完形填空。     I found a new job in a school last year. When I entered the school, I was really 1. ______. Before I
arrived, I thought the school would be 2. ______ and all the students would be having class in the classroom.
3. ______ all that I saw were the students 4. ______ on the playground. Some were playing with the sand and
some were 5. ______ wooden toys.
     "What are you doing?" I asked a ten-year-old boy.
     "We are playing," he replied without 6. ______. I was confused. How could all the students be playing
outside 7. ______ studying in the classroom? And none of them 8. ______ to care about their studies.
     Aren"t they worried about their studies at all? What about the teachers? Do they 9. ______ them to play?
With the 10. ______ in my mind, I went to the head teacher"s 11. ______.
     "The students are allowed to play for ten days. In these ten days, they don"t have to study in the classroom.
What they need to do is to do what they like," said the head teacher.
     "But 12. ______?" I asked.
     "There was once a very good student in our school. He was very good at his 13. ______. But he never
played. He studied all the time. However, he 14. ______became ill and was sent to the 15. ______ and died
only four days later. Before he died, we 16. ______him what he wanted to do 17. ______. He said he wanted
to play. So we 18. ______ to let the students play for ten days every 19. ______," said the teacher, and I
finally knew why.
     That student"s death gave the other students the 20. ______ to play.

(     )1. A. happy       (     )1. A. quiet       (     )3. A. Since       (     )4. A. running     (     )5. A. making       (     )6. A. breaking out  (     )7. A. because of   (     )8. A. meant       (     )9. A. beg         (     )10. A. opinions     (     )11. A. company     (     )12. A. why         (     )13. A. books      (     )14. A. interestingly (     )15. A. hotel       (     )16. A. took         (     )17. A. most         (     )18. A. decided     (     )19. A. festival     (     )20. A. task	B. excited     B. crowded     B. But         B. sitting     B. giving       B. showing off    B. instead of   B. liked       B. teach       B. questions   B. school       B. what         B. games    B. suddenly  B. playground     B. gave         B. least       B. stopped     B. try         B. right	C. surprised  C. far       C. Because   C. playing   C. selling   C. showing up     C. except for  C. seemed     C. expect     C. sentences  C. office     C. when       C. sports     C. hopefully  C. hospital   C. told       C. more       C. served     C. week       C. place	D. angry        D. clean        D. So           D. reading      D. building     D. looking up   D. in case of   D. happened     D. allow        D. news         D. home         D. where        D. studies                     D. carefully    D. cinema       D. asked        D. better       D. advised      D. term         D. decision
1-5: CABCA   6-10: DBCDB   11-15: CADBC   16-20: DAADB
阅读理解。
Is learning a foreign language ever easy? Yes. If you are five and move to another country, you will quickly pick up the language. But what about for the rest of us who are no longer five, and need to be polite when traveling for business or for pleasure? I think that answer is also yes. Language learning can be easy if you don"t want or need to learn too much.      The key to successful language learning in my mind is not to set the goal too high. It is rather like running. Even if you run twice a week, you don"t necessarily want to be able to run a marathon. You might just want to maintain a level of fitness. I think the same can be true for language learning.      Let"s get back to the goal. If you decide to learn ten words in a foreign language before visiting the country, you know that you will manage to do this. However, if you decide to attain conversational fluency, unless you are an exceptionally talented individual, you will probably fail and give up in disgust.      It is also far easier to start learning a foreign language than to finish. In other words, the better you are, the slower it can be to improve, because you will get stuck with grammar, making sentences, learning less common words, etc. If you are only trying to learn a few foreign words and phrases, you will enjoy faster progress, have more fun, and won"t have to spend too much time.      The idea of learning only a few hundred words in a language, and then stopping, isn"t the usual approach to language learning, but it can be a very rewarding and entertaining activity.
1. In the writer"s opinion, it is easy for adults to learn English if _____.
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A. they are especially talented individuals B. they don"t want or need to learn too much C. they have to spend a lot of time on it D. they have a chance to go abroad
2. The writer intends to express that learning only a few hundred words in a language, and then     stopping, _____.
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A. is the usual method of learning a language B. is of no use for learning a language C. may cause a lot of mistakes while traveling D. can be rewarding and entertaining
3. The writer believes that if you want to be good at a foreign language, you will probably _____.
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A. forget your own goals B. become a gifted language learner C. get tired of learning it D. reach your learning goal in advance
4. The best title of this passage would be _____.
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A. Easy Language Learning B. Hard Language Learning C. Fluency in a Foreign Language D. A Method of Language Learning
阅读理解。
People with less education suffer fewer stressful days, according to a report in the current issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.       However, the study also found that when less-educated people did suffer stress it was more severe and had a stronger effect on their health.       From this, researchers have concluded that the day-to-day factors that cause stress are regular. Where you are in society determines the kinds of problems that you have each day, and how well you will cope with them.       The research team interviewed a national sample of 1, 031 adults daily for eight days about their stress level and health. People without a high school diploma reported stress on 30 percent of the study days, people with a high school degree reported stress 38 percent of the time, and people with college degrees reported stress 44 percent of the time.      "Less advantaged people are less healthy on a daily basis and are more likely to have downward turns in their health." leading researcher, Dr. Joseph Grzywacz of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, said in a prepared statement."The downward turns in health were connected with daily stressors (紧张刺激物), and the effect of daily stressors on their health is much more damaging for the less advantaged."       "If something happens every day, maybe it"s not seen as a stressor." Grzywacz says. "Maybe it is just life."
1. Stress level is closely related to ______.
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A. family size B. social position C. body weight D. work experience
2. Which group reported the biggest number of stressful days?
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A. People without any education. B. People without high school degrees. C. People with high school degrees. D. People with college degrees.
3. The less advantaged people are, the greater ______.
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A. the effect of stress on their health is B. the effect of education on their health is C. the level of their education is D. the degree of their health concern is
4. Less-educated people report fewer days of stress possibly because ______.
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A. they don"t want to tell truth B. they don"t want to face the truth C. stress is too common a factor in their life D. their stress is much greater
阅读理解。
When students think of learning a foreign language, the first thought is of books, exercises, and audio cassettes. Those are important to learning but sometimes a little bit boring. Therefore, it is time for us to spice things up a bit.       Things like a cellphone can keep your interest level high. It"s a perfect study material. You have it with you day after day, you are familiar with how it works and you can use it to practice whenever you have time. You don"t need to have your books by your side or stay in your room to listen to tapes. Let"s take a look at how to add your cellphone to your study tools.       Set up your cellphone to use the language you want to study. Go to the menu, find settings, locate language and change it to English or Spanish, which benefits your language learning.       Look at the buttons and connect those items with the new vocabulary. This enables you to master simple words and phrases with little effort. For example, each time you open up your cellphone you"ll see "messages", "games" and "calls made". These words begin to take root if you see them again and again.       When you have time, take out your cellphone and start hitting buttons. You"ll be surprised at all the vocabulary you can learn by playing with the different menu items. Some things you"ll recognize immediately and others you can guess just by where you find them.       It can keep your learning fresh and interesting. And that"s important because boredom is a big problem with language learners. You need variety and a cellphone is one way to get it.
1. The underlined part "spice things up" in the first paragraph means "______".
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A. make things interesting B. make things realistic C. make things helpful D. make things obvious
2. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of using a cellphone as a study material?
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A. We can study with it at any moment. B. It keeps our learning interest high. C. We can use it to practice freely. D. It offers the chance to practice learning.
3. By playing with a cellphone, you can ______.
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A. learn the words in the menu B. remember the messages sent by others C. improve the techniques of playing games D. become familiar with different kinds of languages
4. Why did the author write the passage?
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A. To stress the importance of language learning. B. To introduce the latest ways of language learning. C. To inform how to keep your learning fresh. D. To explain how to use cellphones to learn language.
阅读理解。
It"s been claimed that playing a musical instrument makes you smarter. New research suggests that regularly playing a musical instrument changes the shape and power of the brain, and may be used in therapy (疗法) to improve cognitive (认知) skills.       Experts say there is growing evidence that musicians have brains that are structurally and functionally different from those of non-musicians, especially in the areas of the brain used in processing (处理信息).      The parts of the brain that control motor skills, the storage of audio information, hearing and memory become larger and more active when a person learns how to play an instrument and can apparently improve the alertness (警觉) and planning.      Lutz Jancke, a psychologist at the University of Zurich, said, "Leaning to play a musical instrument has great benefits and can increase IQ by seven points in both children and adults. We found that even people over the age of 65, after four or five months of playing an instrument for an hour a week, had strong changes in the brain." The parts of the brain that control hearing and memory, and the part that controls the hands, among others, all become more active.      "Of course music isn"t the only answer, but I do believe that it should be used in addition to other things."      Mr. Jancke also said that learning a musical instrument could also make it easier to learn foreign languages and make one more sensitive to understanding the emotions of others. "So not only does this make it easier to pick up other languages and have a better memory of one"s own, we have also seen musicians are able to pick out exactly what others are feeling just by the tones of their voices-sympathy, disappointment, that kind of things."      He added, "Several studies indeed show that playing music increases memory and language skills, but more research is needed."
1. What is the passage mainly about?
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A. How to use musical instruments. B. How music affects the brain. C. How playing music makes people smarter. D. The development of research into music.
2. Compared with non-musicians, ______.
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A. musicians are better at foreign languages B. musicians are more active in sports C. musicians have stronger emotions D. musicians" brains work differently in processing
3. Which of the following is NOT a benefit of playing an instrument?
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A. It makes it easier for one to pick up foreign languages. B. It allows one to show his feelings more exactly to others. C. It gives one a better memory in one"s own language. D. it makes one understand others" feelings better.
4. From Luz Jancke we lean that ______.
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A. playing an instrument benefits children more than adults B. playing an instrument has no benefits for people over 65 C. some studies show playing music can increase memory D. he will do more research into brain development and music
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ARLANDA, Sweden (Reuters Life!)-Many people hate the idea of having to sleep on a plane. But Swedish entrepreneur Oscar Dios thinks they can be persuaded otherwise and he has created a new kind of hostel to prove it.        Dios says it is the world"s first jumbo (unusually large) jet hostel, an actual jet-plane at Sweden"s main airport outside Stockholm which has been changed into a 25-room guesthouse that sleeps as many as 72 people.       "I learned about this plane that was standing deserted at Arlanda airport and I"ve been trying the concept of hostels in many different houses and buildings," he told Reuters ."I thought, "Why not a plane?""       Jumbo Hostels opened for business on Thursday, giving customers the chance to check in and sleep in a room that can best be described as comfortable."       "The most challenging part with this project is trying to build something inside a metal hull (壳)-it"s just really, really tight."       The jet, which was originally produced for Singapore Airlines, was taken out of service in 2002. It is held on a concrete foundation with the landing gear secured in steel cradles.       One feature of the hostel is its price-a room starts at 350 Swedish crowns (about $ 41), which is a lot less than hotel rooms outside of major airports.       Another feature is that customers can get married on the wing of the plane and stay in the plane"s more luxurious honeymoon suite (套房).       Instead of walking down the aisle in the church, lovebirds can take what Jumbo Hostels calls the "wing walk," where they can be joined in great happiness at the wing tip. The hostel has someone ready to perform the ceremony.       But in some respects this hostel remains a plane-most customers have to share the jet"s nine bathrooms and the staff only wear air host and hostess outfits. The only room that has its own bathroom is the honeymoon suite.
1. One of the features of the plane hostel is that _____.
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A. customers can sleep in comfortable rooms B. air hostesses can offer good service C. a wedding ceremony can be held on the wing D. the staff can have a"wing walk"
2. We can learn from the text that _____.
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A. the hostel lies at Arlanda airport in Stockholm B. the jet plane was out of use for over six years C. the hostel provides nine bathrooms for customers D. every hostel room is $ 41 per night
3. The underlined word "tight" means _____.
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A. crowded B. tense C. small D. full
4. The purpose of the passage is to _____.
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A. introduce a new kind of hostel B. describe a wonderful place for weddings C. prove people can sleep on a plane D. call on people to make use of the deserted things