Why People Get TattoosJack lay, quiet and unmoving, for thirty minutes while a stranger repeatedly stabbed (刺) him with sharp needles, causing blood to pour steadily out of his leg. Jack was getting a 题目和参考答案——青夏教育精英家教网—

When a person walks, the movement of his head, trunk, hipbones and limbs are all reflected in changes in his body. A computer     1    these changes into a database. Later, the computers can     2    identify him according to these changes. This is a new biological identification method and it can quickly identify an examinee     3    disturbing him. It's especially suitable for use in airports and supermarkets.
Everybody's voice is     4   . When a person's voice is recorded by an instrument, its voice frequency spectrum is called his sound print. Like a fingerprint, everybody's sound print is different. How can computers     5    his sound? First, his voice is recorded, which allows the computers to become familiar with his voice. It will then turn his sound characteristics into a     6    of digits. These digits represent the frequency, pitch and rhythm of the person’s voice. These are the     7    on which the computers can distinguish¹ his voice from     8   .
When that person needs to be identified, after he says only one word or two, the computers can identify him. The computers can even identify sounds coming     9   the wires. This will provide a     10    guarantee to electric banks and electric purchases.
We often bring ID cards², work cards, or driver licenses with us to prove our identity. If all these cards are forgotten or lost, how can we prove     11    we are? In fact, it's not difficult to prove whom you are, because your body     12    has identifying markers. Some are physiological features, such as fingerprints, sounds, facial types and eye color. The computer can help to identify you. Suppose your features have already been stored in the database³. To identify you, we have to take your picture with a camera and send it to a computer for     13   . First, the computer needs to reposition this picture according to the position of your eyes⁴, and then starts to read themessage of your physiological features such as the     14    of your pupil⁵ to the whites of your eyes⁶ and the shape of his nose. Next, it seeks matching records from the database. Finally, it makes a     15   .

The word “sharp” can be _1_ to describe many different things in your home, classroom, and places of work. In this chapter, the writer _2_sharp pencils, meaning pencils with a very fine _3_.The writer does not like dull pencils.
We can also use “sharp” to describe the blades of knives. Knives also have points. We can use “sharp” to describe a _4_ kind of point,_5_as the sharp points of kitchen and steak knives. Scissors have blades, too, and we can describe these blades as sharp or dull. Furthermore, the points of scissors are _6_ sharp or rounded _7_ on the kind of scissors. Some tools, such as saws, scrapers, and garden tools, also have blades. We can use the words “sharp” and “dull” to describe the blades of these tools, _8_.Sharp knives, scissors, and tools are_9_to use. They cut things easily and quickly, without effort.?
“Sharp” can be used to describe the edges of furniture and _10_some containers. For example, the edge of a table or desk can be _11_.In addition; we can describe the edge of _12_ open can as sharp. The top of a can is sometimes sharp_13_ to cut your hand. A piece of _14_ from a broken jar or bottle is_15_very sharp.
_16_we sometimes use “sharp” to describe people. A person who appears sharp is very well _17_.A person who is sharp, on the other hand, is intelligent, smart, and_18_ learn and understand.
To summaries, “sharp” can be used to describe many kinds of _19_ that have blades, points, and edges. When we used it to describe people, it can mean nice looking, well dressed, or intelligent. It is an expensive word _20_ it can be used in many different ways.?
1. A. written         B. used         C. seen           D. taken
2. A. talks about                      B. takes care of
C. doesn't like to mention            D. makes up his mind to
3. A. sharp          B. color         C. point          D. edge
4. A. some         B. any          C. only           D. certain
5. A. so           B. as soon         C. such           D. or
6. A. either        B. neither          C. too            D. very
7. A. working      B. which are       C. is             D. spending
8. A. too          B. even           C. either          D. ever
9. A. difficult      B. easy            C. interesting      D. clean
10. A. for         B. with            C. of             D. at
11. A. seen        B. sharp           C. smooth         D. hard
12. A. an          B. a              C. the             D.\
13. A. so as        B. in order        C. so that          D. enough
14. A. news        B. glass          C. information      D. advice
15. A. again        B. quite          C. rather           D. ordinarily
16. A. However     B. Finally        C. Therefore        D. In this way
17. A. prepared     B. dressed        C. mannered        D. served
18. A. easy to      B .is to           C. to              D. quick to
19 .A. funny things B. knives        C. objects          D. containers
20. A. because      B. even if        C. though          D. not only

Next time a customer comes to your office, offer him a cup of coffee．And when you’re doing your holiday shopping online, make sure you’re holding a large glass of iced tea．The physical sensation(感觉) of warmth encourages emotional warmth, while a cold drink in hand prevents you from making unwise decisions—those are the practical lesson drawn from recent research by psychologist John Bargh．
Psychologists have known that one person’s perception(感知) of another’s “warmth” powerfully determines social relationships．Judging someone to be either “warm” or “cold” is a primary consideration, even trumping(捏造) evidence that a “cold” person may be more capable．Much of this is rooted in early childhood experiences, Bargh argues, when babies’ conceptual(概念的) sense of the world around them is shaped by physical sensations, particularly warmth and coldness．Classic studies by Harry Harlow, published in 1958, showed monkeys preferred to stay close to a cloth “mother” rather than one made of wire, even when the wire “mother” carried a food bottle．Harlow’s work and later studies have led psychologists to stress the need for warm physical contact from caregivers to help young children grow into healthy adults with normal social skills．
Feelings of “warmth” and “coldness” in social judgments appear to be universal．Although no worldwide study has been done, Bargh says that describing people as “warm” or “cold” is common to many cultures, and studies have found those perceptions influence judgment in dozens of countries．
To test the relationship between physical and psychological warmth, Bargh conducted an experiment which involved 41 college students．A research assistant who was unaware of the study’s hypotheses(假设) handed the students either a hot cup of coffee or a cold drink to hold while the researcher filled out a short information form: The drink was then handed back．After that, the students were asked to rate the personality of “Person A” based on a particular description．Those who had briefly held the warm drink regarded Person A as warmer than those who had held the iced drink．
“We are grounded in our physical experiences even when we think abstractly(抽象地),” says Bargh．
68．The author mentions Harlow’s experiment to show that ______．
A．monkeys have social relationships
B．adults should develop social skills
C．caregivers should be healthy adults
D．babies need warm physical contact
69．In the paragraph 4, the underlined word “rate” can be replaced by ______．
A．describe B．discuss C．evaluate D．praise
70．We can infer from the passage that _______________．
A．capable persons are often cold to others
B．physical temperature affects how we see others
C．feelings of warmth and coldness are studied worldwide
D．abstract thinking does not come from physical experiences
71．What would be the best title for the passage?
A．Physical Sensations and Emotions．
B．Developing Better Drinking Habits．
C．Experiments of Personality Evaluation．
D．Drinking for Better Social Relationships．

Andrew Ritchie, inventor of the Brompton folding bicycle, once said that the perfect portable bike would be “like a magic carpet…You could fold it up and put it into your pocket or handbag”. Then he paused: “But you’ll always be limited by the size of the wheels. And so far no one has invented a folding wheel.”
It was a rare — indeed unique — occasion when I was able to put Ritchie right. A 19th-century inventor, William Henry James Grout, did in fact design a folding wheel. His bike, predictably named the Grout Portable, had a frame that split into two and a larger wheel that could be separated into four pieces. All the bits fitted into Grout’s Wonderful Bag, a leather case.
Grout’s aim: to solve the problems of carrying a bike on a train. Now doesn’t that sound familiar? Grout intended to find a way of making a bike small enough for train travel: his bike was a huge beast. And importantly, the design of early bicycles gave him an advantage: in Grout’s day, tyres were solid, which made the business of splitting a wheel into four separate parts relatively simple. You couldn’t do the same with a wheel fitted with a one-piece inflated （充气的） tyre.
So, in a 21st-century context, is the idea of the folding wheel dead? It is not. A British design engineer, Duncan Fitzsimons, has developed a wheel that can be squashed into something like a slender ellipse （椭圆）. Throughout, the tyre remains inflated.
Will the young Fitzsimons’s folding wheel make it into production? I haven’t the foggiest idea. But his inventiveness shows two things. First, people have been saying for more than a century that bike design has reached its limit, except for gradual advances. It’s as silly a concept now as it was 100 years ago: there’s plenty still to go for. Second, it is in the field of folding bikes that we are seeing the most interesting inventions. You can buy a folding bike for less than £1,000 that can be knocked down so small that it can be carried on a plane — minus wheels, of course — as hand baggage.
Folding wheels would make all manner of things possible. Have we yet got the magic carpet of Andrew Ritchie’s imagination? No. But it’s progress.
小题1:We can infer from Paragraph 1 that the Brompton folding bike .

A．was portable

B．had a folding wheel

C．could be put in a pocket

D．looked like a magic carpet

小题2:We can learn from the text that the wheels of the Grout Portable .

A．were difficult to separate

B．could be split into 6 pieces

C．were fitted with solid tyres

D．were hard to carry on a train

小题3:We can learn from the text that Fitzsimons’s invention .

A．kept the tyre as a whole piece

B．was made into production soon

C．left little room for improvement

D．changed our views on bag design

小题4:Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

A．Three folding bike inventors

B．The making of a folding bike

C．Progress in folding bike design

D．Ways of separating a bike wheel

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Once there was a very brilliant, creative and educated man. He gained much   36   while traveling throughout the world. Unfortunately he lost his legs and left arm in a tragic accident, leaving only a finger and thumb on his right hand. He became so   37  that he was afraid he would spend his life   38   and would no longer be able to use his life in a(n)   39  way.
One day, he remembered how he had always loved getting   40 . He realized that he still had partial   41  of his right hand and could write with   42 . Then, he had an idea. “Why not write to other people who need encouragement?”
He   43   where he could find those who could be encouraged if they read his letters. He thought of people in   44 . Many of them had hope of regaining their   45 . Others would keep feeling depressed and remain put away for the rest of their lives. He decided that he must try to   46  them. So he wrote to a prison ministry about sending letters to the prisoners. The prison minister replied that writing to the prisoners would be   47 . However, it would be against prison rules for the prisoners to write back.
48   with the intention, the man began sending   49   messages of God’s love, hope, strength, and encouragement. He wrote twice a week, testing his strength and ability to the   50 . He poured his heart and soul into his words,   51   his experience, sense of humor, optimism, and faith.
It was difficult to write those letters, especially without hope of any   52 . Frequently, he felt discouraged, wondering if anyone   53   read his letters. However, this was his   54   chance，so he determined to continue.
At last, he received a letter from the prison officer, which said, “Please write on the best paper you can afford. Your letters are passed from cell (牢房) to cell until they almost fall to   55 !”
We all have unique experiences, abilities and talents. We can discover ways to reach others in need of encouragement and strength.
36. A. wealth             B. faith      C. experience D. confidence
37. A. depressed            B. embarrassed       C. ashamed       D. thrilled
38. A. writing        B. suffering       C. weeping      D. wandering
39. A. abnormal            B. regular          C. comfortable       D. meaningful
40. A. presents        B. e-mails          C. letters    D. prizes
41. A. sense              B. strength         C. shape        D. function
42. A. affection            B. caution          C. difficulty       D. confidence
43. A. estimated       B. doubted         C. assumed         D. wondered
44. A. hospitals            B. churches        C. prisons        D. charities
45. A. families            B. letters     C. freedom         D. conscience
46. A. release             B. reach         C. defend          D. know
47. A. acceptable      B. reasonable C. prohibited       D. considered
48. A. Faced             B. Filled         C. Satisfied    D. Impressed
49. A. holy              B. daily          C. one-way     D. round-way
50. A. point              B. worst         C. degree       D. limit
51. A. sharing             B. learning        C. gaining       D. enriching
52. A. success             B. reply          C. help           D. progress
53. A. curiously            B. patiently        C. carefully       D. actually
54. A. only              B. better           C. extra         D. lost
55. A. ruin               B. pieces     C. the ground D. the bottom

“Love your neighbor as yourself”is a saying familiar to most of us. It means that you must have he ability to love and accept yourself in order to form and keep satisfying relationship with others self-esteem means accepting yourself for who you really are, and believing that you are indeed a worthwhile person who is deserving of love and respect from others.
Self-esteem is our sense of how good we feel about ourselves. It is based on our judgment of ourselves, not on other people's assessment, but simply on our own. Our self-esteem is not dependant on our talent. Some very ordinary people feel very good about themselves, while other extraordinarily high achievers hold low opinions of themselves.
Self-esteem is the primary key to long-term stress management. Why? The first three sources of stress are: predictable life event, unexpected changes and build-up of daily stresses, These are much easier to handle when we believe in ourselves, A positive, healthy self-esteem gives us the “hardiness”(强健) to deal with the difficulties of life, and to see them as challenges to be met, rather than threats to be feared.
The forth category of stress is entirely the result of a low self-esteem. It is the category of stress that is most common and tiring over the long run. This kind of stress cannot be overcome, or even changed, until the self-esteem problems that cause it are corrected.
Learning to love yourself for who you are is the key to overcoming stress. Self-esteem comes form the self, and cannot be promoted by others. A person who feels that his self-esteem comes from the approval of those around him or her is bound to self-destruct(自毁), One cannot keep the level of “performance” required to please everyone else, especially if that performance disagrees with who you are and is simply a facade that makes you popular with the world. When the applause is gone, there is nothing left.
Only those who can feel the strength of knowing who they are and those who can feel good about that will survive the stresses of life. Self-esteem is the basis of contentment and positive living.
小题1:What is self-esteem?

A．A kind of positive lifestyle.

B．The impression we have on other people.

C．Our sense of how good we feel about ourselves.

D．Our understanding of how we are seen by others.

小题2:What is the key to overcoming stress according to the passage?

A．Removing yourself from stressful situation．

B．Learning to love yourself for who you are．

C．Facing the stress and dealing with it．

D．Getting help from friends．

小题3:What does the underlined word "facade" （in Para 5） mean?

A．A false appearance．	B．A big worry．
C．A wrong action．	D．A strange feeling．

小题4:The passage is written to ______．

A．tell people how to overcome stress

B．help people form good relationship with others

C．show the importance of feeling good about yourself

D．provide the different methods to get a clear view of yourself

When I was quite young, I discovered that somewhere inside the telephone lived an amazing
person - "Information Please" and there was nothing she did not know.　
One day while my mother was out, I hit my finger with a hammer. The pain was terrible, but
there was no one home to give me any sympathy. I walked around the house, finally arriving at the telephone! Quickly, I called “Information Please" and told her what happened.  She told me to open the icebox and hold a little piece of ice to my finger.
After that, I called "Information Please" for everything. When my pet bird died, I told
"Information Please" the sad story. She tried to comfort me, she said quietly, "Paul, always remember that there are other worlds to sing in." Somehow I felt better. Another day I was on the telephone, “How do you spell ‘grateful’? ". All this took place in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. When I was 9, we moved to Boston.
A few years later, on my way to college, my plane put down in Seattle. I had about half an
hour or so between planes. Without thinking, I dialed my hometown operator and said, "Information, please."    　　
Surprisingly, I heard the small, clear voice I knew so well, "Information." I hadn't planned on
this but I heard myself saying, "Could you please tell me how to spell ‘grateful’?"
There was a long pause. Then came the soft-spoken answer, "I guess your finger must have
healed by now."   I laughed. "So it's really still you," I said, "I wonder if you have any idea how much you meant to me during that time."  I told her how often I had thought of her over the years and asked if I could call her again. "Please do," she said, "Just ask for Sally."　　
Three months later I was back in Seattle. A different voice answered me. I was told that Sally
passed away five weeks before.   　　
Before I could hang up she told me that Sally left a message for me—“Tell him I still say
there are other worlds to sing in. He'll know what I mean.”  I thanked her and hung up. I knew what Sally meant.
Never underestimate the impression you may make on others. Whose life have you touched
today?　
59. What does “Information, Please” refer to in the passage?
A. An amazing girl.
B. A special kind of telephone.
C. A communication system.
D. A service that helps telephone users.
60. What happened to the little boy one day when he was at home alone?
A. He was amused by the telephone.
B. He hurt his finger with a hammer.
C. He found an amazing telephone.
D. He got a piece of ice from an icebox.
61. What did “Information, Please” give the little boy whenever he was in trouble?
A. Information and conversation.
B. Good memories and happiness.
C. Sympathy and information.
D. Friendship and cheers.
62. When did the author get in touch with “Information, Please” again after he moved to
Boston?
A. When he was in trouble on his way to college.
B. When his plane stopped in Seattle for half an hour.
C. When he went back to Seattle to visit his sister.
D. Three months later after he moved to Boston.

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