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 1. It had been my life long a _______________ to be a teacher in a famous university.

2. The big house is perfectly a______________ for just the two of us.

3. A state of emergency has been d____________ in Libya.

 4. Children under 12 must be a____________ by an adult.

5. Any w____________ to the accident are asked to contact the police station.

6. Many of the villagers have a______________ their homes and fled in the tsunami in Japan.

7. I caught a glimpse of them r____________ in the mirror.

 8. Once we have all the r___________ information, we can make a decision.

9. The new government has agreed to p______________ in the peace talks.

10. We strongly r_________ you insure your luggage when you travel.

Teresa was born in Yugoslavia on August 27,1910. Her parents were Albanians(阿尔巴尼亚人) and member of the Roman Catholic Church. When she was seven years old, her father was murdered. She decided not to be filled with hate because of this tragedy(悲剧). Instead, she would seek a life of love. This ambition led her to Ireland where she became a nun(修女) at the age of eighteen.

After only one year of training, she was sent to India to teach in a school called Loretto House, where the students were mostly from rich Indian families. After 15 years there, she left her duties as a teacher to “follow Christ into the slums(贫民窟).” Her heart led her away from the rich to the needs of the poor. She was then 36 years old.

Teresa no longer was affiliated(隶属) with the Irish nuns who sent her to Loreto House but worked independently. However, her work was recognised by the Pope in Rome for she still was a nun. He allowed her to set up her own group, which was called the Missionaries of Charity(仁爱传教修女会).

She no longer dressed as a nun in the European or Irish tradition. Instead, she put on a sari, the local dress of the Indian people. At first, people were sceptical(怀疑的) about her motives. Soon, they realised she was really interested in loving poor people, even those who were dying and had no chance of survival.

Soon, other Indian people began to spare time to help Mother Teresa. She had taught everyone that the poor and dying people need love most of all.

In 1979, she won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Why did Mother Teresa become a nun?

A. Her father was killed.                B. The hate of her father’s death.

C. She was looking for a life of love.      D. The poor life of her childhood.

Why did she leave her duties as a teacher after 15 years in Loretto House?

A. To be a teacher was too tired       B. The students in Loretto House were rich.

C. She was tired of teaching.         D. The poor in the slums needed her care.

Which of the following is WRONG?

A. Mother Teresa was a Catholic.

B. “Sari” is an Indian word that means clothing.

C. At first people didn’t believe her motives.

D. She served poor people in the slums as a teacher.

Perhaps the most important lesson the world has learned from Mother Teresa is     .

A. regular assistance               B. food and shelter

C. to care for the poor of the earth    D. protection

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Researchers from the University of Michigan reported that empathy(感情移入)，the ability to understand other people, among college students had dropped sharply over the past 10 years. That could be because so many people have replaced face time with screen time. Today, people spend more time alone and are less likely to join groups and clubs.

But there is another explanation. Turn on the TV, and you’re showered with news and reality shows full of people fighting, competing, and generally treating one another with no respect. Humans learn by example---and most of the examples on it are anything but empathetic.

There are good reasons not to follow those bad examples. Humans are socially related by nature. Having relationships with other people is an important part of being human—and having empathy is decisive to those relationships. Researchers have also found that empathetic teenagers are more likely to have high self-respect. Besides, empathy can be a cure for loneliness, sadness, anxiety, and fear.

Empathy is also an indication of a good leader. In fact, many top companies report that empathy is one of the most important things they look for in new managers. Good social skills---including empathy—are a kind of “emotional(情感的) intelligence” that will help you succeed in many areas of life.

What’s the best way to develop empathy? For starters, let down your guard and really listen to others. One doesn’t develop empathy by having a lot of opinions and doing a lot of talking. In addition, you’d better volunteer at a nursing home or a hospital, be a member of a club or a team, have a “sharing circle” with your family, or spend time caring for pets at an animal shelter.

 Children lie on couches or sit on floors, nearly hypnotized(迷住) by all kinds of messages coming from the television. This scene has become all too familiar. Increasingly, young children are adopting a watching-TV lifestyle, at s stage in life when activity is important to their growth. Furthermore, family time is being destroyed by too much TV time. Here are some facts you need to know:

*Research shows that children spend between five and six hours per day watching TV, and they go to bed before having any communication with other family members.

*Time spent in front of a screen is reducing the amount of time children spend sleeping.

*The more time a youth spends in front of a screen, the more likely he or she is to be overweight.

Experts(专家) offer the following advice to parents on how to stop their children from becoming addicted to television:

*Do not put a TV in a child’s bedroom.

*Make meal time, family time -----turn off the TV during a family meal time. Better yet, remove the TV from the eating area.

*Make TV time active time by doing simple exercise during advertisement breaks.

*Help your kids be clever TV watchers by teaching them to recognize a sales trick in advertisements(广告).

*Create family memories by planning fun activities instead of always watching TV with your family.

*_______. Limit your own TV watching to less than two hours per day. The best way to learn is to follow; this is especially true for children.

1.Which fact is not mentioned(提到) as a result of watching TV in this passage?

2.Which of the following is one piece of advice given in this passage?

3.The sentence in the blank in the last advice should be “_______”.

The Best of Friends

The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly held image(印象)of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.

An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past.” We were surprised by just how positive today’s young people seen to be about their families,” said one member of the research team.” They’re expected to be rebellious(叛逆的) and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. There’s more negotiation(商议) and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They don’t want to rock the boat.”

So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends.” My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-years-old Daniel Lazall.” I always tell them when I’m going out clubbing. As long as they know what I’m doing, they’re fine with it.”Susan Crome, who is now 21, agrees.”Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. For example, as long as I’d done all my homework ,I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that.”

Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenagers’ rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments,” Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in out social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over.”

What is the popular images of teenagers today?

A. They worry about school                        B. They dislike living with their parents

C. They have to be locked in to avoid troubles         D. They quarrel a lot with other family members

  The study shows that teenagers don’t want to ___

A. share family responsibility                       B. cause trouble in their families

C. go boating with their family                      D. make family decisions

Compared with parents of 30 years age, today’s parents___.

A. go to clubs more often with their children           B. are much stricter with their children

C. care less about their children’s life                 D. give their children more freedom

According to the author, teenage rebellion____.

A. may be a false belief                            B. is common nowadays

C. existed only in the 1960s                         D. resulted from changes in families

What is the passage mainly about?

A. Negotiation in family                           B. Education in family

C. Harmony in family                             D. Teenage trouble in family