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Terry Thomas has a very boring job, although it pays very well. What Terry does is sitting in a rowboat all day long. He makes $ 16.37 an hour, which is certainly an excellent wage for sitting in a little boat and doing nothing

The boat stays all day under a bridge that is being rebuilt. There is a distance of about 100 feet between the boat and the workers on the bridge overhead. The rest of Terry’s fellow workers are up on the bridge working. Terry’s job is to rescue anyone who falls off the bridge into the water. So far, no one has given him anything to do. Although he’s delighted that none of his companions has fallen into the water, he also admits that the job is very boring because there is nothing to do

No one on the work crew really wants duty on the boat. But the job is a union requirement, and it must be filled. To quality for the job, a person must be an excellent swimmer and have training in lifesaving skills. Only a few men on the work crew meet those standards. Before Terry took the boat job, several others had it and gave up because they found it so tedious.

What does Terry do in his little boat all day? He spends a good bit of time making sure that his suntan lotion is adequate for the job of protecting his skin. He reads and listens to the radio .Each day he looks forward to lunch and then to quitting time

1．What’s the best title for the passage?

A．A Boring Job                      B．The Man in a Rowboat

C．A Job of Great Skill            D．Hard Physical Labor

2．Another word for the underlined word “tedious” is ______

A．difficult           B．boring          C．serious           D．tiring

3．Terry uses the suntan lotion because _______

A．he likes the smell                       B．he’s out in the sun all day

C．his shirt is torn                      D．it keeps the fly away

4．The best part of Terry’s job is _____

A．the books they give him             B．getting to work with his friends

C．the chance of promotion            D．the pay, lunch, and quitting time

ABBD

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　　Terry Thomas has a very boring job, although it pays very well．What Terry does is sitting in a rowboat all day long．He makes ＄16.37 an hour, which is certainly an excellent wage for sitting in a little boat and doing nothing．

　　The boat stays all day under a bridge that is being rebuilt．There is a distance of about 100 feet between the boat and the workers on the bridge overhead．The rest of Terry’s fellow workers are up on the bridge working．Terry’s job is to rescue anyone who falls off the bridge into the water．So far, no one has given him anything to do．Although he’s delighted that none of his companions has fallen into the water, he also admits that the job is very boring because there is nothing to do．

　　No one on the work crew really wants duty on the boat．But the job is a union requirement, and it must be filled．To qualify for the job, a person must be an excellent swimmer and have training in lifesaving skills．Only a few men on the work crew meet those standards．Before Terry took the boat job, several others had it and gave up because _______．

　　What does Terry do in his little boat all day?He spends a good bit of time making sure that his suntan lotion is adequate for the job of protecting his skin．He reads and listens radio．Each day he looks forward to lunch and then to quitting time．

1．What is the best title of the passage?(Please answer within 10 words．)

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2．Why does Terry use the suntan lotion?(Please answer within 10 words．)

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3．Fill in the blank with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence．(Please answer within 10 words．)

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4．Suppose you are offered such a job, will you give it up or keep it up?Why?(Please answer within 30 words．)

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5．Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese．

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Less TV Reduce Kids Weight
PALO AITO, California—“Switching off the television may help prevent children from getting fatter—even if they do not change their diet or increase the amount they exercise,” US researchers said last week.
A study of 192 third and fourth grades, generally aged eight and nine, found that children who cut the number of hours spent watching television gained nearly two pounds （0.91 kg） less over a one-year period than those who did not change their television diet.
“The findings are important because they show that weight loss can only be the result of a reduction in television viewing and not any other activity,” said Thomas Robinson, a pediatrician （儿科专家）at Stanford University.
“ American children spend an average of more than four hours per day watching television and videos or playing games, and rates of childhood being very fat have doubled over the past 20 years,” Robinson said.
In the study, presented this week to the Pediatric Academic Societies’ annual meeting in San Francisco, the researchers persuaded about 100 of the students to reduce their television viewing by one-quarter to one-third.
Children watching fewer hours of television showed a significantly smaller increase in waist size and had less body fat than other students who continue their normal television viewing, even though neither group ate a special diet nor took part in any extra exercise.
“One explanation for the weight loss could be the children unstuck to the television may simply have been moving around and burning off calories,” Robinson said.
“Another reason might be due to eating fewer meals in front of the television. Some studies have suggested that eating in front of the TV encourages people to eat more,” Robinson added.
【小题1】 The author tries to tell us in the first two paragraphs that ____.

A．children will get fatter if they eat too much.
B．children will get thinner if they eat less.
C．children will get fatter if they spend less time watching TV.
D．children will get fatter if they spend more time watching TV.
【小题2】 According to the passage, the time American children usually spend on watching TV ____.
A．is more than four hours a day.B．is less than four hours a day.
C．doubled in the last twenty years.D．is more than on any other activities.
【小题3】Which of the following is right ?
A．Children usually eat fewer while watching TV.
B．Children usually eat more while watching TV.
C．Children eat the same amount of meals while watching TV.
D．Children usually eat nothing while watching TV.
【小题4】Why can watching TV increase kids’ weight according to the passage ?
A．They usually eat more while watching TV.
B．They burn off fewer calories.
C．They change their diet while watching TV.
D．Both A and B

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Our brains work in complex and strange ways. There are some people who can calculate the day of the week for any given date in 40,000 years, but who cannot add two plus two. Others can perform complex classical piano pieces after hearing them once, but they cannot read or write.
Dr．J．Langdon Down first described this condition in 1887．He called these people idiot savants. An idiot savant is a person who has significant mental impairment （损伤） , such as in autism or retardation.  At the same time, the person also exhibits some extraordinary skills, which are unusual for most people．The skills of the savant may vary from being exceptionally gifted in music or in mathematics, or having a photographic memory.
One of the first descriptions of a human who could calculate quickly was written in 1789 by Dr．Benjamin Rush, an American doctor．His patient, Thomas Fuller, was brought to Virginia as a slave in 1724. It took Thomas only 90 seconds to work out that a man who has lived 70 years, 17 days, and 12 hours has lived 2,210,500,800 seconds．Despite this ability, he died in 1790 without ever learning to read or write．
Another idiot savant slave became famous as a pianist in the 1860s. Blind Tom had a vocabulary of only 100 words, but he played 5 ,000 musical pieces beautifully．
In the excellent movie Rain Man, made in 1988 and available on video cassette, Dustin Hoffman plays an idiot savant who amazes his brother played by Tom Cruise, with his ability to perform complex calculations very rapidly.
Today we more clearly recognize that the idiot savant is special because of brain impairment．Yet not all brain impairment leads to savant skills．Some studies have shown that people who have purposeful interruption of the left side of the brain can develop idiot savant skills. However,few people wish to participate in such experiments. There are many excellent reasons for not undergoing unnecessary experimentation on one's brain. The term idiot savant is outdated and inappropriate. Virtually all savants have a high degree of intelligence and are thus not idiots.
48．What does the passage mainly talk about?
A．Idiot savants have areas of outstanding abilities．
B．Human Beings have complicated thinking process．
C．The brains of the idiot savants are partly impaired．
D．The reasons why people have wonderful skills vary．
49．Which of the following can be done by Rain Man?
A．He can play wonderful pieces of classical music．
B．He can guess out exactly the length of a man's life．
C．He can memorize the contents of the pictures fast．
D．He can count matches dropped on the floor quickly．
50．What can you infer from the passage?
A．Idiot savants have real talents for art and math．
B．Dr．Down is the first person who found idiot savants．
C．Few people wish to risk becoming savants by brain operations．
D．Intentional left brain impairments will surely lead to idiot savants．

 

Terry Thomas has a very boring job ,although it pays very well .What Terry does is sitting in a rowboat all day long .He makes $ 16.37 an hour ,which is certainly an excellent wage for sitting in a little boat and doing nothing.

The boat stays all day under a bridge that is being rebuilt. There is a distance of about 100 feet between the boat and the workers on the bridge overhead. The rest of Terry’s fellow workers are up on the bridge working . Terry’s job is to rescue anyone who falls off the bridge into the water. So far, no one has given him anything to do .Although he’s delighted that none of his companions has fallen into the water, he also admits that the job is very boring because there is nothing to do.

No one on the work crew really wants duty on the boat. But the job is a union requirement ,and it must be filled. To quality for the job, a person must be an excellent swimmer and have training in lifesaving skills. Only a few men on the work crew meet those standards. Before Terry took the boat job, several others had it and gave up because they found it so tedious.

What does Terry do in his little boat all day? He spends a good bit of time making sure that his suntan lotion is adequate for the job of protecting his skin. He reads and listens to the radio .Each day he looks forward to lunch and then to quitting time.

1.What’s the best title for the passage?

A．A Boring Job                     B．The Man in a Rowboat

C．A Job of Great Skill             D．Hard Physical Labor

2.Another word for the underlined word “tedious” is             .

A．difficult      B．boring         C．serious        D．tiring

3.Terry uses the suntan lotion because              .

A．he likes the smell                                 B．he’s out in the sun all day

C．his shirt is torn                                  D．it keeps the fly away

4.The best part of Terry’s job is            .

A．the books they give him          B．getting to work with his friends

C．the chance of promotion          D．the pay, lunch, and quitting time

 

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