【推荐2】Sometimes I think my mother and I are worlds apart though we live in the same house. It feels like every time we start a conversation, it turns into an argument We talk about something as simple as diner plans and suddenly, my mother will push the conversation into the Third World War. She’ll talk about my lack of a bright future because I don’t plan to be a doctor. And much to her disappointment, I don’t want to do any job related to science, either. In fact when I announced that I planned to major (主修) in English and communications, she nearly had a heart attack.

“Why can’t you be like my co-worker’s son?” she bemoans all the time. Her coworkers son received a four-year scholarship and is now earning 70,000 dollars a year as an engineer. I don’t know what to answer except that I simply can’t be like Mr Perfect as I’ve called the unnamed co-worker’s son. I can’t be like him. I’m the type of person who loves to help out in the community, write until the sun goes down, and most of all, wants to achieve a career because I love it, not because of salary (薪水).

I understand why my mother is worried about my future major. I’ve seen my mother work long hours and still struggle to raise me on her small salary. She leaves the house around 6:30 am. and usually comes home around 5 p.m. or even 6 p.m. However, I want her to know that by becoming a doctor, it doesn’t mean I’ll be successful. I’d rather follow my dreams and create my own future.

1. We can infer from Paragraph 1 that the writer’s mother ______.

A．doesn’t want the writer to major in English

B．doesn’t think the writer should be a doctor

C．gets along very well with the writer

D．doesn’t think working in the science field is a good idea

2. The underlined word “bemoans” in Paragraph 2 most probably means “______”.

A．agrees

B．recovers

C．complains

D．threatens

3. What makes the author’s mother worried about his future major?

A．Her admiration for her co-worker’s son.	B．Her desire to control her son.
C．Her poor knowledge.	D．Her struggle with life.

4. Which of the following can best describe the author?

A．Selfish.

B．Determined.

C．Childish.

D．Outgoing.

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2. How long can you enjoy your internship at a top-ranked company?

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B．3 months.

C．10 weeks.

D．2 weeks.

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A．Standout Global Summer Program.

B．NTU Summer School Program.

C．NUS Summer School.

D．SMU Global Summer Program.

【推荐1】The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has declared October 15 as Global Handwashing Day in 2005.The first Global Handwashing Day is on October 15 of 2008.Activities are planned over twenty countries to get millions of people in the developing world to wash their hands with soap. Global Handwashing Day is the idea of the Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap. Partners include the UN Children's Fund, American government agencies, the World Bank and soap makers Unilever and Procter and Gamble. The goal is to create a culture of hand washing with soap.

Hand washing can prevent the spread of disease. Experts say people around the world wash their hands but very few use soap at so-called critical moments. These include after using the toilet, after cleaning a baby and before touching food.

When people get germs on their hands, they can infect themselves by touching their eyes, nose or mouth. Then they can infect others.

The organizers say all soaps are equally effective at removing disease-causing germs. The correct way to wash is to wet your hands with a small amount of water and cover them with soap. Rub it into all areas, including under the fingernails. Rub for at least twenty seconds. Then, rinse well under running water. Finally, dry your hands with a clean cloth or wave them in the air. Soap is important because it increases the time that people spend washing. It also helps to break up the grease and dirt that hold most of the germs. And it usually leaves a pleasant smell, which increases the likelihood that people will wash again.

Washing with soap before eating and after using the toilet could save more lives than any medicine. It could help reduce cases of diarrhea by almost half. And it could reduce deaths from pneumonia and other breathing infections by one-fourth. Diarrhea is the second leading cause of child deaths, killing more than one and a half million children a year. Pneumonia is the leading cause, killing about two million children under five each year. Hand washing can also prevent the spread of other diseases.

1. We can learn from Paragraph 1 that _______.

A．the first Global Handwashing Day was held in 2005

B．many organizations support the idea of Global Handwashing Day

C．Global Handwashing Day was founded by many soap makers

D．the content of Global Handwashing Day is to wash your hand frequently

2. The underlined phrase “critical moments” in Paragraph 2 refers to _______.

A．the turning points	B．schedules
C．the arrangement of a time	D．the necessary parts in health

3. The main purpose of the passage is to tell us ________.

A．hand washing is very important	B．to create a culture of hand washing with soap
C．germs can infect ourselves and others	D．soaps play an important role in everyday life

4. The last paragraph implies that ___________.

A．a soap is a kind of medicine to prevent a disease

B．it is important for children to wash hands in a correct way

C．Pneumonia kills about two million children each year

D．Diarrhea is the second leading cause of child deaths.

【推荐2】The English language is different from any other language. Yet English words do not stay the same. Our language is always changing. We need new words for new inventions and new ideas. Different words come into use,or older words are used in a new way.

English can change by borrowing words from other languages. “Tomato” was borrowed from Mexico and “pajamas (睡衣)” from India. The word “coffee” came from Turkey, and “tea” came from China. Now new space and science words are being borrowed from other countries, too.

New words are also made by adding two words together. “Strawberry”, “postman”, and “grandfather” are words made up of two parts.

Sometimes new words are shorter forms of older words. The word “photo” was made from “photograph” by cutting off the end of the longer word. “Plane” was made by cutting off the front part of “airplane”. “Smog” was made by using only the first two and last two letters from the words “smoke” and “fog”.

The names of people and products can become new words. Our sandwich was named after a man named “Sandwich”. Scotch tape, band-aid, and jello (果冻) were names made up by the companies that first made the products.

1. Which word of following is a combination by adding two words together?

A．Pajamas

B．Postman

C．Photo

D．Jello

2. Why is the English language always changing?

A．People get tired of using the same words.

B．People use words for movies and TV plays.

C．There are too many books and magazines.

D．People need words for new inventions and ideas.

3. What can we know from the passage?

A．All new words are borrowed.	B．Words never come from company names.
C．Languages don't stay the same.	D．Old words don't change their meanings.

4. Which of the following may be the best title of the passage?

A．A changing language	B．English — a beautiful language
C．Names can become words	D．Different languages

【推荐3】Climate change is caused by the extremely high levels of dangerous chemicals in the atmosphere, particularly carbon dioxide (CO₂). It is estimated that average global temperatures will rise between two and six degrees by the end of this century. We all know the effects could be disastrous, but are we aware of the possible solutions?

Solution one: _______?_______

Crazy as it sounds, a group of academics from British universities is making a plan to build a 12-mile pipe, held up by a huge balloon, that would let enormous quantities of poisonous chemicals, such as sulphur dioxide (SO₂), go into the atmosphere. Surprisingly, there is good science behind the idea. The chemicals would form a protective layer around the earth that would reflect sunlight and so cool the earth, much like the effects of a volcanic eruption.

Cost: around $10 billion a year.
Benefits: this plan would produce almost instant results.
Risks: volcanoes have almost wiped out humanity in the past through the poisonous chemicals released in the atmosphere, and the same thing could happen again with this plan.
Solution two: stir up the oceans

Intellectual Ventures, a company that invests in projects to combat global warming, has proposed building a million plastic tubes, each about 100 metres long, and using them to stir up the ocean. Why, you might be wondering, would we want to do this? Again, the answer is scientifically valid. The bottom of the ocean is almost freezing and by stirring it up, cold water would come to the surface and absorb heat and CO_2, and so cool the planet.

Cost: tens of millions of dollars.
Benefits: this plan is relatively cheap and technically possible now.
Risks: the tubes would disrupt and possibly destroy sea life, and the plan may not work.
Solution three: stop burning fossil fuels

This is undoubtedly the best solution but is it really like to happen in the near future?

Cost: unknown, but in the short term it would probably involve global economic collapse.
Benefits: it’s a simple and effective plan.
Risks: it may already be too late. Without real action, this plan could just mean “do nothing”.
1. Solution one is most likely to be ________.

A．pump even more chemicals into the atmosphere

B．form a protective layer with volcanic eruptions

C．build a pipe to get rid of poisonous chemicals

D．draw as much sunlight as possible

2. What can be learned about solution two?

A．It needs more valid scientific experiment.

B．It aims to cool the warm surface water in the ocean.

C．It may do harm to animals and plants living in the sea.

D．It is much more expensive to carry out than solution one.

3. What does the writer think of solution three?

A．It is effective because it will benefit world economy.

B．Whether it will come true remains to be seen.

C．Putting it into practice may cost nothing.

D．Action has been taken to carry it out.