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A mother was having her birthday. Her children woke up earlier but asked their mother to rest in bed. After the while, she smelled something well from the kitchen. She was very pleasing for she thought her children were cooked breakfast for her. And she thought if she should come out of the room and give her children some adivces. Then she did and saw the second children sitting beside the table. Each had a plate of bacon and an egg front of them. Then, one of them said, “ Mum, this is our present for our birthday. We have made up our own breakfast.”
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
When I lived in Spain, some Spanish friends of 1.______ ( I ) decided to visit England by car. Before they left, they asked me for advice about how to find accommodation. I suggested they 2._____ stay at “ bed and breakfast” houses, because this kind of accommodation gives a foreign visitor a good chance 3._____ (speak) English with the family. My friends accepted my advice, but they came back with some 4.____ (fun ) stories.
“ We did not stay at bed and breakfast houses,” they said, “ because we found that most families were away on holiday.” It was obviously impossible. Finally I understood what 5.____ (happen). My friends spoke little English, and they thought“VACANCIES” meant “holidays”, 6.____ the Spainish word for “holidays” is “vacancies”. So they did not go to the houses with the signs outside saying “ VACANCIES”, which in English means there are free rooms. Then my friends went 7.____ ( direct ) to the houses with the signs saying“NO VACANCIES ” , because they thought this meant the 8.____ ( own ) of the houses were not away on holiday. But in fact, all of these houses 9._____ (fill ) with travelers. As 10.____ result, they stayed at hotels!
阅读短文，然后根据短文内容从A、B、C、D四个选项中选择最佳答案。
My mother used to ask me what is the most important part of the body. Through the years I would think about _________ I thought was the right answer.
When I was _________ , I thought sound was very important to us, so I said, "My_________ Mommy." She said,"No, Many people are _________. But you keep_________ it and I will ask you later"
Several years passed before she asked me again. This time I told her,"Mom, if there is___________important to us, it must be our eyes." She looked at me and said,"You are learning _________ but the answer is not right because there are many people who are blind."
Over the years, Mother asked me a few more times and __________ her answer was, "No, but you are getting _________ every year, my child."
Last year, my Grandpa _________. Everybody was crying. Mom looked at me when it was our turn to say our _________ good-bye to Grandpa. She asked me,"Do you know what the most important body part is _________ , my dear?" I was _________ when she asked me this now. I always thought this was a _________ between her and me. She saw the puzzlement on my face and told me,"This question is very important. It shows that you have really lived your life." I saw _________well up in her eyes . She said,"The answer is your shoulder."I asked,"Is it because it _________ up my head?" She replied,"No, it is because it can hold up a _________ head when he or she is crying. Everybody needs a shoulder to cry on _________ in life, I only hope that you have enough friends who will give you a shoulder to cry on when you need it. Only Then did I know what the most important body part is not a _________ one. It is sympathetic(同情心) to the _________ of others.
1.A. what B. who C.how D. that
2.A.old B. older C. middle-aged D.younger
3.A. head B. ears C.nose D. neck
4.A. disabled B. dead C. deaf D.blind
5.A. finding B. wondering C. looking for D. thinking about
6.A. everything B.nothing C. anything D. something
7.A. slow B. quick C. fast D.well
8.A. always B. often C.never D. seldom
9.A. younger B. fatter C.smarter D. closer
10.A. came B. went C. returned D. died
11.A. early B. warm C. final D. first
12.A. already B.yet C. still D. often
13.A. angry B. shocked C.excited D. pleased
14.A. question B. test C. game D. problem
15.A. happiness B. puzzle C.tears D.sadness
16.A. picks B. holds C. takes D. turns
17.A. stranger’s B. friend’s C. classmate’s D. neighbour’s
18.A. sometime B. sometimes C. some time D. some times
19.A. selfish B. selfless C. itself D.yourself
20.A. health B. puzzle C. happiness D. pain
根据短文内容，从短文后的项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Easy Ways to Keep Your Brain Sharp
Everyone is forgetful, but as we get older , we start to feel like our brains are slowing down a bit and that can be a very annoying thing. 1. Read on for some suggestions worth trying.
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People who regularly made plans and looked forward to future events had a 50 percent reduced chance of Alzheimer’s disease (早老性痴呆症), according to a recent study. 3. Something as simple as setting a goal to have a weekly coffee date with a friend will do. There’s evidence that people who have a purpose in life or who are working on long or short-term goals appear to do better. In other words, keep your brain looking forward.
2. Go for a walk.
Mildly raised glucose (葡萄糖) levels can harm the area of the brain that helps you form memories and physical activity can help get blood glucose down to normal levels. In fact, exercise produces chemicals that are good for your brain. 4.
3. Learn something new.
Take a Spanish class online, join a drawing club, or learn to play cards. A study found that mental stimulation (刺激) limits the weakening effects of aging on memory and the mind. But the best thing for your brain is when you learn something new and are physically active at the same time. 5. Or learning gardening. with your friends.
A. Focus on the future.
B. This can be especially harmful to the aged.
C. It should be something like going dancing
D. So take a few minutes each day to do some reading.
E. But don’t worry if your schedule isn’t filled with life-changing events.
F. Luckily, research shows there is a lot you can do to prevent those moments.
G. In other words, when you take care of your body, you take care of your brain
Believe it or not, the ability to choose is the power to change. If you can choose to live your life differently, will you be the same person?
Well, choosing to do the following few “simple” things will help to change your life.
Review your life. Take time to go through your life and ask yourself, “If I do the same thing I do every day, will there be a change? If I want to change, where will my first step be?”
Make careful choices. Choose exactly what you wish to get to live your life; describe and think what you really want.
Keep up with chances. Find out about the possibilities and ways that can make you move toward your goals, write them down and see which one suits you most.
Get down to business. Start working on your goals. People may bring you down; you may have difficulties; you will fail and want to give up. But the most important thing is never to give up.
If you try these “simple” things, you will find that success is something for everyone, and you will finally become what you want to be. Remember, success is more than what you hold in your hands; it is something from the heart.
1. Once you get down to business, the most important thing is to _____.
A. set goals B. see possibilities
C. keep on trying D. ask for help
2.The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refers to ____.
A. change B. choice C. life D. success
3.This passage mainly discussed the relationship between ______.
A. power and life
B. choice and change
C. power and success
D. choice and difficulty
Whether we’re 2 years old or 62, our reasons for lying are mostly the same: to get out of trouble, for personal gain and to make ourselves look better in the eyes of others. But a growing body of research is raising questions about how a child’s lie is different from an adult’s lie, and how the way we deceive changes as we grow.
“Parents and teachers who catch their children lying should not be alarmed. Their children are not going to turn out to be abnormal liars,” says Dr. Lee, a director of the Institute of Child Study. The fact that children tell lies is a sign that they have reached a new developmental stage. Dr. Lee conducted a series of studies in which they bring children into a lab with hidden cameras. Children and young adults aged 2 to 17 are likely to lie while being told not to look at a toy, which is put behind the child’s back.
For young kids, the desire to cheat is big and 90% take a secret look in these experiments. When the test-giver returns to the room, the child is asked if he or she looked secretly. At age 2, about a quarter of children will lie and say they didn’t. By 3, half of kids will lie, and by 4, that figure is 90%, studies show.
Researchers have found that it’s kids with better understanding abilities who lie more. That’s because to lie you also have to keep the truth in mind, which includes many brain processes, such as combining several sources of information and faking that information. The ability to lie — and lie successfully — is thought to be related to development of brain regions that allow so called “executive functioning”, or higher order thinking and reasoning abilities. Kids who perform better on tests that involve executive functioning also lie more.
1. What’s the purpose of children telling lies?
A. To help their friends out.
B. To get rid of trouble.
C. To get attention from others.
D. To create a popular image.
2. From the second paragraph we can know that ____________.
A. which factors can reduce lying
B. why some lie more than others
C. it is normal for kids to tell lies
D. how lying changes as kids grow
3.It can be inferred from the passage that ________________.
A. children’s lies are the same as adults’
B. the better kids are, the more they lie
C. the older kids are, the more they lie
D. kids always keep the truth in their mind
4.What is NOT included in the passage?
A. The reasons why kids tell lies.
B. Which kind of kids tells more lies.
C. Experiments about lying of young kids.
D. What to do with lying children.
