Hey girls, if the boys in your class are acting silly, you might as well leave them alone. You are far more sensible than them, aren’t you?

There is science to back up this theory. Scientists from Newcastle University, UK, and Seoul University, South Korea, found that the brain matures (成熟) earlier in girls than in boys. This is partly because of the way children’s brains are “pruned.”

As the brain matures, it begins to cut out unimportant information and focus on important information. This process is called “pruning.”

In order to learn more about this process, scientists scanned the brains of 121 people aged between 4 and 40. They found that pruning began much earlier in girls. Between the ages of 10 and 12, a girl’s brain will start to see a lot of activities as the pruning process starts. But for boys, this doesn’t start until the age of 15 to 20.

During this process, the brain will turn off memories, sounds or sights that appear several times. But important connections, like linking the sound of a familiar person’s voice to their face, are kept.

“The loss of connectivity during brain development can help to improve brain function,” scientist Sol Lim told the Daily Telegraph.

To understand this more easily, imagine you are at a party and everyone is talking. You can’t concentrate. But if you “turn off” some of the voices, it is easier to hear the others. The brain works in a similar way.

1.What did the scientists find?

A. Boys usually focus on unimportant information.

B. Girls never focus on unimportant information.

C. Girls mature earlier than boys.

D. Connectivity helps improve brain function.

2.What does the underlined word “pruned”probably mean?

A. 删减 B. 成长 C. 改变 D. 损失

3.What happens during the process “pruning”?

A. The brain doesn’t work for a moment.

B. You can’t remember, hear or see.

C. The connections between things disappear.

D. Brains develop to focus on important information.

4.What can we know from the passage?

A. Boys are more silly than girls.

B. Boys are less sensible than girls.

C. You can never concentrate at the parties.

D. Brains function better after losing some connections.

As graduation season gets underway in June and July, graduates are departing to different destinations to celebrate the start of a new chapter in their lives.

For graduation trips, Chengdu in Sichuan province, Guangzhou in Guangdong province, Chongqing, Shenzhen in Guangdong and Hangzhou in Zhejiang province were listed as the top five most popular destinations for domestic tours. Thailand and the United States are popular among overseas destinations, according to a recent report by Qunar, a domestic rival that was acquired by Ctrip, the largest online travel agency in China, in 2016.

The agency surveyed those who were born between 1995 and 2005, and found that making trips and taking stylish photos are now standard practice to mark graduation. It is reported that the market scale of graduation tours has exceeded 15 billion yuan ($2.34 billion).

Young people are good at using travel apps to get more information and their decision-making is quite fast. It’s possible that just because of a song, a book, a TV drama, or a chat with someone, they may decide to take a trip somewhere, said Shao Jihong, senior director of the flight tickets department of Ctrip.

Compared with those who were born in the 1980s, and usually like to plan ahead carefully, the younger generations are deemed more free and casual. According to Qunar’s statistics, 56 percent of customers who were born after 1995 book accommodation on the day they need to stay there.

Besides, 1.12 percent of students buy plane tickets after they arrive at an airport. They have also become less price sensitive, and look for higher quality trips. Most trips involve groups of two to five people, according to Qunar.

This year, college students who traveled by air with their boyfriends or girlfriends accounted for 9.6 percent of the total, up 0.8 percent year-on-year. Those who traveled by air with friends made up 6.7 percent, edging up 0.3 percent over last year, Qunar said.

Last year, students who had just finished their college entrance examinations favored Shanghai, with many visiting the city’s Disneyland. Kunming, Yunnan province, and Beijing are also popular, the report said.

Taking an in-depth trip to one destination is the preference of the young, and those born after 1995 have abandoned group tours with travel agencies. Most of them would prefer to stay at the same hotel for three to seven days, and the number of those who stay in one place for five days consecutively rose by about 30 percent year-on-year.

Meanwhile, themed tours such as trips to deserts, cruises, camping, those involving cosplay or getting married, are all hot elements that the young would like to try.

On average, students plan to spend between 3,500 yuan and 7,000 yuan on their graduation tours per person, and the money comes from savings, income from selling secondhand items, part-time jobs, and support from parents, according to the report.

1.which of the following cities is not included in the top five most popular domestic destinations for graduation trips?

A. Chengdu B. Shanghai C. Guangzhou D. Hangzhou

2.Which of the following characteristics is not about the younger generation?

A. They are more free and casual. B. They may decide to a place because of a song.

C. They would like to plan things carefully ahead of time. D. They are good at using travel apps to get more information.

3.What can we infer from the story?

A. More and more people like to try themed tours.

B. The money students spend on graduation tours is from their parents.

C. Students now are more likely to care about the quality.

D. Those born after 1995 prefer to stay in different hotels.

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

A. Group Tours B. Themed Tours

C. Domestic Destinations for Graduation Tours D. Graduation Tours

请先阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后根据短文内容从下面方框内的七个选项中选择五个还原到文中，使短文意思通顺、结构完整，并在答题卷上将其序号涂黑。

A long time ago, there was an old, poor fisherman who could not catch enough fish for him and his family to eat. One day, when he pulled in his fishing net, he found a bottle inside that looked valuable. 1. But he was also curious to see what was inside, so he took the top off the bottle. Smoke came out of the bottle and then out came a big, powerful genie.?

2. At first, he told the fisherman that he would kill him and that the fisherman had to choose how he wanted to die. Scared, the fisherman decided to trick the genie. He told him that he did not believe he could fit inside the little bottle because he was so much bigger than it was. 3.The fisherman told the genie that he had tricked him and then said he would only let the genie out again if the genie promised to help him instead of hurting him.

4. The genie then took the fisherman to a lake where there were many special fish. The fisherman caught four of these fish and the genie told him to take these fish to the king. The fish were special because they could talk! 5. The king was very impressed (印象深刻的) by this and he paid the fisherman a lot of money for the fish.?

He also gave the fisherman’s son a very important job and married one of the fisherman’s beautiful daughters.

A. He thought it was useless.

B. So the genie went back inside to prove it.

C. They could answer any questions that someone might have.

D. He thought he could sell the bottle and make some money.

E. The genie promised to do so and the fisherman released him.

F. The genie had been in the bottle for 400 years and was very angry.

G. The genie was very happy to see the fisherman.

补全对话请阅读下面的对话，根据对话内容补上所缺句子，使对话通顺、合理、意思完整。

G= Grandma J=Jeff

G: I think we have got lost. What are you doing now, Jeff?

J: Don’t worry, Grandma. 1.

G: Book a car on the phone? Are you sure that’s OK?

J: Yes, Grandma. It’s very easy. 2.First, you should download the app. Then, register an account and you can start to use it like this.

G: That’s really cool. Is it very popular now?

J: Yes,3.

G: Why is it so popular?

J:4.

G: How long have you used it?

J: 5.

G: Look, Jeff. Is that the car you booked just now?

J: Yes, Grandma. Let’s go.

A..Because it is cheaper and you don’t need to wait for a long time.

B.I am trying to book a car.

C.For almost two years.

D.I don’t know where it is.

E.it’s very popular especially among the young people.

F.Let me show you how to use it.

G.You had better think about it carefully.

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运动有利于身心健康，青少年应加强体育锻炼。某英文网站举办以“I Like Taking Exercise”为题的征文活动。请根据下表内容，写一篇英语短文。内容包括：你喜欢什么运动，运动的好处以及你对体育锻炼的倡议。

提示：1.短文应包括表中的全部全息，条理清楚，行文连贯。

2. 短文中不能出现真实的人名和地名；

3. 词数不少于80，开头已给出，不计入总词数。

I Like Taking Exercise

I like taking exercise.

—Can you remember when Mr. Brown left ________ city?

—Sorry . I can’t. I only remember it was ________ Thursday.

A. a, a B. the, the C. a. the D. the, a

---Who is knocking on the door?

---It ____ be the milkman. He sends the milk to me every day.

A. should B. can’t C. must D. need

— Modern technology is developing so quickly!

— I agree with you. With the ________of the robot, people will have more free time to relax.

A. situation B. instruction C. condition D. invention

There are ________ teachers in our school, ________of them are women teachers.

A. two hundreds ; three fourth B. two hundred ; three fourths

C.two hundred; three forths D. two hundreds; three fourths

(2016●苏州市)If the customer rings up for me again, please the call to the sales department .

A. run through B. look through C. go through D. put through