题目
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“The latest data tells us that more and more social networking is becoming a part of everyday life for Americans 50 plus,” said Kevin Donnellan, the chief communications officer at AARP, which released the report.
Nearly a quarter of older Americans are on Facebook and 73 percent said they use it to stay in touch with relatives, but not just their children and grandchildren. “They are using the Internet to keep up with the world and the people who are important to them,” said Jean Koppen, the author of the report. She added that older adults are also on Facebook to stay connected, not only with their family, but with their friends and those in the same age group. Almost 50 percent of older adults were introduced to the social networking sites by a family member, mainly a child or grandchild. “Just under one-fifth of adults aged 50 and older say they do not use the Internet,” according to the report.
The findings are based on a telephone survey of 1,863 adults. In addition to keeping up on Facebook and Twitter older adults are aware of the latest technology. Eighty-three percent had heard about the Apple iPad and 11 percent intended to buy one.
Despite the popularity of the Internet among the over 50s, they still mostly go to print newspapers and magazines for news. Only one percent said they followed blogs.
小题1:What is the main idea of the text?
A. Social networking is becoming popular among older Americans.
B. Social networking isn’t for the under 40s in the U.S.A.
C. American old people’s way of life is quite fashionable.
D. Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are the most popular websites in the US.
小题2:Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A.85% of Americans 50 plus choose the Internet over print media. |
B.About 20% of adults aged 50 plus have access to the Internet. |
C.About 460 people in the telephone survey often use Facebook. |
D.Three quarters of the people surveyed got to know the Internet through their family. |
A.Kevin Donnellan approves of this change among older Americans |
B.many older Americans are open-minded about new developments |
C.Young people should introduce their elders to new technology |
D.In a high tech age it is difficult to avoid social networking |
A.A novel. | B.A student’s research paper |
C.A technology guide. | D.A newspaper. |
答案
小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:D
解析
小题1:文章大意题。本文主要介绍了一项最新调查的内容:社交网站并不是40岁以下人群的专利。一项最新调查显示,美国50岁及50岁以上的人群中,有超过25%的人使用Facebook、MySpace和Twitter等社交网站与外界保持联系。由此可判断A项正确。
小题2:细节理解题。根据he findings are based on a telephone survey of 1,863 adults.(该报告基于对1863名成年人开展的一项电话调查)和Nearly a quarter of older Americans are on Facebook (美国近四分之一的年长人士使用Facebook)可知C项正确。
小题3:推理判断题。根据In addition to keeping up on Facebook and Twitter older adults are aware of the latest technology可知答案:除了使用Facebook和Twitter外,年长人士还紧跟科技潮流。
小题4:文章出处题。本文主要介绍了一项最新调查社会调查,最有可能来自报纸新闻。
核心考点
试题【Social networking isn’t only for the under 40s. More than 25 percent of American】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
Dogs love people, too. They lick their faces, protect their homes. Where did these four-legged companions come from? Some scientists believe that they have found the answer.
Scientists have long known that dogs evolved from(演化) wolves. Exactly when the transformation from wolf to dog actually took place, however, remains a mystery.
Some said dogs evolved as a separate species 135,000 years ago in two parts of the world. One group of dogs developed in Europe and Asia from Asian wolves. The other group evolved in North, Central, and South America from American wolves.
Now researchers say those theories are wrong. New studies suggest that domesticated dogs first appeared 15,000 years ago in eastern Asia. Scientists also say that every modern dog descended from approximately five female Asian wolves, the mother of all modern dogs.
Scientists suspect dogs first set paws in North America by following settlers across a land bridge that once linked northern Asia and North America.
小题1:According to recent studies, all modern dogs came from female wolves in ______.
A.Asia | B.Africa |
C.Europe | D.South America |
A.dogs are scientists’ best friends |
B.dogs are more like wolves than they are like any other animal |
C.most dogs are from Africa |
D.scientists have no idea how dogs evolved |
A.tamed | B.indoor | C.intelligent | D.friendly |
A.Why Cats Don’t Like Dogs |
B.Barking up the Wrong Tree |
C.Love Me, Love My Dog |
D.Going from Wolf to Dog |
Keeping watch, a few steps from the road with her skirt over the pedestal (基座), is Goldie Belle Taylor, her face weathered but otherwise in good condition. On this day, she is holding a bunch of pink rises because Goldie Belle always holds flowers. Someone makes sure of that.
“And she has had fresh flowers in her hands for the last 150 years.” Karen Biery lives in Damascus, about five miles west of Hope Cemetery. She’s written a book based on the legend of Goldie Belle Taylor titled Believe. In 1886, at the age of two, young Goldie Belle used her hands to sop up (抹去) the left over elderberry juice from her father’s iron kettle. She died not long after from poisoning. She was the love of her dad’s life, and he was so upset that he sold the family farm to buy the Italian made statue, which today marks her grave.
At first, it was her father who brought the flowers and laid them in her hands. When he died in 1896, the flowers kept coming. Her flowers are different per season. Why do the flowers keep miraculously appearing? People have tried to find out by having camped by the statue, but not even the groundskeepers have been able to catch the criminal.
It’s said that a fairy arrives at Hope Cemetery looking for the grave of her birth mother. She comes across Goldie Belle’s statue.
小题1:The underlined word “that” in paragraph 2 probably refers to________.
A.her face in good condition |
B.her bunch of pink roses |
C.Goldie Belle Taylor is holding pink roses |
D.Goldie Belle Taylor always holds flowers |
A.her father was poisonous |
B.the iron kettle was poisonous |
C.elderberry juice was poisonous |
D.it was her father that hated her |
A.usually change |
B.were stolen |
C.are no longer fresh |
D.come from a criminal |
A.A fairy brings the flowers. |
B.The mystery of Goldie’s flowers. |
C.What happens to the girl? |
D.How do the flowers get there? |
Reports tell of abuse at referees(裁判), players and coaches and fight breaking out on the touchline.
Enough is enough Peter Wright, a keen referee of junior soccer, finally hung up his boots last season. He decided to walk away for good. He said “Every week I have had to take abuse and I’ve had enough of it.”
“Parents’ behaviour is reducing many school teachers, referees, coaches and volunteers to despair.”
The kids are suffering Jim Peter, a referee, said, “We are getting desperate and the kids are suffering.” He described the way spectators(观众)behave as abysmal and getting worse year by year. The big question is why so many parents shame their children in this way. Aggressive Behavior Contracts may have to be introduced to stop the violence and abuse. If not, the game will suffer.
Sign up to good conduct Last season players and parents were made to sign a new good behavior contract. “If a parent breaks the contract, I take his or her child off the pitch and get him or her to explain why I have done so to the child,” said Marc Nash, Wallsend’s assistant leader.
“The next step is to ban both the parent and the child, but happily, so far this has not been necessary.”
小题1:A number of junior soccer matches were abandoned last season because .
A.players abused spectators in the matches |
B.parent fans swore and fought outside the pitch |
C.school teachers persuaded the government to call them off |
D.referees and coaches fought on the touchline |
A.Marc Nash. | B.Jim Peter. | C.Peter Wright. | D.Wallsend. |
A.extremely bad | B.weak | C.disappointing | D.impolite |
In many countries, the main reason people come to live in towns and cities is work. After one or two large factories have been built in or near a town, people come to find work, and soon an industrial area begins to grow. There is usually a residential area nearby, too. The families of these workers need schools, hospitals and shops, so many people come to live in the area to provide these services and a city grows.
In every major city in the world, there is a business district where the big companies have their main offices. In the United States, this area is usually in the city center downtown. It is here that you can see many huge skyscrapers (摩天大楼) and office blocks. The people who work here often travel a long way to work each day. Many of them live in the suburbs of the city, far away from the industrial area and the city center. Some suburbs are very pleasant, with nice houses and big gardens. There are usually parks for children to play in and large department stores where you can buy all you need.
But what is the future of the big cities? Will they continue to get bigger and bigger? Perhaps not. Some major cities have actually become smaller in the last ten years, and it is quite possible that one day we will see people moving out of the major cities and back into smaller towns and villages.
小题1:The underlined phrase “a residential area” means an area ________.
A.where people can buy things |
B.which is near a city center |
C.where people can do business |
D.which is suitable for living in |
A.Because they can live more comfortably there. |
B.Because they mainly want to find work there. |
C.Because they are sure of having a better life there. |
D.Because they like noisy life better than peaceful life. |
A.Big companies usually have their main offices in the business district. |
B.People usually work and live in the skyscrapers in the cities. |
C.A business district usually lies not far away from the city center downtown. |
D.It’s reasonable for a business district without a park for children to play in. |
A.has been going on for more than 2,000 years |
B.will surely continue in the future |
C.may not continue in the future |
D.has now stopped already |
A recent study published in the Journal of personality and Social Psychology offers some clues as to how both nature (personality) and nurture (experience) impact our friendships. Researchers at the University of Virginia and University of Toronto, Mississauga studied more than 7,000 American adults between the ages of 20 and 75 over a period of ten years, looking at the number of times these adults moved during childhood. Their study, like prior ones, showed a link between residential mobility and adult well-being: The more times participants moved as children , the poorer the quality of their adult social relationships.
But digging deeper, the researchers found that personality—specifically being introverted (内向的) or extroverted (外向的) — could either intensify of buffer (缓冲) the effect of moving to a new town or neighborhood during childhood. The negative impact of more moves during childhood was far greater for introverts compared to extroverts.
“Moving a lot makes it difficult for people to maintain long-term close relationships,” stated Dr. Shigehiro Oishi, the first author of the study, in a press release from the American Psychological Association, “This might not be a serious problem for outgoing people who can make friends quickly and easily. Less outgoing people have a harder time making new friends.”
Families often have to relocate — across town, across the country, or across the globe. Yet, in many cases, their kids and young adolescents haven’t yet built up a bank of friendships. So the conventional wisdom is to try to minimize moves for the sake of your child, whenever possible , and to move at the end of the academic year.
小题1:The passage is written mainly to .
A.offer advice to women on how to form intimate relationships . |
B.explain how nature and nurture impact our friendships. |
C.explain how moves during childhood affect children. |
D.tell us how to help children make friends. |
A.People who moved less during childhood have better social relationships. |
B.The more people moved during childhood, the more friends they have. |
C.The more people moved during childhood, the better they adjust to society. |
D.There is no link between residential mobility and adult well-being. |
A.should not relocate their homes |
B.should relocate their homes within the town |
C.had better move at the end of school year |
D.had better move when their children couldn’t build up a bank of friendships |
A.have a bigger impact on an introverted person compared to extroverts. |
B.have no impact on an outgoing person |
C.are a big problem for both introverts and extroverts |
D.help children better adapt to new environment |
A.our friendships are mainly affected by our nurture |
B.we can move when children have made a lot of friends |
C.the impact of moves will disappear when one reaches adulthood |
D.there is some way to minimize the impact of moves during childhood on children |
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