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Background music may seem harmless, but it can have a powerful effect on those who hear it. Recorded background music first found its way into factories, shops and restaurants in the USA. Very soon it spread to other parts of the world. Now it is becoming difficult to go shopping or eat a meal without listening to background music.
　　To begin with, background music was intended simply to create a soothing (舒適的) atmosphere. Recently, however, it's becoming a big business. An American marketing expert has shown that music can boost(提升) sales or increase factory production by as much as a third.
　　But it has to be the light music. Lively music has no effect at all on sales. Slow music can increase receipts(收入) by 34%. This is probably because shoppers slow down and have more opportunity to spot items they would like to buy. Yet, slow music isn't always the answer. The expert found that in restaurants slow music meant customers took longer to eat their meals, which reduced overall sales. So restaurant owners might be well advised to play faster music to keep the customers moving-unless, of course, the resulting indigestion(消化不良) leads to complaints

  1. 1.

    Background music was first used ________

    1. A.
      in the cinemas and theatres in the USA
    2. B.
      in the offices and hospitals in the USA
    3. C.
      in the schools and churches in the USA
    4. D.
      in the factories, shops and restaurants in the USA
  2. 2.

    An American marketing expert has found background music can __________

    1. A.
      increase sales or factory production
    2. B.
      create a soothing atmosphere
    3. C.
      make people slow down
    4. D.
      make people forget their worries
  3. 3.

    Slow music is useless in ________ in increasing sales

    1. A.
      shops
    2. B.
      restaurants
    3. C.
      factories
    4. D.
      cinemas
  4. 4.

    Restaurant owners are advised to play ________ to increase overall sales

    1. A.
      lively music
    2. B.
      loud music
    3. C.
      slower music
    4. D.
      faster music

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Popeye the Sailor first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s.The sailor in that cartoon ate lots of spinach to make him strong. People watched him, and they began to buy and eat a lot more spinach. Popeye helped sell 33 percent more spinach than before! Spinach became a necessary part of many people’s diets. Even some children who hated the taste began to eat the vegetable.
Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong, but this is not true. Spinach does not have any more iron than any other green vegetable.
People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because the people who studied the food made a mistake. In the 1890s, a group of people studied what was inside vegetables. This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted it.
Today, we know that the little iron there is in spinach cannot make a difference in how strong a person is. However, spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid.
It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong. Maybe it was really the folic acid that made Popeye strong all along

  1. 1.

    Why did many people eat spinach after they saw Popeye the Sailor?

    1. A.
      They thought spinach made them strong
    2. B.
      They thought Popeye was funny
    3. C.
      Spinach had a lot of iron
    4. D.
      People liked folic acid
  2. 2.

    A research group told people that spinach____

    1. A.
      made Popeye strong
    2. B.
      was a green vegetable
    3. C.
      had less iron than other green vegetables
    4. D.
      had more iron than other green vegetables
  3. 3.

    The reading passage says that perhaps Popeye got his strength from____

    1. A.
      iron
    2. B.
      folic acid
    3. C.
      spinach
    4. D.
      exercise
  4. 4.

    Folic acid is ____

    1. A.
      something in food
    2. B.
      a vegetable
    3. C.
      dangerous
    4. D.
      a certain kind of spinach

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The scientific world continues to be amazed by the speed of the development of cloning. Some scientists now suggest that the cloning of humans could occur in the near future. Despite the benefits of cloning, however, certain ethical (道德的) questions concerning the possible abuse (濫用) of cloning have been raised. At the heart of these questions is the idea of humans influencing life in a way that could harm society, either morally or in a real physical sense. Some people object to cloning because it allows scientists to "act like God" in the handling of living organisms.
   The cloning of Dolly raised the debate over this practice to a whole new level. It has become obvious that the technology for cloning Dolly could also be used to clone humans. A person could choose to make two or ten or a hundred copies of himself or herself by the same techniques used with Dolly. An active debate about the morality of cloning humans arises. Some people see benefits from the practice, such as providing a way for parents to produce a new child to replace one dying of a fatal disease. Other people worry about humans taking into their own hands the future of the human race.
   At the beginning of the twenty-first century, many scientists say the controversy over the ethics of cloning humans is overstressed because of the unpredictability (不可預(yù)測性) of cloning in general. While scientists have cloned animals such as sheep, mice, cows, pigs, and goats, fewer than 3 percent of all those cloning efforts have succeeded. The animal clones that have been produced often have health problems. Scientists believe the rapid reprogramming in cloning can introduce random (任意的) errors into a clone’s DNA. Those errors have altered individual genes in minor ways, and the genetic defects (缺陷) have led to the development of major medical problems. Some scientists say this should make human cloning out of the question, but others argue that cloning humans may actually be easier and safer than cloning animals. Whatever, I agree that further research in the field of cloning is needed

  1. 1.

    Some people are against cloning of humans because they think _________

    1. A.
      the practice takes too much time and money
    2. B.
      the cloning technology is still not mature
    3. C.
      humans control the future of the human race
    4. D.
      the population in the world will be too large
  2. 2.

    Some scientists think the debate over ethics of cloning humans is overstressed because ____

    1. A.
      cloning of human beings is completely impossible
    2. B.
      the result of cloning can’t be predicted in general
    3. C.
      cloning of animals is a failure
    4. D.
      there are big errors in a clone’s DNA
  3. 3.

    We can learn from the text that _______

    1. A.
      cloning of humans is a very controversial issue
    2. B.
      the cloning of Dolly begins to raise the debate over cloning of humans
    3. C.
      there are medical problems in cloning animals
    4. D.
      cloning humans is easier and safer than cloning animals
  4. 4.

    The text is mainly about _______

    1. A.
      the benefits of cloning
    2. B.
      the ethics of cloning
    3. C.
      the history of cloning
    4. D.
      the defects of cloning

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Up, Up, and Away!
An adventurer who became the first person to fly across the English Channel on a cluster（簇）of balloons has launched a house into the sky just like in the hit movie Up-in reparation for a more ambitious journey and a new record
Fearless Trappe , from North Carolina, stepped into the cartoon themed home before flying above the leon International Balloon Festivel in Mexico more than a week ago.
The 38-year-old Trappe was using the event as a warm-up for his planned trans-Atlantic flight scheduled for next summer ,He aims to complete the 2,500-mile journey in a seven-foot lifeboat carried by 365 huge helium（氦氣）ballooms
The brave man is learning to sail a lifeboat ,in case he meeds to ditch (在海中迫降)into the ocean during the danger-filled adventure
He sill fly at between 18,000 feet and 25,000 feet , beating his previous world altitude record of 21,600 feet ,and must fly uninterrupted a distance ten times longer than his previous world record of 230 miles in order to succeed.
The adventurer Trappe ,who holes records for crossing the Alps, flying the most cluster balloons, and the longest distance , has opent his entire carreer ,building up to this ambitious plan.
“I didn’t wake up one day and think：‘I’ going to fly across the Atlantic, ’”he said “he said  Every attempt before this was prepared for this fight ,I’ve been training for a long time”

  1. 1.

    The adventurer flew across the English Channel to          

    1. A.
      test the balloons
    2. B.
      launch a house
    3. C.
      shoot a hit movie
    4. D.
      prepare for breaking a record
  2. 2.

    To finish the journey ,he will fly a distance of          

    1. A.
      2500 miles
    2. B.
      18,000 feet
    3. C.
      25,000 feet
    4. D.
      230 miles
  3. 3.

    About the ambitious journey ,which is NIT mentioned in the passage?

    1. A.
      When he will fly
    2. B.
      How high he sill fly
    3. C.
      How far he will fly
    4. D.
      How long it will take him
  4. 4.

    How many world records does Jonathan hold?

    1. A.
      Two
    2. B.
      Three
    3. C.
      Four
    4. D.
      Five
  5. 5.

    What does he last paragraph imply?

    1. A.
      Trappe can’t sleep worrying about the adventure
    2. B.
      Trappe was born to set world records
    3. C.
      Trappe always keeps his ambition in mind
    4. D.
      Trappe never thought of crossing the Ataantic before

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It is difficult for parents of nearly every family to teach their children to be responsible （有責(zé)任的）for housework, but with one of the following suggestions, you really can get your children to help at home.
　　If you give your children the impression that they can never do anything quite right, then they will regard themselves as unfit or unable persons. Unless children believe they can succeed, they will never become totally independent.
　　My daughter Carla’s fifth - grade teacher made every child in her class feel special. When students received less than a prefect test score, she would point out what they had mastered and declared firmly they could learn what they had missed.
　　You can use the same technique when you evaluate （評價）your child’s work at home. Don’t always scold and give lots of praise instead. Talk about what he has done right, not about what he hasn’t done. If your child completes a difficult task, promise him a Sunday trip or a ball game with Dad.
　　Learning is a process（過程）of trying and failing and trying and succeeding. If you teach your children not to fear a mistake of failure, they will learn faster and achieve success at last

  1. 1.

    The whole passage deals with______.

    1. A.
      social education
    2. B.
      school education
    3. C.
      family education
    4. D.
      pre - school education
  2. 2.

    The author thinks that______.

    1. A.
      there is no way to get children to help at home
    2. B.
      the more encouragement and praise you give, the more responsible and helpful children will become
    3. C.
      it is very difficult to make children responsible for housework
    4. D.
      children can be forced to help with housework
  3. 3.

    The article gives us a good suggestion about how to evaluate（評價）your child’s work at home. That is to ______.

    1. A.
      praise his success
    2. B.
      promise him a trip
    3. C.
      give him a punishment
    4. D.
      promise him a ball game
  4. 4.

    The author advises readers to______.

    1. A.
      learn from himself, for he has a good way of teaching
    2. B.
      take pride in Carla’s fifth - grade teacher
    3. C.
      do as what Carla’s teacher did in educating children
    4. D.
      follow Carla’s example because she never fails in the test
  5. 5.

    Having read the last paragraph, we can conclude that ______.

    1. A.
      pride goes before a fall
    2. B.
      practice makes perfect
    3. C.
      no pains, no gains
    4. D.
      failure is the mother of success

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Jockeys(職業(yè)賽馬騎師) are the smallest athletes. They are rarely over five feet six, or 120 pounds. The lighter the weight on the horse, the faster it can go.
Riding fast horses on the track is tough on the small jockeys. The jockey doesn’t“sit”on the horse. He leans forward on his legs. The strain is on his thighs(大腿) and calf(小腿) muscles. As jockeys age, their legs“go”first. Jockeys also need arm strength. It’s a strain holding a 1000-pound racehorse.
On muddy days, jockeys get a pounding of mud. The mud comes flying off the hooves(蹄) of the horses in front. “It feels like someone is punching you all over,”says one rider.
And a jockey can be hurt. A jockey can have a leg jammed between two horses. Or it can get caught between horse and the rail. The worst accidents are from falls. A horse may fall on his rider. Or horses behind may trample if he hits the track. In one year about 240 riders are hurt badly. That’s one out of six jockeys.
But the jockeys are well-paid. A jockey keeps about ten percent of the money his horses win. Jacinto Vasquez, a five-foot-three comer, has ridden horses to ＄7,000,000 in wins in the last eight years, which means he does almost ＄100,000 a year.
Why do some jockeys do better than others? “It isn’t the way a boy sits on a horse or uses the reins or the whip,”says Conn McCreary. McCreary was a top jockey of the 1950’s. He rode two Kentucky Derby winners. “Most jockeys do this the same. It’s the ‘feel’ he has for the horses.”
“When you come right down to it, it just seems that horses run better for some riders,” McCreary says. “A real good jockey doesn’t lose with the best horse. And sometimes he’ll win with the second or third best.”
Many Latin-American riders, like Jacinto, seem to have the knack. “Maybe it’s because we grew up with horses,”says Jacinto. “Maybe it’s because we like to ride. There was a strike at Aqueduct last year. We, Jorge Velasquez, and Angel Cordero (two other top Latin riders) went to a park. We rented horses, and rode around the bridle path(騎馬專用道)!”

  1. 1.

    The main idea of Paragraph 1 is about ______________

    1. A.
      the size of jockeys
    2. B.
      the age of jockeys
    3. C.
      the size of the horse
    4. D.
      the speed of the horse
  2. 2.

    When a jockey is riding a fast horse, he doesn’t __________

    1. A.
      really sit on the horse
    2. B.
      lean forward on his legs
    3. C.
      use much arm strength
    4. D.
      get any mud on wet track
  3. 3.

    The most dangerous problem for a jockey arises __________________

    1. A.
      when his leg is jammed between two horses
    2. B.
      when his clothes are splashed over with mud
    3. C.
      when the jockey’s horse falls on the jockey
    4. D.
      when the jockey is not well paid
  4. 4.

    A really good jockey can often win a race ____________

    1. A.
      only when he rides on the best horse
    2. B.
      even when he rides the second best horse
    3. C.
      when he rides on a rented horse
    4. D.
      if the horse is just a Kentucky Herby
  5. 5.

    The underlined word “Knack” in the last paragraph probably means__________________

    1. A.
      special skill
    2. B.
      dangerous hobby
    3. C.
      riding culture
    4. D.
      excellent horses

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The word “death” is a word many Chinese friends tell me I should not say aloud. They advise me to avoid the word because only speaking of it may bring ill fortune. I deeply believe, however, that to know how to live, we must also know how to die. The problem is how we talk about death.      
Like everyone in Taiwan this week, I have had “Tomb Sweeping Day”. I am proud to be part of a people whose culture sends millions of families to cemeteries on this special day to share memories and endless love.
Today, eight days after the death of Pope John Paul II, millions of people of all backgrounds still grieve(悲痛) his passing away. He was a deeply human person who knew how to laugh and show emotions, a writer with a gift for words a leader who appealed to us by the sheer light of his love for life.
On the same day and only hours before the Holy Father left us, a friend of mine named Veronica McBride died of cancer in a small Wisconsin city. My friend Veronica was 52 years old. She was an attractive, humorous young woman who, as the saying goes, “never married”. She published several humor books with her mother, Mary McBride. She enjoyed traveling, and for years sent Christmas card photos of herself standing beside monuments or odd animals. She fought cancer for five years. She joked about her treatment keeping her pretty because it kept her thin, and told me she didn’t mind losing her hair because of chemo therapy. “I get to wear nice wigs!”
The last time I saw Veronica was when I visited her family on a sunny day in August in 2003. When she burst into the front door later and saw me in the living room, she ignored me completely in her hurry to hug her newest baby nephew, leaving me shaking my head in laughter at her.
As we look to the significance of the Holy Father and his life, surely we must also keep our eyes open to see the wonder and goodness in ordinary people who show us how to live and how to die

  1. 1.

    The purpose of the article is ___________

    1. A.
      to memorize his friend Veronica
    2. B.
      to talk about the significance of life and death
    3. C.
      to teach us how to face life and death
    4. D.
      to compare his friend and the Holy Father Pope John Paul II
  2. 2.

    The underlined phrase “chemo therapy” in Paragraph 4 probably means ______

    1. A.
      a medical treatment
    2. B.
      a kind of cancer
    3. C.
      a kind of medicine
    4. D.
      the newest machine
  3. 3.

    Why does the writer compare the Holly Father with his friend?

    1. A.
      Because they are both the persons he admires
    2. B.
      Because they have a lot in common
    3. C.
      Because he wants to show that ordinary people can be great as well
    4. D.
      Because he wants to memorize them both
  4. 4.

    From the phrase “burst into”, we can see that Veronica is ____________

    1. A.
      brave
    2. B.
      sportive
    3. C.
      humorous
    4. D.
      energetic

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One day a man found a cocoon（繭）of a butterfly in the forest. He sat there for several hours and watched the butterfly. Suddenly a small opening appeared, and the butterfly made its great effort to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no further.
So the man decided to help the butterfly. He cut off the remaining bit of the cocoon so that the butterfly could come out easily. But to his surprise, the butterfly got a heavy body and very small wings when it came out of the cocoon.
The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that the body would grow smaller at any moment and the wings would become larger and be able to fly. But neither happened. In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling（爬）around with a heavy body and small wings. It was never able to fly.
The man was in his kindness, but he did not understand the nature rules. Before the butterfly came out of the cocoon, fluid（流體）from its body must be forced into its wings, and then it would be ready for flying. It must have a hard struggle to get through the small opening to get its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God allowed us to go through our life without any difficulties, it would make us fail. We would not be as strong as we could have been; we could never fly

  1. 1.

    What was the butterfly doing at the beginning of the story?

    1. A.
      It was trying to make a cocoon for itself
    2. B.
      It was struggling to get out of its cocoon
    3. C.
      It was flying among the trees in the forest
    4. D.
      It was crawling around quietly on the ground
  2. 2.

    The man cut off the remaining bit of the cocoon              

    1. A.
      to take the butterfly home
    2. B.
      to help the butterfly come out easily
    3. C.
      to kill the butterfly
    4. D.
      to stop the butterfly growing bigger
  3. 3.

    What do you think of the man?

    1. A.
      patient but cruel
    2. B.
      careful and wise
    3. C.
      kind but unwise
    4. D.
      brave and funny
  4. 4.

    What does the last paragraph tell us?

    1. A.
      Struggles are sometimes necessary in our life
    2. B.
      Nothing is difficult if we put our heart into it
    3. C.
      Every good deed will come back with a good result
    4. D.
      The greatest happiness in the world is to help others
  5. 5.

    What is the best title for the story?

    1. A.
      The love for the cocoon
    2. B.
      The joy of helping each other
    3. C.
      The lesson of the cocoon
    4. D.
      The expectation for the butterfly

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The UK has a well-respected higher education system and some of the top universities and research institutions in the world. But to those who are new to it all, sometimes it can be confusing.
October is usually the busiest month in the college calendar. Universities have something called Freshers’ Week for their newcomers. It’s a great opportunity to make new friends, join lots of clubs and settle into university life.
However, having just left the comfort of home and all your friends behind, the prospect (前景) of meeting lots of strangers in big halls can be nerve-wracking (令人焦慮不安的). Where do you start? Who should you make friends with? Which clubs should you join?
Luckily, there will be thousands of others in the same boat as you worrying about starting their university social life on the right foot. So just take it all in slowly. Don’t rush into anything that you’ll regret for the next three years.
Here are some top advice from past students on how to survive Freshers’ Week：
● Learn rules. Make sure you know British social etiquette (禮節(jié)). Have a few wine glasses and snacks handy for your housemates and friends.
● Be kind. Sometimes cups of tea or even slices of toast can give you a head start in making friends.
● Be sociable. The more active you are, the more likely you’ll be to meet new people than if you’re someone who never leaves his room.
● Bring a doorstop. Keep your door open when you’re in and that sends positive messages to your neighbors that you’re friendly.
So with a bit of clever planning and effort, Freshers’ Week can give you a great start to your university life and soon you’ll be passing on your experience to next year’s freshers

  1. 1.

    We can learn from the passage that ______

    1. A.
      Freshers’ Week usually comes in September in UK
    2. B.
      all the students are required to join certain clubs in UK
    3. C.
      many freshers are worried about how to fit university life
    4. D.
      most of the students in the UK spend three years in universities
  2. 2.

    Why does the author suggest having wine glasses and snacks handy?

    1. A.
      To pass the busy university life
    2. B.
      To help make friends with other freshers
    3. C.
      To show yourself a drinker as others
    4. D.
      To enjoy the time in a happy way
  3. 3.

    The main purpose of the passage is to _______

    1. A.
      tell the newcomers how to make a new start in universities
    2. B.
      introduce something about higher education system of the UK
    3. C.
      inform the freshers of British social etiquette
    4. D.
      advise the freshmen how to behave well in the beginning

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A German study suggests that people who were too optimistic about their future actually faced greater risk of disability or death within 10 years than those pessimists who expected their future to be worse.
The paper, published this March in Psychology and Aging, examined health and welfare surveys from roughly 40,000 Germans between ages 18 and 96. The surveys were conducted every year from 1993 to 2003.
Survey respondents (受訪者) were asked to estimate their present and future life satisfaction on a scale of 0 to 10, among other questions.
The researchers found that young adults (age 18 to 39) routinely overestimated their future life satisfaction, while middle-aged adults (age 40 to 64) more accurately predicted how they would feel in the future. Adults of 65 and older, however, were far more likely to underestimate their future life satisfaction. Not only did they feel more satisfied than they thought they would, the older pessimists seemed to suffer a lower ratio (比率) of disability and death for the study period.
“We observed that being too optimistic in predicting a better future than actually observed was associated with a greater risk of disability and a greater risk of death within the following decade,” wrote Frieder R. Lang, a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Lang and his colleagues believed that people who were pessimistic about their future may be more careful about their actions than people who expected a rosy future.
“Seeing a dark future may encourage positive evaluations of the actual self and may contribute to taking improved precautions (預(yù)防措施),” the authors wrote.
Surprisingly, compared with those in poor health or who had low incomes, respondents who enjoyed good health or income were associated with expecting a greater decline. Also, the researchers said that higher income was related to a greater risk of disability.
The authors of the study noted that there were limitations to their conclusions. Illness, medical treatment and personal loss could also have driven health outcomes.
However, the researchers said a pattern was clear. “We found that from early to late adulthood, individuals adapt their expectations of future life satisfaction from optimistic, to accurate, to pessimistic,” the authors concluded

  1. 1.

    According to the study, who made the most accurate prediction of their future life satisfaction?

    1. A.
      Optimistic adults
    2. B.
      Middle-aged adults
    3. C.
      Adults in poor health
    4. D.
      Adults of lower income
  2. 2.

    Pessimism may be positive in some way because it causes people ______

    1. A.
      to fully enjoy their present life
    2. B.
      to estimate their contribution accurately
    3. C.
      to take measures against potential risks
    4. D.
      to value health more highly than wealth
  3. 3.

    How do people of higher income see their future?

    1. A.
      They will earn less money
    2. B.
      They will become pessimistic
    3. C.
      They will suffer mental illness
    4. D.
      They will have less time to enjoy life
  4. 4.

    What is the clear conclusion of the study?

    1. A.
      Pessimism guarantees chances of survival
    2. B.
      Good financial condition leads to good health
    3. C.
      Medical treatment determines health outcomes
    4. D.
      Expectations of future life satisfaction decline with age

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