It was so much fun that we were hooked on extreme sports. However, not everyone thinks that introducing children to extreme sports is a good idea.

Writer Jon Lackman considers whether sports like snowboarding, climbing and skateboarding could be dangerous to the growing bodies of young children. Lackman also looks for advice from medical professions.”

“Kids aren’t mentally ready for these activities,” says a doctor, Vani Sabesan. “They cannot realize the risks, and their parents can’t always be trusted to stop them.”

Sabesan is particularly worried about the influence of extreme sports on TV and the Internet on children. “What we’re seeing is that a lot of kids think they can do what the professional athletes can do.”

If someone, who was encouraged to go surfing at the age of five, was presented with a surfboard when he/she was seven, I think these worries are a little overstated(夸大的), if not misplaced.

Extreme sports can be dangerous, but there’s as much chance of falling off your bike or your roller skates(四轮滑冰鞋鞋) as off a skateboard or surfboard.

My own experience of extreme sports leads me to think that I’ll allow my own kids to try them in the same way my parents allowed me.

In sports such as surfing and snowboarding, there’s a sense of adventure and courage. It is important to tell young children about it.

Did I fall off my surfboard? All the time. Did I get back on? Every time.

【1】What is the purpose of the first paragraph?

A. To introduce the topic of the text.

B. To tell us what are extreme sports.

C. To encourage people to play sports.

D. To tell us what kind of sports the author liked.

【2】Which of the following can replace the underlined part “hooked on” in Paragraph 2?

A. attracted by

B. shocked at

C. disappointed at

D. worried about

【3】What do Vani sabesan’s words mean?

A. Kids who are mentally ill should not play extreme sports.

B. Parents are responsible for kids’ safety in extreme sports.

C. Kids are too young to realize the danger of extreme sports.

D. Kids should be encouraged to do what professional athletes do.

【4】What’s the authors’ attitude to kids playing extreme sports?

A. He/She is against it.

B. He/She supports it.

C. He/She is doubtful about it.

D. He/She is unconcerned about it.

"A human being may be faster, but you’d have to say ‘Thank you’," said Professor Tomomasa Sato from the University of Tokyo. "That’s the best part about a robot. You don’t have to feel bad about asking it to do things."

Sato believes Japan, a rapidly aging society where more than a fifth of the population is 65 or older, will lead the world in designing robots to care for the elderly, sick and bedridden(长期卧床的).

Already, monitoring technologies, such as sensors that automatically turn on lights when people enter a room, are becoming widespread in Japan.

The walking, child-size Asimo from Honda Motor Co. greets people at show-rooms. NEC Corp. has developed a smaller robot-on-wheels companion called Papero. A seal robot available since 2004 can entertain the elderly and others in need of fuzzy companionship.

Sato says his experimental room is raising awareness about privacy questions that may arise when electronic devices(设备)monitor a person’s movements down to the smallest detail.

On the bright side, the tea-pouring humanoid has been programmed to do the dishes.

【1】What is the best title of this passage?

A. "Thank You" Will Never Be Needed in Japan

B. Monitoring Technologies Are Widespread in Japan

C. Robot Is Designed to Care for the Elderly

D. Robot Technologies Are Widespread in Daily Life in Japan

【2】The underlined word "embedded" in Paragraph 1 probably means .

A. fixed

B. established

C. settled

D. rooted

【3】Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. A robot can imitate people to complete complicated tasks.

B. A robot has been programmed to do the dishes.

C. All the problems in the aging society can be solved by robots.

D. The number of aging people is increasing rapidly in Japan.

【4】We can infer from the passage that .

A. people are afraid of being monitored by robots

B. the technology of robots has been highlighted in Japan

C. robots can completely take the place of human beings

D. people’s privacy should be strictly protected

【1】他过去对这项工作非常认真。

He________this work very________in the past.

【2】他是在雨停的时候出去的。

________ ________ ________it stopped raining________he went out.

【3】由于他这次历史性的飞行，他成为了一个国际英雄和传奇人物。

________ ________ ________ ________his historic flight he became an international hero and legend.

【4】我们最终一定会成功。

We________ ________ ________succeed in the end.

【5】我失业时我父亲帮我摆脱困难。

My father ________ ________ ________ when I lost my job.

【6】直到我儿子八岁时我才发现他有运动天赋。

I didn't find my son __________ _________ ________ ________ __________ until he was eight.

Ed Stafford

Ed Stafford from the UK is the first person to walk along the Amazon River from the mountains of Peru to the mouth of the river in Brazil. There are many dangerous animals in the rainforest, but he was only bitten by ants and mosquitoes. On his trip, Ed had to find fruit and nuts or catch fish each morning. He used a radio to ask the people of the rainforest for food and help. Many people came to meet him and guide him through the rainforest. While he walked, Ed wrote a blog to tell the world about climate change and destruction (破坏) of the rainforest.

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner

Gerinde Kaltenbrunner from Austria is one of the world’s greatest climbers and has climbed all the world’s mountains over 8,000 metres. It’s very difficult to climb in the cold weather and storms, but Gerlinde loves it. Now she spends her time climbing and helping a charity for poor children in Nepal.

Meagan Mcgrath

Some adventurers are always looking for a new challenge. Meagan Mcgrath from Canada has climbed mountains, ridden a bike across Canada and run races in the desert to raise money for the disabled.

Erik Weihenmayer

Erik Weihenmayer from the United States has climbed mountains and ridden a bike through deserts. Amazingly, Erik is blind and he wants other blind people to have active lives too. He has taken groups of young blind people climbing in Nepal.

【1】What happened on Ed Stafford’s Journey?

A. He received great help from the locals.

B. He was attacked by dangerous animals.

C. He studied fruit and nuts in the rainforest.

D. He stopped people from destroying rainforests.

【2】What can we learn about Gerlinde?

A. She has climbed Mount Everest.

B. She lives by climbing mountains.

C. She has climbed all the high mountains.

D. She devotes her time to serving a charity.

【3】Who has to face more challenges while adventuring?

A. Ed Stafford.

B. Meagan Mcgrath.

C. Erik Weihenmayer.

D. Gerinde Kalitenbruner.

【4】What do the four adventurers have in common?

A. They are strong and brave men.

B. They have great interest in climbing.

C. They do something that benefits society.

D. They are professional mountain climbers.

I thought it was interesting that neither Dante nor his friend viewed the competition as important and neither wanted to dress up. I started to wonder if this was how a child learned what was “important” and what wasn’t.

Interestingly, this boy won two medals and Dante won none.

Parents and teachers often instill (灌输) what they think is important: then children will accept the opinions of the adults. Gradually, they grow up stressing about how they look, how many medals they get, what color the medals are, how good their grades are, what a great “job” they can get in life, what a big house they can live in... etc.

Dante taught me an important lesson today. He taught me what was unimportant. Life goes on long after the medal ceremony whether you win a medal or not.

【1】Why didn’t Dante want to dress up for the competition?

A. He had no proper clothes.

B. He had no time to dress up.

C. His mother didn’t prepare clothes for him.

D. He thought he didn’t need to dress up.

【2】What does Paragraph 5 want to tell us?

A. Children stress about many things in life.

B. Adults may instill wrong ideas into children.

C. Children are always influenced by adults.

D. Adults should set good examples to children.

【3】What lesson did the author learn from her son?

A. Winning medals makes people proud.

B. Not all things are that important in life.

C. Fairness is more important in competitions.

D. Kids have a better understanding of life than adults.

【1】If everyone o________ the rules of the road, safety is much improved.

【2】Their marriage had never been happy and in the end they got a d________.

【3】I never knew you were so good at making speeches. Do you have any other hidden t________?

【4】Our library s________ will be happy to help if you are unable to find the book you want.

【5】The report goes against current t________ on what is best for working parents.

【6】Some ________(资历较浅的) employees might lack the courage to approach the boss.

【7】This meant that students had the ________ (理论上的) right to go to any school they wished.

【8】The scientist's theory has filled in a gap in ________(生物化学).

【9】A more detailed example will be given in the next ________(章).

【10】To help things along we provide our usual ________(框架) of social activities, sharing costs between survivors.

A. bound B. essential

C. fundamental D. sensitive

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Mr. Turner turned over in bed from time to time in last night, for he was so excited that he could not fall sleep. Yesterday morning, he went to a big gardening company, knowing as Green Fingers, for the interview. Mr. Turner, who liked to help his grandfather grew flowers in the garden, looking forward to the job offered by the company. When he got the company, he found there were many people waiting and he had no ideas whether he could get the job. While waiting, he helped the workers there to remove the fallen trees and clear the road. Luckily, he was the only one who finally got the job, so the manager decided to give the job to whomever he believed was helpful.

【1】The businessman________(抛弃)his wife and went away with all their money.

【2】You must be very careful to cut meat with this________(锋利的)knife.

【3】She sat________(思考)on how much had changed since she'd the farm.

【4】One of the firemen went back in and________(拖)my husband out through the flames.

【5】Human brains contain more than 100 million________(细胞)per cubic(立方)centimeter.

【6】One should bring a (n) ________(手电筒) when walking in the mountains at night.

【7】Be careful while swimming and do not get caught in the ________(海草)．

【8】Michelle tries to be ________(整洁的), but it is almost impossible with her two big dogs.

【9】A man in a(n) ________(鲜艳的) grey suit sat on the other side of the bar.

【10】He told us some amusing________(轶事)of the President's childhood.