Parents on Facebook (P3)

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1. What can we learn about Facebook from the text?

A. It was originally created for teenagers in America in 2004.

B. Parents and teachers were not allowed to join until 2006.

C. It's reported to have 175 million teen members worldwide.

D. You can create your account without an e-mail address.

2. What do teenagers like Candace think of adult participation in Facebook?

A. Facebook has lost its appeal to them because of adult participation.

B. It can help improve the relationship between parents and their children.

C. They are spied on by teachers and parents and can't enjoy their privacy.

D. They ignore the adults and do whatever they like on Facebook like before.

3. Which of the following is NOT true according to Candace?

A. She will take her mother's feelings into consideration.

B. She will not reveal her private life and her true opinions online.

C. She will not post anything that will make her mother unhappy.

D. She is using Facebook to improve her relationship with her mother.

4. What's the purpose of writing this passage?

A. To warn teenagers that more and more parents and teachers are on Facebook.

B. To discuss whether teenagers should accept adult involvement on Facebook.

C. To introduce a new trend on Facebook and teenagers' response to it.

D. To suggest more adults communicate with teenagers through Facebook.

Aiming high (P4)

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5. According to the text, Nadal won the match because ______.

A. he often practiced in bad condition

B. his conditions were not as bad as Murray'

C. he knew the bad conditions would affect Murray more

D. he didn't allow the weather condition to affect his will to win

6. The fact that ______ played the most important role in shaping Nadal's character.

A. he was brought up to do his best all the time

B. his poor family sent him to be taught by monk

C. he wished to win the Grand Slam as a child

D. his uncle did not allow him to accept defeat

7. The word "better" in Paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to _____.

A. improve B. take C. manage D. create

How taste works (P6)

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8. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Protein plays a very important role in the growth of taste buds.

B. More tastes exist besides the tastes which are already known to us.

C. We should try to protect our taste buds to keep a good sense of taste.

D. If we change the concentration of certain metal in foods, we can experience a new taste.

9. What can we conclude from Paragraph 4?

A. Mice enjoy drinking water with different concentrations of metal salts.

B. Mice prefer distilled water to other kinds of water containing metal salts.

C. Mice like water containing low concentrations of magnesium sulfate.

D. Mice prefer water containing a little bit of iron and zinc to distilled water.

10. From Paragraph 5 we can learn _______.

A. different proteins decide different tastes mice have

B. how important proteins are to mice

C. how many kinds of proteins mice have

D. proteins have something to do with the size of mice

11. To protect your taste buds, you had better ______.

A. not smoke and avoid extremely strong taste

B. eat some extremely sour foods and stop smoking

C. drink really hot water and avoid spicy food

D. enjoy some ice and take some medicine

12. What can we infer from the passage?

A. All of the mice completely lost their interest in the taste of copper salts.

B. Scientists have discovered all the proteins connected to the taste of metal.

C. The mice used in the experiments had different kinds of proteins in their taste buds.

D. The older a person gets, the stronger his or her sense of taste becomes.

Two news briefs on P6

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13. Which of the following descriptions of the balloon is WRONG?

A. It was filled with a kind of gas called helium.

B. It weighed 1.5kg.

C. It was directed by Google Earth.

D. It could carry a load of 1.5kg.

14. Why did the students carry out the experiment?

A. The students wanted to test how high their handmade craft could fly.

B. They wanted to find out how accurate Google Earth could be.

C. They tried to do some atmospheric research and take some photos above the ground.

D. They wanted to test the possibility of traveling to space by balloon.

15. In one news report, scientists say old age begins at 27, probably because______.

A. people aged 27 and above are physically weaker

B. people's brains work less well after 27 years of age

C. people stop growing at 27

D. people have a bad memory after 27

16. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. The study of aging went on for more than 7 years.

B. Participants aged 22 did better in nine of the 12 tests.

C. Participants aged 27 began to suffer memory problems.

D. Older participants did better in tests involving general information.

命题者：余唯贵 杨柳青 孔福生 于海泓

Key:1—4 BBBC

5—7 DAA

8—12 BDAAC

13—16 CCBC