阅读理解。
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Day 1－2 In Beijing
Take a break on your arrival. Enjoy local people's morning exercise at the Temple of Heaven before visiting the Great Wall, and then have a lifetime experience of visiting the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall on Day 2.
Day 3－4 In Xi'an
Still in Beijing in the daytime of Day 3. Visit the Forbidden City and the Tian'anmen Square to feel royal life in ancient China. After that pay a visit to hutongs which give full flavor of authentic experience. Catch a flight at night to Xi'an. Private guide and driver escort (护送) you to visit the highlights of Xi'an on Day 4.
Day 5－7 In Guilin/Yangshuo
Continue to see Xi'an and have more interacts with the local. Visiting a family in Xi'an and learning how to make different shapes of dumplings give you an unforgettable time. Take a plane at night and arrive at Guilin on Day 5. Get on board to enjoy essence of Guilin, the Li River cruise to Yangshuo. Cycle to villages and meet friendly local people and learn more about Chinese agriculture.
Day 8－10 In Shanghai
Private transfer from Yangshuo to Guilin airport. Shanghai guide and driver are waiting for you with smiling faces. Highlights of the city on Day 9 show you the future of China as the end of the trip. You have free time on the last day before taking an international flight.
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1.If a tourist is interested in Chinese food, which place will impress him/her most?
A．Beijing. B．Xi'an.
C．Shanghai. D．Guilin.
2.What's the author's intention to write the passage?
A．To advertise some beautiful places in China.
B．To introduce some wonderful local food for tourists.
C．To show tourists some interesting activities in China.
D．To introduce a bestselling China tour package to foreign tourists.
3.Where can you find this passage?
A．On the Internet. B．In a poster.
C．In the newspaper. D．On TV.
短文改错
Manners are important to happy relations among people. No one liked a person with bad manners. Having good manners is seen by many people for a sign of cultural understanding and good taste. Polite words are one of the example. When meet people, saying “Hello！” or “How are you？” and so on means you are very polite, which will make that easy for you to communicate with others. However, other people will hate getting on with you and your life will become difficulty. Only saying polite words can you get on well with others.
All in the all, it is polite words which will make your life become convenient.
I was in the ninth year when I began to suffer depression. My parents noticed but felt that since I'd always been 1. good child, this was temporary.
2. (fortunate), it was not to be so. I didn't have friends. Hardly could I share my problems. Deep worry began to destroy my _3. (confident). Finally I refused to attend classes, 4.(shut) myself in my room for hours.
The examination was approaching, but I simply didn't care. My parents and teachers were surprised at my bad performance. One morning, 5. a particularly severe lecture from my father, I stood at the school gate, 6. (depress). Then as the other students marched to their classrooms, our headmaster called me. The next fortyfive minutes was one 7. the most precious moments in my life. She said she 8. (notice) a big change in me and wondered why. At first she took my hands in 9. (she) and listened patiently as I mentioned my worries. Then she hugged me as I wept. Months of frustration and loneliness disappeared in her motherly hug.
No one had tried to understand what the real problem was except the headmaster,_10. helped me out simply by listening and hugging.
完形填空。
She was only about five feet tall and probably never weighed more than 110 pounds. However, Miss Bessie was a(n) _________presence in the classroom. From 1938 to 1942，when I attended Saint Bernard's High School, she taught me a lot ________ I realized.
There was never a(n) ________ problem in Miss Bessie's classes. We didn't dare to trouble a woman who knew about the Battle of Hastings and could also play the piano and ________ Shakespeare and Milton.
Miss Bessie knew that my family couldn't afford to buy a newspaper. She knew we didn't ______ own a radio. Still, she ______ me to look out for my ______ and find some ways to _______ what's going on in the world. _______ I became a delivery boy who delivered newspapers. I _______ made a dollar a week, but I got to read a newspaper every day.
Miss Bessie noticed things that had nothing to do with schoolwork but were vital to a youngster's ________. Once a few classmates made fun of my _______ overcoat. As I was leaving school, Miss Bessie _______ me on the back of that old overcoat and said, “Carl, never worry about what you don't have. Just make the most of what you do have — a(n) _______”．
Among the things that I didn't have was_______ in the little wooden house. But because of her _________， I spent many hours beside a kerosene lamp (煤油灯) reading Shakespeare's works. Miss Bessie introduced me ________ a wonderful world of poems and stories. She led me to _______ that I could write poems as well as Shakespeare.
So I read __________ Miss Bessie told me to, and tried to remember the things she insisted that I store. Years later, her encouragement finally led to that lovely day when Miss Bessie dropped me a note ________ “I'm so proud to read your article in The Times.”
1.A.amusing B．towering C．interesting D．exciting
2.A.more than B．less than C．better than D．worse than
3.A.academy B．homework C．race D．discipline
4.A.make use of B．make fun of C．make sense of D．make lightof
5.A.even B．still C．ever D．yet
6.A.allowed B．forced C．turned D．encouraged
7.A.happiness B．future C．family D．mistake
8.A.catch up with B．come up with C．keep up with D．put up with
9.A.So B．And C．Because D．As
10.A.always B．merely C．sometimes D．almost
11.A.appearance B．health C．development D．performance
12.A.colourful B．modern C．informal D．used
13.A.patted B．hit C．struck D．pulled
14.A.house B．overcoat C．radio D．brain
15.A.money B．electricity C．water D．gas
16.A.inspiration B．anger C．curiosity D．sponsorship
17.A.to B．in C．of D．about
18.A.imagine B．believe C．dream D．insist
19.A.whenever B．wherever C．whichever D．whatever
20.A.writing B．printing C．saying D．speaking
阅读理解。
I have been teaching animal behavior at the Boulder County Jail in Colorado for 10 years. The course is one of the most popular in the prison. Prisoners have to earn the right to attend the course and they work hard to get in.
One reason why the course is so popular is that many prisoners find it easier to connect with animals than with people, because animals don't judge them. They trust animals in ways they don't with humans.
Yet, they hold a misunderstanding of how animals treat one another. Many admit that their own “animal behavior” is what got them into trouble in the first place. I teach that though there is competition and aggression in the animal kingdom, there is also a lot of cooperation (合作) and sympathy.
Many of the students want to build healthy relationships, and they find that the class helps them. I use examples of the social behavior of groupliving animals such as wolves as a model for developing and maintaining (维持) friendships among people who must work together for their own good and also for the good of the group.
It's clear that science inspires the students here and it also gives them hope. I know some students have gone back into education after their being set free while others have gone to work for humane (人道的) societies or contributed time and money to conservation organizations. One went on to receive a master's degree in nature writing.
Science and humane education help the prisoners connect with values that they otherwise would not have done. It opens the door to understanding, trust, cooperation and hope. There's a large population of people to whom science could mean a lot, if only they could have access to it. The class helps me, too. I get as much out of it as the students and it has made me a better teacher.
1.The author's course is welcomed by the prisoners because ________.
A．they consider animals their best friends
B．they are curious about the animal kingdom
C．they feel it easier to get along with animals
D．they are more familiar with animal behavior
2.The author used wolves as an example to ________.
A．provide the prisoners with more knowledge
B．explain the cruel side of groupliving animals
C．help the prisoners realize the importance of teamwork
D．inform the prisoners that animals get people into trouble
3.We can infer from the text that some prisoners ________.
A．have turned over a new leaf
B．are required to attend the course
C．are willing to learn working skills
D．prefer humane education to science
阅读理解。
Two recent studies have found that punishment is not the best way to influence behavior.
One showed that adults are much more cooperative if they work in a system based on rewards. Researchers at Harvard University in the United States and the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden did the study.
They had about two hundred college students play a version of the game known as the Prisoner's Dilemma. The game is based on the tension (紧张气氛) between the interests of an individual and a group. The students played in groups of four. Each player could win points for the group, so they would all gain equally. But each player could also reward or punish each of the other three players, at a cost to the punisher.
Harvard researcher David Rand says the most successful behavior proved to be cooperation. The groups that rewarded it the most earned about twice as much in the game as the groups that rewarded it the least. And the more a group punished itself, the lower its earnings were. The group with the most punishment earned twentyfive percent less than the group with the least punishment. The study appeared last month in the journal Science.
The other study involved children. It was presented last month in California at a conference on violence and abuse. Researchers used intelligence tests given to two groups. More
than eight hundred children aged two to four the first time they were tested. More than seven hundred children aged five to nine.
The two groups were retested four years later, and the study compared the results with the first test. Both groups contained children whose parents used physical punishment and children whose parents did not. The study says the IQs — or intelligence quotients — of the younger children who were not spanked were five points higher than those who were. In the older group, the difference was almost three points.
Murray Strauss from the University of New Hampshire worked with Mallie Paschall from the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. Professor Strauss has written extensively about physical punishment of children. He says the more they are spanked, the slower their mental development. He also looked at average IQs in other nations and found them lower where spanking was more common.
1.Which could be the best title of the passage?
A．Punishment
B．The Best Way to Influence Behavior
C．Punishment or Reward: Which Works Better on Behavior?
D．Two Recent Studies
2.The underlined word “spanked” probably means “______”．
A．won B．punished
C．tested D．praised
3.According to the passage, the researchers may agree the best way to influence behavior is ________.
A．rewarding good behavior
B．correcting bad behavior
C．punishing badlybehaved children
D．praising wellbehaved children
4.The author develops the passage ________.
A．in order of time
B．in order of importance
C．by describing his experiences
D．by using quotations (引证) and statistics
