题目内容
任务型阅读。认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的横线上填入最恰当的单词。 注意:每空只填一个单词。 | ||||||
Poll (民意测验)-People unhappy with the rich There is growing dissatisfaction toward rich people, according to a new online poll. The poll by the China Youth Daily in co-operation with Sina.com has shown the obvious discontent over the country's widening income gap. Nearly 8,000 people filled in online questionnaires last week, and when asked to use three words to describe society's rich, the top answers were "extravagant" (奢侈), "greedy" (贪婪) and "corrupt" (堕落). About 57 percent of those polled said that"extravagant" was the best word to describe the rich, followed closely by "greedy". However, despite their dissatisfaction, 93 percent of those polled wished they could be rich too, and that richer people should be "socially responsible". Some 33 percent of the people also praised rich people for being "smart". Nearly 90 percent agreed that most people in society, including themselves, were willing to speak up for the poor but were reluctant (勉强的) to take action and actually do something for them. The survey comes into a heated debate over comments made by a famous economist Mao Yushi, who said he was "speaking for the rich and working for the poor". A report made by the Asian Development Bank last Wednesday showed that China's Gini coefficient (基尼系 数)-an indicator of the wealth divide (财富差异)-rose from 0.407 in 2000 to 0.473 in 2010. An earlier CASS (财务结算系统) report said that the richest 10 percent of Chinese families now own more than 40 percent of all private wealth, while the poorest 10 percent share less than 2 percent of the total wealth. The country's income disparity (悬殊) is close to that of Latin America, the report which came out in January, said. | ||||||
Poll-People unhappy with the rich
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Task-based reading 任务型阅读
请认真阅读下面短文,并根据所读内容在文章后图表中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意:每空不超过1个单词。
For centuries people dreamed of going into space. This dream began to seem possible when high-flying rockets were built in the early 1900s.
In 1903 a Russian teacher named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky figured out how to use rockets for space travel. His plan was the first one in rocket science to use correct scientific calculation. About 30 years later, a U.S. scientist named Robert Goddard built the first rockets that could reach high altitudes. During World War II, German scientists built large rockets that could travel very far and carry dangerous explosives. After the war, scientists from Germany went to the United States and the Soviet Union to help those countries build space rockets.
These two countries were soon racing to get to space first. Each of these countries wanted to prove that it was stronger and more advanced than the other one. Both countries also had powerful bombs. People in the United States were worried when the Soviets were first to launch a space satellite, which was called Sputnik. The Soviets were also first to send a person into space. Yury Gagarin orbited the earth in the Vostok I spaceship in 1961.
The US government set a goal for its space program to be the first country to put a person on the Moon. The U.S. space program built a series of Apollo spaceship. These vehicles were powered by huge Saturn 5 rockets. In 1969 Apollo II took three men to the moon successfully. Nell Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon.
The Soviets may have lost the race to fly people to the Moon, but they built the first space station in 1971. The United States also built a space station. The space stations allowed people to live and work in space. Then the Soviet Union and the United States cooperated to hook two spaceships together in space. This action ended the "space race". Today a much larger space station, built by several countries together, orbits Earth.
Another new way to go to space is by space shuttle. A space shuttle, first made in the United States in 1981, looks like an airplane. Astronauts who fly spaceships have used shuttles to help put satellites into space.
History of space travel | ||
Time | Events | Information concerned |
Early 1900s | High-flying rockets were built. | It made the ancient dream of going to space possible to come 66) ▲ |
1903 | Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (67) ▲ out a way to use rockets for space travel. | He planned to put correct scientific calculation to use in rocket science. |
Around (68) ▲ | Robert Goddard built new rockets. | The rockets could fly very (69) ▲ in the sky. |
During and after World War II | German scientists built large rockets that could travel very far and carry dangerous explosives. | Germany was ahead of all the other countries in building space rockets and later it (70) ▲ the Soviet Union and the United States |
The Soviet Union and the United States competed to get to space first. | The Soviet Union became the (71) ▲ of the competition when it launched the first satellite and sent the first astronaut into space. | |
1969 | The United States was (72) ▲ in putting a person on the moon. | In one way, it (73) ▲ the Soviet Union by becoming the first country to fly people to the moon. |
1970s | The Soviets built the first space station and was soon followed by Americans. And they finally ended the "space race" by (74) ▲ | Astronauts can live and work in space stations. |
1980s-- | Space shuttles are used as new vehicles for space (75) ▲ . | Shuttles are also used to help put satellites into space. |
四.任务型阅读:
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。
About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table, I couldn’t help overhearing parts of their conversation. At one point the woman asked,“So, how have you been?”And the boy—who could not have been more than seven or eight years old—replied. “Frankly, I’ve been feeling a little depressed lately.”
This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn’t find out we were “depressed” until we were in high school.
The evidence of a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don’t seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to.
Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no longer exists. Why?
Human development is based not only on natural biological states, but also on patterns of access to social knowledge. Movement from one social role to another usually involves learning the secrets of the new situation. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages: traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders.
In the last 30 years, however, a secret-revelation(揭示)machine has been installed in 98 percent of American homes. It is called television. Television passes information, and indiscriminately(不加区分地), to all viewers alike, whether they are children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation, many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more vivid moving pictures.
Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social information to which children have access. Reading and writing involve a complex code of symbols that must be memorized and practiced. Children must read simple books before they can read complex materials.
Title: Change in Today’s Children
Main comparisons |
Contexts |
Different(1)_____ |
Children in the past just did what they were(2)_____to. |
Children today(3)____as if they were adults. |
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Different(4)_____ |
Children in the past never experienced(5)___. |
Sometimes sadness(6)_____to children nowadays. |
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Different(7)_____to get knowledge |
Children in the past: in a (8)____and guided process. |
Children nowadays: by(9)_____TV without control. |
A phenomenon worth noting |
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The author’s(10)_____to children’s change |
He prefers communication through print for children, which can control what children are to learn. |
Task-based reading 任务型阅读
请认真阅读下面短文,并根据所读内容在文章后图表中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意:每空不超过1个单词。
For centuries people dreamed of going into space. This dream began to seem possible when high-flying rockets were built in the early 1900s.
In 1903 a Russian teacher named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky figured out how to use rockets for space travel. His plan was the first one in rocket science to use correct scientific calculation. About 30 years later, a U.S. scientist named Robert Goddard built the first rockets that could reach high altitudes. During World War II, German scientists built large rockets that could travel very far and carry dangerous explosives. After the war, scientists from Germany went to the United States and the Soviet Union to help those countries build space rockets.
These two countries were soon racing to get to space first. Each of these countries wanted to prove that it was stronger and more advanced than the other one. Both countries also had powerful bombs. People in the United States were worried when the Soviets were first to launch a space satellite, which was called Sputnik. The Soviets were also first to send a person into space. Yury Gagarin orbited the earth in the Vostok I spaceship in 1961.
The US government set a goal for its space program to be the first country to put a person on the Moon. The U.S. space program built a series of Apollo spaceship. These vehicles were powered by huge Saturn 5 rockets. In 1969 Apollo II took three men to the moon successfully. Nell Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon.
The Soviets may have lost the race to fly people to the Moon, but they built the first space station in 1971. The United States also built a space station. The space stations allowed people to live and work in space. Then the Soviet Union and the United States cooperated to hook two spaceships together in space. This action ended the "space race". Today a much larger space station, built by several countries together, orbits Earth.
Another new way to go to space is by space shuttle. A space shuttle, first made in the United States in 1981, looks like an airplane. Astronauts who fly spaceships have used shuttles to help put satellites into space.
History of space travel |
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Time |
Events |
Information concerned |
Early 1900s |
High-flying rockets were built. |
It made the ancient dream of going to space possible to come 66) ▲ |
1903 |
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (67) ▲ out a way to use rockets for space travel. |
He planned to put correct scientific calculation to use in rocket science. |
Around (68) ▲ |
Robert Goddard built new rockets. |
The rockets could fly very (69) ▲ in the sky. |
During and after World War II |
German scientists built large rockets that could travel very far and carry dangerous explosives. |
Germany was ahead of all the other countries in building space rockets and later it (70) ▲ the Soviet Union and the United States |
|
The Soviet Union and the United States competed to get to space first. |
The Soviet Union became the (71) ▲ of the competition when it launched the first satellite and sent the first astronaut into space. |
1969 |
The United States was (72) ▲ in putting a person on the moon. |
In one way, it (73) ▲ the Soviet Union by becoming the first country to fly people to the moon. |
1970s |
The Soviets built the first space station and was soon followed by Americans. And they finally ended the "space race" by (74) ▲ |
Astronauts can live and work in space stations. |
1980s-- |
Space shuttles are used as new vehicles for space (75) ▲ . |
Shuttles are also used to help put satellites into space. |