The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on well with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly held image of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.
An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is happier than it has ever been in the past. “We were surprised by just how positive today’s young people seem to be about their families,” said one member of the research team. “They’re expected to be rebellious(叛逆的)and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. There’s discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They don’t want to rock the boat.”
So it seems that these parents are much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends. “My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-year-old Daniel LaSalle. “I always tell them when I'm going out clubbing. When they know what I'm doing, they’re fine with it.” Susan Cromer, who is now 21, agrees. “Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call talk or discussion. For example, when I’d done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that.”
Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenage rebellion is not based on real facts. A researcher explains, “Teenagers were thought to be different from others in a part of time in our social history. But to our surprise, they say they are getting on well with their parents. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled.”
1.The study shows that teenagers don't want to ______________________.
A. share family duties
B. cause trouble in their families
C. go boating with their family
D. make family decisions
2.Compared with parents of 30 years ago, today’s parents ___________________.
A. go to clubs more often with their children
B. are much stricter with their children
C. care less about their children’s life
D. give their children more freedom
3.According to the writer, teenage rebellion ____________________.
A. may be a wrong opinion
B. is common at present
C. always happened in the 1960s
D. was caused by changes in families
4.Which title best gives the main idea of the passage?
A. Discussion in family
B. Teenage education in family
C. Teenage trouble in family
D. Harmony in family
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The evidence for harmony(和谐) may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly-held image (形象)of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.
An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it had ever been in the past.“We were surprised by just how positive(肯定的) today’s young people seem to be about their families,” said one number of the research team.“They’re expected to be rebellious(叛逆的) and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds:they want a car and material goods,and they worry about whether school is serving them well. There’s more negotiation(商议) and discussion between parents and children,and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They don’t want to rock the boat(捣乱).”
So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends. “My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-year-old Daniel Lazall. “I always tell them when I‘m going out clubbing. As long as they know what I’m doing, they’re fine with me.” Susan Crome, who is now 21, agrees. “Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. For example, as long as I’d done all my homework, could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that.”
Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenage rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments(评论),“Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over. ”
1.What is the popular images of the teenager today?
A.They worry about school.
B.They dislike living with their parents.
C.They have to be locked in to avoid troubles.
D.They quarrel a lot with other family members.
2.The study shows that teenagers don’t want to __________.
A.share family responsibility
B.cause trouble in their families
C.go boating with their family
D.make family decisions
3.Compared with parents of 30 years ago, today’s parents ____________.
A.go to clubs more often with their children
B.are much stricter with their children
C.care less about their children’s life
D.give their children more freedom
4.According to the writer, teenage rebellion __________.
A.may be a false belief
B.is common nowadays
C.existed only in the 1960s
D.resulted from changes in families
5.What is the passage mainly about?
A.Negotiation in family.
B.Education in family.
C.Harmony in family.
D.Teenage trouble in family.
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The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on well with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly held image of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.
An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is happier than it has ever been in the past. “We were surprised by just how positive today’s young people seem to be about their families,” said one member of the research team. “They’re expected to be rebellious(叛逆的)and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. There’s discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They don’t want to rock the boat.”
So it seems that these parents are much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends. “My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-year-old Daniel LaSalle. “I always tell them when I'm going out clubbing. When they know what I'm doing, they’re fine with it.” Susan Cromer, who is now 21, agrees. “Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call talk or discussion. For example, when I’d done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that.”
Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenage rebellion is not based on real facts. A researcher explains, “Teenagers were thought to be different from others in a part of time in our social history. But to our surprise, they say they are getting on well with their parents. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled.”
1.The study shows that teenagers don't want to ______________________.
A. share family duties
B. cause trouble in their families
C. go boating with their family
D. make family decisions
2.Compared with parents of 30 years ago, today’s parents ___________________.
A. go to clubs more often with their children
B. are much stricter with their children
C. care less about their children’s life
D. give their children more freedom
3.According to the writer, teenage rebellion ____________________.
A. may be a wrong opinion
B. is common at present
C. always happened in the 1960s
D. was caused by changes in families
4.Which title best gives the main idea of the passage?
A. Discussion in family
B. Teenage education in family
C. Teenage trouble in family
D. Harmony in family
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Friendship is a gift of God. But it may be taken for granted in some cases and not valued. 1.Say one has no child even after many years of marriage and the other has many children, more than they can manage. What do you think? Will the couple with many children value the children as much as the couple which has none? Everything is relative in life. We value what we don’t have and give less value to what is freely available to us.2.
Why should we value friendships? What qualities does a good friend bring to our relationship that makes the friendship so valuable? Let us examine some of these.
Judgement——A good friend is rarely judgemental. We can be open in our behaviour with our good friends because we know that they will not judge us. 3. With other people our actions and behavior are always calculated and guarded and that takes away lots of pleasure from our life.
Share sorrow and losses ——A friend can be depended upon to share all our problems and sorrows. 4.Once I saw the image of a man left alone in a village after an earthquake. The whole village got killed except this man with whom, will this man share his sorrow? A friend gives us this gift.
Hope——During our times of trouble, only a friend comes forward and gives us encouragement and hope. 5.
A. This is no small gift of friendship.
B. Friendship is one such relationship
C. It is familiar to a case of two couples.
D. Some of us are blessed with good friends
E. We can enjoy this freedom only with friends
F. With that inspiration, we regain confidence in ourselves.
G. This sharing may not reduce the loss but helps us unburden ourselves.
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The price of milk may be going up. There was not enough rain in some parts of the country last year and the bad weather may mean that a gallon (加仑) of milk will cost 41 cents more after October 1st.
California already has high milk prices and the California court does not want the price to go any higher. High milk prices will be very hard for some people. Families with many children will have to spend more money to buy milk. The poor and older people without much money will also be hurt by higher prices.
The court said that more milk from other states should be sold in California as the price of milk from other states is not as high. Some states got enough rain so their costs did not go up. People will then be able to buy the cheaper milk, meaning that unless milk producers bring their milk prices down, their milk will not sell.
The drought (干旱) around the country has meant market forces are likely to push milk prices up by as much as 41-cent a gallon by October 1st. Experts said this decision by the Californian court could reduce (减少) the effect of the price rise here.
The 41-cent increase would add to California’s already high milk prices so California must allow more milk producers from outside the state to sell their products there. This would then lead to increased supplies (供应), which would, as a result, stop milk prices from increasing.
1.Who will be hurt by high milk prices?
A.Young people. | B.Milk producers from outside California. |
C.Rich people. | D.Families with lots of children. |
2.What caused milk prices in California to increase?
A.Short supplies from other states. | B.Being short of rain. |
C.The California court. | D.Children’s need for milk. |
3.What will California do to keep milk prices down?
A.Force milk producers to lower their price. |
B.Encourage people to drink less milk. |
C.Get men to produce more rain. |
D.Increase the supply of milk in the state. |
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My reason for starting our family tradition of reading in the car was purely selfish: I could not bear listening to A Sesame Street Christmas for another 10 hours. My three children had been addicted to this cassette(磁带)on our previous summer road trips.
As I began to prepare for our next 500-mile car trip, I came across a book—Jim Trelease’s—The Read Aloud Handbook. This could be the answer to my problem. I thought. So I put Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach into my bag. When I began to read aloud the tale of the boy who escapes the bad guys by hiding inside a giant peach, my three kids argued and fought with each other in their seats. But after several lines, they were attracted into the rhythm of the words and began to listen.
We soon learned that the simple pleasure of listening to a well-written book makes the long miles pas more quickly. Sometimes reading became the most interesting part of the trip. I read Wilson Rawls’s Summer of the Monkeys as we spent two days driving to the beach. We arrived just behind the power crews restoring(恢复)electricity after a tropical storm. The rain continued most of the week, and the beach was covered with oil washed up by the storm. When we returned home, I asked my son what he liked about the trip. He answered without hesitation “The book you read in the car.”
Road trips still offer challenges, even though my children now are teenagers. But we continue to read as we roll across the country. And I’m beginning to see tat reading aloud has done more than help pass the time. For at least a little while, we are not shut in our own electronic worlds. And maybe we've started something that will pass on to the next generation.
1.Why did the author start reading in the car?
A. She wanted to have a better journey.
B. She wanted to keep a family tradition
C. Her children were addicted to reading.
D. Her children were tired of the cassette.
2.How did the children react after the author read a few lines?
A. They kept fighting. B. They hid themselves.
C. They soon settled down. D. They read together aloud.
3.What can we learn about the author and her family’s trip to the beach?
A. They were caught in a storm.
B. They enjoyed reading on the road.
C. They had a good time on the beach.
D. They found reading boring.
4.Which can be the best title for the text?
A. Better Traveling than Reading B. Books that Changed My Children
C. Road Trips Full of Challenges D. Reading Makes Great Road Trips
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For some people, walking or running outdoors is a great way to exercise. What may not be so great is seeing rubbish all over the ground. Well, some people are doing something about it. 1. “Plogging” began in Sweden. The name connects the Swedish word “plocka,” which means to pick up, and the word “jogging,” which means to run slowly.
A Swedish man named Erik Ahlström, started the movement in 2016. He moved to Stockholm from a small community (社区) in northern Sweden. Each day he would ride his bike to work. He became worried about the amount of rubbish and litter he saw each day on his way to work. So, he took matters into his own hands. He began picking up the rubbish. 2.
Today, plogging is an official activity, which is becoming more and more popular. People of all ages are welcome to plog. Exercise while helping your community. 3. It can also build closer social connections in a community. When the street looks bad and it’s dirty, you're going to feel bad about the community. You may even feel less safe because of that. So if we’re all doing our part and picking it up, it’s very easy to help beautify it, and help build those social connection. 4. You get to feel some social duty when you do this.
Along with cleaning up the environment, there may be another reason to choose plogging instead of just jogging. You may get a better workout. One fitness app, Lifesum, records one hour of plogging as burning 288 calories. 5.
As can be seen, cities around the world now hold plogging events. The goal is to spread the idea that littering is not acceptable. People would think twice before dropping a garbage on the ground.
A. Plogging is equal parts of exercise and community service.
B. And that is how plogging was born!
C. And plogging does good to your health.
D. Usual jogging burns about 235 calories.
E. They are plogging!
F. There are people all around the world doing this.
G. You get to know your neighbors.
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Los Angeles:Love for Mom is a given,but buying flowers on her big day may not be. A slump in flower sales since late last year was likely to continue through Mother's Day,another example of Americans cutting back on spending due to recession fears,which is a period of reduced trade and business activity,and increasing food and gasoline prices.
“If you look at what has happened on Valentine’s Day and Christmas, the market for flowers has cooled,” said Eric Bender, an analyst at Bream Murray. “Growth has slowed in the past two quarters. Mother's Day will probably be a slow quarter,too.’’ US floral sales for Mother’s Day, celebrated yesterday, will fall thirteen percent this year to $2 billion,with consumers spending an average of $17.65.according to the National Retail Federation estimates.
Mother’s Day,which accounts for a one—quarter of annual holiday purchases,according to the Society of American Florists,is traditionally the day when floral bouquets are delivered to the doorsteps of many mothers.But this year,the shop-owners are concerned.
Gabriel Soto,who owns a flower shop beneath an office high-rise in the Los Angeles financial district, is expecting lower sales--and has ordered 30 percent fewer flowers than normal this Mother’s Day.
Last month, Solo, who also operates website downtown-flowers, net, closed another store in a nearby building that was headquarters to a mortgage company. After workers lost their jobs due to the housing crisis, orders decreased.
1.The underlined word “slump” in Para. 2 probably means__________________________.
A. sharp increase in price B. great fear for losing jobs
C. global worry of floral stores D. sudden fall by a large amount
2.According to the author, Mother's Day should be an occasion of_____________.
A. a large family get-together
B. a big annual holiday purchase
C. a great love showed to mothers
D. a celebration among Americans
3.This passage implies that Americans have___________.
A. met financial problems recently
B. no longer bought flowers for mothers
C. delivered flowers to every house for mothers
D. cut back on spending because of having lost jobs
4.Which would be the best title for this passage?
A. Hard time coming nearer
B. Mother’s Day and crisis
C. Sorry mom, love you but no flowers
D. Holiday purchases have a hard time
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In many countries, 1. is not unusual for families of different backgrounds to live together in the shared space. 2., in the United States, this idea may still be considered strange.
But this type of housing, 3. (call) co-housing, is getting its 4. (popular) in the United States, too. Co-housing complexes (综合设施) appear across the country. For many people, this way of life is a good 5. (choose) in the busy modern society. A co-housing community has 6. (private) owned houses and shared land. There is often a “common house" with a kitchen and dining room, meeting room, and maybe a workshop of library or music room. About 25 co-housing communities 7. (build) in recent years, and 150 more are planned.
A co-housing complex is a place 8. citizens shop, cook, and eat together. Citizens of a co-housing complex like its sense of shared community. Children have other kids to play 9., which many families like. Other citizens like the feeling of living in a “village”. Citizens also say that they can live in co-housing for 10. (little) money than they would pay for nearby apartments.
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Smoking, which may be ________ fun for some people, is ________ cause of discomfort for the people around him.
A. /; a B. a; a C. a; / D. a; the
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Around the world there are some festivals that for some of us may sound bizarre.
In England they celebrate the rolling cheese race, which occurs every year during the last Monday in May. This festival’s characteristic is a contest where an official rolls cheese down a steep hill and festival- goers go chasing after it. The winner is the first one to reach and catch the cheese.
Another festival celebrated in England is the world championship of grimaces (鬼脸). It is a celebration that dates back to 1297 and is celebrated during the month of September. The task is to perform the best grimace using anything you can to win.
The worldwide championship of wife lifting is celebrated in Finland. The game is based on Viking traditions where a man should carry away his neighbor’s wife. According to the rules, any woman above 17 is considered as a wife, so if you are within this age, take care while visiting this country during the month of July.
Many of you have watched Pirates of the Caribbean and have known something about pirates. The 19th of September has been declared worldwide as the day to talk like a pirate. Plenty of people have celebrated it thanks to the publicity (宣传) on the Internet.
First staged in 1998, the Boryeong Mud Festival is an attraction that pulls more than a million visitors to the South Korean City. As you all know, the town is said to be rich in minerals, so there is no shortage of mud. Mud is trucked onto Daecheon Beach for tourists and locals to enjoy the festival to their best.
The Monkey Buffet Festival is held in Thailand to develop tourism. It’s an unusual feast held for about 600 monkeys. The Monkey Buffet Festival is held in honor of the Hindu gods Ram and Hanuman and involves 3,000 kilograms of vegetables and fruits being laid out for monkeys to stuff themselves.
1.What does the underlined word “bizarre” in Paragraph1 probably mean?
A.Dangerous B.Strange C.terrible D.Familiar
2.If a participant wants to win in the rolling cheese race, he / she should __________.
A.roll as much cheese down the hill as possible
B.find the largest piece of cheese rolling downhill
C.perform the best grimace when chasing the cheese
D.be the first one to catch the cheese rolling downhill
3.According to the writer, a girl above 17 should be careful when enjoying __________.
A.the worldwide championship of wife lifting
B.the world championship of grimaces
C.the Boryeong Mud Festival
D.the Monkey Buffet Festival
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