I am a strong believer that if a child is raised with approval (准允), he learns to love himself and will be successful in his own way. Several weeks ago, I was doing homework with my son in the third grade and he kept standing up from his chair to go over the math lines. I kept asking him to sit down, telling him that he would concentrate better. He sat but seconds later, as if he didn’t even notice he was doing it, he got up again. I was getting frustrated (受挫), but then it hit me. I started noticing his answers were much quicker and accurate when he stood up. Could he be more absorbed while standing up?
This made me start questioning myself and what I had been raised to believe. I was raised to believe that a quiet, calm child was a sure way to success. This child would have the willpower to study hard, get good grades and become someone important in life.
Now those same people perhaps come to realize that their kids are born with their own sets of DNA and personality qualities, and all you can do is loving and accepting them. As parents, throughout their growing years and beyond that, we need to be our kids’ best cheerleaders, guiding them and helping them find their way.
I have stopped asking my son to sit down and concentrate. Obviously, he is concentrating just in his own way and not mine. We need to learn to accept our kids’ ways of doing things. Some way may have worked for me but doesn’t mean we need to carry it through generations. There is nothing sweeter than being personal and unique (独特的). It makes us free and happy and that’s just the way I want my kids to live their own life. Time and again the author got his son seated in order to make him ______.
| A．work fast | B．go polite | C．stay relaxed | D．keep attentive |
The underlined “it” (in the first paragraph) probably refers to ______.
| A．his son’s doing better while standing up |
| B．his failure in keeping his son under control |
| C．his own experience as a school boy |
| D．his disappointment with his active child |
By this passage, the author attempts to tell other parents to ______.
| A．correct their kids’ manners from the early ages |
| B．respect and trust their kids’ ways of behaviors |
| C．develop a good relationship with their children |
| D．guarantee their children’s freedom at home |
Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?
| A．Parental help with teens’ study |
| B．Adult influence on teen growth |
| C．Kids’ success in their own styles |
| D．Friendship between generations |
The Poetry Foundation recently named American poet Jack Prelutsky as the nation's first children's poet laureate (桂冠诗人). The group created the award as a way to increase children’s love of poetry.
As children's poet laureate, Jack Prelutsky will give two public readings in the next two years. He will also advise the Poetry Foundation about children's literature and take part in projects concerning children and poetry.
Jack Prelutsky has been writing poetry for children for almost forty years. He has written more than thirty-five books of poems. His first book was called /4 Gopher in the Garden. It was published in 1967. His latest is called Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant and Other Poems.
Prelutsky is well known for creating new words by combining two words to creat a new kind of creature. For example, he combined "radish" with "shark" to get "radishark", "Lion" and "broccoli" became "broccolion", He also created "umbrellaphant", a mixture of the words "umbrella" and "elephant".
Jack Prelutsky says that children like his poems because he writes about things they care about. Poetry researchers say that Jack Prelutsky's poems recognize children's feeling. An example of this is the poem My Sister Is a Werewolf which is about how it feels to be different.
Jack Prelutsky also writes poems about American holidays. His poem It's Halloween is a very famous one about the holiday celebrated at the end of October. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
| A．Poems with New Words Grow Popular |
| B．First Children's Poet Laureate Named |
| C．Children's Love for Poetry Increased |
| D．Jack Prelutsky Awarded Nationwide |
What is Jack Prelutsky famous for?
| A．Creating new words in his poems. |
| B．His productivity. |
| C．His long time of writing. |
| D．His poems about American holidays. |
Children are in favour of his poems because ______ .
| A．they are easy to understand |
| B．the poet is famous |
| C．children like reading new words |
| D．the poet understands their feelings |
Put the following items in right order according to the passage.
a. two public readings
b. A Gopher in the Garden
c. Behold the Bold Unbrellaphant and Other Poems
d. My Sister Is a Werewolf
| A．b-c-d-a | B．d-a-c-b |
| C．b-d-c-a | D．a-b-c-d |
Personal computers and the Internet give people new choices about how to spend their time.
Some may use this freedom to share less time with certain friends or family members，but new technology will also let them stay in closer touch with those they care more about. I know this from my personal experience.
E-mail makes it easy to work at home, where I now spend most weekends and evenings. My working hours aren't necessarily much shorter than they once were but I spend fewer of them at the office. This lets me share more time with my young daughter than I might have if she'd been born before E-mail became such a practical tool.
The Internet also makes it easy to share thoughts with a group of friends. Say you do something fun—see a great movie perhaps— and there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you call each one, you may be tired of telling the story.
With E-mail, you just write one note about your experience, at your convenience，and address it to all the friends who you think might be interested. They can read your message when they have time, and read as much as they want to. They can reply at their convenience, and you can read what they have to say at your convenience.
E-mail is also an inexpensive way to stay in close touch with people who live far away. More than a few parents use E-mail to keep in touch, even daily touch, with their children at college.
We just have to keep in mind that computers and the Internet offer another way of staying in touch. They don't take the place of any of the old ways. The purpose of this passage is to ______ .
| A．explain how to use the Internet |
| B．share the writer's joy of keeping up with the latest technology |
| C．tell the usefulness of the Internet |
| D．introduce the basic knowledge about personal computers and the Internet |
The use of E-mail has made it possible for the writer to ______ .
| A．spend less time working |
| B．have more time to spend with his children |
| C．work, at home on all weekends |
| D．work at a speed comfortable to him |
According to the writer, E-mail has an obvious advantage over the telephone because the former helps one ______ .
| A．reach a group of people at one time conveniently |
| B．keep his communication as personal as possible |
| C．pass on much more information than the latter |
| D．get in touch with his friends faster than the latter |
The best title for the passage is "______".
| A．Computer—New Technological Advances |
| B．Internet—New Tool to Maintain Good Friendship |
| C．Computer—Have Made Life Easier |
| D．Internet—A Convenient Tool for Communication |
Last month, students from one hundred and three universities in eighty-eight countries took part in an international computer programming contest. The Battle of the Brains took place in Harbin, China. Three-person teams from each school had five hours to solve eleven real world problems.
Jerry Cain coached the team from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He says the problems involved, among other things, paperweights，robots，castles and lakes.
The students first listed the problems in order of difficulty. Then they figured out the requirements of each. They designed ways to test their solutions. And they wrote the needed software systems. Even the winning team from Shanghai Jiaotong University in China was not able to solve all the problems within the given time limit. Stanford's team solved five problems and finished in fourteenth place. Stanford was one of twenty-one American universities that took part in the contest this year.
The official name of the Battle of the Brains is the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. It began in nineteen seventy at Texas A and M University. The contest quickly became popular in the United States and Canada. It developed and grew as more and more schools took part in local and area contests.
The first final competition was held in nineteen seventy-seven at the Association for Computer Machinery Computer Science Conference.
Today, a network of universities holds area competitions that send the winners to the world finals, which are now organized by IBM.
Contest spokesman Doug Heintzman says the world champions receive prizes and scholarships. They are also guaranteed an offer of employment or internship with IBM. This competition is an opportunity to be recognized and to be recruited (雇用，聘用) by some of the top technology and research firms around the world. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．The winners will be sent to the world finals, which are now organized by IBM. |
| B．Five-person teams had three hours to solve eleven real world problems. |
| C．Shanghai Jiaotong University in China solved all the problems within the given time limit. |
| D．Stanford's solved five problems and finished in fortieth place in the contest. |
What is not the possible result of the world champions?
| A．Receiving prizes and scholarships. |
| B．Being offered employment or internship with IBM. |
| C．Being recognized and employed by top technology and research firms. |
| D．Being given an opportunity to go travelling around the world for free. |
This . passage would most likely be found in ______ section of the newspaper.
| A．politics | B．economy |
| C．education | D．entertainment |
Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
| A．The Battle of the Brains |
| B．Listing the Problems in Order of Difficulty |
| C．Champions Receiving Prizes and Scholarships |
| D．An International Computer Programming Contest |
Forgiving is easy. Forgetting the experience that comes before the forgiveness, however, always remains with us. Choosing to forgive means choosing to let go of the bad or negative emotions that one experiences so that we can live in peace and harmony.
Five years ago I went through a painful divorce. My older brother, a great believer of our faith, was very angry at my decision to divorce. Despite his response I felt my decision was correct. After two years of arguing over the phone and hurtful words in emails my brother and I ended our friendship in a cold silence.
Out of the blue he visited the same city that I was living in to see our mother. I thought for nights about how to react to his visit. I sought advice from many friends—all of whom said I should wait for his apology before trying to repair our friendship. Since I had done no wrong, it was he that needed to come to me.
A very close friend advised me otherwise. He said "Choose to be the bigger person here; forgive and forget. Let go, "he said "and move on." Though his words gave me courage, I still felt very angry and betrayed. My dear friend gave me a gentle shove (推，促使)and even stayed on the phone while I went over to greet my brother and family. When I did, I felt so relieved. I felt peace at last!
Today I am so grateful to my friend for encouraging me. If I hadn't taken his advice, I wouldn't enjoy the loving relationship that I do now with all of my family. Still, it would be a lie it I said that I didn't think about the past sometimes. The difference is that I do not feel angry. I am at peace and have a greater understanding and acceptance of the whole experience. In short I feel I have grown since then. In the author's opinion, the purpose of forgiving is ______.
| A．to forget unpleasant experience |
| B．to make up with relatives or friends |
| C．to let go of the bad or negative emotions |
| D．to make ourselves live in peace and harmony |
Which of the following is the closest in meaning to the phrase "let go of" in the first paragraph?
| A．give up | B．give out |
| C．give away | D．give off |
What drove the author to forgive her brother?
| A．One close friend's encouragement. |
| B．The friend's staying on the phone. |
| C．Her mother's persuasion. |
| D．Her own understanding with growth. |
It can be inferred that the author ______.
| A．realized her mistake in her divorce in the end |
| B．learned how to forget unpleasant experiences |
| C．felt having learned to forgive means growth |
| D．thought friendship is the most important of all |
Readers of many different periods have considered Du Fu to be the greatest poet of the Chinese tradition. Such general agreement can partially be explained by the immense variety of his work, which holds up quite well to different tastes and historical changes in fashion. Like Shakespeare in English tradition, Du Fu's poetry came to be so deeply bound up with the constitution of literary value that generation after generation of poets and critics rediscovered themselves and their interests in some aspect of the poet.
Chinese critics from the Song Dynasty referred to Du Fu as the "poet-historian". Du Fu witnessed a typically political and social situation; the common people still lived in poverty while the emperor and his top officials enjoyed a foolishly luxurious life. He composed many poems，which expressed his dissatisfaction with the government and his great pity for the common people. Du Fu used his poems to comment on current events and historical images. Du Fu became the historian by creating his responses to particular situations.
Du Fu was talented. When he was young, he wanted to get a good job in the government. Unfortunately Du Fu was refused several times. He was in his fifties when he began to serve as a minor official in Changan( Xi'an).
Du Fu was dismissed in the form of a transfer to the post of personnel administrator in Huazhou and so he left Changan. And in 759 he arrived in Chengdu. He set up a modest cottage with some money he borrowed from his friend who served as a local governor. In the cottage he had a simple and peaceful life for three years, writing about 240 poems.
Du Fu left Chengdu after 762 and wandered in the southern provinces and eventually died of illness in 770. After his death, the people in Chengdu built a shrine (神殿)on the site of his garden to honor him, which is known as part of Du Fu Thatched Cottage now. Why does the author compare Du Fu to Shakespeare?
| A．Du Fu's poetry was written following Shakespeare's style. |
| B．Du Fu's poetry referred to the social change critically. |
| C．Du Fu and Shakespeare were best friends. |
| D．Shakespeare read a lot of Du Fu's poems. |
Du Fu ______ when he was young.
| A．didn't want to be an official |
| B．was worried about the education |
| C．wasn't liked by the emperor |
| D．wasn't offered an opportunity to work in the government |
What did Du Fu describe in most of his poems?
| A．The luxurious life that the emperor and his top officials enjoyed. |
| B．His happy life. |
| C．His responses to particular situations. |
| D．His dissatisfaction with the government and his great pity for the common people. |
What did the people do after Du Fu died according to the passage?
| A．They destroyed his cottage. |
| B．They rebuilt the cottage he had lived into a high building. |
| C．They built a shrine to honor him. |
| D．They made a carved statue of him. |
What's the title of the passage?
| A．Du Fu—the Most Important Politician in Tang Dynasty |
| B．The Origin of Du Fu Thatched Cottage |
| C．Du Fu—One of the Greatest Poets in Tang Dynasty |
| D．Du Fu Was Not a Skilled Survivor in Government Politics |