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bringing difficult scientific ideas to a wide audience are not so clear. Now the distinguished physicist has
teamed up with his daughter Lucy to produce a children"s book designed to communicate contemporary
physics. Will it capture the attention of young minds and teach them some real science?Will it be boring and
over the heads of the prospective readers?
George"s Secret Key to the Universe is an adventure story complete with villains (反面人物) and hero and
is illustrated with enjoyable line-drawings. It involves a lost pig,a humorously portrayed (描写) intelligent
computer,school bulies and a trip through the Solar System. Didactic discussions on aspects of modern
physics,such as supernova explosions and black-hole physics are hung on this set-up.There are also fact boxes
on physics and astronomy,and some photographs of astronomical phenomena:planets,comets,galaxies (星系)
and so on. Overall, the book is a serious effort to convey facts and ideas in present day astronomy and
astrophysics,within a science-fiction adventure story.
The mixture is great. Children love facts and adventure stories. The combination will catch their interest
and keep them occupied for hours. After ten minutes of leafing through the book,my granddaughter Ruby
was deeply absorbed and I had to promise to bring it back for her to read after I had completed my review.
Like any educational tool,it will succeed for some and not for others. I suppose there should be more of the
former.
B. From a textbook.
C. From a book review.
D. From an advertisement.
B. A Brief History of Time.
C. The Nature of Space and Time.
D. Hawking"s fact and fiction.
B. It will be more successful.
C. It will be a complete failure.
D. It all depends on Ruby.
B. throwing away a book
C. tearing up a book
D. turning pages of a book
答案
核心考点
试题【阅读理解。 Stephen Hawking"s book A Brief History of Time was a huge commercial s】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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the best steps towards a better relationship with her. They are not necessarily surprising or revolutionary, but
they have worked for many people. Try them.
Remember your mother"s age. As children, we often do not think of our mother as having an age. Even
when we become conscious of her as an individual,age does not change our view; she is still our mother.
Knowing our mother"s age, not just in numbers of years but in terms of her psychological and physical state,
often helps us to understand her better.
Listen to your mother. I have found that sometimes the things my mother told me long ago are remarkably
useful. If your mother knows that you respect her point of view, even if you do not share it, it will help her
feel close to you.
Remember that your mother has a past. A key step in managing our relationship with our mother is to find
out about her early life. Niclle"s mother suffered much during the Second World War. "My parents are both
Jewish-Turkish. They met in France and married young for love. They were in their twenties when war broke
out and because they were Jews,they had to go into hiding. She does speak to me about the war, and I think it
is important to know what she went through. It is a part of her life that must have affected her deeply."
Sometimes, in learning about our mother"s past, we know that it can encourage us to think about her whole life.
Ask your mother about your childhood history. My grandparents died when I was young. If you are
fortunate enough to have living family, think of your life as a jigsaw (拼图) puzzle and ask as many questions
as you can to put the picture together. Understanding your roots and your childhood can help you know more
clearly who you are, as part of a family which you share with your mother.
Keep a sense of humor about your mother. I have often listened to stories of difficult mothers and I have
also listened to the following piece of advice which I have found most helpful:Don"t have a sense of humor
failure about your mother.
Remember that managing your mother is really about managing yourself. No matter how difficult we find
her, it is important to remember that it is not her behavior itself that is causing us discomfort, but the way we
feel about her behavior. We should follow the way of her life. Only then are you able to accept your
mother－with all her failings.
B. sharing your roots and your childhood with your mother
C. having a sense of humor failure about your mother
D. managing yourself while managing your mother
B. mothers.
C. steps.
D. people.
B. You should follow a most useful piece of advice－a sense of humor.
C. The key measure of managing our mother is how we manage ourselves.
D. It is unreasonable to expect our mother to change totally from the way she was brought up.
B. to improve the relationship with your mother
C. to keep a sense of humor about your mother all day long
D. to accept your mother-with all her failings
meet with all kinds of hardships, such as illness, accidents and other disasters. If we have no friends to help
us out of these difficulties, we can hardly get to a new start. Everyone needs support in feelings, yet your
family members can"t always give you so much support because of all kinds of reasons. At this time a true
friend is very important. When you have made great progress in your work and made your mark, you need a
friend to share your pleasure. On the other hand, when you suffer a terrible loss in life, you need a friend to
listen to you and open your heart to him. Of course, everyone has to die, and when you are dying, how you
wish your friend to understand you and help your folks!
Since friendship is so important, we should try to make some true friends. How to find friends?A friend
should first be true, ure, kind, friendly, enthusiastic and of course stress feelings and like to help others. If
you can find a person with the same belief and interest, it is surely much better. Remember when you have
found an ideal person to be your friend, it doesn"t mean he or she will be your friend. You should open your
heart, feeling and wish to him or her to gain his or her heart and feeling. When you have got a good friend,
please remember that friends should try to help and support each other. When your friend has done something
which doesn"t satisfy you so much, you should try to understand him. When your friend has done something
wrong, you should try to forgive him. If so, your friend will be deeply thankful to you for your forgiveness.
Your life will prove your most valuable possession is your friend.
B. sorrows
C. either joys or sorrows
D. both joys and sorrows
B. The friend with the same amount of money as you.
C. The friend with the same belief and interest as you.
D. The friend with the same social position as you.
B. heart, feeling and wish
C. knowledge
D. wish
B. discuss with
C. accept
D. argue with
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corps paints his eyes during a friendly Taekwondo match at a South Korean Army Base in Pochon, north of
Seoul. Stressed out white-collar workers are scaling (攀登) skyscrapers, camping out on rooftops, smashing
up restaurants, pretending to be children and even visiting cemeteries in a bid to relieve the pressure of modern
life.
As the country"s economy continues to steam ahead, once popular forms of entertainment, such as karaoke,
card games and even boxing bars, appear to be losing their appeal.
Consider the members of Shanghai"s Cat Rain club. By day, this group of young women works executive
jobs, but by night they climb buildings so they can spend the night on the roof.
"It"s a good way to release our pressure. You feel relaxed when you"re sitting on the roof, looking up to
the sky and chatting with intimate (亲密的) friends," said Gong Ying, 25.
The stress of work is not just limited to people in Shanghai.
A recently opened restaurant in Beijing encourages customers to smash plates-as long as they are willing to
pay to replace them.
Though there has been some debate about the extravagance (奢侈) of such services, some psychologists
say the activity reflects the desire of some white-collar workers to vent their angst.
Some workers even appear eager to return to their childhoods. This May, hundreds of people took part in
a festival in which adults pretended to be children. It was an adults-only event, and participants could read
comics and eat sweets all day.
Scenic places such as parks and rivers can also help people relax and put things in perspective. But a
cemetery?
Cemetery companies in Shanghai organized visits to local graveyards for stressed-out workers in March.
The participants were taken to quiet spots in the cemetery where they could contemplate (考虑、打算) life
and their futures.
Roof-camper Chen Bin, an IT marketing professional, said she had camped out on a rooftop about 30
times. When she"s not sleeping out under the stars, she also has several other adrenalin-fueled interests, such
as downhill racing and paragliding.
"Pressure may bring us distress, but it doesn"t mean we can"t find ways out," Chen says."Life should be
imaginative."
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for its advantages. These days, host families are trying to offer more in terms of quality, for they still have
something to worry about.
Host family accommodation is often seen as the number-one choice for its advantages in language study,
cultural communication and cost of living. Staying alongside host families enables students to get enough
practice for the short time of their studying so that their language acquisition is likely to become faster. Living
in host families also has the advantage for students of being able to spend a lot of time communicating with
their "host parents", and get to know the local way of life, people and culture. Another advantage is that host
family accommodation can sometimes be the least expensive. It attracts students for it ensures them a family
type of living at a low cost.
The advantages, however, have not prevented host families form worrying. On one hand, some host
families are losing their unique selling point. The problem is that the majority of hosts in big cites, now
generally single and young, have less times available for students but the selling point for host family
accommodation is communication practice. One the other hand, students" expectations have risen. They are
becoming more demanding and asking for more than ever from their accommodation, as they come mainly
from high socio-economic groups in their own countries.
To get out of the difficult situation, host families are now making efforts to improve the quality of
service. They are trying to making living conditions better, including broadband Internet service, private
bathroom, and access to plenty of hot water for long showers. They are also providing students with
structured family activities.
It is believed that host family accommodation will keep the popularity vote with language travel students.
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There is growing dissatisfaction toward rich people, according to a new online poll. The poll by the China
Youth Daily in collaboration(与…合作) with Sina.com has highlighted the apparent discontent (不满) over the
country"s widening income gap.
Nearly 8,000 people filled in online questionnaires last week, and when asked to use three words to describe
society"s rich, the top responses were "extravagant" (奢侈的), "greedy" and"corrupt".
About 57 percent of those polled said that"extravagant" was the best word to describe the rich, followed
closely by "greedy".
Ironically, despite their dissatisfaction, 93 percent of those polled wished they could be rich too, and that
richer people should be"socially responsible".
Some 33 percent of respondents also praised rich people for being"smart".
Nearly 90 percent of respondents agreed that most people in society, including themselves, were willing to
speak up for the poor but were reluctant to take action and actually do something for them.
The survey comes on the heels of a heated debate over comments made by renowned economist Mao
Yushi, who said he was "speaking for the rich and working for the poor".
A report released by the Asian Development Bank last Wednesday revealed that China"s Gini coefficient-an
indicator of the wealth divide-rose from 0.407 in 1993 to 0.473 in 2004.
An earlier CASS report said that the richest 10 percent of Chinese families now own more than 40 percent
of all private assets, while the poorest 10 percent share less than 2 percent of the total wealth.
The country"s income disparity (悬殊) is close to that of Latin America, the report which came out in
January, said.
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