Mary Josephine Ray,the New Hampshire woman,who was the oldest person living in the United States,has died at age 114 years,294 days.She died yesterday at a nursing home in Westmoreland but was active until about two weeks before her death,her granddaughter Katherine Ray said.

“She just enjoyed life.She never thought of dying at all,”Kather­ine Ray said.“She was planning for her birthday party.”

Ray was the oldest person in the United States and the second oldest in the world,according to the Gerontology Research Group.She was also recorded as the oldest person ever to live in New Hampshire.

Ray was born on May 17,1895,in Bloomfield,Prince Edward Island,Canada.She moved to the United States at the age of 3.She lived for 60 years in Anson,Maine.She lived in Florida,Massachusetts and elsewhere in New Hampshire before she moved to Westmoreland in 2002 to be near her children.Ray’s husband,Walter,died in 1967.Survivors include 2 sons,8 grandchildren,13 great­grandchildren and 5 great­great grandchildren.

The oldest living American is now Neva Morris of Ames,Iowa,at age 114 years,216 days.The oldest person in the world is Japan’s Kama Chinen at age 114 years,301 days.Morris,the Iowa woman now believed to be the oldest US resident (居民),lives at a care center.Only one of her four children,a son in Sioux City,is still alive.

6.What is the best title for this passage?

A.The oldest person in the US died at age 114.

B.The oldest person in the US died for no reason.

C.The oldest person in the US wanted to live longer.

D.The oldest person in the US was happy at a nursing home.

7.Which of the following statements about Mary Josephine Ray is WRONG?

A.She was born on May 17,1895,in Canada.

B.She died at the age of 114 years,294 days.

C.She was still very active in her last two weeks.

D.She was not at her own home when she died.

8.From what Katherine Ray said,we can learn Mary Josephine Ray________.

A.didn’t know how to enjoy life

B.didn’t like holding a birthday party

C.was afraid nobody would come to her birthday party

D.was not troubled by the thought of dying

9.What can we learn from Paragraph 4?

A.Mary Josephine Ray liked moving.

B.Mary Josephine Ray lived a very hard life.

C.Mary Josephine Ray had a very big family.

D.Mary Josephine Ray lived with her children until 2002.

10.According to the passage,who is the oldest person in the world?

A.Mary Josephine Ray.                           B.Neva Morris.

C.Kama Chinen.                                      D.Walter.



IMAGINE a life without arms or legs! You can’t hold anyone in your  1  . You can’t walk anywhere with your feet. How would you last a day like that? Would you   2  at yourself in the mirror like Nick Vujicic, the 29-year-old Australian?
Nick was born without limbs(四肢), so life was not  3 for him. At school many students played jokes on him  4  he looked different from everyone else. He was refused to be   5  friends, so he always felt   6 . However, he faced that bravely. He   7  to type and write with two toes(脚趾)at the age of six, and he could   8  surf and play golf. In college, he achieved(取得) great success and was among the  9  students in the studies. And he decided on  10  to do later in his life—to encourage others to work hard for their dreams.
Now Nick is one of the most popular   11   in the world. He travels to many countries and gives speeches about his story  12  difficulties. “Living life fully is about looking at what you  13  , not what you don’t have.” he said. His   14   encourages millions of people.
“I tell people to keep on getting up when they  15  and to always love themselves,” he said. “If I can encourage just one person, then my job in this life is done.”
【小题1】
A.armsB.earsC.eyesD.teeth
【小题2】
A.laugh B.cryC.smileD.shout
【小题3】
A.oldB.easyC.modernD.difficult
【小题4】
A.becauseB.ifC.untilD.although
【小题5】
A.hisB.myC.theirD.our
【小题6】
A.happyB.relaxedC.lonely D.surprised
【小题7】
A.failedB.forgotC.helpedD.learned
【小题8】
A.evenB.everC.neverD.hardly
【小题9】
A.tallB.lazyC.sleepyD.excellent
【小题10】
A.how B.whoC.what D.where
【小题11】
A.doctorsB.speakersC.scientistsD.managers
【小题12】
A.atB.forC.intoD.against
【小题13】
A.makeB.haveC.lose D.want
【小题14】
A.storyB.sadnessC.friend D.family
【小题15】
A.failB.playC.listenD.exercise

阅读下面的短文, 并根据短文后的要求答题(请注意问题后的字数要求)
_[1]If you think English means endless new words, difficult grammar and sometimes strange pronunciation, you are wrong. Haven’t you noticed that you have become smarter since you started to learn a language?
[2]According to a new study by a British university, learning a second language can lead to an increase in your brain power. Researchers found that learning other languages changes grey matter. This is the area of the brain which processes information. It is similar to the way that exercise builds muscles.
[3]The researchers also found the effect is greater on the younger people who learn a second language.
[4]A team led by Dr. Andrea Mechelli, from University College London, took a group of Britons who only spoke English. They were compared with a group of “early bilinguals(通两种语言的人)”, who had learnt a second language before the age of five, as well as a number of later learners.
[5]Scans showed that grey matter density(密度)in the brain was greater in bilinguals than in people without___________________. But the longer a person waited before mastering a new language, the smaller the difference was.
[6] “Our findings suggest that the structure of the brain is changed by the experience of learning a second language,” said the scientists.
[7]It means that the change itself increases the ability to learn.
[8]Professor Dylan Vaughan Jones of the University of Wales, has researched the link between bilingualism and maths skills. Having two languages gives you two windows on the world and makes the brain more flexible,” he said, “You are actually going beyond language and have a better understanding of different ideas.”
【小题1】What is the best title for this passage? (no more than 10 words)
_____________________________________________________________________
【小题2】Which sentence in the text is the closest in meaning to the following one?
Mastering two languages can broaden your views in the world and makes you clever.
_______________________________________________________________________________
【小题3】Fill in the blank in Paragraph 5 with proper words. (no more than 4 words)
______________________________________________________________________________.
【小题4】What does the word "they" Line2, Paragraph4) probably refer to? (no more than 5 words)
______________________________________________________________________________.
【小题5】What do you think of English learning after you read this passage?
(no more than 10 words)
______________________________________________________________________________.

A)阅读下面短文,根据所读内容,完成表格,每空一词。(每空1分)

  Are people less happy or happier when they get older? If your answer is “happier”, then you are right, based on a study published five years ago. It found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after age fifty. In fact, it found that by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were at eighteen.

    The findings came from a Gallup survey of more than three hundred and forty thousand adults in the United States in 2008. At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five.

    Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were the highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five. Stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.

    Levels of happiness were the highest among the kids and those in their early seventies.

The survey also found that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men did.

So why would happiness increase with age? One theory is that, as people get older, they become more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.

Title: Relationship Between Age and     1.      

     The elements of the survey

Time: 2008

Place: in the United States

Researcher: Arthur Stone and his    2. 

Targets: 340,000 adults

The    3.   of the survey

Generally people become happier and feel

  4.   worried after age 50. By the age of 85, people are happier with their life than they were at 18.

Adults between the ages of 22 and 25 have the          5.    stress.

The kids and those in their early    6.   feel the happiest.

Men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women feel sadder, more    7.   and worried than men do.

Conclusion

Happiness    8.    with age. That’s because people become more thankful for what they have and control their emotions   9.  as they get older. It also   10.   them less time to think about bad experiences.

 

Mo was born into a farming family in a village in Shandong province .He grew up listening to folk stories about gods, spirits foxes .Those stories later became the inspiration (灵感)for Mo’s writing.

Mo left school at the age of 12 and started to work in the fields . Although he was tired after his daily hard work ,Mo was always hungry for books .However, there were very few in the village .He read his older brothers’ textbooks and even dictionaries .He helped others with farm work in exchange for books . “When I finished reading all the books around ,I thought I was the most knowledge man in the world ,”he told Xinhua.

After Mo left his hometown and joined the army in 1976,he began to read widely ,including works by Lu Xun and many other famous writers .He studied from these writers but did not copy them .Instead ,he developed his own style .As the first Chinese citizen(公民)to win a Nobel Prize in literature, Mo told a group of reporters in his hometown shortly after he won the award . “I grew up in an environment filled with folk culture .It enters my novels whenever I pick up a pen This has affected ,even decided my style.”

1.When did Mo Yan leave school and start to work in the fields ?

A.at the age of 12.                        B.at the age of 11.

C.at the age of 13                         D.at the age of 15

2.Mo Yan is from_____

A.Shanxi            B.Jiangsu            C.Shandong         D.Guangdong

3.Mo Yan developed his own style_______

A.while listening to folk stories about gods ,spirits and foxes

B.during his dairy hard work in the fields.

C.when he won the Nobel Prize in literature.

D.after he studied from many famous writers.

4.Which of the following is wrong __________?

A.Mo Yan left school when he was very young.

B.Mo Yan was the most knowledgeable man in the world.

C.Mo Yan read many books when he was very young.

D.Mo Yan is the first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize in literature.

5.What can we learn from Mo Yan’s success(成功)?

A.Rome was not built in a day.               B.Easier said than done.

C.Well begun , half done .                  D.The older, the wiser.

 

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