| A．To approve of | B．Approving of |
| C．To be approved of | D．Having been approved of |
2 . As young people spend more time on computers, iPad and other TV sets, researchers are asking how all that screen time affects children’s and teenagers’ ability to focus and learn — even drive cars.
An online survey offers a new question: how is technology affecting their happiness and emotional development? The answer, from girls ages 8 to 12 having the online habits, is that those who say they spend amounts of time using multimedia describe themselves in ways that suggest they are less happy and less socially comfortable than other teenagers who say they spend less time on screens.
Among the key questions that the researchers are not able to answer is whether the heavy use of media is the cause for the relative unhappiness or whether girls who are less happy to begin with are drawn to heavy use of media, in fact, coming to a virtual (虚拟的) world. But the researchers assume that heavy use of media is a main factor to the social challenges of girls.
The reason the researchers say is that on a basic level girls need to experience the full face-to-face communication, such as learning to read body language and facial expressions.
Lucy Gray, 45, who lives in Chicago, said her daughter, Julia, 13 has been a heavy consumer of media for several years -she watches movies on her laptop, and has an iPad, an iPhone and a Nintendo DS portable game machine. Ms. Gray said that Julia can have trouble getting on with other people especially adults in face-to-face interactions, but she is not ready to blame her daughter’s heavy use of technology.
In fact, she thinks that, on the whole, the technology has helped her daughter navigate (航行) the world socially. “She’d be missing out on an opportunity if she wasn’t connected,” she said.
At the same time, Ms. Gray said she worries that her daughter, who is using Facebook more, is playing out her social life online sometimes without the benefits of the full emotional range that comes from face-to-face interaction.
“It’s a double-edged sword,” Ms. Gray said to social media.
1. What is the disadvantage of online habit for young girls?| A．They are more likely to cause car accidents. |
| B．They are less likely to be liked by teachers at school. |
| C．They may feel uncomfortable and unhappy in social life. |
| D．They may be cheated into doing something bad at school. |
| A．led into a world breaking away from the reality |
| B．inspired to devote themselves to learning science |
| C．directed to come to a world of happiness and luck |
| D．encouraged to face the challenges of the unhappy life |
| A．are not good at making friends online |
| B．lack real communication experience in general |
| C．are careless at seeing others’ facial expressions |
| D．spend too much time studying at and after school |
| A．She will allow her to use her iPad and iPhone only. |
| B．She will forbid her to use any kind of media. |
| C．She will allow her to use the media on weekends. |
| D．She will allow her to use all the media as usual. |
| A．Their quarrels are about whether she should use the media. |
| B．Julia likes to meet the real people knowing of on Facebook. |
| C．Julia’s performance isn’t good enough in real social life. |
| D．Julia spends too much time sending text messages. |
3 . Parents have problems with their children. Every mother or every father wonders about something like “Why is this so? What can and should I do about it?”Strictly, what are these things that we parents call problems with regard to our children?
To a parent, a problem is some action, habit, or attitude that he doesn't expect, or he doesn't approve of, and that he tries to change but finds that he can't. So，whether it is dawdling (游手好闲) or any other everyday behavior in children，the parent calls it a“problem”. In reality, of course, parents and child specialists don't always agree on what is or isn't a“problem”But this disagreement doesn't make much difference to the anxious parent who feels so sure that he faces a problem.
I think common problems of young children can be grouped into four general categories: habit, management, expectation and adjustment. So, what are they really about? Four common types of problems: 1) Habit or training problems -those that have to do with establishing the fundamental habits of the children. 2) Child management problems -related to managing or controlling the child, directing his self-interest, and trying to get him to live agreeably and socially with other people around him. 3) Expectation problems -those that dealt with the child's learning to fulfill certain expectations. Some of these expectations arise in the parents' view of the child; some arise in the child's own thinking as he looks at the world and his place in it. 4) Adjustment problems—related to the child's sense of security and his emotional adjustment.
Why do these problems arise then? Partly, they arise out of the child's growing up, out of his need to be trained to fit into a world that just wasn't designed especially to meet his wishes. Partly, it is because the parent expects certain things from the child and figures that the child isn't meeting those expectations.
But no matter what causes the problem, it is most probably true that the parent's anxiety and distress are almost sure to increase the problem. For a child is something like a mirror, his behavior reflects the parent's concern about that behavior. That's why it is so important for us to understand why the child behaves as he does. Understanding is the first step in trying to manage a "problem". If you understand, you lose some of your anxiety. If you lose some of your anxiety, the child can relax and improve his behavior.
1. This passage was mainly written for______.| A．teachers | B．children |
| C．parents | D．specialists |
| A．Dealing with children's problems needs a calm mind |
| B．Parents and child specialists differ on the definition of a problem. |
| C．Parents sometimes find it difficult to solve the problems of their children. |
| D．Children are usually anxious to solve their problems with the help of their parents. |
| A．habit or training problems | B．child management problems |
| C．expectation problems | D．adjustment problems |
| A．Children haven't received proper treatment at school. |
| B．Parents don't know how to help their children. |
| C．Children haven't achieved their aims while growing up. |
| D．Parents have expected too little on their children. |
| A．introduce some children's problems and how to solve them |
| B．advise readers to understand children's problems |
| C．offer readers some ways to deal with children's problems |
| D．tell readers how to tell different children's problems |
| A．spend | B．offer | C．fill | D．cover |
5 . Imagine this: You’re sitting in a London café with an English friend. He turns to you and asks if you think that “bird over there is a bunny boiler”. Would you: A) look blank and tell him rabbits can’t fly; B) curse the day you ever started studying the terrible English language; or C) give your opinion of whether that girl over there is crazy or not?
Teachers and students often talk about the “plateau (高原)” of language learning. The metaphor sees every word learned as a step on the journey towards fluency. When you’ve reached a certain high level, you stop improving and hit the “plateau”. Thousands of English language learners have wandered around for years on this flat, boring plateau. However, few have come up with ideas about how to get off it. If you answered A or B to the above situation then my solution may come as a surprise: You need slang (俚语) to lift you up and away.
Of course textbooks won’t recommend this route. Slang is too fast-changing to be recorded in them. And slang is also a dirty word to some teachers, who only like polite English. But English is not only an old-fashioned, polite language, it is also changing quickly. At the end of 2005, two fat new dictionaries — “The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English” and “Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang” hit the bookshops. Ignoring English’s slang is like travelling to a new country and only visiting places recommended in a 10-year-old guidebook. Boring. So where can you get a fix?
New books are good slanguage (slang-language) sources. If you’re tired of reading, buy a CD. Musicians and rappers like the UK’s Artic Monkey and The Streets and the US’ Kelis and Eminem are slang sensations (引起轰动的人), constantly playing tricks with the Queen’s English.
As the Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein said, the limits of your language are the limits of your world. So why not widen your horizons with a little properly used slanguage? From there it’s just a short step to pushing yourself and your friends off the plateau on all-new adventures.
1. The first paragraph is mainly written to ________.| A．show British people enjoy chatting with friends in a café |
| B．prove that slanguage is difficult to study |
| C．present the topic to be discussed in the passage |
| D．let the reader choose a correct answer |
| A．English language | B．a young woman |
| C．slanguage | D．a rabbit |
| A．They never make any improvement in language learning. |
| B．They usually lose heart in language learning. |
| C．They know nothing about slang. |
| D．They are puzzled by how to learn a language better. |
| A．a key to the “plateau” problem | B．a dirty word to some teachers |
| C．a 10-year-old guidebook | D．a foreign language |
| A．“Slanguage” for music | B．“Slanguage” and the Queen’s English |
| C．“Slanguage” on the go | D．“Slanguage” to the rescue |
1 refer to
2 give sb a hand
3 in panic
4 at the sight of
5 go all out
6 in particular
7 be about to do
8 deal with
9 as if/though
10 curious adj.
11 eagerness n.
12 explore v.
13 various adj.
14 exchange v.
15 butterflies in one’s stomach
1） 问候Mr. Copper，询问近况；
2） 你希望成为“野生动植物摄影师”及原因（至少两点，如兴趣爱好，从事该职业的好处）；
3） 父母反对的原因（至少两点，如危险，没有生活保障）；
4） 咨询Mr. Copper如何说服父母尊重你的理想。
参考词汇：野生动植物摄影师wildlife photographer
注意：词数不少于100词
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