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In the past few years,quite a number of men and women61. (choose) to do something less competitive. They are afraid that the stress of work robs them of joy and 62. (happy) and brings them harm both physically and mentally.

In fact,however,stress isn't such 63.bad thing as it is often supposed to be. Above all,64. it gets out of control,a certain amount of stress 65. (be) important as it provides motivation,challenges and a purpose to an otherwise meaningless,idle life. Moreover,people 66.stress tend to express their full range of potential and realize their own 67. (person) worth — the very aim of a human life. Last but not least,research has shown that modest amounts of stress can 68. (actual) strengthen the immune(免疫的) system and be good for health.

Stress is a natural part of everyday life and there is no way 69. (escape) it. Developing our adaptive abilities to deal with it can prevent us from 70. (defeat) by a competitive society.

61. have chosen。考査现在完成时。由In the past few years可知应用现在完成时，故填have chosen 。

62. happiness。考査名词。设空处与名词joy并列，故填名词happiness。

63. a。考查不定冠词。thing是可数名词，且此处表泛指，故填a。

64. unless。考査连词。此处意为“如果不失控，一定量的压力会提供动力和挑战”，故填unless。

65. is。考査主谓一致。主语 a certain amount of stress是第三人称单数，且此处陈述的是客观事实，故填is。

66. under。考查介词。under stress意为“处于压力下”。

67. personal。考査形容词作定语的用法。设空处修饰名词worA.故填形容词personal。

68. actually。考査副词。设空处修饰动词 strengthen ,故填副词 actually。

69. to escape。考查不定式作定语的用法。way后常跟不定式作定语，故填to escape。

70. being defeated。考査动词-ing形式作宾语的用法。介词from后需跟动词-ing形式，且defeat与 us之间是逻辑上的动宾关系，故填being defeated 。

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Actually,I’m really looking forward to the next class!

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Li Hua

At the moment,I'm working in London.It's my first experience of 61. (live) in the capital city of the UK.

I take the tube to work; the London Underground is a great transport network and trains on the underground can get across London much 62. (quick) than buses. However,in the morning it's often very 63. (crowd) on the tube and there 64. (be) delays now and then. At £4 for a single ticket,the tube can be quite expensive. 65. (lucky) , if you have an Oyster card you pay almost half the priee!

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One said the language of such individuals would be grammatically correct and they would express their ideas clearly. Another said good eye contact was important. Yet another added to the list the ability to get along with people,not to take things personally and the ability to help others.

If most adults have difficulty defining the positive behaviours that are necessary to life skills,how do we know if students have acquired them the way I can describe on a report card?

Marlaine Paulsen Cover,founder of Parenting 2.0,has done just that.

Cover created a communication tool called the Life Skills Report Card (LSRC) . Similar in format to academic report cards,the LSRC divides life skills into five primary categories: personal care,organisation,respect for self and others,communication,and social. Sub-categories on the LSRC include: sleep,exercise,spirit'safety,time utilization,finances,ownership in problems and conflicts,altruism (无私) , and environmental consciousness.

She found that societies around the globe routinely supported children's active learning for music,sports,and academics. When it came to life skills,however,the popular perspective (观念) was simply “children learn what they live”.

“Yet when children are poor in certain life skills,society is quick to pass a whole person judgment,” Cover says.

Life skills are necessary,because — to quote Scottish poet and novelist Robert Louis Stevenson — uto be what we are,and to become what we are capable of becoming,that is the only end of life”.

32. Why does the author raise the questions in Paragraph 1 ?

A. To present different ideas.

B. To expect reasonable answers.

C. To express his disappointment.

D. To introduce points for discussion.

33. How did the author feel about the result of the survey?

A. It was practical. B. It was worrying.

C. It was convincing. D. It was predictable.

34. What do we know about Cover's LSRC?

A. It has been widely used at schools.

B. It strongly emphasizes personal care.

C. It aims to change people's ideas about life skills.

D. It has something in common with academic report cards.

35. Cover''s words show that people tend to.

A. ignore the importance of life skills

B. encourage children's active learning

C. compare academic skills with life skills

D. look down upon children with poor life skills

At first glance,why anyone would want to save California condors(秃鹰) is not entirely clear. Unlike the closely related Andean condors with their white neck feathers,California condors are not much to see. Their dull black color,featherl'ess head and neck and oversized feet are hardly signs of beauty oi^ strength. Their appeal begins to become evident when they take flight. California condors can fly almost effortlessly for hours,often covering hundreds of miles a day 一 far more than other creatures of the air.

When it was discovered that the condor population was becoming dangerously small,scientists and zookeepers sought to increase condor numbers quickly to preserve as much of the species’ geneic(基因的) diversity as possible. From studying wild condors,they already knew that if a pair lost an egg,the birds would often produce another. So the first and sometimes second eggs laid by e往ch female were removed,and artificially hatched. Such techniques quickly proved effective.

Despite these successes,the effort to save California condors continues to have problems. Artificially hatched condors released(释放) to the wild have died at what to some people are alarmingly high rates. Others have had to be brought back again after they acted foolishly.

Some of the odd behavior on the part of these re-released birds is hard to explain. At times they landed on people's houses,walked across roads and airport runways,walked into park visitor centers and fast food restaurants,and took food offered by picnickers and fishermen. None are known to have died by doing so,though. Most recently,some of the first chicks hatched in the wild died after their parents fed them bottle caps,pieces of plastic and other man-made objects.

Mike Wallace,a wildlife specialist at the San Diego Zoo,has suggested that some of the condors’ problems represent natural behavior that helps them survive. The real key to successful condor reintroduction lies in properly socializing young condors as members of a group that follow and learn from older,preferably adult birds. That,he argues,was missing from earlier condor releases to the wild.

28. What is the California condor's most impressive feature?

A. Its beautiful colors.

B. Its remarkable flying ability.

C. The large size of its neck and feet.

D. The similarity it has to the Andean condor.

29. In the initial stage of the conservation programme, .

A. eggs were taken from the nests of wild condors

B. female condors were caught and studied carefully

C. scientists and zookeepers tried to create genetic diversity

D. condors were encouraged to produce a lot more eggs

30. What did some of the condors released into the wild do?.

A. They adapted surprisingly quickly to their new surroundings.

B. They showed a tendency to seek out human contact.

C. They died from eating too much fast food.

D. They kept changing their eating habits.

31. According to Mike Wallace,there will be fewer problems if .

A. young condors are trained not to eat man-made objects

B. the chicks are surrounded by older birds when they hatch

G. the chicks are released into the wild as soon as they hatch

D. young condors are taught appropriate behavior by adult birds

In 1769,William Smith was bom in a little town in Oxfordshire,England. He received basic village schooling but mostly he wandered on his uncle's farm collecting the fossils in the rocks of the Cotswold hills. When he grew older Smith learned surveying from books and at 18 he learned from a local surveyor. He then began to teach himself geobgy (地质学) .

When he was 24 ,he went to work for the company that was digging the Somerset Coal Canal in the south of England. This job gave Smith an opportunity to study the fresh strata created by the newly dug canal. He later worked on similar jobs across England all the while studying strata and collecting all the fossils he could find. Smith used mail coaches to travel 10 ,000 miles per year. In 1815 he published the first modem geological map UA Map of the Strata of England and Wales with a Part of Scotland”.

In 1831 when Smith was recognized by the Geological Society of London as the “father of English geology”，it was not only for his maps but also for something even more important. People had hoped strata could be used to calculate geological time,but scientists found the sequences（顺序） of rocks sometimes differed from area to area and that no rock type was ever going to become a dependable time marker. Even without the problem of regional differences,rocks present a difficulty as unique time markers. Quartz （石英) is quartz; there's no difference between two-million-year-old quartz and quartz created over 500 million years ago.

As he collected fossils from strata,Smith noticed the fossils told a different story from the rocks. Particularly in the younger strata the rocks were often so similar that he had trouble distinguishing the strata,but he never had trouble telling the fossils apart. Some fossils appear in many strata,but others occur only in a few strata,and a few species had their births and extinctions within one particular stratum. Fossils are thus identifying markers for particular periods in Earth's history.

28. What do we know about young Smith?

A. He spent most of his time reading.

B. He showed much interest in geology.

C. He learned surveying just by himself.

D. He received a very good formal education.

29. Which can be used to describe Smith according to Paragraph 2 ?

A. Adventurous and brave.

B. Talented and productive.

C. Warm-hearted and honest.

D. Hard-working and devoted.

30. The author mentions quartz to show that .

A. no rock can be a reliable time marker

B. no quartz can be found in recent times

G. quartz can fell people rocks,geological time

D. the sequences of rocks differ from area to area

31. Which of the following is Smith's greatest achievement?

A. He drew many maps of strata.

B. He used fossils to identify strata.

C. He built a lot of canals in England.

D. He was the creator of modem geology.

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Neither could she hear my frustration,because the swimming club would not allow parents on the desk(甲板) . Parents waited in a glass balcony overlooking the pool.

When she came up to greet me,ready to be hugged,I lit into her. “Why didn't you try to finish the lap? How hard could it have been?”

My daughter drew away from me. “You can't even swim,” she said.

She was right. I couldn't swim.

Her words stayed with me. I asked myself: What does it take to learn something new? Did it help when someone criticized me?

I was pushing my daughter to do something I had never tried.

Before next week's lesson arrived,I attended a swimming class for adults. When my daughter went to do laps,I went to the smaller pool at the other end of the club.

Each week,Isabelle and I came up from our separate pools tired but happy. We shared what we had done,hugged,and went out for a treat.

At the end of the eight-week course,I proudly showed her my first swimming badge(徽章) . “You can do laps with me now,” said my daughter.

No,not yet. I had made it across the pool,but couldn't finish its length. My arms had felt like lead,and my legs like rubber.

More important than the swimming badge,though,I had earned a “parenting badge." I had rediscovered the thrill and frustration of trying something new. My child was doing this every day — at the pool,at school,at home. Now,so was her mom.

21. How did the author feel when she watched her daughter swimming?

A. Upset. B. Proud.

C. Afraid. D. Nervous.

22. When Isabelle came up to greet the author,the author.

A. hugged her tightly

B. greets her with a smile

C. expressed dissatisfaction with her

D. gave her some advice on swimming

23. Why did the author attend swimming classes for adults?

A. She showed great interest in swimming.

B. She wanted to compete with her daughter.

C. Her daughter's words drove her to try new things.

D. Her daughter encouraged her to take up swimming.

24. The underlined part in the text implies .

A. the author swam in a unique style

B. the author didn't do well in swimming

C. the author was in poor physical condition

D. the author benefited a lot from swimming

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