Scott Langteau has this message for kids：Spend less time playing video games．

    It’s a message that many a morn and dad have tried to impress upon many a youngster(and some not-so-youngsters)who spend perhaps a bit too much time with game controllers in hand．

    But the 40-year-old Langteau isn’t a parent．He’s experienced at video games--one who played producer on three‘‘Medal of Honor”games and co-founded his own game development compan.

    Langteau has just published a children’s book called“Sofa Boy”，which tells the story of a kid

 who spends too much time sitting on the couch with controller held in hand and the rather terrible consequences that follow．

    It’s a fairy tale picked straight from Langteau’s own experiences as a lad with a fondness for video games and his painful struggle against game addiction．But first，Langteau would like to make one thing clear：I’m not saying that you shouldn’t play video games．I think video games are great，I think they do great things for kids．Instead，Langteau says his book is all about a little something called“moderation(克制)”．

    “It’s about being well rounded，”he says．“Just like with anything else，we all need to make

 sure that there’S a variety in what we do．’’

    Video garners can be rather bad--tempered when it comes to accepting criticism about their favorite entertainment．And understandably 80．After all，most people who go around talking about the dangers of playing video games tend to be outsiders--people who don’t play video games and certainly don’t understand that they call be a valuable and healthy form of entertainment．

    But Langteau and“Sofa Boy”seem to be in a unique position to deliver a message of gaming moderation that the young game masses might actually listen to．After all，this is a man who understands what it means to be a kid with a passion for games．His early experience has taught him a lesson．

52．Scott Langteau published“Sofa Boy”to   ．

      A．share his great skills on games                    B．warn kids against game addiction

      C．tell about his fairy tale as a kid                     D．deliver a message for games

53．Which of the following is TRUE of the book“Sofa Boy”?

      A．The book tells ofthe writer’s owrl story．

      B．The book describes an experienced gamer．

      C．The boy in the book wins a medal for games．

      D．The boy in the book is not all addict on games．

54．We can learn from the passage that          ．

      A．Langteau advises the young to play games within limits

      B．Langteau advises the young not to play games

      C．playing video games ruins the future of kids

      D．playing video games is of no benefit to kids

55．By saying“It’s about being well rounded”Langteau thinks          ．

      A．games do great things for kids                    B．gamers are usually fat and round

      C．games should be viewed from all sides         D．gamers are to blame for their behaviors

56．What topic will be discussed in the following paragraph?

      A．His idea to create“Sofa Boy”．

      B．His great achievement in games as a kid．

      C．His hard times to set up his game company．

      D．His enthusiasm for games when he was a small boy．

The common cold is the world's most widespread illness, which is plagues(疫病) that flesh receives.

The most widespread mistake of all is that colds are caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses(病毒) passing on from person to person. You catch a cold by coming into contact, directly or indirectly, with someone who already has one. If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated Arctic regions explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes.?

During the First World War soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches(战壕), cold and wet, showed no increased tendency to catch colds.?

In the Second World War prisoners at the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp(奥斯维辛集中营), naked and starving, were astonished to find that they seldom had colds.?

At the Common Cold Research Unit in England, volunteers took part in Experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be with cold water, and then stood about dripping wet in drafty room. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.?

If, then, cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds, why are they more frequent in the winter? Despite the most pains—taking research, no one has yet found the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on.?

No one has yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and pain suppressors(止痛片) such as aspirin, but all they do is to relieve the symptoms(症状).?

1. The writer offered _______ examples to support his argument.?

A. 4             B. 5            C. 6             D. 3

2. Which of the following does not agree with the chosen passage??

A. The Eskimos do not suffer from colds all the time.?

B. Colds are not caused by cold.?

C. People suffer from colds just because they like to stay indoors.?

D. A person may catch a cold by touching someone who already had one.

3. Arctic explorers may catch colds when ________.

A. they are working in the isolated Arctic regions?

B. they are writing reports in terribly cold weather?

C. they are free from work in the isolated Arctic regions?

D. they are coming into touch again with the outside world

4. The passage mainly discusses ________.

A. the experiments on the common cold  

B. the fallacy about the common cold?

C. the reason and the way people catch colds

D. the continued spread of common colds

The number of the workers in this small company has grown 1000 to 1200．This means it has risen _______ 20 percent．

1. A.
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Lose-Win is weak. It’s easy to get stepped on. It’s easy to be the nice guy. It’s easy to give in, all in the name of being a peacemaker.

A girl named Jenny once told me about her   36   in the world of Lose Win during her eighth grade year before she finally broke  37   :

My  38    with my mom all started one day   39    she said to me sarcastically(讽刺地)，“Wow, you’re sure sassy today.” I   40   it so literally (字面地) that then and there I decided to close myself off from her and never   41    back to her. So every time she would say something   42    I disagreed with her I would just say, “Okay,  43    you want, Mom”

But I really got cold quickly. And my   44    began to build. One night I talked to my mom about the school homework and she said, “Oh, that’s   45   ”and then went back to mop the floor.

“Don’t you ever   46   ?”I thought. But I didn’t say anything and stormed off. She had no idea I was   47    upset. She would have been willing to talk to me had I   48    her how important it was to me.

At last, I just blew up. “Mom, this has got to   49   . You tell me everything you want me to do and I just do it because it’s   50    than fighting. Well, I’m sick of it.” This all came as a   51    to her.

After my blowup, we felt like we were   52    all over in our relationship. But it’s getting better all the time. We discuss things now and I always   53    my feeling with her.

If you adopt Lose Win as your basic   54    toward life, then people will wipe their dirty feet on you. You’ll also be   55    your true feelings deep inside. And that’s not healthy.

36.A.wanderings    B.disappointment   C.lessons D.helplessness

37.A.out  B.down   C.up       D.free

38.A.relationship    B.problems     C.quarrels       D.improvement

39.A.as   B.since    C.when   D.before

40.A.regarded B.treated C.received      D.took

41.A.fight      B.struggle       C.talk      D.turn

42.A.even if   B.only if C.as long as    D.as though

43.A.something      B.whatever     C.so much      D.too much

44.A.coldness B.anger   C.disagreement      D.hope

45.A.true B.impossible   C.nice     D.important

46.A.care       B.see       C.say      D.listen

47.A.also B.still      C.even    D.already

48.A.warned   B.shown  C.asked   D.told

49.A.end B.change C.last      D.stop

50.A.worse     B.easier   C.more    D.less

51.A.surprise  B.pleasure      C.gift      D.harm

52.A.going     B.starting       C.thinking      D.reviewing

53.A.share      B.have    C.discuss D.improve

54.A.way       B.method       C.attitude       D.theory

55.A.hurting   B.waking C.storing D.hiding

Eric received training in computer for one year, _____ he found a job in a big company.

A. after that        B. after which          C. after it         D. after this