小题1:Why is June 6, 1990 a special day for Mommy?A．Her dream of being a mother came true.B．She found her origin from her Chinese mother.C．She wrote the letter to her daughter.D．Her female line was 题目和参考答案——青夏教育精英家教网—

I had an experience once which taught me something about the ways people made a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I officiated(主持) at two funerals for two elderly women. Both died a natural death. At the first home, the son of the deceased(已故) woman said, “If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It’s my fault that she died.” At the second home, the son said, “If only I had not insisted her going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride was more than she could take. It is my fault.”
When things don’t turn out as we would like them to, we tend to assume that had we done things differently, the story would have had a happier ending. Any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out bad, they believe that the opposite course, for example, keeping mother at home, would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse?
There seem to be elements involved in our readiness to feel guilty. The first lies in our belief that the world makes sense——there is a reason for everything that happens.
The second is the thought that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood. A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and calls the rest of the world to its tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely abandon that childish thought that our wishes cause things to happen.
小题1: What is true about the two deceased elderly women?

I grew up with a fat dad—450 pounds at his heaviest.Every week he would try a new diet，and my family ended up eating whatever strange food he was trying at that moment.
After my thirdgrade year，my dad landed a lifechanging job in Manhattan.My mom，my little sister and I had to move away from our hometown，Chicago，and leave my grandmother and her beautiful food behind.
Leaving my grandmother was far more frightening than the move to New York City.There would be no more special weekends at my grandmother’s house，the only place I can remember feeling happy，safe and nourished (有营养的)．It was what I desired.In this new city，I felt extremely alone and lost，and I missed my grandmother terribly.
My grandmother knew just how I felt—And she knew the cure.Every week，she would send me a card with a $20 bill，a recipe and a list of what to buy at the market.It kept us bonded，and her recipes filled my body and soul.
Over the years，I have grown to better understand my father’s struggles with weight and the toll (代价) it took on him and those who love him.I have come to realize he was driven not by vanity (自负) or selfishness as much as by a deep pain.And in spite of growing up in such an unhealthy eating environment (or perhaps because of it)，as an adult I found a passion and a career as a nutrition consultant.
Today，my father weighs 220 pounds and is a vegan (素食者)．How he got there is a story I hope to share in the coming weeks.More importantly，food is no longer a barrier that keeps us apart，but a bridge that keep us connected.There is nothing my dad enjoys more than talking with me about dietary theories and his weightloss victories.And now I am the one regularly sending recipe cards to my father’s house，just as my grandmother did for me.
小题1:What kind of person was actually the author’s father?

A．He was a man of vanity and selfishness.

B．He didn’t like to eat with his family.

C．He was more painful than selfish.

D．He forced his family to eat what he liked.

小题2:The author desired to go to his grandmother’s________.

A．to see his father	B．for tasty food
C．for pocket money	D．to avoid his family

小题3:The underlined word “cure” in Paragraph 4 is the nearest in meaning to “________”．

A．solution	B．concern
C．operation	D．situation

小题4:The author became a nutrition consultant mainly because________.

A．his father often talked with him about dietary theories

B．he was determined to change his own daily habits

C．he wanted to study the recipes his grandmother had given him

D．his childhood experiences gave him too deep an impression

小题5:What can we learn about the author from the last paragraph?

A．He often quarreled with his father about food

B．His father will tell him his story in the following weeks

C．The most he talks about with his father is nourishment

D．He often sends recipe cards to his grandmother in return

When in 1789，George Washington became the first president of the United States，there was no permanent(永久的)capital in which to house the government.During the Revolutionary War seven different cities had served as the national capital.In addition，members of congress(国会)could not agree as to where this permanent capital should be located.Some officials wanted it in the north，others wanted it in the south.Each of the states hoped that the capital might lie within its own state lines.At last it was decided that the capital should occupy a section(区域)by itself，separate from any of the states.The place chosen was situated on the Potomas River.The land belonged originally(原先地) to the state of Maryland，but Maryland agreed to the national government.The section was named the District of Columbia after Christopher Columbus.The city itself was named Washington，after George Washington.Work was begun on the new capital in 1791.In the year 1799 Congress occupied the new capital building at the same time the White House was opened as the home of all future presidents.
小题1:Before the year 1800，the capital of America had been located in_________.

小题2:Why was it decided that the capital should be separated from any of the states?Because_________.

A．the District of Columbia was on the borders(边境) of several states

B．the District of Columbia was in the center of America

C．Maryland insisted that the capital lie in its own state

D．each of the states wanted the capital might lie within its own state

小题3:Presidents of the United States live in_________.
A.the capital building C.Maryland C.New York D.the White House
小题4:Which of the following statements is true?

A．Capital is the place for presidents to live in.

B．Capital should be the largest city in the country.

C．It took nine years to build the capital of Washington.

D．Since 1791，Washington has been the capital of the United States.

The fact that blind people can see things using other parts of their bodies apart from their eyes may help us understand our feeling about color. If they sense color differences, then perhaps we, too, are affected by color without knowing it.
Salesmen have discovered by experience over a long period of time that sugar sells badly in green wrappings（包装）， that blue foods are considered not agreeable to the taste, and that cosmetics（化妆品） should never be packed in brown. Their discoveries have grown into a whole subject of color psychology（心理学）。 Some of our preferences（偏爱） for colors are clearly psychological. Dark blue is the color of the night sky and therefore connected with calm, while yellow is a day color connected with energy and encouragement. Experiments have shown that colors, partly because they are connected with psychology, also have a direct effect on people’s mind. People in bright red surroundings show an increase in breathing speed, heartbeat and blood pressure; red is exciting. Pure blue has exactly the opposite effect; it is a calming color. Being exciting, red was chosen as the signal for danger, but a close study shows that a bright yellow can produce a more basic state of alarm, so fire engines in some advanced areas are now rushing around in bright yellow colors that stop buses, trucks and cars.
小题1:. The passage tells us that salesmen have __________.

A．discovered the relationship between color and psychology

B．tried out colors on blind people

C．found out that color affect sales

D．developed a special subject of color psychology

小题2:. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A．what color we prefer depends on our state of mind

B．foods sell well in green or blue wrappings

C．blind people cannot sense color difference

D．a bright yellow has exactly the opposite effect to red

小题3:. If people are exposed to（置身于） pure blue, _________.

A．their blood pressure rises　　

B．they want to taste blue foods

C．they will feel like buying things

D．they won’t easily feel nervous

小题4:. Which of the following do you think is the best title of the passage?

A．Colors and sales	B．Colors and feelings
C．The blind and colors	D．Preferences for colors

Being young is great. Most of the parts of your body still work great, you have a full head of hair, you’re energetic, and you have a world of opportunity in front of you. However, there’s going to come a time when you start to get older. And as you get older, you’ll have new responsibilities, complete independence, and perhaps most importantly, less time to recover from mistakes.
You see, we all make mistakes in life. Maybe you spent more money than you should have on a car, you passed up on a great job opportunity, or you didn’t try as hard as you could have in school. It’s a part of life and we learn from it. But there are certain mistakes that are much better made while you’re still young and have plenty of time to recover.
I’m definitely not telling you that you should purposely go out and make these mistakes (because they’re a pain to recover from). But these are all mistakes that are much better made when you’re younger so that you can learn from them and not have them ruin your entire life.
Starting the wrong career
Wouldn’t you hate to be 45 years old and discover that you absolutely hate what you do for a living? It’s a reality that a lot of people face and it can be difficult to fix. You see, when you’re 23 and find out you don’t like the career path you’ve chosen, you can easily explore new career options.
We no longer live in an age when people are expected to stay with one company until they retire. You can bounce around a little bit and find out what you want to do. When you get older, just switching careers whenever you want isn’t as simple.
You have to consider your family, retirement, the difficulties you might run into with starting from the bottom in a new industry, and plenty of other issues that someone in their early 20’s just doesn’t have to deal with.
Dating the wrong person
The divorce rate in the U.S is extremely high. Other parts of the world aren’t doing too much better either. While everyone gets divorced for their own reasons, I think we can all agree that it’s better to find out that the person you’re with is wrong for you sooner rather than later.
Hopefully you find out whether or not the person you’re with is right for you before you tie the knot, because around 50% of first marriages end in divorce.
Messing up your credit
Ruining your credit is never a good idea. Even if you ruin it while you’re young, it could affect you in the future. The upside of having bad credit while you’re young instead of older is that you have time to build it back up.
It can take 7-10 years to rebuild your credit if you have a history of late payments, loan defaults, foreclosures, or bankruptcy. During those 7-10 years, you’ll have a hard time financing anything unless you have a cosigner or put down a substantial down payment.
Most people tend to make most of the bigger purchases in life when they get older such as a house or their dream car. If you have bad credit, you can kiss all of that goodbye.
Making bad investments
If you’re investing money for your retirement, making bad decisions can mean you’ll be working your entire life. Whether you choose to pay someone to do the investing for you or handle it all yourself, it’s a lot better to take risks when you’re younger.
If you invest in stock or even real estate while you’re young and the market takes a hit, you’re not ruined. Investing is a long-term venture, so the younger you start, the more fluctuation you can withstand and still come out with a positive return.
Blowing your money
What would you do if you went broke at 60 years old? You would be working your behind off when you really should be relaxing and getting ready to retire soon.
But if you’re 25 and broke, you still have plenty of time to earn more money. Also, nobody will judge you because it’s not unusual for people in their 20’s to not have money these days. You might have blown your money on a nice car or have an obsession with all the newest gadgets.
When you get older, you’ll be able to look back and realize how dumb you were for spending $20,000 on a brand new car when you were only 20 years old. But when you’re older and waste your money, you’ll REALLY have nothing to show for it.
小题1:The following are all the advantages of being young EXCEPT ___________.

A．you have more time to recover from mistakes

B．most of the parts of your body still work great

C．you have many responsibilities and complete independence

D．you have a world of opportunity in front of you

小题2:You can bounce around a little bit and find out what you want to do. “Bounce” in this sentence is most similar in meaning to __________.

A．My father would burst into the kitchen bouncing a football.

B．The wind was bouncing the branches of the big oak trees.

C．I was an army brat, I always bounced a lot when I was young

D．The ex-boxer's job is to bounce people who want to enter this private club.

小题3: What does the author really mean by saying “it’s a lot better to take risks when you’re younger”?

A．You should purposely go out and make these mistakes so that you can learn from them and not have them ruin your entire life.

B．There are certain mistakes that are much better made while you’re still young and have plenty of time to recover.

C．When you get older, you’ll have rich experiences to share with your friends and families however dumb you were

D．The younger you start, the fewer risks you can withstand and still come out with a positive return.

小题4:We can infer from the passage that ___________.

A．about 50% of first marriages end in divorce in the U.S, much higher than other parts of the world

B．never tie the knot before you make sure he or she will not divorce you

C．it usually takes 7-10 years to rebuild one’s credit if it is broken for any reason

D．it’s unusual for people in their 20’s to have money these days

小题5:The author wrote this article mainly to tell the young ____________.

A．if you are to take risks, the earlier, the better

B．it’s better for the young to take any risk than the older

C．that they should make big purchases such as a house when they get older

D．if you don’t take risks when young, your youth will be dumb

Women are friendly. But men are more competitive. Why? Researchers have found it's all down to the hormone oxytocin (荷尔蒙催生素). Although known as the love hormone, it affects the sexes differently.
"Women tend to be social in their behavior. They often share with others. But men lend to be competitive. They are trying to improve their social status," said Professor Ryan.
Generally, people believe that the hormone oxytocin is let out in our body in various social situations and
our body creates a large amount of it during positive social interactions (互动) such as falling in love or giving birth.
But in a previous experiment Professor Ryan found that the hormone is also let out in our body during negative social interactions such as envy.
Further researches showed that in men the hormone oxytocin improves the ability to recognize competitive relationships, but in women it raises the ability to recognize friendship. Professor Ryan's recent experiment used 62 men and women aged 20 to 37. Half of the participants（参与者）received oxytocin. The other half received placebo (安慰剂).
After a week, the two groups switched with participants. They went tlirough the same procedure with the other material.
Following each treatment, they were shown some video pictures with different social interactions. Then they were asked to analyze the relationships by answering some questions. The questions were about telling friendship from competition. And their answers should be based on gestures, body language and facial expressions.
The results indicated that, after treatment with oxytocin, men's ability to correctly recognize competitive relationships improved, but in women it was the ability to correctly recognize friendship that got better.
Professor Ryan thus concluded: "Our experiment proves that the hormone oxytocin can raise people's abilities to better distinguish different social interactions. And the behavior differences between men and women are caused by biological factors (因素) that are mainly hormonal."
小题1:What causes men and women to behave differently according to the text?

A．Placebo.	B．Oxytocin.
C．The gesture.	D．The social status.

小题2:What can we learn from Professor Ryan's previous experiment?

A．Oxytocin affects our behavior in a different way.

B．Our body lets out oxytocin when we are deep in love.

C．Our body produces oxytocin when we feel unhappy about others' success.

D．Oxytocin improves our abilities to understand people's behavior differences.

小题3:Why did Professor Ryan conduct the recent experiment?

A．To test the effect of oxytocin on the ability to recognize social interactions.

B．To know the differences between friendship and competition.

C．To know people's different abilities to answer questions.

D．To test people's understanding of body language.

小题4:The author develops the text by______.

A．explaining people's behaviors

B．describing his own experiences

C．distinguishing sexual differences

D．discussing research experiments

Multitasking
What is the first thing you nitice when you walk into a shop? The products displayed (展示) at the entrance? Or the soft background music?
But have you ever notice the smell? Unless it is bad, the answer is likely to be no. But while a shop’s scent may not be outstanding compared with sightsand sounds, it is certainly there. And it is providing to be an increasing powerful tool in encouraging people to purchase.
A brand store has become famous for its distinctive scent which floats through the fairly dark hall and out to the entrance, via scent machines. A smell may be attractive but it may not just be used for freshening air. One sports goods company once reported that when it first introduced scent into its stores, customers’ intension to purchase increased by 80 percent.
When it comes to the best shopping streets in Pairs, scent is just as important to a brand’s success as the quality of its window displays and goods on slaes. That is mainly because shopping is a very different experience to what it used to be.
Some years ago,the focus for brand name shopping was on a few people with sales assistants’ disproving attitude and don’t-touch-what-you-can’t-afford displays. Now the rise of electronic commerce (e-commerce) has opened up famous brands to a wider audience. But while e-shops can use sights and sounds, only bricks-and-mortar stores (实体店) can offer a full experience from the minute customers step through the door to the moment they leave. Another brand store seeks to be much more than a shop, but rather a destination. And scent is just one way to achieve this.
Now a famous store uses complex man-made smell to make sure that the soft scent of baby powder floats through the kid department, and coconut (椰子) scent in the swimsuit section. A department store has even opened a new lab, inviting customers on a journey into the store’s windows to smell books, pots and drawers, in search of their perfect scent.
小题1:According to the passage, what is an increasingly powerful tool in the success of some brand store?

A．Friendly assistant.	B．Unique scents.
C．Soft background music	D．attractive window display.

小题2:E-shops are mentioned in the passage to _______ .

A．ashow the advantages of brick-and-mortar stores

B．urge shop assistants to change their attitude

C．push stores to use sights and sounds

D．introduce the rise of e-commerce

小题3:The underlined word “destination” in Paragraph 5 means _______ .

A．a platform that exhibts goods

B．a spot where travelers like to stay

C．a place where customers love to go

D．a target that a store expects to meet

小题4:The main purpose of the passage is to ______ .

A．compare and evaluate	B．examine and assess
C．argue and discuss	D．inform and explain

When I started my career in management, I was really green, but I always tried to stay positive on the job. I was working for a new company that was having a difficult time with its customers. Actually, at one point my General Manager told me he liked me and suggested I should start looking for a new job as we were about to lose our only order. Every day we faced people leaving the company, customers complaining, and upper management preparing to close the place.
One night, I went home thinking about the problems. My wife told me to forget about work and see a movie. We went and saw Slumdog Millionaire. Jamal, an eighteen-year-old Indian young man, is from a poor family and becomes rich later. He tries his best to change his position. I realized what we needed to do was to correct the situation.
The next day I called my customers to have a talk. I promised to do my best to solve the problems if they would give us some time. As a result, we were given one month to turn the situation around. This was our only chance to correct the situation. To achieve this, I worked day and night with my team. I can remember working from 6 a. m. and not going home until 2 a. m. the next day.
To make a long story short, we succeeded in solving all of the problems and at the same time increased our productivity(生产率). The customers and management were very happy, and I knew at that moment we had saved our jobs. Actually things went so well that we ended up having our pay doubled.
Through this experience I understand that you can achieve what you desire as long as you work at it and stay positive.
小题1: The General Manager advised the author to look for a new job mainly because　　　.

A．he knew the author didn’t want to stay there

B．his company was too small to hire so many people

C．he believed the author could get more pay that way

D．the management was preparing to close the department

小题2: Who caused the author to decide to change his situation?

A．The hero in a movie.	B．His wife.
C．His boss.	D．The customers.

小题3: How long did the author stay in his department every day during that month?

A．8 hours.	B．15 hours.
C．20 hours.	D．24 hours.

小题4:The experience of the author shows that　　　.

A．if a person does his best and keeps positive, he’ll succeed

B．if a person takes advice from others, he’ll make progress

C．if a person is clever, he’ll realize his dream sooner or later

D．if a person wants to change his fate, he mustn’t change his job

小题5:What would be the best title for this passage?

A．My Work Experience

B．My First Management Job

C．How to Correct Your Situation

D．The Importance of Working Hard

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