江苏省淮安市范集中学高三英语文化班寒假作业007.doc

淮安市范集中学2012届高三英语文化班寒假作业阅读理解afor centuries, the bodys blood has been linked closely with the emotionspeople who show no human emotions or feelings, are said to be cold-blooded killerfor example, the police are searching for a cold-blooded killerhe seems to kill for no reason, and no emotion, as if taking someones life as nothingcold can affect other parts of the bodythe expression get cold feet has nothing to do with cold or your feetthe expression means being afraid to do something you have decided to dofor example, you agree to be president of an organizationbut then you learn that all the other officers have resigned, and all the work of the organizations will be your responsibilityyou are likely to get cold feet about being president when you understand the situationthe expression give someone the cold shoulder probably comes from the physical act of turning your back toward someone, instead of speaking to him face to faceyou may give a cold shoulder to a friend who has not kept a promise he made to youor, to someone who has lied about you to others a cold fish is not a fishit is a personbut it is a person who is unfriendly, unemotional and shows no love or warmtha cold fish does not offer much of himself to anyonesomeone who is a cold fish could be cold-heartednow a cold-hearted person is someone who has no sympathyseveral popular songs in recent years were about cold-hearted men or cold-hearted women who, without feelings, broke the hearts of their lovers out in the cold means not getting something that everybody else gota person might say that everybody but him got a pay raisehe was left out in the coldand it is not a pleasant place to be56there are _ expressions related to cold that are mentioned in the passagea3 b4 c6 d7 57when you refuse to speak to a man and treat him in a distant way, you may express by _ai give him the cold shoulder bi think he is a cold-blooded manci think he is a cold fish dim likely to get cold feet 58if sue shows absolutely no reaction to those awful pictures of starving children in africa, you will say _ashe is a cold-blooded killer bshe gets cold feetcshe is a cold fish dshe is out in the cold 59we can use the expression _ to describe a man who abandons or hurts his lover without mercyacold-blooded bcold shoulder ccold feet dcold-hearted 60the topic of this passage is about _athe relationship between cold and our body bsome expressions about friendshipcsome expressions connected with cold dhow cold weather comes into being bbaby girls make their way directly for dolls as soon as they can crawl, while boys will head for the toy cars, a study has shown. the findings, the first to show differences in very young babies, suggest there is a biological basis to their preferences. psychologists dr brenda todd from city university london carried out an experiment involving 90 infants aged nine months to 36 months. the babies were allowed to choose from seven toys. some were stereotypically boys toys - a car, a digger, a ball and a blue teddy. the rest were girls toys: a pink teddy, a doll and a cooking set. they were placed a meter away from the toys, and could pick whichever toy they liked. their choice and the amount of time they spent playing with each toy were recorded.of the youngest children (nine to 14 months), girls spent significantly longer playing with the doll than boys, and boys spent much more time with the car and ball than the girls did. among the two-and three-year-olds, girls spent 50 percent of the time playing with the doll while only two boys briefly touched it. the boys spent almost 90 percent of their time playing with cars, which the girls barely touched. there was no link between the parents view on which toys were more appropriate for boys or girls, and the childrens choice.dr brenda todd said: “children of this age are already exposed to much socialization. boys may be given toys that go while girls get toys they can care for, which may help shape their preference. but these findings agree with the former idea that children show natural interests in particular kinds of toys. there could be a biological basis for their choices. males through evolution have been adapted to prefer moving objects, probably through hunting instincts（本能）, while girls prefer warmer colors such as pink, the color of a newborn baby.”61baby boys and girls have different toy preferences probably because .ababy boys are much more active bbaby girls like bright colors morectheir parents treat them differently dthere is a natural difference between them62both baby boys and baby girls like to play with according to the study.aa ballba teddyca carda doll63what can we infer from paragraph 3 ? anine-month-old baby boys dont play with dolls at all.btwo-year-old baby girls sometimes play with cars and balls.cthe older the babies are, the more obvious their preference is.dparents should teach their babies to share each others toys.64what conclusion did dr. brenda todd draw from the results of the study?aadults purposely influence their babies preference.bbabies preference isnt affected by social surroundings.cbaby boys preferring to moving toys will be good at hunting.dbaby girls preferring warmer colors will be warm-hearted.65we may read this article in a section of a newspaper.asciencebhealth c. education dentertainment cmost american students go to traditional public schoolsthere are about 88, 000 public schools, all over the ussome students attend about 3000 independent public schools called charter schools charter schools are self-governingprivate companies operate some charter schoolsthey are similar in some ways to traditional public schoolsthey receive tax money just as other public schools docharter schools must prove to local or state governments that their students are learningthese governments provide the schools with the agreement called a charter that permits them to operate charter schools are different because they do not have to obey most laws governing traditional public schoolslocal, state, or federal governments cannot tell them what to teacheach school can choose its own goals and decide the ways it wants to reach themclass size is usually smaller than in traditional public schools the bush administration strongly supports charter schools as a way to re-organize public schools that are failing to educate studentsbut some education agencies and unions oppose charter schoolsone teachers union has just made public the results of the first national study comparing the progress of students in traditional schools and charter schoolsthe american federation of teachers criticized the governments delay in releasing the results of the study, which is called the national assessment of educational progressunion education experts say the study shows that charter school students performed worse on math and reading tests than s