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Passage Two

This story began about 10 years ago. I was coming out of a very bad marriage. For seven long years my husband spent his every waking moment telling me just what was wrong with me. When I finally asked for a divorce, he answered by telling me that I would never find anyone to love me because I was just so unattractive. This went on for about two years. One night one of my friends convinced me to go out with her. We went to a nightclub and that ’s when I met him.

Clint was playing a game with a girl. I sat in the corner watching him. I did n’t feel that I had whatever it took to get up and mix with others because of my self-esteem problem. Finally I got up the courage to order a drink for him. When he got it, he gave me the most dazzling smile. We spent the rest of the evening talking until I realized that it was almost morning. I figured that he was simply being nice to me because I had brought him a drink, but the next day he called and told me that he could not stopping thinking about me and that he wanted to meet my kids too.

(81) About 3 months later, my divorce was final and Clint sat my boys down and asked them if it was all right with them if he asked me to marry him because he could not imagine life without the three of us anymore. I was so touched that he went to my boys and asked for their approval because they were the ―men of the house ‖ at the ripe old ages of 2 and 4. They said yes and we have all been together even since. Clint gave me and my boys a second chance at a wonderful life. (82) Not a day goes by that he doesn ’t tell we are the best thing that ever has happened to him and that he loves us.

When the writer first met Clint, she felt that ______.

2.Because of the cold weather, they_____ through the night in the camp.

3.When we walk through the city,we,all experience a kind of information overload(超载）。but we pay attention only to those that are,important to us.We don't stop,we keepour faces expressionless and eyes straight ahead,and in doing so,we are not just protecting ourselves, but are,avoiding overloading other people as well.We make use of stereotypes(刻板的模式）as convenient ways to make quick judgmentsabout situations and people around us.They may not always be accurate(精确的），andthey can often be dangerously wrong,but they are used regularly.The problem with the stereotypes is that they restrict(限制）experience.,By using limited clues(线索）to provide us with a rapid opinion of other people on places we may choose to limit our communication.We may decide not to go to certain places because we believe.they will not offer something weenjoy.In the city ,styles of dress are particularly important with regard to （关于）self-presentation,Different groups often use clearly identifiable(可辨认的）styles of clothes so thatthey can be easily recognized.It is becoming increasingly.common for brand names to beplaced on the outside of clothes,and this labeling(标签）makes it easy to send out information about fashion and price instantly(马上）lets other tell at a distance whether n individual has similar tastes and is a suitable person to associatewithIn England,where social grouping or classcontinues to make social distinctions(区分），clothes,hairstyles,people's pronunciation and the manner of speaking are all clues toour social group.Class distinctions tend to be relatively fixed,although in the citywhere greater variety is permitted.they are more likely to he secondary determining factorsfriendship and association. according to the passage,the main disadvantage of using stereotypes is that, they（）

4.The manager promised to keep me________how our bussiness was going on.

5.Doctors say anger can be an extremely damaging emotion,unless you learn how to deal with it.They warn that angry hostile feeling can lead to heart disease, stomach problems,headaches,emotional problems and possible cancer.Anger is a normal emotion that we all feel from time to time. Some people express anger openly in a calm reasonable way. Others explode with anger,and yell. But other people keep their inside.They can not or will not express it. This is called repressing (压制) anger.For years many doctors thought that compared with expressing anger,repressing anger was more dangerous to a person’s health. It may speed the heart rate,raise blood pressure or sugar into the blood and narrow the blood vessels. To avoid these problems,doctors thought a person should let the anger out by expressing it freely. But recently some doctors disputed this. They said that people who express anger repeatedly and explosively did cause,in fact,more and not less anger. They said these too can cause medical problems.Some doctors say that both repressing and expressing anger can be dangerous. Expressing anger intensively may be more likely to develop heart disease, and keeping anger inside may face a greater danger of high blood pressure. Doctors say the solution is learning how to deal with anger.They say the first step is to admit that you are angry and to recognize the real cause of the anger, then decide if the cause is serious enough to get angry about. If it isn’t, they say,”Don’t express your anger while angry .Wait until your anger has cooled down and you are able to express yourself calmly and reasonably.”Doctors say that a good way to deal with anger is to find humor in the situation that has made you angry.They said that laughter is much healthier than anger.The auther of the passage is most probably a(n)_______.

6.As one approaches some crossroads, one comes to a sign which says that drivers have to stop when they come to the main road ahead．At other crossroads, drivers have to go slow, but they do not actually have to stop (unless, of course, there is something coming along the main road); and at still others, they do not have either to stop or to go slow, because they are themselves on the main road. 　　Mr．Williams, who was always a very careful driver, was driving home from work one evening when he came to a crossroads．It had a "Slow" sign, so he slowed down when he came to the main road, looked both ways to see that nothing was coming, and then drove across without stopping completely. 　　At once he heard a police whistle, so he pulled in to the side of the road and stopped．A policeman walked over to him with a notebook and pencil in his hand and said, "You didn't stop at the crossing." 　　"But the sign there doesn't say 'Stop'," answered Mr Williams．"It just says ‘Slow’, and 1 did go slow." 　　The policeman looked around him, and a look of surprise came over his face．Then he put his notebook and pencil away, scratched his head and said, "Well, I'll be blowed! I am in the wrong street!"[单选题] When Mr Williams heard the police whistle __.

7.根据以下资料，回答6-9题。 　　Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941．The United States was mad at the Japanese so they made many Japanese-Americans leave their homes．They were put in camps with barbed wire around the outside of the camps. 　　Many Japanese-American young men were called into the army．Some of them joined the US Military Intelligence Service or MIS．The MIS was a secret group that fought the Japanese soldiers．This secret group translated important maps and papers．They questioned Japanese prisoners．Another task they did was to translate diaries written in Japanese. 　　Sometimes Japanese soldiers hid in caves to hide from the Americans．The MIS would try to get the scared soldiers to leave the caves．This was known as "cave flushing." Some of the soldiers would give up and leave the caves. 　　Other Japanese would jump to their deaths. 　　The MIS never got awards for their efforts until the year 2000．Then they were rewarded for their brave acts in World War II．It took almost sixty years for them to be honored. 　　Gayle Yamada has made a film about the brave Japanese-American MIS．The film is called "Uncommon Courage" and is a true story．Hopefully, Yamada's film and the movie, "Pearl Harbor," will not cause people to hate Japanese-Americans or any other race.6 The letters MIS stood for

8.Passage OneEvery year just after Christmas the January Sales start. All the shops reduce their prices and for two weeks, there are full of people looking for bargains. My husband and I do not normally go to the sales as we don't like crowds and in any case are short of money as we have to buy lots of Christmas presents.Last year, however, I took my husband with me to the sales at the large shop in the center of London. We both needed some new clothes and were hoping to find a television set. When we got to Oxford Street, it was so crowded that we decided to split up and meet again at the underground station. So I left my husband and started looking around the shops. Unfortunately all the clothes were in very large sizes and so were not suitable for me. But I did buy a television at a very cheap price, so I felt quite pleased with myself.When I arrived at the station, my husband was not there. So I sat down in a nearby cafe to have a cup of tea. I quickly finished my tea when I saw my husband and went out to meet him. He looked very happy. Then I saw he was carrying a large and heavy cardboard box."Oh, dear!"I thought. Yes ,we had no new clothes but two television. We shall not be going to the sales again. The husband and wife in the story.__________.

9.Few of them hurt themselves in the accident last night.___?

10.III. Cloze ( 30 points)Mary Anning( 1799 - 1874) was a British fossil hunter who began finding 21 as a child, and soon supported herself and her very 22 family by finding and selling fossils.Very 23 is known about her life, but her father was a cabinet maker and he also 24 local fossils.Mary 25 on the southern coast of England, in a town called Lyme Regis. Its famous 26 by the sea contain 27 fossil layers that 28 from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods(the 29 of the dinosaurs, other bizarre reptiles, large insects, sea creatures, 30 mammals, and 31 life forms).Mary Anning 32 and prepared the first fossilized plesiosaur( an ocean-dwelling reptile) and the first Ichthyosaurus (an ocean-dwelling reptile that 33 like a dolphin). She found many other important fossils, including Pterodactylus (a flying reptile), sharks (and other fish), and so on. 34 with her brother Joseph, Mary supplied prepared fossil specimens to 35 museums, scientists, and private collections.26（）A.cliffs B.place C.people D.creatures

11.In the first semester, I asked my teacher __________.

12.News has just been received of an air crash in the north of England. The plane,which was on acharter(包租)flight from London to Carlisle,was carrying a party of businessmen on their way to atrade fair. It seems likely that the plane ran into a heavy fog as it was approaching Carlisle and wasobliged to circle for some twenty minutes.Everything seemed to be going well. The pilot was inconstant radio communication with Ground Control when the engines suddenly cut out and allcontact was lost. The plane crashed on the site of the ancient Roman camp at Hadrian’s Hill, a placewell known to archaeologists(考古学家)and tourists.So far few details have been reported,but it is feared that at least twenty people lost theirlives,among them the pilot,who was killed instantly. The local ambulances and firemen were onthe scene within minutes of the crash, but additional help had to be rushed from other areas.Mr.Lesilie Collins,one of the survivors,told our reporter, “We passengers noticed the engines weremaking a funny noise. Of course we couldn’t see anything because of the fog,but the pilot saidthere was nothing to worry about.The next thing we know, the engines went dead. There was arushing noise—and after that I don’t remember any more.”Mr. Collins is now in hospital, being treated for minor injuries. We will be bringing you further newsof the crash as we receive it.In the meantime relatives are asked to ring 02?3457211 forinformation.According to the passage, the plane crashed at__________.

13.On television all over the world there are programmes about the work of the police．They are popular because they are usually very exciting．In London there is a television programme called"Police Five "--because it is on for five minutes once a week．A television reporter, Shaw Taylor, talks about crimes in the London area．He asks for public help．The police station needs the help of ordinary people because sometimes you or I have information that can be useful to the police. 　　Shaw Taylor shows pictures of paintings, jewellery (珠宝) and other things which thieves stole during the week．Sometimes he shows the car that the thieves escaped in．When people see men or things on the television programme which they may remember, they can tell the police where they saw them．With their help the police may catch more criminals. 　　Sometimes the police find a car or some money．Shaw Taylor shows them on television．The owners sometimes see them．Then they can telephone the police and say, "Thank you very much-- that's mine!" [单选题] When people see things stolen on the programme which they may remember, __.

14.Look___the map___China___the wall,please.

15. I feel my health__________.

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根据以下资料，回答46-60题。

Number sense is not the ability to count．It is the ability to recognize a46in number．Human beings are born with this ability．47, Experiments show that many animas are, too．For example, many birds have good number sense．If a nest has four eggs and you remove one, the bird will not48．However, if you remove two, the bird49leaves．This means that the bird knows the50between two and three.

Another interesting experiment showed a bird’s51number sense．A man was trying to take a photo of a crow(乌鸦) that had a nest in a tower, but the crow always left when she saw him coming．The bird did not52until the man left the tower．The man had an53．He took another man with him to the tower．One man left and the other stayed, but they did not54the bird．The crow stayed away until the second man left, too．The experiment was55with three men and then with four men．But the crow did not return to the nest until all the men were56．It was not until five men went into the tower and only four left that they were57able to fool the crow.

How good is a human’s number sense? It’s not very good．For example, babies about fourteen months old almost always notice if something is taken away from a58group．But when the number goes beyond three or four, the children are59fooled.

It seems that number sense is something we have in common with many animals in this world, and that our human60is not much better than a crow’s.57A.gradually,B.luckily,C.strangely,D.finally

17.Train companies in Tokyo are taking action to reduce the number of people jumping in front of trains．They are fitting blue lights on station platforms to try and create a more calming atmosphere．The East Japan Railway Company has invested almost $170,000 to install the lights in all of the 29 stations on the capital's busy Yamanote Line．There has been an alarming rise in the number of people committing suicide at train stations．A total of 68 people threw themselves under trains in the year up to March．This compares with 42 suicides in the same period a year earlier．In 2008, Japan had nearly 2,000 suicides by jumping in front of a train; around six percent of all suicides nationwide．Suicides have risen sharply in the past decade due to poor economic conditions. 　　No one knows if the blue lights will work．There is no evidence to show that blue light reduces suicidal feelings． Keihan Railway spokesman Osamu Okawa stated: "We thought we had to do something to save lives．We know there is no scientific proof that blue lights deter suicides, but if blue has a soothing effect on the mind, we want to try it to save lives." The Associated Press news agency reports on a Japanese therapist called Mizuki 　　　Takahashi．She explained her reasons why the blue lights might be a good idea: "We associate the color with the sky and the sea．It has a calming effect on agitated people, or people obsessed with one particular thing, which in this case is committing suicide," she said．Other companies are watching this experiment with interest.[单选题] A Japanese therapist explained that __．

18.England is not a big country: from north to south and from east to west it is only about three hundred miles across．But for a small country it has a surprising range of climate．People who have never visited England or who have visited only one part of it often makes the mistake of thinking that it is a cold and wet country．Except for the summer months of June to September, this is probably true of the north of England and the Midlands．In the south, however, the climate is much more pleasant．One result is that when people retire from the job in the north, they often prefer to move down to the south. 　　Perhaps the warmest part of the country is the southwest, which consists of (is made up of) the counties of Devon and Cornwall, where palm trees, bamboo and many semitropical plants grow well．Flowers and vegetables ripen as much as a month earlier than those elsewhere．Farmers in the areas gain a higher price for their vegetables and flowers because they are ready earlier．In winter there may be several feet of snow in other parts of England but there will probably be no snow at all in the southwest．This may be one of the reasons why the southwest is one of England's most popular holiday areas.[单选题] In the north of England and the Midland,

19.I was informed that the contract would come into _______on the first day of the following month.

20.If you want to stay young, sit down and have a good think. This is the research result of ProfessorFaulkner,who says that most of our brains are not getting enough exercise and as a result, we areageing unnecessarily soon.Professor Faulkner wanted to find out why healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losingtheir ability to think and to reason at a relatively early age, and how the process of ageing could beslowed down.He set about measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different ages and occupations.Computer technology enabled him to obtain precise measurements of the volume of the front andside sections of the brain, which relate to intelligence and emotion, and determine the humancharacter.Contraction of front and side parts—as cells die off—was observed in some subjects in their thirties,but it was still not evident in some sixty?and seventy?year?olds.Faulkner concluded from his tests that there is a simple way to slow the contraction—using thehead.The findings show that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in thetowns.Those least at risk, says Faulkner,are lawyers,followed by university professors and doctors.White?collar workers doing routine work are,however, as likely to have shrinking brains as the farmworker, bus driver and shop assistant.Faulkner’s findings show that thinking can prevent the brain from shrinking. Blood must circulateproperly in the head to supply the fresh oxygen the brain cells need.“The best way to maintaingood blood circulation is through using the brain,”he says.“Think hard and engage inconversation.Don’t rely on pocket calculators.”According to the passage,which group of people seem to age slower than the others?