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Text for Senior High School
almost all people share. Even if you’ve passed your “best”, you still have othe years to come. Certain important high-points come later in life.
? From 18 to 25, according to I.Q. scores; but you’re wiser and more with increasing age. At around 30, metal abilities begin to decline, your ability to do maths. . For example, your vocabulary increases over time. some psychologists suggest that “maturity quotients” (M.Q.) be used to measure intelligence for sense of yourself from 15 to 24, when you feel energetic all the time. The best professional sense is from 40 to 49. Before age 24, we believe that our happiest years are yet to , but when we are over 30, we believe that they’re behind us. After age 30, we’re more
When are you most creative? Generally between 30 and 39, but it different — most Nobel prize winners did their top research in their 20’s and 30’s — but for people who keep an active 1．A ．plans B ．lives C ．patterns D ．predictions
2．A ．good B ．stranger C ．interesting D ．difficult
3．A ．best B ．smartest C ．most mature D．most skilled 4．A ．powerful B ．energetic C ．experienced D ．satisfied
5．A ．generally B ．specially C ．mainly D ．particularly
We all remember seeing hitchhikers, standing by the side of the road, thumb, sticking out, waiting for a lift. But it is getting rare nowadays. What killed hitchhiking? Safety is often mentioned as a reason. Movies about murderous hitchhikers and real-life crime have put many drivers off picking up hitchhikers. That no single women picked me up on my journey to Manchester no doubt reflects the safety fear: a large, strangely dressed man is seen as dangerous.
But the reason may be more complex: hitchhiking happens where people don’t have cars and transport services are poor. Plenty of people still hichhike in Poland and Romania. Perhaps the rising level of car ownership in the UK means the few people lift hitchhiking are usually considered strange. Why can’t they afford cars? Why can’t they take the coach or the train?
Three-quarters of the UK population have access to a car; many of the remainder will be quite old. The potential hitchhiking population is therefore small. Yet my trip proves it ’s still possible to hitchhike. The people who pickes me up were very interesting-lawyer, retired surgeon, tank commander, carpenter, man who live in an isolated farmhouse and a couple living up in the mountains. My conclusion is that only really interesting people are mad enough to pick up
so surprised to see a hitchhiker that they couldn’t help stopping.
The future of hitchhiking most likely lies with car-sharing organized over the Internet, via sites such as hitchhikers. org. But for now, you can still stick your thumb out(actually, I didn’t do much of that, preferring just to hold up my destination sign) and people-wonderful, caring, sharing, unafraid people-will stop.
In the UK, with its cheap coaches and reasonable rail service, I don’t think I’ll make a habit of it. But having enjoyed it so much, I’m ready now to do a big trip across Eurpe and beyond. In the 1970s a female friend of my wife’s hitchhiked to India. How wonderful it would be to have another go, though Afghanistan might be a challenge. I wish I’d got that tank commander’s mobile number.
1．The author tried to hitch.
A ．they were not heading towards Manchester B ．they thought most hitchhikers were dangerous C ．hitchhiking had been handed and they didn’t want to break the law D ．he was a strong man in strange clothes who seemed dangerous A ．murderous hitchhikers C ．typical hitchhikers A ．frequently hitchhikes in Britain B ．plans to hitchhike across Europe2．The “fat blokes in red, spotted scarves”B ．friendly and talkative hitchhikers D ．strange hitchhikers like the author 3． C ．thinks public transport is safer for travel D ．is going to contact the tank commander
教员姓名： 短号： 籍贯：
Text for Senior High School
almost all people share. Even if you’ve passed your “best”, you still have othe years to come. Certain important high-points come later in life.
? From 18 to 25, according to I.Q. scores; but you’re wiser and more with increasing age. At around 30, metal abilities begin to decline, your ability to do maths. . For example, your vocabulary increases over time. some psychologists suggest that “maturity quotients” (M.Q.) be used to measure intelligence for sense of yourself from 15 to 24, when you feel energetic all the time. The best professional sense is from 40 to 49. Before age 24, we believe that our happiest years are yet to , but when we are over 30, we believe that they’re behind us. After age 30, we’re more
When are you most creative? Generally between 30 and 39, but it different — most Nobel prize winners did their top research in their 20’s and 30’s — but for people who keep an active 1．A ．plans B ．lives C ．patterns D ．predictions
2．A ．good B ．stranger C ．interesting D ．difficult
3．A ．best B ．smartest C ．most mature D．most skilled 4．A ．powerful B ．energetic C ．experienced D ．satisfied
5．A ．generally B ．specially C ．mainly D ．particularly
We all remember seeing hitchhikers, standing by the side of the road, thumb, sticking out, waiting for a lift. But it is getting rare nowadays. What killed hitchhiking? Safety is often mentioned as a reason. Movies about murderous hitchhikers and real-life crime have put many drivers off picking up hitchhikers. That no single women picked me up on my journey to Manchester no doubt reflects the safety fear: a large, strangely dressed man is seen as dangerous.
But the reason may be more complex: hitchhiking happens where people don’t have cars and transport services are poor. Plenty of people still hichhike in Poland and Romania. Perhaps the rising level of car ownership in the UK means the few people lift hitchhiking are usually considered strange. Why can’t they afford cars? Why can’t they take the coach or the train?
Three-quarters of the UK population have access to a car; many of the remainder will be quite old. The potential hitchhiking population is therefore small. Yet my trip proves it ’s still possible to hitchhike. The people who pickes me up were very interesting-lawyer, retired surgeon, tank commander, carpenter, man who live in an isolated farmhouse and a couple living up in the mountains. My conclusion is that only really interesting people are mad enough to pick up
so surprised to see a hitchhiker that they couldn’t help stopping.
The future of hitchhiking most likely lies with car-sharing organized over the Internet, via sites such as hitchhikers. org. But for now, you can still stick your thumb out(actually, I didn’t do much of that, preferring just to hold up my destination sign) and people-wonderful, caring, sharing, unafraid people-will stop.
In the UK, with its cheap coaches and reasonable rail service, I don’t think I’ll make a habit of it. But having enjoyed it so much, I’m ready now to do a big trip across Eurpe and beyond. In the 1970s a female friend of my wife’s hitchhiked to India. How wonderful it would be to have another go, though Afghanistan might be a challenge. I wish I’d got that tank commander’s mobile number.
1．The author tried to hitch.
A ．they were not heading towards Manchester B ．they thought most hitchhikers were dangerous C ．hitchhiking had been handed and they didn’t want to break the law D ．he was a strong man in strange clothes who seemed dangerous A ．murderous hitchhikers C ．typical hitchhikers A ．frequently hitchhikes in Britain B ．plans to hitchhike across Europe2．The “fat blokes in red, spotted scarves”B ．friendly and talkative hitchhikers D ．strange hitchhikers like the author 3． C ．thinks public transport is safer for travel D ．is going to contact the tank commander