Researchers found that compared with teens who spent much of their free time in front of TV sets, those who were physically active often had higher self-respect, better grades and were less likely to have risky behavior like taking drugs, smoking, or drinking.The findings, based on a national survey of nearly 12,000 middle and high school students, were published in a journal.
"Across the board, children who engaged in any kind of activity were belier off than kids who watched a lot of TV," said study co author professor Penny Gordon Larsen of the University of North Carolina.
Other studies have linked certain content of television programs, such as violence and sex, to children's behavior.But beyond this issue, Gordon-Larsen said that kids who spend hours watching TV "miss opportunities" to develop skills, learn teamwork and have other experiences that their more active peers benefit from.
That doesn't mean, however, that kids have to be on the football team. The study found that some activities like skating and skateboarding——which adults sometimes frown upon——were also related to better self respect and less risk taking.
That skaters were better behaved than TV watchers might come as a surprise to some adults who consider these teens to be bad, according to Gordon-Larsen.Skateboarding is forbidden in many public areas, and some communities oppose building skating parks.But if kids who like to skate have nowhere to do it, "it's a shame," said Gordon-Larsen.
Not only should parents encourage their kids to engage iii the physical activities they enjoy, she said, but schools and communities should also do more to create opportunities for children to be active.
1.From the passage we know that .
A.physically active kids get into less trouble
B.more skating parks are being built
C.kids who spend hours watching TV benefit a lot
D.kids who have nowhere to skate tend to take drugs
2.If your kid is a football player, he is more likely to ____
A.get into the habit of smoking or drinking
B.develop teamwork spirit
C.have risky behaviors
D.fail in the schoolwork
3.This passage is mainly written to ___ .
A.offer some information to teachers and parents
B.persuade kids not to watch a lot of TV
C.urge the public to help children be active
D.show the author's concern about children's growth
4.What does the underlined sentence "which adults sometimes frown upon" in the 4th paragraph mean?
A.Some adults don't understand the sports.
B.Some adults are impatient with kids.
C.Adults consider it dangerous to go skating or skateboarding.
D.Some adults think them related to bad behaviors.
5.It can be inferred from the passage that .
A.kids are not expected to be active by some parents
B.professor Penny is a famous writer and journalist
C.skateboarding is popular in schools and communities
D.kids are not encouraged to join the football team
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Researchers found that compared with teens who spent much of their free time in front of TV sets, those who were physically active often had higher self-respect, better grades and were less likely to have risky behavior like taking drugs, smoking, or drinking.The findings, based on a national survey of nearly 12,000 middle and high school students, were published in a journal.
"Across the board, children who engaged in any kind of activity were belier off than kids who watched a lot of TV," said study co author professor Penny Gordon Larsen of the University of North Carolina.
Other studies have linked certain content of television programs, such as violence and sex, to children's behavior.But beyond this issue, Gordon-Larsen said that kids who spend hours watching TV "miss opportunities" to develop skills, learn teamwork and have other experiences that their more active peers benefit from.
That doesn't mean, however, that kids have to be on the football team. The study found that some activities like skating and skateboarding——which adults sometimes frown upon——were also related to better self respect and less risk taking.
That skaters were better behaved than TV watchers might come as a surprise to some adults who consider these teens to be bad, according to Gordon-Larsen.Skateboarding is forbidden in many public areas, and some communities oppose building skating parks.But if kids who like to skate have nowhere to do it, "it's a shame," said Gordon-Larsen.
Not only should parents encourage their kids to engage iii the physical activities they enjoy, she said, but schools and communities should also do more to create opportunities for children to be active.
1.From the passage we know that .
A.physically active kids get into less trouble
B.more skating parks are being built
C.kids who spend hours watching TV benefit a lot
D.kids who have nowhere to skate tend to take drugs
2.If your kid is a football player, he is more likely to ____
A.get into the habit of smoking or drinking
B.develop teamwork spirit
C.have risky behaviors
D.fail in the schoolwork
3.This passage is mainly written to ___ .
A.offer some information to teachers and parents
B.persuade kids not to watch a lot of TV
C.urge the public to help children be active
D.show the author's concern about children's growth
4.What does the underlined sentence "which adults sometimes frown upon" in the 4th paragraph mean?
A.Some adults don't understand the sports.
B.Some adults are impatient with kids.
C.Adults consider it dangerous to go skating or skateboarding.
D.Some adults think them related to bad behaviors.
5.It can be inferred from the passage that .
A.kids are not expected to be active by some parents
B.professor Penny is a famous writer and journalist
C.skateboarding is popular in schools and communities
D.kids are not encouraged to join the football team
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She may have lacked a home, but now this teen has top honors.
A 17-year old student who spent much of high school living around homeless shelters and sometimes sleeping in her car-today graduated and spoke on behalf of her class at Charles Drew High School in Clayton County, Ga.,just outside of Atlanta.
Chelsea Fearce, who held a 4.466 GPA and scored 1,900 on her SATs despite having to use her cellphone to study after the shelter lights were turned off at night.
"I know I have been made stronger. I was homeless. My family slept on cushions on the floor and we were lucky if we got more than one full meal a day. Getting a shower, food and clean clothes was an everyday struggle,” Fearce said in a speech she gave at her graduation ceremony. Fearce overcame her day-to-day struggles by focusing on a better day. "I just told myself to keep working, because the future will not be like this anymore, she told WSBTV.
Fearce,one of five children, grew up in a family that sometimes had an apartment to live in, but at other times had to live in homeless shelters or even out of their car, if they had one. "You're worried about your home life and then worried at school. Worry about being a little hungry sometimes and go hungry sometimes. You just have to deal with it, You eat what you can, when you can.”
To our surprise, Fearce overcame the difficulties and even tested high enough to be ad- mitted into college halfway through her high school career. She starts college next year at Spelman College as a junior where she is planning to study biology, pre-"med(医学预科),"Don't give up. Do what you have to do right now so that you can have the future that you want,”Fearce said.
1.Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. So Many Homeless Students in America
B. How Does a Homeless Student Live in Society?
C. The Hardship of Fearce and Her Family in America
D. Homeless Teen Graduates as a Speaker of High School Class
2.How did Fearce go on with her study without access to lights?
A. By the car light. B. By her cellphone.
C. By lights out of shelters. D. By moonlight.
3.When Fearce starts college at Spelman College, she will___.
A. have graduated earlier from high school than normal
B. be a 17-year-old student from a poor family
C. have a home without sleeping in her car or shelters
D. have raised enough money to go to college
4.From the passage, we can learn that___.
A. SAT is easy for the students of high schools
B. Fearce's parents have six children to support
C. Fearce often had to struggle with starvation
D. Fearce gave a speech at a ceremony of Spelman College
5.What can we learn from Fearce's experience?
A. Knowledge can change your fate.
B. Don't give up, and tomorrow will be better.
C. Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.
D. He that will not work shall not eat.
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She may have lacked a home, but now this teen has top honors.
A 17-year-old student who spent much of high school living around homeless shelters — and sometimes sleeping in her car — today graduated and spoke on behalf of her class at Charles Drew High School in Clayton County, Ga., just outside of Atlanta.
Chelsea Fearce held a 4.466 GPA and scored 1900 on her SATs despite having to use her cellphone to study after the shelter lights were turned off at night.
“I know I have been made stronger. I was homeless. My family slept on cushions on the floor and we were lucky if we got more than one full meal a day. Getting a shower, food and clean clothes was an everyday struggle,” Fearce said in a speech she gave at her graduation ceremony. Fearce overcame her day-to-day struggles by focusing on a better day. “I just told myself to keep working, because the future will not be like this anymore,” she told WSBTV.
Fearce, one of five children, grow up in a family that sometimes had an apartment to live in, but at other times had to live in homeless shelters or even out of their car, if they had one. “You’re worried about your home life and then worried at school. Worry about being a little hungry sometimes and go hungry sometimes. You just have to deal with it. You eat what you can, when you can.”
To our surprise, Fearce overcame the difficulties and even tested high enough to be admitted into college half way through her high school career. She starts college next year at Spelman College as a junior where she is planning to study biology, pre-med (医学预科). “Don’t give up. Do what you have to do right now so that you can have the future that you want,” Fearce said.
1.How did Fearce go on with her study without access to lights?
A. By the car light.
B. By her cellphone.
C. By lights out of shelters.
D. By moonlight.
2.When Fearce starts college at Spelman College, she will _____..
A. have graduated earlier from high school than normal
B. be a 17-year-old student from a poor family
C. have a home without sleeping in her car or shelters
D. have raised enough money to go to college
3.What lesson can we learn from Fearce’s experience?
A. Knowledge can change your fate.
B. Don’t give up, and tomorrow will be better.
C. Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.
D. He that will not work shall not eat.
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She may have lacked a home, but now this teen has top honors.
A 17-year-old student who spent much of high school living around homeless shelters — and sometimes sleeping in her car — today graduated and spoke on behalf of her class at Charles Drew High School in Clayton County, Ga., just outside of Atlanta.
Chelsea Fearce held a 4.466 GPA and scored 1900 on her SATs despite having to use her cellphone to study after the shelter lights were turned off at night.
“I know I have been made stronger.I was homeless.My family slept on cushions on the floor and we were lucky if we got more than one full meal a day.Getting a shower, food and clean clothes was an everyday struggle,” Fearce said in a speech she gave at her graduation ceremony.Fearce overcame her day-to-day struggles by focusing on a better day.“I just told myself to keep working, because the future will not be like this anymore,” she told WSBTV.
Fearce, one of five children, grow up in a family that sometimes had an apartment to live in, but at other times had to live in homeless shelters or even out of their car, if they had one.“You’re worried about your home life and then worried at school.Worry about being a little hungry sometimes and go hungry sometimes.You just have to deal with it.You eat what you can, when you can.”
To our surprise, Fearce overcame the difficulties and even tested high enough to be admitted into college half way through her high school career.She starts college next year at Spelman College as a junior where she is planning to study biology, pre-med (医学预科).“Don’t give up.Do what you have to do right now so that you can have the future that you want,” Fearce said.
1.How did Fearce go on with her study without access to lights?
A. By the car light.
B. By her cellphone.
C. By lights out of shelters.
D. By moonlight.
2.When Fearce starts college at Spelman College, she will _____..
A. have graduated earlier from high school than normal
B. be a 17-year-old student from a poor family
C. have a home without sleeping in her car or shelters
D. have raised enough money to go to college
3.What lesson can we learn from Fearce’s experience?
A. Knowledge can change your fate.
B. Don’t give up, and tomorrow will be better.
C. Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.
D. He that will not work shall not eat.
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Dreaming is believing, claim researchers of a new study, who found that dreams have an effect on people’s behavior, judgment and they might contain important hidden truths as well.
“Psychologists’ explanations of the meaning of dreams vary widely. But our findings show that people believe their dreams provide meaningful insight into themselves and their world,” said a lead author of the study Carey Morewedge, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
In six different studies, researchers surveyed nearly 1,100 people about their dreams. One of the studies focused on general beliefs about dreams and involved 149 university students. All students were asked to rate different theories about dreams. The experts found that a surprising majority of the participants supported the theory about dreams revealing (揭示) the hidden truths about themselves and the rest of the world.
In a second experiment, they surveyed 182 people at a Boston train station, and asked them to imagine one out of four possible situation that could have occurred the night before a scheduled airline trip. Most of the participants said that dreaming of a plane crash would be more likely to affect their travel plans than would just thinking about a crash, or being warned by the government of a terrorism risk. They said a dreamed crash would influence their travel plans just as much as learning about a real crash on their planned route would.
Another experiment involved 270 men and women from across the United States. In a short online survey, they were asked to recall one of the dreams they had seen about any person they knew.
The findings showed that people were more likely to remember and describe pleasant dreams about a person they liked, rather than a person they disliked. Meanwhile, in most cases they tended to consider an unpleasant dream as more meaningful if it was about a person they disliked.
“In other words,” said Morewedge, “people attribute meaning to dreams when it corresponds (与……一致) with their pre-existing beliefs and desires.”
The researchers say that more investigation is needed to fully understand how people interpret their dreams. According to Morewedge, most people realize that dreams are not predicting their future, but they still try to find some meaning in there.
1.. The purpose of the studies is to ________.
A. determine when people tend to remember their dreams
B. research whether dreams have anything to do with real life
C. find out how people explain their dreams and what impact that has
D. understand what causes people to dream and how to interpret dreams
2. According to the second experiment, what might influence people’s travel plans most?
A. Thinking about a past plane crash.
B. Dreaming about a plane crash.
C. Hearing a government’s warning of a terrorism risk.
D. Imagining a plane crashing on their planned route.
3.. What can be concluded from the study?
A. Dreams can be a useful tool for learning and problem solving.
B. Most people disagree that dreams help them better know themselves and the world.
C. A majority of people believes that dreams can predict their future and try to find their meaning.
D. When a dream conflicts with people’s existing beliefs and desires, they tend to attribute less meaning to it.
4.. Which kind of dream is seen as more meaningful than the rest?
A. A pleasant dream about a person the dreamer likes.
B. A pleasant dream about a person the dreamer dislikes
C. An unpleasant dream about a person the dreamer likes.
D. An unpleasant dream about a person the dreamer dislikes.
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In review of 44 studies, American researchers found that men and women________who ate six key foods daily cut the risk of ______ heart disease by 76%.
A. a; the B. the; a C. a; 不填 D. 不填; a
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In____review of 44 studies, American researchers found that men and women ____who ate six key foods daily cut the risk of ______ heart disease by 76%.
A. a; the B. the; a C. a; 不填 D. 不填; a
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In __________ review of 44 studies, American researchers found that men and women who ate six key foods daily cut the risk of __________ heart disease by 76%.
A. a; the B. the; a C. a; 不填 D. 不填;a
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________ with teens who spend much of their free time in front of TV sets, those who are physically active often have better grades.
A. Compared B. To compare
C. Comparing D. Having compared
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The power of silence is much greater compared with ______ of instant attack.
A.it B.one C.that D.the one
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