For many years, people________ electric cars. However, making them has been more difficult than predicted.
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A．dream of |
B．had dreamed of |
C．dreamed of |
D．have dreamed of |
After graduating from college, I took some time off to go travelling, ________turned out to be a wise decision.
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A．that |
B．when |
C．where |
D．which |
I’m going to see what Dad is________. Two hours is a long time to take over a coffee.
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A．up |
B．up to |
C．up against |
D．up with |
Do you know Australia? Australia is the largest island in the world. It is a little smaller than China. It is in the south of the earth. 1 The population of Australia is nearly as large as that of Shanghai. 2 The cities in Australia have got little air or water pollution. The sky is blue and the water is clean. You can
clearly see fish swimming in the rivers. Plants grow very well.
Last month we visited Perth, the biggest city in western Australia, and went to a wild flowers’ exhibition 3 We had a wonderful time. Perth is famous for its beautiful wild flowers. In spring every year Perth has the wild flowers’ exhibition.
After visiting Perth, we spent the day in the countryside. We sat down and had a rest near a path at the foot of a hill. It was quiet and we enjoyed ourselves. Suddenly we heard bells ringing at the top of the hill. 4 There were about three hundred sheep coming towards us down the path. 5 After a short drive from any town, you will find yourself in the middle of white sheep. Sheep, sheep, everywhere are sheep.
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A．The government has made enough laws to fight pollution. |
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B．Australia is the sixth largest country in the world. |
C．Australia is famous for its sheep and kangaroos. |
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D．Australia is big, but its population is not large. |
E. What we saw made us pick up all our things and run back to the car as quickly as we could.
F. There we saw a large number of wild flowers we had never seen before.
G. The people of Australia are very hardworking.
It is common to consider learning as something that takes place in school, but much of human learning occurs outside the classroom, even from birth and people continue to learn throughout their lives.
Even before they enter school, young children learn to walk, to talk, and to use their hands to use toys, food, and other objects. They use all of their senses to learn about the sights,sounds,tastes, and smells in their environments. They learn how to communicate with their parents, grandparents, siblings, friends, and other people important to their world. When they enter school, children learn basic academic subjects such as reading, writing, and mathematics, They also continue to learn a great deal outside the classroom. They learn which behaviors are likely to be rewarded and which are likely to be punished. They learn social skills for communicating with other children. After they finish school, people must learn to deal with the many major changes that affect their lives, such as getting married, raising children, and finding and keeping a job.
Because learning continues throughout our lives and affects almost everything we do, the study of learning is important in many different fields. Teachers need to understand the best ways to educate children. Psychologists, social workers, criminologists, and other human-service workers need to understand how certain experiences change people’s behaviors. Employers, politicians, and advertisers make use of the principles of learning to affect the behavior of workers, voters, and consumers.
Learning is closely related to memory, which is the storage of information in the brain. Psychologists who study memory are interested in how the brain stores knowledge, where this storage takes place and how the brain later outputs knowledge when we need it. In contrast, psychologists who study learning are more interested in behavior and how behavior changes as a result of a person’s experiences.
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The author thinks “Learning” in the passage most refers to .
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A．life-long learning |
B．family learning |
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C．learning after graduation |
D．behavior learning |
2.
The underlined “siblings” in the second paragraph probably means
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A．teachers |
B．classmates |
C．doctors |
D．brothers or sisters |
3.
Which period of children’s life do they begin to learn how to behave well according to the passage? .
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A．After they go into society |
B．Before they enter school |
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C．When they are at school |
D．Before they are born |
In this century the traditional American family is constantly faced with the threat of breakdown. Some sociologists suggest that one little-noticed cause may be the introduction of the TV dinner.
Before the appearance of television sets, the American dinner was a big event for the family. In many homes, dinner time may be the only time when everyone got together. A typical dinner was usually in three stages. In the preparation stage, the children and Father frequently helped with setting while Mother put the last touches on the roast. In the eating stage, family members shared the day’s experiences and more than food was eaten. In this stage families got to know one another and made joint decisions around the dinner table, and thus the family unit was strengthened. In the cleaning-up stage, children or Father again gave their hands, so that their importance to the home community was clear. Unfortunately, all of these have been removed by a product-the television set.
By the beginning of the 1980s, the typical American family dinner was just twenty minutes long. The speed-up of the once-leisurely experiences is clearly connected to the pace of modern life and maybe a model of the modern life is the TV dinners-meals designed to be eaten from the beginning to the end of a half-hour program. The once family affair has now become nothing more than the use of a fork and knife.
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The underlined word in the second paragraph can be replaced by
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A．big |
B．important |
C．combined |
D．separate |
2.
In the past, Americans tended to .
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A．spend more time eating their food at dinner table |
B．eat more food than they have today |
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C．spend more time talking about their day’s experiences at dinner table |
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D．talk so much that they forgot to eat |
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The shortening of the dinner time in America is related to .
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A．The TV programs |
B．the pace of modern life |
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C．the wide use of electrical equipment |
D．the popularity of fast food |
4.
. The best title for this passage might be
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A．Talk at Dinner Table |
B．TV Dinner |
C．Pace of Modern Life |
D．Problems Caused by TV |
