题目内容
David wanted to buy a Christmas present for a very special person, |
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his mother. David’s father gives him $5.00 a week pocket money and | 66. ____________ |
David put $2.00 a week into his bank account（账户）. After three | 67. ____________ |
month David took $20.00 out of his bank account and went to the | 68. ____________ |
shopping centre. He looked and looked at a perfect gift. | 69. ____________ |
Suddenly he saw a beautiful brooch（胸针）in shape of his | 70. ____________ |
favourite pet. He said to him, “Mother loves jewelry, and the | 71. ____________ |
brooch spends only $l7.00.” He bought the brooch and took it | 72. ____________ |
home. He wrapped the present in Christmas paper but placed | 73. ____________ |
it under the tree. He was very exciting and he was looking forward to | 74. ____________ |
Christmas morning only to see the joy on his mother’s face. | 75. ____________ |
But when his mother opened the present she screamed with |
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fright because she saw a spider（蜘蛛）. |
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66. gives-gave 67. 对 68. month-months 69. at-for
70. shape前加the 71. him himself 72. spends-costs 73. but-and
74. exciting-excited 75. 去掉only
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Gossip moves so quickly that few people have time to cover their ears, even if they want to.
“I hate it when others gossip about me,” said Mandy Miraglia, 16, a high school student from California, “but to be honest, gossip about my friends makes me feel I am trusted and belong to the group.” Miraglia is not the only person feeling like that.
Gossip has long been looked down on as little more than nonsense and bad manners. But recent research has shown that gossip has many positive effects on your social life.
“There has been a trend among people to dislike gossip,” said David Sloan Wilson, Professor from the State University of New York in Binghamton, US, “but gossip appears to be a very important form of behavior in a group of friends, defining their group membership.”
For 18 months, Kevin Kniffin, from the University of Wisconsin, US, researched the behavior of 50 people. He found that gossip levels peaked when a sports team included a slacker, someone who regularly missed practices or showed up late. Other members of the team would soon start to joke about the slacker’s shortcomings behind his back, because they thought they were bad for the whole team.
Gossip about the mistakes of senior members helps newcomers rebuild their confidence after a failure.
It also helps relieve social and professional anxiety. Long-term studies show that people around the world devote from a fifth to two-thirds or more of their daily conversation to gossip, and men appear to be just as eager for gossip as women.
It is hard to judge gossip, but it is more powerful than you think.
1. The author would probably agree that______________.
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A．gossip is bad manners |
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B．gossip has many good effects |
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C．gossip is somewhat like nonsense |
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D．gossip is more powerful than advice |
2. What does the underlined word “slacker” mean according to the context?
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A．Someone who values the team benefit much. |
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B．Someone who does not do what they should well. |
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C．Someone who is active in sports. |
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D．Someone who shows no much interest in sports. |
3.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
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A．Gossip is a useful way of building group membership. |
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B．Gossip can possibly make someone confident. |
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C．Generally, women are fonder of gossip than men. |
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D．Actually, everyone gossips to some degree in their daily conversation. |