I used to _____TV on weekends, but now I start to do some sports with my friends. A：watc

Listening to the radio is something I really like to do. 1 () it’s to listen to my favorite songs, catch up on the latest news or 2 () listen to something to help me chill out and relax, the radio is always there for me! The radio can also be very 3 () for me as it often has 4 () updates which tell me whether the road I want to use has a traffic jam 5 () it. I’m surprised when talking to my students in school, to 6 () that many of them hardly ever listen to the radio because they think it’s 7 () . There is a song 8 () “Video Killed the Radio Star” which I 9 () listen to a lot and now it makes more sense to me. Has TV and video (more recently DVD) and the internet 10 () the place of the radio for many people？

(1)第1空

A. No matter

B. Although

C. Since

D. Whether

(2)第2空

A. just

B. only

C. also

D. yet

(3)第3空

A. useful

B. accessible

C. available

D. boring

(4)第4空

A. news

B. traffic

C. weather

D. music

(5)第5空

A. in

B. on

C. to

D. through

(6)第6空

A. seek out

B. look

C. find out

D. pick out

(7)第7空

A. outdate

B. old

C. born

D. boring

(8)第8空

A. calling

B. called

C. call

D. caller

(9)第9空

A. used to

B. get used to

C. usually

D. did

(10)第10空

A. taken up

B. taken place

C. taken over

D. taken away

When I was a little girl, my brothers and I collected stamps for many years. My mother didn't use to work during the week, but she worked in the post office near our house on Saturdays, and she used to bring home all the new stamps as soon as they were issued (发行).

On the day of the World Cup football final in London in 1966, we were very excited because England were playing West Germany in the final.When we were having lunch, my mother told us to go to the post office straightaway after the match if England won, but she didn't tell us why. At2 o'clock my mother went back to work as usual, while the rest of the family were watching the football on TV at home. Although she wasn't watching the match, she was listening to it on the radio.

England won 4:2 and so my brothers and I ran to the post office. As we burst in, my mother was standing behind the counter. She was waiting to sell us a very special limited edition with ENGLAND WINNERS on each stamp. We were over the moon.We still have it today, and perhaps it is worth a lot of money.

1. This passage mainly tells us __________.

A、the author and her brother used to like stamps very much

B、the author had a very kind mother

C、the author and her brother had an unforgettable experience in collecting stamps

D、their mother used to support them by working in the post office

2. According to the passage, her mother worked in the post office ________.

A、during the week

B、on Saturdays

C、on Sundays

D、for six days

3. According to the passage, her mother worked in the post office ________.

A、during the week

B、on Saturdays

C、on Sundays

D、for six days

4. What does the sentence "We were over the moon." mean？

A、We jumped high.

B、We were extremely happy about it.

C、We watched the moon for a long time.

D、We couldn't sleep the whole night.

5. What is the best title for this passage？

A、My Childhood

B、My Mother

C、A Precious Stamp

D、A Memorable Experience in Collecting Stamps

A．To advise that TV should be used for educational purpose

B．To describe the harmful effects of TV on children

C．To explain traditional views of influences that TV has had on children

D．To suggest that television cannot be blamed for problems it doesn't cause

A.People have become used to crimes now.

B.With a TV set some problems can be solved quickly.

C.People now like to read books with picture.

D.The aduits are less violent than the young.

same amount of time, say exercise researchers in Britain. But walks of any length beat sitting at home with your feet up and watching television. They stress. Some researchers in Britain reached these conclusions after putting 56 couch potatoes through an 18 week course of daily walks. They found that longer walks produce the most beneficial changes to the composition of blood fats, but walks of any length improve the fitness of the heart.

In the study, the normally inactive subjects were divided into three roughly equal groups. The "long walker" took a hike of between 20 and 40 minutes every day. "Intermediate walkers" had two rounds of jogging of 10 to 15 minutes, and "short walkers" did three stints of 90 to 110 minutes. The controls sat at home, as usual.

At the start and end of the 18 weeks, the health and fitness of each group were measured and it was found that the long walkers were healthiest, as measured by altered fat profiles in their blood. At the end, each liter of blood from the long walkers contained an average 0.05 grains less apolipoprotein(阿朴脂蛋白) II, a "bad" fat that is linked with heart disease. This was more than twice the drop seen in the intermediate walkers, and five times that in short walkers. In the controls, the level of this fat stayed the same. The drop in apolipoprotein II in the long walker was matched by a rise in the blood level of apolipoprotein I, a "good" fat that is associated with smooth arteries.

1、According to the researchers, ______ is least beneficial to your health.

A、taking a lengthy hike once a day

B、going shopping several times every day

C、doing jogging every morning

D、sitting in the sofa watching TV every evening

2、"Couch potato" in paragraph 2 is used to refer to a kind of ______.

A、farmers

B、vegetables

C、movie-goers

D、TV viewers

3、Which of the following statement is FALSE？()

A、Longer walks benefit our composition of blood fats

B、The subjects in the study all often watch TV

C、Only longer walks benefit our health

D、The subjects in the study may not like exercises

4、The subjects are divided into ______ groups.

A、four

B、three

C、two

D、one

5、Why is long walk beneficial to our heart？()

A、It leads to the drop in apolipoprotein I

B、It leads to the drop in apolipoprotein II

C、It keeps us from watching TV

D、It helps us lose weight

directly influences our lives on both a short and long-term basis; it brings worldwide situations into our homes; it affords extensive opportunities for acquiring higher education; and it performs these tasks in a convenient yet effective manner. We are all aware of the popularly accepted applications of television, particularly those relative to entertainment and news broadcasting. Television, however, has also been a vital link in unmanned deep space exploration (such as the Voyager I and Ⅱ missions), in providing visions from hazardous areas (such as proximity to radioactive materials or environments) in underwater research, in viewing storms moving across a metropolitan area (the camera being placed in a weather-protective enclosure near the top of a tower), etc. The earth's weather satellites also use television cameras for vie- wing cloud cover and movements from 20,000 miles in space. Infrared filters are used for night views, and several systems include a spinning mirror arrangement to permit wide-area views from the camera. Realizing the unlimited applications for today's television, one may thus logically ponder the true benefits of confining most of our video activities to the mass-entertainment field.

Conventional television broadcasting within the United States centres around free enterprise and public ownership. This requires funding by commercial sponsors, and thus functions in a revenue-producing business manner. Television in USSR-subjected areas, conversely, is a government-owned and maintained arrangement. While such arrangements eliminate the need for commercial sponsorship, it also has the possibility of limiting the type of programs available to viewers (a number of purely entertainment programs similar to the classic "Bewitched", however, have been seen on these government -controlled networks. All isn't as gray and dismal as the uninformed might unnecessarily visualize). A highly modified form. of television called Slow-Scan TV is presently being used by many Amateur Radio operators to provide direct visual communications with almost any area of the world. This unique visual mode recently allowed people on the tiny South Pacific country of Pitcairn Island to view, for the first time in their lives, distant areas and people of the world. The chief radio Amateur and communications officer of Pitcairn, incidentally, is the legendary Tom Christian-great, great grandson of Tom Christian of "Mutiny on the Bounty" fame. Radio Amateurs in many lands worked together for several months establishing visual capabilities. The results have proven spectacular, yet the visual capabilities have only been used for health education, or welfare purposes. Commercial TV is still unknown to natives of that tiny country. Numerous other forms of television and visual communication, have also been used on a semi-restricted basis. This indicates the many untapped areas of video and television which may soon be exploited on a more widespread basis. The old clich of a picture being worth a thousand words truly has merit.

According to the passage, applications of television are easily accepted in______.

A．metropolitan area

B．deep space exploration

C．programs about entertainment and news

D．remote areas

e of entertaining ourselves.

A hundred years ago, before all these devices were invented, if a person wanted to entertain himself with a song or a piece of music, he would have to do the singing himself or pick up a violin and play it. Now, all he has to do is turn on the radio or TV. As a result, singing and music have declined.

Italians used to sing all the time. Now, they only do it in Hollywood movies, Indian movies are mostly a series of songs and dances trapped around silly stories. As a result, they don't do much singing in Indian villages anymore. Indeed, ever since radio first came to life, there has been a terrible decline in amateur (业余的) singing throughout the world.

There are two reasons for this sad decline. One, human beings are astonishingly lazy. Put a lift in a building, and people would rather take it than climb even two flights of steps. Similarly, invent a machine that sings, and people would rather let the machine sing than sing themselves. The other reason is that people are easily embarrassed. When there is a famous, talented musician readily available by pushing a button, which amateur violinist or pianist would want to try to entertain family or friends by himself？

These earnest reflections came to me recently when two CDs arrived in the mail. They are historic recordings of famous writers reading their own works. It was thrilling to hear the voices from a long dead past in the late 19th century. But today, reading out loud anything is no longer common. Today, we sing songs to our children until they are about two, we read simple books to them till they are about five, and once they have learnt to read themselves, we become deaf. We're alive only to the sound of the TV and the stereo (立体声音响).

I count myself extremely lucky to have been born before TV became so common: I was about six before TV appeared. To keep us entertained my mother had to do a good deal of singing and tell us endless tales. It was the same in many other homes. People spoke a language; they sang it, they recited it; it was something they could feel.

Professional actors' performance is extraordinarily revealing. But I still prefer my own reading, because it's mine. For the same reason, people find karaoke (卡拉OK) liberating. It is almost the only electronic thing that gives them back their own voice. Even if their voices are hopelessly out of tune, at least it is meaningful self-entertainment.

The main idea of this passage is that ______.

A．TV and radio can amuse us with beautiful songs and music

B．TV and radio prevent us from self-entertainment

C．people should sing songs and read books aloud themselves

D．parents should sing songs and read books aloud to their children

the best experiences I have ever had in my lifetime.In the last four months.I have learned more about foreign cultures than I expected before coming to the United States.

Living in a foreign country and going to school with people from various parts of the world has given me the opportunity to encounter and interact with people from different cultures.I would like to share some of my experiences and thoughts with you.When I first arrived.I knew no one and I needed all fingers to communicate what i said in English.All of the foreign students were in the same situation.When we could not find the right word we used strange movements and gestures to communicate our meaning.

Knowing some common phrases.such as How are you？ Fine.thank you.and what country are you from？was enough in the beginning for us to make friends with each other.The TV room in the dormitory became our meeting place every evening after dinner.but for the most part their words were just a strange mumble to us.

After a while, bored and a little sad, we slowly began to disappear to our rooms.I thought that all of us were experiencing some homesickness.However, despite my loneliness.I had a good feeling within myself because I was doing what I wanted to do for many years to live and study in a foreign country.

1.When I first arrived in the U.S().

A.I can speak English well

B.I have already had some friends there

C.I needed all my fingers to communicate in English

D.I could find the right word in speaking English

2.Why did we slowly begin to disappear to our room？()

A.Because we wanted to watched to watch television

B.Because we were bored and a little sad

C.Because we were experiencing homesickness

D.Because the TV room has become our meeting place

3.What is the thing I wanted to do for many years？ ()

A.To live and study in a foreign country

B.I had a good feeling within myself

C.To understand what the people appearing on the screen said

D.Not to be lovely

4.Which of the following sentence is wrong according to the passage？()

A.Studying in US is one of the best experiences I have ever had in my lifetime

B.I have learned more about foreign cultures than l expected

C.Some common phrases were enough in the beginning for us to make friends

D.Not all the foreign students were in the same situation

5.What is the author's attitude towards studying in a foreign country？()

A.He considered it a good experience

B.He dislike this experience

C.He didn't think it hard living in a foreign country

D.He felt sad when thinking of it

My mother didn't use to work during the week , but she worked in the post office near our house on Saturdays , and she used to bring home all the new stamps as soon as they were issued. On the day of the World Cup football final in London in 1966 , we were very excited because England were playing West Germany in the final. When we were having lunch, my mother told us to go to the post office straightaway after the match if England won , but she didn't tell us why. At 2 0' clock my mother went back to work as usual , while the rest of the family were watching the football on TV at home. Although she wasn't watching the match , she was listening to it on the radio. England won 4: 2 and so my brothers and l ran to the post office. As we burst in , my mother was standing behind the counter. She was waiting to sell us a very special limited edition with ENGLAND WINNERS on each stamp. We were over the moon. We still have it today , and perhaps it is worth a l0t of money.

26. This passage mainly tells us_______.

A. the author and her brother used to like stamps very much

B. the author had a very kind mother

C. the author and her brother had got an unforgettable experience in collecting stamps

27. According to the passage , her mother worked in the post office_______.

A. during the week

B. on Saturdays

C. on Sundays

28. Their mother told them to go to the post office straightaway after the match if England won, but she didn't tell us why. Do you think why she did that？

A. She wanted to give them a surprise.

B. She doubted if she would get the stamps.

C. She forgot to do that.

29. What does the sentence "We were over the moon. " mean？

A. We jumped high.

B. We were extremely happy about it.

C. We watched the moon for a long time.

30. What is the best title for this passage？

A. My Childhood

B. A Precious Stamp

C. A Memorable Experience in Collecting Stamps