1 . During my freshman year at Brooklyn College, credit card companies were eager to earn the business of students.
Poor credit
To make the class as
We, educators, can help young people
Financial literacy shouldn’t be optional because it puts those without it at a significant
A.Attracted | B.Sponsored | C.Required | D.Dominated |
A.conditions | B.benefits | C.consequences | D.processes |
A.Displaying | B.Maintaining | C.Abandoning | D.Lacking |
A.However | B.Therefore | C.Otherwise | D.Instead |
A.secure | B.guarantee | C.request | D.settle |
A.turned | B.guided | C.followed | D.tricked |
A.independence | B.responsibility | C.achievement | D.identity |
A.touching | B.surprising | C.engaging | D.inspiring |
A.words | B.titles | C.courses | D.topics |
A.posing | B.considering | C.examining | D.tackling |
A.search for | B.pay for | C.prepare for | D.care for |
A.questions | B.paths | C.examples | D.resources |
A.easier | B.cheaper | C.safer | D.stricter |
A.distance | B.disadvantage | C.point | D.corner |
A.duties | B.abilities | C.ambitions | D.experiences |
2 . Although we lack accurate statistics about child mortality in the pre-industrial period, we do have evidence that in the 1660s, the mortality rate for children who died within 14 days of birth was as much as 30 percent. Nearly all families
The 18th century witnessed the
The lives of children
A.suffered | B.deserved | C.endured | D.defeated |
A.judgement | B.reaction | C.commitment | D.expression |
A.interpretation | B.transformation | C.journey | D.migration |
A.previously | B.naturally | C.dramatically | D.accidentally |
A.allowed | B.introduced | C.organised | D.forced |
A.committed | B.addicted | C.subjected | D.entitled |
A.anticipated | B.caused | C.indicated | D.underwent |
A.Nevertheless | B.Moreover | C.Instead | D.Therefore |
A.compared with | B.based on | C.coupled with | D.regardless of |
A.agriculture | B.machines | C.weather | D.livestock |
A.industrialism | B.trend | C.popularity | D.development |
A.experienced | B.gifted | C.imaginative | D.influential |
A.remarkable | B.authoritative | C.comprehensive | D.alarming |
A.enriches | B.rebuilds | C.prolongs | D.determines |
A.recognition | B.experience | C.admission | D.benefits |
3 . Schooling is not only about studying but also having fun. Education is best offered if learning is made fun. It is students being not overburdened with the school curriculum and being able to devote enough time to the overall personality development that matter. It is thus important for school officials to encourage the active participation of students in sports. These activities at school act as a major part of school schedule and also help create an environment that is beneficial to the general growth and development of young minds. There are various sports and leisure activities that can be planned for school students.
Sports are an essential part of a school curriculum. In spite of the grade a student is studying in, sports are a must. And it is needless to state the importance of sports in school. They help in building up the much-needed team spirit among students. They help in educating a sportsman spirit in children and serve as an effective method to bring children together from different cultural backgrounds.
Gymnastics, swimming competitions, tennis and badminton tournaments, cricket and soccer matches and inter-class sports events can be organized in schools. Sports enthusiasts can participate in these events, while those not participating can be a part of the cheering team. Kids are sure to enjoy activities like cycling, running races, skating and other fun games.
Wondering how schooling is associated with leisure activities? Well, you are mistaken if you believe that schooling is only about class assignments and homework. School education is much more than that. In fact, it is about helping the students learn the important lessons of life. It aims at their overall development which includes developing moral values and principles in them. Devoting their entire schedule to studies and examinations defeats the purpose of an effective school education. It is very important to include some leisure activities in the school’s weekly schedule.
Sports and leisure activities are about making fruitful use of time in a creative way. They are the best way to find hidden talent, cultivate bright minds and encourage innovation. School years are the funding years of one’s life. They need to be filled with fun and excitement so that children have an ideal beginning to the “long journey” ahead.
1. What should school authorities do according to the author?A.Encourage students to do more studies instead of sports. |
B.Ensure the students have enough time for personal development. |
C.Learn about the great benefits of developing students’ personality. |
D.Knowing which sports are beneficial to students’ personal development. |
A.beneficial to children physically and mentally. |
B.beneficial to children’s future competitiveness. |
C.helpful for students to get on well with each other in sports. |
D.capable of freeing students from tiring school examinations. |
A.Leisure activities are necessary for schooling. |
B.Examinations are meaningless to students’ studies. |
C.Current schooling restricts students’ overall development. |
D.Schooling merely emphasizes class assignment and homework. |
A.By setting more examinations and tests |
B.By providing more spare time for them. |
C.By offering them more happiness at school. |
D.By encouraging them to participate in sports. |
A.school curriculum | B.children’s physical health. |
C.sports and leisure activities | D.children’s personal spirit |
4 . We believe that there is more to education than preparation for a job. Children must be prepared for all aspects(方面) of their future work, personal relationships, creative activities, dealing with money matters, independence, and parenthood.
But it would be unrealistic(不现实的) to provide an education which took no consideration of the needs of employers.
What type of training does the business world regard as important?
Many young people applying for jobs were, in the employers’ opinions, very weak in the basic skills of handwriting, grammar and spelling. “Though additional education at university level improved the students’ general ability,” a report states, “in basic skills the standards remained stubbornly low.”
There are different opinions about whether standards have gone down in recent years. What is certain is that employers do not believe the standards are now high enough. Do technological changes make greater demands upon the students’ abilities?
We should also remember that the job expectations of young people have increased. Girls who would have once become shop assistants or hairdressers now want to be secretaries. Boys who sought an apprenticeship (学徒工作) 20 years ago now desire to have an engineering degree. But it is still the same girls and boys with the same degree of ability. No wonder there are problems in reaching the “necessary standards” of the business world.
Many employers believe that it is important for teachers to have experience outside the world of college and school. They should work for a while at some other kinds of job “to see how the world of business is different from their own”. The teaching occupation and society in general need a greater understanding of manpower needs and therefore of “the desired” direction of the education system.
1. The article mainly talks about _________.A.no education among young people |
B.meeting the educational requirements of employment |
C.the problem of unemployment |
D.the weaker standards of education |
A.pay more attention to students’ academic ability |
B.only meet the needs of employment |
C.be suitable to all aspects of being an adult, including employment |
D.center on grammar |
A.those who are likely to be unemployed |
B.those who have just left middle school |
C.those who are looking for jobs far beyond their abilities |
D.those who might have become shop assistants, hairdressers and apprentices in the past |
A.never change their jobs | B.improve their teaching methods |
C.spend more time on their school work | D.get some work experience outside school |
5 . There is a time when many Americans question whether a college degree is worth its cost. However, a recent study found Americans who completed college or university are more likely to have friends and are less lonely than those who only finished high school.
Daniel Cox, director of the Survey Center on American Life, said that in general Americans are experiencing a “friend recession”, meaning a decline in their number of friends. Cox noted, “Americans have fewer close friends today than we did in the early 1990s. But men and those without a college degree are particularly affected because they seem to have experienced a much more dramatic decline over that period.”
The Center questioned 5, 054 people this past summer. It found Americans with a college degree feel more socially connected and are more active in their communities than people who didn’t go to college. As a result, those who completed college report feeling less lonely.
Previous research showed that Americans who didn’t go to college are less likely to marry. A 2012 study found that college-educated women are much more likely to get married than women who dropped out of high school. A 2013 study of people born between 1957 and 1964 found that both men and women who didn’t finish high school are less likely to marry than those with more education.
Today, 65 percent of college-educated Americans over age 25 are married. About 50 percent of people with a high school diploma, or who dropped out of high school, are married. Those numbers were different in 1990, when marriage rates among the college graduates were at 69 percent, compared with 63 percent for those who did not go to college, says a Pew research report.
The American Community Life Survey found around 1 in 10 college graduates say they have no close social connections. That number rises among Americans without a degree, where almost 1 in 4 say they have no close friends.
1. When was the study carried out according to the passage?A.When psychological problems arose sharply. |
B.When the number of college graduates declined. |
C.When Americans experienced a friend recession. |
D.When concerns about college costs appeared. |
A.To provide evidence for the research. | B.To analyze the reasons for loneliness. |
C.To show the importance of marriage. | D.To compare differences in generations. |
A.Entertainment. | B.Education. | C.Technology. | D.Health. |
A.Social problems in the American society. |
B.Reasons for Americans’ low marriage rates. |
C.Links between education and social interaction. |
D.Discussions about whether to get a college degree. |
1.一个关于责任感的故事;2.你对责任感的理解;3.呼吁同学们做一个有责任感的人。
注意: 1.词数100左右: 2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯.
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7 . As countless unmade beds and unfinished homework assignments prove, kids need rules. Yet how parents make demands can powerfully influence a child’s social skills, psychologists at the University of Virginia recently found after the conclusion on a study investigating the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
Initially 184 13-year-olds filled out multiple surveys, including one to assess how often their parents employed psychologically controlling strategies, such as threatening to withdraw affection. The kids rated, for example how typical it would be for Dad to suggest that “if I really cared for him, I would not do things that caused him to worry” or for Mom to become “less friendly when I did not see things her way.”
The researchers followed up with the subjects at ages 18 and 21, asking the young adults to bring along a close friend. These pairs were asked to answer questions that were purposefully written to cause a difference of opinion. “We wanted to see whether they could handle a disagreement in a healthy way,” says study leader Barbara Oudekerk, now at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Statistics.
In the October issue of Child Development, Oudekerk and her colleagues report that the 13-year-olds who had highly controlling parents floundered in friendly disagreements at age 18. They had difficulty stating their opinions in a confident, reasoned manner in comparison to the kids without controlling parents. And when they did speak up, they often failed to express themselves in warm and productive ways.
The researchers suspect that controlling parents affect their child’s ability to learn how to argue his or her own viewpoint in other relationships. Although parents do need to set boundaries, dominating strategies imply that any disagreement will damage the bond itself. Separate findings suggest that parents who explain the reasons behind their rules and turn disagreements into conversations leave youngsters better prepared for future disagreements.
The consequences of tense or dominating relationships appear to worsen with time. This study also found that social difficulties at 18 predicted even poorer communication abilities at age 21. Psychologist Shmuel Shulman of Bar-llan University in Israel, who did not participate in the work, thinks these conclusions convincingly reveal how relationship patterns “carry forward” into new friendships.
1. What did the researchers from the University of Virginia do in their research?A.They asked kids about how they got along with their parents. |
B.They surveyed some parents about what rules kids needed. |
C.They inquired into what the kids’ friends thought of them. |
D.They traced their subjects for nearly eight years. |
A.struggled with | B.dealt with | C.looked over | D.took over |
A.Shmuel Shulman thinks more evidence is needed for the new research. |
B.Controlling parents’ influence on their kids gets stronger as time goes by. |
C.21-year-olds are more eager to be free of parents’ control than 18-year-olds. |
D.Kids can handle disagreement better if their parents get along well with each other. |
A.Pushy parents could harm their kids’ social skills. |
B.Kids should learn what friendly disagreements are. |
C.Parents; affection matters in terms of kids; personality. |
D.Few parents explain the reasons why they set boundaries. |
8 . Some time ago, in my class I was about to fail a student for his answer to a physics question when the student claimed he deserved a better score. The examination question sounded “safe”, “Show how it is possible to determine the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer (气压表).” The student had answered, “Take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower the barometer to the street, and then bring it up, measuring the length of the rope. The length of the rope is the height of the building.”
I argued that a high grade should prove his competence in physics, but the answer did not confirm this. I suggested that the student have another try. Immediately, he worked out his answer: A second best way is to take the barometer to the top of the building. Drop the barometer, timing its fall with a stopwatch. Then, using the formula to calculate the height of the building.
I was shocked by his answer. His method gave me not only a broken barometer but a Uturn in my teaching philosophy. I gave him full marks.
On his leaving my office, I recalled that he suggested there could be a better answer. So I asked him what it was. “Oh, yes,” said the student. “There are many ways. Probably the best,” he said, “is to take the barometer to the basement and ask the superintendent (大楼的管理人). You speak to him as follows, ‘Mr. Superintendent, here I have a fine barometer. If you tell me the height of this building, I will give it to you.’”
At this point, I asked the student if he really did not know the conventional (常规的) answer to this question. He admitted that he did, but said that he was fed up with high school instructors’ trying to teach him how to think, and how to use the socalled “scientific method”. He just wanted to solve the problem in a practical manner, not just answer the question in an expected way. Hearing this, I really had nothing to do but give the boy a firm handshake, feeling thankful that I hadn’t failed him in the first place and even more thankful that neither had he.
1. Why did the author want to fail the student in the first place?A.The student challenged his authority. |
B.The student’s answer was not practical. |
C.The student didn’t show his academic ability. |
D.The student had a poor performance in physics class. |
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A.Without love, there is no education. |
B.A man becomes learned by asking questions. |
C.Teaching is to make two ideas grow where only one grew before. |
D.You can lead your horse to the river, but you can’t make it drink. |
A.Lack of physicsrelated knowledge. |
B.Ignorance of the teacher’s expectation. |
C.Intention to deeply impress his teacher. |
D.Disapproval of existing teaching concepts. |
9 . The world has changed greatly since Herman Fisher met Irving Price and Helen Schelle in 1930. The trio (三人组) founded Fisher-Price, maker of popular toy series such as Thomas & Friends, Power Wheels, and Little People. Companies like Fisher-Price are exploring how the world of toys and parenting will change with the development of technology. Fisher-Price recently cooperated with Continuum, a global innovation designer. Together, they created a short video called The Future of Parenting, along with a short essay explaining the thoughts behind the video.
One thought of the video explores how parenting will change when the teens of today raised with data-providing devices such as Fitbit and iPad begin raising kids of their own. Is this a generation that will desire data in all of their kids’ toys? The answer may be “yes” and perhaps the product appearing in the video will appeal to them.
If you interpret the video as a clear vision of the future of parenting, you won’t be blamed for fearing holograms (全息图) will take over your house as a mom or dad. The benefit of holograms in the video is their potential for giving traditional toys the ability to personalize responses, depending on the age and development of the child playing with the traditional toy.
Of course, you might ask yourself, “Do data-providing toys have an advantage over traditional toys in terms of their effects?” The answer may be negative. Lego, a traditional brick toy-maker, on all counts remains a successful company. And studies point out its toys’ benefits to children’s creativity. In addition, recent research demonstrates that toys containing data can potentially prevent language development, compared with traditional puzzles and bricks.
On the one hand, parents know that they should limit their kids’ screen time to keep them healthy, and the American Academy of Pediatrics offers guidance on daily screen time. On the other hand, technology can be wonderfully engaging and can provide excellent educational opportunities for children. Nothing is perfect and we should embrace every aspect of a new thing.
1. What are companies like Fisher-Price currently exploring?A.The impact of technological advances on toys and parenting. |
B.The way to be an outstanding global innovation designer. |
C.New ideas of making short videos of creative toys. |
D.Techniques used to produce popular toy series. |
A.be fond of devoting themselves to improving technology |
B.be afraid of the negative impact of electronic toys |
C.pass their preference for such toys on to their kids |
D.show great creativity and imagination |
A.Advantages and disadvantages of modern technology. |
B.Comparisons of the effects of two kinds of toys. |
C.Suggestions on how to choose suitable toys. |
D.Advances in technology used to make toys. |
A.Love me, love my dog. |
B.Actions speak louder than words. |
C.Everything is a two-edged sword. |
D.Hope for the best; prepare for the worst. |
10 . Most of us assume those hyper-achievers who are always able to squeeze in their workout, eat healthy foods and pick their kids up on time must have superhuman self-control. But science points to a different answer:
The way you define the goal you hope to turn into a habit does matter. Goals like “meditate regularly” are too abstract, research has shown.
A plan like “I’ll study Spanish for 30 minutes every weekday” is OK. But a detailed, cue-based plan like “Every workday after my last meeting, I’ll spend 30 minutes studying Spanish in my office” is more likely to stick as a habit.
3.We’re strongly influenced by the behaviors of the people around us, evidence shows. Want to start running regularly? You’re probably better off joining an established running club than asking a few friends who aren’t yet in the habit of jogging to get in shape with you.
However, it’s important not to get too crazy - if you try to train with marathoners when you’re just hoping to work up to a 5K, it can be discouraging.
4.Make it fun to repeatResearch has shown you’ll persist longer and ultimately achieve more if you focus on finding ways to make goal pursuit fun. One excellent way is to try “temptation bundling”. Research shows that temptation bundling improves follow-through; it transforms goal pursuit into a source of pleasure, not pain.
A.Find the right kind of social support. |
B.Tell your friends and family about your goals. |
C.What we mistake for willpower is often a natural outcome of habit. |
D.You’ll benefit from being more specific about what exactly you aim to do and how often. |
E.Having a bite-size objective makes it less daunting to get started and easier to see your progress. |
F.Now you have established a specific goal, it’s time to think about what will cue you to follow through. |
G.For example, watch your favorite show while at the gym or enjoy a beloved podcast while cooking healthy meals. |