---I think maths is playing a more important part in the new test system. What about you?    --- ______. We should be more devoted to it.

A. No pains, no gains.

B. Fact speaks louder than words.

C. Great minds think alike.

D. Don’t claim to know what you don’t know.

 

If you dream in color, you’re not alone: the majority of people today claim to have colorful dreams. But it wasn’t always thus. Research conducted in the early part of the last century consistently found that people reported dreaming most often in black and white.
According to Eva Murzyn at the University of Dundee, there are at least two possible explanations for this strange situation.
The first is the methods used in the researches. The early studies tended to use questionnaires（问卷）, while more modern studies use dream diaries (filled in upon rising in the morning) or so-called “REM-awakening”, which involves interrupting people’s dream-filled periods of sleep to find out what they were dreaming about. People’s memories of their dreams are likely to be less accurate by using the questionnaire approach and they are more likely to reflect their beliefs about the form dreams generally take in an unclear way.
The second explanation has to do with black and white television and film. It's possible that the sudden increase in black and white film and television during the first half of the last century either affected the form of people’s dreams at that time, or affected their beliefs about the form dreams generally take.
According to Murzyn’s findings, it’s the explanation based on media exposure that carries more weight. She used both questionnaire and diary methods to study the dreams of 30 older (average age 64) and 30 younger people (average age 21).
The methodological technique made no difference to the type of dreams people reported. However, the extremely important thing was that, across both questionnaires and diaries, the older participants (who had had significant early life exposure to black and white media) reported experiencing significantly more black and white dreams over the last ten days than the younger participants (22 per cent vs. 4 per cent).
Another finding was that older participants reported black and white dreams and colorful dreams to be of equal clearness. By contrast, the younger participants reported that the quality of black and white dreams was poorer. This raises the possibility that the younger participants didn’t really have any black and white dreams at all, but were simply regarding poorly remembered dreams as black and white.
【小题1】We learn from the text that ______.

A．people in the first half of the last century never had colorful dreams

B．older people are more likely to have black and white dreams

C．the dreams of younger people are always colorful

D．people today don’t have white and black dreams any more

【小题2】What did Murxyn do to find out the explanations for the colors in people’s dreams?

A．She applied both questionnaire and diary methods to study people’s dreams.

B．She used diary methods to record people’s dreams.

C．She chose 60 people to answer her questions about their dreams.

D．She woke people up to record the colors of their dreams.

【小题3】What does the underlined expression “carry more weight” in paragraph 5 mean?

A．be heavier

B．be more powerful

C．be more important

D．be more useful

【小题4】From Murxyn’s findings we can infer that ______.

A．both older people and younger people could report colorful dreams clearly

B．young people don’t have any black and white dreams in fact

C．the color of a person’s dream is decided by one’s age

D．it is probably the color of media that affects the color of one’s dream

If you don’t want people to know too much about you, then you had better keep your fridge contents secret, according to a British market research document released last week.

Researchers peered (凝视) into the fridges of 400 people in Britain and compared the contents with the owners’ lifestyles. They claim to be able to classify the nation’s people by fridge contents.

They say those people can be separated into five categories：nutrition nerds (no social sense), food faddiest (whatever’s in style), martyr mums, fast food fanatics and restaurant regulars.

Nutrition nerds care much about what they put into their bodies. Their fridges are stocked with fruit, vegetables and healthy meat.

People in this category tend to be highly organized and usually work in law or accountancy. The vast majority is single, but if they have a partner, that person will be similar.

A fridge full of vitamins — enriched juices implies its owner works in media or fashion. They tend not to eat the foods they buy. Known as the food faddiest, they just want to be seen as purchasing the latest important things.

A fridge filled with everything from steak to frozen fish suggests the martyr mum. Her fridge tends to be stocked with every kind of product, except what she herself would want. This fridge hints at difficulty balancing family and work life.

Fast food fanatics always buy mineral water or soda pop. The nearest they will get to fresh fruit is tomato sauce. Their fridges hint at someone who works hard and plays hard, also, someone who is not into long term planning.

Finally, a fridge filled with nothing more than a bottle of white wine and some sparkling mineral water implies an owner who is single, lives in a big city and enjoys the finer things in life. The fridge is empty because this person regularly eats in restaurants.

1.What can we know from the first two paragraphs?

A．Some researchers are fond of staring at other people’s fridges.

B．People don’t want others to know about their secrets.

C．The food you put in the fridge has something to do with your personality.

D．There are mainly five kinds of lifestyles among British people.

2.According to the passage, people who belong to food faddiest_________.  

A．don’t care much about money when buying things

B．will try their best to stay healthy

C．often stay up late to finish their job

D．prefer to ask others about what to do next

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

A．“Nutrition nerds” are always organized and successful in their jobs.

B．“Food faddists” like to stock their fridges with all kinds of vitamins.

C．“Martyr mums” care themselves more than others.

D．“Fast food fanatics” usually do not stock their fridges with fresh fruit.

4.What will those who often dine out put in the fridge?

A．All kinds of food they like.                 B．Only something to drink.

C．Fruit, vegetables and meat.                D．Food rich in vitamins.

5.What is this passage mainly about?

A．What people store in their fridges.          B．Fridge contents and its owner’s secret.

C．What we should store in our fridges.         D．How to keep our fridge contents secret.

 

Friendship is unconditional and uncritical, based only on mutual respect and the ability to enjoy each other's company. These authority figures never saw the way one of us could do something outrageous, and the rest of us would joke about it for days. We could have fun doing absolutely nothing at all—because the (1)_______ we provided each other with was enough. Rather than discussing operas, Lewinsky, or the weather, we enjoyed just (2)_______ each other without any one of us trying to outsmart the others. Still, I realize that these adults had a(3)_______ to be concerned about the direction my friends were(4)_______; I also was concerned for them, but I wasn't about to (5)_______ them.

Many times I would advise my friends that some activity may be (6)_______ or to think things through before doing something, but I would never claim to hold the moral high ground and to condescend to them. When Marvin would begin rolling joints, when Alisa would tell me she skipped school because of a hangover, or when Merriam would tell me that her new boyfriend was in a street gang, I expressed my discomfort with their (7)_______. However, I never (8)_______ them with the threat of taking my friendship away. Contrary to the commercials on television, you can have (9)______ who use drugs. In fact, probably everyone does without (10)______ it.

1. A. gift        B. present          C. company        D. friendship

2. A. hanging around                            B. learning from  

  C. communicating with           D. joining in

3. A. prejudice B. point              C. suggestion                D. situation

4. A. giving            B. coming        C. heading        D. facing

5. A. ignore          B. upset             C. blame                D. leave

6. A. crazy     B. dangerous             C. boring             D. important

7. A. action            B. lessons                C. words             D. thoughts

8. A. force          B. threaten               C. persuade         D. cheat

9. A. friends         B. girlfriends    C. classmates              D. brothers

10. A. hearing         B. recognizing     C. realizing          D. knowing