M: You’re very sad today. W: Yeah. It’s Carl. He was very angry with me yesterday and I was very angry with him, and so we had a row and now we’re not talking to each other. What does the underl

M: You’re very sad today. W: Yeah. It’s Carl. He was very angry with me yesterday and I was very angry with him, and so we had a row and now we’re not talking to each other. What does the underlined word “row” probably mean in the dialogue？

A．Boating．

B．Quarrel．

C．Conversation．

D．Talk．

A.Boating

B.Quarrel

C.Conversation

D.Talk

W: You're right !

How is the second speaker？

A．She lives a sad life.

B．She is living a happy life.

C．She is happy.

D．She says it is right.

W: You're right !

Which is true according to the woman？

A．She lives a sad life.

B．She is living a happy life.

C．She is happy.

D．She says it is right.

A.She lives a sad life.

B.She is living a happy life.

C.She is happy.

D.She says it is right.

A.She lives a sad life.

B.She is living a happy life.

C.She is happy.

D.She says it is right.

请阅读Passage l，完成第21-25题。

Passage 1

When asked by Conan if his daughters had smart phones， comedian Louis CK explained that he had successfully fended them off by simply replying， "No， you can" t have it. It is bad for you."

He instantly became my hero as I was mired in difficult negotiations with my ten-year-old daughter over one. And frankly， she was winning. Was it possible to say no to my daughter， as CK suggested？ I hadn"t even known I was allowed to， if the guinea pigs， the dogs， and things for her doll Molly were any indication. CK rationalized， "I am not raising the children. I"m raising the grown-ups that they are going to be. So just because the other stupid kids have phones doesn"t mean that my kid has to be stupid." Now I knew I didn"t want my kid to grow up stupid like her friends. I needed to explain this to her. This is what CK told Conan and me.

Cell phones are "toxic， especially for kids，" he said， because they don"t help them learn em-pathy， one of the nicer human emotions. When we text， we don"t see or hear a visceral reaction.

The response we get is cold and hard text-message. "Why are kids mean？" He asked. "Because they"re trying it out. They look at another kid and say， "You"re fat." Then they see the kid"s face scrunch up and think that doesn"t feel good." Texting "you"re fat" allows you to bypass the pain.

CK went on to explain that smart phones rob us of our ability to be alone. Kids use smart phones to occupy their time: Must text! Must play game! Must look up more tiny socks online for Molly!!! CK asked， what happened to zoning out？ After all， one of the joys of being human is allowing our minds to wander， with cell phones， kids are always preoccupied. They never daydream， except in class. And here"s something else we"re missing: our right to be miserable. This was a right I hadn"t realized I desired until CK pointed out that it"s another essential human emotion.

CK gave the example of driving by yourself and suddenly realizing that you"re alone. Not "Oh，guess I can"t use the lane" alone. Dark， brooding sadness causes so many drivers to grab that smart phone and reach out to another living soul.

"Everybody"s murdering each other with their cars" as they text because they dread being alone. Too bad——they"re missing out on a life-affirming experience.

"I was in my car one time， and Bruce Springsteen"s "Jungle land" came on. He sounds so far away， making me really sad. And I think I"ve got to get the phone and write hi to 50 people. I was reaching for the phone， and I thought， don"t! Just be sad."

So CK pulled over and allowed himself to sob like a little girl denied a nice thing for her American Girl doll. "It was beautiful. Sadness is poetic. You"re lucky to live sad moments，" he said. Because he didn"t fight it and allowed himself to be miserable， his body released endorphins.

"Happiness rushed in to meet the sadness. I was grateful to feel sad， and then I met it with true profound happiness. The thing is， because we don"t want that first bit of sad， we push it away with that little phone. So you never feel completely sad or completely happy. You just feel kind of satis-fied. And then you die. That"s why I don"t want to get phones for my kids".

And I suppose I don"t either.

Why did the author regard CK as her hero？ 查看材料

A.CK was a good father and a very brave comedian in her eyes.

B.CK didn"t agree to buy smart phones for his young daughters.

C.She was very impressed by his solution to the smart phone probletn.

D.She was encouraged by him not to make any compromises to her daughter.

M: (23) I like teaching students how to speak. And I really enjoy seeing them learn and improve. I've been teaching for five years now, and I've got good experience from my classes. I teach in institutes and also university and they're a bit different because people who come to institutes (24) are highly motivated because they come with their own legs, as they say, as we say, and they're quite interested. They try to be active. But the students at university, because they have to pass some courses, they might not be interested enough most of the time.

W: Well, you say that recently you've been trying to be a creative teacher, to stimulate students. So tell me about that.

M: Well, most of the time I try to make them motivated by just making the class more fun and interesting.

W: What do you find is the hardest part of being a teacher？

M: Well, the hardest part is (25) that a teacher has to forget everything in his life before going to a class.

W: What do you mean by that？

M: You see, if you are sad, if you have a lot of ups and downs in your life, when you enter a class, you have to be a teacher full of energy, very happy. You have to forget about all your problems. If you just take your problems to the class, you won't be a good teacher.

(20)

A．He can share his experience with the others.

B．He can learn the knowledge from it.

C．He can make the classes more creative.

D．He enjoys seeing the improvement of the students.

A.young

B.old

C.sad

D.happy