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28. By saying“Have a nice day\ a stranger may _____. A. try to be polite to you B. express respect to you C. give his blessing to you D. share his pleasure with you
29. According to the last paragraph, people say“Have a nice day”_______. A. sincerely B. as thanks C. as a habit D. encouragingly
30. What is the best title of the passage? A. Have a Nice Day—a Social Custom B. Have a Nice Day—a Pleasant Gesture C. Have a Nice Day—a Heart-warming Greeting D. Have a Nice Day—a Polite Ending of a Conversation
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B
I have been consistently opposed to feeding a baby regularly. As a doctor, mother and scientist in child development I believe there is nothing to recommend it, from the baby’s point of view.
Mothers, doctors and nurse alike have no idea of where a baby’s blood sugar level lies. All we know is that a low level is harmful to brain development and makes a baby easily annoyed. In this state, the baby is difficult to calm down and sleep is impossible. The baby asks for attention by crying and searching for food with its mouth.
It is not just unkind but also dangerous to say a four-hourly feeding schedule will make a baby satisfied. The first of the experts to advocate a strict clock-watching schedule was Dr Frederic Truby King who was against feeding in the night. I’ve never heard anything so ridiculous. Baby feeding shouldn’t follow a timetable set by the mum. What is important is feeding a baby in the best way, though it may cause some inconvenience in the first few weeks.
Well, at last we have copper-bottomed research that supports demand feeding and points out the weaknesses of strictly timed feeding . The research finds out that babies who are fed on demand do better at school at age 5, 7 , 11 and 14, than babies fed according to the clock. By the age of 8, their IQ（智商）scores are four to five percent higher than babies fed by a rigid timetable. This research comes from Oxford and Essex University using a sample（样本）of 10,419 children born in the early 1990s,taking account of parental education, family income, a child’s sex and age, the mother’s health and feeling style. These results don’t surprise me. Feeling according to schedule runs the risk of harming the rapidly growing brain by taking no account of sinking blood sugar levels.
I hope this research will put an end to advocating strictly timed baby feeling practices.
31. According to Paragraph 2, one reason why a baby cries is that it feels______.
A. sick B. upset C. sleepy D. hungry 32. What does the author think about Dr King? A. He is strict B. He is unkind
C. He has the wrong idea. D. He sets a timetable for mothers
33. The word copper-bottomed in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _________. A. basic B. reliable C. surprising D. interesting 34. What does the research tell us about feeling a baby on demand?
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A. The baby will sleep well.
B. The baby will have its brain harmed. C. The baby will have a low blood sugar level. D. The baby will grow to be wiser by the age of 8. 35. The author supports feeling the baby_______. A. in the night B. every four hours C. whenever it wants food
D. according to its blood sugar level
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C
I was blind, but I was ashamed of it if it was known. I refused to use a white stick and hated asking for help. After all, I was a teenage girl, and I couldn’t bear people to look at me and think I was not like them. I must have been a terrible danger on the roads, Coming across me wandering through the traffic, motorists probably would have to step rapidly on their brakes. Apart from that, there were all sorts of disasters that used to occur on the way to and from work.
One evening, I got off the bus about halfway home where I had to change buses, and as usual I ran into something,“I’m awfully sorry,”I said and stepped forward only to run into it again. When it happened a third time, I realized I had been apologizing to a lamppost. This was just one of the stupid things that constantly happened to me. So I carried on and found the bus stop,
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which was a request stop, where the bus wouldn’t stop unless passengers wanted to get on or off. No one else was there and I had to try to guess if the bus had arrived.
Generally in this situation, because I hated showing I was blind by asking for help, I tried to guess at the sound. Sometimes I would stop a big lorry and stand there feeling stupid as it drew away. In the end, I usually managed to swallow my pride and ask someone at the stop for help.
But on this particular evening no one joined me at the stop; It seemed that everyone had suddenly decided not to travel by bus. Of course I heard plenty of buses pass, or I thought I did. But because I had given up stopping them for fear of making a fool of myself, I let them all go by. I stood there alone for half an hour without stopping one. Then I gave up. I decided to walk on to the next stop.
36. The girl refused to ask for help because she thought_________. A. she might be recognized B. asking for help looked silly C. she was normal and independent D. being fond blind was embarrassing
37. After the girl got off the bus that evening, she_________. A. began to run B. hit a person as usual C. hit a lamppost by accident D. was caught by something
38. At the request stop that evening, the girl___________. A. stopped a big lorry B. stopped the wrong bus C .made no attempt to stop the bus D. was not noticed by other people
39. What was the problem with guessing at the sound to stop a bus? A. Other vehicles also stopped there. B. It was unreliable for making judgments. C. More lorries than buses responded to the girl. D. It took too much time for the girl to catch the bus.
40. Finally the girl decided to walk to the next stop, hoping __________. A. to find people there B. to find more buses there C. to find the bus by herself there