They do it late at night when their parents are asleep. They do it in restaurants and while crossing busy streets. They do it in the classroom with their hands behind their back. They do it so much that their thumbs hurt.

  Spurred(刺激) by the unlimited texting plans offered by carriers like AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month, according to the Nielsen Company一almost 80 messages a day.

  The phenomenon is beginning to worry physicians and psychologists. Dr. Martin Joffe, a pediatrician in Greenbrae,Calif.,recently surveyed students at two local high schools and said he found that many were routinely sending hundreds of texts every day.

  The rise in texting is too recent to have produced any conclusive data on health effects. But Sherry Turkle, a psychologist who has studied texting among teenagers in the Boston area for three years,said it might be causing a shift in the way adolescents develop.

  "Among the jobs of adolescence are to separate from your parents,and to find the peace and quiet to become the person you decide you want to be," she said. "Texting hits directly at both those jobs.”

  Psychologists expect to see teenagers break free from their parents as they grow into autono- mous adults,Professor Turkle went on, " but if technology makes something like staying in touch very,very easy, that's harder to do;now you have adolescents who are texting their mothers 15 times a day,asking things like, * Should I get the red shoes or the blue shoes?'" 

(   ) 5. The purpose of the first paragraph is to tell us        .

   A.American teenagers are addicted to texting

   B.texting can affect American teens in many ways

   C.the great influence of texting on American society

   D.the value of texting for American teenagers

(   ) 6. According to psychologists, teenagers        as they grow into autonomous a-

dults.

    A.should keep in touch with their parents

   B.should live without modern technology

   C.need some freedom or independence

   D.needn't be independent from their parents

(   ) 7. Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?

   A.American teenagers are not allowed to use mobile phones in school.

   B.Texting can also affect American teenagers' studies.

   C.Texting has no bad effects on American teenagers' health.

   D.Parents are not worried about the effects of texting. 

(   ) 8. We can infer from the last paragraph that        .

   A.texting helps narrow the generation gap between parents and kids

   B.technology can help teens to become more autonomous adults

   C.it's necessary for teens to ask for their parents' advice

   D.texting can play a .negative role in teenagers' becoming autonomous adults

 One Saturday morning after breakfast, I returned to my dormitory and saw the house parent chasing the beautiful butterflies, hundreds of which lived in the bushes around the orphanage. I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after another, and then took them from the net and stuck straight pins through their head and wings,pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet.

  How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. When the house parent went inside to answer the phone, I walked up to the cardboard and looked at the butterfly that he had just pinned to the large paper. It was still moving about, so I reached down and touched it on the wing,causing one of the pins to fall out. It started flying around and around, trying to get away but it was still pinned by one wing with another straight pin. Finally its wing broke off and the butterfly fell to the ground, still trembling. I tried to let it fly away before the house parent came back. But I failed.

  When the house parent came back,he was angry with me though I didn't admit doing any?thing. He picked up the cardboard paper and started hitting me on the head. There were all kinds of butterfly pieces going everywhere. He threw the cardboard down on the ground and told me to pick it up and put it in the garbage can inside the back room of the dormitory and then he left. I sat there in the dirt for the longest time trying to fit all the butterfly pieces back together so I could bury them whole, but it was too hard to do. So I prayed for them and put them in an old torn-up shoebox and I buried them in the ground near the blackberry bushes.

  Every year when the butterflies would return to the orphanage and try to land on me,I would try and shoo them away because they did not know that the orphanage was a bad place to live and a very bad place to die.

(   ) 1. Why didn't the butterfly that the writer wanted to set free fly away?

   A.Because it was pinned to the paper.

   B.Because it refused to fly away.

   C.Because its wing broke off.

   D.Because the house parent killed it.

(   ) 2. What can be inferred from the 3rd paragraph of the passage?

   A.The house parent doubted the writer.

   B.The writer admitted trying to set the butterfly free.

   C.All the butterflies flew away thanks to the writer's help.

   D.The writer put all the dead butterflies in the garbage can.

(   ) 3. The writer tried his best to fit all the butterfly pieces back together in order to

    A. save them   B. make the house parent angry

   C. be proud of himself   D. bury the butterflies whole

(   ) 4. What does the underlined phrase "shoo them away" in the last paragraph mean?

    A. Drive them away.   B. Play with them.

   C. Bury them.   D. Catch them one after another.

  Camilla Chomp was a very greedy little girl. She hardly had any friends because she thought it was1to spend her time alone, eating cake and pudding. Her parents were wor?ried,so they  2  all the sweet food in the house and hid it.

 So Camilla 3 the house, desperately (不顾一切地) looking for something 4 to eat. On she went 5 she came across a small deserted hut full of old pots and glasses of all shapes and sizes. The one that 6 Camilla most was a shiny little glass. It seemed to be full of chocolate, and Camilla drank it 7 It was delicious, 8 she had a strange sense, so she read the 9  "Glass Tears," it said,and in small print it 10 , "Magically it can convert (改变) tears into chocolate.”

  Camilla was very excited. She ran everywhere to 11 someone who was crying, and she 12 a little girl who was weeping sadly. Sure enough, her tears were 13 into choco?late,and as they ran down her cheeks, to her mouth, they sweetened her lips. That 14 stopped her crying. Camilla and the girl spent a fun time together, tasting the delicious tears, and they parted as friends.

  Something 15happened with a woman who had dropped some plates,and with an old man who couldn't find his walking stick. The appearance of Camilla and the chocolate tears cheered up those sad faces, helping them 16 once again.

  Soon Camilla realized that cheering people up was much more 17 than chocolate. Her mad search for sweet food 18 ,and she began to search for sad people who she could try to 19 And she made many friends, which filled her life with  20  and happiness. 

(   ) 1.A. fun   B. strange   C. popular   D. complex

(   ) 2.A. reduced   B. took   C. observed   D. discovered

(   ) 3.A. cleaned   B. searched   C. left   D. sold

(   ) 4.A. dry   B. fresh   C. small   D. sweet

(   ) 5.A. unless   B. until   C. if   D. though

(   ) 6.A. calmed   B. puzzled   C. upset   D. attracted

(   ) 7.A. accidently   B. ^frequently   C. quickly   D. lately

(   ) 8.A. but   B. and   C. so   D. or

(   ) 9.A. label   B. book   C. figure   D. e-mail

(   ) 10.A. informed   B. explained   C. announced   D. described

(   ) 11.A. defend against   B. calm down .   C. look for   D. pick up

(   ) 12. A. learned   B. convinced   C. directed   D. met

(   ) 13. A. developed   B. broken   C. turned   D. divided

(   ) 14. A. hardly   B. soon   C. never   D. always

(   ) 15. A. funny   B. unbelievable   C. confusing   D. similar

(   ) 16. A. smile   B. move   C. start   D. think

(   ) 17. A. natural   B. meaningful   C. difficult   D. frequent

(   ) 18. A. filled   B. started   C. stopped   D. rose

(   ) 19. A. help   B. rescue   C. reward   D. trick

(   ) 20. A. imagination   B. certainty   C. challenge   D. meaning

  An important part of children's cognitive(认知) development is created by having them use their imaginations. Before TVs and computers were invented,children had to use their imagina?tions rather than rely on those types of stimulus(剌激) .

  Studies show that children who have imaginary friends are more likely to be more creative and better able to solve problems. Instead of criticizing them for it,encourage it.

  As it turns out,the things that you are able to do for free with your children are also some of the best for them like engaging them in creativity. A box of crayons, some paper,and a little coaching from you will go a long way. Don't judge so quickly. Just like creativity in adults, having a lot of unfiltered ideas is better than holding back on your freedom of expression. Give a kid some art supplies and you will be amazed at what they will come up with. Common house?hold items and things pulled out of the closet can turn into anything your child can dream up in their imagination.

  Fostering(培养) imagination is important because children need to learn how to solve their own problems instead of having their mom or dad always solve them for them. They need to strengthen those problem-solving skills,which will serve them well their whole lives. By letting children solve their own problems, they are less likely to have to depend on others when they grow up. They will be able to solve their own problems. They are less likely to become passive and let others dictate to them. They are better able to think through different scenarios(场景) and outcomes.

  To prepare for life in the real world, children should practice in the imaginary one to better help them cope. Putting them into " what if" situations gives them the tools they will need when

they go into the real world and are faced with real world problems to solve. 

(   ) 5. We learn from the first paragraph that .

   A.children use much of their imagination watching TV and using computers

   B.children who watch TV or use computers have less imagination

   C.children had little imagination before TVs and computers were invented

   D.children can rely on TVs and computers to foster their imagination 

(   ) 6. We can infer from the third paragraph that .

   A.we can use common things to foster children's imagination

   B.art supplies are the best tools to foster children's imagination

   C.we have to choose things carefully to foster children's imagination

   D.we should have freedom of expression to foster children's imagination 

(   ) 7. We should foster children's imagination because         .

   A.it can help them create useful things

   B.it can help them enjoy their lives

   C.it can help them think of different scenarios and outcomes

   D.it can help them solve problems independently

(   ) 8. The underlined "it" in the second paragraph refers to         .

   A.children's ability to solve problems

   B.children's imagination

   C.children's cognitive development

   D.children's having imaginary friends

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