NEW YORK- One in five U.S. workers regularly attends after-work drinks with coworkers, where the most common mishaps range from badmouthing another worker to drinking too much, according to a study released on Tuesday.

Most workers attend so-called happy hours to bond with colleagues, although 15 percent go to hear the latest office gossip and 13 percent go because they feel necessary, said the survey conducted for CareerBuilder.com, an online job site. As to what happens when the after-work drinks flow, 16 percent reported bad-mouthing a colleague, 10 percent shared a secret about a colleague and 8 percent said they drank too much and acted unprofessionally. Five percent said they had shared a secret about the company, and 4 percent confessed to singing karaoke. While 21 percent of those who attended said happy hours were good for networking, 85 percent said attending had not helped them get closer to someone higher up or get a better position. An equal number of men and women said they attended happy hours with co-workers, with younger workers aged 25 to 34 most likely and workers over 55 least likely to attend. Overall, 21 percent of workers attend happy hours with co-workers and; of those nearly a quarter go at least once a month.

The survey was conducted online by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder.com among 6,987 full-time employees between February 11 and March 13. Harris Interactive said the results had a sampling error of plus or minus 1.2 percentage points.

1．Harris Interactive made the survey to find out ________.

A．how U.S. workers spend their after-work time

B．what U.S. workers do at after-work drinks

C．the relationships between U.S. workers

D．who are most likely to attend after-work drinks

2． ________ of workers who attend after-work drinks speak ill of a colleague.

A．4 percent                B．8 percent         C．16 percent         D．10 percent

3．According to the passage, most of those surveyed believed attending after-work drinks ________.

A．benefited them a lot                                     B．could provide information

C．only made them relaxed                               D．was of no help to them

4．We can learn from the text that _________.

A．workers over 55 don’t like to attend happy hours at all

B．about 75% of workers go more than once a month

C．10.5% of male workers attend happy hours with co-workers

D．about 700 workers surveyed shared a secret about a co-worker

5．After the survey, it can be inferred that_________.

A．all the workers oppose after-work drinks

B．the workers may change their attitudes towards after-work drinks

C．all the workers support after-work drinks

D．all the workers are suggested going to attend after-work drinks

Imagine a world in which there was suddenly no emotion--a world in which human beings could feel no love or happiness, no terror or hate. Try to imagine the consequences of such a transformation. People might not be able to stay alive: knowing neither joy nor pleasure, anxiety nor fear, they would be as likely to repeat acts that hurt them as acts that were beneficial. They could not learn: they could not benefit from experience because this emotionless world would lack rewards and punishments. Society would soon disappear: people would be as likely to harm one another as to provide help and support. Human relationships would not exist: in a world without friends or enemies, there could be no marriage, affection among companions, or bonds （关系） among members of groups. Society's economic underpinnings （支柱） would be destroyed: since earning $10 million would be no more pleasant than earning $10, there would be no incentive to work. In fact, there would be no incentives of any kind, for as we will see, incentives imply a capacity to enjoy them.

In such a world, the chances that the human species would survive are next to zero, because emotions are the basic instrument of our survival and adaptation. Emotions structure the world for us in important ways. As individuals, we categorize objects on the basis of our emotions. True, we consider the length, shape, size, or texture, but an object's physical aspects are less important than what it has done or can do to us--hurt us, surprise us, anger us or make us joyful. We also use categorizations colored by emotions in our families, communities, and overall society. Out of our emotional experiences with objects and events comes a social feeling of agreement that certain things and actions are "good" and others are "bad”, and we apply these categories to every aspect of our social life--from what foods we eat and what clothes we wear to how we keep promises and which people our group will accept. In fact, society uses our emotional reactions and attitudes, such as loyalty morality, pride shame, guilt, fear and greed, in order to maintain itself. It gives high rewards to individuals who perform important tasks such as surgery, makes heroes out of individuals for unusual or dangerous achievements such as flying fighter planes in a war, and uses the legal penal （刑法的） system to make people afraid to engage in antisocial acts.

1．Which of the following is Right according to the first paragraph?

A．People would not be able to tell the texture of objects.

B．People would not know what was beneficial and what was harmful to them.

C．$10 million is equal to $10 in a world without emotions.

D．There would be full of lies, arguments and violence.

2．It can be inferred from the passage that the economic foundation of society is dependent on _______.

　　A．the ability to make money　　       B．the capacity to work

　　C．the stimulus to work　　                     D．the categorizations of our emotional experiences

3．Emotions are significant for man's survival and adaptation because _______.

　　A．they provide the means by which people view the size or shape of objects.

　　B．they are the basis for the social feeling of agreement by which society is maintained.

　　C．they encourage people to perform dangerous achievements.

　　D．they produce more love than hate among people.

4．Why are the emotional aspects of an object more important than its physical aspects?

　　A．They help society use its members for profit.

　　B．They encourage us to perform important tasks.

　　C．They help to perfect the legal and penal system.

D．They help us adapt our behavior to the world surrounding us.

5．What is the text mainly about?

A．People could only live in a world with emotions.

B．People would always do bad things in the emotionless world.

C．Emotions are very important in the world.

D．Emotions structure the world for us in important ways.

Is early childhood education really necessary? Early childhood education primarily focuses on learning through playing to develop the child’s physical, sensory, communicational and social development. Early childhood education has become a concern of the government, who pushes poor children to be formally trained before they are old enough for Kindergarten.

There are good reasons for the government to push early childhood education. Studies have shown that orphaned children who did not receive good care and education become developmentally delayed causing failure in school, and even in life. Further studies show that poor children who take part in Head Start programs are more prepared for school, less likely to end up in Special Education classes, and are less likely to receive public help or go to jail.

There are also negative parts to putting a child in formal education programs too early. Time Magazine online explains that “the younger the child the less his chances of catching up with first-grade work.” I have personally witnessed many children of my generation who went to Head Start programs become frustrated and bored with school before they finished high school. Yet patents have been sure that the earlier the child starts school, the better off he or she is, so they push to start children earlier.

Actually while early formal education of poor children does show great gains in the early elementary years, studies also show that this head start is really a “false start”, as the gains are lost in middle and high school years. It seems that environment is a bigger factor on life’s success than early education. Head Start programs have not achieved its original goal in closing the achievement gap in poor and middle school children. Perhaps it is time to find other ways to close that gap.

1．The purpose of the government valuing the early childhood education is ________.

A．to develop the children’s communication

A．to give orphaned children good care and education

C．to get the children prepared for the kindergarten

D．to train the children formally and regularly

2．According to the studies, which of the following is True?

A．Children with good early education may have a rich life.

B．The orphaned children are usually unhappy in their life.

C．Children without early education can do well at school.

D．Head Start programs are helpful to the poor children.

3．“……the younger the child the less his chances of catching up with first-grade work.” suggests that _________.

A．the early childhood education is helpless to the child’s grade

B．it is good for the young children to receive early education

C．the early education can help the children follow the grade

D．the younger the children are, the more clever they will be

4．The author’s attitude toward the early childhood education is _________.

A．puzzling           B．objective        C．indifferent         D．approving

5．The main idea of the last passage is that __________.

A．the early childhood education is very necessary

B．Head Start programs have helped the children a lot

C．environment is the most important to life’s success

D．better ways should be found to help the poor children

阅读下面短文，根据第1至第5小题的具体要求，简要回答问题。

Motherhood may make women smarter and may help prevent dementia（痴呆） in old age by bathing the brain in protective hormones , U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.

Tests on rats show that those who raise two or more litters of pups do considerably better in tests of memory and skills than rats who have no babies, and their brains show changes that suggest they may be protected against diseases such as Alzheimer’s（早老痴呆症）. University of Richmond psychology professor Craig Kinsley believes his findings will translate into humans.

“Our research shows that the hormones of pregnancy（怀孕） are protecting the brain, including estrogen（雌激素）, which we know has many neuroprotective （保护神经的） effects,” Kinsley said.  

“It’s rat data but humans are mammals just like these animals are mammals,” he added in a telephone interview. “They go through pregnancy and hormonal changes.”

Kinsley said he hoped public health officials and researchers will look to see if having had children protects a woman from Alzheimer’s and other forms of age-related brain decline.

“When people think about pregnancy, they think about what happens to babies and the mother from the neck down,” said Kinsley, who presented his findings to the annual meeting of the Society of Neuroscience in Orlando, Florida.

“They do not realize that hormones are washing on the brain. If you look at female animals who have never gone through pregnancy, they act differently toward young. But if she goes through pregnancy, she will sacrifice her life for her infant—that is a great change in her behavior that showed in genetic alterations（改变） to the brain.”

1．What can protect the brain of a woman according to the passage? （回答词数不超过4个）

_________________________________________________________

2．How do scientists know “Motherhood may make women smarter”? （回答词数不超过8个）

_________________________________________________________

3．“It’s rat data but humans are mammals just like these animals are mammals.” What does the sentence suggest? （回答词数不超过13个）

_________________________________________________________

4．What is the main idea of this passage? （回答词数不超过10个）

_________________________________________________________

几天前，你班召开了高三年级学生的家长会。会后，英语老师要求学生用英语写一篇短文谈谈关于同学们对家长会的看法。

要点如下：

1．家长会的目的：相互沟通，提高学习成绩。

2．大部分同学赞同并陈述他们的理由。（至少写两点）

3．少部分同学不赞同并陈述他们的理由。

4．你的观点及理由。

要求：1．可适当增加细节。      2．词数：100—120 左右。

Parents’ meetings are often held in order to                                            

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

It was his summer holiday and         nothing to do; he began to contribute to a tourist magazine.

A．find          B．to find            C．found            D．finding

Having waited for the scientist for nearly an hour, they      that he could not arrive on time.

A．have informed        B．informed          C．were informed         D．are informed

As is known to all, the man who      last night       charged with murder.

A．was arrested; has been                                 B．arrested; was

C．had been arrested; had been charged             D．has arrested; was

It was not until I watched the TV program     I knew     special the Sundance Film Festival was.

A．how; that        B．that; what          C．that; how              D．when; how

Sometimes we can kill two birds with one stone.      , we can complete two goals with only one effort or action.

A．For example          B．That is         C．By the way         D．In addition