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From the window of my room, I could see a tall cotton-rose hibiscus. In spring the tree looked very 1 dotted with red blossom. This inspiring neighbor often set my mind 2 . I gradually regarded it as my best friend.
3 , when I opened the window one morning, to my 4 , the tree was almost bare beyond 5 as a result of the storm the night before. Struck by this scene, I was 6 with a sudden sadness at the thought "all the blossom is doomed to fall". I could not help 7 with emotion: the 8 of life never runs smooth, for there are so many ups and downs, twists and turns. The vicissitudes （变迁） of my life saw my beloved friends 9 one after another. Isn’t it similar to the tree shedding its flowers in the 10 ?
This event 11 from my memory as time went by. One day after I came home from the countryside, I found the room airless and 12 opened the window. Something outside 13 my eye. It was a plum tree all red with blossom set off beautifully by the sunset. The surprise discovery overwhelmed me with 14
When the last petal （花瓣） dropped all the joyful admiration for the hibiscus was gone as if nothing was left, 15 the landscape was again charming with the red blossom to 16 people of life’s alternation and continuance. Can’t it be said that life is actually a symphony, a 17 composition of gain loss?
Standing by the window lost in thought for a long time, I realized that no scenery in the world remains 18 . As long as you keep your heart 19 in the sun, every dawn will present a fine prospect and the world will always be about new 20.
1. A. stout B. attractive C. thick D. fruitless
2. A. working B. pausing C. changing D. sinking
3. A. Therefore B. Besides C. However D. Consequently
4. A. annoyance B. delight C. relief D. amazement
5. A. praise B. description C. recognition D. compare
6. A. associated B. decorated C. faced D. seized
7. A. laughing B. sighing C. crying D. praying
8. A. course B. quality C. standard D. aim
9. A. gathering B. greeting C. parting D. fleeing
10. A. wind B. sun C. shade D. light
11. A. turned B. faded C. appeared D. recalled
12. A. casually B. excitedly C. worriedly D. angrily
13. A. struck B. caught C. attracted D. drew
14. A. sadness B. regret C. disappointment D. pleasure
15. A. while B. when C. until D. as
16. A. warn B. remind C. inform D. rid
17. A. unpleasant B. lengthy C. harmonious D. dull
18. A. untouched B. unnoticed C. unknown D. unchanged
19. A. bathed B. lost C. absorbed D. trapped
20. A. barriers B. concepts C. troubles D. hopes
1-5 BACDC 6-10 DBACA 11-15 BABDC 16-20 BCDAD
This brief book is aimed at high school students, but speaks to anyone learning at any stage of life.
Its formal, serious style closely matches its content, a school-masterly book on schooling. The author, W. H. Armstrong, starts with the basics: reading and writing. In his opinion, reading doesn’t just mean recognizing each word on the page; it means taking in the information, digesting it and incorporating it into oneself just as one digests a sandwich and makes it a part of himself. The goal is to bring the information back to life, not just to treat it as dead facts on paper from dead trees. Reading and writing cannot be completely separated from each other; in fact, the aim of reading is to express the information you have got from the text. I’ve seen it again and again: someone who can’t express an idea after reading a text is just as ineffective as someone who hasn’t read it at all.
Only a third of the book remains after that discussion, which Armstrong devotes to specific tips for studying languages, math, science and history. He generally handles these topics thoroughly and equally, except for some weakness in the science and math sections and a bit too much passion regarding history. Well, he was a history teacher —if conveyed only a tenth of his passion to his students, that was a hundred times more than my history teachers ever got across.
To my disappointment, in this part of the book he ignores the arts．As a matter of fact, they demand all the concentration, and study that math arid science do, though the study differs slightly in kind．Although it's commonly believed that the arts can only be naturally acquired, actually, learning the arts is no more natural than learning French or mathematics．
My other comment is that tke text aged．The first edition apparently dates to the 1960s—none of the references （参考文献） seem newer than the late 1950s．As a result, the discussion misses the entire computer age．
These are small points, though, and don't affect the main discussion．I recommend it to any student and any teacher, including the self-taught student．
【小题1】According to Armstrong, the goal of reading is to ____ .
| A．gain knowledge and expand one's view |
| B．understand the meaning between the lines |
| C．express ideas based on what one has read |
| D．get information and keep it alive in memory |
| A．requires great efforts | B．demands real passion |
| C．is less natural than learning maths | D．is as natural as learning a language |
| A．Some ideas are slightly contradictory． |
| B．There is too much discussion on studying science． |
| C．The style is too serious． |
| D．It lacks new information． |
| A．an advertisement | B．a book review |
| C．a feature story | D．a news report |
Scientists at Harvard University and Bates College find female chimpanzees (黑猩猩) appear to treat sticks as dolls, carrying them around until they have children of their own. Young males engage in such behavior much less frequently.
The new work by Sonya M. Kahlenberg and Richard W. Wrangham, described this week in the journal Current Biology, provides the first evidence of a wild nonhuman species playing with dolls, as well as the first known sex difference in a wild animal’s choice of playthings.
The two researchers say their work adds to a growing body of evidence that human children are probably born with their own ideas of how they want to behave, rather than simply mirroring other girls who play with dolls and boys who play with trucks. Doll play among humans could have its origins in object—carrying by earlier apes (猿类), they say, suggesting that toy selection is probably not due entirely to socialization.
“In humans, there are obvious sex differences in children’s toy play, and these are remarkably similar across cultures,” says Kahlenberg. “While socialization by elders and peers has been the primary explanation, our work suggests that biology may also have an important role to play in activity preferences.”
In 14 years of data on chimpanzee behavior at the Kibale National Park in Uganda, Kahlenberg and Wrangham counted more than 100 examples of stickcarrying. Some young chimpanzees carried sticks into the nest to sleep with them and on one occasion built a separate nest for the stick. “We have seen juveniles occasionally carrying sticks for many years, and because they sometimes treated them rather like dolls, we wanted to know if in general this behavior tended to represent something like playing with dolls,” says Wrangham, a Professor at Harvard. “If the doll hypothesis (假设) was right, we thought that females should carry sticks more than males do, and that the chimpanzees should stop carrying sticks when they had their first child. We have now watched enough young chimpanzees to prove both points.”
【小题1】What does a female chimpanzee do with sticks?
| A．She gives them to her child to play with. |
| B．She treats them as dolls. |
| C．She makes useful tools from them. |
| D．She treats them as weapons. |
| A．Sex difference. | B．Socialization. |
| C．Environment. | D．Cultural difference. |
| A．socialization has nothing to do with human’s choice of playthings |
| B．sex difference is the only factor in human’s choice of playthings |
| C．the biology factor may also influence toy choice |
| D．people choose different toys in different cultures |
| A．both humans and chimpanzees choose their playthings due to sex difference |
| B．different factors cause humans and chimpanzees to choose different playthings |
| C．only female chimpanzees have playthings |
| D．chimpanzees usually choose playthings for their children |
There are many ways to find a job. It can be as easy as walking into a neighborhood store to look at its announcement board. Local stores often have areas where people can put small signs telling what kind of service they need or can provide. Such services include caring for children or cleaning houses.
Or, job searchers can look in the newspaper. Local newspapers have employment announcements placed by companies seeking workers.
Another popular tool for finding jobs is the Internet. For example, people in four hundred and fifty cities around the world can use the Craigslist Web site to buy objects, meet people or find a job. Craigslist says that it receives two million new job listings each month.
Another useful way to find a job is through a college or university. For example, students at the University of Texas in Austin can go to the Career Exploration Center to get help in finding a job. Of course, looking for a job requires knowing what kind of work you want to do. For example, there is a book called “What Color is Your Parachute (降落伞)?” by Richard Bolles. This book has been helping people choose a career (职业) since it was first published in nineteen seventy.
Some experts also help people find jobs. Susan W. Miller owns a company called California Career Services in Los Angeles. She says her company helps people find jobs by first helping them understand their strengths, goals and interests. Then she provides them with methods and resources to help them find the right job.
【小题1】What is the passage mainly about?
| A．Finding a job. | B．College students’ part-time jobs. |
| C．Craigslist Web site. | D．The relation between study and work. |
| A．sell your old things |
| B．do some shopping online |
| C．create your own announcement board |
| D．get useful information about 450 cities |
| A．work on the airplane | B．buy a parachute | C．publish a book | D．find a suitable job |
| A．companies often put job information in local shops |
| B．the Internet is the most popular tool for job hunters in the USA |
| C．Susan W. Miller’s company is helping people choose careers |
| D．California Career Services mainly serves university students |
| A．Three. | B．Four. | C．Five. | D．Six. |