So much progress _____ in the past few months that she now has no difficulty in making herself understood in English.
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A．did she make |
B．has she made |
C．she has made |
D．she made |
Much to my , I’m unable to accept your kind invitation.
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A．fault |
B．duty |
C．guide |
D．regret |
—Shall we hang out tomorrow morning?
— ________ I’ll save the morning for my essay.
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A．Sorry, I can’t make it. |
B．Yes, it’s a good idea. |
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C．Well, it all depends. |
D．No, that’s impossible. |
高三同学面临沉重的升学压力，因此，很多同学课间休息时间也坐在教室里学习，但效果并不理想。就此，班主任准备开一次班会课，以劝诫这些同学：适当的休息很有必要。现请你以“The Ten-minute Break Between Classes”为题，按以下要求写一篇英语短文，让这些同学从中受到启发。要点如下：
1. 十分钟的课间休息很有必要；
2. 这段时间学习效果并不理想；
3. 你是如何利用这十分钟休息时间的。
注意：词数100字左右，开头已给出，不计入总词数。
The Ten-minute Break Between Classes
Time seems to be so limited for us Senior Three Students._______________________________
What happens inside the skull of a soccer player who repeatedly heads a soccer ball? That question motivate a challenging new study of the brains of experienced players that has caused discussion and debate among soccer players, and some anxiety among those of us with soccer-playing children.
For the study, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York selected 34 adults，men and women. All of the volunteers had played soccer since childhood and now competed year-round in adult soccer leagues. Each filled out a detailed questionnaire developed especially for this study to determine how many times they had headed a soccer ball in the previous year, as well as whether they had experienced any known concussions（脑震荡）in the past.
Then the players completed computerized tests of their memory and other learning skills and had their brains scanned, using a complicated new MRI technique which can find structural changes in the brain that can’t be seen during most scans.
According to the data they presented at a Radiological Society of North America meeting last month，the researchers found that the players who had headed the ball more than about 1,100 times in the previous 12 months showed significant loss of white matter in parts of their brains involved with memory，attention and the processing of visual information, compared with players who had headed the ball fewer times.
This pattern of white matter loss is “similar to those seen in traumatic（外伤的）brain injury” , like that after a serious concussion, the researchers reported，even though only one of these players was reported to have ever experienced a conc ussion.
The players who had headed the ball about 1,100 times or more in the past year were also generally worse at recalling lists of words read to them, forgetting or fumbling the words far more often than players who had headed the ball less.
1.The passage is most probably a _________________.
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A．news report |
B．research report |
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C．story for soccer players |
D．text for doctors |
2.From the passage we can conclude that frequent heading may have _________________.
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A．significant effect on one’s brain |
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B．little effect on one’s brain |
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C．nothing to do with the brain injury |
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D．one’s memory improved |
3.What is likely to be the cause of memory loss?
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A．Playing soccer frequently. |
B．Tests of their memory. |
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C．White matter loss. |
D．Information processing. |
4.The underlined word "fumbling" is closest in meaning to ________________.
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A．remembering |
B．misunderstanding |
C．recalling |
D．missing |
More than half of rich Americans have not shown their full wealth to their children, a new survey showed last Tuesday.
The survey, published by the Bank of America, studied the rich with＄3 million or more in possessions. It found that “surprisingly few of those surveyed have well-developed plans to preserve and pass on their possessions to their children”.
The majority of the 457 people surveyed are self-made, first-generation rich. Fifty-two percent of parents have not chosen not to tell their children just how wealthy they are，and 15 percent have given away nothing about the family wealth. One in three parents said they had never thought to do it.
They are worried that their children would become lazy, spend money freely，make bad decisions and even become a target for attractive women who use their looks to get money from rich men.
Only 34 percent strongly agreed that their children would be able to handle any inheritance（遗产）they plan to leave them.
“There is an expectation about the wealthy parents that they have a responsibility to pass down their fortune to the next generation,” said Sallie Krawcheck，president of the Global Wealth and Investment Management of the Bank of America. “Our research, however, uncovered changing views of what one generation owes the next.”
The trend is led by the world’s richest man Bill Gates, who promised in 2008 that he would leave his $58 billion fortune to the charity started by him and his wife, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation（基金会），and not to his children.
“ We want to give it back to society in the way that it will have the most positive effect,” he said.
Of his plans for his children , Gates said: “I will give the kids some money but not a meaningful percentage… they will need to work but they will feel reasonably taken care of.”
1.We can learn from the passage that .
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A．rich parents may not know how to manage their inheritance |
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B．rich parents don’t equal rich kids, at least in the US |
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C．American children don’t get to inherit their parents’ wealth |
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D．poor children don’t expect themselves to be as rich as their parents |
2.According to the survey, most rich Americans ．
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A．think they owe their children nothing |
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B．think it best to give their money back to society |
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C．doubt their children’s ability to handle wealth |
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D．are confident of their children’s ability to handle wealth |
3.The underlined word “they” in Paragraph 6 refers to ．
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A．responsible children |
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B．Bill Gates and his wife |
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C．first-generation rich |
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D．rich parents |
4.From the last paragraph，we can see that Bill Gates wants to show .
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A．the trend of leaving no inheritance to children |
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B．the positive effect of charity on society |
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C．the way of giving back to society |
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D．the importance of independence for children |
