A survey of young people around the world looked at their ideas of today’s teenagers. It shows how different they are to those of their parents and grandparents. The survey wanted to try and understand the next generation ( 一 代 人 ) of adults better and these are some of the results. They show that there are many more (A) similarities between young people around the world than differences.

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Gap years ( 间 隔 年 ) between school and university are becoming more and more common. Today’s teenagers want to travel to different countries and experience different cultures. They regard this as an important part of their character development.

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For most teenagers, family and friends are the most important side of life. According to the survey, 60 percent of British young people said their relationship with their family was of the highest importance to (B) them.

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75 percent of teenagers in Western Europe expect to have enough money to live when they are adults. They are a happy generation. Eight out of ten believe they will have a good profession with a job they enjoy. They also expect that they will be happy and healthy.

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Young people now are hungry for all kinds of information on mass media. 57 percent of teenagers in the UK read at least one magazine every week, which is one of the highest totals in the world.

任务一 根据文章内容,把相关的信息匹配。将答案的字母代号填入对应的横线上。(每小题

1分,共4分)

A. Hope in the future B. Crazy for information

C. Discovering the world D. Family and friends1.

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任务二 根据上下文,猜测文中(A)处划线单词 similarities 的中文意思。 (1分) 任务三 找出(B)处划线单词 them 所指代的内容。 (1分)

任务四 请从文中找出与They have strong interest in learning about all kinds of information from radio, television, Internet and so on. 意思相近的句子。(1分)

Our skin is like a bag that we live in. Inside the bag our bodies are mostly water. Our water is like the water in the sea. It is very salty. Also, like the ocean, we can lose our water. The wind and the sun could take it away. Our bag of skin keeps our body’s ocean from drying up.

Our skin keeps out sunshine. Too much sunshine can hurt us. Skin also keeps out dirt. That’s important because some kinds of dirt can make us sick. Our skin feels things. It feels warm things, cold things, things it touches, and things that hurt it. A campfire feels warm. A snowball thrown in our face feels cold and hurts us. A hug is the touch of another person’s skin on our own.

Our hair is a special kind of covering. It helps us keep things out of our eyes, ears and nose. Hair is also good for keeping us warm. When we get goose bumps (鸡皮疙瘩), our body hairs stand up. Then the hairs hold air close to our skin like a thick blanket (毯子). Hair keeps animals warm, too.

Some animals have more hair than others, so they have a better blanket for cold weather.

Our nails (指甲) are another special skin which are very hard. They help keep our fingers from

getting hurt. Our nails aren’t as strong as the nails that animals have. But they are good for picking up coins.

1.Our skin is like a bag full of salt.

2.Our skin keeps out dirt and sunshine.

3.Our skin helps us feel things, touch or hurt others.

4.Our hair helps protect our eyes, ears and nose.

5.Our nails are weaker than the nails that animals have but can keep our fingers safe.

I remember the green coat in my fifth and sixth grades.

When I needed a new jacket, my mother asked what kind I wanted. I described something like bikers wear. She listened long. I thought she understood for sure the kind I wanted.

The next day when I got home from school, I discovered, on m y bed, a jacket which was not what I had expected. I went close to the jacket slowly, as if it were a stranger.

From the kitchen mother shouted that my jacket was in the closet. I rushed and pulled at the clothes in the closet, hoping the jacket on the bed wasn’t for me but my brother. No luck, I wanted to cry because it was so ugly and so big. But I knew I’d have to wear it a long time before I’d have a new one. I looked at the jacket, like an enemy, thinking bad things before I took off my old and small jacket.

I put the big jacket on. I stood in front of the mirror(镜子), turning right and left. I looked ugly.

I threw it on my brother’s bed and looked at it for a long time before I put it on and went out, smiling a “thank you” to my mom.

The next day I wore it to school. At the morning break, my best friend, Steve, looked at me for a long time. The girls turned away to whisper. The teachers looked my way and talked about how foolish I looked in my new jacket. When it was time for the whole school to get together on the playground, . Although they didn’t say out loud, “Man, that’s ugly!” I heard their talk and even laughter.

And so I went, in my jacket. So embarrassed, so hurt, I couldn’t even do my lessons the rest of the day. I received Cs on tests.

I wore that thing for three years. All in those years no love came to me.

I blamed(指责)that jacket for those bad years. I blamed my mother for her bad taste and her cheap ways. It was a sad time for the heart. Anyway, I spent my sixth-grade year, looking forward to something good to happen to me.

And it was about that time I began to grow, still in that green ugly jacket, which had become my brother who went along wherever I went.

1.The writer went to school in the new jacket because _______.

A. his jacket was too old and small B. his brother asked him to do so

C. he wanted to show it to his friends D. he would act in school play

2.The sentence that shows the writer cared about his mother’s feelings is “________”.

A. I thought she understood for sure the kind I wanted

B. I blamed my mother for her bad taste and her cheap ways

C. I put it on and went out, smiling a “thank you” to my mom

D. From the kitchen mother shouted that my jacket was in the closet

3.Which of the following sentences can be put in the ?

A. it began to rain B. everyone saw me C. my mother came D. I got angry

4.The changes of the writer’s attitude(态度)to the jacket can be described as ________.

A. enemy→stranger→brother B. brother→stranger→enemy

C. stranger→brother→enemy D. stranger→enemy→brother

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