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When I was in the third grade, I was picked to be the princess in the school play. For weeks my mother had helped me practice my lines. But once on stage, every word disappeared from my head. Then my teacher told me she had written a narrator's part for the play, and asked me to change roles. Though I didn't tell my mother what had happened that day, she sensed my unhappiness and asked if I wanted to take a walk in the yard. It was a lovely spring day. We could see dandelions(蒲公英)popping through the grass in bunches, as if a painter had touched our landscape with bits of gold. I watched my mother carelessly bend down by one of the bunches. "I think I am going to dig up all these weeds," she said. "From now on, we'll have only roses in this garden." "But I like dandelions," I protested. "All flowers are beautiful-even dandelions!" My mother looked at me seriously. "Yes, every flower gives pleasure in its own way, doesn't it?" she asked thoughtfully. I nodded. "And that is true of people, too," she added. When I realized that she had guessed my pain, I started to cry and told her the fact. “But you will be a beautiful narrator,” she said, reminding me of how much I loved to read stories aloud to her. Over the next few weeks, with her continuous encouragement, I learned to take pride in the role. The big day finally came. A few minutes before the play, my teacher came over to me. “Your mother asked me to give this to you,” she said, handing me a dandelion. After the play, I took home the flower, laughing that I was perhaps the only person who would keep such a weed.
The girl did not play the role of the princess mainly because_____  

A.she felt nervous on the stage.
B.she lost her interest in that role.
C.she preferred the role of the narrator
D.she had difficulty memorizing her words

Why did the mother suggest a walk in the garden?

A.To remove the dandelions
B.To enjoy the garden scene
C.to help her daughter with the play.
D.to have a talk with her daughter.

What is the main idea of the story?

A.Everybody can find his or her own way to success.
B.Everybody should learn to play different roles
C.Everybody has his or her own value in the world.
D.Everybody has some unforgettable memory.
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Dear Michelle:
My Dad hates my Mom. He tells me that she is a liar and that I should not trust her. Of course, they are divorced but they have “joint custody(共同监护)”. What a joke! I am 15, my brother is nine, and we have a life of hell, frankly.
We live one week on and one week off. This was the brilliant idea of both of my parents, which was fair to them but ruining my life. I can’t get away from his voice and his putting my mom down. Sometimes I think about running away.
A Hopeless Ant
Dear Hopeless Ant:
First, thank you for trusting me with your problem. If all you said is correct, then there are several
things that you can and should do to help yourself, your brother, and your parents.
● You need a family counselor(顾问). Such a person could listen to each family member alone and
then meet together to talk about the situation.
If refused, you need to talk to a counselor in your school. You need to be heard, and you need an
adult who will listen. A school counselor can organize a meeting with your parents.
● Perhaps you need to write to her. Writing things down allows people to go over it more than one
time.
I cannot imagine that she will stand passively by and do nothing at all to help once she reads how
you feel. Your father needs a letter as well. He may not realize the destructive effect that it has on his
children.
● Lastly, have a plan in mind when all else fails that is not self-destructive. Life passes very quickly, and you will grow up and have your own life.
Above all, you need to keep yourself safe. Never doubt that it will get better. Write back and let me know how everything is going.
The Hopeless Ant wrote the letter to _______.
A. complain about the problems
B. ask for advice
C. make his father punished
D. just play a joke
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The Hopeless Ant hated his father because __________.

A.his father always told a lie
B.his father wasn’t friendly to his mother
C.his father divorced his mother
D.the Hopeless Ant couldn’t stay with his parents

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According to the text, which of the following advice is in greatest need for the Hopeless Ant?

A.Keep himself safe. B.Have a talk with his parents.
C.Have his own family plan. D.Write letters to families.

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In which part of a website may the passage appear?

A.Entertainment. B.Advertisement. C.Life. D.Education.

Any observant person has noticed that a wild animal will allow a man or other potential enemy to approach only up to a given distance before it flees. “Flight distance” is the term used for this interspecies spacing. As a general rule, there is a positive relationship between the size of an animal and its flight distance—the larger the animal, the greater the distance it must keep between itself and the enemy. An antelope will flee when the enemy is as much as five hundred yards away. The wall lizard’s(壁虎) flight distance, on the other hand, is about six feet. Flight is the basic means of survival for mobile creatures.
  Critical distance apparently is present wherever and whenever there is a flight reaction. “Critical distance” includes the narrow zone separating flight distance from attack distance. A lion in a zoo will flee from an approaching man until it meets a barrier that it cannot overcome. If the man continues the approach, he soon penetrates(进入) the lion’s critical distance, at which point the cornered lion turns back and begins slowly to stalk (逼近) the man.
  Social animals need to stay in touch with each other. Loss of contact with the group can be fatal(致命的) for a variety of reasons including exposure to enemies. Social distance is not simply the distance at which an animal will lose contact with his group—that is, the distance at which it can no longer see, hear, or smell the group—it is rather a psychological distance, one at which the animal apparently begins to feel anxious when it goes beyond its limits.
Social distance is not always rigidly(刻板的) fixed but is determined in part by the situation. When the young of apes and humans are mobile but not yet under control of the mother’s voice, social distance may be the length of her reach. When added control is needed because of danger, social distance shortens. To show this in man, one has only to watch a family with a number of small children holding hands as they cross a busy street.
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Which of the following is the correct explanation of “Flight Distance” in paragraph 1?

A.Distance between animals of the same species before fleeing.
B.Distance between large and small animals before fleeing.
C.Distance between an animal and its enemy before fleeing.
D.Distance between certain animal species before fleeing.

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If a lion’s critical distance is penetrated, it will __________.

A.begin to attack.
B.try to hide.
C.begin to jump.
D.run away.

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. The example of “children holding hands when crossing the street” in the last paragraph shows that ________.

A.social distance is not always needed.
B.there is no social distance among small children.
C.humans are different from animals in social distance.
D.social distance is sometimes determined by outside factors.

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. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

A.Critical Distance
B.Social Distance
C.Relationship Between Animals
D.Spacing in Animals

One of Lewis Gordon Pugh’s first big attempts to put his cold-water skills to the test nearly ended in disaster. On a one-mile swim in Antarctica in December 2005, just yards from the finish, his body began to give in. The temperature inside his thigh muscle dropped to 87.8 degrees, the lowest ever measured in him. He was completely at the limits of his ability.
Despite what he called the “grueling (折磨人的)” Antarctic swim, Pugh scheduled an even more fearsome test for himself at the North Pole. Stepping off the way of the Russian icebreaker that had crunched(咯吱作响的穿过) through floating sea ice for five days to take him to the North Pole, Pugh walked across the ice to a pool of open water over one mile long and two and a half miles deep. The sea temperature was 29 degrees, only a little above the freezing point of salt water.
Pugh quickly took off his padded clothes. In only his bathing suit and cap, his skin already pink, he walked to the water’s edge. “The only place I’m getting out is at the end,” he told himself. Then he removed his earphones and dived in.
The pain was immediate. His entire body felt on fire. The doctor kept pace with him in a boat. Through iced-up goggles(护目镜), Pugh could see the armed guards keeping watch for bears.
His friend Becker had broken down the huge task into manageable parts, each one marked by a flag planted in the ice that represented a friend, family member, or teammate. Fog started to roll in as Pugh headed for the final marker, the flag of Great Britain. He imagined his late father standing beside it--- the man who had done so much to give him an interest in adventure. Then Pugh drove himself to the finish. After 18 minutes 50 seconds in the water, his body was not even hypothermic(体温过低的).
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Why did Lewis Gordon Pugh swim in Antarctica in December 2005?

A.To train his determination.
B.To end a disaster.
C.To test his cold-water skills.
D.To check the temperature in Antarctica.

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. It can be inferred that in the pool at the North Pole Lewis Gordon Pugh __________.

A.had to suffer from the cold water with his goal to achieve
B.dived to the depth of two and a half miles
C.broke the records that the Russian kept
D.spent nearly 19 minutes walking over one mile

.
. To make sure of the successful test in the pool at the North Pole, __________.

A.Lewis Gordon Pugh had to carry flags
B.Lewis Gordon Pugh was accompanied by his father
C.Pugh took measures to keep his body temperature
D.Pugh’s task was separated into several parts

Life gets noisier every day and very few people can be free from noise of some sort or another. It doesn't matter where you live---in the middle of a modern city or a faraway village---the chances are that you’ll be disturbed by jet planes, transistor radios, oil-powered engines, etc. We seem to be getting used to noise, too. Some people feel quite lonely without background music while they’re working.
Scientific tests have shown that total silence can be a very frightening experience for a human being. However, some people enjoy listening to pop music which is very loud, and this can do harm to their eardrums(耳鼓). The noise level in some discos is far above the usual safety level for heavy industrial areas.
One recent report about noise and concentration suggested that although a lot of people say that any noise disturbs their concentration, what really influences their ability to concentrate is a change in the level of noise. It goes on to say that a background noise which doesn't change too much (music, for example) may even help people to concentrate.
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According to this passage, the noise pollution______.

A.has become the worst in the countryside
B.has become better in big cities
C.has spread from cities to villages
D.has been controlled in modern cities

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What does background music refer to?

A.Music played while people are working.
B.Music played in the backyard.
C.Noise that continues while you’re listening to other noises.
D.Music used to help people to concentrate.

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. Some people have their hearing harmed______.

A.while listening to pop music B.in complete silence
C.when speaking loudly D.while watching TV

Terraforming (Earth-forming) other planets, also known as planetary engineering (行星工程), seems like a task still centuries away for mankind to accomplish. However, it is a vigorous topic that attracts both popular and scientific interest. Why should the possibility of terraforming other planets be studied when it may be centuries before we know enough to even decide if it’s a good idea?
Mankind is getting more and more hard facts about other planets. The atmosphere of Venus has been explored; robots have surveyed the surface of Mars; Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn have been studied by spacecraft. Speculations have been answered; new questions have been raised, and enough hard data is right now becoming available to allow us to make the first attempt of planetary engineering.
In the past, people with excellent ideas about terraforming have kept them to themselves, or buried them in a desk drawer because they did not realize that anyone else was interested. But now, a wide circle of people has begun to do this kind of work. For instance, NASA funded a project on transforming Mars.
There are several strong reasons which demand that the possibilities of terraforming be studied carefully. First, it’s an exciting idea of a possible future for human beings. Such thinking has a valuable role in providing options for our future directions. Secondly, the techniques of terraforming will also help contemporary technologies in weather and climate control. Thirdly, such study may assist us in detecting any possible existence of extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI, The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, 地外文明搜索) and alien (异己的) civilizations on other planets.
Though the mission is far beyond our reach at the moment, we should at least keep our options open. Through debate and study on this subject, the possibility of rebuilding other planets to make them suitable homes for people may come true some day in the future.
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. According to the context, what’s the meaning of the word “speculation” in paragraph 2?

A.The act of discussing something with a group of people.
B.The act of studying and researching.
C.The act of guessing without knowing all the facts about something.
D.The acting of writing letters to a certain organization.

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Why did people keep the idea of terraforming to themselves in the past?

A.They thought no one else would show interest in the idea.
B.They gradually came to find the idea crazy.
C.They thought the idea would never come true.
D.They had few resources for further study on this topic.

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. Which is NOT the reason to support the study of terraforming?

A.Even if we don’t succeed in terraforming, such study may help us to better understand technologies such as climate and weather control.
B.Such study may explore a new direction of development for human beings.
C.Such study may enable us to find the lives on other planets.
D.As the resources on Earth are being drained, it’s very urgent to study how to migrate (迁移) to other planets。

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What’s the main idea of the article?

A.It’s highly possible that terraforming other planets will come true so we should increase investing in this program.
B.Even if the idea of terraforming other planets may take centuries to realize, we have many reasons to support such studies.
C.Terraforming other planets is the best option for human being’s future.
D.More and more people are taking planetary engineering as their occupation.

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