B语篇导读: 这是一篇夹叙夹议的记叙文。讲述的是作者在一个极其恶劣的环境下成长，因此要实现自己的梦想只能靠自己。通过在床头贴哈佛大学的海报每天提醒、激励自己最终实现自己的哈佛梦。告诉我们要实现梦想，你昨天的决定，今天的选择，明天的梦想会成就你是什么样的人。

　　24. A 主旨大意题。根据第一段作者在最贫穷、犯罪最猖獗的社区长大，由母亲(一个没读完三年级的单亲母亲)抚养，可知是描述作者的早期生活条件。因此A是正确答案。

　　25. B 观点态度题。根据第三段I found that even poverty could not take away my power to decide what I choose to do with my day.得知作者对贫困的态度是客观的，故选B。

　　26. B 细节理解题。根据第三段中Reminding myself of my goal each day made it easy to say no to the same choices I saw my peers making…以及Asking myself those questions gave me the courage to cold email about 50 Harvard students so I could ask for feedback (反馈) on my application essays; it gave me the energy to study just one more hour on my SATs when my friends were asleep; and it gave me the determination to submit (提交) just one more scholarship application when 180 others had already turned me down.得知这样激励自己有助于作者做出决定和有必要的努力，故B是正确答案。cold email指的是给关系不是特别熟的人发邮件，想要对方帮忙。

　　27. D 推理判断题。根据文章最后一段今天的你是昨天你做出决定的结果，明天的你是今天你做出选择的结果，所以要实现目标你就应该下定决心行动起来并且做出决定，故选D。

　　C

　　Ram-raiders armed with hammers smashed(猛冲) their way into an exclusive(专卖的) jewellery store in central Sydney. The thieves used a white four-wheel drive (4WD) to smash through the back window of the Mondial Neuman store in the historic Queen Victoria Building just before 9 a.m. on January 19.

　　Detective Sergeant Paul Dunstan said three or four people were believed to have been in the 4WD. He said two or three people armed with what were thought to be hammers entered the shop through the smashed window, which fronts York St, before taking jewellery and driving away in a red Audi car. It's too early to say how much was taken, police said, but luckily, none of the store's workers was injured in the attack.

　　A woman was working next door to the jewellery store. She saw the drama unfold and called the police.

　　"I was just going to go upstairs when I saw the car stop," she said, "It mounted the kerb(街道的路边镶边石) and at first Ijust thought it was a bad driver. Then I saw a person who was masked(戴面具) jump out of the back seat and move a cafe table out of the way.The truck just rammed into the window."

　　She said the man then went back to the car and got a bag out of the back seat before going into the store. "I was shaking. I was scared they would see me. I heard screaming from the next door," she said, "you know, this is the second time in several months the store has been robbed." A police spokesman said detectives were still talking to witnesses and the owners of the store.

　　28. From the passage we learn the robbers _ .

　　A. used hammers to fight the police

　　资*源%库 B. used a red car to get into the jewellery store

　　C. robbed the same shop for the second time in a year

　　D. went into the store through the broken window

　　WWW.ziyuanku.com29. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

　　A. The value of the stolen jewellery hasn't been worked out yet.

　　B. The woman working next to the store fought the robbers bravely.

　　C. The policemen have already caught 2 0r 3 robbers.

　　D. Not all of the store's workers were injured in the attack.

　　30. The underlined part "She saw the drama unfold" in paragraph 3 probably means¨ ".

　　A. she opened a drama book

　　B. she was a lover of drama

　　C. she happened to see the robbery

　　D. she was surprised at the dramatic news

　　31. From what the woman said we can infer that

　　A. the driver of the red car was not good at driving

　　B. the robbers frightened workers in the jewellery store

　　C. she knew they would rob the store when she saw their car stop

　　D. she was sure that the robbers didn't see her

　　C语篇导读: 这是一篇记叙文。简要介绍了一家位于悉尼中心的珠宝专卖店遭入室抢劫的情况以及警察对案件目击证人的调查。

　　28. D 细节理解题。根据第二段第二句He said two or three people armed with what were thought to be hammers entered the shop through the smashed window得知D是正确答案。

　　29. A 细节理解题。根据第二段第三句It’s too early to say how much was taken, police said, but luckily, none of the store’s workers was injured in the attack.得知A是正确答案，D不正确。

　　30. C 词义猜测题。

　　31. B 推理判断题。根据最后一段I heard screaming from ...中推断出B是正确答案。

　　D

　　Cellphone use and texting are increasingly common, especially among teenagers. Many students think that multitasking(同时做多件事) has no effect on how they perform in school, says Colter Norick, 17. So the Montana teenager and his 16-year-old brother Colin decided to test that notion.

　　They invited 47 classmates at Columbia Falls High School to take part in a two-phase experiment. The goal was to measure how well these students understood written material. Each participants had to read a paragraph or two about a certain topic, then answer a question about it.

　　In the first phase, the teenager participants had 15 minutes to digest and then answer questions about six reading exercises. Throughout this testing, the volunteers encountered no distractions.

　　A little later, Colter and Colin had their participants tackle a new set of readings. This time, the brothers used a computer program to send texts to the volunteers' cellphones every 90 seconds. In each text, fictional character named "Bob" asked questions that required a reply. One example: What's your favorite type of music?

　　Results were enlightening, the Norick brothers found. In theory, volunteers should have scored better, not worse, on the second test because it was slightly easier. In fact, the participants scored 9 percent worse overall when distracted by incoming texts asking for some response. Only a few students scored as well when replying to text as they did when undistracted. But importantly, Colter and Colin say, nobody performed better during the texting phase.

　　Boys and girls scored equally poorly while texting, the brothers note. Older volunteers didn't do any better than younger ones. And it didn't matter if a student thought he or she was good at multitasking. On average, the brothers found that even students who were confident of their abilities did just as poorly while texting. Oddly, even though the students remembered less of what they read while texting, most of them answered questions in Bob's texts perfectly.

　　"Our teachers were very happy to see these results," says Colter. The teenagers' new data strongly support their teachers' claim that texting while studying is a serious distraction.

　　32. What is the main purpose of the article?

　　A. To teach the reader how to multitask effectively.

　　B. To advise people not to use cellphones when multitasking.

　　C. To report on a study about how cellphone use affects academic performance.

　　D. To analyze why cellphone use would cause problems for teenagers who multitask.

　　33. In the second part of their experiment, the Norick brothers

　　A. collected participants' opinions on their favorite type of music

　　B. made participants finish six reading exercises and then tested their understanding

　　C. used a computer program to distract participants from their reading

　　D. asked participants to send texts to Bob's cellphone every 90 seconds

　　34. How did the Norick brothers conduct their experiments?

　　A. They invited their teachers to help design their experiments.

　　B. They invited students across the US to participate in their experiments.

　　C. They tested the participants' writing skills before the experiments.

　　D. They compared the results of the two parts of an experiment to draw a conclusion.

　　35. We can infer from the last two paragraphs that____.

　　A. male students are more easily distracted by texting than female ones

　　B. texting is a lesser distraction for senior students than younger ones

　　C. students with better academic performance are less affected by texting

　　D. texting distracts students regardless of their gender, age or academic performance

　　D语篇导读: 这是一篇说明文。很多学生认为同时做多件事对他们的学习没有影响，但新的研究发现，当你正在工作时打电话，发短信，用手机或阅读等会使一个人分散注意力，从而降低工作效率，为了证明这一结果，研究者对47学生进行试验，结果表明同时做多件事会影响学习，不管男生还是女生，不管老少，不管学习好还是不好，结果都一样。

　　32. C 主旨大意题。根据第一段第二句Many students think that multitasking has no effect on how they perform in school推出报告一项研究关于手机的使用是怎样影响学习的，故C是正确答案。

　　33. C 细节理解题。根据第四段This time, the brothers used a computer program to send texts to the volunteers’ cellphones every 90 seconds. In each text, fictional character named “Bob” asked questions that required a reply.得知他们通过用电脑程序来分散参与者的阅读，故答案是C。

　　34. D 细节理解题。根据第二段They invited 47 classmates at Columbia Falls High School to take part in a two-phase experiment.以及第四、五段得知D是正确答案。

　　35. D 推理判断题。从倒数第二段推出阅读的时候玩手机、发短信会分散学生的注意力，不管性别、年龄或学习好坏都会受到影响。故答案是D。