【题目】The house prices fell sharply at the end of last year, but ______ at the beginning of this year.

A. repaired B. recovered

C. replaced D. reduced

【题目】As an expert on education, I finished a Junior Achievement course at a local middle school last week. I received some meaningful answers when I asked teens what they would want to tell their parents about money.

Max said,’Dear Mom, I need to give you some advice on money. I need more allowance (零用钱)！” I have to say many teenagers have the same idea as him. As an expert, I advise a little money for teens and more if they help with the housework. Now that your children are in middle school, it’s time to think about paying them to do something. My daughter missed a lot of school when she was a junior so I promised to buy her a notebook computer if she didn’t miss any school as a senior — she got the computer finally. What worked for my other daughter was a clothing allowance for her joining in the housework. She would receive a set amount every two months; it taught her a valuable lesson: when the clothing money ran out, she couldn’t buy more clothes until she got enough money through doing the housework. “I need more allowance,” should be the start, not the end, of a dialogue.

Grace wanted to tell Mom, “Only buy what we need.” Spending wisely and saving money was a good theme from all the students. The idea of thinking carefully about spending is just what I taught them at class, but this is not the subject of this Junior Achievement course. It shows me that these teenagers look at their parents’ spending habits, but they don’t tell their parents their opinions about them. Therefore, Moms and Dads, pay attention and remember: your children watch everything you do when it comes to money — do it right, point them in the right direction.

Nikola’s advice is valuable to all parents — “Mom and Dad, I think I should be more involved in money and financial (金融) things so I know how to do everything without a struggle when I get older.” This child has got it right. Her answer shows the fact that parents are responsible (负责的) for the financial training of their children. It is one of our most important parental goals.

【1】What does the author advise parents to do when their children want more allowance ?

A. Stop giving them allowance at once.

B. Buy them something they are in need of.

C. Give them more allowance if they help do the housework

D. Encourage them to earn more allowance by doing part – time jobs.

【2】Why does the author mention his daughters in Paragraph 2?

A. To show he does better than others in teaching his children.

B. To tell readers how to encourage children to study hard.

C. To show paying children to do things really works.

D. To tell readers he has children who often make trouble.

【3】 In Paragraph 3 the author suggests that parents should ________.

A. set good examples to their children in spending and saving money

B. set up a good relationship with their children

C. ask their children for advice on spending money

D. attend his Junior Achievement course

【4】We can learn from the passage that Nikola _______.

A. expected her parents to think about her future

B. expected to learn how to manage money

C. worried about her ability to make a living

D. had a better understanding of the author’s course

【题目】 Her question was so difficult that I could hardly make any _______ of it at all.

A. explanation B. meaning

C. sense D. idea

【题目】The failure of their friendship was closely related _____ other people’s privacy.

A. to not his respecting B. to his not respecting

C. his not to respect D. his not to respecting

【题目】Since nobody gave him any help, he ______ have done the research on his own.

A. can B. must C. would D. need

【题目】One in ten teens says they use“study drugs”to improve their performance in school. So-called “study drugs”refer to prescription medicines(处方药) that are used to treat ADHD(注意力缺乏症).But most parents have no understanding of the problem, a new study finds.

In January, 2013, researchers from the University of Michigan Mott Children’s Hospital did a national survey of more than seven hundred families with teens. They found that only one percent of parents believe their child has taken a study drug.

Yet in a 2012 University of Michigan study, ten percent of second-year high school students and twelve percent of third-year high school students say they use a study drug.

The misuse of study drugs didn’t come to the attention of almost all parents.“What we found in this survey is a clear mismatch(不协调)，”said Dr. Matthew Davis, one of the researchers. It is a mismatch between what parents believed and what their kids were reporting.

“We know teens are spreading the word that these drugs can improve their grades,”Davis said.“But these prescription medicines are drugs. And teens who use them without a prescription are taking a serious risk.”

The new survey showed that fifty-four percent of white parents were“very concerned”about their child taking study drugs, compared with thirty-eight percent of Hispanic(拉美的) parents and thirty-seven percent of black parents.

However, just twenty-seven percent of parents surveyed have talked to their teens about using study drugs. Of these parents, forty-one percent were black, twenty-seven percent were white and seventeen percent were Hispanic.

Students with a prescription for an ADHD drug should be required to keep their medicines in a safe place, such as the school nurse’s office. Seventy-nine percent of parents think so, the survey shows. This may help prevent it from being shared or used by other students.

【1】According to Paragraph 4, Dr. Daiv thinks__________.

A.the 2012 University of Michigan study is untrue

B.it is a good way to take study drugs to treat ADHD

C.some parents still don’t realize the study drugs problem

D.it is necessary to do another new survey about study drugs

【2】Dr. Davis believed using study drugs to improve grades_________.

A.is worth a try B.is bad for health

C.sometimes works D.causes little harm

【3】What does the underlined word“it”in the last paragraph refer to?

A.ADHD. B.The survey.

C.A safe place. D.The study drug.

【4】What is the purpose of this text?

A.To give useful advice.

B.To introduce a new drug.

C.To report a research result

D.To explain what ADHD is.

【题目】 _______ with his research work, the professor cared little about any other things.

A. Occupying B. Occupied

C. Having occupied D. Being occupied himself

【题目】The teacher tried to explain the phenomenon to his students, but his meaning didn’t really_____.

A. get down B. get across

C. get over D. get in

【题目】 They were walking along the shore ______ a huge wave appeared out of nowhere, sweeping

them out to sea.

A. as B. while C. when D. though

【题目】The cancer risks _______ with smoking have been well proved.

A. combined B. related

C. associated D. caused