Mom is usually home on Sunday but this week s...

Mom is usually home on Sunday but this week she was going to a big golf game and I was all alone in the house. I was mad at Mom for divorcing Dad.

I kept looking at the telephone until I couldn’t stand it any longer. I picked up the receiver and dialed Dad’s number over in Bakersfield. I even remembered to dial 1 first because it was long distance. “You promised to phone me this week but you didn’t,” I said, feeling I had to talk to him.

“Take it easy, kid,” he said. “I just didn’t get around to it. I was going to call this evening. The week isn’t over yet.”

I thought about that.

“Something on your mind?” he asked.

“I hoped you would call, so I waited and waited.” Then I was sorry I said it.

“There was heavy snow in the morning,” he said, “I had to chain up on highway 80 and lost time.”

I know putting chains on eight big wheels in the snow is no fun．I felt a little better, as long as we were talking. “How is Bandit?” I asked.

There was a funny silence. For a minute I thought the line was dead. Then I knew something must have happened to my dog.

“Well, kid—”, he began. “My name is Leigh!” I almost yelled. “I’m not just some kid you met on the street!”

“Keep your shirt on, Leigh,” he said. “When I had to stop along with some other truckers to put on chains, I left Bandit out of the cab, I thought he would get back … I have sent out a call to CB radio, but I didn’t get an answer yet.” I was about to say I understood when there came the bad part, the really bad part. I heard a boy’s voice say, “Hey, Bill, Mom wants to know when we’re going out to get the pizza?”

1.From the story we know that _______．

A．Leigh was a deserted boy

B．Leigh’s dad never had a rest on Sundays

C． Leigh’s dad lived in another city

D．Leigh’s mother often went to golf games

2.The underlined sentence “Keep your shirt on” probably means “_____” .

A．Stop talking

B．Calm down

C．Put on your shirt

D．Keep warm

3.Who is Bandit?

A. Leigh’s friend　　　 B. Leigh’s dog

C. Leigh’s brother　　 D Leigh’s shirt

4.The worst part in Leigh’s eyes may be that ________．

A．his dad got remarried

B．his parents got divorced

C．his dad didn’t love him

D．his mom didn’t take him to pizza

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The Worst Part

Mom is usually home on Sunday but this week she was going to a big golf game and I was all alone in the house. I was mad at Mom for divorcing Dad.

I kept looking at the telephone until I couldn’t stand it any longer. I picked up the receiver and dialed Dad’s number over in Bakersfield. I even remembered to dial 1 first because it was long distance. “You promised to phone me this week but you didn’t,” I said, feeling I had to talk to him.

“Take it easy, kid,” he said. “I just didn’t get around to it. I was going to call this evening. The week isn’t over yet.”

I thought about that.

“Something on your mind?” he asked.

“I hoped you would call, so I waited and waited.” Then I was sorry I said it.

“There was heavy snow in the morning,” he said, “I had to chain up on highway 80 and lost time.”

I know putting chains on eight big wheels in the snow is no fun. I felt a little better, as long as we were talking. “How is Bandit?” I asked.

There was a funny silence. For a minute I thought the line was dead. Then I knew something must have happened to my dog.

“Well, kid—”, he began. “My name is Leigh!” I almost yelled. “I’m not just some kid you met on the street!”

“Keep your shirt on, Leigh,” he said. “When I had to stop along with some other truck drivers to put on chains, I left Bandit out of the cab, I thought he would get back … I have sent out a call to CB radio, but I didn’t get an answer yet.” I was about to say I understood when there came the bad part, the really bad part. I heard a boy’s voice say, “Hey, Bill, Mom wants to know when we’re going out to get the pizza?”

1.We can conclude from the passage that ________.

A. Leigh’s mother often went to golf games           B. Leigh was a deserted boy

C. Leigh’s dad never had a rest on Sundays           D. Leigh’s father lived in another city

2. Which is true about Bandit?

A. It was killed by a truck         B. It was let out of the cab and got lost

C. It was frozen to death.          D. It ran off Highway 80 and into the mountain.

3. The underlined sentence “Keep your shirt on”（last para） probably means “”.

A．Cool down   B．Stop talking      C．Be quiet      D．Keep warm

4.The worst part in Leigh’s eyes may be that________.

A. he forgot to go to get the pizza B. his parents got divorced

C. his dad got remarried    D. his dad didn’t love him

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She is going to spend part of her week in Liverpool where she ______ on the beach with her children.

A. is playing     B. plays        C. will be playing      D. has played

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You promised me to go to the zoo on Sunday. You must keep ______, Mom.

A. a word        B. your word      C. your words           D. the words

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A new reading tool was put on the market this week for the two-to five-year-old set. It is sold for at least $389, an expensive purchase for a kid – and that doesn’t even include a $99 annual subscription (订阅) fee for games, e-books, and age-appropriate software.

That might be fine for parents willing and able to pay thousands for private nursery schools, but will the tool actually help kids learn language and reading skills more effectively than traditional books?

Probably not, said Dr. Michael Rich, director of the Center for Media and Child Health at Children’s Hospital Boston. “There is a sensory components (感官因素) to books that isn’t there with e-books,” he explained. “You can smell it, turn the pages, and taste it, as young kids are likely to do.”

That might help little ones become more familiar with the books, helping them learn from them, but far more important is whether a person is actually sitting with them while they’re looking at the pages.

Researchers have shown time and again that kids learn better when they’re having interaction (互动) with real people, rather than electronic voices reading to them from a computer or speaking to them from the TV.

A Georgetown University study found that kids who learned to put on gloves from watching a video took six times as long to learn the process as those who watched it shown by an adult standing in front of them.

“I’m a big believer in teaching kids to live in the digital society and use what the rest of the family uses, but they do need to be supervised,” said Dr. Gwenn O’Keeffe, a Boston-based children’s doctor and spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics. “We don’t recommend that young kids use any type of technology for very long since they have the attention span (注意力持续时间) of a butterfly.”

1.According to the text, the new tool ________.

2.Why is Dr. Michael Rich against the new tool?

3.The study mentioned in Paragraph 6 aims to ________.

4.The underlined word “supervised” in the last paragraph can be replaced by “________”.

5.What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?

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Last week my daughter was sick, so she had to stay at home. While staying at home, she looks at my hands and asks, “Your hands have this _______, right?” It’s true that my hands are shaking, not too much, not too _______, and if I really want, I can control that. When I was a kid, my mother _______ to find out why I had this. We went to quite a few _______, but none of them really _______ it. They then thought it was something psychological, not _______. As I grow up, I learned how to _______ it. But it’s still not very _______ to be asked about it. I _______ most people think that I had too much caffeine or drunk too much.

“Right”, I said, “I have this ________ I was a kid and I never knew why I really had this.” And there she goes ________ my entire sad world in just one tiny sentence: “Well, maybe it’s because you have some kind of superpower.” It took me a few good seconds to ________ after I heard this. And then a few ________ to think about it. Yes, maybe it’s because I have some kind of superpower, like too much ________ trying to find an outlet(出口), it’s ________ that kids find the best ________ in everything, even in the strangest things, while adults ________ to see every deviation(偏离) from the ________ as a “disease”.

So, next time you see my hands shaking, don’t you ever ________ to think I had too much caffeine or drunk too much. It’s not because of that. It’s because I have a superpower that is so ________ that my body can hardly hold it.

1.A. moving　　 B. striking　　 C. beating　　 D. shaking

2.A. weak　　 B. evident　　 C. slight　　 D. big

3.A. managed　　 B. wished　　 C. tried　　 D. refused

4.A. doctors　　 B. scientists　　 C. teachers　　 D. lawyers

5.A. treated　　 B. operated　　 C. examined　　 D. cured

6.A. mental　　 B. physical　　 C. spiritual　　 D. natural

7.A. live with　　 B. go with　　 C. face with　　 D. agree with

8.A. upset　　 B. comfortable　　 C. curious　　 D. awkward

9.A. guess　　 B. calculate　　 C. realize　　 D. announce

10.A. as　　 B. after　　 C. until　　 D. since

11.A. attacking　　 B. sticking　　 C. blowing　　 D. hiding

12.A. restart　　 B. replace　　 C. recover　　 D. pick

13.A. minutes　　 B. months　　 C. years　　 D. time

14.A. energy　　 B. wind　　 C. information　　 D. wealth

15.A. rare　　 B. terrible　　 C. embarrassing　　 D. wonderful

16.A. thing　　 B. fact　　 C. point　　 D. part

17.A. attend　　 B. tend　　 C. expect　　 D. intend

18.A. truth　　 B. path　　 C. life　　 D. highway

19.A. dare　　 B. need　　 C. have　　 D. can

20.A. powerful　　 B. meaningful　　 C. extreme　　 D. awful

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On Thursday Mrs. Clarke locked the door and went to the women’s club as usual.

When she came home she sensed 1. unusual. Had someone got in? The back door and the windows were all locked and there was 2. sign of forced entry. Had anything been taken? She went from room to room checking and 3. (find) her spare camera missing.

The following Thursday she went out at her usual time, but she just took a short walk in a park nearby, came home through the back door and settled down to wait and see what 4. (happen).

It was 4 o’clock 5. the front doorbell rang. Mrs. Clarke was making tea at the time. The bell rang again, and then she heard her letter-box being pushed open. 6.(Pick) up the kettle of boiling water, she moved quietly towards the door. A piece of wire appeared through the letter-box, and then a hand. 7. wire turned and caught around the knob （圆钮）on the door-lock. Mrs. Clarke raised the kettle and poured the water 8. the hand. A sharp cry was heard outside as the wire fell to the floor and the hand was 9. (instant) pulled back, 10.was followed by the sound of running feet.

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On Thursday Mrs. Clarke locked the door and went to the women’s club as usual.

When she came home she sensed _1.______unusual. Had someone got in? The back door and the windows were all locked and there was 2._____ sign of forced entry. Had anything been taken? She went from room to room checking and _3.______ (find) her spare camera missing.

The following Thursday she went out at her usual time, but she just took a short walk in a park nearby, came home through the back door and settled down to wait and see what 4.____ (happen).

It was 4 o’clock5.____ the front doorbell rang. Mrs. Clarke was making tea at the time. The bell rang again, and then she heard her letter-box　 6.______ (push) open. Picking up the kettle of boiling water, she moved quietly towards the door. A piece of　 7.______　　 appeared through the letter-box, and then a hand. 8._____ wire turned and caught around the knob （圆钮）on the door-lock. Mrs. Clarke raised the kettle and poured the water 9._______ the hand. A sharp cry was heard outside as the wire fell to the floor and the hand was　 10.______　 (instant) pulled back, which was followed by the sound of running feet.

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My six-year-old came home from school this week with two envelopes. One was for a donation to help people in the Philippines. The other was to help hungry families have a Thanksgiving meal.

“I’ll put a check in each of these. Then you can add your own money from your piggy bank, okay?” I said, thinking he’d be so excited to put his own stamp on things.

“That’s okay, mom. You put money in. I don’t want to waste mine,” he sweetly sang as he colored. “I want to fill my bank all the way up.”

Ack! I guess I know what our dinnertime discussion will be about tonight, I thought.

I had figured that through watching his parents donate items, helping us take toys from time to time to needy kids and putting money in the basket at church, he would just understand why it was important to help people in need — and even want to do it himself.

But of course he doesn’t really understand yet. “There’s a big disconnect between the people ‘over there’ and my piggy bank,” said parenting educator Vicki Hoefle.

“There’s nothing wrong with the child. There’s just no connection.”

As for having that conversation immediately, or forcing my son to put money into the envelopes: “Try not to do it now,” Hoefle said. Teaching a child about donating their own money or toys or time to people in need “should be a gentle introduction into what we hope will be a way of life for our kids.”

She suggested these things to help children understand the importance of giving:

* Just talk about it. Then explore the issue from a perspective he can understand.

* Use the course of a year to introduce kids to opportunities. That way, they won’t be shocked when you ask them to stuff their own money into an envelope （like this writer just did）.

* Pick a family charity for the year and have a conversation about how you all can help throughout the year.

* Think of this not as something you must teach, but as something to expose them to.

At her house, Hoefle said, “When you got something new, you gave something up.” Each birthday, her children would pick what toys they had outgrown and give them away. “There was a comfort in it. It just became a natural part of the kids’ lives.”

So I will fill those envelopes alone this time. But I’ll make sure he understands why they should be filled—gradually.

1.When the writer asked her son to give money to help the poor, he __________.

A. declined to donate

B. sang a sweet song

C. put all his money in a bank

D. seemed very surprised

2. Hoefle’s attitude towards children’s unwillingness to donate money can be best described as “___________”.

A. critical            B. tolerant

C. positive            D. worried

3.Which of the following is Hoefle’s approach to educating kids about charity?

A. Giving courses about charity.

B. Setting a rule for children to give.

C. Inviting a lot of poor people home.

D. Giving children enough real life chances.

4.What can we learn about the writer from the passage?

A. She often makes donations for people in need.

B. She taught her son a lesson over dinner that evening.

C. She is at a loss as for what she should do next.

D. She invited a parenting educator home for advice.

5.What is the best title of the passage?

A. Kids, please help those in need.

B. Why are kids unwilling to donate?

C. Kindness is lost in the young generation.

D. How can we help kids learn generosity?

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1.---Jack, this is the third time that you have been late this week!

---- Sorry, sir, but I was held _______ for 15 minutes on the way here in the traffic jam.

2.This kind of desk can be adjusted ___________the height you need..

3.I will not put up___________ your bad behavior any longer.

4.The police are appealing_________ the public for any information about the missing boy.

5.She has gone ________ a lot of things，so she knows exactly how to deal with such a person.

6.Eating too much fat can contribute________ heart disease and cause high blood pressure.

7.These books are intended ________ young children under12.

8.They were lost at sea，________ the mercy of wind and weather.

9.The hotel is not responsible ________ any loss or damage to guests’ personal property.

10.He took his little daughter to Disneyland in order to cheer her_________.

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