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In the United States, engineering is a profession that has been dominated(支配)historically by men. Even today, it's still true that few women become civil or chemical or mechanical(機械的) engineers, but that's something www.EngineerGirl.org aims to change. Young women who visit the web site can find out about a great career choice they might not have considered.
"Women are very much underrepresented in engineering and in engineering education programs and then of course, down the road, in the engineering workforce. So only about 20 percent of engineering undergraduate degrees go to women, and then only about nine percent of working engineers are women."
Mary Mattis is the National Academy of Engineering, says the EngineerGirl website aims to reach young women around ages 11 through 14, when they are just getting old enough to start thinking about their futures.
"We know from the research that middle-school girls are at a critical(關(guān)鍵的)point in their lives, and that it's a time when we need to reach them, both with an understanding, increasing their awareness of interesting fields in engineering, what a wonderful productive and exciting career you can have as an engineer. But we also need to reach them at that time because you have to take certain courses, and you can't start thinking about taking those courses when you're a junior in high school."
Engineering is a demanding course of study ---there is a lot of science and mathematics, for many girls and even boys, that can be challenging. But Ms. Mattis says that the EngineerGirl website stresses that engineering can also be fun and exciting.
"It's about designing things. It's about changing the world for people. It's about making a difference. And, in addition, you can make a good living, you can be independent economically by becoming an engineer. All of those things are messages that girls need to get."
While most engineers go into traditional fields such as mechanical and electrical engineering, the EngineerGirl site also highlights unusual engineering careers in fields such as sports engineering and --- believe it or not --- chocolate engineering.
"There's a section called 'why be an engineer,' and that talks about the many opportunities and increasingly different opportunities like with bio-engineering and environmental engineering, some fields that might appeal to girls who want to make a difference or have a meaning for their careers beyond earning an income."
Even if you are not a girl in the target age group, there’s a lot of interesting information on the site, including biographies(傳記)of some notable(顯著的)women engineers.
Title : Website(1)______ Girls to learn Engineering
Present (2)_____ for the engineering profession in the USA
The majority of men take up the profession throughout(3) ______, while only a small number of women work as engineers.
(4)_____ of the website
To  make  young  women (5)_____ of interesting  fields  in engineering and what productivity and(6)_____ the career of being engineers can bring them.
(7)_____ of being engineers
* It can be fun and exciting.
* It can(8)_____ the world for people.
* You can make a good living.
* You can gain economic(9)_____ by becoming an            engineer.
Other fields concerning engineering 
Various opportunities are talked about like bio-engineering and engineering (10) _____ to sports, and even chocolate

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However, “ants” expect more study and training opportunities in big cities, which keeps them positive despite their situations.
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A.a(chǎn)nalyze graduates’ difficulties in finding jobs
B.lead to the topic of the article—“ant tribe”
C.tell readers a story about those big cities
D.show a clever way of dealing with pressure
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A.they have no diplomas from good universities
B.their majors do not meet the needs of society
C.those from rural areas are not treated equally
D.they do not have necessary professional skills
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A.they live in narrow and small places in groups
B.they work hard but earn little for survival
C.they are in a world judged by the jungle law
D.they are pleased with being nameless and underpaid
小題4:Professor Zhang thought “ants” problems could be solved by__________.
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That “Monday morning feeling” could be a crushing pain in the chest which leaves you sweating and gasping for breath. Recent research from Germany and Italy shows that heart attacks are more common on Monday mornings and doctors blame the stress of returning to work after the weekend break.
The risk of having a heart attack on any given day should be one in seven, but a six-year study helped by researchers at the Free University of Berlin of more than 2,600 Germans showed that the average person had a 20 percent higher chance of having a heart attack on a Monday than on any other day.
Working Germans are particularly not protected against attack, with a 33 percent higher risk at the beginning of the working week. Non-workers, by comparison, appear to be no more at risk on a Monday than any other day.
A study of 11,000 Italians proved 8 am on a Monday morning as the most stressful time for the heart, and both studies showed that Sunday is the least stressful day, with fewer heart attacks in both countries.
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“When people return to work after a weekend off, the pace of their life changes. They have a higher workload, more stress, more anger and more physical activity,” said Willich.
小題1:.Monday morning feeling, as this passage shows,         .
A.is not so serious as people thought
B.is harmful to working people in Germany and Italy
C.is the first killer in Germany and Italy.
D.is created by researchers in Germany and Italy
小題2:.To protect people from suffering from heart attack, doctors have paid much attention to     .     
A.people’s working timeB.people’s living place
C.people’s diet and lifestyle D.people’s nationalities
小題3:.It can be learned from this passage that heart attack has nothing to do with     .
A.blood pressureB.heart rateC.hormonal changesD.blood group
小題4:.If the researchers give us some advice to avoid Monday morning feeling, what might it be?
A.Stop working on MondayB.Create a pleasant working environment
C.Get up late on Monday morningD.Go to work with a doctor
小題5:.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A.The risk of having heart attacks on Monday mornings is the same as on any other day of the week to non-workers
B.33% of the Germans have heart diseases, therefore heart attacks are more common in Germany than in any other country.
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There are also concrete(混凝土) sea walls around much of the Japanese coastline. But these measures proved no match for the powerful earthquake and tsunami.
Costas Synolakis ,a tsunami expert at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles said,"Japan is one of those most well-prepared countries on earth in terms of tsunami warning. They had a warning. I think what went wrong is that they had not expected the size of this event."
He says there are two reasons for this. Japan has not had any event anywhere near as big as this one in the last one hundred fifty years. And scientists had not expected such a large earthquake happening off the coast of Japan.
The nine point zero magnitude earthquake was the fourth most powerful earthquake ever recorded worldwide. It was also the worst earthquake ever to hit Japan. The tsunami waves that followed were reported to have reached as high as thirteen meters in some areas.
Costas Synolakis says Japan's concrete sea walls were not built to handle such high waves.
Experts say early warning systems will continue to be limited by these facts until earthquakes and tsunamis can be predicted
小題1:Where can this passage probably be adapted from?
A.A magazine on scienceB.A fairy Tale
C.A scientific fantasy bookD.A newspaper
小題2:Which of the following statements NOT true ?
A.A terrible earthquake hit the northeastern coast of Japan
B.It was also the worst earthquake in Japan
C.The 9.0 earthquake was the fourth most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan
D.Japan's concrete sea walls was unable to handle such high waves.
小題3:According to Costas Synolakis, why did Japan suffer such a loss?
A.The country has never experienced any event as big as this one over the past 150 years
B.Japan has the best earthquake early warning systems in the world.
C.There are not concrete sea walls around all of the Japanese coastline
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Some people love eating food right after it is cooked. I prefer food just take out from the freezer. Fruit, candy, nuts, chocolate, cake with butter cream frosting(糖霜),even peas, all of them taste delicious when frozen. In fact, I often eat them that way.
I was a kid when I picked up the habit. In my family, lots of things were thrown into the freezer —finally, two freezers—to prevent them from going bad. Among them were some of the candies my sisters and I had collected on Halloween.
If we eat when they are still warm, we’ll find ourselves taking the cookies more than we should. It’s better if we can put them into the freezer and wait. That way we’ll eat less and enjoy them more because they are hard and chewing becomes a slower, more patient effort. That’s the point about frozen butter-cream frosting. Put it in your mouth at room temperature, and it’s gone very quickly. But when it’s frozen, you can enjoy the taste much longer as it melts(融化) in your mouth.
The freezer treats a lot of fruits kindly. Take frozen grapes for example, I keep a bowl of grapes in my freezer. They become a little icy, and somehow their sweetness is improved. They are perfect and healthy dessert(點心).This is the same with oranges, apples, bananas…You might think bananas would get super-hard when frozen. Wrong! They become cool, creamy and sweet. If you have wisely covered some or all of the bananas with melted chocolate before putting them into the freezer, they will have a double taste.
As long as you aren’t eating anything that truly has to be hot, go ahead and experiment.
小題1: What is the passage intended to tell us ____________.
A.Fruit should be frozen before one eats it. B.Frozen food is better than hot food.
C.The author prefers frozen food.D.Hot food is not healthy.
小題2:The author began to enjoy frozen food when he _________.
A.was youngB.learned cookingC.got marriedD.got a fever
小題3: Why does the author NOT advise us to take hot cookies?
A.Because they need more time to prepare.
B.Because the taste is not good when they are hot.
C.Because they are too delicious to avoid our overeating.
D.Because we may eat them quickly and enjoy them less.
小題4:What does the underlined word “it” in the third paragraph refer to?
A.The tasteB.Butter creamC.The cookieD.Frozen butter cream frosting
小題5: Which of the following is the advice the author gives on eating fruit?
A.Make bananas hard.B.Keep grapes in a bowl.
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On the day Apple debuted the often-delayed white-colored iPhone 4, the company's marketing department gave a nod to the product's troubled history.
"Finally." read the big headline Thursday above a picture of the white phone on the homepage of Apple.com.
The white model was supposed to ship alongside the black one at the iPhone 4's launch(推出) last June.But design and manufacturing complications delayed the process by 10 months, catching Apple off guard, executives say.
As CNN reported last month, earlier test models of the white iPhone 4 produced unclear photos, especially when the flash(閃光燈) was used.Its whiteness confused the proximity sensor (距離傳感器) , which detects when the phone is held next to someone's head and turns off the touch screen to save battery life.
These problems weren't present in older iPhones that came in white because they didn't have flash photography; the proximity sensor was unaffected because the front side of previous models was black.
"We thought we were there a year ago, or less than that, when we launched the iPhone 4, and we weren't," Philip Schiller, Apple's chief marketing executive, said in an interview."It's not as simple as making something white.There's a lot more that goes into both the material science of it —how it holds up over time…but also in how it all works with the sensors."
Ticonderoga Securities analyst Brian White predicts that the white model could help drive sales of Apple's phones.He says Apple could sell 1 million to 1.5 million every three months until the next iPhone model is unveiled, which is expected to be this fall.
Forty-five people were lined up at Apple's flagship New York store Thursday morning to buy white iPhones, according to a CNN Money report.
小題1:The reason why white-colored iPhone 4 was delayed by 10 months is that _______.
A.it's always sold out due to its popularity
B.it met some problems concerning design and manufacture
C.it lacked white manufacturing materials
D.its proximity sensor can't save battery life
小題2:According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A.There are multi-colored models of iPhone 4.
B.The same design problems were also found in older white iPhones.
C.IPhone4 will be launched this fall.
D.Originally designers thought they could solve the problems before iPhone 4 was launched.
小題3:What would be the best title for this passage?
A.Why the White iPhone 4 Took So Long
B.The History of iPhone 4
C.The Attraction of White iPhone 4
D.The Design and Manufacture of iPhone 4

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Sure, human dads can play games with their kids and help with homework, but can they give birth? Daddy sea horses can! This Father’s Day, while you’re praising your daddy, you may also remember that some of the best dads in the world can be found in the animal kingdom:
Sea horses: The “Mr. Moms” in the sea, male sea horses, carry up to 2,000 fertilized eggs in small bags in their stomachs until they hatch. Even after the babies are born, they stay inside the bag until they are ready to live by themselves.
Darwin’s rheas: Thought your dad was overprotective? Darwin’s rheas, also known as South American ostriches (鴕鳥), are so protective of their children that they have even been known to attack small airplanes on the ground if they get too close to their home!
Marmosets: These little monkeys do everything but give lectures on how to give birth! Devoted dads assist during their babies’ birth. They also let Mom get some rest by taking care of the kids when she’s not nursing them.
Sand grouse: These pigeon-like birds live in areas where water is rare, so fathers fly as many as 50 miles to get water for their kids. After they dip their breast feathers in the water, they fly home and let their chicks suck the water from their bodies.
Fathers in the animal kingdom are not that different from our own beloved dads. This Father’s Day, when you are honoring your dad, honor animal dads, too, by practicing kindness toward all animals.
小題1: The underlined “they” in paragraph 2 refers to      .
A.fertilized eggsB.their stomachsC.male sea horsesD.baby sea horses
小題2: According to the passage, which animal is the most protective?
A.A sea horseB.A Darwin’s rheaC.A marmosetD.A san grouse
小題3:The passage mainly tells readers       .
A.how clever and brave animals are
B.how to honor animal dads on Father’s Day
C.a(chǎn)nimal dads are different from human dads
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How Many Lies Do the Children Tell You?
Mothers who feel their children don’t appreciate them can add another complaint to the list: half the time, their children are lying to them. A study designed to expose the truth about lying shows that undergraduates lie to their mothers in 46% of their conversations. Still, mums should feel better than-total strangers, who are told lies an astonishing 77% of the time.
Bella DePaulo and a team of psychologists from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, asked 77 undergraduates to keep a record of all their conversations for a week, and write down whether they lied at any time. DePaulo named lying broadly, as “when you intentionally try to mislead someone”, so she would catch the smallest of lies.
The students told an average of two lies a day. They said they had been studying when they had been out drinking. One told his parents that a textbook cost $50 rather than $20 so that they would send him extra money. Female students constantly told their plain-looking roommates that they were pretty. “They are everyday lies,” says DePaulo.
DePaulo and her colleagues conclude that people tend to tell fewer lies to those they feel closest to. College students lied to their best friends 28% of the time but lied to acquaintances 48% of the time. In close relationships, people were more likely to tell “kind-hearted” lies, designed to protect feelings, rather than self-serving lies.
DePaulo finds that unmarried lovers can expect less honesty than best friends because of the insecurity that comes with romance.
Mothers can take heart from one other finding. They may have been lied to, but at least their children talked to them. The students were recorded telling few lies to their fathers because they had little interaction with them.
小題1: Female students lied to their roommates to ________.
A.get money from themB.offer them the services
C.gain more securityD.make them happy
小題2: According to the passage, college students told fewer lies to ________.
A.mothersB.best friends
C.a(chǎn)cquaintancesD.romantic partners
小題3: Which of the following statements is correct ?
A.Undergraduates lie to their mothers in 77% of their conversations.
B.Strangers become very annoyed when children tell lies to them.
C.Compared with mothers, students’ fathers are told fewer lies.
D.Best friends can expect more insecurity than unmarried lovers.
小題4:What is the purpose of this article ?
A.To present a fact.B.To argue an idea.
C.To tell a story.D.To explain a theory.

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