Due to climate change, Arctic ice is breaking up earlier in the spring, and its area is decreasing. This is creating problems for polar bears that make their homes off northern Alaska and in Hudson Bay.
Polar bears off Alaska normally hunt and raise their young on ice sheets that float on the ocean. But as the ice has melted, the polar bears have been forced to spend more time on land. There, they have begun to frequent beaches, feeding on the remains of whales caught by native hunters. For polar bears, this food is less nutritious than seals that they normally catch on ice sheets. The shrinking（减少） ice has also forced more polar bears into the ocean. In the past, they only had to swim short distances between ice sheets. But as the ice has shrunk, polar bears have been forced to swim longer and longer distances in the open ocean. This poses a severe danger during rough weather, and an increasing number of drowned polar bears have been observed.
In Hudson Bay, the ice breaks up three weeks earlier in the spring now than it did 20 years ago. Polar bears on Hudson Bay fast（绝食） during the summer, waiting for ice to form in the fall to hunt. Every year, the summer gets longer, and the bears get skinnier. Over the past 25 years, the average weight of the female bears has dropped 68 kg. This loss affects their ability to reproduce, and already the number of births has dropped 15 percent. Unless the bears can learn to survive these climate changes, these giants of the ice may one day disappear.
1.What is Arctic ice doing earlier each year?
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A．It’s freezing. |
B．It’s hardening. |
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C．It’s melting. |
D．It’s expanding. |
2.What is true of polar bears that are spending more time on land in Alaska?
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A．Their young are dying. |
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B．Their diet is changing. |
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C．Their health is improving. |
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D．Their families are growing. |
3.What do polar bears in Hudson Bay do during the summer?
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A．They claim territory(地域). |
B．They protect mates. |
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C．They hunt animals. |
D．They stop feeding |
4.In which publication would you most likely find this passage?
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A．Medical News |
B．Society Today |
C．Wildlife Journal |
D．Design Magazine |
Donald had his own difficulties in sleeping that night. Not just because of the bright lights of the shelter or people’s constant voices, it was the happening repeatedly nightmare that caused him to stay awake, to fear sleep. Donald was back in his small house. He did his best to ignore the howling winds outside his window. Yet he could not turn out the fearful whimpers (呜咽) of his little dog, or the uncomfortable sounds of his mother anxious in her room next door, unable to sleep through the storm despite her insistence they would be all right.
Donald did not want his mother to be upset, but on some level, he was glad to hear she was awake, It meant he was not alone in the dark. Though he was 12, until recently it was impossible for Donald to fall asleep unless his mother lay down by his side.
Suddenly there was a crash. Their living room window is shattered (打碎) by 125 miles an hour winds. Troy rushed to Donald and sat anxiously on the edge of his bed. He did his best to calm his mother, and she had to comfort him. Soon water was seeping (渗入) into the single floor house. Quickly it rose from ankle level to leg level. At Donald’s insistence, they pushed their way through the water --- now chest high --- toward the front door. When they fought their way into the living room, water rose to their chins.
It was a struggle for the boy and mother to stay afloat. In a total panic, desperate to hold on to something, Troy caught a curtain rod. She was breathing hard, shouting that she couldn’t swim.
Donald cried out, “Mom! Hold on!” Just then Donald also caught a floatable wood board.
1.The passage is mainly about _____.
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A．how a storm happened and caused damage |
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B．how a mother and son experienced a storm |
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C．how a mother and son survived a storm |
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D．how a son helped his mother in a storm |
2.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the story?
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A．The rising water. |
B．The broken window. |
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C．The lucky dog. |
D．The noisy environment. |
3.Which phrase can describe Troy’s feelings at the beginning of the storm most suitably?
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A．In excitement. |
B．In calm. |
C．In anxiety. |
D．In despair. |
4.What will the author most probably talk about next?
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A．How the other people struggled in the storm. |
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B．Why the rainstorm happened. |
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C．What damage the rainstorm caused. |
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D．How Donald and Troy struggled to save themselves |
Recently a Beijing father sent in a question at an Internet forum (论坛) asking what "PK" meant. "My family has been watching the 'Super Girl' singing competition TV program . My little daughter asked me what 'PK' meant, but I had no idea," explained the puzzled father.
To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing games online, it is impossible not to know this term. In such Internet games, "PK" is short for "Player Kill", in which two players fight until one ends the life of the other.
In the case of the "Super Girl" singing competition, "PK" was used to refer to the stage where two singers have to compete with each other for only one chance to go up in competition ranking.
Like this father, Chinese teachers at high schools have also been finding their students' compositions using Internet jargons (行话) which are difficult to understand. A high school teacher from Tianjin asked her students to write compositions with simple language, but they came up with a lot of Internet jargons that she didn't understand.
"My 'GG' came back this summer from college. He told me I've grown up to be a 'PLMM'. I loved to 'FB' with him together; he always took me to the 'KPM'," went one composition.
"GG" means Ge Ge (Chinese pinyin for brother). "PLMM" refers to Piao Liang Mei Mei (beautiful girl). "FB" means Fu Bai (corruption). "KPM" is short for KFC, Pizza Hut and McDonald's.
Some specialists welcome Internet jargons as a new development in language.
If you do not even know what a Kong Long (dinosaur, referring to an ugly looking female) or a Qing Wa (frog, referring to an ugly looking male) is, you will possibly be regarded as a Cai Niao!
1.By writing the article, the writer tries to ________ .
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A．explain some Internet language |
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B．suggest common Internet language |
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C．laugh at the Beijing father |
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D．draw our attention to Internet language |
2.What does the writer think about the term "PK"?
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A．Fathers can't possibly know it. |
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B．The daughter should understand it. |
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C．Online game players may know it. |
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D．"Super Girl" shouldn't have used it. |
3.The examples of the Beijing father and the Tianjin teacher are used to show that Internet jargons ________ .
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A．are used not only online |
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B．can be understood very well |
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C．are welcomed by all the people |
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D．cause trouble to our mother tongue |
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
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A．A puzzled father |
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B．Do you speak Internet-ish? |
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C．Keep away from Internet-ish |
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D．Kong Long or Qing Wa? |
Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them. Our purpose is to fit them for life.
In some modern countries it has for some time been fashionable to think that by free education for all whether rich or poor, clever or stupid - one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough; we find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degree；they refuse to do what they think "low" work; and, in fact, work with hands is thought to be dirty and shameful in such countries. But we have only to think a moment to understand that the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor; we can live without education, but we die if we have no food. If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away from our houses, we should get terrible diseases in our towns…
In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to fit us for life, it means that we must be educated in such a way that, firstly, each of us can do whatever work suited to his brains and ability and, secondly, that we can realize that all jobs are necessary to society, and that it is very bad to be ashamed of one's work. Only such a type of education can be considered valuable to society.
1.The writer of the passage thinks that _______.
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A．education can settle most of the world's problems |
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B．free education for all probably leads to a perfect world |
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C．free education won't help to solve problems |
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D．all the social problems can't be solved by education |
2.The writer wants to prove that _______.
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A．our society needs all kinds of jobs |
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B．our society needs free education for all |
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C．a farmer is more important than a professor |
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D．work with hands is the most important |
3.The purpose of education is _______.
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A．to choose officials for the country |
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B．to prepare children mainly for their future work |
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C．to let everyone receive education fit for him |
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D．to build a perfect world |
4.The passage tells us about _______ of the education.
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A．the means |
B．the system |
C．the value |
D．the type |
In a national spelling contest in America，an 11-year-old girl was asked to spell a certain word. But with her 36 voice the judges were not sure whether she spelled the word with the letter A or E. They talked it over and 37 decided to simply ask her what she had said. By now, the girl knew she had 38 the word. But instead of lying，she told the truth that she had said the 39 letter—so she lost the contest.
As the girl walked off the 40 ，the entire audience stood to their feet clapping to applaud her 41 . Later，dozens of newspaper reporters wrote about this 11-year-old girl’s honesty，even when it 42 her the contest. But the fact is that she 43 the biggest contest that day: the contest of her 44 .
Probably the biggest test of our character and honesty is that we would do if we knew we would never get 45 . This young girl could easily have 46 and nobody would have known it but herself. But that’s just it: She would know she did wrong. It’s been said, “If you 47 , you make yourself cheap.” This young girl was strong and smart enough to prize her own 48 and character more than the prize from a spelling 49 . Her respect for herself was more important than any 50 others might give her for winning a contest. She knew she would have to live with herself and the 51 she made in that moment will have long-lasting influence.
It’s so true that the choices you make today 52 what you are tomorrow. Our children will 53 our behavior much more than our advice. So if we want them to 54 to be honest，we must show them the way by being honest ourselves. Remember，our kids are 55 what we do and how we live even when we don’t think they see or know.
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—Have you heard that Tom, along with his parents, _____ to Japan?
—Really? No wonder I haven’t seen him these days.
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A．has been |
B．has gone |
C．have been |
D．have gone |
