In the last few years, some researchers have decided to study why kids lie(撒谎)，So they made up a special team of 12 students, all under the age of 21.

Each student was given 36 cards, and each card listed a topic that teens sometimes lie about to their parents, The researchers worked through the cards with the teens, learning what things the kid was lying to his parents about, and why.

By the end of the interviews, the kids saw for the first time how much they were lying and how many of family’s rules they had broken. It was reported that 98% of the teens had lied to their parents.

Out of the 36 topics, the average(平均) teen was lying to his parents about 12 of them. The teens lied about what movie they went to, and whom they went with .They lied about how they spent their afternoons while their parents were at work, and something like that.

Most parents hear their child lie and think he’s too young to understand what lies are or that lying is wrong. They believe their child will stop when he gets older. Many books also advise parents to just let lies go — they’ll grow out of it. But the truth is that kids grow into it. In studies where children are observed(观察) in their natural environment, a 4-year-old child will lie once every two hours, while a 6-year-old child will lie about once every hour and a half.

1.The researchers started the project by     .

2.The topics on 36 cards are mostly between kids and      .

3.From this passage, the teens lied on about      of the 36 topics as an average.

4.On this topic, the advice from many books for the parents is that they     .

It was a warm evening and David Fajgenbaum, the 18-year-old freshman had just finished his first football practice at Georgetown University．He   1  his parents, letting them know how well things were going．   2  , in a soft voice, his father said, “Son, your mom has brain cancer．”

“I went from being happier than I’d ever been to total  3   ,” says David．Rushing home, he   4  he was dropping out of college to support his mother through her illness．But Anna Marie Fajgenbaum, just 52 years old,   5   her son return to Georgetown．

David threw himself into his studies and grew increasingly  6  , feeling he was the only person on campus with a  7   parent．One October evening when David was home visiting, Anna Marie woke up  8   ．She was anxiousabout David and his two sisters．

“Mom, I’m going to be   9  ,” David assured her．“And I’m going to help other kids cope with  10  ．” A smile spread   11  his mother’s face．He  12   a support group called Ailing Mothers and Fathers－based on his mom’ initials, AMF．

 13  Anna Marie died later that month, David started hearing from friends who’d never even known his mom was  14 ．Some had gone through the same experience．He invited five students who’d lost   15  or friends to his apartment to talk．They  16  to meet every other week and   17 what they were going through．They participated in the Ironman 10K for cancer research, walked to battle ALS, and ran to   18  lung cancer．

Now the support group has 2,000   19   on 23 campuses．“This organization,” says David, “is about one thing: being there for one another．  20   I see those initials, AMF, I see my mom．I know she would have liked that．”

1．A．called                B．visited             C．amazed        D．challenged

2．A．Firstly                B．Finally           C．Silently             D．Generally

3．A．failure             B．embarrassment  C．shock              D．awareness

4．A．demanded          B．concluded         C．promised        D．announced

5．A．insisted               B．suggested        C．recommended    D．preferred

6．A．annoyed           B．confused         C．isolated        D．pressed

7．A．sick              B．cruel            C．strict                D．single

8．A．laughing             B．weeping           C．lying                D．walking

9．A．crazy                B．upset                   C．curious           D．okay

10．A．loneliness           B．panic             C．loss                 D．puzzle

11．A．across             B．beyond          C．in                 D．from

12．A．tried on            B．decided on       C．carried on         D．acted on

13．A．Although           B．Until               C．Since              D．When

14．A．serious                B．anxious          C．ill                        D．awful

15．A．fathers            B．relatives          C．mothers             D．teachers

16．A．agreed              B．chose            C．refused            D．struggled

17．A．debate              B．share             C．consult              D．discover

18．A．predict              B．survive            C．defeat              D．prevent

19．A．assistants            B．candidates         C．applicants          D．participants 

20．A．By the time       B．Every time         C．Next time         D．The first time

完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

The science teacher believed very strongly in practical work as a means of teaching science effectively, and she wanted her pupils' parents to see how well their children were learning ___36___ her methods. She therefore arranged for all the parents ___37___ and see the results of one of the ___38___ experiments on a Saturday evening,___39___ all of them were free. The children had been studying the growth of plants, and they ___40___ four pots of beans a few weeks before.  They had put poor soil in one pot, to see ___41___ effect this would have ___42___ the growth of the beans in ___43___,and good soil in ___44___ three pots. Then they had put one of the ___45___ in the dark for several days, and had given ___46___ pot no water for the same length of time.

　　At the end of the lesson on Friday afternoon, the teacher put little ___47___ on the four pots:‘The beans in this pot were planted in poor soil.’‘This pot　___48___ in the dark for four days.’‘These beans have had no water for four days.’‘These beans have had good soil, plenty of light and ___49___  water.’ Then the teacher went home.

　When she arrived on ___50___ evening, half an hour before the ___51___were due to come, she found this note beside the pots:‘We read your notes  ___52___ the school servant and thought we would help him, so we watered all the plants, changed the earth in the one with ___53___ soil, and ___54___ the light on above the one that had been left in the dark for four days. We hope that the plants will now grow___ 55___.’

　　Your friends,

‘The Boy Scouts.’