[单选题]The number of people wanting to become a Southwest Airlines flight attendant has reached ________ .
A.record high
B.a record high
C.high record
D.a high record

[单选题]Elderly people easily become socially isolated．
A.gloomy
B.feeble
C.solitary
D.frugal

[单选题]When the Viaduct de Millau opened in the south of France in 2004, this tallest bridge in the world won worldwide accolades. German newspapers described how it “floated above the clouds” with “elegance and lightness” and “breathtaking” beauty. In France, papers praised the “immense” “concrete giant.” Was it mere coincidence that the Germans saw beauty where the French saw heft and power? Lera Borodisky thinks not. In a series of clever experiments guided by pointed questions, Boroditsky is amassing evidence that, yes, language shapes thought. The effect is powerful enough, she says, that “the private mental lives of speakers of different languages may differ dramatically,” not only when they are thinking in order to speak, “but in all manner of cognitive tasks,” including basic sensory perception. “Even a small fluke of grammar”—the gender of nouns—“can have an effect on how people think about things in the world,” she says. As in that bridge, in German, the noun for bridge, Brucke, is feminine. In French, pont is masculine. German speakers saw prototypically female features; Frenchspeakers, masculine ones. Similarly, Germans describe keys (Schlussel) with words such as hard, heavy, jagged, and metal, while to Spaniards keys (llaves) are golden, intricate, little, and lovely. Guess which language construes key as masculine and which as feminine? Grammatical gender also shapes how we construe abstractions. In 85 percent of artistic depictions of death and victory, for instance, the idea is represented by a man if the noun is masculine and a woman if it is feminine, says Boroditsky. Germans tend to paint death as male, and Russians tend to paint it as female. Language even shapes what we see. People have a better memory for colors if different shades have distinct names—not English?s light blue and dark blue, for instance, but Russian?s goluboy and sinly. Skeptics of the language-shapes-thought claim have argued that that?s a trivial finding, showing only that people remember what they saw in both a visual form and a verbal one, but not proving that they actually see the hues differently. In an ingenious experiment, however, Boroditsky and colleagues showed volunteers three color swatches and asked them which of the bottom two was the same as the top one. Native Russian speakers were faster than English speakers when the colors had distinct names, suggesting that having a name for something allows you to perceive it more sharply. Similarly, Korean uses one word for “in” when one object is in another snugly, and a different one when an object is in something loosely. Sure enough, Korean adults are better than English speakers at distinguishing tight fit from loose fit. Science has only scratched the surface of how language affects thought. In Russian, verb forms indicate whether the action was completed or not—as in “she ate [and finished] the pizza.” In Turkish, verbs indicate whether the action was observed or merely rumored. Boroditsky would love to run an experiment testing whether native Russian speakers are better than others at noticing if an action is completed, and if Turks have a heightened sensitivity to fact versus hearsay. Similarly, while English says “she broke the bowl” even if it smashed accidentally, Spanish and Japanese describe the same event more like “the bowl broke itself.” “When we show people video of the same event,” says Boroditsky, “English speakers remember whowas to blame even in an accident, but Spanish and Japanese speakers remember it less well than they do intentional actions. It raises questions about whether language affects even something as basic as how we construct our ideas of causality.” Which of the following best represents the author?s argument in the passage?
A.The gender of nouns affects how people think about things in the world.
B.Germans and Frenchmen think differently about the Viaduct de Millau.
C.Language shapes our thoughts and affects our perception of the world.
D.There are different means of proving how language shapes our thoughts.

[单选题]The drinking water has become contaminated with lead.
A.polluted
B.treated
C.tested
D.corrupted

[单选题]when did Belgium become an independent kingdom?
A.in 1800
B.in 1830
C.in 1815
D.in 1930

[单选题]The school trip has become an annual event.
A.yearly
B.average
C.tedious
D.abnormal

[单选题]To become an officer on board, you must obtain______.
A. an officer's license
B. an officer's promotion
C. an officer's statement
D. a seaman's book

[不定项选择题]共用题干 Help Your Child Become a Reader

Encouraging early reading skills can build a path to a lifelong（终身的）love of reading
and can help your child get a head start in school.While reading to your child is still the most
important thing you can do to build reading skills,there are many techniques that can help.
Make reading fun.Play games with your child as you read.Many traditional children's
games can be adapted to encourage reading skills.
While reading or during play,tell your child,"I spy with my little eye,something that
begins with the letter b."Help the child find something on the page or in the room that
begins with that letter.For example,"I see a barn."This can also be used to teach
beginning letter sounds."I spy with my little eye,something that begins with the sound
's'."Help the child find a word that begins with the"s"sound.
In this variation on the popular game,instruct the child that,"Simon says, 'point to
something that starts with the letter n."'The child can then find an object in the room or a
body part,such as the nose,that starts with the letter presented.This can also be used to
teach beginning sounds.
Make a game out of rhyming（押韵）words by making up silly words to rhyme with the
child's name or favorite toys.This sets the stage for rhyming real words by showing the
child the similarities of sounds.As the child masters making up the words,begin rhyming
real words to one another.
Tips to raise a successful reader:
Put books in places where the child plays.If books are easily accessible,children are
more likely to pick them up.
Let children"read to you"by looking at pictures.Making up stories to go along with
illustrations helps children discover how words relate to pictures.
Take books along on trips or even short visits to the doctor's office or grocery store.
Have children help you shop.Reading grocery lists and looking for specific items helps
build sight vocabulary. You should take books with you when you go out with your child.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned