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     Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. As the only girl in a
family of seven children,she often felt like she had "seven fathers",because her six brothers,as well as her
father,tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant,she retreated(躲避) into books. Despite her love of reading,she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate.
     In high school,with the encouragement of one particular teacher,Cisneros improved her grades and
worked for the school literary magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to college because he thought it would be a good way for her to find a husband. Cisneros did attend college,but instead of searching for a
husband,she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the university's Writers' Workshop,however,she felt lonely-a Mexican American from a poor
neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different helped Cisneros find her "creative voice."
     "It was not until this moment when I considered myself truly different that my writing acquired a voice. I knew I was a Mexican woman,but I didn't think it had anything to do with why I felt so much imbalance in my life,but it had everything to do with it! That's when I decided I would write about something my
classmates couldn't write about."
     Cisneros published her first work,The House on Mango Street,when she was twentynine. The book
tells about a young Mexican American girl growing up in a Spanishspeaking area in Chicago,much like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in
classes from high school through graduate school level. Since then,Cisneros has published several books of poetry,a children's book,and a shortstory collection.
1. Which of the following is TRUE about Cisneros in her childhood?
A. She had seven brothers.  
B. She felt herself a nobody.
C. She was too shy to go to school.  
D. She did not have any good teachers.
2. The graduate program gave Cisneros a chance to ________.
A. work for a school magazine      
B. run away from her family
C. make a lot of friends      
D. develop her writing style
3. According to Cisneros,what played the decisive role in her success?
A. Her early years in college.      
B. Her training in the Workshop.
C. Her feeling of being different.    
D. Her childhood experience.
4. What do we learn about The House on Mango Street?
A. It is quite popular among students.
B. It is the only book ever written by Cisneros.
C. It wasn't a success as it was written in Spanish.
D. It won an award when Cisneros was twentynine.
5.  According to the text,we know that ________.
A. her brothers treated him very kindly  
B. she didn't enjoy reading
C. she met a Mexican American girl  
D. she lived an uneasy life in her childhood
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　　PALOALTO, California--Turning off the television may help prevent children from getting fatter, even if they do not change their diet or increase the amount of their exercise.”US researchers said last week.

　　A study of 192 third and fourth graders, generally aged eight and nine, found that children who cut the number of hours spent watching television gained nearly two pounds, or 0.91 kilogram less over a one-year period than those who did not change their television diet.

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　　“American children spend an average of more than four hours per day watching television and videos and playing video games, and rates of childhood being fat have doubled over the past 20 years,”Robinson said.

　　In the study, presented this week to the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in San Francisco, the researchers persuaded about 100 of the students to reduce their television viewing by one-quarter to one-third.

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　　“One explanation for the weight loss could be the children unattracted to the television may simply have been moving around more and burning off calories.”said Robinson.

　　“Another reason might be due to eating fewer meals than in front of the television. Some studies have suggested that eating in front of the TV encourages people to eat more,”Robinson said.

1．In the first two paragraphs the writer tells us that ________.

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A．children will get fatter if they spend more time watching TV

B．children will get fatter if they spend less time watching TV

C．children will get fatter if they eat too much

D．children will get thinner only if they take extra exercises

2．According to the passage, the time American children usually spend watching TV ________.

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A．is more than four hours a day

B．is more than on any other activities

C．is less than four hours a day

D．doubled in the last twenty years

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A．six hours
B．three hours
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D．one hour

4．Why can watching TV increase kids' weight according to the passage?

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A．They usually burn off fewer calories though they eat less.

B．They usually eat more when they are watching television.

C．They change their diet while watching TV.

D．They have been moving around.

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A
One warm May day, two eighteen – year – old students from San Francisco State College decided to cool off with a swim at Bakers’ Beach. The two students were named Robert Kogler and Shirley O’Neill. They headed out to sea for a distance of 50 metres. Robert was in front.
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Shirley reached Robert, and tried to take his hand.
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d. Robert died.
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A．b,c,e,d,f,a B．c,a,f,d,e,b C．b,c,f,a,d,e D．c,b,f,a,e,d
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④In 1979, Isaac Stern visited China. He met with Chinese musicians and students. He taught them about classical Western music. His visit was made into a film, which is called From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China. It won an Academy Award for best documentary film.
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B. North Americans were the tallest in the 18th century in the world
C. Mesoamerican farmers knew genetic engineering 5,000 years ago
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     San  Francisco is a spectacular city. It is famous for its steep hills, its earthquakes and the prison island of Alcatraz, but its most famous landmark is the Golden Gate Bridge. This is one of the most beautiful
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