My grandmother seems to be wrong when she says that good manners will never go out of style.
Several days ago, I tried entering a lift with one of my arms fixed in a bandage(绷带) while carrying a computer bag in the other. Not being fast enough, I was passed by two young people who managed to get into the lift before me. The lift door closed only after I entered. Having already pressed their wanted floor button, the young people waited impatiently for me to press the button for where I was going. If they had decided to help, we could have moved much faster. But they had not. So I did my best and pressed the button with my arm. The two young people looked very angry with me. I was losing heart.
The memory of this incident has stayed with me because it followed shortly after my building’s watchman refused to help me carry a heavy box full of books. His answer was that he could not carry the books a few meters because it was not his job. However, I remembered myself helping people for so many years carrying boxes, shopping bags, or pushing wheelchairs upon the request of a stranger in need or when my conscience(良心) called on me. "Oh, this young generation, they have no manners, ”my grandmother would say. The idea of good manners refers to the considering of other people’s feelings. We need more and more people to have good manners. Good manners should be-come part of our lives.
小题1:The author believes that ________.| A．good manners will never go out of style | | B．her grandmother is right | | C．good manners are disappearing little by little | | D．it never rains, but it pours |
小题2:How did the two young people feel when the author pressed the button?| A．Excited. | B．Angry. | C．Sad. | D．Confident. |
小题3:The watchman didn’t help the author because ______.| A．the box was full of books | | B．the box was too heavy | | C．the author was a stranger | | D．he thought it was not his job |
小题4:We can infer from the passage that the author ______.| A．always offers help to people in need | | B．always has difficulty carrying things | | C．has a better memory than anyone else | | D．agreed with her grandmother at first |
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小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:A |
试题分析：本文通过自己乘坐电梯以及大楼的工作人员拒绝帮助作者提东西的经历告诉我们在现代社会文明礼仪正在逐渐消失，呼吁我们要重新塑造文明礼仪。。
小题1:C 推理题。本文通过自己乘坐电梯以及大楼的工作人员拒绝帮助作者提东西的经历告诉我们在现代社会文明礼仪正在逐渐消失。故C正确。
小题2:B 细节题。根据第二段最后2行So I did my best and pressed the button with my arm. The two young people looked very angry with me. I was losing heart.说明他们对我很生气，故B正确。
小题3:D 细节题。根据第三段2,3行His answer was that he could not carry the books a few meters because it was not his job.说明D项正确。
小题4:A 推断题。根据第三段4,5,6三行I remembered myself helping people for so many years carrying boxes, shopping bags, or pushing wheelchairs upon the request of a stranger in need or when my conscience(良心) called on me.说明作者经常帮助那些需要帮助的人。故A正确。
点评：本文通过自己的经历告诉我们要重新塑造文明礼仪。本文考查细节题为主，细节题可以在文章中直接找到与答案有关的信息或是其变体。搜查信息在阅读中非常重要它包括理解作者在叙述某事时使用的具体事实、数据、图表等细节信息。在一篇短文里大部分篇幅都属于这类围绕主体展开的细节。做这类题一般采用寻读法即先读题，然后带着问题快速阅读短文，找出与问题有关的词语或句子，再对相关部分进行分析对比，找出答案。 |
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We all know what it is like to be unable to turn your head because of a cold in the muscles of your neck, or because an unexpected twist has made your neck ache. The slightest move makes you jump with pain. Nothing could be worse than a pain in the neck.
That is why we use the phrase to describe some people who give you the same feeling. We have all met such people.
One is the man who always seems to be clapping his hands—often at the wrong time—during a performance in the theater. He keeps you from hearing the actors.
Even worse are those who can never arrive before the curtain goes up and the play begins. They come hurrying down to your row of seats. You are comfortably settled down, with your hat and heavy coat in your lap. You must stand up to let them pass. You are proud of yourself-control after they have settled into their seats…Well, what now…God, one of them is up again. He forgot to go to the men’s room, and once more you have to stand up, hanging on to your hat and coat to let him pass. Now, that is “a pain in the neck”.
Another, well—known to us all, is the person sitting behind you in the movies. His mouth is full of popcorn ; he is chewing loudly, or talking between bites to friends next to him. None of them remain still. Up and down, back and forth, they go—for another bag of popcorn, or something to drink.
Then, there is the man sitting next to you at lunch, smoking. He wants you to enjoy it too, and blows smoke across your food into your mouth.
We must not forget the man who comes into a bus or subway and sits down next to you, just as close as you will let him. You are reading the newspaper and he gets closer so that he can read the paper with you. He may even turn the paper to the next page before you are ready for it.
We also call such a person a “rubber neck”, always getting close to where it does not belong, like neighbors who watch all your visitors. They enjoy learning about your personal business. People have a strong dislike for “rubber necks”. They hate being watched secretly.
小题1:Where can you find this passage?| A．In a medicine dictionary. | B． in a kids’ story book. | | C．In a social science book. | D．In a science textbook. |
小题2:According to the passage, how do you feel when late comers walk back and forth in front of you in a cinema?| A．disturbed. | B．bored. | C．ignored. | D．relaxed. |
小题3:A “rubber neck” often __________________ .| A．says bad words behind people. | | B．quarrels face to face with neighbors. | | C．bargains with salespeople over the price | | D．asks about other people’s business |
小题4:Which of the following persons CANNOT be described as a “pain in the neck”?| A．Someone who often claps at the wrong time during a performance. | | B．Someone who feels ache in his neck due to a cold in the muscles. | | C．Someone who sits next to you smoking, which you never enjoy. | | D．Someone who keeps eating or talking all through the movies. |
小题5:What is the main purpose of the author? | A．To tell people what might be bad manners in public. | | B．To criticize (批评) the people who might be a “pain in the neck” | | C．To show anger to those who are described as a “pain in the neck”. | | D．To tell people how to stop the pain in the neck. |
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Deception (骗术）is something that people do all the time ,and it plays an important role in military (军事的)strategy. Now some researchers are trying to figure out how to get robots to do it, by looking at the behavior of squirrels and birds.
At Georgia Tech, a team led by Ronald Arkin , a professor at the School of interactive Computing, studied the literature on squirrels hiding their acorns (橡果）.Squirrels will hide their food m a certain place, but when they see other squirrels trying to steal from them, they attempt to fool the thieves by running to a fake location.
Ronald Arkin and his Ph. D. student Jaeeun Shim used that as a model for robot behavior. They programmed the robot into tricking a “predator (捕食者）” machine by doing what εi squirrel does： showing the enemy a false location for an important resource.
The team also looked at how other animals in this case，a species of bird called Arabian babbler~ drive off predators. A babbler will make an alarm call when they see a predator and other babblers will join the bird and make more calls. They then surround the predator, all the while flapping (拍打）wings and making noises. The babblers don’t ever actually fight the animal they want to drive off； they just make enough noises and flaps around enough so that it seems that attacking a babbler isn’t worth it
They found that the deception works when the group reaches a certain size—essentially, when enough birds arrive to convince the enemy that it’s best to back off . Davis modeled that behavior in software using a military scene and found that it worked even if the group didn’t have the firepower to confront the enemy directly.
The military is interested in this because a robot that can fool an opponent is a valuable tool. It could lead an enemy down a fake trail or make itself look more dangerous than it actually is.
小题1:Why does the military want to take advantage of squirrels’trick?| A．It can reduce the use of firepower to confront the enemy. | | B．It can fool the enemy into believing it is more dangerous. | | C．It can lead the enemy in a wrong direction to avoid losing resources. | | D．It can scare the enemy away who wants to destroy the acorns. |
小题2:Which of the following is NOT the way Arabian babblers drive off predators?| A．One bird makes an alarm call and other birds will join it | | B．They fight the enemy bravely face to face. | | C．They make noises and flaps around the predator. | | D．They force the predator aware that it isn"t worthwhile to attack. |
小题3:What is the main idea of the passage?| A．Animals" behaviors are researched to be applied to the study of military robots. | | B．Robots, fooling tricks are applied to the study of animals’behaviors. | | C．Birds and squirrels are the animals that are good at deception. | | D．Researchers are interested m animals’military-related behaviors. |
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Beware of those who use the truth to deceive. When someone tells you something that is 36 , but leaves out important information that should be 37 , he can create a false impression.
For example, someone might say, “I just 38 a hundred dollars on the lottery. It was great. I took that dollar ticket back to the store and 39 it in for one hundred dollars!”
This guy’s a winner, 40 ? Maybe, maybe not. We then discover that he bought two hundred 41 , and only one was a winner. He’s really a big 42 !
He didn’t say anything that was 43 , but he deliberately left out some important 44 . That’s called a half-truth. Half-truths are not technically 45 , but they are just as not 46 .
Untrustworthy candidates in 47 campaigns often use this tactic（策略，手段）. Let’s say that during Governor Smith’s last term, her state lost one million jobs and 48 three million jobs. Then she 49 another term. One of her opponents runs an ad 50 , “During Governor Smith’s term, the state lost one million jobs!” That’s true. 51 , an honest statement would have been, “During Governor Smith’s term, the state had a net gain of 52 million jobs.”
Advertisers will sometimes use half-truths. It’s 53 the law to make false claims so they try to mislead you with the 54 . An ad might boast, “Nine out of ten doctors recommend Yucky Pills to cure nose pimples.” It 55 to mention that they only asked ten doctors and nine of them work for the Yucky Corporation.
This kind of deception happens too often. It’s a sad fact of life: Lies are lies, and sometimes the truth can lie as well.
| 小题1: | | A．false | B．true | C．interesting | D．boring |
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| 小题2: | | A．included | B．contained | C．involved | D．referred |
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| 小题3: | | A．lost | B．found | C．donated | D．won |
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| 小题4: | | A．changed | B．took | C．turned | D．made |
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| 小题5: | | A．right | B．well | C．really | D．though |
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| 小题6: | | A．books | B．papers | C．tickets | D．balls |
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| 小题7: | | A．winner | B．loser | C．fighter | D．thinker |
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| 小题8: | | A．true | B．real | C．doubtful | D．false |
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| 小题9: | | A．details | B．information | C．mistakes | D．errors |
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| 小题10: | | A．stories | B．truth | C．facts | D．lies |
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| 小题11: | | A．pleasant | B．exciting | C．honest | D．clever |
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| 小题12: | | A．political | B．commercial | C．personal | D．public |
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| 小题13: | | A．stopped | B．found | C．avoided | D．gained |
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| 小题14: | | A．seeks | B．gets | C．achieves | D．searches |
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| 小题15: | | A．writing | B．reading | C．saying | D．speaking |
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| 小题16: | | A．Otherwise | B．However | C．In fact | D．This way |
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| 小题19: | | A．words | B．facts | C．data | D．truth |
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| 小题20: | | A．fails | B．tries | C．manages | D．plans |
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Body language is the quiet, secret and most powerful language of all! It speaks 1 than words. According to specialists, our bodies send out more 2 than we realize. In fact, non-verbal communication (非言语交际) makes up about 50% of what we really 3 . And body language is particularly 4 when we attempt to communicate across cultures (文化). Indeed, what is called body language is so 5 a part of us that it’s actually often unnoticed. And misunderstandings occur as a result of it. 6 , different societies treat the 7 between people differently. Northern Europeans usually do not like having 8 contact (接触) even with friends, certainly not with 9 .
People from Latin American countries, 10 , touch each other quite a lot. Therefore, it’s possible that in 11 , it may look like a Latino is 12 a Norwegian all over the room. The Latino, trying to express friendship, will keep moving 13 . The Norwegian, very probably seeing this as pushiness, will keep 14 -which the Latino will in return regard as 15 _ .
Clearly, a great deal is going on when people 16 . And only a part of it is in the words themselves. And when parties are from 17 cultures, there’s a strong possibility of 18 . But whatever the situation, the best 19 is to obey the Golden Rule: treat others as you would like to be 20 _.
| 小题1: | | A．straighter | B．louder | C．harder | D．further |
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| 小题2: | | A．sounds | B．invitations | C．feelings | D．messages |
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| 小题3: | | A．hope | B．receive | C．discover | D．mean |
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| 小题4: | | A．immediate | B．misleading | C．important | D．difficult |
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| 小题6: | | A．For example | B．Thus | C．However | D．In short |
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| 小题7: | | A．trade | B．distance | C．connections | D．greetings |
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| 小题8: | | A．eye | B．verbal | C．bodily | D．telephone |
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| 小题9: | | A．strangers | B．relatives | C．neighbours | D．enemies |
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| 小题10: | | A．in other words | B．on the other hand | | C．in a similar way | D．by all means |
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| 小题11: | | A．trouble | B．conversation | C．silence | D．experiment |
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| 小题12: | | A．disturbing | B．helping | C．guiding | D．following |
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| 小题13: | | A．closer | B．faster | C．in | D．away |
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| 小题14: | | A．stepping forward | B．going on | C．backing away | D．coming out |
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| 小题15: | | A．weakness | B．carelessness | C．friendliness | D．coldness |
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| 小题16: | | A．talk | B．travel | C．laugh | D．think |
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| 小题17: | | A．different | B．European | C．Latino | D．rich |
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| 小题18: | | A．curiosity | B．excitement | C．misunderstanding | D．nervousness |
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| 小题19: | | A．chance | B．time | C．result | D．advice |
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| 小题20: | | A．noticed | B．treated | C．respected | D．pleased |
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In the world today, there are millions of surveillance cameras, or “spy cams”, watching and monitoring our daily activities. There are some benefits of course, as people who are breaking laws can be watched and caught using cameras and this helps keep our society and public places safe. These cameras are everywhere and most are openly visible on roads, in airports, businesses, shopping centers and government buildings and even in lifts. Even schools have started using spy cams to watch student activity and behaviour.
The cameras are so common now that we hardly ever even notice them. But the problem lies with the ones that are hidden away from our eyes and are unseen. Technology has helped develop tiny cameras that can be very well hidden and they can “spy” on shoppers, workers, babysitters and people in hotels and clubs without the people even knowing.
It is these spy cams that people feel are an invasion of privacy. Recently, in the US, there have been a number of court cases against babysitters whose actions have been recorded by their employers on hidden cameras.
The number of cameras in public and private areas is on the increase and with rising crime rates and the recent terrorist attacks, more and more surveillance cameras are being used to watch us. This means that we all have to be aware that our employers, department stores, police and even some of our friends could be spying on us at any time!
小题1:In the writer’s opinion, surveillance cameras _______. .| A．do more good than wrong | | B．are overused | | C．should be very popular | | D．ought to be more widely used |
小题2:In what way can the surveillance camera benefit the public?| A．By helping keep social safety. | | B．By monitoring the employees. | | C．By watching the students in class. | | D．By spying on customers. |
小题3:According to Paragraphs 3 and 4, people _______ the use of hidden cameras.| A．object to | | B．agree to | | C．feel happy about | | D．are fearful of |
小题4:Spy cams will be more widely used in the future because _______. .| A．all people want to spy | | B．of the invasion of privacy | | C．people enjoy being watched | | D．of terrorist attacks |
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