高中英语日常生活类阅读试题

Camping wild is a wonderful way to experience the natural world and, at its best, it makes little environmental influence. But with increasing numbers of people wanting to escape into the wilderness, it is becoming more and more important to camp unobtrusively (不引人注目地) and leave no mark.
Wild camping is not permitted in many places, particularly in crowded lowland Britain. Wherever you are, find out about organizations responsible for managing wild spaces, and contact them to find out their policy on camping and shelter building. For example, it is fine to camp wild in remote parts of Scotland, but in England you must ask the landowner’s permission, except in national parks.
Camping is about having relaxation, sleeping outdoors, experiencing bad weather, and making do without modern conveniences. A busy, fully equipped campsite(野营地) seems to go against this, so seek out smaller, more remote places with easy access to open spaces and perhaps beaches. Better still, find a campsite with no road access：walking in makes a real adventure.
Finding the right spot to camp is the first step to guaranteeing a good night’s sleep. Choose a campsite with privacy(隐秘) and minimum（最小的） influence on others and the environment. Try to use an area where people have obviously camped before rather than creating a new spot.
When camping in woodland, avoid standing dead trees, which may fall on a windy night. Avoid animal runs and caves, and possible homes of biting insects. Make sure you have most protection on the windward(迎风的) side. If you make a fire, do so downwind of your shelter. Always consider what influence you might have on the natural world. Avoid damaging plants. A good campsite found, not made—changing it should be unnecessary.
You needn’t ask for permission when camping in________.

A．national parks in England	B．most parts of Scotland
C．crowded lowland Britain	D．most parts of England

The author thinks that a good campsite is one________.

A．with easy access	B．used previously（以前）
C．with modern conveniences	D．far away from beaches

The last paragraph mainly deals with________.

A．protecting animals

B．building a campfire

C．camping in woodland

D．finding a campsite with privacy

The passage is mainly about________.

A．the protection of campsites

B．the importance of wild camping

C．the human influence on campsites

D．the dos and don’ts of wild camping

It’s well known that our human memory can fail us. People can be forgetful, and they can sometimes also “remember” things incorrectly, with damaging consequences in the classroom, courtroom, and other areas of life. Now, researchers show for the first time that bumblebees(大黄蜂) can be unreliable witnesses too.
Bumblebees are rather clever animals, which explains why Chittka has been studying learning and memory in the insects for the last 20 years.
Most times when people have studied memory in animals, errors in performance have been taken to mean that the animals failed to learn the task or perhaps learned it and then forgot. But what if animals can experience a more interesting type of memory failure?
To find out, Chittka first trained bumblebees to expect a reward when visiting a yellow artificial flower followed by one with black-and-white rings. During subsequent tests, bees were given a choice between three types of flowers. Two were the types they’d seen in the training before. The third had yellow-and-white rings, representing a mixed-up version of the other two. Minutes after the training, the bees showed a clear preference for the flower that recently rewarded them.
One or three days later, however, something very different happened when the bumblebees’ memory was put to the test. At first, the bees showed the same preference displayed in the earlier tests, but as the time went on, they began selecting the flower with yellow rings, even though they’d never actually seen that one in training before.
Chittka says that insects make similar errors in the conjunction (结合) of long-term memories as humans do. The ability to extract (提取) common features between different events in the environment might come at the expense of remembering every detail correctly. In bees, with their limited brain capacity (容量), the pressure to store main features of several objects rather than each individual object might be much greater, compared with humans.
Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A．Human memory can fail sometimes.

B．Bumblebees make false memories too.

C．Humans are not as clever as bumblebees.

D．Bumblebees have extraordinary memory.

Which of the following is the closest in meaning to the underlined word “subsequent”?

A．scientific	B．accurate
C．following	D．exceptional

According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?

A．Memory failure influences students’ study effects.

B．Bumblebees’ memory is complicated and worth studying.

C．The bees couldn’t make out which flower had rewarded them days later.

D．Bumblebees are stupid insects with limited brain capacity.

What does the test mentioned in Paragraph 4 tell us?

A．Short-term memories serve the bees well.

B．The yellow artificial flower appeals to the bees.

C．Bumblebees like the flowers with yellow-and-white rings.

D．Bees have remarkable abilities to distinguish colors.

We can infer from the passage that ______.

A．Chittka thinks that bumblebees failed to remember the color of the flowers

B．Researchers have learned that bumblebees are unreliable animals

C．There exist no similarities between the memory errors in humans and bees.

D．It is less challenging for humans than bees to store main features of several objects.

“BANG!” the door caused a reverberation (回声). It was just standing there, with father standing on one side, and me on the other side.
We were both in great anger. “Never set foot in this house again!” stormed father. With tears welling up in my eyes, I rushed out of the flat and ran along the street.
The street lights were shining, causing rather sad feelings. I wandered aimlessly.
A young father who held a child in his arms walked past me. I felt as if I saw my childhood from another space: happy and carefree.
But now … I don’t know whether it is because I have grown up or because dad is getting old. We differ in our ways of thinking. We are just like two people coming from two different worlds. It feels like there is an iron door between us that can never be opened.
I wandered the streets, without a destination in mind. My heart was frozen on this hot summer night. As I walked on, there were fewer and fewer people on the streets, until I had only the street lights to keep me company. When I finally reached the high-rise apartment block in which I lived, I saw that the light was still on.
I thought to myself: “Is father waiting for me, or is he still angry with me?”
In fact, it was nothing. Perhaps, dad was throwing away some of his old stamps. Perhaps he thought they were useless. I never had the courage to tell him that I liked collecting stamps.
All the lights were off except father’s.
Dad was always like this. Maybe he didn’t know how to express himself. After shouting at me, he never showed any mercy or any moments of regret.
This was how he always was. He has been a leader for so long that telling everyone else what to do has become his second nature.
The light was still on. “Am I wrong?” I whispered, maybe… With the key in my hand, I was as nervous as I had ever been. At last, I decided to open the door. As soon as I opened the door, tears ran down my cheeks. I suddenly realized that the iron door that I had imagined between us did not exist at all. Love----it’s second to none.
Which is the correct order of the following events according to the passage?
a. I opened the door and entered the house.
b. I ran out into the street angrily.
c. I reached the place where I lived and saw my house still brightly lit.
d. I recalled my happy childhood.
e. I began to walk about in the street without any aim.

A．e, b, d, c, a	B．b, e, d, c, a
C．b, e, c, d, a	D．e, b, c, a, d

Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A．The author fully understood why he and his father had different thinking.

B．The author’s father didn’t approve of his stamp collecting.

C．The author and his father lacked communication.

D．The author’s father opened the door for him when he came back.

According to the author, why did his father often shout at him?

A．Perhaps the father was getting older and older.

B．Perhaps the son had already grown up.

C．Perhaps they never agreed with each other.

D．Perhaps the father had been used to doing that.

What did the author mean by the underlined sentence “My heart was frozen on this hot summer night”?

A．He felt lonely because there were so few people on the street.

B．He felt uncomfortable because it was a very hot night.

C．He was completely disappointed with his father.

D．He was at a loss because he had nowhere to go.

What was the author’s attitude towards his father at the end of the story?

A．He loved his father.

B．He was frustrated with his father.

C．He was afraid of his father.

D．He was dissatisfied with his father.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ---- About 140 pilot whales that stranded(使...搁浅) themselves on a remote stretch of New Zealand beach have died, but conservation workers and volunteers are hoping the remaining 60 or so will survive after they managed to get them refloated, an official said Saturday.
The geography of Farewell Spit on the South Island seems to work against whales, which regularly become stranded there. The stranding of 198 whales on Friday was one of the largest in recent years and inspired 80 workers and volunteers to help out.
By late Saturday, 140 of the whales had died, said Department of Conservation area manager Andrew Lamason.
He said the workers and volunteers worked throughout the day to keep the surviving whales watered and covered before refloating them during Saturday night’s high tide.
“We’ve had a really good crew of volunteers, and people have been wanting to come from all over the country,”Lamason said.
He said the surviving whales had moved to deeper water. But he cautioned that although hopes for their survival were high, whales had been refloated in the past only to return and get stranded again.
Lamason said the scale(规模) of the stranding has been tough on the helpers, both physically and mentally.
“It’s very sad, they’re very intelligent animals,” he said. “The common view is that it’s part of nature.”
The focus will now turn to the dead whales, and the enormous task of dealing with the remains, Lamason said, adding that in the past helpers have typically buried them in the sand, but that he’s not sure what the approach will be this time.
He said the department had been experimenting with moving the the dead whales into the water, which has the advantage of providing food for other sea creatures.
What is the exact number of whales stranded last Friday?

A．140.

B．60.

C．80.

D．198.

Why did the volunteers have to wait until Saturday before they could refloat the whales?

A．Because they were very busy on Friday.

B．Because they had to wait for the sea water to rise.

C．Because the whales were too intelligent.

D．Because the whales were buried deep in the sand.

Which of the following words can be used to describe Lamason’s attitude towards the result of refloating the whales?

A．Doubtful.	B．Optimistic.
C．Positive.	D．Careless.

What did Lamason say about the feelings of the workers and volunteers?

A．They were very happy to see so many whales.

B．They thought refloating the whales was not a hard job.

C．They were physically tired and emotionally hurt.

D．They believed that this is very natural.

How will the volunteers deal with the dead whales this time according to Lamason?

A．They will bury them in the sand.

B．They will throw them into the ocean.

C．They do not have any exact idea yet.

D．They will feed them to other sea creatures.

People have wondered for a long time how their personalities and behaviors are formed. It’s not easy to explain why one person is intelligent and another is not, or why one is cooperative and another is competitive.
Social scientists are, of course, extremely interested in these types of question. They want to explain why we possess certain characteristics and exhibit certain behaviors. There are no clear answers yet, but two distinct schools of thought on the matter have developed. As one might expect, the two approaches are very different from each other, and there is a great deal of debate between proponents of each theory. The argument is often conveniently referred to as nature vs. nurture.
Those who support the “nature” side of the conflict believe that our personalities and behavior patterns are largely determined by biological and genetic factors. That our environment has little, if anything, to do with our abilities, characteristics and behavior is central to this theory. Taken to an extreme, this theory maintains that our behavior is predetermined(注定)to such a great degree that we are almost completely governed by our instincts(本能).
Proponents of the “nurture” theory, or, as they are often called, behaviorists, claim that our environment is more important than our biologically based instincts in determining how we will act. Behaviorists see humans as beings whose behavior is almost completely shaped by their surroundings. Their view of the human being is quite mechanistic; they maintain that, like machines, humans respond to environmental stimuli (something that helps sb./ sth. to develop better and more quickly)as the basis of their behavior.
The social and political connections of these two theories are significant. In the United States, for example, blacks often score below whites on standardized intelligent test. This leads some “nature” proponents to conclude that blacks are genetically worse than whites. Behaviorists, in contrast, say that the differences in scores are due to the fact that blacks are often robbed of many of the educational and other environmental advantages  that whites enjoy, and that, as a result ,they do not develop the same responses that whites do.
Neither of these theories can yet fully explain human behavior. In fact, it is quite likely that the key to our behavior lies somewhere between these two extremes. That the argument will continue for a long time is certain.
The author is mainly concerned about solving the problem  .

A．why our personalities and behaviors differ

B．what makes different stages of intelligence

C．how social scientists form different theories

D．what causes the “nature/ nurture” argument

The underlined word “proponents” can best be replaced by  .

A．approaches	B．advocates
C．principles	D．characters

Which of the following statements may be supported by the “nature” school?

A．We are born with certain personalities and behaviors.

B．Environment has nothing to do with our personalities.

C．Abilities and characteristics are showed by behaviors.

D．Only extreme behaviors are determined by instincts.

What can we learn about the behaviorists?

A．They believe human beings are mechanical.

B．They compare our behaviors to the machines.

C．They suggest that we react to the environment as the machines do.

D．They agree that the mechanistic theory can be applied on us as well.

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From the notice, we can learn _______may read your medical information.

A．doctors	B．nurses
C．dietician	D．all above

Which of the following isn’t mentioned in the notice?

A．The patient will be told how soon he can recover after an operation

B．The Hospital creates a record of the care and services.

C．The patient can be told his health plan about a treatment

D．The Hospital can arrange appropriate meals for patients.

What can be inferred from the notice?

A．Patients couldn’t be informed of his medical information

B．All persons in the Hospital know patients’ information

C．Patients in the Hospital could receive proper care and treatment

D．The Hospital could never combine your medical information with those of many Hospital patients.

Dear daughter,
As we drove off from Columbia, I wanted to write a letter to you to tell you all that is on my mind.
I want to tell you how proud we are. Getting into Columbia is a real testament of what a great well-rounded student you are. Your academic, artistic, and social skills have truly blossomed in the last few years. You have become a talented and accomplished young woman.
College will be the most important years in your life. It is in college that you will truly discover what learning is about. You often question "what good is this course". I encourage you to be inquisitive, but I also want to tell you: "Education is what you have left after all that is taught is forgotten." What I mean by that is the materials taught isn't as important as you gaining the ability to learn a new subject, and the ability to analyze a new problem. That is really what learning in college is about – this will be the period where you go from teacher-taught to master-inspired, after which you must become self-learner. So do take each subject seriously, and even if what you learn isn't critical for your life, the skills of learning will be something you cherish forever.
Follow your passion in college. Take courses you think you will enjoy. Don't be trapped in what others think or say. Steve Jobs says when you are in college, your passion will create many dots, and later in your life you will connect them. In his great speech given at Stanford commencement, he gave the great example where he took calligraphy, and a decade later, it became the basis of the beautiful Macintosh fonts, which later ignited desktop publishing, and brought wonderful tools like Microsoft Word to our lives. His expedition into calligraphy was a dot, and the Macintosh became the connecting line. Enjoy picking your dots, and be assured one day you will find your calling, and connect a beautiful curve through the dots of yourself .
Most importantly, make friends and be happy. College friends are often the best in life, because during college you are closer to them physically than to your family. Also, going through independence and adulthood is a natural bonding experience.
So please treasure your college years – make the best of your free time, become an independent thinker in control of your destiny, evolve yourself into a bi-cultural talent, be bold to experiment, learn and grow through your successes and challenges.
When I faced the greatest challenge and opportunity in my life in 2005, you gave me a big hug and said "bonne chance", which means "good luck" and "good courage". Now I do the same for you. Bonne chance, my angel and princess. May Columbia become the happiest four years in your life, and may you blossom into just what you dream to be.
Love,
Dad (& Mom)
What can we learn from the passage?

A．The daughter is a well-rounded college student.

B．The father faced the greatest challenge in 2006.

C．The daughter is a freshman in college.

D．Steve Jobs gave the great example where he took calligraphy at Columbia commencement.

The father may agree that _____.

A．you will be well-educated if you forget all is taught

B．there are only master-inspired students in college

C．the daughter will be thinner if she goes on a diet

D．the skills of learning is very important for his daughter’s life

The example of Steve Jobs in Paragraph 4 is to show _____.

A．how Steve Jobs invented the basis of the Macintosh fonts

B．it is important for the daughter to follow her passion in college

C．Steve Jobs made great contributions to Microsoft Word

D．the father wishes his daughter to be as successful as Steve Jobs

College friends are often the best to you because_____.

A．your family are far away while college friends are around you within an easy reach

B．they are closer to you psychologically than to your family

C．they are better than your family

D．going through independence and adulthood is unusual bonding experience

The wedding took place in a Birmingham hotel. The bride and her father arrived in a new black American sports car. Her father looked nervous and uncomfortable in front of the cameras. The bride wore a silk wedding dress. She smiled nervously at the waiting photographers and went to a room on the first floor where she met her future husband for the very first time.
Carla Germaine and Greg Cordell were the winners of a radio station’s competition. The aim of the competition was to find two strangers prepared to marry without having met each other. Miss Germaine, 23, is a model. Mr. Cordell, 27, is a TV salesman. They were among the two hundred people who entered for a peculiar “experiment” organized by BMRB radio in Birmingham, England. Greg and Carla were among eight finalists who were interviewed live on radio. They took a lie detector test and the station also spoke to their friends and family about their personalities. The competition judges included an astrologer (占星家) who declared that they were suited.
The couple celebrated their wedding with a wedding breakfast and a party for 100 guests in the evening, but not everyone shared their joy. Miss Germaine’s mother looked anxious throughout the wedding and Mr. Cordell’s parents are reported to be less than delighted.
Organizations, including the marriage guidance service relate, have criticized the marriage. As one person put it, “we have enough problems getting young people to take marriage seriously without this. Marriage should always be about love.”
The couples are now on a Caribbean honeymoon followed by journalists. Their other prizes include a year’s free use of a wonderful apartment in the centre of Birmingham, and a car. But will it last?
What can we know about the couple from the passage?

A．The couple know each other before the wedding.

B．The bridegroom is a model and the bride is a TV salesman.

C．The bride is 4 years older than the bridegroom.

D．The couple can use an apartment free for some time as one of the prizes.

Some experts believe that ______ .

A．marriage without the couple’s meeting each other first ends up in divorce.

B．young people nowadays are too careless about marriage

C．taking a lie detector test can not solve all the marriage problems

D．most young people take marriage seriously except this couple

The goal of the competition was_______.

A．to find two strangers prepared to marry without having met each other

B．to win a free honeymoon

C．to win a year’s free use of a wonderful apartment

D．to make the radio station famous

Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

A．Two Strangers and a Wedding	B．A Wedding Based on Love
C．A Short-lived Marriage	D．A Well-Matched Couple

第一节 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,并在题卡上将该项涂黑。(共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分)
A.
A group of graduates, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain,plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite -- telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best foryourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups. And then you began eyeing each other's cups. Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position insociety are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."
God brews the coffee, not the cups. Enjoy your coffee!
"The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything."
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.
Leave the rest to God.
What did a group of graduates talk about when they visited their old professor?

A．How to make the most delicious coffee.

B．How to choose the coffee cup.

C．The complaints about stress in work and life.

D．How to free themselves from stress of work and life.

What is the function of the more expensive cup from the passage?

A．It makes the coffee taste better.

B．In some cases it hides what we drink.

C．It shows people’s wealth.

D．It shows people’s status.

The purpose of this writing is ____________.

A．about how to complain about stress in work and life

B．to enjoy the present life and get happiness from it

C．to enjoy the coffee with expensive cups

D．to prove the power of the God

What’s the best title of this passage?

A．God’s Coffee.	B．Drink Coffee.
C．Coffee and Work	D．Coffee Cups

We regularly hear how important consumer spending is for the economy. The story goes like this: the more consumers spend, the more money circulates in the economy, which contributes to healthy job growth and profits. Keynes, a British economist, went as far as to say that individuals saving their money may actually be hurting the economy. Sounds troubling, doesn’t it?
Fear not. You aren’t actually hurting anyone else by saving money. Strong economic growth only comes from the place: savings. Not consumption. In fact, economic activity should not be mistaken for economic growth. For example, somebody takes their money, walks into a store, and purchases goods. The store increases its revenue.
But what happens to all of those goods and services that people have chosen not to consume by saving their money? Simple: other people are allowed to consume them. Think of it this way: when you lend out your savings, you are actually saying, “Here, I am not going to consume right now, so why don’t you?” Banks simply play the middleman: they collect lots of people's savings and then lend out lots of funds.
It takes an unbelievable amount of goods and services to construct a building. It takes food, shelter, and entertainment for all of the workers, as well. Without savings, it is quite impossible to finance such a construction. The coordination between savings and consumption is a necessary basis for sound economic growth. This coordination is also why consumer lending (say, to borrow a big sum of money to buy a car) is not productive, in a strict sense. It doesn't increase the net (净的) amount of wealth of an economy. Those savings could have been used to construct, say, factory equipment.
None of this means consumption and spending are “bad” things. They simply do not make us wealthier. After all, the final goal of production and savings is to consume. But to say that consumption is the engine of economic growth is to put the cart before the horse. Or, to rephrase: the consumption of wealth can never make you wealthier. Happier, perhaps. Wealthier, no.
What is the author’s attitude towards Keynes’ theory?

A．Approving.	B．Reserved.
C．Uncertain.	D．Critical.

The underlined word “revenue” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to “_______”.

A．cost	B．reputation
C．income	D．interest

According to the author, which chart could show the effect of savings on economy?

What would be the best title for this passage?

A．The Saving Behavior of the Economy

B．Consumption: a Key Concept in Economy

C．Consumer Spending and Economic Growth

D．The Truth about Savings and Consumption

Dyslexia is a learning disorder, it interferes with the ability to recognize words, and for some readers to understand what they have read. Experts say dyslexia affects about five to ten percent of the population of the United States. Researchers have long known that people with dyslexia write or read words and lettersbackwards in the wrong order.
But a new study shows that people with dyslexia may have trouble redirecting their attention between senses, from seeing something to hearing something. The study suggests something that might help dyslexicpeople learn more quickly - play video games.
Vanessa Harrar of Britain’s University of Oxford led the study. She reported the findings in the journalCurrent Biology. The study suggests that dyslexic people may have trouble moving quickly from what they read to what they hear.
In the study, Doctor Harrar tested 17 people with dyslexia, and 19 others without reading problems. The volunteers were asked to push a button as quickly as possible when they heard a sound, saw a light or experienced both together. Doctor Harrar compared the speed of their reactions. She found that people with dyslexia were just as fast as the others when they saw only a picture or heard only a sound. But the Dyslexicshad a slower reaction time when they heard a sound and saw a picture at the same time, this may have an effect on how dyslexic children are taught how to read.
Doctor Harrar feels like playing video games could help dyslexic people shift from seeing to hearing more quickly. She adds that images in video games force the eyes to move and focus quickly. “Video game types of things pop out of here and there, they move your eyes around the screen quite quickly in response to things quite quickly, and the more you play a video game the faster you get that kind of thing. So, the video game is really training the attention system to move quickly,” said Harrar. When children learn the alphabet, they usually see the letter first and then hear the sound, or they see and hear the letter at the same time. The study shows that Dyslexics might learn more quickly if they hear the sound of a letter or word first before seeing it.
According to Doctor Harrar’s study, the dyslexic people have difficulty in______.

A．recognizing words

B．reading words backwards

C．writing letters in order

D．shifting from seeing to hearing

Which factor affects the way dyslexic children are taught to read?

A．They react more slowly to a single picture or sound

B．They react as fast as others to a single picture or sound

C．It takes them longer to react to sounds and pictures together

D．It is difficult for them to understand before seeing the word

How does the author suggest Dyslexics are taught based on the research finding?

A．by putting hearing previous to seeing

B．by training the attention on games

C．by seeing first and then hearing later

D．by moving the eyes around the screen

What can be the best title of the passage?

A．Video Games Might Help Dyslexics

B．Dyslexia Affects Attention between Senses

C．Video Games Can Train the Attention System

D．Dyslexics Might Learn Better through Sound

When you are little, the whole world feels like a big playground. I was living in Conyers, Georgia the summer it all happened. I was a second grader, but my best friend Stephanie was only in the first grade. Both of our parents were at work and most of the time they let us go our own way.
It was a hot afternoon and we decided to have an adventure in Stephanie's basement. As I opened the basement door, before us lay the biggest room, full of amazing things like guns, dolls, and old clothes. I ran downstairs, and spotted a red steel can. It was paint. I looked beyond it and there lay even more paint in bright colors like purple, orange, blue and green.
"Stephanie, I just found us a project for the day. Get some paintbrushes. We are fixing to paint. " She screamed with excitement as I told her of my secret plans and immediately we got to work. We gathered all the brushes we could find and moved all of our materials to my yard. There on the road in front of my house, we painted big stripes (条纹) of colors across the pavement (人行道). Stripe by stripe, our colors turned into a beautiful rainbow. It was wonderful!
The sun was starting to sink. I saw a car in the distance and jumped up as I recognized the car. It was my mother. I couldn't wait to show her my masterpiece. The car pulled slowly into the driveway and from the look on my mother's face, I could tell that I was in deep trouble.
My mother shut the car door and walked towards me. Her eyes glaring, she shouted, "What in the world were you thinking? I understood when you made castles out of leaves, and climbed the neighbors' trees, but this! Come inside right now !" I stood there glaring back at her for a minute, angry because she had insulted (侮辱) my art.
"Now go clean it up!" Mother and I began cleaning the road. Tears ran down my cheeks as I saw my beautiful rainbow turn into black cement.
Though years have now passed, I still wonder where my rainbow has gone. I wonder if, maybe when I get older, I can find my rainbow and never have to brush it away. I guess we all need some sort of rainbow to brighten our lives from time to time and to keep our hopes and dreams colorful.
What did the writer want to do when his mother came home?

A．To introduce Stephanie to her.

B．To prevent her from seeing his painting.

C．To put the materials back in the yard.

D．To show his artwork to her.

In his mother's eyes, the writer ____________.

A．was a born artist

B．always caused trouble

C．was a problem solver

D．worked very hard

The underlined word “rainbow” in the last paragraph refers to_________.

A．the rainbow in the sky

B．the stripes on the pavement

C．something imaginative and fun

D．important lessons learned in childhood

It can be learned from the passage that parents should      .

A．encourage children to paint

B．value friendship among children

C．discover the hidden talent in children

D．protect rather than destroy children's dreams

My aunt Edith was a widow of 50, working as a secretary, when doctors discovered she had got what was then thought to be a very serious heart illness.
Aunt Edith didn’t accept defeat easily. She began studying medical reports in library and found an article in a magazine about a well-known heart doctor, Dr. Michael Debakey, of Houston, Texas. He had saved the life of someone with the same illness. The article said Dr. Debakey’s fees were very high; Aunt Edith couldn’t possibly pay them. But could he tell her of someone whose fee she could pay?
So Aunt Edith wrote to him. She simply listed her reasons for wanting to live: her three children, who would be on their own in three or four years and among them a little girl who always dreamed of traveling and seeing the world. There wasn’t a word of self-pity -- only warmth and humor and the joy of living. She mailed the letter, not really expecting an answer.
A few days later, my doorbell rang. Aunt Edith didn’t wait to come in; she stood in the hall and read aloud:
Your beautiful letter moved me very deeply. If you can come to Houston, there will be no charge for either the hospital or the operation.
Signed：Michael Debakey
That was seven years ago. Since then, Aunt Edith has been around the world. Her three children are happily married. For her age, she is one of the youngest, most alive people I know.
“Aunt Edith didn’t accept defeat easily” means that         .

A．she was very beautiful	B．she was very strong
C．she was very brave	D．she was very warm hearted

Why did Aunt Edith write to Dr. Debakey? Because          .

A．she had no time to visit him

B．she didn’t know the way to Houston

C．she didn’t believe in him

D．she wanted to get some help from him

In fact，Aunt Edith’s letter to Dr. Debakey was full of         .

A．courage	B．illness
C．pity	D．sadness

After reading Dr. Debakey’s letter，Aunt Edith felt          .

A．discouraged	B．frightened
C．disappointed	D．Encouraged

A man enters a store to buy milk. He walks out of the store with milk, That’s all-- milk. At the same time, a woman enters the same store and also buys milk. Besides, she buys chicken to make dinner that night. Then she gets coffee for breakfast and remembers stamps to mail the bills.
And that is the difference between the female and male brains simply explained in a store. Generally speaking, men do one thing at a time while women do many. Doing many things at one time is often called multi-tasking a very popular word these days.
Now scientific research supports this theory about male and female brains. A recent study has proved what we have known all along—men and women think differently.
Last year, some scientists studied brain images of 949 people aged from 8 to 22 years old They found that male brains have more connections only on one side of the brain. In the female brain, they found more activities and connections between the right and left sides of the brain The left side of the brain is known as the side of “reason”. The right one is known as the  “creative” side.
Regina Verma, a professor in the brain study, says when women are asked to do something difficult they might use different parts of the brain. Men, she adds, generally use just one side of the brain.
As a result, men generally deal directly with a problem. In fact, there is a strong connection between the “understandings and the “action” parts of men’s brains. Women, however, might include other parts of the brain, like the part connected with  reason and the part connected with sensitivity (敏感性) when solving a problem. They take a less direct path to find a solution.
In paragraph 1, the writer is trying to____ .

A．introduce the topic of the passage

B．describe how shopping is going on

C．compare behaviors of men and women

D．tell us that women buy more than men

What’s the finding of the study?

A．Women can find a solution to a problem directly.

B．Men use different parts of the brains to solve a problem.

C．Men and women think differently when solving problems.

D．A female brain has more connections on one side of the brain

In which section of a newspaper are we more likely to read this article?

A．Science.	B．Business.
C．Education.	D．Life.

Finding summer jobs for teenagers has not always been easy, but now you no longer have to worry about what your kid can do to earn their own money．Recently I found some different sites online that offer information about what kids can do．Below is some of that information, along with questions to think about to help you come up with your own ideas．
Ideas for summer work:
●Parks and Recreation Programs．
●Babysitting （当临时保姆） during the day of school．
●Working part-time at a day care for the summer．
●Car washing．
●Working at local vegetable stands．
The easiest way for you to find ways for your child to make money is to think about others’ inconveniences （不方便）．Think of things you need done, or would like to have done, and what you would consider paying for these things to get done．Once you have some ideas, you can sit down with your child and talk to them about what they would be interested in doing．Then once you have an idea of what they want to do you can help them come up with fair prices．
Preferably you would want to only have your child working with people you know and trust, or in the least bit you could have your child pick a partner．That way with each of them carrying cell phones, even those without service can call 911, they will be much safer．
You can find out more information and many more ideas for kids to use to make money during their summer holidays by visiting http://www．kidswantmoney．com．
The author wrote the passage to _____．

A．share his discoveries online

B．introduce jobs for teenagers

C．advertise a website for teenagers

D．talk about his summer work experience

The passage is mainly written for _____．

A．teenagers	B．teachers
C．parents	D．website designers

Which of the following is NOT considered when teenagers look for summer jobs?

A．Who they’d better work for．

B．How much should be charged．

C．Whether the jobs are safe．

D．Where the workplace is．

What can we learn about http://www．kidswant-money．com?

A．The author set up the website．

B．It gives information about educating children．

C．People need to pay to visit the website．

D．It offers ideas for children to make money．