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Amy ______ better last night, but she was a little nervous and didn’t reach her best standard.

A. could perform B. must have performed

C. should perform D. could have performed

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Parents might tell older children to “Act your age”. But some researchers say that is what persons from thirteen to nineteen years old are doing. While teenagers can look all grown up, studies have shown that their brains are still developing. How much this explains their behavior, though, is a subject of debate.

Jay Giedd of America’s National Institutes of Health is a leader in this area of research. Doctor Giedd has been studying a group of young people since 1991. They visit him every two years for imaging tests of their brains. He says considerable development continues in young people from the teenage years into the twenties.

A part of the brain called the dorsal-lateral prefrontal cortex appears especially undeveloped in teenagers. Researchers believe that this area controls judgment and consideration of risk. So, its underdevelopment may explain why young people seem more willing to take risks like driving too fast.

Laurence Steinberg is a psychology professor at Temple University in Philadelphia. He says stronger laws and stronger parental control are needed to protect teens from themselves. That includes raising the age for driving. He says research shows that teenage brains are not fully equipped to control behavior.

Other researchers, however, say there is not enough evidence to make a strong case for such findings. Psychologist Robert Epstein is a visiting scholar at the University of California in San Diego. Mr. Epstein notes that teen behavior differs from culture to culture. He says behavior depends for the most part on socialization. He believes that teenagers will demonstrate(表明) better, safer behavior if they spend more time with adults, and are treated more like them.

But is that always true? Mike Males works at the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice in San Francisco. He suggests that all of this talk lately about brainless teens could be an attempt to take away attention from the reality. Writing in the New York Times, he says it is middle-aged adults whose behavior has worsened. In his words, if grown-ups really have superior brains, why don’t we act as if we do?

1.If your parents ask you to act your age, they really mean to advise that you __________.

A. behave yourself

B. take care of yourself

C. make yourself at home

D. do everything on your own

2.Why do young people seem more willing to take adventures?

A. Because they can all look grown up in that way.

B. Because their dorsal-lateral prefrontal cortex appears undeveloped.

C. Because some researchers have been studying and encouraging them.

D. Because stronger laws and stronger parental control protect them

3.Which of the following is TRUE about teenagers?

A. Their brains have almost stopped developing.

B. Their cultures have influenced their behavior more or less.

C. The behavior of brainless teens has drawn a lot more attention.

D. Staying more often with adults makes things even worse.

4.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that Mike Males _______.

A. agrees with what Robert Epstein says

B. keeps silent about the subject of debate

C. is a leader in this area of research

D. has the opinion of his own

5.The passage is written mainly to tell people that __________.

A. development continues in young people from the teens into the twenties

B. teenagers’ behavior differs from culture to culture

C. there is still a debate between researchers about people’s behaviors

D. the talk about brainless teens could take away attention from governments

选择方框内所给的短语完成下列句子，将答案涂到答题纸的相应位置上。

1.There is no need for us to ______ about the rumor.

2.Looking after 30 children can really ____ me ____.

3.It was the driver who ______. He was drunk while driving.

4.The governor ______ when he heard that no measures were taken to help the refugees.

5.There are lots of things happening during Carnival, so don’t ______ the fun!

I learned a long time ago that hair has meanings—plenty of meanings. Growing up in the 1960s, my friends and I struggled without parents’ control over the length and style of our hair.

At the time, hair represented our need to break free from adults in our lives. Long hair represented our freed inner selves.

My clients are often surprised when I asked them questions about their hairstyle—why they choose it, how else they’ve worn their hair, how they feel about it, and so on. However, while it may seem to be a simple topic, even today our hairstyles still have many psychological and emotional meanings. Understanding some of those meanings can lead to understanding of many different aspects of a person’s mind. How we view our hair, for example, can show something about how we view ourselves.

Our hair can show physical and emotional wellbeing, desirability, and even social and financial status. When it becomes dull or fragile, it can communicate emotional and physical diseases. But hair can also show unrecognized and often unspoken daydreams about oneself and one’s world. One woman—a successful professional—wore her long hair in a thick bun(发髻).

But one day she showed me that tangled(缠结的) hair was kept in the bun. She said that she never brushed out the tangles because the hair showed her secret image of herself as a helpless, disturbed woman, like Ophelia in the play Hamlet.

Another woman came to therapy in a huge shirt and huge pants that she believed they could hide the weight she had put on since the birth of her child. She talked about how much she hated her body and how helpless she felt about doing anything about it. But her hair was always beautifully coloured and decorated. When I pointed out that she seemed to have a different relationship with her hair from she did with her body, she said that her hair had been thinning and that she was trying to make it look as good as she could. I pointed out that what she was doing with her hair and her body was kind of contradictory, and wondered if she had any thoughts about that.

She was surprised. But as we talked about her contradictory attitudes towards different parts of her physical self, we began to open up all sorts of other thoughts and ideas about her inner self.

And interestingly, as we continued opening those internal doors, changes started to happen. She started eating differently and exercising regularly. One day some months later, she appeared in my office in skinny jeans and a tight sweater, and her hair was pulled back in a ponytail. “I decided to see what would happen if I stopped trying to hide myself, ” she said with a big smile.

“And…? ” I asked. “People keep smiling at me in the street. My husband hugged me this morning for the first time in ages. And I feel good! ”

Besides, selfrespect in both men and women can be damaged by thinning hair；they may feel alone even though they are really not. Given our cultural focus on physical appearance, youth, and health, hair loss can be unpleasant for both men and women. The market is filled with hairenhancing treatments, but there are those who have decided to be against the system and change to the “bald is beautiful” position. But it is much harder for women to take the “bald is beautiful” approach to hair loss. We tend to try to hide it in one way or another.

But no matter what approach you use, it is important to remember that the thickness of your hair has nothing to do with your value in the world. Remember that you have nothing to be ashamed of if you have thinning hair. Thinning hair may not be something you can change, but it doesn’t have to control how you represent the person who lives underneath it.

1.In the 1960s, long hair represented___________.

A. fashion B. honesty C. peace D. freedom

2.Why does the author ask clients questions about their hairstyle?

A. Because this topic can reduce clients’ pain.

B. Because the hairstyle can reflect one’s inner self.

C. Because it’s a simple topic to start a conversation.

D. Because this is a topic most people are interested in.

3.The author mentioned stories of two women in order to___________.

A. prove her idea

B. introduce the topic

C. make comparisons

D. stress the importance of good hair

4.What can we know about the woman wearing her long hair in a thick bun?

A. She had long but thinning hair.

B. She was helpless and disturbed.

C. She was too busy to brush her hair.

D. She loved the play Hamlet very much.

5.What does the author advise us to do in the last two paragraphs?

A. Not to be affected by thinning hair.

B. To take the “bald is beautiful” position.

C. To find suitable treatments for thinning hair.

D. Not to pay too much attention to our physical appearance.

There is no doubt that ___a goal, one needs not only knowledge but also good personalities.

A. realized B. to realize

C. realizing D. being realized

The 22nd APEC summit has come to an end, but the Chinese elements ______ the meetings have drawn widespread attention from the public.

A. absorbed in B. concerned about

C. modeled after D. attached to

假定你校要在今年11月25日感恩节（Thanksgiving Day）这天举办一次英语演讲竞赛，你将代表你班去参加比赛，请按以下内容要点准备一篇演讲稿。

1．对父母、老师的感恩； 2．对同窗好友、国家或社会的感恩； 3．你的人生态度。

参考词汇：衷心地heartily

注意：

1．词数：120左右； 2．可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯；

3．演讲稿的开头与结束语已为你写好（不计入总词数）

Good morning, everyone!

Today is Thanksgiving Day and I have the honor to make a speech here, full of thanks.

Thank you for your listening.

This sweater fits me, but I can’t afford to buy . I have to choose which is cheap enough for me.

A. it; that B. that; it

C. it; one D. that; the one

The Palace Museum has a _________ of 96 million pieces of ancient Chinese art works．

A．collection B．mixture

C．combination D．series

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