As you grow rapidly through your teenage years, you will experience a lot lf changes．The changes may seem difficult and they may seem to happen quickly. Don’t panic! You will deal successfully with them! You are a young adult now!

With more responsibility, you will find more freedom to make your own choices. This is a time to be well informed about own choices. This is a time to be well informed about your choices so that you can make healthy balanced decisions that will help shape your future. You may already know your career path or you may have no idea at all what you want to do. Both situations are fine! Work hard and the right opportunity will present itself to you.

Young adulthood means greater freedom and more choices. You will probably want to be independent. But try not to shut your family out of your life. You should learn to think of others even though you are old enough to look after yourself. Your family have been with you since you came into this world.

It is also perfectly natural in this time for you to spend more time with your friends than your family. Choose your friends wisely. A true friend will stand by you no matter what happens.

This period is a part of the life cycle. There are some people who will be with you throughout life’s journey and there will be some people with whom you part and go separate ways. Leaving school can be hard. The reality is that you may not ever see all of your classmates again.

You are a young adult. It is your life. No one can live it for you. The choices that you make from now on will be your choices. So making the right choices will be important to you. Life is for living. Enjoy your life wisely!

1.The best title for this passage would be       ．

2.Who do the underlined words “ some people”(Paragraph 5)probably refer to?

3.The author thinks teenage years are      ．

4.Who is the passage mainly written for?

It is impossible to think about “growing up” in modern America without considering “youth culture” which every young person—even those who do not attend public schools—is confronted by and must deal with. It is impossible to be so isolated that we are untouched by the surrounding culture. Nor should we wish to be—as we are called to be—salt and light in a very confused and broken world. Popular culture deserves neither uncritical acceptance nor knee-jerk rejection, but thoughtful critique（批评）.

On the contrary, China paid too little attention to youth culture in the past. However, with society developing, more and more people have realized the importance of analyzing, understanding and promoting youth culture.

About 100,000 young Chinese people from all over the world will attend the first China Youth Culture Week scheduled to open Saturday in Shenzhen’s China Folk Culture Villages, a press conference was told Thursday.

A series of cultural activities will be staged from Saturday to Wednesday, including a huge performance expected to challenge for a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records.

About 10,000 young people will attend the opening ceremony Saturday. A final list of the Chinese Youth Idol Award to five outstanding young Chinese was announced at the conference. They are the country’s first astronaut, Yang Liwei, Chinese NBA star, Yao Ming, IT entrepreneur, Ding Lei, anchorperson, Wu Xiaoli, and Olympic Games gold medalist, Deng Yaping. The youth idols were selected by

Chinese teenagers with 380,000 votes cast nationwide.

During the past two months, the organizers received more than 3,000 applications from young people in Hong Kong and Macao who wanted to take part in the performance.

52. Which of the following can replace the underlined word “confronted by”?

A. Concerned about.        B. Thought of.  C. Confused with.    D. Faced with.

53. Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 1?

A. People can be isolated from the surrounding culture.

B. The American youth accept popular culture without any thought.

C. People shouldn’t refuse popular culture totally.

D. Americans ignore cultures at all while growing up.

54. The list of the five Chinese youth idols indicates that ____.

A. success is considered the most important factor in the Chinese youth’s values

B. the Chinese youth don’t care about their idols’ personalities

C. there are only five people admired by the Chinese youth

D. the parents want to set those people as examples

55. What can we infer from this passage?

A. America paid too much attention to youth culture.

B. China pays more attention to youth culture nowadays.

C. Chinese youth admire movie stars and regard them as their idols.

D. America thinks their youth are more important than the Chinese youth.

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1.Mary Alderson is a white-collar woman in a big firm. She doesn't have much time to read anything detailed but she is looking for something with plenty of brief news and information.

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4.Leroy used to be a policeman and he still takes an active interest in the work of detective, But recently he enjoys reading crime fictions after years spent chasing real criminals.

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Many teenagers feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends. They believe that their family members, especially their parents, don’t know them as well as their friends do. In large families, it is often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they can only go to their friends for advice. It is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or many friends. Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking among themselves on the phone. This communication is very important in children’s growing up, because friends can discuss something difficult to say to their family members.

However, parents often try to choose their children’s friends for them. Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their good friends. The question of “choice” is an interesting one. Have you ever thought of the following questions?

Who choose your friends?

Do you choose your friends or your friends choose you?

Have you got a good friend  your parent don’t like?

1.When teenagers stay alone, the usual way of communication is to _________.

2.Which of the following is DIFFERENT in meaning from the sentence “Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their good friends.”?

3.Which of the following sentences is TRUE?

4.The main idea of this passage is that ___________.

Why do people drink too much, eat too much, smoke cigarettes or take drugs? What’s to blame for all the bad behavior? Most people would say that, while these self-destructive (自我毁灭的) acts can have many root causes, they all have one obvious thing in common: they are all examples of failures of self-control, lacking the will power to resist them.

    According to a recent study, however, if you really think about it, something about that simple answer doesn’t quite make sense. In fact, it turns out that sometimes it’s having will power that really gets you into trouble.

    Think back to the time you took your very first sip (啜饮) of beer. Disgusting, wasn’t it? When my father gave me my first taste of beer as a teenager, I wondered why anyone would voluntarily drink it. And smoking? No one enjoys their first cigarette — it tastes awful. So even though smoking, and drinking alcohol or coffee, can become temptation (诱惑) you need will power to resist, they never, ever start out that way.

    Just getting past those first horrible experiences actually requires a lot of self-control. Ironically (讽刺的是), only those who can control themselves well, rather than give in to them, can ever come to someday develop a “taste” for Budweiser beer, Marlboro cigarettes, or dark-roasted Starbucks coffee. We do it for social acceptance. We force ourselves to consume alcohol, cigarettes, coffee and even illegal drugs, in order to seem experienced, grown-up, and cool.

    These bad habits aren’t self-control failures — far from it. They are voluntary choices, and they are in fact self-control successes. Self-control is simply a tool to be put to some use, helpful or harmful. To live happy and productive lives, we need to develop not only our self-control, but also the wisdom to make good decisions about when and where to apply it.

1.What do most people think causes bad behavior?

   A. Being forced by others.                  

B. Not having enough will power.

   C. Enjoying their first experiences.            

D. Following the examples of their friends.

2.The author mentions his experience in the third paragraph to prove ____.

   A. will power helps develop bad habits sometimes

   B. drinking beer is harmful to the health of teenagers

   C. self-control should be developed when one is young

   D. everyone can be challenged by different temptations

3.In the last paragraph, the author stresses that ____.

   A. without self-control, no one can succeed     

   B. bad habits don’t always lead to bad results

   C. applying self-control correctly is important

   D. people can develop wisdom from bad behavior

4.What would be the best title for the passage?

   A. My First Sip of Beer                     

B. Do You Have Will Power ?

   C. Will Power Benefits Us                   

D. Dark Side of Self-control