A recent survey of teachers found that an unhealthy passion with celebrity culture is having a negative impact on British students’ studies and it discovered that celebrity couple, the Beckhams, are the favorites among most students. Many students are ignoring building their own careers to seek a chance at fame instead, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) survey found.

Almost two-thirds of teachers said sports stars were the type of celebrity many pupils wanted to follow while more than half of students wanted to be pop stars.

The survey said the celebrities that students aspired to mostly were David and Victoria Beckham who live in Los Angeles now. Soccer player Beckham is on the top of the survey while in second place, with almost a third of the survey’s votes, was his 33-year-old pop star wife.

Almost half of the 300 teachers surveyed said pupils tried to look like or behave like the celebrities they most admired, with some girls even dressing "unsuitably".

"We are not surprised about the influence of celebrity culture in schools —it reflects the current media passion with celebrities and the effect of celebrity culture on society as a whole," ATL general secretary Mary Bousted said in a statement.

"Celebrities can have a positive effect on pupils. They can raise pupils’ aspirations and desires for the future. However, celebrity culture can spread the idea that celebrity status is the greatest achievement and reinforce the belief that other career choices are not as valuable," said one primary school teacher. "Too many of the pupils believe that school success is unnecessary, because they will be able to get fame and fortune quite easily through a reality TV show."

The story mainly tells us that ______.

  A. the Beckhams are mostly admired in Britain

  B. most students think that being pop stars is more valuable than other career achievements

  C. the celebrity passion has a harmful impact upon British students’ studies

  D. a survey was made recently about the popularity of the stars

According to the survey, Victoria Beckham ______.

  A. is a pop star most students admire

  B. goes in the second place of the celebrities admired

  C. won two-thirds of the votes

  D. lives in New York now

Why does the author mention that pupils tried to look like or behave like the celebrities they most admired, with some girls even dressing “unsuitably”?

  A. The pupils think it interesting to pretend to be the celebrities.

  B. The behavior or the dress of celebrities can be followed as examples.

C. The author wants to show the negative influence these celebrities had on the students.

D. The author just wants to show being pop stars is very valuable to the students.

What is not TRUE according to the story?

  A. Celebrities can’t have positive impact on the students.

  B. Beckham and Victoria are husband and wife.

C. The so-called celebrity culture does harm to the pupils’ ideas about achievement.

  D. Many students believe that school success is unnecessary.

The best title of the story is _____.

 Sports Star David Beckham 

B. Survey of Students about Celebrities

C Harmful Effect of Celebrities on Students 

D. Better to Be Pop Stars Than Sports Stars

 A friend of mine was sitting in the living room one day when his cat dragged in a little “gift” in its mouth—a dead animal of some sort. Taking a closer look, he was surprised to  36 it as the bunny(小兔子) that  37 Mary, the young daughter of the family next door. My friend felt  38 , believing his cat had killed Mary’s bunny.
My quick-thinking friend came up with a plan.  39  from the cat’s mouth the dead animal, which by now was a     40 mess, he put it in the kitchen sink. With a little warm water and some shampoo, he tried to  41 the dead bunny as best he could. Then he took a hair dryer and blowdried the bunny  42 it looked pretty good.
Finally, under the cover of darkness, he crept into the next-door garden and placed it  43 in the cage. He managed to make the bunny look very  44 there in his little box.
The next morning, my friend looked out of the window and noticed a crowd of people  45 around the rabbit hutch(笼). Everyone seemed to be talking and pointing. My friend  46 to go over and act like any normal  47 neighbor and find out what was going on.
When he got there, Mary’s mother said to my friend, “You won’t believe this! It’s a(n)   48 thing! Mary’s bunny  49 a few days ago, and we buried that little bunny right over there…”
Have you ever tried to cover up one wrongdoing with another? Covering up only makes matters  50 .
When we get caught doing something  51 , for example, we may  52 to cover it up with a lie. But just like Mary’s bunny, the result is  53 what we expected. We  54 looking foolish. We would have been better off admitting we were wrong and accepting the  55 . What do you think of it?

【小题1】
A.treatB.catchC.appreciateD.recognize
【小题2】
A.looked forB.got alongC.belonged toD.resulted from
【小题3】
A.pleasedB.terribleC.confusedD.excited
【小题4】
A.LookingB.RemovingC.PreventingD.Hearing
【小题5】
A.dirtyB.lovely C.giftedD.strange
【小题6】
A.dress upB.bring upC.clean upD.make up
【小题7】
A.whenever B.thoughC.beforeD.until
【小题8】
A.carefullyB.strangelyC.especiallyD.wonderfully
【小题9】
A.seriousB.accurateC.balanced D.natural
【小题10】
A.cheeredB.gatheredC.ranD.looked
【小题11】
A.wishedB.decidedC.hesitatedD.meant
【小题12】
A.anxiousB.discouragedC.wiseD.curious
【小题13】
A.strangeB.difficultC.committedD.annoying
【小题14】
A.passed awayB.ran awayC.set outD.went up
【小题15】
A.moreB.worseC.betterD.faster
【小题16】
A.excitingB.perfectC.strangeD.wrong
【小题17】
A.refuseB.attemptC.promiseD.pretend
【小题18】
A.oftenB.justC.alwaysD.never
【小题19】
A.get downB.end upC.go throughD.set out
【小题20】
A.consequencesB.opportunitiesC.expectationsD.choices

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In the United States, engineering is a profession that has been dominated historically by men. Even today, it’s still true that few women become civil or chemical or mechanical engineers, but that’s something www.EngineerGirl.org aims to change. Young women who visit the web site can find out about a great career choice they might not have considered.

“Women are very much underrepresented in engineering and in engineering education programs and then of course, down the road, in the engineering workforce. So only about 20 percent of engineering undergraduate degrees go to women, and then only about nine percent of working engineers are women.”

Mary Mattis in the National Academy of Engineering says the EngineerGirl website aims to reach young women around ages 11 through 14, when they are just getting old enough to start thinking about their futures.

“We know from the research that middle-school girls are at a critical point in their lives, and that it’s a time when we need to reach them, both with an understanding, increasing their awareness of interesting fields in engineering, what a wonderful productive and exciting career you can have as an engineer. But we also need to reach them at that time because you have to take certain courses, and you can’t start thinking about taking those courses when you’re a junior in high school.”

Engineering is a demanding course of study — there is a lot of science and mathematics, for many girls and even boys, that can be challenging. But Ms. Mattis says that the EngineerGirl website stresses that engineering can also be fun and exciting.

“It’s about designing things. It’s about changing the world for people. It’s about making a difference. And, in addition, you can make a good living; you can be independent economically by becoming an engineer. All of those things are messages that girls need to get.”

While most engineers go into traditional fields such as mechanical and electrical engineering, the EngineerGirl site also highlights unusual engineering careers in fields such as sports engineering and — believe it or not — chocolate engineering.

“There’s a section called ‘why be an engineer,’ and that talks about the many opportunities and increasingly different opportunities like with bio-engineering and environmental engineering, some fields that might appeal to girls who want to make a difference or have a meaning for their careers beyond earning an income.”Even if you are not a girl in the target age group, there’s a lot of interesting information on the site, including biographies of some notable women engineers.

Title

Website(1)     Girls to learn Engineering

Present(2)     for the engineering profession in the USA

The majority of men take up the profession throughout(3)    , while only a small number of women work as engineers.

(4)     of the website

To  make  young  women(5)     of interesting  fields  in engineering and what productivity and(6)     the career of being engineers can bring them.

(7)     of being engineers

* It can be fun and exciting.

* It can(8)     the world for people.

* You can make a good living.

* You can gain economic(9)     by becoming an engineer.

Other fields concerning engineering

Various opportunities are talked about like bio-engineering and engineering(10)     to sports, and even chocolate.

 

It was a cold winter. The day my husband fell to his death, it started to snow, just  31 any November day. His   32 , when I found it, was lightly covered with snow. It snowed almost every day for the next four months, while I sat on the couch and watched it   33 . One morning, I walked slowly   34  and was surprised to see a snow remover clearing my driveway and the bent back of a woman clearing my walk. I dropped to my knees and crawled back upstairs,  35 those good people would not see me. I was   36 . My first thought was, how would I ever  37 them? I didn’t have the  38 to brush my hair,   39 clear someone’s walk.

Before Jon’s death, I felt proud that I   40 asked for favors. I identified myself by my competence and  41 . So who was I if I was no longer capable? How could I   42 myself if I just sat on the couch every day and watched the snow fall?

Learning to receive the love and   43 from others wasn’t easy. Friends cooked for me and I cried. Finally, my friend Kathy said, “Mary, cooking for you isn’t a   44 for me; it makes me feel good to be able to do something for you.”

Over and over, I heard   45 words from the people who supported me during those  46 days. One wise man told me, “You aren’t doing nothing because being fully open to your  47 may be the hardest work you will ever do.”

I am not the person I   48 was, but in many ways I have changed for the   49 . I’ve been surprised to learn that there is incredible freedom coming form  50 one’s worst fear and walking away whole. I believe there is strength, for sure, in accepting a dark period of our life.

1.

A.on

B.in

C.like

D.for

 

2.

A.body

B.soul

C.shoe

D.footprint

 

3.

A.sweep up

B.drop off

C.fall down

D.pile up

 

4.

A.upstairs

B.downstairs

C.indoors

D.outdoors

 

5.

A.so

B.yet

C.and

D.for

 

6.

A.delighted

B.disappointed

C.annoyed

D.ashamed

 

7.

A.pay

B.award

C.reward

D.treat

 

8.

A.courage

B.strength

C.spirit

D.power

 

9.

A.stand alone

B.leave alone

C.sit alone

D.let alone

 

10.

A.frequently

B.gradually

C.hardly

D.uncertainly

 

11.

A.intelligence

B.independence

C.excellence

D.qualification

 

12.

A.achieve

B.praise

C.respect

D.promote

 

13.

A.supply

B.support

C.contribution

D.similar

 

14.

A.burden

B.job

C.business

D.sorrow

 

15.

A.sensitive

B.same

C.considerate

D.similar

 

16.

A.blue

B.rainy

C.bright

D.snowy

 

17.

A.despair

B.difficulty

C.pain

D.regret

 

18.

A.still

B.once

C.even

D.never

 

19.

A.worse

B.less

C.more

D.better

 

20.

A.facing

B.noticing

C.managing

D.expressing

 

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