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LONDON¡ª¡ª¡¯Everyone else has one!¡±Lucy£¬declared to her parents£®trying to get a mobile phone as a gift for her 14th birthday. Her parents gave in£®
Curious to know how her daughter would use the phone£®Jane Bidder£®the mother£®followed Lucy to the school bus in the morning£®The bus seats 20£¬of whom half have a mobile phone£®One tings and several adolescent,(ÇàÉÙÄêµÄ)owners feel in their bags£®
Many parents have just come to realize that the mobile£®phone is no longer only for traveling businessmen-it is likely to be found in school bags£®
The mobile phone seems to have become something essential for today¡¯s teens¡£In Britain£®according to a survey published last week£¬by NOP, a leading market research company in Britain Rehash found that 66 percent of 16-year-olds now have access on a mobile phone£®
The mobile phone has been turned into a secret messaging service by teen users£®When they are talking on the mobile£¬their parents are not able to eavesdrop on the second line£®
The interviews with 2£®019 young people aged 7 to 16 found that they favor the text messaging services because they offer a secret way of keeping in touch£®The days of secret notes
in the classroom are dying out¡£
For example£¬¡°cya¡±means¡°see you¡±£»¡°lol¡±means¡°laughs out loud¡±£ºand¡°2nite¡±is an abbreviation of¡°tonight¡±£®All these are based on shorthand phrases used oil the Internet£®
Many schools have banned students from using mobile phones£®But they are not very£®Successful. Still phones ring in the class and disturb study£®
Besides£¬people are worried about the health risk to kids using mobile phones.
Scientists believe children are especially vulnerable to file mobile radiation£¬
1£®The story of Lucy is told to show us
A£®British parents meet their children's needs whatever they are
B£®British kids have good relationships with their parents
C£®how British parents accept the truth of teenagers owning a mobile phone
D£®why every child gets a mobile phone as a birthday present in the UK
2£®What would be the best title for this news story?
A£®Schoo1 bans mobile phones
B£®Parents¡¯curiosity dhoti children using mobile phones
C£®Mobile phones popularity among UK teens
D£®Secret messages popular among kids in the UK
3£®The underlined word eavesdrop means
A£®join in actively B£®interrupt rudely C£®watch carefully D£®listen secretly
4£®Interviews discover children like sending messages instead of
A£®calling each other B£®writing notes to each other
C£®playing games online D£®greeting each other
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The people below travel abroad. Read the following stories and decide what problem each traveler experienced while traveling.
¡¾Ð¡Ìâ1¡¿_______ David got lost in an isolated place. To make matters worse, he had an accident and couldn¡¯t walk freely. So he was in great need of timely help.
¡¾Ð¡Ìâ2¡¿_______ Paul had to buy a hamburger and ate it in the park instead of eating his mother¡¯s delicious chicken, with which he couldn¡¯t go through the customs.
¡¾Ð¡Ìâ3¡¿_______ Ann was stopped at the customs because she was carrying drugs without a doctor¡¯s prescription. How regretted she was not to have done that!
¡¾Ð¡Ìâ4¡¿_______ Sally offended some of the people in the town she was visiting by wearing inappropriate clothes. She should have found out about local customs and followed them.
¡¾Ð¡Ìâ5¡¿______ Jack didn¡¯t obtain a transit card when he changed planes an airport, which made him very worried. There was no doubt that he was not allowed to get on board.
| A£®My mother was worried about me. She cooked me all my favorite dishes and put them into a box to take with me on my journey. But the customs officer inspected all the plant and animal products at the airport. Unfortunately it was illegal for me to bring into the country the kind of food my mother had given me and so it all had to be thrown away. |
| B£®It was very hot so I put on some shorts and a T-shirt to go sightseeing. I hadn¡¯t gone very far when I found everyone was looking at me, and they didn¡¯t seem friendly to me. One woman even spat on me as I walked past. I decided to get off the crowded streets and so I turned down a small, quiet street. |
| C£®During the four-day walking tour, I was amazed by mountain scenery and the ancient ruins we passed on our hike. On the last day, we arrived at the ruins of Machu Picchu in time to see the sunrise over the Andes. I spent the day visiting the ruins of that ancient Inca city before catching the train back to the capital city of the country. |
| D£®When I got off the plane at the first airport. I saw someone handing out cards to some of the passengers, but I didn¡¯t know what they were for, so I didn¡¯t take one. When I tried to board the second plane they asked for my transit card, which I didn¡¯t¡¯ have. I was worried they were going to send me back to London. |
F. When I arrived at my destination, a customs officer at the airport looked in my bag and found the pills in a small box. He wanted to know what the pills were for and why they weren¡¯t in their proper bottle with my name and the doctor¡¯s name on it. I explained that the bottle had been too big and heavy. Then he wanted to know if I had a letter from my doctor explaining about the pills.
After spending a year in Brazil on a student exchange program, her mother recalled, Marie Colvin returned home to find that her classmates had narrowed down their college choices. ¡°Everyone else was already admitted to college,¡± her mother, Rosemarie Colvin, said from the family home. ¡°So she took our car and drove up to Yale and said, ¡®You have to let me in.¡¯?¡±
Impressed¡ªshe was a National Merit(È«¹úÓ¢²Å) finalist who had picked up Portuguese in Brazil¡ªYaledid, admitting her to the class of 1978, where she started writing for The Yale Daily News ¡°and decided to be a journalist,¡± her mother said.
On Wednesday, Marie Colvin, 56, an experienced journalist for The Sunday Times of London, was killed as Syrian forces shelled the city of Homs. She was working in a temporary media center that was destroyed in the attack.
¡°She was supposed to leave Syria on Wednesday¡±, Ms. Colvin said. ¡°Her editor told me he called her yesterday and said it was getting too dangerous and they wanted to take her out. She said she was doing a story and she wanted to finish it. ¡±
Ms. Colvin said it was pointless to try to prevent her daughter from going to conflict zones. ¡°If you knew my daughter,¡± she said, ¡°it would have been such a waste of words. She was determined, she was enthusiastic about what she did, it was her life. There was no saying ¡®Don¡¯t do this.¡¯ This is who she was, absolutely who she was and what she believed in: cover the story, not just have pictures of it, but bring it to life in the deepest way you could.¡± So it was not a surprise when she took an interest in journalism, her mother said.
1.From the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 we can infer that .
A. Yale University was her last choice
B. Yale must keep its promise to Marie
C. Marie Colvin was confident of herself
D. Marie Colvin was good at persuading
2.Marie Colvin¡¯s story suggests some of the best qualities of being a journalist are .
A. patience and confidence
B. honesty and curiosity
C. flexibility and creativity
D. determination and courage
3.Which of the following is the correct order to describe Marie Colvin¡¯s life?
a. She was doing a story in Syria and got killed.
b. She was admitted to Yale University.
c. She studied in Brazil as an exchange student.
d. She was hired by The Sunday Times of London.
e. She began to take an interest in journalism.
A. d¡úe¡úc¡úa¡úb B. c¡úb¡úe¡úd¡úa
C. e¡úd¡úc¡úb¡úa D. b¡úc¡úd¡úe¡úa
4.What can be the best title of the text?
A. Covering Stories in a Dangerous Conflict Area
B. Applying for Top Universities, a Successful Case
C. Recalling Her Daughter, a Journalist Killed in Syria
D. Choosing Lifelong Careers Based on Your Own Interest