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用心 爱心 专心1 英语冲刺复习英语冲刺复习 英语精练 英语精练 3232 For Senior 3 students choosing which college to attend can be the most exciting and thrilling time in their entire school lives This is also true for an American girl named Melanie in the film College Road Trip which was released in the US on March 7 Melanie s dad James Porter is the chief of police for a Chicago suburb Incredibly security obsessed 困扰 he wants Melanie to attend nearby Northwestern University where she s already been accepted But Melanie 17 really wants to go to Georgetown in Washington D C where she s been wait listed When she gets an unexpected interview she decides to take a road trip with a few close female friends Melanie believes it is her first step toward adulthood But despite the fact that this trip is girls only James isn t comfortable with the prospect of his little princess exploring the world without him He wants to protect her James joins the girls and hopes he can convince her to go to Northwestern While Melanie s father only has the best of intentions his presence leads to an endless series of comic encounters After following their faulty GPS device deep into the backwoods James and Melanie discover her little brother and his pet pig have been hiding in the spare tire compartment 隔间 What should be a simple tire change results in the expensive car rolling down a mountain forcing them to hike to a nearby hotel There the pig ruins an outdoor wedding reception after eating an entire bag of coffee beans All these disasters add spice to their trip while along the way a father and a daughter finally get the chance to really talk to each other The film explores the parent child relationship in a comic way The discrepancy 不同 between how close James thinks he is to Melanie and how little he actually knows of her plans makes us laugh first and then think All parents whether they have college students or not can relate to the bittersweet realization that their kids are growing up Like what Melanie and James have done in the film we all can find the delicate balance between staying connected and letting go 41 According to the passage which of the following is TRUE A It s unclear whether Melanie could be accepted by Northwestern University B Northwestern University isn t so famous as the university in Washington D C C There is no hope that Melanie will be accepted by the university in Georgetown 用心 爱心 专心2 D Melanie s father prefers her to stay not too far away from him 42 We can infer from the passage that A their car rolled down the mountain ruining the wedding reception B a hotel was destroyed by Melanie s brother and his pet pig C Melanie and her father got to understand each other better after so many encounters D the girls had to give up their trip because of the incidents on the way 43 The main purpose of the passage is to A introduce the newly released film B call on parents to learn to balance the relationship with their children C tell a story which happened between an American girl and her father D explore the differences in parent child relationship between the west and the east B I look in the mirror and I m not happy with what I see I don t have a perfect face I look in the magazines and all I see are girls with fair hair blue eyes and of course a pretty little nose They re on the outside of the buses that I take home the television programs I watch and the billboards I walk under Almost every advertisement I see shows this human physical perfection These billboards not only tell me what to drink but also how to look Our society tends to place more importance on a person s physical beauty rather than their ability honesty and character We have influenced women to go through painful surgeries and starve themselves to become this society constructed physical model To be a beautiful woman in the 21st century doesn t mean that you are a brilliant doctor or caring mother It means you have the perfect jaw structure eyes and lips It means that you can be six feet tall and weigh one hundred and ten pounds But what about the women who are starting to leave their youth Instead of looking at aging as a sign of wisdom we attempt to prevent the aging process It s a kind of funny thing to want to look eighteen when fifty Fifty is a relaxed age where you can step back and look at all you ve achieved It is when your hard work pays off Unfortunately our society just sees you as old To stop the aging process women buy wrinkle creams do eye lifts and face lifts They spend thousands of dollars to win the hopeless battle against age I remember when I was about thirteen years old and going through teens I had oily hair and a half developed body I hated the way I looked I used to cry to my mother all the time but she would just laugh and tell me that you don t want anyone to like your appearance It s your heart that matters because beauty fades I knew that she was right If you work on your heart enough people will start to see the beauty in you which lasts and remains on even after you die 44 The main idea of the first paragraph is that 用心 爱心 专心3 A the author doesn t have a perfect face B women have to look beautiful C photos of beautiful girls can be seen everywhere D there are too many beauties in daily life 45 What s the author s attitude towards being old A It s a pity that people have to get old B It s a fruitful and wise time C It s stupid to try to stay young D It s a pity that society looks down upon the old 46 It is that regard s the physical beauty as more important A women themselvesB the author s parents C newspapers and magazinesD society 47 What s the author s opinion about beauty A The author doesn t like the beauties our society values B It is not important whether a person looks beautiful or not C It is a person s inner qualities that matter rather than the physical beauty D The author feels appearance is important to a person C Paris Jan 11 An armored car robbery last night ended in a wild gun battle that left two men dead and one hostage seriously wounded The drama began when an armored car carrying the contents of safe deposit boxes to a bank was struck by a large truck police said The bank guards were helpless when the robbers jumped out of the truck and tied them up The thieves used heavy tools and explosives to break open the armored car A passing police car turned to investigate the accident as the men were removing the contents of the armored car Police said the three robbers fled on foot across a nearby highway Stopping a private car driven by a teenager girl the three headed for central Paris with the police car in hot pursuit A plainclothes policeman saw the car as it ran down through the street of the Latin Quarter The policeman tried to stop the car but the thieves started shooting at him witness said The girl hostage tried to slip away Just as she was crawling away from the car she was hit by a bullet Police said she was out of danger at Central Hospital The gunmen gave up the car and got into a shop pouring fire on more than 50 policemen who had surrounded the building After a wild gun battle police broke into the room They only found two of the gunmen both seriously wounded The third thief was believed to have escaped with over 1 3 million in cash and jewels 48 The passage is about A a gun battle between the policemen and the government soldiers 用心 爱心 专心4 B a bank robbery in Paris C a group of gunmen s robbing an armored car in the street D how a teenaged girl got seriously wounded 49 The thieves came and they A in a police car stole the armored car B in a truck broke open the armored car C in an armored truck drove the money car away D in an armored car opened the armored car with heavy tools 50 The three robbers fled on foot across a nearby highway because A a passing police car found them B the explosives were too strong C the contains of the armored car were too heavy D the truck broke down 51 A plainclothes policeman is A not a policeman but a soliderB not a policeman but a gunman C a policeman but he can t use gunsD a policeman but he doesn t wear a uniform D Wild elephants that destroy crops and damage trees are a serious problem in many parts of Africa But there could be a simple and relatively safe way to stop them in their tracks by employing the talents of the tiny African honeybees The number of elephants in Kenya has risen over the past ten years with some disastrous results Not only do these huge animals attack local farms but they step someone to death an average of once every two weeks Now a biologist has discovered a possible threat the elephants are extremely aware of trees that house honeybee hives I am puzzled why nobody has thought of this before says Fritz Volirath at the University of Oxford When an elephant knocks a beehive he runs and the bees will follow him for miles He says that placing hives of the honeybees around local farms and fragile habitats could be an effective way to threaten the animals Volirath put 30 unoccupied and 6 occupied beehives in some of the trees growing on a bush frequently damaged by elephants on Laikipia Plateau in Kenya On average the elephants attacked 9 out of 10 trees that didn t have hives severely damaging a quarter But they steered clear of all six trees with occupied hives The elephants also left alone one third of the trees with empty hives suggesting that some had learnt not to take the risk The bees threaten elephants by stinging vulnerable 易受伤 areas such as the eyes belly behind the ears and under the trunk People could be at risk from the bees admits Volirath but that may be outweighed by the risk of being killed by an elephant Another experiment by Volirath shows that elephants also avoid the sound of angry bees played from a loudspeaker 52 What harm do the wild elephants in Africa do 用心 爱心 专心5 A Killing people B Damaging beehives C Threatening animals D Destroying villages 53 What can we learn from the underlined sentence A They ran away from the trees with empty hives on it B They tried not to touch the trees with hives full of bees C They kept a distance from all the trees with hives on them D They were clear that all the six trees were occupied by hives 54 What s Volirath s another experiment on this elephants case A Let bees attack and kill elephants one by one B Encourage bees to sting elephants eyes and ears C Use the bees sound to drive elephants away D Employ tiny African honeybees to threaten elephants 55 From the passage we can conclude that A there is always one thing to beat another B little bees can kill big and wild elephants C serious problems often come up in Africa D elephants enjoy attacking people and farms E Everybody is happy as his pay rises Yet pleasure at your own can disappear if you learn that a fellow worker has been given a bigger one Indeed if he is known as being lazy you might even be quite cross Such behavior is regarded as all too human with the underlying belief that other animals would not be able to have this finely developed sense of sadness But a study by Sarah Brosnan of Emory University in Atlanta Georgia which has Just been published in Nature suggests that it is all too monkey as well The researchers studied the behaviors of some kind of female brown monkeys They look smart They are good natured co operative creatures and they share their food happily Above all like female human beings they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of goods and services than males Such characteristics make them perfect subjects for Doctor Brosnan s study The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens 奖券 for food Normally the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for pieces of cucumber However when two monkeys were placed in separate and connected rooms so that each other could observe what the other is getting in return for its rock they became quite different In the world of monkeys grapes are excellent goods and much preferable to cucumbers So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token the second was not willing to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all the other either shook her own token at the researcher or refused to accept the cucumber Indeed the mere presence of a grape in the other room without an actual monkey to eat it was enough to bring about dissatisfaction in a female monkey The researches suggest that these monkeys like humans are guided by 用心 爱心 专心6 social senses In the wild they are co operative and group living Such co operation is likely to be firm only when each animal feels it is not being cheated Feelings of anger when unfairly treated it seems are not the nature of human beings alone Refusing a smaller reward completely makes these feelings clear to other animals of the group However whether such a sense of fairness developed independently in monkeys and humans or whether it comes from the common roots that they had 35 million years ago is as yet an unanswered question 56 According to the passage which of the following statements is TRUE A Only monkeys and humans can have the sense of fai