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____ the age of ten, she had learned to play the piano.

A.After

B.In

C.At

D.By

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发布时间：2022-06-28

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第1题

It can be inferred from the second paragraph that ______.A．the brain is not prepared for l

It can be inferred from the second paragraph that ______.

A．the brain is not prepared for language learning before the age of ten months

B．speaking requires complex coordination of different body components

C．children above seven cannot learn two or more languages at the same time

D．the ability of speaking is independent from the ability of listening

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第2题

Which of the following is TRUE about the 137,893 nurses tracked by scientists at the Harva

rd？

A.Most of them are female.

B.Their eating habits were closely inspected for over ten years.

C.Their age is ranging from 35 to 77 years old.

D.They have about the same body fat and weight.

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第3题

听力原文：Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1875 and was sent at the age of ten to

听力原文： Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1875 and was sent at the age of ten to live in New England, an area which inspired almost all of his poetry. He was educated at Dartmouth College, New England, and Harvard University. He became a schoolmaster for a short time, and then a farm laborer. During this period he wrote poetry but with little recognition. (23) From 1912 to 1915, he lived in New England, where he became friendly with several poets, including Edward Thomas, and published A Boy's Will in 1913 and North of Boston in 1914．In America his poetry was soon admired, and he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize on four occasions between 1924 and 1943．He went on writing throughout his life, publishing Steeple Bush at the age of seventy-two. He died in 1963．(24) Frost's poems are revolutionary because they lack the exaggeration of rhetoric. Many of his lines and sentences are plain and in themselves nothing. But they are bound together and made beautiful by a calm eagerness of emotion. (25) With his close observant eye and touch, we can feel the daily activities of farming and the landscape be it their background—mowing, apple-picking, or mending a wall. These poems reflect a humane quiet concern and satisfaction in their rhythms and their gentle lyricism. Often there is an explicit or near-explicit "moral", though sometimes this is hinted at rather than stated，and frequently there is an almost proverbial tone. We learn to trust Robert Frost. The very lack of glamour or display in his poem gives them a stability and honesty.

23. What do we learn about Robert Frost from the passage？

24.What does the speaker say about Frost's poems？

25.What is described in Frost's poetry according to the passage？

(4)

A．He was born in New England.

B．He once worked for Harvard University.

C．He was Edward Thomas' friend.

D．He wasn't awarded any prize.

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第4题

听力原文：You can tell the age of a tree by counting its tings. But these records of a tree

听力原文： You can tell the age of a tree by counting its tings. But these records of a tree's life really say a lot more. Scientists are using tree tings to learn what's been happening on the sun's surface for the last ten thousand years. Each ring represents a year of growth. As the tree grows, it adds a layer to its trunk, taking up chemical elements from the air. By looking at the elements in the rings from a given year, scientists can tell what elements were in the air that year.

Dr. Stevenson is analyzing one element, carbon—14, in rings from both living and dead trees. Some of the rings go back almost ten thousand years to the end of the Ice Age. When Stevenson followed the carbon--14 trail back in time, he found carbon—14 levels change with the intensity of solar burning. You see the sun has cycles. Sometimes it bums fiercely. At other times it's relatively calm. During the sun's violent periods, it throws off charged particles in fast moving streams, called solar winds. The particles interfere with the formation of carbon—14 on earth. When there is more solar wind activity, less carbon—14 is produced. Ten thousand years of tree rings show the carbon—14 level rises and falls about every four hundred and twenty years. The scientists concluded that solar wind activity must follow the same cycle.

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A．To find out the origin of carbon- 14 on Earth.

B．To analyze the composition of different trees.

C．To look into the pattern of solar wind activity.

D．To examine the chemical elements in the Ice Age.

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第5题

听力原文：My parents ran a small restaurant. The restaurant was opened 24 hours a day, seve

听力原文： My parents ran a small restaurant. The restaurant was opened 24 hours a day, seven days a week. [32] And my first job when I was six years old was shining shoes for customers. My duties increased as I grew older. By age of ten I was cleaning tables and washing plates. My father made it clear that I had to meet certain standards. [33] I had to be on time, hard-working and polite to the customers. I was never paid for any work I did. [34] One day I made a mistake of telling Dad I thought he should give me 10 pounds a week. He said, "OK, then how about you paying me for the three meals a day when you eat here and for the times you bring in your friends for free drinks？" [35] He figured I owed him about 40 pounds a week. This taught me quite a lot.

(33)

A．Washing plates.

B．Cleaning tables.

C．Shining shoes.

D．Sweeping the floor.

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第6题

It being not only possible but even easy to predict which ten-year-old boys are at greates

t risk of growing up to be persistent offenders, what are we doing with the information？ Just about the last thing that we should do is to wait until their troubles have escalated in adolescence and then attack them with the provisions of the new Criminal Justice Bill. If this bill becomes law, magistrates will have the power to impose residential care orders. More young people will be drawn into institutional life when all the evidence shows that this worsens rather than improves their prospects. The introduction of short sharp shocks in detention centers will simply give more young people a taste of something else they don’t need; the whole regime of detention centers is one of toughening delinquents, and if you want to train someone to be anti-establishment, “I can’t think of a better way to do it,” says the writer of this report. The Cambridge Institute of Criminology comes up with five key factors that are likely to make for delinquency: a low income family a large family, parents deemed by social workers to be bad at raising children, parents who themselves have a criminal record, and low intelligence in the child. Not surprisingly, the factors tend to overlap. Of the 63 boys in the sample who had at least three of them when they were ten, half became juvenile delinquents—compared with only a fifth of the sample as a whole. Three more factors make the prediction more accurate: being judged troublesome by teachers at the age of ten, having a father with at least two criminal convictions and having another member of the family with a criminal record. Of the 35 men who had at least two of these factors in their background 18 became persistent delinquents and 8 more were in trouble with the law. Among those key factors, far and away the most important was having a parent with a criminal record, even if that had been acquired in the distant past, even though very few parents did other than condemn delinquent behavior in their children. The role of the schools emerges as extremely important. The most reliable prediction of all on the futures of boys came from teachers’ ratings of how troublesome they were at the age of ten. If the information is there in the classroom there must be a response that brings more attention to those troublesome children: a search for things to give them credit for other than academic achievement, a refusal to allow them to go on playing truant, and a fostering of ambition and opportunity which should start early in their school careers. According to the author, delinquency should be tackled ___.

A.before adolescence

B.during institutional treatment

C.during adolescence

D.when the problem becomes acute

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第7题

Questions 下列各 are based on the following passage. A recent BBC documentary, The Town T

hat Never Retired, sought to show the effects of increasing the state pension age by putting retirees back to work. Although the results were entertaining, they need not have bothered. Away from the cameras, unprecedented numbers of older people are staying in work .Since the start of the recession that began in 2008, the number of 16-to 24-year-olds in work has fallen by 597,000. Over the same period the number of workers over the age of 65 has increased by 240 o000. The greying of the British workforce dates back to around 2001, since when the proportion of older people working has nearly doubled. But it has accelerated since the start of the recession. There are several reasons why. Happily, people are living longer and healthier lives, which makes staying in work less daunting than it was. Less happily, low interest rates, a stagnant stock market and the end of many defined-benefit (固定收益 ) pension schemes make it a financial necessity. And changing attitudes ,spurred by rules against age discrimination, are making it easier than ever. Most older workers are simply hanging on at the office: 63% of workers over state pension age have been with their employer for more than ten years. Over two-thirds of them work part-time, mostly doing jobs that they once performed full-time. A big advantage is that they do not pay national insurance contributions effectively a second income tax on younger workers. According to Stephen McNair, director of the Centre for Research into the Older Workforce, this flexibility explains why older workers have not suffered so much in the slump. Instead of slashing the workforce, as in previous recessions, many firms have halted recruitment and cut working hours. At small businesses in particular, keeping on older workers is cheaper and less risky than training replacements.Over half of workers over state pension age work for businesses with fewer than 25 employees. Christopher Nieper, who owns David Nieper, a womenswear manufacturer based in Derbyshire,prizes his semi-retired workers, who can be employed at short notice and do not need to work full-time to survive. Retired machinists can fill in if there is a surge in orders; former sales advisers can work as part-time consultants. As his competitors have moved production abroad, depleting the pool of trained labour, retaining older workers and their skills has become even more important. There is scope for the older workforce to expand. Workers over the age of 50 who are made unemployed find it harder to pick up new jobs, which could mean that more oldsters want to work than are able to. That would be good. The Office for Budget Responsibility, the fiscal watchdog, reported on July 12th that an ageing, unproductive population is the biggest long-term threat to Britains economic health. Data from the OECD, a think-tank, shows that employment rates among workers approaching retirement age are split in Europe, with old workers hanging on best in the north. Government credit ratings follow a similar pattern. That Britains ageing workforce more closely resembles Germanys than Italys could prove the countrys salvation(拯救). Which of the following can be inferred from the BBC documentary The Town That Never Retired？

A.What it intends to reveal is contrary to the reality.

B.It has received good comments from audience.

C.It aims to criticize the poor pension provision in the UK.

D.It reflects the current phenomenon of retirees coming back to work.

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第8题

听力原文：M：Good morning，I'm doing a survey for the Department of Health and Social Securit

y and I'd like to ask you a few questions if I may.

W: I suppose that'll be OK.

M: The first question is what is your full name？

W: Louisa O'Leary.

M: And your age, Mrs. O'Leary？

W: Well ... it's thirty-four.

M: Really？ You don't look it at all. Now how much does your husband earn？

W: That's a personal question, but I suppose I should try and be as frank as I can with you--￡ 10,000 a year.

M: That isn't much.

W: Yes.

M: Now what I'm really interested in is the way you spend your money. What about housiug, for example？

W: Well, our house costs us about ... er, ￡ 300 a month.

M: Oh, that must be difficult with ten thousand a year!

W: It certainly is. I was working before we had the baby, of course. That used to make things a lot easier. Now we're much less well off.

M: Mm. Apart from the house, where does your money go？

W: Food is the biggest item. That's about ￡ 240 a month for food and other small bits and pieces-cleaning materials and so on. For electricity, we only use it for lighting. That's about ￡ 50 a year.

(23)

A．He is doing a survey.

B．He is introducing himself.

C．He is talking with a friend.

D．He is selling a product.

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第9题

听力原文：Benjamin Franklin was a writer, printer, inventor and diplomat. He was the only p

听力原文： Benjamin Franklin was a writer, printer, inventor and diplomat. He was the only person to sign four historic documents. They are the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Alliance with France, the Treaty of Peace with Great Britain and the Constitution of the United States.

Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He left school at the age of ten because his parents could not pay for his education. He taught himself mathematics, science and five foreign languages. He worked for several printers. Then he bought his own print shop. He wrote and published a newspaper called the Pennsylvania Gazette. He became well known as the paper became successful. Franklin had even more success with a publication called Poor Richard's Almanac. It was famous for wise sayings that people still use today. Here is one: "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."

Benjamin Franklin was also a scientist. His experiments proved that lightning is a current of electricity. He invented the lightning rod to protect buildings from damage. He also invented a stove that heated a room more effectively than others.

Benjamin Franklin wanted to improve life in Philadelphia when he served as its postmaster. He helped establish the first library and. organized a fire department. He started a program to light city streets, gathered money to open a hospital and helped establish the city's first university.

As we all know, Benjamin Franklin also helped establish the United States government by helping to write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

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A．Benjamin Franklin was a great scientist.

B．Benjamin Franklin signed four historic documents in his lifetime.

C．Benjamin Franklin didn't leave school until he was twenty.

D．Benjamin Franklin once had his own print shop.

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第10题

听力原文： Benjamin Franklin was a writer, printer, inventor and diplomat. He was the only

person to sign four historic documents. They are the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Alliance with France, the Treaty of Peace with Great Britain and the Constitution of the United States.

As we all know, Benjamin Franklin also helped establish the United States government by helping to write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

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A．Benjamin Franklin was a great scientist.

B．Benjamin Franklin signed four historic documents in his lifetime.

C．Benjamin Franklin didn't leave school until he was twenty.

D．Benjamin Franklin once had his own print shop.

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