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小題1:What is the purpose of the text?
A．To introduce a language school in Japan.B．To hire language teachers to work in Japan.
C．To describe working conditions in Japan.D．To make clear the requirements for Japanese teachers.
小題2:We know from the text that those who are going to Japan will _______.
A．teach English only in OsakaB．receive a degree from a university
C．have free accommodationD．get trained for the job
小題3:Before going to Japan, you need _______.
A．to see the manager of NOVA FranceB．to take some computer courses
C．to write a letter to JapanD．to find a place to live
小題4:If you want to work in Japan you should _______.
A．have some working experienceB．know how to use computers
C．present good teaching plansD．speak several languages
小題1:B小題1:D小題1:A小題1:B
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科目：高中英語(yǔ) 來(lái)源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

Dear editor,
I am Paul , a senior English teacher in Linchuan No. 1 Middle School in Jiangxi Province , China. This letter is written to ask for your opinion.
The other day, I met with a multiple - choice exercise. We teachers argued heatedly with each other over its answer. Unfortunately, neither side could convince the other. The sentence is to be attached at the end of the letter. There is no doubt that the reference answer C is correct. But I don’t  think it is the only answer. Personally, I do think A is also a reasonable choice in sense as well as in grammar, if the case is treated from another aspect.                                
What puzzles me is why we should deal with so many multiple - choice exercises with not rigorous（嚴(yán)謹(jǐn)?shù)模〆nough reference keys. But being a teacher, it’s very important and necessary to make it clear to students which answer is correct, which is more appropriate, and which is the best one. Regrettably, Multiple - choice test, which is a bit old - fashioned in western countries, seems to be quite popular and covers a rather high percentage in all sorts of English tests in China, especially in NMET.
Personally speaking, I don’t think multiple - choice test form making up more than 75 percent of the total scores in college entrance examination is a very good and effective testing method. Instead, more subjective testing forms depending on one’s own thinking and his ability to use the language like key words falling, question answering, paragraph or passage summarizing, English - Chinese or Chinese - English inter - translation, etc. should be applied to English proficiency tests. Through the test forms mentioned above, students’ ability to use the language will be better developed. Consequently, more advanced and outstanding English learners could be picked out. In fact, a test paper focusing on multiple - choice test influences, in a sense, students to form their own language thinking, which hinders（阻礙）the development of their language ability as well. Do you think so?
I am looking forward to your authoritative opinion. Thanks.
Yours sincerely,
Paul Liao
小題1:.
. What can be learnt from the letter is that the writer ________.
A．writes to argue with the editor over China’s present test system
B．thinks the reference answer to the sentence is completely wrong
C．thinks subjective test forms constitute a rather high percentage in NMET
D．doesn’t think highly of China’s present English proficiency test forms
小題2:.
. In order to better develop students’ ability to use English, the writer suggests ________.
A．dealing with more multiple - choice exercises
B．laying stress on the practice of subjective exercises
C．a(chǎn)rguing hotly with teachers over reference answers
D．considering a problem from different aspects
小題3:.
Which of the following does NOT belong to subjective exercises in English learning?
A．Keeping a diary.B．Summarizing a paragraph.
C．Copying a test.D．Translating a passage.
小題4:.
The writer seems to feel ________ as to the future development of students’ language ability.
A．concernedB．curiousC．confusedD．satisfied

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科目：高中英語(yǔ) 來(lái)源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

More parents are looking to cellphones to help keep their children safe.  But mom and dad should be careful: Kids who talk on a cellphone may be more likely to step into traffic. Children should learn to end phone conversations before they prepare to step into traffic.
While research shows that older kids and more experienced users also don’t navigate(穿行于) streets as well while on a cellphone, younger children tends to find the small tools more distracting(令人分心的).
“Kids of this age are just learning to cross the street on their own, ”says David-Schwebel, a co-author of the study. “They’re beginners. ”
Kids don’t need to be stopped from chatting on the phone when outside,
however. Instead, parents simply should instruct them to finish their conversations before crossing the street.        
“I don’t think this means parents should take phones away from their kids, ”says Schwebel. “I encourage families to get cellphones for their children.  They’re more helpful than harmful,  if they’re used in a safe way. ”
Other distractions, such as conversations with friends, listening to music,  and text messaging, may also cause problems for children in this age group.  The researchers expect to study the effect of those types of distractions in the future.
Experts in child safety approved the cellphone study. “If you’re talking on a cellphone,  you’re not paying much attention to the environment around you, ” says Susan Baker, a professor.
Brooke Carlson, a 44-year-old mom, has noticed how riveted her 9-year-old son is when he’s talking on the cellphone. Although she’d never thought of the dangers of crossing traffic while on the phone, Carlson says, “Now that I know about it, it makes total sense. ”She plans to have a chat with her child about cellphones and street safety.
For younger kids, parents might consider purchasing a phone with a plan that only allows the child to call up his or her parents. That way the cellphone can be used for emergencies, but not for chatting with friends for hours.
小題1:In Schwebel’s opinion, _____ .
A．kids are still too young to walk on the street alone
B．kids don’t know how to use cellphones appropriately
C．kids have little experience in crossing the street alone
D．kids are not experienced cellphone users
小題2: Which of the following is Schwebel in favor of?
A．Children shouldn’t be allowed to have a cellphone.
B．Children should be forbidden to chat on the phone when outside.
C．Cellphones do more harm to children than other distractions.
D．Parents should teach kids about cellphones and street safety.
小題3: The underlined word “riveted” may mean“_____”.
A．confusedB．a(chǎn)bsorbed
C．dangerousD．excited
小題4: According to the passage, what does Mrs Carlson know?
A．There are dangers of crossing streets while on the phone.
B．Her 9-year-old son is not interested in talking on the phone.
C．Cellphones are more helpful than harmful to children.
D．Kids don’t pay attention to the environment when talking on the phone.
小題5: The purpose of writing this passage is to _____.
A．a(chǎn)dvise parents not to buy cellphones for children
B．introduce a phone that only allows kids to call up parents
C．expect kids not to talk on cellphones while on the street
D．expect people to use cellphones less in daily life

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科目：高中英語(yǔ) 來(lái)源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

Should parents ever hit their children?
Research suggests many of us are likely to respond “no”, and public support for spanking (打屁股) has been falling over the years. But surveys also show that 75 percent to nearly 90 percent of parents admit spanking their child at least once.
I was raised in a zero-tolerance( 零容忍) home for disrespect, and my parents often turned to physical punishment. And, no, I don’t feel I was damaged by it.
Nothing is more annoying than watching ill-mannered behavior from children.
But there is data to suggest that a return to old-school spanking isn’t the answer.
Two years ago , Newsweek reported that it had found data suggesting that teens whose parents used physical punishment were more likely to become aggressive(好斗的).
Murray Straus, professor at the University of New Hampshire in America, has studied the topic of children and spanking for decades. He said that children who were physically punished have lower IQs than their peers. It may be that children with lower IQs were more likely to get spanked, but the punishment may have been counterproductive (反作用) to their mental development, as well.
Some researchers make the argument that occasional open-handed smacks (用巴掌打) on the bottom are not only harmless but can have some benefit.
Last year, Marjorie Gunnoe, a psychologist at Calvin College, studied teens who have never been spanked. There are a greater number of children growing up without ever having been physically punished. Gunnoe’s research suggests they don’t turn out any better than those who were sometimes spanked.
There are some parents who simply cannot control their tempers. But I still believe that the best parents are the ones who are able to offer fair and firm discipline (管教) without ever turning to physical punishment.
小題1: What can we know from the research in the second paragraph?
A．Many of the parents made no response to the survey.
B．More and more people support spanking in public.
C．Most parents have the experience of spanking their children.
D．Many of the parents think they should hit their children.
小題2: According to Marjorie Gunnoe’s research, ________ .
A．the children who have never been spanked do better than those who were sometimes spanked
B．instead of harmless, spanking can have a little benefit
C．spanking has little effect on the children’s future performance
D．the teens who were often spanked are more likely to be aggressive
小題3: In the author’s opinion, the best parents are the ones ______.
A．who often use physical punishmentB．who never use physical punishment
C．who use physical punishment properlyD．who take physical punishment as useful tool
小題4:Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?
A．The author’s parents were strict with him when he was young.
B．The author thinks his parents’ spanking did no harm to him.
C．Murray Straus thinks spanking has nothing to do with children’s IQs.
D．Some parents spank their children because they can’t control their tempers.

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Thousands of dead red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky in an Arkansas town on New Year’s Eve after massive injuries, tests by Arkansas officials concluded on Monday. Some 5,000 birds mysteriously fell from the sky in Beebe, Arkansas after dark on New Year’s Eve. “The birds suffered from acute physical injuries leading to internal hemorrhage（大量出血） and death. There was no sign of infectious disease,” the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said in a statement. The birds were otherwise healthy, it said.
One theory is that birds were frightened by New Year's fireworks and flew into buildings or other objects. “Loud noises were reported shortly before the birds began to fall from the sky,” the statement said, adding that blackbirds have poor night vision and seldom fly at night.
　　Another theory was that severe weather such as lightning accounted for the loud noises but this was discounted because the violent weather had already left the area. “We’re leaning more toward a stress event," said Arkansas Game and Fish Commission spokesman Keith Stephens.
The commission also is trying to determine what caused the deaths of up to 100,000 fish over a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River near a dam in Ozark, 125 miles west of Beebe. The fish were discovered on December 30. Stephens said the commission expected results on the fish tests in probably a month. Since almost all the fish were one species -- bottom-feeding drum, Stephens said, the test was very important. Stephens also said: “The events do not appear related.” Both that section of the river and the air at the site of the bird deaths were tested for toxins(毒素). Beebe is a town of about 4,500 people located 30 miles northeast of the state capital.
小題1:What is NOT the probable reason why the dead red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky?
A．Internal hemorrhageB．Fireworks
C．Lightning weatherD．Murder
小題2:In the third paragraph, the underlined word discounted probably mean________.
A．not to reduce costB．not to believe
C．to make up a part D．to explain mystery
小題3:According to Stephens, we can infer the probable cause of the dead fish is _________.
A．cold weatherB．poor management
C．diseaseD．lack of food
小題4:The passage is mainly developed by __________.
A．a(chǎn)nalyzing causesB．making comparisons
C．examining differences D．following the time order

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科目：高中英語(yǔ) 來(lái)源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

Researches show what we already suspected: Three out of four babies who died of SIDS(嬰兒猝死) involved co-sleeping. We’ll say it again. The safest course is not to sleep with babies.
We know the argument: Bad parenting, not co-sleeping, is to blame for the dozens of babies’ deaths. Some parents stick to co-sleeping because it helps them bond with their newborns. They say those who give co-sleeping a bad name either had been drinking, used drugs or were too tired to notice that they rolled over on their children.
But, most of the cases did not involve drugs or alcohol. There’s a “but” here, however. Submitting to a test for drugs or alcohol in these cases is voluntary, so it’s difficult to know with certainty.
Organizations like the Black Health Coalition and others have explained the safe way to co-sleep. While we understand those arguments, we also know that mistakes can happen and that it only takes one time for something to go terribly wrong. The risk outweighs the benefit.
In all likelihood, parents will continue to co-sleep, and some will do so without ever having an incident, but babies are too vulnerable(易受傷的) for parents to take such chances. Therefore, the best place for babies to sleep is in their own beds, on their backs, with no pillows, blankets or toys. No parent wants a tragedy(悲劇) to occur. The best way to make sure the tragedy doesn’t happen is to allow babies to sleep alone in their own cribs(搖籃).                                         
小題1:According to the author, most of the SIDS cases happened because of ________.
A．drugs
B．co-sleeping
C．drinking
D．bad parenting
小題2:Some parents think sleeping with their babies can ________.
A．keep the babies healthy
B．give co-sleeping a good name
C．prevent themselves from drinking
D．develop a good relation with their babies
小題3:The author holds the opinion that ________.
A．parents can sleep with babies, but cautiously
B．co-sleep helps to bring babies closer to parents
C．parents can’t take chances to sleep with their babies
D．a(chǎn)ccidents only happen to those careless parents
小題4:Which of the following best describes the structure of the text?
A．①B．①②C．①D．①
↙↘                                   ↓                  ↙↓↘              ↙↓↓↘
②③④                  ③④                 ②③④           ②③④⑤
↘↙                                  ↓                  ↘↓↙
⑤                            ⑤                  ⑤

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科目：高中英語(yǔ) 來(lái)源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

Every year mobile phones develop. Imagining what they will look like and be able to do in 2020 is really a challenge. To help, experts have outlined three major mobile trends that they believe will have become reality by then.
Our phones will be so smart in 10 years’ time that they’ll know everything about our situation and warn us when something needs our attention. This is the top prediction of both Nokia and Google. They predict that our cars and home appliances will be able to communicate with our mobile. For example, fridges will tell your mobile to tell you to pick up milk on the way back from work. While driving, your mobile will suggest that you take a different route because there’s a road accident up ahead.
The second trend is in gesture-based controls. People who know the iPhone’s touch-sensitive screen are already familiar with the technology. It translates hand movements into actions on-screen. But gestural communications will make the phone more convenient to use and may completely replace touchpads. According to industry insiders, the most immediate step forward in gestural technology will be in voice recognition. It’s believed voice recognition technology will speed up communications. It is quicker to speak than type. Eventually, phone screens will disappear.
The third major development will change our understanding of a mobile phone. From a single phone, the mobile will be developed into multi-part devices. It is opposite to the current trend in which mobile phones are combining the functions of cameras, music players and game consoles. The prediction is based on the idea that the world will become more wireless and all these—cameras, music players and game consoles—will be wirelessly connected. Mobile phones won’t need to contain these devices because users will be able to control them wirelessly through their phones.
小題1:The first paragraph serves as          .
A．a(chǎn) lead-inB．a(chǎn) conclusionC．a(chǎn) summary D．a(chǎn) supporting fact
小題2:Which of the following is most likely to be the appearance of a mobile phone in 2020? 

小題3:From the text, we can learn that the future mobile phones will          .
A．drive cars for us
B．be controlled by the users’ voices
C．be controlled by home appliances
D．be very big together with separated multiple parts
小題4:The text mainly tells us          .
A．three major trends of mobile phones
B．what mobile phones will look like in 2020
C．the future mobile phones are gesture-based
D．some new functions of the present mobile phones

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科目：高中英語(yǔ) 來(lái)源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

The Queen’s English is now sounding less upper-class, a scientific study of the Queen’s Christmas broadcasts has found. Researchers have studied each of her messages to the Commonwealth countries since 1952 to find out the change in her pronunciation from the noble Upper Received to the Standard Received.
Jonathan Harrington, a professor at Germany’s University of Munich, wanted to discover whether accent changes recorded over the past half century would take place within one person. “As far as I know, there just is nobody else for whom there is this sort of broadcast records,” he said.
He said the noble way of pronouncing vowels (元音) had gradually lost ground as the noble upper-class accent over the past years. “Her accent sounds slightly less noble than it did 50 years ago. But these are very, very small and slow changes that we don’t notice from year to year.”
“We may be able to relate it to changes in the social classes,” he told The Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper. “In 1952 she would have been heard saying ‘thet men in the bleck het’. Now it would be ‘that man in the black hat’. Similarly, she would have spoken of ‘the citay’ and ‘dutay’, rather than ‘citee’ and ‘dutee’, and ‘hame’ rather than ‘home’. In the 1950s she would have been ‘lorst’, but by the 1970s ‘lost’.”
The Queen’s broadcast is a personal message to the Commonwealth countries. Each  Christmas, the 10-minute broadcast is put on TV at 3 pm in Britain as many families are recovering from their traditional turkey lunch (傳統(tǒng)火雞午餐).
The results were published (發(fā)表) in the Journal of Phonetics.
小題1:What is the text mainly about?
A．The relationship between accents and social classes.
B．The Queen’s Christmas speeches on TV.
C．The changes in a person’s accent.
D．The recent development of the English language.
小題2:The Queen’s broadcasts were chosen for the study mainly because ______.
A．she has been Queen for many years
B．she has a less upper-class accent now
C．her speeches are familiar to many people
D．her speeches have been recorded for 50 years
小題3:Which of the following is an example of a less noble accent in English?
A．“dutay”B．“citee”　　　　　C．“hame”D．“l(fā)orst”
小題4:We may infer from the text that the Journal of Phonetics is a magazine on ______.
A．speech sounds　　　　　　B．Christmas customs
C．TV broadcasting　　　　　D．personal messages

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科目：高中英語(yǔ) 來(lái)源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

SCIENTISTS have discovered that living to the age of 100 may have nothing to do with the lifestyle you lead and everything to do with the type of genes (基因) you have.
For the lucky carriers of “Methuselah” genes, worries over smoking, eating unhealthily and not getting enough exercise may not be as necessary as to those of us without the special gene pattern .
The “Methuselah” genes could give extra protection against the diseases of old age such as cancer and heart disease. They could also protect people against the effects of the unhealthy lifestyles that we believe will lead us to an early death, scientists say. However, the genes are very rare.
The genes include ADIPOQ, which is found in about 10 percent of young people but in nearly 30 percent of people living past 100. They also include the CETP and the ApoC3 genes, which are found in 10 percent of young people, but in about 20 percent of people over 100 years old.
Some of those genes were discovered by a research group at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, led by Professor Nir Barzilai. The team studied the genes of over 500 people over 100 years old, and their children.
The studies show that tiny mutations (變異) in the make-up of some genes can greatly increase a person’s lifespan. Barzilai told a Royal Society conference that the discovery of such genes gave scientists clear targets for developing drugs that could prevent age-related diseases, allow people to live longer and stay healthy.
David Gems, a researcher at University College London, believes that drugs to slow ageing will become widespread.
“If we know which genes control longevity (長(zhǎng)壽) then we can … target them with drugs. That makes it possible to slow down ageing,” he told The Times.
“Much of the pain and suffering in the world are caused by ageing. If we can find a way to reduce that, then we are obliged to take it.”
小題1: According to the article, which of the following is the most important if a person is to live to the age of 100?
A．Eating healthy food every day.
B．Having the right types of genes.
C．Having a healthy lifestyle.
D．Taking drugs that prevent ageing.
小題2:According to the article, the ApoC3 gene is found in ______ of people over 100 years old.
A．10%B．20%C．30%D．50%
小題3:Which of the following statements is TRUE of the research led by Professor Nir Barzilai?
A．The team studied the genes of over 100 people over 100 years of age.
B．The researchers found that mutations in certain genes lead to longer life.
C．The researchers found ways to develop drugs that could cure age-related diseases.
D．The study suggested that most people have genes that could lengthen their lives.
小題4: According to David Gems, ______.
A．drugs to slow ageing will be very expensive
B．modern science will be able to find more longevity genes
C．it is the duty of medical scientists to fight the problems of ageing
D．scientists can make new genes that will allow longer life

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