Chen Jie, 14, from Ningbo, Zhejiang is a lucky girl. She got 3600 yuan as gift money this Spring Festival. However, her grandmother took away all the money and put it in a bank account.
Many students experienced the same thing as Chen. They got their gift money, only to immediately have it taken away.
Xiong Shengyue, 14, from Nanjing, doesn't agree with the practice. "I think the money should be the children's, " she said. " We should take care of it by ourselves."
It is not that simple, said Chu Chaohui, a researcher at national Institute of Education Sciences.
Giving gift money is used to show social status (地位)and develop relationships, he told Beijing Legal Evening News. Gift money has lost its traditional meaning of good will and has "little to do with the children". What's more, children don't earn the money through work. So he thought that parents should still play a big part in dealing with the money.
But Yan Honglan, a mother of a 14-year-old boy in Beijing, has let her son be responsible (承担责任的)for his gift money since the age of 8. "I want to develop his financial(理财) skills, ' Yan said.
She also added:"No matter how you deal with the money, the most important thing is to make the children feel they're respected(尊重) and trusted.
Chen supported Yan's idea. She said that though she knew her grandmother wouldn't waste her gift money, she would feel happier if she could at least know how the money is spent.
"It would make me feel a little bit more grown-up," she said.Chen Jie’s grandmother ________.
| A．took away all her money and put it in a bank | B．let her take care of all her money |
| C．gave all her money to her parents | D．spent all her money |
Chu Chaohui thought the gift money should be dealed with by _________
| A．children | B． grandmother | C． parents | D．friends |
Yan Honglan thought___________ is the most important thing.
| A．to make children feel a little bit more grown-up |
| B．to take care of the gift money by themselves |
| C．to put the gift money in a bank account |
| D．to make the children feel they're respected and trusted. |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．Chen Jie got 3600 yuan as reward this Spring Festival. |
| B．Xiong Shengyue thought children should take care of the gift money. |
| C．Chu Chaohui thought parents shouldn’t play a big party in dealing with the money. |
| D．Yan Honglan has let her son be responsible for his gift money since the age of 9. |
Saya, the life-like woman robots started her work as a teacher at a primary school in Tokyo Japan days ago. She gave lessons to the pupils there. You won’t hurt it, hit it or play with it.
Professor Hiroshi Kobayashi of Tokyo University of Science, who built Saya, said she didn’t mean to take the place of human teachers with Saya, but to show the joys of technology. “We didn’t want to do all the work of a teacher, but to build this robot to teach children about technology. And Saya may be a help to the schools which have not enough teachers.”
“In some villages and small schools, there are children who know little about new technology and also there are some teachers that can’t teach these lessons,” Kobayashi said. “So we hope the robot can make the children become interested in new technology.”
Many of the children were very interested in Saya, and did not take their eyes off her when they were listening to the report. When class was over, some students touched her face and felt her.
Japan, home to almost 400,000 industrial robots of the world, hopes that they can make more and more robots in the future. And they hope to make some robots to look after the older people. From the passage, we know that Saya is ______.
A. a woman teacher in a small school
B. a student of Hiroshi Kobayashi
C. a robot made by Hiroshi KobayashiSaya came to the school to ______.
A. give the students technology lessons
B. listen to the report of Hiroshi Kobayashi
C. show her computer technologyWhat did many of the children do when Saya came to their school?
A. They felt afraid of Saya.
B. They showed great interest in Saya.
C. They made friends with Saya.We can learn from the passage that ______.
A. Saya became tired of teaching at last
B. most schools in Japan are short of teachers
C. Japan hasn’t built robots that can take care of the old people What would be the best title for the passage?
A. A Science Professor
B. A Primary School
C. A Robot Teacher
阅读下面材料 ，从每题所给的三个选项（A、B和C）中，选出最佳选项。
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This is a mystery story book. Two children called Calder and Petra try to find out who stole an expensive Vermeer painting. Look at each picture in the book carefully. There is something hidden in each one. |
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This game is good for your thumbs(拇指) and fingers. You have to press the lights when they light up. Do you think it sounds easy? Well, think again because it’s very difficult. If you miss a lot of lights, you’ll not win the game. |
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This might look like a toy, but it’s a talking Internet phone. Just connect the Verballs to your USB port on your computer and you can phone all your friends all around the world. You’ll have fun with it! |
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This is a colorful set which will help you to paint. Each color has a number and the numbers are on the picture for you to follow. Painting beautifully has never been easier. Everyone will think you are the next teenager genius. |
What can be found in the pictures in the book Chasing Vermeer?
A. The background of the story.
B. Something about the thief.
C. The value of the painting. What do the players do when playing the game GYA-II?
A. They press the lights with thumbs and fingers.
B. They call their foreign friends to play together.
C. They follow the numbers of the set colors.The writer thinks it fun to______.
A. read the book Chasing Vermeer
B. paint pictures with the colorful set
C. phone friends all over the worldWhich of the following can be used to talk on the Internet?
A. Chasing Vermeer. B. GYA-II. C. Verballs. How does the writer think of painting with the colorful set?
A. Easy. B. Wonderful. C. Difficult.
Friendship is a very important human relationship and everyone needs good friends. Good friendship has many benefits. It offers companionship, improves self-worth and promotes good health. There are times in our lives such as when we have recently moved into a new town, or changed our jobs or schools. Such changes often leaves us without a friend. Making new friends comes easy for some people. But for many of us the process is difficult and requires courage. Below are some helpful suggestions on how to make and keep friends.
Associate with others
The first step to making friends is associating with other people. You can go to public places to meet new people. Besides, you will need to make yourself known by becoming an active member of such places.
Start a conversation
Starting a conversation is the second most important step in making new friends. Do not wait to be spoken to. You can always start the conversation. Being able to make small talk is a very useful skill in relating with other people.
Do things together
Choosing friends with common interests is important in building friendship as these interests would always bring you and your friend together. Hanging out will always be a pleasant experience.
Let it grow
It is a good thing to stay in touch. However, try not to press your new friend with calls, messages or visits as this would likely wear him or her out and finally you may lose your friend. So you will need to give your friend time to react to you. The best friendships are the ones that grow naturally.
Enjoy your friendship
The best way to enjoy your friendship is to allow your friends to be themselves. Try not to find fault with your friends. Try not to change them from who they are to what you want them to be. Become the kind of friend you will want your friend to be to you.Is friendship very important for everyone?
How do you associate with others?
Why is choosing friends with common interests important?
What will you do to enjoy your friendship according to the passage?
What’s the passage mainly about?
If Tomb Sweeping Day(清明节) gives you a holiday to go outdoors, Spring break is what teenagers in the US look forward to.
Unlike our semester, which starts in late February or early March this year, . So in late March and April, most American schools, ranging from kindergartens to colleges, give students one to two weeks off school.
What do students do during the time? , but they all beat studying!
Some kids take trips with their parents, visiting a new state or even a new country. There is one place in the US that all kids dream about going on their Spring Break — Disney World in Florida. For some kids that dream will come true. .
For many, Spring break means relaxing or family reunions. They may stay home, read and watch movies, or they may go to visit friends. Others may travel to visit family members who live far away.. On a ten-day trip, for example, students may go on a tour through Spain, France, and Italy. These trips are often expensive, but they give students a great chance to see other parts of the world.
Students in the US don’t have their Spring break at the same time.. So while students from one town are on vacation, their neighbors in the next town may have classes as usual.
| A. They’ll get to meet Mickey Mouse B. Sometimes teachers lead overseas trips for groups of students C. American schools begin as early as January D. It depends on where they live E. They like to do many things |
Although most people believe that laughter is one of the nature’s great treatments for a whole range of mental and physical diseases, it is still a serious scientific subject that researchers are trying to figure out.
“Laughter above all else is a social thing,” says Baltimore neuroscientist(神经科学家), Robert Provine, who has studied laughter for many years. “All laughter groups laugh ‘ha-ha-ha’ basically the same way. Whether you speak Mandarin, French or English, everyone will understand laughter. There is a pattern generator(发生器) in our brain that produces this sound.”
Laughing is our first way of communicating. Babies laugh long before they speak. No one teaches them how to laugh. They just do. People may laugh at a prank(恶作剧) on April Fools’ Day. But surprisingly, only 10 to 15 percent of laughter is the result of someone making a joke. Laughter is mostly about social responses rather to a joke. Deaf people laugh without hearing and people on cell phones laugh without seeing, showing that laughter isn’t dependent on single sense but on social interactions.
And laughter is not just a people thing. Chimps tickle(挠痒) each other and even laugh when another chimp pretends to tickle them.
Jaak Panksepp, a Bowling Green University Psychology professor, studies rats that laugh when he tickles them. It turns out rats love to be tickled — they return again and again to the hands of researchers tickling them.
By studying rats, scientists can figure out what’s going on in the brain during laughter. Northwestern University biomedical engineering professor, Jeffrey Burgdorf has found that laughter in rats produces a chemical that acts as an antidepressant(抗抑郁药). He thinks the same thing probably happens in humans, too. This would give doctors a new chemical target to develop drugs that can fight depression.
Even so, laughter itself has not been proved to be the best medicine, experts said. Margaret Stuber, a professor at University of California, studied whether laugher helped patients. She found that distraction(分心) and mood improvement helped, but she could not find a benefit of laughter alone.
“No study has shown that laughter produces a direct health benefit,” Provine said, mainly because it’s hard to separate laughter from just feeling good. But he thinks it doesn’t really matter: “Isn’t the fact that laughter feels good when you do it enough?”The underlined word “figure out” in Paragraph 6 means “________”.
| A．deal with | B．work out |
| C．look out of | D．come up with |
According to the passage, scientists studied rats in order to find ______.
| A．how they laugh |
| B．if they like laughing |
| C．what laughter in rats produces |
| D．how rats react while being tickled |
What can we know from Robert Provine’s research?
| A．Laughter makes a person feel good. |
| B．Laughter produces a direct health benefit. |
| C．Laughter depends on all kinds of senses. |
| D．Laughter is a way of communicating. |
What is probably the best title for this passage?
| A．Why Rats Laugh |
| B．When Laughter Happens |
| C．How Laughter Works |
| D．Why Laughter Matters |