On March 25, 2010, Kate and David Ogg heard t...

On March 25, 2010, Kate and David Ogg heard the words every parent fears: Their newborn son wasn’t going to make it. Their twins—a girl and a boy—were born two minutes apart and 14 weeks premature, weighing just over two pounds each. Doctors had tried to save the boy for 20 minutes but saw no improvement. His heartbeat was nearly gone, and he’d stopped breathing. The baby had just moments to live.

“I saw him gasp (喘气), but the doctor said it was no use,” Kate said. “I know it sounds stupid, but if he was still gasping, that was a sign of life. I wasn’t going to give up easily.”

Still, the Sydney couple knew this was likely goodbye. In an effort to treasure her last minutes with the tiny boy, Kate asked to hold him.

“I wanted to meet him, and for him to know us,” Kate told Today. “We’d resigned ourselves to the fact that we were going to lose him, and we were just trying to make the most of those last, precious moments.”

Kate unwrapped the boy, whom the couple had already named Jamie, from his hospital blanket and ordered David to take his shirt off and join them in bed. The first-time parents wanted their son to be as warm as possible and hoped the skin-to- skin contact would improve his condition. They also talked to him.

"We were trying to attract him to stay.” Kate said. “We explained his name and that he had a twin that he had to look out for and how hard we had tried to have him.”

Then something miraculous happened. Jamie gasped again—and then he started breathing. Finally, he reached for his father’s finger. The couple’s lost boy had made it.

1.What do we know about the newborn boy mentioned in Paragraph 1?

A.He weighed only two pounds.

B.He almost died.

C.He was two minutes older than his twin sister.

D.He had no heartbeat. ‘

2.Why did the parents make the skin-to-skin contact with the boy?

A.To keep in touch with their son.

B.To follow the doctors’ requirements.

C.To communicate with their son.

D.To better their son’s condition.

3.What does the underlined word “miraculous” in the last paragraph mean?

A.touching B.unexpected

C.ridiculous D.fortunate

4.What is the best title for the text?

A.A Lucky Boy. B.Endless Love

C.Life-giving Touch D.An Unforgettable Experience

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I’ve heard that we will set out _________ the morning of March 25th .

A. at               B. in                  C. on                D. over

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--- Haven’t you heard the news?

--- What news?

--- Some of the workers are on ____ march while others are on ____ strike.

A. /; the                       B. the; /                       C. /; /         D. the; the

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--- Haven’t you heard the news?

--- What news?

--- Some of the workers are on ____ march while others are on ____ strike.

A. /; the                       B. the; /                       C. /; /         D. the; the

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________ that they lost the game, tears came down Kate's face.

A．On hearing the news

B．When heard the news

C．The moment she heard the news

D．While hearing the news

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1.If an Englishman who has worked in China for 3 years comes to English Newspaper Office to ask for the job in April, he will _______.

A. get the job         B. not get the job     C. be a good editor       D. not be useful

2.If three adults and six students went to watch the football match, the tickets would cost them _______ yuan.

A. 165            B. 135               C. 196               D. 255

3.Which of the following is NOT true?

A. The shopping center is at No. 6 Xidan Road.

B. The telephone number of English Newspaper is 3890666.

C. The match was between Beijing Team and Guo’an Team.

D. Xu Genbao is a coach.

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________he recites 10 words every day and his English has improved greatly.

A．On average　                     B．On purpose

C．And so on　                     D．On and on

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With the word "PM2.5"______ heard and seen in our life, people become more and more concerned about air pollution.

A. constantly         B. occasionally    C. consequently         D. contemporarily

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We've all heard the saying: practice makes prefect! In other words, acquiring skills takes time and effort. But how exactly does one go about learning a complex subject such as tennis, calculus, or even how to play the violin? An age-old answer is: practice one skill at a time. A beginning pianist might rehearse scales(音阶) before chords(和弦). A young tennis player practices the forehand before the backhand. Learning researchers call this “blocking”， and because it is common and easy to schedule, blocking is dominant in schools, training programs, and other settings.

However another strategy promises improved results. Enter “interleaving”， a largely unheard-of technique that is catching the attention of　 cognitive(认知) psychologists and neuroscientists. Blocking involves practicing one skill at a time before the next (for example, “skill A” before “skill B” and so on, forming the pattern “AAABBBCCC”), while in interleaving one mixes practice on several related skills together (forming for example the pattern “ABCABCABC”).

Over the past four decades, a small but growing body of research has found that interleaving often outperforms blocking for a variety of subjects, including sports and category learning. Yet there have been almost no studies of the technique in unplanned, real world settings-until recently. New research in schools finds that interleaving produces dramatic and long-lasting benefits for an essential skill: math. Not only does this finding have the potential to transform how math is taught, it may also change how people learn more generally.

Researches are now working to understand why interleaving produces such impressive results. One important explanation is that it improves the brain's ability to tell apart between concepts. With blocking, once you know what solution to use, or movement to do, the hard part is over. With interleaving, each practice attempt is different from the last, so rote(死记硬背) responses don't work. Instead, your brain must continuously focus on searching for different solutions. That process can improve your ability to learn critical features of skills and concepts, which then better enables you to select and produce the correct response.

A second explanation is that interleaving strengthens memory associations. With blocking, a single strategy，temporarily held in short-term memory, is sufficient. That's not the case with interleaving-the correct solution changes from one practice attempt to the next. As a result, your brain is continually engaged at regaining different responses and bringing them into short-term memory. Repeating that process can strengthen neural connections between different tasks and correct responses, which improves learning.

Both of these accounts imply that increased effort during training, either to discriminate correct responses or to strengthen them, is needed when interleaving is used. This corresponds to a potential drawback of the technique, namely that the learning process often feels more gradual and difficult in the beginning. However, that added effort can have better, longer-lasting results.

1.What can we learn from the new strategy of “interleaving”？

A. Studying related skills together has many impressive results.

B. Learning relevant skills together contributes to people mastering skills quickly.

C. Focusing on different skills at a time saves people time and efforts in the beginning.

D. Mixing up skills distracts people's attention, thus lessening efficiency.

2.Why does interleaving produce impressive results?

A. It can be scheduled easily.

B. It focuses on rote responses.

C. It is temporarily held in short-term memory.

D. It enables you to learn critical features of skills and concepts.

3.What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. Blocking involves practicing one skill at a time before the next.

B. Correct solution often changes from one practice attempt to the next.

C. Practising one skill at a time plays an important role in learning a complex subject.

D. Studying related skills or concepts together is an effective way to train your brain.

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On March 25, 2013, two pandas were shipped from China to Canada. The pandas received a warm welcome to the North America from Canada’s Prime Minister Step

hen Harper and Chinese ambassador(大使)Zhang Junsai.

The pandas will spend five years at the Toronto Zoo, and then spend another five years at the Calgary Zoo. This is the first time in 20 years that pandas have been sent to a Canadian zoo. “I want to offer my sincere thanks to the government of China for sharing these two pandas, symbolizing peace and friendship, with all Canadians, ”said Prime Minister Harper.

The pandas are named Er Shun and Da Mao. Er Shun, a five-year-old female, came from the Chongqing Zoo, in southwest China. Da Mao, a four-year-old male, traveled from Chengdu. The panda passengers were given plenty of snacks throughout the flight. Each panda received more than 200 pounds of bamboo and 100 pounds of apples.

The number of pandas is decreasing and now there are only 1, 600 pandas left in the wild. And this is partly due to the loss of their primary food source, bamboo. According to a recent study, warming temperatures are causing a shortage of bamboo in at least one region of China where pandas live.

The climate in Er Shun and Da Mao’s new home in Canada isn’t perfect for growing bamboo. Twice a week, the Memphis Zoo, in Tennessee, will ship about 700 pounds of the green plant up north to the Toronto Zoo. While the pandas are far from China, zookeepers plan to make Canada feel like their home.

1.We can know from the second paragraph that　　 .

A. China often sends pandas to Canada

B. Canada is very thankful for China’s help

C. the two pandas will spend ten years in Canada

D. the two pandas will only live in one place.

2.According to the passage, the two pandas　　 .

A. are both four years old

B. are from the same Chinese zoo

C. can eat as many as 100 pounds of apples in a day

D. were given over 400 pounds of bamboo on the flight

3.What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?

A. The reason for the decreasing number of pandas.

B. The primary food source of pandas.

C. The lifestyle of pandas in the wild.

D. The effects of warming temperatures on bamboo.

4.It can be learned from the passage that　　 .

A. pandas eat nothing but bamboo and apples

B. the climate in Toronto is unfit for bamboo to grow

C. the animal that all Canadians like best is pandas

D. China lent the two pandas just in order to help Canada

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