Lillian Hanson, a college student, expects to graduate in about two years. What makes Mrs Hanson different from her classmates is her age-----73 years. She has been studying at college, a few courses at a time, for 27 years.
When Lillian Hanson graduated from high school, she went to the bank to borrow money for further education. The banker gave her no encouragement. He didn‘t think that a country girl should borrow money to go to college. He thought she should be at home doing work in the house or around the farm. So Lillian Hanson went home and raised a family of nine children instead of going to college. Mrs Hanson never forgot her dream of getting a higher education. When her children were grown, she tried again.
She finds that it is the hardest part of going back to school at her age to sit in class for long periods of time. Because she is not as quick as she used to be, Mrs Hanson often gets up and walks around classes to keep from getting stiff(不灵活). At the beginning of a course in using the computer, the other students all stood up to give her a warm welcome when she introduced herself and explained why she was there and what her aims were.
1. Mrs Hanson couldn’t go to college immediately after she graduated from high school because _____.
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A．she hadn‘t got enough money |
B．she was a country girl |
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C．the banker ordered her not to borrow any money |
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D．the banker thought she should raise a family of nine children |
2.The computer students welcomed Mrs Hanson warmly because ______.
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A．she had got an excellent result in the exam |
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B．she was good at telling funny stories |
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C．they wanted to get her help in their studies |
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D．they were deeply moved by her spirit |
3. Mrs Hanson is the sort of person who ________.
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A．cares for study very much |
B．likes to borrow money from the bank |
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C．never misses a chance to talk |
D．tries to save any money for her family |
4. In which order did Mrs Hanson do the following things?
a. she began her studies at college.
b. She finished high school.
c. She got married and gave birth of nine children.
d. She had her 73 rd birthday.
e. She went to the bank to borrow money.
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A．a c b e d |
B．b e c a d |
C．b c e d a |
D．e d a c b |
PALO ALTO, California------"Switching off the television may help prevent children from getting fatter------ even if they do not change their diet or increase the amount they exercise," US researchers said last week.
A study of 192 third and fourth graders, generally aged eight and nine, found that children who cut the number of hours spent watching television gained nearly two pounds(0.9kg) less over a one-year period than those who did not change their television diet.
"The findings are important because they show that weight loss can only be the result of a reduction in television viewing and not any other activity," said Thomas Robinson, a pediatrician(儿科专家) at Stanford University.
"American children spend an average of more than four hours per day watching television and videos or playing video games, and rates of childhood being very fat have doubled over the past 20 years," Robinson said.
In the study, presented this week to the Pediatric Academic Societies‘ annual meeting in San Francisco, the researchers persuaded about 100 of the students to reduce their television viewing by one-quarter to one-third.
Children watching fewer hours of television showed a significantly smaller increase in waist size and had less body fat than other students who continued their normal television viewing, even though neither group ate a special diet or took part in any extra exercise.
"One explanation for the weight loss could be the children unstuck to the television may simply have been moving around more and burning off calories," Robinson said.
"Another reason might be due to eating fewer meals in front of the television. Some studies have suggested that eating in front of the TV encourages people to eat more," Robinson said.
1.The author tries to tell us in the first two paragraphs that ________.
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A．children will get fatter if they eat too much |
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B．children will get thinner if they eat less |
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C．children will get fatter if they spend less time watching TV |
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D．children will get fatter if they spend more time watching TV |
2.According to the passage, the time American children usually spend on watching TV_____.
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A．is more than four hours a day |
B．is less than four hours a day |
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C．doubled in the last twenty years |
D．is more than on any other activities |
3. The time children spend on TV viewing every day is suggested to be about ________.
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A．six hours |
B．eight hours |
C．three hours |
D．one hour |
4.Which one of the following is right?
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A．Children usually eat fewer while watching TV. |
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B．Children usually eat more while watching TV. |
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C．Children eat the same amount of meals while watching TV. |
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D．Children usually eat nothing while watching TV. |
5.Why can watching TV increase kids’ weight according to the passage?
A. They usually eat more while watching TV.
B. They burn off fewer calories.
C. They change their diet while watching TV.
D. Both A and B.
The selfless village doctor treated whoever came to his family without any_ _.
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A．cost |
B．payment |
C．charge |
D．price |
When we got to the stadium hurriedly, the leaders________their speeches and the performance __________.
A. have finished; began B. had just finished; had begun
C. had just finished; was about to begin D just finished; began
I _______ in a foreign company for five years. Still, I don’t regret giving up the well-paid job.
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A．worked |
B．have worked |
C．was working |
D．had worked |
-------What do you think of the music teacher?
-------_____________she is an elegant lady, she can be extremely difficult to work with.
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A．While |
B．When |
C．Even if |
D．As |
