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1、1 English Examination Paper Part I Reading Comprehension Passage OneTeachers always plan down to the minute what their students will be doing. This is good for kids, because it teaches them to stay on task and follow a schedule. But most homes arent run this way. If parents do plan their childrens l
2、ives minute by minute, what happens when that child grows up and goes to college? At some point, kids need to learn to manage their own time. This can be one of the valuable skills you help your kids develop outside of school. But it generally wont happen all by itself, because theres a big transiti
3、on that happens when kids leave the structured school environment and come home. If you have kid stay alone at home, think hard about trying to find an adult who can be there and provide the support your child needs. If a supportive adult isnt available, an expert named Martin recommends you find an
4、 after-school program led by experienced professionals who will engage them in creative activities, nourish them with healthy snacks, and assist them with their schoolwork. If you are at home on the contrary, to take some break after the guys get started on diversions, because its hard to stop and d
5、o something like homework.“If that little bit of downtime is television, good luck . getting them to do their homework.” says a professor of child development at California State University, “TV is addictive.” A better way to help your child unwind is with a healthy snack. “Wait until dinner, make a
6、 plate full of energizing food. You could even dish up part of the dinner youre preparing a little early for the kids,”she says. While youre sharing a snack, you can make a list of what your kids will get to do during their study breaks. The types of breaks recommended include shooting baskets, gett
7、ing a drink, using the bathroom, or even playing a quick card game with parents. Your kids can be the ones to decide which breaks theyd like to take. But, as Freimuth says, your children will have to be honest about what kind of break will energize them and not upset their momentum. 1. The main purp
8、ose of this passage is _. A) to provide some advice for the parents about childrens education B) to explain how to prepare a pretty snack for your children C) to explain why the parents spoil their children D) to describe childrens lives after school 2. The words “this way” in the sentence “But most
9、 homes arent run this way” in the first paragraph most possibly means _. A) to stay on the taskB) to arrange everything in details C) to give some lessons to children D) to behave in the structured school 3. According to the passage, the expert named Martin, appearing in the second paragraph, most p
10、robably takes up the following jobs EXCEPT _. A) a specialist in children education 2 B) a professional consultant in a after-school program C) the leader of a research group about sports, such as basketball D) mostly the same as what Freimuth (in the last paragraph) does 4. According to the last tw
11、o paragraphs, the appropriate snacks that the parents provide will _. A) upset the childrens momentumB) exhaust them by lots of dirty dishes C) make the children get addicted to TVD) bring more energy to children 5. Which of the following is NOT recommended for the break during the childrens study a
12、fter class? A) Shoot baskets. B) Play some games with parents. C) Go out to drink some beverage in a bar for a long time.D) Relax a bit by using the bathroom. Passage Two Doors and windows cant keep them out; airport immigration officers cant stop them and the Internet is an absolute reproduction so
13、il. They seem harmless in small doses, but large imports threaten Japans very uniqueness, say critics. “They are foreign words and they are infecting the Japanese language” Sometimes I feel like I need a translator to understand my own language,” says Yoko Fujimura with little anger, a 60-year-old T
14、okyo restaurant worker. “Its becoming incomprehensible.” Its not only Japan who is on the defensive. Countries around the globe are wet through their hands over the rapid spread of American English. Coca-Cola, for example, is one of the most recognized terms on Earth. It is made worse for Japan, how
15、ever, by its unique writing system. The country writes all imported utterances - except Chinese - in a different script called katakana(片假名). It is the only country to maintain such a distinction. Katakana takes far more space to write than kanji - the core pictograph (象形文字)characters that the Japan
16、ese borrowed from China 1,500 years ago. Because it stands out, readers complain that sentences packed with foreign words start to resemble extended strings of lights. As if that werent enough, katakana terms tend to get confusing. For example, digital camera first appears as degitaru kamera. Then they became the more ear-pleasing digi kamey. But kamey is also the Japanese word for turtl