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When tension arises in a relationship between two people, a frequent way of dealing with this is to send messages through a third person. Family doctors refer to the process as ‘triangulation”. Following a quarrel, a mother may say to her son, “Tell your father to pass the salt”, which may be answered by, “Tell your mother to get her own salt.” In many long cases of triangulation, the middleman becomes severely disturbed.
Two years ago, Ruth and Ralph Gordon brought their 17-year-old daughter for treatment. Lucille was not doing well in school, using drugs heavily. When I began to work with her, she was uncommunicative and aggressive. After some time, however, she opened up and told me her parents rarely talked to each other, but both used her as a middleman. Mrs. Gordon was sexually unsatisfied and suggested to Lucille that she ask her father to go for marriage advice. Mr. Gordon told Lucille that he was seeing another woman, and he urged Lucille to speak to her mother about improving her behaviour. Caught in this confusing situation, Lucille became more and more troubled. It wasn’t until she refused to play middleman that she began to improve. When either parent began to send a message through her, she learned to say, “Tell him/her yourself!”
You’ll find that when family members learn to dial each other directly, there’s rarely a busy signal or wrong number. With direct dialing, a sense of freshness is created.
小题1:The underlined words “foul things up” in the 1st paragraph means ________.
A.create things | B.improve things | C.remove things | D.ruin things |
A.the process of sending messages through a 3rd person |
B.the middleman who becomes severely disturbed |
C.the tension in a relationship between 2 people |
D.the argument between a mother and a father |
A.family members should learn to get their messages across directly |
B.parents should send their children taking drugs for treatment |
C.children can hardly get used to their parents’ troubles |
D.children should refuse the requests of their parents |
答案
小题1:D
小题1:A
小题1:A
解析
核心考点
试题【 Do you remember the game “Telephone”? A message gets passed from person to pers】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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He returned to the country, wandering from fair to fair, playing his Scandinavian music pieces, while his child, who never left his side, listened to him in delight or sang to his playing. One day, at Ljimby Fair, Professor Valerius heard them and took them to Gothenburg. He insisted that the father was the first violinist in the world and that the daughter had the making of a great artist. Her education and instruction were provided for. She made rapid progress and charmed everybody with her prettiness, her grace of manner and her real eagerness to please.
When Valerius and his wife went to settle in France, they took Daae and Christine with them. "Mamma" Valerius treated Christine as her daughter. As for Daae, he became ill with homesickness. He never went out of doors in Paris, but lived in a sort of dream which he kept up with his violin. For hours at a time, he remained locked up in his bedroom with his daughter, playing and singing, very, very softly.
Daae seemed not to recover his strength until the summer, when the whole family went to stay at Perros-Guirec, in a far-away corner of Brittany, where the sea was of the same color as in his own country. Often he would play his saddest tunes on the beach and pretend that the sea stopped its roaring to listen to them. And then he persuaded Mamma Valerius to allow him to leave for a while. At the time of the "pardons," the village festivals and dances, he went off with his violin, as in the old days, and was allowed to take his daughter with him for a week. They gave the smallest villages music to last them for a year and slept at night in a barn, refusing a bed at the inn, lying close together on the straw, as when they were so poor in Sweden. At the same time, they were very neatly dressed, refused the halfpence offered to them; and the people around could not understand the behaviour of this country violinist, who walked heavily on the roads with that pretty child who sang like an angel from Heaven. They followed them from village to village.
小题1: When he was in the countryside, Daae did NOT __________.
A.work on his land | B.sing in the choir on Sundays |
C.make a fortune at weddings and festivals | D.teach his daughter how to sing |
A.hope for Daae and Christine | B.appreciation of Daae and Christine |
C.sympathy for Daae and Christine | D.love for Daae and Christine |
A.always sleepy | B.so homesick that he fell ill |
C.too busy teaching his daughter | D.willing to be locked up with his daughter |
A.the father made very good music |
B.the daughter sang like an angel from Heaven |
C.the father walked strangely with his daughter |
D.they appeared to be badly off but refused money offered |
That’s right, animals. Scientists have begun to understand what farmers have known for thousands of years. Animals often seem to know in advance that an earthquake is coming, and they show their fear by acting in strange ways. Before a Chinese quake in 1975, snakes awoke from their winter sleep early only to freeze to death in the cold air. Cows broke their halters (缰绳) and tried to escape. Chickens refused to enter their cage. All of this unusual behavior, as well as physical changes in the earth, warned Chinese scientists of the coming quake. They moved people away from the danger zone and saved thousands of lives.
One task for scientists today is to learn exactly which types of animal behavior predict quakes. It’s not an easy job. First of all not every animal reacts to the danger of an earthquake. Just before a California quake in 1977, for example, an Arabian horse became very nervous and tried to break out of his enclosure. The Australian horse next to him, however, remained perfectly calm. It’s also difficult at times to tell the difference between normal animal restlessness and “earthquake nerves”. A zoo keeper once called earthquake researchers to say that his cougar had been acting strangely. It turned out that the cat had an upset stomach.
A second task for scientists is to find out exactly what kind of warnings the animals receive. They know that animals sense far more of the world than humans do. Many animals can see, hear, and smell things that people do not even notice. Some can sense tiny changes in air pressure, gravity, or the magnetism of Earth. This extra sense probably helps animals predict quakes.
A good example of this occurred with a group of dogs. They were shut in an area that was being shaken by a series of tiny earthquakes. (Several small quakes often come before or after a large one.) Before each quake a low booming sound was heard. Each boom caused the dogs to bark wildly. Then the dogs began to bark during a silent period. A scientist who was recording quakes looked at his machine. It was acting as though there were a loud noise too. The scientist realized that the dogs had reacted to a booming noise. They also sensed the tiny quake that followed it. The machine recorded both, though humans felt and heard nothing.
In this case there was a machine to monitor what the dogs were sensing. Many times, however, our machines record nothing extraordinary, even though animals know a quake is coming. The animals might be sensing something we measure but do not recognize as a warning. Discovering what animals sense, and learning how they know it is a danger signal, is a job for future scientists.
小题1:Through the passage the writer hopes to explore __________.
A.why animals send a danger signal before an earthquake |
B.how animals know when an earthquake is coming |
C.why animals not men have good sense of danger |
D.how much animals know about an earthquake |
A.chickens refused to go out of their cage |
B.snakes were frozen to death in their caves |
C.snakes awoke from their winter sleep earlier |
D.cows broke their halters and escaped from their sheds |
A.An Arabian horse tried to escape from his enclosure. |
B.A cougar had an upset stomach unexpectedly. |
C.An Australian horse was perfectly calm. |
D.A cat acted very strangely in a zoo. |
A.find out that the machine could record unusual happenings |
B.compare the reactions of animals and those of humans |
C.prove that animals could sense more than humans |
D.find out what exact warnings animals sent |
Baseball is the most popular sport in the US. It is played throughout the spring and summer, and professional baseball teams play well into the fall.
Football is the most popular sport in the fall. The game originated as a college sport more than 75 years ago. It’s not the same as European football or soccer. In American football there are 11 players as well on each team, and they are dressed in padded uniforms and helmets because the game is rough and injuries are likely to occur. It is still played by almost every college and university in the country.
Basketball is the winner sport in American schools and colleges. Like football, basketball originated in the US, many Americans prefer it to football because it is played indoors throughout the winter and because it is a faster game. And the famous NBA games are considered the best of this game.
Other sports attracting a great many people include wrestling, boxing and horse racing. Although horse-racing fans call themselves sportsmen, the exactness of the term is questionable, as only the jockeys who ride the horses in the races can be considered athletes. The so-called sportsmen are the spectators, who do not come primarily to see the horses race, but to bet upon the outcome of each race. Gambling is the attraction of horse racing.
小题1:Baseball is so popular in America that some professional teams play it until ___________.
A.spring | B.summer | C.fall | D.winter |
A.to avoid unexpected injuries |
B.to play it like European football |
C.to make the game rough enough |
D.to look like professional players |
A.NBA games are very popular |
B.it is originated in the US |
C.it is much faster than football |
D.it is played indoors throughout winter |
A.mainly stand and watch the races |
B.don’t ride horse in the races |
C.are only interested in the results |
D.don’t care who wins in the races |
A.the person who bets upon the the race |
B.the person who cares about horse-racing |
C.the rider who enjoys watching the race |
D.the rider who competes in horse-racing |
Around 2 pm every Thanksgiving Day, family members seat themselves around the kitchen table. Plates of turkey, vegetables, salad, rolls and pies cover it. At this point, we can hardly keep ourselves from drooling (流口水) all over our fancy clothes, but it’s not yet time to eat.
First, we must bow our heads, close our eyes and say a prayer of thanks aloud to God for giving us everything we have. Under normal circumstances, I would have no problem making a list of things I am thankful for. I grew up in a loving family. My parents, who aren’t wealthy, took out loans to help me pay for university.
But, the funny thing is, every time I sit down for Thanksgiving dinner and try to say a prayer of thanks, my mind usually goes blank. I think it has something to do with my growling (咕咕叫) stomach and all of that food sitting right there under my nose.
Eventually, though, we all finish our short prayers and dig in. To be sure, the day includes other highlights – visiting with family and watching football. But usually around 6 pm we are all ourselves stuffed like turkeys and thankful to have a nice warm bed to sleep in.
小题1:The purpose of the text is to ________.
A.tell what the family do for Thanksgiving Day |
B.tell how the family spends Thanksgiving Day |
C.introduce foods served on Thanksgiving Day |
D.introduce the American Thanksgiving Day |
A.watching a movie | B.making visits |
C.having a big meal | D.watching football |
A.He is too thankful to say a word. |
B.His mind is on the food before him. |
C.He feels too excited to speak. |
D.He is shy to speak in public. |
A.chat with others | B.make a hole |
C.mix things up | D.start eating |
A.On Thanksgiving Day, men do nothing but eat. |
B.The author is a middle school student. |
C.The author’s family is not rich, but it’s a loving one. |
D.Thanksgiving Day falls on Thursday of December. |
White has a clean and pure image. That is why doctors, dentists, and nurses usually wear white uniforms. Babies are dressed in white at baptisms(洗礼)and brides wear white wedding gowns at weddings. White in these cases is the symbol of innocence or purity.
Sometimes white is used in expressions that are not good. “Whitewash” is one such expression. At first, “whitewash” meant to paint over something with white paint to make it look better. However, it means something different today: to hide or to cover up mistakes or failures.
A “white elephant” is another example of white used in a negative way. In ancient Thailand, a white elephant was regarded as a sacred animal, but it was very expensive to keep. The kings of those days presented a white elephant to the people they wanted to ruin. Once they received this holy, royal animal as a gift, they were not allowed to sell or kill it. Today, a “white elephant” means something that is big, useless, and unwanted. In America, when people want to get rid of their furniture or clothes, they often have a “white elephant sale”.
小题1:The text is mainly about________.
A.the meanings of white in English culture |
B.the history of some English idioms |
C.some interesting customs in English culture |
D.some useful English words and expressions |
A.White-wash. | B.White-collar. |
C.White elephant. | D.White elephant sale. |
A.A boy is dressed in white at baptisms. |
B.A bride wears a white wedding gown. |
C.A man whitewashes his crime. |
D.A girl finds a white collar job. |
A.a white-elephant sale is useful to the poor |
B.the white color is important in our daily life |
C.a white-collar job used to be easy to get |
D.expressions with white have different meanings |
A.analyzing its cause and effect |
B.providing typical examples |
C.comparing different ideas |
D.following the time order |
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