1、ADo American children still learn handwriting in school? In the age of the keyboard, some people seem to think handwriting lessons are on the way out. 90% of teachers say they are required to teach handwriting. But studies have yet to answer the question of how well they are teaching it. One study p
2、ublished this year found that about three out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting. Some teachers are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for 10 15 minutes a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for 60 to 70 minutes a day which really for han
3、dwriting is pretty much.Many adults remember learning that way by copying letters over and over again. Today s thinking is that short periods of practice are better. Many experts also think handwriting should not be taught by itself. Instead, they say it should be used as a way to get students to ex
4、press ideas. After all, that is why we write.Handwriting involves two skills. One is legibility, which means forming the letters so they can be read. The other is fluency writing without having to think about it. Fluency continues to develop up until high school.But not everyone masters these skills
5、. Teachers commonly report that about one fourth of their kids have poor handwriting. Some people might think handwriting is not important any more because of computers and voice recognition programs.But Steve Graham at Vanderbilt says word processing is rarely done in elementary school, especially
6、in the early years. American children traditionally first learn to print, and then to write in cursive, which connects the letters. But guess what we learned from a spokeswoman for the College Board, which administers the SAT college admission test. More than 75 percent of students choose to print t
7、heir essay on the test rather than write in cursive.语篇解读文章介绍了在键盘普及的年代美国的书法教学情况。1We can learn _ from Paragraph 1.A. teaching handwriting is a basic requirement in teaching jobB. most teachers prefer to teach handwritingC. teachers spend little time in teaching handwritingD. a keyboard has taken the p
8、lace of the handwriting entirely解析推理判断题。根据第一段中“90% of teachers say they are required to teach handwriting”可知书法教学是基本的教学要求，A项为正确推论。根据“One study published this year found that about three out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting”可知，很多老师不愿意教书法课，B项错误；根据第一段末句可知C项错误；根据全段判断，
9、只是说键盘普及使一些人认为书法渐渐过时了，D项错误。答案A2Which of the following is WRONG for traditional handwriting in the USA?A. The students are taught by practicing a long period.B. The letters are repeated many times.C. Handwriting includes two skills.D. To write in cursive is taught first.解析细节认定题。根据第二段可知，传统的书法教学重复很多遍并且持
10、续时间长，因此A、B两项内容正确。根据第三段第一句可知C项内容正确；根据最后一段第二句可知D项内容错误。答案D3The underlined word “legibility” in Paragraph 3 means _.A. easy to read B. complexC. unexpected D. unreadable解析推测词义题。根据下文“which means forming the letters so they can be read”可推测画线词的意思是“清楚，易读”。答案A4The best title for the passage is _.A. How to im
11、prove handwriting in schoolB. Right or wrong: the death of handwritingC. Handwriting involves two skillsD. Handwriting lessons are on the way out解析标题归纳题。作者对美国书法教学的现状作了叙述，没有自己的主观评论，故选择B。A项没有涉及，C项只是其中一部分内容，D项只是一部分人的观点。答案B5The author s attitude towards whether still to learn handwriting in school is_.A
12、. negative B. objectiveC. critical D. optimistic解析态度判断题。根据全文的叙述，作者只是将美国书法教学的现状和不同人的观点呈现出来，并没有发表自己的见解，因此作者持客观的态度。答案BBSaturday, October 7th, was a marathon of sad tasks for Anna Politkovskaya. Two weeks earlier, her father, a retired official in the department of foreign affairs, had died of a heart a
13、ttack as he emerged from the Moscow Metro while on his way to visit Politkovskayas mother, Raisa Mazepa, in the hospital. She had just been diagnosed(诊断) with cancer and was too weak even to attend her husbands funeral. “Your father will forgive me, because he knows that I have always loved him,” sh
14、e told Anna and her sister, Elena Kudimova, the day he was buried. A week later, she had an operation and since then Anna and Elena had been taking turns helping her deal with her grief.Politkovskaya was supposed to spend the day at the hospital, but her twenty-six-year-old daughter, who was pregnan
15、t, had just moved into Politkovskayas apartment, on Lesnaya Street, while her own place was being prepared for the baby. “Anna had so much on her mind,” Elena Kudimova told me when we met in London, before Christmas. “And she was trying to finish her article.” Politkovskaya was a special reporter fo
16、r the small newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and, like most of her work, the piece focused on the terror that can be seen all over the southern republic of Chechnya. This time, she had been trying to report repeated cruel acts done by people faithful to the Prime Minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, who are in favour
17、of Russia. In the past seven years, Politkovskaya had written dozens of accounts of life during wartime; many had been collected in her book “A Small Corner of Hell: reports from Chechnya.” Politkovskaya was far more likely to spend time in a hospital than on a battlefield, and her writing bore freq
18、uent witness to robbery, and the uncontrolled cruelty of life in a place that few other Russiansand almost no other reporterscared to think about. 1. Politkovskayas father died of _.A. tiredness B. a heart disease C. an attack D. an accident【答案与解析】答案B。从第2句中的“had died of a heart attack”可知B选项是正确答案。C选项
19、attack是“攻击”的意思，而文中出现的是heart attack，“心脏病”，因此C选项偷换了概念；其他选项与文中相关的表述不相干。2. From the text we know that Raisa Mazepa _. A. didnt love her husband B. didnt attend her husbands funeralC. was having an operation the day her husband was buried D. was too sad to attend her husbands funeral【答案与解析】答案B。从3、4、5三句可知
20、B选项是正确选项，其他三个选项与文中的表述不一致。3. The underlined word “emerged” most likely means _. A. came out B. went into C. disappeared D. left for【答案与解析】答案A。介词“from”表示动作的出处、来源，而后面的介词宾语是“the Moscow Metro”，可知“Moscow Metro”是“emerged”这一动作的起源地，因此，A选项符合原文的意思。4. How many family members of Anna are mentioned in the passage
21、? A. Three. B. Four C. Five D. Six【答案与解析】4. 答案C。文中提到Politkovskaya姐妹俩，以及她的父母、女儿。5. Which of the following words can best describe Politkovskayas character? A. Curious B. easy-going C. careless D. responsible【答案与解析】答案D。从“Politkovskaya was a special reporter for the small newspaper Novaya Gazeta,”一直到文章
22、的结尾，作者简述了Politkovskaya敢于直面社会的不良现象的正值性格，而这是其他记者所不屑的，因此D选项是正确答案。CA Southampton University team found that people who were vegetarians by 30 had recorded five IQ points higher on average at the age of 10. Researchers said it could explain why people with a higher IQ were healthier as a vegetarian diet
23、was linked to lower heart disease and obesity rates. The study of 8,179 people was reported in the British Medical Journal.Twenty years after the IQ tests were carried out in 1970, 366 of the participants said they were vegetarians although more than 100 reported eating either fish or chicken.Men wh
24、o were vegetarians had an IQ score of 106, compared with 101 for non-vegetarians; while female vegetarians averaged 104, compared with 99 for non-vegetarians. There was no difference in the IQ scores, between strict vegetarians and those who said they were vegetarians but reported eating fish or chi
25、cken.Researchers said the findings were partly related to better education and higher class, but it remained statistically significant after adjusting for these factors.Vegetarians were more likely to be female, to be of higher social class and to have higher academic or vocational qualifications th
26、an non-vegetarians. However, these differences were not reflected in their annual income, which was similar to that of non-vegetarians.Lead researcher Catharine Gale said, “The findings that children with greater intelligence are more likely to report being vegetarians as adults, together with the e
27、vidence on the potential benefits of a vegetarian diet on heart health, may help to explain why a higher IQ in childhood or adolescence is linked with a reduced risk of coronary heart disease in adult life.But Dr Frankie Phillips of the British Dietetic Association said，“It_ is_ like _the _chicken _
28、and _egg. Do people become vegetarians because they have a very high IQ or is it just that they are clever enough to be more aware of health issues？”语篇解读研究表明，素食和高智商有一定的关系。1What s the result of the research mentioned in the text?A. Intelligent children are more likely to become vegetarians later in l
29、ife.B. Children with a higher IQ are less likely to have heart disease later in life.C. Intelligent children tend to belong to higher social class later in life.D. Children with a healthier heart tend to have a higher IQ later in life.解析细节理解题。根据第一段中的“people who were vegetarians by 30 had recorded fi
30、ve IQ points higher on average at the age of 10”可知A项正确。根据“it could explain why.”可知这一结果可帮助解释B项中的现象，但B项并非这次研究的结果。故本题选A。答案A2It was found in the research that_.A. most of the participants became vegetarians 20 years after the IQ tests were carried outB. vegetarians who ate fish or chicken were of simila
31、r intelligence with strict vegetariansC. female vegetarians were more likely to have higher annual income than non-vegetariansD. vegetarians were more likely to have higher annual income than non-vegetarians解析细节理解题。根据第三段中的“There was no difference in the IQ scores between strict vegetarians and those
32、 who said they were vegetarians but reported eating fish or chicken”可知答案。答案B3Catharine Gale talked about “being vegetarians” in a(n)_way.A. doubtful B. favorableC. negative D. objective解析推理判断题。根据第六段可知Catharine Gale只是客观地讲述研究结果，并没有表示自己的立场。故选D项。答案D4What does the underlined sentence in the last paragrap
33、h mean?A. Intelligence is linked to not just being a vegetarian but to many factors.B. The rate of getting heart disease is linked to your lifestyle.C. The link between a high IQ and being a vegetarian is still uncertain.D. The link between a healthy heart and diet remains to be proved.解析推理判断题。文章最后一
34、句的意思是：人们成为素食者是因为他们智商高还是因为他们足够聪明而更注意健康问题？由此可见Dr Frankie Phillips认为素食和高智商的因果关系尚未明确，就像弄不清楚是因为有蛋才有鸡，还是因为有鸡才有蛋一样。故C项正确。答案C5What s the best title for the text?A. Get more IQ points!B. Be a vegetarian, please!C. Vegetarian diet cuts heart riskD. A high IQ is linked to being a vegetarian解析标题概括题。本文介绍了一项研究结果：
35、素食与高智商有关，故D项正确。作者并未提出建议，所以A、B两项错误；文章中虽然提到了心脏病，但不是文章的主旨，故C项错误。答案DAMost mornings, the line begins to form at dawn: scores of silent women with babies on their backs, buckets balanced on their heads, and in each hand a bright-blue plastic jug. On good days, they will wait less than an hour before a wat
36、er tanker goes across the dirt path that serves as a road in Kesum Purbahari, a slum on the southern edge of New Delhi. On bad days, when there is no electricity for the pumps, the tankers dont come at all. “That water kills people,” a young mother named Shoba said one recent Saturday morning, point
37、ing to a row of pails filled with thick, caramel (焦糖)-colored liquid. “Whoever drinks it will die.” The water was from a pipe shared by thousands of people in the poor neibourhood. Women often use it to wash clothes and bathe their children, but nobody is desperate enough to drink it. There is no st
38、andard for how much water a person needs each day, but experts usually put the minimum at fifty litres. The government of India promises (but rarely provides) forty. Most people drink two or three litresless than it takes to wash a toilet. The rest is typically used for cooking and bathing. American
39、s consume between four hundred and six hundred litres of water each day, more than any other people on earth. Most Europeans use less than half that. The women of Kesum Purbahari each hoped to drag away a hundred litres that daytwo or three buckets worth. Shoba has a husband and five children, and t
40、hat much water doesnt go far in a family of seven, particularly when the temperature reaches a hundred and ten degrees before noon. She often makes up the difference with bottled water, which costs more than water delivered any other way. Sometimes she just buys milk; its cheaper. Like the poorest p
41、eople everywhere, the people of New Delhis slums spend a far greater percentage of their incomes on water than anyone lucky enough to live in a house connected to a system of pipes.1. The underlined word “slum” most likely means _. A. a village B. a small townC. an area of a town with badly-built, o
42、ver-crowded buildings D. the part of a town that lacks water badly【答案与解析】答案C。A、B、D可以指贫穷地区，也可以指富裕地区，但根据第1段的第2句及第2段的最后一句可以知道slum指的更可能是贫穷地区，C选项比较接近这个意思，因此应该是最佳答案。2. Sometimes the water tanker doesnt come because _. A. the weather is bad B. there is no electricity C. there is no water D. people dont wan
43、t the dirty water【答案与解析】答案B。根据第1段的On bad days, when there is no electricity for the pumps, the tankers dont come at all.可以知道B选项是正确答案。3. A person needs at least _ litres of water a day. A. a hundred B. four hundred C. forty D. fifty【答案与解析】答案D。根据第2段的“but experts usually put the minimum at fifty litres
44、”可以知道D选项是正确答案。4. Which of the following statements is wrong? A. a hundred litres of water a day is enough for Shobas family B. Americans uses the largest amount of water each day C. in Kesum Purbahari milk is cheaper than bottled water D. Shoba has a family of seven people【答案与解析】答案A。根据第2段的Shoba has
45、a husband and five children, and that much water doesnt go far in a family of seven, particularly when the temperature reaches a hundred and ten degrees before noon.可以判断A选项不符合文意，而其他选项均可在文中找到支持信息。5. The passage mainly tells us _. A. how women in Kesum Purbahari gets their water B. how much water a da
46、y a person deeds C. that India lacks water badly D. how India government manages to solve the problem of water【答案与解析】答案C。该题是判断主旨大意题。第2段第2句是该文的主题句，C选项与主题句的意思一致，因此是正确选项。A、B选项是细节信息，用于村托印度缺水的现象；D选项则完全与文章的意思相反，因此均可排除。We bet that on cold wintry days, many of you love to stay in your warm home and, every n
47、ow and then，come out into the kitchen for a snack. Unfortunately, plenty of creepy-crawly critters (爬行生物) like to do the same thing!Winter is the time when bugs (虫子) invade your house without an invitation. The season can be tough for such creatures. In winter the air is cold, the ground is hard and
48、 many trees have no leaves. So bugs do what they have to do to survive.Monarch butterflies head south to warmer climates. Ants crowd in deep underground colonies and eat food they have been storing all year. Many insects go into a deep sleep called diapauses. There re different kinds of diapauses, b
49、ut all are similar to hibernation, a time when bigger animals become inactive in the cold. Insects go into an inactive period, too, but it often isn t when the temperature drops.They rely on more dependable signals in the environment. For example, many insects can tell how much sunlight there s each
50、 day. They use that to tell themselves when to shut down. Bugs are cold-blooded, meaning that their inside temperature is the same as the outside. They can t move much when it gets below 40 degrees Fahrenheit. So they search for any warm place.They re looking for protection. These guys have been doi
51、ng this for 300 million years, so they don t really know they re coming into your house. The home is a recent event in terms of their evolutionary behavior. They enter through tiny cracks or come in unnoticed on your clothes or shoes. Remember that they may be invading your homes for warmth and food
52、, but they dont care about humans.语篇解读本文主要介绍的是：为什么虫子在冬天会入侵人类住所。1. What is the purpose of the first paragraph?A. To point out that humans like to stay at home in winter.B. To mean that humans and bugs have the same living habits.C. To mean that bugs will invade humans houses for their winter.D. To pu
53、t forward the idea that bugs are not welcome in winter.解析推理判断题。根据文章第一段可知，虫子和人类一样，也会喜欢待在温暖的屋里，再结合文章的后面几段可知，本段暗示虫子在冬天会入侵人类住所。答案C2According to the text, what is diapauses?A. It is the same as the animals hibernation.B. It often appears in warm areas all the year.C. It is done to keep bugs active in win
54、ter.D. It is a deep sleep similar to hibernation.解析细节理解题。根据文章第三段可知答案为D。答案D3What often decides bugs diapauses?A. The lower local temperature.B. The amount of sunlight.C. Kinds of environmental signals.D. The insects inside temperature.解析细节理解题。根据文章第四段的“They rely on more dependable signals in the envir
55、onment”可知，虫子的“diapauses”是由多种环境可依赖性因素决定的，不一定全靠温度或者光照。答案C4According to the text, bugs invade humans homes to_.A. attack humansB. look for enough foodC. seek for protectionD. show their evolutionary results解析细节理解题。根据文章最后一段可知，虫子进屋是为了寻求保护，把自己置身于安全形势之下，而不仅仅是为了寻求食物。答案C5What would be the best title for the
56、text?A. Bugs life on cold wintry daysB. Why do bugs invade your home in winter?C. Good relations between humans and bugsD. What does diapauses mean?解析标题概括题。整篇文章主要告诉读者的是：在冬天里，为什么虫子会入侵人类的住所。答案BOne day last September, as Britney Spears was about to board a flight to Los Angeles from London, a blue bott
57、le fell out of her purse. She quickly put it back in, but not before the camera recorded the event. Neither Spears nor her spokesman was willing to comment on the contents of the bottle, but the next morning Londons Daily Express published a page of pictures under the headline “EXCLUSIVE: POP PRINCE
58、SS SPOTTED AT AIRPORT WITH POT OF SLIMMING TABLETS.” Spears was apparently carrying Zantrex-3, one of the most popular weight-loss pills now sold in the United States. The pill, which is sold at about fifty dollars for a months supply, contains a huge amount of caffeine, some green tea, and three co
59、mmon South American herbs that also act as stimulants (兴奋剂). It hit the U.S. market last March and has had a success that would be hard to overstate. Millions of bottles have been sold, and during the Christmas season it was displayed in the windows of the nations largest chain of vitamin shops, G.N
60、.C. (It is so highly sought after that many of the stores keep it in locked counters.) Zantrex-3 is also sold at CVS, Rite Aid, Wal-Mart, and other chains, and over the telephone and on the Internet. If you type “Zantrex” into Google, more than a hundred thousand pieces of information about it will
61、appear. At any moment, there are scores of people sell it on eBay. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the success story of Zantrex-3, however, is that it is far from unique. There are hundreds of similar products on the market today, and they are bought by millions of Americans. And though Zan
62、trexs producer makes some exciting statements (“the most advanced weight control compound (化合物)period”), so do the people who sell Stacker 2 and Anorex along with those who sell Carb Eliminator and Fat Eliminator. Almost all of these compounds suggest that they can help people lose weight and regain
63、 lost energy, and often without diet, exercise, or any other effort. 1. Britney Spears is a / an_. A. dancer B. singer C. athlete D. chemist【答案与解析】答案B。细节信息题。从第1段的大写部分“POP PRINCESS SPOTTED AT AIRPORT WITH POT OF SLIMMING TABLETS.”可以知道B选项是正确答案。2. Which of the following is also a kind of weight-loss pi
64、ll? A. CVS B. Rite Aid C. Wal-Mart D. Anorex【答案与解析】答案D。细节信息题。根据第1段的 “Zantrex-3 is also sold at CVS, Rite Aid, Wal-Mart, and other chains,”以及第2段的“so do the people who sell Stacker 2 and Anorex along with those who sell Carb Eliminator and Fat Eliminator.”可以知道D选项是正确答案。3. The underlined part of the sen
65、tence in the first paragraph is most likely similar in meaning to _. A. it is difficult to say how successful Zantrex-3 is B. you cant overstate the success of Zantrex-3 C. you cant think too highly of the success of Zantrex-3 D. Zantrex-3 is not very successful【答案与解析】答案C。理解句子结构及推测词义题。从It hit the U.
66、S. market last March and has had a success that would be hard to overstate. 的前半部分可以知道Zantrex-3是美国市场很畅销的减肥类商品；根据构词法可以知道后半部分的overstate有“夸张、夸大事实”的意思，而would be hard to overstate可以理解为“难以夸张、夸大”的意思，因此划线部分的意思可以直译为“难以夸大/夸张的成功”或理解为“怎么夸张都不过份的成功”，C选项所含有的句型can nottoo亦是此意。4. From the second paragraph we know that
67、 _ . A. Zantrex-3 is one of the successful weight-loss pills on the US market B. Zantrex-3 is the most successful weight-loss pills on the US marketC. Zantrex-3 is the only weight-loss pill on the US marketD. there are five kinds of weight-loss pills on the US market 【答案与解析】答案A。从第2段的1、2、3句可以知道A选项是正确
68、答案，其他选项均与文章的信息不一致。5. The text mainly tells us _. A. when Britney Spears was found taking weight-loss pills with her B. how Zantrex-3 became successful in the USA C. weight-loss pills are very popular in the USA D. Zantrex-3 is forbidden to be sold on the US market【答案与解析】答案C。A选项只包含了文章的部分信息；B选项侧重Zantr
69、ex-3获得成功的方式，而文章并没有这方面的信息；D选项与文章中的信息相反；从整体来看，文章是以Zantrex-3为引子，引出减肥或瘦身类商品当今在美国很流行的话题，即第1段是引入，第2段开始切入主题，第2段的第2句可以看做是主题句。C选项与主题句的意思一致，因此应该是该题的答案。Next time a customer comes to your office, offer him a cup of coffee. And when youre doing your holiday shopping online, make sure youre holding a large glass
70、of iced tea. The physical sensation (感觉) of warmth encourages emotional warmth, while a cold drink in hand prevents you from making unwise decisions those are the practical lesson being drawn from recent research by psychologist John A. Bargh.Psychologists have known that one person s perception (感知
71、) of another s “warmth” is a powerful determiner in social relationships. Judging someone to be either “warm” or “cold” is a primary consideration, even trumping evidence that a “cold” person may be more capable. Much of this is rooted in very early childhood experiences, Bargh argues, when babies c
72、onceptual sense of the world around them is shaped by physical sensations, particularly warmth and coldness.Classic studics by Harry Harlow, published in 1958, showed monkeys preferred to stay close to a cloth “mother” rather than one made of wire, even when the wire “mother” carried a food bottle.
73、Harlows work and later studies have led psychologists to stress the need for warm physical contact from caregivers to help young children grow into healthy adults with normal social skills.Feelings of “warmth” and “coldness” in social judgments appear to be universal.Although no worldwide study has
74、been done, Bargh says that describing people as “warm”， or “cold” is common to many cultures, and studies have found those perceptions influence judgment in dozens of countries.To test the relationship between physical and psychological warmth, Bargh conducted an experiment which involved 41 college
75、 students. A research assistant who was unaware of the studys hypotheses (假设) , handed the students either a hot cup of coffee, or a cold drink, to hold while the researcher filled out a short information form. The drink was then handed back. After that, the students were asked to rate the personali
76、ty of“Person A”based on a particular description. Those who had briefly held the warm drink regarded Person A as warmer than those who had held the iced drink.“We are grounded in our physical experiences even when we think abstractly，” says Bargh.语篇解读最近的心理学研究发现，人们对“温暖”或者“寒冷”的感受可以改变人们的情感。1According t
77、o Paragraph 1, a person s emotion may be affected by_.A. the visitors to his officeB. the psychology lessons he hasC. his physical feeling of coldnessD. the things he has bought online解析细节理解题。由文章第一段的第三句话可知，温暖的感觉激发温暖的情感，而冷饮在手则会阻止你做出不明智的决定，因此可以说一个人的情感可能会受到冷的感觉的影响。答案B2The author mentions Harlow s exper
78、iment to show that_.A. adults should develop social skillsB. babies need warm physical contactC. caregivers should be healthy adultsD. monkeys have social relationships解析细节理解题。在试验中，猴子喜欢去靠近布制的“妈妈”而不喜欢“金属线”做的“妈妈”。这使心理学家们强调养育者应该让孩子们多接触一些令人感觉温暖的东西，以帮助孩子们成长为有正常社交技能的健康的成年人，故B项正确。答案B3In Bargh s experiment,
79、 the students were asked to_.A. evaluate someone s personalityB. write down their hypothesesC. fill out a personal information formD. hold coffee and cold drink alternatively解析细节理解题。由文中倒数第二段中的“After that，the students were asked to rate the personality ofPerson Abased on a particular description.”可知选
80、A。在试验中，学生被要求评价某人的性格。答案A4We can infer from the passage that_.A. abstract thinking does not come from physical experiencesB. feelings of warmth and coldness are studied worldwideC. physical temperature affects how we see othersD. capable persons are often cold to others解析推理判断题。全文都在论述人们对“温暖”或“寒冷”的感觉可以影
81、响人们对事物的评价。因此，物理温度会影响我们看待他人的方式。因此选C。答案C5What would be the best title for the passage?A. Drinking for Better Social RelationshipsB. Experiments of Personality EvaluationC. Developing Better Drinking HabitsD. Physical Sensations and Emotions解析主旨大意题。本文主要介绍的是人们对物理温度的感觉对人们情绪的影响，D项概括性比较强。答案DA little under
82、one-third of U.S. families have no Internet access and do not plan to get it, with most of the holdouts seeing little use for it in their lives, according to a survey released on Friday.Park Associates, a Dallas-based technology market research firm, said 29 percent of U.S. families, or 31 million h
83、omes, do not have Internet access and do not intend to subscribe（预订）to an Internet service over the next 12 months. The second annual National Technology Scan conducted by Park found that the main reason why potential customers say they do not subscribe to the Internet is because of the low value to
84、 their daily lives rather than concerns over cost.Forty-four percent of these families say they are not interested in anything on the Internet, versus just 22 percent who say they cannot afford a computer or the cost of Internet service, the survey showed. The answer “Im not sure how to use the Inte
85、rnet” came from 17 percent of participants who do not subscribe. The response “I do all my e-commerce shopping and YouTube-watching at work” was cited by 14 percent of Internet-access users. Three percent said the Internet doesnt reach their homes.The study found U.S. broadband adoption grew to 52 p
86、ercent over 2006, up from 42 percent in 2005. Roughly half of new subscribers converted（转变）from slower-speed, dial-up Internet access while the other half of families had no prior access.“The industry continues to chip（击破）away at the core of non-subscribers, but has a long way to go,” said John Barr
87、ett, director of research at Parks Associates. “Entertainment applications will be the key. If anything will pull in the holdouts, its going to be applications that make the Internet more similar to pay-TV,” he predicted.1. What does the underlined word “holdouts” in the first paragraph most probabl
88、y mean?A. some American familiesB. those who hold out ones opinionsC. those who have been surveyedD. those who still havent access to the Internet currently【答案与解析】D 根据前文one third of the U.S. families have no Internet access and do not plan to get it 可知2. Many potential customers refuse to subscribe
89、to the Internet mainly because _.A. they show too much concern about the cost B. they can find little value of itC. they do most YouTube-watching at work D. the Internet doesnt reach their homes【答案与解析】B 由第二段found the main reason potential customers say they do not subscribe to the Internet is becaus
90、e of the low value to their daily lives they recognize可知3. From the passage we can infer that _.A. It is not an easy job to transform those holdouts into the Internet usersB. people will adopt dial-up Internet access no moreC. many Americans enjoy doing e-commerce shopping at homeD. more than half o
91、f the population are using the Internet in 2005【答案与解析】A 从最后一段第一句可知4. According to John Barrett, what is the key to attracting more U.S. families to broadband service?A. making the Internet look more similar to TV setB. applying the Internet more to entertainmentC. providing more pay-TV programsD. ch
92、ipping away at the core of non-subscribers【答案与解析】B 由最后一段“Entertainment applications will be the key”一句可知5. Which is the best title for the passage?A. Web develops with technologyB. The present situation of webC. Many Americans see little point to webD. It is urgent to promote web service【答案与解析】 C 从文
93、章的写作逻辑可知作者主要在谈目前还有三分之一的美国家庭没有网络服务，而B答案太宽泛Against the supposition than forest fires in Alaska, Canada and Siberia warm the climate, scientists have discovered that cooling may occur in areas where burnt trees allow more snow to mirror more sunlight into space.This finding suggests that taking steps t
94、o prevent northern forest to limit the release of greenhouse gases may warm the climate in northern regions. Usually large fires destroyed forests in these areas over the past decade. Scientists predict that with climate warming, fires may occur more frequently over next several centuries as result
95、of a longer fire season. Sunlight taken in by the earth tends to cause warming, while heat mirrored back into space tends to cause cooling.This is the first study to analyze all aspects of how northern fires influence climate. Earlier studies by other scientists have suggested that fire in northern
96、regions speed up climate warming because greenhouse gases from burning trees and plants are released into the atmosphere and thus trap heat.Scientists found that right after the fire, large amounts of greenhouse gases entered the atmosphere and caused warming. Ozone（臭氧）levels increased, and ash from
97、 the fire fell on far-off sea ice, darkening the surface and causing more radiation from the sun to be taken in. The following spring, however, the land within the area of the fire was brighter than before the fire, because fewer trees covered the ground. Snow on the ground mirrored more sunlight ba
98、ck into space, leading to cooling.“We need to find out all possible ways to reduce the growth of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.” Scientists tracked the change in amount of radiation entering and leaving the climate system as a result of the fire, and found a measurement closely related to the g
99、lobal air temperature. Typically, fire in northern regions occurs in the same area every 80 to 150 years. Scientists, however, found that when fire occurs more frequently, more radiation is lost from the earth and cooling results. Specifically, they determined when fire returns 20 years earlier than
100、 predicated, 0.5 watts per square meter of area burned are soaked up by the earth from greenhouse gases, but 0.9 watts per square meter will be sent back into space. The net effect is cooling. Watts are used to measure the rate at which energy is gained or lost from the earth.1. According to the new
101、 findings, taking steps to prevent northern forest fires may _.A. result in a warming climateB. cause the forest fires to occur more frequentlyC. lead to a longer fire seasonD. protect the forests and the environment there【答案与解析】A 根据第二段第一句This finding suggests 可知2. The following are all the immediat
102、e effects after a forest fire EXCEPT _.A. large amounts of greenhouse gases enter the atmosphereB. the levels of ozone which is a type of oxygen increaseC. snow on the ground mirrors more sunlight back into spaceD. ashes from the fire fall on the ice surface and take in more radiation from the sun【答
103、案与解析】C 根据第四段可知3. Earlier studies about northern forest fires _.A. analyze all aspects of how northern fires influence climateB. indicate that forest fires will pollute the atmosphereC. suggest that people should take measures to protect environmentD. suggest that the fires will speed up climate warm
104、ing【答案与解析】D 根据第三段可知4. The underlined phrase “soak up” in the last paragraph most probably means _.A. releasedB. absorbedC. createdD. distributed【答案与解析】B 根据but 0.9 watts per square meter will be sent back into space 可知soak up 与sent back 的意思相反5. From the passage we can draw a conclusion that forest fi
105、res in Alaska, Canada and Siberia may _.A. warm the climate as the supposition goesB. allow more snow to reflect more sunlight into space and thus cool the climateC. destroy large areas of forests and pollute the far-off sea iceD. help to gain more energy rather than release more energy【答案与解析】B 根据第一
106、段Against the supposition scientists have discovered that可知Kincaid looked at his watch: eight-seventeen. The truck started on the second try, and he backed out, shifted gears, and moved slowly down the alley under hazy sun. Through the streets of Bellingham he went, heading south on Washington 11, ru
107、nning along the coast of Puget Sound for a few miles, then following the highway as it swung east a little before meeting U.S Route 20.Turning into the sun, he began the long, winding drive through the Cascades. He liked this country and felt unpressed stopping now and then to make notes about inter
108、esting possibilities for future expeditions or to shoot what he called “memory snapshots.” The purpose of these causal photographs was to remind him of places he might want to visit again and approach more seriously. In later afternoon he turned north at Spokane, picking up U.S. Route 2, which would
109、 take him halfway across the northern United States to Duluth, Minnesota.He wished for the thousandth time in his life that he had a dog ,a golden retriever, maybe ,for travels like this and to keep him company at home. But he was frequently away; overseas much of the time and it would not be fair t
110、o the animal .Still ,he thought about it anyway. In a few years he would be getting too old for the hard fieldwork. “I must get a dog then.” He said to himself.Drives like this always put him into a sentimental mood. The dog was part of it .Robert Kincaid was alone as its possible to bean only child
111、 ,parents both dead , distant relatives who had lost track of him and he of them, no close friends.He thought about Marian .She had left him nine years ago after five years of marriage. He was fifty-two now , that would make her just under forty .Marian had dreams of becoming a musician ,a folksinge
112、r .She knew all of the Weavers songs and sang them pretty well in the coffeehouse of Seattle .When he was home in the old days, he drove her to the shows and sat in the audience while she sang.His long absencestwo or three months sometimeswere hard on the marriage .He knew that. She was aware of wha
113、t he did when they decided to get married ,and both of them had a vague(not clear) sense that it could all be handled somehow. It couldnt when he came from photographing a story in Iceland and ,she was gone . The note read, “Robert ,it didnt work out ,I left you the Harmony guitar. Stay in touch.”He
114、 didnt stay in touch .Neither did she .He3 signed the divorce papers when they arrived a year later and caught a plane for Australia the next day. She had asked for nothing except her freedom.1. Which route is the right one taken by Kincaid?A. BellinghamWashington 11Puget SoundU.S Route 20U.S Route
115、2Duluth B. U.S. Route 2BellinghamWashington 11Puget SoundU.S Route 20Duluth C. U.S. Route 2U.S Route 20Duluth BellinghamWashington 11D. BellinghamWashington 11U.S. Route 2U.S Route 20Duluth 【答案与解析】A 从第一，二自然段可看出。2. Which statement is true according to the passage?A. Kincaids parents were dead and he
116、only kept in touch with some distant relatives.B. Kincaid would have had a dog if he hadnt been away from home too much.C. Kincaid used to have a golden retriever.D. Kincaid needed a dog in doing his hard fieldwork.【答案与解析】B 从第三自然段中的He wished for the thousandth time in his life that he had a dog But
117、he was frequently away; overseas much of the time and it would not be fair to the animal 可得出此答案。3. Why did Kincaid stop to take photos while driving?A. To write “memory snapshots”B. To remind himself of places he might want to visit again.C. To avoid forgetting the way back.D. To shoot beautiful sce
118、nery along the road.【答案与解析】B 从第二自然段中的The purpose of these causal photographs was to remind him of places he might want to visit again可得出此答案。4. What can you know about Marian?A. She died after five years of marriage.B. She was older than Kincaid.C. She could sing very well and earned big money.D. She
119、 was not a professional pop singer.【答案与解析】D 从第五自然段中的Marian had dreams of becoming a musician ,a folksinger。可得出此答案。5. We can draw a conclusion from the passage that .A. Marian knew what would happen before she married Kincaid.B. Kincaid thought his absence would be a problem when he married Marian.C.
120、 It turned out that Marian could not stand Kincaids absence and left him.D. After Marian left him, they still kept in touch with each other.【答案与解析】 C 从文章中最后两自然段中可得出此结论。Tens of thousands of theatre tickets will be given away to young people next year as part of a government campaign to inspire a life
121、long love for theatre.The plan to offer free seats to people aged between 18 to 26 funded with 2.5 million of taxpayers money was announced yesterday by Andy Burnham, the Culture Secretary.It received a cautious welcome from some in the arts world，who expressed concern that the tickets may not reach
122、 the most underprivileged.The plan comes as West End theatres are enjoying record audiences, thanks largely to musicals teaming up with television talent shows. Attendances reached 13.6 million in 2007，up 10 percent on 2006, itself a record year. Total sales were up 18 percent on 2006 to almost 470
123、million.One theatre source criticised the Government s priorities(优先考虑的事) in funding free tickets when pensioners were struggling to buy food and fuel, saying: “I don t know why the Government s wasting money on this. The Young Vic, as The Times reported today，offers excellent performances at cheap
124、prices.”There was praise for the Government s plan from Dominic Cooke of the Royal Court Theatre, who said: “I support any move to get young people into theatre, and especially one that aims to do it all over England, not just in London.”Ninetyfive publicly funded theatres could apply for funding un
125、der the twoyear plan. In return, they will offer free tickets on at least one day each week to 18 to 26yearolds，firstcome, firstserved. It is likely to be on Mondays, traditionally a quiet night for the theatre.Mr. Burnham said: “A young person attending the theatre can find it an exciting experienc
126、e, and be inspired to explore a new world. But sometimes people miss out on it because they fear it snot for them. It s time to change this perception.”Jeremy Hunt, the Shadow Culture Secretary, said: “The real issue is not getting enthusiastic children into the theatre，but improving arts education
127、so that more young people want to go in the first place. For too many children theatres are a nogo area.”语篇解读为了激发年轻一代对戏剧的喜爱，政府开展了一项运动：将于明年送出成千上万张戏票。这一计划在社会各界引起了不同的反应。1Critics of the plan argued that_.A. the theatres would be overcrowdedB. it would be a waste of moneyC. pensioners wouldn t get free t
128、icketsD. the government wouldn t be able to afford it解析细节理解题。由文中第四段开头的criticised和“I dont know why the Governments wasting money on this.”一句可知，批评者认为这一计划是在浪费金钱，故选B。答案B2According to the supporters, the plan should_.A. benefit the television industryB. focus on producing better playsC. help increase the
129、 sales of ticketsD. involve all the young people in England解析细节理解题。由文中第五段最后一句话可知，支持该计划的人支持让年轻人到剧院去的任何运动、措施或手段，尤其是那种能够让全英国人而不是仅伦敦人能参与的措施。故选D。答案D3Which of the following is TRUE about the plan?A. Ninetyfive theatres have received funding.B. Everyone will get at least one free ticket.C. It may not benef
130、it all the young people.D. Free tickets are offered once every day.解析细节判断题。A项错，95%的剧院只是可以申请该基金，而非获得；B项错在everyone，过于绝对；D项错是因为免费票只是每周发放一次，而非每天都有。答案C4We can infer from the passage that in England_.A. many plays are not for young peopleB. many young people don t like theatreC. people know little about t
131、he planD. children used to receive good arts education解析推理判断题。由文章最后一段可知真正的问题不是让孩子们进入到剧院里，而是要提高他们的艺术教育水平，让更多的年轻人愿意进入剧院，由此可见许多年轻人是不喜欢戏剧的。答案B5According to the passage, the issue to offer free tickets to young people seems _.A. controversial B. inspiringC. exciting D. unreasonable解析推理判断题。由第二、四、五三段可知该计划得
132、到了艺术界一些人士的谨慎的欢迎，另一些人则持批评态度，还有一些人则赞扬该计划。由此可见这项计划是有争议的(controversial)。答案AAn increase in students applying to study economics at university is being attributed to (归因于) the global economic crisis awakening a public thirst for knowledge about how the financial system works.Applications for degree course
133、s beginning this autumn were up by 15% this January, according to UCAS, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. A spokesman for the Royal Economic Society said applications to do economics at Alevel were also up.Professor John Beath, the president of the society and a leading lecturer at S
134、t Andrews University, said his firstyear lectures which are open to students from all departments were drawing crowds of 400, rather than the usual 250.“There are a large number of students who are not economics majors, who would like to learn something about it.One of the things I have done this ye
135、ar is to relate my teaching to contemporary events in a way that one hash t traditionally done，” he added.University applications rose 7% last year, but there were rises above average in several subjects. Nursing saw a 15% jump, with peoples renewed interest in careers in the public sector(部门), whic
136、h are seen as more secure in economic crisis.A recent study showed almost two thirds of parents believed schools should do more to teach pupils about financial matters, and almost half said their children had asked them what was going on, although a minority of parents felt they did not understand i
137、t themselves well enough to explain.Zack Hocking, the head of Child Trust Funds, said: “Its possible that one good thing to arise from the downturn will be a generation that s financially wiser and better equipped to manage their money through times of economic uncertainty. ”语篇解读本文主要讲述了金融危机下学生们开始更多地
138、选择与经济有关的专业这一现象。1Professor John Beath s lectures are_.A. given in a traditional wayB. connected with the present situationC. open to both students and their parentsD. warmly received by economists解析事实细节题。从第四段第二句话可知他把教学与当前的一些重大事件紧密相连，即贴近现实生活，故B(与当前的形势相联系)为正确答案。答案B2Careers in the public sector are more
139、 attractive because of their_.A. greater stability B. higher payC. fewer applications D. better reputation解析事实细节题。从第五段最后可知在当前金融危机下这些公共部门的工作以其安全性和稳定性吸引了求职者，故A(极大的稳定性)为正确答案。答案A3In the opinion of most parents，_.A. economics should be the focus of school teachingB. more students should be admitted to un
140、iversitiesC. the teaching of financial matters should be strengthenedD. children should solve financial problems themselves解析事实细节题。由倒数第二段的内容可知应该“加强关于经济问题方面的教学”，答案为C。答案C4According to Hocking, the global economic crisis might make the youngsters _.A. wiser in money managementB. have access to better e
141、quipmentC. confident about their future careersD. get jobs in Child Trust Funds解析推理判断题。Hocking认为经济下滑带来的一个好处就是让年轻人学会了更明智地处理金钱方面的问题，在经济不稳定时期更好地理财。所以答案为A。答案A来源:Zxxk.Com5What s the main idea of the text?A. Universities have received more applications.B. Economics is attracting an increasing number of st
142、udents.C. College students benefit a lot from economic uncertainty.D. Parents are concerned with children s subject selecttion.解析主旨大意题。第一段提到全球性的金融危机使公众想更多地了解有关经济体系方面的一些问题，所以更多的学生申请经济学专业，本文正是对此展开的论述，故答案为B。答案BAWestern New Bridge Library AnnouncementShortened Library Hours for Spring BreakLibrary Hours
143、 have been shortened to 7 hours a day (900 a. m. 400 p. m. ) for Spring Break from March 24 to March 30.Coming EventsOn Monday, March 24, at 1030 a. m. , Scott Sutton, a childrens writer, will tell stories to kids over seven. Sutton s attractive style will surely inspire everyone present ！At 200 p.
144、m. , on March 25, a lecture will be delivered in Room 201, which focuses on the development of writing skill. Famous tutors from the district won t disappoint you.At 100 p. m. ，on March 26, the Georgetown Musicians will present an Irish Folk Concert, which will be entertaining for the entire family.
145、 Come for the music and stay to check out some relevant books for the rest of the week！On Thursday, March 27, at 200 p. m. , the annual Children s Gathering will take place in Room 201, the second floor. Pick up an invitation in the Children s Room and return your RSVP (回复)to reserve your seat at th
146、e table by 300 p. m. on Tuesday, March 25. Only children are allowed in the Gathering.At 1030 am. on Friday, March 28, Enzo Monfre of the hit kids science show, ENZOology, will bring Fossils Live! Surely Enzo will take the audience back in time, deep beneath the surface of the earth, to uncover the
147、mysteries of killer dinosaurs, and more. Enzo recently appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show come and see him at the library！Please note: In case of emergency, please call the Help Desk at 926 3736 and follow the procedures outlined on the voice message. The calldown service is staffed 24 hours a day
148、, 7 days a week for emergencies. The Help Desk supplies service to you all the year round! For questions about all these, please contact_hld_wnbl._corg.Come for the great Fun; Stay for the relevant Books！语篇解读本文是一则通知，属于应用文。文章主要介绍了寒假期间学校图书馆作息时间的变化及将要举行的一系列活动。1Tim wants to polish his writing, it is bes
149、t for him to attend the related activity on_.A. MondayB. TuesdayC. Thursday D. Friday解析推理判断题。根据Coming Events中的第一、二两条信息判断，提高写作技能的活动是在March 25举行的，而由第一条信息可知March 24是星期一，所以选B。答案B2Which of the following descriptions about the annual Children s Gathering is true?A. Tickets are a must in order to attend it
150、.B. Only those who have received an invitation are admitted in the Gathering.C. You have to make a reply to the invitation to make sure you get a seat.D. You d better apply in advance because there are not enough seats for everyone.解析细节判断题。根据第四条信息可知，要想参加该活动，需要在儿童室取请帖并回复以预订座位，因此C项正确。答案C3Which of the
151、following is NOT true according to the announcement?A. The children who are interested in the mysteries of killer dinosaurs can attend the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Friday.B. Children can t attend all the activities with their parents.C. Children can choose more than one of the activities.D. Children
152、can borrow some relevant books for the activities.解析细节判断题。根据第五条信息的最后一句可知A选项中的the Ellen DeGeneres Show并非在假期所举办的活动。答案A4If there is an emergency, you should_.A. call the Help DeskB. contact hld wnbl. corgC. stay in the library and waitD. ring 926 3637解析细节理解题。由注意事项中的第一句话可知答案。答案A5The announcement is main
153、ly intended for_.A. staff members of the libraryB. parents of the school childrenC. the school childrenD. volunteers of the activities解析推理判断题。根据通知内容可知，活动是为学生举办的，这则通知主要是让他们了解活动的时间、地点及相关内容。答案CMs Tan, you ve referred to your new novel as your eighth book.Thats because it took me six or seven attempts a
154、t a second novel before I started and completed this one.Why do you think you had so many false starts?I would say that my reasons were wrong: I was trying to prove that I wasnt just a mother-daughter storyteller, or I was trying to prove that I didn t just have to write about things that were stric
155、tly Chinese or Chinese-American. Those were never the right reasons for writing those early stories. And I could never come up with other, better reasons for continuing them.What kept you going on this book?This book was different because it was based on my mother s real life. The reason for writing
156、 it became more personal and emotional. After The Joy Luck Club came out, my mother was always explaining to people that she wasn t any of the mothers in that book. And at one point she said to me, “Next book tells my true story.” And then she started telling me things I never knew before. She also
157、told me many, many stories，because my mother doesn t generalize. The book really grew out of that.Have you ever visited China?Yes. I ve been there twice: about three years ago and then again last November, both times with my mother and my husband.Was it difficult to capture the Chinese-American dial
158、ect without sounding like a parody(拙劣的模仿)?No, because it s the language I ve heard all my life from my mother. She speaks English as it s direct translation from Chinese. But its more than that: Her language also has more imagery than English.Can you think of an example?Somebody might say to me, “Do
159、nt work so hard. Youll kill yourself.” My mother will say to me，“Why do you press all your brains out on this page for someone else？” So it s very vivid. That s the way she talks.Have many readers told you that the Chinese mother in your book reminded them of the typical Jewish (有癖好的) mother?Many pe
160、ople have told me that. I think the mother-daughter relationship is very intense in both cases. Culturally there is an acceptance that mothers have the power to tell their children, especially their daughters, how to conduct their lives not simply up until the time they are 18, but for the rest of t
161、heir lives. However, when children grow up in a different culture from their parents， they tend to keep more secrets from their parents. The children think, “They just wouldn t understand that I had to do this.” And that can really create a gap, and it can grow as the number of secrets grows.语篇解读这是一
162、篇人物访谈纪实。通读这篇访谈录，我们可以了解华裔美国作家Ms Tan创作第二部作品的经历。1Based on the questions in this interview, what do you think Ms Tan s profession is?A. A journalist. B. A storywriter.C. An interviewer. D. An interviewee.解析推理判断题。根据文中的“your new novel，a second novel”等关键词及访谈内容可知，Ms Tan是一名小说家。C、D两项有一定的干扰性，注意题干中问的是“professio
163、n(职业)”。答案B2What s TRUE about Tan s second book?A. It s about her real life in America.B. The name of the book is The Joy Luck Club.C. It is the result of many times of careful thought.D. It includes many works of her mother.解析细节判断题。根据文中的“it took me six or seven attempts at a second novel before I st
164、arted and completed this one”可知，Tan在完成这部书的写作之前曾经历过六、七次尝试，说明这本书是她经过多次深思熟虑的产物。答案C3Which question is NOT answered in the interview?A. How does she think of her mother s language?B. How many books does she plan to write?C. When did she visit China?D. How is generation gap created?解析细节理解题。“她计划写几本书？”这个问题在
165、文中找不到答案，其他三项文中均有涉及。答案B4We can infer that_.A. Tan s mother is a good storytellerB. Tan plans to write another book about her motherC. Tan plans to return to ChinaD. Tan s mother is hard to communicate with because of personality解析推理判断题。根据文中的“She also told me many，many stories，because my mother doesnt
166、 generalize”和“So its very vivid. Thats the way she talks”可知，Tan的母亲是一位善于讲故事的人。答案A5The last paragraph mainly talks about_.A. how to keep secrets from parentsB. how to deal with the mother-daughter relationshipC. how to conduct the livesD. how the generation gap comes about解析段落主旨题。此段大意是：传统地认为母亲有教育孩子们一生
167、如何生活的权力，而孩子们随着年龄的增长，他们不愿将自己的秘密告诉父母，从而产生了代沟。因此本段主要阐述的是代沟是如何产生的。答案D“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity，” said the American talk show host Oprah Winfrey. I ve never watched her show, but when a self-made billionaire gives life advice it s probably worth listening to.Her point is that b
168、lind luck is very rare. You may have to be lucky to find a good job these days but that does not mean you should sit at home waiting for the opportunity to come to you. If you re a Chinese，you may already be familiar with the tale of a farmer waiting by a tree stump (树桩) for a rabbit to run out and
169、break its neck.A book by the UK psychologist Richard Wiseman, called The Luck Factor, argues we can all make ourselves luckier. It s not about going to a temple to burn some incense (香) in hopes that the gods will give you good fortune; it s practical advice you can follow each day.Wiseman conducted
170、 an experiment as part of his studies. First he divided volunteers into two groups：those who said they were lucky in life and those who said they were not. He gave everyone a newspaper and asked them to look through it to count how many photographs it had inside. On average, the unlucky people took
171、about two minutes to count the photographs while the lucky people took just seconds. Why? On the second page of the newspaper, a command, “Stop counting. There are 43 photographs in this newspaper，” was written in big letters. The unlucky people mostly did not spot the message.Its easy to compare th
172、is situation to a young person looking for jobs in a local paper. They might search so hard for one type of position that they miss an even better opportunity. People who are “lucky”， in fact, keep an open mind and dont go through the same routine every day.I first came to China in 2002 when it was
173、considered a rather strange thing to do. Like many foreigners，my plan was to teach English for one year. Seven years later, and still here, I ve had many great opportunities such as writing for newspapers and magazines. I did not dream these would have been possible. I ve also never been sick, had a
174、n accident, got into a fight or had problems with the police. Coincidence? After reading about Professor Wiseman s studies I think not.As Wiseman advises, I usually trust my own judgment. Your friends and parents may give you advice based on rational thinking, but its important to consider how you f
175、eel about each choice you make. Your feeling acts as a warning for a potential problem.Finally, try to turn bad luck into good. Even if you do fall down and break a leg, the time spent at home can be used wisely to study English.语篇解读本文为议论文。作者认为命运只垂青那些有所准备的人。身处逆境，不要怨天尤人，要想方设法化厄运为好运。每个人都可以做自己命运的主人。1Wh
176、ich of the following proverbs most agrees with the writer s point?A. Make the best of a bad job.B. Rome was not built in a day.C. All is not gold that glitters.D. A good heart conquers ill fortune.解析推理判断题。Make the best of a bad job意为“身处山穷水尽，力争柳暗花明”，与最后一段作者的观点“try to turn bad luck into good(把厄运变好运)”最
177、为接近。故答案为A。Rome was not built in a day意为“伟业非一日可成”；All is not gold that glitters意为“闪光的东西并不都是金子”；A good heart conquers ill fortune意为“善心克厄运”。答案A2What do you know about Oprah Winfrey?A. She became famous through her family background.B. She was very lucky and seldom suffered setbacks in her life.C. She i
178、s a British talk show host.D. She became successful by her own effort.解析细节理解题。根据第一段中的a self-made billionaire可知美国talk show主持人oprah Winfrey是从白手起家，通过自我奋斗而成名的。答案D3The writer quoted the Chinese tale of a farmer in order to show_.A. luck is in your own handB. bad luck can turn into goodC. you should not s
179、it at home waiting for the opportunity to come to youD. man can conquer nature解析推理判断题。根据第二段内容可以判断，作者引用中国“守株待兔”的故事是为了说明“人们不应该待在家里等待机会的降临”的观点。答案C4From the experiment Wiseman drew the conclusion that_.A. lucky people are quick-mindedB. unlucky people are slow to readC. lucky people often have an open m
180、indD. unlucky people are more creative解析细节理解题。根据第四、五段内容，尤其是第五段最后一句可知，Wiseman通过试验得出结论：“幸运的人”具有开放的心态，做事不墨守成规。答案C5The underlined word “spot” is the closest in meaning to“_”A. recognize B. markC. locate D. receive解析词义猜测题。根据上文语境及The unlucky people mostly did not spot the message可知spot在句中用作及物动词，是“发现，识别”之意
181、。答案AI am a writer. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language the way it can evoke (唤起)an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.Language_is_the_tool_of_my_trade. And I use them all all the Englishes I grew up with.Born into a Chinese family that had rec
182、ently arrived in California, I ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as “broken” English. But I feel embarrassed to say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no way to describe it other than “broken” , as if it w
183、ere damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness. Ive heard other terms used, “limited English” , for example. But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people s perceptions (认识) of the limited English speaker.I know this for a fact, because when I was
184、growing up，my mother s “limited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say. That is, because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect. And I had plenty of evidence to support me: the
185、fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.I started writing fiction in 1985. And for reasons I wont get into today, I began to write stories
186、 using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”； and what I imagine to be her translation of her Chinese, her internal (内在的) language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence，but neither an English nor a Chin
187、ese structure. I wanted to catch what language ability tests can never show: her intention, her feelings, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.语篇解读本文主要记叙了作者在不同时期对母亲所使用的语言的不同看法。1By saying “Language is the tool of my trade”， the author means that_.A. she uses English in foreign tra
188、deB. she is fascinated by languagesC. she works as a translatorD. she is a writer by profession解析推理判断题。此句中the tool of my trade中的trade指的是职业。由本文第一句可知“我”是一名作家；此句又说语言是“我”的职业工具，故此句指的自然是“我”的职业为作家。答案D2The author used to think of her mother s English as _.A. impoliteB. amusingC. imperfect D. practical解析推理判断
189、题。由文中倒数第二段中“.because she expressed them imperfectly，her thoughts were imperfect”一句可知选C，作者一度以为自己妈妈所说的英语是不完美的。答案C3Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 3?A. Americans do not understand broken English.B. The author s mother was not respected sometimes.C. The author s mother had positive
190、 influence on her.D. Broken English always reflects imperfect thoughts.解析细节理解题。由文章倒数第二段最后一句话可知选B。此题易误选D。其实，此句只是“我”小时候对妈妈的一种误解，由最后一段可知这种误解已经消除了，因此D项的说法是不对的。答案B4The author gradually realizes her mothers English is_.A. well structured B. in the old styleC. easy to translate D. rich in meaning解析推理判断题。由最
191、后一段可知，我写小说时开始运用她与我说话时所用的英语。我尽力地保留她语言的精髓，但未运用她所使用的英语或汉语的结构。我想领悟语言能力测试中所不能反映但我妈妈语言中所包含的意思。故选D。答案D5What is the passage mainly about?A. The change of the author s attitude to her mother s English.B. The limitation of the author s perception of her mother.C. The authors misunderstanding of “limited” Engl
192、ish.D. The author s experiences of using broken English.解析主旨大意题。本文以时间为线索，讲述了作者对妈妈所使用的语言的不同态度，故选A。答案AA year ago August, Dave Fuss lost his job driving a truck for a small company in west Michigan. His wife, Gerrie, was still working in the local school cafeteria, but work for Dave was scarce, and the
193、 price of everything was rising. The Fusses were at risk of joining the millions of Americans who have lost their homes in recent years. Then Dave and Gerrie received a timely gift $ 7,000, a legacy (遗产) from their neighbors Ish and Arlene Hatch, who died in an accident. “It really made a difference
194、 when we were going under financially，” says Dave.But the Fusses werent the only folks in Alto and the neighboring town of Lowell to receive unexpected legacy from the Hatches. Dozens of other families were touched by the Hatches generosity. In some cases, it was a few thousand dollars; in others, i
195、t was more than $100,000.It surprised nearly everyone that the Hatches had so much money, more than $3 million they were an elderly couple who lived in an old house on what was left of the family farm.Children of the Great Depression, Ish and Arlene were known for their habit of saving. They thrived
196、 on (喜欢) comparison shopping and would routinely go from store to store，checking prices before making a new purchase.Through the years, the Hatches paid for local children to attend summer camp when their parents couldn t afford it.“Ish and Arlene never asked if you needed anything，” says their frie
197、nd Sandy Van Weelden, “They could see things they could do to make you happier, and they would do them.”Even more extraordinary was that the Hatches had their farmland distributed. It was the Hatches wish that their legacy a legacy of kindness as much as one of dollars and cents should enrich the wh
198、ole community (社区) and last for generations to come.Neighbors helping neighbors that was Ish and Arlene Hatch s story.语篇解读本文主要介绍了一对关心邻里、无私奉献的夫妻。他们把自己的财产留给需要的人，强调人人互助，世界就会更美好。1According to the text, the Fusses _.A. were employed by a truck companyB. were in financial difficultyC. worked in a school c
199、afeteriaD. lost their home解析事实细节题。从第一段前三句话可以看出，Fuss夫妇现在正处于经济困境中，所以B为正确答案。A、C项与文中有关细节不符，D项在文中没有信息支持。答案B2Which of the following is true of the Hatches?A. They had their children during the Great Depression.B. They left the family farm to live in an old house.C. They gave away their possessions to thei
200、r neighbors.D. They helped their neighbors to find jobs.解析事实细节题。第四段第一句话说Hatch夫妇是在大萧条时期出生的，而不是他们在大萧条时期有了孩子，排除A；第三段提到他们的老房子位于他们家的农场里，B错误；第二段提到他们帮助有困难的邻居们，但并未提及帮他们找工作，D错误。C项说他们把自己的财产捐赠给邻居，符合文意，故答案为C。答案C3Why would the Hatches routinely go from store to store?A. They decided to open a store.B. They wante
201、d to save money.C. They couldn t afford expensive things.D. They wanted to buy gifts for local kids.解析推理判断题。第四段提到他们有节约的习惯，买东西之前喜欢一个商店一个商店地比较价格，显然是为了省钱，故答案为B。A，他们决定开个商店；C，他们买不起贵的东西；D，他们想给当地的孩子买礼物，都明显与文意不符。答案B4According to Sandy Van Weelden, the Hatches were_.A. understandingB. optimisticC. childlike
202、D. curious解析推理判断题。从文章第五段Sandy Van Weelden的话中可知，the Hatches从来不问你需要什么，而是能够发现你需要的东西，然后就来帮助你，这说明他们非常善解人意，故答案为A。B表示乐观的；C表示孩子气的，天真烂漫的；D表示好奇的，明显不符合文意。答案A5What can we learn from the text?A. The community of Alto was poor.B. The summer camp was attractive to the parents.C. Sandy Van Weelden got a legacy from
203、 the Hatches.D. The Hatches would like the neighbors to follow their example.解析推理判断题。A项错在这个地区很贫困，文章只是说这里有经济困难的人，并不是说这里是一个贫困地区；B项错在parents上；C项说Sandy Van Weelden得到了Hatches夫妇的一份遗产，文章只是提到他对他们的评价，并未说他得到遗产之事；从文章倒数第二段第二句话以及最后一段可以看出，Hatches夫妇的愿望就是他们的遗产能够为社区以及子孙后代造福，邻里之间能够互相帮助，故答案为D。答案DIn the quest for bette
204、r health, many people turn to doctors, selfhelp books or herbal supplements. But they overlook a powerful weapon that could help them fight illness and depression, speed recovery, slow aging and prolong life: their friends.Researchers are only now starting to pay attention to the importance of frien
205、dship and social networks in overall health. A 10year Australian study found that older people with a large circle of friends were 22 percent less likely to die during the study period than those with fewer friends. A large 2007 study showed an increase of nearly 60 percent in the risk for obesity a
206、mong people whose friends gained weight. And last year, Harvard researchers reported that strong social ties could promote brain health as we age.“In general, the role of friendship in our lives isn t well appreciated，” said Rebecca G. Adams, a professor of sociology at the University of North Carol
207、ina, Greensboro. “There are a lot of things on families and marriage, but very little on friendship. It baffles me. Friendship has a bigger impact on our psychological wellbeing than family relationships.”Bella DePaulo, a visiting psychology professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara,
208、whose work focuses on single people and friendships, notes that in many studies, friendship has an even greater effect on health than a spouse or a family member.It isn t entirely clear why friendship has such a big effect. It may be because people with strong social ties also have better access to
209、health services and care. Beyond that, however, friendship clearly has a profound psychological effect. People with strong friendships are less likely than others to get colds, perhaps because they have lower stress levels.Last year, researchers studied 34 students at the University of Virginia, tak
210、ing them to the base of a steep hill and fitting them with a weighted backpack. They were then asked to estimate the steepness of the hill. Some participants stood next to friends during the exercise, while others were alone.The students who stood with friends gave lower estimates of the steepness o
211、f the hill. And the longer the friends had known each other, the less steep the hill appeared.“People with stronger friendship networks feel like there is someone they can turn to，” said Karen ARoberto, director of the center for gerontology (老年医学) at Virginia Tech.“ Friendship is an undervalued res
212、ource. The consistent message of these studies is that friends make your life better.”语篇解读如何保持身心健康？相信每个人对此都很感兴趣并能给出自己的答案。本文作者向我们介绍了一个有利于身心健康的，很重要又长期被人们忽视的因素友谊。1What s the main idea of the passage?A. People should make friends as many as possible.B. Friendships do great good to human health.C. People
213、 with friends have optimistic attitude.D. Several studies have been done on friendships.解析主旨大意题。文章通过几个研究结果说明友谊在促进人类身心健康方面作用巨大。答案B2Which of the following is true?A. People havent attached importance to friendships.B. A friend can replace doctors and selfhelp books.C. People with many friends may have
214、 higher stress levels.D. People who have friends tend to be fat.解析正误判断题。从文章第三段可知，人们尚未认识到友谊对人们身心健康的重要性。其他选项均与原文信息不符。答案A3The author mentioned the study in the last three paragraphs to indicate that _.A. students should climb the steep hill with friendsB. it takes a long time to make friendsC. a friend
215、 in need is a friend indeedD. people accompanied by friends remain optimistic in the face of difficulty解析推理判断题。倒数第二段中“The students who stood with friends gave lower estimates of the steepness of the hill。”表明与朋友在一起的学生估计出来的坡度更小，这意味着他们面对困难能保持相对乐观的心态。答案D4In Paragraph 2 the author aims to tell us _.A. fr
216、iendship has a strong physical effect on peoples healthB. we cannot be too careful when making friendsC. older people are likely to have fewer friendsD. 60 percent of the people without friends will become fat when they get old解析段落大意题。根据本段开头(主题句)可知答案。而且主题句后的三个研究结论都与“友谊影响身体健康”有关。答案A5According to Kare
217、n A. Roberto, _.A. the effect of friendships is overvaluedB. studies on friendships make our life betterC. friends are more important than family membersD. friends can help each other when faced with problems解析推理判断题。由文章最后一段的第一句可推断出，有问题的时候朋友之间可以相互帮助，A、B、C三项不符合原文。答案D“Sesame Street” has been called “th
218、e longest street in the world”. That is because the television program by that name can now be seen in so many parts of the world. That program became one of Americans exports soon after it went on the air in New York in 1969. In the United States more than six million children watch the program reg
219、ularly. The viewers include more than half the nations pre-school children, from every kind of economic(经济的), racial(种族的), and geographical group. Although some educators object to certain elements in the program, parents praise it highly. Many teachers also consider it a great help, though some tea
220、chers find that problems arise when first graders who have learned from “Sesame Street” are in the same class with children who have not watched the program. Tests have shown that children from all racial, geographical, and economic backgrounds have benefited from watching it. Those who watch it fiv
221、e times a week learn more than occasional(偶然的) viewers. In the US the program is shown at different hours during the week in order to increase the number of children who can watch it regularly. The programs all use songs, stories, jokes, and pictures to give children a basic understanding of numbers
222、, letters and human relationships. But there are some differences. For example, the Spanish program, produced in Mexico City, devotes more time to teaching whole words than to teaching separate letters. Why has “Sesame Street” been so much more successful than other childrens shows? Many reasons hav
223、e been suggested. People mention the educational theories(理论) of its creators, the support by the government and private(私人的) businesses, and the skillful use of a variety of TV tricks. Perhaps an equally important reason is that mothers watch it along with their children. This is partly because fam
224、ous adult stars often appear on it. But the best reason for the success of the program may be that it makes every child watching feel able to learn. The child finds himself learning, and he wants to learn more. 1. “Sesame Street” is actually _. A. a street in the US B. a program for childrenC. a pro
225、gram for teachersD. a program for students2. Children who often watch the program _. A. can have problems in schoolB. will find it a great helpC. will take no interest in their studiesD. will be well educated3. What is special about the program?A. It offers great fun.B. It makes children feel able t
226、o learn. C. It is shown at different hours during the week. D. Children learn and enjoy themselves while watching. 4. Why is “Sesame Street” so popular in the world?A. Because it is supported by the government and businesses. B. Because it uses a variety of skillful tricks. C. Because mothers watch
227、it along with their children. D. Because it makes every child watching it feel able to learn. 5. The best title for this passage can be _.A. TV ProgramsB. Educating ChildrenC. Sesame StreetD. A Great Success本文介绍了电视节目Sesame Street所产生的社会影响及它成功的原因。1. B。细节题。根据文章第2段第1句more than six million children watch
228、 the program regularly可推知此题答案为B。2. B。推断题。根据文章第4段第1句Tests have shown that childrenhave benefited from watching it 可推知此题答案为B。3. D。推断题。根据文章第5段第1句The programs all use songs, stories, jokes, and pictures to give children a basic understanding of numbers, letters and human relationships可推知此题答案为B。来源:学|科|网Z
229、|X|X|K4. D。推断题。根据文章最后一段倒数第2句the best reason for the success of the program may be that it makes every child watching feel able to learn 可推知此题答案为D。5. C。主旨题。本文主要介绍电视节目Sesame Street 所产生的影响及它成功的原因，所以选C。Ruben lived in a small village. There was no school there and he had to study in a school in the town.
230、 It was nearly five kilometres away from his village. His father couldnt buy a bike for him and he had to go to school on foot. He got up early in the morning. Usually he had to run there in order not to miss the first class. He kept running every day and it was helpful to him. Hes strong and tall n
231、ow and he ran faster than any other man in his village. He took part in several sports meetings and won some medals. The young man is proud of and always wants to have a race with others.One day his mother was ill and his father told him to buy some medicine for headache in the town. The young man g
232、ot there soon. There were many people in the chemists shop while he was waiting there. And when his turn came, he couldnt find his money. An old woman hinted（暗示）a young man had stolen it. He saw the thief had already left the shop. He ran towards him quickly. The thief found it and began to run. He
233、was happy and tried to catch up with him.“Lets have a race and see who will run faster,” Ruben called out behind.Soon after that he caught up with the thief. But he didnt stop and went on running. At a crossing one of his friends asked, “What are you running for, Ruben?”“Im running after（追）a thief.
234、”“Wheres the thief, then?”“He wants to show that hell run faster than me, but hes fallen behind!”1. Ruben had to run to school because _.A. he had no bikeB. he hoped to win some medalsC. his village was a little far from the school D. he was afraid to be late for class2._ , so he won some medals. A.
235、 Ruben is good at runningB. Ruben went to school on timeC. Ruben often took part in the sports meetings.D. Ruben likes to have a race with others3. The phrase “a chemists shop” in the story means _.A. 化工商店 B. 药店 C. 化工厂 D. 制药厂4. Rubens money was stolen _.A. on his way to the townB. before he went in
236、the shopC. when he was waiting in the shop D. after he had left the shop5. Ruben was happy because _.A. he could easily catch the thiefB. he had a chance（机会）to have a raceC. he knew who had stolen his money D. he would win another medal that day1. D。细节理解题。在所给的几个原因当中, Ruben怕迟到才是最主要的。2. A。细节理解题。Ruben赢
237、得奖牌是因为他跑得快。3. B。猜测词义题。Ruben要买的是零售药品。自然在药店, 因此, B项是正确选项。4. C。细节理解题。5. B。推理判断题。1970 was “World Conservation Year”. The United Nations wanted everyone to know that the world was in danger. They hoped that the governments would act quickly in order to conserve nature. Here is one example of the problem.
238、 At one time there were 1300 different plants, trees and flowers in Holland, but now only 860 remain. The others have been destroyed by modern man and his technology. We are changing the earth, the air and the water, and everything that grows and lives. We cant live without these things. If we conti
239、nue like this, we shall destroy ourselves.What will happen in the future? Perhaps it is more important to ask “What must we do now?” The people who will be living in the world of tomorrow are the young of today. A lot of them know that conservation is necessary. Many are hoping to save our world. Th
240、ey plant trees, build bridges across rivers in forests and so on. In a small town in the United States a large group of girls cleaned the banks of eleven kilometres of their river. Young people may hear about conservation through a record called “No, Ones Going to Change our World.” It was made by S
241、catles, Cliff Richard and other singers. The money from it will help to conserve wild animals.1. There are few plants, trees and flowers in Holland now because _.A. there has been a lot of conservation in HollandB. Holland does not need so many plants, trees and flowersC. many plants, trees and flow
242、ers dont grow there any moreD. some plants, trees and flowers are dangerous2. We shall destroy ourselves if we dont _.A. improve our technology in planting treesB. hear about the record called “No, Ones Going to Change our World”C. try our best to save the worldD. change the earth3. “No, Ones Going
243、to Change our World.” was _.A. an important book published in 1970B. a record calling on people to conserve natureC. an idea that nobody would acceptD. a rule worked out by the United States4. What is the most important thing for us to do to save our world?A. We should clean the banks of our rivers.
244、B. We should know what will happen in the future.C. We should know what we should do and do it now.D. We should plant more trees and flowers.5. Whats the main idea of the passage?A. 1970 was “World Conservation Year”.B. The United Nations wanted everybody to know that the world is in danger.C. Conse
245、rvation is necessary.D. It is the young people who are helping to save our world. 1.C。推理判断题。根据第一自然段内容可知。2.C。细节理解题。根据第一自然段最后两句We cant live without these things. If we continue like this, we shall destroy ourselves.可知。3.B。推理判断题。根据文章最后一自然段倒数第三句Young people may hear about conservation through a record c
246、alled “No, Ones Going to Change our World. ”可知。4.C。推理判断题。根据文章第二自然段可推出此答案。5.C。主旨大意题。文章最后一自然段中点明了主题：A lot of them know that conservation is necessary. Five years ago, David Smith wore an expensive suit to work every day. “I was a clothes addict,” he jokes. “I used to carry a fresh suit to work with me
247、 so I could change if my clothes got wrinkled.” Today David wears casual clothes-khaki pants and sports shirt-to the office. He hardly ever wears a necktie. “Im working harder than ever,” David says, “and I need to feel comfortable.” More and more companies are allowing their office workers to wear
248、casual clothes to work in the United States. The change from formal to casual office wear has been gradual. In the early 1990s, many companies allowed their employees to wear casual clothes on Friday(but only on Friday). This became known as “dress-down Friday” of “casual Friday”. “What started out
249、as an extra one-day-a-week benefit for employees has really become an everyday thing.” said business consultant Maisly Jones.Why have so many companies started allowing their employees to wear casual clothes? One reason is that its easier for a company to attract new employees if it has a casual dre
250、ss code. “A lot of young people dont want to dress up for work,” says the owner of a software company, “so its hard to hire people if you have a conservative dress code.” Another reason is that people seem happier and more productive when they are wearing comfortable clothes. In a study conducted by
251、 Levi Strauss and Company, 85 percent of employers said that they believe that casual dress improves employee morale. Only 4 percent of employers said that casual dress has a negative impact on productivity. Supporters of casual office wear also argue that a casual dress code helps them save money.
252、“Suits are expensive, if you have to wear one every day,” one person said. “For the same amount of money, you can buy a lot more casual clothes.” 1. David Smith refers to himself as having been “a clothes addict,” because _.A. he often wore khaki pants and a sports shirtB. he couldnt stand a clean a
253、ppearanceC. he wanted his clothes to look neat all the timeD. he didnt want to spend much money on clothes2. David Smith wears casual clothes now, because _.A. they make him feel at ease when workingB. he cannot afford to buy expensive clothesC. he looks handsome in casual clothes D. he no longer wo
254、rks for any company3. According to this passage, which of the following statements is false? A. Many employees dont like a conservative dress code. B. Comfortable clothes make employees more productive. C. A casual clothes code is welcomed by young employees. D. All the employers in the U. S. are fo
255、r casual office wear.4. According to this passage, which of the following statements is true? A. Company workers started to dress down about twenty years ago. B. Dress-down has become an everyday phenomenon since the early 1990s. C. “Dress-down Friday” was first given as a favor from employers. D. M
256、any workers want to wear casual clothes to impress people.5. In this passage, the following advantages of casual office wear are mentioned in the passage except _.A. saving employees money B. making employees more attractiveC. improving employees motivation D. making employees happier从20世纪90年代起，美国许多
257、公司开始允许员工星期五可以不统一着装上班。现在越来越多的公司许可领员工穿便装上班了，这对调节他们的心情，调动其工作热情有一定的作用。1. C。语义理解题。大卫自嘲以前是服装爱好者，衣服一起皱，他就得换上备穿的服装。2. A。语义理解题。从第 1 段最后一句话 “Im working harder than ever,” David says, “and I need to feel comfortable.” 可找到答案。3. D。细节判断题。根据最后一段中的 Only 4 percent of employers said that casual dress has a negative i
258、mpact on productivity 可知还有一些雇主不赞同穿便装上班。4. C。细节判断题。从第 2 段最后 1 句 “What started out as an extra one-day-a-week benefit for employees has really become an everyday thing.” 可以做出正确判断。5. B。推断题。通读最后一段可知选项A(为雇员省钱)、B(提高雇员的工作热情)、D(使雇主高兴)在原文中均被提到，只有A未被提到。Mankind is still evolving(进化), according to a recent stud
259、y by a team of scientists led by a Yale University evolutionary biologist. But research suggests that the natural selection process is no longer driven by survival, perhaps because of differences in womens fertility(能生育性)The team examined 2,238 women in Framingham, Massachusetts, the US and studied
260、the medical histories of some 14,000 residents since 1948.They found that strong，slightly fat women tend to have more children. And if this trend were to continue for the next 10 generations, by 2409 the average woman would be 2 cm shorter,1 kg heavier, and have a healthier heart.That rate of evolut
261、ion is pretty similar to what we see in plants and animals. Humans_don_t_seem_to_be_any_exception,_the team said.Other recent genetic research backs up that belief. One study by John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, found that some 1,800 human gene variations (变异)
262、are common in recent generations because of evolution. Among the changes are mutations (突变) that allow people to digest milk or resist malaria(疟疾) and others that govern brain development.Since the Industrial Revolution, modern humans have grown taller and stronger. It s easy to assume that evolutio
263、n is making humans fitter. But according to anthropologist Peter McAllister, the contemporary male has evolved physically into “the sorriest example of male ever on the planet”. An average Neanderthal woman, McAllister notes, could have beat Arnold Schwarzenegger in an armwrestling (腕力) match. And e
264、arly Australian Aborigines could easily defeat Usain Bolt in a 100-m dash.However, Douglas Ewbank, of the University of Pennsylvania, says that cultural factors tend to have a much greater impact than natural selection on future generations, so people tend to ignore evolution s effects.And, despite
265、evidence indicating evolution still works, Steve Jones, an evolutionary biologist at University College London, thinks that the impact of evolution on humans is not the most important. “What makes humans what we are is in our minds, in our society, and not in our evolution，” said Jones.语篇解读科学家们发现人类还
266、在不断地进化，但是他们认为自然选择对人类进化的影响已经没那么大了。1What does the underlined sentence “Humans don t seem to be any exception” imply?A. Plants and animals are evolving faster than humans.B. Evolution doesnt work in humans any longer.C. The rate of evolution in plants and animals also applies to humans.D. Humans are un
267、ique in their evolution.解析推理判断题。根据第四段内容可知，人类的进化速度和动植物的很相似，人类并不例外，由此可判断动植物的进化速度也适用于人类。答案C2Why is the recent genetic research quoted in the fifth paragraph?A. To support the belief that mankind is still evolving.B. To show human gene variations are common in recent generations.C. To prove modern human
268、s have grown fitter.D. To suggest that the natural selection process is no longer driven by survival.解析细节理解题。根据第五段中的Other recent genetic research backs up that belief可知最近的其他基因研究也支持“人类还在进化”这一观点，和文章开头的主题句照应。答案A3According to the passage, we can infer that Arnold Schwarzenegger _.A. used to be a famous
269、actorB. is an American governorC. is very weakD. is very strong解析推理判断题。第六段中举施瓦辛格的例子是为了证明在人类越来越健壮的进化中，男性成为最令人遗憾的例子。由对施瓦辛格的了解和文段内容可判断阿诺德施瓦辛格很强壮，力气很大。答案D4According to Douglas Ewbank, which of the following factors plays a greater part in the future generations?A. Culture. B. Evolution.C. Natural select
270、ion. D. Genetic mutations.解析细节理解题。根据倒数第二段内容可知，在未来的后代中，起更大作用的是文化因素。答案A5What is the main idea of the passage?A. Mankind is still evolving.B. Women will get fatter.C. The history of human evolution.D. Future women tend to have more children.解析主旨大意题。本文第一句就是主题句，后面都是围绕着“人类还在不断地进化”这一观点进行论述的。答案ATHURSDAY, Ju
271、ly 9 ( HealthDay News) A new study that found that a lowercalorie diet slowed the aging process in monkeys could be the best proof yet that restricted diets might do the same for humans.“The big question in aging research is, Will caloric restriction in species closely related to humans slow aging？”
272、 said Richard Weindruch, senior author of a paper appearing in the July 10 issue of Science.This is the first clear demonstration that, in a primate species, we re inducing a slowdown of the aging process showing increased survival, resistance to disease, less brain atrophy and less muscle loss.“Thi
273、s predicts humans would respond similarly，” added Weindruch, professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin and an investigator at the Veterans Hospital in Madison. Another expert noted that, despite some highly publicized studies in certain species, the link between restricted eating and long
274、er lifespan has been far from proven.“The idea that dietary restriction extends lifespan in all species is not true. Many strains of rats and mice do not respond. In some strains, it s actually deleterious，” explained Felipe Sierra, director of the biology of aging program at the US National Institu
275、te on Aging (NIA), which supported the new study. “The fact that it doesnt work in some mice but it does seem to work in monkeys is surprising and it gives us hope.”But there s a larger question: how to change humans increasingly lax eating habits. “This_finding_doesnt_give_me_hope_that_humans_are_g
276、oing_to_go_into_dietary_restriction，” added Marianne Grant, a registered dietitian at Texas A&M Health Science Center Coastal Bend Health Education Center in Corpus Christi.语篇解读这是一篇新闻报道，研究人员通过对动物的研究证明低热量的饮食可能会延长人的寿命。1The underlined word “restricted” means“_”A. limited B. satisfiedC. reserved D. fasc
277、inated解析词义猜测题。根据第一段可知，低热量的饮食可以延长猴子的寿命，这一试验证明有节制的饮食可能同样会延长人的寿命。答案A2Which of the following statements about Weindruch is true?A. This experiment indicates restricted diets could extend humans lifespan.B. Adequate sleep is another way to reduce the speed of aging process.C. The experiment was a failure
278、 in some species such as mice.D. The experiment which had been tested on humans got a great success.解析细节理解题。根据第三段第一句话可知答案为A。答案A3According to Felipe Sierra s idea, we know that_.A. the restricted diets experiment really had no distinct effect on rats and miceB. humans are finding new ways to slowdown
279、 the aging process of all the speciesC. the experiment is unnecessary to be carried on because of the response of the miceD. the experiment confirmed that restricted diets extend lifespan in all species解析细节理解题。从第四段的第二句“Many strains of rats and mice do not respond.”可知答案。答案A4It can be inferred from th
280、e underlined sentence that _.A. the result of the experiment shows that humans are not pigging out nowadaysB. nowadays humans are turning unhealthy diets into lowercalorie dietsC. how to change humans careless eating habits is a long way to goD. the experiment changed humans increasingly careless ea
281、ting habits解析细节理解题。由画线句子可知人们目前并没有进入到控制饮食的状态中，也就是说要改变人们漫不经心的饮食习惯还有很长的路要走。答案C5The author most likely wrote this text to_.A. compare the two experiments on rats and monkeysB. illustrate the data from the researchC. call on people to pay attention to their daily dietsD. introduce a lively debate to amus
282、e the reader解析写作目的题。作者的目的是通过介绍试验”低热量的饮食可能会延长人的寿命”，呼吁人们注意控制饮食。答案CThe treadle pump is based on a design developed in the 1970s by Norwegian engineer Gunnar Barnes. It can be made locally.The treadle pump is easy to build from bamboo or other wood and two metal cylinders (圆筒) with pistons (活塞). The pis
283、tons go up and down as a person stands on lever devices treadles and uses a natural walking motion.How many hours a day the pump needs to be operated depends on the season and how much water is needed for crops. It could be two hours a day. It could be seven hours a day.Small children sometimes stan
284、d with their parents on the treadles. Everyone in the family can take turns operating the pump.The Acumen Fund is a nonprofit group that invests in business projects to fight poverty. It studied the effects of treadle pumps in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh has three treadle pump m
285、anufacturers and more than seventythree thousand pumps.Acumen reported that families using them ate more vegetables, because they were able to grow more to eat and to sell. Many of these families also drank more milk, because they bought a cow with their added earnings. Men with treadle pumps often
286、no longer have to leave the farm to seek extra work in cities.The pump can also improve education. Farmers often use their extra earnings to buy books for their children or to pay for schooling.A farmer in Zambia said he hoped to have enough money in three years to buy a dieselpowered pump (柴油泵). Th
287、en he could grow more crops over a larger area.But the world economic crisis has had an effect on some farmers. IDE executive director Zenia Tata says some who were able to buy diesel pumps now do not have enough money to buy fuel. So they are using their treadle pumps again.语篇解读脚踏泵因其简单、易行、实用之特点，正在世
288、界的广大贫困地区被推广，以帮助农民脱贫致富，且已取得了显著的效果。1The treadle pump _.A. is invented by an American engineerB. is mainly made of metalC. consists of two cylinders with pistonsD. consists of two cylinders with an engine解析事实细节题。根据第二段第一句可知答案为C。答案C2What does the author want to tell us about the treadle pump in the secon
289、d paragraph?来源:Zxxk.ComA. Its history.B. Its working principle.C. Its structure.D. Its usage and effects.解析作者意图题。A和D显然不对，C有一定干扰性，但其不能概括第二句，介绍工作原理时，一般要同时介绍其结构，故选B。答案B3It can be inferred from the passage that _.A. it is easy to learn how to operate the treadle pumpB. it is difficult to build a treadle
290、 pumpC. the treadle pump is used more in winter than in summerD. operating the treadle pump can keep fit解析推理判断题。B和C与文中内容相悖，可排除。易错选D，但文中没有依据，无法推知。根据第四段，小孩也可帮忙，家庭中每个人都可参与，可推知A为答案。答案A4Each treadle pump manufacturer in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has produced on average about _.A. 18, 000 pumps B.
291、 24, 000 pumpsC. 37, 000 pumps D. 73, 000 pumps解析数据推算题。根据第五段第三句可知，该州共三家生产商，共有七万三千多架脚踏泵，平均每家生产两万四千架左右，故选B。来源:学科网ZXXK答案B5Why does the farmer in Zambia hope to buy a dieselpowered pump?A. Because he wants to grow crops on a larger scale.B. Because he hates to leave the farm to seek fortune in cities.C.
292、 Because a dieselpowered pump is cheaper than before.D. Because oil is much cheaper than before.解析事实细节题。根据倒数第二段第二句可知答案。答案AIt was near dusk, and Kim Cooper and her husband, Steve, were trucking through northern Kentucky transportation auto parts from Louisville to Detroit for a goods company. “Steve,
293、 wake up！” she shouted. “Theres a truck on fire！”Inside the burning truck, Ronnie Sanders, 38, was fighting for his life. Hed been running a heavy load of tractors and forklifts from Georgia to Indianapolis when a van in front of him stopped suddenly in traffic on the icy road. As Ronnie bore down,
294、he could see children in the backseat. The trucks bulk would probably protect him from the worst of the impact, but the force of 23 tons would likely crush(压碎) everyone inside the van.“I figured instead of killing other people, Id just put the truck in the ditch. ”At the bottom, rocks cut a fuel tan
295、k, which caught fire. A tree branch destroyed the windshield and knocked Ronnie unconscious. He came to life a couple of minutes later to find the cabin flames and his legs on fire.Steve dashed to Ronnie, who was hanging headfirst from the passenger door. Ronnie had used his pocketknife to cut himse
296、lf free from the driversside seat belt only to get his boot trapped in another one. Steve climbed into the burning cab to free him.He tried three times to pull Ronnie out before finally freeing him. But Ronnies legs were still burning, so Steve laid him on the ground, ripped off his own shirt, and b
297、eat the flames with it. Hed managed to drag him about 20 yards when one of the trucks 150gallon fuel tanks exploded.Both Steve and Ronnie paid a price for risking their lives for strangers. Ronnie spent two months in the hospital and received skin grafts on both of his legs. Steve suffered smoke bre
298、athing and minor burns, and shrapnel from the fuel tank explosion broke a tooth.In February, the Coopers received a Hero of the Highway award from the Open Road Foundation for rescuing an injured driver. Steve insists Ronnie is the real hero: “If he hadnt gone into the ditch, he would have hit that
299、van. It was his decision to drive off the road.”“I feel pretty good about it，” says Ronnie. “A lot of people could have been hurt.”解读：本文为记叙文，主要讲述了the Coopers途中遇到Ronnie开的大卡车着火了；Ronnie为了不造成更大的伤害，不顾自身的安危，将卡车开进水沟里，而Steve则竭尽全力救助Ronnie。1. According to the passage, Ronnies putting the truck in the ditch co
300、ntributes to_.A. his concern for his own safetyB. his poor driving skillC. the icy roadD. his concern for others lives解析细节推断题。由文章的第三段第一句话“I figured instead of killing other people，Id just put the truck in the ditch.”可推断出。答案D2. What probably made Ronnie come to life after driving the truck in the dit
301、ch?A. The noise from the highway.B. The call from the Coopers.C. The pain from the burning legs.D. The heat of the fire.解析细节推断题。根据文章的第三段最后一句话He came to life a couple of minutes later to find the cab in flames and his legs on fire.利用排除法。答案C3. How did Steve put out the flames in Ronnies legs?A. He bea
302、t the flames with Ronnies shirt.B. He beat the flames with his own shirt.C. He put out the fire with a tank of water.D. He put out the fire with a bag of sand.解析细节理解题。根据文章第五段第二句话，Steve撕下自己的衬衫，用它来扑灭(Ronnie双腿上的)火焰。答案B4. What does the underlined word “shrapnel” in Paragraph 6 mean?A. A branch of a tree
303、.B. A small piece of metal.C. A wave of the explosion.D. The heat of the explosion.解析词义猜测题。根据下文shrapnel from the fuel tank explosion broke a tooth可知是“油箱爆炸产生的金属片打碎了一颗牙”。答案B5. Which of the following can be the best title of this passage?A. Heroes: The CoopersB. Heroes: Roadside FlamesC. Accidents on t
304、he Icy RoadD. Accidents in the Ditch解析确定文章标题。综观全文，A，C，D三项不够全面；而B项即表明事故，也表明了事故中竭力营救他人的英雄。答案BAstronauts aboard the space station Celebrated a space first on Wednesday by drinking water that had been recycled from their urine and sweat and water that condenses from exhaled air. They said “cheers” ，clic
305、ked drinking bags and toasted NASA workers on the ground who were sipping their own version of recycled drinking water.The recycling system is needed for astronaut stations on the moon and Mars. It also will save NASA money because it won t have to ship up as much water to the station by space shutt
306、le or cargo rockets.Besides, it s important as the space station is about to expand from three people living on board to six.The recycling system had been brought up to the space station last November by space shuttle Endeavour, but it couldn t be used until samples were tested back on Earth. So whe
307、n it came time to actually drink up, NASA made a big deal of it. The threeman crew stood, holding their drinks and congratulated engineers in two NASA centers that worked on the system.“This is something that had been the stuff of science fiction，” Barratt said before taking a small mouthful. “The t
308、aste is worth trying.”NASA deputy space shuttle manager LeRoy Cain called it “a huge milestone”The new system takes the combined urine of the crew from the toilet, moves it to a big tank, where the water is boiled off, and the vapor is collected. The rest of the urine is thrown away. The water vapor
309、 is mixed with water from air condensation, and then it goes through filters. When six crew members are aboard it can make about six gallons from urine in about six hours.“Some people may find the idea of drinking recycled urine distasteful, but it is also done on Earth with a lot longer time betwee
310、n urine and the tap”said Marybeth Edeen, the space stations national lab manager.The technology NASA developed for this system has already been used for quick water purification after the 2004 Asian tsunami, Edeen said.“We are happy to have this water work through the system we re happy to have it w
311、ork through our systems，”Barratt said.语篇解读本文讲的是国际空间站宇航员试饮尿液循环水。1According to the text, the recycling system is important because_.A. it makes traveling to the moon for the common person possibleB. with it NASA won t need to ship any water up to the space stationC. it can help to meet the need for mo
312、re water after the crew are expandedD. it protects the environment in space by reducing the amount of waste解析细节理解题。根据第二段中的“its important as the space station is about to expand from three people living on board to six”可知C项正确。答案C2What is the RIGHT time order of the following events?a. The samples of
313、the recycled water were tested on Earth.b. Astronauts celebrated the space first of making water from urine.c. The recycling system was brought up to the space station.d. The technology for the system was used to quickly purify water.A. a，d，c，b B. a，c，b，dC. d，a，c，b D. d，c，a，b解析细节理解题。根据倒数第二段的“The tec
314、hnology NASA developed for this system has already been used for quick water purification after the 2004 Asian tsunami”可知d发生最早。根据第三段的“ The recycling system had been brought up to the space station last November. couldn t be used until samples were tested back on Earth”可知c发生在a的前面，因此D项正确。答案D3From Para
315、. 6 we can know_.A. the theory behind the recycling systemB. the effect of the recycling systemC. the process of the recycling systemD. an opinion on the recycling system解析段落概括题。该段主要讲述的是使用尿液循环系统将尿制成水的过程。答案C4What did Edeen say about recycled urine and the recycling system?A. The taste of recycled uri
316、ne is not as good as common water.B. The recycling system has made a science fiction story come true.C. The idea of drinking recycled urine makes astronauts feel unpleasant.D. It takes a longer time on Earth to make water from urine than in space.解析细节理解题。根据第七段中的“with a lot onger time between urine a
317、nd the tap”可知D项正确。答案D5What is the best title for the passage?A. The research of NASA has made great progressB. New technology is used in the space stationC. Drink up: space station recycles urine to waterD. Good news: water recycled from urine tastes good解析标题概括题。本文报道了国际空间站的宇航员试饮尿液循环水，“Drink up”生动反映饮
318、用时的情景，“space station recycles urine to watert”点明了制造技术。故C项最佳。答案CTeenagers who drink alcohol are at higher risk of becoming victims of violence, a Cardiff University study has found.A team from the School of Dentistry s Violence Research Group studied drinking habits in children aged 11 - 16 in Englan
319、d. They found not only a link between drink and violence but also that children who drank were more likely to be hit, even if they weren t violent themselves.The researchers are now calling for measures to prevent alcohol misuse to reduce injury risk. Current policy focuses on reducing aggression bu
320、t this research shows that there should be equal effort to reduce victimization.More than 4,000 children were surveyed at 13 schools at four local authorities in the North, the Midlands, London, and the South. The study found that 25% of 11-year-olds were drinking monthly and 3.6% daily, with 12.8%
321、admitting to getting drunk 3 to 5 times a year. By the age of 16, 40% were drinking weekly and 6.2% were drinking every day. The research also showed 22.6% of 16-year-olds were getting drunk more than 21 times a year.The study, which has just been published in the Journal of Adolescence, found a str
322、ong link between frequency of drinking and frequency of hitting other people.However, children who reported drinking monthly were also three times more likely to be hit. Adolescents who drank but didnt get into fights were more likely to be hit than those who did fight.Professor Jonathan Shepherd, w
323、ho led the research, said a lot of previous alcohol-related violence work had focused on the offenders rather than the victims. His team is calling for more prevention work from parents and teachers in the first two years of secondary school by taking advantage of the “teachable moment”，that is, imm
324、ediately after a student has missed school because of drunkenness.Previous work by Professor Jonathan Shepherd has shown drinkers may be more at risk of violence because of reduced physical co-ordination, poor decision-making in threatening situations and isolation while out late at night.He said, “
325、This new study seems to be the first to show a direct link between alcohol misuse and victimization. There now needs to he much more effort put into reducing alcohol misuse in order to reduce injury.”语篇解读本文介绍了一项关于青少年酗酒的研究。该研究发现，酗酒的青少年更容易成为暴力的受害者。1. The main idea of the passage is that teenagers who
326、drink alcohol_.A. often offend other peopleB. often become injuredC. are more likely to become victims of violenceD. are more likely to fight with others解析主旨大意题。根据第一段中的“Teenagers who drink alcohol are at higher risk of becoming victims of violence”可知答案为C。答案C2The underlined word “aggression” in the t
327、hird paragraph probably means “_”A. violenceB. sad feelingsC. bad manners D. drunkenness解析词义猜测题。根据上下文尤其是本句后半句可知，aggression与victimization意思相反，所以aggression是“暴力行为”的意思。答案A3The research argues that more effort should be made to_.A. reduce aggressionB. prevent fightingC. reduce victimizationD. prevent dri
328、nking alcohol解析细节理解题。根据文章第三段最后一句中的“this research shows that there should be equal effort to reduce victimization”可知答案为C。答案C4Drinkers may be more at risk of violence because of all the following EXCEPT _.A. reduced physical co-ordinationB. isolation while out late at nightC. a higher frequency of hit
329、ting other peopleD. poor decision-making in threatening situations解析细节理解题。根据文章倒数第二段可知答案。答案C5Which of the following statements is NOT true according to Professor Shepherd s research?A. The frequency of children getting drunk increases with age.B. His previous alcohol-related violence work had focused
330、 on the offenders.C. Some children missed school because of drunkenness.D. This new study shows a direct link between alcohol misuse and victimization.解析细节理解题。B项偷换概念，原文为“a lot of previous alcohol-related violence work had focused on the offenders”，这些研究不一定就是这位教授以前的研究。答案BAudrey Hepburn won an Academy
331、Award as Best Actress for her first major American movie, Roman Holiday, which was released in 1953. But she is remembered as much for her aid work as for her acting.Born in Belgium in 1929, Audrey s father was British and her mother was Dutch.Audrey was sent to live at a British school for part of
332、her childhood. During World War II , she lived and studied in the Netherlands. Her mother thought it would be safe from German attacks. Audrey studied dance as a teenager and during college when she returned to London after the war. But she realized she wasn t going to be a ballerina. So she began t
333、aking acting parts in stage shows. Later she began to get small parts in movies.But it was Audrey Hepburn s move to America that brought her true fame. In 1951 she played the character “Gigi” in the Broadway play of the same name to great critical praise. Two years later, Roman Holiday made her a st
334、ar at the age of 24.Audrey made more than 25 movies. Among her most popular roles was Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffanys in 1961. Three years later she played Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady.She was married two times and had one son by each husband. In 1989, the UN Children s Fund named Audrey
335、 a goodwill ambassador. She travelled all over the world in support of UNICEF projects. The UN agency said she was a tireless worker. She often gave 15 interviews a day to gain money and support for UNICEF projects.Audrey Hepburn often said her loyalty to UNICEF was the result of her experiences as
336、a child during World War . She said she knew what it was like to be starving and to be saved by international aid. She was a goodwill ambassador until her death in 1993 from colon cancer.语篇解读本文介绍著名影星Audrey Hepburn(奥黛丽赫本)的生平事迹。1953年主演的罗马假日使她一举成名。从1989年直至1993年去世，赫本一直担任联合国儿童基金会的特使，为拉美和非洲儿童提供了很大帮助。1In P
337、aragraph 1, “her aid work” means _.A. winning an Academy Award as Best ActressB. taking acting parts in stage showsC. making moviesD. acting as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF解析推理判断题。此题应根据全文内容来判断。第一段是全文的概括，其重心在后面，即奥黛丽赫本尽管获得奥斯卡最佳女主角奖，但她担当的援助工作同样使人铭记。再结合文章接下来的叙述可知答案为D。答案D2The reason why Audrey lived
338、and studied in the Netherlands was that _.A. she wanted to be a ballerinaB. her parents were from BritainC. the education there was excellentD. it was safe there解析细节理解题。根据第三段中的“Her mother thought it would be safe from German attacks”和“she returned to London after the war”可知D项正确。答案D3We can infer from
339、 the passage that _.A. Audrey s parents lived in Germany during World War B. Audrey lived in America in the 1950sC. Audrey was made to give up dancingD. the character “Gigi” in the Broadway play was her most popular role解析推理判断题。根据第二段和第三段前半部分可知，A项错误；根据第三段中“she realized she wasnt going to be a balleri
340、na”可知是她主动放弃的，C项错误；根据第四段中“In 1951 she played the characterGigiin the Broadway play”及后文可判断，这个角色并不是她扮演的最有名的角色，因此D项错误。由文章第四、五两段可知B项正确。答案B4_is NOT mentioned in the passage about Audrey Hepburn.A. Marriage B. IdentityC. Contribution D. Religion解析细节理解题。可以运用排除法。她的婚姻、身份和贡献在文章中都提到了，唯独没有提及她的宗教信仰，故选D。答案D5_is th
341、e right order for Audrey s life.The first time she began to play in movies.She returned to London from the Netherlands.She won an Academy Award as Best Actress.She travelled all over the world in support of UNICEF projects.She played a part in My Fair Lady.A B. C. D. 解析排列顺序题。结合文章内容可以判断A项顺序正确。答案AThe
342、world is not coming to an end on December 21, 2012, the US space agency insisted Monday in a rare campaign to dispel widespread rumors fueled by the Internet and a new Hollywood movie.The latest big screen offering from Sony Picture, 2012, arrives in theaters on Friday, with a 200milliondollar produ
343、ction about the end of the world supposedly based on myths (虚构的故事) backed by the Mayan calendar. It is claimed that the end of time will come as a Planet X or Nibiru heads toward or collides with the Earth.Some websites accuse NASA of hiding the truth on the planet s existence, but the US space agen
344、cy denounced such stories as an “Internet hoax(恶作剧) ”. “There is no factual basis for these claims，” NASA said in a questionandanswer posting on its website. “If such a collision were real, astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the na
345、ked eye. Obviously, it does not exist. Credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012，” it insisted. “After all, our planet has been getting along just well for more than four billion years，” added NASA.There is another planet, Eris, floating in space. But the small planet simi
346、lar to Pluto will remain safely fixed in the outer solar system and it can come no closer than four billion miles to the Earth, according to NASA.Initial theories set the disaster for May 2003, but when nothing happened the date was moved forward to the winter in 2012 to coincide with the end of a c
347、ycle of the ancient Mayan calendar.NASA insisted the Mayan calendar in fact does not end on December 21, 2012, as another period begins immediately afterward.And even if the planets were to line up as some have forecast, the effect on our planet would be “negligible”， NASA said.“And while comets and
348、 asteroids (小行星) have always hit the Earth, big hits are very rare，” NASA noted. The last major impact was believed to be 65 million years ago，resulting in the end of dinosaurs.“We have already determined that there are no threatening asteroids as large as the one that killed the dinosaurs，” the spa
349、ce agency said.语篇解读好莱坞灾难大片2012使网络上盛传的“2012年12月21日为世界末日”这一所谓的玛雅预言再次进入人们的视野。为此，美国宇航局重申，2012年12月21日并不是世界末日，传言中的X星球将与地球相撞也并不属实。1_played a key role in the spread of the rumors.A. A new bookB. The Internet and a new Hollywood movieC. NASAD. An Indian calendar解析细节理解题。根据第一段中to dispel widespread rumors fuele
350、d by the Intermet and a new Hollywood movie可知因特网和一部好莱坞新片对传播世界末日的谣言起到了推波助澜的作用。答案B2The film 2012 is_.A. about the end of the worldB. based on the scientific predictionC. well accepted in the science fieldD. about a romantic love story解析细节理解题。根据第二段第一句可知2012这部电影是关于世界末日的。根据文章内容可先排除D项；由第二段中based on myths(
351、虚构的故事)可知B项错误；由宇航局的讲话可推出C项错误。答案A3We can infer that_.A. people didnt take the rumor seriouslyB. Planet X or Nibiru does existC. astronomers have been tracking Planet X for over ten yearsD. the rumor caused a panic among some people解析推理判断题。根据the US space agency insisted Monday in a rare campaign to dis
352、pel widespread rumors可知谣言传播之广以至于美国宇航局不得不出来辟谣，由此可见事态严重，故可判断谣言有可能造成了一些人的恐慌。答案D4NASA thinks that Eris_.A. might pose a threat to the EarthB. doesnt pose any threat to the EarthC. is too far away to be visibleD. is similar to our planet, where life might exist解析细节理解题。根据第四段内容可知Eris行星并没有对我们的地球构成威胁。答案B5. W
353、hich of the following is the best title?A. New Hollywood movie 2012B. December 21, 2012, NOT the end of the worldC. End of the ancient Mayan calendarD. How rumors came into being解析主旨大意题。本文主要讲美国宇航局驳斥“2012年12月21日是世界末日”的谣言。故B项为最佳标题。答案BCan you believe your eyes? A recent experiment suggests that the ans
354、wer to that question may depend on your age.Martin Doherty, a psychologist at the University of Stirling in Scotland, led the team of scientists. In this experiment, Doherty and his team tested the perception(观察力) of some people, using pictures of some orange circles. The researchers showed the same
355、 pictures to two groups of people. The first group included 151 children aged 4 to 10, and the second group included 24 adults aged 18 to 25.The first group of pictures showed two circles alone on a white background. One of the circles was larger than the other, and these people were asked to identi
356、fy the larger one. Four-year-olds identified the correct circle 79 percent of the time. Adults identified the correct circle 95 percent of the time.Next, both groups were shown a picture where the orange circles, again of different sizes, were surrounded by gray circles. Heres where the trick lies i
357、n. In some of the pictures, the smaller orange circle was surrounded by even smaller gray circles making the orange circle appear larger than the other orange circle, which was the real larger one. And the larger orange circle was surrounded by even bigger gray circles so it appeared to be smaller t
358、han the real smaller orange circle.When young children aged 4 to 6 looked at these tricky pictures, they werent fooledthey were still able to find the bigger circle with roughly the same accuracy as before. Older children and adults, on the other hand, did not do as well. Older children often identi
359、fied the smaller circle as the larger one, and adults got it wrong most of the time.As children get older, Doherty said, their brains may develop the ability to identify visual context. In other words, they will begin to process the whole picture at once: the tricky gray circles, as well as the oran
360、ge circle in the middle. As a result, theyre more likely to fall for this kind of visual trick.1. Doherty and his team of scientists did an experiment to evaluate_.A. childrens and adults eye-sightB. peoples ability to see accuratelyC. childrens and adults brainsD. the influence of peoples age解析考查细节
361、理解能力。第二段第二行可以得出结论。答案B2. When asked to find the larger circle，_.A. children at 6 got it wrong 79 % of the time with no gray ones aroundB. only adults over 18 got it right 95% of the time with gray ones aroundC. children at 4 got it right about 79 % of the time with gray ones aroundD. adults got it ri
362、ght most of the time with gray ones around解析考查细节理解能力。第三段清晰地说明了辨别圆圈的比例。答案C3. According to the passage, we can know that_.A. a smaller orange circle appears bigger on a white backgroundB. an orange circle appears bigger than a gray one of the same sizeC. a circle surrounded by other circles looks bigg
363、er than its real sizeD. a circle surrounded by bigger ones looks smaller than its real size解析考查细节理解能力，对第四段整体的理解和第五段最后一句可以得出答案。答案D4. Visual context may work when children get older than_.A. 4 B. 6C. 10 D. 18解析考查推理判断能力。从第五段和第六段第一句判断得出答案。答案B5. Why are younger children not fooled?A. Because they are sma
364、rter than older children and adults.B. Because older people are influenced by their experience.C. Because peoples eyes become weaker as they grow older.D. Because their brain can hardly notice related things together.解析考查推理判断能力。第四、五、六段提及到46岁小孩和6岁以上小孩的区别是判断的依据。答案DBill Fulton doesn t remember losing h
365、is wallet, but its return helped him remember the past. The leather stayed smooth and the cowboy design unblemished (完美无缺的). And when he looked inside, the contents brought back memories from 1946, when he apparently dropped the wallet behind the balcony bleachers (露天看台) in the Baker Middle School g
366、ym.Fulton s Social Security Card and bicycle license, bearing the address where he lived during his teenage years, were positioned in their respective compartments, apparently untouched since the year after World War Il ended.Worker Nathan Osborne found the wallet along with old homework, lost libra
367、ry books and a 1964 talent show program while removing the bleachers for renovations on June 17. It was brought to Fulton s door the following day by Melanie Trindle, the Baker Middle School secretary.Middle School Principal Mindi Vaughan said the brown pine bleachers were connected to the gym balco
368、ny s brick wall and had remained in the same place since the school, known as the Helen M. Stack Building, opened in 1936.Fulton, 78, said he probably lost the wallet while cheering for the Baker High basketball team with a group of friends. Fulton said the bicycle ID was needed because he delivered
369、 medicine for Rodamar Drug.He was surprised, however, that his bicycle ID wasnt inside. He said he always kept it there.But rather than focus on what was inside the wallet, Fulton said the recovery has led him to reflect on his life one that took him to the Korean War and Berlin before the return to
370、 Baker City. He worked at Ellingson Lumber Company for 30 years, from March 1964 to April 1994.Since his retirement, Fulton has enjoyed spending time with his 11yearold black dog, Smokey. The two often hike the nearby mountains.Trindle s knock on the door, wallet in hand, induced a slight ripple in
371、his life, prompting him to consider the times he hadnt thought about in many years. “Where did all the times go？” Fulton said with a deep sigh. “It s hard to believe that the times have gone so fast.”语篇解读本文是记叙文。一个丢失了几十年的钱包居然被找到，而且还给了失主。钱包勾起了失主对过去岁月的回忆。1When the wallet was found, it_.A. was still in
372、good conditionB. was a little damagedC. had just lost colorD. was just repaired解析细节理解题。从文章第一段第二句可知，钱包的皮还很光滑，上面的图案也保持完好，因此A项正确。答案A2The wallet was important to Fulton because _.A. he could get his bicycle ID backB. it called up his memories of the pastC. it could help him to find his student IDD. it m
373、ade him think of his school days解析推理判断题。综合全文尤其是第一段和最后一段的信息可知，钱包勾起了Fulton对往昔岁月的回忆。答案B3Fulton lost the wallet when_.A. he was doing his homework on the balcony bleachersB. he was doing some exercise in the Baker Middle School gymC. he was removing the bleachers for renovations on June 17D. he was watc
374、hing a basketball match with his friends解析细节理解题。从文章第五段可知，Fulton和朋友们在一起看篮球赛，在为一支篮球队助威时他丢失了钱包。答案D4After he retired, Fulton_.A. lived a peaceful and pleasant lifeB. often regretted losing his walletC. lived a hard life by raising dogs in the mountainsD. quite missed his past life解析推理判断题。分析文章倒数第二段可知，Ful
375、ton退休以后经常牵着狗到山里散步，可见生活非常惬意。答案A5Which of the following best describes Fulton s feeling when the wallet was returned?A. Thankful.B. Overjoyed.C. Surprised. D. Doubtful.解析推理判断题。文章虽然没有明确说明Fulton接到钱包时的反应，但丢了那么多年的钱包失而复得，他应该感到吃惊。答案CPop stars today enjoy what once only belonged to the royalty (皇室). Wherever
376、 they go, people turn out in their thousands to greet them. The crowds go wild trying to catch a brief glimpse of their smiling, colorfully dressed idols. The stars are transported in their chauffeur driven RollsRoyces, private helicopters or executive aeroplanes. They are surrounded by a permanent
377、entourage(随从) of managers, press agents and bodyguards. Photographs of them appear regularly in the press and all their comings and goings are reported，for, like royalty, pop stars are news. If they enjoy many of the privileges of royalty, they certainly share many of the inconveniences as well. It
378、is dangerous for them to make unscheduled appearances in public.They must be constantly shielded from the adoring crowds who idolize them. They are no longer private individuals, but public property. The financial rewards they receive for this sacrifice cannot be calculated, for their rates of pay a
379、re great.And why not? Society has always rewarded its top entertainers lavishly. The great days of Hollywood have become legendary: famous stars enjoyed fame, wealth and adulation (奉承) on an alltime scale. By today s standards, the excesses of Hollywood do not seem quite so spectacular. A single gra
380、mophone record nowadays may earn much more in royalties than the films of the past ever did. The competition for the title “Top of the Pops” is fierce, but the rewards are truly huge.It is only right that the stars should be paid in this way. Dont the top men in industry earn enormous salaries for t
381、he service they perform to their companies and their countries? Pop stars earn vast sums in foreign currency often more than large industrial companies and the taxman can only be grateful for their massive annual contributions to the exchequer(国库). So who would begrudge them their rewards?It s all v
382、ery well for people in boring jobs to complain about the successes and rewards of others. People who make envious remarks should remember that the most famous stars represent only the tip of the iceberg. For every famous star, there are hundreds of others struggling to earn a living. A man working i
383、n a steady job and looking forward to a pension at the end of it has no right to expect very high rewards. He has chosen security and peace of mind, so there will always be a limit to what he can earn. But a man who attempts to become a star is taking enormous risks. He knows at the outset that only
384、 a handful of competitors ever get to the very top. He knows that years of concentrated effort may be rewarded with complete failure.But he knows, too, that the rewards for success are very high indeed: they are the payback for the huge risks involved and once he makes it, he will certainly earn the
385、m. That s the essence of private enterprise.语篇解读明星的生活总是令人羡慕不已。他们的生活中有光鲜的一面：不菲的收入，以豪华汽车和私人飞机代步，一言一行都成为人们关注的焦点然而，我们也应看到，他们活得很累，他们为成功所付出的艰辛和代价是一般人难以想象的。1The author develops the passage mainly by _.A. comparing different ideasB. giving explanationsC. inferringD. listing typical examples解析篇章结构题。本文主要通过解释向
386、读者阐明道理。答案B2The underlined word “begrudge” in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to _.A. be jealous of B. be satisfied withC. be anxious about D. be crazy about解析词义猜测题。结合上下文的语境判断本句意为：谁会对他们所得到的感到妒忌、不满呢？接下来作者讲了一般人从事枯燥但稳定的工作，所以这里意思是：从事稳定工作的人会妒忌这些明星。答案A3According to the passage, which of the follo
387、wing can match the view of the author?A. He who laughs last laughs best.B. If you venture nothing, you will gain nothing.C. He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.D. Success belongs to the persevering.解析推理判断题。根据最后一段可知，想成为明星就要冒更大的风险，然而一旦成功，回报也是丰厚的，那些选择了稳定工作的人是没有权利期待高额回报的。“If you venture nothing，you w
388、ill gain nothing.”意为：不入虎穴，焉得虎子，即要成功就要冒险。答案B4The author holds a(n) _attitude towards the high income of pop stars.A. critical B. approvalC. optimistic D. indifferent来源:Zxxk.Com解析推理判断题。根据全文可知，作者认为明星们理应得到高收入，因为他们为此付出了高昂的代价。答案B5Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. People are blind
389、in idolizing stars.B. There is fierce competition in becoming pop stars.C. The government taxes pop stars very little.D. Pop stars life is more luxurious than that of royalty.解析细节判断题。根据文章最后一段的“He knows at the outset that only a handful of competitors ever get to the very top.”以及第二段的最后一句可知答案。答案BDo Am
390、erican children still learn handwriting in school? In the age of the keyboard, some people seem to think handwriting lessons are on the way out. 90% of teachers say they are required to teach handwriting.But studies have yet to answer the question of how well they are teaching it. One study publishe
391、d this year found that about three out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting. Some teachers are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for 10 15 minutes a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for 60 to 70 minutes a day which really for handwritin
392、g is pretty much.Many adults remember learning that way by copying letters over and over again. Today s thinking is that short periods of practice are better. Many experts also think handwriting should not be taught by itself.Instead, they say it should be used as a way to get students to express id
393、eas. After all, that is why we write.Handwriting involves two skills. One is legibility,_which means forming the letters so they can be read. The other is fluency writing without having to think about it. Fluency continues to develop up until high school.But not everyone masters these skills. Teache
394、rs commonly report that about onefourth of their kids have poor handwriting. Some people might think handwriting is not important any more because of computers and voice recognition programs.But Steve Graham at Vanderbilt says word processing is rarely done in elementary school, especially in the ea
395、rly years. American children traditionally first learn to print, and then to write in cursive, which connects the letters. But guess what we learned from a spokeswoman for the College Board, which administers the SAT college admission test. More than 75 percent of students choose to print their essa
396、y on the test rather than write in cursive.语篇解读文章介绍了在键盘普及的年代美国的书法教学情况。1We can learn _ from Paragraph 1.A. teaching handwriting is a basic requirement in teaching jobB. most teachers prefer to teach handwritingC. teachers spend little time in teaching handwritingD. a keyboard has taken the place of t
397、he handwriting entirely解析推理判断题。根据第一段中“90% of teachers say they are required to teach handwriting”可知书法教学是基本的教学要求，A项为正确推论。根据“One study published this year found that about three out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting”可知，很多老师不愿意教书法课，B项错误；根据第一段末句可知C项错误；根据全段判断，只是说键盘普及使一
398、些人认为书法渐渐过时了，D项错误。答案A2Which of the following is WRONG for traditional handwriting in the USA?A. The students are taught by practicing a long period.B. The letters are repeated many times.C. Handwriting includes two skills.D. To write in cursive is taught first.解析细节认定题。根据第二段可知，传统的书法教学重复很多遍并且持续时间长，因此A、
399、B两项内容正确。根据第三段第一句可知C项内容正确；根据最后一段第二句可知D项内容错误。答案D3The underlined word “legibility” in Paragraph 3 means _.A. easy to read B. complexC. unexpected D. unreadable解析推测词义题。根据下文“which means forming the letters so they can be read”可推测画线词的意思是“清楚，易读”。答案A4The best title for the passage is _.A. How to improve han
400、dwriting in schoolB. Right or wrong: the death of handwritingC. Handwriting involves two skillsD. Handwriting lessons are on the way out解析标题归纳题。作者对美国书法教学的现状作了叙述，没有自己的主观评论，故选择B。A项没有涉及，C项只是其中一部分内容，D项只是一部分人的观点。答案B5The author s attitude towards whether still to learn handwriting in school is_.A. negativ
401、e B. objectiveC. critical D. optimistic解析态度判断题。根据全文的叙述，作者只是将美国书法教学的现状和不同人的观点呈现出来，并没有发表自己的见解，因此作者持客观的态度。答案BYou know how wonderful you are, and you know that others know how wonderful you are, but what do you do when admiration crosses over the line into jealousy? For most teens there will come a day
402、when you realize that one of your friends is jealous and that this jealousy is hurting your friendship. When this happens it can seem like there is nothing that you can do, but the good news is that there is. Dont let jealousy spoil your relationships. Tackle it headon and you might be back to norma
403、l much sooner than you think.It can be hard to walk up to a friend and ask them what the problem is, but if you want to save your friendship youll have to do just that. Dont approach them and ask why they are jealous of you (unless of course you want to appear totally conceited), just take some time
404、 alone with them and let them know that youve been feeling like theres been something coming between you. If they refuse to respond, then use the opportunity to explain how you have been feeling. Chances are that something you say will strike a nerve and your friend will open up as well.When you fig
405、ure out what is annoying your friend, ask him or her what (s)he thinks would make the situation better. If, for example, (s)he says that (s)he feels like (s)he doesnt get to spend any time with you because of your being off with your new friends from tee swim team then maybe you could invite her alo
406、ng the next time or block off one day a week for just the two of you. Remember, though, that whatever solution you decide on should be a compromise. Dont limit your own talents or opportunities simply because your friend is unhappy. Try instead to include him or her in your new life and see how that
407、 works out.Even the best of friendships can be tinged by jealousy. This destructive emotion is rarely productive and can turn best friends into worst enemies. Before taking extreme action, chat with your jealous friend to see if the two of you can work out a compromise.If you cant, be prepared to kn
408、ow exactly how far you will go to keep your friendand how far you wont.解读：本文是关于人际关系的话题。尤其是青少年朋友之间会因为嫉妒而使相互间的友谊被破坏，本文着重讲述如何处理被朋友嫉妒及处理过程中可能遇到的困难。1. According to the author, the jealousy emotion is_.A. normal B. productiveC. destructive D. extreme解析细节理解题，由第一段第二句.that this jealousy is hurting，your frien
409、dship.可知。答案C2. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a way to confront your friend when jealousy happens?A. Walking up to him/her and asking him/her why he/she is jealous of you.B. Walking up to him/her and asking him/her what the problem is.C. Spending some time with him/her and letting him/he
410、r know how you feel.D. Spending some time with him/her and letting him/her know you think theres something between you.解析细节理解题。由第二段第二句Dont approach them and ask why they are jealous of you可知。答案A43. The underlined “it” in the first paragraph refers to_.A. friendship B. relationshipC. admiration D. je
411、alousy解析细节理解题。由文章第一段可知。答案D4. What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?A. Theres always a solution to solve the problem of jealousy.B. Jealousy can turn best friends into worst enemies.C. You may lose a friend to keep your own gifts, chances or self development.D. You should go a long way wi
412、th your friend to work out a solution解析推理判断题。答案C5. The purpose of the passage is_.A. to explain what causes jealousy来源:Zxxk.ComB. to offer some advice on making friendsC. to introduce the way to cope with a jealous friendD. to explain how destructive the jealous emotion is 解析作者意图题。通读全文可知，本文酌写作目的是介绍处
413、理有嫉妒心朋友的方法。答案CCan you believe your eyes? A recent experiment suggests that the answer to that question may depend on your age.Martin Doherty, a psychologist at the University of Stirling in Scotland, led the team of scientists. In this experiment, Doherty and his team tested the perception(观察力) of s
414、ome people, using pictures of some orange circles. The researchers showed the same pictures to two groups of people. The first group included 151 children aged 4 to 10, and the second group included 24 adults aged 18 to 25.The first group of pictures showed two circles alone on a white background. O
415、ne of the circles was larger than the other, and these people were asked to identify the larger one. Four-year-olds identified the correct circle 79 percent of the time. Adults identified the correct circle 95 percent of the time.Next, both groups were shown a picture where the orange circles, again
416、 of different sizes, were surrounded by gray circles. Heres where the trick lies in. In some of the pictures, the smaller orange circle was surrounded by even smaller gray circles making the orange circle appear larger than the other orange circle, which was the real larger one. And the larger orang
417、e circle was surrounded by even bigger gray circles so it appeared to be smaller than the real smaller orange circle.When young children aged 4 to 6 looked at these tricky pictures, they werent fooledthey were still able to find the bigger circle with roughly the same accuracy as before. Older child
418、ren and adults, on the other hand, did not do as well. Older children often identified the smaller circle as the larger one, and adults got it wrong most of the time.As children get older, Doherty said, their brains may develop the ability to identify visual context. In other words, they will begin
419、to process the whole picture at once: the tricky gray circles, as well as the orange circle in the middle. As a result, theyre more likely to fall for this kind of visual trick.1. Doherty and his team of scientists did an experiment to evaluate_.A. childrens and adults eye-sightB. peoples ability to
420、 see accuratelyC. childrens and adults brainsD. the influence of peoples age解析考查细节理解能力。第二段第二行可以得出结论。答案B2. When asked to find the larger circle，_.A. children at 6 got it wrong 79 % of the time with no gray ones aroundB. only adults over 18 got it right 95% of the time with gray ones aroundC. children
421、 at 4 got it right about 79 % of the time with gray ones aroundD. adults got it right most of the time with gray ones around解析考查细节理解能力。第三段清晰地说明了辨别圆圈的比例。答案C3. According to the passage, we can know that_.A. a smaller orange circle appears bigger on a white backgroundB. an orange circle appears bigger
422、than a gray one of the same sizeC. a circle surrounded by other circles looks bigger than its real sizeD. a circle surrounded by bigger ones looks smaller than its real size解析考查细节理解能力，对第四段整体的理解和第五段最后一句可以得出答案。答案D4. Visual context may work when children get older than_.A. 4 B. 6C. 10 D. 18解析考查推理判断能力。从
423、第五段和第六段第一句判断得出答案。答案B5. Why are younger children not fooled?A. Because they are smarter than older children and adults.B. Because older people are influenced by their experience.C. Because peoples eyes become weaker as they grow older.D. Because their brain can hardly notice related things together.解
424、析考查推理判断能力。第四、五、六段提及到46岁小孩和6岁以上小孩的区别是判断的依据。答案DBill Fulton doesn t remember losing his wallet, but its return helped him remember the past. The leather stayed smooth and the cowboy design unblemished (完美无缺的). And when he looked inside, the contents brought back memories from 1946, when he apparently d
425、ropped the wallet behind the balcony bleachers (露天看台) in the Baker Middle School gym.Fulton s Social Security Card and bicycle license, bearing the address where he lived during his teenage years, were positioned in their respective compartments, apparently untouched since the year after World War I
426、l ended.Worker Nathan Osborne found the wallet along with old homework, lost library books and a 1964 talent show program while removing the bleachers for renovations on June 17. It was brought to Fulton s door the following day by Melanie Trindle, the Baker Middle School secretary.Middle School Pri
427、ncipal Mindi Vaughan said the brown pine bleachers were connected to the gym balcony s brick wall and had remained in the same place since the school, known as the Helen M. Stack Building, opened in 1936.Fulton, 78, said he probably lost the wallet while cheering for the Baker High basketball team w
428、ith a group of friends. Fulton said the bicycle ID was needed because he delivered medicine for Rodamar Drug.He was surprised, however, that his bicycle ID wasnt inside. He said he always kept it there.But rather than focus on what was inside the wallet, Fulton said the recovery has led him to refle
429、ct on his life one that took him to the Korean War and Berlin before the return to Baker City. He worked at Ellingson Lumber Company for 30 years, from March 1964 to April 1994.Since his retirement, Fulton has enjoyed spending time with his 11yearold black dog, Smokey. The two often hike the nearby
430、mountains.Trindle s knock on the door, wallet in hand, induced a slight ripple in his life, prompting him to consider the times he hadnt thought about in many years. “Where did all the times go？” Fulton said with a deep sigh. “It s hard to believe that the times have gone so fast.”语篇解读本文是记叙文。一个丢失了几十
431、年的钱包居然被找到，而且还给了失主。钱包勾起了失主对过去岁月的回忆。1When the wallet was found, it_.A. was still in good conditionB. was a little damagedC. had just lost colorD. was just repaired解析细节理解题。从文章第一段第二句可知，钱包的皮还很光滑，上面的图案也保持完好，因此A项正确。答案A2The wallet was important to Fulton because _.A. he could get his bicycle ID backB. it ca
432、lled up his memories of the pastC. it could help him to find his student IDD. it made him think of his school days解析推理判断题。综合全文尤其是第一段和最后一段的信息可知，钱包勾起了Fulton对往昔岁月的回忆。答案B3Fulton lost the wallet when_.A. he was doing his homework on the balcony bleachersB. he was doing some exercise in the Baker Middle S
433、chool gymC. he was removing the bleachers for renovations on June 17D. he was watching a basketball match with his friends解析细节理解题。从文章第五段可知，Fulton和朋友们在一起看篮球赛，在为一支篮球队助威时他丢失了钱包。答案D4After he retired, Fulton_.A. lived a peaceful and pleasant lifeB. often regretted losing his walletC. lived a hard life by
434、 raising dogs in the mountainsD. quite missed his past life解析推理判断题。分析文章倒数第二段可知，Fulton退休以后经常牵着狗到山里散步，可见生活非常惬意。答案A5Which of the following best describes Fulton s feeling when the wallet was returned?A. Thankful.B. Overjoyed.C. Surprised. D. Doubtful.解析推理判断题。文章虽然没有明确说明Fulton接到钱包时的反应，但丢了那么多年的钱包失而复得，他应该感
435、到吃惊。答案CPop stars today enjoy what once only belonged to the royalty (皇室). Wherever they go, people turn out in their thousands to greet them. The crowds go wild trying to catch a brief glimpse of their smiling, colorfully dressed idols. The stars are transported in their chauffeur driven RollsRoyces
436、, private helicopters or executive aeroplanes. They are surrounded by a permanent entourage(随从) of managers, press agents and bodyguards. Photographs of them appear regularly in the press and all their comings and goings are reported，for, like royalty, pop stars are news. If they enjoy many of the p
437、rivileges of royalty, they certainly share many of the inconveniences as well. It is dangerous for them to make unscheduled appearances in public.They must be constantly shielded from the adoring crowds who idolize them. They are no longer private individuals, but public property. The financial rewa
438、rds they receive for this sacrifice cannot be calculated, for their rates of pay are great.And why not? Society has always rewarded its top entertainers lavishly. The great days of Hollywood have become legendary: famous stars enjoyed fame, wealth and adulation (奉承) on an alltime scale. By today s s
439、tandards, the excesses of Hollywood do not seem quite so spectacular. A single gramophone record nowadays may earn much more in royalties than the films of the past ever did. The competition for the title “Top of the Pops” is fierce, but the rewards are truly huge.It is only right that the stars sho
440、uld be paid in this way. Dont the top men in industry earn enormous salaries for the service they perform to their companies and their countries? Pop stars earn vast sums in foreign currency often more than large industrial companies and the taxman can only be grateful for their massive annual contr
441、ibutions to the exchequer(国库). So who would begrudge them their rewards?It s all very well for people in boring jobs to complain about the successes and rewards of others. People who make envious remarks should remember that the most famous stars represent only the tip of the iceberg. For every famo
442、us star, there are hundreds of others struggling to earn a living. A man working in a steady job and looking forward to a pension at the end of it has no right to expect very high rewards. He has chosen security and peace of mind, so there will always be a limit to what he can earn. But a man who at
443、tempts to become a star is taking enormous risks. He knows at the outset that only a handful of competitors ever get to the very top. He knows that years of concentrated effort may be rewarded with complete failure.But he knows, too, that the rewards for success are very high indeed: they are the pa
444、yback for the huge risks involved and once he makes it, he will certainly earn them. That s the essence of private enterprise.语篇解读明星的生活总是令人羡慕不已。他们的生活中有光鲜的一面：不菲的收入，以豪华汽车和私人飞机代步，一言一行都成为人们关注的焦点然而，我们也应看到，他们活得很累，他们为成功所付出的艰辛和代价是一般人难以想象的。1The author develops the passage mainly by _.A. comparing different i
445、deasB. giving explanationsC. inferringD. listing typical examples解析篇章结构题。本文主要通过解释向读者阐明道理。答案B2The underlined word “begrudge” in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to _.A. be jealous of B. be satisfied withC. be anxious about D. be crazy about解析词义猜测题。结合上下文的语境判断本句意为：谁会对他们所得到的感到妒忌、不满呢？接下来作者讲了一般人从
446、事枯燥但稳定的工作，所以这里意思是：从事稳定工作的人会妒忌这些明星。答案A3According to the passage, which of the following can match the view of the author?A. He who laughs last laughs best.B. If you venture nothing, you will gain nothing.C. He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.D. Success belongs to the persevering.解析推理判断题。根据最后一段可知，
447、想成为明星就要冒更大的风险，然而一旦成功，回报也是丰厚的，那些选择了稳定工作的人是没有权利期待高额回报的。“If you venture nothing，you will gain nothing.”意为：不入虎穴，焉得虎子，即要成功就要冒险。答案B4The author holds a(n) _attitude towards the high income of pop stars.A. critical B. approvalC. optimistic D. indifferent解析推理判断题。根据全文可知，作者认为明星们理应得到高收入，因为他们为此付出了高昂的代价。答案B5Which
448、 of the following is true according to the passage?A. People are blind in idolizing stars.来源:学.科.网Z.X.X.KB. There is fierce competition in becoming pop stars.C. The government taxes pop stars very little.D. Pop stars life is more luxurious than that of royalty.解析细节判断题。根据文章最后一段的“He knows at the outse
449、t that only a handful of competitors ever get to the very top.”以及第二段的最后一句可知答案。答案BDo American children still learn handwriting in school? In the age of the keyboard, some people seem to think handwriting lessons are on the way out. 90% of teachers say they are required to teach handwriting.But studie
450、s have yet to answer the question of how well they are teaching it. One study published this year found that about three out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting. Some teachers are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for 10 15 minutes a day, and then other
451、teachers who basically teach it for 60 to 70 minutes a day which really for handwriting is pretty much.Many adults remember learning that way by copying letters over and over again. Today s thinking is that short periods of practice are better. Many experts also think handwriting should not be taugh
452、t by itself.Instead, they say it should be used as a way to get students to express ideas. After all, that is why we write.Handwriting involves two skills. One is legibility,_which means forming the letters so they can be read. The other is fluency writing without having to think about it. Fluency c
453、ontinues to develop up until high school.But not everyone masters these skills. Teachers commonly report that about onefourth of their kids have poor handwriting. Some people might think handwriting is not important any more because of computers and voice recognition programs.But Steve Graham at Van
454、derbilt says word processing is rarely done in elementary school, especially in the early years. American children traditionally first learn to print, and then to write in cursive, which connects the letters. But guess what we learned from a spokeswoman for the College Board, which administers the S
455、AT college admission test. More than 75 percent of students choose to print their essay on the test rather than write in cursive.语篇解读文章介绍了在键盘普及的年代美国的书法教学情况。1We can learn _ from Paragraph 1.A. teaching handwriting is a basic requirement in teaching jobB. most teachers prefer to teach handwritingC. te
456、achers spend little time in teaching handwritingD. a keyboard has taken the place of the handwriting entirely解析推理判断题。根据第一段中“90% of teachers say they are required to teach handwriting”可知书法教学是基本的教学要求，A项为正确推论。根据“One study published this year found that about three out of every four teachers say they ar
457、e not prepared to teach handwriting”可知，很多老师不愿意教书法课，B项错误；根据第一段末句可知C项错误；根据全段判断，只是说键盘普及使一些人认为书法渐渐过时了，D项错误。答案A2Which of the following is WRONG for traditional handwriting in the USA?A. The students are taught by practicing a long period.B. The letters are repeated many times.C. Handwriting includes two
458、skills.D. To write in cursive is taught first.解析细节认定题。根据第二段可知，传统的书法教学重复很多遍并且持续时间长，因此A、B两项内容正确。根据第三段第一句可知C项内容正确；根据最后一段第二句可知D项内容错误。答案D3The underlined word “legibility” in Paragraph 3 means _.A. easy to read B. complexC. unexpected D. unreadable解析推测词义题。根据下文“which means forming the letters so they can b
459、e read”可推测画线词的意思是“清楚，易读”。答案A4The best title for the passage is _.A. How to improve handwriting in schoolB. Right or wrong: the death of handwritingC. Handwriting involves two skillsD. Handwriting lessons are on the way out解析标题归纳题。作者对美国书法教学的现状作了叙述，没有自己的主观评论，故选择B。A项没有涉及，C项只是其中一部分内容，D项只是一部分人的观点。答案B5The
460、 author s attitude towards whether still to learn handwriting in school is_.A. negative B. objectiveC. critical D. optimistic解析态度判断题。根据全文的叙述，作者只是将美国书法教学的现状和不同人的观点呈现出来，并没有发表自己的见解，因此作者持客观的态度。答案BYou know how wonderful you are, and you know that others know how wonderful you are, but what do you do when
461、 admiration crosses over the line into jealousy? For most teens there will come a day when you realize that one of your friends is jealous and that this jealousy is hurting your friendship. When this happens it can seem like there is nothing that you can do, but the good news is that there is. Dont
462、let jealousy spoil your relationships. Tackle it headon and you might be back to normal much sooner than you think.It can be hard to walk up to a friend and ask them what the problem is, but if you want to save your friendship youll have to do just that. Dont approach them and ask why they are jealo
463、us of you (unless of course you want to appear totally conceited), just take some time alone with them and let them know that youve been feeling like theres been something coming between you. If they refuse to respond, then use the opportunity to explain how you have been feeling. Chances are that s
464、omething you say will strike a nerve and your friend will open up as well.When you figure out what is annoying your friend, ask him or her what (s)he thinks would make the situation better. If, for example, (s)he says that (s)he feels like (s)he doesnt get to spend any time with you because of your
465、being off with your new friends from tee swim team then maybe you could invite her along the next time or block off one day a week for just the two of you. Remember, though, that whatever solution you decide on should be a compromise. Dont limit your own talents or opportunities simply because your
466、friend is unhappy. Try instead to include him or her in your new life and see how that works out.Even the best of friendships can be tinged by jealousy. This destructive emotion is rarely productive and can turn best friends into worst enemies. Before taking extreme action, chat with your jealous fr
467、iend to see if the two of you can work out a compromise.If you cant, be prepared to know exactly how far you will go to keep your friendand how far you wont.解读：本文是关于人际关系的话题。尤其是青少年朋友之间会因为嫉妒而使相互间的友谊被破坏，本文着重讲述如何处理被朋友嫉妒及处理过程中可能遇到的困难。1. According to the author, the jealousy emotion is_.A. normal B. produ
468、ctiveC. destructive D. extreme解析细节理解题，由第一段第二句.that this jealousy is hurting，your friendship.可知。答案C2. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a way to confront your friend when jealousy happens?A. Walking up to him/her and asking him/her why he/she is jealous of you.B. Walking up to him/her and as
469、king him/her what the problem is.C. Spending some time with him/her and letting him/her know how you feel.D. Spending some time with him/her and letting him/her know you think theres something between you.解析细节理解题。由第二段第二句Dont approach them and ask why they are jealous of you可知。答案A43. The underlined “
470、it” in the first paragraph refers to_.A. friendship B. relationshipC. admiration D. jealousy解析细节理解题。由文章第一段可知。答案D4. What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?A. Theres always a solution to solve the problem of jealousy.B. Jealousy can turn best friends into worst enemies.C. You may lose a fri
471、end to keep your own gifts, chances or self development.D. You should go a long way with your friend to work out a solution解析推理判断题。答案C5. The purpose of the passage is_.A. to explain what causes jealousyB. to offer some advice on making friendsC. to introduce the way to cope with a jealous friendD. t
472、o explain how destructive the jealous emotion is 解析作者意图题。通读全文可知，本文酌写作目的是介绍处理有嫉妒心朋友的方法。答案C“In only six days I lost seven pounds of weight.”“Two full inches in the first three days ！”These are the kinds of statements used in magazine, newspaper，radio and television ads, promising new shapes and new lo
473、oks to those who buy the medicine or the device. The promoters of such products say they can shape the legs, slim the face, smooth wrinkles，or in some other way add to beauty or desirability.Often such products are nothing more than money-making things for their promoters. The results they produce a
474、re questionable, and some are dangerous to health.To understand how these products can be legally promoted to the public，it is necessary to understand something of the laws covering their regulation. If the product is a drug, FDA ( Food and Drug Administration) can require proof(证明) under the Food,
475、Drug, and Cosmetic Act that it is safe and effective before it is put on the market. But if the product is a device，FDA has no authority to require pre-marketing proof of safety or effectiveness. If a product already on the market is a danger to health, FDA can request the producer or distributor to
476、 remove it from the market voluntarily, or it can take legal action, including seizure (查封) of the product.One notable case a few years ago involved an electrical device called the Relaxacisor, which had been sold for reducing the waistline. The Relaxacisor produced electrical shocks to the body thr
477、ough contact pads. FDA took legal action against the distributor to stop the sale of the devices on the grounds that it was dangerous to health and life.Obviously, most of the devices on the market have never been the subject of court proceedings(法律诉讼), and new devices appear continually. Before buy
478、ing, it is up to judge the consumer to judge the safety or effectiveness of such items.语篇解读一些所谓的塑身、健美、美容的商品广告，商家和促销商仅仅是为了挣钱，而实际的结果令人怀疑，有些还有害于健康。事实证明，许多投放在市场上的医疗设备并不受法律约束，在购买前消费者要自己判断它们的安全和效果。1. It can be inferred that the ads mentioned in the text are_.A. objectiveB. costlyC. unreliable D. illegal解析
479、推理判断题。由第四段可知，促销商仅仅为了赚钱，而这些产品的效果令人怀疑。答案C2. Which of the following is true according to the text?AThe court is in charge of removing dangerous products.B. New products are more likely to be questionable.C. The production of a device must be approved by FDA.D. The promoters usually just care about prof
480、its.解析事实细节题。由第四段第一句可知，促销商仅仅为了赚钱。答案D3. FDA can ask for the proof of safety and effectiveness of a product_.A. if it is a drugB. if it is a deviceC. if its consumers make complaintsD. if its distributors challenge FDAs authority解析事实细节题。由第五段的第二句可知。答案A4. The Relaxacisor is mentioned as_.A. a product whi
481、ch was designed to produce electricityB. a product whose distributor was involved in a legal caseC. a successful advertisement of a beauty productD. an example of a quality beauty product解析事实细节题。由第六段可知，Relaxacisor是一种有害于身体的医疗设备，并因此引发了一个案件。答案B5. The author intends to _.A. make consumers aware of the p
482、romoters false promisesB. show the weakness of the law on product safetyC. give advice on how to keep young and beautifulD. introduce the organization of FDA解析推理判断题。综观全文，作者的目的是想让消费者意识到广告的虚假承诺。答案ALONDON (Reuters) Quiet please Britain s Queen Elizabeth is preparing to have her swans counted.Buckingham
483、 Palace has announced that the annual Swan Upping, a tradition dating back to the 12th century which involves a census of the swan population on the River Thames, will be conducted by the Queen s official Swan Marker from July 20 24.“With the assistance of the Queen s Swan Warden, Professor Christop
484、her Perrins of the University of Oxford, the swans and young cygnets (小天鹅) are also assessed for any signs of injury or disease，” Buckingham Palace said in announcing the count.The process involves the Swan Marker, David Barber, rowing up the Thames for five days with the Swan Warden in traditional
485、skiffs while wearing special scarlet uniforms and counting, weighing and measuring swans and cygnets.It may seem eccentric, but it is very important to the Queen, According to custom, Britain s sovereign owns all unmarked, mute swans in open water, but the Queen now exercises the right only on stret
486、ches of the Thames and its nearby tributaries.In medieval times, the Swan Marker would not only travel up the river counting the swans, but would catch as many as possible as they were soughtafter for banquets and feasts.This year, the Swan Marker and the Swan Warden are particularly keen to discove
487、r how much damage is being caused to swans and cygnets by attacks from dogs and from discarded fishing tackle (渔具)It is also an important year because Queen Elizabeth has decided to join her team of Swan Uppers for part of the census. She will follow them up the river and visit a local school projec
488、t on the whole subject of swans, cygnets and the Thames.“Education and conservation are essential to the role of Swan Upping and the involvement of school children is always a rewarding experience，” Buckingham Palace said.语篇解读泰晤士河上每年都要举行一个重要的活动：数天鹅。英国皇室的这一传统已经延续了好几个世纪。1. In medieval times，_.A. swans
489、 were better protected than nowB. a lot of swans were killed by dogsC. swans were a delicious dish on royal banquetsD. common people could catch the swans解析细节理解题。从文章倒数第四段可知，在中世纪天鹅被捉住，然后成为皇家宴会上的美味。答案C2We can infer from the passage that the process of counting the swans _.A. remains almost unchanged i
490、n the past yearsB. involves a lot of royal membersC. sometimes lasts longer than beforeD. is always guarded by special soldiers解析推理判断题。从文章第四段对数天鹅过程的描述以及参与清点的官员的穿着打扮可知，其过程几乎没有变化，因为这是一项传统活动。答案A3This year, the Swan Marker and the Swan Warden mainly want to find out_.A. the exact number of swans and cyg
491、netsB. how a local school project is going onC. how much damage the swans and cygnets sufferD. how education and conservation are carried out along the Thames解析细节理解题。从文章倒数第三段内容可知答案为C。答案C4Which of the following is the main idea of the passage?A. Britain s Queen is concerned about swans.B. Britain s Q
492、ueen orders a count of swans.C. An old tradition in Buckingham Palace.D. Queen Elizabeth will count swans herself.解析主旨大意题。文章第一段是本文的主题段，英国女王下令清点泰晤士河上的天鹅的数量。答案B5The underlined word “tributaries” can be best replaced by _.A. districts B. banksC. trees D. branches解析词义理解题。根据语境和常识可知，此处是指在泰晤士河及其支流上生活的天鹅。故答
493、案为D。答案DHappiness is contagious,_researchers reported on Thursday.People with the most social connections spouses, friends, neighbors and relatives were also the happiest, the data showed. “Each additional happy person makes you happier，” Christakis said.“Imagine that I am connected to you and you ar
494、e connected to others and others are connected to still others. It is this fabric of humanity, like an American patch quilt.”Each person sits on a differentcolored patch. “Imagine that these patches are happy and unhappy patches. Your happiness depends on what is going on in the patch around you，” C
495、hristakis said.“It is not just happy people connecting with happy people, which they do. Above and beyond, there is this contagious process going on.”And happiness is more contagious than unhappiness, they discovered.“If a social contact is happy, it increases the likelihood that you are happy by 15
496、 percent，” Fowler said. “A friend of a friend, or the friend of a spouse or a sibling (兄弟姐妹), if they are happy, increases your chances by 10 percent，” he added.A happy thirddegree friend the friend of a friend of a friend increases a persons chances of being happy by 6 percent.“But every extra unha
497、ppy friend increases the likelihood that youll be unhappy by 7 percent，” Fowler said.The finding is interesting and it is useful, too, Fowler said.“Among other benefits, happiness has been shown to have an important effect on reduced mortality (死亡率), pain reduction, and improved cardiac (心脏的) functi
498、on. So better understanding of how happiness spreads can help us learn how to promote a healthier society，” he said.The study also fits in with other data suggested in 1984 that having $ 5,000 extra increased a persons chances of becoming happier by about 2 percent.“A happy friend is worth about $ 2
499、0,000，” Christakis said.语篇解读美国科学家的一项最新研究成果表明，快乐感可以互相传递。这项研究成果为我们构建更为健康、和谐的社会提供了依据和方法。1According to the research, your happiness _.A. has nothing to do with your workmates or schoolmatesB. has something to do with anyone who has a close relationship with youC. depends on those who are in favour of yo
500、u or are against youD. has little to do with what social connections you have解析推理判断题。根据第二段、第三段内容可知，快乐感会不断传递和扩散，你的配偶、朋友、邻居、亲戚等的快乐指数会直接影响你的快乐程度，故选B。答案B2The underlined word “contagious” in the first paragraph means _.A. infectious B. beautifulC. effective D. prior解析词义猜测题。第一句是全文的主题句。由文章第二、三、四段可知，快乐感可以在人
501、们之间传播，故contagious的意思是“有感染力的，有传染性的”。答案A3It can be inferred that_.A. happiness spreads as fast and widely as unhappinessB. unhappiness spreads faster and more widely than happinessC. happiness spreads faster and more widely than unhappinessD. the spread of unhappiness has not been studied by researche
502、rs解析推理判断题。根据第六段“And happiness is more contagious than unhappiness，they discovered.”一句可推知选C。答案C4Which of the following will increase your chances of becoming happier most?A. Being in a party with a happy atmosphere.B. A happy experience of your brother or your parents.C. A happy trip to a foreign cou
503、ntry of your friends.D. Happiness of your friend s friend.解析事实细节题。根据第七、第八段讲述的别人的快乐感对你的影响几率可知，排在最前的是“If a social contact is happy”，故选A。答案A5What does Christakis mean by saying “A happy friend is worth about $ 20,000” ?A. A happy friend can help you bring in a wealth of $ 20,000.B. A happy friend is a
504、wealth which is worth about $ 20,000.C. A happy friend increases your chances of being happy by 2%.D. A happy friend increases your chances of being happy by 8 %.解析句意理解题。结合上一段中的“that having $5,000 extra increased a persons chances of becoming happier by about 2 percent”可知，一个快乐的朋友带给你的快乐相当于大约$20,000带给
505、你的快乐，也就是$5,000的四倍，即一个快乐的朋友给你带来快乐的几率为8%，故选D。答案DIf you travel to a new exhibit at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, you will have chances to see some meat-eating plants. Take bladderworts, a kind of such plant, for example. They appear so small and grow in a quiet pond. But these are the fast
506、est-known killers of the plant kingdom, able to capture a small insect in 1/50 of a second using a trap door!Once the trap door closes on the victim, the enzymes(酶) similar to those in the human stomach slowly digest the insect. When dinner is over, the plant opens the trap door and is ready to trap
507、 again.Meat-eating plants grow mostly in wet areas with soil that doesn t offer much food value. In such conditions, these amazing plants have developed insect traps to get their nutritional needs over thousands of years. North America has more such plants than any other continent.Generally speaking
508、, the traps may have attractive appearance to fool the eye, like pitcher plants, which get their name because they look like beautiful pitchers (a container like a bottle) full of nectar(花蜜)The Asian pitcher plant, for example, has bright colors and an attractive half-closed lid. Curious insects are
509、 tempted to come close and take a sip, and then slide down the slippery (光滑的)slope to their deaths.Hair-like growths along the pitcher walls ensure that nothing cab escape, and the digestive enzymes can get to work. A tiny insect can be digested in a few hours, but a fly takes a couple of days.Some
510、of these pitchers are large enough to hold two gallons. Meateating plants only eat people in science fiction movies, but sometimes a bird or other small animals will discover that a pitcher plant isn t a good place to get a drink.语篇解读本文是一篇说明文，介绍了一些特别的植物靠捕食动物获得生长所需养分的“食肉植物”。1From the first paragraph,
511、 we can know that bladderworts can _.A. capture 50 small insects in a secondB. capture an insect in the shortest timeC. be found floating on a quiet lakeD. digest an insect in 1/50 of a second解析细节理解题。第一段指出，bladderworts能在1/50秒的时间内捕获一只小昆虫，是植物中已知的捕获动物速度最快的，因此选B。答案B2If the trap door of a meateating plan
512、t is closed, the plant _.A. is fooling insects into taking a sipB. is producing nectarC. is tempting insects to come closeD. is enjoying a dinner解析细节判断题。第二段说，一旦“陷阱门”将猎物关起来，类似于人胃里的那些消化酶就开始慢慢地消化它了，由此判断D正确。答案D3Meateating plants can grow in wet and poor soil because they _.A. can get nutrition from anim
513、alsB. don t need much food valueC. can make the most of such conditionsD. have developed digestive enzymes解析推理判断题。这些植物生长在潮湿贫瘠的土壤中，为获得生长所需的养分，在数千年的进化中，它们演化出了捕获昆虫的“陷阱”，由此推出它们主要从动物中获取养分，而不是从土壤中获取养分。答案A4Which of the following is the picture of the Asian pitcher plant?解析推理判断题。根据第四、五、六段可知亚洲捕虫草主要有这些特征：状如水瓶
514、，颜色鲜亮，有半掩的盖子，综合此三项可知，只有A项最合适。答案A5According to the passage, which of the following is true?A. South Asia has the most meateating plants.B. Some of the meateating plants can even eat a human.C. Hairlike growths in the plants help trap insects.D. The traps of these plants have a dull color.解析细节理解题。依据文章
515、第三段最后一句可知，北美洲的食肉植物最多，故A错。从最后一段中的第二句可知，食肉植物是不吃人的，所以B项错。从文章倒数第二段可知，这些须状的东西可以防止小昆虫逃跑，故C项正确。从文章第四段可知，食肉植物为了吸引昆虫一般有漂亮的外形，故D项错。答案CAfter years of research and testing, the hybrid car was developed and put on the market. It s an interesting and exciting new improvement in today s world as we look for better
516、 ways to protect the quality of the air we breathe and conserve our natural resources.The quality of our air is affected by many different things. But one of the largest sources of air pollution is the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and gasoline which is used to power a car s engine. The EPA h
517、as set national standards to help control the level of harmful pollutants sent off into the air, and the automobile industry has acted by producing a hybrid car that uses less gas and therefore causes less pollution.A hybrid car is a combination of a regular car that runs on gasoline and an electric
518、 car that is battery powered. Some people tend to think that since the hybrid car is partially electric, you have to plug it in to charge it. But thats not how it works. The 144volt battery pack is actually recharged through the energy that is produced when the cars brakes are used. This is referred
519、 to as “regenerative braking” , because it generates electricity.Although the hybrid car still runs on gasoline most of the time, this helps it use less gas than a regular car. When the driver stops at a traffic light, the engine automatically shuts off to save fuel. Then, as soon as the driver puts
520、 the car in gear and touches the gas pedal, the engine starts back up.Have you ever ridden in a car with someone who ran out of gas? That probably wouldn t happen if you were riding in a hybrid car. It flashes a waming on its computer screen that says, “I am low on gas”. When it completely runs out,
521、 the warning reads，“YOU ARE NOW OUT OF GAS！” Then the electric power supply kicks in to let the driver travel a few more miles to a gas station.语篇解读本文主要介绍了一种新型汽车hybrid cars的优点和生产这种汽车的原因。1Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. The hybrid car will be put on the market.B. Hybrid car
522、s run faster than regular cars.C. When the hybrid car stops at a traffic light, the driver will get a warning.D. The burning of fossil fuels is one of the largest sources of air pollution.解析细节判断题。根据第二段的“But one of the largest sources of air pollution is the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and g
523、asoline which is used to power a cars engine.”可知答案。答案D2According to the passage, the word “hybrid” refers to _.A. a hightech discoveryB. energy savingC. a new inventionD. a combination of two things解析词义猜测题。由文章的第三段的第一句“A hybrid car is a combination of a regular car that runs on gasoline and an electr
524、ic car that is battery powered.”可知答案。答案D3“Regenerative breaking” is an important process of the hybrid car because _.A. it allows the car to come to a quick stopB. it gives the driver a smoother rideC. it produces energy to charge the batteryD. it can control the speed of the car解析细节理解题。由文章的第三段的“The
525、 144volt battery pack is.because it generates electricity.”可知答案。答案C4Which of the following is right about the EPA?A. They designed hybrid cars.B. They outlawed (宣布为不合法) the burning of fossil fuels.C. They set important guidelines that help control pollution.D. Their main purpose is to protect endang
526、ered plants and animals.解析细节理解题。由文章的第二段的第三句可知答案。答案C5Which of the following is the reason for developing hybrid cars?A. They use less gas than regular cars.B. They re safer to drive than most cars.C. Theyre more modern than other cars.D. They cost less than regular cars.解析细节理解题。由第四段的第一句“Although the
527、hybrid car still runs on gasoline most of the time，this helps it use less gas than a regular car.”可知答案。答案ABananas are one of the world s most important food crops. They are also one of the most valuable exports. Bananas do not grow from seeds. Instead, they grow from existing plants. Bananas are thr
528、eatened by disease because all the plants on a farm are copies of each other. They all share the same genetic weaknesses. For example, the Cavendish banana is most popular in North American and European markets. However，some kinds of fungus organisms easily infect the Cavendish. Black Sigatoka disea
529、se affects the leaves of Cavendish banana plants. The disease is controlled on large farms by putting chemicals on the plant s leaves. Farmers put anti-fungal chemicals on their crops up to once a week.Another fungal disease is more serious. Panama disease attacks the roots of the banana plant. Ther
530、e is no chemical treatment for this disease. Infected plants must be destroyed. Panama disease has affected crops in Southeast Asia, Australia and South Africa. There is concern that it may spread to bananas grown in the Americas. This could threaten an important export product for Central and South
531、 America.The International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain supports research on bananas. The group has headquarters in France and other offices in the major banana-growing areas of the world. The group says that more research must be done to develop improved kinds of bananas. The
532、group says that fungal diseases mainly affect only one kind of banana. In fact, there are five hundred different kinds of bananas. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has said that the Cavendish banana represents only 10% of world production.The UN. agency says farmers should gro
533、w different kinds of bananas. This protects against diseases that affect only one kind. Experts warn that disease may cause the Cavendish banana to disappear. This happened earlier to another popular banana because of its genetic weakness against disease.语篇解读香蕉由于遗传性的抗病弱点，在不久的将来有的品种可能会消失。文章列举了两种威胁Cav
534、endish香蕉的真菌病，国际组织建议农民种植更多种类的香蕉。1What does this passage mainly tell us?A. Bananas are the world s most important food crops.B. The risk to a popular banana shows need to grow other kinds.C. There are five hundred different kinds of bananas.D. How to grow bananas in different countries.解析主旨大意题。根据全文内容和
535、结构判断，文章主要介绍威胁Cavendish香蕉的真菌类疾病，进而显示出种植其他种类香蕉的必要性。故答案为B。答案B2Bananas are threatened by disease because _.A. they grow from seedsB. they are one of the most valuable exportsC. the only way to prevent it is to put chemicals on their leavesD. they have genetic weaknesses against disease解析细节理解题。根据第一段内容可知，
536、香蕉易受病害威胁是因为其遗传上的抗病弱点。后文也有叙述。答案D3Panama disease_.A. doesnt belong to fungal diseaseB. affects the leaves of banana plantsC. destroys bananas more seriously than Black Sigatoka diseaseD. has spread to bananas all over the world解析细节判断题。根据第二段前两句可知A项错误；根据第二段第二句可知这种疾病威胁香蕉作物的根部，B项错误；根据第二段后三句可知，这种香蕉疾病已影响到东南
537、亚、澳大利亚和南非，有可能传播到美洲，D项错误。由文章前两段分别对两种真菌病的描述可知，C项正确。答案C4We can infer from Paragraph 3 that _.A. the center of the group is in the USB. the Cavendish banana covers only a small part of the yield of bananasC. the key to solving the disease is to research all kinds of bananasD. each fungal disease affects
538、 five hundred different kinds of bananas解析推理判断题。根据第三段中“The group has headquarters in France”可知其中心位于法国，A项错误；根据第三段第三句可知，应对这种疾病的办法是培育改良品种，而不是调查所有的品种，C项错误；根据第三段第四句可知D项错误。由第三段最后一句可判断B项正确。答案B5According to the passage, which information is right?A. The Cavendish banana can mainly be imported from North Ame
539、rica and Europe.B. Panama disease affects the leaves of Cavendish banana plants.C. The Cavendish banana wont die out in the future.D. The Cavendish banana makes up only one tenth of world production.解析细节认定题。根据第一段中“the Cavendish banana is most popular in North American and European markets”可知这种香蕉在北美和
540、欧洲市场最受欢迎，而不是从这两个地区进口，A项错误；根据第二段第二句可知B项错误；根据文章最后一段第三句可知C项错误；根据第三段最后一句可以判断D项正确。答案D“Can I see my baby？” the happy new mother asked. When the bundle was in her arms and she moved the fold of cloth to look upon his tiny face, she gasped. The doctor turned quickly and looked out of the tall hospital windo
541、w. The baby had been born without ears.Time proved that the baby s hearing was perfect. It was only his appearance that was imperfect. When he rushed home from school one day and threw himself into his mothers arms, she sighed, knowing that his life was to be misfortunate. He cried out the tragedy,
542、“A boy, a big boy. called me a freak (怪人)”He grew up, handsome. A favourite with his fellow students, he might have been class president, but for that. He developed a gift, a talent for literature and music. “But you might communicate with other young people，” his mother blamed him, but felt a kindn
543、ess in her heart.Two years went by. One day, his father said to the son, “You re going to the hospital, son. Mother and I have someone who will donate the ears you need. But it s a secret.” The operation was a brilliant success, and a new person emerged.Later he married and entered the diplomatic se
544、rvice. One day, he asked his father, “Who gave me the ears? Who gave me so much? I could never do enough for him or her.” “I do not believe you could，” said the father, “but the agreement was that you are not to know. not yet.”The years kept their secret, but the day did come. He stood with his fath
545、er over his mother s casket. Slowly, tenderly, the father stretched forth a hand and raised the thick, reddish brown hair to reveal the mother had no outer ears.“Mother said she was glad she never let her hair be cut，” his father whispered gently, “and nobody ever thought Mother less beautiful, did
546、they？”语篇解读本文讲述了一个感人的故事。儿子天生没有耳朵，母亲将自己的耳朵捐献给了儿子。母亲去世后，父亲才将这个秘密告诉儿子。1Why did Mother gasp when she saw her newborn baby?A. Because her son had a tiny face.B. Because she saw her son crying.C. Because her son was born imperfect.D. Because her son was in her arms.解析细节理解题。由第一段最后一句话“The baby had been born
547、without ears.”可知答案。答案C2Which word can describe Mother s feeling when the son threw himself into her arms?A. Nervous.B. Sympathetic.C. Proud. D. Angry.解析细节理解题。由第二段的“When he rushed home from school one day and threw himself into his mothers arms，she sighed，knowing that his life was to be misfortunate.
548、”可知答案。答案B3Who gave the son the ears?A. A doctor. B. His father.C. His mother. D. A stranger.解析细节理解题。从文章最后可知是母亲献出了自己的耳朵。答案C4The underlined word “reveal” in the last but one paragraph means “_”A. see B. showC. find D. search解析词义推测题。父亲拨开母亲的头发，揭示了母亲将自己的耳朵捐给儿子的真相，因此，此处reveal是“显示”的意思。答案B5The best title fo
549、r the passage would be _.A. Mothers hairB. An unforgettable memoryC. Who gave me the ears?D. Who is my best respectable person?解析标题归纳题。是谁给了我耳朵？这是贯穿文章的线索。故选C。答案CWhen times get tough, we all look for ways to cut back. When were hungry, we eat at home instead of going out. We take buses instead of taxi
550、s. And we wear our old designer jeans just a few months longer. With college expenses at all-time highs, high school students are eager to do anything to cut the cost of a university education.One cost-cutting proposal is to allow college students to get a bachelor s degree in three years instead of
551、 four. Educational institutions have been actively exploring ways to make the learning process more efficient. But theres a question: Would the quality of undergraduate(本科生)education suffer? Few US universities have formally approved a “three-year degree” model.I doubt that mainstream North American
552、 colleges will carry out a three-year curriculum(课程) any time soon. For one thing, most universities already allow highly qualified students to graduate early by testing out of certain classes and obtaining a number of college credits(学分). In addition, at famous universities, the committee who deter
553、mine which courses are required and which courses are electives are unlikely to suddenly “throw out” one quarter of the required credits. Professors will resist “diluting(稀释)” the quality of the education they offer.In my opinion, a quality four-year education is always superior to a quality three-y
554、ear education. A college education requires sufficient time for a student to become skilled in their major and do coursework in fields outside their major. It is not a good idea to water down education, any more than it s not a good idea to water down medicine. If we want to help students find their
555、 way through university, we should help them understand early on what knowledge and skills they need to have upon graduation. We should allow students to test out of as many courses as possible. We should give them a chance to earn money as interns(实习生)in meaningful part-time jobs that relate to the
556、ir university studies, such as the five-year co-op program at Northeastern University.语篇解读本文为议论文。作者认为把大学四年的学制缩短为三年不是一个好主意，保证足够的时间才能保证大学教育的质量。1Which of the following can be the best title?A. It s time to shorten the learning processB. Best learning takes place over timeC. University education should
557、be watered downD. College education calls for reform解析主旨大意题。作者认为把大学四年的学制缩短为三年不是一个好主意，学好大学功课是需要付出时间的，故B项最佳。答案B2We can learn from the passage that _.A. most American universities are against the “three-year degree” modelB. many famous US universities are considering adopting the “three-year degree” mo
558、delC. professors are willing to accept the “three-year degree” modelD. The “three-year degree” model can make college learning more efficient解析细节理解题。根据第二段中的Few US universities have formally approved a “three-year degree” model可知几乎没有几所美国大学认可“三年本科学位”模式。答案A3In most US universities，_.A. college students
559、 are offered the co-op programB. electives credits make up one quarter of the required creditsC. all students are required to finish four-year education before graduationD. some excellent students can graduate ahead of time解析细节理解题。根据第三段中的most universities already allow highly qualified students to g
560、raduate early可知特别优秀的大学生可以提前毕业。答案D4We can infer that_.A. the author is a college professorB. the author thinks the cost of a university education is too high for people to affordC. the author considers the university education quality very importantD. the author pays special attention to the all-roun
561、d development of college students解析推理判断题。在第四段作者给出了自己的观点，从“A college education requires sufficient time for a student to become skilled in their major.”“It is not a good idea to water down education”等处可以看出作者非常看重大学教育质量。答案C5The first paragraph serves as a(n)_A. explanation B. definitionC. introduction
562、D. comment解析篇章结构题。本题要求学生推断文章的结构。根据第一段的内容可知第一段是用来引入话题的，故C项最佳。答案CI once had my Chinese MBA students brainstorming on “two-hour business plans”. I separated them into six groups and gave them an example: a restaurant chain. The more original their idea, the better, I said. Finally, five of the six grou
563、ps presented plans for restaurant chains. The sixth proposed a catering(餐饮) service. Though I admitted the time limit had been difficult, I expressed my disappointment.My students were middle managers, financial analysts and financiers from state-owned enterprises and global companies. They were not
564、 without talent or opinions, but they had been shaped by an educational system that rarely stressed or rewarded critical thinking or inventiveness. The scene I just described came in different forms during my two years teaching at the school. Papers were often copied from the Web and the Harvard Bus
565、iness Review. Case study debates were written up and just memorized. Students frequently said that copying is a superior business strategy, better than inventing and creating.In China，every product you can imagine has been made and sold. But so few well-developed marketing and management minds have
566、been raised that it will be a long time before most people in the world can name a Chinese brand.With this problem in mind, partnerships with institutions like Yale and MIT have been established. And then theres the “thousand talent scheme”： this new government program is intended to improve technol
567、ogical modernization by attracting top foreign trained scientists to the mainland with big money. But there are worries about Chinas research environment. Its hardly known for producing independent thinking and openness, and even big salary offers may not be attractive enough to overcome this.At las
568、t, for China, becoming a major world creator is not just about setting up partnerships with top Western universities. Nor is it about gathering a group of well-educated people and telling them to think creatively. Its about establishing a rich learning environment for young minds. Its not that simpl
569、e.1. Why does the author feel disappointed at his students?A. Because there is one group presenting a catering service.B. Because the six groups made projects for restaurant chains.C. Because all the students copied a case for the difficult topic.D. Because the students ideas were lacking in creativ
570、eness.解析考查推理判断能力。根据第一段整体的信息作出判断和推理。答案D2. Which of the following scenes is NOT considered as lack of creation?A. Papers were often downloaded from the Internet.B. Students often said that copying is a preferable business strategy.C. Students combine knowledge and critical thoughts to solve a problem.
571、D. Case study debates were written up as well as recited.解析考查判断推理能力。第二段整体判断，特别是最后一句。答案C3. The underlined word “scheme” in the forth paragraph means_.A. timetable B. themeC. project D. policy解析考查猜词能力。第四段的第2句“this new government program”中this指代前面的“thousand talent scheme”，而scheme和program为同义词，C中project为
572、program同义词。答案C4. We can infer from the passage that_.A. China can make and sell any product all over the worldB. high pay may not solve the problem of Chinas research environmentC. cooperation with institutions has been set up to make a Chinese brandD. the new government program are aimed at encoura
573、ging imagination解析考查推理判断能力。文中没有直接表达出来，根据最后一句得出，“even big salary offers may not be attractive enough to overcome this.”中this指的是Chinas learning environment存在的问题即problem，也是指Its hardly known for producing independent thinking and openness这个问题。答案B5. Which is the best title of the passage? A. Look for a N
574、ew Way of Learning.B. Reward Creative Thinking.C. How to Become a Creator.D. Establish a technical Environment.解析考查主旨判断题。从整体和最后一段判断，整篇文章是讲关于教育出现的问题有了丰富的学习环境，及新的学习方法，才能有创造性的研究氛围。答案AThroughout the world, boys and girls prefer to play with different types of toys. Boys typically like to play with cars
575、and trucks, while girls typically choose to play with dolls. Why is this? A traditional sociological explanation is that boys and girls are socialized and encouraged to play with different types of toys by their parents, peers, and the “society”. Growing scientific evidence suggests, however, that b
576、oys and girls toy preferences may have a biological origin.In 2002, Gerianne M. Alexander of Texas A&M University and Melissa Hines of City University in London surprised the scientific world by showing that monkeys showed the same sextypical toy preferences as humans. In the study, Alexander and Hi
577、nes gave two masculine toys (a ball and a police car), two feminine toys (a soft doll and a cooking pot), and two neutral toys (a picture book and a stuffed dog) to 44 male and 44 female monkeys. They then assessed the monkeys preference for each toy by measuring how much time they spent with each.
578、Their data showed that male monkeys showed significantly greater interest in the masculine toys, and the female monkeys showed significantly greater interest in the feminine toys. The two sexes did not differ in their preference for the neutral toys.If children s toy preferences were largely formed
579、by gender socialization, as traditional sociologists claim, in which their parents give “genderappropriate” toys to boys and girls, how can these male and female monkeys have the same preferences as boys and girls？They were never socialized by humans, and they had never seen these toys before in the
580、ir lives.语篇解读本文是科普阅读。男孩和女孩在玩玩具方面具有明显的性别差异。这种差异是后天习得的，还是与生俱来的呢？科学家对此进行了研究。1Traditional sociologists believe boys and girls toy preferences _.A. are passed down from their parentsB. have a biological originC. have nothing to do with gender socializationD. are largely formed in later life解析细节理解题。从文章第一段
581、的第四句和最后一段可知，传统的社会学家认为男孩、女孩对玩具的偏好差异是后天形成的。答案D2The study by Alexander and Hines shows that monkeys_.A. also play toys as humans doB. also have a sextypical toy preferenceC. have no toy preferencesD. like to play different toys at different time解析细节理解题。文章第二段的第一句说明，猴子在玩玩具时，也有性别差异。答案B3Alexander and Hines
582、 carried out the study to _.A. find out why boys and girls prefer different toysB. test the intelligence of monkeysC. test whether monkeys like to play toysD. find more evidence for traditional sociology解析推理判断题。从文章第一段最后一句和最后一段可知，用猴子做研究的目的是证明男孩和女孩在玩玩具时所表现出的偏好是与生俱来的，而不是后天习得的。答案A4According to the study
583、, if given a stuffed dog, _.A. only the male monkeys showed interestB. the female monkeys showed more interestC. the male and female monkeys showed the same interestD. neither the male nor the female monkeys showed any interest解析细节理解题。从文章第二段最后一句可知，如果给一种中性的玩具，猴子表现出的兴趣没有性别差异。答案C5Masculine toys are mai
584、nly intended for_.A. monkeysB. adultC. boys D. girls解析细节理解题。从文章第二段可知，这种玩具是跟女孩玩的玩具相对的，因此是指男孩玩具。答案CWhen Steve Maxwell graduated from college, he had an engineering degree and a hightech job but he couldnt balance his checkbook. “I took one finance class in college but dropped it to go on a ski trip，”
585、says the 45yearold father of three, who lives in Windsor, Colorado. “I actually had to go to my bank and ask them to teach me how to read my statement.”One of the biggest obstacles to making money is not understanding it: Thousands of us avoid investing because we just dont get it. But to make money
586、, you must be financially literate. “It bothered me that I didnt understand this stuff，” says Steve, “so I read books and magazines about money management and investing, and I asked every financial whiz (能手) I knew to explain things to me.”He and his wife started applying the lessons: They made a po
587、int to live below their means. They never bought on impulse, always negotiated better deals (on their cars，cable bills, furniture) and stayed in their home long after they went for an expensive vacation. They also put 20 percent of their annual salary into investments.Within ten years, they were mil
588、lionaires, and people were coming to Steve for advice. “Someone would say, I need to refinance my house what should I do? A lot of times，I wouldnt know the answer, but Id go to find it and learn something in the process，” he says.In 2003, Steve quit his job to become part owner of a company that hol
589、ds personal finance seminars (研讨会) for employees of corporations like WalMart. He also started going to real estate investment seminars, and its paid off: He now owns $ 30 million worth of investment properties, including apartment complexes, a shopping mall and a quarry.“I was an engineer who never
590、 thought this life was possible, but all it truly takes is a little selfeducation，” says Steve. “You can do anything once you understand the basics.”语篇解读经过不断的学习，史蒂夫从不懂理财的工程师发展成为善于理财的百万富翁。1. When Steve Maxwell graduated from college, he_.A. couldnt balance his work and lifeB. made up his mind to beco
591、me a millionaireC. didnt know how to manage his moneyD. often went to banks to borrow money解析细节理解题。根据第一段的he couldnt balance his checkbook和I actually had to go to my bank and ask them to teach me how to read my statement可知，Steve Maxwell 刚毕业后不懂得如何理财。答案C2. The underlined part “live below their means” (
592、in Paragraph 3) probably means “_”A. take effective measuresB. live a miserable lifeC. spend more money than they hadD. spend less money than they had解析词义猜测题。根据下文“他们从来不冲动地买东西，买东西时尽量获得低价，减少外出度假计划”等线索可以推断出，史蒂夫一家在尽量减少开支。 答案D3. Since Steve Maxwell became a millionaire, he_.A. has been unwilling to help
593、othersB. hasnt stopped learning from practiceC. has been willing to follow others adviceD. has stopped to invest in houses解析推理判断题。根据第四段的A lot of times，I wouldnt know the answer，but Id go find it and learn something in the process可以看出，史蒂夫总是在教别人理财的过程中学到一些东西。 答案B4. What would be the best title for the
594、passage?A. A selfmade engineerB. How to balance your checkbookC. Dont avoid investingD. Educate yourself to become a millionaire解析标题归纳题。史蒂夫从开始的根本不懂理财到最后成为百万富翁，靠的是不断的学习向别人讨教，从书本上学习，D项点出了他成功的秘诀。文章最后一段的selfeducation是关键词。答案D5. It can be inferred from the passage that_.A. selfeducation is very important
595、to ones lifeB. everyone should learn how to invest in their lifeC. Steve Maxwell was quite interested in finance classes in collegeD. Steve became rich because he saved every penny he had earned解析细节推断题。根据文章的最后一段可知，自主学习对每一个人的人生有重大的影响，故可知选A。文中提到了Steve投资赚钱韵事情，但是无法推断出每个人都要学习如何投资；根据文章首段可知Steve为了滑雪旅行放弃了财经
596、课，可判断C不对；D项与原文不符合。Lisa was running late. Lisa, 25, had a lot to do at work, plus visitors on the way: her parents were coming in for Thanksgiving from her hometown. But as she hurried down the subway stairs, she started to feel uncomfortably warm. By the time she got to the platform，Lisa felt weak a
597、nd tired maybe it hadnt been a good idea to give blood the night before, she thought. She rested herself against a post close to the tracks.Several yards away, Frank ,43, and his girlfriend, Jennifer，found a spot close to where the front of the train would stop. They were deep in discussion about a
598、house they were thinking of buying.But when he heard the scream, followed by someone yelling，“Oh, my God, she fell in！”Frank didnt hesitate. He jumped down to the tracks and ran some 40 feet toward the body lying on the rails. “No ! Not you ! ”his girlfriend screamed after him.She was right to be al
599、armed. By the time Frank reached Lisa，he could feel the tracks shaking and see the light coming. The train was about 20 seconds from the station.It was hard to lift her. She was just out. But he managed to raise her the four feet to the platform so that bystanders could hold her by the arms and drag
600、 her away from the edge. That was where Lisa briefly regained consciousness，felt herself being pulled along the ground，and saw someone else holding her purse.Lisa thought shed been robbed. A woman held her hand and a man gave his shirt to help stop the blood pouring from her head. And she tried to t
601、alk but she couldnt，and that was when she realized how much pain she was in.Police and fire officials soon arrived, and Frank told the story to an officer. Jennifer said her boyfriend was calm on their 40minute train ride downtownjust as he had been seconds after the rescue，which made her think abou
602、t her reaction at the time. “I saw the train coming and I was thinking he was going to die，” she explained.语篇解读本文讲述了Frank在地铁站，冒着被列车轧死的危险救助了因身体虚弱而失去知觉的Lisa的经过。1What was the most probable cause for Lisas weakness?A. She had run a long way.B. She felt hot in the subway.C. She had done a lot of work.D.
603、She had donated blood the night before.解析事实细节题。从第一段“.it hadnt been a good idea to give blood.”可知，Lisa怀疑自己虚弱的原因是因为献血了。答案D2Why did Jennifer try to stop her boyfriend?A. Because they would miss their train.B. Because he didnt see the train coming.C. Because she was sure Lisa was hard to lift.D. Because
604、 she was afraid the train would kill him.解析事实细节题。从最后一段“.I was thinking he was going to die.”可知，Frank的女友担心Frank会被列车轧死。答案D3How did Frank save Lisa?A. By lifting her to the platform.B. By helping her rise to her feet.C. By pulling her along the ground.D. By dragging her away from the edge.解析事实细节题。从第五段“
605、.he managed to raise her the four feet to the platform.”可知，Frank把Lisa抱到了站台边。答案A4When did Lisa become conscious again?A. When the train was leaving.B. After she was back on the platform.C. After the police and fire officials came.D. When a man was cleaning the blood from her head.解析事实细节题。从第五段“.felt h
606、erself being pulled along the ground.”可知，Lisa是在被抱到站台上后才恢复了知觉。答案B5. The passage is intended to_.A. warn us of the danger in the subwayB. show us how to save people in the subwayC. tell us about a subway rescueD. report a traffic accident解析主旨大意题。全文讲述了Lisa在地铁站因晕倒而差点遇险，不过幸而得到Frank及时相救的故事。答案CSocieties al
607、l over the world name places in similar ways. Quite often there is no official naming ceremony but places tend to be called names as points of reference by people. Then an organized body steps in and gives the place a name. Frequently it happens that a place has two names：One is named by the people
608、and the other by the government. As in many areas, old habits die-hard,_ and the place continues to be called by its unofficial name long after the meaning is lost.Many roads and places in Singapore(新加坡) are named in order that the pioneers will be remembered by future generations. Thus we have name
609、s such as Stamford Road and Raffles Place. This is in keeping with traditions in many countriesin both the West and the East.Another way of naming places is naming them after other places. Perhaps they were named to promote friendships between the two places or it could be that the people who used t
610、o live there were originally from the places that the roads were named after. The mystery is clearer when we see some of the roads named in former British bases. If you step into Selector Airbase you will see Piccadilly Circus obviously named by some homesick Royal Air Force personnel.Some places we
611、re named after the activities that used to go on at those places. Bras Basah Road is an interesting example. “Bras Basah” means “ wet rice” in Malay (马来语). Now why would anyone want to name a road “Wet Rice Road”？The reason is simple. During the pioneering days, wet rice was laid out to dry along th
612、is road.A few roads in Singapore are named by their shapes. There is “Circular Road” for one. Other roads may have part of their names to describe their shapes，like “Paya Lebar Crescent”. This road is called a crescent(月牙)because it begins on the main road，makes a crescent and comes back to join the
613、 main road again.语篇解读本文议论世界上不同地区的人们以类似的方式为地点命名，如：以先驱者的名字命名；以其他地点的名字命名；以活动的名称命名；以形状命名等。1. We learn from Paragraph 1 that_.A. the government is usually the first to name a placeB. many places tend to have more than one nameC. a ceremony will be held when a place is namedD. people prefer the place name
614、s given by the government解析推理判断题。从第一段第四句Frequently it happens that a place has two names：One is named.推论可知。答案B2. What does the underlined phrase “ die hard” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?A. Change suddenly.B. Change significantly.C. Disappear mysteriously.D. Disappear very slowly.解析猜测词义题。从die hard后句.
615、and the place continues to be called by its unofficial name long after the meaning is lost.的意思可判断die hard的词义应为：消失得很慢。答案D3. Which of the following places is named after a person?A. Raffles Place. B. Selector Airbase.C. Piccadilly Circus. D. Paya Lebar Crescent.解析事实细节题。根据第二段的第一句(特别是pioneers“先驱者”一词)和第二
616、句的内容得知：Raffles Place应是指先驱者的名字。答案A4. Bras Basah Road is named_.A. after a person B. after a placeC. after an activity D. by its shape解析事实细节题。根据第四段第一句和第二句内容很明确地判断：Bras Basah是活动名称。答案C5. What can be inferred from the passage?A. Some place names in Singapore are the same as in Britain.B. Some places in S
617、ingapore are named for military purposes.C. The way Singaporeans name their places is unique.D. Young Singaporeans have forgotten the pioneers.解析推理判断题。从第三段最后一句可知。Piccadilly Circus皮卡迪利广场(即伦敦戏院及娱乐中心)。答案AWe once had a poster competition in our fifth grade art class.“You could win prizes，” our teacher t
618、old us as she wrote the poster information on the blackboard. She passed out sheets of construction paper while continuing，“ The first prize is ten dollars. You just have to make sure that the words on the blackboard appear somewhere on your poster.”We studied the board critically. Some of us looked
619、 with one eye and held up certain colors against the blackboard, rocking the sheets to the right or left while we conjured up our designs. Others twisted their hair around their fingers or chewed their erasers while deep in thought. We had plans for that ten-dollar grand prize, each and every one of
620、 us. Im going to spend mine on candies, one hopeful would announce, while another practiced looking serious, wise and rich.Everyone in the class made a poster. Some of us used parts of those fancy paper napkins, while others used nothing but colored construction paper. Some of us used big designs, a
621、nd some of us preferred to gather our art tidily down in one corner of our poster and let the space draw the viewers attention to it. Some of us would wander past the good students desks and then return to our own projects with a growing sense of hopelessness. It was yet another grown-up trick of th
622、e sort they seemed especially fond of, making all of us believe we had a fair chance, and then alwaysalwaysrewarding the same old winners.I believe I drew a sailboat, but I cant say that with any certainty. I made it. I admired it. I determined it to be the very best of all of the posters I had seen
623、，and then I turned it in.Minutes passed.No one came along to give me the grand prize, and then someone distracted me, and I probably never would have thought about that poster again.I was still sitting at my desk, thinking, What poster? when the teacher gave me an envelope with a ten-dollar bill in
624、it and everyone in the class applauded for me.语篇解读本文描述了在五年级美术课的一次海报设计竞赛中，作者出乎意料地取得了第一名的经历。1. What was the teachers requirement for the poster?A. It must appear in time.B. It must be done in class.C. It must be done on a construction sheet.D. It must include the words on the blackboard.解析事实细节题。从第二段“.
625、make sure that the words on the blackboard appear somewhere on your poster.”可知，老师的要求是黑板上的内容需在海报中出现。答案D2The underlined phrase in Paragraph 3 most probably means _.A. formed an idea forB. made an outline forC. made some space forD. chose some colors for解析猜测词义题。第三段中conjure up意为“想起；使呈现于脑际”。从对称的结构“Some.w
626、hile we conjured up our designs.”与下文的“Others.while deep in thought.”可以猜测出该词词义。答案A3. After the teachers words, all the students in the class_.A. looked very seriousB. thought they would be richC. began to think about their designsD. began to play games解析事实细节题。第三段生动、形象地描写了同学们思考时的各种动作。答案C4. After seein
627、g the good students designs, some students_.A. loved their own designs moreB. thought they had a fair chanceC. put their own designs in a cornerD. thought they would not win the prize解析事实细节题。从第四段“.wander past the good studentsdesks and then return to our own projects with a growing sense of hopeless
628、ness.”可知：看到优秀学生作品后，另外一些学生对自己这次的参赛作品信心更加不足了。答案D5. We can infer from the passage that the author_.A. enjoyed grownup tricks very muchB. loved poster competitions very muchC. felt surprised to win the competitionD. became wise and rich after the competition解析推理判断题。最后三段描写了作者焦急地等待比赛结果的心情，所以对于不自信的作者来说，这次比
629、赛的结果让他很吃惊。答案CFew laws are so effective that you can see results just days after they take effect. But in the nine days since the federal cigarette tax more than doubledto $1.01 per packsmokers have jammed telephone “quit lines” across the country seeking to kick the habit.This is not a surprise to p
630、ublic health advocates. Theyve studied the effect of state tax increases for years, finding that smokers, especially teens, are price sensitive. Nor is it a shock to the industry, which fiercely fights every tax increase.The only wonder is that so many states insist on closing their ears to the mess
631、age. Tobacco taxes improve public health, they raise money and most particularly, the deter people from taking up the habit as teens, which is when nearly all smokers are addicted. Yet the rate of taxation varies widely.In Manhattan, for instance, which has the highest tax in the nation，a pack of Ma
632、rlboro Light Kings cost $10.06 at one drugstore Wednesday. In Charleston, S. C. , where the 7centapack tax is the lowest in the nation, the price was $4.78.The influence is obvious.In New York, high school smoking hit a new low in the latest surveys 13. 8%, far below the national average. By compari
633、son,26% of high school students smoke in Kentucky. Other low tax states have similarly depressing teen smoking records.Hal Rogers, Representative from Kentucky, like those who are against high tobacco taxes, argues that the burden of the tax falls on low-income Americans “who choose to smoke.”Thats
634、true. But there is more reason in keeping future generations of low-income workers from getting hooked in the first place. As for todays adults, if the new tax drives them to quit, they will have more to spend on their families, cut their risk of cancer and heart disease and feel better.语篇解读烟草税增加后，取
635、得了立竿见影的效果许多烟民纷纷戒烟。然而有些地方却对此充耳不闻，中学生吸烟的比例居高不下。本文让我们意识到：从长远看，通过增加烟草税而使人们戒烟是泽被千家万户的大事。1. The text is mainly about_.A. the price of cigarettesB. the rate of teen smokingC. the effect of tobacco tax increaseD. the differences in tobacco tax rate解析主旨大意题。本文主要谈论的是烟草税增加后取得的明显效果以及给人们带来的益处。A、B、D均为文章的某一方面。答案C2.
636、 What does the author think is a surprise?A. Teen smokers are price sensitive.B. Some states still keep the tobacco tax low.C. Tobacco taxes improve public health.D. Tobacco industry fiercely fights the tax rise.解析事实细节题。由第三段第一句可知，唯一让人吃惊的是，有些州对此充耳不闻，也就是继续保持低烟草税。答案B3The underlined word “deter” in Para
637、graph 3 most probably means_.A. discourage B. removeC. benefit D. free解析猜测词义题。由语境可知，烟草税会改善公众的健康，筹集资金，特别是能让青少年放弃吸烟的习惯。答案A4. Rogers attitude towards the low-income smokers might be that of_.A. tolerance B. unconcernC. doubt D. sympathy解析推理判断题。Roger认为高烟草税是把税收负担加到了低收入的烟民身上，故应该持同情态度。答案D5. What can we lea
638、rn from the last paragraph?A. The new tax will be beneficial in the long run.B. Low-income Americans are more likely to fall ill.C. Future generations will be hooked on smoking.D. Adults will depend more on their families.解析推理判断题。由全文最后一句可知，增加烟草税促使烟民戒烟，可让他们有更多的时间与家人团聚，减少癌症和心脏病的发病率，从长远看，是一件有益的事情。答案A E
639、dmund Halley was an English scientist who lived over 200 years ago. He studied the observations of comets(彗星)which other scientists had made. The orbit of one particular comet was a very difficult mathematical problem. He could not figure it out. Neither could other scientists who dealt with such pr
640、oblems. However, Halley had a friend named Isaac Newton, who was a brilliant mathematician. Newton thought he had already worked out that problem, but he could not find the papers on which he had done it. He told Halley that the orbit of a comet had the shape of an ellipse(椭圆形). Now Halley set to wo
641、rk. He figured out(解决，计算出)the orbits of some of the comets that had been observed by scientists. He made a surprising discovery. The comets that had appeared in the years 1531, 1607, and 1682 all had the same orbit. Yet their appearance had been 75 to 76 years apart. This seemed very strange to Hall
642、ey. Three different comets followed the same orbit. The more Halley thought about it, the ore his thought that there had been three different comets as people thought. He decided that they had simply seen the same comet three times. The comet had gone away and had come back again. It was an astonish
643、ing idea! Halley felt certain though to make a prediction(预言)of what would happen in the future. He decided that this would appear in the year 1758. There were 53 years to go before Halleys prediction could be tested. In 1758 the comet appeared in the sky. Halley did not see it, for he had died some
644、 years before. Ever since then that comet had been called Halleys comet, in his honor. 1 Edmund Halley figured out the orbit of _. A. some different comets appearing several timesB. the same comet appearing at different timesC. three different comets appearing at the same timeD. several comets appea
645、ring at the same time2. Halley made his discovery _. A. by doing experimentsB. by means of his own careful observationC. by using the working of other scientistsD. by chance3. Halley made a surprising, but correct prediction in the year_. A. 1704B. 1705 C. 1706D. 17074. This passage in general is ab
646、out _. A. Halley and other scientistsB. the orbit of a cometC. Newton and HalleyD. Halley and his discovery5. Which of the following is TRUE?A. Edmund Halley was an American scientist. B. Halley made his discovery by doing experiments. C. Isaac Newton was a famous mathematician. D. The orbit of a co
647、met had the shape of an around. 【答案与解析】1. B解析：这是一道综合判断题。根据文章的第四段“He decided that they had simply seen the same comet three times. ”及上文提到的看彗星的时间分别是1531年、1607年、1682年可判断正确答案为选项B。2. C解析：这是一道细节理解题。根据文章第一段“He studied the observations of comets which other scientists had made. ”可知，哈雷的发现是在研究其他科学家们的观察中得出来的。3
648、. B解析：这是一道计算题。文中的“He decided that this would appear in the year 1758. There were 53 years to go before Halleys prediction could be tested. ”这句话告诉我们：他预言彗星出现的时间是1758年，而这个预言还要经过53年才能验证，由此可以推断出哈雷做出这个预言的时间是1705年。4. D解析：这是一道主旨大意题。纵观全文，不难看出，文章的中心就是哈雷以及他的发现。5 C解析：这是一道综合判断题。从文章首句可以看出A项错误；从第二题的分析中可知B项也错误；牛顿告诉
649、哈雷彗星的轨道是椭圆形的，可排除D。Most mornings, the line begins to form at dawn: scores of silent women with babies on their backs, buckets balanced on their heads, and in each hand a bright-blue plastic jug. On good days, they will wait less than an hour before a water tanker goes across the dirt path that serves
650、 as a road in Kesum Purbahari, a slum on the southern edge of New Delhi. On bad days, when there is no electricity for the pumps, the tankers dont come at all. “That water kills people,” a young mother named Shoba said one recent Saturday morning, pointing to a row of pails filled with thick, carame
651、l (焦糖)-colored liquid. “Whoever drinks it will die.” The water was from a pipe shared by thousands of people in the poor neibourhood. Women often use it to wash clothes and bathe their children, but nobody is desperate enough to drink it. There is no standard for how much water a person needs each d
652、ay, but experts usually put the minimum at fifty litres. The government of India promises (but rarely provides) forty. Most people drink two or three litresless than it takes to wash a toilet. The rest is typically used for cooking and bathing. Americans consume between four hundred and six hundred
653、litres of water each day, more than any other people on earth. Most Europeans use less than half that. The women of Kesum Purbahari each hoped to drag away a hundred litres that daytwo or three buckets worth. Shoba has a husband and five children, and that much water doesnt go far in a family of sev
654、en, particularly when the temperature reaches a hundred and ten degrees before noon. She often makes up the difference with bottled water, which costs more than water delivered any other way. Sometimes she just buys milk; its cheaper. Like the poorest people everywhere, the people of New Delhis slum
655、s spend a far greater percentage of their incomes on water than anyone lucky enough to live in a house connected to a system of pipes.1. The underlined word “slum” most likely means _. A. a village B. a small townC. an area of a town with badly-built, over-crowded buildings D. the part of a town tha
656、t lacks water badly2. Sometimes the water tanker doesnt come because _. A. the weather is bad B. there is no electricity C. there is no water D. people dont want the dirty water3. A person needs at least _ litres of water a day. A. a hundred B. four hundred C. forty D. fifty4. Which of the following
657、 statements is wrong? A. a hundred litres of water a day is enough for Shobas family B. Americans uses the largest amount of water each day C. in Kesum Purbahari milk is cheaper than bottled water D. Shoba has a family of seven people5. The passage mainly tells us _. A. how women in Kesum Purbahari
658、gets their water B. how much water a day a person deeds C. that India lacks water badly D. how India government manages to solve the problem of water【解析】1. 答案C。A、B、D可以指贫穷地区，也可以指富裕地区，但根据第1段的第2句及第2段的最后一句可以知道slum指的更可能是贫穷地区，C选项比较接近这个意思，因此应该是最佳答案。【解析】2. 答案B。根据第1段的On bad days, when there is no electricity
659、 for the pumps, the tankers dont come at all.可以知道B选项是正确答案。【解析】3. 答案D。根据第2段的“but experts usually put the minimum at fifty litres”可以知道D选项是正确答案。【解析】4. 答案A。根据第2段的Shoba has a husband and five children, and that much water doesnt go far in a family of seven, particularly when the temperature reaches a hun
660、dred and ten degrees before noon.可以判断A选项不符合文意，而其他选项均可在文中找到支持信息。【解析】5. 答案C。该题是判断主旨大意题。第2段第2句是该文的主题句，C选项与主题句的意思一致，因此是正确选项。A、B选项是细节信息，用于村托印度缺水的现象；D选项则完全与文章的意思相反，因此均可排除。One day last September, as Britney Spears was about to board a flight to Los Angeles from London, a blue bottle fell out of her purse.
661、She quickly put it back in, but not before the camera recorded the event. Neither Spears nor her spokesman was willing to comment on the contents of the bottle, but the next morning Londons Daily Express published a page of pictures under the headline “EXCLUSIVE: POP PRINCESS SPOTTED AT AIRPORT WITH
662、 POT OF SLIMMING TABLETS.” Spears was apparently carrying Zantrex-3, one of the most popular weight-loss pills now sold in the United States. The pill, which is sold at about fifty dollars for a months supply, contains a huge amount of caffeine, some green tea, and three common South American herbs
663、that also act as stimulants (兴奋剂). It hit the U.S. market last March and has had a success that would be hard to overstate. Millions of bottles have been sold, and during the Christmas season it was displayed in the windows of the nations largest chain of vitamin shops, G.N.C. (It is so highly sough
664、t after that many of the stores keep it in locked counters.) Zantrex-3 is also sold at CVS, Rite Aid, Wal-Mart, and other chains, and over the telephone and on the Internet. If you type “Zantrex” into Google, more than a hundred thousand pieces of information about it will appear. At any moment, the
665、re are scores of people sell it on eBay. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the success story of Zantrex-3, however, is that it is far from unique. There are hundreds of similar products on the market today, and they are bought by millions of Americans. And though Zantrexs producer makes some
666、exciting statements (“the most advanced weight control compound (化合物)period”), so do the people who sell Stacker 2 and Anorex along with those who sell Carb Eliminator and Fat Eliminator. Almost all of these compounds suggest that they can help people lose weight and regain lost energy, and often wi
667、thout diet, exercise, or any other effort. 1. Britney Spears is a / an_. A. dancer B. singer C. athlete D. chemist2. Which of the following is also a kind of weight-loss pill? A. CVS B. Rite Aid C. Wal-Mart D. Anorex3. The underlined part of the sentence in the first paragraph is most likely similar
668、 in meaning to _. A. it is difficult to say how successful Zantrex-3 is B. you cant overstate the success of Zantrex-3 C. you cant think too highly of the success of Zantrex-3 D. Zantrex-3 is not very successful4. From the second paragraph we know that _ . A. Zantrex-3 is one of the successful weigh
669、t-loss pills on the US market B. Zantrex-3 is the most successful weight-loss pills on the US marketC. Zantrex-3 is the only weight-loss pill on the US marketD. there are five kinds of weight-loss pills on the US market 5. The text mainly tells us _. A. when Britney Spears was found taking weight-lo
670、ss pills with her B. how Zantrex-3 became successful in the USA C. weight-loss pills are very popular in the USA D. Zantrex-3 is forbidden to be sold on the US market【解析】1. 答案B。细节信息题。从第1段的大写部分“POP PRINCESS SPOTTED AT AIRPORT WITH POT OF SLIMMING TABLETS.”可以知道B选项是正确答案。【解析】2. 答案D。细节信息题。根据第1段的 “Zantrex
671、-3 is also sold at CVS, Rite Aid, Wal-Mart, and other chains,”以及第2段的“so do the people who sell Stacker 2 and Anorex along with those who sell Carb Eliminator and Fat Eliminator.”可以知道D选项是正确答案。【解析】3. 答案C。理解句子结构及推测词义题。从It hit the U.S. market last March and has had a success that would be hard to overst
672、ate. 的前半部分可以知道Zantrex-3是美国市场很畅销的减肥类商品；根据构词法可以知道后半部分的overstate有“夸张、夸大事实”的意思，而would be hard to overstate可以理解为“难以夸张、夸大”的意思，因此划线部分的意思可以直译为“难以夸大/夸张的成功”或理解为“怎么夸张都不过份的成功”，C选项所含有的句型can nottoo亦是此意。【解析】4. 答案A。从第2段的1、2、3句可以知道A选项是正确答案，其他选项均与文章的信息不一致。【解析】5. 答案C。A选项只包含了文章的部分信息；B选项侧重Zantrex-3获得成功的方式，而文章并没有这方面的信息；D
673、选项与文章中的信息相反；从整体来看，文章是以Zantrex-3为引子，引出减肥或瘦身类商品当今在美国很流行的话题，即第1段是引入，第2段开始切入主题，第2段的第2句可以看做是主题句。C选项与主题句的意思一致，因此应该是该题的答案。Many years ago my student asked me the question, Mrs. Kindred, why do you teach? Without taking time to reflect, I answered, Because someday I might say something that might make a diff
674、erence in someones life. Even though I was sincere, that wasnt a very good answer and my student didnt let it slide. Let me get this straight, he said, You went to college for four years so you could come here every day because you have the hope that someday you might say something that will influen
675、ce someone? He shook his head as if I were crazy and walked away looking confused. Im one of those people who look back and wish they had said something smart or witty, or swift. Even though that particular student might no longer wonder why I teach, there are days when I wonder. On those days, I re
676、mind myself of the real reasons I teach: Its in my blood. My mother was my most influential teacher, and she was a 6th grade reading teacher until her death in 1990. She instilled(逐渐灌输) in me a love of reading and the knowledge that education opens doors. Teaching is a way to make a difference. If y
677、ou throw a stone in a pond the ripples go on and on until they reach the shore. You cant have ripples without a stone. Good teachers throw stones that make a positive difference, and thats what I strive to do. I genuinely love teenagers. I want to share with others what I know and what I have learne
678、d through the years. Life is full of ups and downs, and if I can help students avoid some potholes on the road of life, I want to do so. If theyll allow me to celebrate their victories with them, I want to do too. Teaching isnt for everyone, but I know I made the right career choice.1. Why did the s
679、tudent continue to ask the question about the writers being a teacher? A. Because he thought her answer was unbelievable. B. Because the writer was insincere. C. Because the student was naughty. D. Because the answer was difficult to understand.2. What do you think of the writer? A. Stupid. B. Hones
680、t.C. Conservative.D. Polite.3. According to the text, which of the following is NOT true? A. The writers mother has the greatest influence on her. B. The writers answer made the student confused. C. In the writers opinion, some people in the world are unfit to teach. D. The writer annoyed the studen
681、t who asked the question.4. We can infer from the text that _. A. the writer was also a good teacher in school B. the writer often plays with her students beside a pond C. the writer devotes herself to teaching and her students D. the writer often accompanies the students on their way home5. Whats t
682、he main idea of the text? A. A students silly question.B. A good teacher who likes students. C. A confused student.D. The reason why I teach.【综述】本文主要讲述作者从教的理由。【答案与解析】1. A 推理判断题 根据文章前三段内容得知，作者的回答没有令该学生相信她的从教理由是那么的简单。【答案与解析】2. B 推理判断题 根据第一段的最后一句和全文内容可以排除A 项(愚蠢的)、C项(保守的)和D项(有礼貌的)。【答案与解析】3. D 细节理解题 根据文章
683、的第四、第二、第八段分别可知选项A、B、C是正确的；“我”并未使该学生苦恼。【答案与解析】4. C 推理判断题 根据作者自己的阐述，她很热爱并献身于教育事业；其余选项文中没有提及。【答案与解析】5. D 主旨大意题 从文章的结构和作者对自己为什么从教的解释得知。Among various programs, TV talk shows have covered every inch of space on daytime television. And anyone who watches them regularly knows that each one is different in s
684、tyle. But no two shows are more opposite in content, while at the same time standing out above the rest, than the Jerry Springer and Oprah Winfrey shows.Jerry Springer could easily be considered the king of rubbish talk. The topics on his show are as surprising as can be. For example, the show takes
685、 the ever-common talk show titles of love, sex, cheating, and hate, to a different level. Clearly, the Jerry Springer show is about the dark side of society, yet people are willing to eat up the troubles of other peoples lives.Like Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey takes the TV talk show to its top. But
686、 Oprah goes in the opposite direction. The show is mainly about the improvement of society and different quality of life. Contents are from teaching your children lessons, managing your work week, to getting to know your neighbors.Compared to Oprah, the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste
687、 being poured into society. Jerry ends every show with a final word. He makes a small speech about the entire idea of the show. Hopefully, this is the part where most people will learn something very valuable.Clean as it is, the Oprah show is not for everyone. The shows main audience are middle-clas
688、s Americans. Most of the people have the time, money and ability to deal with lifes tough problems. Jerry Springer, on the other hand, has more of a connection with the young adults of society. These are 18-to 21year-olds whose main troubles in life include love, relationship, sex, money and drug. T
689、hey are the ones who see some value and lessons to be learned through the shows exploitation.1. Compared with other TV talk shows, both the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey shows are _.A. more interesting B. unusually poplar C. more detailed D. more formal2. Though the social problems Jerry Spri
690、nger talks about appear unpleasant, people who watch the shows _. A. show disbelief in themB. are ready to face up to them C. remain cold to themD. are willing to get away from them3. Which of the following is likely to be a topic of the Oprah Winfrey show? A. A new type of robot.B. National hatred.
691、 C. Family income planning.D. Street accident.4. We can learn from the passage that the two talk shows _. A. have become the only ones of its kindB. exploit the weaknesses in human natureC. appear at different times of the dayD. attract different people5. What is the advantage of the Jerry Springer
692、show? A. The show exposes the dark sides of society. B. The show pours poisonous waste into society. C. Jerry sums up the whole idea of the show. D. Jerry talks abou the improvement of society.【综述】本文主要介绍美国两种不同的电视节目。【答案与解析】1. B 推理判断题 根据文章的描述得知，这两种电视节目分别吸引着不同的人群。【答案与解析】2. B 细节理解题 从第二段的最后一句话可以看出。【答案与解析
693、】3. C 细节理解题 根据第三段的最后一句话可推知。【答案与解析】4. D 推理判断题 从文章对这两种节目的描述可知，A、B项太片面，C项文中没有提及。【答案与解析】5. C 细节理解题 根据倒数第二段的倒数第二句得知。Can people change their skin colour without suffering like pop king Michael Jackson? Perhaps yes. Scientists have found the gene that determines skin colour.The gene comes in two versions,
694、one of which is found in 99 per cent of Europeans. The other is found in 93 to 100 per cent of Africans, researchers at Pennsylvania State University report in the latest issue of Science.Scientists have changed the colour of a dark-striped zebrafish to uniform gold by inserting a version of the pig
695、ment(色素) gene into a young fish. As with humans, zebrafish skin colour is determined by pigment cells, which contain melanosomes(黑色素). The number, size and darkness of melanosomes per pigment cell determines skin colour.It appears that, like the golden zebrafish, light-skinned Europeans also have a
696、mutation(变异) in the gene for melanosome production. This results in less pigmented skin.However, Keith Cheng, leader of the research team, points out that the mutation is different in human and zebrafish genes.Humans acquired dark skin in Africa about 1.5 million years ago to protect bodies from ult
697、ra-violet rays of the sun(太阳光紫外线), which can cause skin cancer.But when modern humans leave Africa to live in northern latitudes, they need more sunlight on their skin to produce vitamin D. So the related gene changes, according to Cheng.Asians have the same version of the gene as Africans, so they
698、probably acquired their light skin through the action of some other gene that affects skin colour, said Cheng.The new discovery could lead to medical treatments for skin cancer. It also could lead to research into ways to change skin colour without damaging it like chemical treatment did on Michael
699、Jackson.1. The passage mainly tells us that _. A. people can not change their skin colour without any pain B. the new discovery could lead to search into ways to change skin colour safely C. pop king Michael Jackson often changed his skin colour as he liked D. scientists have found out that peoples
700、skin colour is determined by the gene2. It can be inferred from the passage that _. A. nowadays people who want to change their skin colour have to suffer a lot from the damage caused by the chemical treatment B. Europeans and Africans have the same gene C. the new discovery could help to find medic
701、al treatments for skin cancer D. there are two kinds of genes3. Scientists have done an experiment on a dark-striped zebra fish in order to _. A. find the different genes of humans B. prove the humans skin colour is determined by the pigment gene C. find out the reason why the Africans skin colour i
702、s dark D. find out the ways of changing peopls skin colour4. The reason why Europeans are light-skinned is probably that _. A. they are born light-skinned people B. light-skinned Europeans have mutation in the gen for melanosome production C. they have fewer activities outside D. they pay much atten
703、tion to protecting their skin5. The writers attitude towards the discovery is _. A. neutral B. negativeC. positiveD. indifferent【综述】本文主要讲述基因决定人的肤色。【答案与解析】1. D 主旨大意题 根据全文讲述的主要内容得知：科学家们发现人的肤色是由基因决定的。【答案与解析】2. A 推理判断题 从文章最后一句话得知，人们改变肤色会象迈克尔杰克逊那样受到化学药品对皮肤的伤害。【答案与解析】3. B 细节理解题 根据第三段得知，因为斑马鱼和人类一样肤色中含有黑色素，
704、所以科学家们以此来证明之。【答案与解析】4. B 推理判断题 根据第四段得知，因为欧洲人体内黑色素的基因发生了变异，所以他们的皮肤为浅肤色。【答案与解析】5. C 推理判断题 根据作者对基因决定人的肤色的论述以及文章首尾段可知，作者对此的态度是肯定的。 Moving in with a boyfriend causes women to eat more unhealthily and put on weight. But the opposite is true for men, whose long-term health benefits when they move in with a
705、 female partner. Dieticians at Newcastle University said both partners try to please one another, and so change their dietary habits to suit their other half. It leads men to eat more light meals, such as salads, fruit and vegetables, while women choose to make creamier, heavier dishes curry or rich
706、 pasta sauces, which may please their partner. Women still have the strongest long-term influence over the couples diet and lifestyle, as they still have the traditional role of shopper and cook in most households. The report, by Newcastle Universitys Human Nutrition Research Centre, reviewed the fi
707、nding of a variety of research projects from the UK, North America and Australia, which looked at the eating and lifestyle habits of couples. The research shows that women are more likely to put on weight and increase their consumption of foods high in fat and sugar when they move in with their part
708、ner. Women also use food as a comfort when dealing with emotional stress and have been found to gain weight when a relationship ends, while the same finding has not been observed in men. Many couples reported food as being central to their partnership, and eating together in the evening was particul
709、arly important to many. Report author and registered dietician Dr. Amelia Lake said, “The research has shown that your partner is a strong influence on lifestyle and people who are trying to live healthier lives should take this factor into consideration.”1. According to the passage, moving in with
710、a girlfriend, men _.A. have few changes of their dietary habitsB. have to eat more unhealthy foodsC. dont like foods high in fat and sugar at allD. try to eat foods that their girlfriends like 2. The underlined word “light”(in Paragraph 4 ) probably means _. A. not very heavy B. less in fat and suga
711、r C. gentle D. not serious or important 3. According to the report by Newcastle Universitys Human Nutrition Research Centre, _. A. women put on weight only because they want to suit their other half B. when men are faced with emotional stress, they will change their dietary habits C. eating together
712、 in the evening is a good way to communicate for couples D. it is wrong to change your dietary habits to suit your partner4. From the passage, we can infer that _. A. women should pay more attention to their partners influence on them B. more men will play roles of shopper and cook in most household
713、s C. couples will not change their dietary habits and lifestyle to please their partner D. long-term health of men benefits when they move in with a female partner5. What would be the best title for the passage? A. Dont be silly any more, women! B. Which are better dietary habits? C. Boyfriends make
714、 you fatD. Dr. Amelia Lake and his study【要点综述】本文是说纽卡斯尔大学的营养学专家的研究表明，同居让女人发胖 让男人更健康。1D 细节理解题。由第三段，特别是which may please their partner可知，男女双方会改变自己的饮食习惯来迎合对方， 因此男士会吃他的女伴喜欢吃的食物。2B 词意猜测题。由其后所举的例子salads, fruit and vegetables可推断，light 在此是“清淡的”的意思，脂肪和糖的含量比较少。3C 推理判断题。根据倒数第二段可知C项正确。根据倒数第三段可知女士增肥不仅是因为迎合了对方的口味，还
715、有缓解情绪的原因，故A项错误；根据倒数第三段最后while the same finding has not been observed in men可知B项错误；D项文中没有提及。4A 推理判断题。纵览全文，特别是根据短文最后一个句子可推断A正确。D项文中第二段已经明确指出，不是推断。5C 主旨要义题。C项幽默风趣，能吸引读者的注意， 并切中文章的主题。There are many thoughts on the origins of civilization. One of the major factors involved was the increase in population.
716、 The development of techniques, primarily irrigation and flood control, which permitted agriculture in special areas such as the flood plain of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, made possible the support of large population. Once populations reach a certain number, the older pattern of social organiz
717、ation breaks down and new ones develop. Specifically the older system, whereby each individual participated in food production and maintained a similar standard of living and whereby kinship(家属关系) served as the basic method of social organization, was replaced by the occupational division of labor,
718、political and religious hierarchies(等级制度), public works such as road and public building construction, class systems, codes of law, markets, new forms of warfare, and urban centres. Allied with these important sociological traits are material traits, such as monumental architecture and the developme
719、nt of science and, in many cases, metallurgy(冶金学) and writing sustems.The earliest civilization, Sumer, developed in the Middle East. This was the Bronze Age of the Old World, during which people first developed the art of metallurgy, civilization also arose in other parts of the Old World, first in
720、 Eygpt, China, and India, and later in Europe and Africa. At this time, civilization also developed independently in the New World, in the Mexican area and in Peru and its adjacent(邻近的) areas.In the Old World the Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age, which saw the rise and fall of great empires a
721、nd the shift of power from the Middle East to Greece and Rome and then to Western Europe. In the 1700s the Industrial Age began, leading directly to the modern civilization of today.1. The author of this passage _. A. gives a comparison between ancient civilization and modern civilization B. suggest
722、s that population increase is most important in the development of civilization C. tries to explain how civilization developed in human history D. explore the relation between agriculture and industry2. According to the first paragraph, the increase in population _. A. resulted in the development of
723、 agricultural technology B. resulted from the breakdown of old social organization C. caused the occupational division of labor D. was impossible without the development of agriculture3. The word “traits” in Paragraph One most likely means _. A. main appearances B. great achievements C. distinguishi
724、ng features D. outstanding successes4. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? A. The Bronze Age is one of the earliest civilizations. B. The Industrial Age started in the Middle East. C. The Bronze Age developed into the Iron Age. D. The use of metal instruments started from th
725、e Bronze Age.5. Which of the following is NOT included in the expression “the Old World” used in the passage? A. American continent. B. Both Western and Eastern Europe. C. African continent. D. Asian countries.【要点综述】本文从人类文明的起源谈起，从历史学和社会学的角度涵盖早期文明、青铜时期、铁器时期、工业时期直到现代人类文明在东西方的演变。1. C 主旨概括题。通过阅读全文可知。2.
726、D 细节理解题。由文章首段第三、四句可知灌溉和洪水控制技术的发展，并促使农业发展同时又为广大的人口提供粮食。而D项是使用反话正说的形式对此义进行转述。3. C 词义猜测题。首先定位第一段最后一句，然后通过上下文的意思可知其含义。4. B 细节理解题。根据常识就可以推断出该题的答案，工业革命源于欧洲。5. A 细节理解题。从第二段的第2、3句话“civilization also arose in other parts of the Old World, first in Egypt, China, and India, and later in Europe and Africa.”可以找到
727、答案。因为句子并没提到美洲大陆，运用排除法即可获得答案。In the US and Britain, the slogan around colleges was “Save water. Shower with a friend.” Now, Wuhan University has come up with another system for the campus bathhouse. It charges students for the amount of time in a shower. Before entering the bathhouse, students pay fo
728、r the amount of time they want in the shower with cash or their student ID card. The clock starts ticking the minute the tape is turned on. It pauses when a button is pressed for soap. An integrated circuit(IC) card reader at each tap shows the time. No money, no water. The benefits of the new syste
729、m can be seen with the old system, which charged 1 yuan for each person regardless of time in the shower. The university used about 320 tones of water daily under the old system, but only 160 tons now.Many students use the new system but opinions on it are divided. Some students say it is bad becaus
730、e bathing had become a sort of race. Many people using it for the first time are not sure how long they need to shower. Some might be embarrassed if their time is up and theyre still covered in soap. They have to ask the bathhouse worker to help them buy extra time.“Its a flaw in the system that you
731、 can not buy extra time on the ID card,” said Ren, a freshman in Wuhan University. The university is also considering some students suggestions that they be allowed to pay after theyve finished the shower. Not surprisingly, some are complaining about losing the hour shower. But many students say the
732、 move helps them develop a water-saving sense.Without the time limits, most students tended to shower for 30 to an hour in the bathhouse. Some even used the hot water to wash their clothes. “In my experience, 10-20 minutes is enough,” said Dai Zhihua, a third-year student who usually takes 8 minutes
733、.A similar system has been installed in other universities. Shanghai Normal University introduced it at its Fengxiang Campus in September. The bathing fee there is 0.2 yuan per minute. One male student responded by setting a record with a two-minute shower.1. According to the passage, which of the f
734、ollowing is NOT true?A. Students pay for the amount of time they want in the shower.B. The clock times all through while the student is bathing except when the bather paused for soap.C. If money runs out, there will be no water.D. Having finished bathing, the student has to pay for it.2. The underli
735、ne word “flaw” (Paragraph3) most probably means_.A. perfection B. advantage C. pity D. fault3. Since the new system has performed, _ of water can be saved.A. a quarter B. one third C. one half D. two thirds4. It can be inferred from the passage that_.A. the new operation can solve the water crisis.B
736、. The new operation can raise students environmental awareness.C. a similar operation has been set in other universities.D. The university has saved a lot of water by using the new system.5. In which column can you find this passage? A. People. B. Society. C. Campus Life. D. Lifestyle.【要点综述】本文是讲武汉大学
737、为增加学生节约用水的意识而对澡堂采取的一项新措举：洗澡按时计费。1. D 细节判断题。由第一段Before entering the bathhouse, students pay for 可知，学生是在洗澡前付款的；而第三段的they be allowed to pay after theyve finished the shower只是值得考虑的一个建议。2. D 词义猜测题。根据后文you can not buy extra time on the ID card.说明flaw肯定为“缺陷，纰漏”之意。3. C 细节理解题。由第一段最后一句的两个数字进行比较可得出答案。4. B 推理判断
738、题。由文章的前两句得知colleges这种新的措施是想让students 增强节约水的意识感。5. C 判断猜测题。猜文章的出处，本文主要介绍大学采取了一种新举措。You know how wonderful you are, and you know that others know how wonderful you are, but what do you do when admiration crosses over the line into jealousy? For most teens there will come a day when you realize that on
739、e of your friends is jealous and that this jealousy is hurting your friendship. When this happens it can seem like there is nothing that you can do, but the good news is that there is. Dont let jealousy spoil your relationships. Tackle it head on and you might be back to normal much sooner than you
740、think.It can be hard to walk up to a friend and ask them what the problem is, but if you want to save your friendship youll have to do just that. Dont approach them and ask why they are jealous of you (unless of course you want to appear totally conceited), just take some time alone with them and le
741、t them know that youve been feeling like theres been something coming between you. If they refuse to respond, then use the opportunity to explain how you have been feeling. Chances are that something you say will strike a nerve and your friend will open up as well.When you figure out what is annoyin
742、g your friend, ask him or her what (s)he thinks would make the situation better. If, for example, (s)he says that (s)he feels like (s)he doesnt get to spend any time with you because of your being off with your new friends from tee swim team then maybe you could invite her along the next time or blo
743、ck off one day a week for just the two of you. Remember, though, that whatever solution you decide on should be a compromise. Dont limit your own talents or opportunities simply because your friend is unhappy. Try instead to include him or her in your new life and see how that works out.Even the bes
744、t of friendships can be tinged by jealousy. This destructive emotion is rarely productive and can turn best friends into worst enemies. Before taking extreme action, chat with your jealous friend to see if the two of you can work out a compromise.If you cant, be prepared to know exactly how far you
745、will go to keep your friendand how far you wont.解读：本文是关于人际关系的话题。尤其是青少年朋友之间会因为嫉妒而使相互间的友谊被破坏，本文着重讲述如何处理被朋友嫉妒及处理过程中可能遇到的困难。1. According to the author, the jealousy emotion is_.A. normal B. productiveC. destructive D. extreme解析细节理解题，由第一段第二句.that this jealousy is hurting，your friendship.可知。答案C2. Which of
746、 the following is NOT mentioned as a way to confront your friend when jealousy happens?A. Walking up to him/her and asking him/her why he/she is jealous of you.B. Walking up to him/her and asking him/her what the problem is.C. Spending some time with him/her and letting him/her know how you feel.D.
747、Spending some time with him/her and letting him/her know you think theres something between you.解析细节理解题。由第二段第二句Dont approach them and ask why they are jealous of you可知。答案A3. The underlined “it” in the first paragraph refers to_.A. friendship B. relationshipC. admiration D. jealousy解析细节理解题。由文章第一段可知。答
748、案D4. What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?A. Theres always a solution to solve the problem of jealousy.B. Jealousy can turn best friends into worst enemies.C. You may lose a friend to keep your own gifts, chances or self development.D. You should go a long way with your friend to work o
749、ut a solution解析推理判断题。答案C5. The purpose of the passage is_.A. to explain what causes jealousyB. to offer some advice on making friendsC. to introduce the way to cope with a jealous friendD. to explain how destructive the jealous emotion is 解析作者意图题。通读全文可知，本文酌写作目的是介绍处理有嫉妒心朋友的方法。答案CA little under one-th
750、ird of U.S. families have no Internet access and do not plan to get it, with most of the holdouts seeing little use for it in their lives, according to a survey released on Friday.Park Associates, a Dallas-based technology market research firm, said 29 percent of U.S. families, or 31 million homes,
751、do not have Internet access and do not intend to subscribe（预订）to an Internet service over the next 12 months. The second annual National Technology Scan conducted by Park found that the main reason why potential customers say they do not subscribe to the Internet is because of the low value to their
752、 daily lives rather than concerns over cost.Forty-four percent of these families say they are not interested in anything on the Internet, versus just 22 percent who say they cannot afford a computer or the cost of Internet service, the survey showed. The answer “Im not sure how to use the Internet”
753、came from 17 percent of participants who do not subscribe. The response “I do all my e-commerce shopping and YouTube-watching at work” was cited by 14 percent of Internet-access users. Three percent said the Internet doesnt reach their homes.The study found U.S. broadband adoption grew to 52 percent
754、 over 2006, up from 42 percent in 2005. Roughly half of new subscribers converted（转变）from slower-speed, dial-up Internet access while the other half of families had no prior access.“The industry continues to chip（击破）away at the core of non-subscribers, but has a long way to go,” said John Barrett, d
755、irector of research at Parks Associates. “Entertainment applications will be the key. If anything will pull in the holdouts, its going to be applications that make the Internet more similar to pay-TV,” he predicted.1. What does the underlined word “holdouts” in the first paragraph most probably mean
756、?A. some American familiesB. those who hold out ones opinionsC. those who have been surveyedD. those who still havent access to the Internet currently2. Many potential customers refuse to subscribe to the Internet mainly because _.A. they show too much concern about the cost B. they can find little
757、value of itC. they do most YouTube-watching at work D. the Internet doesnt reach their homes3. From the passage we can infer that _.A. It is not an easy job to transform those holdouts into the Internet usersB. people will adopt dial-up Internet access no moreC. many Americans enjoy doing e-commerce
758、 shopping at homeD. more than half of the population are using the Internet in 20054. According to John Barrett, what is the key to attracting more U.S. families to broadband service?A. making the Internet look more similar to TV setB. applying the Internet more to entertainmentC. providing more pay
759、-TV programsD. chipping away at the core of non-subscribers5. Which is the best title for the passage?A. Web develops with technologyB. The present situation of webC. Many Americans see little point to webD. It is urgent to promote web service1. D 根据前文one third of the U.S. families have no Internet
760、access and do not plan to get it 可知2. B 由第二段found the main reason potential customers say they do not subscribe to the Internet is because of the low value to their daily lives they recognize可知3. A 从最后一段第一句可知4. B 由最后一段“Entertainment applications will be the key”一句可知5. C 从文章的写作逻辑可知作者主要在谈目前还有三分之一的美国家庭
761、没有网络服务，而B答案太宽泛Against the supposition than forest fires in Alaska, Canada and Siberia warm the climate, scientists have discovered that cooling may occur in areas where burnt trees allow more snow to mirror more sunlight into space.This finding suggests that taking steps to prevent northern forest t
762、o limit the release of greenhouse gases may warm the climate in northern regions. Usually large fires destroyed forests in these areas over the past decade. Scientists predict that with climate warming, fires may occur more frequently over next several centuries as result of a longer fire season. Su
763、nlight taken in by the earth tends to cause warming, while heat mirrored back into space tends to cause cooling.This is the first study to analyze all aspects of how northern fires influence climate. Earlier studies by other scientists have suggested that fire in northern regions speed up climate wa
764、rming because greenhouse gases from burning trees and plants are released into the atmosphere and thus trap heat.Scientists found that right after the fire, large amounts of greenhouse gases entered the atmosphere and caused warming. Ozone（臭氧）levels increased, and ash from the fire fell on far-off s
765、ea ice, darkening the surface and causing more radiation from the sun to be taken in. The following spring, however, the land within the area of the fire was brighter than before the fire, because fewer trees covered the ground. Snow on the ground mirrored more sunlight back into space, leading to c
766、ooling.“We need to find out all possible ways to reduce the growth of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.” Scientists tracked the change in amount of radiation entering and leaving the climate system as a result of the fire, and found a measurement closely related to the global air temperature. Typi
767、cally, fire in northern regions occurs in the same area every 80 to 150 years. Scientists, however, found that when fire occurs more frequently, more radiation is lost from the earth and cooling results. Specifically, they determined when fire returns 20 years earlier than predicated, 0.5 watts per
768、square meter of area burned are soaked up by the earth from greenhouse gases, but 0.9 watts per square meter will be sent back into space. The net effect is cooling. Watts are used to measure the rate at which energy is gained or lost from the earth.1. According to the new findings, taking steps to
769、prevent northern forest fires may _.A. result in a warming climateB. cause the forest fires to occur more frequentlyC. lead to a longer fire seasonD. protect the forests and the environment there2. The following are all the immediate effects after a forest fire EXCEPT _.A. large amounts of greenhous
770、e gases enter the atmosphereB. the levels of ozone which is a type of oxygen increaseC. snow on the ground mirrors more sunlight back into spaceD. ashes from the fire fall on the ice surface and take in more radiation from the sun3. Earlier studies about northern forest fires _.A. analyze all aspect
771、s of how northern fires influence climateB. indicate that forest fires will pollute the atmosphereC. suggest that people should take measures to protect environmentD. suggest that the fires will speed up climate warming4. The underlined phrase “soak up” in the last paragraph most probably means _.A.
772、 releasedB. absorbedC. createdD. distributed5. From the passage we can draw a conclusion that forest fires in Alaska, Canada and Siberia may _.A. warm the climate as the supposition goesB. allow more snow to reflect more sunlight into space and thus cool the climateC. destroy large areas of forests
773、and pollute the far-off sea iceD. help to gain more energy rather than release more energy1. A 根据第二段第一句This finding suggests 可知2. C 根据第四段可知3. D 根据第三段可知来源:学_科_网Z_X_X_K4. B 根据but 0.9 watts per square meter will be sent back into space 可知soak up 与sent back 的意思相反5. B 根据第一段Against the supposition scienti
774、sts have discovered that可知Kincaid looked at his watch: eight-seventeen. The truck started on the second try, and he backed out, shifted gears, and moved slowly down the alley under hazy sun. Through the streets of Bellingham he went, heading south on Washington 11, running along the coast of Puget S
775、ound for a few miles, then following the highway as it swung east a little before meeting U.S Route 20.Turning into the sun, he began the long, winding drive through the Cascades. He liked this country and felt unpressed stopping now and then to make notes about interesting possibilities for future
776、expeditions or to shoot what he called “memory snapshots.” The purpose of these causal photographs was to remind him of places he might want to visit again and approach more seriously. In later afternoon he turned north at Spokane, picking up U.S. Route 2, which would take him halfway across the nor
777、thern United States to Duluth, Minnesota.He wished for the thousandth time in his life that he had a dog ,a golden retriever, maybe ,for travels like this and to keep him company at home. But he was frequently away; overseas much of the time and it would not be fair to the animal .Still ,he thought
778、about it anyway. In a few years he would be getting too old for the hard fieldwork. “I must get a dog then.” He said to himself.Drives like this always put him into a sentimental mood. The dog was part of it .Robert Kincaid was alone as its possible to bean only child ,parents both dead , distant re
779、latives who had lost track of him and he of them, no close friends.He thought about Marian .She had left him nine years ago after five years of marriage. He was fifty-two now , that would make her just under forty .Marian had dreams of becoming a musician ,a folksinger .She knew all of the Weavers s
780、ongs and sang them pretty well in the coffeehouse of Seattle .When he was home in the old days, he drove her to the shows and sat in the audience while she sang.His long absencestwo or three months sometimeswere hard on the marriage .He knew that. She was aware of what he did when they decided to ge
781、t married ,and both of them had a vague(not clear) sense that it could all be handled somehow. It couldnt when he came from photographing a story in Iceland and ,she was gone . The note read, “Robert ,it didnt work out ,I left you the Harmony guitar. Stay in touch.”He didnt stay in touch .Neither di
782、d she .He3 signed the divorce papers when they arrived a year later and caught a plane for Australia the next day. She had asked for nothing except her freedom.1. Which route is the right one taken by Kincaid?A. BellinghamWashington 11Puget SoundU.S Route 20U.S Route 2Duluth B. U.S. Route 2Bellingha
783、mWashington 11Puget SoundU.S Route 20Duluth C. U.S. Route 2U.S Route 20Duluth BellinghamWashington 11D. BellinghamWashington 11U.S. Route 2U.S Route 20Duluth 2. Which statement is true according to the passage?A. Kincaids parents were dead and he only kept in touch with some distant relatives.B. Kin
784、caid would have had a dog if he hadnt been away from home too much.C. Kincaid used to have a golden retriever.D. Kincaid needed a dog in doing his hard fieldwork.3. Why did Kincaid stop to take photos while driving?A. To write “memory snapshots”B. To remind himself of places he might want to visit a
785、gain.C. To avoid forgetting the way back.D. To shoot beautiful scenery along the road.4. What can you know about Marian?A. She died after five years of marriage.B. She was older than Kincaid.C. She could sing very well and earned big money.D. She was not a professional pop singer.5. We can draw a co
786、nclusion from the passage that .A. Marian knew what would happen before she married Kincaid.B. Kincaid thought his absence would be a problem when he married Marian.C. It turned out that Marian could not stand Kincaids absence and left him.D. After Marian left him, they still kept in touch with each
787、 other.1. A 从第一，二自然段可看出。2. B 从第三自然段中的He wished for the thousandth time in his life that he had a dog But he was frequently away; overseas much of the time and it would not be fair to the animal 可得出此答案。3. B 从第二自然段中的The purpose of these causal photographs was to remind him of places he might want to v
788、isit again可得出此答案。4. D 从第五自然段中的Marian had dreams of becoming a musician ,a folksinger。可得出此答案。5. C 从文章中最后两自然段中可得出此结论。About 10 years ago，a very successful businessman named Josh was traveling down a Chicago neighborhood street.He was going a bit too fast in his shiny，black,12 cylinder(汽缸) Jaguar XKE.He
789、 was watching for kids rushing out from between parked cars and slowed down.Suddenly，a brick sailed out andWHUMP！it hit the Jags shiny black side door! Immediately Josh stopped the car，jumped out，seized the kid and pushed him up against a parked car.He shouted at the kid，“What was that all about and
790、 who are you? Just what the heck are you doing？！”Building up a head of steam，he went on，“Thats my new Jag，that brick you threw will cost you a lot of money.Why？”“Please，mister，please.Im sorry! I didnt know what else to do！”begged the youngster.“I threw the brick because no one else would stop！” Tear
791、s were streaming down the boys face as he pointed around the parked car.“Its my brother，mister，” he said.“He fell out of his wheelchair and I cant lift him up.” Sobbing，the boy asked the businessman，“Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? Hes hurt and hes too heavy for me.”Moved
792、beyond words，the young businessman felt no anger.He lifted the young man back into the wheelchair and took out his handkerchief and wiped the scrapers and cuts，checking to see that everything was OK.He then watched the younger brother push him down the sidewalk.It was a long walk back to the cara lo
793、ng and slow walk.Josh never did fix the side door of his Jaguar.He kept the dent(凹痕)to remind him not to go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at him to get his attention.Feel for the bricks of life coming at you.1The boy threw a brick at the businessmans car because _.Athe busin
794、essman drove at a high speedBhe envied the brandnew car very muchChe wanted to ask for some moneyDhe wanted to get help from the driver2Which of the following is the right order of the story?aThe younger brother threw a brick at Joshs car.bThe elder brother fell out of his wheelchair.cThe younger br
795、other begged Josh for help.dJosh lifted the elder brother back into his wheelchair.eJosh shouted at the younger brother.Ab，a，e，c，d Ba，c，d，b，eCb，a，c，e，d Da，c，b，e，d3What can we learn about Josh?AJosh would accept the money from the kids.BThe two kids were Joshs neighbors.CJosh was a kindhearted man.DJ
796、oshs new car broke down easily.4John checked everything was OK _.Ain order to make sure the little boy wasnt lyingBin case that the boys should need more helpCso as to make clear the boys were poorDin an effort to prove the elder brother was hurt5By the last sentence the author wants to say that _.A
797、trying to get ready for the trouble in your future lifeBdriving fast in a neighborhood street is dangerousCtrying to be more considerate of others troublesDprotecting oneself from being hurt【解题导语】 要留意别人的感受，体谅别人的疾苦，不要等到 “砖头向你砸来” 才会注意别人是要向你求助。1解析：细节推断题。根据这个男孩的叙述可知，他哥哥从轮椅上跌下正躺在地上可知，他想找人帮忙把他扶起来。答案：D2解析：
798、细节理解题。略读文章的第二、三段，寻找关键信息可确定事件发生的顺序。答案：A3解析：归纳题。根据约翰的表现：开始生气，但在知道真相后还帮助别人，而且这件事情发生后还用它提醒自己要留意生活，体谅别人。这说明他是个心地善良的人。答案：C4解析：细节推断题。moved beyond words 意为 “感动得无以言表”，由此可推断他是想进一步帮助这兄弟俩。答案：B5解析：细节推断题。倒数第二句说他留着这个凹痕没有整形是因为用它来提醒自己留意别人的需要或困难。由此可知，这句话想要告诉人们的是 “要关心别人的疾苦，体谅别人，要留意别人的困难。” 答案：CZhang Heng was a Chinese
799、mathematician，astronomer and geographer living AD 100200 in the Eastern Han Dynasty.He wrote a great deal of literary works，which gained him considerable fame(名声) as a young man.He served several positions in the government，but he later refused to serve in the government and spent the rest of life f
800、ar away from the capital city，where he spent almost all of his time on scientific studies.There were many false scientific theories about the universe and Earth at that time.His theory was looked down upon because it was quite different from what people usually held.His idea of the universe was: the
801、 sky is like an egg and the Earth is like the yolk of the egg，floating alone in the centre of the universe.In the year of AD 132，Zhang Heng invented the seismoscope for predicting and measuring earthquakes.Such a device wasnt created in Europe until 1,600 years later in France.After years of observi
802、ng the sky，Zhang Heng was able to draw a very detailed map of the stars.His star map showed 124 constellations (星群)with a total of 2,500 stars,320 of which were bright stars with known names as of today.He also gave proper explanation to the world for the first time on the moon eclipse(月食)Zhang was
803、also a famous and talented poet and wrote more than twenty beautiful poems.He has continued the influence on ancient Chinese culture.His works titled Dong Jing Glimpse and Xi Jing Glimpse have lively described about the local culture and folk art performances in the cities of Xian and Luoyang.1Besid
804、es being a famous Chinese mathematician，Zhang Heng was also a famous _.aastronomerbgeographerchistoriandpoetepoliticianAabcd Babd Cbcd Dabde2What can we learn from the passage?AZhang Heng was the first person to draw a map of the stars in the world.BEuropean people didnt know how to predict earthqua
805、kes in the 18th century.CDong Jing Glimpse and Xi Jing Glimpse are mainly about the culture of China.DChinese people first knew why there was moon eclipse about 1,800 years ago.3The underlined word “considerable” in Paragraph 1 means _.Acomplex Bimportant Chorrible Dmuch4It can be inferred in the pa
806、ssage that _.AZhang Heng was famous all over the world during his late yearsBZhang Hengs idea about the universe was proved wrong by people of his timeCthe 320 stars of the 124 constellations were named by Zhang HengDZhang Heng preferred to work on scientific studies rather than to serve in the gove
807、rnment5What is this passage mainly about?ASome of Zhang Hengs famous theories.BA brief introduction to the ancient Chinese scientist Zhang Heng.CHow Zhang Heng made some of his important discoveries.DA brief introduction to Zhang Hengs important inventions.【解题导语】 本文介绍了我国东汉时期著名的天文学家、地理学家、文学家和诗人张衡。1解析
808、：细节理解题。根据第一段第一句和最后一段第一句可知。答案：B2解析：推理判断题。根据第四段最后一句可推断中国人在张衡生活的那个时候就知道了日食原理。答案：D3解析：词义猜测题。根据which gained him的语境可知张衡的那些文学作品在他年轻的时候给他赢得了很多声誉。答案：D4解析：推理判断题。根据第一段最后一句可推知。答案：D5解析：主旨大意题。通读全文可知，本文是关于中国汉代的著名科学家张衡的简介。答案：BWhat will people die of 100 years from now? If you think that is a simple question，you hav
809、e not been paying attention to the revolution that is taking place in biotechnology(生物技术)With the help of new medicine，the human body will last a very long time.Death will come mainly from accidents，murder and war.Todays leading killers，such as heart disease，cancer，and aging itself，will become dista
810、nt memories.In discussion of technological changes，the Internet gets most of the attention these days.But the change in medicine can be the real technological event of our times.How long can humans live? Human brains were known to decide the final death.Cells are the basic units of all living things
811、，and until recently，scientists were sure that the life of cells could not go much beyond 120 years because the basic materials of cells，such as those of brain cells，would not last forever.But the upper limits will be broken by new medicine.Sometime between 2050 and 2100，medicine will have advanced t
812、o the point at which every 10 years or so，people will be able to take medicine to repair their organs.The medicine，made up of the basic building materials of life，will build new brain cells，heart cells，and so on，in much the same way our bodies make new skin cells to take the place of old ones.It is
813、exciting to imagine that the advance in technology may be changing the most basic condition of human existence，but many technical problems still must be cleared up on the way to this wonderful future.1According to the passage，human death is now mainly caused by _.Adiseases and aging Baccidents and w
814、arCaccidents and aging Dheart disease and war2In the authors opinion，todays most important advance in technology lies in _.Amedicine Bthe InternetCbrain cells Dhuman organ3Humans may live longer in the future because _.Aheart disease will be far away from us Bhuman brains can decide the final deathC
815、the basic materials of cells will last foreverDhuman organs can be repaired by new medicine4How long can humans live in the future according to the passage?AOver 100 years. BMore than 120 years.CAbout 150 years. DThe passage doesnt tell us.5We can learn from the passage that _.Ahuman life will not l
816、ast more than 120 years in the futureBhumans have to take medicine to build new skin cells nowCmuch needs to be done before humans can have a longer lifeDwe have already solved the technical problems in building new cells【解题导语】 本文主要讲述了人类的生命由于生物技术的发展可以无限期延长的愿望有可能成为现实。1解析：细节理解题。由文章第一段最后一句得知，今天主要的杀手，如心
817、脏病、癌症、年老将会成为遥远的记忆。答案：A2解析：细节理解题。第二段前两句的意思是说 “在讨论技术变化时，人们往往注意到的是网络。然而药学方面的变化可能是当今真正技术方面的大事件”，故选A项。答案：A3解析：推理判断题。由第二段的后半部分可知，在20502100期间，每隔10年左右，人们可以通过吃药来修整生病的或衰老的器官，这应是未来长生不老的原因。答案：D4解析：细节理解题。阅读全文后得知，文章没有具体告诉我们人们将来能活多少年。答案：D5解析：推理推断题。由最后一段得知，想象一下将来技术的发展改变了人类最基本的生存条件，真是让人兴奋，但想达到美好的将来还有很多技术问题要澄清。答案：CSy
818、dneyThe deadliest wildfires in Australias history burned people in their homes and cars and wiped out entire towns，officials discovered Sunday as they reached farther into the fire zone.The number of deaths rose to 108 by early Monday.Blazes have been burning for weeks in the southeastern state of V
819、ictoria but turned deadly Saturday when high temperatures and strong wind created a firestorm that swept across a fire passage of the region.A longrunning drought in the souththe worst in a centuryhad left forests extra dry and Saturdays fire conditions were said to be the worst ever in Australia.Al
820、l the deaths occurred in Victoria State，where at least 750 homes were destroyed.Police said they suspect some of the fires were set deliberately，and have declared some sites in the fire zone as crime scenes.If that is the case，Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Monday，“There are no words to describe it
821、other than mass murder.”Thousands of exhausted(精疲力尽的) volunteer firefighters were battling about a dozen uncontrolled fires Monday in Victoria，officials said.But it would be days before they were brought under control，even if temperatures stayed down.Residents were repeatedly advised on radio and te
822、levision announcements to initiate their socalled“fire plan”whether it be staying in their homes to battle the flames or to evacuate before the roads became too dangerous.But some of the deaths were people who were apparently caught by the fire as they fled in their cars or killed when charred tree
823、limbs(树枝)fell on their vehicles.At Marysville，a picturesque hilly district that attracts hikers and tourists and is home to about 800 people，up to 90 percent of buildings were in ruins，witnesses said.Police said two people died there.Australias worst fires before these were in 1983，when blazes kille
824、d 75 people and razed(毁坏) more than 3,000 homes in Victoria and South Australia states.Wild fires are common during the Australian summer.Government research shows about half of the roughly 60,000 fires each year are deliberately lit or suspicious.Lightning and people using machinery near dry brush
825、are other causes.Dozens of fires were also burning in New South Wales State，where temperatures remained high for the third consecutive(连续的)day.But there was no immediate threat to property.1According to the report，_.A750 houses were destroyed at MarysvilleB3,000 homes were burned to the ground in Vi
826、ctoriaCsome fires were supposed to have been set on purposeDin New South Wales the fires threatened the property and lives2Blazes in Victoria grew deadly on Saturday because _.Athere was a firestormBthe weather was hot and there was strong windCthere was a fire passageDsomeone set more fires3Which o
827、f the following causes for wildfires in Australia isnt mentioned in the passage?ADeliberate lighting.BLightning.CUsing machinery near dry forests.DDraught.4It can be inferred from the passage that _.APrime Minister Kevin Rudd considered deliberate lighting fires as mass murderBvolunteer firefighters
828、 were tired from battling about the uncontrolled firesCeven though the temperature is low，it still takes some time to control the fireDMarysville has been a good place to travel5The underlined word in the passage most probably means _.Awithdraw in orderBavoid the dangerCvolunteer to put out the fire
829、sDrun away hurriedly【解题导语】 本文介绍了2009年2月9日澳大利亚 “百年来最严重” 的森林大火的有关情况。1解析：细节理解题。由第三段第二句可知。答案：C2解析：细节理解题。由第二段第一句可知。答案：B3解析：细节理解题。文章倒数第二段对火灾的起因做了说明。答案：D4解析：推理判断题。文章第六段对Marysville的火灾情况做了说明，从picturesque和attract hikers and tourists等文字可推断该地为旅游胜地。答案：D5解析：词义猜测题。or后句意应与其前句意相反，表示选择，故evacuate应意为 “撤出，搬出”。答案：AHappin
830、ess can be described as a positive mood and a pleasant state of mind.According to recent surveys，sixty to seventy percent of Americans consider themselves to be moderately happy and one in twenty persons feels very happy.Psychologists have been studying the factors that contribute to happiness.It is
831、 not predictable，nor is a person in a clearly ideal situation necessarily happy.The ideal situation may have little to do with his actual feelings.A good education and income are usually considered necessary for happiness.Though both may contribute，they are only chief factors if the person is seriou
832、sly undereducated or actually suffering from lack of physical needs.The rich are not likely to be happier than the middleincome group or even those with very low incomes.People with college educations are somewhat happier than those who did not graduate from high school，and it is believed that this
833、is mainly because they have more opportunity to control their lives.Yet people with a high income and a college education may be less happy than those with the same income and no college education.Poor health does not rule out happiness except for the seriously disabled or those in pain.Learning to
834、deal with a health problem can contribute to happiness.Those with a good material life are happier in general，but those who have a loving，affectionate relationship are happier than those who rely on material alone.Love has a closer relationship with happiness than any other factor.It should be noted
835、 that people quickly get used to what they have，and they are happiest when they feel they are increasing their level no matter where it stands at a given time.Children whose parents were happily married have happier childhoods，but are not necessarily happier adults.The best formula for happiness is
836、to be able to develop the ability to bear failure，to have a personal participation and devotion，and to develop selfconfidence and selfesteem.1It can be inferred from the passage that _.Ahappiness is predictable rather than passively acceptedBa person in an obviously ideal situation must be happyCthe
837、 rich are likely to be happier than the middleincome groupDhappiness is not necessarily connected to ones situation in society2People with college education _.Aare not happier than those who have only an education at high schoolBare much happier than those who did not graduate from high schoolChave
838、less opportunity to control their livesDhave more opportunity to control their lives3According to the article，happiness is greatly dependent on _.Aa happy childhood in a happily married familyBgreat wealth obtained by receiving a good educationCa feeling that conditions are becoming for the betterDa
839、 college degree and a high income4Which of the following is most likely to contribute to happiness?ABeing exceptionally goodlooking.BHaving a loving，affectionate relationship.CHaving a wellpaid job.DMeeting lots of people.5Which of the following attitudes or feelings is most likely to be found in ha
840、ppy people?AHaving selfesteem.BBeing sure of keeping everything they already have.CNever being jealous.DKnowing how to be charming.【解题导语】 幸福与学历、收入没有必然的联系，它主要是来自一个人内心的感受。拥有爱心，用爱建立关系的人是幸福的。幸福的人往往能够抵抗挫折与失败、积极参与、忘我专注，同时又自信自尊。1解析：推断题。文章说受教育的程度，收入的高低都不见得能决定一个人是否幸福。由此推断出社会地位跟一个人是否有幸福感没有必然的联系。答案：D2解析：细节理解题。
841、第三段中讲到，受过高等教育的人更为幸福一些，这主要是因为他们有更多的机会可能控制自己的生活。答案：D3解析：细节推断题。文章的最后给出了幸福的公式：抗挫折失败的能力专注与投入自信自尊。这些东西全是主观的。由此可以推断出，幸福来自于自身感受。答案：C4解析：细节理解题。文章在第四段最后一句说到，爱和幸福之间的关联比其他任何因素都要近一些。答案：B5解析：推断题。在给幸福开列的公式中包含着自尊，其他选项所说的内容都没有，因此，选项A正确。答案：AThere are two major parties in Britain today，the Conservative and the Labour，
842、which have been in power by turns since 1945.The twoparty system of Britain was formed in the course of the development of the capitalist state and the political parties.To strengthen the state machine，the British bourgeosie have let it come into being and exist in one form or another since the 17th
843、 century.P.S.Tregidgo once said，“The more parties there are，the less likely it is that any one of them will be strong enough in Parliament to control all the others; but when there are only two，one of them is sure to have a majority of seats.This helps to ensure a strong and stable government.”This
844、explains why the British have the twoparty system.The division into two parties grew out the establishment of a Protestant Church of England in the 16th century.Because of a purely religious difference of opinion，the Puritans were separated from the broad body of the Anglican Church.The non Puritan
845、Anglicans were on the side of the King and Church，whose supporters were called by their opponents “Tories”The Puritans were for Parliament and trade，whose supporters are called by the “Tories”“Whigs”The Tories and the Whigs were in power by turns for a long time.In 1833，the Tory Party split into two
846、 and its name was changed to Conservative.In the 1860s the Whigs became Liberals.Since then，the Liberals and the Conservatives were in office by turns until 1922.They have some different opinions，but were both controlled by the rich.The working class became more and more unwilling to follow the Cons
847、ervatives and the Liberals.They wanted to have their own party.So the Labour Party was formed by the trade unions.After 1922，the Labour Party gradually replaced the Liberal Party.1What does the underlined word “it”stand for?AThe twoparty system. BThe state machine.CThe Parliament. DThe capitalist st
848、ate.2We can learn from what PS Tregidgo once said that _.Aif there are parties in Britain，none of them will be strong enough to have control in the governmentBthe more parties there are，the more likely it is that they will have the decisive say in the governmentCthe twoparty system contributes to th
849、e establishment of a powerful and long lasting governmentDif there are only two parties in Britain，it will be easy for the government to control them3What can we infer from the forming of the Tory Party and the Whig Party?AThese two parties originally believed in different religions.BThese two parti
850、es were established under the influence of different religious beliefs.CThe British King and the Parliament supported different religions because they were for the twoparty system.DThe British King and the Parliament were supported by different parties for political reasons.4According to the passage
851、，why was the Labour Party established in Britain?ABecause the trade unions did not do much good for the working people.BBecause the Liberal Party were not strong enough to defeat the Conservative Party.CBecause the working people would not like to be members outside the Liberal Party.DBecause neithe
852、r of the two major parties was the parties for the working people.5Which of the following is true concerning the Tory Party or the Whig Party?AThe Whig Party no longer exists in Britain.BThe Tory Party has kept its unity until the present day.CThe Whig Party has taken the place of the Liberal Party.
853、DThe Tory Party has taken the place of the Conservative Party.【解题导语】 在英国，现在控制议会的是保守党和工党。两党制既有利于资产阶级国家议会内部相互制约又能使政府强大和稳定。英国两党制的形成和发展经历了几个阶段。1解析：指代考查题。文中介绍，资产阶级是为了强化国家机器，而让 “两党制” 形成并存在的。答案：A2解析：细节推断题。选项C的意思是：两党制有利于建立一个有力的持久的政府。答案：C3解析：细节推断题。从原文可知，由于宗教上的原因，英国国教分化为清教徒和非清教徒，这两支后来发展为辉格党和托利党。答案：B4解析：细节理解题。
854、工党的建立的原因是工人阶级不愿受自由党和保守党的控制，且这两大党都是代表富人利益的党派。答案：D5解析：细节推断题。辉格党发展成后来的自由党，自由党又为工党所取代，也就是说辉格党不复存在了。答案：ADespite great affection for their parents，many Chinese people remain “too shy” to express love for them，according to an online survey.The poll of around 6,000 people，conducted by Beijingbased recruitme
855、nt website Z，was conducted as the nation gears up (为做好准备)for Mothers Day on Sunday.Although 74.6 percent of participants said they knew their mothers birthday，only 25.5 percent would like to actually tell her“I love you”“This figure suggests mothers occupy an important place in most participants min
856、d.Yet，many people still find it embarrassingto express their affection，”the surveys organizer said.As to the form of celebration on Mothers Day,67 percent of participants said they would prepare some gifts，with 70 percent saying that they would spend no more than 500 yuan(74 US dollars)，while 51 per
857、cent said they planned to phone their mother because they would either be too busy at work or be away from home.“I do love my mother deeply but I have never said I love youthat often.It just feels quite weird for me to say it to her in person，”said Stella Wang，a 27yearold office worker，noting that s
858、he prefers to express her feelings in writing on birthday or Christmas cards.“I have to say that its difficult for me to express my love for my mother.I think if I did say it out loud，it might confuse her，”said Liang Hao，a 32yearold engineer.“Very few Chinese，at least those I know，are used to saying
859、 I love you.they may never even say it once，” said Mike Denver，an American working in Shanghai as an English teacher.Hu Shoujun，a sociology professor from Shanghais Fudan University said，“The personality of the Chinese people is generally quiet，reserved and serious.For Chinese，its unnecessary and ev
860、en regarded as odd to display their affection for relatives and friends.”1The cause of conducting the poll is to _.Afind out how the Chinese will express their love to parentsBmake preparations for Mothers DayCsurvey how many people will say“I love you” to their parentsDsurvey what the Chinese will
861、do on Mothers Day2According to the passage，how many participants will say“I love you”to parents?AAbout 2,300. BAround 1,350CAbout 4,200. DAbout 1,530.3The underlined word“weird”can best be replaced by_.Ashy Bfantastic Cimpossible Dunnecessary4According to the passage，why are the Chinese unwilling to
862、 say“I love you”to parents?ABecause they have no affection for their parents.BBecause they are far away from their parents.CBecause they are afraid of confusing their parents.DBecause the personality of the Chinese people makes them not do it.5According to the survey，which of the following is NOT th
863、e way to celebrate Mothers Day?ASending gifts to the mother.BGiving a call to the mother.CWriting a birthday card.DBuying a beautiful coat for the mother.【解题导语】 本文介绍了北京智联招聘网对大约6 000人进行了有关 “人们如何庆祝母亲节和对母亲表达爱” 的民意调查以及调查结果。1解析：推理判断题。根据文章第二段的was conducted as the nation gears up for Mothers Day on Sunday可
864、知，进行民意调查是因为国人在为周日的母亲节作准备。又由下文As to the form of celebration on Mothers Day可知，民意调查是为了弄清楚中国人将如何为母亲庆祝节日。因此A项是正确答案。答案：A2解析：推理判断题。根据文中第三段中的only 25.5 percent would like to actually tell her “I love you” 以及第二段中的The poll of around 6,000 people可得出答案为D项。答案：D3解析：词义猜测题。从本段中的she prefers to express her feelings in
865、 writing on birthday or Christmas cards.以及下一段中的.it might confuse her可知中国人不喜欢直接对母亲说I love you.如果说了，会让母亲感到困惑。文中最后一句话中的regarded as “odd” to display their affection for relatives and friends验证了答案为B项。答案：B4解析：推理判断题。根据文章最后一段的The personality of the Chinese people is generally quiet，reserved and serious.可得知原
866、因为D项。答案：D5解析：细节理解题。根据文章第五段中的 .they would prepare some gifts.以及they planned to phone their mother可知A与B项是庆祝方式，而D项买衣服也属于礼物的范畴，因此只有C项不正确。答案：CWhat is it that makes a house a home? A home is a place of companionship with people in it who love each other，who are harmonious(和谐的)and closer inside with one an
867、other than they are outside with those in the workplace or with classmates at school.A home is a place thats so magnetic that its difficult to leave.In a home there is love，sharing and appreciation，and the members help one another.I have seen families on the street.But if they live，sleep，talk，and ea
868、t together，they are a family，even if they are poorly off.You dont need a roof to make a home.The truly homeless are some of the rich people who build multimilliondollar houses and are too busy to really live in them.The truly homeless are those who have turned their home into a hotel lobby.The paren
869、ts work.The children do wrong.They dont talk and eat together every day.They rarely see each other.The truly homeless people are those with babysitters，caretakers，gardeners and maids.Parents are unaware，too busy making money outside the home that they dont live in.This is another way of looking at t
870、he rich and the homeless.Who is to be pitied?Control of the computer and the Internet is also important to make a house into a home.If the computer is on all the time，the house turns into an office，even if everyone is at home.Many homes these days are just offices.Human communication has stopped.The
871、 computer eats up the time that one should be giving to others within the home.Using the computer moderately gives us time for gentleness，play and communication，not with a screen，but with a human being.1Which of the following may serve as the best title of the passage?AHow to Make a House a Home?BWh
872、at Makes a House a Home?CWho Are Homeless，the Poor?DWhat is a Home for?2The purpose of the first paragraph is to _.Atell us that where there is home there is loveBtell us what people think home isCshow the authors concept of homeDtell people how to have a happy home3The underlined word “those” refer
873、s to _.Apeople who build multimilliondollar housesBpeople who have lost their family membersCpeople who dont spend time with the familyDhomeless families living on the street4Which statement is NOT true according to the passage?AA home is a place where you are willing to stay.BEven the poorest perso
874、n can have a happy home.CComputers and the Internet are important for a happy home.DSometimes its the rich that should be pitied.5According to the passage，what is NOT mentioned as an element(要素) of a home?ACommunication. BAppreciation.CCompanionship. DSelflessness.【解题导语】 本文论述了如何才能使我们的房子成为家这个命题。1解析：主
875、旨大意题。文章主要围绕房子和家这个话题展开，即什么使我们的房子成为家。答案：B2解析：推理判断题。文章第一段作者提出了心中家的概念作为论点。答案：C3解析：推理判断题。根据下一句的Parents are unaware，too busy making money outside the home that they dont live in.可以判断这一类人是很少和家庭成员呆在一起的。答案：C4解析：细节理解题。由最后一段Control of the computer and the Internet is also important to make a house into a home.
876、可知合理使用电脑对家庭也是很重要的。与C选项不符。答案：C5解析：细节理解题。根据最后一句的Using the computer moderately gives us time for gentleness，play and communication，第一段段末的In a home there is love，sharing and appreciation 及全文第二句的A home is a place of companionship with people in it可知A、B、C正确；文章并没有提及selflessness。答案：DThe first time that I ha
877、d heard the term“EQ”was in the fall of 1995 when the book Emotional Intelligence，by Daniel Goleman，was widely covered by the American press.The widespread research presented in the book supported my own observations and doubts about life and emotions，and told me that I was on the right track to go a
878、fter happiness.The research continues to confirm what I had concluded on my own: These feelings are extremely important to individual health，happiness，and social harmony.This might seem a bit obvious，but it was not always obvious to me.I grew up in a family where we didnt talk about feelings.We talk
879、ed about ideas，concepts and principles.As a result，I could tell you what I thought about everything，but I couldnt tell you how I felt about anything.After several failed relationships，I took time off to reflect on my life and realized I had made many decisions which resulted in unhappiness for mysel
880、f and others.After studying the literature on emotions and feelings，I concluded that most of my poor decisions could be directly due to what is now called low emotional intelligence，or low EQ，for short.Previously，I struggled to find happiness through the traditional routesmaterial success.Now，howeve
881、r，I realize that：Theres not much point having either wealth or relationships if you arent happy.It is hard to be happy with others if you arent happy yourself.It is hard to be happy alone if you dont feel good about yourself，i.e.have high selfesteem and selfconfidence.It is hard to have good feeling
882、s about yourself if you dont have good emotional management skills.Emotional management skills，the main subject of EQ，are，therefore，one of the most basic elements of happiness.1The authors views and ideas about life were exactly proved by _.Athe widespread reports in American newspapers Bown observa
883、tions and doubts about life and emotionsCideas and views in the book Emotional IntelligenceDthe fact that he was on the right track to go after happiness2The authors family members _.Aare wise and hardworkingBare wealthy and strongCare not good at expressing their own feelings Dget along badly with
884、each other3Before reading the book，the author thought he could have happiness _.Aif he could earn a lot of moneyBif he could avoid poor decisionsCif he took time off to reflect on his lifeDif he ignored the traditional routes4A person who cant feel happy himself _.Awill feel happy with lots of frien
885、dsBwill not get on well with othersChas no selfesteem at allDshould read the new book on EQ5Loneliness most probably comes from _.Alack of wealth and healthBlack of the presence of othersClack of good relationships with othersDlack of selfconfidence and selfesteem【解题导语】 情商所包含的一项主要内容就是一个人驾驭自己情感的能力。情商
886、对于身体健康、家庭幸福以及社会和谐都是特别重要的。1解析：细节推断题。第一段第二句中说作者对生活的观察和疑虑都得到了这本书中所呈现的研究结果所支持。这就是说这本书中的东西证实了他的观点和看法。新闻报道是引起别人注意的前提，因此选项A错误；自己的观察和疑虑不能证实自己观察和疑虑，因此选项B错误；选项D的错误在于：他步入了追求幸福的正确轨道证实了他的观点和看法。这句话的言外之意：通过读这本书，他知道自己步入了正途。答案：C2解析：细节推断题。作者说他的家庭成员只谈事情不谈感受，由此可知，他们可能不善于表达自己的感情。答案：C3解析：细节推断题。文中明显的提示是material routes(传统道
887、路)material success(物质)，也就是财富或金钱。答案：A4解析：细节推断题。be happy with others相当于get on well with others。 由此可知，选项B正确。答案：B5解析：细节推断题。倒数第三句说：当你独处感到不好是因为自我感觉不好，比如缺乏自尊和自信。这就是感到孤独有可能是由自我感觉不好造成的。答案：DOn the afternoon of September 27,2008，astronaut Zhai Zhigang became the first Chinese man to walk in space on Saturday，c
888、lambering (攀爬) out of Chinas Shenzhou VII spacecraft in a technological feat (成就) that made the Chinese people excited.“Im feeling quite well.I greet the Chinese people and the people of the world，”Zhai said as he climbed out of the craft at around 1640 Beijing time，a historic achievement telecast l
889、ive on CCTV.Tens of millions of Chinese viewers gathered before TV screens to watch the moment.Chinese President Hu Jintao and other top leaders had appeared at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center to watch the live transmission of Zhais space walk.Zhai,42，chosen by an expert team for the first “out
890、ofcapsule activity，”showed a red national flag，helped by colleague Liu Boming，who also briefly popped his head out of the capsule.Zhai slowly made his way towards a test sample of solid lubricant (润滑剂) outside the capsule，took a sample and handed it to Liu.Zhai safely returned inside the craft after
891、 about 20 minutes.The walk marked the highpoint of Chinas third manned space journey，which has received widespread media coverage.Zhai wore a $ 4.4 million Chinesemade suit weighing 120 kg.Liu wore a Russianmade one and acted as an assistant.The third crew member，Jing Haipeng，monitored the ship from
892、 inside the reentry module.The risky maneuver is a step towards Chinas longerterm goal of building a space lab and then a larger space station，analysts said.来源:学#科#网“On this flight，Chinese peoples footprints will be left in space for the first time，” said a commentary by the Xinhua news agency.The a
893、stronauts went aboard on their walk after receiving a clean bill of health from doctors on the ground at mission control in Beijing，Xinhua said.Zhais suit has 10 layers and takes up to 15 hours to assemble and put on.Chinas first manned spaceflight was in 2003.A second，twomanned flight followed in 2
894、005.The only other countries that have sent people into space are Russia and the United States.Shenzhou VII took off on Thursday and is due to land on the northern steppes(草原)of Inner Mongolia on Sunday.1The space walk done by the Chinese astronaut was historic because _.Ait was telecast live Bthere
895、 were more Chinese viewers than ever Cit was the first space walk carried out by Chinese astronautsDtop leaders watched the space walk2The following statements are true EXCEPT _.Athe lubricant put outside the capsule was a test sampleBit took Zhai Zhigang about 20 minutes to return to the craft safe
896、lyCmany televisions and newspapers around the world reported the eventDthere is an aerospace control center in the capital3The significance of the space walk is that _.Athe astronaut can work outside the spacecraftBit marks a successful step towards Chinas longerterm goal of building a space lab as
897、well as a space stationCit has attracted tens of millons of people to watch the walkDthe Chinesemade space suit can be used in space4What does the underlined word “clean” mean in the passage?AHealthy. BPaidoff. CNot dirty. DClear.5The best title of the passage is _.AFirst Footprints of Chinese Peopl
898、e in SpaceBExpensive Space SuitCThree Successful Manned Flights by Chinese AstronautsDHistoric Space Walk by Chinese Astronaut【解题导语】 2008年9月25日，中国 “神舟七号” 顺利升空，27日，中国宇航员翟志刚穿着中国人自己研制的 “飞天” 宇航服进行了太空行走。这次舱外活动是中国航天事业的又一里程碑。1解析：细节理解题。由文章第一句astronaut Zhai Zhigang became the first Chinese man to walk in spa
899、ce on Saturday结合倒数第五段可知答案。答案：C2解析：细节理解题。由文章第六段的Zhai safely returned inside the craft after about 20 minutes可知，翟志刚在舱外活动20分钟后返回舱内，并非返回时用了20分钟，因此B项错误。答案：B3解析：推理判断题。由文章可知，太空行走的重大意义在于分析家在倒数第六段的阐释。答案：B4解析：词义猜测题。由航天员之前的动作可知clean在文中的意思为 “健康的，好的”。答案：A5解析：主旨大意题。综合全文内容，D项标题概括性强，能全面反映本文的中心思想。答案：DIn only two dec
900、ades Asian Americans have become the fastest growing US.minority.As their children began moving up through the nation schools，it became clear that a new class of academic achievers was emerging.Their achievements are reflected in the nations best universities，where mathematics，science and engineerin
901、g departments have taken on a decidedly Asian character.This special liking for mathematics and science is partly explained by the fact that AsianAmerican students who began their education abroad arrived in the US.with a solid grounding in mathematics but little or no knowledge of English.They are
902、also influenced by the promise of a good job after college.Asians feel there will be less unfair treatment in areas like mathematics and science because they will be judged more objectively.And the return on the investment in education is more immediate in something like engineering than with an art
903、s degree.Most AsianAmerican students owe their success to the influence of parents who are determined that their children take full advantage of what the American educational system has to offer.An effective measure of parental attention is homework.Asian parents spend more time with their children
904、than American parents do，and it helps.Many researchers also believe there is something in Asian culture that makes success，such as ideals that stress family values and emphasize education.Both explanations for academic success worry Asian Americans because of fears that they feed a typical racial im
905、age.Many can remember when Chinese，Japanese and Filipino immigrants were the victims of social isolation(隔离)Indeed，it was not until 1952 that laws were laid down giving all Asian immigrants the right to citizenship.1With making outstanding achievements at college，AsianAmerican students _.Afeel they
906、are mistreated because of limited knowledge of EnglishBare afraid that their academic successes are not recognizedCstill worry about unfair treatment in society for their originDgenerally feel it a shame to have to depend on their parents2What are the major factors that determine the success of Asia
907、n Americans？AA solid foundation in basic mathematics and Asian culture.BHard work and intelligence.CParents help and a limited knowledge of English.DAsian culture and the American educational system.3Few Asian American students major in human sciences mainly because _.Atheir English is not good enou
908、ghBthey are afraid they might meet with unfair judgment in these areasCthere is a wide difference between Asian and Western culturesDthey know little about American culture and society4Why do “both explanations”(Para.3) worry Asian Americans?AThey are afraid that they appear of typical Asian charact
909、eristics.BPeople will think that Asian students rely on their parents for success.CAsian Americans will be a threat to other minorities.DAmericans fear the academic achievements made by Asian Americans.5Before 1952 in America，_.AAsian Americans could not be academically successfulBthere were few imm
910、igrants from East and Southeast AsiaCimmigrants were not equally treated by Asian AmericansDimmigrants from East and Southeast Asia were looked down upon【解题导语】 在短短二十年的时间里，亚裔美国人就成了增长最快的少数民族。他们的孩子学习成绩优异，这可能与他们的家教有关，然而正是这让家长担心他们所培养出的典型种族形象会招致社会隔离。1解析：细节推断题。文章第三段第一句明确指出，他们担心具有典型的种族形象也就是与众不同。下面又说到亚裔移民以前是
911、社会隔离的牺牲品。因此C项 “仍然担心社会的不公正对待” 为正确答案。答案：C2解析：细节理解题。亚裔美国人成功的主要因素是数学基础坚实，亚洲文化历来重视教育。文章前两段分析了亚裔学生主要在理工科方面学业突出的原因，即有坚实的数学基础和父母的言传身教。B项也是成功的因素之一，但文章并未提到；C项中 “a limited knowledge of English” 不是主要原因；D项中的 “the American educational system” 为所有学生提供的机会是均等的，不是亚裔学生成功的根本原因。答案：A3解析：细节理解题。亚裔学生很少主修人文科学是因为担心会受到不公平对待。根据
912、文章第一段倒数第二句 “Asians feel.like mathematics and science because.more objectively” 可推断，对人文科学成就的评价带有主观因素，因而更容易受到不公正对待。选项A、C、D并不是主要原因。答案：B4解析：从最后一段判断，亚裔美国学生担心自己的突出成就会使自己再次成为社会孤立的对象，这是因为他们的成功是按照亚洲人的教育方式以及受到父辈影响所取得的，被深深地打上了亚洲文化特征的烙印。因此选项A为正确答案。答案：A5解析：细节推断题。文章最后说，直到1952年政府才颁布法律承认所有亚洲移民的公民资格，才享受平等的待遇。至于说当时亚裔
913、人没有学术上的成功、当时移民少都是毫无根据的。答案：DHost in Toronto，CanadaBy: Mabel Date: 18 June 2009Hi，I have a room to share in my 3bedroom house.2 oriental females living in the house.The room is furnished with bed and mattress，a computer table and a closet.Cable and Internet not included in the rent but available if ne
914、eded.If you are looking for a family style living in a safe environment，this is the right place.Close to subway,15 min to downtown Toronto，grocery and restaurants.Available June 18.Host Edmonto，Alberta，CanadaBy: FrankDate: 18 June 2009Hi! After having taught ESL for 12 years in Seoul，Korea(Sangmyung
915、 University) and Ho Chi Minh City，Vietnam(AUSP，ILA)，we would like to invite students and business people to share our home in Edmonton，Alberta，Canada.Please visit our website http：/.Contact us for more information.We would do our best to make your homestay as pleasant as possible.Hope to hear from y
916、ou soon.Take care.Frank，Uyen and JennifeHost in Toronto，OntarioBy: HoangDate: 15 June 2009$500 Shared Accommodation available at Keels St/Teston Rd.Includes Internet and Cable Television.Option with Room and Board for $800.Location great for York University Students or Seneca College in King City.Co
917、ntact 4165209502.Maple Ridge，BCBy: Cindi & David HoltDate：17 June 2009Hi! We are the Holt Family.We are currently looking for a homestay that would like to attend Maple Ridge College or Thomas Haney Secondary School.We are a large family of 6 that would like to open our doors to someone that is look
918、ing to stay.Room and board，breadfast，lunch and dinner included.$700 per month.We are a fun，loving family.We live on 5 acres.Have an aboveground pool and live 5 min from a lake.It is quiet in a country setting.I can drive to school and sometimes home but there is a community bus that my children alwa
919、ys take as they are very independent and go with their friends.If you are interested，contact me.1Which has told the shared price?AMabel and Frank. BFrank and Cindi.CHoang and Cindi. DMabel and Hoang.2Which provides the website for the readers to know more?AMabel. BFrank. CHoang. DCindi.3Which of the
920、 following is to choose a homestay?AMabel. BFrank. CHoang. DCindi.4Which will Betty choose if she enjoys swimming?AMabel. BFrank. CHoang. DCindi.5Where can we find this information?AIn a magazine. BIn a newspaper.COn a website. DIn a house agency.【解题导语】 本文是几则出租房屋的广告。1解析：细节理解题。根据文章内容可知，Hoang和Cindi给出了
921、具体价格，故选C项。答案：C2解析：细节理解题。Frank的广告中提供了网址，故选B项。答案：B3解析：细节理解题。Cindi的广告中是寻找一个homestay，故选D项。答案：D4解析：细节理解题。从Cindi的广告可知，家里有一个地上游泳池，附近有一个湖，适合游泳，故选D项。答案：D5解析：推理判断题。从四则信息的格式及包含的邮箱地址等，可知应来自网站。答案：CFrom the first use of the rocket to carry satellites into space to the setting up of space stations, human beings ha
922、ve been putting great effort into space research. And so far, we have achieved many successes. But there are still numerous tasks in front of us and we should not cease trying to progress.The international space station is an important step we should take in space exploration. It is not only helpful
923、 but also essential. It provides a proper space environment for many experiments that we have wanted to do for a long time. It is also a base for the observations of the earth and the universe. It could also be an important base for later travel to the moon and Mars. In a word, if we want to explore
924、 space more, the first thing we should do is to set up a space station.As the space station costs a lot of money, it is hard for one country alone to establish one. The USA seems to be the only country that has the ability to build a space station alone，and it has tried to do so, but not very succes
925、sful. So it aggregated many other countries to work on it together. Though it is still extremely expensive, it is much cheaper than doing it alone. It is really a job that needs everyone s effort and will benefit everyone.But even so, the funds needed are still a big problem. As for the USA, it seem
926、s that it has too many things to spend its money on. Although it is the richest country in the world, it has much debt every year. It has to make arrangements about its finance, and try to find a balance in all these issues.语篇解读这是一篇说明文。国际空间站对于人类探索太空起着至关重要的作用。由于耗资巨大，财大气粗的美国单独建造起来也并不那么成功。只有各国合作起来，才能解决
927、资金问题，从而使国际空间站造福全人类。1What is the authors attitude towards building and developing the international space station?A. Supportive. B. Doubtful.C. Critical. D. Dissatisfied.解析态度判断题。根据第一段中的“we should not cease trying to progress”和文中作者介绍国际空间站的重要性可知，作者对建设国际空间站持支持态度。答案A2From Paragraph 2 we learn that _.A. t
928、he necessity of building the international space station is not realized nowB. many experiments have been done in the international space stationC. the international space station is necessary for people to explore space moreD. people have traveled to Mars from the international space station解析细节理解题
929、。根据第二段中的“In a word，if we want to explore space more，the first thing we should do is to set up a space station”可知，国际空间站是进行太空探索所必需的。答案C3Which of the following is NOT a reason for countries cooperation in building the international space station?A. That it requires a lot of money.B. That it needs every
930、one s effort.C. That it will benefit every participating country.D. That it is too far away from the earth.解析细节理解题。根据第三段中的“As the space station costs a lot of money.”和“It is really a job that needs everyones effort and will benefit everyone”可知，A、B、C三项均提到了，而文章中没有提到D。答案D5The underlined word “aggregate
931、d” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by “_”A. united B. scoldedC. allowed D. forbade解析词义猜测题。由该词所在的语境可知，发展国际空间站耗资巨大，因此美国联合其他一些国家共同来建设该工程，即该词的意思相当于united。答案A5Which of the following aspects about building the international space station is NOT mentioned in the passage?A. Difficulties. B. Cooperation.C. Si
932、gnificance. D. Specific arrangements.解析细节理解题。第二段提到了建设国际空间站的重要性，第三段提到了建设国际空间站面临的困难和合作的重要性，但是文中没有涉及具体细节安排，故答案为D。答案DOne potential problem with allowances is that childrens responsible behavior can become about earning the allowance rather than the intrinsic (固有的) value of their family responsibilities.
933、 For example, if you pay your children for taking out the trash, they see this chore (家务) as a job that they should be rewarded for instead of a responsibility they must fulfill as part of the family. But giving children an allowance for weekly chores is not necessarily bad. You are rewarding them f
934、or fulfilling their family responsibilities, but it is not for a specific act. Rather, it is an appreciation of their commitment to your family values. You are also conveying another important message that their actions have consequences: if they do good things, good things happen. They also learn a
935、 lesson about the market economy, namely that work is rewarded.Allowances can also be used as punishment and to teach children lessons about family values. For example, if your children join a group of kids smashing (砸碎) pumpkins on Halloween, a part of a reasonable punishment might be to require th
936、em to pay the families out of their allowances to replace the pumpkins. Thus, your children learn that bad behavior has financial consequences. Also, by relating the punishment to the misdeed, you ensure that your children see the connection and learn the value lesson.How much allowance should you p
937、ay your children？The precise amount depends on your family s financial situation, the cost of living and your childrens needs. Children can start to earn a weekly allowance as early as 5 years of age. An increase of $ 1 per week for each ydar of your children s lives is realistic until they reach th
938、eir midteens. When they begin to drive and date, you can calculate their expenses and establish a reasonable allowance that covers their needs.语篇解读本文为议论文，就“孩子做家务要不要给予物质奖励”这一话题进行谈论。文章分析了其利与弊，最后还就怎样的金额比较合适提出了自己的看法。1The underlined sentence in the 1st paragraph probably means that “giving allowances may
939、 _”A. lead to childrens preference for money rather than anything elseB. lead to children s preference for earning money by their ownC. cause the problem that children value money more than responsibilitiesD. cause children to earn money instead of going to school解析句意理解题。根据接下来的一句的举例说明可知前一句的句意，孩子会认为做
940、家务得到奖励是合理的，而不认为做家务是他的责任。答案为C。答案C2How many advantages of giving allowances are mentioned in the passage?A. One. B. Two.C. Three. D. Four.解析推理判断题。第一段最后三句分别提到了三点好处，第二段的第一句论及了使用经济方式作为处罚的好处。显然文中共提及四点好处，故选D。答案D3When your children join a group of kids smashing pumpkins on Halloween，_.A. they should be taug
941、ht that bad behavior has financial consequencesB. they should be rid of their opportunity to celebrate HalloweenC. you should give them some allowances to pay for the pumpkinsD. you should ensure your children see the connection with their lessons解析事实细节题。根据第二段第三句可知A正确，让孩子意识到做出不好的行为要承担经济后果。其他选项均与第二段内
942、容不符。答案A4The precise allowance amount you should pay your children depends on all the following factors EXCEPT_.A. how rich or poor your family isB. how much other children receiveC. the actual needs of your childrenD. the living standard in your area解析正误判断题。根据第三段第二句可知，A、C和D均正确。故选B。答案B5It can be infe
943、rred that_.A. the author doesn t want to give any tips on the allowance amountB. allowances given to children of different ages may varyC. children under 6 cant be given any allowanceD. the allowance amount grows at the same speed with your children解析推理判断题。根据文章最后两句可知B正确。最后一段作者就具体数量提了自己的意见，故A错。C与第三段第
944、三句不符，D过于绝对化。答案BIf you want to help children develop language and speech skills, UCLA researchers say, listening to what they have to say is just as important as talking to them.The effect of a conversation between a child and an adult is about six times as great as the effect of adult speech input a
945、lone, the researchers found. “Adults speaking to children helps language develop, but what matters much more is the interaction，” said the study s lead author, Frederick Zimmerman, an associate professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. The researchers als
946、o found that TV viewing didn t have much of an effect positively or negatively as long as it wash t displacing conversations between an adult and a child.The UCLA study included 275 families with children between 2 months and 48 months old. They represented a variety of incomes and education. The re
947、searchers found that, in an average day, children hear about 13,000 spoken words from adults and participated in about 400 adultchild conversations a day.Assessed separately, factors positively associated with language development included each additional 100 conversations a day and each 1,000 word
948、increase in the number of words spoken by adults and heard by children. When looked at alone, TV was negatively associated with language development. But, when the three factors were analyzed together, the only one that stood out was conversation between adults and children.“The more a child speaks
949、and interacts with an adult, the better idea a parent has about where the child is，” Zimmerman said. “Although it s mostly done unconsciously, parents will provide feedback and correct mistakes. Theyll also tailor their speech to the child. Parents can give a child words by talking to them about wha
950、t they re doing, such as，Im putting on your pajamas now. But give your child the opportunity to talk, hopefully without the rest of the noise in the environment，” she added. “If parents can carve out some conversation time maybe at bath time or at dinner time that s a wonderful thing.”语篇解读本文是科普文。研究发
951、现，父母和孩子之间的交谈对孩子语言的发展至关重要。这种交谈必须是双向的、互动的。1The researchers also found that TV viewing _.A. could have a positive effect on a childs language developmentB. had a little effect on a child s language developmentC. affected a childs language development more negatively than positivelyD. affected a childs
952、language development both negatively and positively解析细节理解题。从文章第二段最后一句可知，看电视对孩子没有多少影响，无论是积极的还是消极的。答案B2Frederick Zimmerman would probably agree that _.A. parents should let their children talk most of the timeB. children should watch TV programs selectivelyC. the conversation between parents and child
953、ren should be twowayD. it s no good for parents to correct their children s mistakes when they are speaking解析推理判断题。从文章第二段内容可知，Zimmerman强调父母跟孩子之间交谈的双向性和互动性才是更重要的。答案C3We can conclude from the last paragraph that _.A. parents should let a child repeat what he or she saysB. bath time or dinner time is t
954、he best chance for parents to talk to a childC. parentchild conversation can be carried out at any proper timeD. parents should leave a child talking alone解析推理判断题。从文章最后一段可知，父母应该随时创造跟孩子交谈的机会，时间的选择是非常灵活的。答案C4What would be the best title for the passage?A. Talk with kids, not at themB. Let your childre
955、n voice their own opinionsC. How to develop a child s language abilityD. The importance of early child language development解析主旨大意题。根据文章内容分析，文章强调父母和孩子之间的交流，而且强调交流的互动性，因此A项符合文章的主旨，适合作本文标题。答案A5The underlined word “tailor” in the last paragraph can be best replaced by _.A. control B. improveC. pass D. a
956、djust解析词义理解题。根据句子结构和语境分析，此处tailor是动词，本义是“量体裁衣”，此处的意思是不断调整以适应。故答案为D。答案DThe HOPE IS A GAMECHANGER PROJECT will deliver unbreakable soccer balls to kids who，all too often, see things horrible, broken and not survive the simplest of circumstances. The project started taking form well before anyone knew
957、where it would lead which is to test the power of likeminded people working together to turn inspiration into action.Four years ago Bobby was in Rwanda offering help to the people there and taking photos of a child soldier named Moise with his “soccer ball”， which was a pile of rubbish tied together
958、 with a string. This “ball” was the only thing Moise could call his own no family, no home, no place to go. Forced to fight in the Congo and having killed three people at the unbearably young age of seven, the boys spirit was broken. And Bobby knew, as he took one photo after the next, that hed neve
959、r forget him. In fact, he returned the following year to tell Moise he had stayed deep within his heart but he was gone.I recently helped Bobby launch his new book The Power of the Invisible Sun which features a photo of Moise, his ball, and kids from wartorn areas around the world. All of his earni
960、ngs go towards the HOPE IS A GAMECHANGER PROJECT for the kids he visited over the past decade. They caught the emotional landscape from heartbreak to joy, but share the undeniable longing for recovery and hope.Bobby and I share the unchangeable belief that delivering hope is really a gamechanger, es
961、pecially to a child. We believe that each indestructible ball will come to represent a lasting symbol of hope. A light no matter how smallThe Power of the Invisible Sun.This holiday season, I ask you to think about whether you are doing enough to help someone else in the world. Or as Bobby likes to
962、put it, consider “taking_a_concrete_baby_step”， which added together, can create transformational change. Its my great hope that the HOPE IS A GAMECHANGER PROJECT will change the lives of children the world over one book, one ball at a time.1. In the first sentence of the passage, the writer implies
963、 that_.A. kids live an unsafe life in parts of the worldB. the balls sent to kids should be of good qualityC. young kids can not overcome the difficultiesD. kids intend to break their toys into pieces解析考查推理判断能力。从第一句中可以看出孩子们处于一个与家人分离并无法生存的境地，故选A。而B、C、D三个答案与文章提到的事实相反。答案A2. The purpose of The HOPE IS A
964、 GAMECHANGER PROJECT is to_.A. send ball gifts to kids in poor countriesB. collect money to help kids in needC. comfort kids in wartorn areasD. offer kids help to change their lives解析考查对作者意图的理解能力。通过最后一句关键信息“change the lives of children the world overone book，one ball at a time.”可以得出答案。答案D3. How may
965、Bobby feel about Mosie?A. He was very proud of Mosies bravery.B. He felt sorry for Mosies ruined childhood.C. He thought money could solve Mosies problem.D. He felt happy to tell him what was in his heart.解析考查细节理解能力。从第二段中可以看出Mosie无家可归的悲惨童年。答案B4. Which of the following about Bobbys new book is TRUE?A
966、. It earned a lot of money to help kids like Mosie.B. The photos inside reflected the kids hopeless life.C. Its title shows the authors belief to change the world.D. It changed the life of the kids recorded in the book.解析考查推理判断能力。书名中的关键词The Power of the Invisible Sun和A light no matter how small.是答案的
967、信息点来源。答案C5. The underlined part in the last paragraph probably means_.A. starting the first step as a baby doesB. taking an active action from now onC. making great changes step by stepD. doing some small but good deeds解析考查猜词能力。尽管每一选项都接近意思，但从后句“which added together，can create transformational change
968、.”暗示，每个人都做一件小小好事，聚集在一起将改变孩子的生活。答案DWestern New Bridge Library AnnouncementShortened Library Hours for Spring BreakLibrary Hours have been shortened to 7 hours a day (900 a. m. 400 p. m. ) for Spring Break from March 24 to March 30.Coming EventsOn Monday, March 24, at 1030 a. m. , Scott Sutton, a chil
969、drens writer, will tell stories to kids over seven. Sutton s attractive style will surely inspire everyone present ！At 200 p. m. , on March 25, a lecture will be delivered in Room 201, which focuses on the development of writing skill. Famous tutors from the district won t disappoint you.At 100 p. m
970、. ，on March 26, the Georgetown Musicians will present an Irish Folk Concert, which will be entertaining for the entire family. Come for the music and stay to check out some relevant books for the rest of the week！On Thursday, March 27, at 200 p. m. , the annual Children s Gathering will take place i
971、n Room 201, the second floor. Pick up an invitation in the Children s Room and return your RSVP (回复)to reserve your seat at the table by 300 p. m. on Tuesday, March 25. Only children are allowed in the Gathering.At 1030 am. on Friday, March 28, Enzo Monfre of the hit kids science show, ENZOology, wi
972、ll bring Fossils Live! Surely Enzo will take the audience back in time, deep beneath the surface of the earth, to uncover the mysteries of killer dinosaurs, and more. Enzo recently appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show come and see him at the library！Please note: In case of emergency, please call the
973、 Help Desk at 926 3736 and follow the procedures outlined on the voice message. The calldown service is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for emergencies. The Help Desk supplies service to you all the year round! For questions about all these, please contact_hld_wnbl._corg.Come for the great Fun
974、; Stay for the relevant Books！语篇解读本文是一则通知，属于应用文。文章主要介绍了寒假期间学校图书馆作息时间的变化及将要举行的一系列活动。1Tim wants to polish his writing, it is best for him to attend the related activity on_.A. MondayB. TuesdayC. Thursday D. Friday解析推理判断题。根据Coming Events中的第一、二两条信息判断，提高写作技能的活动是在March 25举行的，而由第一条信息可知March 24是星期一，所以选B。答案B
975、2Which of the following descriptions about the annual Children s Gathering is true?A. Tickets are a must in order to attend it.B. Only those who have received an invitation are admitted in the Gathering.C. You have to make a reply to the invitation to make sure you get a seat.D. You d better apply i
976、n advance because there are not enough seats for everyone.解析细节判断题。根据第四条信息可知，要想参加该活动，需要在儿童室取请帖并回复以预订座位，因此C项正确。答案C3Which of the following is NOT true according to the announcement?A. The children who are interested in the mysteries of killer dinosaurs can attend the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Friday.B. C
977、hildren can t attend all the activities with their parents.C. Children can choose more than one of the activities.D. Children can borrow some relevant books for the activities.解析细节判断题。根据第五条信息的最后一句可知A选项中的the Ellen DeGeneres Show并非在假期所举办的活动。答案A4If there is an emergency, you should_.A. call the Help De
978、skB. contact hld wnbl. corgC. stay in the library and waitD. ring 926 3637解析细节理解题。由注意事项中的第一句话可知答案。答案A5The announcement is mainly intended for_.A. staff members of the libraryB. parents of the school childrenC. the school childrenD. volunteers of the activities解析推理判断题。根据通知内容可知，活动是为学生举办的，这则通知主要是让他们了解活
979、动的时间、地点及相关内容。答案CMs Tan, you ve referred to your new novel as your eighth book.Thats because it took me six or seven attempts at a second novel before I started and completed this one.Why do you think you had so many false starts?I would say that my reasons were wrong: I was trying to prove that I wa
980、snt just a mother-daughter storyteller, or I was trying to prove that I didn t just have to write about things that were strictly Chinese or Chinese-American. Those were never the right reasons for writing those early stories. And I could never come up with other, better reasons for continuing them.
981、What kept you going on this book?This book was different because it was based on my mother s real life. The reason for writing it became more personal and emotional. After The Joy Luck Club came out, my mother was always explaining to people that she wasn t any of the mothers in that book. And at on
982、e point she said to me, “Next book tells my true story.” And then she started telling me things I never knew before. She also told me many, many stories，because my mother doesn t generalize. The book really grew out of that.Have you ever visited China?Yes. I ve been there twice: about three years ag
983、o and then again last November, both times with my mother and my husband.Was it difficult to capture the Chinese-American dialect without sounding like a parody(拙劣的模仿)?No, because it s the language I ve heard all my life from my mother. She speaks English as it s direct translation from Chinese. But
984、 its more than that: Her language also has more imagery than English.Can you think of an example?Somebody might say to me, “Dont work so hard. Youll kill yourself.” My mother will say to me，“Why do you press all your brains out on this page for someone else？” So it s very vivid. That s the way she t
985、alks.Have many readers told you that the Chinese mother in your book reminded them of the typical Jewish (有癖好的) mother?Many people have told me that. I think the mother-daughter relationship is very intense in both cases. Culturally there is an acceptance that mothers have the power to tell their ch
986、ildren, especially their daughters, how to conduct their lives not simply up until the time they are 18, but for the rest of their lives. However, when children grow up in a different culture from their parents， they tend to keep more secrets from their parents. The children think, “They just wouldn
987、 t understand that I had to do this.” And that can really create a gap, and it can grow as the number of secrets grows.语篇解读这是一篇人物访谈纪实。通读这篇访谈录，我们可以了解华裔美国作家Ms Tan创作第二部作品的经历。1Based on the questions in this interview, what do you think Ms Tan s profession is?A. A journalist. B. A storywriter.C. An inter
988、viewer. D. An interviewee.解析推理判断题。根据文中的“your new novel，a second novel”等关键词及访谈内容可知，Ms Tan是一名小说家。C、D两项有一定的干扰性，注意题干中问的是“profession(职业)”。答案B2What s TRUE about Tan s second book?A. It s about her real life in America.B. The name of the book is The Joy Luck Club.C. It is the result of many times of carefu
989、l thought.D. It includes many works of her mother.解析细节判断题。根据文中的“it took me six or seven attempts at a second novel before I started and completed this one”可知，Tan在完成这部书的写作之前曾经历过六、七次尝试，说明这本书是她经过多次深思熟虑的产物。答案C3Which question is NOT answered in the interview?A. How does she think of her mother s language
990、?B. How many books does she plan to write?C. When did she visit China?D. How is generation gap created?解析细节理解题。“她计划写几本书？”这个问题在文中找不到答案，其他三项文中均有涉及。答案B4We can infer that_.A. Tan s mother is a good storytellerB. Tan plans to write another book about her motherC. Tan plans to return to ChinaD. Tan s moth
991、er is hard to communicate with because of personality解析推理判断题。根据文中的“She also told me many，many stories，because my mother doesnt generalize”和“So its very vivid. Thats the way she talks”可知，Tan的母亲是一位善于讲故事的人。答案A5The last paragraph mainly talks about_.A. how to keep secrets from parentsB. how to deal with
992、 the mother-daughter relationshipC. how to conduct the livesD. how the generation gap comes about解析段落主旨题。此段大意是：传统地认为母亲有教育孩子们一生如何生活的权力，而孩子们随着年龄的增长，他们不愿将自己的秘密告诉父母，从而产生了代沟。因此本段主要阐述的是代沟是如何产生的。答案D“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity，” said the American talk show host Oprah Winfrey. I ve n
993、ever watched her show, but when a self-made billionaire gives life advice it s probably worth listening to.Her point is that blind luck is very rare. You may have to be lucky to find a good job these days but that does not mean you should sit at home waiting for the opportunity to come to you. If yo
994、u re a Chinese，you may already be familiar with the tale of a farmer waiting by a tree stump (树桩) for a rabbit to run out and break its neck.A book by the UK psychologist Richard Wiseman, called The Luck Factor, argues we can all make ourselves luckier. It s not about going to a temple to burn some
995、incense (香) in hopes that the gods will give you good fortune; it s practical advice you can follow each day.Wiseman conducted an experiment as part of his studies. First he divided volunteers into two groups：those who said they were lucky in life and those who said they were not. He gave everyone a
996、 newspaper and asked them to look through it to count how many photographs it had inside. On average, the unlucky people took about two minutes to count the photographs while the lucky people took just seconds. Why? On the second page of the newspaper, a command, “Stop counting. There are 43 photogr
997、aphs in this newspaper，” was written in big letters. The unlucky people mostly did not spot the message.Its easy to compare this situation to a young person looking for jobs in a local paper. They might search so hard for one type of position that they miss an even better opportunity. People who are
998、 “lucky”， in fact, keep an open mind and dont go through the same routine every day.I first came to China in 2002 when it was considered a rather strange thing to do. Like many foreigners，my plan was to teach English for one year. Seven years later, and still here, I ve had many great opportunities
999、such as writing for newspapers and magazines. I did not dream these would have been possible. I ve also never been sick, had an accident, got into a fight or had problems with the police. Coincidence? After reading about Professor Wiseman s studies I think not.As Wiseman advises, I usually trust my
1000、own judgment. Your friends and parents may give you advice based on rational thinking, but its important to consider how you feel about each choice you make. Your feeling acts as a warning for a potential problem.Finally, try to turn bad luck into good. Even if you do fall down and break a leg, the
1001、time spent at home can be used wisely to study English.语篇解读本文为议论文。作者认为命运只垂青那些有所准备的人。身处逆境，不要怨天尤人，要想方设法化厄运为好运。每个人都可以做自己命运的主人。1Which of the following proverbs most agrees with the writer s point?A. Make the best of a bad job.B. Rome was not built in a day.C. All is not gold that glitters.D. A good hear
1002、t conquers ill fortune.解析推理判断题。Make the best of a bad job意为“身处山穷水尽，力争柳暗花明”，与最后一段作者的观点“try to turn bad luck into good(把厄运变好运)”最为接近。故答案为A。Rome was not built in a day意为“伟业非一日可成”；All is not gold that glitters意为“闪光的东西并不都是金子”；A good heart conquers ill fortune意为“善心克厄运”。答案A2What do you know about Oprah Winf
1003、rey?A. She became famous through her family background.B. She was very lucky and seldom suffered setbacks in her life.C. She is a British talk show host.D. She became successful by her own effort.解析细节理解题。根据第一段中的a self-made billionaire可知美国talk show主持人oprah Winfrey是从白手起家，通过自我奋斗而成名的。答案D3The writer quot
1004、ed the Chinese tale of a farmer in order to show_.A. luck is in your own handB. bad luck can turn into goodC. you should not sit at home waiting for the opportunity to come to youD. man can conquer nature解析推理判断题。根据第二段内容可以判断，作者引用中国“守株待兔”的故事是为了说明“人们不应该待在家里等待机会的降临”的观点。答案C4From the experiment Wiseman dr
1005、ew the conclusion that_.A. lucky people are quick-mindedB. unlucky people are slow to readC. lucky people often have an open mindD. unlucky people are more creative解析细节理解题。根据第四、五段内容，尤其是第五段最后一句可知，Wiseman通过试验得出结论：“幸运的人”具有开放的心态，做事不墨守成规。答案C5The underlined word “spot” is the closest in meaning to“_”A. re
1006、cognize B. markC. locate D. receive解析词义猜测题。根据上文语境及The unlucky people mostly did not spot the message可知spot在句中用作及物动词，是“发现，识别”之意。答案ACan you believe your eyes? A recent experiment suggests that the answer to that question may depend on your age.Martin Doherty, a psychologist at the University of Stirli
1007、ng in Scotland, led the team of scientists. In this experiment, Doherty and his team tested the perception(观察力) of some people, using pictures of some orange circles. The researchers showed the same pictures to two groups of people. The first group included 151 children aged 4 to 10, and the second
1008、group included 24 adults aged 18 to 25.The first group of pictures showed two circles alone on a white background. One of the circles was larger than the other, and these people were asked to identify the larger one. Four-year-olds identified the correct circle 79 percent of the time. Adults identif
1009、ied the correct circle 95 percent of the time.Next, both groups were shown a picture where the orange circles, again of different sizes, were surrounded by gray circles. Heres where the trick lies in. In some of the pictures, the smaller orange circle was surrounded by even smaller gray circles maki
1010、ng the orange circle appear larger than the other orange circle, which was the real larger one. And the larger orange circle was surrounded by even bigger gray circles so it appeared to be smaller than the real smaller orange circle.When young children aged 4 to 6 looked at these tricky pictures, th
1011、ey werent fooledthey were still able to find the bigger circle with roughly the same accuracy as before. Older children and adults, on the other hand, did not do as well. Older children often identified the smaller circle as the larger one, and adults got it wrong most of the time.As children get ol
1012、der, Doherty said, their brains may develop the ability to identify visual context. In other words, they will begin to process the whole picture at once: the tricky gray circles, as well as the orange circle in the middle. As a result, theyre more likely to fall for this kind of visual trick.1. Dohe
1013、rty and his team of scientists did an experiment to evaluate_.A. childrens and adults eye-sightB. peoples ability to see accuratelyC. childrens and adults brainsD. the influence of peoples age解析考查细节理解能力。第二段第二行可以得出结论。答案B2. When asked to find the larger circle，_.A. children at 6 got it wrong 79 % of t
1014、he time with no gray ones aroundB. only adults over 18 got it right 95% of the time with gray ones aroundC. children at 4 got it right about 79 % of the time with gray ones aroundD. adults got it right most of the time with gray ones around解析考查细节理解能力。第三段清晰地说明了辨别圆圈的比例。答案C3. According to the passage,
1015、we can know that_.A. a smaller orange circle appears bigger on a white backgroundB. an orange circle appears bigger than a gray one of the same sizeC. a circle surrounded by other circles looks bigger than its real sizeD. a circle surrounded by bigger ones looks smaller than its real size解析考查细节理解能力，
1016、对第四段整体的理解和第五段最后一句可以得出答案。答案D4. Visual context may work when children get older than_.A. 4 B. 6C. 10 D. 18解析考查推理判断能力。从第五段和第六段第一句判断得出答案。答案B5. Why are younger children not fooled?A. Because they are smarter than older children and adults.B. Because older people are influenced by their experience.C. Beca
1017、use peoples eyes become weaker as they grow older.D. Because their brain can hardly notice related things together.解析考查推理判断能力。第四、五、六段提及到46岁小孩和6岁以上小孩的区别是判断的依据。答案DIf you travel to a new exhibit at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, you will have chances to see some meateating plants. Take blad
1018、derworts, a kind of such plant, for example. They appear so small and grow in a quiet pond. But these are the fastestknown killers of the plant kingdom, able to capture a small insect in 1/50 of a second using a trap door!Once the trap door closes on the victim, the enzymes(酶) similar to those in th
1019、e human stomach slowly digest the insect. When dinner is over, the plant opens the trap door and is ready to trap again.Meateating plants grow mostly in wet areas with soil that doesn t offer much food value. In such conditions, these amazing plants have developed insect traps to get their nutrition
1020、al needs over thousands of years.North America has more such plants than any other continent.Generally speaking, the traps may have attractive appearance to fool the eye, like pitcher plants, which get their name because they look like beautiful pitchers (a container like a bottle) full of nectar(花蜜
1021、)The Asian pitcher plant, for example, has bright colors and an attractive halfclosed lid. Curious insects are tempted to come close and take a sip, and then slide down the slippery (光滑的)slope to their deaths.Hairlike growths along the pitcher walls ensure that nothing cab escape, and the digestive
1022、enzymes can get to work. A tiny insect can be digested in a few hours, but a fly takes a couple of days.Some of these pitchers are large enough to hold two gallons. Meateating plants only eat people in science fiction movies, but sometimes a bird or other small animals will discover that a pitcher p
1023、lant isn t a good place to get a drink.语篇解读本文是一篇说明文，介绍了一些特别的植物靠捕食动物获得生长所需养分的“食肉植物”。1From the first paragraph, we can know that bladderworts can _.A. capture 50 small insects in a secondB. capture an insect in the shortest timeC. be found floating on a quiet lakeD. digest an insect in 1/50 of a secon
1024、d解析细节理解题。第一段指出，bladderworts能在1/50秒的时间内捕获一只小昆虫，是植物中已知的捕获动物速度最快的，因此选B。答案B2If the trap door of a meateating plant is closed, the plant _.A. is fooling insects into taking a sipB. is producing nectarC. is tempting insects to come closeD. is enjoying a dinner解析细节判断题。第二段说，一旦“陷阱门”将猎物关起来，类似于人胃里的那些消化酶就开始慢慢地消
1025、化它了，由此判断D正确。答案D3Meateating plants can grow in wet and poor soil because they _.A. can get nutrition from animalsB. don t need much food valueC. can make the most of such conditionsD. have developed digestive enzymes解析推理判断题。这些植物生长在潮湿贫瘠的土壤中，为获得生长所需的养分，在数千年的进化中，它们演化出了捕获昆虫的“陷阱”，由此推出它们主要从动物中获取养分，而不是从土壤中获
1026、取养分。答案A4Which of the following is the picture of the Asian pitcher plant?解析推理判断题。根据第四、五、六段可知亚洲捕虫草主要有这些特征：状如水瓶，颜色鲜亮，有半掩的盖子，综合此三项可知，只有A项最合适。答案A5According to the passage, which of the following is true?A. South Asia has the most meateating plants.B. Some of the meateating plants can even eat a human.C.
1027、 Hairlike growths in the plants help trap insects.D. The traps of these plants have a dull color.解析细节理解题。依据文章第三段最后一句可知，北美洲的食肉植物最多，故A错。从最后一段中的第二句可知，食肉植物是不吃人的，所以B项错。从文章倒数第二段可知，这些须状的东西可以防止小昆虫逃跑，故C项正确。从文章第四段可知，食肉植物为了吸引昆虫一般有漂亮的外形，故D项错。答案CAfter years of research and testing, the hybrid car was developed a
1028、nd put on the market. It s an interesting and exciting new improvement in today s world as we look for better ways to protect the quality of the air we breathe and conserve our natural resources.The quality of our air is affected by many different things. But one of the largest sources of air pollut
1029、ion is the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and gasoline which is used to power a car s engine. The EPA has set national standards to help control the level of harmful pollutants sent off into the air, and the automobile industry has acted by producing a hybrid car that uses less gas and therefo
1030、re causes less pollution.A hybrid car is a combination of a regular car that runs on gasoline and an electric car that is battery powered. Some people tend to think that since the hybrid car is partially electric, you have to plug it in to charge it. But thats not how it works. The 144volt battery p
1031、ack is actually recharged through the energy that is produced when the cars brakes are used. This is referred to as “regenerative braking” , because it generates electricity.Although the hybrid car still runs on gasoline most of the time, this helps it use less gas than a regular car. When the drive
1032、r stops at a traffic light, the engine automatically shuts off to save fuel. Then, as soon as the driver puts the car in gear and touches the gas pedal, the engine starts back up.Have you ever ridden in a car with someone who ran out of gas? That probably wouldn t happen if you were riding in a hybr
1033、id car. It flashes a waming on its computer screen that says, “I am low on gas”. When it completely runs out, the warning reads，“YOU ARE NOW OUT OF GAS！” Then the electric power supply kicks in to let the driver travel a few more miles to a gas station.语篇解读本文主要介绍了一种新型汽车hybrid cars的优点和生产这种汽车的原因。1Whic
1034、h of the following is true according to the passage?A. The hybrid car will be put on the market.B. Hybrid cars run faster than regular cars.C. When the hybrid car stops at a traffic light, the driver will get a warning.D. The burning of fossil fuels is one of the largest sources of air pollution.解析细
1035、节判断题。根据第二段的“But one of the largest sources of air pollution is the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and gasoline which is used to power a cars engine.”可知答案。答案D2According to the passage, the word “hybrid” refers to _.A. a hightech discoveryB. energy savingC. a new inventionD. a combination of two
1036、 things解析词义猜测题。由文章的第三段的第一句“A hybrid car is a combination of a regular car that runs on gasoline and an electric car that is battery powered.”可知答案。答案D3“Regenerative breaking” is an important process of the hybrid car because _.A. it allows the car to come to a quick stopB. it gives the driver a smoot
1037、her rideC. it produces energy to charge the batteryD. it can control the speed of the car解析细节理解题。由文章的第三段的“The 144volt battery pack is.because it generates electricity.”可知答案。答案C4Which of the following is right about the EPA?A. They designed hybrid cars.B. They outlawed (宣布为不合法) the burning of fossil
1038、fuels.C. They set important guidelines that help control pollution.D. Their main purpose is to protect endangered plants and animals.解析细节理解题。由文章的第二段的第三句可知答案。答案C5Which of the following is the reason for developing hybrid cars?A. They use less gas than regular cars.B. They re safer to drive than most
1039、cars.C. Theyre more modern than other cars.D. They cost less than regular cars.解析细节理解题。由第四段的第一句“Although the hybrid car still runs on gasoline most of the time，this helps it use less gas than a regular car.”可知答案。答案AThroughout the world, boys and girls prefer to play with different types of toys. Boy
1040、s typically like to play with cars and trucks, while girls typically choose to play with dolls. Why is this? A traditional sociological explanation is that boys and girls are socialized and encouraged to play with different types of toys by their parents, peers, and the “society”. Growing scientific
1041、 evidence suggests, however, that boys and girls toy preferences may have a biological origin.In 2002, Gerianne M. Alexander of Texas A&M University and Melissa Hines of City University in London surprised the scientific world by showing that monkeys showed the same sextypical toy preferences as hum
1042、ans. In the study, Alexander and Hines gave two masculine toys (a ball and a police car), two feminine toys (a soft doll and a cooking pot), and two neutral toys (a picture book and a stuffed dog) to 44 male and 44 female monkeys. They then assessed the monkeys preference for each toy by measuring h
1043、ow much time they spent with each. Their data showed that male monkeys showed significantly greater interest in the masculine toys, and the female monkeys showed significantly greater interest in the feminine toys. The two sexes did not differ in their preference for the neutral toys.If children s t
1044、oy preferences were largely formed by gender socialization, as traditional sociologists claim, in which their parents give “genderappropriate” toys to boys and girls, how can these male and female monkeys have the same preferences as boys and girls？They were never socialized by humans, and they had
1045、never seen these toys before in their lives.语篇解读本文是科普阅读。男孩和女孩在玩玩具方面具有明显的性别差异。这种差异是后天习得的，还是与生俱来的呢？科学家对此进行了研究。1Traditional sociologists believe boys and girls toy preferences _.A. are passed down from their parentsB. have a biological originC. have nothing to do with gender socializationD. are largely
1046、 formed in later life解析细节理解题。从文章第一段的第四句和最后一段可知，传统的社会学家认为男孩、女孩对玩具的偏好差异是后天形成的。答案D2The study by Alexander and Hines shows that monkeys_.A. also play toys as humans doB. also have a sextypical toy preferenceC. have no toy preferencesD. like to play different toys at different time解析细节理解题。文章第二段的第一句说明，猴子在
1047、玩玩具时，也有性别差异。答案B3Alexander and Hines carried out the study to _.A. find out why boys and girls prefer different toysB. test the intelligence of monkeysC. test whether monkeys like to play toysD. find more evidence for traditional sociology解析推理判断题。从文章第一段最后一句和最后一段可知，用猴子做研究的目的是证明男孩和女孩在玩玩具时所表现出的偏好是与生俱来的，
1048、而不是后天习得的。答案A4According to the study, if given a stuffed dog, _.A. only the male monkeys showed interestB. the female monkeys showed more interestC. the male and female monkeys showed the same interestD. neither the male nor the female monkeys showed any interest解析细节理解题。从文章第二段最后一句可知，如果给一种中性的玩具，猴子表现出的
1049、兴趣没有性别差异。答案C5Masculine toys are mainly intended for_.A. monkeysB. adultC. boys D. girls解析细节理解题。从文章第二段可知，这种玩具是跟女孩玩的玩具相对的，因此是指男孩玩具。答案CWhen Steve Maxwell graduated from college, he had an engineering degree and a hightech job but he couldnt balance his checkbook. “I took one finance class in college bu
1050、t dropped it to go on a ski trip，” says the 45yearold father of three, who lives in Windsor, Colorado. “I actually had to go to my bank and ask them to teach me how to read my statement.”One of the biggest obstacles to making money is not understanding it: Thousands of us avoid investing because we
1051、just dont get it. But to make money, you must be financially literate. “It bothered me that I didnt understand this stuff，” says Steve, “so I read books and magazines about money management and investing, and I asked every financial whiz (能手) I knew to explain things to me.”He and his wife started a
1052、pplying the lessons: They made a point to live below their means. They never bought on impulse, always negotiated better deals (on their cars，cable bills, furniture) and stayed in their home long after they went for an expensive vacation. They also put 20 percent of their annual salary into investme
1053、nts.Within ten years, they were millionaires, and people were coming to Steve for advice. “Someone would say, I need to refinance my house what should I do? A lot of times，I wouldnt know the answer, but Id go to find it and learn something in the process，” he says.In 2003, Steve quit his job to beco
1054、me part owner of a company that holds personal finance seminars (研讨会) for employees of corporations like WalMart. He also started going to real estate investment seminars, and its paid off: He now owns $ 30 million worth of investment properties, including apartment complexes, a shopping mall and a
1055、quarry.“I was an engineer who never thought this life was possible, but all it truly takes is a little selfeducation，” says Steve. “You can do anything once you understand the basics.”语篇解读经过不断的学习，史蒂夫从不懂理财的工程师发展成为善于理财的百万富翁。1. When Steve Maxwell graduated from college, he_.A. couldnt balance his work
1056、and lifeB. made up his mind to become a millionaireC. didnt know how to manage his moneyD. often went to banks to borrow money解析细节理解题。根据第一段的he couldnt balance his checkbook和I actually had to go to my bank and ask them to teach me how to read my statement可知，Steve Maxwell 刚毕业后不懂得如何理财。答案C2. The underli
1057、ned part “live below their means” (in Paragraph 3) probably means “_”A. take effective measuresB. live a miserable lifeC. spend more money than they hadD. spend less money than they had解析词义猜测题。根据下文“他们从来不冲动地买东西，买东西时尽量获得低价，减少外出度假计划”等线索可以推断出，史蒂夫一家在尽量减少开支。 答案D3. Since Steve Maxwell became a millionaire,
1058、 he_.A. has been unwilling to help othersB. hasnt stopped learning from practiceC. has been willing to follow others adviceD. has stopped to invest in houses解析推理判断题。根据第四段的A lot of times，I wouldnt know the answer，but Id go find it and learn something in the process可以看出，史蒂夫总是在教别人理财的过程中学到一些东西。 答案B4. Wh
1059、at would be the best title for the passage?A. A selfmade engineerB. How to balance your checkbookC. Dont avoid investingD. Educate yourself to become a millionaire解析标题归纳题。史蒂夫从开始的根本不懂理财到最后成为百万富翁，靠的是不断的学习向别人讨教，从书本上学习，D项点出了他成功的秘诀。文章最后一段的selfeducation是关键词。答案D5. It can be inferred from the passage that_.
1060、A. selfeducation is very important to ones lifeB. everyone should learn how to invest in their lifeC. Steve Maxwell was quite interested in finance classes in collegeD. Steve became rich because he saved every penny he had earned解析细节推断题。根据文章的最后一段可知，自主学习对每一个人的人生有重大的影响，故可知选A。文中提到了Steve投资赚钱韵事情，但是无法推断出每
1061、个人都要学习如何投资；根据文章首段可知Steve为了滑雪旅行放弃了财经课，可判断C不对；D项与原文不符合。答案AMankind is still evolving(进化), according to a recent study by a team of scientists led by a Yale University evolutionary biologist. But research suggests that the natural selection process is no longer driven by survival, perhaps because of dif
1062、ferences in womens fertility(能生育性)The team examined 2,238 women in Framingham, Massachusetts, the US and studied the medical histories of some 14,000 residents since 1948.They found that strong，slightly fat women tend to have more children. And if this trend were to continue for the next 10 generati
1063、ons, by 2409 the average woman would be 2 cm shorter,1 kg heavier, and have a healthier heart.That rate of evolution is pretty similar to what we see in plants and animals. Humans_don_t_seem_to_be_any_exception,_the team said.Other recent genetic research backs up that belief. One study by John Hawk
1064、s, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, found that some 1,800 human gene variations (变异) are common in recent generations because of evolution. Among the changes are mutations (突变) that allow people to digest milk or resist malaria(疟疾) and others that govern brain development
1065、.Since the Industrial Revolution, modern humans have grown taller and stronger. It s easy to assume that evolution is making humans fitter. But according to anthropologist Peter McAllister, the contemporary male has evolved physically into “the sorriest example of male ever on the planet”. An averag
1066、e Neanderthal woman, McAllister notes, could have beat Arnold Schwarzenegger in an armwrestling (腕力) match. And early Australian Aborigines could easily defeat Usain Bolt in a 100m dash.However, Douglas Ewbank, of the University of Pennsylvania, says that cultural factors tend to have a much greater
1067、 impact than natural selection on future generations, so people tend to ignore evolution s effects.And, despite evidence indicating evolution still works, Steve Jones, an evolutionary biologist at University College London, thinks that the impact of evolution on humans is not the most important. “Wh
1068、at makes humans what we are is in our minds, in our society, and not in our evolution，” said Jones.语篇解读科学家们发现人类还在不断地进化，但是他们认为自然选择对人类进化的影响已经没那么大了。1What does the underlined sentence “Humans don t seem to be any exception” imply?A. Plants and animals are evolving faster than humans.B. Evolution doesnt
1069、work in humans any longer.C. The rate of evolution in plants and animals also applies to humans.D. Humans are unique in their evolution.解析推理判断题。根据第四段内容可知，人类的进化速度和动植物的很相似，人类并不例外，由此可判断动植物的进化速度也适用于人类。答案C2Why is the recent genetic research quoted in the fifth paragraph?A. To support the belief that mank
1070、ind is still evolving.B. To show human gene variations are common in recent generations.C. To prove modern humans have grown fitter.D. To suggest that the natural selection process is no longer driven by survival.解析细节理解题。根据第五段中的Other recent genetic research backs up that belief可知最近的其他基因研究也支持“人类还在进化”
1071、这一观点，和文章开头的主题句照应。答案A3According to the passage, we can infer that Arnold Schwarzenegger _.A. used to be a famous actorB. is an American governorC. is very weakD. is very strong解析推理判断题。第六段中举施瓦辛格的例子是为了证明在人类越来越健壮的进化中，男性成为最令人遗憾的例子。由对施瓦辛格的了解和文段内容可判断阿诺德施瓦辛格很强壮，力气很大。答案D4According to Douglas Ewbank, which of
1072、 the following factors plays a greater part in the future generations?A. Culture. B. Evolution.C. Natural selection. D. Genetic mutations.解析细节理解题。根据倒数第二段内容可知，在未来的后代中，起更大作用的是文化因素。答案A5What is the main idea of the passage?A. Mankind is still evolving.B. Women will get fatter.C. The history of human evo
1073、lution.D. Future women tend to have more children.解析主旨大意题。本文第一句就是主题句，后面都是围绕着“人类还在不断地进化”这一观点进行论述的。答案A长难句解读1.Among the changes are mutations(突变)that allow people to digest milk or resist malaria(疟疾) and others that govern brain development.本句主语很长，为了句子结构的平衡进行了倒装。主句的主语是mutations and others，定语从句that allo
1074、w people to digest milk or resist malaria修饰mutations，定语从句that govern brain development修饰others。2And, despite evidence indicating evolution still works, Steve Jones, an evolutionary biologist at University College London, thinks that the impact of evolution on humans is not the most important.本句的主语是S
1075、teve Jones, an evolutionary biologist at University College London是Steve Jones的同位语，that引导一个宾语从句。despite evidence为介词短语作状语，后面的非谓语动词短语作evidence的后置定语。THURSDAY, July 9 ( HealthDay News) A new study that found that a lowercalorie diet slowed the aging process in monkeys could be the best proof yet that re
1076、stricted diets might do the same for humans.“The big question in aging research is, Will caloric restriction in species closely related to humans slow aging？” said Richard Weindruch, senior author of a paper appearing in the July 10 issue of Science.This is the first clear demonstration that, in a p
1077、rimate species, we re inducing a slowdown of the aging process showing increased survival, resistance to disease, less brain atrophy and less muscle loss.“This predicts humans would respond similarly，” added Weindruch, professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin and an investigator at the V
1078、eterans Hospital in Madison. Another expert noted that, despite some highly publicized studies in certain species, the link between restricted eating and longer lifespan has been far from proven.“The idea that dietary restriction extends lifespan in all species is not true. Many strains of rats and
1079、mice do not respond. In some strains, it s actually deleterious，” explained Felipe Sierra, director of the biology of aging program at the US National Institute on Aging (NIA), which supported the new study. “The fact that it doesnt work in some mice but it does seem to work in monkeys is surprising
1080、 and it gives us hope.”But there s a larger question: how to change humans increasingly lax eating habits. “This_finding_doesnt_give_me_hope_that_humans_are_going_to_go_into_dietary_restriction，” added Marianne Grant, a registered dietitian at Texas A&M Health Science Center Coastal Bend Health Educ
1081、ation Center in Corpus Christi.语篇解读这是一篇新闻报道，研究人员通过对动物的研究证明低热量的饮食可能会延长人的寿命。1The underlined word “restricted” means“_”A. limited B. satisfiedC. reserved D. fascinated解析词义猜测题。根据第一段可知，低热量的饮食可以延长猴子的寿命，这一试验证明有节制的饮食可能同样会延长人的寿命。答案A2Which of the following statements about Weindruch is true?A. This experiment
1082、 indicates restricted diets could extend humans lifespan.B. Adequate sleep is another way to reduce the speed of aging process.C. The experiment was a failure in some species such as mice.D. The experiment which had been tested on humans got a great success.解析细节理解题。根据第三段第一句话可知答案为A。答案A3According to F
1083、elipe Sierra s idea, we know that_.A. the restricted diets experiment really had no distinct effect on rats and miceB. humans are finding new ways to slowdown the aging process of all the speciesC. the experiment is unnecessary to be carried on because of the response of the miceD. the experiment co
1084、nfirmed that restricted diets extend lifespan in all species解析细节理解题。从第四段的第二句“Many strains of rats and mice do not respond.”可知答案。答案A4It can be inferred from the underlined sentence that _.A. the result of the experiment shows that humans are not pigging out nowadaysB. nowadays humans are turning unhe
1085、althy diets into lowercalorie dietsC. how to change humans careless eating habits is a long way to goD. the experiment changed humans increasingly careless eating habits解析细节理解题。由画线句子可知人们目前并没有进入到控制饮食的状态中，也就是说要改变人们漫不经心的饮食习惯还有很长的路要走。答案C5The author most likely wrote this text to_.A. compare the two expe
1086、riments on rats and monkeysB. illustrate the data from the researchC. call on people to pay attention to their daily dietsD. introduce a lively debate to amuse the reader解析写作目的题。作者的目的是通过介绍试验”低热量的饮食可能会延长人的寿命”，呼吁人们注意控制饮食。答案C长难句解读Another expert noted that, despite some highly publicized studies in cert
1087、ain species, the link between restricted eating and longer lifespan has been far from proven.本句的主句为Another expert noted that，其中that引导的是一个宾语从句。从句用despite表示让步关系，后面的far from proven意为”远没有得到证明”。The treadle pump is based on a design developed in the 1970s by Norwegian engineer Gunnar Barnes. It can be mad
1088、e locally.The treadle pump is easy to build from bamboo or other wood and two metal cylinders (圆筒) with pistons (活塞). The pistons go up and down as a person stands on lever devices treadles and uses a natural walking motion.How many hours a day the pump needs to be operated depends on the season and
1089、 how much water is needed for crops. It could be two hours a day. It could be seven hours a day.Small children sometimes stand with their parents on the treadles. Everyone in the family can take turns operating the pump.The Acumen Fund is a nonprofit group that invests in business projects to fight
1090、poverty. It studied the effects of treadle pumps in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh has three treadle pump manufacturers and more than seventythree thousand pumps.Acumen reported that families using them ate more vegetables, because they were able to grow more to eat and to sell. Ma
1091、ny of these families also drank more milk, because they bought a cow with their added earnings. Men with treadle pumps often no longer have to leave the farm to seek extra work in cities.The pump can also improve education. Farmers often use their extra earnings to buy books for their children or to
1092、 pay for schooling.A farmer in Zambia said he hoped to have enough money in three years to buy a dieselpowered pump (柴油泵). Then he could grow more crops over a larger area.But the world economic crisis has had an effect on some farmers. IDE executive director Zenia Tata says some who were able to bu
1093、y diesel pumps now do not have enough money to buy fuel. So they are using their treadle pumps again.语篇解读脚踏泵因其简单、易行、实用之特点，正在世界的广大贫困地区被推广，以帮助农民脱贫致富，且已取得了显著的效果。1The treadle pump _.A. is invented by an American engineerB. is mainly made of metalC. consists of two cylinders with pistonsD. consists of tw
1094、o cylinders with an engine解析事实细节题。根据第二段第一句可知答案为C。答案C2What does the author want to tell us about the treadle pump in the second paragraph?A. Its history.B. Its working principle.C. Its structure.D. Its usage and effects.解析作者意图题。A和D显然不对，C有一定干扰性，但其不能概括第二句，介绍工作原理时，一般要同时介绍其结构，故选B。答案B3It can be inferred f
1095、rom the passage that _.A. it is easy to learn how to operate the treadle pumpB. it is difficult to build a treadle pumpC. the treadle pump is used more in winter than in summerD. operating the treadle pump can keep fit解析推理判断题。B和C与文中内容相悖，可排除。易错选D，但文中没有依据，无法推知。根据第四段，小孩也可帮忙，家庭中每个人都可参与，可推知A为答案。答案A4Each
1096、treadle pump manufacturer in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has produced on average about _.A. 18, 000 pumps B. 24, 000 pumpsC. 37, 000 pumps D. 73, 000 pumps解析数据推算题。根据第五段第三句可知，该州共三家生产商，共有七万三千多架脚踏泵，平均每家生产两万四千架左右，故选B。答案B5Why does the farmer in Zambia hope to buy a dieselpowered pump?A. Because he
1097、wants to grow crops on a larger scale.B. Because he hates to leave the farm to seek fortune in cities.C. Because a dieselpowered pump is cheaper than before.D. Because oil is much cheaper than before.解析事实细节题。根据倒数第二段第二句可知答案。答案AIt was near dusk, and Kim Cooper and her husband, Steve, were trucking thr
1098、ough northern Kentucky transportation auto parts from Louisville to Detroit for a goods company. “Steve, wake up！” she shouted. “Theres a truck on fire！”Inside the burning truck, Ronnie Sanders, 38, was fighting for his life. Hed been running a heavy load of tractors and forklifts from Georgia to In
1099、dianapolis when a van in front of him stopped suddenly in traffic on the icy road. As Ronnie bore down, he could see children in the backseat. The trucks bulk would probably protect him from the worst of the impact, but the force of 23 tons would likely crush(压碎) everyone inside the van.“I figured i
1100、nstead of killing other people, Id just put the truck in the ditch. ”At the bottom, rocks cut a fuel tank, which caught fire. A tree branch destroyed the windshield and knocked Ronnie unconscious. He came to life a couple of minutes later to find the cabin flames and his legs on fire.Steve dashed to
1101、 Ronnie, who was hanging headfirst from the passenger door. Ronnie had used his pocketknife to cut himself free from the driversside seat belt only to get his boot trapped in another one. Steve climbed into the burning cab to free him.He tried three times to pull Ronnie out before finally freeing hi
1102、m. But Ronnies legs were still burning, so Steve laid him on the ground, ripped off his own shirt, and beat the flames with it. Hed managed to drag him about 20 yards when one of the trucks 150gallon fuel tanks exploded.Both Steve and Ronnie paid a price for risking their lives for strangers. Ronnie
1103、 spent two months in the hospital and received skin grafts on both of his legs. Steve suffered smoke breathing and minor burns, and shrapnel from the fuel tank explosion broke a tooth.In February, the Coopers received a Hero of the Highway award from the Open Road Foundation for rescuing an injured
1104、driver. Steve insists Ronnie is the real hero: “If he hadnt gone into the ditch, he would have hit that van. It was his decision to drive off the road.”“I feel pretty good about it，” says Ronnie. “A lot of people could have been hurt.”解读：本文为记叙文，主要讲述了the Coopers途中遇到Ronnie开的大卡车着火了；Ronnie为了不造成更大的伤害，不顾自
1105、身的安危，将卡车开进水沟里，而Steve则竭尽全力救助Ronnie。1. According to the passage, Ronnies putting the truck in the ditch contributes to_.A. his concern for his own safetyB. his poor driving skillC. the icy roadD. his concern for others lives解析细节推断题。由文章的第三段第一句话“I figured instead of killing other people，Id just put the
1106、truck in the ditch.”可推断出。答案D2. What probably made Ronnie come to life after driving the truck in the ditch?A. The noise from the highway.B. The call from the Coopers.C. The pain from the burning legs.D. The heat of the fire.解析细节推断题。根据文章的第三段最后一句话He came to life a couple of minutes later to find the c
1107、ab in flames and his legs on fire.利用排除法。答案C3. How did Steve put out the flames in Ronnies legs?A. He beat the flames with Ronnies shirt.B. He beat the flames with his own shirt.C. He put out the fire with a tank of water.D. He put out the fire with a bag of sand.解析细节理解题。根据文章第五段第二句话，Steve撕下自己的衬衫，用它来扑
1108、灭(Ronnie双腿上的)火焰。答案B4. What does the underlined word “shrapnel” in Paragraph 6 mean?A. A branch of a tree.B. A small piece of metal.C. A wave of the explosion.D. The heat of the explosion.解析词义猜测题。根据下文shrapnel from the fuel tank explosion broke a tooth可知是“油箱爆炸产生的金属片打碎了一颗牙”。答案B5. Which of the following
1109、 can be the best title of this passage?A. Heroes: The CoopersB. Heroes: Roadside FlamesC. Accidents on the Icy RoadD. Accidents in the Ditch解析确定文章标题。综观全文，A，C，D三项不够全面；而B项即表明事故，也表明了事故中竭力营救他人的英雄。答案BAstronauts aboard the space station Celebrated a space first on Wednesday by drinking water that had been
1110、 recycled from their urine and sweat and water that condenses from exhaled air. They said “cheers” ，clicked drinking bags and toasted NASA workers on the ground who were sipping their own version of recycled drinking water.The recycling system is needed for astronaut stations on the moon and Mars. I
1111、t also will save NASA money because it won t have to ship up as much water to the station by space shuttle or cargo rockets.Besides, it s important as the space station is about to expand from three people living on board to six.The recycling system had been brought up to the space station last Nove
1112、mber by space shuttle Endeavour, but it couldn t be used until samples were tested back on Earth. So when it came time to actually drink up, NASA made a big deal of it. The threeman crew stood, holding their drinks and congratulated engineers in two NASA centers that worked on the system.“This is so
1113、mething that had been the stuff of science fiction，” Barratt said before taking a small mouthful. “The taste is worth trying.”NASA deputy space shuttle manager LeRoy Cain called it “a huge milestone”The new system takes the combined urine of the crew from the toilet, moves it to a big tank, where th
1114、e water is boiled off, and the vapor is collected. The rest of the urine is thrown away. The water vapor is mixed with water from air condensation, and then it goes through filters. When six crew members are aboard it can make about six gallons from urine in about six hours.“Some people may find the
1115、 idea of drinking recycled urine distasteful, but it is also done on Earth with a lot longer time between urine and the tap”said Marybeth Edeen, the space stations national lab manager.The technology NASA developed for this system has already been used for quick water purification after the 2004 Asi
1116、an tsunami, Edeen said.“We are happy to have this water work through the system we re happy to have it work through our systems，”Barratt said.语篇解读本文讲的是国际空间站宇航员试饮尿液循环水。1According to the text, the recycling system is important because_.A. it makes traveling to the moon for the common person possibleB.
1117、 with it NASA won t need to ship any water up to the space stationC. it can help to meet the need for more water after the crew are expandedD. it protects the environment in space by reducing the amount of waste解析细节理解题。根据第二段中的“its important as the space station is about to expand from three people l
1118、iving on board to six”可知C项正确。答案C2What is the RIGHT time order of the following events?a. The samples of the recycled water were tested on Earth.b. Astronauts celebrated the space first of making water from urine.c. The recycling system was brought up to the space station.d. The technology for the sy
1119、stem was used to quickly purify water.A. a，d，c，b B. a，c，b，dC. d，a，c，b D. d，c，a，b解析细节理解题。根据倒数第二段的“The technology NASA developed for this system has already been used for quick water purification after the 2004 Asian tsunami”可知d发生最早。根据第三段的“ The recycling system had been brought up to the space station
1120、 last November. couldn t be used until samples were tested back on Earth”可知c发生在a的前面，因此D项正确。答案D3From Para. 6 we can know_.A. the theory behind the recycling systemB. the effect of the recycling systemC. the process of the recycling systemD. an opinion on the recycling system解析段落概括题。该段主要讲述的是使用尿液循环系统将尿
1121、制成水的过程。答案C4What did Edeen say about recycled urine and the recycling system?A. The taste of recycled urine is not as good as common water.B. The recycling system has made a science fiction story come true.C. The idea of drinking recycled urine makes astronauts feel unpleasant.D. It takes a longer ti
1122、me on Earth to make water from urine than in space.解析细节理解题。根据第七段中的“with a lot onger time between urine and the tap”可知D项正确。答案D5What is the best title for the passage?A. The research of NASA has made great progressB. New technology is used in the space stationC. Drink up: space station recycles urine
1123、to waterD. Good news: water recycled from urine tastes good解析标题概括题。本文报道了国际空间站的宇航员试饮尿液循环水，“Drink up”生动反映饮用时的情景，“space station recycles urine to watert”点明了制造技术。故C项最佳。答案CLONDON (Reuters) Quiet please Britain s Queen Elizabeth is preparing to have her swans counted.Buckingham Palace has announced that t
1124、he annual Swan Upping, a tradition dating back to the 12th century which involves a census of the swan population on the River Thames, will be conducted by the Queen s official Swan Marker from July 20 24.“With the assistance of the Queen s Swan Warden, Professor Christopher Perrins of the Universit
1125、y of Oxford, the swans and young cygnets (小天鹅) are also assessed for any signs of injury or disease，” Buckingham Palace said in announcing the count.The process involves the Swan Marker, David Barber, rowing up the Thames for five days with the Swan Warden in traditional skiffs while wearing special
1126、 scarlet uniforms and counting, weighing and measuring swans and cygnets.It may seem eccentric, but it is very important to the Queen, According to custom, Britain s sovereign owns all unmarked, mute swans in open water, but the Queen now exercises the right only on stretches of the Thames and its n
1127、earby tributaries.In medieval times, the Swan Marker would not only travel up the river counting the swans, but would catch as many as possible as they were soughtafter for banquets and feasts.This year, the Swan Marker and the Swan Warden are particularly keen to discover how much damage is being c
1128、aused to swans and cygnets by attacks from dogs and from discarded fishing tackle (渔具)It is also an important year because Queen Elizabeth has decided to join her team of Swan Uppers for part of the census. She will follow them up the river and visit a local school project on the whole subject of sw
1129、ans, cygnets and the Thames.“Education and conservation are essential to the role of Swan Upping and the involvement of school children is always a rewarding experience，” Buckingham Palace said.语篇解读泰晤士河上每年都要举行一个重要的活动：数天鹅。英国皇室的这一传统已经延续了好几个世纪。1. In medieval times，_.A. swans were better protected than
1130、nowB. a lot of swans were killed by dogsC. swans were a delicious dish on royal banquetsD. common people could catch the swans解析细节理解题。从文章倒数第四段可知，在中世纪天鹅被捉住，然后成为皇家宴会上的美味。答案C2We can infer from the passage that the process of counting the swans _.A. remains almost unchanged in the past yearsB. involves
1131、a lot of royal membersC. sometimes lasts longer than beforeD. is always guarded by special soldiers解析推理判断题。从文章第四段对数天鹅过程的描述以及参与清点的官员的穿着打扮可知，其过程几乎没有变化，因为这是一项传统活动。答案A3This year, the Swan Marker and the Swan Warden mainly want to find out_.A. the exact number of swans and cygnetsB. how a local school pr
1132、oject is going onC. how much damage the swans and cygnets sufferD. how education and conservation are carried out along the Thames解析细节理解题。从文章倒数第三段内容可知答案为C。答案C4Which of the following is the main idea of the passage?A. Britain s Queen is concerned about swans.B. Britain s Queen orders a count of swans
1133、.C. An old tradition in Buckingham Palace.D. Queen Elizabeth will count swans herself.解析主旨大意题。文章第一段是本文的主题段，英国女王下令清点泰晤士河上的天鹅的数量。答案B5The underlined word “tributaries” can be best replaced by _.A. districts B. banksC. trees D. branches解析词义理解题。根据语境和常识可知，此处是指在泰晤士河及其支流上生活的天鹅。故答案为D。答案DHappiness is contagio
1134、us,_researchers reported on Thursday.People with the most social connections spouses, friends, neighbors and relatives were also the happiest, the data showed. “Each additional happy person makes you happier，” Christakis said.“Imagine that I am connected to you and you are connected to others and ot
1135、hers are connected to still others. It is this fabric of humanity, like an American patch quilt.”Each person sits on a differentcolored patch. “Imagine that these patches are happy and unhappy patches. Your happiness depends on what is going on in the patch around you，” Christakis said.“It is not ju
1136、st happy people connecting with happy people, which they do. Above and beyond, there is this contagious process going on.”And happiness is more contagious than unhappiness, they discovered.“If a social contact is happy, it increases the likelihood that you are happy by 15 percent，” Fowler said. “A f
1137、riend of a friend, or the friend of a spouse or a sibling (兄弟姐妹), if they are happy, increases your chances by 10 percent，” he added.A happy thirddegree friend the friend of a friend of a friend increases a persons chances of being happy by 6 percent.“But every extra unhappy friend increases the lik
1138、elihood that youll be unhappy by 7 percent，” Fowler said.The finding is interesting and it is useful, too, Fowler said.“Among other benefits, happiness has been shown to have an important effect on reduced mortality (死亡率), pain reduction, and improved cardiac (心脏的) function. So better understanding
1139、of how happiness spreads can help us learn how to promote a healthier society，” he said.The study also fits in with other data suggested in 1984 that having $ 5,000 extra increased a persons chances of becoming happier by about 2 percent.“A happy friend is worth about $ 20,000，” Christakis said.语篇解读
1140、美国科学家的一项最新研究成果表明，快乐感可以互相传递。这项研究成果为我们构建更为健康、和谐的社会提供了依据和方法。1According to the research, your happiness _.A. has nothing to do with your workmates or schoolmatesB. has something to do with anyone who has a close relationship with youC. depends on those who are in favour of you or are against youD. has l
1141、ittle to do with what social connections you have解析推理判断题。根据第二段、第三段内容可知，快乐感会不断传递和扩散，你的配偶、朋友、邻居、亲戚等的快乐指数会直接影响你的快乐程度，故选B。答案B2The underlined word “contagious” in the first paragraph means _.A. infectious B. beautifulC. effective D. prior解析词义猜测题。第一句是全文的主题句。由文章第二、三、四段可知，快乐感可以在人们之间传播，故contagious的意思是“有感染力的，
1142、有传染性的”。答案A3It can be inferred that_.A. happiness spreads as fast and widely as unhappinessB. unhappiness spreads faster and more widely than happinessC. happiness spreads faster and more widely than unhappinessD. the spread of unhappiness has not been studied by researchers解析推理判断题。根据第六段“And happines
1143、s is more contagious than unhappiness，they discovered.”一句可推知选C。答案C4Which of the following will increase your chances of becoming happier most?A. Being in a party with a happy atmosphere.B. A happy experience of your brother or your parents.C. A happy trip to a foreign country of your friends.D. Happ
1144、iness of your friend s friend.解析事实细节题。根据第七、第八段讲述的别人的快乐感对你的影响几率可知，排在最前的是“If a social contact is happy”，故选A。答案A5What does Christakis mean by saying “A happy friend is worth about $ 20,000” ?A. A happy friend can help you bring in a wealth of $ 20,000.B. A happy friend is a wealth which is worth about
1145、$ 20,000.C. A happy friend increases your chances of being happy by 2%.D. A happy friend increases your chances of being happy by 8 %.解析句意理解题。结合上一段中的“that having $5,000 extra increased a persons chances of becoming happier by about 2 percent”可知，一个快乐的朋友带给你的快乐相当于大约$20,000带给你的快乐，也就是$5,000的四倍，即一个快乐的朋友给你
1146、带来快乐的几率为8%，故选D。答案DBill Fulton doesn t remember losing his wallet, but its return helped him remember the past. The leather stayed smooth and the cowboy design unblemished (完美无缺的). And when he looked inside, the contents brought back memories from 1946, when he apparently dropped the wallet behind th
1147、e balcony bleachers (露天看台) in the Baker Middle School gym.Fulton s Social Security Card and bicycle license, bearing the address where he lived during his teenage years, were positioned in their respective compartments, apparently untouched since the year after World War Il ended.Worker Nathan Osbor
1148、ne found the wallet along with old homework, lost library books and a 1964 talent show program while removing the bleachers for renovations on June 17. It was brought to Fulton s door the following day by Melanie Trindle, the Baker Middle School secretary.Middle School Principal Mindi Vaughan said t
1149、he brown pine bleachers were connected to the gym balcony s brick wall and had remained in the same place since the school, known as the Helen M. Stack Building, opened in 1936.Fulton, 78, said he probably lost the wallet while cheering for the Baker High basketball team with a group of friends. Ful
1150、ton said the bicycle ID was needed because he delivered medicine for Rodamar Drug.He was surprised, however, that his bicycle ID wasnt inside. He said he always kept it there.But rather than focus on what was inside the wallet, Fulton said the recovery has led him to reflect on his life one that too
1151、k him to the Korean War and Berlin before the return to Baker City. He worked at Ellingson Lumber Company for 30 years, from March 1964 to April 1994.Since his retirement, Fulton has enjoyed spending time with his 11yearold black dog, Smokey. The two often hike the nearby mountains.Trindle s knock o
1152、n the door, wallet in hand, induced a slight ripple in his life, prompting him to consider the times he hadnt thought about in many years. “Where did all the times go？” Fulton said with a deep sigh. “It s hard to believe that the times have gone so fast.”语篇解读本文是记叙文。一个丢失了几十年的钱包居然被找到，而且还给了失主。钱包勾起了失主对过
1153、去岁月的回忆。1When the wallet was found, it_.A. was still in good conditionB. was a little damagedC. had just lost colorD. was just repaired解析细节理解题。从文章第一段第二句可知，钱包的皮还很光滑，上面的图案也保持完好，因此A项正确。答案A2The wallet was important to Fulton because _.A. he could get his bicycle ID backB. it called up his memories of the
1154、 pastC. it could help him to find his student IDD. it made him think of his school days解析推理判断题。综合全文尤其是第一段和最后一段的信息可知，钱包勾起了Fulton对往昔岁月的回忆。答案B3Fulton lost the wallet when_.A. he was doing his homework on the balcony bleachersB. he was doing some exercise in the Baker Middle School gymC. he was removing
1155、 the bleachers for renovations on June 17D. he was watching a basketball match with his friends解析细节理解题。从文章第五段可知，Fulton和朋友们在一起看篮球赛，在为一支篮球队助威时他丢失了钱包。答案D4After he retired, Fulton_.A. lived a peaceful and pleasant lifeB. often regretted losing his walletC. lived a hard life by raising dogs in the mounta
1156、insD. quite missed his past life解析推理判断题。分析文章倒数第二段可知，Fulton退休以后经常牵着狗到山里散步，可见生活非常惬意。答案A5Which of the following best describes Fulton s feeling when the wallet was returned?A. Thankful.B. Overjoyed.C. Surprised. D. Doubtful.解析推理判断题。文章虽然没有明确说明Fulton接到钱包时的反应，但丢了那么多年的钱包失而复得，他应该感到吃惊。答案C“Can I see my baby？”
1157、 the happy new mother asked. When the bundle was in her arms and she moved the fold of cloth to look upon his tiny face, she gasped. The doctor turned quickly and looked out of the tall hospital window. The baby had been born without ears.Time proved that the baby s hearing was perfect. It was only
1158、his appearance that was imperfect. When he rushed home from school one day and threw himself into his mothers arms, she sighed, knowing that his life was to be misfortunate. He cried out the tragedy, “A boy, a big boy. called me a freak (怪人)”He grew up, handsome. A favourite with his fellow students
1159、, he might have been class president, but for that. He developed a gift, a talent for literature and music. “But you might communicate with other young people，” his mother blamed him, but felt a kindness in her heart.Two years went by. One day, his father said to the son, “You re going to the hospit
1160、al, son. Mother and I have someone who will donate the ears you need. But it s a secret.” The operation was a brilliant success, and a new person emerged.Later he married and entered the diplomatic service. One day, he asked his father, “Who gave me the ears? Who gave me so much? I could never do en
1161、ough for him or her.” “I do not believe you could，” said the father, “but the agreement was that you are not to know. not yet.”The years kept their secret, but the day did come. He stood with his father over his mother s casket.Slowly, tenderly, the father stretched forth a hand and raised the thick
1162、, reddish brown hair to reveal the mother had no outer ears.“Mother said she was glad she never let her hair be cut，” his father whispered gently, “and nobody ever thought Mother less beautiful, did they？”语篇解读本文讲述了一个感人的故事。儿子天生没有耳朵，母亲将自己的耳朵捐献给了儿子。母亲去世后，父亲才将这个秘密告诉儿子。1Why did Mother gasp when she saw h
1163、er newborn baby?A. Because her son had a tiny face.B. Because she saw her son crying.C. Because her son was born imperfect.D. Because her son was in her arms.解析细节理解题。由第一段最后一句话“The baby had been born without ears.”可知答案。答案C2Which word can describe Mother s feeling when the son threw himself into her a
1164、rms?A. Nervous.B. Sympathetic.C. Proud. D. Angry.解析细节理解题。由第二段的“When he rushed home from school one day and threw himself into his mothers arms，she sighed，knowing that his life was to be misfortunate.”可知答案。答案B3Who gave the son the ears?A. A doctor. B. His father.C. His mother. D. A stranger.解析细节理解题。从
1165、文章最后可知是母亲献出了自己的耳朵。答案C4The underlined word “reveal” in the last but one paragraph means “_”A. see B. showC. find D. search解析词义推测题。父亲拨开母亲的头发，揭示了母亲将自己的耳朵捐给儿子的真相，因此，此处reveal是“显示”的意思。答案B5The best title for the passage would be _.A. Mothers hairB. An unforgettable memoryC. Who gave me the ears?D. Who is m
1166、y best respectable person?解析标题归纳题。是谁给了我耳朵？这是贯穿文章的线索。故选C。答案CBananas are one of the world s most important food crops. They are also one of the most valuable exports. Bananas do not grow from seeds. Instead, they grow from existing plants. Bananas are threatened by disease because all the plants on a
1167、farm are copies of each other. They all share the same genetic weaknesses.For example, the Cavendish banana is most popular in North American and European markets. However，some kinds of fungus organisms easily infect the Cavendish. Black Sigatoka disease affects the leaves of Cavendish banana plants
1168、. The disease is controlled on large farms by putting chemicals on the plant s leaves.Farmers put antifungal chemicals on their crops up to once a week.Another fungal disease is more serious. Panama disease attacks the roots of the banana plant. There is no chemical treatment for this disease. Infec
1169、ted plants must be destroyed. Panama disease has affected crops in Southeast Asia, Australia and South Africa. There is concern that it may spread to bananas grown in the Americas. This could threaten an important export product for Central and South America.The International Network for the Improve
1170、ment of Banana and Plantain supports research on bananas.The group has headquarters in France and other offices in the major bananagrowing areas of the world. The group says that more research must be done to develop improved kinds of bananas. The group says that fungal diseases mainly affect only o
1171、ne kind of banana. In fact, there are five hundred different kinds of bananas. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has said that the Cavendish banana represents only 10% of world production.The UN. agency says farmers should grow different kinds of bananas. This protects against
1172、diseases that affect only one kind. Experts warn that disease may cause the Cavendish banana to disappear. This happened earlier to another popular banana because of its genetic weakness against disease.语篇解读香蕉由于遗传性的抗病弱点，在不久的将来有的品种可能会消失。文章列举了两种威胁Cavendish香蕉的真菌病，国际组织建议农民种植更多种类的香蕉。1What does this passa
1173、ge mainly tell us?A. Bananas are the world s most important food crops.B. The risk to a popular banana shows need to grow other kinds.C. There are five hundred different kinds of bananas.D. How to grow bananas in different countries.解析主旨大意题。根据全文内容和结构判断，文章主要介绍威胁Cavendish香蕉的真菌类疾病，进而显示出种植其他种类香蕉的必要性。故答案
1174、为B。答案B2Bananas are threatened by disease because _.A. they grow from seedsB. they are one of the most valuable exportsC. the only way to prevent it is to put chemicals on their leavesD. they have genetic weaknesses against disease解析细节理解题。根据第一段内容可知，香蕉易受病害威胁是因为其遗传上的抗病弱点。后文也有叙述。答案D3Panama disease_.A. d
1175、oesnt belong to fungal diseaseB. affects the leaves of banana plantsC. destroys bananas more seriously than Black Sigatoka diseaseD. has spread to bananas all over the world解析细节判断题。根据第二段前两句可知A项错误；根据第二段第二句可知这种疾病威胁香蕉作物的根部，B项错误；根据第二段后三句可知，这种香蕉疾病已影响到东南亚、澳大利亚和南非，有可能传播到美洲，D项错误。由文章前两段分别对两种真菌病的描述可知，C项正确。答案C
1176、4We can infer from Paragraph 3 that _.A. the center of the group is in the USB. the Cavendish banana covers only a small part of the yield of bananasC. the key to solving the disease is to research all kinds of bananasD. each fungal disease affects five hundred different kinds of bananas解析推理判断题。根据第三
1177、段中“The group has headquarters in France”可知其中心位于法国，A项错误；根据第三段第三句可知，应对这种疾病的办法是培育改良品种，而不是调查所有的品种，C项错误；根据第三段第四句可知D项错误。由第三段最后一句可判断B项正确。答案B5According to the passage, which information is right?A. The Cavendish banana can mainly be imported from North America and Europe.B. Panama disease affects the leaves
1178、 of Cavendish banana plants.C. The Cavendish banana wont die out in the future.D. The Cavendish banana makes up only one tenth of world production.解析细节认定题。根据第一段中“the Cavendish banana is most popular in North American and European markets”可知这种香蕉在北美和欧洲市场最受欢迎，而不是从这两个地区进口，A项错误；根据第二段第二句可知B项错误；根据文章最后一段第三句
1179、可知C项错误；根据第三段最后一句可以判断D项正确。答案DWhen times get tough, we all look for ways to cut back. When were hungry, we eat at home instead of going out. We take buses instead of taxis. And we wear our old designer jeans just a few months longer.With college expenses at alltime highs, high school students are eage
1180、r to do anything to cut the cost of a university education.One costcutting proposal is to allow college students to get a bachelor s degree in three years instead of four. Educational institutions have been actively exploring ways to make the learning process more efficient.But theres a question: Wo
1181、uld the quality of undergraduate(本科生)education suffer? Few US universities have formally approved a “threeyear degree” model.I doubt that mainstream North American colleges will carry out a threeyear curriculum(课程) any time soon. For one thing, most universities already allow highly qualified studen
1182、ts to graduate early by testing out of certain classes and obtaining a number of college credits(学分). In addition, at famous universities, the committee who determine which courses are required and which courses are electives are unlikely to suddenly “throw out” one quarter of the required credits.
1183、Professors will resist “diluting(稀释)” the quality of the education they offer.In my opinion, a quality fouryear education is always superior to a quality threeyear education. A college education requires sufficient time for a student to become skilled in their major and do coursework in fields outsi
1184、de their major. It is not a good idea to water down education, any more than it s not a good idea to water down medicine. If we want to help students find their way through university, we should help them understand early on what knowledge and skills they need to have upon graduation. We should allo
1185、w students to test out of as many courses as possible. We should give them a chance to earn money as interns(实习生)in meaningful parttime jobs that relate to their university studies, such as the fiveyear coop program at Northeastern University.语篇解读本文为议论文。作者认为把大学四年的学制缩短为三年不是一个好主意，保证足够的时间才能保证大学教育的质量。1W
1186、hich of the following can be the best title?A. It s time to shorten the learning processB. Best learning takes place over timeC. University education should be watered downD. College education calls for reform解析主旨大意题。作者认为把大学四年的学制缩短为三年不是一个好主意，学好大学功课是需要付出时间的，故B项最佳。答案B2We can learn from the passage tha
1187、t _.A. most American universities are against the “threeyear degree” modelB. many famous US universities are considering adopting the “threeyear degree” modelC. professors are willing to accept the “threeyear degree” modelD. The “threeyear degree” model can make college learning more efficient解析细节理解
1188、题。根据第二段中的Few US universities have formally approved a“threeyear degree”model可知几乎没有几所美国大学认可“三年本科学位”模式。答案A3In most US universities，_.A. college students are offered the coop programB. electives credits make up one quarter of the required creditsC. all students are required to finish fouryear education
1189、 before graduationD. some excellent students can graduate ahead of time解析细节理解题。根据第三段中的most universities already allow highly qualified students to graduate early可知特别优秀的大学生可以提前毕业。答案D4We can infer that_.A. the author is a college professorB. the author thinks the cost of a university education is too
1190、high for people to affordC. the author considers the university education quality very importantD. the author pays special attention to the allround development of college students解析推理判断题。在第四段作者给出了自己的观点，从“A college education requires sufficient time for a student to become skilled in their major.”“I
1191、t is not a good idea to water down education”等处可以看出作者非常看重大学教育质量。答案C5The first paragraph serves as a(n)_A. explanation B. definitionC. introduction D. comment解析篇章结构题。本题要求学生推断文章的结构。根据第一段的内容可知第一段是用来引入话题的，故C项最佳。答案CI once had my Chinese MBA students brainstorming on “twohour business plans”. I separated
1192、them into six groups and gave them an example: a restaurant chain. The more original their idea, the better, I said. Finally, five of the six groups presented plans for restaurant chains. The sixth proposed a catering(餐饮) service. Though I admitted the time limit had been difficult, I expressed my d
1193、isappointment.My students were middle managers, financial analysts and financiers from stateowned enterprises and global companies. They were not without talent or opinions, but they had been shaped by an educational system that rarely stressed or rewarded critical thinking or inventiveness. The sce
1194、ne I just described came in different forms during my two years teaching at the school. Papers were often copied from the Web and the Harvard Business Review. Case study debates were written up and just memorized.Students frequently said that copying is a superior business strategy, better than inve
1195、nting and creating.In China，every product you can imagine has been made and sold. But so few welldeveloped marketing and management minds have been raised that it will be a long time before most people in the world can name a Chinese brand.With this problem in mind, partnerships with institutions li
1196、ke Yale and MIT have been established. And then theres the “thousandtalent scheme”： this new government program is intended to improve technological modernization by attracting top foreigntrained scientists to the mainland with big money.But there are worries about Chinas research environment. Its h
1197、ardly known for producing independent thinking and openness, and even big salary offers may not be attractive enough to overcome this.At last, for China, becoming a major world creator is not just about setting up partnerships with top Western universities. Nor is it about gathering a group of welle
1198、ducated people and telling them to think creatively. Its about establishing a rich learning environment for young minds. Its not that simple.1. Why does the author feel disappointed at his students?A. Because there is one group presenting a catering service.B. Because the six groups made projects fo
1199、r restaurant chains.C. Because all the students copied a case for the difficult topic.D. Because the students ideas were lacking in creativeness.解析考查推理判断能力。根据第一段整体的信息作出判断和推理。答案D2. Which of the following scenes is NOT considered as lack of creation?A. Papers were often downloaded from the Internet.B.
1200、 Students often said that copying is a preferable business strategy.C. Students combine knowledge and critical thoughts to solve a problem.D. Case study debates were written up as well as recited.解析考查判断推理能力。第二段整体判断，特别是最后一句。答案C3. The underlined word “scheme” in the forth paragraph means_.A. timetable
1201、 B. themeC. project D. policy解析考查猜词能力。第四段的第2句“this new government program”中this指代前面的“thousandtalent scheme”，而scheme和program为同义词，C中project为program同义词。答案C4. We can infer from the passage that_.A. China can make and sell any product all over the worldB. high pay may not solve the problem of Chinas rese
1202、arch environmentC. cooperation with institutions has been set up to make a Chinese brandD. the new government program are aimed at encouraging imagination解析考查推理判断能力。文中没有直接表达出来，根据最后一句得出，“even big salary offers may not be attractive enough to overcome this.”中this指的是Chinas learning environment存在的问题即pro
1203、blem，也是指Its hardly known for producing independent thinking and openness这个问题。答案B5. Which is the best title of the passage? A. Look for a New Way of Learning.B. Reward Creative Thinking.C. How to Become a Creator.D. Establish a technical Environment.解析考查主旨判断题。从整体和最后一段判断，整篇文章是讲关于教育出现的问题有了丰富的学习环境，及新的学习
1204、方法，才能有创造性的研究氛围。答案AWe bet that on cold wintry days, many of you love to stay in your warm home and, every now and then，come out into the kitchen for a snack. Unfortunately, plenty of creepy-crawly critters (爬行生物) like to do the same thing!Winter is the time when bugs (虫子) invade your house without an
1205、 invitation. The season can be tough for such creatures. In winter the air is cold, the ground is hard and many trees have no leaves. So bugs do what they have to do to survive.Monarch butterflies head south to warmer climates. Ants crowd in deep underground colonies and eat food they have been stor
1206、ing all year. Many insects go into a deep sleep called diapauses. There re different kinds of diapauses, but all are similar to hibernation, a time when bigger animals become inactive in the cold. Insects go into an inactive period, too, but it often isn t when the temperature drops.They rely on mor
1207、e dependable signals in the environment. For example, many insects can tell how much sunlight there s each day. They use that to tell themselves when to shut down. Bugs are cold-blooded, meaning that their inside temperature is the same as the outside. They can t move much when it gets below 40 degr
1208、ees Fahrenheit. So they search for any warm place.They re looking for protection. These guys have been doing this for 300 million years, so they don t really know they re coming into your house. The home is a recent event in terms of their evolutionary behavior. They enter through tiny cracks or com
1209、e in unnoticed on your clothes or shoes. Remember that they may be invading your homes for warmth and food, but they dont care about humans.语篇解读本文主要介绍的是：为什么虫子在冬天会入侵人类住所。1. What is the purpose of the first paragraph?A. To point out that humans like to stay at home in winter.B. To mean that humans and
1210、 bugs have the same living habits.C. To mean that bugs will invade humans houses for their winter.D. To put forward the idea that bugs are not welcome in winter.解析推理判断题。根据文章第一段可知，虫子和人类一样，也会喜欢待在温暖的屋里，再结合文章的后面几段可知，本段暗示虫子在冬天会入侵人类住所。答案C2According to the text, what is diapauses?A. It is the same as the a
1211、nimals hibernation.B. It often appears in warm areas all the year.C. It is done to keep bugs active in winter.D. It is a deep sleep similar to hibernation.解析细节理解题。根据文章第三段可知答案为D。答案D3What often decides bugs diapauses?A. The lower local temperature.B. The amount of sunlight.C. Kinds of environmental si
1212、gnals.D. The insects inside temperature.解析细节理解题。根据文章第四段的“They rely on more dependable signals in the environment”可知，虫子的“diapauses”是由多种环境可依赖性因素决定的，不一定全靠温度或者光照。答案C4According to the text, bugs invade humans homes to_.A. attack humansB. look for enough foodC. seek for protectionD. show their evolutionar
1213、y results解析细节理解题。根据文章最后一段可知，虫子进屋是为了寻求保护，把自己置身于安全形势之下，而不仅仅是为了寻求食物。答案C5What would be the best title for the text?A. Bugs life on cold wintry daysB. Why do bugs invade your home in winter?C. Good relations between humans and bugsD. What does diapauses mean?解析标题概括题。整篇文章主要告诉读者的是：在冬天里，为什么虫子会入侵人类的住所。答案BTee
1214、nagers who drink alcohol are at higher risk of becoming victims of violence, a Cardiff University study has found.A team from the School of Dentistry s Violence Research Group studied drinking habits in children aged 11 - 16 in England. They found not only a link between drink and violence but also
1215、that children who drank were more likely to be hit, even if they weren t violent themselves.The researchers are now calling for measures to prevent alcohol misuse to reduce injury risk. Current policy focuses on reducing aggression but this research shows that there should be equal effort to reduce
1216、victimization.More than 4,000 children were surveyed at 13 schools at four local authorities in the North, the Midlands, London, and the South. The study found that 25% of 11-year-olds were drinking monthly and 3.6% daily, with 12.8% admitting to getting drunk 3 to 5 times a year. By the age of 16,
1217、40% were drinking weekly and 6.2% were drinking every day. The research also showed 22.6% of 16-year-olds were getting drunk more than 21 times a year.The study, which has just been published in the Journal of Adolescence, found a strong link between frequency of drinking and frequency of hitting ot
1218、her people.However, children who reported drinking monthly were also three times more likely to be hit. Adolescents who drank but didnt get into fights were more likely to be hit than those who did fight.Professor Jonathan Shepherd, who led the research, said a lot of previous alcohol-related violen
1219、ce work had focused on the offenders rather than the victims. His team is calling for more prevention work from parents and teachers in the first two years of secondary school by taking advantage of the “teachable moment”，that is, immediately after a student has missed school because of drunkenness.
1220、Previous work by Professor Jonathan Shepherd has shown drinkers may be more at risk of violence because of reduced physical co-ordination, poor decision-making in threatening situations and isolation while out late at night.He said, “This new study seems to be the first to show a direct link between
1221、 alcohol misuse and victimization. There now needs to he much more effort put into reducing alcohol misuse in order to reduce injury.”语篇解读本文介绍了一项关于青少年酗酒的研究。该研究发现，酗酒的青少年更容易成为暴力的受害者。1. The main idea of the passage is that teenagers who drink alcohol_.A. often offend other peopleB. often become injured
1222、C. are more likely to become victims of violenceD. are more likely to fight with others解析主旨大意题。根据第一段中的“Teenagers who drink alcohol are at higher risk of becoming victims of violence”可知答案为C。答案C2The underlined word “aggression” in the third paragraph probably means “_”A. violenceB. sad feelingsC. bad
1223、manners D. drunkenness解析词义猜测题。根据上下文尤其是本句后半句可知，aggression与victimization意思相反，所以aggression是“暴力行为”的意思。答案A3The research argues that more effort should be made to_.A. reduce aggressionB. prevent fightingC. reduce victimizationD. prevent drinking alcohol解析细节理解题。根据文章第三段最后一句中的“this research shows that there
1224、should be equal effort to reduce victimization”可知答案为C。答案C4Drinkers may be more at risk of violence because of all the following EXCEPT _.A. reduced physical co-ordinationB. isolation while out late at nightC. a higher frequency of hitting other peopleD. poor decision-making in threatening situations
1225、解析细节理解题。根据文章倒数第二段可知答案。答案C5Which of the following statements is NOT true according to Professor Shepherd s research?A. The frequency of children getting drunk increases with age.B. His previous alcohol-related violence work had focused on the offenders.C. Some children missed school because of drunke
1226、nness.D. This new study shows a direct link between alcohol misuse and victimization.解析细节理解题。B项偷换概念，原文为“a lot of previous alcohol-related violence work had focused on the offenders”，这些研究不一定就是这位教授以前的研究。答案BA Southampton University team found that people who were vegetarians by 30 had recorded five IQ
1227、points higher on average at the age of 10. Researchers said it could explain why people with a higher IQ were healthier as a vegetarian diet was linked to lower heart disease and obesity rates. The study of 8,179 people was reported in the British Medical Journal.Twenty years after the IQ tests were
1228、 carried out in 1970, 366 of the participants said they were vegetarians although more than 100 reported eating either fish or chicken.Men who were vegetarians had an IQ score of 106, compared with 101 for non-vegetarians; while female vegetarians averaged 104, compared with 99 for non-vegetarians.
1229、There was no difference in the IQ scores, between strict vegetarians and those who said they were vegetarians but reported eating fish or chicken.Researchers said the findings were partly related to better education and higher class, but it remained statistically significant after adjusting for thes
1230、e factors.Vegetarians were more likely to be female, to be of higher social class and to have higher academic or vocational qualifications than non-vegetarians. However, these differences were not reflected in their annual income, which was similar to that of non-vegetarians.Lead researcher Catharin
1231、e Gale said, “The findings that children with greater intelligence are more likely to report being vegetarians as adults, together with the evidence on the potential benefits of a vegetarian diet on heart health, may help to explain why a higher IQ in childhood or adolescence is linked with a reduce
1232、d risk of coronary heart disease in adult life.But Dr Frankie Phillips of the British Dietetic Association said，“It_ is_ like _the _chicken _and _egg. Do people become vegetarians because they have a very high IQ or is it just that they are clever enough to be more aware of health issues？”语篇解读研究表明，素
1233、食和高智商有一定的关系。1What s the result of the research mentioned in the text?A. Intelligent children are more likely to become vegetarians later in life.B. Children with a higher IQ are less likely to have heart disease later in life.C. Intelligent children tend to belong to higher social class later in lif
1234、e.D. Children with a healthier heart tend to have a higher IQ later in life.解析细节理解题。根据第一段中的“people who were vegetarians by 30 had recorded five IQ points higher on average at the age of 10”可知A项正确。根据“it could explain why.”可知这一结果可帮助解释B项中的现象，但B项并非这次研究的结果。故本题选A。答案A2It was found in the research that_.A.
1235、most of the participants became vegetarians 20 years after the IQ tests were carried outB. vegetarians who ate fish or chicken were of similar intelligence with strict vegetariansC. female vegetarians were more likely to have higher annual income than non-vegetariansD. vegetarians were more likely t
1236、o have higher annual income than non-vegetarians解析细节理解题。根据第三段中的“There was no difference in the IQ scores between strict vegetarians and those who said they were vegetarians but reported eating fish or chicken”可知答案。答案B3Catharine Gale talked about “being vegetarians” in a(n)_way.A. doubtful B. favorab
1237、leC. negative D. objective解析推理判断题。根据第六段可知Catharine Gale只是客观地讲述研究结果，并没有表示自己的立场。故选D项。答案D4What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean?A. Intelligence is linked to not just being a vegetarian but to many factors.B. The rate of getting heart disease is linked to your lifestyle.C. The lin
1238、k between a high IQ and being a vegetarian is still uncertain.D. The link between a healthy heart and diet remains to be proved.解析推理判断题。文章最后一句的意思是：人们成为素食者是因为他们智商高还是因为他们足够聪明而更注意健康问题？由此可见Dr Frankie Phillips认为素食和高智商的因果关系尚未明确，就像弄不清楚是因为有蛋才有鸡，还是因为有鸡才有蛋一样。故C项正确。答案C5What s the best title for the text?A. Get
1239、 more IQ points!B. Be a vegetarian, please!C. Vegetarian diet cuts heart riskD. A high IQ is linked to being a vegetarian解析标题概括题。本文介绍了一项研究结果：素食与高智商有关，故D项正确。作者并未提出建议，所以A、B两项错误；文章中虽然提到了心脏病，但不是文章的主旨，故C项错误。答案D Pop stars today enjoy what once only belonged to the royalty (皇室). Wherever they go, people tu
1240、rn out in their thousands to greet them. The crowds go wild trying to catch a brief glimpse of their smiling, colorfully dressed idols. The stars are transported in their chauffeur driven RollsRoyces, private helicopters or executive aeroplanes. They are surrounded by a permanent entourage(随从) of ma
1241、nagers, press agents and bodyguards. Photographs of them appear regularly in the press and all their comings and goings are reported，for, like royalty, pop stars are news. If they enjoy many of the privileges of royalty, they certainly share many of the inconveniences as well. It is dangerous for th
1242、em to make unscheduled appearances in public.They must be constantly shielded from the adoring crowds who idolize them. They are no longer private individuals, but public property. The financial rewards they receive for this sacrifice cannot be calculated, for their rates of pay are great.And why no
1243、t? Society has always rewarded its top entertainers lavishly. The great days of Hollywood have become legendary: famous stars enjoyed fame, wealth and adulation (奉承) on an alltime scale. By today s standards, the excesses of Hollywood do not seem quite so spectacular. A single gramophone record nowa
1244、days may earn much more in royalties than the films of the past ever did. The competition for the title “Top of the Pops” is fierce, but the rewards are truly huge.It is only right that the stars should be paid in this way. Dont the top men in industry earn enormous salaries for the service they per
1245、form to their companies and their countries? Pop stars earn vast sums in foreign currency often more than large industrial companies and the taxman can only be grateful for their massive annual contributions to the exchequer(国库). So who would begrudge them their rewards?It s all very well for people
1246、 in boring jobs to complain about the successes and rewards of others. People who make envious remarks should remember that the most famous stars represent only the tip of the iceberg. For every famous star, there are hundreds of others struggling to earn a living. A man working in a steady job and
1247、looking forward to a pension at the end of it has no right to expect very high rewards. He has chosen security and peace of mind, so there will always be a limit to what he can earn. But a man who attempts to become a star is taking enormous risks. He knows at the outset that only a handful of compe
1248、titors ever get to the very top. He knows that years of concentrated effort may be rewarded with complete failure.But he knows, too, that the rewards for success are very high indeed: they are the payback for the huge risks involved and once he makes it, he will certainly earn them. That s the essen
1249、ce of private enterprise.语篇解读明星的生活总是令人羡慕不已。他们的生活中有光鲜的一面：不菲的收入，以豪华汽车和私人飞机代步，一言一行都成为人们关注的焦点然而，我们也应看到，他们活得很累，他们为成功所付出的艰辛和代价是一般人难以想象的。1The author develops the passage mainly by _.A. comparing different ideasB. giving explanationsC. inferringD. listing typical examples解析篇章结构题。本文主要通过解释向读者阐明道理。答案B2The unde
1250、rlined word “begrudge” in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to _.A. be jealous of B. be satisfied withC. be anxious about D. be crazy about解析词义猜测题。结合上下文的语境判断本句意为：谁会对他们所得到的感到妒忌、不满呢？接下来作者讲了一般人从事枯燥但稳定的工作，所以这里意思是：从事稳定工作的人会妒忌这些明星。答案A3According to the passage, which of the following can match the
1251、view of the author?A. He who laughs last laughs best.B. If you venture nothing, you will gain nothing.C. He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.D. Success belongs to the persevering.解析推理判断题。根据最后一段可知，想成为明星就要冒更大的风险，然而一旦成功，回报也是丰厚的，那些选择了稳定工作的人是没有权利期待高额回报的。“If you venture nothing，you will gain nothing.”意
1252、为：不入虎穴，焉得虎子，即要成功就要冒险。答案B4The author holds a(n) _attitude towards the high income of pop stars.A. critical B. approvalC. optimistic D. indifferent解析推理判断题。根据全文可知，作者认为明星们理应得到高收入，因为他们为此付出了高昂的代价。答案B5Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. People are blind in idolizing stars.B. There is
1253、 fierce competition in becoming pop stars.C. The government taxes pop stars very little.D. Pop stars life is more luxurious than that of royalty.解析细节判断题。根据文章最后一段的“He knows at the outset that only a handful of competitors ever get to the very top.”以及第二段的最后一句可知答案。答案BDo American children still learn ha
1254、ndwriting in school? In the age of the keyboard, some people seem to think handwriting lessons are on the way out. 90% of teachers say they are required to teach handwriting.But studies have yet to answer the question of how well they are teaching it. One study published this year found that about t
1255、hree out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting. Some teachers are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for 10 15 minutes a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for 60 to 70 minutes a day which really for handwriting is pretty much.Many adults r
1256、emember learning that way by copying letters over and over again. Today s thinking is that short periods of practice are better. Many experts also think handwriting should not be taught by itself.Instead, they say it should be used as a way to get students to express ideas. After all, that is why we
1257、 write.Handwriting involves two skills. One is legibility,_which means forming the letters so they can be read. The other is fluency writing without having to think about it. Fluency continues to develop up until high school.But not everyone masters these skills. Teachers commonly report that about
1258、onefourth of their kids have poor handwriting. Some people might think handwriting is not important any more because of computers and voice recognition programs.But Steve Graham at Vanderbilt says word processing is rarely done in elementary school, especially in the early years. American children t
1259、raditionally first learn to print, and then to write in cursive, which connects the letters. But guess what we learned from a spokeswoman for the College Board, which administers the SAT college admission test. More than 75 percent of students choose to print their essay on the test rather than writ
1260、e in cursive.语篇解读文章介绍了在键盘普及的年代美国的书法教学情况。1We can learn _ from Paragraph 1.A. teaching handwriting is a basic requirement in teaching jobB. most teachers prefer to teach handwritingC. teachers spend little time in teaching handwritingD. a keyboard has taken the place of the handwriting entirely解析推理判断题
1261、。根据第一段中“90% of teachers say they are required to teach handwriting”可知书法教学是基本的教学要求，A项为正确推论。根据“One study published this year found that about three out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting”可知，很多老师不愿意教书法课，B项错误；根据第一段末句可知C项错误；根据全段判断，只是说键盘普及使一些人认为书法渐渐过时了，D项错误。答案A2Which of
1262、the following is WRONG for traditional handwriting in the USA?A. The students are taught by practicing a long period.B. The letters are repeated many times.C. Handwriting includes two skills.D. To write in cursive is taught first.解析细节认定题。根据第二段可知，传统的书法教学重复很多遍并且持续时间长，因此A、B两项内容正确。根据第三段第一句可知C项内容正确；根据最后一
1263、段第二句可知D项内容错误。答案D3The underlined word “legibility” in Paragraph 3 means _.A. easy to read B. complexC. unexpected D. unreadable解析推测词义题。根据下文“which means forming the letters so they can be read”可推测画线词的意思是“清楚，易读”。答案A4The best title for the passage is _.A. How to improve handwriting in schoolB. Right or
1264、wrong: the death of handwritingC. Handwriting involves two skillsD. Handwriting lessons are on the way out解析标题归纳题。作者对美国书法教学的现状作了叙述，没有自己的主观评论，故选择B。A项没有涉及，C项只是其中一部分内容，D项只是一部分人的观点。答案B5The author s attitude towards whether still to learn handwriting in school is_.A. negative B. objectiveC. critical D. o
1265、ptimistic来源:Zxxk.Com解析态度判断题。根据全文的叙述，作者只是将美国书法教学的现状和不同人的观点呈现出来，并没有发表自己的见解，因此作者持客观的态度。答案BYou know how wonderful you are, and you know that others know how wonderful you are, but what do you do when admiration crosses over the line into jealousy? For most teens there will come a day when you realize th
1266、at one of your friends is jealous and that this jealousy is hurting your friendship. When this happens it can seem like there is nothing that you can do, but the good news is that there is. Dont let jealousy spoil your relationships. Tackle it headon and you might be back to normal much sooner than
1267、you think.It can be hard to walk up to a friend and ask them what the problem is, but if you want to save your friendship youll have to do just that. Dont approach them and ask why they are jealous of you (unless of course you want to appear totally conceited), just take some time alone with them an
1268、d let them know that youve been feeling like theres been something coming between you. If they refuse to respond, then use the opportunity to explain how you have been feeling. Chances are that something you say will strike a nerve and your friend will open up as well.When you figure out what is ann
1269、oying your friend, ask him or her what (s)he thinks would make the situation better. If, for example, (s)he says that (s)he feels like (s)he doesnt get to spend any time with you because of your being off with your new friends from tee swim team then maybe you could invite her along the next time or
1270、 block off one day a week for just the two of you. Remember, though, that whatever solution you decide on should be a compromise. Dont limit your own talents or opportunities simply because your friend is unhappy. Try instead to include him or her in your new life and see how that works out.Even the
1271、 best of friendships can be tinged by jealousy. This destructive emotion is rarely productive and can turn best friends into worst enemies. Before taking extreme action, chat with your jealous friend to see if the two of you can work out a compromise.If you cant, be prepared to know exactly how far
1272、you will go to keep your friendand how far you wont.解读：本文是关于人际关系的话题。尤其是青少年朋友之间会因为嫉妒而使相互间的友谊被破坏，本文着重讲述如何处理被朋友嫉妒及处理过程中可能遇到的困难。1. According to the author, the jealousy emotion is_.A. normal B. productiveC. destructive D. extreme解析细节理解题，由第一段第二句.that this jealousy is hurting，your friendship.可知。答案C2. Whic
1273、h of the following is NOT mentioned as a way to confront your friend when jealousy happens?A. Walking up to him/her and asking him/her why he/she is jealous of you.B. Walking up to him/her and asking him/her what the problem is.C. Spending some time with him/her and letting him/her know how you feel
1274、.D. Spending some time with him/her and letting him/her know you think theres something between you.解析细节理解题。由第二段第二句Dont approach them and ask why they are jealous of you可知。答案A3. The underlined “it” in the first paragraph refers to_.A. friendship B. relationshipC. admiration D. jealousy解析细节理解题。由文章第一段
1275、可知。答案D4. What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?A. Theres always a solution to solve the problem of jealousy.B. Jealousy can turn best friends into worst enemies.C. You may lose a friend to keep your own gifts, chances or self development.D. You should go a long way with your friend to wo
1276、rk out a solution解析推理判断题。答案C5. The purpose of the passage is_.A. to explain what causes jealousyB. to offer some advice on making friendsC. to introduce the way to cope with a jealous friendD. to explain how destructive the jealous emotion is 解析作者意图题。通读全文可知，本文酌写作目的是介绍处理有嫉妒心朋友的方法。答案CAudrey Hepburn wo
1277、n an Academy Award as Best Actress for her first major American movie, Roman Holiday, which was released in 1953. But she is remembered as much for her aid work as for her acting.Born in Belgium in 1929, Audrey s father was British and her mother was Dutch.Audrey was sent to live at a British school
1278、 for part of her childhood. During World War II , she lived and studied in the Netherlands. Her mother thought it would be safe from German attacks. Audrey studied dance as a teenager and during college when she returned to London after the war. But she realized she wasn t going to be a ballerina. S
1279、o she began taking acting parts in stage shows. Later she began to get small parts in movies.But it was Audrey Hepburn s move to America that brought her true fame. In 1951 she played the character “Gigi” in the Broadway play of the same name to great critical praise. Two years later, Roman Holiday
1280、made her a star at the age of 24.Audrey made more than 25 movies. Among her most popular roles was Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffanys in 1961. Three years later she played Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady.She was married two times and had one son by each husband. In 1989, the UN Children s Fund
1281、 named Audrey a goodwill ambassador. She travelled all over the world in support of UNICEF projects. The UN agency said she was a tireless worker. She often gave 15 interviews a day to gain money and support for UNICEF projects.Audrey Hepburn often said her loyalty to UNICEF was the result of her ex
1282、periences as a child during World War . She said she knew what it was like to be starving and to be saved by international aid. She was a goodwill ambassador until her death in 1993 from colon cancer.语篇解读本文介绍著名影星Audrey Hepburn(奥黛丽赫本)的生平事迹。1953年主演的罗马假日使她一举成名。从1989年直至1993年去世，赫本一直担任联合国儿童基金会的特使，为拉美和非洲儿童
1283、提供了很大帮助。1In Paragraph 1, “her aid work” means _.A. winning an Academy Award as Best ActressB. taking acting parts in stage showsC. making moviesD. acting as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF解析推理判断题。此题应根据全文内容来判断。第一段是全文的概括，其重心在后面，即奥黛丽赫本尽管获得奥斯卡最佳女主角奖，但她担当的援助工作同样使人铭记。再结合文章接下来的叙述可知答案为D。答案D2The reason why
1284、Audrey lived and studied in the Netherlands was that _.A. she wanted to be a ballerinaB. her parents were from BritainC. the education there was excellentD. it was safe there解析细节理解题。根据第三段中的“Her mother thought it would be safe from German attacks”和“she returned to London after the war”可知D项正确。答案D3We c
1285、an infer from the passage that _.A. Audrey s parents lived in Germany during World War B. Audrey lived in America in the 1950sC. Audrey was made to give up dancingD. the character “Gigi” in the Broadway play was her most popular role解析推理判断题。根据第二段和第三段前半部分可知，A项错误；根据第三段中“she realized she wasnt going to
1286、 be a ballerina”可知是她主动放弃的，C项错误；根据第四段中“In 1951 she played the characterGigiin the Broadway play”及后文可判断，这个角色并不是她扮演的最有名的角色，因此D项错误。由文章第四、五两段可知B项正确。答案B4_is NOT mentioned in the passage about Audrey Hepburn.A. Marriage B. IdentityC. Contribution D. Religion解析细节理解题。可以运用排除法。她的婚姻、身份和贡献在文章中都提到了，唯独没有提及她的宗教信仰，故
1287、选D。答案D5_is the right order for Audrey s life.The first time she began to play in movies.She returned to London from the Netherlands.She won an Academy Award as Best Actress.She travelled all over the world in support of UNICEF projects.She played a part in My Fair Lady.A B. C. D. 解析排列顺序题。结合文章内容可以判断A
1288、项顺序正确。答案AThe world is not coming to an end on December 21, 2012, the US space agency insisted Monday in a rare campaign to dispel widespread rumors fueled by the Internet and a new Hollywood movie.The latest big screen offering from Sony Picture, 2012, arrives in theaters on Friday, with a 200millio
1289、ndollar production about the end of the world supposedly based on myths (虚构的故事) backed by the Mayan calendar. It is claimed that the end of time will come as a Planet X or Nibiru heads toward or collides with the Earth.Some websites accuse NASA of hiding the truth on the planet s existence, but the
1290、US space agency denounced such stories as an “Internet hoax(恶作剧) ”. “There is no factual basis for these claims，” NASA said in a questionandanswer posting on its website. “If such a collision were real, astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by
1291、now to the naked eye. Obviously, it does not exist. Credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012，” it insisted. “After all, our planet has been getting along just well for more than four billion years，” added NASA.There is another planet, Eris, floating in space. But the smal
1292、l planet similar to Pluto will remain safely fixed in the outer solar system and it can come no closer than four billion miles to the Earth, according to NASA.Initial theories set the disaster for May 2003, but when nothing happened the date was moved forward to the winter in 2012 to coincide with t
1293、he end of a cycle of the ancient Mayan calendar.NASA insisted the Mayan calendar in fact does not end on December 21, 2012, as another period begins immediately afterward.And even if the planets were to line up as some have forecast, the effect on our planet would be “negligible”， NASA said.“And whi
1294、le comets and asteroids (小行星) have always hit the Earth, big hits are very rare，” NASA noted. The last major impact was believed to be 65 million years ago，resulting in the end of dinosaurs.“We have already determined that there are no threatening asteroids as large as the one that killed the dinosa
1295、urs，” the space agency said.语篇解读好莱坞灾难大片2012使网络上盛传的“2012年12月21日为世界末日”这一所谓的玛雅预言再次进入人们的视野。为此，美国宇航局重申，2012年12月21日并不是世界末日，传言中的X星球将与地球相撞也并不属实。1_played a key role in the spread of the rumors.A. A new bookB. The Internet and a new Hollywood movieC. NASAD. An Indian calendar解析细节理解题。根据第一段中to dispel widespread
1296、 rumors fueled by the Intermet and a new Hollywood movie可知因特网和一部好莱坞新片对传播世界末日的谣言起到了推波助澜的作用。答案B2The film 2012 is_.A. about the end of the worldB. based on the scientific predictionC. well accepted in the science fieldD. about a romantic love story解析细节理解题。根据第二段第一句可知2012这部电影是关于世界末日的。根据文章内容可先排除D项；由第二段中ba
1297、sed on myths(虚构的故事)可知B项错误；由宇航局的讲话可推出C项错误。答案A3We can infer that_.A. people didnt take the rumor seriouslyB. Planet X or Nibiru does existC. astronomers have been tracking Planet X for over ten yearsD. the rumor caused a panic among some people解析推理判断题。根据the US space agency insisted Monday in a rare ca
1298、mpaign to dispel widespread rumors可知谣言传播之广以至于美国宇航局不得不出来辟谣，由此可见事态严重，故可判断谣言有可能造成了一些人的恐慌。答案D4NASA thinks that Eris_.A. might pose a threat to the EarthB. doesnt pose any threat to the EarthC. is too far away to be visibleD. is similar to our planet, where life might exist解析细节理解题。根据第四段内容可知Eris行星并没有对我们的地
1299、球构成威胁。答案B5. Which of the following is the best title?A. New Hollywood movie 2012B. December 21, 2012, NOT the end of the worldC. End of the ancient Mayan calendarD. How rumors came into being解析主旨大意题。本文主要讲美国宇航局驳斥“2012年12月21日是世界末日”的谣言。故B项为最佳标题。答案BIn the quest for better health, many people turn to doc
1300、tors, selfhelp books or herbal supplements. But they overlook a powerful weapon that could help them fight illness and depression, speed recovery, slow aging and prolong life: their friends.Researchers are only now starting to pay attention to the importance of friendship and social networks in over
1301、all health. A 10year Australian study found that older people with a large circle of friends were 22 percent less likely to die during the study period than those with fewer friends. A large 2007 study showed an increase of nearly 60 percent in the risk for obesity among people whose friends gained
1302、weight. And last year, Harvard researchers reported that strong social ties could promote brain health as we age.“In general, the role of friendship in our lives isn t well appreciated，” said Rebecca G. Adams, a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. “There are a lot
1303、 of things on families and marriage, but very little on friendship. It baffles me. Friendship has a bigger impact on our psychological wellbeing than family relationships.”Bella DePaulo, a visiting psychology professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, whose work focuses on single peop
1304、le and friendships, notes that in many studies, friendship has an even greater effect on health than a spouse or a family member.It isn t entirely clear why friendship has such a big effect. It may be because people with strong social ties also have better access to health services and care. Beyond
1305、that, however, friendship clearly has a profound psychological effect. People with strong friendships are less likely than others to get colds, perhaps because they have lower stress levels.Last year, researchers studied 34 students at the University of Virginia, taking them to the base of a steep h
1306、ill and fitting them with a weighted backpack. They were then asked to estimate the steepness of the hill. Some participants stood next to friends during the exercise, while others were alone.The students who stood with friends gave lower estimates of the steepness of the hill. And the longer the fr
1307、iends had known each other, the less steep the hill appeared.“People with stronger friendship networks feel like there is someone they can turn to，” said Karen ARoberto, director of the center for gerontology (老年医学) at Virginia Tech.“ Friendship is an undervalued resource. The consistent message of
1308、these studies is that friends make your life better.”语篇解读如何保持身心健康？相信每个人对此都很感兴趣并能给出自己的答案。本文作者向我们介绍了一个有利于身心健康的，很重要又长期被人们忽视的因素友谊。1What s the main idea of the passage?A. People should make friends as many as possible.B. Friendships do great good to human health.C. People with friends have optimistic att
1309、itude.D. Several studies have been done on friendships.解析主旨大意题。文章通过几个研究结果说明友谊在促进人类身心健康方面作用巨大。答案B2Which of the following is true?A. People havent attached importance to friendships.B. A friend can replace doctors and selfhelp books.C. People with many friends may have higher stress levels.D. People w
1310、ho have friends tend to be fat.解析正误判断题。从文章第三段可知，人们尚未认识到友谊对人们身心健康的重要性。其他选项均与原文信息不符。答案A3The author mentioned the study in the last three paragraphs to indicate that _.A. students should climb the steep hill with friendsB. it takes a long time to make friendsC. a friend in need is a friend indeedD. peo
1311、ple accompanied by friends remain optimistic in the face of difficulty解析推理判断题。倒数第二段中“The students who stood with friends gave lower estimates of the steepness of the hill。”表明与朋友在一起的学生估计出来的坡度更小，这意味着他们面对困难能保持相对乐观的心态。答案D4In Paragraph 2 the author aims to tell us _.A. friendship has a strong physical ef
1312、fect on peoples healthB. we cannot be too careful when making friendsC. older people are likely to have fewer friendsD. 60 percent of the people without friends will become fat when they get old解析段落大意题。根据本段开头(主题句)可知答案。而且主题句后的三个研究结论都与“友谊影响身体健康”有关。答案A5According to Karen A. Roberto, _.A. the effect of friendships is overvaluedB. studies on friendships make our life betterC. friends are more important than family membersD. friends can help each other when faced with problems解析推理判断题。由文章最后一段的第一句可推断出，有问题的时候朋友之间可以相互帮助，A、B、C三项不符合原文。答案D
