Four girls in the school had the same name, _____ caused some confusion.

A.Today, children have few responsibilities, their lives are characterized by play not work, school not paid labor, family rather than public life and consumption instead of production.

B.In contrast, children on the Pacific island of Tonga, studied by Helen Morton, are regularly beaten by their parents and older siblings.They are seen as being closer to mad people than adults because they lack the highly prized quality of social competence (or poto as the Tongans call it).

C.Today, a four year old who can tie his or her shoes is impressive.In colonial times, four-year-old girls knitted stockings and mittens and could produce intricate embroidery: At age six they spun wool.

D.While Westerners might take exception to eight-year-old girls working or to 12-year-old girls marrying, within their own communities such activities are seen as a normal and positive part of childhood.

PART C

Directions: You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE.

听力原文： The piano and violin are girls' instruments. Drums and trumpets are for boys. According to Psychologists Susan O' Neil and Michael Bottome, children have very clear ideas about which musical instruments they should play. They found that despite the best efforts of teachers, these ideas have changed very little over the past decade. They interviewed 153 children, aged between 9 and 11, from schools in northwest England. They asked them to identify four musical instruments and then say which they would like to play most and which they would least like to play. They also asked the children for their views on whether boys or girls should not play any of the four instruments. The piano and violin were both ranked more favorably by girls than by boys, while boys preferred the drums and trumpets. There was a broad agreement between boys and girls on which instruments each sex should play and the reasons varied. And while almost half of all boys said they avoided certain instruments because they were too difficult to play. Only 15 percent of girls gave that as a reason. Earlier studies indicated that very young school children aged between 5 and 7, showed no bias in choosing musical instruments. But their tastes become more clear between the ages of 8 and 10. One survey of 78 teachers suggested that after that age, both boys and girls begin to restrict themselves to the so-called male or female instruments.

How many children did Susan and Michael interview？

A．150.

B．151.

C．152.

D．153.

ook. The ___26___ found that over half of male schoolchildren lacked confidence because of their body ___27___ .The figure for girls was slightly ___28___ , at 59 percent. Researchers questioned 693 teachers about how their students ___29___ about their bodies. All the children had taken lessons on body image and self-esteem.

Teachers said many children were very ___30___ if others said bad things about their appearances. Around 55 percent of teachers reported that girls were extremely sensitive to comment ___31___ their looks; the figure for boys being easily hurt by teasing(取笑)was 27 percent. Teachers gave a number of ___32___ why children as young as four years old were stressing out about their shapes. Over 90 percent of teachers ___33___ the Internet and television. Children see images of “perfect”bodies every day and they feel they have to look that way too. Many children are on diets to make themselves ___34___ to the opposite sex. One elementary school teacher said :“I work with four to five-year- olds and some say things like, ‘I can ’t eat cheese , it will make me ___35___ ’”, A teachers ’ spokeswoman warned that children trying to look like “celebrities in the media only lead to misery ”.

A. about F. fat K. questions B. attractive

G. felt L. reasons C. blame H. for

M. shape D. complete E. discover I. higher

N. study J. lazy O. upset

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cording to psychologists Susan Onco and Michael Balton, children have very clear ideas about which musical instruments they should play. They find that despite the best efforts of teachers these ideas have changed very little over the past decade. They interviewed 153 children aged between 9 and 11 from schools in northwest England. They asked them to identify 4 musical instruments and then to say which they would like to play most and which they would last like to play. They also asked the children for their views on whether boys and girls should not play any of the 4 instruments. The piano and the violin were both ranked more favorably, by girls than by boys, while boys prefer the drums and trumpets. There was broad agreement between boys and girls on which instruments each sex should play and the reasons vary. And while almost half of all boys said they avoided certain instruments because they were too difficult to play, only 15% of girls gave that as a reason. Earlier studies indicated that very young school children aged between 5 and 7 showed no bias in choosing musical instruments, but their tastes become more clear between the ages of 8 and 10.

Why did Susan and Michael interview children aged between 9 and 11？

A．To find out whether they take music lessons in their spare time.

B．To find out whether they can name four different musical instruments.

C．To find out whether they enjoy playing musical instruments in school.

D．To find out whether they differ in their preference for musical instruments.

192. Advice given by human resources officers in large foreign companies can help you find a satisfying job. Here are some useful suggestions. Don’t start writing your resume before your graduation. From the first day you enter the university, you have begun writing it. Plan to put your four years to full use so that at graduation your resume will be full of valuable experiences and remarkable academic results. Never apply to a company or for a job blindly. Find out where your interests lie and what your advantages are. Decide first what road you want to take for the rest of your life. Choose a company and a job that fits you well. Don’t feel inferior to boys if you are a girl job-hunter. Except for some physical work, girls are as capable as boys. Girls even have lots of advantages over boys. For instance, girls are stronger in social communication. They are innately skilled to express themselves effectively and to show understanding to others. They tend to be more patient, easier to get along with, and usually have better command of foreign languages. [共5题]

(1) Who may be most interested in the advice given in this passage？

(A) Bosses of big companies.

(B) Officers who take in employees.

(C) Students who will soon graduate.

(D) People with much work experience.

(2) The first suggestion given in the passage is that you should ________.

(A) learn to write a resume soon after you enter the university

(B) try your best to achieve excellent results at university

(C) write your resume during all the years at university

(D) fully enjoy the four years of your university life

(3) Before applying for a job, you should make sure of ________.

(A) your interests and strong points

(B) your life experiences and skills

(C) the job or jobs that are easier for you to find

(D) the company that can offer you a good job

(4) In the opinion of human resources officers, girls ________.

(A) tend to be difficult to appear friendly

(B) should have confidence in themselves

(C) demand more understanding from others

(D) like to express their ideas freely

(5) The best title for the passage might be ________.

(A) Secrets of Getting a Well-paid Job

(B) What to Write in Resume

(C) Advantages of Girl Job-Hunters

(D) How to Succeed in Job Hunting

Passage 2

There is nothing new about TV and fashion magazines giving girls unhealthy ideas about how thin they need to be in order to be considered beautiful. What is _1_ is the method psychologists at the University of Texas have come up with to keep girls from developing eating disorders. Their main weapon against superskinny (role) models: a brand of civil disobedience _2_ “body activism.” Since 2001，more than 1,000 high school and college students in the U.S. have participated in the Body Project, which works by getting girls to understand how they have been buying into the _3_ that you have to be thin to be happy or successful. After critiquing (评论）the so-called thin ideal by writing essays and role-playing with their peers, participants are _4_ to come up with and execute small,_5_acts. They include slipping notes saying “Love your body the way it is” into dieting books at stores like Borders and writing letters to Mattel, makers of the impossibly _6_ Barbie doll. According to a study in the latest issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, the risk of developing eating disorders was reduced 61% among Body Project participants. And they continued to exhibit _7_ body-image attitudes as long as three years after completing the program, which consists of four one-hour _8_. Such lasting effects may be due to girls’ realizing not only how they were being _9_ but also who was benefiting from the societal pressure to be thin.“These people who promote the perfect body really don’t care about you at all，” says Kelsey Hertel, a high school junior and Body Prqject veteran in Eugene, Oregon. “They _10_ make you feel like less of a person so you’ll buy their stuff and they’ll make money.”

A) nonviolent

B) notification

C) dubbed

D) sessions

E) purposefully

F) surprising

G) expired

H) directed

I) positive

J) casually

K) notion

L) proportioned

M) ambiguous

N) influenced

O) entities

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as been a remarkable shortening of the time of woman's life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman's youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and can be expected to live another thirty years and is likely to take paid work until retirement, at sixty. Even while she has the care of children, her work is lightened by modem living conditions.

This important change in women's life pattern has only recently begun to have its full effect on women's economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school at the first chance, and most of them took a full time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen. Many girls stay at school after that age, and though women usually marry younger, more married women stay at least until shortly before their first child is born. Many more afterwards return to fuller part-time job. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life, and with both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money, and running the house, according to the abilities and interests of each of them.

6. According to the passage, around the year 1900 most women married ____.

A. at about twenty-five

B. in their early fifties

C. as soon as possible after they were fifteen

D. at any age from fifteen to forty-five

7. We are told that in a common family in 1890s _____.

A. seven or eight children lived to be more man five

B. many children died before they were five

C. the youngest children would be fifteen

D. four or five children died when they were five

8. When she was over fifty, the late nineteenth century mother ____.

A. would be healthy enough to take paid jobs

B. was usually expected to die fairly soon

C. was unlikely to find a job if she wanted one

D. would expect to work till she died

9. According to the passage, the women of today usually____.

A. marry instead of getting paid work

B. marry before they are twenty-five

C. have more children under fifteen

D. have too few children

10. The best title for this passage is____.

A. Women’s Life

B. The Change of Women's life

C. Women's Marriage

D. Women's New Life

ping alone with his school list. He placed everything in his basket and went to the checkout. The young shop assistant told him the total price, $37.60. The boy was instantly disappointed and said he had only been given $20. He took out one thing at a time until he got down to his $20. With eyes full of tears, he asked if he could phone his mum to pick him up. When he got through, it appeared that even this was inconvenient for his mother. He bit hard on his lip to stop the tears and walked outside to wait on the bench in front of the shop. This was all too much for the young assistant who had served him and she said, "I wish I could afford to pay for the rest of his things." One of the other girls said she had a few dollars. Then two others said they could help as well. These four young girls pooled their money and found that they had more than enough money for the boy's extra purchases. So they upgraded his pens and pencils to top-quality ones, then took the bag out to the boy on the seat. His young face changed from sadness to the most beautiful smile. His mother arrived much later to pick him up. Instead of running to the car, he ran back into the store and called out, "Thank you!" I was so proud of my team that day. They did something wonderful for that boy and also found the pleasure of giving was as great as receiving. The boy went to the store to______.A.buy a basket

B.ask for help

C.shop for school

D.make a phone call

The shop assistants were______.A.curious

B.wealthy

C.well-trained

D.kind-hearted

At the checkout, the boy found that he______.A.did not have enough money

B.did not have his money on him

C.forgot to ask his mum for money

D.had lost his money in the store

The boy walked out of the store to______.A.wait for his mum

B.rest on the bench

C.get more money

D.look for a friend

The boy ran back into the store to______.A.do extra shopping

B.express his thanks

C.return the money

D.take his bag out

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Kindness or Strangers

At the store where I worked, I noticed a young boy of about ten shopping alone with his school list. He placed everything in his basket and went to the checkout.

The young shop assistant told him the total price, $37.60. the boy was instantly disappointed and said he had only been given $20. He took out one thing at a time until he got down to his $20. With eyes full of tears, he asked if he could phone his mum to pick him up. When he got through, it appeared that even this was inconvenient for his mother.

He bit hard on his lip to stop the tears and walked outside to wait on the bench in front of the shop. This was all too much for the young assistant who had served him and she said, “ I wish I could afford to pay for the rest of his things.” One of the other girls said she had a few dollars. Then two others said they could help as well.

These four young girls pooled their money and found that they had more than enough money for the boy’s extra purchases. So they upgraded his pens and pencils to top-quality ones, then took the bag out to the boy on the seat. His young face changed from sadness to the most beautiful smile. His mother arrived much later to pick him up. Instead of running to the car, he ran back into the store and called out, “ thank you!”

I was so proud of my team that day. They did something wonderful for that boy and also found the pleasure of giving was as great as receiving.

1.The boy went to the store to__________.

A.buy a basket

B.ask for help

C.shop for school

D.make a phone call

2.At the checkout, the boy found that he ______________.

A.didn’t have enough money

B.didn’t have his money on him

C.forgot to ask his mum for money

D.had lost his money in the sore

3.The boy walked out of the store to ______________.

A.wait for his mum

B.rest on the bench

C.get more money

D.look for a friend

4.The shop assistants were ________________.

A.curious

B.wealthy

C.well-trained

D.kind-hearted

5.The boy ran back into the store to ______________.

A.do extra shopping

B.express his thanks

C.return the money

D.take his bag out