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胶州市2014高考英语文章阅读类训练（13）及答案或解析阅读理解(1)most of the teenagers with major depression never get treatment for it, according to a new federal report. that depressing news comes as no surprise to healthcare professionals, who say that many kids and parents dont recognize depressions symptoms(症状). and if they do, it can be difficult or impossible to get help. this is no small problem; about 2 million teenagers experience clinical depression each year, an illness that can do harm to school performance and friendships and is a leading cause of teen suicide(自杀).the new report found that just 39 percent of teens with major depression got treatment. here are three ways to make sure your child can get over the problem.getting diagnosed(诊断). last month, pediatricians(儿科医生) and family doctors were required to examine all teenagers for depression. courtney jones, a 17-year-old in portland, ore., said that the examination saved her life when she was 14. she didnt recognize that her loss of confidence and sudden lack of interest in spending time with friends were warning signs. symptoms of depression include frequent sadness, decreased interest in activities, and hopelessness. finding help. its no surprise to healthcare professionals that families have a hard time finding mental-health services; there are only 7,418 child and adolescent psychiatrists(精神科医生) in the united states, or about 1 for every 10,000 kids. for now, the best first step is to be examined by a pediatrician or family doctor, and then go to a psychiatrist for treatment and perhaps medication.david palmiter, a psychologist, suggests checking out local universities, which often run clinics, as well as community mental-health clinics.paying for treatment. paying for healthcare is a struggle these days, and mental-health services can be ever harder to cover. the report found that lack of health insurance coverage was the biggest barrier to getting help. only 17.2 percent of teens without health insurance coverage were able to get treatment. however, there are still ways to find affordable mental-health care that you may not be aware of. in a word, you should establish a relationship with a doctor, give the doctor a chance to get to know your kid and help her or him get better.1. what are the symptoms of depression for kids? a. committing suicide b. sudden lack of interest in staying with friends c. failing the school examinations d. frequently feeling upset e. feeling desperate for no good reasona. a, b, d b. b, c, e c. a, c, e d. b, d, e 2. the writer uses the case of courtney jones to prove that _. a. kids with depression find it difficult to get treatment b. its necessary to examine all teenagers for depressionc. many american kids are suffering from depression d. warning signs can help kids to find their problems3. according to the writer, youd better first have the kid examined by _.a. a pediatrician or family doctor b. a psychiatrist or psychologist c. a psychiatrist or family doctord. a pediatrician or psychiatrist4. whats the main reason why kids with depression do not get help according to the report?a. parents ignorance of the illnessb. lack of psychiatrists for childrenc. lack of health insurance coveraged. difficulties in diagnosing depression5. whats the writing purpose of the passage? a. to teach kids to recognize depressions symptoms.b. to explain the findings of a new report to people c. to help parents to have their kids get treatment. d. to arose the publics attention to the problem参考答案 1-5 d b a c c*结束 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（a、b、c和d）中，选出最佳选项。agoing to school means learning new skills and facts in different subjects. teachers teach and students learn, and many scientists are interested in finding ways to improve both teaching and learning processes. sian beilock and susan leving, two psychologists at the university of chicago, are trying to learn about learning. in a new study about the way kids learn math in elementary school, beilock and levine found a surprising relationship between what female teachers think and what female students learn: if a female teacher is uncomfortable with her own math skills, then her female students are more likely to believe that boys are better than girls at math. “if these girls keep getting math-anxious female teachers in later grades, it may create a snowball effect on their math achievement,” levine told science news. the study suggests that if these girls grow up believing that boys are better at math than girls are, then these girls may not do as well as they would have if they were more confident. just as students find certain subjects to be difficult, teachers can find certain subjects to be difficult to learnand teach. the subject of math can be particularly difficult for everyone. the new study involved 65 girls, 52 boys and 17 first-and second-grade teachers in elementary schools in the midwest. the students took math achievement tests at the beginning and end of the school year, and the researchers compared the scores the researchers also gave the students tests to tell whether the students believed a math superstar had to be a boy. then the researchers turned to the teachers: to find out which teachers were anxious about math, the researchers asked the teachers how they felt at times when they came across math, such as when reading a sales receipt. a teacher who got nervous looking at the numbers on a sales receipt, for example, was probably anxious about math. boys, on average, were unaffected by a teachers anxiety. on average, girls with math-anxious teachers scored lower on the end-of-the-year math tests than other girls in the study did. plus, on the test showing whether someone thought a math superstar had to be a boy, 20 girls showed feeling that boys would be better at mathand all of these girls had been taught by female teachers with math anxiety. according to surveys done before this one, college students who want to become elementary school teachers have the highest levels of anxiety about math. plus, nine of every 10 elementary teachers are women, levine said.1. sian beilock and susan levine carried out the new research in order to _. a. know the effects of teaching on learning b. study students ways of learning mathc. prove women teachers are unfit to teach math d. find better teaching methods for teachers2. the underlined part in paragraph 2 most probably means that girls may _. a. end up learning math anxiety from their teachers b. study the ways their female teachers behave c. have an influence on their math-anxious female teachers d. gain unexpected achievement in such subjects as math3. in the study, what were the teachers required to do? a. prepare two math achievement tests for the students. b. tell their feelings about math problems. c. answer whether a math superstar had to be a boy. d. compare the students scores after the math tests.4. what is the finding of the new study? a. no male students were affected by their teachers anxiety. b. almost all the girls got lower scores in the tests than the boys c. about 30% of the girls thought boys are better at math than girls. d. girls with math-anxious teachers all failed in the math tests.5. which of the following is true according to the text? a. 117 students and teachers took part in the new study. b. the researchers felt surprised at the findings of their study. c. beilock and levine are interested in teaching math. d. men teachers are better at teaching math than women teachers.参考答案b d b c b *结束alife is difficultthis is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. it is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.most do not fully see this truth. instead they complain about their problems and difficulties as if life should be easy. it seems to them that difficulties represent a special kind of suffering especially forced upon them or else upon their families, their class, or even their nation.what makes life difficult is that the process of facing and solving problems is a painful one. problems, depending on their nature, cause us sadness, or loneliness or regret or anger or fear. these are uncomfortable feelings, often as painful as any kind of physical pain. and since life causes an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.yet, it is in this whole process of solving problems that life has its meaning. problems are the serious test that tells us success from failure. when we desire to encourage the growth of human spirit, we encourage the human ability to solve problems, just as in school we set problems for our children to solve. it is through the pain of meeting and working out problems that we learn. as benjamin franklin said, those things that hurt, instruct. it is for this reason that wise people learn not to fear but to welcome the pain of problems. 1. from the passage, it can be inferred that _. a. everybody has problems b. we become stronger by meeting and solving the problems of life c. life is difficult because our problems bring us pain d. people like to complain about their problems 2. the writer probably used just one short sentence in the first paragraph to _. a. save spaceb. persuade readers c. make readers laughd. get readers attention 3. the main idea of paragraph 3 is that _. a. most people feel life is easy b. the writer feels life is easy c. the writer likes to complain about his problems d. most people complain about how hard their lives are4. according to the passage, we give school children difficult problems to solve in order to_. a. encourage them to learn b. teach them to fear the pain of solving the problem c. help them learn to deal with pain d. teach them how to respect from problems 5. the saying from benjamin franklin “those things that hurt, instruct” suggests that _. a. we do not learn from experienceb. we do not learn when we are in painc. pain teaches us important lessonsd. pain cannot be avoided参考答案bddac *结束the evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. but it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly-held image of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.an important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past. “we were surprised by just how positive todays young people seem to be about their families,” said one member of the research team. “theyre expected to be rebellious (叛逆的) and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. theres more negotiation (商议) and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. they dont want to rock the boat.”so it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends. “my parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-year-old daniel lazall, “i always tell them when im going out clubbing. as long as they know what im doing, theyre fine with it.” susan crome, who is now 21, agrees. “looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. for example, as long as id done all my homework, i could go out on a saturday night. but i think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that.”maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. it is possible that the idea of teenage rebellion is not rooted in real facts. a researcher comments, “our surprise that teenagers say they