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The most famous collections of fairy tales (童话) are the ones by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. The Grimms published their first fairy-tale collection in 1812. They didn’t think they were writing for children. They thought they were preserving disappearing German folk culture. Their first edition (版本) was a scholarly book that carefully recorded the oral tales. They were surprised when some of their early readers suggested that the stories might be interesting to children.
But the Grimms needed money. They had made a bad deal with their publisher and received little payment for their first book. At one point Wilhelm complained there wasn’t a chair in his house one could sit on without worrying it would break. So he took the hint and set to work to make a book that would be suitable for children. He selected a few of the tales, made them much longer, and polished up the language. He didn’t add morals, but he did slip in character judgments and moralizing comments wherever he could.
The Grimms’ fairy tales also have one characteristic that would seem to make them unsuitable for children. Many of them include violent incidents. In “Hansel and Gretel” an old woman is burned to death in an oven, and in “Little Red Riding Hood” a child is eaten by a wolf. When he revised the tales for children, Wilhelm Grimm retained the violence. In fact, he sometimes even ramped it up. For example, in the first edition of the tales, Cinderella forgives her sisters at the end. It’s only in the second edition, the one intended for children, that her birds peck (啄) out their eyes.
Why, then, have the Grimms’ fairy tales become classics of children’s literature, so much so that it is hard to imagine a child who doesn’t know Cinderella’s story or Snow White’s?
One answer is that only a few of the tales survived into modem times. The first edition of the Grimms’ fairy tales had 210 tales. By 1825 it was down to 50. And today only a dozen or so of the tales are often reprinted in children’s collections.
But the deeper answer is that the tales that have lasted are magical adventures that help children deal with the struggles and fears of their everyday lives.

1. Why did Wilhelm Grimm set out to adapt his book for children?（）

ATo deal with readers’ complaints.

BTo improve his financial situation.

CAt the request of his publisher.

DTo preserve the ancient stories in print.

2. When revising the fairy tales, Wilhelm did all of the following EXCEPT.（）

Aadding character judgments

Bmaking the tales much longer

Cdeleting the violent scenes

Dpolishing up the language

3. What does the expression “ramped it up” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?（）

AStarted.

BAllowed.

CClassified.

DIncreased.

4. Which of the following statements about the Grimms’ fairy tales is TRUE according to the passage?（）

AThey were originally intended to be children’s stories.

BGenerally speaking, the tales that have endured can help children deal with the challenges life brings to them.

CA large number of the tales made it to the modem age.

DThey are less violent than the children’s stories being written today.

5. What is the passage mainly concerned with?（）

AHistory of fairy tales.

BWays to preserve the oral tradition.

CThe Grimms’ fairy tales.

DViolence in fairy tales.

As the school year kicks off, parents are once again straggling to cajole (哄编)and, if need be, drag their exhausted teens out of bed. That image may make you laugh, but lack of sleep is no joke. Teenagers who don’t get enough rest have more learning. health~ behavior and mood problems than students who get at least nine hours a night. Long-term lack of sleep is tied to heart disease, overweight, depression and a shortened life span in adults, indicating the importance of establishing good sleep habits early in life. Lack of sleep can be especially deadly for teens; car accidents are the leading cause of death among teenagers, and safety experts believe sleepy driving is a major factor.
Unfortunately, few teenagers get the sleep they need. In a survey of middle- and high-school students, University of Colorado researchers found that 82 percent said they woke up tired and unrefreshed, and more than half had trouble concentrating during the day at least once a week.
Blame multitasking for some of this. Many students are juggling after-school
activities, homework and part-time jobs. Even when they manage to fulfill these obligations by a reasonable hour, television, the Internet, video games, phone calls and text messages to friends often keep them awake deep into the night. Taking soda and energy drinks late in the day and going to late-night parties on weekends add to sleep debt. Biology also works against teenagers’ sleep, The body’s internal clock, which controls when a person starts to feel tired, shifts after puberty (青春期), making it hard for most teens to fall asleep before 11 pm. Class usually begins before 8:15 am, with many high schools starting as early as 7:15 am. To get to school on time, most teens have to get up by 6:30 am, guaranteeing they’ll be sleep-deprived during the week. Teens often sleep much later on weekends to catch up, making it even harder to fall asleep on Sunday night and wake up Monday morning. Playing catch-up on weekends also doesn’t help teens stay refreshed when they need it most: during the week at school.
Since the 1990s, middle and high schools in more than two dozen states have experimented with later school start times. The results have been encouraging.’ more sleep, increased attendance, better grades and fewer driving accidents. But most schools still start early, meaning teens have their work cut out for them if they want to get enough sleep.

6. According to the passage, poor sleep can be linked to all of the following EXCEPT（）

Aheart disease

Bcar accidents

Cskin problems

Dpoor concentration

7. The main idea of Paragraph 3 is（）

Ahow sleep deprivation (缺乏) can be treated

Bwhat causes sleep deprivation

Cwho is most at risk for sleep deprivation

Dwhy sleep deprivation is a serious concern

8. What does the word “juggling” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?（）

ADealing with at the same time.

BStriking a balance between.

CApplying for.

DHaving difficulty in.

9. Which of the following is NOT to blame for teenagers’ lack of sleep?（）

AMultitasking.

BBiological clock.

CWeekend catch-up sleep.

DHealthy diet.

10. According to the passage, what have some schools done to help their students get enough sleep?（）

AEducating their students about the importance of sleep.

BMonitoring their students’ late-night activities.

CDelaying school start times.

DSetting strict rules.

As any middle-class parent knows, unpaid work experience can give youngsters a valuable introduction to a secure job. The government has recognized it too, abandoning rules in 2011 that had formerly stopped 16- to 24-year-o!ds from doing unpaid work while claiming unemployment benefit. But moving from that to forcing them to work without pay in order to collect these benefits has proved a big step.
More than one million young people in Britain are unemployed, the highest number since the mid-1980s. Keen both to cut the welfare bill and to avoid the depressed future wages that may result from early unemployment, the government has introduced an ambitious program of reform to get youngsters off welfare and into work. A key part of it is ensuring that no one gets benefit from the government for long; ministers are keen to avoid what happened after the early- 1980s recession (~/l/), when unemployment continued in some parts of the country for a long time after the economy began to improve.
To help young people into work, ministers had persuaded lots of employers, including bakery chains, bookshops, and supermarkets, to take on unemployed youths, who receive work experience but no pay, with the prospect of a proper job for those who shine. Some 35,000 youngsters participated last year; half found paid work soon after finishing the scheme.
The idea of getting young adults used to showing up for work is popular with voters: according to a survey published in February, about 60% of people support the program. Equally attractive was the option of compelling them to work: Under the existing arrangements youngsters could choose whether or not to accept a place, but if they dropped out after the end of the first week, they stood to lose up to two weeks’ benefits.
Yet the scheme has also polarized (两极分化的) opinion: a third of people are consistently opposed. Following a noisy “Right to Work” campaign that accused employers of co-operating secretly with the government in “forced labor”, several firms dropped out of the program. To prevent this from getting worse, Chris Grayling, an employment minister, admitted that young people could leave their work experience at any time without being punished for doing so. This not only halted the flight of employers (for now, at least) but also enabled him to announce that new firms have agreed to take part in the program.

11. According to the passage, young people in Britain________.

Aare used to showing up for work

Bvalue unpaid work very much

Care always opposed to unpaid work

Dcould learn something about job security through unpaid work

12. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT TRUE?（）

AMost voters support the government’s effort to help young people to find work.

BSome people protest against the government’s attempt to force young people to work.

CThere are more than one million young people who took part in the program.

DThere are more than one million young people who are jobless.

13. According to the author, the British government is trying to________.

Apunish young people if they are not cooperating with it

Breform the unemployed youngsters

Cavoid the economic slowdown

Dreduce welfare spending

14. The word “shine” in Paragraph 3 means “（） “.

Ado well

Breflect light

Clook happy

Dproduce light

15. Which of the following is an appropriate title for this passage?（）

AEnjoy Work Without Pay

BCan Work, Won’t Work

CShould Work, Shouldn’t Play

DHate Work or Love Work

1. Please give Jim the schedule for tomorrow’s conference when he（）back.He is to chair the conference.

Awill come

Bcome

Ccomes

Dcame

2. （）five minutes earlier, you would not have missed the last train for Shanghai, but you were late.

AHad you come

BDo you come

CDid you come

DShould you come

3. After he worked out the solution,（）appeared a smile on his face.

Ait

Bhere

Cwhat

Dthere

4. （）the former president’s supporters went out in streets to express their anger and dissatisfaction.

AA small amount of

BA large number of

CA little bit of

DA great deal of

5. To be honest, today’s dinner was just so-so.It wasn’t such a good one promised by the boss.（）

Athat

Bwhich

Cas

Dwhat

6. So many people （）， the meeting had to be put off.

Abeing absent

Bto be absent

Cwere absent

Dhad been absent

7. We often advise him not to drink more（）is good for his health.

Aas

Bthat

Cthan

Dbut

8. —Did Charles vote in the last election?—No, he wasn’t（） .

Aenough old then

Bthen enough old

Cold then enough

Dold enough then

9. By no means（）look down on those who are less lucky in life than we are.

Awe should

Bshould we

Cwe should not

Dshould we not

10. He didn’t feel like（）that day so he stayed indoors reading.

Aworking

Bworks

Cto work

Dworked

11. No sooner had we started on the road（）it began to rain.

Awhen

Bthan

Cthen

Dwhenever

12. He decided to go for a sailing holiday （）the fact that he was usually Seasick (晕船).

Abecause of

Bin spite of

Cin case of

Das a result of

13. What you do in your spare time is your own（）.However it should not be harmful to others.

Abusiness

Bpurchase

Cbargain

Dsale

14. As a gardener, Jim has to water the flowers and（）the grass in the garden every morning.

Atrim

Bimprove

Crefine

Drepair

15. The firemen are still（）the small fires started by the plane crash.

Ataking off

Bsetting aside

Cgetting along with

Dputting out

16. He didn’t live up to（）had been expected of him.

Athat

Bwhat

Cwhich

Dall

17. The old couple decided to（）a boy and a girl though they had three of their own.

Aadapt

Bbring

Creceive

Dadopt

18. The relationship between employers and employees has been studied（）.

Aoriginally

Bextremely

Cviolently

Dintensively

19. The car（）halfway for no reason.

Abroke off

Bbroke down

Cbroke up

Dbroke out

20. The police（）that he committed a series of crimes in the north of the city.

Aswelled

Bsubmitted

Csurveyed

Dsuspected

21. The manager lost his（）just because his secretary was ten minutes late.

Amood

Btemper

Cmind

Dpassion

22. We gave out a cheer when the red roof of the cottage came（）view.

Afrom

Bin

Cbefore

Dinto

23. I have kept that portrait（）I can see it every day, as it always reminds me of my university days in London.

Awhich

Bwhere

Cwhether

Dwhen

24. The room is in a terrible mess; it（）cleaned.

Acan’t have been

Bmustn’t have been

Cshouldn’t have been

Dwouldn’t have been

25. You see the lightning（）it happens, but you hear the thunder later.

Athe instant

Bfor an instant

Con the instant

Din an instant

26. （）it or not, his discovery has created a stir in scientific circles.

ABelieve

BTo believe

CBelieving

DBelieved

27. The medicine is on sale everywhere.You can get it at（）chemist’s.

Aother

Bsome

Ccertain

Dany

28. Your hair wants（）.You’d better have it done tomorrow.

Acut

Bto cut

Ccutting

Dbeing cut

29. I don’t think it advisable that Tom（）to the job since he has no experience.

Abe assigned

Bwill be assigned

Cis assigned

Dhas been assigned

30. The goals（）he had fought all his life no longer seemed important to him.

Aafter which

Bwith which

Cfor which

Dat which

1. 请选出句中不正确的一项：The sun gives off light and warmth, that makes it possible for plants to grow.

Agives off

Bthat

Cit

Dfor

2. 请选出句中不正确的一项：Sand painting has also called dry or earth painting and is practiced by several American Indian artists.

Ahas also called

Band

Cis practiced

Dseveral American Indian artists

3. 请选出句中不正确的一项：Humans, like many other animals, are warm-blooded with a fairly constantly body temperature.

AHumans

Blike

Cwith

Dfairly constantly

4. 请选出句中不正确的一项：Now that the stress of examinations and interviews are over, we can all relax for a while.

ANow that

Bare

Call

Drelax

5. 请选出句中不正确的一项：The tallest of the twins went to search for the missing jewels, the picture of which you saw in today’s newspaper.

Atallest

Bsearch for

Cthe picture of which

Din

6. 请选出句中不正确的一项：They are going to have the serviceman to be installed an electric fan in the office tomorrow.

Aare going to

Bhave

Cto be installed

Din

7. 请选出句中不正确的一项：Only under special circumstances freshmen are permitted to take make-up tests.

Aunder

Bcircumstances

Cfreshmen are

Dto take

8. 请选出句中不正确的一项：It’s already 5 o’clock now.Don’t you think it’s about time we are going home?

AIt’s

Bo’clock

CDon’t you

Dare going

9. 请选出句中不正确的一项：Despite the wonderful acting and well-developed plot the three-hours’ movie could not hold our attention.

ADespite

Bwell-developed

Cthe three-hours’

Dhold our attention

10. 请选出句中不正确的一项：People appreciate to have worked with him because he has a good sense of humor.

Ato have worked

Bbecause

Ca good sense

Dhumor

By the time I finished high school, my interest in animals had grown, and I enrolled at a university to study biology. I learned soon enough that studying animals （56） this level was not in the animals’ best （57）. I remember one midterm exam in （58） each student was handed a large, freshly-killed frog and （59） to dissect (解剖)and mark a set of body parts. I looked at the （60） frog in front of me and was saddened that her life was （61） away for such a slight （62）.
A year later, in the same lab （63） I dissected the frog, I performed a small act of animal （64）. We were （65） on fruit flies, and it was time to record the distribution of characteristics in their next generation. Flies were （66） in small plastic bottles. Counting the number of flies with white or red eyes required first exposing them to ether (乙醚) （67） they could not move. The flies were then spread onto a piece of white paper （68） and counted. When the data collection was （69） , the flies had no further use, and our instructions were to （70） them into a small glass dish of oil at the center of each desk, which was to be their final resting （71）.
Once my little pile of flies had been counted, I pushed them off the edge of the paper. As we recorded our data, I kept one eye （72） them. Within minutes the pile was humming (嗡嗡叫) as tiny legs and wings beat their way out of the ether fog. I was extremely excited as they （73） flight. That was my first （74） in refusing to conduct scientific research that treated nonhuman life in a(n) （75） way.

1. 56（）

Aat

Bwith

Cfor

Doff

2. 57（）

Aduties

Binterests

Crates

Dhobbies

3. 58（）

Awhat

Bthat

Cwhere

Dwhich

4. 59（）

Adismissed

Bdrawn

Cinstructed

Dmended

5. 60（）

Aalive

Bdead

Cliving

Dwounded

6. 61（）

Amade

Bbrought

Ctaken

Dpassed

7. 62（）

Areason

Bspirit

Cspace

Dsystem

8. 63（）

Athat

Bwhich

Cwhat

Dwhere

9. 64（）

Aoperation

Bliberation

Ctendency

Dwealth

10. 65（）

Aexperimenting

Bstrengthening

Cstimulating

Dsubstituting

11. 66（）

Asolved

Bsoaked

Crecovered

Dkept

12. 67（）

Awhile

Bbecause

Cin case

Dso that

13. 68（）

Abeing examined

Bto be examined

Cbeing operated

D to be operated

14. 69（）

Apreliminary

Bprogressive

Ccomplete

Dcurious

15. 70（）

Aput

Braise

Crouse

Dspoil

16. 71（）

Ashade

Bshadow

Cplace

Dstuff

17. 72（）

Afor

Bwith

Cat

Don

18. 73（）

Astood

Btook

Csent

Drode

19. 74（）

Astep

Breview

Cglance

Dgesture

20. 75（）

Akind

Bgenerous

Ccruel

Deffective

1. But the deeper answer is that the tales that have lasted are magical adventures that help children deal with the struggles and fears of their everyday lives.

2. Teenagers who don’t get enough rest have more learning, health, behavior and mood problems than students who get at least nine hours a night.

3. The results have been encouraging: more sleep, increased attendance, better grades and fewer driving accidents.

4. More than one million young people in Britain are unemployed, the highest number since the mid-1980s.

5. Some 35,000 youngsters participated last year; half found paid work soon after finishing the scheme.

6. 昨天，我坐在办公室写报告时，小明从英国打电话过来了。

7. 想去图书馆的人必须在这里签名。

8. 他专心致志地看书，所以没有听到电话响。

9. 去年，我在伦敦过的暑假。

10. 我学习英语大概有十年了。

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