TIME is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It was created in 1923 by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, making it the first weekly news magazine in the US. Hadden was considered carefree, liked to tease Luce and saw TIME as important but also fun. That accounted for its heavy coverage of celebrities(including politicians), the entertainment industry, and pop culture—criticized as too light for serious news.
It tells the news through people, and for many decades, the magazine’s cover depicted a single person. On Hadden’s death in 1929, Luce became the most important man at TIME and a major figure in the history of 20th-century media.
TIME is also known for its signature red border, first introduced in 1927. It has only changed four times since then. The issue released shortly after the September 11 attacks on the United States featured a black border to symbolize mourning. However, this edition was a special “extra” edition published quickly for the breaking news of the event; the next regularly scheduled issue contained the red border. Additionally, the April 28, 2008 Earth Day issue, dedicated to environmental issues, contained a green border. The next change in border was in the September 19, 2011 issue, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with a metallic silver border. The most recent change(again with a silver border) was in the December 31, 2012 issue, noting Barack Obama’s selection as Man of the Year.
TIME has a division magazine, TIME FOR KIDS(TFK), which is especially published for children and is mainly distributed in classrooms. TFK contains some national news, a “Cartoon of the Week”, and a variety of articles concerning popular culture that the younger U.S. citizens are interested in. All the stories in TFK are written by young reporters.
In some advertising campaigns, the magazine has suggested that the letters TIME stand for “The International Magazine of Events”.TIME has a history of _______.
| A．about 50 years | B．about 70 years |
| C．about 90 years | D．about 150 years |
Why did some people dislike TIME in the beginning?
| A．It had kept its cover the same since the 1920s. |
| B．It didn’t have a serious tone for important events. |
| C．It didn’t report important events quickly enough. |
| D．Henry Luce was in charge of the magazine for too long. |
Why did TIME change its red border for the first time?
| A．To remember the 10th anniversary of an attack. |
| B．To remind readers to protect the environment. |
| C．To show great sadness about the deaths. |
| D．To call on readers to vote for Obama. |
What do we know about TFK?
| A．It has young reporters writing articles. |
| B．It has a division magazine called TIME. |
| C．It is designed for kids and teachers. |
| D．It mainly contains popular culture. |
第三部分 阅读理解（共20 小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Amanda took whatever pills she could get, largely because she was finding life hard to take. “There were a lot of problems,” she says. She had just found out that her parents were splitting(分开). It took her by surprise—and she was shocked. “I woke up one morning, and they told me.”
“On a few occasions during my two years of going to pharming parties(品药聚会), my heart would race so fast it felt like it was going to explode. I felt weak and confused sometimes and even passed out several times,” she recalls. “But I picked up from the ground because I had a lot of pride in my drinking and drugging. I was really crazy about it and proud of the fact that I could take more than a lot of people.”
Finally, though, things got out of control. “I couldn’t go a day without taking something,” she recalls, “and after a while, the pills upset my stomach; it hurt all the time, and I hardly ate. Finally, I couldn’t take it any more. I went to my parents and told them I needed help.”
Amanda entered a treatment program and has been calm since her release last January. “Detox(戒瘾) was the worst four days of my entire life,” she says. “I was throwing up all the food and had the shakes.”
She doesn’t care about drugs. “I’m so hurt from this,” says Amanda, who has ulcers(溃疡) and damaged kidneys from the drugs and alcohol. “I have to struggle daily to stay calm. But in some ways, I feel lucky I went through it, and I’m out of it now.” Amanda wrote a song called “Goodnight to the Moonlight”. Amanda says, “It’s about how it feels to be taking drugs and alcohol, how it hurts, how it makes you feel like you’re losing yourself.”
56. The purpose of writing this passage is to tell us that _______.
A. parents have a great influence on their children
B. drugs are a danger to our health and mind
C. once determined, you will face no difficulty
D. once formed, bad habits are hard to get rid of
57. From the second paragraph we can learn that Amanda_______.
A. was bored with her behavior
B. never felt frightened or ashamed of taking pills
C. took pride in taking much more drugs
D. was so strong in body that she never felt tired
58. After taking drugs, Amanda _______.
A. found out that her parents were splitting
B. found her lungs were damaged
C. was forced to enter a treatment program
D. She felt confused and almost broke down
59. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that _______.
A. Amanda had such a strong will that she didn’t lose herself
B. Amanda’s song expressed her thanks and delight
C. Detox was not really a success to Amanda
D. drugs and alcohol ruined Amanda’s health as well as her spirit
Recently some American scientists have given a useful sincere piece of advice to people in industrialized nations that they would be much healthier if they ate more of the same kind of food eaten by humans living more than 10,000 years ago.The scientists say that the human body has changed very little since humans first appeared on the earth, but the way we live has changed greatly. Our body has not been able to deal with these changes in life style and this has led to new kinds of sicknesses. These new sicknesses were not known in ancient times, so they are called “diseases of civilization”. Many cancers and diseases of the
blood system, including heart attacks and strokes ( 中风 ) are examples of such diseases.Scientists noted that people in both the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age enjoyed very little alcohol or tobacco, probably none. Ancient people also got a great deal of physical exercise, but a change in food is one of the main differences between life in ancient times and that of today.Stone-age people hunted wild animals for their meat, which had much less fat than domestic or tame ones ( 家畜 ). They also ate a lot of fresh wild vegetables and fruits. They didn’t have milk or any other dairy products, and they made very little use of grains. But today, we eat a large amount of these. We eat six times more salt than our remote ancestors. We eat more sugar. We eat twice as much fat but only one third as much protein and much less vitamin C.People today probably do not want to live the way people thousands of years ago did, but scientists say that we would be much healthier if we ate 
much the same way as remote ancestors did, cutting the amount of fatty, salty and sweet food.What is the main cause that people suffer from a lot of new sicknesses?
| A．Ancient people did a great deal of physical exercise. |
B．People today have a lot of alcohol. |
C．People today have more tobacco. |
D．Food today is quite different from that of ancient times. |
Which of the following belongs to the dairy products?
| A．Milk | B．Corn | C．Pork | D．Flour |
New kinds of sicknesses have been found because ________.
| A．the human body has changed compared with humans who first appeared on the earth |
B．the way we live has changed a little |
C．our body can’t deal with the changes in life style |
D．the way we live today is proper for the human body |
According to some scientists, Stone-age people were much healthier than people today because they ate a lot of ________.
| A．milk and other dairy products | B．salt and sugar |
C．wild animals, fresh wild vegetables and fruits | D．grain foods |
1) Full Time Secretary Position Available. Applicants (申请者) should have at least 2 years’ experience and be able to type 60 words a minute. No computer skills required. Apply in person at United Business Ltd, 17 Browning Street, Leeds.2) Part-time Job. We require three part-time shop assistants to work during the evening. No experience required, applicants should be between 18 and 26 years old. Call 0115-765643 for more information.3) Computer Trained Secretaries. Do you have experience working with computers? Would you like a full time position working in an exciting new company? If you want to know more about us, call at 0457-896754.4) Teaching Assistants Needed. Hania's Playschool needs 2 young teaching assistants to help with classes from 9 am to 3 pm. Applicants should have references. For more information please visit www.haniaplayschool.co.uk.5) Weekend Work Available. We are looking for retired adults who would like to work part time on weekends for Rubberlast Group Ltd. Duties include answering the telephone and giving customers' information. For more information call us at 0153-6741326.6) University Positions Open. The University of Bristol is looking for 4 teaching assistants to help with homework correction. Applicants should have a degree in one of the following: Political Science, English, Economics or History. Please call the University of Bristol for more information.7) Home Delivery Representative. We are looking for someone who has excellent customer care, communication skills, a sales background with at least one year's experience and is a good team player with creative ideas. In return we offer a starting salary of 20,000 and 25 days paid holiday per year. For more information please call Direct Delivery Team of Yorkshire Post on 0113-2388325 or 0113-2388318. Which position is most suitable for a retired person?
| A．Part-time Shop Assistant. | B．Teaching Assistant in Hania's Playschool. |
C．Weekend Work in Rubberlast Group Ltd |
D．Teaching Assistant in the University of Bristol. |
If you have good computer skills and recently graduated from university (English degree), which jobs can you apply for?
| A．Job 1, 2 and 7. | B．Job 3, 4 and 6. | C．Job 4, 6 and 7. | D．Job 2, 3 and 5. |
Which is the only position that has a formal educational requirement?
| A．Full Time Secretary at United Business Ltd. |
B．Home Delivery Representative for Yorkshire Post. |
C．Teaching Assistant at Hania's Playschool. |
D．University Positions at the University of Bristol. |
How can you get more information if you are interested in the position of a full-time computer trained secretary?
| A．By telephone. | B．By letter. | C．By Internet. | D．In person. |
Eat, drink and be merry. That’s what Spring Festival is all about. But there are millions of people, too, who love to let happiness go up in smoke.Offering cigarettes to guests is a traditional Chinese way of showing respect to them. A cup of tea and cigarettes are perhaps the most common way of welcoming a guest in China, especially during festive occasions.No wonder, 40 percent of the people surveyed(调查) recently said they would smoke at least twice the usual number of cigarettes during the Spring Festival because of all those gatherings and parties. Only 20 percent of the respondents said they would refuse a cigarette when offered one. Why can’t the others do the same? Because they could be seen as being rude, said more than half in the respondents. 15 percent feared they could be taken as “someone who cannot get along well with others”.The Think-tank Research Centre for Health Development and sohu. com survey shows 61 percent Chinese think offering a cigarette is useful for socialising, and 52 percent have offered cigarettes to others. The study surveyed 3,800 people, and 64 percent of them were men.One-third of those surveyed were smokers, out of which 57 percent said they couldn’t give up smoking because of the offering-and-accepting culture. “People have accepted offering cigarettes as an effective way of making friends,” research centre director Wu Yiqun says.China has more than 350 million smokers, catering to the tobacco market that is worth 500 billion yuan. “The survey shows we still have a lot of work to do,” Wu says. “It is time to let people know that offering a cigarette is a bad habit and it should be given up immediately.”The passage is written with the purpose of ________.
| A．telling us a custom about the Chinese Spring Festival |
B．introducing a way to make friends with Chinese |
C．stopping smoking during the Chinese Spring Festival |
D．telling us that offering cigarett es is a bad habit |
The third paragraph mainly tells us ________.
A. the fact that smokers are greatly increasing during the festivalB. the reason why refusing cigarettes is acceptableC. the fact that many people have to smoke more cigarettes during the festivalD
. it is rude to attend parties without smoking cigarettes Which of the following may NOT be the reason that makes many people fail to refuse the offered cigarettes?
| A．It’s impolite to refuse. | B．Smoking is harmful for non-smokers. |
C．They want to be friendly | D．It’s a kind of social habit. |
The writer mentions the 500 billion yuan tobacco market because ________.
| A．the tobacco market is not developing smoothly |
B．the writer thinks that smoking wastes a lot of money |
C．smoking is helpful to the tobacco market |
D．the tobacco market attracts too many smokers |
We find that bright children are seldom held back by mixed-ability teaching. On the contrary, both their knowledge and experience are enriched. We feel that there are many disadvantages in streaming(按能力分班) pupils. It does not consider the fact that children develop at different rates. It can have had effect on both the bright and the not-so-bright children. After all, it can be quite discouraging to be the bottom of the top grade.Besides, it is rather unreal to grade people just according to their intellectual(智力) ability. This is only one aspect of their total personality. We care much about the development of all the pupils’ abilities to the full, not just their study ability. We also value personal qualities and social skills, and we find that mixed-ability teaching does good to these aspects of learning.In our classrooms, we work in various ways. The pupils often work in groups; this gives them the chance to learn to work together, to share, and to develop leadership skills. They also learn how to deal with personal problems as well as learning how to think, to make decisions, to analyze(分析) an devaluate(评价)
and to communicate effectively. The pupils learn from each other as well as from the teachers.Sometimes the pupils work in pairs; sometimes they work on individual(个人) tasks, and they can do this at their own speed. They also have some formal class teaching when this is proper. We encourage our pupils to use the library, and we teach them the skills they need in order to do this well. An advanced pupil can do advanced work and it does not matter what age the child is. We expect our pupils to do their best, not their least, and we give them every encouragement to achieve this goal.By “held back” in the first paragraph, the writer means “________”.
| A．made to remain in the same class | B．forced to study in the lower class |
C．drawn away form the ir studies |
D．prevented from advancing |
The writer’s purpose of writing this passage is to ________.
| A．argue for teaching bright and not-so-bright pupils in the same class |
B．advise pair work and group work for classroom activity |
C．offer advice on the proper use of the library |
D．tell us the importance of proper formal classroom teaching |
What would be the best title for the text?
| A．Pair work. | B．Group work. | C．Mixed-ability teaching | D．Individual tasks. |
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