【正文】 ng a travel plan. C. Aiming high even when doing small things. D. Putting aside a little money regularly for future use. 22. Why did the writer’s parents give him a piggy bank as a gift? A. To delight him with the latest fashion. B. To encourage him to climb mountains. C. To help him form the habit of saving. D. To teach him English pronunciation. 23. What does the underlined word ―something‖(Paragraph 3) most probably refer to? A. Money B. Gifts C. Financial success D. Good luck 24. The last paragraph talks about ________. A. the seriousness of educating children B. the enjoyment of taking a great trip C. the importance of managing money D. the difficulty of starting a business B Students who date in middle school have significantly worse study skills. They are four times more likely to drop out of school and report twice as much alcohol and tobacco use as their single classmates, according to a new research from the University of Geia. Romantic relationships are a trademark of adolescence, but very few studies have examined how adolescents differ in the development of these relationships, said Pamela Orpinas, study author and professor in the College of Public Health and head of the Department of Health Promotion and Behavior. Orpinas followed a group of 624 students over a sevenyear period from 6th to 12th grade. Each year, the group of students pleted a survey indicating whether they had dated and reported the frequency of different behaviors, including the use of drugs and alcohol. Their teachers pleted questionnaires about the students’ academic efforts. He found some students never or hardly ever reported dating from middle to high school, and these students had consistently the best study skills according to their teachers. Other students dated infrequently in middle school but increased the frequency of dating in high school. At all points in time, teachers rated the students who reported the lowest frequency of dating as having the best study skills and the students with the highest dating as having the worst study skills,‖ according to the journal article. Study skills refer to behaviors that lead to academic success such as doing work for extra credit being well anized, finishing homework, working hard and reading assigned chapters. Dating a classmate may have the same emotional effect of dating a coworker, Orpinas said, When the couple break up, they have to continue to see each other in class and perhaps witness the expartner dating someone else. It is reasonable to think this could be linked to depression and distract attention from studying.‖ ―Dating should not be considered a ceremony of growth in middle school,‖ Orpinas concluded. 25. When doing his study, Orpinas_____. A. followed a group of students of 6th and 12th grade B. pleted a survey and a report each year C. pleted questionnaires about the students’ academic efforts D. found that the students’ study skills have connection with their frequency of dating 26. Study skills may include the following behaviors and qualities Except_____. A. being diligent B. being well anized C. being kind and helpful D. finishing assigned schoolwork 27. Orpinas’ attitude towards dating in middle school is _____. A. supportive B. positive C. negative D. indifferent C Motorists who used to listen to the radio or their favorite tunes on CDs may have a new way to entertain themselves, after engineers in Japan developed a musical road surface. A team from the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute has built a number of ―melody roads‖, which use cars as tuning forks to play music as they travel. The concept works by using grooves(凹槽 ). They are cut at very specific intervals in the road surface. The melody road uses the spaces between to create different notes. Depending on how far apart the grooves are, a car moving over them will produce a series of high or low notes, and designers are able to create a distinct tune. Paten documents for the design describe it as notches ―formed in a road surface so as to play a melody without producing simple sound or rhythm and reproduce melodylike tones.‖ There are three musical strips in central and northern Japan—one of which plays the tune of a Japanese pop song. Reports say the system was invented by Shizuo Shinoda. He scraped some markings into a r