According to the Gini Index, the degree of wealth concentration in China has risen by a third in the past 35 years and now is larger than __________ of the US.

A. this                          B. one                          C. that                          D. such

Every flu season it seems like we’re bombarded (炮轰, 轰击) with commercials for new and improved medicines promising to relieve terrible headaches and f___1___. But for many people around the world, the secret to avoiding a nasty or even fatal cold might lie in a better diet, not drugs. Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center in Maryland, and the Nestle Research Center in Switzerland have found that a deficiency of the mineral selenium (硒) may c___2___ to the spread of highly virulent strains of influenza virus.

The team infected two g___3____ of mice—one that had sufficient selenium in their diets and one that did not — with a type of flu that also affects h___4___. The selenium-deficient mice were more l___5___ to get sick after being infected. More worrisome (令人不安的), the flu virus grew m___6___ virulent when it re-emerged for the selenium-deficient mice.

Random mutations (变异) normally alter the genes responsible f___7___ designing the proteins on the virus’s surface. But in selenium-deficient mice, “it’s the exact opposite to what we expected,” says Beck, a researcher. The rapid mutation was instead occurring in genes that code for internal proteins. Those changes, she says, might reprogram the flu strain, making it more contagious (传染性的).

Beck and her team are still uncertain exactly h___8___ selenium fits into the puzzle, but scientists know the mineral is necessary for antioxidant (抗氧化剂) activity in the body. without selenium, excess (过度的) free radicals wreak havoc (发泄, 报仇) on the viral (滤过性病毒) RNA, leading to those unexpected mutations, says Beck.

Common sources of selenium include breads, meats and fish, foods that Americans eat in abundance, says Orville Levander, a chemist at the Beltsville Nutrition Center. But Levander points out that some areas in China l___9___ selenium in the soil, and people who live there require selenium supplements to a___10___ health problems.

     Fifty Japanese graduates decided to gamble with their job opportunities at a mahjong

tournament set up by interviewers looking for a different way to choose interviewees.  Held in

a crammed mahjong outlet in downtown Tokyo, competitors competed against each other on

Friday to gain the chance to face interviewers from six companies in the fitness, education,

technology and real estate sectors.

      "Mahjong is a very strategic game, so I think people who are good at it would be good at

marketing. This is a new approach and I find it really interesting," candidate Tomoko

Hasegawa, who desired to become a designer, told Reuters.

    Mahjong, which originated in China, is similar to a western card game, and players in

Japan said the game required skill, strategy, calculation and a degree of chance.

     Organizers said the tournaments began in 2012 and had gained popularity, mostly among

male students, and also with hirers, who said the game revealed more about the candidates

than just long pages of resumes（简历).

     On Friday, eight students advanced to the next round of the selection process. Between

five and ten students are hired by participating companies every year, organizers said.

29. What did hirers mainly want to express in Para.  4?

      A. The rules of the game.

      B. The qualifications of the candidates.

      C. The functions of the tournaments.

      D. The advantages of long pages of resumes.

30. What is Tomoko Hasegawa's attitude toward mahjong?

      A. A very popular activity.

      B. A competition to win jobs.

      C. A risk of gaining or losing money.

      D. A game related to a set of plans.

31. Why was the mahjong tournament set up?

      A. For employers to pick out interviewees.

      B. To promote the game of mahjong in Japan.

      C. For college students to show their special talents.

      D. To improve employees' skills and working ability.

 

My dad always collected coins. He was delighted when the new U.S. state coins were ______ . He would walk to his long-time bankers and make sure they put at least a ______ of new coins aside for him. He gave them to every family member. It gradually became a special family ______ to get coins from Dad.

When my dad ______,  I felt such a sense of emptiness. My father and I had been so close. I was lost without his ______ and support. I wondered if I would ever feel my dad around me again, ______ me. It was right after Hurricane Katrina and I was doing a motivational meeting for about three hundred volunteers. At the end of the event, I felt so grateful as I looked at these ______ individuals. To my ______, when I glanced at the floor, I saw nothing ______ a coin, from North Carolina, the state in which my dad was born and ______.

Then two months later, I went back to visit my mom. While I was there, I went to the bank to ______ a check. The bank manager, who had known me, called me into her office, showing me the coins for all the states my dad had ______.

Ever since that time, I have always found coins at the most ______ times, when I needed support the most. Amazingly, nowadays when I need emotional support during a ______ time, a coin will always show up in a（n） ______ place.

It has now become a tradition in my family. Every time a coin appears in our house, one of my kids says, “Oh, it’s ______! ”We all feel a sense of ______ every time a single coin turns up in an unexpected place. We have all ______ it as a ______ of love, guidance and support from Dad — and every new coin we find makes us ______.

36．A. Delivered         B. sold          C. discovered        D. issued

37．A. pack              B. Roll          C. bunch             D. pile

38．A. Tradition         B. memory        C. decision          D. interest

39．A. Missed            B. disappeared   C. died              D. dropped

40．A. guidance          B. promise       C. expectation       D. belief

41．A. watching over     B. bringing up   C. waiting for       D. listening to

42．A. concerned         B. devoted       C. embarrassed       D. relaxed

43．A. delight           B. confusion     C. astonishment      D. relief

44．A. from              B. but           C. with              D. for

45．A. raised           B. brought       C. grown             D. played

46．A. spend            B. sign          C. pay               D. cash

47．A. ordered          B. collected     C. received          D. shared

48．A. boring           B. adventurous   C. precious          D. extraordinary

49．A. complicated      B. nervous       C. disturbed         D. tough

50．A. strange          B. annoying      C. satisfying        D. hard

51．A. money            B. Grandpa       C. toy               D. belief

52．A. proud            B. comfort       C. success           D. inspiration

53．A. thought          B. explained     C. accepted          D. consulted

54．A. result           B. praise        C. message           D. need

55．A. change           B. gain          C. improve           D. Smile

 Dear XXX,

　　From the moment

　　I started rolling my dad’s tube socks

　　And shooting imaginary

　　Game-winning shots

　　In the Great Western Forum

　　I knew one thing was real:

I fell in love with you.

　　A love so deep I gave you my all —

　　From my mind & body

To my spirit & soul.

　　As a six-year-old boy

　　Deeply in love with you

　　I never saw the end of the tunnel.

　　I only saw myself

　　Running out of one.

　　

And so I ran.

　　I ran up and down every court

　　After every loose ball for you.

　　You asked for my hustle

　　I gave you my heart

Because it came with so much more.

　　I played through the sweat and hurt

　　Not because challenge called me

　　But because YOU called me.

　　I did everything for YOU

　　Because that’s what you do

　　When someone makes you feel as

Alive as you’ve made me feel.

　　You gave a six-year-old boy his Laker dream

　　And I’ll always love you for it.

　　But I can’t love you obsessively for much longer.

　　This season is all I have left to give.

　　My heart can take the pounding

　　My mind can handle the grind

But my body knows it’s time to say goodbye.

　　And that’s OK.

　　I’m ready to let you go.

　　I want you to know now

　　So we both can savor every moment we have left together.

　　The good and the bad.

　　We have given each other

All that we have.

　　And we both know, no matter what I do next

　　I’ll always be that kid

　　With the rolled up socks

　　Garbage can in the corner

　　:05 seconds on the clock

　　Ball in my hands.

　　5 … 4 … 3 … 2 … 1

　　                                          Love you always,

　　                                                 Kobe

77. Who was this letter written to?

  A. Kobe’s father.                 B. Kobe’s wife.            C. Basketball.                    D. Himself.

78. When was the letter written?

 A. When Kobe found himself falling in love.

 B. When Kobe started rolling his dad’s tube socks.

 C. When someone made Kobe feel threatened.

 D. When Kobe decided to announce his retirement.

79. Which of the following statements is FALSE?

 A. Kobe started his Laker dream at the age of six.

 B. The Great Western Forum is most probably a stadium.

 C. Kobe will give up the season because it is time to say goodbye.

 D. Kobe is suffering multiple physical injuries.

 

Bookstores are a traveller's best friend: they provide convenient shelter in bad weather, and they often host readings and other cultural events. Here is a look at world’s six greatest bookstores.

Adrian Harrington—since 1971. Rare books; rare first editions; leather bound sets and general antiquarian (古玩). Address: 64a Kensington Church Street, Kensington, London, England, U.K.

Another Country—Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany. Another Country is an English Language second hand bookshop which is mostly used as a library. They have about 20,000 books that you can buy or borrow. Some regular events are held at the shop, such as readings, cultural events, social evenings and film nights.

Atlantis Books—Oía, Santorini, Greece. Atlantis Books is an independent bookshop on the island of Santorini, Greece, founded in 2004 by a group of friends from Cyprus, England, and the United States. Throughout the year it has hosted literary festivals, film screenings, book readings, and good old fashioned dance parties.

Bart’s Books—Ojai, California, U.S.A. “The World’s Greatest Outdoor Bookstore”, a bookstore founded by Richard Bartinsdale in 1964. Shelves of books face the street, and regular customers are asked to drop coins into the door’s coin box to pay for any books they take whenever the store is closed.

Corso Como Bookshop—Milan, Italy. Extensive selection of publication on art, architecture, design, graphics and fashion, along with a strong emphasis on photography. It was founded in 1990 in Milan, Italy, by Carla Sozzani.

The Bookworm—Beijing, China. A bookshop, library, bar, restaurant and event space, now with four divisions in three cities—Beijing, Suzhou and Chengdu. The interconnecting rooms with floor-to-ceiling books on every wall are light and airy in summer, yet warm and comfortable in winter.

21．Which of the following bookstores has the longest history?

A．Adrian Harrington.                               B．Atlantis Books.

C．Bart’s Books.                                      D．Corso Como Bookshop.

22．What can you do in Atlantis Books?

A．Attend a festival.                                  B．Kill time in a bar.

C．Enjoy rare books.                                D．Buy books anytime.

23．How is The Bookworm different from the other bookstores?

A．It is used as a library.                           B．It hosts all sorts of activities.

C．It focuses on photography.                   D．It has branches in different cities.

    I can tell you from experience, both private and public schools have one thing in common.

  Look around your school. What do you see? Beautiful buildings? Good teachers? I’ll tell you what

  I see: the need to have the most expensive clothing, newest phone, most expensive car, etc. Think

  about it. Do you find yourself wanting to one-up(胜过)your friends? Be honest. I know I have at

  some point in time.

    In my school parking lot, for example, there are more BMW’s and Mercedes than one

  could possibly imagine. When I look at my 2006 Honda CRV, the butterflies in my stomach start

  flapping their wings wildly. Do people look at me differently because my car is old?

    What about my phone? What about text messaging? Earlier this year in my statistics class

  my teacher asked our class how many texts each student received in the past 24 hours. My count

  was twelve. Twenty minutes later, people started to come up with the answers of 200 or more. I

  firmly believe that people were in competition with each other. Who could get the most texts?

  Having only twelve texts sent to me made me feel terrible. Was it bad that hardly anyone had

  texted me? My teacher would never have thought that his question which intended a better

  understanding of the course made me uncomfortable.

    How about the difference between grade levels in high school? Come on. There is a

  distinct difference from being a senior and a freshman. At gatherings, the senior class boos(喝倒

  彩)every other grade, sometimes causing fights. Being a senior, I don’t want to make negative

  comments on people in other grade levels. High school is hard enough as it is. Freshmen,

  sophomores and juniors don’t need four hundred students to remind them.

    Trying to impress everyone is hard. Most of the stress we have as teens is living up to

  everyone else’s expectations. The only people we need to impress are ourselves. Be in competition

  with yourself and you’ll live a happier life.     

71. What is the comon thing beteen private and public schools according to the writer? 

   A. Good teaching resourses.     B. Great need for advanced technology.

  C. Students’ competition for material things.     D. Having a beautiful environment.

  72. How does a person feel if he has a butterfly in his stomach?

  A. Proud.     B. Nervous.     C. Confident.     D. Angry.

  73. Why did the teacher ask the students about the number of the texts they received?

  A. It was connected with what he was teaching.

  B. He wanted to learn about their social habits.

  C. He wanted to make his class interesting.

  D. He tried to stop them texting in his class.

  74. We can learn from the fourth paragraph that _________.

  A. the writer finds it hard to get on well with others

  B. the writer is a considerate person

  C. students in lower grades should be reminded to behave well

  D. fights and quarrels are common between different grades

  75. To live a happier life, teens are advised _________.

  A. to stop buying expensive things     B. to do things as they are expected

  C. to leave a good impression on others     D. to stop competing with others

 假定你是李华,你班上最近转来一位身材肥胖的新生,很多同学都嘲笑他。这让你感到非常气愤,但又无计可施。就此请你用英语写封邮件给你的网友Tom求助,内容要点包括：

1．简略介绍该情况；

2．表达你对该事的看法；

3．征求Tom的建议。

注意：

1．词数100左右；

2．可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯；

3．开头和结尾已为你写好,不计人总词数。

Dear Tom,

    How are you going? I miss you very much._______________

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

I came to study in the United States a year ago .Yet I did not know the real American society until I was injured in a car accident because after the accident I had to see a doctor and go to court.

After the accident .my roommate called a doctor for me. I was very grateful and determined to repay him one day. But the next day, he asked me to pay him $200 for what he had done. I was astonished. He had good reason to charge me, he said. And if I wanted to collect money from the person who was responsible for my injury, I’d have to have a good lawyer. And only a good doctor can help me get a good lawyer .Now that he had helped me find a good doctor, it was only fair that I should pay him.
   But every day I went to see the doctor，I had to wait about 50 minutes. He would see two or three patients at the same time, and often stop treating one so as to see another. Yet he charged me $115 each time .The final examination report consisted of ten lines, and it cost me $215.
    My lawyer was all smiles the first time we met. But after that he avoided seeing me at all. He knew very well the other party was responsible for the accident, yet he hardly did anything. He simply waited to collect his money. He was so irresponsible that I decided to dismiss him. And he made me pay him $770.

Now I had to act as my own lawyer. Due to my inexperience, I told the insurance company the date I was leaving America. Knowing that, they played for time…and I left without getting a cent.

36. The author’s roommate offered to help him because________.
   A. he thought it was a chance to make some money

   B. he felt sorry for the author

C. he knew the doctor was a very good one
D. he wanted the author to have a good lawyer

37. A good doctor is essential for the author to __________.
  A. be properly treated
  B. talk with the person responsible for the accident
  C. eventually get the responsible party to pay for his injury
  D. recover before he leaves America

38. The word “charge” in the third paragraph means_________ .
    A. be responsible     B. ask as a price      C. accuse   D. claim
39. Both the doctor and the lawyer in this passage are very__________.
    A. friendly     B. professional  C. selfish      D. busy
40. What conclusion can you draw from the story?
    A. Money is more important than other things in the US

B. One must be very careful while driving a car.

C. There are more bad sides in America than good sides.

D. Going to court is something very common in America.

Service Foods makes it easier for cooks to reduce mealtime complains. Service Foods is so confident that they can reduce complaints, in fact, that the company is offering a series of mealtime complaint-reduction tips.

According to a representative of Service Foods, complaints can occur when busy cooks serve substandard, low quality meats. As products sit in packaging in the meat case at the store, the meat can age out too much. The natural flavor disappears, and it can be replaced with an undesirable strange flavor. According to Service Foods, complaints from children are common when you serve substandard meats. Kids may not have the words to describe why they don't like the meats, but they're certainly willing to express their displeasure. By serving meats from Service Foods, complaints can be reduced. Service Foods meats are all natural and organic, meaning the meats have-no chemicals or water or colorings that could change the taste. And the meats are flash-frozen right after cutting, so they won't taste strange to your children.

If you're facing different types of complaints, Service Foods may still be able to help you. Some families have mealtime boredom. The same meals, served in the same way, week after week, can be incredibly boring and hard to look forward to. When it comes to these complaints, Service Foods has the answer right on the web. Just go to http: //www. servicefoods.com and you'll find a long list of recipes to try. Some of these recipes are made in demonstration format, so you can watch the video and get step-by-step instructions on how to prepare the meals. By following these recipes from Service Foods, complaints relating to boredom can certainly be reduced.

While Service Foods knows complaints at mealtime can never be totally eradicated, as picky kids will always be picky kids with concerns, the company is doing everything possible to deal with the problem and get cooks the help they need.

28. Service Foods can solve mealtime boredom by ______.

A. serving flash-frozen meat

B. expressing children's complaints

C. instructing different ways of cooking

D. supplying natural food without chemicals

29 .The underlined word "eradicated" in the last paragraph can be replaced with ______.

A. covered            B. removed               C. reduced                                  D. accepted

30. From the passage we can learn that Service Foods can do the following EXCEPT ______.

A. cook food for picky kids            B. teach how to prepare meals

C. provide natural and organic meat     D. help reduce complaints about foods

31.What will the readers probably do after reading the passage?

A. Pay for Service Foods service.         B. Buy organic meat from now on.

C. Write recipes for Service Foods.        D. Answer complaints on the web.

                             

A.Keep an eye on your storage media. 

B.Organization makes it easy to find your stuff later.

C.Write down where you have important files.

D. Would you care if this was deleted tomorrow?

E.Remember something is better than nothing.

F. Preserve your digital memories now, before it's too late.

    How to Keep Your Digital Memorials Safe?

    Do you value your digital stuff? Nearly everyone is creating things with computers, and some do it without any concern for its value. Others recognize its current value, but think little about what it could mean to them in the future, and either aren't aware or don't think that all of it could be destroyed tomorrow. But hard drives die all the time, and the online services into which people sink their time close with alarming regularity, taking the work of millions of people with it._________67____________.

Steps

1.Prepare to make a quick backup. If nothing else, get a cheap USB stick and drag-and-drop your documents folder onto it. Worry about the other things later. You should do more than this, but it's most important to take the most valuable, irreplaceable information from your hard drive and put it on a second medium to guard against hard drive failure, theft or loss.

2.Decide what you value. Some questions to ask yourself are:How replaceable is this data? How good are you at assessing the value of items? _______68__________. For things like business accounts and documents, the answer is of course you would. This kind of thing should be your first priority.

3.Start making backups. __________69__________ Diminishing returns (效益递减) apply in backups as they do with everything else. The cheapest and simplest backup methods take care of an overwhelming majority of likely loss-of-stuff. Over-complicating your backup strategy is the biggest trap: the more complicated and expensive you insist on making it, the less likely you are to do it.

4.____________70______________If one of your backup drives fails, replace it immediately. Remember that all storage devices eventually become obsolete (陈旧的). If you have valuable files on obsolete media, those files become increasingly difficult to access with every passing year. So in order to keep your files accessible, remember to migrate your collection to new storage media periodically.

IV Summary Writing

Direction: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main file of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

Airline seats have been one-size-fits-all since the beginning. Today, those 16.5 to 18-inch wide seats are anything but.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), obesity(肥胖症) has more than doubled since 1980. In 2014, more than l.9 billion adults were overweight, and over 600 million were obese.

   The unchanged seat size and increase of obese passengers highlight the conflict between airlines' needs and basic passenger rights.

Last month, lawyer Giorgio Destro, an Italian lawyer, sued Emirates, claiming his flight was disturbed by an obese passenger seated next to him. According to reports, Destro was not able to comfortably sit in his assigned seat, and spent much of the nine-hour flight standing or sitting in crew seats, because a 400-pound passenger took up half of his seat.

Many airlines have responded to the growing obesity by insisting passengers of size buy two seats to ensure safety and comfort. Samoa Air, for example, is charging by weight (which has become known as a "fat tax"). At first glance, the fat tax issue sounds discriminatory (歧视的, but some argue that this is purely down to numbers. A kilo is a kilo. It has nothing to do, with the condition of the weight.The heavier a plane is, the more fuel it burns through.

In other words, the argument is whether it is fair that a 150-pound person is charged for their 50-pound bag, when a 300-pound person with a carry-on isn’t charged anything extra.

     However, Peggy Howell of NAAFA argues that obesity is an illness, and that obese people should be entitled to having certain rights protected.

“We question the legality of the discriminatory policy and whether it violates the Air Carrier Access Act governing the treatment of passengers with disabilities,” she says. “The American Medical Association (AMA) recently declared obesity a disease, which should make fat passengers a protected class.”

Howell points out that the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) addressed this issue in 2009, and issued a ‘one-person, one-fare’ ruling covering passengers with disabilities. Those passengers include ones who are ‘clinically obese’ and who cannot fit into a single seat.

    假如你是李华，是某高级中学的学生，出于安全考虑你校最近禁止所有学生到校外就餐，但学生们认为校外的饭菜与学校食堂的相比，既便宜又好吃。请你就此事给校长写-封信，并提出你的建议。

注惫：1.词数110左右;

     2.可适当发挥，以使行文连贯;

     3.开头与结尾已写好，不计人总词数。

    生词：食堂canteen

Dear headmaster,

I·m Li Hua, a student from Class 6, Grade 3.

                                                                                                

                                                                                                

                                                                                            

                                                                                                 

                                                                                              

                                                                                                

                                                                                                 

                                                                                                

                                                                                             

Yaws sincerely

Li Hun

  John was travelling by ship to Europe when a terrible storm came. A great leak was filling the ship with water. No matter how hard the sailors and passengers worked at the pumps, the water was still rising. The ship was sinking fast. There seemed to be no hope. But the captain told them not to give up hope. He said that there was hope so long as the ship remained above water. He promised that if they didn’t give up hope, he would land them safely. The captain’s powerful will moved them all. In the end he did them safely.

   After they landed, John found the captain to show his appreciation. But to his surprise, the captain said to him that he was the boy of 30 years ago who bought a geography book in his bookstore. John suddenly thought of the boy. At that time the boy didn’t have enough money, but he had gone from shop to shop and believed he could get what he wanted. Finally, he made it. Now, it was the same willpower of him that saved the lives of all the passengers.

  1．以约30个词概括故事的内容要点；

  2．然后以约120个词就“毅力与成功”这个主题发表你的看法，内容包括：

   （1）叙述你或你的同学凭借毅力取得成功的事例；

   （2）你认为取得成功，主要是靠毅力还是智力？

   1．你可以使出实例或者其他论证方法支持你的观点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但是不得直接引用原文中的句子；

   2．文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；

  概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

参考词汇：毅力   willpower

Just as I began a new job in New York, I had another important job: father. I was a businessman. At the office I had three new  61  (project) and at home I had a young son who was growing fast and  62  (need)me. I was puzzled and didn’t know how to deal with the relationship between job and family until one day, during my business trip in Chicago, I came  63  an old family friend Dan,  64  was once a patient of my father. He told me something about my father.   65   was my father that helped him go through the cancer. When Dan knew he got cancer, he was very upset and wanted  66  (give) up, but my father, his doctor, encouraged him to go on  67   (fight) against the cancer. My father said to him, “You have   68  wonderful life and three fine children. Take some time with them. It is family that we live for----not just ourselves. Think of that   69  you will know life’s worth the fight.” His words touched me, and I  70  (sudden) realized that family is the most important in the world. I should spend more time staying with them.

    Many people lie awake at night, worrying about something from their job to the future. Now, researchers have discovered a simple and cheap solution: going to bed earlier. What time a person goes to bed and how much they sleep affects how much they worry, according to a new study.

    Researchers found people who go to bed later, or sleep less, have pessimistic thoughts that seem to repeat in their minds, which they feel unable to control.

    They also tend to worry excessively about the future, look back too much on the past, and experience annoying thoughts, mirroring the symptoms of people with anxiety and depression.

    Regular lack of sleep might actually be linked to the development of anxiety, the researchers concluded.

    The findings, coming after a number of studies, suggested getting between seven and eight hours sleep which is essential for good health. Less than this is thought to increase the risk of a person becoming fat, depressed, and can even cause severe health problems such as cancer and heart disease, because it upsets the body clock.

    As part of the new study, researchers asked 100 young adults at Binghamton University to complete questionnaires and two tasks on computer. These measured how much the students worried about something. They were also asked if they were more of a "morning" or an "evening" person.

    The researchers found that people who sleep for shorter periods of time--and go to bed later--often experience more negative thoughts than others. This was also true for those students who described themselves as evening types.

    Jacob Nota, of Binghamton University, who carried out the research, said, "Making sure that sleep is obtained during the right time of the day may be an inexpensive and easy solution for individuals who are both bothered by negative thoughts".

29. According to the findings mentioned in the passage, which of the following shows the correct order?

A. Experiencing negative thoughts--> Going to bed late--> Suffering anxiety

B. Going to bed late--> Suffering anxiety--> Experiencing negative thoughts

C. Suffering anxiety--> Experiencing negative thoughts--> Going to bed late

D. Going to bed late--> Experiencing negative thoughts--> Suffering anxiety

30. What information do Para 2 and Para 3 mainly give?

A. The causes of sleeping less  B. The findings of the research on sleep

C. Symptoms of anxiety and depression  D. The effects of the research on sleep

31. How was the research carried out?

A. By testing and comparing          B. By surveying and analyzing

C. By checking and measuring       D. By observing and interviewing

His writing is so confusing that it’s difficult to make out _______ it is that he is trying to express.

A. that             B. how           C. what           D. who

We all have found memories of taking a few lazy months off after the stress of A-levels. As we draw to the end of an academically and socially packed year, the idea of doing the same again is appealing.

But after graduation, there’ll be few occasions when we can enjoy such extended holidays, free to do as we wish. So now that summer has arrived, let’s take full advantage. It goes without saying that summer vacations are the perfect time to go traveling, especially if you avoid the pricey school holiday period.

Tickets go up greatly when you turn 26, so make the most of cheaper rates while you’re eligible. Finding a reliable company that won’t cheat you is extremely important, as is discovering a program that appeals to your own interests. There are plenty of websites where you can see other people’s recommendations.

Of course for most of us, money is tight—but to avoid overspending you can combine employment and adventure. Hannah Warn, a psychology student at the University of Winchester, is spending her summer at Camp America, an increasingly popular venture where British students enjoy a good time on a summer camp.

“Being thrown into something where I don’t really know what to expect is exciting.” she says.“It gives me a chance to experience being away from home in a different way.”

Those with a talent for languages might also consider working abroad as an au pair. The work may be challenging, but it’s a chance to involve yourself in a new culture while your employer pays most of the bill.

If you have an idea about the sort of career you’d like, getting work experience is wise. In many careers, graduating with only your degree to show for your three or four years just won’t make it. Send applications off early and to as many places as possible. Make sure you take a well-earned break this summer.

24.The author intends to tell us in the passage               .

A. ways to make money in summer

B. good memories of the school days

C. stress goes away during the summer holidays

D. tips on how to spend the summer vacation

25.The passage implies that               .

A. students can enjoy beneficial price when traveling

B. students who quit school should pay more for travel

C. students will be offered part time jobs in the vacation

D. students will have a longer summer vacation than ever

26.The underlined word “eligible” in the passage means            .

A. relaxed          B. outstanding           C. qualified       D. standardized

27.The author took Hannah Warn as an example to            .

A. suggest Camp America offers jobs to students

B. show psychology students are good at planning

C. indicate Camp America serves English students

D. imply students can travel around for nothing

 —Would you like some more soup?

—　　　.It is delicious, but I’ve had enough. 

A. Yes, please    B. No, thank you

C. Nothing more                         D. I’d like some

Online shopping is coming into fashion in most cities, where people are able to make full use of the rapidly-developed Internet technology. Nowadays, can we find a person　___61___　has not experienced online shopping? Definitely not.

Online shopping　___62___　(welcome) by most people due to various reasons. From the perspective of consumers, it can save some time for people who don’t have much spare time. Just  click the mouse, they can get　___63___　they want while staying at home. For the retailers, it can cut some costs for those who don’t have much circulating funds (流动资金). ___64___ 　(compare) with the traditional trade mode, it doesn’t need renting a house. ___65___, there are still some disadvantages in online shopping. First, a face-to-face deal makes online shopping less　___66___　(rely) and trustworthy. Second, people will lose　___67___　fun of bargaining.

___68___　is undeniable that shopping on the Internet has become an irresistible trend in  modern society. It’s of great urgency that we need to make the relative laws in accordance ___69___　the rapid growth of online shopping. Only in this way can we enjoy the pleasure and 　___70___　(convenient) of online shopping without the concern of being cheated.

For centuries, everybody knows laughter is the best medicine. Besides bringing joy, the doctor also 61  （believe） that laughter helps release stress, which is the cause of many diseases.

The celebration of World Laughter Day is 62    （mean） to bring good health, joy and world peace. It is a special day that can 63  （celebrate）annually by anyone on the first Sunday of May. All people need to do is laugh aloud and wildly. The fun event was started 64__ Indian physician, Dr, Madan Kataria.

 His quest to make the world a happier place 65 （begin） in 1995, with the introduction of Laughter Yoga（大笑瑜伽课）, a fitness class 66     people practice breathing exercise and uncontrolled laughter.

 Though only five students attended the first class, this fun way of exercising soon began to spread and in a short time it began to be held 67     more than 70 countries around the world.

 Members get together every day or twice a week 68    exercise by simply laughing out loud, waving their hands and making funny faces each other to keep the laughing going.

 In 1998, in an attempt to spread the laughter to every person, the physician declared the first Sunday of every May World Laughter Day. Not 69     （surprise）, it became an instant hit. To make it more fun, Dr. Kararia suggested 70    （organize） the celebrations in public places so that other people could join in. Some even awarded prizes to participants who could perform this feat in natural and effortless way.