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In some urban centers, workholism is so common that people do not consider it unusual: they accept the lifestyle as normal. Government workers in Washington D. C., for example, frequently work sixty to seventy hours a week. They don’t do this because they have to; they do it because they want to.
Workholism can be a serious problem. Because true workaholics (工作狂) would rather work than do anything else, they probably don’t know how to relax.
Is workholism always dangerous? Perhaps not. There are, certainly, people who work well under stress. Some studies show that many workaholics have great energy and interest in life. Their work is so pleasurable that they are actually very happy. For most workaholics, work and entertainment keep them busy and creative.
Why do workaholics enjoy their jobs so much? There are several advantages to work. Of course, it provides people with paychecks, and this is important. But it offers more than financial security. It provides people with self-confidence; they have a feeling of satisfaction when they’ve produced a challenging piece of work and are able to say, “I made that.” Psychologists claim that work gives people an identity through participation in work, they get a sense of self and individualism. In addition, most jobs provide people with a socially acceptable way to meet others. Perhaps some people are compulsive about their work, but their addiction seems to be a safe-even an advantageous-one.
小题1:The passage indicates that workaholics ______.
A.just know work but nothing else
B.are willing to work hard for long hours without pay
C.find their work provide them more satisfaction and self-confidence than how much they are paid
D.has the work with more responsibility than others
小题2:One of the reasons that some people are not willing to quit their jobs even in their eighties and nineties is that ______.
A. they are in the need of financial security
B. they would rather work than be disturbed by domestic affairs
C. they long for a sense of identity and being accomplished
C. they may have health problems from sheer boresom
小题3:This passage is mainly about ______.
A.workaholics are usually successful people, but their lives are in a mess
B.workholism can lead to serious problems but it can also create a joyful life
C.people who are absorbed in their work may enjoy movies, sports and other kinds of entertainment
D.those who work even under difficult conditions may be very happy
小题4:It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A.in the eyes of all the common people workaholics are peculiar
B.to workaholics, work is the sole source of happiness
C.a piece of challenging work may provide the workaholics a sense of satisfaction
D.workaholics are as addicted to their job as other people are to drugs or alcohol

答案
 
小题1:C
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:D
解析

小题1:C推理判断题。根据第二段第二句…true workaholics would rather work than do anything else...可知工作狂只是更愿意工作,而非只知道工作,A说法过于绝对。根据第四段第三句:It provides people with  paychecks可排除B。文中只提到“工作狂”工作时间比其他人更长、工作更卖力,但未提及他们的责任问题,故排除D。根据第四段第四句:But it(=work) offers more than financial security及第五句:It (=work) provides people with  selfconfidence...a feeling of satisfaction...可知C正确
小题2:C细节理解题。从文章第四段第五、六句我们知道,工作赋予他们一种满足感、成就感(sense of being accomplished),工作使人获得一种认同(identity),通过参与工作,他们获得一种自我意识和个人意识。可知C正确。而金钱只是人们工作的目的之一,并不是最重要的方面。故不选A。人们到老年仍然工作,并非由于不愿意做家务,也并不是担心整天无所事事会引起健康方面的问题。所以B和D不正确。
小题3:B 主旨大意题。文章中心围绕工作狂的特点展开,第二段提出工作狂可能是一个很严重的问题,但在第三段也指出工作狂也可快乐地生活,并介绍了快乐的原因。所以可以看出主题是讲“工作狂”既有负面影响又有正面影响
小题4:D推理判断题。
A项“在普通人眼中工作狂很特殊”。这与原文相反,原文提到人们并认为工作狂的生活方式是不正常的。 B项“对工作狂来说,工作是快乐的唯一来源”,第三段提到对工作狂来说工作就是娱乐,因此无须推断。 C项“有挑战性的工作可能给工作狂带来满足感”。这是原文中明确提到,而非推断出的,所以C是不正确的。 D项“工作狂就像人们沉溺于毒品和酒一样沉溺于工作”我们可看到工作狂对工作的热爱如同上了瘾一样,可推出这一项是正确的。
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According to US research, it can take up to ten years to become a near-native English speaker. Asian and Spanish students took between five and ten years to reach native speaker performance in English-only schools. Fluency obviously doesn’t happen overnight. But time can definitely make you a better speaker.
After testing his own memory, German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus discovered that humans forget most of what they learn in the first 20 minutes.
So cramming right before a speaking exam is not likely to be as effective as practicing regularly over time. The more you practice, the more familiar new words will become. In the classroom, studies have also shown that repeating oral tasks improves a speaker’s performance.
One of the best repetition exercises is the 4/3/2 technique. Speakers give the same talk to three different listeners with a progressive decrease in delivery time, starting at four minutes, then three, and finally two minutes. This exercise has been proven to help learners speak faster. It can also result in less hesitation and more grammatical accuracy. While time dose make a difference when it comes to speaking perfect English, it would not hurt to brush up on your other language skills.
Studies have also shown that reading can increase your speaking vocabulary. After one month of an extensive reading program, a 27-year-old student of French became more familiar with 65 percent of the new words.
Aside from choosing the right learning methods, having certain personality traits may also help. US linguistics expert Stephen Krashen believes those with high motivation, self-confidence and a low level of anxiety are better equipped for speaking success.
Krashen says students who don’t have these qualities are more likely to have a “mental block”. “Even if they understand the message, the input will not reach the part of the brain responsible for language acquisition,” he writes in his book Principles and Practice in second Language Acquisition.
小题1:According to the passage, if you want to be a near-native speaker, you need _____.
A.long-term speaking practice and much reading
B.speaking practice for ten years only
C.long-term speaking practice, much reading and certain qualities
D.cramming new words every day
小题2:The author put forward the 4/3/2 technique just to show that _____.
A.you should speak to 3 different people
B.you should speak to 3 different people at 3 different times
C.it can prevent you from making grammar mistakes
D.it is really a good way to make you a better speaker
小题3:The example of a 27-year-old student of French in the passage mainly means that _____.
A.reading can enlarge your vocabulary for your speaking
B.reading can make you memorize just 65 percent of the new words
C.the 27-year-old student of French is very clever
D.in one month, you can improve your speaking ability
小题4:The underlined phrase “linguistics expert” means a person who is quite expert at _____.
A.languagesB.spoken language
C.scientific researchD.teaching English

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Televisions, stereos, telephones, and computers have changed the way we spend our time and what we know about the world. Some of the changes brought about by these material possessions have improved our way of life, but others have made it worse. Our young teenagers turn on the television, play the stereo, play games on the computer, talk on the telephone, and eat all the same time. This drives me right up the wall to instant insanity(精神失常).
However, teens of today place too great an importance on material property. They spend an average of several hours a day watching television, listening to stereos, playing on the computer, playing video games, and talking on the telephone. Families no longer watch television together and there is great lack of communication. Materialism is evident when an otherwise intelligent teenager drives their parents crazy, and into debt, when misusing communication equipment. Teens judge and admire other teens for what they own and have, rather than for what they are or what they can do. They no longer care about values, like honesty, integrity(正直), freedom, talent, quality and other values and morals.
However, good or bad, communication devices are here to stay. It is up to us, as parents, to stop our beloved teenagers from misusing and abusing our communication equipment and devices. We need to avoid the problems they present and to make the most of their opportunities they possess and hold for us all.
小题1:The writer’s attitude toward the modern material possessions is generally _____.
A.positiveB.negativeC.neutralD.indifferent
小题2:According to the writer, teens’ overuse of communication equipment can do harm to _____.
A.their own healthB.their own study
C.their own moralityD.their neighbors’ life
小题3:The writer attributes (归咎) the unsatisfactory behavior of teens to _____.
A.teens’ too much free timeB.parents’ non-interference
C.inadequate school educationD.material property
小题4:It can be inferred from the passage that the writer seems to be most annoyed at ______.
A.all the modern material possessionB.eating while talking on the phone
C.the decline in teens’ moralityD.all the communication equipment

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Are some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experiences? Strangely enough,the answer to both these questions is yes. To some extent(程度)our intelligence is given to us at birth,and special education can never make a genius(天才) out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of a person’s intelligence are fixed at birth, but whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts can be supported in a number of ways.
It is easy to say that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random from the population, it is likely that their degrees of intelligence will be completely different. If on the other hand we take two identical twins, they  will very likely be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters,parents and children,usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth.
Imagine that now we take two identical twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this indicates that environment as well as birth plays a part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with each other, but who are not related at all, are likely to have similar degrees of intelligence.
小题1:By using the example that two people closer in blood relationship are closer in intelligence that writer wants to prove    _    .
A.intelligence can be developed by environment
B.intelligence is given at birth
C.intelligence can be developed by experience
D.education plays an important part in the development of education
小题2:A child who lives in rich and varied surroundings turns out higher in intelligence because ________.
A.his family is rich and therefore can afford to develop his intelligence
B.he can break the limits of intelligence fixed at birth
C.his family is rich and provides him with various healthy food
D.these surroundings are likely to help him reach the limits of their intelligence
小题3:In the second paragraph “if we take two unrelated people at random from the population...” means “if we ____.”
A.choose two persons who are relative
B.take out two different persons
C.choose two persons with different intelligence
D.pick any two persons
小题4:The best title for this passage might be __________.        
A.Birth and EnvironmentB.Intelligence
C.The Answer to a QuestionD.Intelligence and Education

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Now let us look at how we read. When we read a printed text, our eyes move across a page in short, jerky (急动的)movement. We recognize words usually when our eyes are still when they fixate. Each time they fixate, we see a group of words. This is known as the recognition span(范围)or the visual span. The length of time of which the eyes stop ---the duration of the fixation (定位)----varies considerably from person to person. It also varies within any one person according to his purpose in reading and his familiarity with the text. Furthermore, it can be affected by such factors as lighting and tiredness.
  Unfortunately, in the past, many reading improvement courses have concentrated too much on how our eyes move across the printed page. As a result of this misleading emphasis on the purely visual aspects of reading, numerous exercises have been devised to train the eyes to see more words at one fixation. For instance, in some exercises, words are flashed on to a screen for, say, a tenth or a twentieth of a second. One of the exercises has required students to fix their eyes on some central point, taking in the words on either side. Such word patterns are often constructed in the shape of rather steep pyramids so the reader takes in more and more words at each successive (连续的) fixation. All these exercises are very clever, but it’s one thing to improve a person’s ability to see words and quite another thing to improve his ability to read a text efficiently. Reading requires the ability to understand the relationship between words. Consequently (因此), for these reasons, many experts have now begun to question the usefulness of eye training, especially since any approach which trains a person to read isolated (孤立的) words and phrases would seem unlikely to help him in reading a continuous text.
小题1:The time of the recognition span can be affected by the following facts except ________ .
A.one’s familiarity with the text
B.one’s purpose in reading
C.the length of a group of words
D.lighting and tiredness
小题2:The author may believe that reading ______.
A.requires a reader to take in more words at each fixation
B.requires a reader to see words more quickly
C.demands an deeply-participating mind
D.demands more mind than eyes
小题3:What does the author mean by saying “but it’s one thing to improve a person’s ability to see words and quite another thing to improve his ability to read a text efficiently.” in the second paragraph?
A.The ability to see words is not needed when an efficient reading is conducted.
B.The reading exercises mentioned can’t help to improve both the ability to see and to comprehend words.
C.The reading exercises mentioned can’t help to improve an efficient reading.
D.The reading exercises mentioned has done a great job to improve one’s ability to see words.
小题4:Which of the following is NOT true?
A.The visual span is a word or a group of words we see each time.
B.Many experts began to question the efficiency of eye training.
C.The emphasis on the purely visual aspects is misleading.
D.The eye training will help readers in reading a continuous text.
小题5:The tune of the author in writing this article is ________
A.critical (批评的)B.neutral (中立的)
C. pessimistic (悲观的 )D.optimistic

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Welcome to the future. It’s year 2050 and Scotland is now powered completely by“clean”energy.
Homes have entire roofs made of solar materials, rooms are kept warm by wallpaper, and people go to and from work in electric and hydrogen( 氢) cars.
Oil is still being found in the North Sea, but it’s not now only used to keep aircraft flying. And a new 500---mile underwater link with Iceland has been built to catch heat from the hot springs. There’s still a role for king coal—but the black diamonds are now environment---friendly. 
People will be able to import the electricity they need and export any excess(超过的量) they make through rooftop windmills(风车). New technology will store electricity better and provide it on demand. Heat exchangers will provide heating and hot water.
Harmful carbon dioxide waste is being piped offshore to St Fergus and from there into some of the remaining oil—producing fields to be stored safely without entering the atmosphere. Gas remains the preferred energy source of industry and is now shipped in liquid form. But hydrogen is imported through pipelines from France and from a geothermal (地热的) plant in Iceland.
Hydrogen—fuelled cars have become popular. Electric bikes are common in cities using the new urban two—wheel network. Electric vehicles have become common, and their performances have been improved because of the developments in electrical drive technology like high—temperature super conducting motors. Many people leave their vehicles in a giant park where they can be recharged from the national electrical system . Oilseed rape (油菜) is widely grown to fuel some motors .
小题1:What does the underlined phrase in paragraph 2 mean ?
A.The hot springsB.OilC.CoalD.Oil and coal
小题2:Which sources of energy play a more important role in people’s daily life in the future ?
A.Oil and coal
B.Hydrogen and gas
C.Electricity and gas
D.Solar energy and wind
小题3:The means of transport people use in 2050 do not include__________.
A.windmillsB.electric bikes
C.hydrogen—fuelled carsD.aircraft
小题4:The passage is written to tell us in the future_____________.
A.life will be better and better
B.the energy will become cleaner and cleaner
C.people will use some new sources of energy
D.people will pay more attention to the environment

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