第1题
A.youth
B.adolescence
C.childhood
D.infancy
第2题
"... generation gap is narrowing. "means ______.
A.the adolescents now become timid
B.parents come to get along with their children
C.the vast majority of teenagers share most of their parents' values and ideas
D.parents and teenager don' t like to quarrel
第3题
A. Parents are worried about the influence from television on their children
B. Television has much influence on children
C. Both parents and their children like watching educational television
D. Some critics think that television is no good for children
第4题
Most children want to be like their parents.Their lifelong__1__start to form. at the earliest ages, often by mimicking(模仿)__2__members of the family.If they see you reading daily__3__for function or for pleasure—they will be more __4__to become avid readers themswlves .If children see parents visiting libraries,__5__and receiving books as gifts,and borrowing and loaning books to friends,they will know their parents place a hight valre__6__reading.To create a healthy reading__7__at home,you dan start with a good suopply of reading materials-__8__,magazines and books.It doesn’t matter if__9__owned or borrowed,new or used. __10__important is that reading materials are a natural part of you home and everyday life.
1.A.behaviour
B.habits
C.experience
D.likes
2.A.older
B.oldest
C.aged
D.grown-up
3.A.either
B.neither
C.both
D.maybe
4.A.possibly
B.surely
C.certainly
D.likely
5.A.buying
B.reading
C.giving
D.sending
6.A.to
B.on
C.in
D.with
7.A.environment
B.situation
C.condition
D.place
8.A.pictures
B.software
C.discs
D.newspapers
9.A.this is
B.they are
C.it is
D.the books are
10.A.What’s
B.It is
C.You find it
D.The children are
第5题
Parents are concerned about the lack of quality in television programs for children. The degree of violence in many of these shows also worries them. Studies indicate that, when children are exposed to violence, they may become aggressive or insecure.
Parents are also concerned about the commercials (商业广告) that their children see on television. Many parents would like to see fewer commercials during programs for children. And some parents feel that these shows should not have any commercials at all because young minds are not mature enough to deal with the claims made by advertisers.
Educational television has no commercials and has programs for children that many parents approve of. The most famous of these is Sesame Street, which tries to give preschool children a head start in learning the alphabet (字母) and numbers. It also tries to teach children useful things about the world in which they live.
Even though most parents and educators give Sesame Street and shows like it high marks for quality, some critics argue that all television, whether educational or not, is harmful to children. These critics feel that the habit of watching hours of television every day turns children into bored and passive (被动的) consumers of their world rather than encouraging them to become active explorers of it
1). Which of the following statements is not based on the passage?
A. Parents are worried about the influence from television on their children.
B. Television has much influence on children.
C. Both parents and their children like watching educational television.
D. Some critics think that television is no good for children.
2). In what ways do children suffer from television?
A. They become the victims of social violence.
B. They spend hours watching television instead of doing school work.
C. The programs make the children lose interest in the world.
D. The programs make the children spend too much of their parents’ money.
3). Parents would not like their children to see commercials because ______
A. they think that their children are not old enough to handle advertising
B. commercials teach children alphabet and numbers
C. commercials help to sell products
D. they don’t like commercials
4). Educational television is widely appreciated because _____
A. it does have the same commercials as others
B. it offers programs for both children and their parents
C. many parents like the programs it offers for their children
D. children can learn some school subjects before they go to school
5). Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage?
A. Watching Too Much Television Is Harmful to Young Minds.
B. Television Is More Harmful than Educational.
C. Television’s Influence on Children.
D. More Education Television.
第6题
Questions are based on the following passage.
Young people tend to be critical of their parents at times and blame them for most ofthe misunderstandings between them. I think it is true that parents often underestimate theirteenage children and also(36)how they themselves felt when young.
For example, young people like doing things on spur of the moment: it is one of theirways of showing that they can accept a(37). Older people worry more(38); most ofthem plan things ahead, at least in the back of their minds, and do not like their plans to beupset by something(39).
So my advice to you is this: when you want to borrow the family car or get your mother tomend something for you, you will have better success ifyou can possibly ask in advance.
Young people also make it harder for their parents to trust them because they liketo(40)them. They say things like "Everybody we know drives at ninety miles anhour", or "We"ve all decided we won"t study for our final examinations —— it"s(41)"Young people often irritate their parents with their choices in clothes and hairstyles,in entertainers and music. This is not their main(42). They feel cut off from the adultworld, into which they have not yet been accepted. So they(43)a culture and society oftheir own. Then, if it tums out that their music or entertainers or vocabulary or clothes orhairstyles irritate their parents, this gives them(44)enjoyment. They feel they are(45),at least in a small way, and that they are leaders in style. and taste.
A.create
B.worse
C.additional
D.superior
E. challenge
F. recall
G. importantly
H. unexpected
I . shock
J . easily
K. benefit
L . motive
M. forget
N. helpful
O. Useless
第(36)题应填__________
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第7题
ds of young people. This influence,known as peer pressure,is quite common among children. Why are children so easily affected by what their peers do,think,or say? Most of us,children included,feel a strong need to be liked by others. We seek acceptance and friendship. In order to gain them,we act like our friends,and listen to their advice,whether or not it is helpful. Some of us even begin to think like our friends,sometimes at the expense of our own beliefs and values. An example that comes to mind is the young person who gets involved with drugs because his peer group is experimenting with them. Parents may try to exert pressure to keep him away from drugs,but frequently peer pressure is too great. This conflict between being your own person and,at the same time,responding to the pressures of a group remains a problem for young people.
1、The passage mainly talks about ().
A、friendship
B、peer pressure
C、conflicts between young people and their parents
D、problems for young people
2、In the third sentence of the second paragraph,“them”refers to().
A、children
B、strong needs to be liked by others
C、acceptance and friendship
D、our friends’ advice
3、“being your own person”in the last sentence most probably means ().
A、acting according to your own beliefs and values
B、trying not to tell any lie
C、keeping yourself away from drugs
D、having enough self-confidence
4、The second paragraph focuses on ().
A、what peer pressure is
B、how young people start to take drugs
C、what parents should do for their children
D、why young people are easily influenced by their peers
5、Who can influence us on the actions, thoughts?()
A、teacher
B、father
C、mother
D、friends and contemporaries
第8题
Parents are concerned about these figures. They are also concerned about the lack of quality in television programs for children. The degree of violence in many of these shows also worries them. Even if it is unreal--a cartoon cat beating up a cartoon mouse with a baseball bat--this violence may have a negative effect on the young minds exposed to it. Studies indicate that, when children are exposed to violence, they may become aggressive or insecure.
Parents are also concerned about the commercials that their children see on television. Many parents would like to see fewer commercials during programs for children. And some parents feel that these shows should not have any commercials at all because young minds are not mature enough to deal with the claims made by advertisers.
Educational television has no commercials and has programs for children that many parents approve of. The most famous of these is "Sesame Street", which tries to give preschool children a head start in learning the alphabet and numbers. It also tries to teach children useful things about the world in which they live.
Even though most parents and educators give "Sesame Street" and shows like it high marks for quality, some critics argue that all television, whether educational or not, is harmful to children. These critics feel that the habit of watching hours of television every day turns children into bored and passive consumers of their world rather than encouraging them to become active explorers of it.
We still do not know enough about the effects of watching television to be able to say whether or not it is good for children. Until we do, perhaps it would be wise to put a warning on television sets such as the one on cigarette packages: "Caution: Watching Too Much Television May Be Harmful to Your Child's Developing Mind."
We can infer from the text that ______.
A.children may imitate what they have seen on television
B.a cartoon program is not harmful if it is not real
C.parents are strongly opposed to children watching TV
D.the quality of children's programs is not the parents' main concern
第9题
Most people have plenty of insecurities, and this seems like a situation that will bring them out. If parents, teachers or peers mocked your foibles as a child, you fear a repeat. If you were under pressure to be perfect, you are terrified of failing in the most public of ways.
While extroverts will feel less fear before the ordeal, it does not mean they will necessarily do it better. Some very shy people manage to shine. In fact, personality is not the best predictor of who does it well. Regardless of what you are like in real life, the key seems to be to act yourself.
Actual acting, as in performing the scripted lines of a character other than yourself, does not do the job. While politicians may limit damage by having carefully rehearsed, written screeds to speak from, there is always a hidden awareness among the audience that the words might not be true.
Although, as Earl Spencer proved at his sister Princess Diana's funeral, it is possible both to prepare every word and to act naturally, as script. rarely works and it is used as a crutch by most people. But, being yourself doesn't work either. If you spoke as if you were in your own kitchen, it would be too authentic, too unaware of the need to communicate with an audience.
I remember going to see British psychiatrist RD Laing speak in public. He behaved like a seriously odd person, talking off the top of his head. Although he was talking about madness and he wrote on mental illness, he seemed to be exhibiting rather than explaining it.
The best psychological place from which to speak is an unselfconscious self-consciousness, providing the illusion of being natural. Studies suggest that this state of "flow", as psychologists call it, is very satisfying. Whether in normal life or making speeches, the key is to remind yourself that, contrary to what your teachers or parents may have implied, your best is good enough. In the zone, a strange place of authentic falsehood and shallow depth, play is possible.
For most people the biggest fear for public speaking is______.
A.looking foolish
B.failing in words
C.not attracting attention
D.appearing pressurized
第10题
The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptiveand newly singlemom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual "Jennifer Aniston is pregnant" news. Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.
In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing? It doesn't seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the childless. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn't have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.
Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock. According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their "own" (read; with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.
It's hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous; most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut. But it's interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren't in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting " the Rachel" might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.
Jennifer Senior suggests in her article that raising a child can bring______.
A.temporary delight.
B.enjoyment in progress.
C.happiness in retrospect.
D.lasting reward.