Girls may easily get good grades, while boys of their ages bring home low marks. Girls seem to have “better brains” in school. Why do so few girls become great scientists? Why is the most important thing in adult（成年人的）world done by men?

　　According to scientists, the answer is being assertive（过分自信的）. Boys usually don't accept other people's conclusion（结论）. They insist on solving problems by themselves. While little girls are getting high marks in school by remembering what the teacher has told them, little boys are learning to think in their own ways. Boys are usually the ones who get high pay and the good jobs because they are trained to be assertive at an early age.

A．Because girls are cleverer than boys.

B．Because girls are better at remembering things than boys.

C．Because teachers care more for girls than for boys.

D．Because boys are lazier.

A．Because girls are not so hard-working.

B．Because girls are less cared for.

C．Because girls are getting high marks in school.

D．Because few of them are trained to be assertive.

A．Boys are cleverer in school.

B．Boys are cleverer at an early age.

C．Boys and girls are thinking in different ways.

D．Boys can be useful only when they become men.

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　　My friend, a doctor at a hospital, had finished a physical exam(常规体检) on an eight-year-old boy when the mother told the doctor that his son was always having junk food(零食). The doctor thought how he might get the child to see the light of his poor eating habit, so he asked:“What do you want to be when you grow up?”

　　“I want to be a doctor.” said the boy.

　　“I've got him now,” thought the doctor,“and what would you say to a boy when his mother complained that he was having too much junk food?”

　　At once, the boy replied,“I also ate junk food when I was a child, and look at me now!”

1．What was the boy's problem?

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A．He was often ill.

B．He liked junk food very much.

C．He didn't want to have a physical exam.

D．He didn't want to eat anything.

2．The doctor tried________.

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A．to let the boy understand it was bad to have to much junk food

B．to give the boy more junk food

C．to test if the boy was clever

D．to make the boy eat no junk food

3．What answer did the doctor expect to hear about his second question?

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A．“It's not good for you to have too much junk food.”

B．“You will be stronger if you eat more junk food.”

C．“It doesn't matter to have too much junk food.”

D．“Listen to your mother, and you will have more junk food.”

4．This story mainly tells us that ________.

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A．boys are clever than men.

B．junk food is bad to health.

C．children have their own ways of thinking.

D．boys shouldn't eat too much junk food.

　　When you hear their music, you're sure to love the three boys from pop group C21! The three boys from Denmark（丹麦）sing beautifully. They write most of their own songs and also play the guitar themselves.

　　They go to Shanghai to help sell their album“C21”. Then they go to a show and sing some of their popular love songs like“You Are the One”and“She Cries”.

　　The three young men are Soren, Esben and David. Soren, the oldest, is 20 years old. He is the main singer（主唱）. Esben, also 20, is shy and cool, and David, 19, is warm and interesting. They are trying（尝试）to put a little rock into their music.

　　Because they love music, the boys have to give up（放弃）a lot. Soren loves playing football, but he chooses music at last. He gives up the chance of playing for the Danish National Football Team（丹麦国家足球队）.

　　The three boys are glad. They say,“Music is everything, and we could not imagine（想象）doing anything else.”

根据句意补全下列单词。

(1) A c________ ________ ple are boating on the river.

(2) My father is making a f ________ re.

(3) My mother is pr________p________ ring the food.

(4) Some boys are playing on the t________p of the hill.

(5) An old man is fishing on the b________nk.