Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D . Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
By the Treaty of Paris of 1763, which ended the war with the French and the Indians, England gained possession of Canada and all the territory east of the Mississippi River. French influence on this continent thus came to an end; England now controlled most of North America. But the war had been long and expensive. England had many debts. GeorgeⅢ, king of England, after consulting with his advisers, decided that the American colonists (殖民者) should help pay some of the expenses of this war. A standing English army of 10,000 men had been left in the colonies (殖民地) for protection against the Indians. The English government also felt that the colonists should share in the expenses of maintaining this army. The result was a series of measures, the Grenville Program, passed by Parliament and designed to raise money in the colonies. Some of these measures were accepted by the colonists, but one in particular, the Stamp Act, was met with great protest. The Stamp Act required that stamps, ranging in price from a few cents to almost a dollar, be placed on all newspapers, advertisements, bills of sale, wills, legal papers, etc. The Stamp A ct was one of the causes of the American Revolution. It affected everyone, rich and poor alike. Some businessmen felt that the act would surely ruin their businesses.
Of all the voices raised in protest to the Stamp Act, none had greater effect than that of a young lawyer from Virginia—Patrick Henry. Henry had only recently been elected to the Virginia Assembly. Yet when the Stamp Act came up for discussion, he opposed it almost single-handedly. He also expressed, for the first time, certain ideas that were held by many Americans of the time but that never before had been stated so openly. "Is life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be bought at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty (万能的) God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
From the text we learn that______.
A. Britain took over Canada from the Indians in 1763.
B. there had been a war between the French and the Indians which ended in 1763
C. France used to have control of Canada and some areas east of the Mississippi River
D. the French still kept some influence in North America through the Treaty of Paris
The so-called "non-intelligence factor" include 【21】______ feelings, will, motivation, interests and habits. After a 30-year follow-up study of 8,000 males, American psychologists 【22】______ that the main cause of disparities in intelligence is not intelligence 【23】______ , but non-intelligence factors including the desire to learn, will-power and self-confidence.
【24】______ people all know that one should have definite objectives, a strong will and good learning habits, quite a number of teachers and parents don't pay much attention to 【25】______ these factors.
Some parents are greatly worried 【26】______ their children fail to do well in their studies. They blame either genetic factors, malnutrition, or laziness, but they never take 【27】______ consideration these non-intelligence factors. At the same time, some teachers don't inquire into these, such as reason 【28】______ students do poorly. They simply give them more course and exercises, or 【29】______ rebuke or ridicule them. After all, these students lose self-confidence. Some of them just feel defeated and 【30】______ themselves up as hopeless. Others may go astray because they are sick of learning. 【31】______ investigation of more than 1,000 middle students in Shanghai showed that 46.5 percent of them were 【32】______ of learning because of examination, 36.4 percent lacked persistence, initiative and conscientiousness and 10.3 percent were sick of learning.
It is clear 【33】______ the lack of cultivation of non-intelligence factors has been a main 【34】______ to intelligence development in teenagers. It even causes an imbalance between physiological and 【35】______ development among a few students.
If we don't start now to 【36】______ the cultivation of non-intelligence factors, it will not only obstruct the development of the 【37】______ of teenagers, but also affect the quality of a whole generation. Some experts have put forward 【38】______ about how to cultivate student's non-intelligence factors.
First, parents and teachers should 【39】______ understand teenage psychology. On this basic, they can help them to pursue the objectives of learning, 【40】______ their interests and toughening their willpower.
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