陕西省西安市第七十中学高二英语上学期月月考试题

陕西省西安市第七十中学高二英语上学期月月考试题

高二英语第一学期月考试卷 2015.12‎ 考试时间： 120 分钟 总分： 150 分 班级： 姓名：‎ 第Ⅰ卷（满分100分）‎ 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）‎ ‎ 第一节（共5个小题：每小题1. 5分，满分7. 5分）‎ ‎ 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一道小题，从每题所给的A B C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。‎ ‎1.What does the man like about the play?‎ A. The actor. B.The ending. C. The story.‎ ‎2.Which place are the speakers trying to find?‎ A. A restaurant. B.A bank. C. A hotel.‎ ‎3.At what time will the two speakers meet?‎ A4:40. B. 5:‎10 C. 5:20 ‎ ‎4.what will the man do ?‎ A. Sort things out B.Wait for a phone call C. Change the plan ‎5.What does the woman want to do ?‎ A. Listen to some great music.‎ B. Offer the man some help ‎ C.See a film with the man.‎ 第二节（共15小题：每小题1. 5分，满分22. 5分） ‎ 请听下面5段对话。每段对话读两遍。‎ 听第6段材料，回答6、7题。‎ ‎6.Where is Ben？‎ A. In the park. B. At school. C. In the kitchen.‎ ‎7.What will the children in the afternoon?‎ A. Do their homework. B. Have a party. C. Help set the table.‎ 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题 ‎8. What are the two speakers talking about?‎ A. A travel plan. B. A business trip. C. A Family holiday.‎ ‎9. Where did Rachel go?‎ A. China. B. Italy. C. Spain.‎ 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。‎ ‎10.How did the woman get to know about third-hand smoke?‎ A. From some smoking parents. B. From a newspaper article.‎ C. From young smokers.‎ ‎11. Why does the man say that he should keep away from babies?‎ A. He is a smoker.‎ B. He wears dirty clothes. ‎ C. He has just become a father.‎ ‎12. What does the woman suggest smoking parents should do ?‎ A．Reduce dangerous matter in cigarettes.‎ B. Smoke only outside their houses.‎ 12‎ C. Stop smoking altogether.‎ 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。‎ ‎13. Where does Michelle Ray come from?‎ A. A big city B. A small town. C. A middle-sized city ‎14. Which place would Michelle Ray take her visitors to for shopping?‎ A. The Red River area. B. The Highlands. C. The Zen Garden ‎15. What does Michelle Ray do for complete quiet?‎ A. Read at home. B. Study in a library. C. Go camping ‎16.What are the speakers talking about in general?‎ A. Louisville. B. Asian food. C. Late-night shopping.‎ 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。‎ ‎17. Why do some people say they never have dreams according to Dr Garfield ?‎ A. They have no bad experiences.‎ B. Thy don't want to tell the truth.‎ C. They forget about their dreams.‎ ‎18. Why did Davis stop having dreams?‎ A. He was frightened by a terrible dream.‎ B. He was too sad about his brother's death C. He got a serious heart attack.‎ ‎19. What is Dr Garfield s opinion about dreaming?‎ A. It prevents the mind from working.‎ B. It makes things worse.‎ C. It is very useful.‎ ‎20.Why do some people turn off their dreams completely?‎ A. To stay away from their problems.‎ B. To recover from illnesses. ‎ C. To recover from illnesses.‎ 第二部分 阅读理解 （共两节，满分40分）‎ 第一节 （共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分）‎ 阅读下列短文 ，从每题所给的四个选项 （A 、B 、C 和 D ）中 ，选出最佳选项 ，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 ‎ A Peter, a high school student, was pretty busy with school, and he was on the soccer team. High school was hard, because everyone wanted to have nice clothes, hang out, drive cars, and all these cost money. Peter’s father was the sort of guy that believed you had to earn whatever you got, so he wasn’t just about to hand over lots of money for Peter to use to have fun. So, he had to get a job.‎ During his freshman year summer vacation, his classmate got him a job working on a hay (干草) farm. He threw hay up into wagons as the tractor drove around fields, and then they stacked (剁起) it in the hot barn. It was a hot, lowpaying job. ‎ He once worked a few nights a week at a grocery store. He put things on the shelf. It was a lot of lifting and carrying, and his arms were strong from this and the previous job. It was dull and didn’t pay much.‎ He took some time off when soccer got serious, but the following summer he tried working at a lumber yard. It was hot outside, but he got a lot of exercise lifting and carrying 12‎ ‎ things like boards and drywall. He also learned a lot about building supplies. It still didn’t pay well.‎ From there, he spent a year doing some tutoring for a friend of the family, but that was piecemeal. His first real job came the last year at school, when he fixed registers and worked on computers at a big box store. It was his favorite job yet, but it still didn’t pay well.‎ What Peter realized with all of these jobs was that he needed a better paying job! The only way to get that was to get trained or educated. He could go to school and get a 2year degree in an office or technical position. His other choices were going to a 4year college or joining the army. He wasn’t sure what he was going to do yet, but he knew he had to do something. Jobs were a lot of work, money was hard to earn, but he liked staying busy and being able to buy things. Peter wanted the most out of life, and that meant education.‎ ‎ ‎ ‎21. How many jobs had Peter taken?‎ A. Five. B. Four. C. Three D. Six.‎ ‎22.All the jobs Peter had taken had one thing in common：________.‎ A. They needed hard labour B. They were dull and tiresome C. They didn’t pay well D. They were done during his vacation ‎23. ________was the most important for Peter if he wanted a good job.‎ A. Opportunity B. Education C. Confidence D. Wisdom ‎24. We can learn from the text that________.‎ A. it was very hard for Peter to make his choices B. Peter’s father didn’t care about him C. Peter knew what to do for his future D. Peter was determined to do whatever he liked ‎ ‎ B Tayka Hotel De Sal Where: Tahua, Bolivia How much: About $‎95 a night Why it’s cool: You’ve stayed at hotels made of brick or wood, but salt? That’s something few can claim. Tayka Hotel de Sal is made totally of salt—including the beds (though you’ll sleep on regular mattresses (床垫) and blankets).The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni, a prehistoric dried-up lake that’s the world’s biggest salt flat. Builders use the salt from the 4,633-square-mile flat to make the bricks, and glue them together with a paste of wet salt that hardens when it dries. When rain starts to dissolve the hotel, the owners just mix up more salt paste to strengthen the bricks.‎ Green Magic Nature Resort Where: Vythiri, India How much: About $‎240 a night Why it’s cool: Ridding a pulley(滑轮)-operated lift 86 feet to your treetop room is just the start of your adventure. As you look out of your open window—there is no glass!—you watch monkeys and birds in the rain forest canopy. Later you might test your fear of heights by crossing the handmade rope bridge to the main part of the hotel, or just sit on your bamboo bed and read. You don’t even have to come down for breakfast—the hotel will send it up on the pulley-drawn “elevator”.‎ Dog Bark Park Inn B&B Where: Cottonwood, Idaho 12‎ How much: $‎92 a night Why it’s cool: This doghouse isn’t just for the family pet. Sweet Willy is a 30-foot-tall dog with guest rooms in his belly. Climb the wooden stairs beside his hind leg to enter the door in his side. You can relax in the main bedroom, go up a few steps of the loft in Willy’s head, or hang out inside his nose. Although you have a full private bathroom in your quarters, there is also a toilet in the 12-foot-tall fire hydrant outside.‎ Gamirasu Cave Hotel Where: Ayvali, Turkey How much: Between $130 and $‎475 a night.‎ Why it’s cool: This is caveman cool! Experience what it was like 5,000 years ago, when people lived in these mountain caves formed by volcanic ash. But your stay will be much more modern. Bathrooms and electricity provide what you expect from a modern hotel, and the white volcanic ash, called tufa, keeps the rooms cool, about ‎65℉‎in summer.(Don’t worry—there is heat in winter.)‎ ‎25. What is the similarity of the four hotels? A. Being natural. B. Being beautiful. ‎ C. Being expensive. D. Being unique. 26. What does the underlined part “Sweet Willy” refer to? A. The name of the hotel. B. The name of a pet dog of the hotel owner. C. The building of Dog Bark Park Inn B&B.‎ ‎ D. The name of the hotel owner. 27. Which of the hotel makes you have a feeling of living in the far past? A. Dog Bark Park Inn B&B B. Green Magic Nature Resort C. Tayka Hotel De Sal D. Gamirasu Cave Hotel C Recently, the TV show “Where are we going, Dad?” produced by Hunan Satellite Television is a big hit across nation. Many famous stars brought their children to a strange village alone, and they had to spend 72 hours with their children there. The program fully showed us a modern version of the “how to be a good father”. As the young parents today are too busy to take care of their children, this new form of “Lost on the way” played by nanny Daddy and cute kids triggered（触发）a lot of people’s emotional resonance（共鸣）. Both the kids and their parents will find that their hearts are being drawn closer. But this kind of feeling has just proved that there is a big spiritual barrier between the modern parents and children.‎ The TV shows like “Children are hard to support!”, “Where are we going, Dad?”, “hot mom” and “cute kids” are becoming more and more popular. All of these show the new parents’ confusion in children’s education and the appeal for the balance between career and family.‎ In the real life, on the one hand the young parents feel helpless because they are too busy to accompany their children under the pressures of work and life; on the other hand they continue to do so. The data collected by HNTV shows that nearly two-thirds of their audience are female, among whom 36% are aged from 25 to 34.We can imagine such a scene that ‎ 12‎ one evening a young mother is watching the show with her young children, while her husband is still at work or trapped in socializing, or maybe is just playing computer games in the bedroom. The story of a child without the company of father is still going on. In fact, it is sometimes the same to mothers. In a modern family, it is often the old who take the responsibility of raising a child. The participation of mother in the children’s education is also very low.‎ It is just this kind of confusion where the parents have gone in the modern family education, and where the parents will guide their children to go that “Where are we going, Dad?” shows us. If a child wants to grow up healthily and safely into a modern citizen with independent personality and free spirit, it is very important for him or her to follow the parents who serve as their first teacher. Maybe this is the real reason why such kind of TV programs could get hot. The truth is that children will go where their parents go; and society will go where the children go.‎ ‎ ‎ ‎28. To raise a child in modern society, parents should ________.‎ A. play computer games with their children ‎ B. balance well between family and career C. break down the barrier between children and teachers D. keep their children at home to avoid socializing ‎29. What does the underlined word “participation” probably mean?‎ A. taking part B. understanding C. taking responsibility D. keeping company ‎30. What attitude towards modern family education does the author express in the second paragraph?‎ A. Proud. B. Indifferent. C. Optimistic. D. Worried.‎ ‎31. Which one is the best title of the passage?‎ A. Confusion Behind “Where are we going, dad?”‎ B. Modern Education is Important C. New problems in Modern Children’s Education D. Nanny Daddy and Cute Kids D Some colors people see late at night could cause signs of the condition mental health experts call clinical depression(临床抑郁症). That was the finding of a study that builds on earlier study findings. They show that individuals who live or work in low levels of light overnight can develop clinical depression. ‎ Doctors use the word clinical depression to describe severe form of depression. Signs may include loss of interest or pleasure in most activities, low energy levels and thoughts of death or suicide.‎ In the new study, American investigators designed an experiment that exposed hamsters（仓鼠）to different colors. The researchers chose hamsters because they are nocturnal, which means they sleep during the day and are active at night. The animals were separated into four groups. One group of hamsters was kept in the dark during their night-time period. Another group was placed in front of a blue light, a third group slept in front of a white ‎ 12‎ light, while a fourth was put in front of a red light. After four weeks, the researchers noted how much sugary water the hamsters drank. They found that the most depressed animals drank the least amount of water.‎ Randy Nelson, at Ohio State University, says animals that slept in blue and white light appeared to be the most depressed. “What we saw is that these animals didn’t show any sleep interruptions at all but they did mess up biological clock (生物钟) genes and they did show depressive sign but if they were in the dim red light, they did not.” He says there’s a lot of blue in white light. This explains why the blue light and white light hamsters appear to be more depressed than the hamsters seeing red light or darkness.‎ ‎32. From the text we know that ________ made the hamster feel depressed.‎ ‎ A. the loss of pleasure B. the colour of the light ‎ ‎ C. the amount of the water D. the level of energy ‎33. What was the purpose of the experiment on hamsters?‎ ‎ A. To explain why they liked dark colours. ‎ B. To see how much sugary water they drank. ‎ C. To show how well they slept. ‎ D. To find out what caused the depression on them. ‎ ‎34. The author explains the clinical depression by _________.‎ ‎ A. setting down general rules B. presenting research data ‎ C. reporting an experiment process D. giving his own experience ‎35. Where can we probably find the text?‎ ‎ A. In a tourist guidebook. B. In a physics textbook C. In a science magazine. D. In an official announcement.‎ 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分） ‎ ‎ 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 ‎ Carrots are easy to raise and easy to harvest. They taste good. 36 ‎ When people think of carrots, they usually picture in their mind a vegetable that is long, thin and orange. 37 And not all carrots are orange. For example, Paris Market carrots are about five centimeters around. Rome carrots are thin and about twenty-five centimeters long. And Belgian White carrots are, as their name suggests, white.‎ For the best results, carrots should be grown in sandy soil that does not hold water for a long time. The soil also should have no rocks. To prepare your garden for carrots, dig up the soil, loosen it and turn it over. Then, mix in some plant material or animal fertilizer (肥料).‎ ‎ 38 Experts say warm days, cool nights and a medium soil temperature are the best conditions for growing carrots that taste great.‎ Carrots need time to develop their full sugar content. This gives them their sweetness if you wait too long to pull them from the ground. 39 Usually, the brighter the color, the better the taste. ‎ ‎ 40 If the winter is not cold enough to freeze the ground, you can grow and harvest carrots the same way as during the summer months. If the ground does freeze, simply cover your carrot garden with a thick layer of leaves or straw. This will prevent the ground from freezing.‎ A. But carrots come in many different sizes and shapes.‎ 12‎ A. They are economic crops.‎ B. The best time for planting carrots is during the winter months.‎ C. Weather, soil conditions and age will affect the way carrots taste.‎ D. The best way to judge if a carrot is ready to be harvested is by its color.‎ E. And they contain a lot of carotene (胡萝卜素), which the body make into vitamin A.‎ F. Many people do not know that carrots can be grown during the winter months.‎ ‎ ‎ 第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）‎ 第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）‎ 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。‎ It was in my high school science class. I was doing a task in front of the classroom with my favorite shirt on.‎ ‎ A 41 came. "Nice shirt," I smiled from ear to ear. Then another voice said, "That shirt belonged to my dad. Greg's mother works for my family. We were going to 42 that shirt away, but gave it to her 43 ." I was speechless. I wanted to hide.‎ ‎ I 44 my shirt in the back of the closet and told my mom what had happened. She then dialed her 45 , "I will no longer work for your family," she told him. That night, Mom told my dad that she couldn’t clean anymore; she knew her life's 46 was something greater.‎ ‎ The next morning she 47 with the personnel manager at the Board of Education. He told her that without a proper education she could not teach. So Mom decided to ‎48 a university.‎ ‎ After the first year in college, she went back to the personnel manager. He said, "You are 49 , aren't you? I think I have a 50 for you as a teacher's assistant. This opportunity deals with children who are mentally challenged with little or no chance of 51 .” Mom accepted the opportunity very 52 .‎ ‎ For almost five years, as a teacher's assistant, she saw teacher after teacher give up on the children and quit, feeling 53 . Then one day, the personnel manager and the principal ‎54 in her classroom. The principal said, "We have watched how you 55 the children and how they communicate with you and admire your hard-working 56 over the last five years. We are all in 57 that you should be the teacher of this class."‎ ‎ My mom spent more than 20 years there. 58 her career, she was voted Teacher of the Year. All of this came about because of the 59 comment made in my classroom that day. Mom showed me how to handle 60__ situations and never give up.‎ ‎41. A. noise B. voice C. sound D. tune ‎42. A. get B. take C. carry D. throw ‎43. A. otherwise B. anyhow C. instead D. actually ‎44. A. settled B. pushed C. sent D. stuck ‎45. A. teacher B. employer C. director D. adviser ‎46. A. support B. encouragement C. purpose D. victory ‎47. A. went B. stayed C. worked D. met ‎48. A. visit B. continue C. attend D. prepare ‎49. A. serious B. cautious C. careful D. responsible 12‎ ‎50. A. career B. duty C. position D. part ‎51. A. learning B. judging C. obeying D. imagining ‎52. A. patiently B. eagerly C. successfully D. skillfully ‎53. A. upset B. frightened C. guilty D. ashamed ‎54. A. looked up B. went up C. took up D. showed up ‎55. A. believe B. protect C. treat D. receive ‎56. A. spirit B. intention C. action D. attempt ‎57. A. discussion B. argument C. disagreement D. agreement ‎58. A. At B. During C. On D. With ‎59. A. worthless B. thoughtless C. hopeless D. helpless ‎60. A. challenging B. different C. dangerous D. strange 第II卷 （满分50分）‎ 第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）‎ 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。 ‎ ‎ The Birth of Modern Poetry When talking about poetry, most people will say that a poem is a text that has rhythm and rhyme. Famous are the lines by William Blake, ___61____ have clear rhythm and rhyme.‎ Tiger, tiger, burning bright,‎ In the forests of the night.‎ Other people will add that poems must have a certain form, with a fixed number of lines and a fixed rhyme pattern, such as a sonnet(十四行诗).With rhyme, most people mean ___62____ rhyme of sound of words at the end of the lines. It is also true that much of the classical poetry looks like that. Except for some of short songs and poems _____63_____(include) in his plays, all of Shakespeare’s greatest poems are sonnets.‎ John Milton was one of the first _____64____(poet) who started writing poems without rhyme at the end of the lines. He wrote other poems too, _____65_____he is famous for his long poems without rhyme. After Milton, almost every poet had a hand at this kind of poetry that was free of rhyme. Wordsworth and Keats ___66___(write) some such poems, but that is not what they are famous for. This style of poetry became known ___67_____free verse.‎ ‎ ____68_____was not until the twentieth century that modern poetry was really developed. Modern poets wanted to break with all the ___69_____(tradition)forms of poetry. One of the ____70___(character)of modern poetry is that it usually does not have rhyme at the end of a line, and that it is also often about common topics.‎ 第四部分 写作（共两节；满分35分）‎ 第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）‎ 假段定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号()，并在其下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用(＼)划掉。修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。‎ When I was boy, the most exciting thing was when to celebrate ‎ the Spring Festival. My grandma was the best cooker in the world ‎ ‎ but could make the most delicious dishes. One time, I just couldn’t ‎ ‎ wait to the Spring Festival dinner. Since I was about to take a piece from a cooked duck, I see Grandma in the kitchen looking at me. ‎ Shake her head, she said, “ It isn’t a good time to do that, dear.” ‎ At once I apologized and controlled me at my best till the dinner started. ‎ You know, the dinner was that we had waited for several month.‎ 12‎ 笫二节 书面表达（满分25分）‎ 假设你是李华，听说你的同学王涛吸烟， 给他写一封建议信，包括下列内容:‎ ‎（1）吸烟对自己、同学、老师有害，影响肺部健康。‎ ‎（2）吸烟浪费钱和时间，中学生应该珍惜时间努力学习。‎ ‎（3）已经吸烟成瘾的同学要下决心戒烟。‎ ‎（4）如果你不吸烟，就会感到焦虑和紧张，深呼吸或做一些积极活动。‎ ‎（5）把注意力转移到学习上。 注意：1、词数100左右。‎ ‎ 2、可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。‎ Dear Wang Tao, ‎ ‎___________________________________________________________________________‎ ‎___________________________________________________________________________‎ ‎___________________________________________________________________________‎ ‎______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________‎ ‎___________________________________________________________________________‎ ‎__________________________________________________________________________‎ ‎______________________________________________________________________________‎ ‎ Yours ‎ ‎ LiHua ‎ ‎ 12‎ 高二英语月考考试答案（‎2015-12-23‎）‎ 听力: 1.A 2.C 3.B 4.B 5.C 6.A 7.B 8.C 9.A 10.B ‎ ‎11.A 12.C 13.C 14.B 15.A 16.A 17.C 18.B 19.C 20.A ‎ 阅读理解21-24 ACBC 25-27 DCD 28-31 BADA 32-35 BDCC 36-40 FADEG 完形填空41-45 BDCDB 46-50 ABCAC 51-55 ABADC 56-60 ADBBA 语法填空：61.which 62.the 63.included 64.poets 65.but ‎66.wrote 67.as 68.It 69.traditional 70.characteristics 短文改错：‎ When I was ∧boy,  the most exciting thing was when to celebrate ‎ a ‎ the Spring Festival. My grandma was the best cooker in the world ‎ but could make the most delicious dishes. One time, I just couldn’t ‎ and wait to the Spring Festival dinner. Since I was about to take a piece ‎ for As/When from a cooked duck, I see Grandma in the kitchen looking at me. ‎ ‎ saw Shake her head, she said, “ It isn’t a good time to do that, dear.” ‎ Shaking At once I apologized and controlled me at my best till the dinner started. ‎ ‎ myself You know, the dinner was that we had waited for several month.‎ ‎ what months 写作： Dear Wang Tao,‎ ‎ I’m sorry to hear that you have got into the habit of smoking.‎ ‎ I think it is harmful to themselves and others. It wastes your money and time. As a middle school student, we should study hard instead of smoking.‎ ‎ Those who have become addicted to cigarettes should be determined to quit smoking. In fact, it’s very easy to get rid of smoking. If you don’t take a cigarette, you’ll feel nervous and stressed. You can take a deep breath and some relaxation exercises.‎ ‎ If you pay your attention to your study, you will not feel like smoking eventually.‎ ‎ Yours, ‎ ‎ Li Hua 12‎ 听力录音材料 Text 1 W：Jack, how do you like the play? M：It's a simple story with a happy ending. But luckily, they had a very strong actor and he managed to carry the whole play. Text ‎2 ‎M：Have we missed it? The man said it's only 5 blocks away, opposite the bank. W：Wait a minute, the Chinese restaurant, the national bank. There it is, the Radish Hotel. Text ‎3 ‎M：Let's meet at 4：40. W：Well, could we make it at 5：20? M：That's a bit late for me. I could manage 5：10. W：OK. See you then. Text ‎4 ‎M：What time are we leaving for the outing? W：I'll phone you tomorrow. I should have everything sorted out by then. Text 5 W：Thanks for all you've done for me. Hey, listen, would you like to go to see a film sometime? M：Yeah, that'd be great. I'd love it. Text 6 W：Hey, where is everybody? M：They took Ben to the park. Where have you been? W：Sorry, I'm late. I picked up the cake and it took me longer than I expected. When will the party start? M：Ben invited 8 children from school and they'll arrive at about ‎2 in the afternoon. W：OK then. I'll put the candles on the cake and leave it in the kitchen. And then I'll come and help set the table. Text ‎7 ‎M：So, Messy, how was your holiday? W：Oh, we loved it. Tom liked Germany best but France was my favorite. M：So did Rachel finally go with you? W：No, she wasn't able to. She was called away for a business trip to China. M：That's a pity. So where exactly did you go and visit? W：Well, we travelled all over, Italy, Spain and Holland. We even bathed in the Swiss lake. M：You did, really? Text 8 W：Bob, I am sure you know about secondhand smoke. M：Of course I do. W：But have you heard about thirdhand smoke? M：Thirdhand smoke? I'm afraid not. What is it then? W：Well, it's here in today's paper. Parents may think they are protecting children from secondhand smoke when they smoke outside their home or only when the children are not there.‎ 12‎ ‎ But now researchers are warning about what they call thirdhand smoke. When you smoke, dangerous matter from cigarettes gets into your hair and clothing. As babies are the weakest, when you come to a baby, you pass it to the baby and increase the chances of disease in the baby. M：Is that so? In that case, I have to say that I should never get close to a baby. W：That's right. In fact, all smoking parents should do the same or better give it up completely. Text ‎9 ‎M：Hello, welcome to our program—Today City. I'm Larry. We are going to Louisville Kentucky where our guest Michelle Ray comes from. She is proud of her middlesized city with a small town feel and big city dreams. Now Michelle, tell us about your city. W：Thank you Larry. Here is my city. Louisville is my city. The first place I take a visitor from outoftown is to the Highlands for shopping and night life. When I have delicious Asian food, I always go to the Zen Garden which provides wonderful all vegetable dishes. M：Wow, that's interesting. Many people go for healthy food now. W：You can say that again. If I want to go camping and fishing, I'd go to the Red River area. For complete quiet, I can hide away in my house with a good book from one of our public libraries. M：That all sounds very exciting. I am sure some of our listeners will include Louisville in their travel plan for their next holiday. Thank you, Michelle. Text ‎10 ‎M：We are glad to have Dr Garfield to talk to us today about dreams. Let me start by asking the first question. Does everyone dream? W：It appears that everyone does. Mostly when people say that they never dream, what they really mean is that they don't remember their dreams or they don't think their dreams are important. The reason behind is that they might have been made one with a child when they first report their dreams or it was so frightening that they just turned off dreaming completely. The other day someone named Davis came to me and said that he used to be a great dreamer, but suddenly he stopped having dreams. I asked him what had happened. It turned out that his brother died of a heart attack and he never expected that such a terrible thing would happen to a young person. Generally, when they are with some frightening events and dream about it was too terrible, people prefer not to dream about it. Actually, the worst thing you can do is stop dreaming, because it means that the bad experience was too painful to even appear in dreams. As long as you are dreaming about it and even if the dreams are frightening, your mind is working on it. My personal opinion about what dreams do is that they help us deal with our problems. We see certain patterns take place in dreams. When a person is hurt deep inside, when a person is seriously ill, or when a person has been really sad, if people turn off their dreams totally, it means they don't allow themselves to even think about it. ‎ 12‎