1 . It warmed my heart today to walk into the Thirsty Camel downtown in the Thanksgiving Day, for a quick lunch before a haircut and library trip. Ihan, a food shop owner, said that he was refusing to take money today because it was Buy Nothing Day. To increase awareness(意识) of the strange’s over-spending nature of our society, Ilan suggested a trade for food today. He simply asked that you offer something of equal personal value for the meal you received.

At first I was really uncomfortable, wondering if it would be fair to exchange a yet to be determined “I Owe You” (IOU) for food? What could I give him of equal value? After all, his food is the best in the town!

We ended up writing our IOU’s with promises of a book, some paintings and the offer of work in   a variety of ways if he needs it.

I think the idea isn’t that the trade is “equal” so much as the importance of the kind of transaction. We put thought into our offer and we had an even greater understanding for the meals we ate.

We don’t buy a lot, especially at this upcoming time of year. We don’t give gifts at all in fact. The holiday time is spent enjoying each other’s company and doing things together with family and friends. This is what seems most sensible.

Ilan is a good person. We are all lucky to have someone like this in our community.

1. Ilan did not take any money that day in order to .

A．have a quick lunch before a haircut and library trip

B．trade for something of equal value in return

C．make people aware of their over spending

D．buy nothing that day to save some money

2. For the meal, the author finally offered Ilan .

A．some promises	B．a book
C．some paintings	D．work in different ways

3. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word “transaction”?

A．transport	B．trade
C．meal	D．giving

4. What is the author’s attitude to Buy Nothing Day?

A．Disagreeable	B．Meaningless.
C．Doubtful.	D．Supportive.

2 . MySpace，the social networking website，is different from other websites which only provide stories about other people. MySpace is a place that allows you to broadcast your own stories and personal information to as many people as you like. Started two years ago，it is a big source of information for and   about American kids.

Teenagers and their parents feel very different about it. Teens are rushing to join the site，not sharing their parents’ worries. It signals yet another generation gap in the digital era.

For teenagers，it is reliable network to keep in touch with their friends. They will often list their   surnames，birthdays，after­school jobs，school clubs，hobbies and other personal information.

“MySpace is an easy way to reach just about everyone. I don’t have all the phone numbers of my acquaintances. But if I want to get in touch with one of them，I could just leave them a message on MySpace，”said Abby Van Wassen. She is a 16­year­old student at Woodland Hills High of Pittsburgh，Pennsylvania.

Parents on the other hand are seriously concerned about the security problems of MySpace. “Every time we hold a parents meeting，the first question is always about MySpace，”said Kent Gates，who travels the country doing Internet safety seminars(研讨会)．The National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children has received at least 288 MySpace ­ related complaints，according to Mary Beth Buchanan，a lawyer in Pittsburgh.

“Your profile on MySpace shows all your personal information to anyone on the Web. And MySpace even lists this information by birthplace and age. It’s like a free checklist for troublemakers and it endangers children，” Buchanan said.

1. From the passage, we can learn that MySpace ________.

A．brings about the generation gap

B．is very careful about people’s privacy

C．encourages you to list your personal information

D．lists the telephone numbers of your friends

2. Why are some parents against MySpace?

A．Because they think MySpace has a bad influence on their children.

B．Because they don’t want to pay so much money for MySpace.

C．Because it takes up too much of their children’s spare time.

D．Because troublemakers can easily reach their children through the site.

3. What can we infer from “Every time we hold a parents meeting，the first question is always about MySpace”？

A．MySpace has become a top problem troubling parents.

B．MySpace often holds parents meetings.

C．MySpace is quite popular with parents.

D．Parents have lots of questions about the website.

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

A．Internet Safety	B．MySpace
C．Generation Gap	D．The Digital Era

3 . What will you do if you can’t eat everything bought in the canteen?     1     According to a survey, what students waste every year could feed over 10 million people.

    2     According to Xinhua News Agency, the food wasted by Chinese people is about 50 million tons of grain every year, which could feed 200 million people.

Food waste, which has become a global issue, serves as a mirror that reflects various cultural and social issues in different countries. In the West, for instance, consumerism, the belief that it’s a good thing to use a lot of goods and services, is often to blame for food waste.     3     Chinese people are well known for being hospitable and generous. Many even feel that they lose face if their guests have eaten all the food. On campus, a generation of single children is less aware of the food waste issue. Students nowadays are well protected by their families and hardly have any concept of how much toil (辛劳) others go through in order to provide them with the food they eat.

    4     There are over 925 million hungry people in the world, most of whom live in underdeveloped countries and areas. They don’t have enough food to eat. Many children die for lack of nutrition each year in some African countries. And farmers work very hard to grow the crops.     5     It’s also important that everyone should think about how they can do their bit to reduce food waste.

A．Most of us would simply throw away any leftover food.

B．Students’ waste is extremely serious.

C．China features its own eating culture.

D．Compared with them, some live in a different world.

E．But canteen waste is merely the tip of the iceberg.

F．So there’s no excuse that we should waste our food.

G．Students can never realize the serious food crisis.

4 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Few people I know seem to have much desire or time to cook. Making Chinese     1    (dish) is seen as especially troublesome. Many westerners     2     come to China cook much less than in their own countries once they realize how cheap     3     can be to eat out. I still remember     4     (visit) a friend who’d lived here for five years and I     5    (shock) when I learnt she hadn’t cooked once in all that time.

While regularly eating out seems to     6    (become) common for many young people in recent years, it’s not without a cost. The obvious one is money; eating out once or twice a week may be     7    (afford) but doing this most days adds up. There could be an even     8     (high) cost on your health. Researchers have found that there is a direct link between the increase in food eaten outside the home and the rise in     9    (weigh) problems.

If you are not going to suffer this problem, then I suggest that the next time you go to your mum’s home     10     dinner, get a few cooking tips from her. Cooking food can be fun. You might also begin to notice the effects not only on your health but in your pocket.

5 . What would your life be like without phones?

In one of my classes today we discussed the question of how our lives would be without a mobile phone. I actually felt quite sad to hear how some kids cannot ______ without their phones these days. ______, I think nowadays we are controlled and ______ by our technology to keep up. So let’s see some of the points that ______ in the debate and see if our generation really is addicted(上瘾的) to electronic connections ______ true communication.

It is true that everything ______ at a fast pace these days. For example, you can contact someone who lives on the other side of the world within ______. This is great if you think about how connected we can stay to the ______ who are far away from us. However, on the contrary, can we be too connected to the people who are ______ to us? An argument arose about the ______ that it is easier to message someone from your sofa than to meet them ______ and talk. Social skills are ______ to have and if you are not going to put effort into real-life ______, then you are not going to ______ in this ability.

Another point was that phones are very handy for ______ something that you are wondering about. For example, if you don’t know a word in another language, you can ______ and simply use an on-line translator to help you out. This can be very ______ in many situations, but it can also make a person dependent on the ______.

All in all, this question is very interesting to ______ as we become day by day more dependent on technology. We should realize how much we really need to be connected with our phones while considering the ______ and damage it can cause us.

1.

A．affect

B．survive

C．succeed

D．perform

2.

A．Personally

B．Specially

C．Entirely

D．Gradually

3.

A．suffered

B．commanded

C．forced

D．advised

4.

A．came up

B．came across

C．came down

D．came to

5.

A．more than

B．less than

C．other than

D．rather than

6.

A．appears

B．falls

C．works

D．grows

7.

A．seconds

B．hours

C．days

D．months

8.

A．customers

B．teachers

C．students

D．people

9.

A．direction

B．close

C．necessary

D．kind

10.

A．distant

B．wish

C．fact

D．suggestions

11.

A．in person

B．in advance

C．with surprise

D．with joy

12.

A．extreme

B．active

C．fair

D．important

13.

A．style

B．communication

C．expression

D．argument

14.

A．progress

B．compete

C．arise

D．settle

15.

A．looking after

B．looking back

C．looking up

D．looking out

16.

A．selflessly

B．quickly

C．hardly

D．slowly

17.

A．grateful

B．peaceful

C．painful

D．helpful

18.

A．textbook

B．dictionary

C．Internet

D．newspaper

19.

A．forecast

B．consider

C．judge

D．select

20.

A．benefits

B．skills

C．doubts

D．evidence

6 . For many parents, raising a teenager is like fighting a long war, but years go by without any clear winner. Like a border conflict between neighboring countries, the parent-teen war is about boundaries: Where is the line between what I control and what you do?

Both sides want peace, but neither feels it has any power to stop the conflict. In part, this is because neither is willing to admit any responsibility for starting it. From the parents’ point of view, the only cause of their fight is their adolescents’ complete unreasonableness. And of course, the teens see it in exactly the same way, except oppositely. Both feel trapped.

In this article, I’ll describe three no-win situations that commonly arise between teens and parents and then suggest some ways out of the trap. The first no-win situation is quarrels over unimportant things. Examples include the color of the teen’s hair, the cleanliness of the bedroom, the preferred style of clothing, the child’s failure to eat a good breakfast before school, or his tendency to sleep until noon on the weekends. Second, blaming. The goal of a blaming battle is to make the other admit that his bad attitude is the reason why everything goes wrong. Third, needing to be right. It doesn’t matter what the topic is—politics, the laws of physics, or the proper way to break an egg—the point of these arguments is to prove that you are right and the other person is wrong, for both wish to be considered an authority—someone who actually knows something—and therefore to command respect. Unfortunately, as long as parents and teens continue to assume that they know more than the other, they’ll continue to fight these battles forever and never make any real progress.

1. Why does the author compare the parent-teen war to a border conflict?

A．Both are about where to draw the line.

B．Both can continue for generations.

C．Neither has any clear winner.

D．Neither can be put to an end.

2. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．The teens tend to have a full understanding of their parents.

B．The teens agree with their parents on the cause of the conflict.

C．The teens cause their parents of misleading them.

D．The teens blame their parents for starting the conflict.

3. Parents and teens want to be right because they want to ______.

A．give orders to the other

B．know more than the other

C．gain respect from the other

D．get the other to behave properly

4. What will the author most probably discuss in the paragraph that follows?

A．Solutions for the parent-teen problems.

B．Examples of the parent-teen war.

C．Causes for the parent-teen conflicts.

D．Future of the parent-teen relationship.

7 . Some educators told us that more years of school could help students get higher scores on intelligence tests.That was a finding of a study of teenage males in some countries.Now，another research shows that physical activity may help students do better in their classes.

The research comes as educators in some countries are reducing time for activities like physical education.They are using the time instead for academic(学术的) subjects like math and reading.The studies appeared between 2008 and 2014.They included more than 55,000 children，aged 6 to 18.

Amika Singh：“According to the results of our study，we can conclude that being physically active is beneficial for academic performance.There are，first，Physiological explanations，like more blood flow，and so more oxygen to the brain.Being physically active means there are more hormones(荷尔蒙) produced like endorphins(内啡肽)．And endorphins make your stress level lower and your mood improved，which means you also perform better.”

Also，students taking part in organized sports learn rules and how to follow them.This could improve their classroom behavior and help them keep their mind on their work.

The study leaves some questions unanswered，however.Ms Stash says it is not possible to say whether the amount or kind of activity affected the level of academic improvement.This is because of differences among the studies.

The researchers said they found only two high­quality studies.They needed more high­quality studies to confirm(证实) their findings.They also pointed out that “results for other parts of the world may be quite different”．

Still，the general finding was that physically active kids are more likely to do better in school.Ms Singh says schools should consider that finding before they cut physical education programs.Her paper on “Physical Activity and Performance at School” is published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.

1. The passage mainly tells us that         .

A．a research on physical education has been done by the researchers

B．there is a possibility that physical activity leads to higher grades

C．the amount or kind of activity directly affects academic level

D．the research shows that the children aged 6 to 18 don’t do sports

2. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Being mentally active is good for academic subjects.

B．The more hormones you have，the more stressed you will get.

C．The researchers have found many high­quality studies to prove the research.

D．The educators in some countries think studies,not exercise,mean much to students.

3. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 6 probably means         .

A．good marks result from high­quality study

B．findings are probably different in different areas

C．physical activity will spread all over the world

D．academic performance depends on the surroundings

4. What’s the purpose of writing the passage?

A．To call our attention to the sports at school.

B．To introduce all types of physical activities.

C．To represent the academic performance.

D．To improve students’ health.

8 . Stay-at-home kids are named “generation nini” in Spain. They are those adults who still live at home and are neither working nor studying. But the problem is not limited to Spain. It is a worldwide problem.

In Italy, they are known as “bamboccioni” or big babies. There nearly 60 percent of 18-34-year-old adults still live in their parents’ home, up from almost 50 percent since 1983. Once kept there by the love for their mama’s home-cooked food, the economic crisis（经济危机）has seen a rise in adults left unable to hold down a steady job or afford a home of their own. Last year, an Italian government minister admitted that his mother washed his clothes and made the bed for him until he was 30. He demanded a law forcing young Italians to leave their parents’ home at 18 to stop them becoming hopelessly dependent on their parents.

In the UK, the government has made the term NEETS---not in employment, education or training for these children. In England alone the percent of NEETS aged 19-24 surged to 18.8 percent of the age group-in the last quarter of 2010, up 1.4 percent on the same period a year before. The number of British men in their 20s living with their parents has risen from 59 percent to 80 percent in the past 15 years, while the number of women has risen from 41percent to 50 percent. The average age of the first-time house buyers is now 38.

In the US, the problem is known as the “full nest syndrome（综合症）”. Adults there are left struggling to support adult children who have stayed at home with student debts and facing few job opportunities in a weak economy. A recent study showed almost a third of American adults aged 34 and under are living with their parents

1. “Big babies” mentioned in Paragraph 2 refers to those adults who ______.

A．are poorly educated	B．are not as smart as others
C．lose their job in the bad economy	D．depend on their parents for a living

2. The Italian government minister thinks that ______.

A．parents should make their children feel hopeless

B．young people should live on their own after18

C．parents should never make the bed for their children

D．it is OK for adult children to live with their parents

3. The underlined word “surged” in paragraph 3 can be replaced by ______.

A．jumped	B．reduced
C．recovered	D．moved

4. What does the last paragraph tell us? ______

A．Some American adult children are causing trouble for their parents

B．American parents are happy to live with their children

C．America has the most adult children compared with other countries

D．It is a tradition for adult children to live with their parents in America

9 . The new study shows that we spend more time using the mobile Internet to read newspapers and magazines or do some other things. According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau（IAB），the average European spends 4.8 hours reading newspapers and magazines but 1.6 hours more using the mobile Internet per week.

The IAB questioned 15,000 people in 15 European countries, looking at how people were using the Internet and its influence on their everyday lives. It found that the mobile Internet is increasingly finding its way into the public awareness. Over 71 million Europeans now have Internet access on their mobile phones. In the UK, 10 million people now access the Internet through their mobile phones and spend 6.3 hours doing so per week averagely.

Unsurprisingly, young generations in the UK are leading the way, with nearly half of the country's 16-to 24-year-olds and a quarter of 25-to 34-year-olds using the Internet, spending 6.5 and 6.2 hours online each week.

Entertainment plays a main role in our mobile Internet lives，with one in five British people using their phones for online games，a third listening to the online radio and 39 percent watching films，TV or other videos at least once a week. One third of those using an Internet phone said they received videos，images or other multimedia on their mobile，and 61percent said they passed on the contents they had received.

From a communication point of view，80 percent of those questioned agreed that the Internet had made it easier for them to stay in touch with friends and family.

Alison Fennah，director of the IAB，said the use of the mobile Internet had come to the point that marketers should be looking to strategies（策略）that connect them with consumers more effectively. "Better tools as well as improved consumer motivation that start coming together in 2011 can make a great difference to extending the online experience，" Fennah said.

1. How long does a European spend on the mobile Internet per week according to the IAB？

A．6.4hours.	B．6.2hours.
C．4.8hours.	D．1.6 hours.

2. What do people mainly use the mobile Internet for？

A．Communication.	B．Entertainment.
C．Study.	D．Advertising.

3. It can be known from the passage that __________.

A．more than half of the people in the UK use the mobile Internet

B．the Internet is the most effective way to stay in touch with friends and family

C．the UK has the largest number of people who use the mobile Internet in Europe

D．better tools and improved consumer motivation help extend the online experience

4. The author wrote the passage to tell us __________.

A．how to use mobile phones to surf the Internet

B．newspapers and magazines will disappear soon

C．more and more people use the Internet in Europe

D．how the Internet influences our daily lives

10 . Some people asked me how I could suggest the expenses of billions of dollars for a voyage to Mars, at a time when many children on this Earth are starving to death. I know that they do not expect an answer such as “ Oh, I did not know that there are children dying from hunger, but from now on I will stop any kind of space research until mankind has solved that problem! ”In fact, I have known of this long before.

But I firmly believe that by working for the space program we can make some contributions to the relief and eventual solution of such serious problems as poverty and hunger on the Earth. Two basic factors causing the poverty and hunger problems are the production of food and the distribution (分布) of food. In fact, large areas of land could be used far better if efficient methods of farming, fertilizer use, weather forecasting, field selection, planting, crop surveys, harvest planning and so on were applied. The best tool for the improvement of all these methods undoubtedly, is the artificial Earth satellite. Circling the globe at a high altitude, it can screen wide areas of land within a short time; it can observe and measure a large variety of factors indicating the status and condition of crops, soil, droughts, rainfall, snow cover, etc.

Besides, in the modern society, there is a continuing great need for new basic knowledge in the science if we wish to improve the conditions of human life on the Earth. We need more knowledge in physics and chemistry, in biology and physiology, and particularly in medicine to cope with   all these problems which threaten man’s life: hunger, disease, overpopulation, pollution of water and the environment. In a way, the space age not only holds out a mirror in which we can see ourselves, it also provides us with the technologies.

1. The passage is mainly discussing about        .

A．whether the children’s dying from hunger is the major problem

B．whether it is worth spending much money on the space research

C．whether the author’s suggestion has been taken into serious consideration

D．whether there is an effective way to avoid the global starvation

2. According to the author, what plays an important part in dealing with poverty and hunger?

A．Government support.	B．Methods of farming.
C．Food supply.	D．Modern technology.

3. The second paragraph is mainly developed by             .

A．making comparison	B．giving explanation
C．offering advice	D．giving examples

4. From the last paragraph, we can infer that         .

A．technologies can help to improve our living quality

B．more basic knowledge is required to be learned

C．we can live a more peaceful and happier life

D．there are different views on the space age