When you talk about a person’s _____, you are...

When you talk about a person’s _____, you are referring to the country, race, or social class of their parents or ancestors.

A. origin                            B. nationality                   C. generation                   D. relation

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You feel especially smart and funny when talking to a particular person, only to feel hopelessly unintelligent and tongue-tied in the presence of another.

Experiments show when people report feeling comfortable with a conversational partner, they are judged by those partners and by observers as actually being more witty (机智的）。

It's just one example of the powerful influence that social factors can have on intelligence. As parents, teachers and students settle into the school year, this work should encourage us to think about intelligence not as a “lump of something that's in our heads,” as the psychologist Joshua Aronson puts it, but as “a transaction among people.”

Mr. Aronson, an associate professor at New York University, has been a leader in investigating the effects of social forces on academic achievement. Along with the psychologist Claude Steele, he identified the phenomenon known as “stereotype (刻板印象） threat.” Members of groups believed not to be academically good score much lower on tests when reminded in advance of their race or gender.

The pair's experiments in the 1990s concluded that the performance of these students suffered because they were worried about confirming negative stereotypes about their group.

Minorities aren't the only ones easily hurt by stereotype threat. We all are. A group of people especially confident about their mathematical abilities did worse on a math test when told that the experiment was intended to investigate “why Asians appear to perform better than other students on tests of math ability.”

And in a study published earlier this year in the journal Learning and Individual Differences, high school students did worse on a test of spatial (空间的） skills when told that males are better at solving spatial problems because of genetic differences between males and females. The girls were anxious about confirming assumptions about their gender, while the boys were anxious about living up to them.

The evolving literature on stereotype threat shows that performance is always social in nature. Even alone in an exam room, we hear a chorus of voices assessing, evaluating, passing judgment. And as social creatures, humans are strongly affected by what these voices say.

1.What does the underlined word “transaction” in paragraph 3 refer to?

A.Spatial reasoning skills. B.The ability to remember information.

C.Interaction between us and the environment. D.Passing on knowledge from teachers to students.

2.After being told males typically perform better than females in math, males are most likely to perform 　　　 .

A.better than females B.the same as females

C.worse than usual D.worse than females

3.Which of the following “voices” in our head may influence performance on an exam?

A.“I am as prepared as I can be.”

B.“I am supposed to do well on this.”

C.“The testing room is different from my classroom.”

D.“I am solving the problems faster than the one sitting in front of me.”

4.How do stereotypes threaten our academic achievement?

A.Making us unintelligent. B.Reminding us of our weaknesses.

C.Limiting our spatial reasoning skills. D.Raising our anxiety level.

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.---Susan, what are you talking about?

----_____I can finish writing the report on time.

A. If              B. When             C. Whether        D. What

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--- Today or tomorrow?

--- What are you talking about?

--- We are talking about _______ to give a talk on WTO.

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What are the speakers talking about?

A. When to go to Germany.

B. What to do in Germany.

C. How to go to Germany.

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What are the two speakers mainly talking about?

A.What to do in Florida.

B.When to visit New York.

C.Where to spend their vacation.

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When you’re a parent to a young child, you spend a lot of time talking about feelings: about having to share, about being disappointed because you may not have a cookie instead of broccoli (绿花椰菜), about the great injustice of a parent pressing the elevator button before the child has a chance to.

And in a parenting culture that’s increasingly concerned with centering children’s needs above all else, mothers and fathers have become skillful at talking about their kids’ feelings while masking their own. But new research suggests that parents who hide their negative emotions are doing their children, and themselves harm.

A study published this month says that when parents put on a faux-happy (假开心) face for their kids, they do damage to their own sense of wellbeing and authenticity.

“For the average parent the findings suggest when they attempt to hide their negative emotion expression and overexpress their positive emotions with their children, it actually comes at a cost: doing so may lead parents to feel worse themselves,” researcher Dr Emily Impett, says.

It makes sense that parents often fall back on amping up (扩大) the positivity for the sake of their children—there are a lot of things in the world we want to protect our kids from. But children are often smarter than we expect and are quite in tune with what the people closest to them—their parents—are feeling.

There was a time about a year or so ago, for example, when I received some bad news over the phone; I was home with my four-year-old and so I did my best to put on a brave face. She knew immediately something was wrong though, and was confused.

When I finally let a few tears out and explained that Mom heard something sad about a friend, she was, of course, just fine. My daughter patted my shoulder, gave me a hug, and went back to playing. She felt better that she was able to help me, and the moment made a lot more sense to her emotionally than a smiling mom holding back sobs. I was glad that I could feel sad momentarily and not have to work hard to hide that.

Relaying positive feelings to your children when you don’t feel them is a move the researchers called high cost — that it may seem like the most beneficial to your child at the time but that parents should find other ways of communicating emotions that “allow them to feel true to themselves”.

But this is also about children seeing the world in a more honest way. While we will want to protect our children from things that aren’t age-appropriate or harmful, it’s better to raise a generation of kids who understand that moms and dads are people too.

1.What is the typical behavior of parents when they bring up their children?

A. Allowing their children chances to do things themselves.

B. Expressing their dissatisfaction with their children.

C. Hiding their true emotions from their children.

D. Sharing their favorite food with their children.

2. If parents put on a faux-happy face, _______.

A. their children will be protected

B. their children will be taken in

C. they will feel happy as a result

D. they will undergo worse feelings

3.The author mentioned the example of her daughter to illustrate ______.

A. children are not so clever as parents think

B. children can often understand parents’ true feelings

C. it’s meaningful for parents to always look positive

D. it’s necessary to expose children to harmful things

4. We can conclude from the passage that _______.

A. protecting children from age-inappropriate things is important

B. it makes sense for children to know their parents’ negative feelings

C. children will admire their parents more because of being protected

D. separation from negative feelings helps children see the world honestly

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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1.What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. Which exhibition to visit.　　 B. When to leave the museum.　　 C. Where to see forest animals.

2.Which hall is busy now?

A. Hall 6.　　 B. Hall 5.　　 C. Hall 3.

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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1.What are the speakers talking about?

A.What to do for a project.

B.When to draw a picture.

C.How to be a good artist.

2.How does the man feel about the woman's first suggestion?

A.Surprised. B.Hesitant. C.Uninterested.

3.What would the man do according to the woman's second suggestion?

A.Do much preparation beforehand.

B.Work with talented students.

C.Draw in front of the class.

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Sarah :What can you refer to if you want to know how tall the tallest person in the world is? 1.　 　 is only one place ,where you will find the information. And that ' s the GuinnessBook of World Records. This morning we have someone from the Guinness Company that produced that famous book , Tomas　 Manning. 2.　 　 to the　 program, Tomas !

Tomas : Thanks, Sarah. It ' s a pleasure to be here.

Sarah : Perhaps you could start by telling us where the idea for the book came from?

Tomas : Well ,it was first suggested in the early　 1950s. Sir Hugh Beaver .the managing director of Guinness, was out shooting birds with some friends. A bird　　 3. ( fly)　 away so　 quickly that no one was able to shoot it. Sir Hugh wondered whether this bird was the fastest bird in Europe. And it wasn't the fastest. He wondered　　 4.　 　 it was.

Sarah :So I suppose he went to the　　 　 5.　 ( near)　 library to look for the information and he couldn't find it.

Tomas : Yeah , that ' s　 exactly what　 happened. And　 this　 made　 Sir Hugh　 think　 there　　 6. be other people in the same　 situation who wanted this kind of information. He thought that ,　 like　　 7.　 ,people would be interested in finding facts about the records to satisfy their　　　 8.　 ( curious) .

Sarah : So　 9. 　 idea for a book of records was born. And when did the first book' come out ?Tomas : A few years later, in　 1955. S0　　 10.　　 ( answer)　 your question : the　 tallest　 person　 in the　　 world is 231. 7cm tall.

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