Being a teenager can be challenging, but it can also be exciting. You’re becoming more independent and making decisions for yourself. You are also learning to take risks and solve problems better. And changes are happening throughout your body, even in your brain.

The changes in your brain are influencing how you develop into an adult. Imagine the structure(结构)of your brain is like a big road map. Lots of roads lead to different destinations(目的地). When you were a child, as you learnt new things, your brain created more and more roads to different destinations. By the time you become a teenager, many different roads lead to the most important places on the map. Now your brain’s job is to make that map more efficient.

As a result, your experiences as a teenager actually influence the way that your brain develops. If you spend hours playing video games, what skills do you use? You learn to see something with your eyes and respond to it with your hands. As you develop those skills, your brain is making sure that the roads leading to them are especially fast and efficient. So, your video—game playing could be preparing you for a career such as a pilot.

This is a great time for you to practice new skills and discover what you’re good at and try what you love doing. Go out and try different activities, and stick to them if you think they’re useful. Remember that with everything you do, you’re shaping your brain for the future.

1.What happens as children learn new things?

A.Their brains make the maps more efficient.

B.The structures of their brains are like big road maps.

C.Their brains create more roads to different destinations.

D.Many different roads lead to the most important places and stick to the useful activities.

2.What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A.Your brain. B.Something you see. C.Your skill D.Something you learn.

3.What’s the writer’s advice for teenagers?

A.Teenagers should learn to be more independent.

B.Teenagers should work harder and more efficiently.

C.Teenagers should play more video games in order to be a pilot.

D.Teenagers should experience more and stick to the useful activities.

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

A.Making Decisions for Yourself B.Developing Your Brains for the Future.

C.Ways of Changing Your Brain. D.Changes Happening in Your Brain.

Adding to the madness of the 2016 US presidential election is American lawyer(律师) Andrew Basiago. He says he has traveled through time nearly all his life, and is pretty sure that he’s going to become “either president or vice(副) president” between 2016 and 2028. Polling data(民意测评) is obviously useless to this guy.

Basiago’s greatest qualification(条件) to hold office, of course, is his first-hand information of past and future events. Basiago claims to have gone back in time to 1863 and witnessed Abraham Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg. He’s also been to the future — the year 2054 — so he has an idea of the pitfalls(缺陷) that a president should be avoiding. Having traveled widely in time, Basiago has held conversations with President Bush, President Clinton, and President Obama decades before they were elected to office, telling them in advance of their presidencies. More importantly, he has been to Mars in 1981, which makes for rich experience in foreign relations.

1.What is Andrew Basiago sure to become between 2016 and 2028?

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2.What is almost useless to Basiago in his eyes?

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3.What did Basiago witness when he went back in time to 1863?

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4.What’s Basiago’s most important advantage to be the president?

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5.How do you like traveling through time and space?(请自拟一句话作答)

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