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If you do not use your arm or your legs for some time, they become weak; when you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows that. Yet many people do not seem to know that memory works in the same way. When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by using it. When someone else says that his memory is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough chance to become strong. If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we know that it is his own fault. But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents are to blame, and few of us know that it is just his own fault. Have you ever found that some people can’t read or write but usually they have better memories? This is because they cannot read or write and they have to remember things; they cannot write down in a little notebook. They have to remember days, names, songs and stories; so their memory is the whole time being exercised. So if you want to have a good memory, learn from the people: Practice remembering.
58. What is the main reason for one is poor memory? (回答词数不超过8个)
59. What will happen if you do not use your arms or legs for some time? (回答词数不超过5个)
60. What is the best title for this passage? (回答词数不超过6个)
Poet William Stafford once said that we are defined more by the detours(绕行路)in life than by the narrow road toward goals. I like this image. But it was quite by accident that I discovered the deep meaning of his words.
For years we made the long drive from our home in Seattle to my parents’ home in Boise in nine hours. We traveled the way most people do: the fastest, shortest, easiest road, especially when I was alone with four noisy, restless kids who hate confinement(限制)and have strong opinions about everything.
Road trips felt risky, so I would drive fast, stopping only when I had to. We would stick to the freeways and arrive tired.
But then Banner, our lamb was born. He was rejected by his mama days before our planned trip to Boise. I had two choices: leave Banner with my husband, or take him with me. My husband made the decision for me.
That is how I found myself on the road with four kids, a baby lamb and nothing but my everlasting optimism to see me through. We took the country roads out of necessity. We had to stop every hour, let Banner shake out his legs and feed him. The kids chased him and one another. They’d get back in the car breathless and energized, smelling fresh from the cold air.
We explored side roads, catching grasshoppers in waist-high grass. Even if we simply looked out of the car windows at baby pigs following their mother, or fish leaping out of the water, it was better than the best ride down the freeway. Here was life. And new horizons.
We eventually arrived at my parents’ doorstep astonishingly fresh and full of stories.
I grew brave with the trip back home and creative with my disciplining technique. On an empty section of road, everyone started quarreling. I stopped the car, ordered all kids out and told them to meet me up ahead. I parked my car half a mile away and read my book in sweet silence.
Some road trips are by necessity fast and straight. But that trip with Banner opened our eyes to a world available to anyone adventurous enough to wander around and made me realize that a detour may uncover the best part of a journey----and the best part of yourself.Why did the author use to take freeways to her parents’ home?
| A.She needn’t stop on the way. |
| B.It would be faster and easier. |
| C.Her kids would feel less confined. |
| D.She felt better with other drivers nearby. |
What does the author discover from the trip according to Paragraph 6 ?
| A.Freeways are where beauty hides. |
| B.Getting close to nature adds to the joy of life |
| C.Enjoying the beauty of nature benefits one’s health |
| D.One should follow side roads to watch wild animals |
Why did the author ask the kids to get out of the car on their way back home
| A.To give herself some time to read |
| B.To order some food for them |
| C.To play a game with them. |
| D.To let them cool down |
What could be the best title for the passage
| A.Charm of the Detour |
| B.The Road to Bravery |
| C.Creativity out of Necessity |
| D.Road trip and Country Life |
Beaches are not only great for lying on and doing water sports, and in fact one of the best ways of enjoying them is a classic beach walk. Here at iWantSun. Co. Uk, we’ve been searching the globe to find you the world’s best and most glorious beach walks, and here’s our pick of the top.
The Footpath of the Gods, Amalfi Coast, Italy
The name says it all really and you truly do feel up there to walking along this wonderful mountain coastal path, which offers some of the most striking views on the planet. The path begins at town of Bomerano to charming Positano along the UNESCO World Heritage area of the Amalfi Coast. The whole walk will take you approximately four and a half hours to complete and pass over narrow rocky paths, past sheer cliffs and shining blue bays.
Sydney’s Great Coastal Walk, Australia
Sydney’s coastline is one of the most beautiful and diverse in the world. Here you have national parks, historic sites, steep cliffs, sparkling beaches and quiet bays all in one place. Sydney’s Great Walk runs all the way from Barrenjoey in the north to Royal National Park in the south and takes an incredible seven days to complete. However, if you’re not up to doing the full walk, then there are many different parts of the walk that you can do right in the city. Walking from the city’s famous Bondi Beach to the sweeping curve of Bronte Beach takes just an hour, which takes in some top scenery.
Great Ocean Walk, Australia
The Great Ocean Walk stretches 104 km along Victoria’s famous Great Ocean Road, located on the southern coast of Australia, from the resort town Apollo Bay to the magnificent Twelve Apostles. The Twelve Apostles are the area’s famous stone landmarks which stand out like giants from the sea. The walk passes through a range of landscapes and sights, from national parks, famous surfing spots and deserted beaches, to wild coastlines, cascading waterfalls, lush forests, historic lighthouses and ghostly shipwrecks. Day walks and shorter three-hour walks such as the Wreck Beach Walk or the Lighthouse Cemetery and Lookout Walk can also be enjoyed.
So next time when you’re looking for a beach holiday don’t just think about the resorts and the sand, but consider a more active sun holiday, discovering some of the best beaches in the world.The author intends to tell us ____________.
| A.the world’s best places for beach walks |
| B.the wonderful beaches in the world |
| C.the ideal tourism resort for health |
| D.the beautiful beaches in Australia |
When you arrive at the Amalfi Coast _______________.
| A.you must be disappointed at the footpath |
| B.you will be fascinated by the scenery |
| C.you can start walking from Positano |
| D.you may be trapped in narrow rocky paths |
What is special about Sydney’s Great Coastal Walk?
| A.It takes about more than five hours to complete. |
| B.It starts from Royal National Park in the north. |
| C.It provides visitors a variety of great landscapes. |
| D.It really has the longest coastline in the world. |
According to the fourth paragraph we can know that __________________.
| A.Apollo Bay is at the end of the Great Ocean Walk |
| B.the Twelve Apostles exists below the surface of the sea |
| C.the Wreck Beach Walk can also give visitors pleasure |
| D.most visitors can finish the 104 km walk in three hours |
Christian Eijkman, a Dutch doctor, left the Netherlands for the island of Java. Many people on the island had a disease called beri-beri. He was going there to try and find a cure.
At first, Eijkman thought some kind of germ (细菌) caused beri-beri. He raised some chickens. He didn’t eat them, but made experiments on them. The local people were quite surprised at that. One day he noticed that his chickens became sick when they were fed the food most Javanese ate — refined white rice (精炼米). When he fed them with unrefined rice, also known as brown rice, they recovered. Eijkman realized that he had made an important discovery — that some things in food could prevent disease. These things were named vitamins. The Javanese were not getting enough vitamins because they had actually removed the part that contains vitamins. Later, other diseases were also found to be caused by the lack of vitamins in a person’s food.
Today many people know the importance of vitamins and they make sure they have enough vitamins from the food they eat. If they don’t, they can also take vitamin pills.Christian Eijkman went to the island of Java to ______.
| A.help the Javanese with their illness |
| B.find ways to grow better crops |
| C.do some research about the island |
| D.spend his holiday |
Why did Christian Eijkman raise some chickens?
| A.To eat them. |
| B.To make money by selling them. |
| C.To give the Javanese a surprise. |
| D.To carry out his experiments. |
If a person doesn’t get enough vitamins in his diet, he’d better ______.
| A.eat more rice | B.eat vitamin pills |
| C.eat some chicken | D.eat more meat |
In the Internet age, speed reading is a necessary and important skill. We skim over articles and e-mails to try to get key words and the main idea of the text. With so much information through our electronic devices (电子设备), it would be impossible to get through everything if we read word by word, line by line. However, a new trend calls on people to enjoy reading slowly.
A recent story from The Wall Street Journal reported on a book club in Wellington, New Zealand, where members meet in a café and turn off their smartphones. They sit back in comfortable chairs and read in silence for an hour.
Unlike typical book clubs, the point of the slow reading club isn’t to exchange ideas about certain books, but to get away from electronic devices and read in a quiet, relaxed environment. According to the story, the Wellington book club is just one example of a movement started by book lovers who miss the traditional way of reading.
Traditional readers, like Maura Kelly, say a regular reading habit sharpens the mind, improves concentration, reduces stress levels and deepens the ability to understand others. Some of these benefits have been backed up by science. For example, a study of 300 elderly people published by the journal Neurology last year showed that adults who take part in activities that use their brain, such as reading, suffer less memory loss as they get older. Another study published last year in Science showed that reading novels helps people understand others’ mental states and beliefs — a key skill in building relationships.
Yet technology has made us less careful readers. Computer and phone screens have changed our reading patterns from the top-to-bottom, left-to-right reading order we traditionally used, to a wild skimming pattern as we hunt for important words and information. Reading text online that has many links to other web pages also leads to weaker comprehension than reading plain text. The Internet may have made us stupider, says British journalist Patrick Kingsley, only half joking. Because of the Internet, he says we have become very good at collecting a wide range of factual tidbits (花边新闻), but we are also gradually forgetting how to sit back, think and connect all these facts with each other.Speed reading is a necessary and important skill in the Internet age because people ______.
| A.no longer read word by word, line by line |
| B.have to get the meaning faster |
| C.have much more information to read |
| D.must use their smartphones more frequently |
Members of the Wellington book club are expected to ______.
| A.make coffee for the other members |
| B.read peacefully for an hour |
| C.regularly exchange ideas about books |
| D.turn off their smartphones for sleeping |
According to the Neurology study, who is most likely to suffer memory loss?
| A.A 79-year-old woman who reads regularly. |
| B.A 17-year-old middle school student who seldom reads. |
| C.A healthy 24-year-old university graduate who often plays games. |
| D.A 65-year-old man who rarely reads. |
The last paragraph is written to ______.
| A.explain the secrets of others’ minds |
| B.describe the problems caused by electronic reading |
| C.call on people to read more about science |
| D.encourage people to read as slowly as possible |
Great white sharks! Just hearing that name makes many people’s hair stand on end. In reality, these big fish have more to fear from us than we do from them. For many years, people killed countless great white sharks in the waters around the United States.
But thanks to conservation (保护) efforts, great whites are making a comeback in the U.S. Two recent studies show that the population of these sharks is rising along the east and west coast.
Why is the growing population of a killer fish something to celebrate? “When you fish too many of them, you start to lose balance in the environment,” says shark researcher Tobey Curtis. As the biggest killer, sharks help keep the populations of fish, seals, and other creatures they eat from growing too large.
In spite of their importance, great white sharks had long been hunted for their meat and their fins (鳍). Then, in 1997, the U.S. government passed a law that didn’t allow the hunting of great whites. Afterwards, the numbers of these sharks in the U.S. waters started to increase.
The law wasn’t the only thing that has helped great whites. Conservationists have also played a part in the sharks’ comeback. The research group OCEARCH is using a method called tagging (加标签) to help change people’s attitudes about great white. They let the public follow each shark as it travels the world’s oceans. OCEARCH also gives each tagged shark a name to help people form a closer connection with the big fish.
The group’s most well-known shark is named Katharine. She was tagged last year near Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Since then, thousands of people have tracked Katharine’s movements on Twitter and the OCEARCH website.
This helps people see sharks in a new way. Chris Fischer, the founder of OCEARCH believes learning to appreciate great whites will encourage people to do more to protect them.The underlined part “makes many people’s hair stand on end” in Paragraph 1 can best be replaced by______.
| A.worries many people | B.bores many people |
| C.frightens many people | D.interests many people |
The law passed in 1997 ______.
| A.seemed very helpful |
| B.let scientists down |
| C.needed to be changed |
| D.made people like great whites |
Katharine’s example is used to show that ______.
| A.great whites are in fact lovely animals |
| B.the OCEARCH website has a lot of visitors |
| C.the number of great whites is growing quickly |
| D.OCEARCH help people get closer to great whites |
The main purpose of the passage is to ______.
| A.introduce an experiment result |
| B.make an advertisement for OCEARCH |
| C.remind us that big killers are dying out |
| D.inform us that great whites are making a comeback |