As a child, I was really afraid of the dark and of getting lost. These fears were very real and caused me some uncomfortable moments.
Maybe it was the strange way things looked and sounded in my own room at night that scared me so much. There was never complete darkness, but always a streetlight or passing car lights, which made clothes on the back of a chair take on the shape of a wild animal. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the curtains(窗帘) seem to move when there was no wind. A very low sound in the floor would seem a hundred times louder than in the day. My imagination (想象) would run wild, and my heart would beat fast. I would lie very still so that the "enemy(敌人) " would not discover me.
Another of my childhood fears was that I would get lost, especially on the way home from school. Every morning I got on the school bus right near my home. That was no problem. After school, though, when all the buses were lined up along the street, I was afraid that I would get in the wrong one and be taken to some other strange places. On school or family trips to a park or a museum, I wouldn't let the leaders out of my sight.
Perhaps one of the worst fears of all I had as a child was that of not being liked or accepted by others. Being popular was so important to me then, and the fear of not being liked was a serious one.
One of the processes(过程) growing up is being able to realize and overcome our fears. Understanding the things that scared us as children helps us achieve greater success later in life._________ would scare the author at night.
| A．Streetlight and car lights | B．Wild animals and enemies |
| C．Moving curtains and wind | D．Strange sights and sounds |
When she went to some other places, she would _________.
| A．walk away without others |
| B．take a bus by herself |
| C．follow others closely |
| D．make sure not to take a wrong bus |
Which of the following would be possibly true when she was a child?
| A．She was usually popular among people. |
| B．She was always the leader of the others. |
| C．She always got poor grades. |
| D．She was not at all liked by others. |
Open today’s newspaper. What do you see? Ads! Turn on the TV. Still more ads! Everywhere you look, someone has something to sell.
Here are some ways ads get us to buy.
Some ads use famous people. Stars are paid to sell a product. Think about it. Do they really know about medicine? Do they know about soft drinks? These people may be famous. But they may not know about what they are selling.
Some ads make you think you’re getting the words of experts(专家). A man in a white coat comes on TV. He looks nice. “I use White and Black, ” he says. This man looks like a doctor. But he is an actor. He has been paid to sell this product.
Does soap(肥皂) have anything to do with a pretty child? Not much. But ads may show their products with something nice, such as the sun, the flowers and so on. Such an ad is about feelings rather than fact.
Ads are full of strong words like “new” and “power”(力量). They can help a product sell. The soap may be called “Spring Rain”. A car may be called “Tiger”. Strong words work on our feelings.
Some ads make promises(承诺). But can they keep them? No. Some ads use our fear of being too late. “Buy now! ” they say, “Selling ends soon. ” Check to see if this is true. Don’t hurry. Take time to think.
All ads hope we will buy something, do something, or think in a certain way. Know what ads are doing. Ask questions to yourself. Don’t let their words and pictures fool you.
uld not always believe the ads.
C. We should thiWe can see ads ______.
| A．on TV | B．in magazines |
| C．in newspapers | D．all the above |
Some stars appear in the ads because ______.
| A．they know every product well |
| B．they are famous |
| C．they are all experts |
| D．they all like white coats |
According to the passage, we know that “Spring Rain” is the name of ______.
| A．a kind of soap | B．a kind of car |
| C．a kind of medicine | D．a kind of flower |
The writer thinks the words and pictures in the ads ______.
| A．tell us a story | B．always make us strong |
| C．sometimes fool us | D．keep promises |
What can we learn from the passage?
A. We should always believe the ads.
B. We sho nk about the ads after we buy something.
C. We can believe all the stars.
Once there was a man who had two children, a boy and a girl. The boy was good-looking(看好) but the girl was not.
One day they found a mirror(镜子) for the first time and they saw what they looked like. The boy was very pleased(很高兴) and he said to his sister, "How handsome(英俊) I am! I look much nicer than you!" The girl did not like what her brother said and gave him a hard push(推). "Go away!" she said. Their father saw what was happening. He went up to them and said to the boy, "You must always BE good as well as LOOK good." Then to the girl he said, "My dear, if you help everyone and do your best to please him, everyone will love you. It does not matter that you are not as good-looking as your brother."Once a man had ____.
| A．a good-looking boy |
| B．an ugly(难看的) girl |
| C．two good-looking children |
| D．a boy and a girl |
The boy saw what he looked like in the mirror and was pleased because he ____.
| A．found a mirror |
| B．knew he looked as nice as his sister |
| C．and his sister were good-looking |
| D．was handsome |
The girl gave the boy a hard push because ____.
| A．she was stronger |
| B．what he said was wrong |
| C．she was not pleased with what he said |
| D．her father loved her |
Father told the girl that ____.
| A．it was important to be good-looking |
| B．it was a good thing to be ugly |
| C．if she did her best to help people, she would enjoy people's love |
| D．she was as good-looking as her brother |
What can we learn from this story?
| A．To be good to people is more important than to be good-looking. |
| B．To be good-looking is very important. |
| C．If you want to make yourself good-looking, you must be good to people. |
| D．If you often help people, you will become more and more beautiful. |
The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the 20th FIFA World Cup, an international association football tournament(比赛) that will take place in Brazil from June 12 to July 13, 2014.
This will be the second time the country has hosted the competition, the first being the 1950 FIFA World Cup. Brazil will become the fifth country to have hosted the FIFA World Cup twice, after Mexico, Italy, France and Germany. It will be the first World Cup to be held in South America since the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina(阿根廷), the first time two consecutive(连贯的) World Cups are staged outside Europe and the first time two consecutive World Cups are staged in the Southern Hemisphere(南半球) (the 2010 FIFA World Cup was held in South Africa).
On March 7, 2003, FIFA announced that the tournament would be held in South America for the first time since Argentina hosted the competition in 1978, in line with its policy of rotating(循环) the right to host the World Cup among different confederations. On June 3, 2003, the South American Football Confederation CONMEBOL announced that Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia wanted to host the 2014 World Cup finals. And Brazil won the right to host the event on October 30, 2007, as the only country to enter the bidding process.
The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the ______ FIFA World Cup.
| A．first | B．second |
| C．fifteenth | D．twentieth |
Brazil once hosted the FIFA World Cup in ______.
| A．1950 | B．1978 | C．2003 | D．2010 |
______ once held the FIFA World Cup twice before Brazil.
| A．Mexico, Italy, France and Germany |
| B．Mexico, Italy, England and Canada |
| C．Korea, Italy, France and the USA |
| D．South Africa, Italy, France and Germany |
CONMEBOL is a confederation from ______.
| A．Europe | B．South America |
| C．North America | D．Asia |
Which of the following is NOT right?
| A．The 2014 FIFA World Cup will last more than 30 days. |
| B．Argentina held the 1978 FIFA World Cup. |
| C．The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the first tournament held in South America. |
| D．Brazil didn’t become the only country to enter the bidding process until 2007. |
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你对颜色了解多少呢？下面的五个段落将会帮助你进一步揭开颜色的奥秘！阅读五个段落，根据每段的中心内容将段前序号填入下面的表格中。
A. There are many colours in nature. Do you know that colours have weight? Let’s do a small test. First, put two objects of the same weight into two boxes. Then, cover one box with a red piece of paper, and the other with a piece of paper. Now hold the boxes in your hand one by one. It is certain that you will think the red one is a little heavier.
B. Why do you think that is? A scientist found that different colours have different weights in a man’s mind. That is to say, every colour has its own weight in our mind. The heaviest colour is red, then blue, green, orange, yellow and white.
C. Colours also have smell. Can you smell the colour? Of course not. Then why do the scientists say this? It is because the smell reaches our brain through sense organs (感觉器官).
D. Scientists say that people react (反应) differently to different colours. Colours you like will make you feel good, but colours you don’t like will make feel nervous or sick.
E. For example, if you sit in a room with red windows, walls and floors for two hours, you’ll you have been there for four fours. But if the room is blue, you’ll feel you have been there for only an hour. If a person goes out of a red room and into a blue room, his temperature will fall. So our bodies change, depending on what colour we see.
| Do a test to see if colours have weight. |
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| Colours can change our body temperature. |
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| Colours have smell. |
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| People react differently to different colours. |
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It?s always hard to say goodbye to someone you love. In Washington DC, US, local (当地的) zoo-goers are sad about the news that their superstar panda Tai Shan is going to leave the National Zoo.
At a morning meeting on December 4, zoo director（主管） Steven Montfort said that the black-eared bear would be going off to China sometime over the winter, under an agreement（协议）with the Chinese government.
Tai Shan, whose name means “peaceful mountain,” was born at the DC zoo on July 9, 2005. He has been loved by zoo-goers since his first public show in December of that year.
But under the agreement that brought his mother, Mei Xiang, and father, Tian Tian, to the zoo from China, all three belong to (属于) China.
Tai Shan should have been returned to China when he was 2. But China gave him two extensions (延期) to stay at the National Zoo. Tai is old enough to breed (繁殖). So it?s time for him to come back to China and join a program to try to increase the panda population.
The National Zoo has tried to breed Mei Xiang a few times since Tai Shan was born, without success. Montfort said the zoo would try again soon in the hope of producing another baby panda. “We?re hopeful every year,” he said.Where can the passage probably be taken from?
| A．A dictionary. | B．A science book. |
| C．A newspaper. | D．A novel. |
The word “zoo-goers” mean people who ______
| A．live at the zoo | B．love to visit the zoo |
| C．work at the zoo | D．leave the zoo |
According to the passage, who is going to leave the National Zoo?
| A．Steven Montfort. | B．Mei Xiang. |
| C．Tian Tian. | D．Tai Shan. |
We can tell from the passage that ______.
| A．Tai Shan and his parents belong to China |
| B．Tai Shan first appeared in public in 2006 |
| C．Tai Shan’s parents will be sent to China |
| D．Tai Shan belongs to the US because it’s born there |
What does the National Zoo try to do every year?
| A．To make Tai Shan stay there. |
| B．To make Mei Xiang give birth to new babies. |
| C．To attract more people to visit Tai Shan. |
| D．To send Tai Shan and his parents back to China. |