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  Mary Kimble Smith was an ordinary 12-year-old girl: ordinary in every way 1 one. She suddenly started to walk in her 2 . No one knew why this happened. The best guess 3 to be that it represents 4 the sleepwalker is worried. This feeling normally remains under control during 5 hours, but at night, when the mind is in a 6 passive mode, it 7 to the surface and show itself in the form of 8 movement.

  At first, her family 9 help from just about every doctor they could find. But 10 of them were able to suggest a means 11 which she could be cured. Then her parents were frightened, and they 12 waking her up when she was sleepwalking. In fact, the general advice is that we 13 not wake a sleepwalker. This follows the idea that 14 comes from some deep anxiety.

  To wake a person and bring them to a 15 realization that they are not 16 they thought they were could increase the feeling of anxiety and perhaps 17 reinforce (加强) the habit.

   18 sleepwalkers stop without any warning — they just never do it again. In Mary's case, 19 , she slatted sleepwalking soon after her twelfth birthday and was still doing it the day 20 she died, in 1989, at 93 years of age.

1.

[  ]

A.besides
B.but
C.beside
D.including

2.

[  ]

A.sleep
B.trip
C.day
D.night

3.

[  ]

A.likes
B.seems
C.looks
D.proves

4.

[  ]

A.excitement
B.anger
C.fear
D.anxiety

5.

[  ]

A.sleeping
B.playing
C.tiring
D.waking

6.

[  ]

A.more
B.most
C.very
D.so

7.

[  ]

A.falls
B.rises
C.reduces
D.raises

8.

[  ]

A.half-physical
B.mental
C.physical
D.half-mental

9.

[  ]

A.looked
B.sought
C.search
D.found

10.

[  ]

A.every
B.all
C.neither
D.none

11.

[  ]

A.in
B.by
C.for
D.to

12.

[  ]

A.tried
B.managed
C.intended
D.planned

13.

[  ]

A.would
B.might
C.should
D.could

14.

[  ]

A.sleep
B.sleeping
C.sleepwalker
D.sleepwalking

15.

[  ]

A.sudden
B.slow
C.clear
D.complete

16.

[  ]

A.where
B.when
C.which
D.what

17.

[  ]

A.still
B.ever
C.could
D.even

18.

[  ]

A.Less
B.Most
C.More
D.Few

19.

[  ]

A.perhaps
B.anyway
C.still
D.though

20.

[  ]

A.after
B.when
C.before
D.since

New technology links the world as never before. Our planet has shrunk. It’s now a “global village” where countries are only seconds away by fax or phone or satellite link. And, of course, our ability to benefit from this high-tech communications equipment is greatly increased by foreign language skills.

Deeply involved with this new technology is a kind of modern businesspeople who have a growing respect for the economic value of doing business abroad. In modern markets, success overseas often helps support domestic business efforts.

Overseas assignments are becoming increasingly important to advancement within executive ranks. The executive stationed in another country no longer need fear being “out of sight and out of mind.” He or she can be sure that the overseas effort is central to the company’s plan for success, and that promotions often follow or accompany an assignment abroad. If an employee can succeed in a difficult assignment overseas, superiors will have greater confidence in his or her ability to manage back in the United States where cross-cultural considerations and foreign language issues are becoming more and more common.

Thanks to a variety of relatively inexpensive communications devices with business applications, even small businesses in the United States are able to get into international markets.

English is still the international language of business. But there is an ever-growing need for people who can speak another language. A second language isn’t generally required to get a job in business, but having language skills gives a candidate the edge when other qualifications appear to be equal.

The employee posted abroad who speaks the country’s language has an opportunity to fast-forward certain negotiations, and can have the cultural insight to know when it is better to move more slowly. The employee at the home office who can communicate well with foreign customers over the telephone or by fax machine is an obvious asset to the firm.

1.With the increased use of high-tech communications equipment, businesspeople ________.

A. are eager to work overseas

B. have to get familiar with modern technology

C. are gaining more economic benefits from domestic operations

D. are attaching more importance to their overseas business

2.In this passage, “out of sight and out of mind” (Line 3, Para. 3) probably means ________.

A. leaving all care and worry behind

B. being unable to think properly for lack of insight

C. being totally out of touch with business at home

D. missing opportunities for promotion when abroad

3.According to the passage, what is an important consideration of international corporations in employing people today?

A. Ability to speak the customer’s language.

B. Connections with businesses overseas.

C. Technical know-how.

D. Business experience.

4.The advantage of employees having foreign language skills is that they can ________.

A. fast-forward their proposals to headquarters

B. better control the whole negotiation process

C. easily make friends with businesspeople abroad

D. easily find new approaches to meet market needs

 

Researchers questioned nearly 9,800 people over the age of 50 about their lives and found women were happier than men and enjoy life more in old age.

Dr Elizabeth Breeze, one of the researchers, said that women could become happier as they get older as they no longer have to worry about looking after their families.

She said:“There is a difference between the way men and women view their quality of life and they are influenced by slightly different things. Women are affected negatively by caring for someone else or if they are not in employment but if they see their children and family more they are positively affected.”

“A strange thing happens to male actors, especially movie stars, in my experience,” said Helen Mirren, a 62-year-old Hollywood actress.“A young male actor feels that all the girls want him-he’s a star. As actors get older they bad-tempered for they have lost that sense of being in control of their destiny(命运).”

Wealth also helps you live longer with the poorest people more than twice as likely to die earlier than the richest, researchers at University College London discovered. In some age groups. the difference was even greater. The poorest women between 60 and 74 are six times more likely to have died than the richest women of the same age.

According to the study, you have more chances of living longer if you are married, educated to certain degree or a professional. single people are twice as likely to die early as those  who are married or living with a partner.

1.What may be the best title of the passage ?

A.Why Women Are Happier Than Men in Old Age .

B.How to Live Longer.

C.Women Happier Than Men in Old Age.

D.The Difference between Women and Men in Old Age

2.What can we know from the passage?

A.Men should not worry about looking after their family any more in old age

B.Male actors, especially movie stars are easy to get bad—tempered when they get older and older.

C.The poorest women about the age of 50 can’t live longer than the richest women at the same age.

D.Education has nothing to do with happy life in people’s old age.

3.What may be talked about if there is another paragraph as the ending ?

A.Things that the old should do to be happier.

B.The disadvantage of being actors.

C.We should earn money as much as we can.

D.How to become a professional.

 

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