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    Recently some American scientists have given a useful piece of advice to people in industrialized nations.
They say people should eat more of the same kind of food eaten by humans living more than 10,000 years
ago.1.________
     The scientists say that the human life has changed greatly.Our bodies have not been able to deal with
these changes in lifestyle and this had led to new kinds of sicknesses.2.________So they are called
"diseases of civilization"．Many cancers and diseases of the blood system are examples of such diseases.
     Scientists noted that people in both the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age enjoyed very little
alcohol or tobacco,probably none.3.________However,a change in food is one of the main differences
between life in ancient times and that of today.
     Stone Age people hunted wild animals for their meat,which had much less fat than domestic ones.They
ate a lot of fresh wild vegetables and fruits.They did not have milk or any other dairy products,and they
made very little use of grains.4.________We eat six times more salt than our ancestors.We eat more
sugar.We eat twice as much fat but only one third as much protein and much less vitamin C.
     5．________But scientists say that we would be much healthier if we eat much the same way the
ancient people did,cutting the amount of fatty,salty and sweet food.
A．Stone Age people lived a simple life.
B．But today,we enjoy eating a lot of these.
C．In that case,they would live much healthier.
D．Ancient people also got lots of physical exercise.
E．These new sicknesses were not known in ancient times.
F．People today probably don't want to live like our ancestors.
G．Modern people used to suffer from "diseases of civilization"．
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A. The highest magnitude of earthquake recorded is 8.9
B. Major damage usually happens when the intensity of an earthquake is below 6.0
C. Scientists usually use seismographs and tilt meters to predict earthquakes now.
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C.Introduce the earthquake and its prediction.  
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1. Study suggests that________.
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B. 50 percent of elderly people have the risk of developing dementia
C. people with active lifestyles will never develop dementia
D. going to a party will cut the risk of developing dementia
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A．positive 
B．a(chǎn)pparent
C．negative 
D．a(chǎn)mbiguous

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     Singing are the pupils of the remote Beau-Roc primary school in Haiti. One of them plays a guitar
made from an empty oil tin. Their headmistress, Emile Jean-Noel, is one of the few women school
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or housing. To reduce the hunger that prevents learning and to encourage parents to send their children
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books and other materials is practically impossible. Emile tries to encourage those around her to make
use of all available resources. Her efforts are bearing fruit. One of her successes was convincing local
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A. Devotion to education.
B. Poverty and hardship.
C. Politics and children  
D. Love and beauty
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A. Teaching the women how to make embroidery and other handicrafts.
B. Persuading local women to care about their children's education.
C. Encouraging those around her to use those available resources.
D. Finding chalk, school books and other materials.
3.  In the last paragraph, "those who are really cut out for teaching" are those who are ________.
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科目：高中英語 來源：期末題 題型：閱讀理解

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     It is difficult to imagine what life will be like without memory．The meanings of thousands of
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habits and skills are to be found in our past experiences, which are brought into the present by
memory．
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not only "remembering" things like arithmetic or historical facts, but also involves any change in
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because he has sniffed something suspicious in the grain pile．Memory is also involved when
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machines．Computers, for example, contain devices from storing data for later use．It is
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instant use．An average U．S．teenager probably recognizes the meaning of about 100,000
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places that the teenager can recognize on sight．
     The use of words is the advanced problem-solving intelligence of human beings．A large
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1．According to the passage, memory is considered to be ________．
A．the basis for decision making and problem solving
B．a(chǎn)n ability to store experiences of future use
C．a(chǎn)n intelligence typically possessed by human beings
D．the data mainly consisting of words and combinations of words
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A．the computer's memory has a little bigger capacity than a teenager's
B．the computer's memory capacity is much smaller than an adult human being's
C．the computer's memory's capacity is much smaller even than a teenager's
D．both A and B
3．The whole passage implies that _______．
A．only human beings have problem-solving intelligence
B．a(chǎn) person's memory is different from a computer's in every aspect
C．a(chǎn)nimals are able to solve only very simple problems
D．a(chǎn)nimals solve problems by instincts rather than intelligence
4．The topic of the passage is __________．
A．What would life be like without memory?
B．Memory is of vital importance to life．
C．How is a person's memory different from an animal's or a computer's?
D．What is contained in memory?

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A. When a child should learn to read
B. Why it is fun to teach a child reading
C. What if a child has reading problems
D. How you prepare a young child for reading
E. What is the best way to teach a child reading
F. Whether reading early promises later achievements
1. _____
Learning to read early has become one of those indicators - in parents' minds at least - that their child is
smart. In fact, reading early has very little to do with whether a child is successful academically. Research
has shown that difficulty with reading is often due not to inferior intelligence but to differences in the
developmental wiring of each individual child. In some cases, there are neurological problems and developmental lags that can be overcome with proper training.
2.
Traditionally, American schools teach children at age six, but many schools begin teaching informally in
kindergarten and pre-kindergarten. If parents start too early to encourage reading, and a child does not
immediately succeed, the parent has a hard time relaxing and letting the child go at his or her own pace.
3. _____
Over the years, research has proved that the use of both the "whole language" method and the "phonic"
method works best for a child to master reading. While the whole language approach, which includes
reading to children and getting them interested in both the activity of reading and the story they are
reading, is helpful, phonics must be taught. Children must be taught that one of the squiggles they see is
a "p" and another a "b". Getting the print off the page requires a different ability than being able to
understand the meaning of what is written.
4.  _____
You can start developing the skills needed in reading at a very young age without putting any pressure on
children. Besides reading to them, parents can start "ear training" their child by playing thyme games. This
develops the child's ability to recognize different sounds. In reading to children, parents also can point to
words as they go, teaching the child that the funny lines on the page are the words you are saying. All this
should be a fun activity.
5._____
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kind of reading difficulty, you must get a professional diagnosis. While the teacher might say the child is
merely disinterested but will get over it, disinterest or poor performance in reading can stem from a
number of things, some being very specific learning disabilities that can be identified and worked on. But it
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