New rules and behavior standards(行为规范) for middle school students came out in March. The Middle School is going to use a new way to decide who the top students are. The best students won' t only have high marks. They should not dye (染) their hair, smoke or drink because they are students. The following are some of the new rules.
Have you ever copied someone else' s work in an exam? Don' t do that again ! That' s not something an honest student should do.
Do more at school. Good students love animals and care for other people. April is Bird-loving Month in China. Is your school doing anything to celebrate it? You should join! And you can learn more about animals and how to protect them. Be friendly to the people around you. Try to think of others, not only yourself.
Be open to new ideas. Do you think people can live on the moon? Maybe you' 11 find another earth someday. Don' t look down on new ideas. Everyone' s ideas are important. You should welcome them, because new ideas make life better for everyone.
Protect yourself. Has someone ever taken money from one of your classmates? Don' t let it happen to you. If you have to go home late, you should let your parents know.
Use the Internet carefully. The Internet can be very useful for students. But some things on the Internet aren' t for children, so try to look at web pages (网页) that are good for you.
41. What's the meaning of "look down on" in the passage?
A. 向下看
B. 轻视
C. 在......上面看
D. 上下打量
42. If you go home late, you should tell your _________ about it.
A. father and mother
B. teachers
C. children
D. classmates
43. Good web pages for children can _________.
A. be a waste of time
B. help them with their studies
C. do homework for them
D. make life difficult
44. According to the passage, which of the following is true?
A. Tell the truth, even when you are wrong.
B. Keep some animals to kill them. ..
C. Look down on new ideas.
D. Everything on the Internet is good for children.
45. The passage mainly(主要地) tells us how to _________.
A. care for others
B. do more at school
C. be top students
D. use the Internet
C
Allen : I' ve never been a big fan of the bears, especially the vacation show. On my last trip to Disneyland(1999) we passed it by, because we didn't want to spend the time on something we didn't really enjoy. If we'd known it would be closed by our next visit, I'm sure we would have watched it one more time. I was just making the point that it wasn' t until Disney announced the closing that this feeling suddenly sprang(弹跳) up for the C'ountry Bear show at Disneyland.
But I think the idea of keeping some attractions open forever regardless of the number of visitors it gets is a mistake. We all have great memories of the Bears, but clearly very few kids today ( or I should say families today) are making those same memories from this show. That may be a sad fact, but it' s a fact. For whatever reason, the show doesn' t pull in the numbers. Isn' t it right to use the Country Bear space to bring in more popular attraction so that more kids today can make those magic memories of an attraction they like? Otherwise aren't we just telling the kids today that .they" have to" make great memories of the Bears, when it's obvious that the kids themselves are not enjoying the Bears as we did?
Roger: I am very disappointed that they have decided to retire the Country Bear Playhouse. I remember going to the show as a child, and still enjoying it as a teenager, and now as a young adult. It is true that there aren' t a lot of shows left at DL and with this one closing even less. Being at DL does require a lot of walking, and it is nice to have an attraction that is a place to sit and enjoy a good show. I understand that DL has to develop, but there has to be some history to the Disney-land that Walt Disney first designed. There should be some parts of DL that just never go away and this is one of them. By the time I have children it looks like there won' t be any attractions that I can say. I went as a child at the rate they are going.
Now the Bears are leaving. What I want to say is: stop trying to compete with everyone! DL is the best, because of attractions like the Country-Bears. If DL insists on destroying all of its magic to make way for the latest, well, then it might as well be just another theme park.
46. What news might get people talking about the problem of the Country Bears?
A. The Country Bear Playhouse will be closed.
B. There will be a new attraction for our guests at Disneyland.
C. The number of visitors to the Country Bear Playhouse is falling.
D. The Bears will retire because of old age and can' t give shows any more.
47. Allen spoke mainly to get this point across that _________.
A. the Bears will be missed
B. we should tell the kids today that they "have to" make great memories of the Bears
C. the longtime attraction ought to make way for a future attraction
D. people never care about what they have until all is lost
48. Give the best choice to complete Roger' s idea: the Country Bears have been a part of Disney-land for nearly 30 years, _________.
A. and I feel it is time to give our bears a good rest
B. but anyway, the attraction is no longer interesting
C. but I know that Disneyland will always be changing, and I accept that
D. and I am sad that the Bears will be leaving
49. Which of the following is NOT in the same group as the other three?
A. An attraction.
B. A theme park.
C. The Bears.
D. The latest magic.
50. Where can this passage be found?
A. In a Web discussion zone.
B. In a suggestion book.
C. In a report on the popularity of the Country Bears.
D. In high school students' compositions.
D
The days of elderly women, doing nothing but cooking huge meals on holidays are gone. Enter the Red Hat Society---a group holding the belief that old ladies should have fun.
"My grandmothers didn't do anything but keep house and serve everybody. They were programmed to do that," said Emily Cornette, head of a chapter of the 7-year-old Red Hat Society.
While men have long spent their time fishing and playing golf, women have sometimes seemed to become unnoticed as they age. But the generation now turning 50 is the baby boomers(生育高峰期出生的人), and the same people who refused their parents' way of being young are now trying a new way of growing old.
If you take into consideration feminism(女权主义), a bit of spare money, and better health for most elderly, the Red Hat Society looks almost inevitable (必然的). In this society, women over 50 wear red hats and purple(紫色的) clothes, while the women under 50 wear pink hats and light purple clothing.
"The organization took the idea from a poem by Jenny Joseph that begins: When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn' t go," said Ellen Cooper, who founded the Red Hat Society in 1998. When the ladies started to wear the red hats, they attracted lots of attention.
"The point of this is that we need a rest from always doing something for someone else," Cooper said, "Women feel so ashamed and sorry when they do something for themselves. " This is why chapters are discouraged from raising money or doing anything useful. "We' re a ladies' play group. It couldn' t be more simple," added Cooper' s assistant Joe Heywood.
51. The underlined word "chapter" in Paragraph 2 means _________.
A. one branch of an organization
B. a written agreement of a club
C. one part of a collection of poems
D. a period in a society's history