1 . 阅读下面短文，请根据短文后的要求答题。

The world is moving so fast these days that if you do not have the right education, you could get left behind. Technology touches every part of our daily lives---even the fast food industry relies on computer assisted systems to speed things to their customers. If you cannot figure out the computer at your local fast food shop, where will that leave you?

Once upon a time, you could have a good life with nothing more than a high school diploma, but those times are gone now. Competition for even the lowest level jobs is fierce, and most employers will give the edge to that extra education now. Jobs that never required a degree before now will certainly be given to the most educated candidate as markets grow tighter and tighter.

Education is not only important on the job front, however. Recent studies show that continually learning will keep your brain more healthy. The more active you keep your brain now， the more active it will remain in the long run. It does make sense if you think about it: if you start jogging, your body feels healthier after a while and will actually long for exercise. The same could probably be said for your brain: make it work to learn something new, and it will continually seek out the stimulation(刺激)of new information to keep itself sharp.

Education is important for your sense of self and self-esteem. If you allow yourself to think that you are poorly educated, you therefore deserve an old car or a small house and poor life. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and take charge of your own fate. Realize that you are a different person now and evaluate why you did so poorly in the past. Was it because you just could not learn, or because you did not want to focus on your education at that time? You are an adult now, and will be more focused and goal driven. Never say no to education, never say no to yourself.

1. Why does the author mention "the fast food industry" in the first paragraph? (No more than l0 words)
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2. How can you make your brain sharp according to this passage? (No more than 10 words)
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3. What does the underlined phrase "give the edge to" mean? (No more than 3 words)
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4. What should you do to stop feeling sorry and take charge of your fate? (No more than 20 words)
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5. In your opinion, why is education very important? (No more than 15 words)
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2 . Every night, my mother would come to my room, lean down and push my long hair out of the way, then kiss my forehead．
I don't remember when it first started ____ me --her hands pushing my hair that way. But it did make me annoyed, for they felt work - worn and ____against my young skin．Finally, one night, I shouted at her: “Don' t do that any more --your____ are too rough！” She didn’t say anything in ____．But never again did my mother close out my day with that ____ expression of her love．
Time after time, with the ____ years, my thoughts returned to that night．I'm not a little girl any more．Mom is in her mid - seventies, and those hands I ____ thought to be so rough are still doing things for me and my ____
Now, my own children are ____. Mom no longer has Dad. It was late on that Thanksgiving Eve, as I went to sleep in the bedroom of my youth, a familiar hand ____ before stealing across my face to brush the ____ from my forehead. Then a kiss, ever so ____touched my brow．In my ____, thousands of times, I ____ the night my young voice complained. ____ Mom's hand in my hand, I said how ____ I was for that night. I thought she'd remember, as I did, ____ Mom didn't know what I was talking about. She had forgotten — and ____ —long ago.
That night, I fell asleep with a new ____ for my gentle mother and her caring hands. And the ____ I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found．1.

A．surprising

B．hurting

C．annoying

D．amazing

2.

A．rough

B．gentle

C．smooth

D．strong

3.

A．noises

B．words

C．feelings

D．hands

4.

A．anger

B．silence

C．reply

D．fear

5.

A．healthy

B．familiar

C．popular

D．perfect

6.

A．coming

B．remaining

C．following

D．passing

7.

A．often

B．even

C．never

D．once

8.

A．family

B．neighbor

C．husband

D．home

9.

A．developed

B．grown

C．moved

D．forgotten

10.

A．imagined

B．hesitated

C．regretted

D．trembled

11.

A．hair

B．tears

C．dirt

D．kisses

12.

A．quickly

B．roughly

C．gently

D．slowly

13.

A．memory

B．opinion

C．history

D．diary

14.

A．chanced

B．missed

C．hated

D．recalled

15.

A．Beating

B．Picking

C．Catching

D．Stopping

16.

A．happy

B．sorry

C．annoyed

D．amused

17.

A．and

B．while

C．because

D．but

18.

A．remembered

B．faded

C．forgiven

D．apologized

19.

A．hope

B．appreciation

C．thought

D．approval

20.

A．guilt

B．pride

C．sorrow

D．Failure

3 . The Best of Friends
The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly held image(印象)of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.
An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past.” We were surprised by just how positive today’s young people seen to be about their families,” said one member of the research team.” They’re expected to be rebellious(叛逆的) and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. There’s more negotiation(商议) and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They don’t want to rock the boat.”
So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends.” My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-years-old Daniel Lazall. ”I always tell them when I’m going out clubbing. As long as they know what I’m doing, they’re fine with it.” Susan Crome, who is now 21,agrees.”Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. For example, as long as I’d done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that.”
Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenagers rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments,” Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over.”
1. What is the popular images of teenagers today?

A．They worry about school

B．They dislike living with their parents

C．They have to be locked in to avoid troubles

D．They quarrel a lot with other family members

2. The study shows that teenagers don’t want to ___

A．share family responsibility	B．cause trouble in their families
C．go boating with their family	D．make family decisions

3. Compared with parents of 30 years ago, today’s parents___.

A．go to clubs more often with their children

B．are much stricter with their children

C．care less about their children’s life

D．give their children more freedom

4. According to the authour,teenage rebellion____.

A．may be a false belief	B．is common nowadays
C．existed only in the 1960s	D．resulted from changes in families

5. What is the passage mainly about?

A．Negotiation in family	B．Education in family
C．Harmony in family	D．Teenage trouble in family