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    Grammarphobia  is the fear of grammar. This fear attacks almost everybody at one time or another, and it's most likely to strike during English or language arts classes. Even people who love reading and writing
have been known to get feverish and insecure when they are aware of the possibility of turning in
homework with grammar or spelling mistakes. Though writing may be enjoyable, being corrected is
definitely not!
     Grammarphobes, it's time to put your fears behind you.Grammar isn't that dreadful (可怕的). Here's
why. 
     Let's assume you like hearing and telling stories and that you enjoy joking with friends. You probably
also like emailing and instantmessaging.  Well, what do you think makes all these possible? Grammar!
     Grammar is simply the art of putting words together to make sentences. Whenever you use words to
express yourself, you're using grammar. You do this all the time without even thinking.
     So why think about it? Because good grammar helps you convey the ideas you intend. If your words
aren't right, or if they are not in the right order, the person you are talking to might get the wrong idea. This can have embarrassing results.
     Grammar helps us understand each other.  It's like a manual (手册) for assembling the words in your head. You have to put your words together the right way if you want them to make sense. They can't do
what you want if they aren't put together correctly.
     What if everybody you know had a different manual? How would you agree on what others' words
mean? People with different grammar manuals might be speaking different languages.
     Communicating is similar to playing cards.  To make sense, we have to play the same game, by the
same rules. What are the rules for playing the game of English? You already know most of them without
having to open a book.
1. Grammarphobes refer to people who ________.
A. consider grammar to be boring
B. are worried about grammar homework
C. mind grammar too much in writing
D. are afraid of making grammar mistakes
2. The underlined word "assembling"  in Paragraph 6 may    mean ________.
A. directing                  
B. remembering
C. bringing together        
D. looking for
3. What does playing cards have in common with communicating?

A. Both need standards.
B. Both can be interesting games.
C. Both can be learned easily.
D. Both can make sense for our life.

4. What might be the main idea of the passage?
A. Forgetting grammar when writing.
B. Grammar is not horrible.
C. Improving grammar through writing.
D. What is grammarphobia
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     So much to do, so little time. So much information, so little time to read it. In this age there is more
information than ever before. There is not enough time to read everything we want to read. However, you can consume more information in shorter time through speed-reading. This article will not make you read. 3,000 words per minute, but it will show you how to increase your speed significantly. You will also learn
the basic techniques of speed-reading, along with the dos and don'ts of speed-reading.
     When you first learned to read, you would say the word out loud and sound it out. Then you might
whisper the word because people can become annoyed when you read aloud. The stage you are now at is saying the word in your head. Most people tend to read this way. Saying the word in your head will cut
your reading speed tremendously (极大地).
     How do you calculate your reading speed? The speed is measured by how many words per minute you can read. Get some reading material, preferably a book. Find out how many words are on the page. Time yourself for one minute. Start your timer and start reading. When the timer beeps, stop. If you counted 500 words on the page and you read half of the page, and then you are probably reading at 250 words per
minute.
     The first thing about speed-reading is looking at the word and recognizing it. Don't say the word in your mind, just look at it and recognize its importance. Later you will recognize clumps of four words or more to increase your speed. This is the first and most important step in speed-reading.
     The next step is technique. As with any other skill, speed-reading requires technique. You should first
be sitting up straight with your book flat on a horizontal (水平的) surface, such as a table or desk. Next,
you should be able to see the entire page. This is necessary if you want to recognize clumps of words. Lastly, you should be focused. It's hard to read with a lot of noise. Find a quiet place to read. This will help
your understanding of the text.
     You need something to guide your eyes while reading. That's right, you should use your hand.
Remember when you were little, you would read using your finger. That is a great technique, only now
you're using your hand to underline each line. Move your finger smoothly across the page. No need to go
rush, start out slow. Keep your eyes focused on the words as you recognize them while using your hand
as a guide. This will increase your speed.
     The third step is practice. Practice makes perfect. Set time interval (间歇) .Read using different
techniques, but make sure you understand what you're reading.

1. Which of the following statements is true according to the text?
A. Now there is limited information than ever before.
B. Now conditions ask people to use less time to know more information.
C. Now people can read what they like.
D. The less you read, the more time you will spend.
2. What is the subject discussed in the text?
A. What speed-reading is.
B. Why we need speed-reading.
C. Now it is much information time.
D. People should practice speed-reading in different kinds of ways.
3. Which of the following shows the right way for the speed-reading from the text?
a. Ask for some techniques.      
b. Look at many words and recognize them.
c. Practice more.
A. c, a, b
B. c, b, a  
C. b, a, c
D. a, c, b
4. The underlined sentence "you should be focused" in the fifth paragraph means that ______.
A. a person should devote his attention to it while reading
B. your feelings will be hurt while reading
C. a person should smooth away difficulties while he reads
D. you should pay attention to your faults while you are reading
5. To speed up your reading, you should ______.
A. sit up straight with your book flat and use something to guide your eyes
B. say every word out loud and sound it out
C. know it is necessary to read quickly
D. underline some important words while you say them  
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     If I could select a word that best describes the majority of American parents, that word
would be guilt-ridden (内疚的). How sad it is to see parents become the willing victims
of the "give me game", only to discover that, no matter what they do, it isn't enough. In the
end, they are looked down for their lack of firmness and blamed when their spoiled children
get into trouble. With this in mind, I shall first answer this question: "What do parents owe
their children? And I shall start with what they don't owe them.
     Parents don't owe their children every minute of their day and every ounce of their energy.
They don't owe round-the-clock car service, singing lessons, tennis lessons, an expensive car
when they reach sixteen, or a trip to Europe when they graduate.
     I take the firm position that parents do not owe their children a college education. If they
can afford it, fine. But they must not feel guilty if they can't. If the children really want to go,
they' II find a way. Here are plenty of loans and scholarships for the bright and eager who
can't afford to pay.
     After children marry, their parents do not owe them a house or money for the furniture.
They do not have an obligation to baby-sit their grandchildren when the parents were on
vacation. If they want to do it, it must be considered a favour, not an obligation.
     In my opinion, parents do not owe their children an inheritance, no matter how much
money they have. One of the surest ways to produce a loafer is to let children know that
their future is assured.
     Do parents owe their children anything? Yes, they owe them a great deal.
     One of their chief obligations is to give their children a sense of personal worth, for
self-esteem is the basis of a good mental health. Parents owe their children firm guidance
and consistent discipline. Parents owe their children privacy and respect for their personal
belongings.
     No child asks to be born. If you bring a life into the world, you owe the children something.
And if you give him his due, he'll have something of value to pass along to your grandchildren.

1. According to the author, ______.
A. parents ought to send children to college as a duty .
B. parents needn't feel guilty if they are unable to send their children to college
C. ff they say "No", parents will surely make their children angry
D. parents must support their children even after their marriage
2. The underlined word "loafer" most probably refers to ______.
A. a poorly educated person          
B. a well educated person
C. a hard-working person          
D. a lazy person
3. The writer of this passage mainly wants to tell us ______.
A. why children look down upon their parents
B. the difference between duties of the parents and the children
C. over devotion to the children results in trouble for the parents themselves
D. children should depend on no one but themselves
4. The author's attitude towards the parents is ______.
A. angry        
B. pitiful      
C disappointed      
D. satisfied
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     Faced with a tough job market, fresh graduates are dreaming of running their own businesses instead.
But a recent survey has showed that such ambitions lack the required support and remain just that-dreams.
The Shanghai Municipal Employment Promotion Centre poll of 1,276 graduates in several universities and colleges in the city, released last Friday, showed 59.78 percent of respondents considered the possibility
of setting up a company or at least a small store. "But they just stop at the 'thinking stage'," it stated.
     Respondents put the top reasons for not going it alone down to a shortage of investment and a lack of
business opportunity. They also listed lack of business experience and social networks, the need for
advanced study and objections from family members as factors that stood in their way.
     More than 90 percent of the interviewees said they would rather take up a job after graduating and then consider starting their own business two or three years down the road.
Guo Bin, a senior student in Shanghai International Studies University majoring in English, decided he
wanted to be his own boss last year. But he is looking for a job first. "If I fail to find a satisfying job, I
would like to establish a company in exhibition services," Guo said.
     The Shanghai native has some relatives working in a local printing plant. With their help, Guo hopes to produce exhibition brochures at a relatively low price. He is also confident that his English language skills
can help him do well in the industry.
     "Social networking is an important factor leading to business success," Guo said.
     Guo said that the shortage of graduate jobs is the main reason driving more university students to set up a business right after their graduation.
    Jiang said the university sets up a business guide team made of government officials and prof essionals.
They regularly give training courses to students who show an interest in having their own business. The
parents of university graduates are more willing to help their children start up alone. The survey showed "
Once you win the support of your family, you have won half the battle," Guo added.
1. Which of the following can be the best title?
A. A tough job market
B. Graduates can only dream of being boss
C. The ambitions of fresh graduates
D. The story of Guo Bin
2. Which of the following is NOT true about stopping  fresh graduates realising their dreams of being boss?
A. The lack of business opportunity and investment.
B. The shortage of business experience.
C. Less skilled English language.
D. Their  family members' objections.
3. In the view of Guo Bin, what is the key factor that makes fresh graduates dream of being boss  soon
after graduation?
A. Their family don't support them.
B. Their social networking is not good.
C. There are not enough graduate jobs.
D. They want to achieve greater success.
4. Who is this article mostly intended for?
A. The parents whose child will graduate from university soon.
B. Those who will graduate from university.
C. Those who want to be boss.
D. The officials who work in the government.
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     I find some of the ways in which Chinese parents show love for their children rather
surprising.Obviously there are some pretty big differences between our behavior and theirs
in this respect.Most Chinese children seem to get whatever they want,from ice creams,sweets
and toys to endless attention from the adults around them.Is this a sort of spoiling or love?I
wonder.
     Most westerners would think it is a sort of spoiling rather than love.We think love means
educating your children and bringing them up to lead an independent life.That includes learning
to accept the fact that he can't get everything he wants.As an adult,he will not always get the
quite expensive car he hunts for；she will not always manage to acquire the beautiful dress
she longs for.So we try to teach our children early to cope with the disappointment of not
getting what they want.
     I find too much such kind of love for the children can actually spoil them.To my surprise,it
seems that the life of a Chinese child is rather hard.Without doubt,the child is the very center
of a whole circle of adults,but on the other hand he or she is also expected to start studying
according to adults' wishes.Many children of my son's age take piano lessons,painting classes
and even English lessons.It looks as if Chinese adults think that just playing without learning
anything is a waste of time.So in this respect our children appear spoiled,just because they
are allowed to play.But without this sort of play how can Western children develop such free
and rich imaginations?In fact the connection between this imagination and the creativity is so
important in the children' s future life.
1．In which way do most Chinese children seem to be spoiled?
A．They can be supported by their parents.
B．They can play whenever they want.
C．They need not behave themselves.
D．Their demands can always be satisfied.
2．In the author's opinion,the life of a Chinese child is________.
A．rather hard  
B．rather easy  
C．independent 
D．colorful
3．The author thinks Western children appear spoiled because______.
A．they can manage time by themselves
B．they can have the freedom to play
C．they can take piano lessons
D．they may have expensive toys
4．The best title of the passage could be________.
A．Chinese children's early education
B．How to develop kids' imagination
C．What is the real love for children
D．The imagination and creativity
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     Technology is the application(应用) of knowledge to production. Thanks to modern
technology, we have been able to increase greatly the efficiency of our work force. New
machines and new methods have helped cut down time and expense while increasing overall
output. This has meant more production and a higher standard of living. For most of us in
America, modern technology is thought of as the reason why we can have cars and television
sets. However, technology has also increased the amount of food available to us, by means of
modern farming machinery and animal breeding techniques, and has extended our life span via
(通过) medical technology.
     Will mankind continue to live longer and have a higher quality of life? In large measure the
answer depends on technology and our ability to use it widely. If we keep making progress as
we have over the past fifty years, the answer is definitely yes. The advancement of technology
depends upon research and development, and the latest statistics(统计) show that the United
States is continuing to pump billions of dollars annually(每年) into such efforts. So while we are
running out of some scarce resources(少的资源) we may well find technological substitutes
(代用品)for many of them through our research programs.
     Therefore, in the final analysis the three major factors of production(land, labor and capital)
are all influenced by technology. When we need new skills, on techniques in medicine, people
will start developing new technology to meet those needs. As equipment proves to be slow or
inefficient, new machines will be invented. Technology responds to our needs in helping us
maintain our standard of living.
1. What is the best title for the passage?
A. The definition of technology
B. Modern technology
C. The application of technology
D. The development of technology
2. Which is the main idea of the passage?
A. Modern technology is the key to the improvement of standard of living.
B. The three major factors of production (land, labor and capital) are all influenced by technology.
C. Technology is the response to our needs.
D. The United States is making great efforts to advance its technology.
3. According to the passage, people can live a long life with the help of _______.
A. higher quality of life
B. medical technology
C. modern farming machinery
D. technological substitute
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     For the first time the workforce has seen more women than men-a historic decline (下降) caused by long-
term changes in women's roles and lots of job losses for men during this decline.
     Women hold 50.83% of the nation's 132 million jobs this month and they're gaining the vast majority of jobs
in the few parts of the economy that are growing, according to the most recent numbers from Mr. Hartman, a
workforce researcher. That's a record high for a measure that's been growing steadily for decades and speeding
during the decline. At the current speed, women will become a majority of workers next two months.
     According to the report, women have struggled long and hard to get to this point, and the change reflects the
growing importance of women as salary earners, but it doesn't show full equality, because women work fewer
hours than men and hold more part-time jobs and earn 77% of what men make on average. Men still control
higher-paying positions.
     Women have been a growing share of the once heavily male labor force for nearly a century, recording
shocking increases in events such as World War II. This time, the improvement came from a sharp decline that
has been cruel on male-controlled professions such as construction and manufacturing.
     The only growing parts of the economy like health care, education and government have traditionally hired
mostly women. This kind of control has increased in the past because the money added by government has been
usually directed to education, health care and state and local government offices.
     The increased number in local government's 14.6 million-person workforce is especially remarkable. Cities,
schools, water authorities and other government offices have cut 86,000 men from payrolls (工资名单) during
the decline, while adding 167,000 women, according to the research report.
     Equality in workforce numbers reflects a long-term cultural change, says Maureen Honey, author of a book
about the government's efforts to persuade women to work outside the home during World War II. "The image
that men have to be the bread winner has changed," Maureen Honey says.
1. What happens to the workforce during this decline?
A. Women take most jobs in the economy.
B. Men take up the most important jobs.
C. A large number of men got unemployed.
D. Women have got full equality as men.
2. What does Mr. Hartman think of women working fewer hours than men?
A. It's because women have to do part-time jobs.
B. It's due to men's control of higher-paying jobs.
C. It reflects women's-financial importance in family.
D. It shows women haven't got their equal share yet.
3. During World War II, the women workforce _____.
A. increased sharply and obviously
B. decreased suddenly and quickly
C. took over the male-controlled jobs
D. made a record-high employment rate
4. The passage mainly explains the point that _____.
A. equality in workforce number is a cultural issue
B. women will soon become a majority of workers
C. women should not be limited at their home
D. the decline has perfectly changed the workforce
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Dear editor,
     Several days ago, I heard that a dear friend of mine had killed herself. I was deep in sorrow by the sudden news. I can't keep calm any longer. 1_____.
     Life is so precious. If we can slip into death in an impulsive (冲动的) moment, what use in all our
efforts and hopes? Our families, our ambitions, everything is flung into total darkness. 2_____.
     Nevertheless, the suicide rate increases year by year, particularly of young people. Reasons may vary
from person to person, 3_____.
     First, today's young people are morally weak. They hunger for success but can not face failure; they are eager to be understood but afraid of opening their hearts to others. They live in a wide world, from east to west, ancient to present, but their hearts beat in a narrow desert, closed tight, unable to communicate. Each becomes an isolated fortress (孤堡), lonely, and weak.
     4_____. As a young teacher, she was devoted to her work but was disappointed with her students' occasional failures. She fell in love with a colleague but he deserted her. With no close friends, disappointed at work and in love, death seemed to her the only remaining choice and she took it.
     Another reason for the weakness of today's youth, in my opinion, comes from society's pressures.
5_____. On the other hand, society refuses to accept that children sometimes do fail. But failure is more important because it can teach the young how to win next time.
     What can we do to save the desperate young?
A. I'm always thinking about life and death
B. yet I think they share something in common
C. The young are forced to try too hard to succeed
D. My friend is a good example of that
E. And death allows no time for regret
F. people love success and are afraid of failure
G. failure is the mother of success
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     Increasingly, Americans are becoming their own doctors, by going online to diagnose their symptoms,
order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet
pharmacies (药店). Some avoid doctors because of the high cost of medical care, especially if they lack
health insurance. Or they may stay because they find it embarrassing to discuss their weight, alcohol
consumption or couch potato habits. Patients may also fear what they might learn about their health, or
they distrust physicians because of negative experiences in the past. But playing doctor can also be a deadly
game.
     Every day, more than six million Americans turn to the Internet for medical answers-most of them
aren't nearly skeptical enough of what they find. A 2002 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project
found that 72 percent of those surveyed believe all or most of what they read on health websites. They
shouldn't. Look up "headache", and the chances of finding reliable and complete information, free from a
motivation for commercial gain, are only one in ten, reports an April 2005 Brown Medical School study. Of
the 169 websites the researchers rated, only 16 scored as "high quality". Recent studies found faulty facts
about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to warn that a large amount of incomplete,
inaccurate and even dangerous information exists on the Internet.
     The problem is most people don't know the safe way to surf the Web. "They use a search engine like
Google, get 18 trillion choices and start clicking. But that's risky, because almost anybody can put up a site
that looks authoritative (权威的), so it'd hard to know if what you're reading is reasonable or not," says Dr.
Sarah Bass from the National Cancer Institute.
1. According to the text, an increasing number of American _____.
A. are suffering from mental disorders
B. turn to Internet pharmacies for help
C. like to play deadly games with doctors
D. are skeptical about surfing medical websites
2. Some Americans stay away from doctors because they _____.
A. find medical devices easy to operate
B. prefer to be diagnosed online by doctors
C. are afraid to face the truth of their health
D. are afraid to misuse their health insurance
3. According to the study of Brown Medical School, ______.
A. more than 6 million Americans distrust doctors
B. only 1/10 of medical websites aim to make a profit
C. about 1/10 of the websites surveyed are of high quality
D. 72% of health websites offer incomplete and faulty facts
4. Which of the following is the author's main argument?
A. It's cheap to self-treat your own illness.
B. It's embarrassing to discuss your bad habits.
C. It's reasonable to put up a medical website.
D. It's dangerous to be your own doctor.