Forget Britney Spears, who is the new pop princess that makes thousands of American teenage girls
scream with excitement at her concerts and rush to the store to buy her latest CD?
The answer is Miley Cyrus. After starring in popular TV shows and hit movies, the 16yearold released
her fifth album, The Time of Our Lives, on August 28.Its lead single, Party in the U. S.A., is wildly
popular.
Cyrus has built her success largely on a role she has played. On TV and the silver screen, Miley Cyrus
is Miley Stewart.She is popular at school during the day and at night, she is a famous pop singer named
Hannah Montana.
Her soaring popularity goes to her head. So Stewart"s father takes her home from Los Angeles to
Tennessee, a southern US state, for a dose of reality(体验生活). The journey kicks_off an adventure
filled with fun, laughter and romance.
While there, she has to cope with her city girl"s unfamiliarity with country life and gradually learn what
family is all about.
"Hannah Montana, at heart, is every Disney princess show you"ve ever seen," writes Michael
O"Sullivan, a reporter with the Washington Post."Only with a limo(房车)instead of a
pumpkinturnedcoach(南瓜马车), a microphone stand instead of a magic wand(魔法棒)and a prince
who wears a cowboy hat."
But the journey of looking for one"s inner self goes beyond the big screen. Actress Miley Cyrus has a
celebrity father, Billy Ray Cyrus, a famous country singer.The teenager doesn"t want people to think she
has taken a shortcut to success."It"s about how I find out who I am. I get to know that you need to be
able to take time to realize who you are," she said."I don"t want to be some celebrity"s daughter, just be
me."
1. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Miley Cyrus released five albums when she was sixteen years old.
B. The Time of Our Lives is her fifth album.
C. Party in the U. S.A. is very popular.
D. Thousands of American teenagers rush to the store to buy Miley"s latest CD.
2. Why did his father take her to the country?
A. Because she got dizzy with success.
B. Because she wanted to play in the movies.
C. Because she wanted to make adventure.
D. Because her father liked country life.
3. What"s the meaning of the underlined words "kicks off" in the fourth paragraph?
A. sets out
B. ends up with
C. goes through
D. suffers from
4. What do we learn from the last paragraph?
A. Miley wants to take a shortcut success.
B. Miley"s father is a famous country singer.
C. Miley wants to succeed by herself.
D. Teenagers like her father.
Jackie Heinricher"s love affair with bamboo started in her backyard. "As a child, I remember playing
among the golden bamboo my dad had planted, and when there was a slight wind, the bamboos sounded
really musical."
A fisheries biologist, Heinricher, 47, planned to work in the salmon industry in Seattle, where she lived with her husband, Guy Thornburgh, but she found it too competitive. Then her garden gave her the idea
for a business: She"d planted 20 bamboo forests on their sevenacre farm.
Heinricher started BooShoot Gardens in 1998. She realized early on what is just now beginning to be
known to the rest of the world. It can be used to make fishing poles, skateboards, buildings, furniture,
floors, and even clothing. An added bonus: Bamboo absorbs four times as much carbon dioxide as a
group of hardwood trees and releases 35 percent more oxygen.
First she had to find a way to massproduce the plants-a tough task, since bamboo flowers create seed only once every 50 to 100 years. And dividing a bamboo plant frequently kills it.
Heinricher appealed to Randy Burr, a tissue culture expert, to help her."People kept telling us we"d
never figure it out," says Heinricher."Others had worked on it for 27 years! I believed in what we were
doing, though, so I just kept going."
She was right to feel a sense of urgency. Bamboo forests are being rapidly used up, and a United
Nations report showed that even though bamboo is highly renewable,_as many as half of the world"s
species are threatened with dying out.Heinricher knew that bamboo could make a significant impact on
carbon emissions(排放)and world economies, but only if huge numbers could be produced. And that"s
just what she and Burr figured out after nine years of experiments-a way to grow millions of plants. By
placing cuttings in test tubes with salts, vitamins, plant hormones, and seaweed gel, they got the plants to
grow and then raised them in soil in greenhouses.
Not long after it, Burr"s lab hit financial difficulties. Heinricher had no experience running a tissue
culture operation, but she wasn"t prepared to quit. So she bought the lab.
Today Heinricher heads up a profitable multimilliondollar company, working on species from all over
the world and selling them to wholesalers(批发商). "If you want to farm bamboo, it"s hard to do without
the young plants, and that"s what we have," she says proudly.
1. What was the main problem with planting bamboo widely?
A. They didn"t have enough young bamboo.
B. They were short of money and experience.
C. They didn"t have a big enough farm to do it.
D. They were not understood by other people.
2. What does Heinricher think of bamboo?
A. Fragile and affordable.
B. Productive and flexible.
C. Useful and earthfriendly.
D. Strong and profitable.
3. The underlined word "renewable" in Paragraph 6 probably means "________".
A. able to be replaced naturally
B. able to be raised difficultly
C. able to be shaped easily
D. able to be recycled conveniently
4. What do you learn from the passage?
A. Heinricher"s love for bamboo led to her experiments in the lab.
B. Heinricher"s determination helped her to succeed in her work.
C. Heinricher struggled to prevent bamboo from disappearing.
D. Heinricher finally succeeded in realizing her childhood dream.
(情感). The study reveals that in cultures where emotional control is the standard, such as Japan, focus
is placed on the eyes to interpret emotions. Whereas in cultures where emotion is openly expressed,
such as the United States, the focus is on the mouth to interpret emotion.
"These findings go against the popular theory that the facial expressions of basic emotions can be
universally recognized, " said University of Alberta researcher Dr Takahiko Masuda. "A person"s culture
plays a very strong role in determining how they will read emotions and needs to be considered when
interpreting facial expressions."
These cultural differences are even noticeable in computer emotions(情感符号), which are used to
convey a writer"s emotions over email and text message. The Japanese emotions for happiness and
sadness vary in terms of how the eyes are drawn, while American emotions vary with the direction of the
mouth. In the United States the emotions:)and:－)show a happy face, whereas the emotions:(or:－(show
a sad face.However, Japanese tend to use the symbol(??)to indicate a happy face, and(; _；)to indicate
a sad face.
"We think it is quite interesting and appropriate that a culture tends to mask its emotions. The
Japanese would focus on a person"s eyes when determining emotions, as eyes tend to be quite subtle
(微妙的), " said Masuda."In the United States, where open emotion is quite common, it makes sense
to focus on the mouth, which is the most expressive feature on a person"s face."
1. The text mainly tells us that ________.
A. cultural differences are expressed in emotions
B. culture is the key to interpreting facial emotions
C. different emotions are preferred in different cultures
D. people from different cultures express emotions differently
2. Which emotion is used by Americans to show a happy face?
A. (; _; )
B. :－)
C. :－(
D. :(
3. If a Japanese wants to detect whether a smile is true or false, he will probably ________.
A. read the whole face
B. focus on the mouth
C. look into the eyes
D. judge by the voice
4. People used to believe that ________.
A. some facial expressions of emotions were too complex to be recognized
B. people in the world interpreted basic emotions in different ways
C. people could only recognize the facial expressions of basic emotions
D. people all over the world understood basic emotions in the same way
all the time; if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference
between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary
changes to make his language like other people"s. In the same way, children learn to do all the other things without being taught to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle…They compare their own performances
with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a
child a chance to find out his mistakes and correct them for himself. We do it all for him. We act as if we
thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was
made to. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the
answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.
If it is a matter in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time in such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he
tells us that he can"t find the way to get the right answer. Let the children learn what all educated persons
must some day learn, how to measure their own understanding, how to know what he does not know.
B．asking older people many questions
C．making mistakes and having them corrected
D．doing what other people do
B．Allow children to mark mistakes.
C．Point out children"s mistakes to them.
D．Let children mark their own work.
B．point out children"s mistakes whenever they are found
C．correct children"s mistakes as soon as possible
D．give children more book knowledge
B．the same as learning skills
C．more important than other skills
D．not really important skills
in a mental voice. Then the kitchenrobot gave him toast and eggs. Billy was amazed. While he was eating,
the whole wall became a TV screen and Billy thought that it was great having robots to do everything for
him. Billy ate his meal, watching a TV show. When he finished eating, the clothesrobot gave him his
clothes very fast and dressed him. Then Billy went off to school.
When Billy went outside, he saw a car with no driver waiting for him. The car said, "Hello, I will be
driving you to school every day. Now would you please show your school ID card?" said the car. So
Billy showed the car his school ID card and got in. The car began to talk to Billy about his school and his
schoolwork. After that the car said, "I will check your homework today because you will have a very, very important lesson to learn in school today. Please put your homework on the blackboard." Billy did so.
The car checked Billy"s homework and then said, "Well done! You are a great student. All of your
homework is correct." When they got to school, Billy said to the car, "Goodbye. See you later." The car
said to Billy, "Good luck in your school." Billy got into the classroom and took his seat at the front of the
room. Then his teacher came in and said, "Welcome, children! Today we will have a hard but important
lesson-"How do robots help a human being?"…"
1. What"s the best title of the passage?
A. Billy"s Daily Life
B. How Billy Go to School
C. How Do Robots Help Humans in the Future
D. Robots
2. Who cooked breakfast for Billy?
A. His mother.
B. His father.
C. A robot.
D. Billy himself.
3. When did Billy have to show his school ID card?
A. Before getting to school.
B. Before getting into the car.
C. Before entering the classroom.
D. Before classes were over.
4. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Billy liked having robots to do everything for him.
B. At first Billy was very surprised.
C. Billy was glad that the robot teacher would give a very, very important lesson.
D. The car itself drove Billy to school.
cerebral palsy (CP). It is a condition that affects the brain. Kids who are born with CP have trouble
controlling the muscles in their body. Taylor is 8 years old now. She uses a powerwheelchair to get
around. Her twin sister Sydney participates in sports, but Taylor has a different interest: art.
Taylor submitted(提交) a watercolor painting of a sunset in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, to an art
contest. Of the more than 5,500 students who took park in the contest, only 51 were selected. Taylor
was one of them. Her winning painting is now being displayed in Union Station, in Washington, D. C.
After leaving Union Station, the exhibit will tour the country.
The contest was sponsored by VSA, the international organization on arts and disability. The
nonprofit group was started to give people with disabilities an opportunity to participate in the arts.
Submissions for the contest came from students with and without disabilities. The exhibition is part of
VSA"s International Arts Festival and was also sponsored by CVS Caremark"s All Kids Can program.
Art Changed Her Life
Amanda LaMunyon represented Oklahoma in the exhibition. She just finished her freshman year of
high school. When Amanda was in elementary school, she had problems focusing and following rules.
She has Asperger Syndrome, which is a form of autism.
"People started looking at her differently," her mother, Sherry LaMunyon, said. "They stopped
looking at her as a girl who was struggling and started looking at her as an artist. It"s changed her whole
life."
The president of VSA, Soula Antoniou, said that the point of the exhibition is to focus on students"
abilities, rather than their disabilities. "What we"re trying to do is make sure each student finds something
they"re good at," she said.
That"s exactly what Taylor"s done. While she has some difficulty with fine motor skills, she"s found that
she"s talented with wide brush strokes(笔画) in painting.
Inspiring Others
Before finding painting, Amanda said she had trouble fitting in. "I didn"t have anything that I felt was my
talent," she said. Now she"s more focused on school and is interested in studying fashion design and
theater.
Amanda hopes that the exhibition will show others that even if they have disabilities, they have abilities
they don"t even know yet. You can see more of Amanda"s artwork at amandalamunyon.com.
1. How could Amanda"s mother feel when they learned Amanda could paint?
A. Disappointed.
B. Surprised.
C. Doubt.
D. Pleased.
2. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Only the disabled students can enter the art contest sponsored by VSA.
B. Amanda, Taylor"s sister, has trouble in focusing and following rules.
C. Amanda has improved a lot in study after finding painting.
D. Sydney prefers art to sport because of her disability in the brain.
3. What is the text mainly about?
A. Students with disabilities show their creativity at an international art festival in Washington, D. C.
B. Students with disabilities are more talented in art according to the result of an international art festival
in Washington, D. C.
C. An international art festival in Washington, D. C. gives people with disabilities an opportunity to
participate in the arts.
D. More than 5,500 students submitted their paintings at an international art festival in Washington, D. C.
4. We may infer from the passage that ________.
A. Amanda had Asperger syndrome before she went to the elementary school
B. Some children who are disabled even don"t know their situation
C. Taylor has trouble controlling the muscles, but her sister is healthy
D. Amanda is good at painting with wide brush strokes
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