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For a long time, the traditional method of identifying liars was to watch their body language, including facial expressions.

What if the person appears to be nervous? Is the person unable to look me in the eye? Is he or she look around the room? What about other nervous movements, such as fidgeting（坐立不安）or shifting from side to side? Many people—from parents to police officers and airport security personnel—depend on this method. But does a person’s body and face reveal the truth? Not according to a new study.

Talking, it seems, is the best way to smoke out a liar. That is what researchers in the United Kingdom found out recently. Their investigation took place at one place where lying can get you into big trouble—an airport.

The researchers asked volunteers to pretend they were real passengers and then lie to airport security agents. Some of the agents used spoke conversation-based methods to question these make-believe passengers. Others depended instead on the person’s body language, like lack of eye contact and showing signs of nervousness. The agents talking with the passengers were 20 times more likely to catch the liars. The study found that these conversation-based techniques can help you recognize when a person is lying to you. Like many methods, this conversation method has a name. It is called Controlled Cognitive Engagement or CCE, for short.

The British government partly financed this study. The American Psychological (APA) published the findings. Body language cannot be trusted. Using body language and facial expressions to catch someone in a lie is really hard. And it only works, seemingly, by chance.

Thomas Ormerod is the head of the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex in England. On the APA website, he reported that the “suspicious-signs method”—or using body language—“almost completely fails” in finding lies.

1.What are the questions in Paragraph 2 intended to do?

A. Show traditional ways to recognize a liar.

B. Launch a survey among readers.

C. Show the writer’s puzzlement.

D. Invite the readers to think twice.

2.What should volunteers in the investigation do?

A. Answer questions only using words.

B. Pretend to be airport security agents.

C. Act as passengers as researchers required.

D. Communicate with researchers by talking.

3.Which would be the best way to find out a liar according to the study?

A. Looking him in the eye.

B. Asking open-ended questions.

C. Making use of body language.

D. Observing his facial expression.

4.What will the author continue to talk about based on the passage?

A. Misunderstandings of catching a liar.

B. The “suspicious-signs” method.

C. How the CCE method works.

D. The new concept of CCE.

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I seldom thought I had a passion. I would sit before the TV all day, thinking 1. nothing but the next shadow. It was not long ago that I first learned how important having a passion is to life.

One day I went with Mum to drop my sister off at the gym. Then, 2. Mum stopped at a red light, someone on the roadside caught my eyes. It was a man 3. (dress) in rags, homeless. That didn’t interest me, for I 4. (see) many like him before.

But he man wasn’t sitting down with a sad 5. (express). He had a radio in his hand and was dancing 6. (merry) to the music. The radio seemed to be the most precious thing 7. he had.

“Mum, why does that man have a radio even though he’s homeless?” I asked.

“He bought 8.,” she replied.

“But if he’s homeless, why doesn’t he use the money to buy food or clothes? He wasted it on something he doesn’t need.”

“Well, Sarah, sometimes food and clothes aren’t 9. only important things. We need happiness, too.”

“I see.” The man must care too much about music, so he bought a radio instead of food and clothes. I realized that happiness is the key to life. 10. it, there’s nothing to look forward to. A passion gives a person the happiness they need to keep going!

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My mother is a diligent and kind woman. She is very busy from morning till night. As a teacher, she works hard.  1.Both my brother and I love her dearly as she loves us.

     My mother has been teaching math at a middle school in my hometown. She goes to work early in the morning and does not return home until late in the afternoon. 2.  She treats them with patience and teaches them well. For her excellent quality and very good teaching results, she has been elected as a model teacher several times.

      3. Every day, when she comes back home from work, she sets about doing housework, sweeping the living room and bedrooms or cleaning the furniture, and putting everything in good order. She seems to be busy all the time. As she has been very busy working every day, she looks older than her age. But she looks as cheerful and happy as ever. Mother never buys expensive dresses for herself, but she often buys some inexpensive but high quality clothes for us. 4. She just eats a plain meal outside when she is too busy to cook herself. She lives a busy yet simple life, without any complaints.

    Often she says to us, “work while you work, and play while you play. That is the way to be happy and gay. If you do not work, you will become lazy and be of no use to society”. What a piece of good advice this is!  5. This advice of hers will always serve as a guide to my behavior. My mother is great indeed, and I always feel proud of her.

A. She enjoys listening to classic music.

B. As a mother, she takes good care of us and gives us every comfort.

C. She loves her students and cares for them.

D. She never goes to expensive restaurants to enjoy meals.

E. My mother is hard-working and never wastes money.

F. I never forget it and always bear it in my mind.

G. Can you tell us something about your mother?

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Nobody wants to reach the end of their life and experience regret. Instead, we desire to experience satisfaction with the life we’ve been given. 1. . To live a life without regret in the future, you should try to stay away from the following four common unhealthy habits.

2. It is good to have a destination to go to but it is the journey that matters in the end. Too often, we live our lives from destination to destination. But life is not lived merely in these destinations. In fact, it is far more often lived in the pathways between them. We should appreciate the joy in the journey rather than always hurry to the next destination.

Be defined by your negative circumstances. Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. This is an important truth and an important promise. Our lives should not be defined by the negative circumstances that happened in our past. They may have affected our lives, but they do not write the final chapter. 3.

Focus entirely on yourself. The size of our universe becomes smaller considerably when we place ourselves at the center. 4. On the contrary, those who see their life as an opportunity to bring joy to others quickly find it themselves.

5. Every excess (过量) adds burden to our lives. And yet we continue to pursue and accumulate more than we need—more houses, more cars, more clothes, and more dishes. Owning less means less cleaning, less burden, less anxiety, and less stress each day. It provides the space and opportunity to pursue the things in life that bring lasting satisfaction to our lives.

A. Blame everybody else.

B. Carry more than you need.

C. It is we ourselves who hold the pen.

D. Miss the joy of the journey for the destination.

E. Only a fool believes the wide road is necessarily the right road.

F. The fact is that too many people experience regret at the lives they chose to live.

G. And the people who are most focused on themselves are the least satisfied in life.

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Everyone has his own way of saying things and his own special expressions. Many everyday American expressions are based __1.__ colors. Red is a hot color. Americans often use __2.__ to express heat. They may say they are red hot about something unfair. When they are red hot they are very __3.__(anger) about something. The small hot tasting peppers found in many Mexican foods __4._(call) red hots for their color and their spicy taste. Fast loud music is popular with many people. They may say the music is red hot, __5.__(especial) the kind called Dixieland jazz. Pink is a __6.__(light) kind of red. People sometimes say they are in the pink __7._ they are in good health. The expression was first used in America at the beginning of the __8._(twenty) century. It probably comes from the fact that many babies are born with a nice pink color __9.__ shows that they are in good health. Blue is a cool color. The traditional blues music in the United States is __10.__ opposite of red hot music. Blues is slow, sad and soulful(深情的). Someone who is blue is very sad.

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In my early childhood, my parents and teachers taught me to be persistent (执着) in every task I devoted myself to. I was __________ that persistence is the only way towards success. But a small incident made me change my mind.

One day my two-?year-?old son, ___________ at a dozen of “stood” color marker?pens, cheered excitedly, “Mummy, look! I did it.” Afterwards, he collected some ball?pens, __________ to do the same. Hard though he tried, the ball?pens just lay ___________. He turned to me for help. Noticing they had either sharp or round ends, I said _________, “Mummy can’t help you.” To my _________, he wouldn’t listen and continued trying. I was struck by his persistence.

My son’s behaviour reminded me of George who was always _________in his work and rarely talked to anyone. To him, _________, there was no such thing called weekends or holidays. Our boss praised __________ about him and __________us to look up to him as a role model.

One day I met George. “Gonna work late again tonight？”

“Probably can't leave till midnight,” he said.

“How many hours have you put in here each week, eighty or ninety?”

“__________.”

“Don’t you have time to be with your family at all?”

He shook his head slowly and __________ a sigh. “It’s not what I wanted. But I have worked on it for so long. It’s much too ___________ to even think about letting go.”

A year later I resigned. The _________ thing I heard about him was that his wife divorced him. Since then I’ve never seen him. But occasionally his aged __________ would come to my mind.

Until that day, __________ knowing why the ball?pens couldn’t stand up, the two?year?old had _________the impossibility after many failures. He put aside all the ball?pens and kept only those water markers for his “game”. _________, he already learned to let go of his previous ___________ attempts.

In our daily life, many headaches can be avoided if we know how to _________ them and then let go of them immediately.

1.A. convinced B. confident C. conscious D. consistent

2.A. shouting B. pointing C. screaming D. laughing

3.A. intending B. insisting C. requiring D. urging

4.A. still B. silent C. quiet D. flat

5.A. deliberately B. enthusiastically C. casually D. unintentionally

6.A. content B. disappointment C. surprise D. sorrow

7.A. buried B. interested C. devoted D. busy

8.A. however B. therefore C. otherwise D. though

9.A. little B. well C. much D. highly

10.A. ordered B. inspired C. promised D. appealed

11.A. At random B. At times C. At most D. At least

12.A. let out B. let off C. sent off D. sent out

13.A. encouraging B. comfortable C. painful D. ashamed

14.A. later B. last C. latter D. lately

15.A. picture B. figure C. reflection D. image

16.A. for B. with C. without D. besides

17.A. accepted B. received C. refused D. rejected

18.A. Generally B. Eventually C. Additionally D. Obviously

19.A. hopeful B. endless C. meaningful D. useless

20.A. clarify B. realize C. identify D. acknowledge

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增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下面画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Being responsible is actually not that difficult. I used think that it was hard to grow up into a responsible person. An incident happening in a rainy Sunday afternoon changed my attitude. I was on my way to the bookstore and was waiting for the green light when a girl was knocked down by a passing car, that drove off quickly. A man immediately gave her first aid and I had joined in it without hesitation. Soon many more help was given to the girl. Because we sent her to the nearest hospitals in time, she was able to receive properly treatment. Not badly injured, I expressed her gratitude to those giving help. Compared with the escaping driver, I was proud of what I did.

Baby girls make their way to dolls as soon as they can crawl, while boys will head for the toy cars, a study has shown. The findings, the first to show consistent differences in very young babies, suggest there is a biological basis to their preferences.

Psychologists Dr Brenda Todd from City University London carried out an experiment involving 90 babies aged nine months to 36 months. They were allowed to choose from seven toys. Some were boys' toys - a car, a digger, a ball and a blue teddy. The rest were girls’ toys: a pink teddy, a doll and a cooking set. They were placed a meter away from the toys, and could pick whichever toy they liked. Their choice and the amount of time they spent playing with each toy were recorded.

Of the youngest children (nine to 14 months), girls spent much longer playing with the doll than boys, and boys spent much more time with the car and ball than the girls did. Among the two-and three-year-olds, girls spent 50 percent of the time playing with the doll while only two boys briefly touched it. The boys spent almost 90 percent of their time playing with cars, which the girls barely touched. There was no link between the parents’ view on which toys were more appropriate for boys or girls, and the children’s choice.

Dr Brenda Todd said: “Children of this age are already exposed to much socialization. Boys may be given ‘toys that go’ while girls get toys they can care for, which may help shape their preference. But these findings agree with the former idea that children show natural interests in particular kinds of toys. There could be a biological basis for their choices. Males through evolution have been adapted to prefer moving objects, probably through hunting instincts（本能）, while girls prefer warmer colors such as pink, the color of a newborn baby.”

1.Baby boys and girls have different toy preferences probably because .

A. baby boys are much more active

B. baby girls like bright colors more

C. parents have an effect on their views

D. there may be a biological difference

2.Both baby boys and baby girls like to play with according to the study.

A. a ball B. a teddy C. a car D. a doll

3.What can we infer from Paragraph 3 ?

A.Nine-month-old baby boys don’t play with dolls at all．

B.Two-year-old baby girls sometimes play with cars and balls．

C.Parents should teach their babies to share each other’s toys．

D.The older the babies are, the more obvious their preference is．

4.What conclusion did Dr. Brenda Todd draw from the results of the study?

A. Adults bring about babies’ preference on purpose.

B. Babies’ preference isn’t affected by social surroundings.

C. Baby boys preferring to moving toys will be good at hunting.

D. Baby girls preferring warmer colors will be warm-hearted.

单词题

1.Another actor has been s___________(代替) for the famous player, who was refused permission to work in this country.

2.Bob thought he had all the right q_____________(资格) for the job, so he went bravely to the manager.

3.Students shouted slogans and d___________(分发) leaflets.

4.Were you active in p_______________(参加) in extracurricular activities?

5.The Football A__________(年刊) for 2001 kept his picture in it.

6.I u____________ (催促) my students to look through their lessons ahead of my explanation.

7.Being able to work with children is one of the greatest s______________(满意) of this job.

8.Abel asked to be excused from a______________(陪伴) them and went upstairs to her room.

9.C_______________(恭喜) on your success last night!

10.The council's plans have met with the a_____________(赞成) of local residents.

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