Young people and older people do not always agree with each other. They sometimes have different ideas about living, working and playing. But in one special program in New York State, adults and teenagers live together in a friendly way.
Each summer 200 teenagers and 50 adults live together for eight weeks as members of a special work group. Everyone works several hours each day. They do so not just to keep busy but to find meaning and enjoyment in work. Some teenagers work in the woods or on the farms near the village. Some learn to make things like tables and chairs and to build houses. The adults teach them these skills.
There are several free hours each day. Weekends are free, too. During the free hours some of the teenagers learn photo-taking or painting. Others sit around and talk to sing. Each teenager chooses his own way to spend his free time.
When people live together, rules are necessary. In this program the teenagers and the adults make the rules together. If someone breaks a rule, the problem goes before the whole group. They talk about it and ask, “Why did it happen? What should we do about it?”
One of the teenagers has this to say about the experience: “You stop thinking only about yourself. You learn how to think about the group.”
1.In one special program in New York State, young and older people_______.
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A．are friendly to one another |
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B．teach one another new ways of building houses |
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C．live together but do not work together |
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D．spend 8 weeks together, working as farmers. |
2.Living together, _________.
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A．the teenagers have to obey the rules the adults made. |
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B．the members don’t have to obey the rules. |
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C．the members are not allowed to break the rules they make together. |
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D．the members have no free time except on weekends |
3.The last paragraph shows that the teenager thinks his experience in the program is _________.
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A．disappointing |
B．helpful |
C．tiring |
D．unpleasant |
4.The best title for the passage is ________.
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A．Sadness of Living Together |
B．Different Ideas About Living |
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C．Teenagers and Adults Together |
D．Life in New York State |
Your body, which has close relations with the food you eat, is the most important thing you own, so it needs proper treatment and proper nourishment(食物). The old saying “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” is not as silly as some people think. The body needs fruit and vegetables because they contain vitamins. Many people take extra vitamins in pill form(丸剂), believing that these will make them healthy. But a good diet is made up of nutritive food and this gives all the vitamins you need. The body doesn't need or use extra vitamins, so why they waste money on them?
In the modern Western world, many people are too busy to bother about eating properly. They throw anything into their stomachs, eating hurriedly and carelessly. The list of illnesses caused or made worse by bad eating habits is frightening.
1.The old saying referred to in the passage tells us that .
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A．eating apples regularly does lots of good to our health. |
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B．the apple is the best among all kinds of fruits |
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C．apples can take the place of doctors |
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D．an apple is a sure cure for illness |
2.In the second paragraph, the writer tries to let us know .
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A．our bodies need food, or we can’t live |
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B．often eating apples is a good habit |
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C．taking extra vitamin pills is completely useless |
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D．a good diet is of great importance for our health |
3.In the modern western countries .
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A．people won't want to pay more attention to their eating. |
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B．people throw everything into their stomachs without chewing. |
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C．a lot of people’s illness are caused or made worse by bad eating habits |
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D．people are only too busy to cook meals for themselves |
4.From the passage we can draw a conclusion that if we want to keep healthy, we should .
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A．only eat an apple a day |
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B．take as many vitamin pills as possible |
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C．eat properly |
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D．throw something into our stomachs slowly and carefully. |
I take the train to work every morning from a train station near my house. I can get to the station quite _36__ because there’s a short cut（捷径）to the station. But in the summer, it can get quite smelly because of all the 37. So I always try to 38 through it. Today I was trying to do so as usual __39__ something made me stop for a moment. I saw the most beautiful __40__ by an old woman walking in front of me with the help of a white __41__.
She was short and 42 and had white hair. She was walking __43__ as each step took some effort. I hadn’t specially noticed her 44 , until she stopped near a rubbish bin（垃圾箱）.
She slowly placed her walking stick ___45__ the rubbish bin. Then she leaned （斜倚着） on it with her right hand. She bent down and _46__ the rubbish. She clearly found it _47___ and it took her a while. She _48__ some rubbish with her left hand and slowly straightened herself up again. All the while she used the rubbish bin to __49 herself. She threw the rubbish inside the bin and then 50 walking. It all took her great effort.
There’s no much rubbish and no one ever does ___51__ about it. I was moved to _52__ this old woman make such a great effort to keep even a small part of it __53__! I haven’t been able to __54__ thinking about that all day.
I want to follow her example. I’ve decided to pick up rubbish of the __55__ if I meet from now on. I hope people will do the same as I do.
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______ a family of chimps wake up is our first activity of the day.
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A．Watch |
B．Watching |
C．Watched |
D．Being watched |
These increased harvests _____ that 22% of the world’s people are fed from just 7% of the farmland in China.
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A．means |
B．meant |
C．mean |
D．is meaning |
Some people have the idea_____ you can cross Canada in less than five days.
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A．what |
B．that |
C．which |
D．when |
