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Steve Jobs made technology fun.The co-founder of Apple died last Wednesday at the age of fifty-six He had fought for years against cancer.Mourners gathered outside his house in Palo Alto, California, and Apple stores around the world. Tim Bajarin, president of a high-tech research and consulting company, said "If you actually look at a tech leader, they're really happy if they have one hit in their life.Steve Jobs has the Apple II, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and Pixar." Steve Jobs was a college dropout.He was adopted by a machinist and his wife, an accountant.They supported his early interest in electronics. He and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer—now just called Apple—in nineteen seventy-six.They stayed at the company until nineteen eighty-five.That year, Steve Wozniak returned to college and Steve Jobs left in a dispute（分歧）with the chief executive. Mr.Jobs then formed his own company, called NeXT Computer.He rejoined Apple in nineteen ninety-seven after it bought NeXT.He helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then to one of the most valuable companies in the world today. Steve Wozniak, speaking on CNN, remembered his longtime friend as a "great visionary and leader'' and a "marketing genius（天才）". President Obama said in a statement: "By building one of the planet's most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity.By making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun." David Carroll is a professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City.He says Steve Jobs not only revolutionized technology, he also revolutionized American business. "The fact that he was able to redesign American commerce top to bottom and across is really stunning （令人惊奇的）.He probably will be considered an industrial giant on the scale of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, so one of the great[s] of all time." David Carroll said. Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple's chief executive in August because of his health.He died a day after the company released a new iPhone version that met with limited excitement.Apple's new chief, Tim Cook, will also have to deal with the new Kindle Fire tablet computer from Amazon.com.It costs less than half as much as an iPad but also does less.
1.
Why did people all over the world mourn Steve Jobs?
A.
He was very courageous in the face of cancer.
B.
He became very rich though dropping out college.
C.
He released a new iPhone version before death.
D.
He revolutionized technology and made it enjoyable.
2.
Which of the following can easily prove that Jobs is a "marketing genius"?
A.
After Apple, he founded NeXT Computer.
B.
He made Apple very valuable once again in the world.
C.
He developed a series of Apple products.
D.
He was considered the greatest industrial figure of all time.
3.
What does the underlined part in Paragraph 7 mean?
A.
Jobs was a typical example of American spirit of creation.
B.
Jobs enriched the American spirit of science and freedom.
C.
Jobs eventually realized his American dream.
D.
American people are good at inventing things.
4.
Which of the following is true according to the text?
A.
Jobs's parents discouraged him from working on electronics
B.
Jobs stayed in Apple as chief executive for about 24 years.
C.
Jobs started his career in his family garage.
D.
Run unsuccessfully, Apple was sold to NeXT Computer.
I was the youngest of five boys and also had four sisters who had to pull together and take care of each other. Dad wasn't around, so I never knew him well. He killed himself when I was three years old, leaving mom with the job of raising nine kids. She was a very hard worker, and in order to make ends meet, she hardly ever rested. With my mom as my example, I learned that hard work is the best way to get what you want. Even as a little boy, I knew I was going to be successful. Regardless of what I chose, I wanted to make my brothers, sisters and mom proud of me—not only by being successful in what I chose to do, but also as a person who could be looked up to for the right reasons. Surprising as it might seem, basketball wasn't in my plans. One day, my mom cut a rim(边缘) off an old water barrel(水桶) and then held it up for me to throw an old rubber ball through. By junior high, I started playing basketball on a team. I loved to compete. For me, it paid off. I always put the effort in, every day. I am grateful for the life I've enjoyed as a basketball star. Basketball is not life. It can be exciting. But the most important thing about basketball is that it gives me a way to do good things for others as I move through this journey called life.
1.
It can be inferred that the author's________.
A.
brothers were more famous than him
B.
mother had a great influence on his career
C.
father loved his children and wife very much
D.
family was rich and happy when he was a child
2.
Why did the author's father kill himself?
A.
Because the family was poor.
B.
Because he often quarreled with his wife.
C.
Because he was seriously ill.
D.
The passage didn't tell us the reason.
3.
From the second paragraph, we can infer that________.
A.
the author was respected as a brave boy
B.
the author's family didn't like his career
C.
the author got on well with his mother, brothers and sisters
D.
the author helped his brothers and sisters succeed
A team of US psychologists have found that talking to another person for ten minutes a day helps with memory. "Socializing is just as effective as more traditional kinds of mental exercise in boosting memory and intellectual performance," Oscar Ybarra, a psychologist at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, said in a statement. In one investigation, they analyzed data on 3610 people, aged 24 to 96. They found that the higher their level of social interaction (交流), the better their cognitive (认知的) functioning. Social interaction includes getting together or having phone chats with relatives, freinds and neighbors. In another experiment, the researchers conducted lab tests on 76 college students, aged 18 to 21, to evaluate how social interactions and intellectual exercises affected the results of memory and mental performance tests. The students were divided into three groups: the social interaction group had a discussion of a social issue for 10 minutes before taking the tests; the intellectual activities group completed three tasks (including a reading comprehension exercise and a crossword puzzle) before the tests; and a control group (对照组) watched a 10-minute clip (电源片段) of the Seinfeld television show. "We found that short-term social interaction lasting for just 10 minutes improved participants’ intellectual performance as much as engaging in so-called ’intellectual’ activities for the same amount of time," Ybarra said. The study was expected to be published in the February issue of the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
1.
The underlined word "boosting" in the second paragraph can be replaced by ______.
A.
improving
B.
decreasing
C.
preventing
D.
training
2.
Which is not included in social interaction?
A.
Having a talk with a neighbor.
B.
Attending a birthday party.
C.
Watching TV at home alone.
D.
Calling your classmates
3.
What’s the purpose of the experiment on 76 college students?
A.
To judge the effect of social interaction on memory and intelligence.
B.
To find out what is real social interaction.
C.
To learn how much time is needed for social interaction.
D.
To show the function of people’s cognition.
4.
Which of the following questions may be asked in the social interaction group in the experiment?
A.
What does the author want to show us?
B.
Do you like living in a big city or a small one?
C.
Which word can be used to fill in the blank?
D.
What is the main idea of the second paragraph?
5.
What’s the main idea of the passage?
A.
Intellectual exercises improve memory.
B.
Different people have different ways of communication
Ways to Burn More Calories Run through water Running in water is one of the toughest activities you can perform because the wet stuff is about 12 to 15 times as resistant (具有阻力的) as air. Try your hardest to run and you can burn about 17 calories per minute. Start fast Don’t be fooled — slow and steady won’t win the race. A recent study found that after a short warm-up, cyclists who rode hard during the first half of their workouts and then slowed for the second half burned about 10 percent more calories than those who started slow and finished fast. Take to the sand Here is some easy-to-remember advice on burning calories: the softer the surface, the more you burn. By walking or running on the beach, you can use up 20 to 50 percent more calories than you do going at the same pace on a hard trail. Shut up and dance Here’s the perfect excuse to sign up for that hip-hop dance class you’ve been eager to try. Surprising your body with new activities — dance, a new sport, you name it — forces it to work harder because it’s doing unfamiliar movements and using muscle groups in different ways. Use your arms Getting both your upper and lower body involved can provide a big calorie-burning advantage. So if you’re short of time or want to get everything you can out of your usual 45-minute workout, try total-body activities such as rowing ormming. You can evenng your arms as hard as you can while you walk.
1.
How can water help you burn more calories?
A.
By pushing your body.
B.
By wetting your clothes and shoes.
C.
By forcing you to run faster.
D.
By forcing your body to work harder.
2.
What does “it” in Part 4 refer to?
A.
Dance.
B.
Movement.
C.
Body.
D.
Muscle.
3.
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A.
One can burn more calories when walking on the sand than on land.
B.
One can burn more calories when walking on stones than on earth.
C.
One can burn more calories when running in water than on the sand.
D.
One can burn more calories when exercising using the upper body than using the lower body.
About ten years ago when I was an undergraduate in college in New York, I was working as a practice student at my University's Museum of Natural History. One day while I was working at the cash register in the gift shop, I saw an elderly couple come in with a little girl in wheelchair. As I looked closer at this girl, I saw that she was seated on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and the trunk of the human body. She was wearing a little white dress with the patterns of red roses and yellow dots. As the couple wheeled her up to me I was looking down at the register. I turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink(眨眼示意). As I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the most beautiful, largest smile I have ever seen All of a sudden her handicap was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile just melted me and almost instantly gave me a completely new sense of what life is all about. I immediately felt full of hope and confidence. She took me, a poor, unhappy college student, into her world, a world of smiles, love and warmth. That was ten years ago, but I still remember it clearly as if it happened just yesterday. I'm a successful business person now and whenever I get down and think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught me.
1.
What was the writer a decade ago?
A.
A worker working in a university.
B.
A teacher teaching in a college.
C.
A clerk working in a museum.
D.
A university student who had not yet taken a degree.
2.
What does the underlined world “handicap” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A.
Life difficulty.
B.
Troublesome problem.
C.
Failure in work.
D.
Physical disability.
3.
How did the writer probably feel before meeting the disabled girl?
A.
She felt full of hope.
B.
She was filled with confidence.
C.
She felt unhappy because of poverty.
D.
She felt life was beautiful.
4.
Which of the following title suits this passage best?
