题目内容
“Teenager” means a person from 13 to 19 years
old. Although they’re young, they have to make many important choices by
themselves. Often teachers and parents cannot handle them because they don’t
understand and know teenagers, especially their wishes, problems or different
moods in a short time. They need to think about questions like these: Should we
go to college? What kind of job do I want? However, other people also influence
their choices. Who influences teenagers?
It depends on the kind of choice. When teenagers buy things, friends are the most important influence. This is especially true for clothes and music. TV shows, advertisements and parents also influence teenagers. In more serious things, parents are probably the most important influence. Some teenagers say it’s best to regard both parents and friends as influences. James, a seventeen-year-old boy says he’s “just a crazy man”. He also says, “Parents are really important because they can tell you what’s right and wrong.”
But teenagers also feel they need to make choices—to make their own mistakes. As one teenager girl said, “If our parents don’t let us make our own choices, maybe in the future we don’t know how to do it.” And they feel friends can often be a big help, especially because friends sometimes know more about their situation than their parents.
1. Why do teenagers sometimes have to make their own choices?
A. Because the teachers want them to do it.
B. Because their parents want them to do it.
C. Because teenagers like to make choices by themselves.
D. Because teachers and parents don’t understand them well.
2. Who influences most to the teenagers when they buy music?
A. Their teachers. B. Theirs parents. C. Their friends. D. Movie stars.
3. What does the passage mainly talk about?
A. Everybody needs to make choices.
B. Teenagers need to make choices by themselves.
C. Teenagers know more about TV shows and music.
D. Teachers and parents should help teenagers as much as possible.
DCB
【解析】略
Mary Santiago has that secret dream, too. Her story is featured in Another Cinderella Story, a film set in a US high school.
Mary is shy but loves to dance. Compared with other girls, she is invisible. However, her world changes completely when a famous teenager pop singer, Joey Parker, appears.
Joey is everything the rest of the boys in her class are not—kind, handsome and desirable. Mary and Joey’s paths cross at a ball. They meet and fall in love with each other. But when Mary has to rush back home, she leaves behind her MP3 player, which becomes the only clue Joey has to find the girl of his dreams. Of course, there is a wicked(邪恶的) stepmother, who turns out to be Dominique Blatt and she takes in Mary after her dancer mother dies. Dominique treats Mary like a maid and does everything she can to make sure Mary doesn’t get into the top dance school. Her two daughters are equally determined to stop Joey falling for Mary, even if that means embarrassing her.
The story, though it mostly follows Cinderella, does add a few modern day twists to the classic fairy tale. Refreshingly, the film, unlike many high school films, does not focus on looks, although the actors are all beautiful. There is also a lot less materialism in Another Cinderella Story than in many similar movies.
“The movie takes the Cinderella fairytale as its jumping off point,” writes movie critic Amber Wilkinson. “The focus is firmly on following your dream.”
【小题1】The first paragraph is mainly to ____________.
| A．build interest and lead us to Mary’s secret dream |
| B．remind us why Cinderella is popular all the years |
| C．inform us of the main topic of the whole passage |
| D．tell us how interesting the fairy tale Cinderella is |
| A．is brave in expressing her love |
| B．is attended badly by the stepmother |
| C．has a dream of meeting a prince |
| D．is embarrassed by the pop singer |
| A．Joey is just like other boys in Mary’s class. |
| B．Mary’s mother influences her a lot in singing. |
| C．Not many people have a dream to be realized. |
| D．The MP3 player helps Joey in finding Mary. |
| A．an introduction to a film |
| B．a review about a film |
| C．an essay about dreams |
| D．an advertisement of Cinderella |
| A．follows Cinderella with nothing new |
| B．pays more attention to the looks of the actors |
| C．encourages young people to follow their dreams |
| D．focuses more on materialism than other films |
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| finish, advice, on, be, excited, in slow, like interest, open, real, friend |
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