He focused on his work _____hard that he forgot the time.

He focused his energy on preparing for the contest, and__________(他理所当然能赢).

He focused on his study and it ’s hard to() (转移) his attention.

A、conversion

B、discover

C、divert

D、verb

听力原文： (29)Some people don't like anything to be out of place. They are never late for work; they return their books to the library on time; they remember people's birthdays and they pay their bills as soon as they arrive. (29) Mr. Brown is such a person. Mr. Brown works in a bank, and lives on his own. His sister lives in the next town with her husband, and her son, Mark. Mr. (30) Brown doesn't see his sister or her family from one year to the next, but he sends them Christmas cards, and he hasn't forgotten one of Mark's seventeen birthdays.

Last week Mr. Brown had quite a surprise. He drove home from the bank at the usual time; driving neither too slowly nor too fast, he parked his car where he always parked it, out of the way of other cars, and he went inside to make his evening meal. Just then there was a knock at tbe door. When he opened it, he found a policeman standing there. Mr. Brown asked himself. "' Have I driven on the wrong side of the road？ Has there been some trouble at the bank？ Have I forgotten to pay an important bill？"

(31)"Hello, uncle," said the policeman, "My name's Mark. "

(30)

A．Forgetful.

B．Lazy.

C．Careful.

D．Serious.

I could think of: a warm bottle, songs, gentle rocking. Nothing would settle him. Guessing that I had a long night ahead of me, I brought a portable TV into his room, figuring that watching the late movie was as good a way as any to kill off the hours until dawn. To my surprise, as soon as the TV lit up, the baby quieted right down, his little eyes focused brightly on the tube. Not to waste an opportunity for sleep. I then tip-toed out of the room, leaving him to watch the actors celebrate John Bellushi's forty-fifth birthday. My wife and I heard no more of the baby that night, and the next morning when I went into his room I found him still watching TV himself.

I found in my baby' s behaviour a metaphor (暗喻) for the new generation. My wife and I had given him some books to examine, but he merely spit upon them. When we read to him, he did not feel comfortable. And so it is in the schools. We find that our students don' t read , that they look down upon reading and scold those of us who teach it. All they want to do is watch TV. After this experience with the baby, however, I have reached a conclusion:let them watch it. If television is that much more attractive to children than books, why should we fight it？ Let them watch it all they want!

The author brought a TV set into his son's room to _______.

A．make his son stop crying

B．spend the night watching TV

C．it to his son

D．make his son fall asleep as soon as possible

听力原文： The first magazine was a little periodical called Tile Review and it was started in London in 1704. It looked a lot like the newspaper of the time, but in terms of its content, it was much different. Newspapers were concerned mainly with news events, but The Review focused on important domestic issues of the day as well as the policies of the government.

In England at the time, people could still be thrown in jail for publishing articles that were critical of the King and that's exactly what happened to Daniel Defoe. He was the outspoken founder of The Review. Defoe actually wrote the first issue of The Review from prison. You see, he had been arrested because of his writings that criticized the policies of the Church of England which was headed by the King. After his release, Defoe continued to produce The Review and the magazine started to appear on a more frequent schedule, about 3 times a week.

It didn't take long for other magazines to start popping up. In 1709, a magazine called The Tattler began publication. This new magazine contained a mixture of news, poetry, political analysis and philosophical essays.

(36)

A．Its publication was banned by the British government.

B．It was the first weekly newspaper.

C．It caused a prison revolt.

D．It was the first magazine ever published.

听力原文： The first magazine was a little periodical called The Review and it was started in London in 1704. It looked a lot like the newspapers of the time, but in terms of its content, it was much different. Newspapers were concerned mainly with news event, but The Review focused on important domestic issues of the day as well as the policies of the government.

In England at the time, people could still be thrown in jail for publishing articles that were critical of the King anti that's exactly what happened to Daniel Defoe. He was the outspoken founder of The Review. Defoe actually wrote the first issue of The Review from prison. You see, he had been arrested because of his writings that criticized the policies of the Church of England which was headed by the King. After his release, Defoe continued to produce The Review and the magazine started to appear on a mare frequent schedule, about 3 times a week.

It didn't take long for other magazines to start popping up. In 1709, a magazine called The Tattler began publication. This new magazine contained a mixture of news, poetry, political analysis and philosophical essays.

(33)

A．Its publication was banned by the British government.

B．It was the first weekly newspaper.

C．It caused a prison revolt.

D．It was the first magazine ever published.

The Father of the World Wide Web

Tim Berners-Lee, who received one million euros ($1.2 million) cash prize for creating the World Wide Web, says he would never have succeeded if he had charged money for his inventions. "If I had tried to demand tees, ... there would be no World Wide Web," Berners-Lee, 49, said on June 5 at a ceremony for winning the first Millennium Technology Prize, awarded by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. "There would be lots of small webs," the prize committee agreed, citing the importance of Berners-Lee's decision never to commercialize or patent his contributions to the Internet technologies he had developed, and recognizing his revolutionary contribution to humanity's ability to communicate.

His creation spun a generation of youthful millionaires and billionaires, lit the spark for the New Economy and paved the way for massive new industries such as e-commerce. Burners-Lee, who is originally from Britain, has mostly avoided both the fame and the fortune won by many of his Internet colleagues. Despite his prize, he remained modest about his achievements. "I was just taking lots of things that already existed and added a little bit," said Berners-Lee, who now runs the standard-setting World Wide Web Consortium from an office at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"Building the Web, I didn't do it all myself," he said. "The really exciting thing about it is that it was done by lots and lots of people, connected with this tremendous spirit." Berners-Lee indeed took concepts that had been well known to engineers since the 1960s, but it was he who saw the value of marrying them. Pekka Tarjanne, chairman of the prize committee, said "no one doubts who the father of file World Wide Web is, except Berners-Lee himself." Finnish President Tarja Halonen presented the biannual (一年两次的)award, subsidized by the government. The cash prize is among the largest of this kind, and Berners-Lee is the first recipient.

The prize committee outlined the award to be given for "an outstanding innovation that directly promotes people's quality of life, is based on human values and encourages sustainable economic development." "Isn't this like a definition of the World Wide Web'？" Tarjanne asked. Berners-lee first proposed the Web in 1989 while developing ways to control computers remotely at European Laboratory for Particle Physics, the European nuclear research lab near Geneva. He never got the project formally approved, but his boss suggested he quietly tinker (摆弄) with it anyway. He fleshed out the core communication protocols (草案) needed for transmitting Web pages. By Christmas Day in 1990, he finished the first browser, called simply "World Wide Web." Although his inventions have under- gone rapid changes since then, the underlying technology is precisely the same.

His recent project -- which experts say is potentially as revolutionary as the World Wide Web itself -- is called the Semantic Web. The project is an attempt to standardize how information is stored on the Internet. "It is an exciting new development that we're making," he said. In his acceptance speech, Berners-Lee focused on technology as an evolving process that was just in the beginning. "All sorts of things, too long for me to list here, are still out there waiting to be done.... There are so many new things to make, limited only by our imagination," he said. "And I think it's important for anybody who's going through school or college wondering what to do, to remember that now."

For years, the British scientist's colleagues have said that if computer science was a pure science, Mr. Berners-Lee would have merited a Nobel Prize for his invention. He did receive a knighthood this year, but for the most part his name remains unknown to the masses who use his creation every day. "His picture belongs up on a wall with Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell," sai

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

The little boy focused his ______ on the picture book.

A．consideration

B．attention

C．concentration

D．intention

Paul Brett ______ in a local Engineering Company for several years before he went to California. (work)

What was the project of Emma's father？

A．A real new project on his new job.

B．The strange woman.

C．Military project.

D．A big surprise to Emma.

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Talk to Your Kids about Their Eating Habits Carefully

Weight is never an easy subject. It can be risky for parents to raise the issue of eating habits and weight with their kids.

“No kid ever lost weight because his mother told him he was fat,” a friend told me when I was worried about my son’s weight.

It turns out she was right, according to a new study. The study was directed by Dr. Berge at University of Minnesota. She found that kids whose parents discussed eating in a healthy way were less likely to have eating problems. But 64% of the kids whose parents focused on their weight turned to unhealthy eating behaviors. Some kids went on extreme diets, and others even ate no food. So eating disorders were caused. Things were worse when fathers joined in the discussions with their daughters and focused on weight. “Fathers should never comment on their daughters'weight,” says Berge Instead, she suggests, fathers should focus on their daughters'interests. That can help them feel loved and confident enough to work on their weight issues.

How should parents talk to kids about. eating behaviors？ According to Berge, they should avoid focusing on how much their kids weigh. They should talk to them about being healthy. Don't compare them with others. Ideally, both parents should share the responsibility. If that' s not possible, choose the parent whose words cause the least amount of stress and who demonstrates healthy eating.

1. The writer' s friend advised her not to().

A. worry about her son's weight

B. take the risk of gaining weight

C. change her own eating habits

D. talk to her son about his weight

2. The study found that some kids had fewer eating problems because they ().

A. learned to eat healthily

B. took part in the study

C. focused on their weight

D. believed the scientists

3. When told about their fatness, some kids ().

A. felt helpless

B. became angry

C. began to eat no food

D. refused to take any advice

4. If a father focuses on his daughter' s interests, she will feel().

A. amused

B. encouraged

C. surprised

D. challenged

5. When taking to their kids about eating behaviors, parents should ().

A. focus on being healthy

B. use short and simple words

C. respect their kids' views

D. compare their kids with others