Many students know what they want to be in the future* . We think boys are different from girls. Here is a survey in Green High School. Let’s look at the diagram* . The diagram tells the result of ____ job choices in Green High School.
A.the teachers’ | B.the boys’ | C.the girls’ | D.the students’ |
About 50% of the boys want to be _____ in the future.
A.bank clerks | B.teachers | C.shop assistants | D.policemen |
About _____ of the girls want to be doctors.
A.5% | B.35% | C.20% | D.30% |
Girls like _____ best.
A.teachers | B.shop assistants | C.doctors | D.bank clerks |
How many students want to be shop assistants in the future?
A.50% | B.30% | C.35% | D.We don’t know. |
It seems that food deliverymen(送货员) are always in a hurry. They wear blue, red or yellow helmets and many of them don't follow traffic rules. (1) They use mobile phones while driving.
These rude behaviors have caught the public's attention. In the first half of 2017, food deliverymen had 76 traffic accidents in Shanghai, according to Shanghai Public Security Bureau. That means every two and a half days, a food deliveryman will die or get hurt on the road.
(2) The strict rules of the food delivery service companies and the anxious customers may be the answer. Many companies will fine(罚款) a deliveryman up to 2,000 yuan, if he fails to deliver an order on time, reported China Daily. (3)
To solve the problem, food delivery service companies need to improve their incentive systems, noted CRI Online. (4) Shanghai has asked companies to train their deliverymen on traffic rules and safety. Now in Shenzhen, if a deliveryman gets caught breaking traffic rules more than twice, then he will be banned(禁止) from driving food service delivery vehicles for a whole year.
A. Some cities are also taking action.
B. What are the strict rules used for?
C. What makes deliverymen take such risks?
D. Fines also go to those who get bad reviews from customers.
E. They drive on the wrong side of the road and run red lights.
Researchers in the 1960s found bilingual (双语的)people scored higher on intelligence (智力)tests than monolinguals﹣﹣people who speak only one language. The latest studies show that being bilingual does not necessarily make people cleverer, but it probably does make you better at certain skills.
Imagine driving down the highway. There're many things that could attract your attention and you really need to be able to watch all of them. Why would bilingualism make you any better at that?
The answer is that bilingual people are often better at controlling their attention﹣a function (功能)called the executive control system. It's quite possibly the most important system we have because it's where all of your decisions about what to attend to, what to ignore(忽视),what to process are made.
The best method to measure(测量) the executive control system is called the Stroop Test. Suppose you would have the word "blue" written in red, but you have to say the colour red. But "blue" is so eye﹣ catching, and you really want to say"blue". You need to ignore it so that you can say the colour red. That's the Stroop Test.
Bilingual people continually practice this function. They have to, because both languages are active in their brain at the same time. They need to ignore one to be able to speak in the other. This exercise might help in other ways, too. Researchers say bilingual children are more likely to have friends from different cultures. Bilingual adults are often four to five years later than others in developing Alzheimer's disease.
(1)What did the recent research find about bilingual people?
A. They can safely drive their cars.
B. They can well manage their attention.
C. They can have a better control of imagination.
D. They can easily pick out the colours they want.
(2)What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A. Red.
B. Blue.
C. Test.
D. System.
(3)What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. Bilingualism may do harm to people's health.
B. Bilingualism helps children make more foreign friends.
C. People must practice speaking two languages continually.
D. People use more active words from their mother languages.
(4)What might be the best title for the text?
A. How does the Stroop Test work?
B. What is executive control system?
C. Are monolingual people smarter?
D. Are bilingual people better at some skills?
(1)Who plays the leading role in making decisions?
A. Cat.
B. Marc.
C. Iggy.
D. Barney.
(2)The underlined word "awesome" probably means .
A. awful
B. crazy
C. nervous
D. fantastic
(3)What do we know about the Island Club?
A. It's a new place for the three friends.
B. It's one of the top clubs of UK.
C. Coffee is always free there.
D. Iggy prefers to eat there.
When she was just 9 years old, Katie Stagliano planted a cabbage seed(卷心菜种子) in a garden outside her house. She cared for it every day by watering it, weeding it and giving it plant food. It grew to be HUGE! Forty pounds huge!
Katie wanted to do something special with this very special cabbage. With her mom's help, she decided to donate(捐赠) it to a local soup kitchen to help feed the hungry in her community of Summerville, South Carolina.
When she arrived to make her donation, she saw a long line of people waiting for food. Then, Katie served her cabbage to the guest. As the many people thanked her, she knew she could and should do more to help.
With the help of her parents and school, Katie's Krops was born! Katie's Krops plants gardens to grow food that is donated to local soup kitchens to feed the hungry.
Katie's dream is to end hunger around the world. So, after she created several gardens in her community, she decided to do more. She wanted to help other kids create gardens in their communities!
As of 2017, 7 years after she started, there are now 83 Katie's Krops gardens growing across the United States! All of the gardens are led by kids between the ages of 9 and 16.
(1)What is "something special" Katie did at last in Paragraph 2?
A. Building her first garden.
B. Giving the cabbage plant food.
C. Helping mom in the local soup kitchen.
D. Donating the cabbage to people in need.
(2)Who runs the 83 gardens?
A. Hungry people there.
B. Katie Stagliano herself.
C. Teenagers from 9 to 16.
D. Parents and schools together.
(3)Katie's Krops .
A. creates a lot of jobs for local people
B. has its own soup kitchens everywhere
C. is now all over South Carolina, the US
D. helps fight hunger in their own communities
(4)Katie's story sounds .
A. encouraging
B. relaxing
C. boring
D. tiring
Sara wants to buy a motorcycle. She sees an ad in the newspaper for a used one. She calls the telephone number in the ad. The person who is selling the motorcycle lives on Flag Street in Clifton, about 15 miles from Fairview where Sara lives. She'll take a bus to get there on Sunday.
At the bus station, Sara looks through the bus schedules(时刻表). She sees one that says "Fainiew. Clifton" on the front. That's what Sara needs.
Please look at the bus schedule carefully. Then help Sara make her decision, and answer the following questions.
Bus Schedule
(1)Why does Sara want to go to Flag Street?
(2)What bus can Sara take according to the schedule?
(3)Sara decides to arrive at Flag Street before 12: 00 by the No. 7 bus. What time should the bus
leave Fairview Station?
(4)When Sara gets on the No. 7 bus, she finds that Flag Street stop has been closed because of the street repairs. She has to get off at another stop. Look at the schedule again. Where should Sara get off the bus so that she can have a shorter walk to Flag Street?
(5)Now Sara is on Flag Street. She wants to visit a friend on her returning trip. Her friend is around the corner of Church and North Street. Which is the proper bus for her to take and where to get on the bus?