题目内容
Parents and grandparents are understandably(可理解的)proud of the quick minds and impressive talents of their little ones. But let me tell you about another 36 , perhaps even more 37 , found in a little girl named Skylar.
I received a letter from a grandmother who told me about her four- year-old granddaughter Skylar. Ever since Skylar 38 of Disneyland from TV, she 39 her nickels and dimes in a piggy bank in 40 of visiting there some day. Her parents 41 her with a trip when she was four, however, and didn’t even 42 her to use her own money!
43 Skylar returned it was Christmas time. She decided to buy 44 with her savings. But she also learned from announcements on TV about a local homeless 45 called “The Road House”. She 46 asked her mother what “homeless” meant and why those children 47 coats and warm clothes. She couldn’t seem to get the homeless off her 48 .
Her mother took her to the 49 to buy presents. Instead of buying for herself or her family, she 50 to purchase a warm coat, socks, gloves and crayons for a little girl in the 51 . She also wanted to buy a doll, but when she 52 she didn’t have enough money, she left the doll 53 .
When Skylar got home, she chose one of her favourite dolls and put it into the box with the other items she bought that day. She could hardly wait for Christmas! Skylar was thinking about going to the shelter and giving her carefully 54 gifts to a homeless child. She was much 55 with joy at truly helping someone else.
“Perhaps it’s good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to have a beautiful heart,” says Nobel Laureate John Nash. Young Skylar has a beautiful heart. It is this quality that makes beautiful people.
36. A. benefit B. advantage C. quality D. point
37. A. necessary B. important C. popular D. ordinary
38. A. learned B. cared C. thought D. watched
39. A. saved B. collected C. took D. made
40. A. honour B. favour C. hopes D. search
41. A. disappointed B.annoyed C. pleased D. surprised
42. A. need B. require C. let D. force
43. A. When B. While C. As D. Since
44. A. dolls B. toys C. presents D. dresses
45 .A. boy B. shelter C. news D. house
46 .A. generally B. repeatedly C. strangely D. seriously
47. A. used B. took C. needed D. liked
48 .A. mind B. thought C. heart D. brain
49. A. store B. library C. park D. school
50 .A. thought B. decided C. hoped D. wished
51. A. shelter B. nursery C. house D. hospital
52. A. reminded B. promised C. noticed D. discovered
53 .A. around B. behind C. away D. alone
54. A. collected B. bought C. selected D. demanded
55.A. surprised B. caught C. cheered D. filled
36-40CBAAC41-45 DBACB 46-50 BCAAB 51-56 ADBCD
Dear mommy and daddy,
I write this letter to you in hopes that you should consider your method of parenting me before I arrive. I am a joyous child. I expect love and respect, order and discipline. When I arrive, I will seem very small to you. Even though I don’t look like an adult, please understand that I am a human being.
Even though I will not speak words to you, I will know you with my heart. I will feel all your feelings, absorb your thoughts. I will come to know you more than you may know yourself. Do not be misled (误导) by my silence. I am open, growing and learning more rapidly than you can imagine.
I will keep in heart all that I see, so please give me sweet music and language that tells me how much I am loved. Give me silence to rest my ears. I will absorb all that I feel, so please wrap life in love.
I am waiting patiently to be with you. I am so happy to have the opportunity to be alive. Maybe when you see me you will remember how precious life is too!
Your joyous child
【小题1】According to the letter, why did the child write this letter?
A.Because the child wanted to apologize to its parents. |
B.Because the child wanted the parents to consider the method of being parents. |
C.Because the child expressed the happiness of having such parents. |
D.Because the child wanted to show how much it understood its parents. |
A.a lovely boy | B.a joyous child |
C.an unborn baby | D.a lovely girl |
A.it should be looked on as a human being |
B.it would like to be loved by its parents |
C.it wanted to be with the parents an soon as possible |
D.it wanted a place full of beautiful music and love language |
A.“Baby’s world” | B.“Current news” |
C.“Young parent center” | D.“Science and our life” |
Children are getting so fat that they may be the first generation to die before their parents, an expert says.
Today's young people will be affected by potential (潜在的) killers such as heart disease because of their weight. Fatty fast-food diets combined with the lifestyles with televisions and computers could mean kids will die young, says Professor Andrew Prentice, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. At the same time, the shape of the human body is going through a great change because adults are getting so fat.
Here in Britain, the latest research shows that the average waist size for a man is 36~38 inches and may be 42~44 inches by 2032.This compares with only 32.6 inches in 1972. Women's waists have grown from an average of 22 inches in the 1920s to 24 inches in the 1950s and 30 inches now. One of the major reasons why children now are at greater risk is that we are getting fatter younger. In the UK alone, more than one million under 16 years old are thought
to be overweight or fat—double the number in the 1980s. One in ten of four-year-olds are also medically said to be obese.
The obesity which started in the US, has now spread to Europe, Australia, Central America and the Middle East. Many nations now record more than 20 percent of their population as obese and well over half of the population as overweight.
Professor Prentice says the change in our shape has been caused by high-energy foods combined with a dramatic (急剧的) drop in the energy we use as a result of technology developments.
He is not alone in his concern. Only last week one medical magazine revealed how obesity was fuelling a rise in cancer cases. Obesity also increases the risk factor for heart disease and so on. An averagely obese person's lifespan (寿命) is shortened by around nine years while a seriously obese person by much more.
Professor Prentice says,
“So_will_parents_live_longer_than_their_children,_as_an_American_obesity_expert_said_recently?”
“The answer is yes—and no.” Yes, when most children become obese. No, because this is now becoming an alarmingly serious problem in the US. “Such children will have a greatly reduced quality of life on both body and mind.”
So say “No” to sandwiches and hamburgers.
1.From the second paragraph, we know that ________.
A.heart disease is caused by people's weight |
B.bad living habits make children die young |
C.increasing weight could kill young people |
D.adults know how to change their shape of body |
2.According to Professor Prentice, people become fatter because ________.
A.the energy people take in is more than they need |
B.high technology makes people use less energy |
C.food contains too much energy |
D.people like to eat fast food |
3.For the underlined question, the answer “no” suggests ________.
A.children should refuse fast-food diets |
B.children's obesity is becoming more and more serious |
C.Americans have realized the bad consequence of the obesity |
D.the government should call on fat people to lose weight as soon as possible |