1、（1）In what way are the French different from Americans according to Dr. Joseph Mercola? A.They go shopping at supermarkets more frequently.B.They squeeze eating between the other daily activities.C.They regard eating as a key part of their lifestyles.D.They usually eat too much canned and frozen foo
2、d.（2）This text is mainly the relationship between _. Americans and the Frenchlife style and obesitychildren and adultsfast food and overweight（3）The text is mainly developed _. by contrast （对比）by spaceby process（变化过程）by classification（分类）（4）Where does this text probably come from?A TV interviewA foo
3、d advertisementA health reportA book review（书评）（二）When were in need, we always turn to our parents for help. But would you like them to hear the conversations you have with your friends on the school playground or lunch queue? Social networking sites have become extensions （延伸） of the school hallway
4、s, so would you add your parents as “friends” and allow them to view your online activities and conversations with friends?In the past the generation gap included a technology gap, where children were up to date with latest technology and parents were left behind, content to continue their day to da
5、y lives as they always had because they had no need to know more about technology. However, more and more parents are beginning to realize just how important social networks are in their lives. This realization has given many parents the motivation to educate themselves about social networking sites
6、.These days many people are attracted to social networking sites because they can choose who they have around them; theres also a certain amount of control over privacy that we dont get in real life. Sometimes we feel that privacy is violated （侵犯）when we must accept a “friend” request from a parent
7、or family member.Its a difficult choice whether or not to allow a parent to become a part of our online lives. On the one hand we dont want to “reject” their request because that might hurt their feelings or make them feel you have something to hide. On the other hand if you do accept, then you coul
8、d have a sense of being watched and no longer feel free to comment or communicate the way you did before.A recent survey suggested that parents shouldnt take it personally if their child ignores their request: “When a teen ignores a parents friend request, it doesnt necessarily mean that they are hi
9、ding something, but it could mean that this is one part of their life where they want to be independent.”Perhaps talking with parents and giving explanations would help soften the blow if you do choose not to add them to your friends list. （1）The passage is mainly about _. privacy onlineparents frie
10、nd requeststhe generation gapsocial networks（2）From Paragraph 2, we learn that _. parents have realized the importance of social networksparents feel secure about their privacy onlinesocial networks successfully fill the generation gapsocial networks offer a platform for parents to communicate（3）Tee
11、nagers may refuse a parents friend request because _. their parents make negative comments on themthey hide something from their parentsthey are unwilling to be watched by parentstheir parents tend to fall behind in technology（4）The passage is written mainly for _. parentsteachersresearchersteenager
12、s（三） Its Friday morning in the year 2050, and youre running late. You got carried away watching the music video that is playing in the corner of your bathroom mirror while you were brushing your teeth. How will you get to your office at Mega Giga Industries on time? A quick check of your Internet-co
13、nnected refrigerator tells you your train is a bit behind schedule, too. So you decide to drive your environmentally hydrogen fuel（环保氢燃料）car instead-or rather, let your car drive you. Its programmed to know the way and it will get you there without getting lost. Settling into your office chair, whic
14、h changes color to match what youre wearing, you pick up yesterday mornings newspaper. Printed on reusable electronic paper, it rewrites itself. Now its time for your big meeting. Uh-oh! Youve left your handwritten notes at home. No problem. The smartpen you used has stored an electronic copy of wha
15、t you wrote. Your wristwatch videophone（可视电话）suddenly rings. Your best friends face pops up on the screen asking what youre doing this weekend. Will you play virtual soccer with the U.S. Olympic team? No, no. Your friend says, so you have to take the new elevator （made of microscopic fibers many tim
16、es stronger than steel） 60000 miles into space. Could this scene really take place in just a couple of decades? The researchers who are now developing all these things think so. These high-tech products（高科技产品）may be as common in 20 years as cell phones today.（1）How many high-tech products are mentio
17、ned in the text?Four.Six.Eight.Ten.（2）According to the text, if you miss the train to work, you can _. drive your smart car insteadtake the spaceship insteadwait for the next trainwork at home（3）What can be inferred from the text?Space tourism will be a reality.Transportation will be trouble-free.Pe
18、ople will have more time to enjoy themselves.Videophones will replace face-to-face communications.（4）What is the best title for the next?Great Changes in FutureModern TimesLife in the FutureDevelopment in Technology（四） Argentina in the late nineteenth century was an exciting place. Around 1870, it w
19、as experiencing an economic（经济的）boom, and the capital, Buenos Aires, attracted many people. Farmers, as well as a flood of foreigners from Spain and Italy, came to Buenos Aires seeking jobs. These jobs didnt pay well, and the people felt lonely and disappointed with their new life in the city. As th
20、e unhappy newcomers mixed together in the poor parts of the city, the dance known an the tango（探戈舞）came into being. At the beginning the tango was a dance of the lower classes. It was danced in the bars and streets. At that time there many fewer women than men, so if a man didnt want to be left out,
21、 his only choice was to dance with another man so that he could attract the attention of the few available women. Gradually, the dance spread into the upper classes of Argentinean society and became more respectable. In Europe at this time, strong interest in dance from around the world was beginnin
22、g. The interest in international dance was especially evident in Paris. Every kind of dance from ballet（芭蕾舞）to belly dancing could be found on the stages of the Paris theaters of the Paris theaters. After tango dances from Argentina arrive in Europe, they began to draw the interest of the public an
23、they performed their exiting dance in cafes, Though not everyone approved of the new dance, saying it was a little too shocking, the dance did find enough supporters to make it popular. The popularity（流行）Of the tango continued to grow in many other parts of the world. Soldiers who returned to the United States from World War I brought the tango to North America, It reached Japan in 1926, and in 2003 the Argentinean embassy in Seoul hired a local tango dancer to act an a kind of dance ambassador, and promote tango dancing throughout South Korea
