【题目】Every day we experience one of the wonders of the world around us without even realizing it. It is not the amazing complexity of television, nor the impressive technology of transport. The universal wonder we share and experience is our ability to make noise without mouths, and so transmit ideas and thoughts to each other's minds. This ability comes so naturally that we tend to forget what a miracle (奇迹) it is.

Obviously, the ability to talk is something that marks humans off from animal. Of course, some animals have powers just as amazing, Birds can fly thousands miles by \observing positions of the stars in the sky in relation to the time of day and year. In Nature's talent show, humans are a species of animal that have developed their own special act. If we reduce it to basic terms, it's an ability for communicating information to others, by varying sounds we make as we breathe out.

Not that we don't have other powers of communication. Our facial expressions convey our emotions, such as anger, or joy, or disappointment. The way we hold our heads can indicate to others whether we are happy or sad. This is so-called body language. Bristling (直立的) fur is an unmistakable warning of attack among many animals. Similarly, the bowed head or drooping tail shows a readiness to take second place in any animal gathering.

Such a means of communication is a basic mechanism that animals, including human beings, instinctively acquire and display. Is the ability to speak just another sort of instinct? If so, how did human beings acquire this amazing skills ? Biologist can readily indicate that particular area of our brain where speech mechanisms function, but this doesn't tell us how that part of our bodies originated in our biological history.

【1】According to the passage, the wonder we take for granted is .

A. our ability to use language

B. the miracle of technology

C. the amazing power of nature

D. our ability to make noises with mouth

【2】 What feature of body language mentioned in the passage is common to both human an animals?

A. Lifting heads when sad.

B. Keeping long faces when angry.

C. Bristling hair when ready to attack.

D. Bowing heads when willing to obey.

【3】What can be inferred from Paragraph 3?

A. Body language is unique to humans.

B. Animals express emotions just as humans do.

C. Humans have other powers of communication.

D. Humans are no different from animals to some degree.

【4】 This passage is mainly about .

A. the development of body language.

B. the special role humans play in nature

C. the power to convey information to others

D. the difference between humans and animals in language use

【题目】

"It hurts me more than you", and "This is for your own good" -these are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework.

That was before we entered the permissive period in education in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to achieve their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy for

us. They taught that it was all right to be parents who take a let-alone policy. We stopped making our children do homework. We gave them calculators, turned on the television, left the teaching to the teachers and went on vacation.

Now teachers, faced with children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 years, are realizing we've made a terrible mistake. One such teacher is Sharon Clomps who says of her students-"so passive" -and wonders what has happened. Nothing is demanded of them, she believes.

Television, says Clomps, contributes to children's passivity. "We're talking about a generation of kids who' vet never been hurt or hungry. They have learned somebody will always do it for them, instead of

saying 'go and look it up', you tell them the answer. It takes greater energy to say no to a kid."

Yes, it does. It takes energy and it takes work. It's time for parents to end their vacation and come back to work. It' s time to take the car away, to turn the TV off, to tell them it hurts you more than them

but it' s for their own good. It's s time to start telling them no again.

【1】 To such children as described in the passage _

A. Neither is easy to say yes nor say no

B. It is easier to say no than to say yes

C. It is easier to say yes than to say no

D. Either is difficult to say yes or say no

【2】 We learn from the passage that the author's mother used to lay emphasis on _______.

A. natural development

B. education at school

C. learning Latin

D. discipline

【3】 By "permissive period in education" (L.1, Para.2) the author means a time _______.

A. when everything can be taught at school

B. when children are permitted to receive education

C. when children are allowed to do what they wish to

D. when every child can be educated

【4】 The main idea of the passage is that _______.

A. it's time to be more strict with our kids

B. parents should always set a good example to their kids

C. parents should leave their children alone

D. kids should have more activities at school

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