假设下面是你们学校对学生课外阅读情况所作的调查。请根据下面的图表为某报社写一篇有关这次调查的报道。请先简单描述饼状图和表格，然后说明如此多学生不读文学作品的原因，并适当发表你自己的看法。

图：学生阅读各类书籍的比例

表：不读文学名著的原因

原因	百分比（%）
1. 没有时间	48
2. 书太厚，没有耐心	20
3. 不喜欢文学	12
4. 对考试无用	20

要求：1.字数150左右。  

2. 短文中已写好了的部分，不计入字数。

参考词汇：account for (占…比例);  cartoon (卡通);  percent （百分比）

broaden one’s horizons (拓宽视野)    

Recently, our school has had a survey on reading. It shows _                             

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He couldn’t ________ the fact that the money was found in his house..

   A. answer for    B. leave for       C. account for     D. care for

 

On the first day of the sixth grade, I noticed one little girl called Amy on the school bus. “ Don’t  16  her,” warned Lauren, who sat beside me. “or they will make fun of you.”

Amy had many  17  differences － lots of reasons for other kids to make fun of her. Her eyes weren’t straight. Her glasses were an inch thick. And she had really uneven teeth.

Every day  18  we drove to and from school, kids would shout insults(侮辱) at Amy. “God，what a strange face! Stop  19  me!” “Mr. Rolland (the driver)! Amy took off her glasses, and now her eyes are frightening me.  20  her put them back on!” For a while I shouted my   21  of insults, just so I’d fit in.  22 , I didn’t want them to treat me the same way they treated Amy.

But while I was insulting her, my heart  23  for the girl. I could see that the insults were making her look uglier, because she was so  24  and alone. Then I wanted to  25  her. I just didn’t know how to stop my schoolmates －  26  the night of our class roller-skating party.

Our whole class was there,  27  Amy. Amy didn’t know how to skate, but I could see how much she wanted to have  28  like the rest of us. So I skated over to her and took her by the hand.  29  we began the journey together around the skating rink. She just smiled, and every once in a while she would laugh in excitement.

On the school bus the next morning, there was much  30  about Amy and me skating together. But  31  insulted her or me. And they didn’t do that for the rest of the year. I  32  heard from Amy again after the school year. But I’ve always  33  that I changed her life for the better.

She changed my   34 . After becoming her friend, I no longer tried to impress people by trying to  35  like them. I became myself.

1.A. take to	B. ask about	C. talk to	D. account for
2.A. common	B. spiritual	C. social	D. physical
3. A. as	B. unless	C. after	D. even if
4. A. dancing with	B. looking at	C. paying off	D. sticking with
5.A. Make	B. Notice	C. Hear	D. Watch
6.A. subject	B. agreement	C. view	D. share
7.A. At all	B. After all	C. Still	D. Therefore
8.A. beat	B. lost	C. ached	D. opened
9.A.unpleasant	B. ordinary	C. puzzled	D. embarrassed
10. A. devote to	B. deal with	C. stand up for	D. change for
11.A. until	B. in	C. before	D. after
12.A. expect	B. including	C. together with	D. away from
13.A. love	B. fun	C. time	D. freedom
14.A. Again	B. Even	C. Yet	D. Then
15.A.information	B. report	C. news	D. reference
16.A. somebody	B. everybody	C. anybody	D. nobody
17.A. sometimes	B. never	C. often	D. once
18. A. hoped	B. doubted	C. intended	D. reminded
19.A. life	B. mind	C. interest	D. aim
20.A. think	B. live	C. act	D. work

 

Shoppers throughout the West, wary(谨防的) of a double-dip recession(经济衰退), are still pinching their pennies. However, Chinese consumers are opening their wallets big time. According to Mckinsey, shop sales in China have grown by 25 per cent annually from 2007 to 2009. Consumer confidence is now at its highest point since 2007 and female shoppers are leading the way.

Chinese women saved just 24 per cent of their income, compared with 55 per cent in 2006, according to a recent study in the magazine Women of China. What’s more, three quarters of Chinese women say that they’re the ones who control the family purse strings, which means they are an “emerging powerhouse within the powerhouse” of China.

In the 1950s women contributed just 20 per cent of household income, which rose to about 40 per cent in the 1990s and then reached 50 per cent last year.

In a recent study of Chinese consumer behavior, Mckinsey found that women tend to shop more frequently than men, and spend more on personal-care products and food. Men, by contrast, tend to spend more of their income on gadgets(小玩意), drinks and alcohol, dining out, and socializing. They also tend to save for the bigger-ticket items, like cars and houses.

Chinese women make up an ever-growing small part of the market—up from 20 per cent a decade ago to 50 per cent last year. It’s estimated that in the next five years women will account for 55 per cent of the$9 billion market. “The future is female,” concludes a January HSBC report on special and expensive goods in China.

1.According to the passage, Chinese women ________.                     

A．save less of their income than before

B．are more cautious of spending their money

C．make as much money as men in the 1990s.

D．spend half income on expensive goods

2.The underlined phrase in the first paragraph probably refers to _______.      

A．saving more money	B．making extra pay for food
C．meeting with economic problems	D．spending money in a wary way

3.Which of the following is true?

A．Chinese men go shopping more often than women

B．Chinese men spend more on personal-care products

C．Chinese men tend to save for the bigger-ticket items

D．Chinese men spent less on drinks and alcohol than women.

4. Which of the following can probably serve as the title of the passage?           

A．The Future is Female	B．The Power of the Purse
C．Facing a Double-dip Recession	D．Chinese Women Going Shopping

 

Just as the world’s most respected scientific bodies have confirmed that the world is getting hotter, they have also stated that there is strong evidence that humans are driving the warming. Countless recent reports from the world’s leading scientific bodies have said the same thing. For example, a 2010 summary of climate science by the Royal Society stated that: “There is strong evidence that the warming of the Earth over the last half-century has been caused largely by human activity.”

The idea that humans could change the planet’s climate may be counter-intuitive(与直觉不符的), but the basic science is well understood. Each year, human activity causes billions of tons of greenhouse gases to be released（释放）into the atmosphere. As scientists have known for years, these gases hold heat that would otherwise escape to space, wrapping the planet in an invisible blanket.

Of course, the planet’s climate has always been changing thanks to “natural” factors(因素) such as changes in solar or volcanic（火山的）activity, or cycles relating the Earth’s going around the sun. According to the scientific literature, however, the warming recorded to date matches the pattern of warming we would expect from a build-up of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere – not the warming we would expect from other possible causes.

Even if scientists did discover another reasonable explanation for the warming observed so far, that would beg a difficult question. As Robert Henson puts it in The Rough Guide to Climate Change: “If some newly discovered factor can account for the climate change, then why aren’t carbon dioxide（二氧化碳）and the other greenhouse gases producing the warming that basic physics tells us they should be?”

The only way to prove with 100% certainty that humans are responsible for global warming would be to run an experiment with two identical Earths – one with human influence and one without. That obviously isn’t possible, and so most scientists are careful not to state human influence as an absolute certainty.

1. In most scientists’ opinion, the global warming is mainly caused by ________.

   A. solar activity                       

B. volcanic activity

C. the Earth’s going around the sun    

D. human activity

2.The text is developed by ________.

   A. giving typical examples

   B. following the order of space

   C. analyzing a theory and arguing it

   D. comparing and finding differences

3.The underline word “identical” means ________.

   A. totally different                    

B. exactly the same

   C. extremely important                  

D. relatively independent

4. Which of the following can be the best title?

   A. Are All the Scientists Really Scientific?

   B. Where Is Global Warming Leading Us to?

   C. Are Humans Definitely Causing Global Warming?

   D. What’s Relation of Global Warming and Greenhouse Gases?