In the 11th century, nearly 500 years before Leonardo da Vinci drew a similar flying machine, a young monk（修道士）called Eilmer fixed wings to his hands and feet and jumped off a tower at Malmesbury Abbey in England. After he had glided（滑翔）more than 200 metres, a gust of wind caught him, and he crashed, breaking both legs.
Eilmer's courage seems to show much about the Middle Ages, as Seb Falk, a historian, presents them in The Light Ages. It shows scientific curiosity and experimental spit, much of which appeared in religious institutions, There were a lot of dead ends, but there was progress too. And that period of time doesn't deserve to be tainted（玷污）as “the Dark Ages”.
A deeply rooted prejudice（偏见）holds that nothing much happened in the Middle Ages. Mr Falk sets out to doubt it. He acknowledged that medieval（中世纪的）science was not the same as the modern kind Astronomy was the most important discipline, but astrology（占星学）was respectable too, and it turned into magic. Monks worked to understand “a living universe created by God”. But were the methods really so different? Facing the unknown, human beings created a mass of theories that gradually got reduced through observation and experiment. That described medieval science as much as today's.
The mechanical clock, spectacles, advances in navigation—these were among the achievements of the Middle Ages. Medieval astronomers produced a theory that influenced Galileo Galilei in the 17th century. By hen Nicolaus Copernicus overturned everything they held dear, by placing the sun at the centre of the universe; but he couldn’t have done so without their achievements.
1. What is the author's main purpose of mentioning Eilmer's deed in the first paragraph?| A．To tell how fearless the young monk was. |
| B．To give a look into the science in the Middle Ages. |
| C．To show the severe effects of an unsuccessful experiment. |
| D．To explain the reason why Eilmer filed in the experiment. |
| A．Doubtful. | B．Unelear. | C．Positive. | D．Negative. |
| A．the medieval science is completely the same as the modern kind |
| B．the modern science is much more advanced than the medieval kind |
| C．there is no similarity between the medieval science and the modern kind |
| D．the medieval science does have something in common with the modern kind |
| A．The masterpiece of Seb Falk. | B．The inventions in the Middle Ages. |
| C．The opinions about medieval science. | D．The guesses of medieval astronomers. |
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【推荐1】We are a nation of unhealthy sleepers. Ten percent of us are insomniacs, many more wake up constantly throughout the night, and a growing number of us are simply too obsessed with smartphones to put them down and go to bed.
But what’s the worst kind of sleep for your health: the kind where you keep a normal bedtime but are constantly up every few hours, or the kind where you go to bed late and only get a few hours of shut-eye.
Reporting in the journal Sleep, lead author Patrick Finan, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his colleagues conducted one of the first studies comparing the two types of sleep—interrupted sleep and abbreviated sleep—in a group of 62 healthy men and women who were good sleepers. The participants spent three days and nights in a sleep lab and answered questions about their mood every evening before dozing off. While they slept, the researchers measured their sleep stages so they could document when and how much of each stage of sleep, from light to deeper slumber, each volunteer got every night. A third were randomly assigned to be woken up several times a night; another third were not allowed to go to sleep until later but weren’t woken up.
When Finan compared the three group’s mood ratings, he found that the interrupted and short sleepers both showed drops in positive mood after the first night. But on the next nights, the interrupted sleepers continued to report declining positive feelings while the short sleepers did not—
When he looked at the brain patterns of the two disrupted sleep groups, he found that those who woke up repeatedly showed less slow wave sleep, or the deep sleep that is normally linked to feeling restored and rested, than those getting the same amount of sleep but in a continuous session. “We saw a drop in slow wave sleep large and sudden,” says Finan. “
| A．After a bad night’s sleep, you are unlikely to be in the best of moods. |
| B．They stayed at about the same level they had reported after the first night. |
| C．The final, control group was allowed to sleep uninterrupted throughout the night. |
| D．Scientists might finally have an answer. |
| E．They feel more and more frustrated emotionally. |
| F．It was associated with a striking drop in positive mood, very different than in the other group. |
【推荐2】Many of us spend part of each day surrounded by strangers, whether on our daily commute (上下班往返), or sitting in park or cafe. But most of them remain just that-strangers. However, new evidence has shown that plucking up (鼓起) the courage to strike up conversation might be good for our health.
Nicholas Epley from the University of Chicago and Juliana Schroeder from the University of California are behavioural scientists. They wanted to know whether solitude is a more positive experience than interacting with strangers, or if people misunderstand the consequences of distant social connections. They found that many people feel uncomfortable and frightened talking to others and their research suggested that when we make an initial conversation “we consistently underestimate (低估) how much a new person likes us.” It seems we think that all the things could go wrong and why someone wouldn’t want to talk with us.
Their research involved an experiment with a group of Chicago commuters and found that “every participant in our experiment who actually tried to talk to a stranger found the person sitting next to them was happy to chat.” From this and other research, the conclusion is that connecting with strangers is surprisingly pleasant and it has a positive impact on our wellbeing. It’s true that talking can make you feel happier and happiness can lead to better mental health.
However, if you’re’ an introvert (性格内向者), the thought of speaking to someone new might make you anxious. But the American research found “both extroverts (性格外向者) and introverts are happier when they are asked to behave in an extroverted manner.” So maybe, if you’re a loner, it’s time to come out of your shell and make some small talk with a stranger-it could be the beginning of a new friendship.
1. What does the underlined word“solitude”in paragraph 2 mean?| A．Being calm. | B．Being pleasant. | C．Being alone. | D．Being healthy. |
| A．Because we don’t trust a new person. |
| B．Because we can’t find a common topic. |
| C．Because we like distant social connections. |
| D．Because we carry a negative voice in our head. |
| A．Making a small talk. | B．Sitting next to a stranger. |
| C．Sharing personal details. | D．Behaving in polite manner. |
| A．How to be an extrovert. | B．Talking to strangers. |
| C．How to speak to strangers. | D．Making new friends. |
【推荐3】If you’ve ever started an exercise with good faith and enthusiasm, only to be met with disappointment as the scale goes past the weight you started with, you may have had a question: Why does exercise make me gain weight?
While exercise plays a role in weight control, the other side of the coin is food intake.
The other potential explanation comes down to the amount of blood. When you do aerobic exercise, there may be an increase in blood volume, which is essentially an increase in aerobic capacity. Aerobic capacity is a measurement of the maximum amount of oxygen your body can consume while exercising. Muscles need oxygen supplied by blood.
What all of this means is that people who have started to work out properly shouldn’t be discouraged from continuing, even if they gain a little weight.
| A．You should do exercise. |
| B．The answer is many-sided. |
| C．A person notices his weight increasing. |
| D．When they eat pizza, they’re eating slowly. |
| E．This in turn leads to extra water staying in the body. |
| F．There are a few other biological reasons for the weight gain. |
| G．So the more oxygen a person can consume, the better their strength. |
【推荐1】Friendly doctors are “bad for their patients’ health”, researchers have warned as a new study revealed two thirds of young doctors struggle to be truthful with patients they like.
Blurring (使……模糊) the lines between social and professional relationships can affect the level of care offered and prevent patients from being honest about important side effects.
“Doctors should avoid adding patients as friends on Facebook, they should not hug or allow patients to call them by their first names.” regulators have warned. “Those who break the boundaries will face some punishment.”
It comes as a survey of 338 oncologists (肿瘤科医生) under the age of 40, found 59 per cent said they found it difficult to tell the truth to those patients they liked. Sixty per cent of respondents said if doctors felt too close to their patients, it could prevent them from making objective decisions about a person’s care.
Lesley Fallowfield, of Brighton and Sussex Medical School, said: “Oncology is a profession that can be enormously rewarding but is filled with many challenges. Young oncologists have to master dealing with anxious patients who are facing a life-threatening disease; conveying the true prognosis (预后); discussing the complexity of modern treatments; and explaining the unavailability of some drugs, the side-effects of treatment, and likely treatment aims.”
But she said, “Those doctors who have entered the profession in the age of the ‘Internet world’are more likely to fall victim to blurring the professional boundaries with patients.”
She said: “The difficulty, if you hug and kiss patients, if you allow them to call you by your first name, is that quickly the relationship can become confused as a social one rather than a professional one. Doctors become confused, ‘I really like this person, how can I bear to tell them that they’re going to die?’ They find it more difficult to be objective.”
1. Why are friendly doctors bad for their patients’health?| A．They don’t like to cheat patients. |
| B．They are not good at treating patients. |
| C．They find it not easier to be objective to the patients. |
| D．They seldom blur the relationship with patients. |
| A．Add patients as friends on Facebook. |
| B．Have close connection with patients in life. |
| C．Always be cold to patients. |
| D．Keep a proper distance to patients. |
| A．Oncology is a rewarding profession without challenges. |
| B．The Internet makes it easier for young doctors to break the boundaries. |
| C．It’s not the duty of doctors to deal with patients’ anxiety. |
| D．Becoming friends with patients will help them recover soon. |
| A．dealing with a lot of life-threatening diseases |
| B．discussing difficulties of treatment with patients |
| C．explaining the reason for the lack of some medicine |
| D．informing patients of the possible results of the treatment |
【推荐2】Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel. And he surely deserves additional praise: the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism.
I say clever because anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the Civil War. H.B. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is only the most famous example. These early stories dealt directly with slavery. With minor exception, Twain planned his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely. He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story.
Again and again, in the postwar years, Mark Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race. Consider the most controversial, at least today, of Twain’s novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn, Twain’s most widely read tale. Once upon a time, people hated the book because it struck them as rude. Twain himself wrote that those who banned the book considered the novel “trash and suitable only for the slums(贫民窟).” More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim, the escaped slave, and many occurrences of the word nigger. (The term Nigger Jim, for which the novel is often severely criticized, never appears in it)
But the attacks were and are silly-and miss the point. The novel is strongly anti-slavery. Jim’s search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic. As J. Chadwick has pointed out, the character of Jim was a first in American fiction-a recognition that the slave had two personalities, “the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual: Jim, the father and the man.”
There is much more. Twain’s mystery novel Pudd’nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even many of the liberals of his day. Written at a time when the accepted wisdom Held Negroes to be inferior(低等的) to whites, especially in intelligence, Twain’s tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth. A slave gave birth to her master’s baby and ,for fear that the child should be sold South, switched him for the master’s baby by his wife. The slave’s light-skinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slave-holding class. The master’s wife’s baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave.
The point was difficult to miss: nurture(养育), not nature, was the key to social status. The features of the black man that provided the stuff of prejudice-manner of speech, for example-were, to Twain, indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims.
Twain’s racial tone was not perfect. One is left uneasy, for example, by the lengthy passage in his autobiography(自传) about how much he loved what were called “nigger shows” in his youth-mostly with white men performing in black-face—and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them. Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality. His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not.
Was Twain a racist? Asking the question in the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln. If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the “wisdom” of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error. Lincoln, who believed the black man the inferior of the white, fought and won a war to free him. And Twain, raised in a slave state, briefly a soldier, and inventor of Jim, may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century.
1. How do Twain’s novels on slavery differ from Stowe’s?| A．Twain was more willing to deal with racism. |
| B．Twain’s attack on racism was much less open |
| C．Twain’s themes seemed to agree with plots |
| D．Twain was openly concerned with racism. |
| A．target readers at the bottom | B．anti-slavery attitude |
| C．rather impolite language | D．frequent use of “nigger” |
| A．slaves were forced to give up their babies to their masters. |
| B．slaves’ babies could pick up slave-holders’ way of speaking |
| C．blacks’ social position was shaped by how they were brought up |
| D．blacks were born with certain features of prejudice |
| A．The attacks | B．Slavery and prejudice |
| C．White men | D．The shows |
| A．Twain had done more than his contemporary writers to attack racism. |
| B．Twain was an admirable figure comparable to Abraham Lincoln. |
| C．Twain’s works had been banned on unreasonable grounds. |
| D．Twain’s works should be read from a historical point of view. |
“In wilderness(荒野) is the preservation of the world.” This is a famous saying from a writer regarded as one of the fathers of environmentalism. The frequency with which it is borrowed mirrors a heated debate on environmental protection: whether to place wilderness at the heart of what is to be preserved.
As John Sauven of Greenpeace UK points out, there is a strong appeal in images of the wild, the untouched; more than anything else, they speak of the nature that many people value most dearly. The urge to leave the subject of such images untouched is strong, and the danger exploitation(开发) brings to such landscapes(景观) is real. Some of these wildernesses also perform functions that humans need—the rainforests, for example, store carbon in vast quantities. To Mr.Sauven, these ”ecosystem services” far outweigh the gains from exploitation.
Lee Lane, a visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute, takes the opposing view. He acknowledges that wildernesses do provide useful services, such as water conservation. But that is not, he argues, a reason to avoid all human presence, or indeed commercial and industrial exploitation. There are ever more people on the Earth, and they reasonably and rightfully want to have better lives, rather than merely struggle for survival. While the ways of using resources have improved, there is still a growing need for raw materials, and some wildernesses contain them in abundance. If they can be tapped without reducing the services those wildernesses provide, the argument goes, there is no further reason not to do so. Being untouched is not, in itself, a characteristic worth valuing above all others.
I look forwards to seeing these views taken further, and to their being challenged by the other participants. One challenge that suggests itself to me is that both cases need to take on the question of spiritual value a little more directly. And there is a practical question as to whether wildernesses can be exploited without harm.
This is a topic that calls for not only free expression of feelings, but also the guidance of reason. What position wilderness should enjoy in the preservation of the world obviously deserves much more serious thinking.
1. John Sauven holds that_____.
| A．many people value nature too much |
| B．exploitation of wildernesses is harmful |
| C．wildernesses provide humans with necessities |
| D．the urge to develop the ecosystem services is strong |
| A．The exploitation is necessary for the poor people. |
| B．Wildernesses cannot guarantee better use of raw materials. |
| C．Useful services of wildernesses are not the reason for no exploitation. |
| D．All the characteristics concerning the exploitation should be treated equally. |
| A．Objective. | B．Disapproving. | C．Sceptical. | D．Optimistic. |
CP: Central Point P: Point Sp: Sub-point(次要点) : Conclusion
A． | B． | C． | D． |
【推荐1】Darrell Blatchley, a marine biologist and environmentalist based in the Philippine city of Davao, received a call from the Philippines, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (渔业与水产资源局) early Friday morning reporting a death of a young whale.
When the necropsy (尸检) was performed, Blatchley told NPR, he was not prepared for the amount of plastic they found in the whale’s stomach. “It was full of plastic nothing but nonstop plastic.” he said “It was filled to the point that its stomach was as hard as a baseball.” That means that this animal has been suffering not for days or weeks but for months or even a year or more,” Blatchley added.
Blatchley is the founder and owner of the D’Bone Collector Museum, a natural history museum in Davao. In the coming days, the museum will display all the items found in the whale’s system. Blatchley and his team work with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and other organizations to assist in rescue and recovery of marine animals.
“Within the last 10 years, we have recovered 61 whales and dolphins just within the Davao Gulf,” he said. “Of them, 57 have died due to man whether they took plastic or fishing nets or other waste, or gotten caught in pollution — and four were pregnant.”
Blatchley said he hoped that the latest incident would launch the issue of plastic pollution in the Philippines and across the globe. “If we keep going this way, it will be more uncommon to see an animal die of natural causes than it is to see an animal die of plastic,” he said.
1. What can be inferred from the second paragraph?| A．The whale was starved to death. |
| B．Blatchley was shocked at what he found. |
| C．The dead whale must have swallowed a baseball. |
| D．Blatchley didn’t make preparations for the necropsy. |
| A．Waste collected from the ocean. |
| B．The whole system of the whale. |
| C．Things found in the whale’s body. |
| D．Many different tools of whaling. |
| A．Uncommon. | B．Worrying. | C．Inspiring. | D．Mild. |
| A．A Whale Found Dead of Plastic |
| B．Stand Up for Protecting Whales |
| C．Plastic Threatening Our Existence |
| D．Natural Death or Merciless Murder |
【推荐2】I became a magician by accident. When I was nine years old, I learned how to make a coin disappear. I read The Lord of the Rings and risked coming into the adult section of the library to search for a book of spells (魔法) — nine being that curious age at which you’re old enough to work through more than 1,200 pages of mysterious fantasy literature but young enough to still hold out hope that you might find a book of real, actual magic in the library. The book I found instead taught basic sleight-of-hand technique, and I devoted the next months to practice.
Initially, the magic wasn’t any good. At first it wasn’t even magic; it was just a trick-a bad trick. I spent hours each day in the bathroom running through the secret moves in front of the mirror. I dropped the coin over and over, a thousand times in a day, and after two weeks of this my mom got a carpet sample from the store and placed it under the mirror to eliminate the sound of the coin falling again and again.
I had heard my dad work through passages of new music on the piano, so I knew how to practice — slowly, deliberately, going for precision rather than speed. And then I tried the illusion (幻觉) in the mirror and an unbelievable scene took place. It did not look like a magic trick. It looked like a miracle. I knew that I had got what I wanted.
One day I made the performance on the playground. We had been playing football and were standing by the backstop in the field behind the school. A dozen people were watching. I showed the coin to everyone. Then it disappeared. The kids screamed. They yelled, laughed, scrambled away. Everyone went crazy. This was great.
1. What did the author enter the adult section of the library to do?| A．Find a book of magic. | B．Kill his time. |
| C．Read The Lord of the Rings. | D．Learn knowledge of literature. |
| A．Deliver. | B．Enlarge. |
| C．Remove. | D．Track. |
| A．His mother s help. | B．The secret of quick moves. |
| C．His hard practice over and over. | D．The inspiration from his father |
| A．It’s disappointing. | B．It’s wonderful. |
| C．It’s humorous. | D．It’s unexpected. |
【推荐3】Parents around the world often urge children over and over-wash your hands! It can be difficult, however, to get children to remember to wash. But what if washing hands was connected to a fun creative activity? What if instead of simply reaching for the soap, a machine could drop it right into your hands?
Well, such a machine was recently built by a boy and his sister in the U.S. state of Maryland as part of a creative competition.The not-for-profit Rube Goldberg Organization is holding the competition.
Every year, the Rube Goldberg competition assigns a specific task, considering inventions that use complex systems to carry out a simple everyday task. At first, the task for 2020 was supposed to be “turn on a light.” But when the COVID-19 happened, the task was changed to “drop a bar of soap into someone’s hand.”
Those taking part in the competition are schoolchildren. But with schools closed to slow the spread of the virus, organizers changed the rules. This year, the team can include any family members and people were asked to send in recordings of the machines to compete. One thing has not changed: The machine must complete the task in less than 10 steps.
In Maryland, the Diel family wanted to enter. So, Caitlin and her brother Ben designed and built their own Rube Goldberg machine. Next, they had to demonstrate that it could complete the task-throwing the soap just right to be caught in someone’s hand. After 106 failed attempts, they finally had success. With their video demonstration, they can now enter the competition.
Dr. Anne Glowinski teaches child psychiatry (精神病学) at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She said that “creativity and play” connects with children. It is better than the message. “We have to wash our hands because of this horrible virus”. Glowinski added.
1. What might be a task of inventions assigned by the Rube Goldberg competition?| A．Sweeping the floor. | B．Exploring nature. | C．Writing a novel. | D．Painting the house. |
| A．All kinds of inventions are admitted. |
| B．A video of the entry is qualified to enter. |
| C．Teachers are encouraged to get involved. |
| D．The task must be finished within 10 steps. |
| A．Practical. | B．Unnecessary. | C．Economical. | D．Complicated. |
| A．To advocate the habit of washing hands. |
| B．To call on schoolchildren to compete in a contest. |
| C．To encourage more inventions from everyday items. |
| D．To introduce a contest making handwashing fun for kids. |
【推荐1】Widespread descriptions of animals in pop culture could actually be hurting the animals’ survival chances in the wild, new research suggests.
Franck Courchamp of the University of Paris-Sud was interested in the idea of “charisma”(魅力) in animals. He wanted to know: What species do people consider charismatic? And what are the influences of being charismatic on populations in the wild?
In a research published this month, Courchamp and other researchers list the top 20 charismatic species. Most of the animals identified as charismatic are large mammals living on land. Coming in first place were tigers, followed by lions, elephants, giraffes, panthers, pandas, cheetahs, polar bears, wolves, and gorillas. However, at least half of the interviewees didn’t realize that five of the top ten most charismatic species are threatened. It is paradoxical that we haven’t been able to protect the species we care about the most.
The study also found that we are flooded with images of these creatures, even as they are becoming fewer in the wild. The study suggests that too much of imagery might be creating a “virtual(虚拟的) population” of the animals in peoples’ minds, making them believe there are far more individuals in the wild than is exact.
The study authors suggest that companies who benefit from the use of these images should set aside a small percentage of their profits to protection efforts and informational campaigns (运动). “That would be not only something fair, but that would be something that could bring a win-win situation for them,” Courchamp says. It could bring them positive public relation, for example. Besides, if a company’s mascot(吉祥物) goes extinct, that could hurt them from a marketing standpoint, Courchamp says. Some companies do take this to heart, he says, noting protection efforts by Jaguar and Lacoste. But not enough companies are “truly concerned about the protection of the species that they work on,” he adds.
1. It can be inferred that the widespread images of animals in pop culture ______.| A．leads people to forget the less charismatic animals |
| B．makes a false impression of the animals’ real situation |
| C．raises people’s wildlife protection attention and efforts |
| D．brings a win-win situation for both animals and companies |
| A．It is important to protect these endangered species. |
| B．It is natural to regard the large mammals as charismatic. |
| C．It is terrible that the species are dying out at an alarming speed. |
| D．It is strange that people’s thoughts contrast with their behaviors. |
| A．giving examples | B．taking quotes |
| C．making comparisons | D．using numbers |
| A．Annoyed. | B．Supportive. |
| C．Dissatisfied. | D．Positive. |
【推荐2】A business school in Paris will soon begin using artificial intelligence and facial analysis to determine whether students are paying attention in class. The software, called Nestr, is used in two online classes at the ESG business school beginning in September.
The idea, according to LCA founder Marcel Saucet, is to use the data that Nestor collects to improve the performance both students and professors. The software uses students' webcams(网络摄像头)to analyze eye movements and facial expressions and determine whether students are paying attention to a video lecture. Professors would also be able to identify moments when students' attention declined, which could help to improve their teaching.
Advocates for AI in education say the technology could be used as a digital tutor that would adapt to a student's individual needs, and help develop more effective studying habits. Such software could also help teachers by providing quantitative(定量的)feedback on the effectiveness of their teaching.
But AI programs rely on massive information of personal data. and there are concerns over how such data would be treated. Saucet says Nestor won't store any of the video footage(片段)it captures and that his company has no plans to sell any other data the software collects. In addition, some are concerned that AI may one day replace teachers.
Rose Luckin, a professor at the University College London Knowledge Lab, says AI could unlock the "black box of learning" by providing information on how and when learning happens. But she cautions(告诫)against adopting new technologies that, while alluring, may not actually respond to critical needs. She thinks a program like Nestor could be useful for students who take classes remotely, since "there isn’t a human there watching them". So Luckin sees the technology more as an assistant, rather than a replacement.
Sauce agrees. "Human contact is not going to go away, " he says. "There will always be professors."
1. How does Nestor work to tell whether students are paying attention?| A．By controlling the thoughts of students |
| B．By analyzing eye movements and facial expressions |
| C．By collecting all the data of students' performance in class |
| D．By reminding professors to pay more attention to students |
| A．Attractive |
| B．Controversial |
| C．Limited |
| D．Alarming |
| A．It will teach courses in place of teachers. |
| B．Nestor won't store any information it collects. |
| C．It can prevent students from more effective studying habits. |
| D．It can't benefit the company by selling students' data it collects. |
| A．Favorable |
| B．Doubtful |
| C．Objective |
| D．Disapproving |
【推荐3】It was my son Matthew’s last night at home before going to college. I knew that this was good news. After all, Matthew would go to a great school, something he had worked hard at for years. But looking at the suitcases on his bed, I went out of the room to a hidden corner where I couldn’t stop crying. “Pull yourself together!” I told myself. There were parents sending their kids off to battle zones. How could I feel so upset?
One of the great gifts of my life has been having my boys, Matthew and Johnowen. Through them, I explore the mysterious and complex bond between fathers and sons. “Do you think it’s cold in the dorms in the winter?” Matthew asked in a voice that seemed smaller than it had been before. “No!” I lied, having no idea what his new room for the next four years would be like.
Matthew’s clothes were put into the bags and his bed was tidy and spare. I thought of all the recent times I had been annoyed at how late he had been sleeping. I would never have to worry about that again, I realized.
On the plane, I stared at Matthew. The light from his window was cutting across his face, making him look handsome and grown-up. I remembered what I whispered to him when his eyes opened for the first time, “Hello. I’m your Daddy. And I will always be there for you.”
While we stood in front of Matthew’s dorm, the welcoming students did crazy dances. Matthew asked, “Dad, what if it’s too hard for me here?” I said seriously, “You came from a very tough academic school. You took the tests and got the scores. This won’t be any different. This school chose you because they knew you could succeed here.”“ None of the other kids look scared at all,” he said. For the first time I could remember that he was still a baby. I wanted to hug him, but I didn’t. Instead, I looked him in the eye. “Never compare your insides to someone else’s outsides.”
1. How did the author feel at his son’s last night at home before going to college?| A．He felt extremely happy. | B．He was a little embarrassed. |
| C．He cried sadly for a long time. | D．He had very complex emotions. |
| A．he knew what Matthew’s new dorms would actually be like |
| B．he found Matthew was uncertain about his college life |
| C．he wouldn’t have to worry about Matthew |
| D．he was annoyed at Matthew’s sleeping late |
| A．When he came into the world. | B．When he woke up on the plane |
| C．When he left his home for college | D．When he saw his new classmates |
| A．Strict and caring. | B．Wise and considerate. |
| C．Knowledgeable but emotional | D．Caring but dishonest |
