Our plane delayed taking off as we ran into a storm. We were ________ for several hours at the airport, waiting for the storm to clear up.

A. figured out B. built up C. held up D. taken off

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We know that cigarette smoking kills. So, producers made electronic cigarettes as a safer smoking choice ---- safer than tobacco. Although e-cigarettes contain the drug nicotine like cigarettes, they do not use tobacco and you do not light them. They are powered by battery.

However, if e-cigarettes are so safe, why has the United States Center for Disease Control（CDC）seen an increase in telephone calls about e-cigarette poisonings?

The answer is children. Most of the calls are from people worried about children who have played with the devices. In the period of one month this year, the Center said 215 people called the Center with e-cigarette concerns. More than half of these calls were for children aged five and younger. The devices had made them sick.

Tim McAfee is director of the Center's Office on Smoking and Health. He says the problem is regulation, meaning, the U. S. federal government does not control e-cigarettes even though they contain liquid nicotine. Mr. McAfee adds that liquid nicotine is a well-known danger. Mr. McAfee explains that nicotine poisoning happens when it gets into the skin, gets into the eyes or is swallowed. It can cause stomach pain or a sense of unbalance. And too much nicotine can kill.

Tim McAfee says e-cigarettes do not create the level of risk to people that tobacco products do. He notes that almost 500,000 Americans die each year from cigarettes. "So, cigarettes are the winner in that contest." E-cigarettes do not contain hundreds of harmful chemicals that are found in real cigarettes. So, the U. S. Surgeon General Boris D. Lushniak has suggested that e-cigarettes may be a useful tool for adults trying to end their tobacco use.

But McAfee worries that teenagers may think electronic cigarettes are harmless. They could become addicted to the nicotine and then start smoking real cigarettes. In other words, he fears that for young people fake e-cigarettes could be a "gateway" to the real thing.

1.What do the producers think of e-cigarettes?

A. Dangerous. B. Expensive.

C. Safer. D. Cheaper.

2.Why did the CDC receive so many calls about e-cigarettes?

A. Parents feared that their children might get poisoned.

B. Parents found the device useless in quitting smoking.

C. Children swallowed the liquid nicotine from the device.

D. Children might get addicted to playing with the device.

3.It can be inferred from the passage that .

A. the CDC wants to develop a better type of e-cigarettes

B. the government is in favor of the use of e-cigarettes

C. Surgeon General Boris D. Lushniak is a heavy smoker

D. smokers most probably can't quit smoking using e-cigarettes

4.What is Tim McAfee's opinion about smoking?

A. Adults should use harmless e-cigarettes.

B. Smoking e-cigarettes can make a person sick.

C. He claims that regulations should be made to ban smoking.

D. He is concerned about the teens using e-cigarettes.

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During the Winter Olympics in Sochi（索契）, 25,000 volunteers from Russia and other countries provided services for athletes and guests．The student Oksana Verkholyak helped translate Russian into English and Korean at the Games．She told us about their usual day．

“We get up at 7:30 in the morning．Then we have breakfast．Usually we have porridge for breakfast．There is always tea, coffee, bread and pies．After breakfast, we head for a bus stop and get on a bus which runs to the media center．It takes us 30 minutes to get there,” she said.

When volunteers arrived there, they went through the security （安全） check point．They couldn’t bring water or food with them．“Security guards check our bags．We are not allowed to have things made of metals．They check phones, video cameras, electric equipment and computers,” Oksana added.

In the evening volunteers got back to the apartment buildings．All of them were like one big family．They lived together and got some rest together—after dinner they went to the beach to watch the sunset．

Not only students helped organize the Sochi Olympics．There were many so-called silver volunteers who retired but didn’t lose interest in sports．Some of the volunteers had an experience working at the Olympic Games in other countries and even at the Moscow Olympics in 1980．

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2.Where did the volunteers go first after breakfast?

A．To the apartment buildings．

B．To the security check point.

C．To a bus stop.

3.What couldn’t the volunteers take into the media center?

A．Water and computers．

B．Video cameras and phones．

C．Knives and hamburgers.

4.Which is NOT true about the silver volunteers?

A．They’re all young people．

B．They love sports．

C．Some of them have volunteered for the Olympics before．

5.What is the best title of this passage?

A．A volunteer’s day at Sochi Olympics

B．2014 Sochi Winter Olympics

C．Different jobs for volunteers

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In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and preparing for the worst, Australian adventurer Peter Seiter wrote a farewell note to his family, put it in a bottle and threw it overboard. With a sense of bad feeling he wrote: “The ocean has a personality of its own. The place can be such a peaceful environment to be in, yet it can be frightfully violent. I’ve experienced both.” Fearing he wouldn’t make it home, he placed the note -- dated June 11, 1998 -- in a wine bottle and covered the bottle.

“I included my geographical coordinates, so if anything happened to me, they’d know my last place when I threw the bottle into the ocean,” says Peter, who was then sailing from the Azores in Portugal to New York and knew the Atlantic could be dangerous. He also included some money with his message, asking whoever found it to use the money to post the letter to his family.

Seventeen days later he reached his destination, having survived the dangerous seas, but he assumed his message in the bottle had not -- until it was found on shore, 11 years later!

Recently, American woman Katherine Ginn and her friend came across the bottle on a deserted beach in the Bahamas. “Alongside it they’d found a life jacket and, assuming the worst, opened the bottle and spent 24 hours drying it out so they could read my story and write to my family as I requested,” says Peter, 44. “I couldn’t believe it -- that after all these years my bottle had turned up with its contents, still undamaged.”

Overjoyed, he wrote to the pair, saying he was alive and living in Australia with his family.

Katherine posted him his letter, money and some broken glass of his bottle placed in a tiny box as a special souvenir. These special items now share pride of place among photos of Peter’s Atlantic voyage. “I can’t express what this old letter means to me,” Peter says. “It gives me a sense of hope and belief. It’s something special to share with my children as they grow up.”

1. Why did Peter have the idea of a message bottle?

A. He missed his family very much then.

B. He hoped to share his experience with his family.

C. He regretted taking a risk on the ocean.

D. He thought he might lose his life on the voyage.

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C. took a long time to search for it

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A. Katherine found it by chance on a crowded beach.

B. It was 11 years before they came across it at sea.

C. Perhaps there was water in it when Katherine found it.

D. Peter couldn’t believe more that it was not damaged.

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B. Peter spent eleven days in the Atlantic

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How to describe the rising philosophy of the day ? I’d say it is data-ism . We now have the ability to gather huge amounts of data . This ability seems to carry with it certain cultural assumptions—that everything that can be measured should be measured ; that data is a transparent and reliable lens that allows us to filter out emotionalism and ideology ; that data will help us do remarkable things—like foretell the future . At the outset let me celebrate two things data does really well .

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After the 2006 election , Sean Trende constructed a graph comparing the incumbent（在任的）campaign spending advantages with their eventual victory . There was barely any relationship between more spending and a bigger victory .

Likewise , many teachers have an intuitive sense that different students have different learning styles : some are verbal and some are visual , some focus on details and some on whole . Teachers imagine they will improve outcomes if they tailor their presentations to each student . But there’s no evidence to support this either .

Second , data can clarify patterns of behavior we haven’t yet noticed . For example , I’ve always assumed people who frequently use words like “ I , ” “ me , ” and “ mine ” are probably more self-centered than people who don’t . But as James Pennebaker of the University of Texas notes in his book , The Secret Life of Pronouns , when people are feeling confident , they are focused on the task at hand , not on themselves . High-status , confident people use fewer “ I ” words , not more .

In sum , the data revolution is giving us wonderful ways to understand the present and the past . Will it transform our ability to predict and make decisions about the future ? We’ll see .

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A. Use data analysis to predict the election result .

B. Win the election if they can raise enough funds .

C. Manipulate public opinion with favorable data .

D. Increase the chances of winning by foul means .

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B. They will be able to try different approaches .

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C. Frequent use of pronouns and future tense by young people .

D. A pattern in confident people’s use of pronouns .

4.Why is the author skeptical of the data revolution ?

A. Data may not be easily accessible .

B. Errors may occur with large data samples .

C. Data cannot always do what we imagine it can .

D. Some data may turn out to be outdated .

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The sport of cycling consists of races that are held mostly on roads or tracks. 2. .The first recorded race in the United States was held in 1878 in Boston, Massachusetts. The most famous bicycle race, the Tour de France, began in 1903. Cycling is also a part of the Summer Olympic Games.

Sport cycling includes road races for men, women and children. Some races cover short distances of 2.5 to 3 miles.__ 3. .A stage race consists of a series of races held over several days or even weeks.

Time trials (計(jì)時(shí)賽) are a type of competition in which cyclists do not race directly against each other. Instead, individual cyclists or teams are timed as they ride separately over a certain distance._ 4._ .Most stage races include time trials.

Several types of bicycle races are held on an oval (橢圓形的) track. The track may be either indoors or outdoors. In the high-speed races, cyclists compete against each other over a short distance. The pursuit (追逐賽) is an event in which cyclists start on opposite sides of the track and try to catch each other. 5. .The motorcycle cuts through the wind, which normally slows a bicycle down. As a result, cyclists can go much faster than they can in other races.

A. It takes three weeks to complete.

B. Others cover hundreds of miles.

C. The cyclist or team with the faster time wins.

D. The world’s best riders compete in it.

E. In a motor-paced race, each cyclist rides behind a motorcycle or motorbike.

F. Others use bicycles for transportation because bicycles do not pollute the air.

G. Sport cycling began in 1868 with a race near Paris, France.

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First，you ought to know that I’m “only” fourteen．My mother points this out often．I can make my own decisions when I’m old enough to vote，she says．Second，I should tell you that she’s right — I’m not always responsible．I sometimes take the prize for grade-A dork（呆子）．Take last weekend for instance．I was staying at Dad’s，and I decided it was time I learned to drive．It was Sunday morning，7 A．M．，and I hadn’t slept well．I’d been up thinking about an argument，which I’ll tell you about in a minute．Well，nobody was up yet in the neighborhood，so I thought it couldn’t hurt to back the car out of the garage and drive around the block．But Dad has a clutch（離合器）car．The “R” on the shift handle was up on the left side，right next to first gear（檔位）．I guess you can guess the rest．

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1.The writer feels guilty because she ________．

A．made her dad worry

B．ruined the car

C．broke the law

D．didn’t tell her mom about the car incident

2.The main conflict between the writer and her mother is about whether she ________．

A．can make her own decisions

B．should live with her mom or her dad

C．should be allowed to drive

D．should pay for things she loses or breaks

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A．too attached to her dad

B．too emotional

C．too shy

D．irresponsible

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A．doesn’t want to grow old

B．thinks fourteen is old enough for some things

C．wishes she were older

D．thinks fourteen is an embarrassing age

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