Little Tom admitted ______ in the examination, giving the teacher his word that he wouldn’t do that again.

A. to cheat B. being cheated

C. having cheated D. to have cheated

--- The weather forecast says it’ll be fine tomorrow.

--- ________, what about going hiking ?

A. If possible B. If necessary

C. If so D. If real

---Students should devote most of their time to studying rather than playing computer games.

---________. No pains, no gains.

A. Extremely B. Actually C. Obviously D. Exactly

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Throughout history man has had to accept the fact that all living things must die. But people now live longer than they_________. Yet, all living things still show the__________of aging, which will eventually___________death.

Aging is not a disease, but as a person passes maturity (成熟期), the cells of the body and the__________they form do not function as well as they____________in childhood and teenage years. The body provides less__________against disease and is more_________to have an accident.

A number of related causes may___________to aging. Some cells of the body have a fairly long life, but they are not____________when they die. As a person ages, ________ of brain cells and muscle cells decreases. ________ body cells die and are replaced by new cells. In an aging person the________ cells may not be as workable or as capable ________ growth as those of a young person.

Another ________ in aging may be changes within the cells________ . Some of the protein(蛋白質) chemicals in cells are known ________ with age and become less elastic (有彈性). This is why the skin of old people wrinkles（起皺紋）and ________ . This is also the reason why old people ________ in height. There may be other more important chemical changes in the cells. Some complex cell chemicals, such as DNA and RNA, store and ________ information that the cells need. Aging may affect this ________ and change the information carrying molecules(分子) so that they do not transmit the information as well.

1.A. would B. be used to C. used to D. used

2.A. function B. effect C. affect D. sign

3.A. lead in B. give in C. run into D. result in

4.A. hands B. feet C. heart D. organs

5.A. do B. has done C. did D. had done

6.A. energy B. protection C. prevention D. power

7.A. likely B. probable C. possible D. alike

8.A. attend B. lead C. add D. devote

9.A. replaced B. rebuilt C. recovered D. rearranged

10.A. a number B. the amount C. the number D. a great deal

11.A. The others B. Others C. Another D. Other

12.A. old B. left C. new D. other

13.A. to B. for C. of D. in

14.A. factor B. effect C. reason D. element

15.A. for themselves B. of themselves C. themselves D. on their own

16.A. change B. to have changed C. to change D. to be changed

17.A. becomes loose B. is become loosely C. became loosely D. is becoming loose

18.A. increase B. shrink C. lengthen D. decrease

19.A. pass away B. pass by C. pass off D. pass on

20.A. improvement B. possess C. approach D. process

Children who are spanked (挨打) have lower IQs worldwide, including in the United States. All parents want smart children. Avoiding spanking and correcting misbehavior in other ways can help that happen.

A new research by Professor Murray Straus found that children in the United States who were spanked had lower IQs four years later than those who weren’t spanked. Straus and Mallie Paschall, a senior research scientist, studied nationally examples of 806 children aged 2 to 4, and 704 aged 5 to 9. Both groups were retested four years later.

The IQs of children IQs aged 2 to 4 who weren’t spanked were 5 points higher four year later than the IQs of those who were spanked. The IQs of children aged 5 to 9 who weren’t spanked were 2.8 points higher four years later than the IQs of children at the same age who were spanked. How often parents spanked made a difference. The more spanking, the slower the development of children’s mental ability. But even small amounts of spanking made a difference.

Straus also found a lower national average IQ in nations in which spanking was more popular. His analysis shows the strongest link between physical punishment and IQ is for those whose parents continue to use physical punishment even when they are teenagers.

Straus also found a lower national average IQ in nations in which spanking was more popular. His analysis shows the strongest link between physical punishment and IQ is for those whose parents continue to use physical punishment even when they are teenagers.

Straus and colleagues in 32 nations used data on physical punishment experienced by 17,404 university students when they were children. According to Straus, there’re two explanations for the relation of physical punishment to lower IQ.

First, physical punishment is extremely stressful and can become a long-lasting stressor for young children, who typically experience punishment three or more times a week. For many it continues for years. The stress of physical punishment often leads to being fearful that terrible things are about to happen and being easily shocked. They’re associated with lower IQ. Second, a higher national level of economic development leads to both fewer parents using physical punishment and a higher national IQ.

The good news is that the use of physical punishment has been decreasing worldwide, which may signal future gains in IQ across the globe. The United Nations has called on all member nations to forbid physical punishment by parents. Nevertheless, there’s evidence that attitude favoring physical punishment and actual use of physical punishment have been declining even in nations which haven’t forbidden physical punishment.

1. From the passage we can know that physical punishment will make______.

A. no scientist

B. a well-behaved child

C. a bad parent-child relationship

D. a child feel nervous continuously

2.It can be concluded from Paragraph 3 and Paragraph 4 that______.

A. long-term spanking will cause children’s mental disorder.

B. low national average IQ limits the mental development of children

C. young children have more chances to suffer from physical punishment.

D. high frequency of spanking results in slow development of children’s intelligence

3. According to Straus’s research, children’s being spanked is probably related to parents’______.

A. low income

B. little education

C. long-lasting pressure

D. passive personalities

4. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that______.

A. the improvement of global average IQ is out of the question

B. physical punishment becomes less popular in the world

C. most countries have realized the negative consequence of punishing in its member nations.

D. the UN has succeeded in banning physical punishment in its member nations

Just as the world’s most respected scientific bodies have confirmed that the world is getting hotter, they have also stated that there is strong evidence that humans are driving the warming. Countless recent reports from the world’s leading scientific bodies have said the same thing. For example, a 2010 summary of climate science by the Royal Society stated that: “There is strong evidence that the warming of the Earth over the last half-century has been caused largely by human activity.”

The idea that humans could change the planet’s climate may be counter-intuitive (與直覺不符的), but the basic science is well understood. Each year, human activity causes billions of tons of greenhouse gases to be released (釋放) into the atmosphere. As scientists have known for years, these gases hold heat that would otherwise escape to space, wrapping the planet in an invisible blanket.

Of course, the planet’s climate has always been changing thanks to “natural” factors such as changes in solar or volcanic activity, or cycles relating the Earth’s going around the sun. According to the scientific literature, however, the warming recorded to date matches the pattern of warming we would expect from a build-up of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere – not the warming we would expect from other possible causes.

Even if scientists did discover another reasonable explanation for the warming observed so far, that would beg a difficult question. As Robert Henson puts it in The Rough Guide to Climate Change: “If some newly discovered factor can account for the climate change, then why can’t carbon dioxide and the other greenhouse gases?

The only way to prove with 100% certainty that humans are responsible for global warming would be to run an experiment with two identical Earths – one with human influence and one without. That obviously isn’t possible, and so most scientists are careful not to state human influence as an absolute certainty．

1.In most scientists’ opinion, the global warming is mainly caused by ____ ．

A. solar activity

B. volcanic activity

C. the Earth’s going around the sun

D. human activity

2.The text is developed by ____ ．

A. giving typical examples

B. following the order of space

C. analyzing a theory and arguing it

D. comparing and finding differences

3.The underline word “identical” means ____ ．

A. totally different B. exactly the same

C. extremely important D. relatively independent

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Simon：Linda, do you know when the visitors from China are coming?

Linda: We offer them three __1.__ (choose): the end of March, the middle of April and the beginning of May, and they chose the earliest __2.__， which is good actually with exams _3.__ (come) up in May.

Simon：Right. And how many are coming? Did you say about 8?

Linda：Yes, they said 8 at first, but 4._ (change) to 6 this morning.

Simon: Good, we have 5 weeks to prepare. Here are my suggestions. On the first day, a welcome party, then they can visit __5.__ schools in the district on the second and third days.

Linda: We've got to remember this group wants to look at how the Internet is being __6.__(use) in the classroom. That's _7.__ they are coming for.

Simon：Exactly, __8._ I want to ask Mr. Todd to give them a talk on this on the afternoon of the third day.

Linda：That will fit in very __9._(nice).

Simon：And on the last day, they would do some sightseeing. We could take them on the tour of London, but many of them may have been there already, and Scotland will be too far away.

Linda: Why not take them for a walk along the coast? It should be 10. (interest).

Simon：Good idea! Linda. I'm sure they'll like it.

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It was dinner time. Mr and Mrs Smith were about to begin their dinner then they find that their son, Mike, wasn’t there. So Mrs Smith asked her husband to go and find him. Mr Smith went to Mike’s room and found Mike laying on the floor, read a book. He was laughing! Mr Smith told him to go for dinner, and he left quite unwilling. Wondering that what attracted his son so much, Mr Smith took a look at the book. Now Mrs Smith and Mike were at the table，waiting Mr Smith. She got quite patient and sent her son for his father. Mike went back to his room. To his great surprised, he saw his father sitting on the floor, reading the same storybook of hers on the floor!

People in the United States honor their parents with two special days：Mother’s Day, on the second Sunday in May, and Father’s Day, on the third Sunday in June. These days are set aside to show love and respect for parents. They raise their children and educate them to be responsible (有責任感的) citizens. They give love and care. These two days make us think about the changing roles of mothers and fathers. More mothers now work outside the home. More fathers must help with child care.

These two special days are celebrated in many different ways. On Mother’s Day people wear carnations. A red one symbolizes a living mother. A white one shows that the mother is dead. Many people attend religious services to honor parents. It is also a day when people whose parents are dead visit the cemetery (墓地).On these days families get together at home, as well as in restaurants. They often have outdoor barbecues for Father’s Day. These are days of fun and good feelings and memories.

Another tradition is to give cards and gifts. Children make them in school. Many people make their own presents. These are valued more than the ones bought in stores. It is not the value of the gift that is important, but it is “the thought that counts”. Greeting card stores, florists, candy makers, bakeries, telephone companies, and other stores do a lot of business during these holidays.

1.Which of the following is NOT a reason for children to show love and respect for parents?

A. Parents bring up children.

B. Parents give love and care to children.

C. Parents educate children to be good persons.

D. Parents pass away before children grow up.

2.What do you think “florists” do?

A. They sell flowers.

B. They make and sell bread.

C. They offer enough room for having family parties.

D. They sell special gifts for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.

3.What do you know from the passage?

A. Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are both in May.

B. Fewer women worked outside the home in the past.

C. Not all the children respect their parents

D. Fathers are not as important as mothers at home.

4.On Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, ________.

A. people usually have family parties

B. everyone goes to visit the cemetery

C. children always go to parents’ home

D. hand-made cards are the most valuable gifts

Football T-shirts are more commonly connected with boys than girls. This can often cause a problem when you want to find a cool shirt for a girl. That is not to say that there are no cool shirts out there for girls to wear. The problem is that they are often harder to find than the ones for boys.

You can get custom (訂制的) shirt printed for girls from a number of custom print stores. Of course you have to make sure that they are legally allowed to use the logos (商標) and colours of the team you want to support.

You can also go through official channels to get the shirt you want. The official channels will generally be the large sportswear stores or the official stores of the teams. These stores will be able to use the colours of the teams and even put the name of the person who the shirt is for on it.

If you do not feel like you have to try the T-shirts on, then an online store may be your best choice. The reason for this is that you can visit various stores and find the best ones.

If you want to see what the T-shirt looks like in real life, then going to a store is the best choice. Large sportswear stores often have football shirts. These are the best places to go if you do not live close to an official store. And these stores usually have lower prices than the official stores.

1.According to the text, football T-shirts ________.

A. are all made by boys

B. are seldom loved by girls

C. are only designed for boys

D. are difficult to find for girls

2.According to the text, custom print stores ________.

A. could use any colours and logos as they like

B. should be operated by the football teams

C. could print anything that official stores sell

D. should legally use your favourite logos

3.If you don’t need to try the T-shirts on, you can visit ________.

A. official stores

B. online stores

C. large sportswear stores

D. custom print stores

4. What kind of readers is this passage for?

A. Football players.

B. Clothes store owners.

C. Female football fans.

D. Physical education teacher