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  [1]The word addiction usually makes you think of alcohol or drugs，but in modern—day society we are seeing some new kinds of addictions. Some people are compulsive (难以自制的) shoppers. Others find it impossible to pull themselves away from their work. Still others spend countless hours watching TV or playing computer games.

[2]Over the years, shopping has become a very common activity. Many people enjoy going to stores more and more every day, but it’s more than a common hobby for some of them. They have turned into shopaholics. They are people who simply enjoy shopping and walking around spending money without being able to stop doing it. They are hooked on shopping and usually buy things that they don’t need. Even though they don’t have enough money, they buy everything they want.

[3] The question is, why do they have this addiction? There isn’t a specific answer. Some people go shopping when they are sad, worried, upset or lonely and they want to feel better. They use this activity as a way to forget their problems. Shopaholics say that they feel more important and better after they buy something. They also tend to have this addiction when feel guilty.

[4]Shopaholism seems to be a harmless addiction, but it can          . Some of them can be psychological. If this is the case, people addicted to shopping, should go to a support group to help them break this habit. However, the process, like for most addictions, is long, and they suffer a lot. It can also cause financial problems. They just think about satisfying their feelings, so they spend money they don’t have. They get deep in debt, and they can even go bankrupt and get sent to prison.

1. List three activities that might develop into addictions based on the text. (Please answer within 8 words.)

   ①                                                                        

   ②                                                                      

   ③                                                                      

   shopping, drinking, playing computer games, working, watching TV, taking drugs

   (答出其中三种即可，不根据原文回答者不得分)

2. What is the main idea of Paragraph 3? (Please answer with in 8 words)

   The reason why some people shopaholics have shopping addition.

   The possible reasons for shopaholism／shopping addition.

3. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words.(Please answer within 6 words)

   cause／bring about／result in many problems

4. Which sentence in the text is the closest in meaning to the following one?

   Accordingly，these shopaholics should turn to a certain organization for help so that they can stop compulsive shopping.

   If this is the case, people addicted to shopping should go to a support group to help them break this habit

5. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 into Chinese

    他们购物成瘾，而且通常买的都是用不着的东西。

    他们购物上瘾，常买些不需要的东西。

1．shopping drinking, playing computer games, working, watching TV, taking drugs

(答出其中三种即可，不根据原文内容回答者不得分)

2．The possible reasons for shopaholism/shopping addition.

why some people shopping addition.

3．cause/bring about/result in many problems.

4．If this is the case, people addicted to shopping should go to a support group to help them break this habit.

5.他们购物成瘾,而且通常买的都是用不着的东西.

  他们购物上瘾,常买些不需要的东西.

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　　Like so many girls of my generation, I went straight from college to society．Through my family's attempt, I found my suitable job．I thought I was doing a great job．

　　One day, a female program director arrived at the station．This large and frightening woman came to work every day with an equally large and frightening German dog．She didn't like me．When she called me into her office one Friday afternoon, she simply said,“You're fired!”leaving me to wonder what had gone so terribly wrong．

　　Six months later, after calling every program director in town, I went to work for another major-market radio station, doing four-minute stories for a low ＄15 each．With two young children and a husband who was just starting his own career, I took a chance．

　　Today, some 28 years later, I am still at WOR Radio with a two-hour daily talk show interviewing celebrities, authors and politicians, giving information to more than a million listeners a week and loving every minute of it．

　　I was young when those firings happened, but the process is still the same．Firings know no age or gender．The trick is to get out from under the covers and make things happen．This is exactly what Sherrye Henry did．

　　Sherrye, when her organization came across a sudden financial failure, she was fired．“This wasn't the first job I had lost．Hard as it is, one must remember that there is always life after losing a job．”said Sherrye．Helpful friends, good luck and a good resume got Sherrye back on track．Within a month, she landed what she calls the most satisfying job of her life：raising money for Episconpal Relief and Development(ERD), which provides emergency assistance to people in 40 countries．

(1)

The author was fired because ________．

[　　]

A．

she didn't like her job

B．

she lacked working experience

C．

the program director didn't like her

D．

she made a big mistake

(2)

The author worked for the major-market radio station because ________．

[　　]

A．

she could interview many celebrities

B．

she had to support the family

C．

the salary was very satisfying

D．

her husband had no job at that time

(3)

What can we infer from the last paragraph?

[　　]

A．

Sherrye caused the financial failure of her organization．

B．

Although she was optimistic, Sherrye was often out of work．

C．

Sherrye got her new job on ERD without much difficulty．

D．

Sherrye volunteered to provide emergency assistance to the people in trouble．

(4)

The author described her and Sherrye's experiences to tell people that ________．

[　　]

A．

they were fired at the same time

B．

it was hard to find a job

C．

they once had the same situation

D．

when facing firing, one shouldn't lose heart

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此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判断：

如无错误，该行右边横线上画一个勾(√)；

如有错误(每行只有一个错误)，则按下列情况改正：

此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

During the summer of 2008, I started reading books

in English, mostly stories．I would learn a lot of new           

words from these books, but I had terribly problems              

memorizing them．I had to look up to the same word                

many time, which was quite troublesome．I realized               

I do need a way to remember all this vocabulary．It was           

a great achievement for myself．I started writing down             

words from  books that I read．I would come back from              

school, and then sit for an hour and two．I wrote down            

new words and add them to my collection．By the end               

of last year，my collection has grown to 3,000 wor

0ds．                                                              

 

It’s common to hear the honking of horns in New York. Whoever tries every day to get more than a few minutes of sleep in the city will tell you that he could do nothing about it! Honking of horns is just one of their most widely enjoyed pastimes.

But Aaron, a Japanese website developer has had enough of it. Once, the 31-year-old man approached the open window to wait for the driver to finish honking, delivered a polite "excuse me" and then yelled " Ho-o-o-o-onk!", which suggests fierce anger in Japan. Then he threw three eggs from the window of his apartment on to a passing car honking loudly below when his patience was worn out. Instead of apologizing to him, the driver threatened to kill him angrily. So, nobly, Aaron turned to non-violence. He started writing anti-honking haiku verses, a form of Japanese poetry, and submitted them to local newspapers:

Oh .forget Enron;

The problem around here is;

All the damn honking

(Enron: a major American company that recently caused a scandal by going bankrupt be­cause of corrupt(腐败) mismanagement)

"Then this kind of chain reaction started happening," Aaron says. "All these other haiku star­ted appearing that I haven't written." Aaron’ s community is now covered in anti - hon­king poetry, written by all walks of life, ranging from scary environmental activist types to violent revolutionaries:

Patience slowly fades;

Residents store up their eggs;

That day is coming soon.

It’s no surprise that Aaron has started a website — www. honku. org — and now people from across the country send him news of their own anti - honking activities. It seems that poetry can change the world after all. Then, just recently, anti-anti- honking haiku started to appear, taped up by locals who thought Aaron should stop worrying about honking and start wor­rying about starving children, say, or war in the  Middle East instead. Aaron has an answer for that. "Stop me if this is too tenuous(不靠谱的) ," he says," but they talk about the violence in the Middle East like it' s a force of nature, like it' s beyond our control. But actually it's kind of like the honking - the violence is man -made. If we can figure out how to stop honking on the streets, I think we could learn some things that we could use on a large scale. "

1.The first paragraph of the passage is intended to tell us that_______.

A. New Yorkers have formed a habit of honking while driving

B. most New Yorkers enjoy sleeping late in the morning

C. honking noise has influenced people's life in New York

D. New Yorkers enjoy listening to the honking of horns

2.What is Aaron’s final response to the frequent honking of horns?

A. Pretended to ignore it.

B. Screamed at the driver.

C. Acted in a peaceful way.

D. Complained to the government.

3.According to the passage, most New Yorkers think Aaron's response is ___.

A. pointless

B. abnormal

C. sensitive

D. acceptable

4.Faced with the criticism of his anti-honking campaign, Aaron notes that___.

A. fierce violence in the Middle East is more of an issue worthy of concern

B. finding the solution to anti - honking is as meaningful as that to starvation

C. big issues are beyond our control while small ones are under our control

D. if not handled properly, honking may cause serious problems like starvation

 


It’s common to hear the honking of horns in New York. Whoever tries every day to get more than a few minutes of sleep in the city will tell you that he could do nothing about it! Honking of horns is just one of their most widely enjoyed pastimes.
But Aaron, a Japanese website developer has had enough of it. Once, the 31-year-old man approached the open window to wait for the driver to finish honking, delivered a polite "excuse me" and then yelled " Ho-o-o-o-onk!", which suggests fierce anger in Japan. Then he threw three eggs from the window of his apartment on to a passing car honking loudly below when his patience was worn out. Instead of apologizing to him, the driver threatened to kill him angrily. So, nobly, Aaron turned to non-violence. He started writing anti-honking haiku verses, a form of Japanese poetry, and submitted them to local newspapers:
Oh .forget Enron;
The problem around here is;
All the damn honking
(Enron: a major American company that recently caused a scandal by going bankrupt be­cause of corrupt(腐败) mismanagement)
"Then this kind of chain reaction started happening," Aaron says. "All these other haiku star­ted appearing that I haven't written." Aaron’ s community is now covered in anti - hon­king poetry, written by all walks of life, ranging from scary environmental activist types to violent revolutionaries:
Patience slowly fades;
Residents store up their eggs;
That day is coming soon.
It’s no surprise that Aaron has started a website — www. honku. org — and now people from across the country send him news of their own anti - honking activities. It seems that poetry can change the world after all. Then, just recently, anti-anti- honking haiku started to appear, taped up by locals who thought Aaron should stop worrying about honking and start wor­rying about starving children, say, or war in the  Middle East instead. Aaron has an answer for that. "Stop me if this is too tenuous(不靠谱的) ," he says," but they talk about the violence in the Middle East like it' s a force of nature, like it' s beyond our control. But actually it's kind of like the honking - the violence is man -made. If we can figure out how to stop honking on the streets, I think we could learn some things that we could use on a large scale. "

  1. 1.

    The first paragraph of the passage is intended to tell us that_______

    1. A.
      New Yorkers have formed a habit of honking while driving
    2. B.
      most New Yorkers enjoy sleeping late in the morning
    3. C.
      honking noise has influenced people's life in New York
    4. D.
      New Yorkers enjoy listening to the honking of horns
  2. 2.

    What is Aaron’s final response to the frequent honking of horns?

    1. A.
      Pretended to ignore it
    2. B.
      Screamed at the driver
    3. C.
      Acted in a peaceful way
    4. D.
      Complained to the government
  3. 3.

    According to the passage, most New Yorkers think Aaron's response is ___

    1. A.
      pointless
    2. B.
      abnormal
    3. C.
      sensitive
    4. D.
      acceptable
  4. 4.

    Faced with the criticism of his anti-honking campaign, Aaron notes that___

    1. A.
      fierce violence in the Middle East is more of an issue worthy of concern
    2. B.
      finding the solution to anti - honking is as meaningful as that to starvation
    3. C.
      big issues are beyond our control while small ones are under our control
    4. D.
      if not handled properly, honking may cause serious problems like starvation

I shall never forget the night，a few years ago，when Marion J.Douglas was a student in one of my adult­education classes. He told us how tragedy had struck at his home，not once，but twice. The first time he had lost his five­year­old daughter. He and his wife thought they couldn’t bear that first loss；but，as he said，“Ten months later，God gave us another little girl and she died in five days.”
This double bereavement was almost too much to bear. “I couldn’t take it，” this father told us，“I couldn’t sleep，eat，rest or relax. My nerves were entirely shaken and my confidence gone. ”At last he went to doctors；one recommended sleeping pills and another recommended a trip，but neither helped. He said，“My body felt as if it was surrounded in a vice (大钳子)，and the jaws of the vice were being drawn tighter and tighter.” The tension of grief (悲伤)—if you have ever been paralyzed (使瘫痪) by sorrow，you know what he meant.
“But thank God，I had one child left—a four­year­old son. He gave me the solution to my problem. One afternoon as I sat around feeling sorry for myself，he asked，‘Daddy，will you build a boat for me？’ I was in no mood to build a boat；in fact，I was in no mood to do anything. But my son is a persistent little fellow！I had to give in. Building that toy boat took me about three hours. By the time it was finished，I realized that those three hours spent building that boat were first hours of mental relaxation and peace that I had had in months！I realized that it is difficult to worry while you are busy doing something that requires planning and thinking. In my case，building the boat had knocked worry out of the ring. So I determined to keep busy.”
“The following night，I made a list of jobs that ought to be done. Scores of items needed to be repaired. Amazingly，I had made a list of 242 items that needed attention. During the last two years I have completed  most of them. I am busy so that I have no time for worry.”
No time for worry！That is exactly what Winston Church ill said when he was working eighteen hours a day at the height of the war. When he was asked if he worried about his huge responsibilities，he said，“I am too busy. I have no time for worry.”

  1. 1.

    The underlined word “bereavement” in the second paragraph refers to________.

    1. A.
      having lost a loved one
    2. B.
      having lost a valuable article
    3. C.
      having lost a profit­making business
    4. D.
      having lost a well­paid job
  2. 2.

    Marion felt his body as if it was caught in a vice because________.

    1. A.
      he couldn’t earn enough money to support his family
    2. B.
      he was suffering from sleeplessness disease
    3. C.
      he couldn’t get out of mental pressure
    4. D.
      he felt tired of adult­education classes
  3. 3.

    Marion made a list of over 200 items that needed to be repaired because________.

    1. A.
      he hadn’t been able to spare time to mend them
    2. B.
      he wanted to kill his free time by repairing them
    3. C.
      the items had actually been broken and needed attention
    4. D.
      repairing the items helped crowd wor ry out of his mind
  4. 4.

    At the end of the passage，the author wrote about Winston Churchill in order to________.

    1. A.
      prove that he followed Churchill’s example
    2. B.
      support his student’s solution to his problem
    3. C.
      show that he was successful in his career
    4. D.
      clarify how his conclusion was reached

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