阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Nowadays lots of students ask their parents for money to buy things they like. For me, to ask for money is like entering a(n) _36__. I learned this from  37  .

       Last year my mother told me that the _ 38   way I would get a driver’s license before I turned eighteen depended on _ 39   I paid for the classes myself. “What?” I asked in _ 40   . But I knew _ 41   that my reasoning would have no_ 42   on the situation,  43__ by the look on my mother’s face.

      Three weeks later, I started working _ 44  a hostess at a factory, twice a week. A month later I paid $ 270 for driving lessons, and then over $ 20 to _ 45   my permit test. My pockets were empty _ 46   as soon as they were filled.

       My mother thought that I’d be _ 47   to do things without her help. The funny thing was that even though I was totally _ 48   in the beginning, I truly appreciated it, _ 49   if I had just been handed bills from her.

       When I realized that my mother wasn’t going to _ 50   something like a driver’s license, at first, it seemed as if she had __51__ an immovable block before me and I would never _ 52   it. But my mother was __53 _. She knew that I wanted a luxury（奢侈品）but _ 54   me to get it. That is as _ 55   as this ---- if I really want it, I’ll find a way to get it myself.

A. office                    B. prison                      C. battlefield                D. bank

A. facts                     B. experience                C. lessons                     D. quarrels

A. best                      B. proper                      C. same                        D. only

A. whether               B. that                          C. how                         D. when

A. trouble                  B. disbelief                   C. comfort                    D. horror

A. hurriedly            B. jokingly                   C. instantly                   D. surprisingly

A. effect                 B. sense                        C. effort                       D. result

A. judged          B. judging            C. to judge           D. being judged

A. with                   B. for                           C. like                          D. as

A. pass                    B. take                         C. hold                         D. gain

A. almost                 B. even                        C. still                         D. yet

A. ready                   B. likely                       C. unhappy                  D. unable

A. terrified               B. annoyed                   C. tired                        D. disturbed

A. more than           B. rather than                C. no more                   D. no longer

A. pay                         B. raise                        C. buy                          D. support

A. laid                         B. lay                           C. lied                          D. lain

A. get about             B. get by                     C. get through               D. get over

A. wise                    B. mistaken                  C. strict                        D. kind

A. dared                   B. hoped                      C. encouraged               D. expected

A. well                    B. far                           C. soon                        D. simple

Ask someone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recycling. Recycling in the home is very important of course. However, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need. We are dealing with the results of that over-consumption in the greenest way possible, but it would be far better if we did not need to bring so much material home in the first place.

The total amount of packaging increased by 12% between 1999 and 2005. It now makes up a third of a typical household’s waste in the UK. In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with plastic and cardboard.

Too much packaging is doing serious damage to the environment. The UK, for example, is running out of it for carrying this unnecessary waste. If such packaging is burnt, it gives off greenhouse gases which go on to cause the greenhouse effect. Recycling helps, but the process itself uses energy. The solution is not to produce such items in the first place. Food waste is a serious problem, too. Too many supermarkets encourage customers to buy more than they need. However, a few of them are coming round to the idea that this cannot continue, encouraging customers to reuse their plastic bags, for example.

But this is not just about supermarkets. It is about all of us. We have learned to associate packaging with quality. We have learned to think that something unpackaged is of poor quality. This is especially true of food. But is also applies to a wide range of consumer products, which often have far more packaging than necessary.

There are signs of hope. As more of us recycle, we are beginning to realize just how much unnecessary materials are collecting. We need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture, but we have a mountain to climb.

What does the underlined phrase “over-consumption” refer to?

A. Using too much packaging.

B. Recycling too many wastes.

C. Making more products than necessary.

D. Having more material than is needed.

The author uses figures in Paragraph 2 to show _______.

A. the tendency of cutting household waste

B. the increase of packaging recycling

C. the rapid growth of super markets

D. the fact of packaging overuse

According to the text, recycling ______.

A. helps control the greenhouse effect

B. means burning packaging for energy

C. is the solution to gas shortage

D. leads to a waste of land

What can be inferred from Paragraph 4?

A. Unpackaged products are of bad quality.

B. Supermarkets care more about packaging.

C. It is improper to judge quality by packaging.

D. Other products are better packaged than food.

What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. Fighting wastefulness is difficult.

B. Needless material is mostly recycled.

C. People like collecting recyclable waste.

D. The author is proud of their consumer culture.

According to a new study, preschool boys perform better on tests that measure learning and other important skills when they are in classes that have more girls than boys. This doesn’t seem to apply to girls, though. For preschool girls, the presence or absence of boys does not affect learning.

“The study raises questions about having all-boy or all-girl classes for preschool”, says psychologist Arlen Moller, who led the study. She added, “Previous researches have shown that high-school girls may study better in all-g irl schools. In middle school, however, the effects of same-sex schooling are unclear, and even less is known for very young kids.” To find out, researchers studied 70 preschool classes with a total of 806 children who were between 3.5 and 6 years old. For each class, teachers recorded the student’s progress over a 6.5-month school year.

Their data included scores of motor skills, social skills and thinking skills. Researchers found that boys developed each of these skills more quickly when there were more girls in the class than boys.

In majority-girl classrooms, boys developed at the same rate as girls. But in classes where boys were the majority, boys developed more slowly than girls. Girls tended to advance in classrooms which had any combination of boys and girls.

The study is one of the first to look at how the proportion of boys and girls in a class affects learning. Because it’s a new finding, researchers don’t know why this difference exists.

“This is an exciting topic, but it’s too early to draw any conclusion because this area is so under-explored,” says psychologist Lean Malofeeva of the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

81．What is the finding of the researchers led by Arlen Moller? (no more than 15 words)(2 marks)

82．According to the research , what effect does a minority-girl class have on boy’s study?(no more than 8 words)(3 marks)

83．How does Lean Malofeeva find the study of the researchers led by Arlen Moller?(no more than 6 words)(3 marks)

84．List three abilities the researchers focused on. (on more than 7 words)(3 marks)

Rarely          so much media attention, for the performance has left the audience breathless with excitement.

       A．has an opera attracted      B．an opera has attracted

       C．is an opera attracted D．an opera is attracted

Being admitted to a good university is the      to a good job in the future.

   A. way    B. method    C. entry   D. means

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They ___________　him to drop the plan, but he was determined to carry it through to the end.

  A. urged       B. persuaded     C. encouraged       D. suggested

If you ______ the chat room ten minutes ago, you _______ what we were talking about.

   A. have joined ; will know                B. had joined ; would have known

   C. should join ; would know               D. would join ; have known

_______ late in the afternoon, Bob turned off the alarm.

A. To sleep     B. Sleeping            C. Sleep           D. Having slept

Fifteen years ago, I entered the Boston Globe, which was a temple to me then . It wasn’t easy getting hired. I had to fight my way in to a dime-a-word job. But once you were there, I found , you were in .

Globe jobs were for life-guaranteed until retirement. For 15 years I had prospered there—moving from an ordinary reporter to foreign correspondent and finally to senior editor. I would have a lifetime of security if I struck with it.

Instead, I had made a decision to leave.

I entered my boss’s office. Would he rage? I wondered. He had a famous temper. “Matt, we have to have a talk, ” I began awkwardly. “I came to the Globe when I was twenty —four. Now I’m forty . There’s a lot I want to do in life. I’m resigning. ”

“To another paper? ” he asked.

I reached into my coat pocket, but didn’t say anything, not trusting myself just then.

I handed him a letter that explain everything. It said that I was leaving to start a new media company. That the Globe had taught me in a thousand ways. That we were at a rare turning point in history, I wanted to be directly engaged in the change.

“I am glad for you , ” he said , quite out of my expectation. “ I just came from a board of directors meeting and it was seventy-five percent discouraging news. Some of that we can do deal with. But much of it we can’t ,” he went on. “I wish you all the luck in the world, ”be concluded. “And if it doesn’t work out , remember ,your star is always high here.”

Then I went out of his office, walking through the newsroom for more good-byes. Everybody was saying congratulations. Everybody—even though I’d be risking all on an unfamiliar venture : all the financial security I had carefully built up.

Later, I had a final talk with Bill Taylor, chairman and publisher of the Boston Globe. He had turned the Globe into a billion-dollar property.

I’m resigning, Bill, ” I said. He listened while I gave him the story. He wasn’t looking angry of dismayed either. After a pause, he said, “Golly, I wish I were in your shoes.”

From the passage we know that the Globe is a famous         .

       A．newspaper              B．magazine         C．temple             D．church

If the writer stayed with the globe,         .

       A．he would be able to realize his lifetime dreams

       B．he would let his long favourite dreams fade away

       C．he would never have to worry about his future life

       D．he would never be allowed to develop his ambitions

The writer wanted to resign because     .

       A．he had serious trouble with his boss

       B．he got underpaid at his job for the Globe

       C．he wanted to work in the new media industry

       D．he had found a better paid job in a publishing house

By “I wish I were in your shoes. ”(in the last paragraph), Bill Taylor meant that     . A．the writer was to fail                                   B．the writer was stupid

       C．he would do the same if possible           D．he would reject the writer’s request