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  A new law is leading to debate in Wisconsin.The state recently lowered its minimum(最小的)hunting age.Under the new plan, children as young as 10 may hunt with an adult.Each pair can have only one gun or bow, and the adult and child must stay within arm's reach of each other at all times.

  Some say the new plan is on target.They believe that teaching more kids how to hunt will protect Wisconsin's traditions.Hunting is a way of life for many residents in the state.However, other people say giving kids control of weapons is asking for trouble.They worry that someone will get hurt.

  Should kids be allowed to hunt? Student reporters Michael Tobin and Emily Jue express their opinions about the issue.

  Yes.Hunting is a valuable skill for kids to learn.

  I think children under the age of l2 should be able to hunt because hunting can be a very useful skill.If you were stranded(陷于困境的)in the wild with nothing but a gun, you would have a better chance of survival if you knew how to use it.

  The law makes sure that kids learn with an adult present.Having an experienced hunter that you know teaching you is extremely valuable.Paul Huchette, a retired businessperson from Latrobe, Pa., agrees.“Kids under the age of l2 should be able to hunt under the supervision(监管)of a parent,” Huchette says.

  Michacl Tobin, Oregon

  No.Hunting is dangerous for young children.

  I believe that children should not be allowed to hunt.Placing a gun in a child's hand isn't safe and could result in unthinkable consequences.You are teaching young children to get joy through killing and by watching animals suffer.They can also use their guns at the wrong time for the wrong reasons.

  Also, children aren't physically mature enough.They can easily miss their targets and hurt themselves or others.How would you feel if a bullet came whizzing(飞驰而过)by your house?

  “Teaching young children a sport that involves killing an animal isn't very wise,” says Lily Cao, a fifth grader from Houston, Texas.

  Emily Jue, Texas

(1)

We can learn from Para.2 that by lowering its hunting age, Wisconsin is likely to ________

[  ]

A.

protect the state's hunting traditions

B.

stop l0-year-olds from hunting

C.

put more animals in danger

D.

take stricter control of weapons

(2)

How does Michael Tobin feel about the state's new law?

[  ]

A.

Inspired.

B.

Embarrassed.

C.

Upset.

D.

Doubtful.

(3)

Which of the following statements agrees with Emily Jue's view?

[  ]

A.

Children should be allowed to hunt together with parents.

B.

Many young children are not aware how to use guns properly.

C.

Parents should be patient while teaching children to hunt.

D.

Children are usually confused about what animals should be protected.

(4)

author writes this passage to ________

[  ]

A.

introduce Wisconsin's new law

B.

tell how to teach kids hunting

C.

discuss the consequences of using a gun

D.

argue whether kids should be allowed to hunt

完形填空

  Anger is a natural emotion that everyone experiences in life.Some researchers believe the first sound a baby makes when born could be a sign of anger.Anger may be the original or first emotion we feel and   1  .Imagine, before thirst, hunger, love,   2   or any other descri-bable feelings, we may experience anger.Not only is anger a natural emotion, but also it is in many cases a   3  emotion.Anger can   4   individuals to do positive and memorable acts.Sometimes, we have to be   5   at something bad and unjust, or even with our parents,   6   we can do what needs to be done to correct wrongs or make things better.But of course, that is not   7   we usually think of anger.

  Most people think of anger as an emotion we   8   keep under control.  9   are sometimes sent to their rooms or punished for expressing anger in an excessive(过度的)way, and pa-rents usually tell a child to “get control” of himself when the child   10   anger.We may get angry with friends or at work, but we know it is usually not   11   to show it.We have to control the anger or   12   what may be the negative consequences.Very   13   in life, we have learnt that anger is something that must be controlled.We've learnt this for a good   14  

  We know that uncontrolled anger may   15   fights, car accidents, bad relationships with others, unacceptable social behaviors, and many other problems.Meanwhile, many experts say that if one   16   his anger in, it can even contribute to severe physical and   17   health problems.So what can we do to understand and   18   this natural emotion that we call anger?

  Experts offer many   19   to excessive and harmful anger, such as talking about what causes the anger with someone who you trust and is a good friend,   20   a situation that causes anger, beating on a pillow, exercising more in one's daily life and many other methods.

(1)

[  ]

A.

fight against

B.

react to

C.

base on

D.

show off

(2)

[  ]

A.

creation

B.

imagination

C.

desire

D.

idea

(3)

[  ]

A.

strong

B.

funny

C.

healthy

D.

dangerous

(4)

[  ]

A.

motivate

B.

permit

C.

instruct

D.

promise

(5)

[  ]

A.

shocked

B.

sorry

C.

disappointed

D.

angry

(6)

[  ]

A.

before

B.

when

C.

after

D.

as

(7)

[  ]

A.

what

B.

why

C.

when

D.

how

(8)

[  ]

A.

would

B.

may

C.

could

D.

must

(9)

[  ]

A.

Babies

B.

Students

C.

Children

D.

Patients

(10)

[  ]

A.

seems

B.

shows

C.

says

D.

performs

(11)

[  ]

A.

proper

B.

delightful

C.

interesting

D.

comfortable

(12)

[  ]

A.

realize

B.

refuse

C.

suffer

D.

enjoy

(13)

[  ]

A.

late

B.

early

C.

rarely

D.

often

(14)

[  ]

A.

experience

B.

excuse

C.

reason

D.

purpose

(15)

[  ]

A.

set about

B.

bring in

C.

put forward

D.

lead to

(16)

[  ]

A.

holds

B.

lets

C.

carries

D.

takes

(17)

[  ]

A.

spiritual

B.

mental

C.

chemical

D.

emotional

(18)

[  ]

A.

remove

B.

comfort

C.

bear

D.

calm

(19)

[  ]

A.

explanations

B.

solutions

C.

approaches

D.

introductions

(20)

[  ]

A.

leaving

B.

creating

C.

joining

D.

directing

 

第四部分:任务型阅读(共10小题;每小题l分,满分10分)

请认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意:每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。

Experts debunk Maya doomsday(末日) predictions -- But that hasn't stopped books, movies from cashing in.

If the ancient Maya and filmmaker Roland Emmerich are correct, the apocalypse(大灾变) will happen very fast, maybe quicker than his new 2½-hour movie.

Predictions of global ruination are rippling around the globe with seismic(地震的) force, all loosely based on a 5,000-year Maya calendar that ends Dec. 21, 2012. Countless Web sites and blogs anticipate(预料) the end of days, as do various New Age groups and would-be prophets(预言者) offering guidance and how-to tips. On Amazon.com , you can read hundreds of book titles combining the year 2012 with terms such as “apocalypse,” “catastrophe” and “end of the world.”

As always, doomsday sells — and a lot of people are buying it.

“There's the psychobabble(心理呓语) aspect,” said Robert Epstein, former editor of Psychology Today magazine and a lecturer at the University of California San Diego. “It's the Sigmund Freud/death wish idea: People glom onto(对…感兴趣) doomsday predictions because there's some small part of them that wants to die, and die spectacularly(壮观的). I don't believe it, but it's one way to look at this.”

It's Emmerich's way. The German director specializes in wreaking havoc on an epic scale, from climatic cataclysm in 2004's “The Day After Tomorrow” to angry aliens and reptiles in “Independence Day” and “Godzilla.”  In “2012,” he finishes the job.

The digitized disasters of “2012” are oversized, overwrought and sometimes literally over the top, as when a humongous tsunami washes over the Himalayan mountains, whose average height exceeds 20,000 feet. Meanwhile in Los Angeles, a 10.5-magnitude earthquake — a temblor at least 30 times more powerful than any real quake ever recorded — yanks the city apart like a giant zipper, sending chunks sliding into the Pacific Ocean.

That's not physically possible, of course. Nor is a 10.5-magnitude quake, said Thomas Rockwell, a geologist at San Diego State University. To generate that much energy, “you'd need a rupture that extends all around the planet.”

All of that other stuff “is pure Hollywood bunk,” said Bernard Jackson at the UCSD Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences.

Entertaining, though, unless you happen to believe the Maya really predicted the end of the world. They didn't, said Geoff Braswell, a UCSD anthropologist. The long-count calendar doesn't signal the end of anything except the end of that particular calendar. “It's just like a car odometer. Unfortunately, hardly anybody reads ancient Mayan. Modern media hype(骗局), on the other hand, is almost inescapable.

Nicholas Christenfeld, a professor of psychology at UCSD, suggests a more elemental human need. Being swallowed by the Earth or incinerated in a giant fireball “fits neatly with the idea that people want to believe there's a plan, that existence isn't random and pointless,” Christenfeld said.

“We all missed creation, but if we can bear witness at the other end, be part of some grand cosmic destruction, that gives life meaning,” he said. 

It helps, too, not to think very hard about the facts, said Lou Manza, a professor of psychology at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pa. “These claims have been around forever, and they have all been false, 100 percent wrong,” Manza said.

Of course, prognosticators(预言者, 占卜者) usually have an explanation for that, Christenfeld said.

“They might say it was a misinterpretation,” he said. “They got the date wrong. They might claim humanity acted in time to prevent the destruction. Or faith came to the rescue because people believed something bad was going to happen, it didn't have to happen.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

第四部分:任务型阅读(共10小题;每小题l分,满分10分)

请认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意:每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。

Experts debunk Maya doomsday(末日) predictions -- But that hasn't stopped books, movies from cashing in.

If the ancient Maya and filmmaker Roland Emmerich are correct, the apocalypse(大灾变) will happen very fast, maybe quicker than his new 2??-hour movie.

Predictions of global ruination are rippling around the globe with seismic(地震的) force, all loosely based on a 5,000-year Maya calendar that ends Dec. 21, 2012. Countless Web sites and blogs anticipate(预料) the end of days, as do various New Age groups and would-be prophets(预言者) offering guidance and how-to tips. On Amazon.com , you can read hundreds of book titles combining the year 2012 with terms such as “apocalypse,” “catastrophe” and “end of the world.”

As always, doomsday sells — and a lot of people are buying it.

“There's the psychobabble(心理呓语) aspect,” said Robert Epstein, former editor of Psychology Today magazine and a lecturer at the University of California San Diego. “It's the Sigmund Freud/death wish idea: People glom onto(对…感兴趣) doomsday predictions because there's some small part of them that wants to die, and die spectacularly(壮观的). I don't believe it, but it's one way to look at this.”

It's Emmerich's way. The German director specializes in wreaking havoc on an epic scale, from climatic cataclysm in 2004's “The Day After Tomorrow” to angry aliens and reptiles in “Independence Day” and “Godzilla.”  In “2012,” he finishes the job.

The digitized disasters of “2012” are oversized, overwrought and sometimes literally over the top, as when a humongous tsunami washes over the Himalayan mountains, whose average height exceeds 20,000 feet. Meanwhile in Los Angeles, a 10.5-magnitude earthquake — a temblor at least 30 times more powerful than any real quake ever recorded — yanks the city apart like a giant zipper, sending chunks sliding into the Pacific Ocean.

That's not physically possible, of course. Nor is a 10.5-magnitude quake, said Thomas Rockwell, a geologist at San Diego State University. To generate that much energy, “you'd need a rupture that extends all around the planet.”

All of that other stuff “is pure Hollywood bunk,” said Bernard Jackson at the UCSD Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences.

Entertaining, though, unless you happen to believe the Maya really predicted the end of the world. They didn't, said Geoff Braswell, a UCSD anthropologist. The long-count calendar doesn't signal the end of anything except the end of that particular calendar. “It's just like a car odometer. Unfortunately, hardly anybody reads ancient Mayan. Modern media hype(骗局), on the other hand, is almost inescapable.

Nicholas Christenfeld, a professor of psychology at UCSD, suggests a more elemental human need. Being swallowed by the Earth or incinerated in a giant fireball “fits neatly with the idea that people want to believe there's a plan, that existence isn't random and pointless,” Christenfeld said.

“We all missed creation, but if we can bear witness at the other end, be part of some grand cosmic destruction, that gives life meaning,” he said. 

It helps, too, not to think very hard about the facts, said Lou Manza, a professor of psychology at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pa. “These claims have been around forever, and they have all been false, 100 percent wrong,” Manza said.

Of course, prognosticators(预言者, 占卜者) usually have an explanation for that, Christenfeld said.

“They might say it was a misinterpretation,” he said. “They got the date wrong. They might claim humanity acted in time to prevent the destruction. Or faith came to the rescue because people believed something bad was going to happen, it didn't have to happen.”

 


Experts debunk Maya doomsday(末日) predictions -- But that hasn't stopped books, movies from cashing in.

If the ancient Maya and filmmaker Roland Emmerich are correct, the apocalypse(大灾变) will happen very fast, maybe quicker than his new 2½-hour movie.

Predictions of global ruination are rippling around the globe with seismic(地震的) force, all loosely based on a 5,000-year Maya calendar that ends Dec. 21, 2012. Countless Web sites and blogs anticipate(预料) the end of days, as do various New Age groups and would-be prophets(预言者) offering guidance and how-to tips. On Amazon.com , you can read hundreds of book titles combining the year 2012 with terms such as “apocalypse,” “catastrophe” and “end of the world.”

As always, doomsday sells — and a lot of people are buying it.

“There's the psychobabble(心理呓语) aspect,” said Robert Epstein, former editor of Psychology Today magazine and a lecturer at the University of California San Diego. “It's the Sigmund Freud/death wish idea: People glom onto(对…感兴趣) doomsday predictions because there's some small part of them that wants to die, and die spectacularly(壮观的). I don't believe it, but it's one way to look at this.”

It's Emmerich's way. The German director specializes in wreaking havoc on an epic scale, from climatic cataclysm in 2004's “The Day After Tomorrow” to angry aliens and reptiles in “Independence Day” and “Godzilla.”  In “2012,” he finishes the job.

The digitized disasters of “2012” are oversized, overwrought and sometimes literally over the top, as when a humongous tsunami washes over the Himalayan mountains, whose average height exceeds 20,000 feet. Meanwhile in Los Angeles, a 10.5-magnitude earthquake — a temblor at least 30 times more powerful than any real quake ever recorded — yanks the city apart like a giant zipper, sending chunks sliding into the Pacific Ocean.

That's not physically possible, of course. Nor is a 10.5-magnitude quake, said Thomas Rockwell, a geologist at San Diego State University. To generate that much energy, “you'd need a rupture that extends all around the planet.”

All of that other stuff “is pure Hollywood bunk,” said Bernard Jackson at the UCSD Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences.

Entertaining, though, unless you happen to believe the Maya really predicted the end of the world. They didn't, said Geoff Braswell, a UCSD anthropologist. The long-count calendar doesn't signal the end of anything except the end of that particular calendar. “It's just like a car odometer. Unfortunately, hardly anybody reads ancient Mayan. Modern media hype(骗局), on the other hand, is almost inescapable.

Nicholas Christenfeld, a professor of psychology at UCSD, suggests a more elemental human need. Being swallowed by the Earth or incinerated in a giant fireball “fits neatly with the idea that people want to believe there's a plan, that existence isn't random and pointless,” Christenfeld said.

“We all missed creation, but if we can bear witness at the other end, be part of some grand cosmic destruction, that gives life meaning,” he said. 

It helps, too, not to think very hard about the facts, said Lou Manza, a professor of psychology at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pa. “These claims have been around forever, and they have all been false, 100 percent wrong,” Manza said.

Of course, prognosticators(预言者, 占卜者) usually have an explanation for that, Christenfeld said.

“They might say it was a misinterpretation,” he said. “They got the date wrong. They might claim humanity acted in time to prevent the destruction. Or faith came to the rescue because people believed something bad was going to happen, it didn't have to happen.”

 

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