As Valentine’s Day approaches, many people with dogs will not care one bit whether they get a card. A survey by the Kennel Club has found almost one in five said they were so attached to their pet because “dogs don’t let you down” in the same way that other people might.
Hollywood legend Glenn Close took her Havanese dog Pip to the Oscars last year, describing her pet as “the best date a girl can have”. Comedian Miranda Hart and racing driver Lewis Hamilton have gone on holiday with their dogs, and actor Ryan Gosling has taken his cross-breed George, who he describes as “the great love of my life”, on to chat shows for moral support.
This could be due to the numerous benefits that come with dog ownership — from the psychological to the physical. Dogs help their owners unwind, whether that’s with a daily walk in fresh air, or with a cuddle(依偎) on a sofa. They can also be great listeners, help their owners release stress, and can play a part in improving their health and fitness.
Nevertheless, for those dog owners who are still looking for love, the research suggests their pet might help. More than a fifth of those questioned said they had been asked out on a date with their dog appearing best for attracting a potential partner. Among those responding to the survey, 21 percent said they were more likely to date someone who also had a dog.
Mr. Lambert, a spokesman for the Kennel Club, said, “This is quite unsurprising when you consider that dogs are a great ice-breaker, when strangers may otherwise not look twice at each other, and that we tend to have more associations about people who love dogs.”
People who owned a pet dog were also very likely to say their pet may have helped them out romantically.
1. What does the author intend to do in paragraph 2?| A．Summarize the previous paragraph. |
| B．Provide some advice for the pet owners. |
| C．Introduce some celebrities to the readers. |
| D．Give some examples to support the view above. |
| A．Focus. | B．Relax. |
| C．Recover. | D．Participate. |
| A．Because a pet dog serves as a bridge between the parties. |
| B．Because a pet dog is the best friend of mankind. |
| C．Because a pet dog adds to romantic atmosphere. |
| D．Because a pet dog breaks the ice of a conversation. |
| A．Doubtful. | B．Positive. |
| C．Disapproving. | D．Reserved. |
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【推荐1】How many things can you see in the night sky? A lot! On a clear night you can see the moon, some planets, and thousands of sparking stars.
You can see even more with a telescope. You might see that many stars look larger than others. You might see that some stars that look white are really red or blue. With bigger and bigger telescopes you can see more and more objects in the sky. And you can see those objects in more and more detail.But scientists believe there are some things in the sky that we will never see. We won’t see them with the biggest telescope in the world, on the clearest night of the year. That’s because they’re invisible. They’re the mysterious dead stars called black holes.
You might find it hard to imagine that stars die. After all, our sun is a star. Year after year we see it up in the sky, burning brightly and giving us heat and light. The Sun certainly doesn’t seem to be getting old or weak. But stars do burn out and die after billions of years.
As a star’s gases burn, they give off light and heat. But when the gases run out, the star stops burning and begins to die.
As the star cools, the outer layers of the star pull in toward the center.The star squashes into a smaller and smaller ball.If the star was very small, the star ends up as a cold, dark ball called a black dwarf.If the star was very big, it keeps squashing inward until it’s packed together tighter than anything in the universe.
Imagine if the Earth were crushed until it was the size of a tiny marble.That’s how tightly this dead star, a black hole, is packed.What pulls the star in toward its center with such power? It’s the same force that pulls you down when you jump-the force called gravity.A black hole is so tightly packed that its gravity sucks in everything — even light.The light from a black hole can never come back to your eyes.That’s why you see nothing but blackness.
So next time you stare up at the night sky, remember: there’s more in the sky than we can see! Scattered in the silent darkness are black holes-the great mystery of space.
1. According to the article, how will a star begin to die?
| A．As it gets hotter and hotter, it explodes. |
| B．It collides with other stars. |
| C．It can only live for about a million years. |
| D．As its gases run out, it cools down. |
| A．It is packed most tightly. | B．It is dark. |
| C．It is smaller in size than a common star. | D．It is cold. |
| A．Because most black holes are so far away. |
| B．As the star’s gases burn, it stops giving off heat and light. |
| C．As a star cools, its outer layers pull in towards its center. |
| D．The gravity of a black hole is so strong that it sucks the light inward. |
【推荐2】Baby bats learn language from peers (同伴) in their social group, and will adopt the group’s dialect, or accent, instead of their mother’s, researchers said on Tuesday. The findings shed new light on crowd-learning of language, a skill thought to belong mainly to humans and just a few other mammals. It also shows that bats are different from songbirds, which tend to learn songs by copying one of their parents. “The ability to copy vocalizations (发音) from others is extremely important for speech learning in humans, but it’s believed to be rare among animals”, said lead author Yossi Yovel of Tel Aviv University.
For the study, researchers captured 14 pregnant Egyptian fruit bats. They separated them into three different bat social groups, where they raised the young bats with their mothers. Each bat group was exposed to a different recording of bat vocalizations. “The baby bats all adopted the manner of vocalizing of the group they heard, not their mothers. The difference between the vocalizations of the mother bat and those of the group is comparable to the difference in a London accent and, say, a Scottish accent,” Yovel said.
“The babies heard their mothers’ London dialect, but also heard the Scottish dialect produced by many dozens of Scottish bats. The babies eventually adopted a dialect that was more similar to the local Scottish dialect than to the London accent of their mothers.” Researchers hope to conduct future studies to examine how bats’ dialects change when they leave their social groups, and if it affects how they integrate with others.
1. What are the latest findings about bats?| A．Bats are born to adopt their mother’s dialect. |
| B．Bats can understand peers with different dialects. |
| C．Bats’ accents are influenced by their peer’s accents. |
| D．Bats pick up language quickly in company with their peers. |
| A．Accents. | B．Baby bats. |
| C．Researchers. | D．Mother bats. |
| A．To show the differences in dialects among social groups. |
| B．To explain why bat produce different sounds. |
| C．To indicate the birthplace of baby bats. |
| D．To compare how the two accents influenced understanding. |
| A．How bats adopt a new dialect after entering a new social group. |
| B．What changes might occur to bats’ accent after entering a new social group. |
| C．Whether bats leave their social group if they change their accents. |
| D．Why some bats fail to be accepted in a new group after they are born. |
【推荐3】New research in monkeys may provide a clue about how the brain manages vast amounts of information and remembers what it needs.
The researchers found that when monkeys were taught to remember computer clip art pictures, their brains reduced the level of detail by sorting the pictures into categories for recall, such as images that contained "people," "buildings," "flowers," and "animals." The categorizing cells were found in the hippocampus, an area of the brain that processes sensory information into memory. In the experiment each monkey was shown one clip art picture, and after a delay of one to 30 seconds, picked the original out of two to six different images to get a juice reward.
By recording cell activity during hundreds of these trials in which the pictures were all different, the researchers noticed that certain cells were more active when the pictures contained similar features, such as images of people – but not other objects. They found that different cells coded images that fit different categories. The category cells grouped images based on common features – a strategy to improve memory. For example, the same cell responded to both tulips and daisies because they are both flowers."
“While such categorization is a highly efficient memory process, it may also have a downside,” said Deadwyler Ph.D., “ when the trials included more than one picture with people in it, instead of different images, the monkeys often confused the image with a picture of other people." So learning more about how the brain remembers could have far-reaching benefits. "If we can understand in advance how the brain works when decisions are made, we can predict when the brain will make a mistake, and correct it," said Tim Pons, Ph.D., "This finding about how large amounts of information are processed by the brain will help us to ultimately achieve that goal."
1. The purpose of the experiments on monkeys is to find out _________.| A．how the brain processes amounts of information into memory |
| B．the area of the brain that processes sensory information into memory |
| C．how the monkeys respond to different things |
| D．what is the monkeys most likely to remember |
| A．remembering the details |
| B．separating it into categories |
| C．showing a lot of pictures |
| D．remembering all features |
| A．Books, toys and cars |
| B．Plants, animals and people |
| C．Tulips, daisies and roses |
| D．People, buildings and flowers |
| A．Further study on how the brain remembers has more benefits |
| B．Categorization is the best way to improve memory |
| C．We can predict when the brain will make a mistake |
| D．How the brain remembers has been found out |
【推荐1】There are so many rabbits across Australia that it may be surprising to learn that they are a non-native species. A few rabbits arrived with British settlers in 1788, but it was not until 1859, when a British-born farmer named Thomas Austin brought 24 European rabbits to his land for hunting, that they began to live there. They are an excellent example of an invasive (侵入的) species, a non-native species that does harm to its new environment.
Rabbits have lived well in many different environments within Australia, such as grasslands, coastal areas, farmland, and even in towns or cities. Their activities have destroyed crops and plants. They compete directly with other wildlife for food and shelter, including taking over burrows (地洞) of other animals. They have led to dangerously reduced populations of many plant and animal species.
Efforts to control the rabbit population have had mixed success. The first main effort was the Rabbit-Proof Fence. In 1901, the government started building a knee in the state of Western Australia to protect farmland from rabbits. By the time it was finished in 1907, the Rabbit-Proof Fence ran some 2,000 miles from north to south. The Acting Chief Inspector of Rabbits, Alexander Crawford, headed a team whose job was to go around keeping the fence in working order. But over time, the fence proved to be no match for the rabbits.
Other main efforts have included programs to destroy rabbit burrows or use viruses that sicken and kill rabbits. Again, these efforts have been less than successful. The big problem to any efforts to control the rabbit population is simply that their population grows so quickly. One female can have 30 young in a year.
If Thomas Austin had known the damage that the rabbits would cause across the country, he might have had second thoughts about bringing rabbits to Australia.
1. Why did rabbits begin to live in Australia?| A．They travelled there by chance. |
| B．They were brought in by Thomas Austin. |
| C．They were introduced by the government. |
| D．They moved there to escape bad environment. |
| A．Some activities of rabbits. |
| B．Rabbits’ ability to live in the wild. |
| C．How fast the population of rabbits grows. |
| D．The damage rabbits have caused to Australia. |
| A．It failed in the beginning. |
| B．It didn’t live up to expectations. |
| C．It was unfinished for lack of money. |
| D．It failed later for nobody protected it. |
| A．Rabbits and farming |
| B．Efforts to control rabbits |
| C．Rabbits: experts in burrowing |
| D．Rabbits: unwelcome newcomers |
【推荐2】Many college students turn to ADHD (注意缺陷障碍) medicine during the exam week, which is regarded as “smart drugs” that will help their academic performance. The thinking is that if the drugs help students with ADHD improve their focus, they should provide the same benefit for people who don’t have the disorder.
But a new study shows that drugs can actually damage brain function of healthy students who take the drug hoping to boost their intelligence. “It’s not a smart drug which will suddenly improve their ability to understand information they read,” said Lisa Weyandt, a professor at the University of Rhode Island.
To test whether this effect is real or not, researchers organized 13 students to take part in two five-hour study sessions (一段时间) in the lab. The students took the standard 30mg ADHD drugs before one session, and a sugar pill before the other. Students on ADHD drugs did experience an increase in their blood pressure and heart rates. “The medicine was having an effect on their brain,” Weyandt said. The students also showed an improvement in their ability to focus, the researchers found.
However, students on ADHD drugs experienced no improvement in reading comprehension, reading fluency or knowledge reviews, compared to when they’d taken a sugar pill. “We read aloud stories to them and asked them to recall information from the stories,” she said. “That didn’t improve.”
Worse, the ADHD drug actually harms students’ memory. It’s often misused because people pull all-nighters and they’re tired, and they think it’s going to keep them awake. Maybe it does, but it’s certainly not going to help their academic work. The brain is still developing until the mid to late 20s. It’s important to keep it healthy. There’s also a chance that ADHD drugs could endanger a student’s heart health.
1. Why do some college students take ADHD drugs?| A．To improve their sleeping. | B．To get higher marks. |
| C．To make them feel relaxed. | D．To treat brain disorder. |
| A．Analyze. | B．Affect. | C．Improve. | D．Understand. |
| A．They became more focused. | B．Their blood pressure was reduced. |
| C．Their reading fluency was greatly raised. | D．They could remember better and more quickly. |
| A．The ADHD drug has already been proved to students’ academic performance. |
| B．The ADHD drug benefits students in many aspects. |
| C．The writer hold a positive attitude towards the ADHD drug. |
| D．The ADHD drug might indeed harms students’ memory and heart health. |
【推荐3】There are excellent reasons for anyone to seek out the optimistic. Optimists experience better health outcomes, live longer and are more satisfied with their relationships. Optimism enables people to hold on in the face of difficulty, while pessimism leaves them depressed and even expecting failure.
I want that hopeful, optimistic outlook for my children. But many times we may feel pessimistic. The result of negativity makes me worry that my kids’ future will be uncertain. Fortunately, research suggests ways to help our children grow up with an optimistic attitude and maintain a happier outlook ourselves.
Humanity has improved by many measures, but that success has become the water in which we swim, and like fish, we take the water for granted. While we fail to notice the positive, our brains naturally emphasize on the negative. With practice, we can help our brains to give the good stuff equal weight. Dr. Hanson’s advice: when you hear a great story or achieve something in your own life, deliberately rest your mind on that experience and stay with it. Sink into that feeling as it sinks into you. Describe what you’re doing to your kids, and encourage them to dwell on their joys and pleasures as well.
Following the "big scary" news can leave us feeling helpless. Find something in your area that makes you feel hopeful, and make it a part of your family life. Researchers found that when people with a pessimistic outlook use positive language to describe situations they find upsetting, their feelings about the situation become more positive. That’s something we can try at home.
Raising optimistic kids is hard because it demands that parents abandon the pessimistic perspective that’s the easiest response to pessimistic times. Put your energy into making sure you and your family are a part of the world around you. That might mean simply joining and being part of local clubs that feed our natural human need for connection( not of the digital kind).
1. Why do people look up to optimists?| A．They’re like the water around the world. |
| B．They can make pessimistic times hopeful |
| C．They enable people to hold on in difficulty. |
| D．They affect the government and education. |
| A．People will feel pessimistic when they see no success. |
| B．People will feel satisfied with their slightest success. |
| C．People will think only about their joys and pleasures. |
| D．People will feel frightened to hear big scary news. |
| A．Big scary news can remind us of potential danger. |
| B．Optimism is something one was born with. |
| C．Human progress leads to the feeling of happiness. |
| D．Pessimistic parents can’t raise optimistic children. |
| A．The Harm of Taking Optimism for Granted. |
| B．Ways to Raise Optimistic Kids. |
| C．Ways to Turn Pessimism into Optimism. |
| D．Introduction to Positive Language for People. |
【推荐1】In 1917 Orville Wright predicted that“the aeroplane will help peace in many ways – in particular I think it will have a tendency to make war impossible.” Earlier in 1904, American journalist John Walker declared, “As a peace machine, the value of the aeroplane to the world will be beyond computation.” This wasn’t the first grand promise of technology. In that same year Jules Verne announced, “The submarine(潜艇)may be the cause of bringing battle to a stoppage.”
Alfred Nobel, sincerely believe his dynamite(火药) would be a war obstacle: “My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions(公约).” Similarly, when Hiran Maxim, inventor of the machine gun, was asked in 1893, “Will this gun not make war more terrible?” He answered, “No, it will make war impossible.” Gugliemo Mareconi, inventor of the radio, told the world in 1912. “The coming of the wireless time will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.” General James Harbord, chairman of the board of RCA in 1925, believed, “Radio will serve to make the concept of Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men a reality.”
David Nye, a historian of technology, adds to the list of inventions imagined as abolishing war forever and leading to universal peace the hot-air balloon, poison gas, land mines and laser guns.
It is not that all these inventions are without benefits—even benefits toward democracy. Rather, it’s the case that each new technology creates more problems than it solves. “Problems are the answers to solutions,” says Brian Arthur.
Most of the new problems in the world are problems created by previous technology. These problems are nearly invisible to us. Every year 1.2 million people die in automobile accidents. The technological transportation system kills more people than cancer. Global warming, environmental poisons, nuclear terrorism, and species loss, are only a few of the many other serious problems troubling people.
If we embrace(拥抱) technology we need to face its costs.
1. What will new inventions do according to the first two paragraphs?| A．They will increase wars. |
| B．They will lead to peace. |
| C．They will serve people. |
| D．They will break conventions. |
| A．The radio. | B．The aeroplane. |
| C．Dynamite. | D．The machine gun. |
| A．To show people’s creativity. |
| B．To appreciate their benefits. |
| C．To contradict the original ideas. |
| D．To prove grand promises. |
| A．It will experience many tests. |
| B．It will bring about huge costs in the world. |
| C．It provides answers to many problems. |
| D．It presents more problems than it solves. |
【推荐2】Picture this: It’s 2003 and your family has just finished arguing over which Netflix movie video tapes to rent that week. Movies come in the mail and the family watch them throughout the week. Then, fast forward to 2008, and you have started to watch TV shows on Netflix’s new platform.
Now, let’s come to the present. You sit down and open up Netflix on your TV and scroll （滚屏） for a while. Then check HBO GO. Finally, check Disney+. Then realize that you’re paying for three different streaming services, maybe more.
Let’s return to Netflix. More generally, streaming. There are over 100 video streaming services available, as well as quite a few music streaming, including YouTube Music, Google Play, and etc. The streaming world, at least to some, is on its way to getting out of control, with each service requiring its own monthly entertainment subscription. We haven’t even taken into account subscriptions like Microsoft Office and email newsletters. Subscriptions started out as a service of convenience, but now, the oversaturation may have become burdensome. The services believe customers will pay more to get the content they want. However, statistics show a growing frustration among consumers. With so many options, they find it harder than ever to make a decision on what to pick.
Not only does the oversaturation of streaming result in confusing navigation, it also creates a financial burden for the consumers. Let’s say if you want to watch The Handmaid’s Tale and Game of Thrones, which belong to two different services, you would have to pay nearly $50 a month to access both services, meaning it’s potentially more expensive, than cable.
People cut their cords （细绳） and went the streaming route because it was simpler and cheaper. Now, it’s just as inconvenient and difficult as cable was, if not more so, and unless you’re limiting yourself to one service, it’s not cheaper. Streaming will survive because we’re in a Golden Age of Media and because each service is able to create high-quality originals. But Golden Ages don’t last, and bubbles tend to burst. Until the unavoidable day when some product or service proves streaming out of date, we must suffer the choices in front of us. The next time you are scrolling through Netflix, Hulu, or whatever, and the over-choice is killing you, maybe you should just go pick up a book instead.
1. What is mainly talked about in the first two paragraphs?| A．Social progress has promoted the quality of life in the past decade. |
| B．Technology innovation results in different ways of relaxation. |
| C．Changes in home entertainment have brought us more options. |
| D．Netflix has been developing its service patterns. |
| A．The large number of subscriptions. |
| B．The frustration caused by poor service. |
| C．The rapidly developing entertainment market. |
| D．The confusing navigation resulting from streaming. |
| A．improve user satisfaction | B．raise entertainment costs |
| C．diversify entertainment forms | D．realize the resource sharing |
| A．the streaming service will have a bright future |
| B．reading has an advantage over streaming service |
| C．there will be some better service to replace streaming |
| D．nothing can end streaming services as long as media exists |
【推荐3】Have you ever taken a test that you thought you could have passed easily, only to make some silly mistakes that really hurt your grade? More than a few students have done that. And some seem to do it over and over again.
There are several problem areas that can cause students to goof up or do poorly in a test that they could have passed.
Some students can become overconfident about their knowledge of the subject matter. They think they know the material better than they actually do. It is easy for students to misjudge their own knowledge, and when they realize that they don't know the material, it is too late.
What happens more often, though, is that some students feel they are smart enough to be able to guess their way through a test. So they don't bother studying the material. They are overconfident about their ability to figure things out.
In either case, overconfidence can result in lower grades in tests. Does this apply to you?
Another thing that can happen is that students underestimate the difficulty of the test hey expect an easy test, but the teacher throws in a really tough test that they haven't prepared for. Sometimes the teacher may cover material in the test that students weren't expecting. That can happen, especially if you weren't paying attention in class.
Finally, there are students who don't feel that getting a good grade is important to them, so they don't bother to study or even try to do well. Such students may be trying to punish their parents, have a poor image of themselves, or be just plain foolish. Hopefully, you are not one of these students.
1. The writer believes that many students .| A．are afraid of exams | B．make careless mistakes |
| C．hate homework | D．lack confidence in exams |
| A．Be overconfident. | B．Be nervous. |
| C．Make silly mistakes. | D．Make wrong choices. |
| A．Edward, dissatisfied with his parents. | B．Johnson, expecting an easy test for him. |
| C．Dobby, believing he is the smartest in the class. | D．Peter, being overconfident about his ability. |
| A．Ways to prepare for a test. | B．The causes of overconfidence. |
| C．The causes of a poor self-image. | D．Ways to avoid making such mistakes. |
I was born disabled．A difficult birth, feet first, my head stuck．By my first birthday, I couldn't stand or walk．
When I was three, the doctor told dad I had cerebral palsy （脑瘫）．A loss of oxygen to my brain had destroyed brain signals to the right side of my body．
But no son of my dad' s was going to be disabled．Every morning before breakfast and every evening before bed, my dad placed me on the bedroom floor to exercise my right leg．The muscles were shrunk and twisted together．Back and forth up and down, my dad pushed and pulled the muscles into shape．
But my dad' s exercise of passion didn't stop there．For my 13th birthday, he threw me a special party．When everybody was gone, he brought me to open a large box, it was a-set of boxing gloves．We put them on．My dad kept on beating me mercilessly．Each time I tried to get up, leather kissed my nose, eyes and jaw．I "begged him to stop. He said he beat me to get me ready for the tough world.
That same year, I was the only kid in my neighborhood that wasn't picked for Little League. Two weeks later．Dad started the Shedd Park Minor League, and every kid played．Dad coached us and made me a pitcher （棒球投手）．
The power of my dad' s love guaranteed I walked and more．In high school, I became a football star．
In 1997, a brain surgeon in San Jose told me I didn’t t have cerebral palsy after all．He explained how and where the doctor' s forceps （镊子） at birth had damaged my brain.
My dad never knew the whole truth since he passed away years ago．But all that counts is the bottom line．After all his madness, on this Father' s Day, like every Father' s Day, I' m no longer disabled．
1. What caused the author' s disability?
| A．A failed operation． |
| B．The doctor's forceps． |
| C．An accident in a game． |
| D．Shrunken and twisted muscles． |
| A．The author has a talent for boxing． |
| B．The author achieved a lot thanks to his father' s love． |
| C．The author became a baseball star with the help of his father． |
| D．The author doesn't think his father should be so strict with him． |
| A．wouldn't give up hope easily |
| B．believed his son was a normal child |
| C．blamed the doctors for his son' s disability |
| D．couldn't accept the truth that his son was disabled |
| A．remember his father |
| B．encourage disabled children |
| C．show the difficulty the disabled face |
| D．give advice to the parents of disabled children |
【推荐2】Four people in England, back in 1953, stared at Photo 51. It wasn't much-a picture showing a black X. But three of these people won the Nobel Prize for figuring out what the photo really showed——the shape of DNA. The discovery brought fame and fortune to scientists James Watson, Francis Crick,and Maurice Wilkins. The fourth, the one who actually made the picture, was left out.
Her name was Rosalind Franklin. "She should have been up there," says historian Mary Bowden. “If her photos hadn't been there, the others couldn't have come up with the structure." One reason Franklin was missing was that she had died of cancer four years before the Nobel decision. But now scholars doubt that Franklin was not only robbed of her life by disease but robbed of credit by her competitions.
At Cambridge University in the 1950s, Watson and Click tried to make models by cutting up shapes of DNA'S parts and then putting them together. In the meantime, at King's College in London,Franklin and Wilkins shone X-rays at the molecule. The rays produced patterns reflecting the shape.
But Wilkins and Franklin's relationship was a lot rockier than the celebrated teamwork of Watson and Crick, Wilkins thought Franklin was hired to be his assistant. But the college actually employed her to take over the DNA project.
What she did was produce X-ray pictures that told Watson and Crick that one of their early models was inside out. And she was not shy about saying so. That angered Watson, who attacked her in return, “Mere inspection suggested that she would not easily bend. Clearly she had to to go or be put in her place.”
“As Franklin’s competitors, Wilkins, Watson and Crick had much to gain by cutting her out of the little group of researchers,” says historian Pnina Abir-Am. In 1962 at the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony, Wilkins thanked 13 colleagues by name before he mentioned Franklin, Watson wrote his book laughing at her. Crick wrote in 1974 that “Franklin was only two steps away from the solution.”
No, Franklin was the solution. “She contributed more than any other player to solving the structure of DNA . She must be considered a co-discoverer,”Abir-Am says. This was backed up by Aaron Klug, who worked with Franklin and later won a Nobel Prize himself. Once described as the “Dark Lady of DNA”, Franklin is finally coming into the light.
1. Why did Watson get angry with Franklin?| A．Because Franklin kept her results from him. |
| B．Because Franklin took the led in the competition. |
| C．Because Franklin proved some of his finding wrong. |
| D．Because Franklin shared her data with other scientists. |
| A．She developed pictures in dark labs. |
| B．Her name was forgotten after her death. |
| C．She discovered the black X——the shape of DNA. |
| D．Her contribution was unknown to the public. |
| A．Respectful | B．Disapproving | C．Admiring | D．Doubtful |
| A．Much pain, no gain. | B．Be nice, never finish last. |
| C．When one door closes, another opens. | D．Where there is a will, there is a way. |
【推荐3】In early December,a new set of rules governing behavior inside Shanghai's subway came ffect, forbidding listening to electronic devices without earphones inside subway coaches.
This was long called for. Subway cars are public spaces where nobody should annoy others. However, in reality there are many who play their music or movies without the aid of earphones, disturbing co-passengers. Even if the music and movies are not loud enough, the disturbing elements also scream with joy or laughter in reaction, and they are indifferent to how it affects others inside the coaches.
In the absence of clear rules forbidding such behavior inside the coaches, there was nobody the disturbed passengers could turn to for assistance. Even if they had complained, the authorities inside the subway would have said they were not empowered(授权)to help them. However, noise inside a subway cannot be a personal matter. A person has no right to impose his movie or music on others in the shared space. Every passenger has the right to be undisturbed by any movie or music that other passengers are enjoying.
Thanks to the new rules. those taking a subway cmi now complain to staff members about smartphone noises. That the news about new subway rules was read by nearly 300 million times on the micro blog is the biggest evidence of l)ow people are happy and are looking forward to die absence of noise in the public space.
The new rules also forbid people from eating or drinking inside subway coaches, which, too, is a welcome change, as sometimes die food is smelly and lets off an unpleasant smell that can cause discomfort to fellow passengers. The new rules will help create a better environment for everyone inside the subway coaches.
The only drawback with the new rules is that it does not give specific punitive(处罚的) measures .For example, there is no listed punishment such as fines or warnings for those disobeying the rules. Maybe the subway staff members will have to be artful and persuasive while carrying out the new rules.
1. Which can be allowed in subway cars according to the new rules?| A．Playing music in a loud voice. |
| B．Eating or drinking something tasty. |
| C．Listening to songs using earphones. |
| D．Watching movies without using earphones. |
| A．Indifferent. | B．Annoyed. |
| C．Supportive. | D．Critical. |
| A．They still need to be further improved. |
| B．They can help protect the environment. |
| C．They seem not to meet the passengers' demands. |
| D．They offer detailed punishment for improper behaviors. |
| A．The subway staff ought to be stricter |
| B．The new rules have many disadvantages. / |
| C．Complaining to staff members is unwise. |
| D．Carrying out the new rules is challenging. |
