完形填空(共1小题)

请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

All of us go through some difficult times as we approach teenage years.It's the age when we have to deal with the most ________ in our life.This transition (过渡) from childhood to adulthood is ________ for some, but rough for others.The most important thing about being a teenager is ________.When we are teenagers, we would get blamed or even punished for anything wrong we do.Unlike before when we were small kids, even if we made a big trouble, we didn’t need to pay anything for it.

It’s all not so ________about being a teenager though.We don’t have to have our ________ take us to somewhere we want to go or we couldn’t go before.We can have ________ with friends or even alone, which we couldn’t have because we were too ________ to know what pleasure is! It's a very enjoyable time of life.During this age, we are old enough to ________what is good for us, and make decisions by ourselves without ________ others.

But like the saying goes ‘‘All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue ________.” During this period, we are having much ________ for our studies.If we don't pass, we won’t get jobs, and things will take a turn for the ________ .With the present world economy in ________ , we have to do really, really well in our ________ for a job.Adults say that their ________is the hardest part of life.But I think the transition from a kid to an adult is much ________ than being already an adult.What we do in our teenage years will ________ what we become and how we lead our life in the future.

In conclusion, it is quite ________ that parents put much pressure on an already stressed out teenager.If they realized that, living condition for teenagers would be much better.________ for the teens ourselves we should get to know what is best for us.What's more, we should understand the right ________ of life we choose at this age can make us happy for the rest of our existence.

1.A.chances B.changes C.feelings D.expectations

2.A.smooth B.practical C.demanding D.necessary

3.A.knowledge B.independence C.confidence D.responsibility

4.A.easy B.strange C.bad D.interesting

5.A.guides B.partners C.parents D.friends

6.A.fun B.trouble C.relation D.business

7.A.proud B.young C.smart D.mature

8.A.predict B.remember C.imagine D.understand

9.A.guiding B.helping C.inviting D.consulting

10.A.occasionally B.temporarily C.forever D.increasingly

11.A.pressure B.passion C.motivation D.panic

12.A.better B.worse C.fewer D.more

13.A.decline B.hope C.increase D.debt

14.A.contribution B.education C.application D.qualification

15.A.promotion B.work C.experience D.age

16.A.harder B.happier C.easier D.lighter

17.A.reflect B.confirm C.determine D.identify

18.A.vital B.urgent C.common D.unnecessary

19.A.Or B.Otherwise C.But D.Because

20.A.experience B.way C.condition D.power

D

A four-year-old girl sees three biscuits divided between a stuffed crocodile and a teddy bear.The crocodile gets two; the bear one.“Is that fair?” asks the experimenter.The girl judges that it is not.“How about now?” asks the experimenter, breaking the bear’s single biscuit in half.The girl cheers up: “Oh yes, now it’s fair.They both have two.” Strangely, children feel very strongly about fairness, even when they hardly understand it.

Adults care about fairness too --- but how much? One way to find out is by using the ultimatum (最后通牒) game, created by economist Werner Guth.Jack is given a pile of money and proposes how it should be divided with Jill.Jill can accept Jack’s “ultimatum”, otherwise the deal is off, and neither gets anything.

Suppose Jack and Jill don’t care about fairness, just about accumulating cash.Then Jack can offer Jill as little as he likes and Jill will still accept.After all, a little money is more than no money.But imagine, instead, that Jack and Jill both care only about fairness and that the fairest outcome is equality.Then Jack would offer Jill half the money; and Jill wouldn’t accept otherwise.

What happens when we ask people to play this game for real? It turns out that people value fairness a lot.Anyone offered less than 20-30% of the money is likely to reject it.Receiving an unfair offers makes us feel sick.Happily, most offers are pretty equitable; indeed, by far the most common is a 50-50 split.

But children, and adults, also care about a very different sort of (un)fairness, namely cheating.Think how many games of snakes and ladders have ended in arguments when one child “accidentally” miscounts her moves and another child objects.But this sense of fairness isn’t about equality of outcome: games inevitably have winners and losers.Here, fairness is about playing by the rules.

Both fairness-as-equality and fairness-as-no-cheating matter.Which is more important: equality or no-cheating? I think the answer is neither.The national lottery(彩票), like other lotteries, certainly doesn’t make the world more equal: a few people get rich and most people get nothing.Nevertheless, we hope, it is fair --- but what does this mean? The fairness-as-no-cheating viewpoint has a ready answer: a lottery is fair if it is conducted according to the “rules”.But which rules? None of us has the slightest idea, I suspect.Suppose that buried in the small print at lottery HQ is a rule that forbids people with a particular surname (let’s say, Moriarty).So a Ms Moriarty could buy a ticket each week for years without any chance of success.

How would she react if she found out? Surely with anger: how dare the organisers let her play, week after week, without mentioning that she couldn’t possibly win! She’d reasonably feel unfairly treated because ___________________.

To protest(抗议) against unfairness, then, is to make an accusation of bad faith.From this viewpoint, an equal split between the crocodile and the bear seems fair because (normally, at least), it is the only split they would both agree to.But were the girl to learn that the crocodile doesn’t like biscuits or that the bear isn’t hungry, I suspect she’d think it perfectly fair for one toy to take the whole.Inequality of biscuits (or anything else) isn’t necessarily unfair, if both parties are happy.And the unfairness of cheating comes from the same source: we’d never accept that someone else can unilaterally(单方面地) violate agreements that we have all signed up to.

So perhaps the four-year-old’s intuitions(直觉) about fairness is the beginnings of an understanding of negotiation.With a sense of fairness, people will have to make us acceptable offers (or we’ll reject their ultimatums) and stick by the (reasonable) rules, or we’ll be on the warpath.So a sense of fairness is crucial to effective negotiation; and negotiation, over toys, treats etc, is part of life.

1.It can be inferred that in the ultimatum game, _____.

A.Jack keeps back all the money

B.Jill can negotiate fair division with Jack

C.Jack has the final say in the division of money

D.Jill has no choice but to accept any amount of money

2.From Paragraph 2 to 4, we can conclude _____.

A.people will sacrifice money to avoid unfairness

B.fairness means as much to adults as to children

C.something is better than nothing after all

D.a 30-70 split is acceptable to the majority

3.Which of the following does fairness-as-no-cheating apply to?

A.divisions of housework

B.favoritism between children

C.banned drugs in sport

D.schooling opportunities

4.Which of the following best fits in the blank in Paragraph 7?

A.the lottery didn’t follow the rules

B.she was cheated out of the money

C.the lottery wasn’t equal at all

D.she would never have agreed to those rules

5.The chief factor in preventing unfairness is to _____.

A.observe agreements

B.establish rules

C.strengthen morality

D.understand negotiation

6. The main purpose of the passage is to ______

A.declare the importance of fairness

B.suggest how to achieve fairness

C.present different attitudes to fairness

D.explain why we love fairness

请认真阅读下列短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。

Everyone procrastinates.We put things off because we don’t want to do them, or because we have too many other things on our plates.Putting things off – big or small – is part of being human.But procrastination does have consequences.When your procrastination leaves you feeling discouraged, it is time to take action, and one of the best ways to get rid of it is to make an un-schedule。

An un-schedule is a weekly calendar of all the ways in which your time is already accounted for.You consider not only your timed commitments such as classes and meetings, but also your untimed activities such as meals, exercise, time with friends, and the like.Once you have made your un-schedule, you may be able to see your time is often filled with more activities than you realize, for instance, that you really don’t have five hours to spend writing on the night before your paper is due.Procrastinators’ views of time tend to be unrealistic, and the un-schedule can help you outline a realistic plan.By planning accordingly, you will not only get a better night’s sleep, you may also end up with a better paper.

The un-schedule might also be a good way to get started on a larger project, such as a term paper or an honors paper.You may think that you have “all semester” to get the writing done, but if you really map out how much time you have available to write on a daily and weekly basis, you will see that you need to get started sooner, rather than later.In addition, the un-schedule may reveal especially busy weeks or months, which will help you budget time for long-term projects.

Perhaps most importantly, the un-schedule can help you examine how you spend your time.You may be surprised at how much time you spend watching television, and decide to make a change.It’s especially important that you build time for fun activities into your un-schedule.Otherwise, you will procrastinate in order to steal time for relaxation.

You can also use the un-schedule to record your progress towards your goal.Reward yourself for your small successes.Seeing what you’ve achieved will help you reinforce (强化) the productive behavior, and you will feel more motivated in the following process.

As you explore ways to conquer procrastination, don’t expect overnight transformation.You developed the habit over a long time; you aren’t going stop magically.But you can change the behavior, bit by bit.If you start to make an un-schedule now, you will eventually develop new habits.

1.From Paragraph 2, we can know that procrastinators __________.

A.usually have sleeping problems

B.tend to be unrealistic in daily life

C.spend more time in doing exercise

D.often fail to notice untimed activities

2.Which of the following statements best reflects an un-schedule?

A.“Now I have more time for fun.”

B.“I can start my big project later.”

C.“I’ll treat myself to a movie for my progress.”

D.“I’m going to have more time to finish my paper.”

3.According to the writer, people need to make an un-schedule because of their _

A.interests in doing things differently

B.determination to try out new things

C.inability to manage time properly

D.lack of concentration on a project

书面表达(共1小题)

阅读下面的短文,然后按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的作文。

A young man was slapped in the face until he bled because he didn’t offer his seat to a woman with a baby on a bus in downtown Hangzhou.Later he was proved to be a disabled person.

In a series of cases nationwide, we see people being beaten for refusing to give up their seats on public transport, which seems to be a moral problem about correct behavior and self-sacrifice.

People without morals (who don’t give up their seats to deserving people) can be condemned, but they don’t deserve to be treated with violence because they offend moral values and not laws.In comparison, the attackers behave worse.

The attackers regard relying on violence as their only choice if people ignore their appeals to give up their seats.It seems they start a shout or a fight for the sake of justice, but can they still think of their personal intention when they call violent justice?

This “violent justice” can confuse many people and encourage them to do the same, especially when we are overpowered by illogical mood.

If cruel and rude acts are rooted in children’s hearts, society will never step into civilization.The practice violates common values, neither solving problems nor safeguarding civilized society.

1.以约30个词概括短文的要点。

2.以约120个词谈谈你对这一事件的看法,内容包括:

(1) 读完这则新闻,你有什么感受?

(2) 假如你是车上的一名乘客,你会怎样做?

(3) 就如何创建和谐社会提出你的建议。

注意:

1.你可以使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的论点,也可以参照阅读材料的内容,但不要抄袭阅读材料中的句子。

2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

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