根据下列句子及所给汉语注释，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。每空只写一词。
1.The exercises are designed to ________ (增强) your stomach muscle.
2.Don’t be frightened by the television camera. Just speak (自然地).
3.The boy spoke in a low voice （承认）that it was his fault.
4.Are you well __________(准备) for the entrance examination?
5.As the storm drew near, black clouds were __________ (聚集) over the sky.
6.However, his __________ (知识) of French remained very weak.
7. (令人吃惊的是) , some graduates with qualification failed to find jobs.
8.The Bank of China has a lot of __________ (支行) in the world.
9.This kind of tree can only grow in the __________ (北方) parts of China.
10.Nuclear physics is ________（超出） my understanding.
W: Bobby, turn that TV off and set the table. Dinner is almost ready.
M: OK. I’ll be right down…
W: 1 Your father’s plane was delayed, so he won’t be home until after 10:00.
M: Aw, man! Why does he always have to travel so much? 2
W: I know. Your sister and I feel the same way, but this is the way it has to be right now.
M: 3
W: That’s because I work from home. 4 Your father is gone a lot, but he also makes good money.
M: Why doesn’t he work from home?
W: 5 If he stayed at home, how would he ever sell anything?
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A．Yes. Father works too hard. |
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B．But you never travel for your job. |
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C．Dear, we’ll have to wait for your father. |
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D．I feel like I never get to see him anymore. |
E. I guess I’m lucky, but there are disadvantages, too.
F. Honey, there are only going to be three of us tonight.
G. Well, working in sales means you have to be on the road a lot.
Scientists at Harvard University and Bates College find female chimpanzees (黑猩猩) appear to treat sticks as dolls, carrying them around until they have children of their own. Young males engage in such behavior much less frequently.
The new work by Sonya M. Kahlenberg and Richard W. Wrangham, described this week in the journal Current Biology, provides the first evidence of a wild nonhuman species playing with dolls, as well as the first known sex difference in a wild animal’s choice of playthings.
The two researchers say their work adds to a growing body of evidence that human children are probably born with their own ideas of how they want to behave, rather than simply mirroring other girls who play with dolls and boys who play with trucks. Doll play among humans could have its origins in object—carrying by earlier apes (猿类), they say, suggesting that toy selection is probably not due entirely to socialization.
“In humans, there are obvious sex differences in children’s toy play, and these are remarkably similar across cultures,” says Kahlenberg. “While socialization by elders and peers has been the primary explanation, our work suggests that biology may also have an important role to play in activity preferences.”
In 14 years of data on chimpanzee behavior at the Kibale National Park in Uganda, Kahlenberg and Wrangham counted more than 100 examples of stickcarrying. Some young chimpanzees carried sticks into the nest to sleep with them and on one occasion built a separate nest for the stick. “We have seen juveniles occasionally carrying sticks for many years, and because they sometimes treated them rather like dolls, we wanted to know if in general this behavior tended to represent something like playing with dolls,” says Wrangham, a Professor at Harvard. “If the doll hypothesis (假设) was right, we thought that females should carry sticks more than males do, and that the chimpanzees should stop carrying sticks when they had their first child. We have now watched enough young chimpanzees to prove both points.”
1.What does a female chimpanzee do with sticks?
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A．She gives them to her child to play with. |
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B．She treats them as dolls. |
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C．She makes useful tools from them. |
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D．She treats them as weapons. |
2. What causes the different toy selection of chimpanzees, according to the passage?
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A．Sex difference. |
B．Socialization. |
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C．Environment. |
D．Cultural difference. |
3.We can infer from the fourth paragraph that ________.
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A．socialization has nothing to do with human’s choice of playthings |
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B．sex difference is the only factor in human’s choice of playthings |
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C．the biology factor may also influence toy choice |
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D．people choose different toys in different cultures |
4.It can be concluded from the passage that ________.
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A．both humans and chimpanzees choose their playthings due to sex difference |
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B．different factors cause humans and chimpanzees to choose different playthings |
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C．only female chimpanzees have playthings |
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D．chimpanzees usually choose playthings for their children |
I credit my typing skill to so many hours of chatting online. Unfortunately, as my typing speed increased on the Internet, all grammatical rules went out of the window. You see instant messages have their own shorthand language and grammar isn’t important, of which even a newbie (新手) is aware. They can leave out articles, subjects (主语), pronouns, etc. They can misspell or “respell” almost any word. They often ask “A/S/L” when they first chat. Abbreviations (缩写) and capitalizations (大写) are particularly important. English-speaking instant messengers also refuse to burden themselves with punctuation and capitalization.
After I came back China, I discovered not one but two instant messaging crazes. The first, which brought back memories of my previous addiction to the computer, was QQ. I can see evidence that the Chinese have the same kind of separate instant messaging language, even when they chat in English. My first word in this language, for example, was “ft”. This abbreviation for “faint” is used whenever there is a need to express surprise. I also discovered that Chinese use the same kind of abbreviation for a laugh. And there is an extraordinary number of smileys (表情符) to the “vomit” and “army soldier” smileys. There is even a SARA smiley.
After QQ, there is another, perhaps more widespread messaging trend. You guessed it --- cell phone text messaging. I now understand how useful text messaging is and why it is so common. I admit that I have been guilty of sending text messages while walking outside or sitting on the subway. Who hasn’t ? No matter where I go, I see people on their cell phones, messaging. In fact, it’s rare to see someone actually talking on their phone!
So it looks as if there is no escape from the instant messaging crazes, no matter where in the world I go. And that’s plainly not going to change. In the end, though, I can’t complain: instant messaging is quick, it’s cheap, it’s easy and it’s extremely fun too. And after all, everyone’s doing it.
1.The underlined phrase “went out of the window” in Paragraph 1 probably means .
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A．increased |
B．occurred |
C．disappeared |
D．changed |
2.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
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A．Grammar and correct spelling are very important while chatting online. |
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B．There are enough smileys and icons to express yourselves while chatting on line. |
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C．The writer is skilled at typing and once was addicted to online games. |
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D．It is impolite to leave out some unimportant words or letters while chatting online. |
3.The writer believes that instant messaging is .
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A．full of fun but time-consuming |
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B．widespread but unnecessary |
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C．quick but difficult to do |
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D．common, used and cheap |
4.Which might be the main idea of the passage?
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A．Who can escape QQ and cell phone text messaging? |
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B．Why is instant messaging so popular? |
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C．Chatting online is good for your typing skill. |
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D．Chatting on QQ is natural for people. |
Memory is the ability to keep track of things that have happened in the past. Memory really is learning. One needs memory to ride a bicycle. A dog needs to remember if it is to come when called.
Memory is said to be stored in the brain as a “memory trace（记忆痕）.” What makes up this trace is not known. Some scientists believe that certain chemical substances may carry certain memories. For example, one substance, when given to rats, causes them to fear the dark.
Other research into memory has to do with how the brain works. Psychologists use three means to find out how a person remembers. For example, give a person a grocery list. Let the person memorize the list, then put it away. The most natural way to find out how much a person remembers of the grocery list is to ask what he or she remembers. This is called the method of recall. Another method is called recognition. Give the person another grocery list. Ask him or her to choose items on the first list from the items that are on only the second list. Often a person will be able to recognize things that he or she cannot recall. A third method of finding how much a person remembers is called relearning. Here the person is asked to read over the first list. The person will probably learn the list the second time faster than he did the first time. The difference in the time it takes to relearn the list is thought of as a measure of how much a person has remembered.
One way of remembering something is to repeat it many times. Interest is very important. Boring lists of facts are much more difficult to remember than something that we understand and are interested in. Motivation, or wanting to do something, is also important. Motivation is linked with reward. For example, a hungry animal quickly learns how to do something if that action gets the animal food. In humans, wanting to learn is often motivation. The praise of a teacher or the knowledge that an answer is correct is rewarding.
1.We can learn from the 2nd paragraph that ___________ .
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A．bad memories may cause rats to fear the dark |
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B．it is hard to tell what a memory trace consists of |
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C．chemical substances carry certain memories |
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D．memory is stored in the brain as a substance |
2.The way to pick out the items on the first list from the second is known as ________ .
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A．recognition |
B．recall |
C．memorization |
D．relearning |
3.What is considered as a measure of how much one has remembered?
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A．The length of the list. |
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B．The type of list items. |
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C．The time difference of relearning. |
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D．The time difference of brain working. |
4.A good way to train an animal to do something quickly is to ________.
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A．make the action easy |
B．praise it in words |
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C．reward it with food |
D．weaken its motivation |
What’s On Stage
An acrobatic show: To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the China Acrobatic Troupe (剧团) will present “The Soul of China”, where the seemingly impossible is made real. Chills will run down your spine(脊柱) as you watch breathlessly as performers take their art and their bodies to the edge.
Time: 7:30 p.m., September 13-19
Place: Capital Theatre, 22 Wangfujing Dajie, Dongcheng District
Exhibitions
Joint Show: A group ink painting exhibition is running at the Huangshicheng Art Gallery in Beijing. About 50 works by 25 young artists including Ge Yun and Yu Yang are on display.
Time: 9:00 a. m.-5:00 p.m. until September 10
Place: Huangshicheng Art Gallery, 136 Nanchizi Dajie, Dongcheng District
Oil paintings: The Wanfung Art Gallery will host a joint show of oil painting by 10 young and middle-aged artists. On display are more than 30 of their latest works, which capture the wondrous variety of life in unique styles.
Time: 9:00 a.m. -4:00 p.m. until September 15
Place: 136 Nanchizi Street, Dongcheng District
Literature museum: The National Museum of Modern Chinese Literature offers an in-depth study of the evolution of Chinese contemporary literature from 1919 to 1949.
Time: 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., daily
Place: 45 Anyuan Donglu, Chaoyang District (Shaoyaoju area)
Concerts
Beijing rocks: “The Fashion Night of Chinese Rock” is set to bring rock fans out by the thousands next month. Nine Chinese rock bands will perform at the concert, including older generation bands, middle generation and some recent arrivals. The audience will be given a chance to decide what songs they want to hear, which is sure to bring a storm.
Time: September 16
Place: The Olympic Center
Belgium orchestra：La Petite Bande, the Baroque Orehestra of Belgium, will perform in Beijing at the Grand Theatre of the Cultural Palace of Nationalities as part of activities across the world in memory of the 250th anniversary of Bach’s death.
Time: 7:30 p.m. September 11-14
Place: Grand Theatre of the Cultural Palace of Nationalities
1.What do you think of the acrobatic show mentioned above?
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A．When you watch it, you will certainly feel cold. |
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B．Unexpected things will make you excited and surprised. |
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C．Something strange will puzzle everyone, including scientists. |
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D．Even the bravest ones will be too frightened to go on watching. |
2.The most characteristic thing about the Fashion Night of Chinese Rock is that ______.
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A．it will certainly cause a rock storm throughout China |
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B．it is to bring thousands of rock fans out of their homes |
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C．it is to be held in memory of one of the greatest musicians |
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D．it will let the audience choose the performers and the music |
3.Suppose it is September 14 today, how many activities can people choose to attend?
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A．2. |
B．3. |
C．4. |
D．5. |
4.On the whole, we can conclude ______.
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A．we can enjoy a large variety of cultural activities in Beijing |
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B．people in Beijing prefer modern culture to something traditional |
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C．most of the cultural activities in Beijing are for foreign visitors only |
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D．there are usually more cultural activities in September than in any other month |
