Attending a university is an important part of a person’s life. Today, many people go to a university to study and train for a future job in subjects like law, medicine, or education. But the university is not a modern invention. It has a history that is over a thousand years old.

The world’s oldest university, Al-Azhar, is in Cairo, Egypt. It was first built as a mosque in A.D. 972. A few years later, learners and teachers began meeting in the mosque in “tutoring circles”. They read and talked about the subject of law. Around 988, leaders in the city of Cairo decided to create a school for higher learning and the University of Al-Azhar was founded.

At Al-Azhar, there were many university ‘firsts.’ Courses were created. The earliest ones taught at Al-Azhar were in law and religion. In a course, students read and studied with the teacher, but there was also free discussion. Often, students and teachers talked about a topic, and there was no ‘right’ answer. Finally, scholars from around the world came to Al-Azhar to teach and do research. At the university, people studied the past, but it was also a place for sharing new ideas.

Over a thousand years later, Al-Azhar is still an important university in the world. Its library contains more than 250,000 of the world’s oldest and most valuable books. Today, many of the world’s most important universities such as Oxford and Harvard still follow the traditions started at Al-Azhar.

1. What’s this passage mainly about?

  A. The history of the world’s oldest university.

  B. The importance of attending a university.

  C. The relationship between university and future job.

  D. The invention of a modern university.

2. The first university was founded over _____ years ago.

  A. a hundred             B. hundreds of                     C. a thousand                D. thousands of

3. The oldest university in the world is _____.

  A. Oxford                 B. Cambridge                C. Harvard                    D. Al-Azhar

4. What does the underlined word “course” mean in this passage?

  A. A series of lessons.                                          C. A period of time.

  C. A series of actions.                                    D. A group of professors.

5. What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?

  A. How many books are in the Al-Azhar’s library.

  B. How valuable the Al-Azhar’s books are.

C. Why Oxford and Harvard still follow Al-Azhar’s pattern.

D. How Al-Azhar still holds an important role in the world.

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A. coming        B. returning      C. leaving       D. reaching

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So parents matter. But it is also revealed in researches that parents, of all backgrounds, don’t need to buy expensive educational toys or digital devices for their kids in order to give them an advantage. They don’t need to drive their offspring (子孫，后代)to enrichment classes or test-preparation courses. What they need to do with their children is much simpler: talk.

But not just any talk. Recent research has indicated exactly what kinds of talk at home encourage children’s success at school. For example, a study conducted by researchers at the UCLA School of Public Health and published in the journal Pediatrics found that two-way adult-child conversations were six times as potent in promoting language development as the ones in which the adult did all the talking. Engaging in this reciprocal（雙向的) back-and-forth gives children a chance to try out language for themselves, and also gives them the sense that their thoughts and opinions matter.

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A. parental involvement makes up for what schools are not able to do

B. teachers and students themselves do not put in enough effort

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D. students may well make greater achievements with parents' attention

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A. educational toys are unaffordable nowadays

B. digital devices can give children an advantage

C. some parents believe in enrichment classes

D. talking with children is a very simple task

3.The word "potent" is closest in meaning to ______.

A. powerful    B. difficult     C. necessary        D. resistant

4.Which of the following will more encourage children's success at school according to the passage?

A. Parents order their children to stop playing video games.

B. Parents discuss with their children the possible future career.

C. Parents lecture their children on getting too low marks on tests.

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Dear David,

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I’m concerned about her. I feel lost, not knowing how to help my child.

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Dear Jenny,

It’s always painful to a mother when someone hurts her child. Your daughter’s friends weren’t nice to her, but little kids are still learning how to get along with others. As a result, young friendships are often fleeting, even changing from day to day. Your daughter seems to be remarkably loving, outgoing and mature(成熟的) beyond her years. Perhaps you need to be proud of the way she treats people.

Ironing your daughter’s hair won’t send your daughter or the other girls a good message. It implies that there is something wrong with the way she is. You have no choice but to let your daughter know that one of the girls won’t be attending her birthday party. If she seems upset, remind her that other friends will be there. My guess is that she will rise to the occasion.

Hope this helps.

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1.What’s the mother’s problem?

A．Her daughter doesn’t respect other kids

B．Her daughter seems to be losing her friends

C．Her daughter cares too much about her friends

D．Her daughter doesn’t know how to deal with others

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A．thought her friends were right.

B．felt lucky to have such good friends.

C．thought her friends shouldn’t have said that.

D．realized her friends were not popular with others.

3.David used the underlined word“fleeting”to show that  _____.

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4.In David’s opinion, ironing the daughter’s hair _____.

A．is the right thing to do                    B．will make her more popular.

C．will make her doubt the way she is.          D．will help her win back her friends.

 

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FRIDAY, Aug. 3 (Health Day News) -- Middle school students who are physically fit are likely to score higher on standardized tests measuring reading and math abilities, a new study has found. And, the average scores went up in connection with levels of fitness, the findings showed.

“The more physically fit kids were, the higher their scores,” said the study’s lead author, Trent Petrie, director of the Center for Sport Psychology at the University of North Texas in Denton. “Parents should encourage their kids to be physically active. There are some real cognitive (認(rèn)知的) and academic benefits that come from physical fitness”, Petrie said.

Results of the study are scheduled to be presented Friday at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in Orlando, Fla. The study included more than 1,200 middle school students from five schools in a suburban area of Texas, with 561 boys and 650 girls. About 57 percent of the children were white, and nearly one-quarter were Mexican American. Nine percent were black and about 2 percent were of Asian descent.

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After accounting for factors such as age, sex, family income and self-esteem, the researchers found that for both boys and girls, higher levels of heart and lung health predicted better scores on both the math and reading tests.

For boys, perceived (感觀的) social support also seemed to increase their reading scores, the investigators found. In girls, while being physically fit predicted higher reading scores, so too did a higher BMI-- which indicates more body fat. “We were a little surprised by this finding,” Petrie said.

“It was not as strong an association as the one with physical fitness,” he added. The authors suspect it may have something to do with girls this age entering adolescence, which may be related to a higher BMI and slightly higher brain development. He said he plans to make great effort to look for this relationship again in larger studies to see if it was a chance finding, or if the association holds up.

“While we can’t say 100 percent that physical fitness causes better academic performance, we can say that there is a strong and predictive relationship between physical fitness and academic performance,” Petrie said.

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“It may be that the children are getting more oxygen. When the heart and lungs are working at a higher capacity, it may allow the brain to work at peak performance. Children who are less fit may be sleepier during school,” she noted. “I personally feel that there’s probably a strong relationship between the confidence you get from being able to do something physical well and academic performance.”

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1.How did the school district help the researchers carry out the study?

A．By analyzing the data of fitness tests.

B．By giving some basic information.

C．By completing some questionnaires.

D．By offering a certain amount of Money.

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A．Parents should be aware of the benefit of fitness.

B．Fitter kids are likely to make better grades.

C．Fitness affects kids’ social behavior greatly.

D．Teachers should value physical education classes.

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A．Supportive        B．Indifferent         C．Critical            D．Doubtful

5.What does the underlined word “one” in Paragraph refer to?

A．The BMI.          B．The body fat.       C．The brain development.   D．The test score.

6.From the last paragraph we can infer that physically fit kids ______.

A．deserve to be treated well                B．live much longer than others

C．get along well with others                 D．enjoy a peaceful life

 

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These days, young children can enjoy directly what it is like to be a marine biologist (海洋生物學(xué)家) at a marine association. What they discover can lead them to appreciate and protect the ocean and also the animals living in it.

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These programs are generally held on Saturdays and Sundays in order that kids and parents can have more hours in which to have fun. Teachers who want to arrange these activities for their students can call a local marine association near them.

1.According to the text, pupils can have a better understanding of the ocean biome by _______.

A．learning about it from books

B．going to a marine association

C．a(chǎn)ttending marine biologists’ meetings

D．taking part-time jobs at marine associations

2.In Paragraph 5, the author mainly wants to tell us _______.

A．the advantage of learning at a marine association

B．different activities offered by a marine association

C．a(chǎn) marine association’s working conditions

D．the way to develop children’s interest in ocean

3.The underlined word “exposure” in Paragraph 5 probably means _______.

A．the way of explaining something

B．the way of choosing a career

C．a(chǎn) marine association’s working condition

D．the way to develop children’s interest in the ocean

4.Which of the following is TURE?

A．Young children can enjoy indirectly what it is like to be a marine biologist at a marine association.

B．To help your pupils to take care of the ocean, the best area to take them to is a marine association.

C．Children can learn the topics more successfully when they experience them directly.

D．A marine association has the same program for children of different ages.

5.The text is most probably taken from _______.

A．a(chǎn) teacher’s presentation

B．a(chǎn) marine biologist’s report

C．a(chǎn) student’s field trip journal

D．a(chǎn)n introduction to a marine association

 

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