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10.It is good to get in touch with your inner child from time to time,and obviously some people are willing to pay big money for the chance to do so in a proper environment.A Brooklyn-based adult preschool is charging customers between 333and999for the chance to act like a kid again.
At Preschool Mastermind in New York adults get to participate in show-and-tell,arts-and-crafts such as finger paint,games like musical chairs and even take naps.The month-long course also has class picture day where the adults are expected to have a field trip and a parent day.
30-year-old Michelle Joni Lapidos,the brain behind the adult preschool,studied childhood education and has always wanted to be a preschool teacher.She's always on the lookout for new ways to get people in touch with the freedom of childhood.A friend encouraged her to start the mastermind course instead.
According to Candice,her blogger friend,Preschool Mastermind gives adults a chance to relearn and master the things that they failed to understand as children."I realized all the significances of what we learn in preschool,"said founder Michelle Joni,"People come here and get in touch with their inner child.It's magical.We are bringing ourselves back to another place,another time with ourselves when we are more believing in ourselves,more confident and ready to take on the world."
"One person's here because they want to learn not to be so serious."Michelle said."Another's here to learn to be more confident."She explained that most of the classes were planned.However,Joni added that while the planned activities were fun,it was often the spontaneous(自发的)moments that attracted students."It's the things you don't plan for,the sharing between friends and learning from each other.''

24.What is the purpose of Preschool Mastermind?A
A.To give adults a chance to return to childhood.
B.To help parents understand their children better.
C.To provide practical training courses for teachers.
D.To introduce some ways of playing with children.
25.What is mainly discussed about Preschool Mastermind in Paragraph 2?B
A.Its customers.
B.Its activities.
C.Its environment.
D.Its schedule.
26.According to Candice,people come to this program toD•
A.enjoy freedom of thinking
B.realize their childhood dreams
C.discover their inner abilities
D.figure out childhood puzzles
27.What do we know about Michelle Joni?C
A.She used to be a preschool teacher.
B.She likes to make plans in advance.
C.She founded Preschool Mastermind.
D.She gained confidence by sharing.

分析 本文属于新闻类文章,作者通过这篇文章主要向我们描述了一个旨在帮助成年人重新体验儿童生活的机构.

解答 24.A.细节理解题.根据第一段最后一句A Brooklyn-based adult preschool is charging customers between333 and 999 for the chance to act like a kid again可知学前教育的目的是给成年人一个重返童年的机会;故选A.
25.B.推理判断题.根据文章第二段At Preschool Mastermind in New York adults get to participate in show-and-tell,arts-and-crafts such as finger paint,games like musical chairs and even take naps.可知,在纽约学前班,成年人参加展示,讲诉,艺术和手工比如说手指绘画,诸如抢椅游戏、小睡等游戏.所以选择B
26.D.细节理解题.根据文章第四段According to Candice,her blogger friend,Preschool Mastermind gives adults a chance to relearn and master the things that they failed to understand as children.可知,在这个学前班给成年人一个重新学习和掌握他们孩子时期没有理解的事情,所以选择D
27.C.细节理解题.根据文章第四段I realized all the significances of what we learn in preschool,said founder Michelle Joni,可知,学前班创立者米歇尔乔妮说,我意识到了在学前班所学到的事情的重要性.所以选择C

点评 考察学生的细节理解和推理判断能力,做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句,和题干进行比较,再做出正确的选择.在做推理判断题不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实,要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断.

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We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else.Most of the learning that takes place in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is passive.Conditioned as we are to passive learning,it's not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday communication with friends and co-workers.
Unfortunately,passive learning has a serious problem.It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay(传闻) and rumor.
Did you ever play the game Rumor?It begins when one person writes down a message but doesn't show it to anyone.Then the person whispers it,word for word,to another person.That person,in turn,whispers it to still another,and so on,through all the people playing the game.The last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears it.Then the two written statements are compared.Typically,the original message has changed.
That's what happens in daily life.The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story.Then,too,most people listen imperfectly.And many enjoy adding their own creative touch to a story,trying to improve on it,stamping it with their own personal style.Yet those who hear it think they know.
This process is also found among scholars and authors:A statement of opinion by one writer may be restated as fact by another,who may in turn be quoted by yet another; and this process may continue,unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the original writer based his opinion or to challenge the interpretation he placed upon those facts.

5.According to the passage,active learning may occur inC.
A.reading scientific journals
B.listening to the teacher in class
C.doing a chemical experiment
D.watching news programmes on TV
6.What does the underlined word"it"in Paragraph 2 refer to?D
A.Classroom.B.Newspapers.C.Active learning.D.Passive learning.
7.The game Rumor is mentioned in Paragraph 4 in order to tell readers thatC.
A.playing games can make people more active
B.people tend to like telling lies when playing games
C.a message may be changed when being passed on
D.people may have problems with their sense of hearing
8.What can be inferred from the text?B
A.Scholars and authors can't be trusted.
B.Passive learning may not be reliable.
C.People like spreading rumors in daily life.
D.Active learning is more Important than passive learning.
18.No matter who you are,where you live,how much you make,your life is on a certain path.It is similar to a train in a track.You know there are going to be many ups and downs.(36)F
If you like where you're headed,you can sit back and enjoy the ride.(37)G The only solution is to change you destination.It means you have to jump on a whole new set of tracks.But how do you do that?
There is one way to change direction to create a better,fuller,richer life:incremental(递增的) change.(38)A You can easily improve anything in your life by means of incremental change.
(39)B It's making small and continuous progress toward a desired goal.It's paying﹩50 a month toward your﹩3,000 of credit card debt.It's cutting your nightly dessert or taking the stairs to burn a few extra calories.
Incremental change is not difficult at all.(40)D Your 20-minute afternoon walk will help you become healthier.The problem with incremental change for most people is that it's too slow.But small and continuous actions tend to create small and continuous improvements.

A.It's that simple.
B.What is incremental change?
C.Keep doing exactly what you've been doing.
D.Writing a page a day will finally lead to a book.
E.But is there a way to create much faster change?
F.But you can easily figure out where you'll end up.
G.But what if you see where you're going and you don't like it?
5.Whenever we see a button,we are eager to press it because we know something will happen.This is true in most cases,for example on a doorbell and on the"on/off"button on the TV.But some buttons are actually fake,like the"close"button on a lift.
Many people are in the habit of pressing the"close"button because they don't have the patience to wait for the lift doors to shut.But lifts'"close"buttons are a complete scam (骗局),at least in the US--the doors will not close any faster no matter how hard you press.
It started in the 1990s when the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in the US,making sure that all lifts stayed open long enough so that people with disabilities could enter.Only US firefighters and repairmen can use the buttons to speed up the door-closing process if they have a code or special keys.
But to normal lift riders,the buttons aren't completely useless.According to psychologists,fake buttons can actually make you feel better by offering you a sense of control.
"Perceived (能够感知的) control is very important.It reduces stress and increases well-being,"Ellen J.Langer,a psychology professor,said,"having a lack of control is associated with depression."
Experts have revealed that a lot of buttons that don't do anything exist in our lives for this same purpose. For example,many offices in the US have fake thermostats (温度调节器) because people tend to feel better when they think they can control the temperature in their workspace.
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"That habit is here to stay,"John Kounios,a psychology professor,said."Even though I have real doubts about the traffic light buttons,I always press them.After all,I've got nothing else to do while waiting.So why not press the button in the hope that this one will work?"

25.What was the author's main purpose in writing the article?A
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B.To describe some different kinds of fake buttons.
C.To explain the advantages and disadvantages of fake buttons.
D.To explore people's different habits when it comes to pushing buttons.
26.In America,the"close"buttons on liftsA.
A.are fake for the convenience of disabled people
B.work only when people press them hard for a while
C.were specially designed to give people a sense of control
D.cannot speed up the process of closing the door in any case
27.The underlined part"for this same purpose"in Paragraph 6refers toB.
A.making people more patient
B.giving people perceived control
C.helping people to build up confidence
D.making people with depression feel better
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A.should give up this habit
B.probably do so to kill time
C.consider what they do to be meaningless
D.don't know that what they press is fake.
15.My name is Luca Lamoariello.People always ask me how I learned 11 languages.Here I would like to answer this question,taking English,French and Dutch (荷兰语) as examples.
English
English was already a world language by the time I turned 10 in 1991.I struggled at first.Grammar explanations confused me,and the material was boring.Then my parents hired a private English tutor(家庭教师).She set me on the right path to learning and,most importantly,learning to love language.My aunt bought me The Hardy Boys for my birthday and after that there was no looking back.I started reading a lot of books in English.The combination of reading books,watching movies every day and talking to my teacher once a week for two years worked wonders.By the age of 15 I was fluent in English.
French
I started learning French around the same time as I started learning English and faced many of the same problems.That all changed when I found that I could watch French TV.I started watching two hours every day after dinner.By the age of 15 I was fluent in French.A few hours of television a day did more than the previous three years in middle school.
Dutch
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24.What was the most important effect of the private English tutor on the author?C
A.She explained the rules of English.
B.She often talked to him in English.
C.She led him to love language.
D.She taught him how to learn English.
25.Who inspired the author to read books in English?D
A.His English tutor.B.His friend.C.His parents.D.His aunt.
26.How did the author learn French?A
A.By watching French TV regularly    
B.By reading books in French.
C.By living in France.
D.By watching many French movies.
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A.To work with in the Netherlands.
B.Because it was used worldwide.
C.To communicate with a girl.
D.Because many people spoke Dutch.
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A few minutes later,the president walked towards the couple with a cold face.The lady told him,"We had a son that attended Harvard for one year.He loved Harvard.He was happy here.But about a year ago,he was accidentally killed.My husband and I would like to set up a memorial (纪念物) to him,somewhere on campus."
The president wasn't moved.Instead,he was shocked."Madam,"he said,"we can't put up a statue for every person who studied at Harvard and died.If we did,this people would look like a cemetery(墓地).""Oh,no,"the lady explained quickly,"We don't want to put up a statue.We would like to give a building to Harvard."The president rolled his eyes and glanced at the couple and then exclaimed,"A building!Do you have any idea how much a building costs?We have spent over﹩7,500,000 on the campus building at Harvard."For a moment the lady was silent.The president was p leased,because he could get rid of them now.Then the lady turned to her husband and said quietly."Is that all it costs to start a university?Why don't we just start our own?"Her husband nodded.Since their offer was turned down.Mr,and Mrs Stanford traveled to California where they founded the University that bears their name,a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.

1.According to the first paragraph,we know thatD.
A.The headmaster knew the couple would come to his office
B.The couple saw the president very smoothly
C.The secretary was willing to help the couple
D.The couple didn't become disappointed
2.What was the purpose of the couple when they came to see the president?C
A.They wanted to tell their son's story   
B.They loved the school
C.They wanted to do something to honor his son   
D.They were invited three
3.After the couple were refused,what did they do?C
A.They were very angry   
B.They said nothing
C.They built a university   
D.They donated over﹩7,500,000 to the school.

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