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（5.门头沟13-14期末）
Text messaging, or “texting”, which allows people to send and receive messages on mobile phones, becomes very popular today.
The advantages(优势) of texting are obvious(明显的). Texting helps to save money. If you have a few words to greet your families and friends on their birthdays or on some important festivals, sending messages can be cheaper than phone calling. Texting helps to save time. Even if you want to send a message to 100 people, you can do it one second. Texting helps you to “talk” to someone when he is too busy to answer the phone. Texting can also help you to “talk” to someone secretly if you don’t want others to hear what you are talking on the phone. These advantages are so amazing that many people are crazy about it. They hold mobile phones in hands all day long, send dozens of messages each day, and even text while driving or walking.
However, texting has its disadvantages. Junk messages may come into your mobile phone box now and then. When your phone box gets too full, you can’t receive any more messages. You may miss some important information.
What’s more, if you don’t do texting properly, for example texting while driving or walking, it can be dangerous. It can cause injuries(伤害) and even death. It was reported that about 6,000 people were killed and half a million were injured for this reason each year. In Fort Lee, a small town in New Jersey, USA, three people died because they walked into traffic while texting in 2011. Two researchers at Stony Brook University, New York found that texters are 60% more probably to have an accident than others. When people are texting, they don’t notice other people or things around them. About 32 countries have passed laws restricting(限制) the use of mobile phones while driving.
Texting is a wonderful way of communication. However, only when we use it properly, can we fully enjoy the fun it brings.
54. How many advantages of texting are mentioned in the passage?
A. Two.
B. Three.
C. Four.
D. Five.
55. What did the researchers at Stony Brook University find?
A. Texters are easier to have an accident. B. 6,000 people were killed and injured. C. Texting is a good way of communication. D. Many people text to greet families and friends. 56. This passage is written to tell us that __________.
A. we should do less texting
B. texting has many advantages
C. texting is better than phone calling D. we should do texting properly
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（6.密云13-14期末）
Winter break! Two whole weeks without homework—two whole weeks of heaven. Two weeks to relax. I imagined myself getting plenty of sleep. I planned on reading “The Giver”, which I hadn’t had time to read.
But soon I noticed something: I couldn’t sleep. It would be 12:30 a.m. and I would be trying to fall asleep. I would begin thinking that I haven’t done anything today! This happened the next night, and the night after. During the day, when I had free time, I would be walking around the room moaning(抱怨) that I had nothing to do! I was eating when I wasn’t hungry. I was playing a computer game even though it was boring.
The truth, I found, is that relaxation doesn’t mean doing nothing. Relaxation means doing something enjoyable. I planned to swim at the local high school. I set up a practice schedule（时刻表、计划） of an hour and a half per day. I decided to read two books that my friend had advised me to. I planned to do a little community service work, volunteering to help at the nearby old people’s home for two hours every day. After doing those things, writing e-mails to my friends, watching DVDs and sleeping 12 hours a day, my days are full. And I’m truly having fun relaxing.
Of course, some of my earlier wishes have come true. Being free from schoolwork has taken a load off my mind, helped me to get perspicacity(洞察力) and brought me back in touch with my family and myself. Getting so much sleep has done wonders for my state of mind.
After each past winter break, I haven’t been able to say what I did, how I used my time. This winter break will be different. I am relaxing by working.
53. Which word can best describe the writer’s feeling in the first paragraph? A. Surprised. B. Excited. C. Worried. D. Hopeless. 54. Why couldn’t the writer fall asleep? A. Because the writer was ill.
B. Because the writer was too tired.
C. Because the writer had too many things to do in the daytime. D. Because the writer had nothing to do in the daytime.
55. We can infer from the passage that after the writer had done a lot of things, ____.
A. he/she felt tired and bored
B. he /she didn’t get a relaxation at all C. he /she felt full and pleased D. he /she got relaxed
56. By writing this passage, the writer wants to tell us that ______. A. Relaxation means doing something meaningful B. Relaxation means doing nothing
C. Relaxation means doing something different D. Relaxation is more important than work
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（8.石景山13-14期末）
When it comes to friends, I desire those who will share my happiness, who has wings of their own and who will fly with me.
When I was in the eighth grade, I had a friend. We were shy and “too serious” about our studies when it was becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable social behaviors. We said little at school, but she would come to my house and we would sit down with pencils and paper, and one of us would say, “Let’s start with a train whistle（鸣笛）today.” We would sit quietly together and write separate poems or stories that grew out of a train whistle. Then we would read them aloud. At the end of that school year, we, too, were changing into social persons and the stories and poems stopped.
When I lived for a time in London, I had a friend. He was in despair（失望）and I was in despair, too. But our friendship was based on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry later if we did not travel over this great city because we had felt bad at the time. We met every Sunday for five weeks and found many excellent things. We walked until our despairs disappeared and then we parted. We gave London to each other. For almost four years I have had a great friend whose imagination brightens mine. We write long letters in which we often discover our strangest selves. Each of us appears, sometimes in a funny way, in the other’s dreams. She and I agree that, at certain times, we seem to be parts of the same mind.
It is such comforting companions（陪伴）I wish to keep. One bright hour with their kind is worth more to me than the lifetime services of a psychologist, who will only fill up the healing silence necessary to those darkest moments in which I would rather be with my own best friend.
53. We can infer from Paragraph 2 that the writer ______ finally. A. wasn’t serious about her studies B. didn’t like writing poems or stories C. became popular with her classmates D. developed her proper social behaviors
54. The underlined sentence “We gave London to each other” probably means ______. A. our tour in London was a memorable gift to both of us B. our unpleasant feeling about London disappeared C. we were unwilling to stay away from London D. we waved goodbye to each other in London 55. What is the best title for the passage? A. Unforgettable Experiences. B. Unbelievable Imagination. C. Touching Companions. D. Lifelong Friendship.
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（9.顺义13-14期末）
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The favorite food in the United States is the hamburger. The favorite place to buy a hamburger is a fast food restaurant.
In fast food restaurant, people order their food, wait a few minutes, and carry it to their tables themselves. People also take their food out of the restaurant and eat it in their cars or in their homes. In some fast food restaurants, people can order their food, pay for it and pick it up without leaving their cars. There are many kinds of fast food restaurants in the United States. The greatest in number sell hamburger, French fries and so on. They are popular among Americans. Besides, there are many fast food restaurants that serve Chinese food, Mexican food, Italian food, chicken, seafood and ice-cream. The idea of a fast food restaurant is so popular that nearly every kind of food can be found in one.
Fast food restaurants are popular because they reflect(反映)American life style. Customers can wear any type of dress when they go to a fast food place. Second, they are fast. People who are busy do not want to spend time preparing their own food or waiting while someone prepares it. In fast food restaurants, food is not expensive. Therefore, people often buy and eat in a fast restaurant, while they may not be able to go to a more expensive restaurant very often. 53. Americans like fast food restaurants because_______. A. they can easily find them
B. they like to eat hamburger and French fries
C. they are too busy to spend time preparing food or waiting D. they are so rich that they don’t want to do cooking themselves 54. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true? A. People buy fast food and eat it in their cars or in their homes. B. People can find every kind of food in a fast food restaurant.
C. People can order their food, pay for it and pick it up in their cars. D. In the United States, there are many kinds of fast food restaurants. 55. The best title for the passage is ___________. A. American Life Style B. Fast Food in the USA
C. The Hamburger in the USA
D. The Fast Food Restaurant in the USA
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