—What will you do next Sunday?
—Maybe do some shopping, for I ______go to school on Sunday．
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A．mustn't |
B．shouldn't |
C．don't have to |
D．had better not |
Asia is important to America because America's future _____ trade with Asia's growing economies．
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A．depends on |
B．takes off |
C．sets up |
D．breaks out |
--- Peter, you the window quickly, will you?
--- OK! Oh! The window broken.
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A．shut; is |
B．will shut; has been |
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C．are shutting; was |
D．have shut; has been |
Psychiatrists(精神病专家)，who work with older parents say that maturity can be an asset(资产) in child raising----older parents are more thoughtful, use less physical discipline and spend more time with children. But raising kids takes money and energy, many older parents find themselves balancing their limited financial resources, declining energy and failing health against the growing demands of an active child. Dying and leaving young children is probably the older parents’ biggest and often unspoken fear. Having late-life children, says an economics professor, often means parents, particularly fathers, “end up retiring much later.” For many, retirement becomes an unobtainable dream.
Henry Metcalf, a 54-year-old journalist, knows it takes money to raise kids. But he’s also worried that his energy will give out first. Sure, he can still ride bikes with his athletic fifth grader, but he’s learned that, young at heart doesn’t mean young. Lately he’s been taking afternoon naps to keep up his energy.” My body is aging,” says Metcalf, “You can’t get away from that.”
Often, older parents hear the ticking of another kind of biological clock. Therapists who work with middle-aged and older parents say fears about aging are nothing to laugh at. “They worry they’ll be mistaken for grandparents, or that they’ll need help getting up out of those little chairs in nursery school.” Says Joann Galst, a New York psychologist .But at the core of those little fears there is often a much bigger one. “that they will not be alive long enough to support and protect their child, ” she says .
Many late-life parents, though, say their children came at just the right time. After marrying late and undergoing years of fertility(受孕) treatment, Marilyn Nolen and her husband, Randy, had twins. “We both wanted children,” says Marilyn, who was 55 when she gave birth. The twins have given the couple what they desired for years, “a sense of family.”
Kids of older dads are often smarter, happier and more sociable because their fathers are more involved in their lives. “The dads are older, more mature,” says Dr. Silber, “and more ready to focus on parenting.”
1.Why do psychiatrists regard maturity as an asset in child raising?
A Older parents can better balance their resources against children’s demands.
B Older parents are usually more experienced in bringing up their children.
C Older parents are often better prepared financially.
D Older parents can take better care of their children.
2.What does the author mean by saying “For many, retirement becomes an unobtainable dream”
A They have to go on working beyond their retirement age.
B They can’t get full pension unless they work some extra years.
C They can’t obtain the retirement benefits they have dreamed of.
D They are unwilling to retire when they reach their retirement age
3.The author gives the examples of Henry Metcalf to show that______.
A many people are young in spirit despite their advanced age
B taking afternoon naps is a good way to maintain energy
C older parents tend to be concerned about their aging bodies
D older parents should exercise more to keep up with their athletic children
4.What’s the biggest fear of older parents according to New York psychologist Joann Galst?
A Being laughed at by other people B Slowing down of their pace of life
C Being mistaken for grandparents D Approaching of death
5.What do we learn about Marilyn and Randy Nolen?
A They thought they were an example of successful fertility treatment
B Not until they had the twins did they feel had formed a family
C They believe that children born of older parents would be smarter.
D Not until they reached middle age did they think of having children.
After their 20-year-old son hanged himself during his winter break from the University of Arizona five years ago, Donna and Phil Satow wondered what signs they have overlooked, and started asking other students for answers.
What grew from this soul searching was Ulifeline (www. Ulifeline. org), a Web site where students can get answers to questions about depression by logging on through their universities. The site has been adopted as a resource by over 120 colleges, which can customize it with local information, and over 1.3 million students have logged on with their college ID’s.
“It is a very solid Web site that raises awareness of suicide, de-stigmatizes mental illness and encourages people to seek the help they need,”said Paul Grayson, the director of counseling services at New York University, which started using the service nearly a year ago.
The main component of the Web site is the Self-screening program developed by Duke University Medical Center that tests students to determine whether they are at risk for depression, suicide and disorders like anorexia and drug dependences. Besides helping students, the services compiles anonymous student date, offering administrators an important window onto the mental health of its campus.
The site provides university users with links to local mental health services, a catalog of information on prescription drugs and side effects, and access to Go Ask Alice, a vast archive developed by Columbia University with hundreds of responses to anonymously posted inquires from college students worldwide. For students concerned about their friends, there is a section that describes warning signs for suicidal behavior and depression.
Yet it is hard to determine how effective the service is. The anonymity of the online service can even play out as a negative. “There is no substitute for personal interaction(个人互动才能解决)，” said Dr. Lanny Berman, executive director of the American Association of Suicidology, based in Washington.
Ulifeline would be the first to say that its service is no replacement for an actual therapist. “The purpose is to find out if there are signs of depression and then direct people to the right places,” said Ron Gibori, executive director of Ulifeline.
Mrs. Satow, who is still involved with Ulifeline, called it “a knowledge base” that might have prevented the death of her son, Jed. “If Jed’s friends had known the signs of depression, they might have seen something,” she said.
1. The first paragraph is written to_________.
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A．report a suicide of a young man |
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B．show the suffering of Mr. And Mrs. Satow |
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C．describe the Satows’ confusion over their son’s death |
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D．introduce the topic of a website called Ulifeline. |
2.One reason that many colleges adopt the website is to _________
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A．provide their students with campus information |
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B．offer medical treatment to students in mental disorder |
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C．encourage their students to seek advice about depression |
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D．give their students various help they may need |
3. Go Ask Alice as mentioned in the passage is________
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A．a side effect caused by some prescription drugs |
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B．intended to counsel college students in mental problems |
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C．a collection of medical responses from students the world over |
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D．meant to describe the various signs of mental disorders |
4.The underlined sentence of the seventh paragraph implies that ______
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A．only actual therapy can ensure adequate treatment |
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B．the help given by the web service is doubtful |
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C．doctors have expressed a negative view of the service |
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D．a therapist’s office is the first place for the depressed to go |
5. Mrs. Satow would probably agree that _________
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A．Jed’s friends can prevent her son’s death |
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B．her son’s suicide is unavoidable |
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C．Ulifeline is a worthwhile website |
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D．depression is the final cause of suicides |
Blogs are being used more and more by teachers. Many Internet services now offer free and easy ways to create personal Web pages.
Through comments on blogs, or Web logs, teachers can share their classroom experiences. They can exchange ideas and discuss successes and failures. They can debate educational policies. Or they can just sympathize with each other.
A teacher in the American state of North Carolina recently wrote on her blog: “Apparently the teachers at my school use too much paper. So my principal yelled at everyone at the last staff meeting for, like, ten minutes. Now, I’ve just been told, we are not getting anymore paper for the rest of the year.”
This unidentified blogger is now in her third year of teaching, but still calls her site firstyearteacher.blogspot.com.
A blogger who calls himself Minister Lawrence works as a substitute teacher. In April he wrote about a disputed plan to split the Omaha, Nebraska, public schools into separate systems for black, Latino and white students. Supporters say minority parents do not have enough power over their children’s education.
But Minister Lawrence wrote at teachersparadise.blogspot.com: “I’m afraid that what this says’ to a lot of people is that blacks, whites and Hispanics are not equal, and “reinforces” racist beliefs among people.”
Educators did not become involved with blogging right away. Many were concerned with privacy issues and security. But now, thousands of teacher blogs can be found on the Internet. Many teachers do not identify themselves, and they change the names of students and co-workers.
1.What are teachers not doing through blogs?
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A．They discuss educational problem. |
B．They send money to the poor students. |
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C．They share teaching ideas. |
D．They comfort each other. |
2. What is the main idea for the passage?
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A．More and more teachers are using blogs. |
B．It is exciting to use blogs. |
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C．Blogs are popular with students. |
D．Educational problems are settled through blogs. |
3. Why some teachers do not identify themselves? Because ___
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A．they are forbidden to identify themselves. |
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B．they are forbidden to write something through blogs |
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C．they want to ensure their security |
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D．they want to amuse others. |
4.Which of the following is the result of the teachers’ using blogs?
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A．Paper consuming is declining. |
B．Teaching is improving. |
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C．Classes are more active. |
D．Government is against it. |
5.Minister Lawrence’s blogs are about___
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A．classroom experiences |
B．teaching plans |
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C．educational policies |
D．the black minority |
