Some people have travelled to Canada while others may have just heard of it . As is known to all, the Canadian red and white maple leaf flag is officially called The National Flag of Canada. The Canadian flag shows a stylized red maple leaf with 11 points on a white background, with red borders down each side. The Canadian flag is twice as long as its width. The white square containing the red maple leaf is the same width as the flag. Canada is a very large country, too. It is the second largest country in the world.By contrast, it has a very small population. There are only about 29 millinon people there. Most Canadians are of British or French origin, and French is an official language as well English. About 45 % of the people are of British origin, that is, they or their parents or grandparents, etc, come from Britain. Nearly 30 % are of French origin. Most of the French-Canadians live in the province of quebec. Over the years people have come to live in Canada from many countries in the world. They are mostly from European countries and also from China, as well as other Asian countries.
However , Canada was not an empty country when the Europeans began to arrive. Canadian-Indian lived along the coast, bythe rivers and lakes and in forests. Today there are only 350,000 Canadian-Indians in the whole country, with their own language. In the far north live the Inuits. There are only 27, 000 Canadian-Inuits. Their life is hard in such a harsh climate.
小题1:What is the populatin of Quebec?| A．More than 29, 000.000 | | B．About 30% of the total population. | | C．Over 45% of th etotal population | | D．Less than 30% of the French-Canadians. |
小题2:Which of the following stands for Canada?
小题3:Which of the following is TRUE according to this passage?| A．The Canadian flag I stwice as wide as its length. | | B．Most Indians are now forced to live along the coast. | | C．Nowadays Inuit still have difficult living conditions. | | D．Nobody existed when the Europeans began to arrive in Canada. |
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小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:C |
试题分析：文章介绍了加拿大的国旗的设计和含义，还有加拿大的人口分布情况。
小题1:细节题：从文章第一段的句子：Nearly 30 % are of French origin. Most of the French-Canadians live in the province of quebec.可知魁北克的人口是总人口的30%，选B
小题2:细节题：从文章第一段的句子：可知The Canadian flag shows a stylized red maple leaf with 11 points on a white background, with red borders down each side. The Canadian flag is twice as long as its width. The white square containing the red maple leaf is the same width as the flag.可知在枫叶两边是红色的条，中间的白色的方框和宽度和旗子的宽度是一样的，所以A图是对的。
小题3:细节题：从文章最后的句子：There are only 27, 000 Canadian-Inuits. Their life is hard in such a harsh climate.可知现在因纽特人的生活条件还是很困难，选C |
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试题【Some people have travelled to Canada while others may have just heard of it . As】；主要考察你对
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Everybody knows how to learn. Learning is a natural thing. It begins the we are born. Our first teachers are our f amilies. At home we learn to talk and to and feed ourselves. We learn these and other skills by .
Then we go to school. A teacher tells us to learn and how to learn. Many teachers teach us, and we pass many tests and exams. Then people say we are .
Are we really educated? Let"s the real meaning of learning. Knowing facts doesn"t being able to solve problems. Solving problems requires creativity, not just a good . Some people who don’t know many can also be good at solving problems.
Henr Ford is a good . He left school at the age of 15. Later, when his company couldn’ t build cars enough, he solved the problem. He of the assembly line. Today the answer seems . Yet, just think of the many university graduates who solve any problems.
What does a good teacher do? Does he students factct remember? Well, yes, we must sometimes remember facts. But a good teacher how to find answers. He brings us to the stream of knowledge so we can think for ourselves. When we are , we know where to go.
True learning combines intake with output. We take information our brains. Then we use it. Think of a ; it stores a lot of information, but it can’t think. It only obeys commands. A person who only remembers facts hasn’t really learned. Learning takes only when a person can use what he knows.
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| 小题3: | | A．asking | B．listening | C．following | D．drilling |
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| 小题5: | | A．controlled | B．educated | C．suffered | D．passed |
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| 小题6: | | A．pick up | B．turn away | C．set out | D．think about |
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| 小题7: | | A．mean | B．say | C．suggest | D．show |
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| 小题8: | | A．word | B．thing | C．memory | D．condition |
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| 小题9: | | A．people | B．facts | C．techniques | D．ways |
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| 小题10: | | A．learner | B．teacher | C．example | D．driver |
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| 小题11: | | A．new | B．fast | C．beautiful | D．cheap |
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| 小题12: | | A．complained | B．heard | C．talked | D．thought |
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| 小题13: | | A．ordinary | B．strange | C．simple | D．special |
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| 小题14: | | A．never | B．almost | C．seldom | D．ever |
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| 小题15: | | A．make | B．understand | C．master | D．give |
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| 小题16: | | A．knows | B．shows | C．orders | D．encourages |
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| 小题17: | | A．thirsty | B．tired | C．bored | D．free |
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| 小题19: | | A．radio | B．computer | C．record | D．machine |
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The requirements for high school graduation have just changed in my community.As a result，all students must ____sixty hours of service learning，____ they will not receive a degree.Service learning is a kind of learning that helps the community.__ __ of service learning include cleaning up a polluted river，working in a soup kitchen，or instructing a student.__ __ a service experience，students must keep a journal(日志) every day and then write a ____ about what they have learned.
Supporters claim that there are many ____ of service learning. Perhaps most importantly，students are forced to think ____ their own interests and become ____ of the needs of others.Students are also able to learn real－life skills that ____ responsibility，problem－solving，and working as part of a team.____，students can explore possible careers ____ service learning.For example，if a student wonders what teaching is like，he or she can choose to work in a school classroom a few afternoons each month.
____ there are many benefits，opponents(反对者)____ problems. First，they ____ that the main reason students go to school is to learn core subjects and skills.Because service learning is time－consuming，students spend ___ time studying the core subjects.Second，they believe that forcing students to work without ____ goes against the law.By requiring service，the school takes away a student"s freedom to choose.
In my view，service learning is a great way to ____ to the community，learn new skills，and explore different careers.____，I don"t believe you should force people to help others—the ____ to help must come from the heart.I think the best ____ is one that gives students choices： a student should be able to choose sixty hours of independent study or sixty hours of service.Choice encourages both freedom and responsibility，and as young adults，we must learn to handle both wisely.
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| 小题7: | | A．beyond | B．about | C．over | D．in |
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| 小题8: | | A．careful | B．proud | C．tired | D．aware |
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| 小题10: | | A．Gradually | B．Finally | C．Luckily | D．Hopefully |
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| 小题11: | | A．through | B．across | C．of | D．on |
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| 小题14: | | A．argue | B．doubt | C．overlook | D．admit |
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| 小题17: | | A．contribute | B．appeal | C．attend | D．belong |
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| 小题18: | | A．Therefore | B．Otherwise | C．Besides | D．However |
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| 小题19: | | A．courage | B．desire | C．emotion | D．spirit |
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A board game is a game played on a pre-marked surface or “board” according to a set of rules. Board games have been played in most cultures and societies throughout history. Do you think of yourself as a bit of an expert at board games like chess or Go?
Maybe you’re not quite as good as you think. New research from the University of Manchester and Oxford suggests complex games like these are impossible to learn fully. They may even be too complex for the human mind to understand.
Researchers studied two-player games, to try and understand the strategies which people use to make decisions during the game. Some games with two players are simple, with only a small number of possible moves. Players can quickly work out the best strategy but that means the game soon becomes boring.
It gets more interesting when there are many possible moves. That’s why people are so fascinated by complex board games like chess or Go, or some card games. But what the researchers found was that with difficult games, players find it hard to work out the best strategy and their actions become less reasonable.
This research is part of the field called game theory: the study of human strategic decision-making. Much thinking on how people play complex games is based on something called “the balance point”, which is when players have a perfect knowledge of what they are going to do and of what their rivals are going to do.
When you add more than two players then of course the game becomes even harder to understand. Trading on the stock market is an example of a complex multi-player game.
小题1:Which of the following games belongs to board games?| A．football | B．badminton | C．swimming | D．Mahjong |
小题2:It can be inferred in the passage that _______.| A．the simpler the board game is, the better it is | | B．people dislike board games for the complex moves | | C．players are easy to lose patience when in difficult games | | D．it’s possible for people to understand complex games thoroughly |
小题3:If players want to get to the balance point, they should ______.| A．ask other players to work out the best strategy | | B．have a good knowledge of the games they are playing | | C．figure out the next actions of themselves and their opponents | | D．come to a quick decision about what to do next by themselves |
小题4:In which section can we read this passage in a newspaper?| A．Culture | B．Discovery | C．Career | D．Campus |
小题5:The author intends to tell us ___________.| A．a new research about board games | | B．the importance of playing board games | | C．how the players win board games | | D．how to learn board games fully |
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Taking a picture of your tongue with a mobile phone could soon instantly tell you how healthy you are. Researchers believe the images can reveal important information about a patient’s health and even give them early warning of serious illness.
A team at the University of Missouri is developing a system that can analyze pictures using a 5,000-year-old Chinese principle, which is based on the flow and balance of positive and negative energies in the body, and uses the tongue as a key to learning about a person’s physical health, or “zheng” according to Chinese medicine.
“Within a year, our goal is to create an application for smart phones that will allow anyone to take a photo of their tongue and learn the status of their zheng,” said Dong Xu, chair of MU’s Computer Science Department in the College of Engineering and the co-author of the latest study.
The software analyzes images based on the tongue’s color and coating to distinguish between tongues showing signs of “hot” or “cold” zheng. Shades of red and yellow are associated with hot zheng, whereas a white coating on the tongue is a sign of cold zheng.
“Hot and cold zheng doesn’t refer directly to body temperature,” said Xu, “Rather, it refers to a series of symptoms associated with the state of the body as a whole.”
For the study, 263 gastritis(胃炎) patients and 48 healthy volunteers had their tongues analyzed. The gastritis patients were classified by whether they showed infection by a certain bacteria as well as the intensity of their gastritis symptoms. In addition, most of the gastritis patients had been previously classified with either hot or cold zheng. This allowed the researchers to test the accuracy of the software’s analysis.
“Our software is able to classify people based on their zheng status. And as we continue to work on the software we hope to improve its ability,” said another co-author Ye Duan, “Eventually everyone will be able to use this tool at home using webcams or smart phone applications, which will allow them to monitor their zheng and get an early warning about possible ailments.”
小题1: The software mentioned in the passage is based on ________.| A．the latest development of smart phones | | B．a traditional Chinese medical principle | | C．the changes in one’s flow and energy | | D．symptoms related with the state of the body |
小题2:According to Chinese medicine, zheng refers to ________. | A．one’s body temperature | B．the physical health of a person | | C．the possible disease of a person | D．the color and coating of one’s tongue |
小题3:The study led by Dong Xu proves _________.| A．the effect of the software | | B．the software’s great prospect | | C．the advancement of smart phones | | D．the greatness of Chinese medicine |
小题4:The underlined word “ailments” can be replaced by _________.| A．analysis | B．effects | C．illnesses | D．applications |
小题5:It can be inferred from the passage that _________.| A．the software still needs improvement | | B．the subjects in the study are all gastritis | | C．the software has been in market for a year | | D．the subjects in the study are classified by age |
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Parents should stop blaming themselves because there"s not a lot they can do about it. I mean the teenager problem. Whatever you do or however you choose to deal with it, at certain times a wonderful, reasonable and helpful child will turn into a terrible animal.
I"ve seen friends deal with it in all kinds of different ways. One strict mother insisted that her son, right from a child, should stand up whenever anyone entered the room, open doors and shake hands like a gentleman. I saw him last week when I called round. Sprawling himself on the sofa in full length, he made no attempt to turn off the loud TV he was watching as I walked in, and his greeting was no more than a quick glance at me. His mother was ashamed. "I don"t know what to do with him these days," she said. "He"s forgotten all the manners we taught him."
He hasn"t forgotten them. He" s just decided that he" s not going to use them. She confessed that she would like to come up behind him and throw him down from the sofa onto the floor.
Another good friend of mine let her two daughters climb all over the furniture, reach across the table, stare at me and say, "I don"t like your dress; it"s ugly." One of the daughters has recently been driven out of school. The other has left home.
"Where did we go wrong?" her parents are now very sad. Probably nowhere much. At least, no more than the rest of that unfortunate race, parents.
小题1:This text is most probably written by _______.| A．a headmaster of a middle school | | B．a specialist in teenager studies | | C．a parent with teenage children | | D．a doctor for mental health problems |
小题2:The boy on the sofa would most probably be described as _______.| A．lazy | B．quiet | C．unusual | D．rude |
小题3:From the second example we can infer that the parents of the two daughters _______.| A．pay no attention to them | | B．feel helpless to do much about them | | C．are too busy to look after them | | D．have come to hate them |
小题4:What is the author"s opinion about the sudden change in teenage children?| A．Parents have no choice but to try to accept it. | | B．Parents should pay still more attention to the change. | | C．Parents should work more closely with school teachers. | | D．Parents are at fault for the change in their children. |
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