Parents and teenagers often disagree about the amount of freedom and responsibility that young people are to have. The teenager often wants to be【21】to choose his own friends, select his own courses i

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Ⅲ. Cloze （30 points) Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are fo

Ⅲ. Cloze (30 points)

Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

Times have changed and the ideas of the young and the old about the same thing are often ill contra diction. For example, parents and teenagers often disagree about the amount of freedom and responsibility that young people (21) to have. The teenager is more independent and often wants to be (22) to choose his own friends, select his own courses in school, plan for his own vocational (23) , and earn and spend his own money, and generally (24) his own life in a more independent (25) than many parents are able to (26) .

Most problems (27) teenagers and their parents yield to (导致) (28) planning and decision making. Within ally particular family, (29) are avoided and problems are solved when all of the persons take (30) in the situation, and (31) in working it out. (32) parents and young people learn how to get (33) well with each other and develop skills in understanding and (34) understood, even (35) most difficult problems are relieved and a situation might appear that teenagers and their parents can some times see eye to eye.

21. A. is

B. should

C. will

D. are

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第2题

Concerning money or anything else, conflicts between husband and wife usually reflect

a power straggle. Conflicts between parent and child often center around the same issue. As children enter adolescence, they begin to demand greater freedom to go where they please, do what they please, and make decisions without parental interference. Many American parents do not know how to deal with their teenagers and seek advice from books, lectures, and parent gaining courses. Parents want to maintain a friendly relationship with their teenagers and also want to guide them so that their behavior. will be whatever the parents consider proper and constructive.

But in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values, parents and children often disagree about what is important and what is fight.

(77) Arguments may concern such unimportant matters as styles of dress or hairdos. But quarrels may also concern school work, after school jobs, decisions, use of the family car, dating, and sex behavior. Some families have serious problems with teenagers who drop out of school, run away from home, or use illegal drugs. Because so much publicity is given to the problem teenager, one gets the impression that all teenagers are troublemakers. Actually, relatively few adolescents do anything wrong, and nearly all grow up into "solid citizens" who fulfill most of their parents' expectations. In fact, recent studies show that the "generation gap" is narrowing. The vast majority of teenagers share most of their parents' values and ideas. Many parents feel that they get along with their adolescents quite well.

According to the writer, conflicts between husband and wife usually reflect ______.

A．feeling of hatred

B．power struggle

C．that they don' t care for each other

D．that they may appeal to divorce

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Teenagers are different from people of other age grou

ps. The differences can be 18) from how they behave. In fact, the brains of teenagers are very different from those of children or adults.

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

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teenager（）

A.n.十几岁的青少年

B.n.洞穴；地窖

C.v & n.. 增加，繁殖

D.n. 三明治（夹心面包片）

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teenager（）

A.n.伙伴；合作者；合伙人

B.n.能力；力量；权力

C.n.十几岁的青少年

D.不再……

E.诺厄•韦伯斯特（美国词典编纂家）

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The comparison made between the memory capacity of a large computer and that of a human be

ing shows that______.

A．the computer' s memory has a little bigger capacity than a teenager' s

B．the computer' s memory capacity is much smaller that an adult human being' s

C．the computer' s memory capacity is much smaller even than a teenager' s

D．both A and B

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第7题

As a teenager, Mary sent newspapers in the morning, worked in a restaurant in the afternoo

n, and ______ in the evening.

A．typing for her mother

B．had typed for her mother

C．typed for her mother

D．to type for her mother

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第8题

根据下列文章，回答21～25题。 While still catching-up to men in some spheres of modern life

根据下列文章，回答21～25题。

While still catching-up to men in some spheres of modern life, women appear to be way ahead in at least one undesirable category. Women are particularly susceptible to developing depression and anxiety disorders in response to stress compared to men, according to Dr. Yehuda, chief psychiatrist at New York''s Veteran''s Administration Hospital.

Studies of both animals and humans have shown that sex hormones somehow affects the stress response, causing females under stress to produce more of the trigger chemicals than do males under the same conditions. In several of the studies, when stressed-out female rats had their ovaries （the female reproductive organs） removed, their chemical responses became equal to those of the males.

Adding to a woman''s increased dose of stress chemicals, are her increased opportunities for stress. It''s not necessarily that women don''t cope as well. It''s just that they have so much more to cope with, says Dr. Yehuda. Their capacity for tolerating stress may even be greater than men''s, she observes, It''s just that they''re dealing with so many more things that they become worn out from it more visibly and sooner.

Dr. Yehuda notes another difference between the sexes. I think that the kinds of things that women are exposed to tend to be in more of a chronic or repeated nature. Men go to war and are exposed to combat stress. Men are exposed to more acts of random physical violence. The kinds of interpersonal violence that women are exposed to tend to be in domestic situations, by, unfortunately, parents or other family numbers, and they tend not to be one-shot deals. The wear-and-tear that comes from these longer relationships can be quite devastating.

Adeline Alvarez married at 18 and gave birth to a son, but wad determined to finish college. I struggled a lot to get the college degree. I was living in so much frustration that that was my escape, to go to school, and get ahead and do better. Later her marriage ended and she became a single mother. It''s the hardest thing to take care of a teenager, have a job, pay the rent, pay the car payment, and pay the debt. I lived from paycheck to paycheck.

Not everyone experiences the kinds of severe chronic stresses Alvarez describes. But most women today are coping with a lot of obligations, with few breaks, and feeling the strain. Alvarez''s experience demonstrates the importance of finding ways to diffuse stress before it threatens your health and your ability to function.

第 21 题 Which of the following is true according to the first two paragraphs？

A．Women are biologically more vulnerable to stress.

B．Women are still suffering much stress caused by men.

C．Women are more experienced than men in coping with stress.

D．Men and women show different inclinations when faced with stress.

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It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. The meanings of thousan

ds of everyday perceptions, the bases【B1】the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and skills are to be【B2】in our past experiences, which are brought into the present【B3】memory.

Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep【B4】available for later use. It includes not only "remembering" thing like arithmetic or historical facts, but also any change in the way an animal typically behaves. Memory is【B5】when a rat gives up eating grain because he has sniffed something suspicious in the grain pile. Memory is also involved when a six year old child learns to swing a baseball bat.

Memory【B6】not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines. Computers, for example, contain devices for storing data for later use. It is interesting to compare the memory storage capacity of a computer【B7】that of a human being. The instant access memory of a large computer may hold up to 100 000 "words" ready for【B8】use. An average American teenager probably recognizes the meanings of about 100 000 words of English. However, this is but a fraction of the total【B9】of information which the teenager has stored. Consider, for example, the number of facts and places that the teenager can recognize on sight. The use of words is the basis of the advanced problem solving intelligence of human beings. A large part of a person's memory is in terms of words and【B10】of words.

【B1】

A．of

B．to

C．for

D．on

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It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. （78)The meanings of tho

It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. (78)The meanings of thou- sands of everyday perceptions, the bases for the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and skills are to be found in our past experiences, which are brought into the present by memory.

Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep information available for later use. It includes not only "remembering" things like arithmetic or historical facts, but also involving any change in the way an animal typically behaves. (79)Memory is involved when a rat gives up eating grain be- cause he has sniffed something suspicious in the grain pile. Memory is also involved when a six- year-old child learns to swing a baseball bat.

Memory exists not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines. Computers, for example, contain devices for storing data for later use. It is interesting to compare the memory-storage capacity of a computer with that of a human being. The instant-access memory of a large computer may hold up to 100,000 " words" —ready for instant use. An average U.S. teenager probably recognizes the meaning of about 100,000 words of English. However, this is but a fraction of the total amount of information which the teenager has stored. Consider, for ex- ample, the number of faces and places that the teenager can recognize on sight.

The use of words is the basis of the advanced problem-solving intelligence of human beings. A large part of a person' s memory is in terms of words and combinations of words.

According to the passage, memory is considered to be ______.

A．the basis for decision making and problem solving

B．an ability to store experiences for future use

C．an intelligence typically possessed by human beings

D．the data mainly consisting of words and combinations of words

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