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　It was Friday, Andy Barton was in a 　1 　mood(情绪).

　At six o'clock his 　2 　programme “Travel with us was on TV. Andy liked to get home 　3 　good time for that. But then, just as he was leaving the office to get home a little 　4 　a customer rang up with a few complaints (牢骚, 抱怨) for the next fifteen minutes. “I can 　5 　get home in time if I hurry.”Andy told himself as he 　6 　out of the office. But then, as he drove off in his car, he 　7 　that he was almost out of 　8 　.“ I'll have to stop at Fenton's.”Andy thought. He 　9 　Fenton's because it was a 　10 　petrol station.“ You do all the work yourself, but you pay 　11 　for the petrol.”he used to 　12 　.

　But at Fenton's, the pump was not working properly and it 　13 　ages to get petrol. 　14 　when Andy got home, it was already two minutes past six. Just then the phone rang. “Shall I 　15 　it?” Andy though. He tried to 　16 　his attention on the programme and forgot the phone. But it 　17 　ringing and finally he picked it up.

　“Mr. Barton?”　18 　said, “Fenton's Garage here.”

　“Fenton's?”sanid Andy .“ 　19 　, I was at your place only a few minutes 　20 　, getting some petrol. Did I 　21 　something behind or what?”“No, you didn't, Mr. Barton .” the voice went on. “That's just the 　22 　! You didn't leave anything behind! You went off without paying for your petrol, you 　23 　! Now normally, when that happened, we ring up the police. But 　24 　I recognized you and I know it was a mistake.”

　“I'm really very sorry.”Andy said.

　“Oh, 　25 　Mr. Barton. But could you come round now and pay for your petrol? And please hurry! We close at half past six!”

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 A Plastic Australia

Did you know Australia uses around four billion plastic check-out bags a year? If you tied all of them together, it would create a chain long enough to go around the world 25 times! And that's only Australia---globally hundreds of billions are used! Only a small number are recycled, so where do the rest end up?

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Environmentalists reckon thousands of birds and marine animals die each year because they swallow the plastic or get caught up in it. In 2000, a whale died on a beach in Queensland---6 metres of plastic was found in its tummy.

    54      But why? What are they made of that makes them so bad?

Well, when fossil fuels like oil and coal are processed, a gas is produced that can be made into polyethylene---which is plastic! It’s turned into all sorts of products.

What’s so bad about it? Well during the process harmful green house gases are emitted. Any polyethylene, or plastic, takes hundreds of years to be destroyed.     55    

So is there an alternative to plastic bags? We haven’t always used them---back in the 60s it was paper bags and boxes. And now reusable and biodegradable bags have been introduced. But some people reckon the biodegradable ones aren't up to the job and they're more expensive to make.

So what's the solution?

Government ministers met recently to talk about it, but no one could agree. South Australia has decided to go it alone and ban the bags from next year. Victoria is going to trial a program where people pay up to 25 cents for each bag. But some people reckon that's not fair because groceries are already expensive. Others reckon it won't work anyway because lazy shoppers will just pay the extra.

It’s a big debate. The Government will hold another meeting in six months. By then we will have used another two billion plastic bags.

A. Green bags may not be the solution to the problem but they are reuseable unlike plastic.

B. Now even if shopping bags make it to dumps they're still bad for the environment.

C. We’ve all seen them clinging to trees, drifting along footpaths and swirling around in oceans.

D. So once plastic bags are made, they hang around for a very long time.

There is a lot of misunderstanding about studying. Most students have not been taught the principles behind really effective working. Imagine a graph showing the amount a person learns against the number of hours he works in a day. If he doesn’t do any work, he learns nothing (point 0). If he does an hour’s work he learns a certain amount (point 1). If he does two hours’ work he learns about twice as much (point 2). If he does more work he’ll learn still more (point 3). However, if he tries to do twenty-three and a half hours’ work in a day, he will be so tired that he’ll hardly remember anything: what he learns will be very little (point 4). If he did less work he’d learn more (point 5).

Now whatever the exact shape of the graph’s curve(曲线), made by joining these points, it must have a high point. Point “X” is the very maximum anyone can learn in the day. And this represents the optimum(最适度), the best, amount of work to do. It is the best possible compromise between adequate time at the books and fatigue(劳累). Fatigue is an absolutely real thing; one can’t escape it or ignore it. If you try to ignore it and press yourself to work past the optimum, you will only get on this downward slope and achieve less than the best – and then become very tired and lose your power of concentration.

The skill in being a student consists of getting one’s daily study as near the optimum point as possible. I cannot tell you what the optimum is. It differs with the type of work, it differs from person to person, and even in the same person it varies from week to week. You must try to find your own. Every day you study, bear this principle of the optimum in mind. When you feel yourself getting fatigued, if you find yourself reading the same paragraph over and over again and not taking it in, that’s a pretty good sign you’ve reached your highest point for the day and should stop. Most ordinary students find their optimum at five hours a day. Yours may be a little more or a little less – but if you get in five hours’ good work a day, you will be doing well.

Now, what are you doing with yourself when you aren’t working? Before examinations some students do nothing at all except sit in a chair and worry. Here is another misunderstanding. People often think that the mind works like the body; it does not. If one wanted to save one’s physical energy in order to cut the maximum amount of firewood, one would lie flat on a bed and rest when one wasn’t chopping. But the mind cannot rest. Even in sleep you dream, even if you forget your dreams. The mind is always turning. It gets its relaxation only by variety. That is what makes the mind rest.

When you’ve finished your optimum number of hours you must stop. You must not then sit around in the chair thinking about the work – that only tires without any learning. You must get out and do something. It doesn’t matter what – anything so long as you are actively doing something else but work.

1.According to the passage, _______.

2.Fatigue can result in ________.

3.The passage tells us that a person’s optimum number of working hours _______.

4.The only way the mind can relax is by ________.

5.After you have reached the optimum point of study in a day, you should ________.

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　　“Most people in Britain or America spend four hours every day staring at a piece of furniture. ”said a spokesman. “Television eats up half the time you are not working or sleeping —ten yeas of an average life. All those things you want to do —when are you to do them? TV takes away your real life.”

　　A study of 20,000 British children published in 1999 compared TV viewing habits with social attitudes. Children who watched over four hours' TV per day were more likely to agree with statements like “I am not worth much as a person. ”and “There is nothing I can do about the world problems. ”

　　White Dot organizes an annual (每年的) “TV turn off week ”, which will start from April 23 this year. The group said that last year over 5 million people in Britain and the United States supported the event, mainly concerned parents and students.

　　This year they want more people to join in. That's why a spokesman, David Burke, went into the enemy camp. In a TV program shown in Britain in late March he put the case against television. Next day , the TV critics were unanimous (一致同意的) . Mr. Burke had made his points with force, wisdom and style. Give this man his own TV series!

1．We can infer from the passage that ________.

[　　]

A．parents and teachers are against the “TV turn off week”

B．David will have his own TV series

C．more people might join in the “TV turn off week” this year

D．the children who watch a lot of TV feel proud of themselves

2．“The enemy camp” in the last paragraph means ________.

[　　]

A．those who enjoy watching TV

B．those who are against watching TV

C．schools

D．the TV station

3．White Dot organizes an annual “TV turn-off week” , hoping that people will ________.

[　　]

A．sleep more

B．have a long life

C．have time to do something else

D．work more

You want something you can’t get by behaving within the rules, and you want it badly enough you’ll do it regardless of any guilt or deep regret, and you’re willing to run the risk of being caught. That’s how Ladd Wheeler, psychology professor at the University of Rochester in New York, defines cheating. Many experts believe cheating is on the rise. "We’re suffering a moral breakdown," Pinkard says. "We’re seeing more of the kind of person who regards the world as a series of things to be dealt with. Whether to cheat depends on whether it’s in the person’s interest." He does, however, see less cheating among the youngest students. Richard Dienstbier, psychology professor at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, believes that society’s attitudes explain much of the increase in cheating. "Twenty years ago if a person cheated in college, that is extremely serious, he will be dropped for a semester if not kicked out permanently," he says. "Nowadays, at the University of Nebraska, for example, it is the stated policy of the College of Arts and Science that if a student cheats in an exam, the student must receive an "F" on what he cheated in. That’s nothing. If you’re going to fail anyway, why not cheat? Cheating is most likely in situations where the interests are high and the chances of getting caught are low," says social psychologist Lynn Kahle of the University of Oregon in Eugene.

1. The passage focuses on ________.

A. making the reader believe that cheating is immoral       

B. discussing the reasons for cheating

C. describing how students cheat in exams                       

D. suggesting how to control cheating

2. Cheating tends to occur in all the following situations except when ________.

A. one wants something badly             B. one can’t get something in a right way

C. it is not very likely to be found out       D. a series of things have to be dealt with

3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. It is forgivable to cheat unless money is involved. 

B. There has been an increase in cheating.

C. Most cheaters are college students.                       

D. Cheaters do not feel guilty and regretful.

4. What can be inferred from the passage?

A. Cheating is widespread because society is too understanding.

B. Cheating is the result of heavy pressure.

C. Cheating is cheating, whether in a test or on any other occasions.

D. Cheating comes together with civilization