摘要: They knew Jane very well, for they had seen her up from childhood. A. grown B. grew C. grow D. to grow

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Dreaming is believing, claim researchers of a new study, who found that dreams have an effect on people’s behavior, judgment and they might contain important hidden truths as well.
“Psychologists’ explanations of the meaning of dreams vary widely. But our findings show that people believe their dreams provide meaningful insightinto themselves and their world,” said a lead author of the study Carey Morewedge, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
In six different studies, researchers surveyed nearly 1,100 people about their dreams. One of the studies focused on general beliefs about dreams and involved 149 university students. All students were asked to rate different theories about dreams. The experts found that a surprising majority of the participants supported the theory about dreams revealing(揭示) the hidden truths about themselves and the rest of the world.
In a second experiment, they surveyed 182 people at a Boston train station, and asked them to imagine one out of four possible situation that could have occurred the night before a scheduled airline trip. Most of the participants said that dreaming of a plane crash would be more likely to affect their travel plans than would just thinking about a crash, or being warned by the government of a terrorism risk. They said a dreamed crash would influence their travel plans just as much as learning about a real crash on their planned route would.
Another experiment involved 270 men and women from across the United States. In a short online survey, they were asked to recall one of the dreams they had seen about any person they knew.
The findings showed that people were more likely to remember and describe pleasant dreams about a person they liked, rather than a person they disliked. Meanwhile, in most cases they tended to consider an unpleasant dream as more meaningful if it was about a person they disliked.
“In other words,” said Morewedge, “people attribute meaning to dreams when it corresponds (与……一致) with their pre-existing beliefs and desires.”
The researchers say that more investigation is needed to fully understand how people interpret their dreams. According to Morewedge, most people realize that dreams are not predicting their future, but they still try to find some meaning in there.
【小题1】. The purpose of the studies is to         .

A.determine when people tend to remember their dreams
B.research whether dreams have anything to do with real life
C.find out how people explain their dreams and what impact that has
D.understand what causes people to dream and how to interpret dreams
【小题2】 According to the second experiment, what might influence people’s travel plans most?
A.Thinking about a past plane crash.
B.Dreaming about a plane crash.
C.Hearing a government’s warning of a terrorism risk.
D.Imagining a plane crashing on their planned route.
【小题3】. What can be concluded from the study?
A.Dreams can be a useful tool for learning and problem solving.
B.Most people disagree that dreams help them better know themselves and the world.
C.A majority of people believes that dreams can predict their future and try to find their meaning.
D.When a dream conflicts with people’s existing beliefs and desires, they tend to attribute less meaning to it.
【小题4】. Which kind of dream is seen as more meaningful than the rest?
A.A pleasant dream about a person the dreamer likes.
B.A pleasant dream about a person the dreamer dislikes
C.An unpleasant dream about a person the dreamer likes.
D.An unpleasant dream about a person the dreamer dislikes.

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If I raised the question, “What would be the last thing you would expect to happen while watching your son’s flag football game?” you probably still couldn’t come up with what happened to me and my family.
As we were sitting on the sidelines enjoying the game, a low-flying bird came swooping in attempting to land on my daughter’s head! It honestly came out of nowhere. We were seated by ourselves on the tree lined side of the field. I was able to calm my daughter’s shock and fear once I showed her that the bird was not some wild animal, it was in fact, somebody’s pet!
Now, we’re sitting at the outdoor fields of the Pontiac Silverdome, far from any populated area, wondering where this very social cockatiel, an Australian parrot (澳洲鹦鹉) could have come from. I walked up to the bird and put out my hand. Immediately, it hopped on and chirped in a friendly way. We looked around us and knew that we could not just leave and suppose that the bird would return to where it came from. This was a very domesticated bird that needed help or it would not survive.
The flag football game had ended so we walked the bird over to other groups of adults and asked if they knew of anyone who had lost a bird. All the kids were excited about the bird and fed it with some post game snacks. The bird’s nails were getting long and he was looking pretty dirty, so we knew it had been out here for a long time and was hungry. Since its wings were clipped, it could fly a little but probably not more than 100 yards or so at a try. We all just scratched our heads as a group wondering what to do with the lost bird.
We explained to the kids that this bird needed our help since it was someone’s pet and would not know how to get its own food, and it could not fly well since its wings were clipped. The kids understood, and all of them wanted to take the bird home! The parents however, knew this was not a good choice as one had a large dog, another two cats, etc. We explained to the kids that one of us could take the bird home for the night and then bring it to the Humane Society in the morning in hopes to connect it to its owners. We couldn’t keep the bird. It wasn’t ours. This was tough for the kids to understand at first. We couldn’t just leave the bird either. There was no way it could attend itself. The group of us sat around the Silverdome practice fields for quite a while trying to determine the best course of choice for the lost bird. It was getting dark out but no one was willing to leave that parking lot until we had a game plan for how to help the bird.
The owner of the football league, Chris Novak, offered to take the bird. It was extremely nice of him and he really stepped in to help while all the rest of us who had kids tugging on our shirts and begging to take it home. We took a box and put a bunch of holes in it and he brought it home for the night. Another mom went online and found a family that had lost a bird that looked just like the one we’d found. She emailed the info to Chris who got in touch with the family and the next day, reunited the bird with the family that lost it almost 3 weeks earlier! When Chris emailed us to let us know, we could not believe that this bird had traveled from The Rochester Tienken area all the way to the Silverdome!
We were so happy to be able to save this bird and get it back to its family. I showed my kids the email about how the other family got their pet back. The family has 3 kids who were so happy to see their bird. My kids realized what a nice ending this story had. Not only had we been able to save this bird’s life, but we were able to bring it back to the family that loves and misses him.
The life lesson in the missing bird story seemed to miss its mark with my kids at first. They were a little bummed out that they couldn’t keep the lost bird. I explained to them that when an animal or someone needs help, you just can’t turn a blind eye and hope everything works out OK. The “lost bird incident” was also a reminder to them that teamwork and the kindness of strangers can make a world of difference and that a group of well-meaning strangers can work together to help someone. It wasn’t a heroic act, but one that I knew had sunk in with my kids when they realized that trying to help was the best and only real course of action.  
【小题1】What happened when the author watched his son’s football games?

A.A parrot tried to eat their food.
B.His daughter was hurt by a parrot.
C.A parrot flew towards his daughter.
D.A parrot landed on his daughter’s head.
【小题2】The underlined word “domesticated” in the second paragraph probably means_______.
A.having been abandonedB.having been used to home life
C.having been used to life in the wildD.having been week and hungry
【小题3】Who was the first one to find the bird’s owner?
A.The authorB.Chris Novak
C.The Humane SocietyD.A participant’s mother
【小题4】What can be learned from the “lost bird incident”?
A.Strangers can also work well together.
B.Humane Society helps children in teamwork.
C.Children can keep lost injured pet birds home.
D.Helping others is always regarded as a heroic act.
【小题5】What did the author want to tell in the text?
A.How to help a lost parrot to find home.
B.The experience of watching a football games.
C.The importance of teamwork and helping others.
D.How a parrot can fly a long distance from home.
【小题6】The best title of the text should be________. 
A.What Animals Can Teach Us
B.Complete Care for a Lost Bird
C.Life Lessons When You Least Expect It
D.Love First, Teamwork and Kindness Second

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Amanda Clement grew up in Hudson,South Dakota.Baseball was always her fa—
vorite sport.Once in a while her brother Hank and his friends would let her play first
base in their games.More often,however,they asked her to umpire(裁判)for them,
because they knew her calls would be fair and there would be no arguing.
One day in 1904,Amanda and her mother traveled to Hawarden,Iowa,to watch
Hank play for the home team against Hawarden.When they arrived at the ball field,
two local teams were waiting to play a preliminary(预备)game.The umpire hadn’t ar—
rived,so Hank argued that the teams should let his sister serve as umpire.The players
finally agreed.
Amanda,then sixteen and standing five feet,ten inches tall,made perfect calls.
She was so good that players for the main game asked her 10 umpire for them and even
offered to pay her.Thus,at sixteen,Amanda Clement became the first paid female
baseball umpire on record.She is honored in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown,
New York.
61.Hank and his friends often asked Amanda to umpire for them because      
 A.they wanted to make her happy
 B.she called them brothers
  C.no one else wanted to do it for them
  D.she knew the rules well and was fair
62.Amanda went to Hawarden in order to      
A.serve as umpire
C.make money
B.watch her brother play
D.help the local teams
63.Amanda most probably learned how to umpire a baseball game       .
 A.in her P.E.classes at school    B.in an umpire training school
  C.by watching and playing the games D.from her mother,a baseball umpire
64.Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
  A.Amanda Clement.First Female Umpire
  B.A Family of Baseball Fans
  C.Baseball Games in Hawarden,Iowa
  D.The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown

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