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Dear Max,

    Your mother and I don't yet have the words to describe the hope you give us for the future. We believe all lives have equal value, and that includes the many more people who will live in future generations than live today. Our society has an obligation to invest now to improve the lives of all those coming into this world, not just those already here.

    Our hopes for your generation focus on two ideas: advancing human potential and promoting equality.

    Today your mother and I are committing to spend our lives doing our small part to help solve these challenges. I will continue to serve as Facebook's CEO for many, many years to come, but these issues are too important to wait until you or we are older to begin this work. By starting at a young age, we hope to see compounding benefits throughout our lives.

    As you begin the next generation of the Chan Zuckerberg family, we also begin the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to join people across the world to advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation. Our initial areas of focus will be personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities. Over short periods of five or ten years, it may not seem like we're making much of a difference. But over the long term, seeds planted now will grow, and one day, you or your children will see what we can only  imagine.

    We will give 99% of our Facebook shares --currently about $45 billion -- during our lives to advance this mission. We know this is a small contribution compared to all the resources and talents of those already working on these issues. But we want to do what we can, working alongside many others.

(1) From the passage we can learn that the author is Max's ________.
A. mother B. father C. brother D. grandparent
(2) Planted seeds referred in the 4th paragraph are to explain that ________.
A. it is better doing something to improve the world than waiting B. harvest can be expected after sowing C. it makes little difference to help solve the challenges D. it takes time to show their effort works
(3) The underlined word “obligation” most probably means ________.
A. duty B. effort C. contribution D. ability
(4) Through the letter, the author mainly wants to tell Max ________.
A. he decides to donate 99% of the Facebook shares to help improve the world B. he will serve as the Facebook's CEO for many years for her better living C. he is devoting himself to help realize the equality of the human D. he is contributed to helpimg make a better world for her and her generation

 ( D )

     People who have the habit of texting while walking tend to develop a robot-like posture and make themselves walk unsteadily and in danger of falling, according to a University of Queensland study. Researchers said that text-walkers are in danger of walking into traffic and train tracks. They suggest pedestrians(行人) stop aside, type a text and then continue walking once it is done.

      For the study, the researchers tracked(追踪) body movements of 26 young man and woman while walking in a straight line over a distance of approximately 8.5－once without a mobile phone, once while reading a text message and once while typing a message.

      They found that participants’ body movements were greatly changed when they used their posture was more prominent while sending a text than while reading a message. They further said that when those people began texting while walking, they slowed down their pace, went off course and moved their neck less than when reading a message.

      “We found that they walked with a posture that was robot-like, all in aid of keeping their body part.” researcher Siobhan Schabrun said, Daily Mail UK reports.

      In recent years, the number of pedestrian accidents is rising and texting has been blamed. Despite such repeated accidents, only few studies have analyzed the impact of texting on body language.

       Many US states have introduced laws on texting while driving, Fort Lee, a New Jersey town, went further ahead and recently fined some walkers an $85 for catching them texting. Many states in America have realized this question. More and more states in America will follow suit.

(1) The researchers carried out the study effectively by _________.
A. observing some pedestrians’ behavior in the street B. asking some volunteers to try texting while walking C. showing the pedestrians the potential danger of texting D. doing some asking-and-answering surveys among people
(2) What does the underlined word “prominent” in Paragraph3 probably mean?
A. Uncertain. B. Obvious. C. Doubtful D. Convincing.
(3) Why did pedestrians walk like a robot when texting?
A. To avoid losing their balance. B. To attract other people’s attention. C. To keep their eyes fixed on the phone. D. To take part in the study with the researchers.
(4) From the last paragraph, we can know that ___________.
A. more and more people will give up texting while walking B. People texting while driving will be fined $ 85 in America C. most states in America have made their laws for text-walker D. people texting while walking will be punished in more states of America

It happened to me recently．I was telling someone how much I had enjoyed reading Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father and how it had changed my views of our President．A friend I was talking to agreed with me that it was，in his words，"a brilliantly （精彩地）written book"．However，he then went on to talk about Mr．Obama in a way which suggested he had no idea of his background at all．I sensed that I was talking to a book liar．
And it seems that my friend is not the only one．Approximately two thirds of people have lied about reading a book which they haven't．In the World Book Day's"Report on Guilty Secrets"，Dreams From My Father is at number 9．The report lists ten books，and various authors，which people have lied about reading，and as I'm not one to lie too often （I'd hate to be caught out），I'll admit here and now that I haven't read the entire top ten．But I am pleased to say that，unlike 42percent of people，I have read the book at number one，George Orwell's 1984．I think it's really brilliant．
The World Book Day report also has some other interesting information in it．It says that many people lie about having read Jane Austen，Charles Dickens，Fyodor Dostoevsky （I haven't read him，but haven't lied about it either） and Herman Melville．
Asked why they lied，the most common reason was to"impress"someone they were speaking to．This could be tricky if the conversation became more in-depth!
But when asked which authors they actually enjoy，people named J．K．Rowling，John Grisham，Sophie Kinsella （ah，the big sellers，in other words）．Forty-two percent of people asked admitted they turned to the back of the book to read the end before finishing the story （I'll come clean：I do this and am astonished that 58percent said they had never done so）．



(1) How did the author find his friend a book liar？ ______

A. By judging his manner of speaking．
B. By looking into his background．
C. By mentioning a famous name．
D. By discussing the book itself．

(2) Which of the following is a"guilty secret"according to the World Book Day report？ ______

A. Charles Dickens is very low on the top-ten list．
B. 42% of people pretended to have read 1984．
C. The author admitted having read 9books．
D. Dreams From My Father is hardly read．

(3) By lying about reading，a person hopes to ______ ．

A. control the conversation
B. appear knowledgeable
C. learn about the book
D. make more friends

(4) What is the author's attitude to 58% of readers？ ______

A. Favorable．
B. Uncaring
C. Doubtful
D. Friendly．

Though Malala Yousafzai is 17, she does not use Facebook or even a mobile phone so that she can’t lose focus on her studies. She spent her summer vacation flying to Nigeria to campaign for the release(释放) of girls caught by the extremist Islamist group Boko Haram, but also worrying about her grades, which recently took a worrisome dip. She confronted President Obama about American drone policy(无人机政策) in a meeting last year, but finds it difficult to make friends with her fellow students in Birmingham, England.

“I want to have fun, but I don’t quite know how,” she wrote in the edition of her autobiography for young readers.

On Friday, Ms. Yousafzai became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and she was called out of her chemistry class to hear the news.

Ms. Yousafzai began campaigning for girls’ education at the age of 11, three years before she was shot by the Taliban. The prize she received on Friday accepts what she has taken on, but also shows the expectations to her: Can she truly influence the culture of her home country of Pakistan, which she cannot even visit because of threats to her safety, and where many people see her as a tool of the West?

And in an interview last August, Ms. Yousafzai said that she rarely watches television and deleted the Candy Crush game from her iPad to prevent a growing addiction(成瘾). As a child in Pakistan, she had access to only a handful of books, she said, but one was a biography of Dr. King, giving her an early sense of what one activist could accomplish.

In a brief speech in Birmingham on Friday, she called the prize “an encouragement for me to go forward and believe in myself.”

(1) Where is Malala studying now according to the passage?
A. In America. B. In Pakistan C. In the U.K. D. In Switzerland
(2) Which of the following is RIGHT about Malala according to the passage?
A. She is a good friend of President Obama. B. She doesn’t have a mobile phone or computer. C. She was once caught by the extremist Islamist group. D. She once fought for girls’ education.
(3) This passage is aimed at telling us &;          .
A. Ms. Yousafzai became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. B. what Ms. Yousafzai has contributed to the world. C. how a girl got the Nobel Peace Prize. D. reading a biography of Dr. King can help a person succeed.