人教版高中英语选修七Unit4Sharinglearningaboutlanguage(10)

1、名校名 推荐 unit 4 sharing learning about language 课时作业第一节完型填空parents feel that it is difficult to live with teenagers. then again, teenagers have1 feelings about their parents, saying that it is not easy living with them. accordingto a recent research, the most common 2between parents and teenagers is t

2、hatregarding untidiness and daily routine tasks. on the one hand, parents go mad over3rooms, clothes thrown on the floor and their children refusal to help withs the4 . on the other hand, teenagers lose their patience continually when parents blamethem for5the towel in the bathroom, not cleaning up

3、their room or refusing to dothe shopping at the supermarket.the research, conducted by st. george university, shows that different parentshave different6 to these problems. however, some approaches are more7than others. for example, those parents who yell at their children for their untidiness,but8c

4、lean the room for them, have fewer chances of changing their children s9 . on the contrary, those who let teenagers experience the10of their actionscan do better. for example,when teenagers who don t help their parents with theshopping don t find their favorite drink in therefrigerator, they are for

5、ced to 11their actions.psychologists say that 12is the most important thing in parent-childrelationships. parents should 13to their children but at the same time they shouldlend an ear to what they have to say. parents may14their children when they areuntidy but they should also understand that thei

6、r room is their own private space.communication is a two-way process. it is only by listening to and15 each otherthat problems between parents and children can be settled.1. a. naturalb. strongc. guiltyd. similar2. a. interestb. argumentc. linkd. knowledge3. a. noisyb. crowdedc. messyd. locked4. a.

7、homeworkb. houseworkc. problemd. research5. a. washingb. usingc. droppingd. replacing1名校名 推荐 6.a. approachesb. contributionsc. introductionsd. attitudes7.a. complexb. popularc. scientificd. successful8.a. laterb. deliberatelyc. seldomd. thoroughly9.a. behaviorb. tastec. futured. nature10.a. failures

8、b. changesc. consequencesd. thrills11.a. defendb. delayc. repeatd. reconsider12.a. communicationb. bondc. friendshipd. trust13.a. replyb. attendc. attachd. talk14.a. hateb. scoldc. frightend. stop15.a. lovingb. observingc. understandingd. praising答案1.d 2. b3. c4. b 5. c6. a7. d 8. a 9. a 10. c 11. d

9、 12. a13.d14. b15. c第二节阅读理解ahowever wealthy we may be, we can never find enough hours in the day to doeverything we want.economics deals with this problem through the concept ofopportunity cost,which simply refers to whether someone s time or money could bebetter spent on something else.every hour o

10、f our time has a value. for every hour we work at one job we could quite easily be doing another, or be sleeping or watching a film. each of these options has a different opportunity costnamely, what they cost us in missed opportunities.say you intend to watch a football match but the tickets are ex

11、pensive and it will take you a couple of hours to get to and from the stadium. why not, you might reason, watch the game from home and use the leftover money and time to have dinner with friends? thisthe alternative use of your cash and timeis the opportunity cost.2名校名 推荐 for economists, every decis

12、ion is made by knowledge of what one must forgoin terms of money and enjoymentin order to take it up. by knowing precisely what you are receiving and what you are missing out on, you ought to beable to make better-informed, more reasonable decisions. consider that most famous economic rule of all: t

13、here s no such thing as a free lunch.even if someone offers to take you out to lunch for free, the time you will spend in the restaurant still costs you something in terms of forgone opportunities.some people find the idea of opportunity cost extremely discouraging: imaginespending your entire life

14、calculating whether your time would be better spentelsewhere doing something more profitable or enjoyable. yet,in a sense it shuman nature to do precisely thatwe assess the advantages and disadvantages ofdecisions all the time.in the business world,a popular phrase is“ value for. money”people wantth

15、eir cash to go as far as possible. however, another is fast obtaining an advantage: “ value for time.” the biggest restriction on our resources is the number of hours we can devote to something, so we look to maximize the return we get on our investment of time. by reading this passage you are givin

16、g over a bit of yourtime which could be spent doing other activities,such as sleeping and eating. inreturn,however,this passage will help you to think like an economist,closelyconsidering the opportunity cost of each of your decisions.1.according to the passage, the concept of“ opportunity cost” is

17、appliedto.a. making more moneyb. taking more opportunitiesc. reducing missed opportunitiesd. weighing the choice of opportunities2. the “ leftover. . . time ” in paragraph 3 probably refers to thetime.a. spared for watching the match at homeb. taken to have dinner with friends3名校名 推荐 c. spent on the

18、 way to and from the matchd. saved from not going to watch the match3. what are forgone opportunities?a. opportunities you forget in decision-making.b. opportunities you give up for better ones.c. opportunities you miss accidentally.d. opportunities you make up for.答案1.d2.c3.bbas internet users beco

19、me more dependent on the internet to store information, are people remembering less? if you know your computer will save information, why store it in your own personal memory, your brain? experts are wondering if the internet is changing what we remember and how.in a recent study, professor betsy sp

20、arrow conducted some experiments. she and her research team wanted to know how the internet is changing memory. in the first experiment, they gave people 40 unimportant facts to type into a computer. the first group of people understood that the computer would save the information. the second group

21、understood that the computer would not save it. later, the second group remembered the information better. people in the first group knew they could find the information again, so they did not try to remember it.in another experiment, the researchers gave people facts to remember, and told them wher

22、e to find the information on the computer. the information was in a specific computer folder(文件夹 ). surprisingly, people later remembered the folder location(位置 )better than the facts. when people use the internet, they do not remember the information. rather, they remember how to find it. this is c

23、alled“ transactive memory(交互记忆 ) ”.according to sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the internet. instead, computer users are developing stronger transactive memories; that is, people are learning how to organize huge quantities of information4名校名 推荐 so that they ar

24、e able to access it at a later datethis. doesn t mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent, but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing.4. the passage begins with two questions to.a. introduce the main topicb. show the author s attitudec. describe how to use the internetd

25、. explain how to store information5. what can we learn about the first experiment?a. the sparrow s team typed the information into a computer.b. the two groups remembered the information equally well.c. the first group did not try to remember the information.d. the second group did not understand th

26、e information.6. in transactive memory, people.a. keep the information in mindb. change the quantity of informationc. organize information like a computerd. remember how to find the information7. what is the effect of the internet according to sparrow research? sa. we are using memory differently.b.

27、 we are becoming more intelligent.c. we have poorer memories than before.d. we need a better way to access information.答案4. a5. c6. d7. acday school programsecondary students across toronto district school board(tdsb) are invited to take5名校名 推荐 one or two e-learning courses on their day school timet

28、able. students will remain on the roll at their day school.the on-line classroom provides an innovative, relevant and interactive learning environment. the courses and on-line classroom are provided by the ministry of education.these on-line courses:are taught by tdsb secondary school teachers;are part of the tdsb student s timetable;, and appear on the studen s report upon completion.benefits of e-learninginclude:access to courses that may not be available at his or her tdsb school; using technology to provide students with current information