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Babies who are breast-fed may be more likely to be successful in life, a new study published Tuesday suggests. The study followed more than 3,000 babies into adulthood in Brazil. The researchers found those who were breast-fed scored slightly higher in intelligence tests in their 30s, stayed in school longer and earned more money than those who were given formula（配方奶粉）.
“Breast-feeding not only has short-term benefits, but also breast-feeding has long-term benefits, "says Bernardo Lessa Horta of the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil, who led the study being published in The Lancet Global Health.
Doctors have long known that breast-feeding can be good for a baby’s health. This is especially true in poor countries, where water can be contaminated. For instance, a baby given formula in developing countries is 14 times more likely to die in the first six months than one who’s breast-fed. In the U.S., some research has suggested that breast-feeding may raise a baby’s IQ（智商）by a few points. But a recent study with siblings（兄弟姐妹）found little advantage to breast-feeding.
Horta says these previous studies didn’t follow children into adulthood to see if breast-feeding had long-term effects. So Horta analyzed data collected from 3,493 volunteers he and his colleagues have been following since birth. They are now in their 30s. First, the researchers gave the subjects IQ tests. Those who were breast-fed for 12 months or more had IQ test scores that were 3.76 points higher than those who were breast-fed for less than one month, the team found.
When Horta and his colleagues looked at how much education the subjects had gotten and how much money they were making, they also found a clear difference:
Those who were breast-fed stayed longer in school for about an extra year and had monthly salaries that were about a third higher.
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)中央情报局
IQ(intelligence quotient) n. 智力商数
EQ(Emotional Quotient)情商
short-term memory短时记忆
Long-term memory长时记忆
The Lancet Global Health《柳叶刀》杂志

1. From the passage, we learn that Horta（）.

Ais from Brazil

Bconducts his research in the U.S.

Chas 30 researchers on his team

Dis well-known in developing countries

2. Which of the following about those who were breast-fed is NOT mentioned （）

AThey stayed longer in school

BThey were happier

CThey were smarter

DThey made more money

3. Which of the following is TRUE （）

ADoctors don’t understand the benefits of breast-feeding.

BHorta is concerned with water contamination in poor countries.

CHorta’s research project lasted about 30 years

DBreast-feeding is the only way to improve a baby’s health

4. The word contaminated in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to（）.

Afinished

Binterested

Ccleared

Dpolluted

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

AResearchers Have Pointed Out the Disadvantages of Breast-feeding

BResearchers Have Found Out the Shortcomings of Formula

CBreast-feeding Improves Chances of Success

DBreast-feeding Benefits Both Mother and Baby

Maggie Walker was born in 1867 in Richmond, Virginia. Her mother was once a slave in a rich woman’s house. When Maggie was very young, a thief killed her father. Her family was?impoverished, so Maggie's mother started doing laundry in her home. Maggie had to help her. She washed clothes every day,?but she continued to go to school. She was a very good student, especially in math.
After Maggie graduated from high school高级中学, she got a job as a teacher. In 1886,?she married Armistead Walker. They had two sons and Maggie stayed home to care for them. She also volunteered to help a social organization called the Order of St. Luke. This organization helped African Americans take care of the sick and bury the dead. Maggie Walker loved the work of the organization. The organization believed that African Americans should take care of each other.
Over the years,Maggie Walker had more and more responsibilities with the organization. In 1895,?she suggested that St. Luke begin a program for young people. This program became very popular with schoolchildren.In 1899,?Walk became Grand Secretary Treasurer of the St. Luke organization. However, because she was a woman, she received less than half the salary of the man who had the job before her.
The Order of St. Luke had a lot of financial difficulties when Walker took over接管. It had a lot of unpaid bills and only $31.61 in the bank. But soon Maggie Walker changed all of that. Her idea was to get new members to join the Organization.In just a few years, it grew from 3,400 members to 50,000 members. The organization bought a $100,000 office building and increased its staff to 55. Now Walker was ready for her next big step.

6. Maggie’s father died（）.

Awhen she finished high school

Bbefore she was born

Cwhen she was very young

Dafter she got married

7. Which of the following is NOT TRUE （）

AMaggie had two children.

BMaggie was once a slave.

CMaggie was good at math.

DMaggie taught for a while.

8. Which of the following is TRUE （）

AMaggie loved to help other African Americans.

BMaggie was very popular with school teachers.

CMaggie was the founder of the Order of St.Luke.

DMaggie was better paid than men as Grand Secretary Treasurer.

9. The word impoverished in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to （）.

Adifficult

Brich

Cfamous

Dpoor

10. After Paragraph 4, the author will probably talk about Maggie’s（）

Aeducation

Bnext project

Cpay

Dchildhood

When Bill de Blasio ran for New York City mayor last year, he promised to end a controversial （有争议的）, citywide cell-phone ban（禁令）in public schools, which is not equally enforced in all schools. Now, under his leadership, the city is preparing to end the ban. It will be replaced by a policy that allows phones inside schools but tells students to keep them packed away during class.
Many schools have a rule about enforcing the ban that says, “If we don't see it, we don’t know about it.” That means teachers are OK with students bringing in cell phones, as long as they stay out of sight and inside bags and pockets.
But at the 88 city schools with metal detectors, the ban has been strictly enforced. The detectors were installed to keep weapons out of schools，but the scanners（扫描器）can also detect cell phones. So students at these schools must leave their phones at home or pay someone to store it for them.
The ban was put into place in 2007 under mayor Michael Bloomberg. Ending the ban will also likely end an industry that has sprung up near dozens of the schools that enforce the ban. Workers in vans（厢式货车）that resemble food trucks store teens’ cell phones and Other devices for a dollar a day.
Critics of the ban say cell phones are important safety devices for kids during an emergency. They also say that enforcement of the ban is uneven and discriminatory. Where the ban is enforced, it puts a disadvantage on students who can’t afford to pay to store their phones.
Before putting an official end to the cell-phone ban, city education officials are working on creating a new policy. It will include rules about not using the phones during class or to cheat on tests.

11. Which of the following is the main idea of the passage （）

ANew York City will give financial aid to poor students.

BNew York City plans to restrict cell phone use in libraries.

CNew York City plans to install metal detectors in all public schools.

DNew York City will soon end a ban on cell phones in schools.

12. Students pay （） a day to leave their cell phones in a van parked near their school.

Aa dollar

Btwo dollars

Cfive dollars

Dten dollars

13. Metal detectors were installed in 88 city schools, mainly to keep （） out of schools.

Acell phones

Bweapons

Calcohol

Ddrugs

14. The word discriminatory in Paragraph 5 probably means（）.

Anecessary

Btough

Cstrict

Dunfair

15. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE （）

AAfter the cell-phone ban is ended, students can use their phones during class.

BThe cell-phone ban is equally enforced in all public schools.

CThe cell-phone ban was put into place in 2008 under Mayor Bill de Blasio.

DA phone-storage industry has appeared outside the 88 metal-detector campuses.

1. A: Excuse me, sir.But can you tell me if there is hotel near here （）B: Eh…there is one at the street comer, two blocks away.
A: Thank you very much!
B: （）!

ANice to see you!

BPardon me.

CYou’re welcome.

DI agree.

2. It often takes some time for a new couple to（） to each other’s way of life.

Arefer

Blisten

Camount

Dadjust

3. Milk turns（） easily in the summer, so it is often kept in a refrigerator.

Asour

Bsweet

Cbitter

Ddelicious

4. The Prime Minister had to（） because he was believed to have done something bad against his people.

Arelease

Bresign

Creform

Dregard

5. Last Sunday when Mr Wang was leaving Beijing for Canada, a number of his friends （） at the airport.

Afound him out

Bput him up

Cknocked him down

Dsaw him off

6. Bob doesn't work hard（） in school.He is playing all the time!

Aat all

Bin all

Cafter all

Dabove all

7. 1 want to buy a new tie to go（） this brown suit.

Ainto

Bwith

Cafter

DBy

8. Amy is very afraid of dogs, （）

Ais she

Bdose she

Cisn’t she

Ddoesn't she

9. The engine gives（） smoke and steam.

Aup

Bin

Caway

Doff

10. Please turn the radio（） .The baby is sleeping.

Aup

Bover

Coff

Daround

11. Frank moved to California last summer and（） there since then.

Ahas stayed

Bstayed

Cis staying

Dstays

12. The airplane（） to have sunk to the bottom of Indian Ocean.

Asuppose

Bsupposes

Chas supposed

Dis supposed

13. The management have spent the whole day discussing the schedule of the meeting （） next year.

Ahold

Bheld

Cto hold

Dto be held

14. His car got stuck in the mud, so he（） get off and asked the villagers nearby to help.

Acan

Bhad to

Cused to

Dmay

15. It was（） winter night and a pale moon hung low in（） sky.

Aa; a

Bthe; the

Ca; the

Dthe; a

16. When Jack came in, I（） dinner with my parents.

Awas having

Bhad

Cam having

Dhave

17. Would you mind（） quiet for a little while I am doing my course work.

Akeep

Bto keep

Ckept

Dkeeping

18. If you had come five minutes earlier, you（） him.It’s a pity you were late!

Awould meet

Bwould have met

Cmet

Dhad met

19. My friend Peter,（） had been on a visit to America, returned yesterday.

Awhich

Bthat

Cwho

Dwhose

20. It takes at least five years to ten years（） it is possible to test this medicine on human patients.

Abefore

Bsince

Cafter

Dwhen

21. The man next door has a good（） of going to bed at 10 p.m.every day.

Ahabit

Bcustom

Ctradition

Dthing

22. 1 got the news（） your call, but thank you just the same.

Adue to

Bused to

Csenior to

Dprior to

23. Alan sold most of his belongings.He has scarcely（） left in the house.

Aeverything

Bsomething

Canything

Dnothing

24. The president promised to keep all the board members（） of how the talks were going on.

Ainform

Binforming

Cbe informed

Dinformed

25. （） got on the train when it started to move.

AI rarely had

BScarcely had I

CNo sooner I had

DNo sooner had I

26. It’s（） day and I'd like to go for a walk in the park.

Aso a beautiful

Ba so beautiful

Csuch beautiful a

Dsuch a beautiful

27. Tom, more than anyone else, （） anxious to go there again.

Aare

Bwere

Cis

Dbeing

28. If he（） to this project, we will not go on to carry it out.

Awill object

Bobjects

Chad objected

DObjected

29. It was during his stay in the countryside（） he began to learn English.

Awhen

Bthat

Cwhich

Dwhat

30. The destruction of these treasures was a loss for mankind that no amount of money could（）.

Amake up for

Bkeep up with

Ccome up with

Dput up

1. 请选出句中不正确的一项：The teacher had three students in this English speech contest, and all of which won the first prize.

Ahad

Bin

Cwhich

Dfirst prize

2. 请选出句中不正确的一项：The war was broken out in 1937, which led to great losses of lives.

Awas broken out

Bin

Cled

Dlives

3. 请选出句中不正确的一项：He got to the station in a hurry only be told that the train had just gone.

Agot to

Bin a hurry

Cbe told

Dhad just gone

4. 请选出句中不正确的一项：According to this morning’s news, about two-thirds of the people in this village was made homeless after the storm.

AAccording to

Btwo-thirds

Cwas made

Dafter the storm

5. 请选出句中不正确的一项：House prices are more higher in Beijing than in many other places in China.

AHouse

Bmore higher

Cin

Dmany other places

6. 请选出句中不正确的一项：I am wondering when does the next train leave for Shanghai.

Aam wondering

Bwhen

Cdoes the next train leave

Dfor

7. 请选出句中不正确的一项：He welcomed the new students and then went on to explaining the college rules.

Awelcomed

Bnew students

Cto explaining

Drules

8. 请选出句中不正确的一项：Yesterday Ted didn’t go to school and his brother didn’t go, too.

Adidn’t

Bto

Cand

Dtoo

9. 请选出句中不正确的一项：I try to avoid to go shopping at weekends because the stores are so crowded.

Ato

Bto go

Cat weekends

Dso crowded

10. 请选出句中不正确的一项：As they use energy only for motion, a snake can live longer without food than a human being.

Athey use

Bfor

Cwithout food

Dthan

Rowan Torrez will never be able to hear his late（已故的）father tell him that he loves him, but yesterday he（56）received his dad's love in writing, a postcard（57）by his father nearly eight years ago.
On March 7，just days before the two-year anniversary（纪念日）of the（58）of Joseph Torrez, his wife Julie and his ten-year-old son Rowan, received a postcard in the mail from Joseph. The postcard was（59）June 10,2007. When Joseph Torrez was（60）and working, he would often send postcards to them from（61）places, which he had been to for business（62）. And one of them arrived in their mailbox nearly eight years（63）he sent it.
“Hello from Boston, the postcard（64）. “I love you and I（65）you so much. See you soon. Love,（Daddy."
Rowan and his mother have no（66）how the postcard just showed（67）at their home in Littleton, Colorado. But they are thankful（68）one more gift from Joseph,（69）died on March 13,2013 from a rare brain disease. Such a disease usually（70（a person after he is sixty years old,（71）Joseph died when he was only forty-one.
The latest postcard is now one of the most（72）gifts that Rowan has received from his father. He will（73）it, adding it to his scrapbook（剪贴簿）（74）he keeps all the other postcards from him. They help Rowan（75）his father after losing him at such a young age.

1. 56（）

Aunexpectedly

Bunfortunately

Cresponsibly

Dfrequently

2. 57（）

Awrite

Bwriting

Cwrote

Dwritten

3. 58（）

Aend

Blife

Cdeath

Dbirth

4. 59（）

Amade

Bdated

Cmaking

DDating

5. 60（）

Aasleep

Balive

Cdead

Dactive

6. 61（）

Awealthy

Buseful

Cdifferent

Dpractical

7. 62（）

Areasons

Bscenes

Cemotions

Dspeeds

8. 63（）

Awhen

Bbefore

Csince

Dafter

9. 64（）

Areads

Bthinks

Creading

Dthinking

10. 65（）

Athink

Btrust

Cmiss

Dhate

11. 66（）

Amethod

Bway

CHope

Didea

12. 67（）

Aout

Bup

Caway

Doff

13. 68（）

Ain

Bwith

Cfor

Don

14. 69（）

Awho

Bwhom

Cthat

Dwhich

15. 70（）

ATrembles

Bsteals

Ccovers

Dstrikes

16. 71（）

Amoreover

Btherefore

Cbut

Dand

17. 72（）

Acareful

Bprecious

Cnervous

Duseless

18. 73（）

Aexplain

Bvanish

Cresist

Dtreasure

19. 74（）

Awhere

Bwhich

Cwhen

Dthat

20. 75（）

Aforget

Bsurprise

Cremember

Dreceive

1. Doctors have long known that breast-feeding can be good for a baby’s health.

2. This program became very popular with schoolchildren.

3. Her idea was to get new members to join the organization.

4. Critics of the ban say cell phones are important safety devices for kids during an emergency.

5. It will include rules about not using the phones during class or to cheat on tests.

6. 周末，我宁愿待在家里看看书。

7. 这个国家以其美丽的湖泊而闻名于世。

8. 在业余时间里你通常做些什么？

9. 他们理解汉语还有些难度。

10. 你最好穿上夹克，外面冷。

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