Journalists aim at making fair and balanced reports, and they should by all means avoid one-source story or one-sided story.

听力原文： At major college or high school sports events, cheerleaders, both male and female, dance and jump in front of the crowd and shout the name of their team, running around yelling, "Go, team, go. " The first cheerleader was a man. In 1898, Johnny Campbell jumped in front of the crowd at the University of Minnesota and shouted for his team. He shouted, "Hurrah, Minnesota!" This was the first organized shout or yell. For the next 32 years, cheerleaders were men only. Cheerleading is not just about cheering. They practice special shouts, dances, and athletic shows. The men throw the women high in the air and catch them. The team members climb on each other's shoulders to make a human pyramid. They yell and dance, too. It is like human fireworks. Of course, they may often suffer serious knee and wrist injuries and bloody noses. Cheerleaders have their own contests every year at local, state, and national levels. And the crowd shouts for them. It is not fair to think cheerleading is just being careful and have a loud voice. Cheerleading is a sport in itself.

Q. 15. How should cheerleading be viewed according to the passage?

Q. 16.How do the cheerleaders perform. their jobs?

Q. 17.Why do the cheerleaders sometimes suffer physical injuries?

Q. 18.Which of the following statements is NOT true?

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A．It is just a lot of cheering.

B．It mainly involves yelling.

C．It mainly involves dancing.

D．It is competitive in nature.

听力原文： At major college or high school sports events, cheerleaders, both male and female, jump and dance in front of the crowd, and shout the name of their team, running around, yelling "Go Team Go!" The first cheerleader ever was a man.

In 1898, Johnny Campbell jumped in front of the crowd at the university of Minnesota and shouted for his team. He shouted "Hurrah, Minnesota!" This was the first organized show, or yell. For the next 32 years, cheerleaders were men only.

Cheerleading is not just about cheering. They practice special shows, dances, and athletic shows. The men throw the women high in the air, and catch them. The team members climb on each other's shoulders to make a human pyramid. They yell and dance too. It is like human fire works. Of course, they may often suffer serious knee and wrist injuries and bloody noses. Cheerleaders have their own contests every year at local, state and national levels. And a crowd shouts for them. It is not fair to think cheerleading is just being cheerful and lively and having a loud voice. Cheerleading is a sport in itself.

How should cheerleading be viewed according to the passage?

A．It is just a lot of cheering.

B．It mainly involves yelling.

C．It mainly involves dancing.

D．It is competitive in nature.

Woman: What present should we get for Betty's birthday?Man: She's poor at math, don't you remember?Question: What does the man imply?

A．They should get her a pocket caculator.

B．They should get her a pocket watch.

C．They should get her a desk-top computer.

D．They should get her a lap-top computer.

【其它】In fact, there is a long and honorable history of procrastination to suggest that many ideas and decisions may well improve if postponed. It is something of a truism that to put off making a decision is itself a decision. The parliamentary process is essentially a system of delay and deliberation. So, for that matter, is the creation of a great painting, or an entree, or a book, or a building like Blenheim Palace, which took the Duke of Marlborough's architects and laborers 15 years to construct. In the process, the design can mellow and marinate. Indeed, hurry can be the assassin of elegance. As T.H. White, author of Sword in the Stone, once wrote, time "is not meant to be devoured in an hour or a day, but to be consumed delicately and gradually and without haste." In other words, pace Lord Chesterfield, what you don't necessarily have to do today, by all means put off until tomorrow.

Section B

Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.

Through my mom's loving words, I found a way back.

When you wake up in jail —especially having been raised by God-fearing, hard-working, honest people like my mama and daddy —you know what alone means. You've betrayed who you are, the values you believe in, and the people Who gave you everything. At that moment, being a country singer wasn't what mattered. All I could think about was what I was going to tell the Pentecostal (对灵降临节派的) preacher's daughter who brought me up.

I woke up on March 15, 2001, on a tiny cot in a jail cell in Nashville, wondering how it all came to this. At 37, I was looking at a sentence of 15 years for felony theft, and by all rights, I should have served it. I was addicted to crystal methamphetamine (冰毒), and I'd been stealing my friends' musical instruments and pawning (典当) them to get money to feed my habit. I'd been caught red-handed (当场) with ＄25,000 worth of pilfered (偷窃) equipment stacked up in my living room. And I was high as a Georgia pine.

Never in a million years did I think I'd end up behind bars. I'd had a rocky start in life, and the meth made me feel as if I was on top of the world. It beat back all the self-hatred I'd felt for a very long time.

I was given away when I was three months old. I was born in Alabama, but Barbara and Ed Bates, who went on to have eight biological children, took me in —even though I had double pneumonia and cigarette burns on my diapers. They lived in Columbia, Miss., where Daddy was a sharecropper (佃农), and there wasn't a lot of money to go around. Mama did the best she could, but her idea of a child going to school looking neat was double-knit pants and slicked-down hair. I wore glasses, and to top it off, I was fat. I felt like a geck, and was treated like one too.

Then one day on the school bus, my cousin told me I was adopted. At the age of nine, I felt like an outsider in my own family. Mama tried to make it right. She said, "Out of all our kids, you're special, because we got to pick you. God just gave us the rest of these knotheads."

That was her way of letting me know I was really loved. But I always had a fear of abandonment, and wondered why my birth mother gave me away. When I was 30, I went looking and found her. She told me she wasn't positive who my real daddy was, which only reinforced my notion that I wasn't worth much.

But it also made me want to prove myself wrong. I was 11 the first time I picked up a guitar and 15 when I wrote my first song. My dream was to make it as a country singer; and I spent years playing in bars throughout the South. In my mid-30s I moved to Nashville.

After two years of hard work, I somehow managed to get a songwriting deal, and a record label was showing interest in me. Then my wife and I started having marital problems, and we moved to another state. The move was like driving the last nail in the coffin on my dream. It felt as if I'd given up on myself.

One day during a trip I made to Nashville, a friend offered me a hit of methamphetamine from a little pipe. I didn't know then that meth is our biggest drag problem in rural America —that it's the easiest, cheapest drug to obtain, and also one of the most addictive. So I smoked it. And that was all that I thought about for the next year and a half. I ended up with a one — to two —gram-a-day habit, at a hundred dollars a gram.

When the police arrested me, I looked like death, and didn't care. My body was so beat up from doing drugs that my eyes were sunk back in my head, and my teeth and hair were failing nut from malnourishment ( [营养不良). The first seven days in jail, I just slept, goin

A．The author was sent to jail because he betrayed the value he believed in.

B．The author resorted to stealing so as to satisfy his drag addict.

C．The author might have experienced a tough childhood.

D．The author was abandoned by his birth parents shortly after he was born.