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saving my good perfume for special parties, but wearing it for clerks in the hardware store and tellers at the bank.
“Someday” and “one of these days” are losing their positions in my vocabulary. If it’s worth seeing or hearing or doing, I want to see and do it now.
I’m not sure what others would have done had they known they wouldn’t be here for the tomorrow that we all take for granted. I think they would have called family members and a few close friends. They might have called a few former friends to apologize and mend fences for past quarrels. I like to think they would have gone out for a Chinese dinner or for whatever their favorite food was.
It’s those little things left undone that would make me angry if I knew my hours were limited. Angry because I hadn’t written certain letters that I intended to write one of these days. Angry and sorry that I didn’t tell my husband and parents often enough how much I truly love them. I’m trying very hard not to put off, hold back, or save anything that would add laughter and luster to our lives. And every morning when I open my eyes, I tell myself that it is special. Every day, every minute, every breath truly is a gift.
24. What does the underlined word “savor” in paragraph 2 probably mean? A. Enjoy.
B. Learn.
C. Share.
D. Remember.
25. Why is the author not “saving” anything? A. She has already saved enough. C. She finds the chance to spend.
B. She wants to seize the day. D. She attends many special occasions.
26. What is the author’s purpose in writing the text? A. To show her regret for what she missed in life. B. To blame people who left many things undone. C. To persuade people to think more of themselves. D. To share what she has learned from her life. 27. The author would feel angry if ______. A. there were few things she could do
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B. she could not live long
C. her last days were full of regret C
D. her efforts were in vain
Literature is an important part of a total language arts program at all grade levels because of the many benefits it offers.
Literature provides pleasure to listeners and readers. It is a relaxing escape from daily problems, and it fills leisure moments. Making time for recreational reading and using high-quality literature help to develop enthusiastic readers and improve achievement. Developing a love of literature as a recreational activity is possibly the most important outcome of a literature program.
Literature builds experience. Through reading, children expand their horizons through vicarious (引起共鸣的) experiences. They visit new places, gain new experiences, and meet new people. They learn about the past as well as the present and learn about a variety of cultures, including their own. They discover the common goals and similar emotions found in people of all times and places. Nory Ryan’s Song by Patricia Reilly, Giff, a hard survival story, is set in Ireland during the potato hunger of 1845, and Patricia Polacco’s The Butterfly, deals with Nazis, resistance, and Jewish persecution (迫害) during World War II.
Literature provides a language model for those who hear and read it. Good literature exposes children to correct sentence patterns, standard story structures, and varied word usage. Children for whom English is a second language can improve their English with the interesting context, and all children benefit from new vocabulary that is woven into the stories.
Literature develops thinking skills. Discussions of literature bring out reasoning related to sequence; cause and effect; character motivation; predictions; visualization of actions, characters, and settings; critical analysis of the story; and creative responses.
Literature helps children deal with their problems. By finding out about the problems of others through books, children receive insights into dealing with their own problems, a process called bibliotherapy. Children might identify with Gilly, living angrily in a foster home in Katherine Paterson’s The Great Gilly Hopkins, or with Mary Alice, a city girl forced to live with her grandma in a “hick town” in Richard Peck’s A Year Down Yonder.
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28. What is likely to be the most significant consequence of a literature program? A. The habit of reading for pleasure.
B. The lessons learned from works. D. The ways of thinking developed by
C. The achievements of language skills. reading.
29. Why are Nory Ryan’s Song and The Butterfly mentioned in paragraph 3? A. To introduce two great masterpieces.. B. To expand children's horizons in literature. C. To prove literature includes a variety of cultures. D. To give examples of books that provide such experiences. 30. From the last paragraph we know that literature can be_______. A. educational B. practical 31. What could be the best title of the text? A. Power of Books
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Since the sex of a sea turtle is determined by the heat of sand hatching the eggs, scientists had suspected they might see slightly more females. Climate change, after all, has driven sea temperatures higher, which, in these creatures, favors female children. They found female sea turtles from Raine Island, the Pacific Ocean’s largest and most important green sea turtle living area, now outnumber males by at least 116 to 1. “This is extreme,” says turtle scientist Camryn Allen.
Biologist Michael Jensen wanted to know if climate change had already changed turtles’ sexes. By using genetic tests, he’d figured out that he could follow turtles of all ages. Still, his research data would lack an important detail: sex. Only after a turtle matures is it possible to tell its sex from the outside— mature males have slightly longer tails. By then turtles can be decades old, so scientists often use laparoscopy (腹腔镜检查), sending a thin tube into each animal, but that’s not so practical if you’re hoping to examine hundreds of creatures. Fortunately, at a turtle conference,
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C. changeable D. reliable
B. Ways of Reading D. Benefits of Literature
C. Source of Human Progress
he met Allen, and all she needed was a little blood.
They compared their results with temperature data for nesting beaches. What worries them is that Raine Island has been producing almost female turtles for at least 20 years. This is no small thing. More than 200,000 turtles come to nest there. During high season, 18,000 turtles may settle in at once. “But what happens in 20 years when there are no more males coming up as adults? Are there enough to maintain the population?” says Allen. They also found cooler beaches in the south are still producing males, but that in the north, it’s almost entirely females hatching. These findings clearly point to the fact that climate change is changing many aspects of wildlife biology.
But how widespread is this phenomenon — and what is the consequence? 32. How might the scientists feel if there were slightly more female turtles? A. It’s normal. doubtful.
33. What is a scientist’s conventional way to identify a turtle’s sex? A. Testing its blood.
B. Doing genetic tests. D. Watching its tail.
B. It’s unique.
C. It’s extreme.
D.
It’s
C. Using laparoscopy.
34. Why do the findings worry Jensen and Allen? A. Too many females gather near Raine Island. C. Turtle populations are in decline. rise.
35. What does the last paragraph imply? A. People should stop the phenomenon. B. People have to test the consequence.
C. Climate change has changed sea turtles’ sexes. D. More work needs doing about the phenomenon. 第二节 （共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
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B. Sea turtles may end up dying out. D. Female turtles cause temperatures to