He's been trying ______ （get)you on the phone．

to his family and loved ones.

A．hadn"t being tried

B．hadn"t been tried

C．hadn"t been trying

D．hadn"t being trying

mportant medical achievements. A newspaper reporter interviewed him why he was able to be so much more creative than the average person. What set him so far apart from others？

He responded that it all came from an experience with his mother that occurred when he was about two years old. He had been trying to remove a bottle of milk from the refrigerator when he dropped the slippery bottle, spilling its contents all over the kitchen floor—a real sea of milk!

When his mother came into the kitchen，instead of shouting at him, giving him a lecture or punishing him, she said,“Robert, what a great and wonderful mess you have made! I have rarely seen such a huge pool of milk. Well, the damage has already been done. Would you like to get down and play in the milk for a few minutes before we clean it up？”

Indeed, the boy did. After a few minutes, his mother said, “You know, Robert, whenever you make a mess like this, eventually you have to clean it up and restore everything to its proper order. How would you like to do that？ We could use a sponge(海绵), a towel or a mop. Which do you prefer？” He chose the sponge and together they cleaned up the spilled milk.

His mother then said, “You know，what we have here is a failed experiment in how to effectively carry a big milk bottle with two tiny hands. Let’s go out in the back yard and fill the bottle with water and see if you can find a way to carry it without dropping it.”The little boy learned that if he grasped the bottle at the top near the lip with both hands, he could make it. What a wonderful lesson!

This famous scientist then said that it was at that moment that he knew he didn’t need to be afraid to make mistakes.

1.When the mother found the kitchen floor covered with milk, she ________.

A.gave the boy a lecture instead of shouting at him

B.praised the boy instead of punishing him

C.felt satisfied with the boy’s trying to help himself

D.calmed down the boy and helped him find a way to clean the floor

2.The child’s experience resulted in the following BUT ________.

A.offering the boy a chance to grasp the bottle

B.benefiting the boy all his life

C.helping the boy be more creative

D.making the boy realize the mistake is of value

3.According to the passage, the way the scientist’s mother used is _____.

A.instructive

B.strict

C.formal

D.strange

4.The purpose of the passage is to show ________.

A.a usual way to cultivate a child

B.a scientist’s medical achievements

C.a mother’s wise way of helping her child

D.the advantages of making mistakes

5.When the mother found the kitchen floor covered with milk, she ________.

A.gave the boy a lecture instead of shouting at him

B.praised the boy instead of punishing him

C.felt satisfied with the boy’s trying to help himself

D.calmed down the boy and helped him find a way to clean the floor

The kids who grew up on "Star Trek" can't find (1)_____ way around Earth.

Americans can (2)_____ direct to England, but only half can find (3)_____ on a map of Europe. They can fly almost (4)_____ in the United States for a few hundred dollars, but they put New York State in 37 places on both coasts. When they look for the United States (5)_____, they (6)_____ it in China, Australia, Brazil, Russia, India and Botswana.

For people who are supposed to be leaders of the (7)_____ world, Americans are (8)_____ dumb, according to a survey conducted for the National Geographic Society.

In many school (9)_____, geography has been mixed with history (10)_____ melted down into social studies. Social studies has been processed into" teacher resource packages "and (11)_____ of good writing, excitement, color and any ideas that aren't simplistic; too (12)_____ and too deadening to hold students' attention.

In the last few years, evidence of America s educational (13)_____ has prompted hundreds of studies, generated baskets (14)_____ legislation and moved parents into advocacy groups. But there's (15)_____ to show that the trend has been (16)_____.

NO matter (17)_____ you try, you can't make it seem (18)_____ that many Americans say pandas come from Panama, the Summer Olympic Games were held in Vietnam or (19)_____ Iraq, and Columbus was trying to get to Europe when he bumped into (20)_____.

A．it's

B．the

C．their

D．a

A.reduce

B.release

C.relax

D.relive

or very large teeth growing on either side of their mouths, are composed of a valuable material called ivory(象牙).

(77) An elephant uses its long, pointed tusks as tools for digging in the ground for food. He also uses them as weapons in combat.

The tusks of male elephants are usually large and heavy. In Africa, female elephants have long, light tusks. In India and other parts of southern Asia, female elephants have small, short tusks or none at all.

(78) Tusks in good .condition are in great demand, and may sell for as high as two thousand dollars or more. Because of this, large numbers of elephants have been killed. Some countries have initiated (开始) methods of trying to protect elephants. They have established elephant preserves, or areas of land set aside for herds of elephants where no one is allowed to harm them. Elephants on the preserves are safe from ivory hunters.

Female elephants in India and southern Asia have ______

A．large and heavy tusks

B．small and short tusks or not any teeth at all

C．small and short tusks

D．long and light tusks

A.worked

B.had worked

C.are working

D.had been working

What can we infer from the first four paragraphs？

A．Uruguay has been always trying to join in the privatizing wave

B．Economists argue that privatization is an efficient way to boost Uruguay's GDP.

C．Mr. Battle plans to privatize the country's economy completely.

D．The opposition Broad Front is in favor of privatization.

er twenty years ago. During the war, I was at school in the north of England. As soon as it ended, my family returned to London. There were not enough schools left for children to go to and my father had to go from one school to another, asking them to【22】me as a pupil. I used to go with him but he had such a【23】time trying to persuade people even to see him that I seldom had to do any tests. We had been to all the schools near we lived, but the more my father argued, the more【24】it became. In the end, we went to a school about five miles away from home. The headmaster kept us waiting for【25】an hour. While we were waiting, I【26】around at the school building, which was one of those old Victorian structures, completely out of date but still standing. I could hear the boys playing in the playground outside when the headmaster's secretary finally【27】us into his office. Mr. Andrews spoke to me first. "Why do you want to come here？" he asked. I had been thinking of saying something about studying but I couldn't【28】remembering the boys outside. "I don't know anyone in London," I said. "I like to play with the other boys. I like to read a lot of books too." I【29】. "All right," Mr. Andrews said. "We have one place【30】, in fact."

My two years at that school were the happiest of my life.

(56)

A．if

B．despite

C．although

D．since

Which of the following is true？

A．Sensitive people have been mirroring their friends and acquaintances because they want to win their affection and respect

B．The clever saleswoman echoes her lady customer's movements because she is unconsciously attracted by her

C．The man who imitates the judge is trying to influence him

D．Physical mirroring is always flattering to those who are imitated

milarly, we feel comfortable with people with physical qualities similar to ours.

You may have noticed how people who live or work closely together come to behave in a similar way. Unconsciously we copy those we are close to or love or admire. So a sportsman’s individual way of walking with raised shoulder is imitated by an admiring fan; a pair of lovers both shake their heads in the same way; an employee finds himself duplicating his boss's habit of wagging (摇摆) a pen between his fingers while thinking.

In every case, the influential person may not consciously notice the imitation, but he will feel comfortable in its presence. And if he does notice the matching of his gestures or movements, he finds it pleasing he is influencing people: they are drawn to him.

Sensitive people have been mirroring their friends and acquaintances all their lives, and winning affection and respect m this way without being aware of their methods. Now, for people who want to win agreement or trust, affection or sympathy. Some psychologists recommend the deliberate use of physical mirroring.

The clever saleswoman echoes her lady customer's movements, tilting her head in the same way to judge a color match, or folding her arms a few seconds after the customer, as though consciously attracted by her. The customer feels that the saleswoman is in sympathy with her, and understands her needs a promising relationship for a sale to take place.

The Clever lawyer, trying in la law-court to influence a judge, imitates the great man shrugging of his shoulders, the tone of his voice and the rhythm of his speech.

Of course, physical mirroring must be subtle. If you blind (眨眼) every time your target blinks, or bite your bottom lip every time he does, your mirroring has become mockery (嘲笑) and you can expect trouble. So, if you can't model sympathetically, don't play the game.

According to the passage, "physical mirroring" (line 4, paragraph 4) means ______.

A．the attraction to people with ideas, belief and interests like our own

B．the comfortable feeling about people with physical qualities similar to ours

C．the fact that people living or working closely together behave in a similar way

D．the imitation of the gestures or movements of those we are close to, or love, or admire