One evening I went out and left my 17-year-old son in charge of his 8-year-old brother and 4-year-old sister.On this occasion,the work was made less troublesome by the presence of his girlfriend.I left with complete confidence that the older children would do a wonderful job of babysitting the younger children.Later,I discovered that complete confidence was the last thing I should have left home with.
I had decided to return home earlier than planned so that my son and his girlfriend could go out.I called home with this happy news.But instead of hearing his cheerful,grateful voice on the other end of the line,all I heard was the sound of a telephone ringing.
It was,I should point out,after 10 p.m.,when the two younger children should have been in bed.and when the two older children should have been answering the phone.“I’ll give him a lesson.”I said.I decided they must be outside.Why they might be outside at 10∶30 on a winter night I had no idea,but it was the only explanation I could come up with.
Finally,in desperation,I called his girlfriend’s house.After what seemed like countless rings,his girlfriend answered.“Yes,”she said brightly,“He’s right here.”
He came on the phone.I was not my usual calm,rational(理智的)self.After all,one of the rules of survival for modern parents is that you can’t trust modem teenagers.“Where are the children?”I said.He said they were with him.They had done nothing wrong.My son had taken the younger children over to his girlfriend’s house just for ice cream and cake.This was too good to be believed.Well,it turns out that I shouldn’t have believed it.It was only part of the truth.
The following Saturday evening we were at my parents home,celebrating my birthday.My oldest son gave me the children’s gifts.Mounted and framed were a series of lovely color photographs of my children,dressed in their best clothes,and wearing their most wonderful expressions.They are pictures to treasure a lifetime,all taken by the father of my son’s girlfriend.
小題1:The author went out and left her eldest son in charge of the younger children
because       .
A．she knew that her eldest son was a good baby-sitter
B．she thought it no hard work to take care of the younger ones
C．she believed he could do well with his girlfriend’s help
D．she could not find a baby-sitter on that winter night
小題2:When the author called home that evening,she found that       .
A．two younger children had already been in bed
B．the children were preparing a birthday gift for her
C．her son was quarrelling with his girlfriend
D．there was no one answering the telephone
小題3:What can you learn from the underlined sentence in the fifth paragraph?
A．The author didn’t believe what her son had told her.
B．The author had complete confidence in her son.
C．The author believed her son was telling the truth.
D．The author was moved by what her children had done.
小題4:What might the children do that evening?
A．They had a birthday party.
B．They framed some photographs.
C．They had their pictures taken.
D．They made some beautiful clothes.
小題5:What does the author intend to teIl us by the story?
A．Modem teenagers are not worth trusting.
B．It is no easy job to look after young children.
C．It’s no good to have a girlfriend at an early age.
D．Her children have a caring and tender heart.

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A．car
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D．right
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A．So
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A．disappointedB．madC．frightenedD．shameful
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We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects (缺陷) that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things   36 !” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe   37 .
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Another thing I have to admit: I also try to use very little toilet paper. I wash my hands after, though. Every time. (So maybe the water I don’t use flushing makes up for the water used to wash my hands?)
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When I’m at home alone I do not flush every time I pee(小便).  My husband hates that, though, so when he’s home, I flush a little more often.  I grew up doing that because I had a family that lived with huge tanks and you have to do it that way because it’s easier on the system, so it doesn’t bother me.  I do flush when I’m out in public, at people’s houses that don’t have big tanks and when we have company!
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B．because her husband doesn’t like that
C．when she is with her friends
D．when she is alone
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B．taking care of her four children
C．peeing with her kids watching
D．flushing the toilet after peeing
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A．a(chǎn) newspaper
B．a(chǎn) website
C．a(chǎn) magazine
D．a(chǎn) handbook
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About ten years ago when I was an undergraduate in college in New York, I was working as a practice student at my University's Museum of Natural History. One day while I was working at the cash register in the gift shop, I saw an elderly couple come in with a little girl in wheelchair.
As I looked closer at this girl, I saw that she was seated on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and the trunk of the human body. She was wearing a little white dress with the patterns of red roses and yellow dots.
As the couple wheeled her up to me I was looking down at the register. I turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink(眨眼示意). As I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the most beautiful, largest smile I have ever seen
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That was ten years ago, but I still remember it clearly as if it happened just yesterday. I'm a successful business person now and whenever I get down and think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught me.
小題1:What was the writer a decade ago?
A．A worker working in a university.
B．A teacher teaching in a college.
C．A clerk working in a museum.
D．A university student who had not yet taken a degree.
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C．Failure in work.D．Physical disability.
小題3:How did the writer probably feel before meeting the disabled girl?
A．She felt full of hope.
B．She was filled with confidence.
C．She felt unhappy because of poverty.
D．She felt life was beautiful.
小題4:Which of the following title suits this passage best?
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B．A Disabled Girl’s Smile.
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Have you ever had the strange feeling that you were being watched? You turned around and, sure enough, someone was looking right at you!
Parapsychologists (靈學(xué)家) say that humans have a natural ability to sense when someone is looking at them. To research whether such a “sixth sense” really exists, Robert Baker, a psychologist at the University of Kentucky, performed two experiments.
In the first one, Baker sat behind unknowing people in public places and stared at the backs of their heads for 5 to 15 minutes. The subjects were eating, drinking, reading, studying, watching TV, or working at a computer. Baker made sure that the people could not tell that he was sitting behind them during those periods. Later, when he questioned the subjects, almost all of them said they had no sense that someone was staring at them.
For the second experiment, Baker told the subjects that they would be stared at from time to time from behind a two way mirror in a laboratory setting. The people had to write down when they felt they were being stared at and when they weren’t. Baker found that the subjects were no better at telling when they were stared at and when they weren’t. and they were no better at telling when they were stared at than if they had just guessed.
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小題1:The purpose of the two experiments is to                                 .
A．explain when people can have a sixth sense
B．show how people act while being watched in the lab
C．study whether humans can sense when they are stared at
D．prove why humans have a sixth sense
小題2:In the first experiment, the subjects                             .
A．were not told that they would be stared at
B．lost their sense when they were stared at
C．were not sure when the would be stared at
D．were uncomfortable when they were stared at
小題3:What can be learned from the passage?
A．People are born with a sixth sense.
B．The experiments support parapsychologists’ idea.
C．The subjects do not have a sixth sense in the experiments.
D．People have a sixth sense in public places.

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