Generations of Americans have been brought up to believe that a good breakfast is necessary for their life. Eating breakfast at the start of the day, we have all been told and told again, is as necessary as putting gas in the family car before starting a trip.
But for many people the thought of food as the first thing in the morning is by no means a pleasure. So despite（尽管）all the efforts, they still take no breakfast. Between 1977 and 1983, the latest year for which figures are available （可得到的）, the number of people who didn't have breakfast increased by 33 percent-from 8.8 million to 11.7 million--according to the Chicago-based Market Research Corporation of America.
For those who feel pain or guilty（内疚的）about not eating breakfast, however, there is some good news. Several studies in the last few years show that, for adults especially, there may be nothing wrong without having breakfast. “Going without breakfast does not affect performance,”said Arnold E. Bender, former professor of nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College in London, “nor does giving people breakfast improve performance.”
Scientific evidence linking breakfast to better health or better performance is surprisingly not proper, and most of the recent work relates to children, not adults. “The literature,” says one researcher, Dr．Ernesto Pollitt at the University of Texas, “is poor”.
(1)The latest year for which figures could be obtained is ________ .
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(2)For those who do not take breakfast, the good news is that ________ .
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A．several studies have been done in the past few years
B．the omission of breakfast does no harm to one' s health
C．adults have especially made studies in this field
D．eating little in the morning is good for health
(3)“…nor does giving people breakfast improve performance” means ________ .
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A．anyone without breakfast does improve his performance
B．not giving people breakfast improve performance
C．having breakfast does not improve performance, either
D．people having breakfast do improve their performance, too
(4)The word“literature”in the last sentence refers to ________ .
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A．stories, poems, plays, etc.
B．written works on a particular subject
C．any printed material
D．the modem literature of America
(5)What is implied but not stated by the author is that ________ .
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A．breakfast does not affect performance
B．Dr．Pollitt is engaged in research work at an institution of higher learning
C．not eating breakfast might affect the health of children
D．Professor Bender once taught college course in nutrition in London
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Tim Berners-Lee is the man who wrote the software program that led to the foundation of the World Wide Web. Britain played an important part in developing the first generation of computers. The parents of Tim Berners-Lee both worked on one of the earliest commercial(商业)computers and talked about their work at home. As a child he would build models of computers from packaging material. After graduating from Oxford University he went on to the real thing. In the 1980's scientists were already communicating using a primitive version of e-mail. While working at a lab in Switzerland Tim Berners-Lee wrote a program, which let him store these messages. This gave him another idea that he was going to write a program that would let academics(学术界人士)from across the world share information on a single site. In 1990 he wrote the HTTP and HTML programs, which formed the basis of the World Wide Web.
The next year his programs were placed on to the Internet. Everyone was welcome to use them and improve them if they could. Programs used his codas to work with different operating systems. New things like web browsers and search engines were developed. Between 1991 and 1994 the number of web pages rose from 10 to 100,000.
In 1994 Tim Berners-Lee formed the newly World Wide Web consortium(协会), or W3C. More than 200 leading companies and labs are represented by W3C. Together they make sure that everyone can participate equally on the Web.“The Web can help people to understand the way that others live and work. It helps us understand the humanity of people”he says.
(1)From the passage we can infer that Tim Berners-Lee is most probably ________.
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A．British B．American
C．Swiss D．French
(2)The main idea of the passage is ________.
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A．when the internet came into being
B．how Tim Burners-Lee formed W3C
C．why computers develop so rapidly
D．how the World Wide Web started
(3)Scientists began to communicate using e-mail ________.
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A．in 1980 B．after the 1980's
C．before 1990 D．in the 1960's
(4)He made up his mind to write a program that would let people from across the world share information on a single site when ________.
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A．he was a child
B．he studied on Oxford University
C．he formed W3C
D．he worked at a lab in Switzerland
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The generation _____ makes it difficult for parents to understand their children's opinions.
A. division B. gap C. separation D. interval
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When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard. I remember him as someone who was a lot nicer than most of the adults in our community.
When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving lives, he was planting trees. His house sat on ten acres, and his life’s goal was to make it a forest.
The good doctor had some interesting theories concerning plant care and growth. He never watered his new trees, which flew in the face of conventional wisdom. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled them so that each successive tree generation would grow weaker and weaker. So you have to make things rough for them and weed out(淘汰) the weaker trees early on. He talked about how watering trees made for shallow roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in search of moisture. I took him to mean that deep roots were to be treasured.
So he never watered his trees. He planted an oak and, instead of watering it every morning, he beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. Smack! Slap! Pow! I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s attention.
Dr. Gibbs passed away a couple of years after I left home. Every now and again, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I’d watched him plant some twenty-five years ago. They’re extremely tall, big and robust since they have deep roots now. However, the trees in my garden trembled in a cold wind although I had watered them for several years.
It seems that adversity(逆境) and suffering benefit these trees in ways comfort and ease never could. I stood there deep in thought.
Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I stand over them and watch their little bodies, the rising and falling of life within. I often pray for them. Mostly I pray that their lives will be easy. But I think that it’s time to change my prayer(祷词) because now I know my children are going to encounter hardship.
According to Dr. Gibbs’ theories, trees will become weaker if they _________.
A. are lack of care B. are watered C. are weeded out D. are beaten
According to Para.3 and Para.4, we can infer that Dr. Gibbs’ motto(座右铭) may be .
A. “Seeing is believing” B. “Put everything in proper use”
C. “Practice makes perfect” D. “No pain, no gain”
The underlined word robust in Para.5 most probably means _________.
A. strong B. strange C. deep D. old
Which of the following may be the author’s best prayer for his two sons now?
A. I wish them strong wings, with which they can fly higher and touch the sky.
B. I wish them nice fortune so that they can meet people like Dr. Gibbs in the future.
C. I wish them deep roots into the earth since the rains fall and the winds blow often.
D. I wish them great shades under the tree since the sunlight is always sharp and bitter.
Which of the following can be the best title of this passage?
A Nice Doctor B. The Deep Roots C. Adversity and Suffering D. My Childhood Memory
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All their hopes the next generation now.
A.concentrate on B.attract on
C.fascinate on D.centre on
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In the old days, children were familiar with birth and death as part of life. Now this is perhaps the first generation of American youngsters who have never been close by during of the birth a baby and have never experienced the death of a family member.
Nowadays when people grow old, we often send them to nursing homes. When they get sick, we send them to a hospital, where children are forbidden to visit patients— even when those patients are their parents. This deprives（剥夺）the dying patient of family members during the last few days of his life and it deprives the children of an experience of death, which is an important learning experience.
Some of my colleagues and I once interviewed and followed about 500 in order to find out what they could teach us and how we could be of more benefit, not just to them but to the members of their families as well. We were most impressed by the fact that even those patients who were not told of their serious illness were quite aware of its potential outcome.
It is important for family members, and doctors and nurses to understand these patients’ communication in order to truly understand their needs, fears and fantasies. Most of our patients welcomed another human being with whom they could talk openly, honestly, and frankly about their trouble. Many of them shared with us their reat need to be informed, to be kept up-to-date on their medical condition and to be told when the end was near. We found out that patients who had been dealt with openly and frankly were better able to deal with the coming of death and finally to reach a true stage of acceptance before death.
82.The elders of today's Americans________ .
A. are often absent when a family member is born or dying
B. usually see the birth or death of a family member
C. are unfamiliar with birth and death
D. have often experienced the fear of death as part of life
83.Children in America are deprived of the chance to________.
A. visit a patient at hospital B. visit their family members
C. look after the patients D. learn how to face death
84.The need of a dying patient for people to accompany him shows________.
A. his wish for communication with other people
B. his fear of death
C. his unwillingness to die
D. he feels very upset about his condition
85.It may be concluded from the passage that________.
A. dying patients should be truthfully informed of their condition
B. dying patients are afraid of being told of the coming of death
C. most patients are unable to accept death until it can’t be avoided
D. dying patients are not likely to be informed about their condition
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