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Hundreds of new drivers taken to the road and traffic accidents can be seen easily in many cities every day.According to a report from the authority, more than 80% of the traffic accidents were caused by new drivers last year.Another shocking report from some Traffic Departments in Hangzhou says: more than half of the traffic accidents and deaths in the area for the first ten months of last year involved new drivers.
So how to avoid the accident?For almost all new drivers, they would try a way of using signs in their car windows like “I’m new”, “New on the road, pay attention” or “Don’t kiss me, I’m shy” so that they could get much sympathy(同情)from other drivers.But since a new rule on driver safety took effect in Shenzhen on March 30, 2004, new drivers in Shenzhen can’t do that any longer.Although the signs are cute, they could get you a 100-yuan fine(罚款).So new drivers in Shenzhen find themselves under more pressure now for the new rules.
Why are signs not allowed to be used by new drivers?One of the reasons is that some experienced drivers think those funny or “creative” signs sometimes attract their attention.When they are out of mind, traffic accidents will happen and some think the signs can block(遮挡)the drivers’ view so they can’t see the road clearly.However, most new drivers point that driving at a high speed is the main reason for traffic accident.
Even though they have the license, the new drivers haven’t improved much and got enough experience.So I think it’s not such a bad thing to put those signs up.On the contrary, both experienced drivers and new drivers may benefit(受益).For experienced drivers they’re a warning; for new drivers they’re a kind of safety screen.
Examples that show new drivers involve more traffic accidents than experienced drivers:
Example 1.(1)________
Example 2.In Hangzhou, more than half of them for the first ten months of last year were caused by new drivers.
What do most new drivers do to avoid the accident?
(2)________
Experienced driver’s opinions about that:
First: The signs attract their attention.
Second:(3)________
Then a new rule took effect in Shenzhen.Signs are not allowed to be used by new drivers.
However, what is the author’s opinion?
(4)He thinks ________
Dahlia was running around the house screaming and crying. “I hate her! I hate her! I will __36__ play with her again!” Finally, her steps slowed, __37__ she told her father what had happened. He listened attentively. __38__ she stopped, he asked, “Is there __39__ else?” Dahlia added more details and began __40__ bitterly again. Father was listening. When Dahlia __41__ talking, he said, “It must __42__ you to be made fun of like this by your best friend Tina.” Dahlia __43__ her father’s embrace(拥抱)and support as she cried __44__ more in his arms. Then as __45__ as the storm of tears began, she was finished. She got up and __46__ announced, “Daddy, did you know that tomorrow Tina and I are going together to the beach? We are __47__ a log house there with Adam and Tom, I will tell Tina before we go that I __48__ ruin her work again, and I’m sure she will be __49__ to me. ”
Why was this encounter (sudden meeting) so successful? How did Dahlia __50__ her sadness so completely and realize her responsibility in the matter __51__ her own?
There were three main parts in her father’s reaction that __52__ : (A) Attention (B) Respect (C) Trust. He gave his daughter __53__ attention and took her seriously as she __54__ her feelings. He respected her by not coming with words of wisdom, advice or help. He validated(证实)the feelings she __55__ . And he trusted her to do and say what she needed in order to lead herself toward resolution of her emotions.
1. A.hardly B.seldom C.ever D.never
2. A.so B.but C.and D.then
3. A.Before B.When C.While D.Since
4. A.something B.anything C.everything D.nothing
5. A.crying B.running C.talking D.saying
6. A.kept B.started C.stopped D.hated
7. A.hurt B.ache C.injure D.wound
8. A.got B.received C.accepted D.admitted
9. A.many B.some C.any D.no
10. A.soon B.quickly C.suddenly D.fast
11. A.surprisingly B.angrily C.sadly D.cheerfully
12. A.building B.buying C.making D.repairing
13. A.shouldn’t B.won’t C.daren’t D.can’t
14. A.polite B.cruel C.rude D.nice
15. A.get over B.get away C.get along D.get through
16. A.for B.on C.by D.in
17. A.did B.followed C.went D.worked
18. A.full B.incomplete C.half D.undivided
19. A.sent out B.threw out C.put out D.poured out
20. A.expressed B.showed C.said D.strengthened
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People have been talking about health for a long time because people know the importance of it. People's understanding of health also becomes deeper with the progress in scientific research. Recently the term "health" has come to have a wider meaning than it used to. It no longer means just the absence of illness. Today, health means the well-being of your body, your mind and your relationship with other people. This new concept of health is closely related to another term-quality of life. Quality of life is the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life.
Why has the emphasis of health shifted from the absence of disease to a broader focus on the quality of a person's life? One reason for this has to do with the length and conditions of life that people can now expect. Medical advances have made it possible for people today to live longer, healthier lives. Imagine for a moment that you were born in the year 1900. You could have expected on average to live until about the age of 47. In contrast, if you were born in the year 1999, you could expect to live to the age of 75.
【小题1】________ leads to people's deeper understanding of health.
A.Common knowledge |
B.Progress in scientific research |
C.Better conditions of living |
D.Quality of life |
A.people enjoy better conditions of living and they can live longer |
B.people pay more attention to their physical health, not their mental health |
C.people have realized the importance of mental well-being |
D.people are inspired by medical advances |
A.nowadays the emphasis of health has a broader focus because of improvements in the quality of food |
B.the overall quality of people's lives improved greatly in the 20th century |
C.those who never fall ill are the truly healthy people |
D.those who were born before 1900 could not have lived until now |
A.different understandings of the term "health" |
B.improving the quality of life |
C.the importance of quality living |
D.people's expectations of a long and healthy life |
Why doesn’t the unemployment rate ever reach zero? Economists, who generally believe that supply tends to meet demand, have long thought about this question. Even in good times, i.e. not now, there are people who can’t find work. And even in bad times, i.e. now, there are job openings. With over 14 million people out of work and looking for a job, you would think every available job would be filled. But that’s not the case. Not now and not ever.
On Monday, the Nobel Prize committee awarded the prize for economics to the three scholars who have done the most to explain this phenomenon. Two of the winners are Americans, Peter Diamond of MIT and Dale Mortensen of Northwestern. The third winner is Christopher Pissarides, who teaches at the London School of Economics and was born on Cyprus.
Like most of economics, what they have found about why the jobless and ready-employers don’t find each other seems obvious. You have to find out there is job opening you are interested in. Employers need to get resumes (简历). It takes a while for both employers and employees to make the decision that this is what they want. And these guys came up with a frame-work to study the problem of why people stay unemployed longer than they should and what can be done about it.
So what would today’s Nobel Prize winners do to solve the current problem of the unemployed? And does the awarding of the prize contribute to the politicians’ lowering joblessness?
Speaking from his north London home, Pissarides told The Associated Press the announcement came as “a complete surprise” though his work had already helped shape thinking on both sides of the Atlantic.
For example, the New Deal for Young People, a British government policy aimed at getting 18-24-year-olds back on the job market after long periods of unemployment, “is very much based on our work,” he said.
“One of the key things we found is that it is important to make sure that people do not stay unemployed too long so they don’t lose their feel for the labor force,” Pissarides told reporters in London. “The ways of dealing with this need not be expensive training – it could be as simple as providing work experience.”
1.According to the writer, which is true about finding jobs?
A. It is always difficult to find a job.
B. Everyone can find a job in good times.
C. Contrary to popular belief, it is easier to find a job in bad times.
D. It is possible to find a job even in times as bad as now.
2. What is it that leads to their winning the prize?
A. They have found the reason for unemployment.
B. They have put forward a set of ideas to deal with unemployment.
C. They have found out why people don’t want to be employed.
D. They have long studied the problem of unemployment.
3.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Pissarides thinks his work surprising.
B. The work of Pissarides has influenced many economists.
C. Some of the winners’ ideas have been put into practice.
D. It is probable that unemployed young people in Britain benefit from Pissarides’ work.
4. According to Pissarides, _________ is effrctive in dealing with unemployment.
A. spending large sums of money on training
B. teaching some knowledge of economics
C. providing work experience
D. keeping people unemployed for some time
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