Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage.
I’m not a fast reader and I don’t read as much as many other people, but reading is something I enjoy. It opens new worlds to me and widens my perspective(洞察力,眼力).
Recently I found Kobo，an online book store that allows me to buy e-books and read them on a device of my choice. I’m a girl living in Indonesia, where e-books are not available and I had to buy physical books from Amazon in the past. There are two problems with it:
Shipping cost. Since I live far away from the United States, it costs a lot to ship a book. Shipping costs almost as much as the book itself.
Shipping time. It takes about three weeks for the books to arrive through postal mail.
Now with Kobo, I can eliminate those two problems. Not only does it cost less time and money to get the books, but also I prefer to read e-books this way than reading physical books. Here are three reasons why:
I can easily bring the books everywhere. Since all the books are in my iPod touch, I can simply put the device into my pocket and bring it everywhere I go.
The size is smaller. The size of the iPod Touch is smaller than a physical book. This makes reading more convenient for me.
I can read in any position I want. The iPod has a light source, so I can read when I am in darkness. This means that I can read in practically any position and condition.
One more advantage I haven’t mentioned is space. Physical books take space, but e-books don’t.
1.Why does the author like reading? (no more than 11 words)
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2.What are the problems with buying physical books from Amazon? (no more than 9 words)
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3.How can the author read when she is in darkness? (no more than 6 words)
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4.What’s the author’s attitude towards e-books? (no more than 1 word)
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Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the numbered blanks by using the information from the passage
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
People in the United States honor their parents with two special days: Mother’s Day, on the second Sunday in May, and Father’s Day, on the third Sunday in June. These days are set aside to show love and respect for parents. They raise their children and educate them to be responsible citizens. They give love and care. These two days offer a chance to think about the changing roles of mothers and fathers. More mothers now work outside the home. More fathers must help with child-care.
These two special days are celebrated in many different ways. On Mother’s Day people wear carnations. A. red one stands for a living mother. A. white one shows that the mother is dead. Many people attend religious services（宗教仪式）to honor parents. It is also a day when people whose parents are dead visit their graves(坟). On these days, families get together at home and in restaurants. They often have outdoor BBQs for Father’s Day. These are days of fun and good feelings and memories.
Another tradition is to give cards and gifts. Children make them in school. Many people make their own presents. These are valued more than the ones bought in stores. It is not the value of the gift that is important, but it is “the thought that counts”. Greeting card stores, florists, candy makers, bakeries, telephones companies and other stores do a lot of business during these holidays.
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●Mother’s Day ●2. |
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to show love and respect for parents. |
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offer a chance to think about 4. |
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● wearing carnations on Mother’s Day. ●6.attending to honor parents. ●7.visiting ●8. at home and in restaurant. ●9. |
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Giving cards and gifts to parents. |
New rules for pubs and clubs, including a ban (禁令) on drinking games like the awful "dentist's chair", will be introduced in Britain this year to prevent the heavy drinking culture, which costs the country billions of pounds a year.
Other activities like "all you can drink for 10 pounds ", "women drink free" nights and speed drinking competitions will also be banned.
But, on the other hand, offers of cheap alcohol in supermarkets will not be affected, which is widely regarded as one of the main sources of Britain's problems with under-age and over-drinking.
Doctors and health experts argue that the government has failed to use its most effective weapon, the taxation(征税) of minimum price controls on alcohol.
Home Secretary Alan Johnson said that the government and the industry had a duty to act on heavy drinking." These bans have a real impact on society, not to mention the lives of those who just want to enjoy a good night out," he said.
“The dentist's chair”, where drinks are poured directly into the mouth by others, was made famous by the celebrations of footballer Paul Gascoigne at Euro '96. That game and others that promote large consumption will be banned from April and publicans (酒店老板) will have to ensure free tap water is made available to the drinkers.
The government says over-drinking costs Britain up to 12 billion pounds a year and has announced that any pubs that go against the new mandatory code (强制性规定) will face severe punishment. For instance, publicans and vendors (小贩) could lose their licenses, be fined up to 20,000 pounds ($32,750) or face six months in prison.
1.New rules for pubs and clubs will be introduced in Britain to ban heavy drinking because ________.
A．people drink too much without paying taxes
B．drinking games are infamous
C．drinking competitions are very crazy
D．drinking in the country costs too much
2.Some people believe when the tough new rules come into effect, ________.
A．supermarkets will stop selling alcohol in low prices
B．“women drink free” nights will not be closed
C．over-drinking will still not be stopped
D．under-age people will not continue drinking
3.What is probably the most effective way to control alcohol?
A．bans B．education C．force D．taxation
4.According to the passage, “the dentist’s chair” is ________.
A．a chair for the patient whose teeth should be treated
B．a drinking game made famous by the celebrations of footballers
C．a way to advertise different types of alcohol
D．to be banned in October this year
5.What’s the main idea of the passage?
A．Heavy drinking will be banned in Britain.
B．Over-drinking will be taxed.
C．Drinking in Britain will be banned.
D．12 billion pounds is spent on drinking.
Are morning people born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I hardly went to bed before midnight, and I would always get up late the next morning.
But after a while I couldn’t ignore the high relationship between success and rising early. On those rare occasions where I did get up early, I noticed that my productivity (效率) was always higher. So I set out to become a habitual early riser. But whenever my alarm went off, my first thought was always to stop that noise and go back to sleep. Eventually some sleep research showed that my strategy was wrong.
The most common wrong strategy is this: supposing you’re going to get up earlier, you’d better go to bed earlier. It sounds very reasonable, but will usually fail.
There are two main schools (流派) of thought on sleep patterns. One is that you should go to bed and get up at the same time every day. The second school says you should go to bed when you’re tired and get up when you naturally wake up. However, I have found both are wrong if you care about productivity. If you sleep at fixed hours, you’ll sometimes go to bed when you aren’t sleepy enough. You’re wasting time lying in bed awake.
My solution is to combine both methods. I go to bed when I’m sleepy and get up with an alarm clock at a fixed time. So I always get up at the same time (in my case 5 a.m.), but I go to bed at different times every night.
However, going to bed only when I’m sleepy, and getting up at a fixed time every morning are my ways. If you want to become an early riser, you can try your own.
1.According to the passage, the underlined phrase refers to ________.
A．people who stay up until the next morning
B．people who get up early in the morning
C．people who feel sleepy in the morning
D．people whose productivity is the lowest in the morning
2.Why did the author want to become a habitual early riser?
A．Because he / she wanted to have more sleep time.
B．Because he / she wanted to do morning exercise.
C．Because he / she wanted to test which school is better.
D．Because he / she found that the productivity was higher.
3.The author experienced all the following EXCEPT ________.
A．going to bed after midnight
B．asking scholars for advice on sleeping habits
C．getting up early occasionally
D．pressing off the alarm to go on sleeping
4.What’s the author’s sleep pattern?
A．Going to bed early and getting up early.
B．Going to bed late and getting up late.
C．Going to bed when sleepy and getting up at a fixed early time.
D．Going to bed early and getting up late.
5.The passage is mainly about ________.
A．main schools of thought on sleep patterns B．how to have a good sleep
C．wrong strategies for getting up early D．how to become an early riser
Time out
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School Sport Magazine
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School Sport Magazine is the only publication of its kind to celebrate the sporting achievements of schools, pupils and teachers in the UK. The purpose of the magazine is to report sporting news and record national and regional school sporting events as well as interviews with famous sport stars about their own sporting schooldays. Five issues (期) a year.
Time
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Every week, Time keeps you well informed of world news, covering all the matters that affect your life, from political struggles to scientific progress, environmental problems, and what’s new in business, fashion and arts. Its feature articles give you brief but true information and unique insights from world-leading journalists. Time is a great magazine, which can help you develop a truly global perspective.
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FourFourTwo is a monthly football magazine for grown-up readers. Feature articles and wonderful action photographs will keep you attracted. You can read interviews with big name football stars, from today, tomorrow and yesterday. You’ll love it!
1.Among all of the above, there is/ are ________ weekly magazine(s).
A．one B．two C．three D．four
2. Which of the following magazines will probably provide you with articles about paintings and their painters?
A．Time Out & School Sport Magazine. B．School Sport Magazine & FourFourTwo.
C．Time Out & Time. D．only Time.
3.Which of the following magazines is suitable for a 13-year-old boy who wants to know about a famous football star’s playing experiences at school?
A．Time Out. B．School Sport Magazine.
C．Time D．School Sport Magazine or FourFourTwo.
4.We can learn from the passage that ________ .
A．all of the magazines are intended for adults.
B．among all the magazines, only School Sport Magazine is about sports.
C．Time Out & School Sport Magazine might be published in the United Kingdom.
D．among all the magazines, Time Out will cost you the least.
5.The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to ________ .
A．advertise four best-sellers
B．introduce four popular magazines to readers
C．ask readers to decide which of the four magazines is the best
D．get more people to buy these magazines
Directions： Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one word that best fits the context.
Travel is a very good activity. When traveling, you can relax 1.________， forget your tiredness or troubles, and have the energy to take on the new tasks waiting for you.
But sometimes traveling is not 2.________ enjoyable thing. For example, the weather can be changeable. If you climb a mountain, it may rain suddenly. You may be caught 3.________ the rain and may catch a cold. The 4.________ thing is that you may have your money stolen 5.________ you may have an injury. All these terrible things are 6.________ can happen to you.
Therefore, when you are going on a trip, you must make a good preparation. Firstly, you must have clear information about the weather. 7.________， you should choose a good companion so that you can help each other. Thirdly, you must be careful enough and try to avoid accidents. 8.________ you do this, you will surely enjoy your travel.
