In the last few years, some researchers have decided to study why kids lie(撒谎)，So they made up a special team of 12 students, all under the age of 21.
Each student was given 36 cards, and each card listed a topic that teens sometimes lie about to their parents, The researchers worked through the cards with the teens, learning what things the kid was lying to his parents about, and why.
By the end of the interviews, the kids saw for the first time how much they were lying and how many of family’s rules they had broken. It was reported that 98% of the teens had lied to their parents.
Out of the 36 topics, the average(平均) teen was lying to his parents about 12 of them. The teens lied about what movie they went to, and whom they went with .They lied about how they spent their afternoons while their parents were at work, and something like that.
Most parents hear their child lie and think he’s too young to understand what lies are or that lying is wrong. They believe their child will stop when he gets older. Many books also advise parents to just let lies go — they’ll grow out of it. But the truth is that kids grow into it. In studies where children are observed(观察) in their natural environment, a 4-year-old child will lie once every two hours, while a 6-year-old child will lie about once every hour and a half.
1.The researchers started the project by .
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A．playing cards |
B．free talking |
C．doing a survey |
D．discussion |
2.The topics on 36 cards are mostly between kids and .
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A．parents |
B．teachers |
C．researchers |
D．friends |
3.From this passage, the teens lied on about of the 36 topics as an average.
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A．12% |
B．33% |
C．98% |
D．25% |
4.On this topic, the advice from many books for the parents is that they .
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A．needn’t worry about it too much |
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B．should take it serious enough |
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C．had better do something to stop it |
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D．should regard it as a great problem |
“You'll have to take care of the baby today,” a woman told her husband. "I'm not feeling well."
"Then you must stay in bed and rest, dear" her husband said. "I'll be pleased to look after our baby." "By the way, shall I do the shopping for you as well?” her husband asked.
The woman was very glad and said, "That will help me very much. I'll give you a list of things to buy"
She wrote out the list and gave it to him.
The man took the baby to the supermarket and put him in the shopping cart. Then he pushed the shopping cart along the rows of things and looked for those that were on his list.
At first everything was OK, but then the baby began to cry.
Then he started to scream.
And scream!
And SCREAM!
“Keep calm, George,” the man said. “Don’t get excited. Don’t shout, George. Don’t lose your temper, George.”
A woman in the supermarket heard him saying so. She walked up to him.
“I think you are wonderful,” she said. “You are so patient with your little George.”
“Madam,” the man said, “I’m George. He’s Edward.”
1.The man took care of the baby instead because his wife was .
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A．ill |
B．busy doing housework |
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C．angry |
D．going to buy things |
2.The baby cried so hard .
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A．at home |
B．in the supermarket |
C．in the street |
D．in the car |
3.When the baby was crying, the father kept taking to for relaxing.
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A．his baby |
B．the woman |
C．himself |
D．George |
4.The underlined sentence “Don’t lose your temper.” in this passage means“ ”.
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A．become angry |
B．shut up |
C．walk on |
D．calm down |
Around 5:30 p.m., I was on the bus one day and everybody on the bus was quiet. People had just 36 from work, students had just finished their 37 class and everybody was a little 38 from a long day. It wasn't a particularly good day for me as I was feeling quite tired too. I was just looking outside of the 39 without any specific thought in my mind. It was the same 40 I had seen many times before, people hurrying home.
In front of me, there was a man sitting in the seat who didn't look too clean. 41 he was looking out of the window, the man suddenly 42 to me and pointed at something outside. "Hey, look." He had a big smile on his face. I turned to the 43 he was pointing to and there it was ---- the beautiful Catalina mountains burning with a beautiful 44 . The mountains were coated with bright pink light and shadows. He turned to other people on the bus and told them to look at the mountains. He 45
" Wow" and " It's so beautiful" again and again. Everybody on the bus 46 the views indeed.
The 47 view also helped me to 48 my long tiring day with a good feeling in my heart. But, more 49 , I was so inspired (鼓舞）to see that this man wanted to 50 the beautiful view with everybody on the bus, total strangers. His 51 act made me accidentally find something that I had lost which I didn't even know I had lost. He made me 52 that I had lost the feelings and the excitement I 53 have everyday. In my daily life, many things had 54 their color and movement. But he 55 me that things are still there ---- they never get lost.
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B．Judging to |
C．Judging by |
D．To judge |
Not knowing what to do next, the girl _____ her parents for advice.
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A．turned to |
B．set up |
C．escaped from |
D．blew up |
Hearing the news, she _____________.
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A．burst into tears |
B．burst into crying |
C．burst crying |
D．burst of crying. |
