Passage 1

(湖北省新洲区实验高中2009届高三5月检测B篇)

SHANGHAI, June 7(AP)-A 16-year-old girl's suicide after she was barred from a key exam draw attention to increasing worries over academic pressures, as millions of Chinese students began annual college entrance tests on Wednesday.

The three-day exam, viewed as important to future career and financial success, has a record 9.5 million high school students across China competing for just 2.6 million university places. For kids and parents alike, it's a difficulty that experts say causes extreme emotional distress. "Pressure from study and exams is a top reason for psychological problems among Chinese youth," said Jin Wuguan, director of the Youth Psychological Counseling Center at Shanghai's Ruijin Hospital.

In China's increasingly success oriented, pressure-cooker cities, academic stress is seen as a rising cause of youth suicides and even murders of parents by children who are driven crazy by intolerable pressure to perform.

According to her family and newspaper accounts, 16-year-old Wu Wenwen drowned herself after she was stopped at the exam room door because her hair wasn't tied back as her school required. Returning in tied hair, she was then told the end-of-term exam had already started and she was too late to take it. In tears, Wu called her mother, and then disappeared. Her body was found the same night in a nearby lake.

China doesn't keep comprehensive statistics on student suicides, but Jin said health care professionals see the problem worsening, even among elementary students. Most Chinese schools still lack advisers and teachers receive little training in spotting symptoms of emotional distress, Jin said. Parents are little help, often piling on pressure while ignoring their children's emotional development, he said. "It's a basic unwillingness or inability to recognize and deal with with emotional problems," Jin said.

Wang Yufeng, of Peking University's Institute of Mental, estimates the rate of emotional disorders such as depression among Chinese students under age 17 at up to 32 percent , a total of 30 million students.

Others say that figure may be as high as 50 percent. A survey last year by the government's China Youth and Children Research Center showed 57.6 percent of students felt highly distressed by academic pressures.

65. What is the function of the first paragraph?

A. To explain the meaning of academic pressures.　　

B. To lead to the main topic.

C. To describe the girl’s suicide.　　

D. Tell how important the college entrance tests are.

75. What is the author' a opinion about the sudden change in teenage children?

A. Parents have no choice but to try to accept it.

B. Parents should pay still sore attention to the change.

C. Parents should work more closely with school teachers.

D. Parents are at fault for the change in their children.

答案　 71.A　 72.A　 73.D　 74.D　 75.A

74. From the second example we can infer that the parents of the two daughters ______.

A. pay no attention to them　　　　　　　　　　 B. are too busy to look after them

C. have come to hate them　　　　　　　　　　 D. feel helpless to do much about them

73. The boy on the sofa would most probably be described as ______.

A. lazy　　　　　 B. quiet　　　　　　　 G. unusual　　　　　 D. rude

72. The underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refers to ______.

A. the change from good to bad that ' s seen in a child

B. die way that parents often blame themselves

C. the opinion that a child has of his parents

D. the advice that parents want their children to follow

71. This text is most probably written by ______.

A. a specialist in teenager studies　　　　　　　 B. a headmaster of a middle school

C. a parent with teenage children　　　　　　　 D. a doctor for mental health problems

59. Where do American holiday-makers like to stay most?

A. At a hotel.　　　　　　　　　　　 B. In a quiet place.　　　　　

C. At a friend's house.　　　　　　　　 D. Where they can cook for themselves.

答案　 56.A　 57.D　 58.A　 59.A

Passage 130

(05·安徽E篇)

Parents should stop blaming themselves because there’s not a lot they can do about it. I mean the teenager (十几岁的孩子) problem. Whatever you do or however you choose to deal with it, at certain times a wonderful, reasonable and helpful child will turn into a terrible animal.

I’ve seen friends deal with it in all kinds of different ways. One strict mother insisted that her son, right from a child, should stand up whenever anyone entered the room, open doors and shake hands like a gentleman. I saw him last week when I called round. Sprawling himself (懒散地躺) on the sofa in full length, he made no attempt to turn off the loud TV he was watching as I walked in, and his greeting was no more than a quick glance at me. His mother was ashamed. “I don't know what to do with him these days,” she said. “He’s forgotten all the manners we taught him.”

He hasn't forgotten them. He' s just decided that he' s not going to use them. She confessed (坦白) that she would like to come up behind him and throw him down from the sofa onto the floor.

Another good friend of mine let her two daughters climb all over the furniture, reach across the table, stare at me and say, “I don’t like your dress; it’s ugly.” One of the daughters has recently been driven out of school. The other has left home.

“Where did we go wrong?” her parents are now very sad. Probably nowhere much. At least, no more than the rest of that unfortunate race, parents.

58. The third most common worry of American holiday-makers is that they may ______.

A. be attacked or lose their possessions　　　　

B. have problems with their cars on the road

C. have bad weather on holiday　　　

D. get mixed with some rough fellow holiday-makers

57. According to the text, about ______ of people worry more on holiday than when they are at home.

A. 25%　　　 B. 40%　　　　　　　　 C. 80%　　　　　　　 D. 95%

56. The underlined word “survey” in the first paragraph most probably means ______.

A. research　　 B. review　　　　　　　 C. exhibition　　　　　 D. examination