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And it seems that he is not the only one. Clearly two thirds of people have lied about reading a book which they haven’t. In The World Book Day survey, Dreams From My Father is at number 9. The survey lists top ten books, and various authors, which people have lied about reading. As I’m not one to lie too often, I’ll admit here and now that I haven’t read the entire ten books. But I am pleased to say that I have read the book at number one, George Orwell’s 1984. I think it’s absolutely outstanding.
Asked why they lied, the most common reason was to impress someone they were speaking to. This could be difficult if the conversation became more in-depth!
The World Book Day survey also has some other interesting information in it. It shows that many people lie about having read classical works by Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Charles Dickens and so on. But when asked which authors they actually enjoy, they named JK Rowling, Jilly Cooper, and Stephen King. Forty-one percent of people asked admitted they turned to the back of the book to read the end before finishing the story.
So which books have you lied about reading —if any — and which is your favorite?
小题1:The main reason why people lie about reading is to __________.
A.make fun of the listener | B.impress the listener |
C.please the listener | D.interest the listener |
A.wanted | B.happened | C.continued | D.stopped |
A.Are You A Book Liar? | B.Readers Are All Liars |
C.World Book Day | D.Dreams From My Father |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:A
解析
试题分析:本文是通过The World Book Day的一项调查来告诉我们很多人关于读书说谎的话题。
小题1:B 细节题。根据文章第三段第一行Asked why they lied, the most common reason was to impress someone they were speaking to.说明他们说谎是为了给对方留下印象,故B正确。
小题2:C 推理题。根据本句he then proceeded to talk about Mr. Obama in a way that suggested he had no idea of his background at all.说明他们的对话在继续,后来反应出他没有读过这本书,故该词是指继续。故C正确。
小题3:A 主旨大意题。本文是通过The World Book Day的一项调查来告诉我们很多人关于读书说谎的话题。故A正确。
点评:本文是通过The World Book Day的一项调查来告诉我们很多人关于读书说谎的话题。本文主旨鲜明,很容易在文中找到答案。做题时要注意文章的首段和每一段的首句或尾句,因为它们往往就是文章的主题句。阅读中要注意要点之间的关系。然后带着问题,再读全文,找出答题所需要的依据,完成阅读任务。
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试题【It happened to me recently that I was telling someone how much I had enjoyed rea】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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The aim of conversation is not, for the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito (蚊子).But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person. Most buzzing, fortunately, is pleasant to the ear, and some of it is pleasant even to the mind. He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing -with his neighbors.
Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people"s ears, though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing meaningful for a long time, they just prove themselves to be successful conservationists.
小题1:According to the passage, people usually talk to their neighbors_____.
A.in the hope of learning something new |
B.in the hope of getting on well |
C.about whatever they want to |
D.about whatever they have prepared |
A.achieve success in life |
B.overcome their fear of silence |
C.exchange ideas |
D.prove their value |
A.To persuade people to stop making noises. |
B.To explain why people keep talking. |
C.To discuss why people like talking about weather. |
D.To encourage people to join in conversations. |
A.the voice of a chatterbox |
B.meaningless talk sound |
C.a low whispering |
D.the noise of an insect |
EQ is defined as the ability to deal with oneself and others effectively. High EQ, psychologists say, is easy to spot. Some of the greatest humanitarian (人道主义的) leaders have high EQ, along with successful managers and inspirational and respected teachers. The problem is not how to spot high EQ but to improve on low EQ, so society as a whole can benefit.
In the United States, declining EQ among young people is seen as one of the factors behind rising young people’s crime because youths fail to understand others’ feelings—one of the key components of EQ. While the situation in Hong Kong is not so bad, there are warning signs that the levels of anxiety among youth may become critical. Declining EQ among Hong Kong teenagers has been acknowledged by several studies including a key study by the education concern group, the Learning-Teacher Association, which found a high degree of anxiety among students over the future and also that young people lacked confidence in dealing with problems. Parents and teachers will also need to develop their own EQ skills in order to deal with them effectively.
Daniel Goleman cites a number of basic elements of high EQ: first, awareness of your feelings as you experience them which is very important to making good decisions in life; second, feeling or awareness of what others are feeling. “90% of emotional information is expressed non-verbally and people vary in their ability to pick it up,” Dr. Goleman says in his book.
Dr. Goleman argues that without high EQ even highly-educated, highly-intelligent people will not find success in life. Or those with low EQ, even though they may be brilliant, tend to lack feeling and impulse control. They fail easily, and they are easily intolerant and often aggressive in interpersonal relations. Some educational psychologists believe work on EQ may be important in Hong Kong with its high rate of suicide among school children. EQ test may be able to help predict those most at risk, and those least able to deal with their own emotions or unable to deal with others, including parents and teachers.
小题1:According to the passage, children in Hong Kong commit suicide at an alarming rate as a result of _______.
A.parents not understanding their children |
B.the rising levels of stress and anxiety among young people |
C.the inability of dealing with relationships |
D.increasing conflict between children and teachers |
A.are least likely to become good leaders |
B.can deal with oneself and others effectively |
C.are beneficial to society |
D.are more likely to be respected |
A.the work on EQ |
B.Hong Kong |
C.EQ |
D.China |
A.one can be just as successful without having a high EQ |
B.only people with both high EQ and high IQ will be successful in life |
C.people with low intelligence will not get a successful life |
D.people not having high EQ may not be successful in life despite being extremely intelligent |
Researchers found that people become happier and experience less worry after they reach the age of fifty. In fact, they say by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were when they were eighteen years old.
The findings came from a survey of more than three hundred forty thousand adults in the United States. The Gallup Organization questioned them by telephone in two thousand eight. At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five.
The researchers asked questions about emotions like happiness, sadness and worry. They also asked about mental or emotional stress.
Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five.
The findings showed that stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.
Happiness was highest among the youngest adults and those in their early seventies. The people least likely to report feeling negative emotions were those in their seventies and eighties.
The study also showed that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men.
The findings appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers say they do not know why happiness increases as people get older. One theory is that, as people grow older, they grow more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.
Professor Stone says the emotional patterns could be linked to changes in how people see the world, or maybe even changes in brain chemistry.
The researchers also considered possible influences like having young children, being unemployed or being single. But they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiness and well-being related to age.
小题1: What is the report about?
A.The relationship between happiness and age. |
B.The influence between happiness and unemployment. |
C.The tendency between family and health. |
D.The expectation between age and children. |
A.John is happier and more energetic than Mike. |
B.Mike is happier but weaker than John. |
C.John is more sad and worried than Mike. |
D.Mike is more worried and depressed than John. |
A.they have had enough bad experiences |
B.they become more grateful about the things they own |
C.they have found it easy to forget their pains and pressures |
D.they have lost their ability to control themselves |
A.Having young children affects the levels of happiness of the old. |
B.Emotional patterns can change the physical structures of human’s brains. |
C.It’s reported that women at all ages are happier than men. |
D.Why happiness increases as people get older is still an unsolved mystery. |
However, there is great trouble with keeping up with the new English because there are so many new words and the old ones no longer mean what we thought they did. In the past if someone said they didn’t have “Windows”, you would have to suppose they lived in a cave without windows. But now, it is probably because they use a Mac, which is a computer. Spam, which once meant a not-so-good-kind of canned meat, now stands for unwanted “junk (垃圾)” email.
Spelling is changing too. Weblish loves to see nouns happily become verbs ( for example, “Please bookmark this site”), and verbs become nouns (“Send me the download”).Verbs and prepositions are regularly thrown together to become new nouns or adjectives(for example, dial-up, logon, print-out, pull-down, upload), while others are created from a simple pairing of nouns: cyberspace, ethernet, Internet, hyperlink, metatag and netspeak.
小题1: We can infer from the first paragraph that _____ .
A.English has completely become Weblish |
B.some people wish Shakespeare were still alive |
C.people may have different attitudes towards Weblish |
D.people who know English have to learn a new language |
A.Now English has many new words. |
B.English words have changed a lot. |
C.Old English words are no longer used at all. |
D.People have difficulty in understanding some new words related to computers and the Internet. |
A.Technology and English |
B.Keep Up with the Latest Weblish |
C.Don’t Forget English |
D.The Advantage and Disadvantages of Weblish |
One obvious effect of these media is that watching them induces(诱导)people to buy certain products. Television advertising is widespread and, nowadays, even movie theaters permit advertisements. Another way TV and the movies affect people is that they give people either a broader view of the world or a distorted(扭曲的)one, depending on what type of program they watch. Those who watch news and educational programs can learn many new things while those who watch primarily entertainment shows may come to believe that most people in the world have great wealth and good looks. It may make them become dissatisfied with their own lives. Finally perhaps the most susceptible(易受影响的)viewers are children, who may be unable to tell fact from fiction and may try to copy acts that they see on TV or in the movies.
With the ever-increasing popularity of video entertainment, society must pay attention to these effects. Television and movies, while entertaining and informative, cannot take the place of real experiences.
小题1:From the passage, we know that watching television and movies can .
A.make people live better | B.make people feel pleased |
C.make people change their way of life | D.make people live worse |
A.people may take no notice of the effects of the visual media |
B.people must pay attention to the effects of the visual media |
C.the effects of the visual media make the world changed greatly |
D.the visual media only affect young people |
A.Those who watch news and educational programs can earn a lot of money and become very pretty. |
B.The reason why most people possess great wealth and good looks is that they often watch television advertising. |
C.People buy products only when they are induced by television advertising. |
D.People who watch primarily entertainment shows may come to believe that most people in the world are rich and beautiful. |
A.The Influence of Television and Movies |
B.The Reason Why People Watch Television and Movies |
C.Television and Movies Induce People |
D.The Importance of Television and Movies |
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