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Most people feel lonely sometimes, but it usually only lasts between a few minutes and a few hours. This kind of loneliness is not serious. In fact, it is quite normal. For some people, though, loneliness can last for years. Now researchers say there are three different types of loneliness.
The first kind of loneliness is temporary. This is the most common type. It usually disappears quickly and does not require any special attention. The second kind, situation-for example, family problem, the death of a loved one, or moving to a new place. Although this kind of loneliness can cause physical problems, such as headaches and sleeplessness, it usually does not last for more than a year.
The third kind of loneliness is the most severe. Unlike the second type, chronic (the opposite of “temporary”) usually lasts more than two years and has no specific cause. People who experience habitual loneliness have problems socializing and becoming close to others. Unfortunately, many chronically lonely people think there is little or nothing they can do to improve their condition.
Psychologists agree that one important factor in loneliness is a person’s social contacts, for example, friends, family members, co-workers, etc. we depend on various people for different reasons. For instance, our families give us emotional support, our parents and teachers give us guidance, and our friends share similar interests and activities. However, psychologists have found that, though lonely people may have many social contacts, they sometimes feel they should have more. They question their popularity.
Psychologists are trying to find ways to help habitually lonely people for two reasons: they are unhappy and unable to socialize and there is a connection between chronic loneliness and serious illness such as heart disease, while temporary and situational loneliness can be a sad, and sometimes dangerous condition.
小题1:How would you treat temporary loneliness according to the passage?     
A.Talk to friends.B.Just ignore it.
C.Go to see a doctor.D.Ask your teachers for guidance.
小题2:“It” in the last sentence of the second paragraph refers to ___________.
A.temporary lonelinessB.situational loneliness
C.a new placeD.sleeplessness
小题3:Why do psychologists want to help chronically lonely people?
A.Chronic loneliness can cause family problems.
B.Chronic loneliness can cause serious illness
C.Chronic loneliness can not be overcome.
D.Chronic loneliness is incurable.
小题4:What is the best title for the passage?
A.Three kinds of lonelinessB.Loneliness and disease
C.Loneliness and social contactsD.Chronic loneliness

答案

小题1:B
小题2:B
小题3:B
小题4:A
解析

小题1:细节理解题。从文章第二段开头可以知道,这种暂时的孤独很快就会消失,不需要任何的特别关心。
小题2:猜测词义题。根据it所在的句子的前后意思可以推断,此处讲的是第二种孤独。
小题3:细节理解题。根据最后一段可以判断。科学家们正在想办法来帮助长期孤独的人,原因有两个:一是他们不快乐也不能适应社会生活;二是这种长期性的孤独与疾病有一定联系。
小题4:主旨大意题。本文主要讲的是三种孤独。
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Lego, the inventor of those colorful bricks that have inspired kids’ imaginations world-wide, has celebrated its 50th anniversary.

On January 28, 1958, a man named Godtfred Kirk Christiansen created the plastic building bricks that can now be found in almost every child’s toy box. The simple building block has become one of the most well-known and popular toys around the world.
"The Lego brick continues to be very attractive, because it allows children, and others, to develop their creativity and imagination," said Charlotte Simonsen, a spokeswoman of the Danish Lego company.
The company’s building brick allows an infinite number of links. With just two bricks there are 24 different links, and with six, there are 915 million possibilities, according to Lego.
A half-century after its creation, more than 400 million children and adults spend five billion hours a year putting the bricks together and pulling them apart. Also, the bricks made today can still interlock with those made in 1958.
Lego bricks are not just child’s play: they also attract the interest of adults. South Korean adventurer, Heo Young-Ho, who climbed Mount Everest in 1987, left a Lego toy behind in the snow during his climb.
After its great success Lego experienced a severe crisis at the end of the 1990s, hit hard by fierce competition from electronic games. This so-called "Toy of the Century" then suffered a dark period that lasted several years.
With great efforts, the company began to prosper again, and in 2006 it earned about 1.5 billion dollars in 130 countries. Seven boxes of Lego are now sold every second around the world, and 19 billion bricks are produced each year: enough to encircle the Earth five times!
小题1:The Lego bricks have remained popular in the past 50 years as a result of _______.
A.attracting many children worldwideB.brought imagination to the children worldwide
C.making the children and even adults worldwide creative and imaginative
D.having infinite links that bring many imagination
小题2:The author gave the example of South Korean adventurer Heo Young-Ho in order to prove that ______.
A.Heo Youn-Ho also loved playing Lego bricks
B.the Lego bricks made him a mountain climber
C.the Lego bricks not only interest children but also adults
D.the Lego bricks are a must when on goes on an adventure
小题3:It can be inferred from the text that ______.
A.there are 915 different links with just 6 bricks
B.the Lego Bricks Company has made a lot of money from the people worldwide
C.the Lego Bricks can’t compare with computer games
D.the bricks made today don’t change much compared with those made in 1958
小题4:The underlined word “hit” in the seventh paragraph means _____.
A.defeated in a fight or a competition
B.have a crash in an accident or a fight
C.get known through a song
D.attacksomebodyin a fight
小题5:The main idea of the story is that _____.
A.Lego bricks: brilliant past and struggling future
B.Lego bricks: an attraction of both children and adults
C.Lego bricks: making creativity and imagination
D.Lego bricks: making billions of money every year

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What is green food? Do you enjoy green food every day? The concept of “green food” was first suggested by the Department of the Ministry of Agriculture in 1990.
Green symbolizes life, health and energy. Nowadays, people demand healthy and fresh food. Having enough food to eat is only a basic requirement, and they need more than this. They want to enjoy unpolluted, safe and nutritious food and eat comfortably. So the government does this through a set of “from the land to the dinner table” quality controls. It requires to change China’s traditional agricultural structures and ensure the food of high quality.
Safe vegetables refers to products without substances harmful to humans. Growing such vegetables requires no strong poisons, thus guaranteeing vegetables fresh and clean. There are strict regulations in place for even applying fertilizer(肥料). The examination of vegetables should reach the state food hygiene(卫生) standard. The following conditions for green food are regulated by the China Green Food Development Center. Firstly, products or raw materials must reach the green ecological environment standard set by the Ministry of Agriculture. Secondly, crop planting, livestock raising, fish breeding and food processing must follow green food operating procedures set by the Ministry. Products must be up to the green food hygiene standard. External packing must be pasted with national standard universal labels, special green food packing decoration and tag regulations.
However, by now, our goal hasn’t been completely realized. When you return home with a full basket, you are still worried about whether what you have bought is green and healthy. Indeed, for the sake of our health, we still have a long way to go.
小题1: According to the passage, we know that green food __________.
A.means the color of food is green
B.mainly refers to green vegetables
C.doesn’t need to be fertilized
D.is examined by a series of standards
小题2:Which of the following isn’t the required standard green food must reach?
A.Green food must not cause ecological destruction.
B.Green food should agree with green food operating procedures.
C.Green food itself should be labeled with special packing decoration.
D.Green food should meet the green food hygiene standard.
小题3: According to the passage, we know the Ministry of Agriculture is a department ____.
A.which governs agriculture
B.which sells food and vegetables
C.which plants green food
D.which examines food standards
小题4:The best title for this passage probably is ___________.
A.Green food and health
B.The green food project
C.The future of green food
D.The regulations of green food

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Because of the stress and strains of modern life folks today would rather watch television than get together with neighbors. Their behavior doesn"t mirror TV soaps like Coronation Street and East Enders.
The Street"s Ashley Peacock and Toyah Battersby know all their neighbors. But the Royal Mail survey shows that real-life under35s wouldn"t dream of popping next door for a chat or to borrow a cup of sugar.
Three out of ten say they wouldn"t know their neighbors if they saw them in the street. The same proportion would only offer to help neighbors if absolutely necessary, while thirty-onepercent don"t want to get to know them better. Twenty-six percent rarely or never speak to the person next door. Thirty-five percent only talk to neighbors occasionally, and six percent actively dislike them. The older generation are still sociable, with seventy percent of over55s taking time to chat to people next door. The report says: “In the past, the British tradition of village green gossip(闲聊)between neighbors was celebrated worldwide. But there"s been a clear shift away from local links by the young generation.” Londoners are least likely to be neighbors, with a third rarely or never chatting over the garden fence. People in the Midlands—where 65 percent often speak to their neighbors are most friendly.
Sociologist Jane Blakeman said: “People are working longer hours than ever before, and are traveling further to work. It leaves them far less time at home.”
小题1:Almost a third of young people_______.
A.know their neighbours quite well
B.have no idea who lives next door to them 
C.talk to their neighbours when they want to borrow something
D.spend time chatting with neighbours like their parents
小题2:It can be inferred that Ashley Peacock and Toyah Battersby are both_______.
A.important roles in a popular TV series
B.famous stars in TV programmes
C.old soap operas
D.members of royal family
小题3:Gossip among neighbours is still common among_______.
A.people under35sB.people between 35 and 55
C.people over55sD.people of different ages
小题4:There is a difference between London and the rest of Britain mainly in that non-Londoners
_______.
A.would help their neighbours only when necessary
B.are less likely to have good relations with their neighbours 
C.wouldn"t travel far and find more time to chat with neighbours
D.are more likely to keep up the old British tradition of having a chat over garden fence

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The high noise of modern life may affect speech and language development in the very young, according to a study that found the auditory (听觉的) parts of the brains of young mice are slower to organize properly in the presence of continuous sounds.
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, reared a group of rats in an environment of continuous background noise and found that their brain circuits that receive and interpret (解释) sound did not develop at the same rate as animals that were raised in a quieter environment.
Edward F. Chang and Michael Merzenich, co-authors of the study appearing in the journal Science, said that the continuous noise delayed the organization of auditory neurons (神经细胞) during a critical two-to-three-week period after the rat pups were born.
For rats not exposed to the noise, the auditory cortex(皮层) neurons during this period gathered into a smaller area and began developing a selective response to sounds.
But for the noiseexposed rats, this organization was slowed, causing a delay in the development of the ability to discriminate(辨别) specific sound tones. The researchers said it took three or four times longer for the rats raised in a noisy environment to reach the basic bench marks (基准) of auditory development seen in the rat pups not exposed to noises.
Although the rat is not a perfect model for what happens in humans, the authors note, the study does suggest that high levels of noise might possibly affect some language learning in babies.
“These findings suggest that environmental noise, which is commonly present in contemporary child-rearing environments, can potentially contribute to auditory and language-related development delays,”the authors wrote in Science.
The authors noted that although the brain development was delayed in rats exposed to the noise, their brains did eventually mature (成熟的) normally.
小题1:The scientists at California University studied rats_______.
A.of different age groupsB.with different habits
C.in different environmentsD.from different areas
小题2:The rats exposed to noise, compared to those not exposed, _______.
A.were more sensitiveB.were duller
C.grew up more slowlyD.gathered together more quickly
小题3: The result of the research mainly tells us that noise _______.
A.delays brain developmentB.stops baby growth
C.affects speech and languageD.destroys brains
小题4: The findings of the research are said to have special connections with _______.
A.causes of noisesB.medical science
C.other living thingsD.human babies

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Common indoor plants may prove to be a valuable weapon in the fight against rising levels of indoor air pollution. Those plants in your office or home are not only pretty, but NASA scientists are finding them to be surprisingly useful in absorbing possible harmful gases and cleaning the air inside modern buildings.
NASA have announced the finds of a 2-year study that suggested the common indoor plants may provide a natural way of helping fight against “Sick Building Syndrome(综合症)”.
Research into the use of biological processes as a means of solving environmental problems, both on Earth and in space habitats, has been carried out for many years by Dr. Bill Wloverton, a senior research scientist at NASA. 
Based on preliminary evaluations(初步评估) of the use of common indoor plants for indoor air purification(净化),NASA funded a study using about a dozen popular varieties of attractive plants to determine their effectiveness in removing several key pollutants linked with indoor air pollution. NASA research on indoor has found that living plants are so efficient at absorbing pollutants in the air that some will be launched into space as part of the biological life support system aboard future orbiting space stations.
While more research is needed, Wolverton says the study has shown that common indoor plants can remove certain pollutants from the indoor environment. “We feel that future results will provide an even stronger argument that common indoor plants can be a very effective part of a system used to provide pollution free homes and work places,” he concludes.
“Combining nature with technology can increase the effectiveness of plants in removing air pollutants,” he said.
NASA research has always shown that living, green and flowering plants can remove several poisonous chemicals from the air inside buildings. You can use plant in your home or office to improve the quality of the air to make it a more pleasant place to live and work—where people feel better, perform better, and enjoy life more.
小题1:The main idea of the passage is _______.
A.plants are very useful to human beings
B.indoor plants can help remove indoor air pollution
C.indoor plants should be raised in both homes and offices
D.NASA have studied indoor plants for many years
小题2:Why do you think NASA are very interested in indoor plants?
A.Some indoor plants would be used in space stations.
B.They want to find a way to cure Sick Building Syndrome.
C.They need indoor plants to carry out their experiments.
D.Indoor plants are pretty and attractive.
小题3:The underlined word “pollutants” refers to _______.
A.some kinds of indoor plantsB.ways to solve air pollution
C.research on indoor plantsD.poisonous chemicals in the air

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