题目内容
1. There was only one s of the plane crash.
1. survivor
I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight (货运) yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can slightly 1 the brightness of sunshine and what colour red is. It would be wonderful to see again,but 2 can do strange things to people. ;
It 3 to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn’t been 4 . I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so 5,otherwise. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my 6 I simply mean that the loss of them made me 7 the more what I had left.
Life,I believe,asks a continuous series of 8 to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments,the more 9 his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. The hardest 10 I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was 11 If I hadn’t been able to do that. I would have 12 and become a chair rocker on the front perch (门廊) for the rest of my life.
It took me years to discover and 13 this belief. It had to start with the most elementary things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was 14 at me and I was hurt. “I can’t use this ,” I said. “ 15 it with you”’ he urged me ,“and roll it around. ” The words stuck in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear 16 it went. This gave me an idea on how to achieve a goal I had thought 17 ： playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Over brook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of 18 We called it ground ball.
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them,one at a time. I had to learn my 19 It was no good to try for something I knew at the start which was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of 20 I would fail sometimes anyway but on average I made progress.
( ) 1. A. forget B. see
C. ignore D. remember
( ) 2. A. happiness B. fortune
C. misfortune D. wealth
( ) 3. A. occurred B. happened
C. agreed D. applied
( ) 4. A* clever B. blind
C. foolish D. lucky
( ) 5. A. hardly B. quickly
C. roughly D. deeply
( ) 6. A. hands B. arms
C. eyes D. legs
( ) 7. A. appreciate B. arrive
C. believe D. accept
( ) 8. A. employments B. investments
C. settlements D. adjustments
( ) 9. A. meaningful B. painful
C. fearful D. careful
( ) 10. A. pleasure B. lesson
C. enjoyment D. trouble
( ) 11. A. unnecessary B. horrible
C. unpractical D. essential
( ) 12. A. broken out B. broken through
C. broken down D. broken off
( ) 13. A. strengthen B. weaken
C. shorten D. darken
( ) 14. A. smiling B. laughing
C. wondering D. glaring
( ) 15. A. Bring B. Borrow
C. Take D. Lend
( ) 16. A. where B. when
C. why D. how
( ) 17. A. possible B. potential
C. probable D. impossible
( ) 18. A. basketball B. baseball
C. football D. volleyball
( ) 19. A. conversations B. limitations
C. congratulations D. educations
( ) 20. A. achievement B. process
C. success D. failure
Tom：Hi,Sandy. It seems that only half of the students passed the final exam.
Sandy： Really? The exam 1. have been very difficult this time.
Tom： Well,I’m really 2. (surprise) too.3. (include) himself and Scott.
Sandy： Oh!Scott is 4. of the top students in the college. What about his sister,Kate? Did she pass?
Tom： Oh,yes. It seems she 5. (get) good marks.
Sandy： That’s 6. (absolute) unbelievable!
Scott was 7. much better student than his sister,and has been working so hard for the last few months.
Tom： It seems 8. (fair) ，doesn’t it? But,from 9. I’ve heard,perhaps he worked too hard. He was ill during the week of the exam.
Sandy： Oh,I see. These things happen,sometimes. I suppose the teacher will take his illness into account and give him a pass.
Tom： Well,there is a rumour going around 10. the head of the department is leaving.
Sandy： Because of the bad result,you mean?
Tom： Well,I suppose so. I’m not sure. Maybe Mr Smith is going to be the new department head.
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 behaviour. 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 oxytocin is let out in our body in various social situations and our body creates a large amount of it during positive social interactions (互动) such as falling in love or giving birth.
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 pictures 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.
Professor Ryan thus concluded, “Our experiment proves that the hormone oxytocin can raise people’s abilities to better distinguish different social interactions. And the behaviour differences between men and women are caused by biological factors (因素) that are mainly hormonal. ”
( ) 1. What causes men and women to behave differently according to the text?
A. Placebo.
B. Oxytocin.
C. The gesture.
D. The social status.
( ) 2. What can we learn from Professor Ryan’s previous experiment?
A. Oxytocin affects our behaviour 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 behaviour differences.
( ) 3. Why did Professor Ryan conduct the recent experi ment?
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.
( ) 4. The author develops the text by _________.
A. explaining people’s behaviours
B. describing his own experiences
C. distinguishing sexual differences
D. discussing research experiments
Jim： Hello,Ted. How was the marketing meeting?
Ted： Hi,Jim. It couldn’t be 1. (bad) . I put forward some great ideas,but none of them 2.________ (accept) .
Jim： I’m surprised to hear that. I thought you had some very good suggestions. What happened at 3. meet ing?
Ted： One or two people didn’t take to my ideas very well. That was to be expected. The worst thing was4. the people who said the ideas were good before the meeting didn’t support me.
Jim： I suggest 5. (revise) the suggestions to take into account some 6.________ (object) .
Ted： That’s good advice,but I’m not confident that even revised proposals (方案) will be favoured.
Jim： May I make a suggestion?
Ted： Sure. I’m open 7. any reasonable sug gestion.
Jim： Is there a chance you could contact the clients (客户) 8. (secret) and see what they think? If they like your ideas,perhaps they could put 9. forward as their own proposals. You won’t get credit 10. ideas,but the clients will know they were yours.
Ted： I’m not sure that’s a good idea.
Jim： Go on. Take a chance. You could just hint at (暗示) your ideas. The clients should be smart enough to take the hint.
6. I cannot find it in myself to c a mother who steals for a hungry child.
3. The ship put about to (救起) the girl who had fallen overboard.
10. The statue was erected as a (memory) to those who died in the war.
2. 因此，人们应该意识到给孩子们最好的礼物不是钱，而是独立的人格。
Therefore, the best gift to children is not money,but an independent personality.
