Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)
Passage 1
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:
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.
(76) 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?
A To deal with readers’ complaints.
B To improve his financial situation.
C At the request of his publisher.
D To preserve the ancient stories in print.
答案解析：
为什么威廉·格林要着手把他的书改编成儿童读物?
2、When revising the fairy tales, Wilhelm did all of the following EXCEPT .
A adding character judgments
B making the tales much longer
C deleting the violent scenes
D polishing up the language
答案解析：
题目:在修改童话时，威廉做了以下所有的事情，除了。
A:添加角色判断
B:让故事变得更长
C:删除暴力场景
D:提高语言水平
3、What does the expression “ramped it up” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A Started.
B Allowed.
C Classified.
D Increased.
4、Which of the following statements about the Grimms’ fairy tales is TRUE according to the passage?
A They were originally intended to be children’s stories.
B Generally speaking, the tales that have endured can help children deal with the challenges life brings to them.
C A large number of the tales made it to the modem age.
D They are less violent than the children’s stories being written today.
5、What is the passage mainly concerned with?
A History of fairy tales.
B Ways to preserve the oral tradition.
C The Grimms’ fairy tales.
D Violence in fairy tales.
答案解析：
题目:这篇文章主要与什么有关?
A:童话的历史。
B:保持口头传统的方法。
C:
D:童话中的暴力。
Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)
Passage 2
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:
. 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. (77) 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. (78) 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
A heart disease
B car accidents
C skin problems
D poor concentration
答案解析：
题目:根据这篇文章，睡眠不好可能与以下所有因素有关，除了
A:心脏病
B:车祸
C:皮肤问题
D:注意力不集中
7、The main idea of Paragraph 3 is
A how sleep deprivation (缺乏) can be treated
B what causes sleep deprivation
C who is most at risk for sleep deprivation
D why sleep deprivation is a serious concern
答案解析：
第3段的主要观点是
8、What does the word “juggling” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A Dealing with at the same time.
B Striking a balance between.
C Applying for.
D Having difficulty in.
9、Which of the following is NOT to blame for teenagers’ lack of sleep?
A Multitasking.
B Biological clock. :
C Weekend catch-up sleep.
D Healthy diet.
10、According to the passage, what have some schools done to help their students get enough sleep?
A Educating their students about the importance of sleep.
B Monitoring their students’ late-night activities.
C Delaying school start times.
D Setting strict rules.
答案解析：
题目:根据这篇文章，一些学校做了什么来帮助他们的学生获得足够的睡眠?
A:教育学生睡眠的重要性。
B:
C:推迟上学时间。
D:设置严格的规定。
Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)
Passage 3
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
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.
(79) 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. (80) 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 .
A are used to showing up for work
B value unpaid work very much
C are always opposed to unpaid work
D could learn something about job security through unpaid work
答案解析：
题目:根据这篇文章，英国的年轻人。
A:习惯上班吗
B:非常重视无薪工作
C:总是反对无薪工作吗
D:通过无薪工作能学到一些关于工作保障的知识吗
12、According to the passage, which of the following is NOT TRUE?
A Most voters support the government’s effort to help young people to find work.
B Some people protest against the government’s attempt to force young people to work.
C There are more than one million young people who took part in the program.
D There are more than one million young people who are jobless.
答案解析：
根据短文，下列哪个选项是不正确的?
13、According to the author, the British government is trying to.
A punish young people if they are not cooperating with it
B reform the unemployed youngsters
C avoid the economic slowdown
D reduce welfare spending
答案解析：
题目:据作者说，英国政府正在努力。
A:如果年轻人不配合，就惩罚他们
B:改革失业青少年
C:避免经济放缓
D:减少福利支出
14、The word “shine” in Paragraph 3 means “ “.
A do well
B reflect light
C look happy
D produce light
15、Which of the following is an appropriate title for this passage?
A Enjoy Work Without Pay
B Can Work, Won’t Work
C Should Work, Shouldn’t Play
D Hate Work or Love Work
答案解析：
题目:下面哪个是适合这篇文章的标题?
A:享受无偿工作
B:
C:
D:讨厌工作还是热爱工作
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