题目内容
Whenever the sun dropped and the blue sky came up, my father and I used to climb the mountain near my house. Walking together, my father and I used to have a lot of conversations through which I learned lessons from his experiences. He always told me, “You should have goals like climbing the mountain.” Without the mountain-climbing that we both enjoyed ，we couldn’t have enough time to spend together because my father was very busy. I really got a lot from mountain-climbing. It gave me time to talk with my father and to be in deep thought as well as develop my patience (耐力).
Once we climbed a very high mountain. It was so challenging for me because I was only ten years old. During the first few hours of climbing . I enjoyed the flowers and trees, and the birds’ singing, but as time passed, I got a pain in both of my legs. I wanted to quit climbing. In fact, I hated it at that mountain, but my father said to me, “You can always see a beautiful sky at the top of the mountain, but you can’t see it before you reach the top. Only there at the top, can you see all of the nice things, just like in life.”
At that time, I was too young to understand his words. But later after that, I got new hope and confidence. I found myself standing at the top of the sky, which was as clear as crystal (水晶).
【小题1】The passage tells us that mountain-climbing was _____for Father and Son.
| A．hard | B．enjoyable | C．boring | D．comfortable |
| A．carry on | B．put off | C．give up | D．pick up |
| A．the writer was very successful in his life. |
| B．the writer reached the top of the mountain. |
| C．though the writer was young, he could understand his father. |
| D．the writer used to stop half-way when he climbed the mountain. |
| A．Reaching the Top of the Mountain |
| B．Standing at the Top of the Mountain |
| C．What a beautiful Mountain |
| D．How to Get to the Top of the Mountain |
【小题1】B
【小题2】C
【小题3】A
【小题4】A
解析
Many women write to me perplexed(困惑的)about why they can’t form close friendships. They try new approaches, put themselves in all the right places, see therapists, and read relevant self-help books. They consider themselves interesting, loyal, kind and friend-worthy people. But for reasons unknown to them, they have a tough time forming intimate relationships. Many admit to not having even one close friend.
A recent study published in the Journal of personality and Social Psychology offers some clues as to how both nature (personality) and nurture (experience) impact our friendships. Researchers at the University of Virginia and University of Toronto, Mississauga studied more than 7,000 American adults between the ages of 20 and 75 over a period of ten years, looking at the number of times these adults moved during childhood. Their study, like prior ones, showed a link between residential mobility and adult well-being: The more times participants moved as children , the poorer the quality of their adult social relationships.
But digging deeper, the researchers found that personality—specifically being introverted (内向的) or extroverted (外向的) — could either intensify of buffer (缓冲) the effect of moving to a new town or neighborhood during childhood. The negative impact of more moves during childhood was far greater for introverts compared to extroverts.
“Moving a lot makes it difficult for people to maintain long-term close relationships,” stated Dr. Shigehiro Oishi, the first author of the study, in a press release from the American Psychological Association, “This might not be a serious problem for outgoing people who can make friends quickly and easily. Less outgoing people have a harder time making new friends.”
Families often have to relocate — across town, across the country, or across the globe. Yet, in many cases, their kids and young adolescents haven’t yet built up a bank of friendships. So the conventional wisdom is to try to minimize moves for the sake of your child, whenever possible , and to move at the end of the academic year.
1.The passage is written mainly to .
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A．offer advice to women on how to form intimate relationships . |
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B．explain how nature and nurture impact our friendships. |
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C．explain how moves during childhood affect children. |
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D．tell us how to help children make friends. |
2.Which of the following is true according to the second paragraph?
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A．People who moved less during childhood have better social relationships. |
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B．The more people moved during childhood, the more friends they have. |
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C．The more people moved during childhood, the better they adjust to society. |
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D．There is no link between residential mobility and adult well-being. |
3.In order for children to maintain long-term close relationships , parents .
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A．should not relocate their homes |
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B．should relocate their homes within the town |
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C．had better move at the end of school year |
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D．had better move when their children couldn’t build up a bank of friendships |
4.We learn from the fourth paragraph that moves during childhood .
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A．have a bigger impact on an introverted person compared to extroverts. |
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B．have no impact on an outgoing person |
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C．are a big problem for both introverts and extroverts |
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D．help children better adapt to new environment |
5.We can infer from the passage that .
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A．our friendships are mainly affected by our nurture |
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B．we can move when children have made a lot of friends |
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C．the impact of moves will disappear when one reaches adulthood |
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D．there is some way to minimize the impact of moves during childhood on children |