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To tell you the truth, I'm not interested in owing a cellular(网络) phone—except for use in an emergency (紧急情况), for ordinary cellular phone service is very expensive. How would I get help if I were in trouble or in danger? A good friend told about a product she thought would settle my problem. It's the SOS phone—-a cellular phone service designed for emergency use.

    With the touch of a button the SOS phone will connect me to a roadside emergency service, a 911 service or a trained service SOS operator, 24 hours a day. If I ever need help, I know it's just a phone call away. By pressing the “Tow” button, I'll be connected with my emergency roadside service provider(提供者),or if I don't have one， the SOS operator can suggest one to me and get in touch with them immediately.

    The “ 911” button will connect me to 911 emergency service in my area—best of all the call is completely free!

    If I just want to call home to tell my husband and children something necessary, I can, by pressing the “Call” button, I'll reach an operator, when I asked the operator to call home. I'll be connected automatically (自动的). And because the Call Center has my 10 most-used phone numbers, I don't even have to recite the number.

    Unlike ordinary cellular phone plans, the SOS phone doesn't have any minimum usage requirements (最低底价) or other promises that could change the price I expect to pay each month. Why not try it yourself?

1．The writer enjoys using the SOS phone because ________.

    A. she is always in trouble or in danger

    B. she thinks the cost of its service is reasonable

    C. she needn't pay for any emergency service

    D. the ordinary cellular phone cannot be used in an emergency

2．When you have a SOS phone, ________.

    A. you will get help whenever you are in an emergency

    B. you will be safe whenever you are

    C. you can be connected with anyone

    D. you can get service from any cellular phones

3．When you want to call home, ________.

    A. you will have to tell the operator your home phone number

    B. the operator will suggest one phone number to you

    C. the Call Center will pass on your words to your family

D. you'll be connected with your family with the help of an operator

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Betty and Harold have been married for years. But one thing still puzzles old Harold. How is it that he can leave Betty and her friend Joan sitting on the sofa, talking, go out to a ball game, come back three and a half hours later, and they're still sitting on the sofa? Talking?

    What in the world, Harold wonders, do they have to talk about?

    Betty shrugs. Talk? We're friends.

    Researching this matter called friendship, psychologist Lillian Rubin spent two years interviewing more than two hundred women and men. No matter what that age, their job, their sex, the insults were completely clear: women have more friendships than men, and the difference in the content and the quality of those friendships is “marked and unmistakable”. More than two-thirds of the single men Rubin interviewed could not name a best friend. Those who could were likely to name a woman. Yet three-quarters of the single women had no problem naming a best friend, and almost always it was a woman. More married men than women named their wife/husband as a best friend, most trusted person. or the one they would turn to in time of emotional distress (感情危机). “Most women,” says Rubin, “identified (认定) at least one. usually more, trusted friends to whom they could turn in a troubled moment, and they spoke openly about the importance of these relationships in their lives.”

    “In general,” Writes Rubin in her new book, “women's friendships with each other rest on shared emotions and support, but men's relationships are marked by shared activities.” For the most part, Rubin says, interactions (交往) between men are emotionally controlled a good fit with the social requirements of “manly behavior”.

    “Even when a man is said to be a best friend,” Rubin writes, “the two share little about their innermost feelings. Whereas a woman's closest female friend might be the first to tell her to leave a failing marriage, it wasn't unusual to hear a man say he didn't know his friend's marriage was in serious trouble until he appeared one night asking if he could sleep on the sofa.”

1．What old Harold cannot understand or explain is the fact that ________.

    A. he is treated as an outsider rather than a husband

    B. women have so much to share

    C. women show little interest in ball games

    D. he finds his wife difficult to talk to

2．Rubin's study shows that for emotional support a married woman is more likely to turn to ________.

A. a male friend　　　　　　   B. a female friend

C. her parents　　　　　　　　  D. her husband

3．The research done by psychologist Rubin centers around ________.

    A. happy and successful marriages

    B. friendships of men and women

    C. emotional problem in marriage

D. interactions between men and women

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I am a computer expert; I have been in the field for only a short time. I never learned much in the way of science or math. And I am quite puzzled by things like engineering or electronics.

    Then why am I able to write about computers? I can write on this subject because of these shortcomings. The last two years of learning have been a hard test for me. By hard work I have managed to learn enough to use computers fairly well, and to work with people who know a great deal more than I. Since I have learned all this at such personal cast. I would like to share my knowledge with others. More and more people want to know about computers, and want to know quickly.

    The best way to learn is to take a course. However, many people do not have the time far this. They will have to find some other way to get some basic information, l hope to be able to help them by writing about some of the things I have learned myself.

    I have a home computer on which I've learned in my own time. I have used it like a home study course. I have sat down with it day after day, night after night. I have forced it to give up some of its secrets. Now I can use it to do some of the work that I get paid for. And I can do this work in my own home, instead of in an office. Many people may soon be working in a computer at home, just as many now take in other people's typing.

    Some things about computers are easier than you may fear. First computers are logical. Things that at first seem difficult will make sense to you after you learn the rules. Second, it is really not hard to learn enough to use today's machines. You do not need to be a great brain. But you do have to learn to think in new ways. And you do have to keep a good bit of information in your head. Finally, there are many people around who are really enthusiastic(热心的) about computers. These people are always happy to be of help.

1．The purpose of the passage is to convince readers that, by studying computers at home, people can become ________.

    A. computer experts

    B. writers about computers

    C. computer scientists

    D. skilled users of computers

2．According to the passage, a home computer can best be described as ________.

    A. puzzling

    B. secret

    C. logical

    D. difficult

3．You can conclude that the author thinks that if a person took a computer course. that person would learn ________.

    A. very quickly

    B. as much as the author's co-workers

    C. to think like a computer

    D. about computers the easy way

4．According to the passage, a computer can be used to help you ________.

    A. take special courses in science

    B. take in other people's typing

    C. get other people's secrets

D. do your work at home

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The old-fashioned general store is fast disappearing. This is, perhaps, a pity, because shopping today seems to lack that that personal element which existed when the shopkeeper knew all his regular customers personally. He could, for instance, remember which brand of tea Mr. Smith usually bought or what sort of washing-powder Mrs. Jones preferred. Not only was the shop a center of buying and selling, but also a social meeting place.

    A prosperous general store might have employed four or five assistants, and so there were very few problems in management as far as the staff were concerned. But now that the supermarket has replaced the general store, the job of the manager has changed completely. The modern supermarket manager has to properly deal with a staff of as many as a hundred, apart from all the other everyday problems of running a large business.

    Every morning the manager must, like the commander of an army division, carry out an inspection of the business of the day. He must see that everything is running smoothly. He will have to give advice and make decisions as problems appear, and he must know how to get his huge staff to work efficiently with their respective responsibilities.

    No matter what he has to do throughout the day, however, the supermarket manager must be ready for any emergency that may happen suddenly. They say in the trade that you are not really an experienced supermarket manager until you have dealt with a flood, a fire, a birth and a death in your store.

1．The main purpose of the passage is to show ________.

    A. the old-fashioned general store is fast disappearing

    B. the supermarket has replaced the old general store

    C. the role that the store manager plays when the store undergoes (经历) an overall change

    D. a supermarket manager deals with problems every morning

2．According to the author, it is a pity that there are fewer old general stores now because ________.

    A. there is less trading business

    B. there used to be more social activities in the old days

    C. the supermarket manager has more problems than before

    D. there is less personal contact between manager and customer

3．In what aspect has the job of the store manager changed?

    A. He doesn't sell tea and washing-powder any more.

    B. He has much larger staff to take care of, not to say all the other daily problems of running the store.

    C. He must try hard to remember the names of regular customers.

    D. He has to give advice and make decisions when problems appear.

4．Who are Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Jones mentioned in the first paragraph?

    A. They are friends of the store manager's.

    B. They are shop assistants.

    C. They are both regular customers of the old general store.

D. They represent (代表) any of the regular customers of the old general store.

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In sports the sexes (性别) are separate. Women and men do not run or swim in the same races. Women are less strong than men. That at least is what people say. Women are called “the weaker sex”, if men want to please them, “the fair sex”. But boys and girls are taught together at schools and universities. There are women who are famous Prime Ministers, scientists and writers. And women live longer than men. A European woman can expect to live until the age of 74, a man only until he is 68. Are women's bodies really weaker?

    The fastest men can run a mile in under 4 minutes. The best women need 4. 5 minutes. Women's times are always slower than men's. But some facts are a surprise. Some of the fastest women swimmers today are teenage (青年人) girls. One of them swam 400 meters 21.2 seconds when she was only 16. The first “Tarzan(任何矫健力大之人)” in films was an Olympic swimmer, Johnny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 meters was 4 minutes 59.1 seconds, which is 37. 9 seconds slower than a girl 50 years later! This does not mean that women are catching men up. Conditions are very different now, and sports are very serious. It is so serious that some women athletes are given hormone injections. At the Olympics, a doctor has to check whether the women athletes are really women or not. It seems sad that sport has such problems. Life can be very complicated(复杂的) when there are two sexes!

1．Women are called “the weaker sex” because ________.

    A. women do as much work as men

    B. people think women are weaker than men

    C. sport is easier for men than for women

    D. in sport the two sexes are always together

2．The best women can run a mile ________.

    A. as fast as the best men

    B. half minutes faster than men

    C. 37. 9 seconds slower than men

    D. half a minute slower than men

3．It is so serious that some women athletes are given hormone injections. In this sentence the word “hormone” may be ________.

    A. a kind of good food

    B. a kind of medicine

C. a kind of drink

D. a kind of cigarette

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It is commonly believed in the United States that school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The difference between schooling and education implied by this remark is important.

    Education is much more open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling. Education knows not limits. It can take place anywhere, whether in the shower or on the job whether in a kitchen or on a tractor. It includes both the formal learning that takes place in schools and the whole universe of informal learning. The agent (doer) of education can vary from respected grandparent to the people arguing about politics on the radio, from a child to a famous scientist. Whereas schooling has a certain predictability(可预料性), education quite often produces surprises. A chance conversation with a stranger may lead a person to discover how little is known of other religions(宗教). People receive education from infancy(婴儿时期)on. Education, then, is a very broad, inclusive term. It is a life-long process, a process that starts long before the start of school, and one that should be a necessary part of one's entire life.

    Schooling, on the other hand, is a specific, formalized process, whose general pattern varies little from one setting to the next. Throughout a country, children arrive at school at about the same time, take the assigned seats, are taught by an adult, use similar textbooks, do homework, take exams, and so on. The pieces of reality that are to be learned, whether they are the alphabet or an understanding of the workings of government, have been limited by the subjects being taught. For example, high school students know that they are not likely to find out in their classes the truth about political problems in their society or what the newest filmmakers are experimenting with. There are clear and undoubtful conditions surrounding the formalized process of schooling.

1．The passage is organized by ________.

    A. giving examples of different schools

    B. telling stories about excellent teachers

    C. listing and discussing several educational problems

    D. telling the difference between the meanings of two related words

2．The passage supports which of the following statements?

    A. Education systems need to be changed as soon as possible.

    B. Without formal education, people won't be able to read and write.

    C. Going to school is only part of how people become educated.

    D. Schooling is of no use because students do similar things every day.

3．What does the writer mean by using the expression “children interrupt their education to go to school” in Paragraph one?

    A. All of life is education.

    B. Learning takes place everywhere.

    C. Education is totally ruined by schooling.

    D. Schooling prevents people from discovering new things.

4．What is the main idea of the passage?

    A. The best schools teach a variety of subjects.

    B. Education and schooling are quite different experiences.

    C. The more years the students go to school, the better their education is.

D. Students benefit from schools, which require long hours and homework.

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“Hello?” she asked in a louder voice. “Hello, anybody!”

    There was still no answer. Dinah began to cry. She stood up and began walking forward slowly along the port side aisle (走廊). “Keep count!” part of her mind warned. “Keep count how many rows you pass, or you'll get lost and never find your way back again. “She stopped at the port side row seats just ahead of the row in which she and Aunt Vicky had been sitting and bent, arms outstretched, fingers splayed. She was hoping to touch the sleeping face of the man sitting here. She knew there was a man here, because Aunt Vicky had spoken to him only a minute or so before the plane took off. When he spoke back to her, his voice had come from the seat directly in front of Dinah's own. She knew that; marking the locations of voices was part of her life, an ordinary fact of existence like breathing. The sleeping man would jump up when her outstretched fingers touched him, but Dinah was beyond caring.

    Except the seat was empty.

    Completely empty.

    Dinah straightened again, her check wet, her head pounding with fright. They couldn't have been to the washroom together, could they? Of course not. Perhaps there were two washrooms. In a plane this big there must be two washrooms. Except that didn't matter, either.

    Aunt Vicky wouldn't have left her purse, no matter what, Dinah was sure of that.

    She began to walk slowly forward, stopping at each row of seats, reaching into the closest to her, aiming to find someone. Nobody; the other, no. The other rows, no, no, still no! Every seat she investigated was empty.

    This can't be! This just can't be! She thought wildly. They were all around us when we got on! I heard them! I felt them! ________. Where have they all gone?

    At some point, while she slept, her aunt and everyone else on Flight 29 had disappeared!

1．It is inferred from the passage that ________.

    A. no one in the plane answered Dinah because they were sleeping

    B. all the people, including Aunt Vicky had got off the plane while Dinah was sleeping

    C. all the people, including Aunt Vicky had somehow disappeared without Dinah's acknowledge

    D. Aunt Vicky had really gone to the washroom with the man

2．There is one sentence missing in the passage. Which of the following do you think is the best to fill in the blank?

    A. I saw them!

    B. I smelled them!

    C. I touched them!

    D. I tasted them!

3．From the underlined sentence in the passage, we know the reason why Dinah wanted to touch the face of the sleeping man is that ________.

    A. she loved to touch people's face

    B. she had to because she was blind

    C. she didn't want to open her eyes

D. she was too frightened to open her eyes

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The expression. “lame duck”, can be heard in almost any American town or city, especially where people discuss politics. Most often, they use it to describe a politician who has come to the end of power-a Congressman, for example, who has a few more weeks in office and will then be out of a job.

    There are a number of ideas as to where “lame duck” came from although the picture is clear enough—-a duck that has had its wings clipped, or its web feet injured, and can no longer walk or waddle ( walk with short steps, bending from one side to the other) like a healthy one.

    The term seems to have crept (move slowly and quietly with the body close to the ground) into the American language some time after the Civil War of 1861~ 1865. One explanation is that it came from the language of hunters who felt that it was foolish to waste power or time on a dead duck.

    Another explanation, however, says that the expression came from England. There it was used to describe a man who lost all his money in stocks (股票交易), was cleaned out (倾家荡产) and could not pay his debts. And—so the story does,—people showed little mercy (kindness or pity) for the poor fellow.

    But in the United States people took the phrase to describe a congressman who failed to get reelected but still had a little time in office until his successor was sworn in (be sworn in take office).

    In time, the expression was used in a broader sense, generally describing any man whose days of power were coming to the end. It has often been to describe the position of an American president in the last 2 years or so of his 2nd term. It is a difficult time for him, when Congress is ready to oppose him at every turn (at every moment; in every place). It may refuse to work with him simply because his days in the White House are numbered. His sun is setting. It is not a happy time. It is like old age coming on. And people, like animals, are cruel to lame ducks, ready to drive him out. Their eyes are already turned towards the new leader, the new man in command.

1．  It is likely that the expression “lame duck” ________.

A. has been widely used in the American language before the Civil War

    B. has quietly come into the American language some time after the year of 1865

    C. was used in the old English

    D. has been used in both the USA and the UK since 1865 to express the same meaning

2．When a person lost all his money in stocks, people ________.

    A. usually showed mercy for him

    B. always has sympathy with him

    C. hardly has sympathy with him

    D. never drove him out

3．Who was the lame duck in the USA last term?

A. George Bush.

B. Ronald Reagan.

C. John Kennedy.

D. Bill Clinton.

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Boxing was long viewed sickly. Generally forbidden by law in earlier days, the fighting was usually done with bare fists, and matches often lasted forty or fifty rounds.

    In 1882 John L. Sullivan, a fighter of great power, won the world heavyweight championship from Paddy Ryan in a bare-fisted battle marked by hitting, scratching, and biting without any rule. Five years later, while fighting Patsy Cardiff at Minneapolis, Sullivan broke his right arm in the third round, but he continued fighting to the sixth round and won. In 1889, Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain with his bare fists in another championship fight, winning twenty thousand dollars and a diamond prize medal. His admirers talked then of running him for the neat governor, but he traveled to Australia for a boxing tour instead, coming back only to lose his title in a twenty-one-round match with a young Californian named James, J. Corbets.

    “Gentleman James” victory in this match marked a turning point, for it showed scientific boxing was over strength. But Corbett's title ended in 1897,when another boxer, Bob Fitzsimmons, in less than three seconds, achieved his feats and then Fitzsimmons knocked out an Irishman, won the heavyweight championship of the world, and invented the terrible “solar plexus punch.”

1．Boxing matches in the early days were ________.

    A. short and bloody

    B. usually spare-time competitions

    C. governed by strict rules

    D. cruel

2．Sullivan held the world's heavyweight tide for ________.

A. at least seven years　　  B. only a year

C. five days　　　　　　　　　　 D. twenty-one years

3．Sullivan's fight with Kilrain was ________.

    A. the first boxing championship match

    B. a bare-fisted championship fight

    C. the last boxing match to be fought bare-listed

D. a six-round match

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Rick Stevenson, l6 years old, spends every minute he can on the mountain. He and his friends go snowboarding every weekend. “It's great,” he says, “The winds are so strong, the boards go 50 miles an hour.” His friend Lauer Fields agrees. “No one goes skiing any more,” she says. “That's for the old folks.”

    Rick and Laura are part of a new trend in sports. Its philosophy (宗旨) is to get as close to the edge as possible. And more and more young athletes are taking part in these risky (冒险的) activities called “extreme sports” or “X-sports.”

    In the past, young athletes would play baseball. Today, they want risk and excitement -the closer to the edge, the better. They snowboard over cliffs and mountain-bike down steep mountains. They windsurf near hurricanes and bungy-jump from towers.

    Extreme sports started as an alternative (选择余地) to more expensive sports such as golf. A city kid who didn't have the money to buy expensive sports equipment could get a skateboard and have fun. But now it has become a whole new area of sports, with specialized equipment and high levels of skill. There's even a special Olympics for extreme sports, called the Winter X-Games, which includes snow mountain biking and ice climbing.

    What makes extreme sports so popular? “People love the risk,” says Murray Nussbaum, who sells sports equipment. “City people want to be outdoors on the weekend and do something challenging. The new equipment is so much better that people can take more risks without getting hurt.” An athlete adds, “Sure there's a risk. Once you go mountain biking or snowboarding, it's impossible to go back to bike riding or skiing. It's just too boring.”

    Now even the older crowd is starting to join in. Every weekend a group of friends in their early 30s get together. During the week they work as computer programmers in the same office. On Sundays they rent mountain bikes that cost $ 2000 each and ride down steep mountains together. Extreme sports are certainly not for everyone.

    Most people still prefer to play basketball or watch sports on TV. But extreme sports are definitely gaining in popularity. “These sports are fresh and exciting. It's the wave of the future,” says Nussbaum.

1．What would be the best title for the passage?

    A. Rick Stevenson

    B. People's Love for Risk

    C. X-Sports

    D. The Wave of the Future

2．It is clear from the passage that extreme sports are  ________.

    A. exciting but risky

    B. popular but old

    C. special but dangerous

    D. inexpensive but challenging

3．Which of the four pictures does not describe extreme sports?

4．Generally speaking, ________ are unfit for extreme sports by inference from the passage.

    A. city teenagers

    B. the aged people

    C. office workers

D. high school students