The text mainly talks about . A. a village in danger B. a headmaster in trouble C. a ruinous changing climate D. a serious social problemERacism hasn’t died down in America, as much as we hope to think otherwise. When slavery ended in the 1860’s, many people would hope that the narrow-mindedness of racism would end as well. Obviously, this is not so. Jena has shown that racism still exists, even if we ignore it, and that extreme measures are still taken to exclude certain people. As children we all loved each other, we all played together in the sandbox at the local playground. So what went wrong? Hate exists in this world not because of our DNA or where we’re raised. Hate such as this exists because it’s taught to us. Thankfully, although racism isn’t completely gone, it has faded slightly throughout the years. Honor and pride still exist in our world. It’s sad that the world has been hurt by all the bad things in it, but there is still love and laughter. The Ford Foundation, a foundation that helps reduce poverty and discrimination, also helps fight racism. Even if there are ugly things like this in the world, all they do is make good things seem more beautiful. So when you think, `Well, why should I care, Jena is thousand miles away from me,’ remember the pain of everyone involved. Jena may be far away, but it is a small town that we live in. The Jena 6, six young boys standing up for what they believed in, stood up for their culture by means of music, charged because they’re black, and they displayed what the jury considered as improper behavior towards the white youth of Louisiana. The court passed fairness onto these boys, but was it worth it? These are the questions passing through a million people’s minds. The answers have proven difficult to find, and hard to understand. 【查看更多】
When I first got an e-mail account ten years ago, I received communications only from family, friends, and colleagues. Now it seems that every time I check my e-mail, I have an endless series of advertisements and other correspondence that do not interest me at all. If we want e-mail to continue to be useful, we need specific laws that make spamming(發(fā)送垃圾郵件) a crime. If lawmakers do not do something soon to prohibit spam, the problem will certainly get much worse. Computer programs allow spammers to send hundreds of millions of e-mails almost instantly. As more and more advertisers turn to spam to sell their products, individual(個人的) e-mail boxes are often flooded with spam e-mails. Would people continue to use e-mail if they had to deal with an annoying amount of spam each time? This problem is troubling for individuals and companies as well. Many spam e-mails contain computer viruses that can shut down the entire network of a company. Companies rely on e-mail for their employees to communicate with each other. Spam frequently causes failures in their local communications networks, and their employees are thus unable to communicate effectively. Such a situation results in a loss of productivity and requires companies to repeatedly repair their networks. These computer problems raise production costs of companies, which are, in the end, passes on to the consumer. For these reasons, I believe that lawmakers need to legislate (立法) against spam. Spammers should be fined, and perhaps sent to prison if they continue to disturb people. E-mail is a tool which helps people all over the world to communicate conveniently, but spam is destroying this convenience.
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According to the text, what is the major cause of the flooding spam?
A.
Companies rely on e-mail for communications.
B.
More people in the world communicate by e-mail.
C.
More advertisers begin to promote sales through spam.
D.
Many computer viruses contain spam e-mail.
2.
According to Paragraph 3, who is the final victim of spam?
Sports shoes that work out whether their owner has done enough exercise to warrant time in front of the television have been devised in the UK. The shoes — named Square Eyes — contain an electronic pressure sensor and a tiny computer chip to record how many steps the wearer has taken in a day. A wireless transmitter(傳話器) passes the information to a receiver connected to a television, and this decides how much evening viewing time the wearer deserves, based on the day’s efforts. The design was inspired by a desire to fight against the rapidly ballooning waistlines among British teenagers, says Gillian Swan, who developed Square Eyes as a final year design project at Brunel University to London, UK. “We looked at current issues and childhood overweight really stood out,” she says. “And I wanted to tackle that with my design.” Once a child has used up their daily allowance gained through exercise, the television automatically switches off. And further time in front of the TV can only be earned through more steps. Swan calculated how exercise should translate to television time using the recommended daily amounts of both. Health experts suggest that a child take 12,000 steps each day and watch no more than two hours of television. So, every 100 steps recorded by the Square Eyes shoes equals precisely one minute of TV time. Existing pedometers （計步器） normally clip onto a belt or slip into a pocket and keep count of steps by measuring sudden movement. Swan says these can be easily tricked into recording steps through shaking. But her shoe has been built to be harder for lazy teenagers to cheat. “It is possible, but it would be a lot of effort,” she says. “That was one of my main design considerations.”
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According to Swan, the purpose of her design project is to ________.
A.
keep a record of the steps of the wearer
B.
deal with overweight among teenagers
C.
enable children to resist the temptation of TV
D.
prevent children from being tricked by TV programs
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Which of the following is true of Square Eyes shoes?
A.
They regulate a child’s evening TV viewing time.
B.
They determine a child’s daily pocket money.
C.
They have raised the hot issue of overweight.
D.
They contain information of the receiver.
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What is stressed（強調(diào)）by health experts in their suggestion?
A.
The exact number of steps to be taken.
B.
The precise number of hours spent on TV.
C.
The proper amount of daily exercise and TV time.
D.
The way of changing steps into TV watching time.
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Compared with other similar products, the new design ________.
A.
makes it difficult for lazy teenagers to cheat
B.
counts the wearer’s steps through shaking
C.
records the sudden movement of the wearer
D.
sends teenagers’ health data to the receiver
5.
Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
Steve Jobs made technology fun.The co-founder of Apple died last Wednesday at the age of fifty-six He had fought for years against cancer.Mourners gathered outside his house in Palo Alto, California, and Apple stores around the world. Tim Bajarin, president of a high-tech research and consulting company, said "If you actually look at a tech leader, they're really happy if they have one hit in their life.Steve Jobs has the Apple II, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and Pixar." Steve Jobs was a college dropout.He was adopted by a machinist and his wife, an accountant.They supported his early interest in electronics. He and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer—now just called Apple—in nineteen seventy-six.They stayed at the company until nineteen eighty-five.That year, Steve Wozniak returned to college and Steve Jobs left in a dispute（分歧）with the chief executive. Mr.Jobs then formed his own company, called NeXT Computer.He rejoined Apple in nineteen ninety-seven after it bought NeXT.He helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then to one of the most valuable companies in the world today. Steve Wozniak, speaking on CNN, remembered his longtime friend as a "great visionary and leader'' and a "marketing genius（天才）". President Obama said in a statement: "By building one of the planet's most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity.By making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun." David Carroll is a professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City.He says Steve Jobs not only revolutionized technology, he also revolutionized American business. "The fact that he was able to redesign American commerce top to bottom and across is really stunning （令人驚奇的）.He probably will be considered an industrial giant on the scale of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, so one of the great[s] of all time." David Carroll said. Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple's chief executive in August because of his health.He died a day after the company released a new iPhone version that met with limited excitement.Apple's new chief, Tim Cook, will also have to deal with the new Kindle Fire tablet computer from Amazon.com.It costs less than half as much as an iPad but also does less.
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Why did people all over the world mourn Steve Jobs?
A.
He was very courageous in the face of cancer.
B.
He became very rich though dropping out college.
C.
He released a new iPhone version before death.
D.
He revolutionized technology and made it enjoyable.
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Which of the following can easily prove that Jobs is a "marketing genius"?
A.
After Apple, he founded NeXT Computer.
B.
He made Apple very valuable once again in the world.
C.
He developed a series of Apple products.
D.
He was considered the greatest industrial figure of all time.
3.
What does the underlined part in Paragraph 7 mean?
A.
Jobs was a typical example of American spirit of creation.
B.
Jobs enriched the American spirit of science and freedom.
C.
Jobs eventually realized his American dream.
D.
American people are good at inventing things.
4.
Which of the following is true according to the text?
A.
Jobs's parents discouraged him from working on electronics
B.
Jobs stayed in Apple as chief executive for about 24 years.
C.
Jobs started his career in his family garage.
D.
Run unsuccessfully, Apple was sold to NeXT Computer.
Dr Asim Syed, 32, has performed more than 100 operations at London’s Hammersmith Hospital in the country’s busiest transplant unit, but never imagined that he would one day become a donor himself. He stepped forward when was told his 64-year-old mother might be dead within months unless she got a new kidney (腎). The worried surgeon brought her to London to be cared for at his hospital. However, it was not all plain sailing. Tests showed Dr Syed was the wrong blood group, so the only way was to go through a special blood-washing process. He consulted colleagues about that, but they didn’t agree, because the risk of rejection is still too high. Dr Syed and his mother were then advised to consider a new way of donating and receiving, called an organ-paired. That is, Dr Syed donated his kidney to an unknown person and another donor in the chain was a successful match for his mother. The chain of three transplants took place at the same time on July 31 with Dr Syed’s kidney going to a recipient in the Midlands and Mrs. Syed receiving her kidney from a person in the south of England. Just hours after donating his own kidney, Dr Syed found himself recovering in bed next to his mother. Mrs Syed said, “When I came round from my operation Asim was in the next bed and the first thing he said was, ‘Mum now all your worries are over.’ Tears fell down.” Now mother and son are recovering well with Dr Syed already back at work. Mrs. Syed is staying with him for several months while the hospital monitors her progress. He said, “I did what anyone would do when they see a relative suffering disease. Although I wasn’t able to help mum directly, by agreeing to be part of a chain, I was also very happy.”
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Why isn’t it a plain sailing?
A.
No one can treat his mother well.
B.
Dr Syed was the wrong blood group.
C.
They didn’t have money to be in hospital.
D.
Mrs. Syed was unwilling to receive the operation.
2.
Why didn’t his colleagues agree to the method of blood-washing?
A.
It is very dangerous.
B.
It costs too much.
C.
They didn’t know how to do it at all.
D.
They didn’t have the relative equipment.
3.
What can we learn about Mrs. Syed?
A.
She was touched by his son’s deed.
B.
She has already recovered completely.
C.
After operation, she went her own home.
D.
She was in hospital in London for many years.
4.
What can be inferred from the text?
A.
The hospital still needs improving.
B.
Dr Syed has love and devotion to his parents.
C.
The expense in the hospital is too high to afford.
D.
Dr Syed donated his kidney to his mother directly.
