1.What do you use to get around town? A cat? A bike? Your feet? Perhaps you should try a Segway!The Segway is perfect for short journey.It is an electric vehicle that consists of a platform between two wheels, with a pole that connects the platform to the handlebars.To ride it, you step up onto the platform, and control the Segway by moving your body.Lean forwards to go faster, and backwards to slow down.On older models, direction is controlled by a twist grip(扭转把手)on the left handlebar.This varies the speeds between the two motors, a decrease in the seed of the left wheel would turn the Segway to the left.With never models you simply lean to the left or right.Meanwhile, agyroscope(陀螺仪)detects your movements and prevents the machine form falling over.TheSegway has a maximum speed of 19 km per hour and a range of about 38 km.After that, you need to plug it in and recharge the battery.Segways are used for a variety of purposes.People with mobility problems can now enjoy walks in the country with their friends and family.Some golfers use them as an alternative to the golf cart.And dog owners now have an easier way to take the dog to the park.A few police forces use Segways, too.They allow officers to move quickly whilst maintaining contact with the public.They are also becoming a common sight on airport.However, the most popular use is in tourism,particularly for city tours.Visit any major tourist city in summer, sit outside a cafe for a while and there is a good chance you will see a group of tourists passing on Segways.The last paragraph focuses on ___________?

2.What can you do to recall your dreams more often and interpret them more clearly? The expertsoffer these suggestions: Develop an idea. Before you go to sleep, consciously think about a topicor a person you’d like to dream about. Raise a question that’s troubling you and see how yourdream responds to it. Keep track. Next to your bed, place a pen and some paper, or a tape recorderor a laptop(笔记本电脑) , to record your dreams as soon as you wake up. Try to wake up naturally,without the help of an alarm clock or barking dog that can interrupt your dream cycle. If yourschedule doesn’t allow you to sleep in during the week, begin your dream journey on a weekendor during a vocation. Wake up slowly. For the first moment after you wake up, lie still and keepyour eyes closed, because your dream may be connected to your body position while you slept.Try to recall the dream and then store it in your memory by giving it a name like “Late for an Exam”or “My Dare with Ashley Judd” when you rise, immediately wrote down as many images, feelingand impressions as you can. Connect the dots. To better interpret your dreams, try to makeconnection between your recalled dreams and recent events. Do you recognize people from thepresent or past? Can you detect any themes from the dream? Look for partners over severaldreams that might help explain an individual dream. Change the outcome. If you have nightmareshappening again and again that make it different to sleep, try to change the endings. Once youwake up from a bad dream, imagine a change in the action to create more positive outcome. If youare trapped, try to fly. In your dream, you can do what you want!According to the passage, how can you overcome a nightmare?

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If you want to learn a new language,the very first thing to think about is why.Do you need it for a1reason,such as your job or your studies?Or perhaps you are interested in the 2,films or the music of a different country and you know howmuch it willhelp to have a 3of the language.

Most people learn best using a variety of 4,but traditional classes are an ideal(理想的）start for many people.They provide an environment where you can practice underthe 5of someone who's good at the language.We all lead6lives and learninglanguage takes time.You will have more success if you study regularly,so try to developa7.It doesn't matter if you haven't got long.Becoming fluent in a language will takeyears,but learning to get by takes8 .

Many people start learning a language and soon give up."I'm too9,"they say.Yes,children do learn languages more10than adults,but research has shown thatyou can learn a language at any age.And learning is good for the health of your brain,too.I've also heard people 11about the mistakes they make when learning.Well,relax andlaugh about your mistakes 12 you're much less likely to make them again.

Learning a new language is never 13.But with some work and devotion,you'llmake progress.And you'll be 14 by the positive reaction of some people when you sayjust a few words in 15 own language.Good luck!12.[ 单选 ]

4.Edison was very interested___science when he was a boy.

5.September 10th is___Day.

6.Jack was born___March 1st,1978.

7.There are millions of left—handed.people in the world.A number of them got together in1975 toform an association called Lefthanders International.The purpose of the organization isto fight discrimination(particularly in jobs)and to inform the public.They want everybody tounderstand the left.handress are neither“strange”nor sick nor drangerous.Many studies have been made recently about hand preferance in humans.They havebroughtinteresting results.It has been found，for instance，that many more men tha.n womenare left— handed.that all children use both hand about equally until they are three years oldand that hand preference is not clearly marked until age six.Above that age，most people notonly favour one purtitular hand but also have a favourite eye，a favourite ear and foot.We know that the left side of the body is controlled by the right side of the brain，whichseem8 that this particular half is the seat of emotions，imagination，and of the sense of space.And，indeed，lefties seem to be more creative than the fight—handers;they also seem to bemore athletic and to do better in some professions which like sports require a good sense ofsDace.In a large school of architecture，it was found in 1977 that 29%of tlle professors and23%of the graduating statents were left handed-while lefties represent less than l0%of thegeneral population.Finally.1eft handers may be more stubborn and more impulsive(冲动的)than righthanders.Andthev are more likely to suffer from problems such as stuttering(口吃)and adifficulty in readingcalled dyslexia.The problems are more serious in left handed persons whohave been forced tofavour their right hard.Doctors insist that one should never try to change achild’s hand preference.According to recent studies，when is hand preference formed?

8.The skirt is ______in small, medium and large size

9.California families are facing a rapidly mounting uphill battle to make enough money to provide basic household essentials, according to a new study conducted by the California Budget Project. 　　The research compiled by the Sacramento-based non-profit organization concluded an average two-parent family with one employed adult in California needs to make $51,177 a year, or $24.60 cents an hour, to pay for housing, transportation, food, utilities, child care, health coverage, taxes and other basic expenses. 　　The number grows significantly higher in the Bay Area, the state's most expensive region．A Bay Area family of four with two working adults living in rental housing needs a combined income of $79,946 to cover essential needs．That number is more than four times greater than the $19,157 income level recognized by the federal government as impoverished. 　　The study is the fourth semi-annual survey conducted by the California Budget Project since 1999． California Budget Project executive director Jean Ross said helping state officials and residents understand the numbers found in the report is crucial to moving families toward self-sufficiency. "How should we be targeting some of our programs and policies? How much do young people need to earn and what kind of a job should they be looking to train for if they want to have that salary that can support a family?" 　　CBP said the project was based on actual costs or generally accepted fair standard prices based on weighted averages found in ten California regions.[单选题] In the Bay Area, a family needs to earn __ the amount they do in other areas．

10.There here have been great changes in the lives of womanDuring the twentieth century thewas an unusual shortening of the time of g woman's.lifespentin caring for children.A woman marrying at the end of the 19th century would probably have been in her middle twenties, andwould be likely to have seven or eight children.of whom four or five lived till they were five years old.By the time the youngest was fifteen.the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years.(during whichcustom,chance and health made it unusual or her to get paid work.Today women marry younger and have fewer children.Usuallya woman's youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty.Even while she has the care of children,her work is lightened by household appliances(家用电器）and convenience foods.This important change in women's way of life has only recently begun to have its full effect on women's economic position.Even a few years ago most girls left school at the first opportunity and most of them took a full-time job.However,when they married,they usually left,work at once and never returned to it..Today the school-leaving age is six-teen,many girls stay at school after that age, and though women tend to marry younger,more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born.Very many more afterwards,return to full or part-time work.Such changes have led to anew relationship in marriage,with both husband and wife accepting a greater share of the dutiesand satisfaction of family life,and with both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money and running the home,according to the abilities and interest of each them.According to the passage,around the year 1990 most women married （）

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Passage Two

Women are on the whole more verbal than men. They are good at 1anguage and verbal reasoning. while men tend to be skilled at tasks demanding visual-spatial(

视空 )abilities. In fact, along with aggression these are the most commonly accepted difference between these sexes.

Words are tools for communicating with other people especially information about people. They are mainly social tools. Visual and spatial abilities are good for imagining and manipulating objects and for communicating information about them. Are these talents programmed into the brain? In some of the newest and most controversial research in neurophysiology( 神经生理学 ), it has been suggested that when it comes to the brain males are specialists while women are generalists.

But one knows that, if anything this means in terms of the abilities of the two sexes. Engineering is both Visual and spatial and it ’s true that there are relatively few women engineers. But women become just as skilled

as men at shooting a rifle or driving a car task that involve visual-spatial skills. They also do equally well at programming a computer, which is neither visual nor spatial. Women do, however, seem less likely to fall in love with the objects themselves. We all know men for whom machines seem to be extensions of their identity.

（82）A woman is more likely to see her car, rifle or computer as a useful tool but not in itself fascinating.In the author ’s opinion, visual and spatial abilities are good for______.

12.One and a half years _____passed

13.It is customary for adults to forget how hard and dull and long school is. The learning by memory of all the basic things one must know is a most incredible and unending effort. Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don’t believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it. School is not easy and it is not for the most part very much fun, but then, if you are very lucky, you may find a real teacher. Three real teachers in a lifetime is the very best of my luck. My first was a science and math teacher in high school, my second, a professor of creative writing at Stanford, and my third was my friend and partner, Ed Ricketts.　　My three had these things in common: They all loved what they were doing. They did not tell; they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious.　　I shall speak only of my first teacher because in addition to the other things, she brought discovery.　　She aroused us to shouting, book waving discussions. She had the noisiest class in school and she didn’t even seem to know it. We could never stick to the subject. Our speculation ranged the world. She breathed curiosity into us so that we brought in facts or truths shielded in our hands like captured fireflies.　　I can tell my son who looks forward with horror to fifteen years of drudgery that somewhere in the dusty dark a magic may happen that will light up the years if he is very lucky.Among his teachers, left him a very deep impression

14.If a computer could be made as complex as a human brain, it could do _______a man can do.

15. 根据以下材料，回答56-60题 A．What should I do B．Thank you，mom C．Where have you been D．Yes，he is E．What was wrong with him F．Were you sick G．Where is the hospital H．I’m sorry to hear that A：Jim，you said you would not stay out late after school，didn’t you? B：Yes，mom，I did． A：But it’s l0 o’clock now． 56 B：Sorry．I’ve been to the hospital． A：What? 57 ? B：．N0．I sent Jack to the hospital． A：Oh，really? 58? B：He had a terrible headache on the way home． A：Is he better now? B： 59． A：Good for you，my dear!I’m very glad you can help others． B： 60．B： 60．

16.III. Cloze ( 30 points)In Britain, people have different attitudes to the police. Most people generally 21 them and the job they do-although there are certain people who do not believe that the police 22 have the power that they do.What does a policeman actually do? It is not 23 job to describe. After all, a policeman has a number of jobs in one. A policeman often has to control traffic,either 24 foot in the center of a town, or in a police car on the roads, indeed, in Britain, he might be in the Traffic Police and spend all, or a lot of, hit time 25 up and down main roads and motorways. A traffic policeman has to help keep the traffic moving, stop 26 motorists and help when there is an accident.A policeman has to help keep the 27 , too. If there is a fight or some other disturbance, we 28 the police to come and restore order. And they often have to deal with situation at great risk to their own 29 .We expect the police to solve crimes, of course, so an ordinary policeman, even if he is not a detective, will often have to help 30 and arrest criminals.And 31 do we call when there is an emergency--an air crash, a fire, a road accident, or a robbery? We call the police. 32 a policeman has to be prepared to face any unpleasant emergency that may happen in the 33 world.The police do an absolutely necessary job, they do it 34 well and I support them, but I do not envy policeman. I do not think that I could 35 do the job of a policeman. （）A.resting B.tired C.speeding D.drunken

17.Themarket is a concept.If you are growing tomatoes in your backyard for sale you areProducing for the market.You might sell some to your neighbour and some to the managerof the local supermarket.But in either case,you are producing for the market.Your efforts are being directed by the market.If people stop buying tomatoes,you will stop producing them.If you take care of a sick person to earn money,you are producing for the market.If your father is a steelworker or a taxi driver or a doctor or a grocer(杂货商），he is producing goods or service for the market.When you spend your income,you are buying things from the market.You may spend money in stores,supermarkets and gas stations.Still you are buying from the marketWhen the local grocer hires you to drive the delivery truck,he is buying your labor in the labour market.The market may seem to be something abstract(抽象的）。But for each person or businessman who is making and selling something,it is real.If nobody buys your tomatoes,itwon't be long beforeyou get the message.The market is telling you something.It's tellingyou that you are using energies and resources in doing something the market doesn't wantyou to do!You are buying from the market when you（）

18.Henry ’ s job was to examine cars crossing the frontier to make sure that they were not smuggling( 走私 ) anything into the country. Every morning, except weekends, he 61 see a factory worker coming up the hill toward the frontier, 62 a bicycle with a big load of old straw on it. When the bicycle 63 the frontier, Henry used to stop the man and 64 him take the straw off and 65 it. Then he would examine the straw very carefully to see 66 he would find anything, after which he would look in all the man 67 he let him tie the straw up ’ s pockets again. The man would then pull it on his bicycle and go off down the hill with it. Although Henry was always 68 to find gold or jewelry or other valuable things 69 in the straw, he never found 70 , even though he examined it very carefully. He was sure that the man was 71 something, but he was not 72 to imagine what it could be. Then one morning, after he had looked 73 the straw and emptied the factory worker ’ s pockets 74 usual, he 75 to him, ― Listen, I know that you are smuggling things 76 this frontier. Won ’ t you tell me what it is that you are bringing into the country so successfully? I ’ m an old man, and today is my last day on the77 .Tomorrow I ’ m going to 78 .I promise that I shall not tell 79 if you tell me what you ’ ve been smuggling. ― The factory worker did not say anything for 80 . Then he smiled, turned to Henry and quietly, ― Bicycles.70.( )

19.“I'm glad to see you.““”（）

20. Fiftyyearsagonotmanypeoplewouldhavesomethingrepairedintheirhomes.Inthosedayslaborwasfairlycheapandmost peoplewouldhavethoughtitworthwhiletohavesomebodyrepairtheirthingsunlesstheywereverypoor.Today,however,itisquiteadifferentstory.Menandwomeninallwalksoflifeturntheirhandstoallkindsofjobsroundthehouse.Somepeoplehaveevensuccessfullybuilttheirownhouses.Thesejobshavebeenmadeeasiertodaybyusingpreparedmaterials.,IneveryhighstreetthroughoutBritainnowadaysthereisatleastone“DIY”shop.And ”do it yourself"isaboomingbusinessAlot of people visitedtheseshopsevery day becauseofthehighcostofpresent-daylabor. Manyjobshavebeenmadeeasiertodaybecause（）