hours. We traveled the way most people do: the fastest, shortest, easiest road, especially when I was alone with four noisy, restless kids who hates confinement(限制)and have strong opinions about everything.
Road trips felt risky, so I would drive fast, stopping only when I had to. We would stick to the freeways and arrive tired.
But then Banner, our lamb was born. He was rejected by his mama days before our planned trip to Boise. I had two choices: leave Banner with my husband, or take him with me. I had to take him with me.
That is how I found myself on the road with four kids, a baby lamb and nothing but my everlasting optimism to see me through. We took the country roads out of necessity. We had to stop every hour, let Banner shake out his legs and feed him. The kids chased him and one another. They?d get back in the car breathless and energized, smelling fresh from the cold air.
We explored side roads, catching grasshoppers in waist-high grass, or just simply looked out of the car windows at baby pigs following their mother, or fish leaping out of the water. Here was life. And new horizons(见识).
We eventually arrived at my parents? doorstep astonishingly fresh and full of stories
I grew brave with the trip back home. On an empty section of road, everyone started quarreling. I stopped the car, ordered all kids out and told them to meet me up ahead. I parked my car half a mile away and read my book in sweet silence.
Some road trips are by necessity fast and straight. But that trip with Banner opened our eyes to a world available to anyone adventurous enough to wander around and I found the best of myself. 31. Why did the author use to take freeways to her parents? home? A. It was less time. B. She felt better with other drivers nearby. C. Her kids would feel less confined. D. It would be faster and safer.
32. The author stopped regularly on the country roads to
A. take care of the lamb B. take a deep breath
C. relax in the fresh air D. let the kids play with Banner 33. What does the author discover from the trip according to Paragraph 6? A. Freeways are where beauty hides.
B. Enjoying the beauty of nature benefits one?s health
C. Getting close to nature adds to the joy of life D. One should follow side roads to watch wild animals
34. Why did the author ask the kids to get out of the car on their way back home? A. To give herself some time to read B. To let them cool down
C. To play a game with them. D. To order some food for them
35. What could be the best title for the passage?
A. Creativity out of Necessity B. Beautiful Country Road C. Charm of the Detour D. Road trip and Country Life
【答案解析】本文是一篇记叙文，记述了作者与孩子们驾车回家时心态的变化。
31. 【答案】D。细节题。由文章第二段可知，作者选择的这条路是回家最短、最快的一条
路。故选D。
32. 【答案】A。细节题。从文章第五段中可知，作者不得不每四个小时停下来让小羊伸展身体，所以停下来的理由是为了照顾小羊。故选A。
33. 【答案】C。段意题。文章的第六段中描述了作者停车之后所见的美景。段落最后一句中提到了“这就是生活和新的境界”。故选C。
34. 【答案】B。推断题。从文章的第八段可知，每当孩子们起了争执后，作者都会让孩子们下车，过段时间再去前方找她。这样做可以推断出作者这样做是为了使孩子们冷静下来。故选B。
35. 【答案】C。主旨题。从文章的最后一段可知，作者虽然绕了路，但却体会到了旅途中的美好。故选C。 C
A new study has found evidence of aggressive behavior in children who drink four or more servings of soft drinks every day. Information for the study came from the mothers of 3,000 5-year-olds. Researchers asked the women to keep a record of how many servings of soft drinks their children drank over a two-month period. The women were also asked to complete a checklist of their children's behavior.
The researchers found that 43 percent of the boys and girls drank at least one daily serving of soda, 4 percent of the youngsters had four or more sodas to drink every day.
Shakira Suglia is with Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health in New York City. She worked on the study with researchers from the University of Vermont and Harvard University School of Public Health. She says they found that children who drank the most soda were more than two times as likely as those who drank no soda to show signs of aggression.
\the children who consumed four or more soft drinks per day, we see an association between aggressive behaviors, attention problems and withdrawn behaviors.\
The aggressive behaviors included destroying possessions belonging to others, taking part in fights and physically attacking people.
The researchers have determined the link after considering factors like the child's age and sex. They have also considered other possible influence, such as whether the boys and girls are eating sweets or giving fruit drinks on a normal day. In addition, the researchers examined parenting styles and other social conditions that may be taking place in the home. Researchers are trying to find why young children who drink a lot of soda have behavior problems.
\ingredients in soda, a lot of ingredients that have not been examined in relation to behavior.\
An ingredient often found in soft drinks is caffeine, which helps to make people feel energetic. Suglia suggests that caffeine could cause the 5-year-olds to be more aggressive.
Earlier studies of young adults have found the highest sugar levels in those who carry weapons and show signs of negative social behavior.
36. What section of a newspaper is the passage probably taken from? A. Scientific Technology B. Health Report C. Social News D. Science Fictions
37. The underlined word “withdraw” in paragraph 4 probably means_____. A. backward B. generous C. unsociable D. friendly
38. Researchers studied the following aspects of the children except ______.
A. age B. character C. sex D. Parents 39. From the research, we know_________.
A. most of the youngsters surveyed have soft drinks every day.
B. 3000 mothers were asked to keep a record of their children?s intake of soft drinks C. children who drink no soda show no signs of aggressive behaviors
D. children with the highest sugar levels tend to have negative social behaviors 40. The main purpose of the passage is to _______.
A. urge parents to stop their children from drinking soda B. explain the cause of children?s problem behaviors
C. suggest that people should not drink soft drinks too much D. uncover the link between soft drinks and aggressive behaviors 答案及解析
36. 【答案】B，主旨推断题，纵观全文，讲的是“喝软饮料”和“有攻击性的行为”之间的关系的科学研究，所以这是一篇健康方面的报道。
37. 【答案】C，词义推断题，在文中，withdrawn behavior是与aggressive behaviors并列的，证明它们是同性质的、类似的行为，而aggressive behaviors包括破坏“他人物品、打架、人身攻击”，据此推断withdrawn behavior也是一种不友好“unsocial”的行为。 38. 【答案】B，事实细节题，在第6段第1句提到“age and sex”，第3句提到“parenting styles”，但始终没提到“character”。 39. 【答案】A，推理判断题，第1段讲到“3000个五岁小孩的母亲”（“the mothers of 3,000 5-year-olds”），并不是“3000个母亲”，故B错。第3段提到“children who drank the most soda were more than two times as likely as those who drank no soda to show signs of aggression.”，并非“完全没有攻击行为”，故C错。D选项的结论是“早期研究”得出的，并非最近刚做的这个实验。由第1段倒数第2句和第2段的数据可知，大多数受调查的小孩每天都喝软饮料。 40. 【答案】D，主旨大意题，根据文中第1段第1句可知答案。 D
A spelling mistake on a sign outside a state primary school had me banging my head in despair— but don?t be panicked into thinking state education is fundamentally disabled.
There?s a notice on our local park gate, made by a local state primary school pupil, saying:” There is know such thing as the poo fairy.” What a good idea —a campaign to encourage the dog-owners among us to pick up their dog?s waste! And what an attractive and eye-catching poster! But “KNOW poo fairy”? Why didn?t he/she realize that bad spelling is a worry? What?s even worse, it could easily bring joy to Mr. Gove?s heart, because it seems to prove him right: ordinary state schools are bad and academics are good. And the country may take his propaganda （宣传）seriously and show the panicking parents one bad spelling from a non-academy school, suggesting that it’s filled with wild and unqualified staff. The parents then will be scared that their children will be poorly educated, and must be marched straight into an academy —an institution full of exam results and undemocratic management. Don’t fall for it, parents. Like thousands of teachers in state schools, and local authorities, you can care about children’s education and standards of literacy, you can even love Latin, without singing up to the Gove brigade（队列）.Just because he has had an insight into our terrors and recognized our dreams, it does mean that he just knows how to take us in and what works in his favor.
“That ?know poo? teacher has scored an own goal,” says Fielding, “and put the state school at a
seeming disadvantage.” Now you?re in a dilemma here. You?re caught between your enthusiasm for accurate grammar and your well-meaning social responsibilities”. Even Fielding doesn?t get it. You can have the two things together—high standards in comprehensives. We do not need academies. You can manage it!
41. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the text?
A. The author bumped his head on a sign board outside a primary school. B. The sign was written to encourage dog-owners to clean their dogs waste. C. The word “know” in the sign is a spelling mistake.
D. The author likes the poster except for the spelling mistake. 42. Who is Mr. Gove in the passage?
A. A pupil?s father concerned about education. B. A teacher of a state primary school. C. An advocate for academy.
D. An official at the Education Department.
43. We can learn from the passage that the author __________. A. felt hopeless at the state primary education
B. tried to defend the spelling mistakes in the poster C. thought highly of academy?s educational standard D. was opposed to Mr. Gove?s misleading propaganda 44. What is the author?s attitude towards state primary education? A. Conservative B. Indifferent C. Supportive D. Critical
45. What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph imply?
A. The teacher has accidentally harmed the interest of state school. B. The teacher has successfully scored a goal in a football match. C. The teacher has effectively attacked the weakness of academies. D. The teacher has successfully achieved his goal.
答案解析
41. 【答案】A，推理判断题，文章首句“had me banging my head in despair”的意思是“牌子上的拼写错误让作者吃了一惊”，并非真的“撞到了头”，根据下文由“拼写错误”引发的“对学校教育质量的忧思”可以得到进一步验证。
42. 【答案】C，推理判断题，定位第2段关键词“Mr. Gove”，后半句“because it seems to prove him right: ordinary state schools are bad and academics are good”可知答案。
43. 【答案】 D，推理判断题，针对第2段后半部分的描述，第3段作者明确提出自己的观点“Don’t fall for it, parents”，以及文章倒数第2句“We do not need academies.”，说明作者反对Mr. Gove的言论。
44. 【答案】C，推理判断题，由第3段作者明确提出自己的观点可知答案，且与43题的观点一致。
45. 【答案】A，句义理解题，根据后半句“and put the state school at a seeming disadvantage”，可知，老师（忽视拼写错误）的这种行为已经损害到了州立学校的利益，故
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