learn to speak as quickly as they should. Their friends shoot ahead and they’re left behind. As a result, they get very lonely. Nobody wants to talk to you if you can’t talk back.
Can anything be done to help these children? Yes. They can go to see a speech therapist—a person who' s specially trained to work out what' s wrong and who knows how to teach language to children. This is what happened to Tom. The speech therapist played some games with him and heard how he talked. She made a recording of his speech, and chatted to his mom and dad about his background. They’d taken Tom to see a doctor, but the doctor hadn’t found anything wrong with him. He seemed perfectly normal in every way—except he just wasn’t talking.
After Tom and his parents had gone home, the therapist listened carefully to the recording she’d made. Then she looked at a chart which showed how language developed in children aged two, three, and four. She could see Tom was a long way behind.
The next step, she decided,was to teach Tom how to say some new sentences like \red ball，'‘ and \But the therapist was very patient, and after a few more visits he started to make some progress. 40.How did the author introduce the topic of this passage? A.By describing grammar errors made by kids. B.By sharing experiences of speech therapists. C.By using Tom’s case as an example. D.By stating his personal views to readers.
41.What can be inferred from the passage about “language delay”?
A.It can be prevented by doctors. B. It is seldom found among children. C. It can be improved with certain help. D. It may result from hearing problems. 42.What did the speech therapist do to help Tom? A.She told others that Tom was normal in every way. B.She asked Tom to play with some other children. C.She made some recordings of his parents' s peech. D.She taught Tom new sentences in a patient way. 43. What is the best title for the passage? A.What Can Doctors Do with Language Delay? B.What Can Be Done about Kids with Language Delay?
C.How Can Language Delay Be Easily Detected? D.How Can Parents Prevent Kids from Language Delay?
Passage Three
On a dry and cold Friday afternoon last October, Sharon Seliiie exchanged text messages with her daughter who was in college. They \things were going and the daughter answering positively followed by emoticons（表情符）showing smiles, b-i-g smiles and hearts.
Later that night, her daughter attempted suicide.
In the days that followed, it came to light that she’d hidden herself in her dorm, crying and showing signs of depression—a completely different reality from the one that she conveyed in texts and Facebook posts.
As human beings, our only real method of connection is through real communication. Studies show that only 7% of communication is based on writing and speaking. The majority of 93% is based on body language. Indeed, it’s only when we can hear a tone of voice or look into someone’s eyes that we' re able to know when“I’m fine”doesn’t mean they’re fine at all.
This is where social media gets risky.
With modem technology, anyone can hide behind the text, the e-mail, or the Facebook post, projecting any image they want and creating a false image of their choosing. They can be whoever they want to be. And without the ability to receive body language, their audiences are none the wiser.
This presents a paradox which doesn' t exist before. With all the powerful social technologies at our fingertips, we are more connected—and potentially more disconnected—than ever before.
Every relevant metric （衡量标准）shows that we are interacting at a great speed and frequency through social media. But are we really communicating? With 93% of our
communication context （语境）lost, we are now attempting to establish relationships and make decisions based on phrases or emoticons,which may or may not accurately represent the truth. 44.Why does social media get risky according to the author?
A. The users’ social connection is lost. B. The users’ messages may be ignored. C. The users' real emotion may be hidden. D. The users’ voices can hardly be heard.
45.What phenomenon does the underlined word “paradox\（Paragraph 7） reflect? A.People can be both happy and unhappy. B.People can be both connected and disconnected. C.People can end up being both wise and stupid. D.People can form both true and false impressions.
46. What is true about today' s communication through social media? A. It causes more health risks.
B. It gives little communication context.
C. It leads to better relationships. D. It improves the quality of interaction. 47.What is the best title for the passage?
A.Social Media and Its Function B. Social Media and Its Abuses C. Social Media and Its Future D. Social Media and Its Risks
Passage Four
Alan Lakein, a time management expert, thinks that nothing is a total waste of time, including doing nothing at times. If you arrange things so that you find time to relax and “do nothing”, you will get more done and have more fun doing it.
One of his clients, a space engineer, didn' t know how to \leisure time was scheduled with intense activities. He had an outdoor-activities schedule in which he switched from skiing to tennis. His girlfriend kept up with him in these activities, although she would have preferred just to sit by the fire and relax once in a while. Like too many people, he felt the need to be doing something all the time, for doing nothing seemed a waste of time. His \relaxing by the fire\
For an experiment, Alan asked him to “waste\sessions together. What the engineer ended up doing was relaxing, sitting quietly and daydreaming. When he was finally able to admit that emotional reasons caused him to reject relaxing as a waste of time, he began to look more critically at that way of thinking. Once he knew that relaxing was a good use of time, he became less serious about being busy and started enjoying each activity.Previously he had been so busy doing that he had no time to have fun at anything. He began to do less and have more fun. When Alan saw the client about three years later, he still had as busy a schedule as ever, but he was able to balance his activity with relaxing so that he came back to work Monday morning not feeling tired out from a busy weekend but
refreshed.
48.What did“doing nothing”mean to the space engineer at first? A. Outdoor activities.
B. A waste of time.
C. Few daily schedules. D. More family hours. 49.What made the engineer reject relaxing? A. Social reasons.
B. Family reasons.
C. Emotional reasons. D. Physical reasons. 50.What happened after the engineer learned \
A. He was not as busy as before. B. He began to enjoy each activity more. C. He started to do more of everything. D. He did not have as much fun as before. 51.What can be inferred from the passage about “doing nothing”? A.It makes people enjoy more indoor activities. B.It enables you to have more work time. C.It serves to improve family relationship. D.It helps you do things more efficiently.
Passage Five
Socrates is often referred to as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and yet he wrote nothing, established no school, and held no particular theories of his own. What he did do, however, was frequently ask the questions that interested him, and in doing so developed a new way of thinking. This method proceeds (展开)as a dialogue between opposing views , and it earned him many enemies in Athens, where he lived.
Aa a young man, Socrates is believed to have studied natural philosophy, looking at the various explanations of the nature of the universe, but then became involved in the politics of the city-state and concerned with more down-to-earth moral issues, such as the nature of justice.
However, he was not interested in winning arguments, or arguing for the sake of making money. Nor was he seeking answers or explanations. He was simply examining the basis of the concepts we apply to ourselves (such as %understanding what we are is the first task of philosophy.
He was sentenced to death on charges of corrupting the young with bad ideas. But he also
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