第一节 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A. B. C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

A

Do you want to get home from work knowing you have made a real difference in someone’s life?

If yes, don’t care about sex or age! Come and join us, then you’ll make it!

Position: Volunteer Social Care Assistant

        (No Pay with Free Meals)

Place: Manchester

Hours: Part Time

We are now looking for volunteers to support people with learning disabilities to live active lives! Only 4 days left. Don’t miss the chance of lending your warm hands to help others!

Role:来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

You will provide people with learning disabilities with all aspects of their daily lives. You will help them to develop new skills. You will help them to protect their rights and their safety. But your primary concern is to let them know they are valued.

Skills and Experience Required:

You will have the right values and great listening skills. You will be honest and patient. You will have the ability to drive a car and to communicate in fluent written and spoken English since you’ll have to help those people with different learning disabilities. Previous care-related experie进步网nce will be a great advantage for you.

31. The text is meant to ________

A. leave a note

B. send an invitation

C. present a document来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

D. carry an advertisement

32. What does the underlined part mean?

A. You’ll make others’ lives more meaningful with this job.

B. You’ll arrive home just in time from this job.

C. You’ll earn a good salary from this job.

D. You’ll succeed in getting this job.

33. The volunteers’ primary responsibility is to help people with learning disabilities ________.

A. to get some financial support

B. to properly protect themselves

C. to learn some new living skills来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

D. to realize their own importance

34. Which of the following can first be chosen as a volunteer?

A. The one who can drive a car.

B. The one who has done similar work before.

C. The one who has patience to listen to others.

D. The one who can use English to communicate.

B

In 1943, when I was 4, my parents moved from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, to Fairbanks, Alaska, where adventure was never far away.

We arrived in the summer, just in time to enjoy the midnight sun. All that sunlight was fantastic for Mom’s vegetable garden. Working in the garden at midnight tended to throw her timing off, so she didn’t care much about my bedtime.来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

Dad was a Railway Express agent and Mom was his clerk. That left me in a mess. I usually managed to find some trouble to get into. Once I had a little fire going in the dirt basement of a hotel. I had tried to light a barrel（桶）of paint but couldn’t really get a good fire going. The smoke got pretty bad, though, and when I made my exit, a crowd and the police were there to g进步网reet me. The policemen took my matches and drove me home.

Mom and Dad were occupied in the garden and Dad told the police to keep me, and they did! I had a tour of the prison before Mom rescued me. I hadn’t turned 5 yet.

As I entered kindergarten, the serious cold began to set in. Would it surprise you to know that I soon left part of my tongue on a metal handrail at school?

As for Leonhard Seppala, famous as a dog sledder（驾雪橇者）, I think I knew him well because I was taken for a ride with his white dog team one Sunday. At the time I didn’t realize what a superstar he was, but I do remember the ride well. I was wrapped（包裹）heavily and well sheltered from the freezing and blowing weather.来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

In 1950, we moved back to Coeur d’Alene, but we got one more Alaskan adventure when Leonhard invited us eight years later by paying a visit to Idaho to atten进步网d a gathering of former neighbors of Alaska.

35. What can be inferred about the author’s family?

A. His father was a cruel man.

B. His parents didn’t love him.

C. His parents used to be very busy.

D. His mother didn’t have any jobs.

36. What happened when the author was 4?

A. He learned to smoke.

B. He was locked in a basement.

C. He was arrested by the police.

D. He nearly caused a fire accident.来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

37. Which of the following is true?

A. Leonhard was good at driving dog sleds.

B. The author spent his whole childhood in Alaska.

C. Leonhard often visited the author’s family after 1950.

D. The author suffered a lot while taking the dog sled in Alaska.

38. What is the author’s purpose of writing the text?

A. To look back on his childhood with adventures.

B. To describe the extreme weather of Alaska.

C. To express how much he misses Leonhard.来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

D. To show off his pride in making trouble.

C

   A schoolgirl saved her father’s life by kicking him in the chest after he suffered a serious allergic(过敏的)  reaction which stopped his heart .

   Izzy , nine ,restarted father Colm’s heart by stamping(踩)on his chest after he fell down at home and stopped breathing .

   Izzy’s mother, Debbie, immediately called 999 but Izzy knew doctors w进步网ould never arrive in time to save her father, so decided to use CPR .

   However, she quickly discovered her arms weren’t strong enough, so she stamped on her father’s chest instead.

   Debbie them took over with some more conventional chest compressions(按压) until the ambulance arrived .

   Izzy, who has been given a bravery award by her school, said：“I just kicked him really hard ,My mum taught me CPR but I knew I wasn’t strong enough to use hands .I was quite scared .The doctor said I might as well be a doctor or a nurse, My mum said that Dad was going to hospital with a big footprint on his chest .”来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

  “She’s a little star,” said Debbie, “I was really upset but Izzy just took over . I just can’t believe what she did. I really think all children should be taught first aid. Izzy did CPR then the doctor turned up, Colm had to have more treatment on the way to the hospital and we’ve got to see an expert.”

   Truck driver Clom, 35, suffered a mystery allergic reaction on Saturday and was taken to hospital, but was sent home only for it to happen again the next day. The second attack was so serious that his airway swelled, preventing him from breathing, his blood pressure dropped suddenly, and his heart stopped for a moment.

   He has now made a full recovery from his suffering.

39. Izzy kicked her father in the chest_________.来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

   A. to express her helplessness

   B. to practise CPR on him

   C. to keep him awake

   D. to restart his heat

40. What’s the right order of the events?

   ① Izzy kicked Colm

   ② Debbie called 999

   ③ Izzy learned CPR来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

   ④ Colm’s heart stopped.

   A.③①②④    B.④②③①     C.③④②①    D.④③①②

41. What does Paragraph 8 mainly talk about?

   A .What Colm suffered.

   B. Colm’s present condition.

   C .What caused Colm’s allergy.

   D. Symptoms of Colm’s allergic reaction. 

42. Why does the author write news?

   A. To describe a serious accident. 来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

   B. To prove the importance of CPR.

   C. To report a 9-year-old girl’s brave act.

   D .To call people’s attention to allergic reaction.

D

With around 100 students scheduled to be in that 9 am Monday m进步网orning lecture, it is no surprise that almost 20 people actually make it to the class and only 10 of them are still awake after the first 15 minutes; it is not even a surprise that most of them are still in their pyjamas（睡衣）.Obviously, students are terrible at adjusting their sleep cycles to their daily schedule.来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

All human beings possess a body clock. Along with other alerting（警报）systems, this governs the sleep/ wake cycle and is therefore one of the main processes which govern sleep behaviour. Typically, the preferred sleep/wake cycle is delayed in adolescents, which leads to many students not feeling sleepy until much later in the evenings. This typical sleep pattern is usually referred to as the “night owl” schedule of sleep.

This is opposed to the “early bird” schedule, and is a kind of disorder where the individual tends to stay up much past midnight. Such a person has great difficulty in waking up in the mornings. Research suggests that night owls feel most alert and function best in the evenings and at night. Research findings have shown that about 20 percent of people can be classified as “night owls” and only 10 percent can be classified as “early birds”—the other 70 percent are in the middle. Although this is clearly not true for all students, for the ones who are true night owls this gives them an excellent excuse for missing their lectures which unfortunately fall before midday.

43. What does the author stress in Paragraph 1?来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

A. Many students are absent from class.

B. Students are very tired on Monday mornings.

C. Students do not adjust their sleep patterns well.

D. Students are not well prepared for class on Mondays.

44. Which of the following is true according to Paragraph 2?

A. Most students prefer to get up late in the morning.

B. Students don’t sleep well because of alerting systems.

C. One’s body clock governs the sleep/wake cycle independently.

D. Adolescents’ delayed sleep/wake cycle isn’t the preferred pattern.

45. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word “classified”?

A. Criticised.     B. Grouped.     C. Organised.      D. Named.

46. What does the text mainly talk about?

A. Functions of the body clock.

B. The “night owl” phenomenon.来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

C. Human beings’ sleep behaviour.

D. The school schedule of “early bird”.

E

Women are friendly. But men are more competitive, Why? Researchers have found it’s all down to the hormone oxytocin(荷尔蒙催生素). Although known as the love hormone, it affects the sexes differently.

“Women tend to be social in their behavior. They often share with others, But men tend to be competitive, They are trying to improve their social status,” said Professor Ryan.

Generally, people believe that the hormone exytocin is let out in our body in various social situations and our body creates a large amount of it during positive social interaction（互动）such as falling in love or giving birth.来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

But in a previous experiment Professor Ryan found that the hormone is also let out in our body during negative social interactions such as envy.

Further researches showed that in men the hormone oxytocin improves the ability to recognize competitive relationships, but in women it raises the ability to recognize friendship.

Professor Ryan’s recent experiment used 62 men and women aged 20 to 37.

Half of the participants（参与者）received oxytocin. The other half received placebo（安慰剂）.

After a week, the two groups switched with participants. They went through the same procedure with the other material.

Following each treatment, they were shown some video pic进步网tures with different social interactions. Then they were asked to analyze the relationships by answering some questions. The questions were about telling friendship from competition. And their answers should be based on gestures, body language and facial expressions.

The results indicated that, after treatment with oxytocin, men’s ability to correctly recognize competitive relationships improved, but in women it was the ability to correctly recognize friendship that got better.来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

Professor Ryan thus concluded: “ Our experiment proves that the hormone oxytocin can raise people’s abilities to better distinguish different social interactions. And the behavior differences between men and women are caused by biological factor（因素）that are mainly hormonal.”

47. What causes men and women to behave differently according to the text?

A. Placebo.     B. Oxytocin.      C. The gesture.      D. The social status.

48. What can we learn from Professor Ryan’s previous experiment?

A. Oxytocin affects our behavior in a different way.

B. Our body lets out oxytocin when we are deep in love.

C. Our body produces oxytocin when we feel unhappy about others’ success.

D. Oxytocin improves our abilities to understand people’s behavior differences.

49. Why did Professor Ryan conduct the recent experiment?

A. To test the effect of oxytocin on the ability to recognize social interactions.

B. To know the differences between friendship and competition.

C. To know people’s different abilities to answer questions.

D. To test people’s understanding of body language.

50. The author develops the text by _______.来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

A. explaining people’s behavior

B. describing his own experiences

C. distinguishing sexual differences

D. discussing research experiments