I have been consistently opposed to feeding a baby regularly. As a doctor, mother and scientist in child development, I believe there is nothing to recommend it, from the baby’s point of view.
Mothers, doctors and nurse alike have no idea of where a baby’s blood sugar level lies. All we know is that a low level is harmful to brain development and makes a baby easily annoyed. In this state, the baby is difficult to calm down and sleep is impossible. The baby asks for attention by crying and searching for food with its mouth.
It is not just unkind but also dangerous to say that a four-hourly feeding schedule will make a baby satisfied. The first of the experts to advocate (提倡) a strict clock-watching schedule was Dr Frederic Truby King, who was against feeding in the night. I’ve never heard anything so silly. Baby feeding shouldn’t follow a timetable set by the mum. What is important is feeding a baby in the best way, though it may cause some inconvenience in the first few weeks.
Well, at last we have copper-bottomed research that supports demand feeding and points out the weaknesses of strictly timed feeding. The research finds out that babies who are fed on demand do better at school at age 5, 7, 11 and 14, than babies fed according to the clock. By the age of 8, their IQ（智商）scores are four to five percent higher than babies fed by a strict timetable. This Research comes from Oxford and Essex University using a sample（样本）of 10,419 children born in the early 1990s, taking account of parental education, family income, a child’s sex and age, the mother’s health and feeling style. These results don’t surprise me. Feeding according to schedule runs the risk of harming the rapidly growing brain by taking no account of sinking blood sugar levels. I hope this research will put an end to advocating strictly timed baby feeding practices.
1. The underlined word “copper-bottomed” in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _________.
A. basic B. reliable
C. surprising D. interesting
2.What does the research tell us about feeding a baby on demand?32
A. The baby will sleep well.
B. The baby will have its brain harmed.
C. The baby will have a low blood sugar level.
D. The baby will grow to be wiser by the age of 8.
3. The author supports feeding the baby_______.35
A. in the night
B. every four hours
C. whenever it wants food
D. according to its blood sugar level
4.Which of the following sentences is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Dr King advocated feeding in the night.
B. Dr King was against a strict clock-watching schedule.
C. The author thinks Dr King’s idea is wrong.
D. The author thinks Dr King’s idea is right.
阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I was blind, but I was ashamed of it if it was known. I refused to use a white stick and hated asking for help. After all, I was a teenage girl, and I couldn’t bear people to look at me and think I was not like them. I must have been a terrible danger on the roads, Coming across me wandering through the traffic, motorists probably would have to step rapidly on their brakes. Apart from that, there were all sorts of disasters that used to occur on the way to and from work.
One evening, I got off the bus about halfway home where I had to change buses, and as usual I ran into something, “I’m awfully sorry,” I said and stepped forward only to run into it again. When it happened a third time, I realized I had been apologizing to a lamppost. This was just one of the stupid things that constantly happened to me. So I carried on and found the bus stop, which was a request stop, where the bus wouldn’t stop unless passengers wanted to get on or off. No one else was there and I had to try to guess if the bus had arrived.
Generally in this situation, because I hated showing I was blind by asking for help, I tried to guess at the sound. Sometimes I would stop a big lorry and stand there feeling stupid as it drew away. In the end, I usually managed to swallow my pride and ask someone at the stop for help.
But on this particular evening no one joined me at the stop; It seemed that everyone had suddenly decided not to travel by bus. Of course I heard plenty of buses pass, or I thought I did. But because I had given up stopping them for fear of making a fool of myself, I let them all go by. I stood there alone for half an hour without stopping one. Then I gave up. I decided to walk on to the next stop.
1.After the girl got off the bus that evening, she_________.
A. began to run
B. hit a person as usual
C. hit a lamppost by accident
D. was caught by something
2.At the request stop that evening, the girl___________.
A. stopped a big lorry
B. stopped the wrong bus
C .made no attempt to stop the bus
D. was not noticed by other people
3.What was the problem with guessing at the sound to stop a bus?
A. Other vehicles also stopped there.
B. It was unreliable for making judgments.
C. More lorries than buses responded to the girl.
D. It took too much time for the girl to catch the bus.
4.Finally the girl decided to walk to the next stop, hoping __________.
A. to find people there
B. to find more buses there
C. to find the bus by herself there
D. to find people more helpful there
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Dear Seth,
You are only three years old, and at this point in your life you can not read, much less understand what I’m going to tell you in this letter. But I’ve been thinking a lot about the life that you have _ you, about my life so far as I on what I’ve learned, and about my role as a dad in trying to prepare you for the that you will face in the coming years.
Be thankful. You are at a wonderful of life. You still have many wonderful stages of life, but they are not without costs and . I hope to help you along your path by sharing some of the best of __ I’ve learned. As with any advice, take it with a grain of . What works for me not work for you.
Life can be cruel. There will be people in your life won’t be very nice. They’ll laugh at you because you’re different, or for no good . They might try to bully you hurt you.
There’s not much you can do about these people except __ to deal with them, and learn to choose friends who are kind to you, who _ _ care about you and who make you feel good about yourself. When you find friends like this,_ __ them, treasure them, spend time with them, be kind to them and love them.
There will be __ when you meet with disappointment instead of success. Life won’t always _ _ the way you want. This is just another thing you’ll have to learn to deal with. But instead of letting these things get you down, push on, _ disappointment and learn to persevere and to pursue your dreams _ pitfalls. Learn to turn negatives into positives, and you will do much better in _ _. You will also face heartbreak and abandonment by those you love. I hope you don’t have to face this too much, but it happens. Again, there is not much you can do but to heal, and to move on with your life. Let these pains become stepping stones to better things in life, and learn to use them to make you .
1.A. regardless of B. ahead of C. at the back of D. in the form of
2.A. reflect B. rely C. depend D. insist
3.A. errors B. mistakes C. truths D. trails
4.A. crossing B. house C. stage D. office
5.A. challenges B. troubles C. difficulties D. risks
6.A. where B. which C. that D. what
7.A. rice B. salt C. corn D. wheat
8.A. must B. can C. might D. should
9.A. who B. whom C. while D. whose
10.A. consequence B. reason C. result D. cause
11.A. but B. though C. or D. otherwise
12.A. to learn B. learn C. learning D. learned
13.A. exactly B. entirely C. truly D. absolutely
14.A. tend to B. hold onto C. turn to D. lead to
15.A. days B. months C. time D. weeks
16.A. turn out B. turn up C. turn on D. lead to
17.A. avoid B. reject C. refuse D. accept
18.A. against B. despite C. within D. beyond
19.A. life B. study C. career D. family
20.A. richer B. kinder C. cleverer D. stronger
As is known to us all, success usually results from diligence while laziness and copying others _____ can lead to losses and failure.
A. blindly B. automatically
C. awfully D. annually
As I grew up in a small town at the foot of a mountain, the visit to the village _____ scenes of my childhood.
A. called up B. called for
C. called on D. called in
When it comes to my preference for entertainment in the spare time, I prefer gardening to parachuting, because the latter is a dangerous _____.
A. occupation B. career
C. movement D. devotion
