What developed was a music readily ______various forms and capable of an almost limitless
A. taking in
B. taking on
C. taking off
D. taking to
A. taking in
B. taking on
C. taking off
D. taking to
What would be the right kind of help in the author's opinion?
A.The wealthy people should give them money
B.The developed countries should teach them ability needed for self-help
C.The wealthy people should send over technicians to help install sophisticated machines
D.The wealthy people should establish some shops over there
A.Once college graduates take a temporary job, they soon become used to it.
B.College graduates have developed the habit of taking temporary jobs.
C.Many college graduates might never find jobs for which they were trained.
D.More and more college graduates are unwilling to change their jobs.
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A.tastes
B.steps
C.stages
D.tests
Both games had been invented a thousand years before. In the first kind of football game ever played, all the men from one village tried to kick a ball into another village. The men of the second village tried to kick the ball into the first. Hundreds of people joined in, running everywhere, running crops and knocking down fences. In time, people agreed on some rules to keep order, but many roles were left open to change. Different rules developed in different places.
When the two colleges met to play football, each followed its own rules. They mixed the games together and invented a new game. A hundred years later we call that game American football.
In what ways do you suppose the game we know now will have changed in another hundred years?
When the two colleges first met to play "football", the players followed ______.
A.the rules of soccer
B.the rules of rugby
C.different rules
D.college rules
What is the main topic of this passage?
A.Use of sea water.
B.Treatment of sea water.
C.Chemical properties of magnesium.
D.Derivation and users of magnesium.
The oldest kind of computer is the abacus, used in China since the sixth century. In the seventeenth century an adding machine was invented, but the first large, modern computer was built in 1973. A few years later a computer could do 5,000 additions per second. Now the computations are so fast that they are measured in nanoseconds.
Today most computers are stored-program computers, that is, they have a memory. They are getting smaller and smaller, and computing faster and faster. Even in a large computer, the part that does the actual computing is about the size of the end of a finger.
Computers can do all kinds of work. When someone buys something in a department store, in formation about the sale goes into a computer. A scientist can talk to the computer about the rocks, and the computer answers the questions. A doctor can talk to the computer and explains what is wrong with a patient. If the doctor asks why, the computer goes through its stored information and ex plains exactly why.
When early humans began fanning, it was a revolutionary change in human life. It was hundreds of thousands of years later that people developed a writing system. In less than fifty years people have developed computers that can do most of the things humans can do. This could be a frightening development.
The oldest kind of computer, the abacus, has been used since ______.
A.600
B.700
C.800
D.500
People produce food in many ways.Agriculture,or farming,developed thousands of years ago. ___11___about 100 years ago, most farmers in the United States Produced only enough food for their own___12___Today,modern equipment and farming methods have greatly ___13___the American farmer’s productivity.
In various parts of the world,people___14___many animals that supply meat and milk. Cattle, horses, goats, sheep, and pigs are important food animals. In the United States, the cow is the major source of milk products. Chickens___15___ people with both meat and eggs.
Fishing is an important source of food, ___16___in areas near the sea. Some countries, like Japan, consume much more fish than meat.
The wealthy areas of the world consume the most food , ___17___include the United States, Canada, and Europe. Many countries are able to import food if it cannot be produced at home. ___18___Great Britain imports about 75percent of its meat,and grows less than half the food its people require.
___19___people of the poor countries of the world usually eat only what they are able to produce themselves. In some parts of Asia, people live ___20___rice alone.
11.A.In B.Until C.From D.for
12.A.needs B.reasons C.efforts D.interests
13.A.protected B.supported C.increased D.reflected
14.A.grow B.raise C.train D.store
15.A.prepare B.treat C.serve D.provide
16.A.certainly B.actually C.occasionally D.especially
17.A.these B.where C.which D.they
18.A.In addition B.For example C.Above all D.After all
19.A.However B.Therefore C.Moreover D.instead
20.A.with B.for C.on D.through
Once people believed it was 19) that the human brain was fully developed by the age of three. According to this theory, teenager behaviors like risk-taking, a lack of sensitivity to how their actions 20)both themselves and others, increased aggressive deeds, 21) concentration and a negative attitude were thought to be due to bad parenting or changes in body chemistry.
However, new technology has allowed researchers to examine the healthy brain at work. What they have discovered is something 22) : Not only does the brain continue to grow beyond the age of three, but the research also23) that the brain of a teenager is larger than that of an adult.
As teen brains are 24) with chemicals during adolescence phase, the brain grows. However, only the cells that are used the most will 25) the competition within the brain. Those that are used less begin to die off until the brain reaches what will be its adult size.
The way that teens spend their time 26) influences which connections remain and which disappear. On the basis of this knowledge, experts advise parents to be 27) on how their teenagers spend their time. What teens do today will affect their brains for the rest of their lives.
A) diminished
B) demonstrated
C) alert
D) radical
E) surrender
F) survive
G) affirms
H) afford
I) affect
J) effect
K) soaked
L) soaped
M) sensitive
N) sensible
O) somehow
Now it's true that the human body has developed its millions of nerves to be highly aware of what goes on both inside and outside of it.This helps us adjust to the world.Without our nerves and our brain, which is a bundle of nerves, we wouldn't know what's happening.But we pay for our sensitivity.We can feel pain when the slightest thing is wrong with any part of our body.The history of torture is based on the human body being open to pain.
But there is a way to handle pain.Look at the Indian fakir (苦行僧) who sits on a bed of nails.Fakirs can put a needle right through an arm, and feel no pain.This ability that some humans have developed to handle pain should give us ideas about how the mind can deal with pain.
The big thing in withstanding pain is our attitude towards it.If the dentist says, “This will hurt a little,” it helps us to accept the pain.By staying relaxed, and by treating the pain as an interesting sensation we can handle the pain without falling apart.After all, although pain is an unpleasant sensation, it is still a sensation, and sensations are the stuff of life.
26.The passage is mainly about().
A.how to suffer pain
B.how to avoid pain
C.how to handle pain
D.how to stop pain
27.Th e sentence “But we pay for our sensitivity.” in the second paragraph implies that ()
A.we should pay a debt for our feeling
B.we have to be hurt when we feel something
C.our pain is worth feeling
D.when we feel pain, we are suffering it
28.When the author mentions the Indian fakir, he suggests that().
A.Indians are not at all afraid of pain
B.people may be senseless of pain
C.some people are able to handle pain
D.fakirs have magic to put needles right through their arms
29.The most important thing to handle pain is ()
A.how we look at pain
B.to feel pain as much as possible
C.to show an interest in pain
D.to accept the pain reluctantly
30.The author's attitude towards pain is().
A.pessimistic
B.optimistic
C.radical
D.practical
A study was done with 30 three-year-old children and their parents. Half of the children participated in the experimental study; the other half acted as the control group. In the experimental group, the parents were given a two-hour training session in which they were taught to ask open-ended questions rather than yes-or-no questions. For example, the parent should ask, "What is the doggie doing?" rather than "Is the doggie running away?" (78) The parents in the experimental group were also instructed in how to help children find answers, how to suggest alternative possibilities and how to praise correct answers.
At the beginning of the study, the children did not differ in measures of language development, but at the end of one month, the children in the experimental group showed 5.5 months ahead of the control group on a test of verbal expression and vocabulary. Nine months later, the children in the experimental group still showed an advance of 6 months over the children in the control group.
Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A.Children who talk a lot are more intelligent.
B.Parents who listen to their children can teach them more.
C.Active children should read more and be given more attention.
D.Verbal ability can easily be developed with proper methods.