 5.It can take hours to get across town by bus. The subway covers just a small part of the city center. The light rail line only runs between the Long Beach hotel area and the city center. That' s why Angelenos love their private cars more than any other people in the world.
A. No wonder it’s always the first choice for commuters and tourists there.
B. You may fight to get a bit of space on a bus or on the subway.
C. The city has the oldest and most complicated underground railway system in the world.
D. The city' s public transportation is terrible.
E. At this time every day, bike rides will be the most reliable means of transportation.
F. New York is famous for its yellow cabs.
G.There will always be one for you to every corner, fast and no worry.
Young people almost never get a good press(评论) these days. “Their outlook is centered on trashy books and films,” expressed one citizen in a letter I recently came across in the Daily Mail. It seems that people have been complaining about the young since ancient times. However, the young are probably no worse than they’ve ever been. And I think they’re better. Teenagers today are brighter, more energetic, more outgoing, and more interesting than any generation before.
The truth is, we hear plenty of bad news about youth, but we never hear about the majority. Surely they all want to be footballers or attractive models? Not a bit of it. When research company Britain-Thinks examined teenagers attitudes earlier this year, they found that the most popular goal (shared by some 70 percent) was to “have a job you love”, followed by having a university degree, owning your own home and being in a happy, long-term relationship. It tallies with another study by the Institute for Economic and Social Research, which found that what made teenagers happiest wasn’t a new smart-phone or pair of shoes, but “the simple things in life” such as close friends, going swimming and spending time with their parents.
Indeed, the more you look at the young, the more impressive they seem. They are, of course, more technologically knowledgeable and skillful than any generation before them. But the interesting thing is that they’re not merely consumers; they’re creators. Think of all those young people developing their own websites or machines.
Seventeen-year-old Nick D’Aloisio is an example. He invented a news-summary app (应用程序)called Summly and sold it to Yahoo this year for a reported £18 million. The company offered him a job in California, but he turned it down. “I’ll be staying in London,” he explained. “I want to finish my A levels and I couldn’t really live on my own out there.”
Of course they aren’t perfect, and every generation has its fair share of bad apples. But I think our future is in safe hands.
1.The underlined part “tallies with” in Paragraph 2 probably means “ ” .
A. leads to B. focuses on
C. agrees with D. belongs to
2.The example of the seventeen-year-old is to show that young people .
A. Are quite creative B. can find a job easily
C. can earn a living by themselves D. are homesick for their hometown
3.What’s the author’s attitude towards the young generation?
A. Worried. B. Surprised.
C. Uninterested. D. Hopeful.
January means it’s time for coats and gloves and cold weather. While many of us are preparing ourselves for the cold weeks ahead, in some cities winter is the “hottest” season of all because it’s the time for winter festivities.
Every year 2 million people visit the Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan. This internationally well-known event began in 1950, when some local high-school students built six snow statues in Odori Park. Since then, the festival has grown to include lots of snow sculptures as well as a snow-sculpting contest that draws competitors from all over the world.
In December, Finland created its 13th annual Snow Village, which will remain open until April, if weather permits. Snow Village lies nearly 200 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. The village is designed by builders skilled in working with snow and ice. Visitors can take a tour of the village, eat in a restaurant made of ice or go dancing in the disco igloo(拱形圆顶小屋). They can also spend the night in a hotel made of snow. There’s even an ice chapel(小礼拜堂) for couples who want to get married in Snow Village.
Since 1935, the Fur Rendezvous has been held every February in Anchorage, Alaska, America’s most northern state. Among the festival’s many attractions is the World Championship Sled Dog Race, which draws sled dog teams from many countries. Dogs also take center stage in the Dog Weight Pull, in which dogs compete to see which one can pull the heaviest weight. The festival features sports like skiing, basketball, boxing and softball as well as the Grand Prix Auto Race in downtown Anchorage. True to the festival’s name, there’s also a fur auction(拍卖), where buyers buy real Alaskan furs. The first Fur Rendezvous lasted only three days. Now it’s a 10-day event that attracts thousands of visitors.
1.What can we learn about the Sapporo Snow Festival from the second paragraph?
A. How it got started. B. How long it lasts.
C. Who is in charge of it. D. How much it costs to attend it.
2.What happens at Snow Village?
A. Skating matches. B. Design contests.
C. Indoor weddings. D. Cooking competitions.
3.Anyone who visits the Fur Rendezvous can .
A. buy what he wants B. play any sports he likes
C. attend a strength competition D. come across different sled dogs
4.what do the three winter festivities mentioned in the text have in common?
A. They all last ten days. B. They are all held every year.
C. They all have a long history. D. They are all held at the same time.
In China, many people are leaving the countryside to find jobs in the cities, because the countryside is much poorer than the city, and often there isn’t much work there. Services such as hospital and transport are usually much better in the city than in the countryside. They hope that their lives will improve when they move to the city.
But in the big cities of Europe like London or Pads, people are moving out of the city. These rich families want to live a quieter life. They are tired of the noise and the dirt of the city, and they are tired of the crowded streets, crowded trains and buses. They don’t want to live in the cities any more. They want a house with a garden in the countryside, and breathe the fresh air there.
So they move out of the cities. Some don’t go very far, just a little way out of the city, to the towns near the cities, other people move to the real countryside with sheep, cows and green fields. There, they start new lives and try to make new friends.
Not all those who move from the city to the countryside are happy. After two or three years, many people who have done this feel that it was a big mistake. They don’t make so much money and there isn’t much work to do. People in the countryside are very different and aren’t always very friendly.
As a result, quite a lot of people who have moved to the countryside move back to the city. "
It’s wonderful to see crowds in the streets and cinema lights," they say.
1.Which is NOT the reason for people moving to the cities in China?
A. The countryside is much poorer than me city.
B. People in the countryside have nothing to eat.
C. People in the countryside don’t have much work to do there.
D. Services in cities are usually much better than those in the countryside.
2.Why do some rich families in Europe move to the countryside?
A. Because they will find good jobs.
B. Because they can make more money there.
C. Because they are tired of living in the city.
D. Because they like feeding sheep and cows in the green fields.
3.The underlined sentence in the last paragraph shows __________.
A. they are happy to move back to the city
B. they miss their friends in the countryside
C. they still want to move to the countryside
D. they are tired of the noise and the crowded streets in the city
4.The best title of this passage may be “__________”.
A. A happy life! B. Living in the city!
C. Living in the countryside! D. Moving out or moving back?
