摘要: by the students, the teacher is telling an interesting story to them.

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  On average, American kids ages 3 to 12 spent 29 hours a week in school, eight hours more than they did in 1981.They also did more household work and participated in more of such organized activities as soccer and ballet(芭蕾舞).Involvement in sports, in particular, rose almost 50% from 1981 to 1997:boys now spend an average of four hours a week playing sports; girls log half that time.All in all, however, children’s leisure time dropped from 40% of the day in 1981 to 25%.

  “Children are affected by the same time crunch(危机)that affects their parents, ” says Sandra Hofferth, who headed the recent study of children’s timetable.A chief reason, she says, is that more mothers are working outside the home.Nevertheless, children in both double-income and “male breadwinner” households spent comparable amounts of time interacting with their parents, 19 hours and 22 hours respectively.In contrast, children spent only 9 hours with their single mothers.

  All work and no play could make for some very messed-up kids.“Play is the most powerful way a child explores the world and learns about himself, ” says T.Berry Brazelton, professor at Harvard Medical School.Unstructured play encourages independent thinking and allows the young to negotiate their relationships with their peers, but kids ages 3 to 12 spent only 12 hours a week engaged in it.

  The children sampled spent a quarter of their rapidly decreasing “free time” watching television.But that, believe it or not, was one of the findings parents might regard as good news.If they’re spending less time in front of the TV set, however, kids aren’t replacing it with reading.Despite efforts to get kids more interested in books, the children spent just over an hour a week reading.Let’s face it, Who’s got the time?

(1)

By mentioning “the same time crunch”(Line 1, Para.2)Sandra Hofferth means ________.

[  ]

A.

children have little time to play with their parents

B.

children are not taken good care of by their working parents

C.

both parents and children suffer from lack of leisure time

D.

both parents and children have trouble managing their time

(2)

According to the author, the reason given by Sandra Hofferth for the time crunch is ________.

[  ]

A.

quite convincing

B.

partially true

C.

totally groundless

D.

rather confusing

(3)

The author is concerned about the fact that American kids ________.

[  ]

A.

are engaged in more and more structured activities

B.

are increasingly neglected by their working mothers

C.

are spending more and more time watching TV

D.

are involved less and less in household work

(4)

We can infer from the passage that ________.

[  ]

A.

extracurricular activities promote children’s intelligence

B.

most children will turn to reading with TV sets switched off

C.

efforts to get kids interested in reading have been fruitful

D.

most parents believe reading to be beneficial to children

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 A film was at the Circle Five Ranch to film a Marlboro commercial. This is in 1868, before they prohibited cigarette ads from American television. Darrell Winfield was watching the crew set up the equipment. The scene included an actor crossing a river on horseback, but when the time came to shoot, the man was too drunk to ride. Someone from the crews saw Winfield and asked him if he would ride the horse for  50. “Hell, ” said Winfield, “for 50 bucks, I'll jump that damn horse over the moon!”

  To people in many countries, Winfield is just a familiar but nameless face, a simple cowboy with an advertising message about a connection between the West and a brand of cigarettes. Few people know that he is advertising message about a connection between the West and a brand of cigarettes. Few people know that he is 55, a family man who’s been married to the same woman for 37 years and has 5 children and 7 grandchildren. Most surprisingly, he’s a real, working cowboy who raises horses in his ranch in Wyoming.

  One of the most striking things about the Marlboro Man is that success hasn’t changed him much. He says that complete strangers sometimes come up to him and say, “I’ve met you. know you from somewhere. ”Whenever it happens, he says that he gets embarrassed.

  60.Which of the following statements is true?

  A. Cigarette ads were prohibited in America.

  B. Cigarette ads are prohibited on television in America.

  C. Marlboro commercial was prohibited on television.

  D. Marlboro commercial was produced on television.

  61.What does the word“prohibited”in the first paragraph mean?

  A. broadcast           B. forbidden

  C. produced           D. provided

  62.When they filmed the ad, ________.

  A. Winfield was too drunk.

  B. The actor in the ad was too drunk.

  C. Winfield was setting up the equipmet.

  D. Winfield was riding a horse.

  63.From the passage, we know that Winfield was ________.

  A. an ordinary man

  B. a superstar

  C. an actor

  D. a rich man

  64.When people recognized Winfield, he felt________.

   A. excited            B. happy

  C. interested           D. uncomfortable

  65.A train car moves along a long straight track. The graph (曲线) shows the position as a function of time for this train. The graph shows that ________.

  A. slows down all the time

  B. speeds up all the time

  C. speeds up part of the time and slows down part of the time

  D. moves at a constant speed

  66.As the diagram shows, there is a fixed superconductor ring, on the right of which lies a bar magnet. There is no electric current. When the magnet is moved to the right, because of electro-magnetic, induction, a certain electric current is produced. Thus the direction of the electric current is________ .

   A. as indicated by the arrowhead in the diagram. When the magnet is moved away, the electric current will soon disappear.

  B. as indicated by the arrowhead in the diagram. When the magnet is moved away, the electric current will still remain.

  C. in the opposite direction. When the magnet is moved away, the electric current will soon disappear.

D. in the opposite direction. When the magnet is moved away, the electric current will still remain.

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Few of us haven’t read Cinderella, the story of a young woman living in poverty who meets the prince of her dreams. Some might not want to admit it, but there is a hidden Cinderella in everyone’s heart — we all wish we could achieve recognition or success after a period of obscurity (默默无闻) or neglect.

Mary Santiago has that secret dream, too. Her story is featured in Another Cinderella Story, a film set in a US high school.

Mary is shy but loves to dance. Compared with other girls, she is invisible. However, her world changes completely when a famous teenage pop singer, Joey Parker, appears.

Joey is everything the rest of the boys in her class are not — kind, handsome and desirable. Mary and Joey’s paths cross at a ball. They meet and fall in love with each other. But when Mary has to rush back home, she leaves behind her MP3 player, which becomes the only clue Joey has to find the girl of his dreams. Of course, there is a wicked (邪恶的) stepmother, who turns out to be Dominique Blatt and she takes in Mary after her dancer mother dies. Dominique treats Mary like a maid and does everything she can to make sure Mary doesn’t get into the top dance school. Her two daughters are equally determined to stop Joey falling for Mary, even if that means embarrassing her.

The story, though it mostly follows Cinderella, does add a few modern day twists to the classic fairy tale. Refreshingly, the film, unlike many high school films, does not focus on looks, although the actors are all beautiful. There is also a lot less materialism in Another Cinderella Story than in many similar movies.

“The movie takes the Cinderella fairytale as its jumping off point,” writes movie critic Amber Wilkinson. “The focus is firmly on following your dream.”

61. The first paragraph is mainly to _________.

A. build interest and lead us to Mary’s secret dream

B. remind us why Cinderella is popular all the years

C. inform us of the main topic of the whole passage

D. tell us how interesting the fairy tale Cinderella is

62. In the movie, Mary Santiago is the main character who ________.

A. is brave in expressing her love    B. is attended badly by the stepmother

C. has a dream of meeting a prince    D. is embarrassed by the pop singer

63. What can we infer from the passage?

A. Joey is just like other boys in Mary’s class.  

B. Mary’s mother influences her a lot in singing.

C. Not many people have a dream to be realized. 

D. The MP3 player helps Joey in finding Mary.

64. The passage is mainly _________.

A. an introduction to a film       B. a review about a film

C. an essay about dreams       D. an advertisement of Cinderella

65. According to the passage, Another Cinderella Story __________.

A. follows Cinderella with nothing new     

B. pays more attention to the looks of the actors

C. encourages young people to follow their dreams 

D. focuses more on materialism than other films

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