第二部分： 阅读理解(共20小题，每小题2.5分，满分50分)(基础题)

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A’s largest non-profit organization for young people and social change. They provide some scholarships to reward teens who are social action leaders in their community. You may be interested in the following ones.

1. $2,000 Fight Climate Change like a Ninja(忍者) Scholarship

Ninjas release 86% less CO2 than the average person. Why? Because ninjas use a green form of transport ---- parkour(跑酷). DoSomething.org wants to teach you their ways of going green---- and offer the chance for a $2,000 scholarship. Submit(提交)one of your friends’ phone numbers. You’ll both receive a text message with ways to protect the planet, and you’ll be entered for the scholarship. Bonzail!

2. $3,000 Puppy Mills are Bad Scholarship

Use your phone to fight for millions of puppies born in abusive (虐待的) factory farms. Share a text messaging game on puppy mills with 6 friends and you’ll be entered to win a $3000 scholarship. Millions of puppies are born in horrible conditions each year, so puppy mills can make a profit. Invite your friends to step into the shoes of a pet store employee who discovers their store supports puppy mills. To enter for the $3,000 scholarship, visit www. Dosomething.org/puppy and submit six friends’ phone numbers.

3. $5,000 Safe Driving Scholarship

When you text while driving at 55 mph, your eyes go off the road for the length of an entire football field. Tell your friends about the danger of texting while driving to enter to win a $5000 scholarship. After entering, we’ll send you a free pair of “thumb socks” ---- a physical reminder to stop texting while driving. Send us a picture of you with your thumb socks and you’ll double your chance of winning the $5,000 scholarship.

36. What do the scholarships mentioned in the passage have in common?

A. They are provided by DoSomething.org.

B. They offer a small gift to every attendant.

C. They require attendants to be top students.

D. They require attendants to play a message game.

37. Ninjas contribute to environmental protection by ______.

A. giving practical advice B. offering a scholarship

C. avoiding driving cars D. influencing the young

38. To win Puppy Mills are Bad Scholarship, you have to ______.

A. work as a pet store employee B. share a game with 6 friends

C. be good at playing games D. love puppy mills very much

39. What’s the purpose of Safe Driving Scholarship?

A. To hand out more thumb socks. B. To teach people how to drive.

C. To sell as many thumb socks as possible. D. To warn people not to text while driving.

40. After sending your picture with your thumb socks, ______.

A. you will receive another pair of thumb socks

B. you will necessarily win the scholarship

C. you will win $10,000 scholarship

D. you increase the opportunity of winning the scholarship

B

People who have the habit of texting (发短信) while walking tend to develop a robot-like posture, lose their balance, and involve themselves in traffic accidents, according to a research from the University of Queensland. Researchers said that text-walkers are in danger of walking into traffic and train tracks among others. They suggest pedestrians(行人)stop aside, type a text and then continue walking.

For the study, the researchers tracked body movements of 26 young men and women while walking in a straight line over a distance of about 8.5 m ---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 phone. The difference in 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 necks less than when reading a message.

“We found that they ‘locking’ their arms, trunk and head together walked with a posture that was robot-like, all in aid of keeping their phone in their field of vision. So there is less movement between each of their body parts.” Researcher Siobhan Schabrun said, Daily Mail UK reports.

“In recent years, there have been many reports of people involved in traffic accidents because they were texting while walking. The number of pedestrian accidents is rising and texting has been blamed,” Schabrun said.

Despite such repeated accidents, only few studies have analyzed the impact of texting on body language. If more studies concentrate on walking styles adopted while texting, their findings can be used to lower whole accidents.

While a few U.S. 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. It is hoped that other American states and countries will follow.

41. How did the researchers carry out their research?

A. They called on most pedestrians.

B. They tried texting while they were walking.

C. They followed some pedestrians in the street.

D. They showed pedestrians the danger of texting.

42. The underlined word “prominent” in Paragraph 3 probably means _____.

A. obvious B. important C. uncertain D. puzzling

43. When texting, the pedestrians walk in a different way to _____.

A. avoid losing their balance B. attract other people’s attention

C. keep their eyes steady on the phone D. take part in the study with the researchers

44. From the last paragraph, we can infer that texting while walking ______.

A. is not popular with many people

B. will make each American fined $85

C. will be punished in some states of America

D. has been forbidden in most American states

45. What is the best title of the passage?

A. Negative effects of texting. B. Texting and traffic accidents.

C. Texting and people’s health. D. Ways to avoid traffic accidents.