In a great many cities, hundreds of people ride bikes to work every day. In New York, some bike riders have even formed a group called Bike for a Better City. They declare that if more people rode bikes to work, there would be fewer automobiles in the downtown part of the city and so less dirty air form car engines.
For several years, this group had been trying to get the city government to help bike riders. For example, they want the city to draw special lanes(車道) for bikes on some of the main streets, because when bike riders must use the same lanes as cars there are accidents. Bike for a Better City feels that if there were special lanes, more people would use bikes.
But no bike lanes have been drawn. Not everyone thinks it is a good idea—they say it will slow traffic. Some store owners on the main streets don’t like the idea—they say that if there is less traffic, they will have less business.
The city government has not yet decided what to do. It wants to keep everyone happy. On weekends, Central Park—the largest place open ground in New York— is closed to cars, and the roads may be used by bikes only.
小題1:In New York, a group of bike riders__________.
A．a(chǎn)re keeping practicing for health
B．have no cars of their own
C．a(chǎn)re complaining there are not enough buses
D．a(chǎn)re trying to settle the problem of air pollution
小題2: The bike riders suggest that __________.
A．bikes should be used instead of carsB．bike lanes should be drawn
C．fewer buses or cars should be usedD．the number of special lanes should be decreased
小題3:The advantage of the special lanes is that__________.
A．they will make cars and buses run slowly
B．they will make it easier for bike riders to go to parks
C．they will make the city more beautiful
D．they will prevent accidents

小題1:D
小題1:B
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科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解


Secondhand smoke isn’t just a health threat to people．It can also hurt dogs and cats，veterinarians say．
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention，more than 126 million Americans who don't smoke are exposed to secondhand smoke in their homes，vehicles，workplaces，and public places．This exposure causes thousands of lung cancer and heart disease deaths among nonsmokers every year，according to the California Environmental Protection Agency．
“Making the leap from the effects of secondhand smoke on humans to their effects on pets isn't a big one,” says veterinarian （獸醫(yī)專家） Carolynn MacAllister of Oklahoma State University．
“There have been a number of scientific papers recently that have reported the significant health threat secondhand smoke poses to pets,” MacAllister said．“Secondhand smoke has been associated with oral cancer and lymphoma in cats，lung and nasal cancer in dogs，as well as lung cancer in birds.”
Studies have also shown that dogs living in a smoking household are susceptible to cancers of the nose and sinus area，particularly if they are a long-nosed breed，because their noses have a greater surface area that is exposed to carcinogens and a greater area for them to accumulate．Dogs affected with nasal cancer normally don't survive for more than one year．
“Short and medium-nosed dogs are more susceptible to lung cancer，because their shorter nasal passage aren't as effective at accumulating the inhaled secondhand smoke carcinogens,” MacAllister said．“This results in more carcinogens （致癌物質(zhì)） reaching the lungs.”
Birds are also at risk for lung cancer，as well as pneumonia，because their respiratory systems are hypersensitive to any type of air pollutant．
To help prevent animals from being adversely affected by smoking，pet owners who smoke should have a designated smoking area that is separated from the home or stop smoking altogether，MacAllister said．        
小題1:From the passage，we can see secondhand smoke maybe not harmful to _______．
A．smokersB．non-smokersC．petsD．trees
小題2:What can be suggested according to the passage?
A．Smokers can smoke anywhere.
B．Smokers can smoke at any time.
C．Smokers should smoke in the designated place.
D．Smokers must give up smoking at once.
小題3:What kind of dogs are likely to suffer from nasal cancer?
A．Long-nosed dogsB．Short-nosed dogs
C．Medium-nosed dogsD．Dogs without noses
小題4:The best title of the passage is __________.
A．Secondhand Smoke Causes Cancer in People
B．Secondhand Smoke Causes Cancer in Birds
C．Secondhand Smoke Causes Cancer in Pets
D．Secondhand Smoke Causes Cancer in Cats
小題5:What is the meaning of the underlined phrase “are susceptible to”?
A．a(chǎn)re likely to be harmed by
B．a(chǎn)re hard to be influenced by
C．a(chǎn)re less to be effected by
D．a(chǎn)re lucky to be caught by

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科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

We live in a digital world now, and a student’s technology needs have changed. For the early years, when you are in primary school, you can get by with no technology at all. Even if you have a computer, it’s a good idea to get children familiar with libraries. At this age, trips to the library are like family outings.
As you get closer to middle school, a computer with Internet access becomes more of a necessity. Teachers will often give assignments that require a student to use the Internet for research. After a computer, technology choices for students become more difficult to make – especially when it comes to cell-phones. Kids will beg their parents for a cell-phone, especially in middle school. For many parents, it’s a safety issue: They want to know that their kids can reach them quickly if necessary. For teachers, cell phones can be used to record lessons when students are absent. But many teachers dislike cell-phones. Some kids send messages or have talks in the class. Sending messages also raises the problem of cheating on exams. More and more schools are now forbidding the use of cell-phones.
Many kids see iPods as necessary things to have. IPods are great for music, but do they do anything good for your children’s education? Maybe they do. That’s the opinion of Doug Johnson, an educator for 30 years. Johnson says that educators should accept all new forms of technology in the classroom, including iPods. “Some do more with their cell- phones than we can do with our laptops,” he jokes. “I don’t think we should be afraid. The truth is that it’s easier to change the way we teach than to change the technology habits of an entire generation.”
小題1:According to author, primary school children should___.
A．use the computer and the Internet regularly
B．a(chǎn)sk their parents to buy them cell-phones
C．buy iPods to listen to music
D．go to libraries to read more books
小題2:Why do parents agree to buy their children cell-phones?
A．They want their children to be cool.
B．They think cell-phones be helpful to their study.
C．They want to keep in touch with their children.
D．They want their children to keep up to date.
小題3:The following are all reasons why many teachers dislike cell-phones EXCEPT ____.
A．cell-phones can be used to cheat on exams
B．schoolchildren will send messages during class
C．cell-phones can be used to record lessons
D．schoolchildren might talk on them during class
小題4: What does the underlined word “that” refers to?
A．iPods can be used to listen to music.
B．iPods can be helpful for children’s education.
C．iPods can be used to play games.
D．iPods are necessary for children’s lives.
小題5:We can infer from what Doug Johnson said that _____.
A．cell-phones are not useful to students
B．teachers should let students use cell-phones
C．it’s better for teachers to change their teaching methods
D．schoolchildren should follow the trends(潮流) of fashion

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科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

I’m a teacher. But there are days, like today, when I wonder why. The results of an English quiz taken by my fifth-graders were depressing. Despite my best efforts, the world of pronouns remains a mystery to them. How I wish there were a way to make the study of our language as exciting as a computer game, so the glazed (目光呆滯) looks would not appear in their eyes at the mention of the word “grammar.” I remember my husband’s words: “Why don’t you quit? You’d probably make more money by doing something else, and you wouldn’t have papers to grade every night.”
Tonight I have a stack of papers to grade, which I promised my students I would return tomorrow. But a friend, whom I haven’t seen in a year, is visiting from Belgium, and I told her I would keep this evening free.
Sitting in traffic behind a distant stoplight, it’s hard not to replay the day. A voice reports the body of a local youngster, missing for weeks, has been identified.
This missing child has had a deep effect on my students. They wondered, “If it happened to her, could it happen to me?”
My children had found the answer themselves. They got out their pencils, markers and made cards. Cards were written with words of compassion and love for a mother and father they didn’t know. Cards were filled with red hearts, golden crosses, flowers and angels. Their cards, intended to comfort others, comforted the children themselves by leading them past the anxiety, back into the world of security (安全) that should be theirs.
And then I remember why I’m still teaching. It’s the children. They’re more important than a lifetime filled with quiet evenings and more valuable than a pocket filled with money. My classroom, a child-filled world of discovery, of kindness and of caring is the real world.
It’s time to call my friend. I have promises to keep. She’ll understand. After all, she’s a teacher.
小題1:The writer wonders why she is a teacher because _____.
A．her students often play games in class
B．teaching is not a well-paid job
C．her students feel bored with grammar
D．she feels frustrated at teaching
小題2: The students’ attitude to the missing child’s parents might be that of _____.
A．doubtB．unconcern C．sympathy D．tolerance
小題3:What is the most important according to the writer?
A．A pocket filled with money.
B．The kind and caring children.
C．A lifetime filled with quiet evenings.
D．The freedom to control her own time.
小題4:What promise will the writer keep?
A．To grade papers that night.B．To help a student with homework.
C．To accept her husband’s advice.D．To meet her old friend.

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科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

However important we may regard school life to be, there is always the fact that children spend more time at home than in the classroom. Therefore, the teacher should realize that parents have a great influence on their children. Parents can become strong allies (助手) of the school or they can get in the way of the school education.
Experts have realized the need to keep parents informed of the newer methods used in schools. Many headmasters have conducted workshops explaining such matters as the reading readiness, program writing and mathematics to parents.
Moreover, the classroom teacher, with the permission of the supervisors(管理者), can also play an important part in giving more knowledge to reporting pupils progress, teachers can help parents a lot in educating their children and parents can give much help to teachers.
Suppose that a father has been drilling Junior arithmetic lessons night after night. In a friendly talk between the teacher and the father, the teacher can help the parent to make Junior interested in it. He might be persuaded to let Junior join in discussing the family budget, buying the food, using a ruler or measuring cup at home, setting the clock, calculating the distance of a trip and engaging in scores of other activities that have a mathematical basis.
If the father follows the advice, it is reasonable to say that he will soon realize that his son is making satisfactory progress in mathematics, and at the same time, enjoying the work.
Too often, however, teachers’ talks with parents are devoted to small accounts of children’s misdemeanors(不良行為). They talk about the laziness and poor work habits of the children.
What is needed is a more creative way in which the teacher, as an adviser, plants ideas in parents’ minds to make sure that the child spends the many hours out of the classroom learning something useful.
In this way the school and the home join forces in educating children.
小題1:The main idea of the passage is that ____.
A．home training is more important than school training
B．parents should help their children to do their homework
C．there’re many ways in which the mathematics program can be carried out at home
D．teachers can and should help parents to use better ways to teach their children
小題2:From this passage we can know that the writer ____.
A．is satisfied with the relationship between school and home
B．feels that parent-teacher talks can be made much more constructive
C．believes that schools can’t teach pupils well
D．calls on parents to teach their children mathematics at home
小題3:What way that the writer doesn’t talk about can improve the present situation?
A．Classes for parents.B．New type of report card.
C．Parent-teacher talk. D．Dinner or party.
小題4:The writer implies that ____.
A．interesting activities can improve one’s achievement
B．too many children are lazy and have poor work habits
C．teachers should often make home visits to parents
D．headmasters do more than teachers in this area
小題5:We can infer from the passage that the writer does not favor ____.
A．father’s helping his son with his study
B．written reports to the parents from the teachers
C．talking about children’s shortcomings
D．having the parents help their children with their lessons

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When my son, Mark, was in the third grade, he saved all his pocket money for over three months to buy holiday presents. The third Saturday in December Mark said he had made his list and had twenty dollars in his pocket.
I drove him to a nearby supermarket. Mark picked up a hand basket and went in while I waited and watched in the car. It took Mark over 45 minutes to choose his presents. Finally he came to the checkout counter (交款處) and reached into his pocket for his money. It was not there! There was a hole in his pocket, but no money. Mark stood there holding his basket, tears falling down his face.
Then a surprising thing happened. A woman came up to Mark and took him in her arms. "You would help me a lot if you let me pay for you," said the woman. "It would be the most wonderful gift you could give me. I only ask that one day you will pass it on. When you grow up, I  would like you to find someone you can help. When you help others, 1 know you will feel as good about it as I do now."
Mark took the money, dried his tears and ran back to the checkout counter as fast as he could. That year we all enjoyed our gifts almost as much as Mark enjoyed giving them to us.
I would like to say ’"thank you" to that very kind woman, and tell her that four years later, Mark went house to house collecting blankets (毯子) and clothes for the homeless people in the fire. And I want to promise her that Mark will never forget to keep passing it on.
小題1:When did the story probably happen?
A．On Christmas Day. B．Before Christmas Day,
C．On New Year’s Day. D．After New Year’s Day.
小題2:Why did the writer want to say ’’thank you" to the woman?
A．Because she bought Mark a nice present.
B．Because she always paid money for others.
C．Because she collected clothes for the homeless.
D．Because she taught Mark to help people in need.
小題3:What’s the best title for this passage?
A．A big supermarket B．A kind woman
C．A happy family D．A wonderful gift

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科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

I am a strong believer that if a child is raised with approval, he learns to love himself and will be successful in his own way.
Several weeks ago，I was doing homework with my son in the third grade and he kept standing up from his chair to go over the math lines．I kept asking him to sit down, telling him that he would concentrate better. He sat but seconds later, as if he didn’t even notice he was doing it, he got up again．I was getting frustrated, but then it hit me．I started noticing his answers were much quicker and accurate when he stood up．Could he be more intent while standing up？
This made me start questioning myself and what I had been raised to believe. I was raised to believe that a quiet, calm child was a sure way to success．This child would have the discipline to study hard, get good grades and become someone important in life．
Now those same people perhaps come to realize that their kids are born with their own sets of DNA and personality traits，and all you can do is loving and accepting them．As parents，throughout their growing years and beyond that, we need to be our kids' best cheerleaders，guiding them and helping them find their way.
I have stopped asking my son to sit down and concentrate．Obviously, he is concentrating just in his own way and not mine．We need to learn to accept our kids' ways of doing things．Some way may have worked for me but doesn't mean we need to carry it through generations．There is nothing sweeter than being individual and unique．It makes us free and happy and that's just the way I want my kids to live their own life．
小題1: At the beginning, the author tried to keep his son seated in order to make him________.
A．pay more attention to his studyB．keep silent in the room
C．finish his homework on timeD．get right answers
小題2: Inspired by the case of his son，the author began to doubt________.
A．the importance of parentsB．the old form of education
C．the relationship between kids and their parents D．the good grades of some kids
小題3:According to the passage, which of the following statements is right?
A. We should help kids correct their wrong ways.
B. Parents should study their kids’ DNA.    
C. Kids should be taught to behave themselves.
D. Parents should love and accept their kids.
小題4: The author has stopped asking his son to sit down because __________.
A．he has changed his traditional ideasB．his son wants to be unique
C．his son doesn’t follow his adviceD．his son’s DNAis different
小題5:Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?
A．Study hard and you'll be successfulB．Be friendly to your children
C．Children's success in their own styleD．Parents' help with their children's study

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科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

Kids are far better than adults at learning how to speak multiple languages. Research now shows that very young infants might have some of the best language skills of all．

A new study suggests that babies between 4 and 6 months old can tell the difference between two languages just by looking at the speaker's face．They don't need to hear word．Sometimes between 6-8 months of age, babies raised in homes where just one language is spoken lose this ability．Babies from bilingual(雙語的) homes, on the other hand, keep the face-reading ability until they're at least 8 months old．
Researchers in Canada studied 36 babies from English-speaking families．Twelve of the babies were 4 months old,12 were 6 months old, and the rest were 8 months old．Each baby sat on his or her mother's lap and watched video clips(電影片斷) of a woman talking．The woman was fluent in both English and French．In some clips, she read from a storybook in English．In other clips, she read in French．In all of the videos there was no sound．
小題1:What is mainly discussed in the passage ?
A．Language teaching．
B．Language learning
C．Babies and language learning
D．Parents and language teaching
小題2:What do the underlined word in the second paragraph refer to ?
A．Two or more．B．Foreign.C．difficult.D．At least one.
小題3:We can know from the passage that    .
A．a(chǎn)ll the babies in the study are of the same age．
B．the babies could hear the woman's voice while watching the videos．
C．the stories the woman read were written in either French or German．
D．it's still unknown how babies could tell the difference between languages．
小題4:Why did the 8-month-old pay no attention when the language was changed ?
A．They had lost the ability to distinguish different languages．
B．They were too tired to open their eyes and fell asleep．
C．They couldn't hear what the speaker was talking about．
D．They had lost the interest in bilingual speakers．

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Kids who receive special education are, without doubt, the hardest working children in any school. When they are having difficulty learning basic literacy and number concepts, when they break rules, when they need more services, support and adult attention than their peers, then they are struggling the hardest. In psychology, we are trained to think that if we are feeling angry or confused when sitting with a patient, then we are probably feeling just what our patient is feeling. The same is true for students with disabilities. Whatever we feel when we work with them, they are probably feeling as they work with us.
If you have a disability that affects your education, then you have a brain disorder. Because education, even in mathematics, is largely verbal（用言辭）, most brain disorders responsible for educational disabilities affect language, and how you process words and ideas in written and oral form. To imagine how much effort a child with a language disability spends each school day, imagine yourself attending a school today taught in a language you had a basic understanding of. Imagine though, that while you seem fluent to others, you have trouble when people talk too fast, use idioms or expressions.
When adults and classmates blame, or criticize kids who receive special education, they are struggling with their own confusion. It is difficult to imagine the world as it is lived by someone with an educational disability. It is difficult to understand how someone who can be so "normal" can have so many problems. It is so easy to imagine that if they just tried harder... without understanding that just to do the ordinary, kids with disabilities are making an extraordinary effort.
小題1:What is the purpose of the author by writing the passage?
A．to introduce how hard to be a special education teacher.
B．to think highly of the children with disabilities.
C．to show the disabled have much trouble in understanding.
D．to call on the society to care for the disabled.
小題2: If a disabled kid learns number concepts, he __________.
A．won’t work as hard as a normal.
B．will work double as hard as a normal.
C．will be as patient as the normal.
D．will think of his disability first.
小題3:If a kid has a disability affecting his education, he will ________.
A．have a hard time using the language.
B．be too foolish to learn maths .
C．not understand what others are saying.
D．have a lot of trouble in remembering words.
小題4:Before you intend to blame a kid receiving special education, __________.
A．you should try to understand what he is saying.
B．you should imagine the world he lives in.
C．you should imagine yourself in his shoes.
D．you should think of the education he has received.

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