In our world today,the media and entertainment industries are constantly focusing on beauty over brains. Movies,television shows,commercials,and magazines all make use of models and actors whose physical attributes (特性) will sell their product.
As our country is trying to reduce the obesity numbers,eating disorder statistics continue to increase due to the push for thinner people. While obesity is a serious medical condition that can lead to many health problems,many of us try to lose weight for appearance purposes. Children as young as elementary school age have begun to worry about the numbers that appear on the scale. In my opinion,it seems that “fat” has become the new “ugly”.
Two weeks ago,37-year-old Wisconsin television reporter Livingston,who is 235 pounds,received an e-mail from a man named Krause. In the e-mail Krause attacked her,writing, “Your physical condition hasn’t improved for many years. Surely you don’t consider yourself a suitable example for this community’s young people,girls in particular. ”
Today,it seems that a vast majority of people care more about how they look and appear to their peers rather than what is inside. The truth is that every person is built differently;we all come in different shapes and sizes. Just because someone is heavier,that doesn’t mean they eat large amounts of junk food around the day. Likewise,even though a person is thin,that doesn’t mean they are necessarily healthy and fit.
If you are reading this and you struggle with your weight or your appearance,please recognize that you are beautiful and special in your own way. You are worth so much more than you realize,and even if I don’t know you,understand that I respect and support you. Beauty is not defined by size;it is defined by how we treat others and respect ourselves. In the words of the talented film actress Kirstie Alley, “There’s a lot more to life than how fat or thin you are. ”
( ) 1. With so many people losing weight,it will end in
A. models’ and actors’ appearance in ads
B. the fall of media and entertainment industries
C. more and more people becoming obese
D. more people’s suffering from eating disorder
( ) 2. The underlined phrase “the numbers that appear on the scale” in the second paragraph may mean“ ”
A. intelligence B. weight
C. patience D. strength
( ) 3. The writer used the example of Livingston to show
A. people think “fat” looks ugly
B. fat people are becoming cleverer
C. her physical condition is good
D. young people never follow examples
( ) 4. What Kirstie Alley said means .
A. people should pay attention to the appearance
B. there is no need for any people to go on a diet
C. people are beautiful when they concern others
D. there’s always someone who understands and supports you
[文章大意]這篇文章講了減肥會造成一些不好的影響，并且詮釋了美的真諦。
1. D細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)"As our country is trying to reduce the obesity numbers,eating disorder statistics continue to increase due to the push for thinner people.”可知，越來越多的人減月巴會導(dǎo)致更多的人飲食混亂，故選D.
2. B詞義猜測題。根據(jù)"While obesity is a serious medical condition that can lead to many health problems many of us try to lose weight for appearance purposes. Children as young as elementary school age have begun to worry about the num?bers that appear on the scale.”可猜出the numbers that ap?pear on the scale意思是"體重"，故選B.
3. A推理判斷題。根據(jù)"Two weeks ago,37-year-old Wiscon?sin television reporter Livingston,who is 235 pounds,re?ceived an e-mail from a man named Krause. In the e-mail Krause attacked her,writing” Your physical condition hasn't improved for many years. Surely you don't consider yourself a suitable example for this community's young people girls in particular.'"可推測作者用Livingston的例子說明人們認(rèn)為"胖"看起來很丑，故選A.
4. C推理判斷題。根據(jù)"Beauty is not defined by size;it is de?fined by how we treat others and respect ourselves. In the words of the talented film actress Kirstie Alley, 'There's a lot more to life than how fat or thin you are."，可知，人們關(guān)心其他人時就是美麗的，故選C。
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Tips for cooking on a tight schedule From my experience,there are three main reasons why people don’t cook more often： ability,money and time.
1. Money is a topic I’ll save for another day. So today I want to give you some wisdom about how to make the most of the time you spend in the kitchen. Here are three tips for great cooking on a tight schedule：
1. Think ahead. The moments when I think cooking is a pain are when I’m already hungry and there is nothing ready to eat. So think about of the coming week. When will you have time to cook? Do you have the right materials ready?
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2. Make your time worth it. When you do find time to cook a meal,make the most of it and save yourself time later on. Are you making one loaf of bread?3. It takes around the same amount of time to make more of something. So save yourself the effort for a future meal.
3. 4. This may surprise you,but one of the best tools for making cooking worth your time is experimentation. It gives you the chance to hit upon new ideas and recipes that can work well with your appetite and schedule. The more you learn and the more you try,the more ability you have to take control of your food and your schedule.
Hopefully that gives you a good start.5. Don’t let a busy schedule discourage you from making some great changes in the way you eat and live!
A. Try new things.
B. Ability is easily improved.
C. Make three or four instead.
D. Understand your food better.
E. Cooking is a burden for many people.
F. Let cooking and living simply be a joy rather than a burden.
G. A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on.
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Great changes have taken place in the countryside in our country.
As a child,I lived in a poor family. The second hand clothes,the rain-leaking roof of the old house became part of my memory.1. ，the worst impression is that I
2. (feel) hungry all the time. Sometimes hunger hit me so severely 3. I regarded dried sweet potato slices as delicious snack. At that time,my dream was getting enough to fill my empty stomach.
In the early years of the 1980s,as the reform and opening-up policy 4. (carry) out,our dream came true.And then,5. dream became clearer and clearer in my mind. I must try my best to escape out of my poor and backward hometown. I worked 6. (hard) at my study than most of my classmates,and,after luckily 7. (succeed) in the national College Entrance Ex amination,I realized my dream again： after graduation,I became a citizen working in a city.8. the first college graduate out of a remote village,my success set 9. example for my folks. They came to realize that schooling is a good way to change one’s fate (命運(yùn)).In the following years,there were fewer drop-outs and more college graduates in my village,10. I am proud of even today.
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In a class this past December,after I wrote some directions on the board for students about their final examination,one young woman quickly took a picture of the board using her smart phone. When I looked in her direction,she apologized ：“Sorry. Was it wrong to take a picture?”
“I can’t read my own handwriting,” the young woman explained. “It’s best if I take a picture of your writing so I can understand the notes. ”
That remark started a class-wide conversation about taking a picture instead of taking notes. For those in the phototaking camp,motivations extended beyond their inability to comprehend their own handwriting. Some took pictures of notes because they knew their phone was a safe place to store material. They might lose paper,they reasoned,but they wouldn’t lose their phones. Some took photos because they wanted to record exactly the manner in which I had noted information on the board. Others told me that during class they liked to be able to listen to the discussion attentively.
Yet the use of cameras as note takers,though it may be convenient,does raise significant questions for the classroom. Is a picture an effective replacement for the process of note-taking?
Instructors encourage students to take notes because the act of doing so is more than merely recording necessary information—it helps prepare the way for understanding. Encouraging students to take notes may be an old-fashioned instructional method,but a method having a long history doesn’t mean it’s out of date. Writing things down engages a student’s brain in listening,visual,and kinesthetic (動覺的) learning—a view supported by a longstanding research. The act of writing down information enables a person to begin committing it to memory,and to process and combine it,establishing the building blocks of learning new concepts.
Taking a picture does indeed record the information,but it deletes some of the necessary mental engagement that taking notes employs. So can the two be equally effective?
I’m not sure how to measure the effectiveness of either method. For now,I allow students to take notes however they see fit—handwritten or photographed—because I figure that some notes,no matter the method of note-taking,are better than none.
( ) 1. The woman apologized in the class because she
A. took a picture of the board
B. missed the teacher’s directions
C. had the bad handwriting
D. disturbed other students’ learning
( ) 2. Students refuse to take notes by hand because
A. they are unable to take notes
B. they are more likely to lose notes
C. they are interested in using their phones
D. they have a good memory of teachers’ instructions
( ) 3. According to the passage,taking notes by hand
A. requires students to think independently
B. is unsuitable for students to learn new ideas
C. helps students actively participate in learning
D. proves to be an old and useless learning method
( ) 4. What’s the author’s opinion towards taking notes by phone?
A. Supportive.
B. Neutral.
C. Doubtful.
D. Disapproving.
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In recent years,learning Chinese 1. (become)popular among people around the world. Last month,I 2. (receive) an e-mail from my cousin Jack in Cana da. He said he was enthusiastic about Chinese,and asked me to find him some books 3. (intend) for Chinese beginners. I was very pleased to do 4. a favour. So I went from one bookstore to 5. ， hoping to find something suitable for him.6. I selected a set of Chinese textbooks among a variety of similar ones. Then I went to a post office to have them 7. (deliver) by air without delay. Several days later,I received Jack’s e-mail,8. (say) that he really appreciated the books I 9. (send) ,I'm very glad that Jack is begin ning to learn Chinese just like many other foreigners abroad,10. I know it may be an enjoyable challenge for him.
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B An increase in students applying to study economics at university is being attributed to the global economic crisis awakening a public thirst for knowledge about how the financial system works.
Applications for degree courses beginning this autumn were up by 15% this January,according to UCAS,the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. A spokesman for the Royal Economic Society said applications to do economics at A-level were also up.
Professor John Beath,the president of the society,and a leading lecturer at St Andrews University,said his first-year lectures—which are open to students from all departments— were drawing crowds of 400,rather than the usual 250.
“There are a large number of students who are not economics majors,who would like to learn something about it. One of the things I have done this year is to relate my teaching to contemporary events in a way that one hasn’t traditionally done. ” He added.
University applications rose by 7 % last year. But there were rises above average in several subjects. Nursing saw a 15% jump,with people’s renewed interest in careers in the public sector,which are seen as more secure in economic crisis.
A recent study showed almost two thirds of parents believed schools should do more to teach pupils about financial matters,and almost half said their children had asked them what was going on,although a minority of parents felt they did not understand it themselves well enough to explain.
Zack Hocking,the head of Child Trust Funds,said, “It’s possible that one good thing to arise from the downturn will be a generation that’s financially wiser and better equipped to manage their money through times of economic uncertainty. ”
( ) 5. Professor John Beath’s lectures are.
A. given in a traditional way
B. open to both students and their parents
C. connected with the present situation
D. warmly received by economists
( ) 6. Incomes in the public sector are more attractive because of their.
A. greater stability B. higher pay
C. fewer applications D. better reputation
( ) 7. According to Zack Hocking,the global economic crisis might make the youngsters.
A. have access to better equipment
B. wiser in money management
C. confident about their future careers
D. get jobs in Child Trust Funds
( ) 8. What’s the main idea of the text?
A. Universities have received more applications.
B. College students benefit a lot from economic uncertainty.
C. Economics is attracting an increasing number of students.
D. Parents are concerned with children’s subject selection.
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Historians usually just study great things that happened in the past time,but Drew Faust has made history!On February 11,2007,Faust was named president of Harvard University. She is the first woman to hold the position in the school’s history.
“I am a historian ,” she said. “I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the past,and about how it shapes the future. No university in the country,perhaps the world,has as remarkable a past as Harvard’s. ”
“And our common enterprise is to make Harvard’s future even more remarkable than its past. That will mean recognizing and building on what we already do well. It will also mean recognizing what we don’t do as well as we should,and not being satisfied until we find ways to do better. ”
It is her great desire for improvement and willingness to try out new ideas that have given Drew success in a world controlled by men. “This is a man’s world,my girl,and the sooner you learn that,the better off you’ll be. ” Drew Faust recalls her mother telling her this when she was young,but she didn’t accept it.
Faust grew up in a well-off family in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley in the 1950s. Even then,she was a trailblazer (先驅(qū)) .A conversation with her family’s black handyman (零工) and driver inspired her to write a letter,on school notebook paper,to Dwight Eisenhower.
She asked that he help bring US citizens together in the south,a much divided part of the country at the time.
“Drew Faust is a historian with her eyes on the future,” said Susan Graham,a professor of Harvard. Many of the university’s schools said that they believe Harvard will have a brighter future under the leadership of Drew Faust.
( ) 1. Why does the writer say Drew Faust has made his tory?
A. Because she is a historian.
B. Because she was president of Harvard University.
C. Because she was the first woman to be president of Harvard University.
D. Because Harvard has a remarkable past.
( ) 2. What do we know about historians?
A. They usually study great things that happened in the past.
B. They are usually presidents of universities.
C. They are usually born in well-off families.
D. They are usually women.
( ) 3. What did her mother mean by saying “This is a man’s world,my girl" ”？
A. To encourage her to do men’s work.
B. To tell her to do things as a girl should do.
C. To ask her to be well-off.
D. To expect her to be a historian.
( ) 4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Faust was born in the north of the US.
B. She wrote a letter to Eisenhower when she became president of Harvard.
C. Faust’s desire for improvement and willingness to try out new ideas has given her success.
D. Historians just care about great things that happened in the past.
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Seated in a convertible (敞蓬車) with the top down at 60 miles an hour,Mary looked at the flies that sat on top of Mark’s hair. How could they stay there? She wondered.
Mary had not seen Mark in years,until the other day when he came into the cafe where she worked. His appearance was different from when he was in high school. Now,he was a bit fat and thick glasses covered his eyes. However,that didn’t change Mary’s feelings for him at all. He had just bought a new red sports car and asked her if she would like to go for a ride and then have dinner with him. Her heart beat with excitement as he opened the door for her. She noticed something very strange as Mark got into the car and started to drive away. On the hair was a group of flies just sitting there.
Mary stared in amazement. It seemed the faster they drove,the more determined the flies were to stick to his hair.
Mary remained silent. She leaned forward and turned the radio on,to try to divert her attention away from the flies,but she couldn’t help thinking about them. She looked up at Mark,who was completely devoted to what was going on and continued to sing to the music while driving merrily along.
Finally,Mark pulled the vehicle over to the side of the road beside a diner and looked in the mirror and said, “Mary,I would like to comb my hair before we get something to eat. Could you reach under the seat and give me my hair cream?”
Mary reached under the seat and pulled out a camping backpack,which contained a round jar and started to laugh wildly as she pointed to the label (商標(biāo)) •
“That’s not hair cream on your hair,Mark!It says it’s Fly Trap Glue!”
( ) 5. The underlined word “divert” in Paragraph 4 can be replaced by “ ___”.
A. take B. absorb
C. replace D. recover
( ) 6. Why did Mary burst into laughter?
A. Because Mark had prepared a jar of hair cream for her.
B. Because Mary played a trick on Mark.
C. Because Mark had mistaken Fly Trap Glue for hair cream.
D. Because their ride wasn’t well prepared.
( ) 7. What’s the best title for this passage?
A. A Wonderful Ride B. Unchanged Love
C. A Hair Trick D. Stuck on You
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