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Several years ago, a well- known writer and editor Norman Cousins became very ill. His body ached and he felt constantly tired. It was difficult for him to even   1 around. His doctors told him that he would lose the ability to move and eventually   2  from the disease. He was told he had only a 1 in 60   3  of survival.
  4  the diagnosis( 诊断) , Cousins was determined to overcome the disease and survive. He had always been interested in   5  and had read a book, which discussed the idea of how body chemistry and health can be damaged by emotional stress and negative( 消极的)  6 . The book made Cousins think about the possible   7 _ of positive attitudes and emotions. He thought, “Is it possible that love, hope, faith, laughter, confidence, and the will to live have positive treatment value?”
He decided to focused all his   8  on positive emotions as a way to treat some of the symptoms of his disease. In addition to his traditional medical treatment, he tried to put himself in situations that would bring about positive emotions. “Laugh therapy” became part of his treatment. He   9  time each day for watching comedy films, reading humorous books, and doing other activities that would draw out positive emotions. Within eight days of starting his “Laugh therapy” program his pain began to  10  and he was able to sleep more easily. He was able to return to work in a few months’ time and actually achieved complete recovery after a few years.
小题1:1.
A．runB．passC．moveD．travel
小题2:
A．sufferB．dieC．separateD．recover
小题3:
A．timeB．valueC．chanceD．opportunity
小题4:
A．A part fromB．In spite ofC．Instead of D．Rather than
小题5:
A．medicineB．sportsC．booksD．chemistry
小题6:
A．attitudeB．beliefsC．goalsD．positions
小题7:
A．shortcomingsB．harmC．benefitsD．interests
小题8:
A．moneyB．timeC．hobbiesD．attention
小题9:
A．affordedB．appointedC．offeredD．arranged
小题10:
A．escapeB．decreaseC．increaseD．end

小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:B
小题5:A
小题6:A
小题7:C
小题8:D
小题9:D
小题10:B

本文讲的是著名的作家兼编辑Norman Cousins身患重病，随时都有失去行动的能力，甚至会死亡，但是他用除了积极用药物治疗外，还用乐观的态度对待病魔，最后，疾病竟然痊愈了。
小题1:考查动词词意辨析和语境的理解。从上下文知道身体的疼痛使他的行走都变得困难了。
小题2:考查动词词意辨析和语境的理解。从下文的提示知道，他会失去移动的能力，最后可能死于这种疾病。
小题3:考查名词词意辨析和语境的理解。从语境知道医生推断他有1/6的存活机会。
小题4:考查介词短语意思辨析和语境的理解。apart from远离, 除...之外；in spite of不管；instead of代替, 而不是...；rather than胜于。尽管医生给予上面的诊断，但是Norman Cousins下定决心要战胜病魔，活下来。
小题5:考查名词词意辨析和语境的理解。从后面的定语从句which discussed the idea of how body chemistry and health can be damaged ……可以知道这里表示医学。
小题6:考查名词词意辨析和语境的理解。是说人的精神压力和消极的态度对于人体的化学物质和健康有害。
小题7:考查名词词意辨析和语境的理解。那本医学书中的内容使Norman Cousins想到积极的生活态度和精神可能会对疾病的治疗起到作用。其他词语无此意。
小题8:考查名词词意辨析和语境的理解。是说注意力集中在有助于治疗疾病的积极态度和精神上。
小题9:考查动词词意辨析和语境的理解。是说他每天安排时间看喜剧电影，阅读幽默故事书籍，做一些提高生活积极性的事情。
小题10:考查动词词意辨析和语境的理解。从语篇知道由于积极的治疗，他的疼痛在8天之后开始减轻。
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A bowl of soup a day could keep the pounds at bay.
Health experts have discovered that adding low-calorie vegetable soup to the start of a meal can actually help to lose weight. Because you tend to feel full sooner, you eat less of your main course.
The soup method was tested by researchers at Pennsylvania State University, led by Dr Barbara Rolls. They found that when participants in the study ate a first course of soup before lunch they reduced their total calorie intake by 20 per cent, compared with those who did not begin the meal with soup. But those who favour creamy soups should beware. Researchers stressed the soup must be low-calorie and based on stock, not cream.
All of the soups tested in the study were made from the same elements—chicken stock (原汁鸡汤), broccoli (菜花), potato, cauliflower (花椰菜) and carrots. They were mixed together to create four different textures and thickness from separate stock and vegetables through to pureed (蔬菜泥) soup.
Scientists thought that thick soups with thick pieces of vegetables which required chewing might be more filling, but to their surprise they found all forms had the same effect. The findings were presented to the Experimental Biology conference in Washington, DC, and the research was part funded by the National Institutes of Health. 
小题1:The passage mainly discusses _____.
A．how to lose weight in a simple wayB．what kind of soup to be served at a meal
C．how to form a healthy eating habitD．why eating soup could help lose weight
小题2: What does the sentence “A bowl of soup a day could keep the pounds at bay” imply?
A．Eating soup equals to swimming in a sea.
B．Eating a bowl of soup every meal is enough to keep fit.
C．Eating soup every day can help you to lose weight.
D．Making soup every day could cost you a lot of money.
小题3: Which of following is the possible result of eating soup before a meal?
A．Dropping the amount of calorie intake.B．Reducing your weight by 20%.
C．Doing good to your growing high.D．Helping you eat more.
小题4: Which of the following statements is correct in making the soup?
A．The materials for making soup must be limited to vegetables.
B．The soup must be made low- calorie.
C．The thickness of the soup makes a difference.
D．The soup must be mixed with some cream.
Eating disorder is ve ry common now. "When I first wrote about this. the problem was pretty much hidden … I didn’t expect it to get as bad as it is." Susie Orbach, an international authority(权威)on eating disorders, said.
Orbach must at times think the anti-diet message of her book “fat is a Feminist Issue(女权主义问题)”has been lost since it was written more than 20 years ago.
Girls, boys, old people --even the famously well-rounded female population of Fiji are falling victims(牺牲品) to fat fear.
"If anything, the situation has got much, much worse. We now have kids as young as eight and women in old people’s homes worried about the way they look." Orbach said.
Even though it has been proved that repeated dieting results in a little more than regaining most of the lost weight, constant dieting has become a way of life for many women. 48 per cent of British women aged 25 to 35 were on some kind of diet and 20 per cent of young women dieted all or most of time. Some of them said they would pop a pill to give them their beautiful shape, even if it meant risking    
their health. Worldwide, 70 million people have an eating disorder. Most are women, but men are increasingly affected, too.
More than half the women and two thirds of the men in Britain weigh too much. while in the United States more than one quarter of adults and about one in five children are overweight. The idea that female beauty is a very thin body could be changed, if clothing factories and magazines showed images(形象) of women of all shapes instead of selecting skeletal-like models and stick-thin actress.
But that is easier said than done.  
To get the message across, Orbach is also considering talking to pop stars such as Victoria Beckham and Geri Halliwell, both of whom have admitted__________________.
1.What’s the best title of the passage?
2.Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?
Lots of women has chosen constant dieting as part of thir life despite the fact that constant dietting leads to the lost weight being regained.  
3.Please fill in the blank in the passage with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.(within ten words)
4.Are you in favor of dieting ?And why?(within 30 words)
5.Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
The common cold is the world's most widespread illness, which is plagues(疫病) that flesh receives.
The most widespread mistake of all is that colds are caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses(病毒) passing on from person to person. You catch a cold by coming into contact, directly or indirectly, with someone who already has one. If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated Arctic regions explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes.?
During the First World War soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches(战壕), cold and wet, showed no increased tendency to catch colds.?
In the Second World War prisoners at the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp(奥斯维辛集中营), naked and starving, were astonished to find that they seldom had colds.?
At the Common Cold Research Unit in England, volunteers took part in Experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be with cold water, and then stood about dripping wet in drafty room. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.?
If, then, cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds, why are they more frequent in the winter? Despite the most pains—taking research, no one has yet found the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on.?
No one has yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and pain suppressors(止痛片) such as aspirin, but all they do is to relieve the symptoms(症状).?
小题1:The writer offered _______ examples to support his argument.?
A．4B．5 C．6D．3
小题2:Which of the following does not agree with the chosen passage??
A．The Eskimos do not suffer from colds all the time.?
B．Colds are not caused by cold.?
C．People suffer from colds just because they like to stay indoors.?
D．A person may catch a cold by touching someone who already had one.
小题3:Arctic explorers may catch colds when ________.
A．they are working in the isolated Arctic regions?
B．they are writing reports in terribly cold weather?
C．they are free from work in the isolated Arctic regions?
D．they are coming into touch again with the outside world
小题4:The passage mainly discusses ________.
A．the experiments on the common cold
B．the fallacy about the common cold?
C．the reason and the way people catch colds
D．the continued spread of common colds
A small piece of fish each day may keep the heart doctor away. That’s the finding of a study of Dutch men in which deaths from heart disease were more than 50 percent lower among those who consumed at least an ounce of salt water fish per day compared to those who never ate fish.
The Dutch research is one of three human studies that give strong scientific support to the long held belief that eating fish can provide health benefits, particularly to the heart.
Heart disease is the number-one killer in the United States, with more than 550,000 deaths occurring from heart attacks each year. But previous research has shown that the level of heart disease is lower in cultures that consume more fish than Americans do. There are fewer heart disease deaths, for example, among the Eskimos of Greenland, who consume about 14 ounces of fish a day, and among the Japanese, whose daily fish consumption averages more than 3 ounces.
For 20 years, the Dutch study followed 852 middle-aged men, 20 percent of whom ate no fish. At the start of the study, average fish consumption was about two-thirds of an ounce each day, with more men eating lean fish than fatty fish.
During the next two decades, 78 of the men died from heart disease. The fewest deaths were among the group who regularly ate fish, even at levels far lower than those of the Japanese or Eskimos. This relationship was true regardless of other factors such as age, high blood pressure, or blood cholesterol（胆固醇）levels.
小题1:The passage is mainly about _________.
A．the high incidence of heart disease in some countries
B．the changes in people’s diet
C．the effect of fish eating on people’s health
D．the daily fish consumption of people in different cultures
小题2:We can infer from the passage that there are fewer heart disease deaths ________.
A．in countries of the yellow-skin race
B．in highly-developed countries
C．in the countries with high consumption of fish
D．in the countries with good production of fish
小题3:The phrase “this relationship” in paragraph 6 refers to the connection between _________ and the level of heart disease.
A．the amount of fish eatenB．regular fish-eating
C．the kind of fish eatenD．people of different areas
小题4:From the passage we know the author is most probably ______.
A．a heart doctorB．a science researcher
C．a supporter of healthy eatingD．a university student
Ways to Burn More Calories
Run through water
Running in water is one of the toughest activities you can perform because the wet stuff is about 12 to 15 times as resistant (具有阻力的) as air. Try your hardest to run and you can burn about 17 calories per minute.
Start fast
Don’t be fooled — slow and steady won’t win the race. A recent study found that after a short warm-up, cyclists who rode hard during the first half of their workouts and then slowed for the second half burned about 10 percent more calories than those who started slow and finished fast.
Take to the sand
Here is some easy-to-remember advice on burning calories: the softer the surface, the more you burn. By walking or running on the beach, you can use up 20 to 50 percent more calories than you do going at the same pace on a hard trail.
Shut up and dance
Here’s the perfect excuse to sign up for that hip-hop dance class you’ve been eager to try. Surprising your body with new activities — dance, a new sport, you name it — forces it to work harder because it’s doing unfamiliar movements and using muscle groups in different ways.
Use your arms
Getting both your upper and lower body involved can provide a big calorie-burning advantage. So if you’re short of time or want to get everything you can out of your usual 45-minute workout, try total-body activities such as rowing ormming. You can evenng your arms as hard as you can while you walk.
小题1: How can water help you burn more calories?
A．By pushing your body.
B．By wetting your clothes and shoes.
C．By forcing you to run faster.
D．By forcing your body to work harder.
小题2:What does “it” in Part 4 refer to?
A．Dance. B．Movement. C．Body. D．Muscle.
小题3:Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A．One can burn more calories when walking on the sand than on land.
B．One can burn more calories when walking on stones than on earth.
C．One can burn more calories when running in water than on the sand.
D．One can burn more calories when exercising using the upper body than using the lower body.
Does a drink a day keep heart attacks away? Over the past 20 years, numerous studies have found that moderate alcohol consumption, s ay, one or two beers, glasses of wine or cocktails daily helps to prevent coronary heart disease. Last week a report in the New England Journal of Medicine added strong new evidence in suport of that theory. More important, the work provided the first solid indiction of how alcohol works to protect the heart.In the study, researchers from Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School compared the drinking habits of 340 men and women who had suffered recent heart attack with those of healthy people of the same age and sex. The scientists found that people who sip one to three drinks a day are about half as likely to suffer heart attacks as nondrinkers are. The apparent source of the protection: those who drank alcohol had higher blood levels of high?density lipoproteins, the so?called good cholesterol, which is known to prevent heart disease.
As evidence has mounted, some doctors have begun recommending a daily drink for patients of heart diseases. But most physicians are not ready to reommend a regular happy hour for everyone. The risks of teetotalling(绝对戒酒) are nothing compared with the dangers of too much alcohol, including high blood pressure, strokes and liver troubles—not to mention violent behaviour and traffic accidents. Moreover, some studies suggest that even  moderate drinking may increase the incidence of breast and colon cancer. Until there is evidence that the benefits of a daily dose of alcohol outweigh the risks, most people won’t be able to take a doctor’s prescription to the neighbourhood bar or liquor store.
1.The medical article quoted in the first paragraph indicates            .
the way in which alcohol can help the heart      
how a couple of cocktails daily can stop heart problems
why alcoholic drinks are dangerous to one’s health 
that reports on the advantages of alcohol were misled
2.Experiments showed that nondrinkers had .
A．larger amounts of good cholesterol
B．smaller amounts of good cholesterol
C．higher blood pressure
D．lower blood pressure
3.According to the passage, moderate drinking            .
is recommended by most doctors for heart patients    
should be allowed on prescription
is still not medically advisable                     
is not related to liver problems
4.The main theme of this passage is .
the change in recent drinking habits                
the connection between cancer and alcohol
whether moderate drinkers outlive nondrinkers       
whether alcohol may be good for one’s health
One moment it was quiet and calm in the forest, the next, the air was charged with tension. The elephant had heard the distant alarm calls of animals and her mood suddenly changed. I urged the elephant deeper into the forest. We sounded like a forest fire --- cracking, snapping, trailblazing. But through all the noise came a sharp warning cry. The elephant stopped and we heard it again --- the tell-tale call of a spotted deer.
I looked quickly around the shadows of the forest. Rays of sunlight shone through tree branches, beneath which the patchwork（交错）of green plants and shadows-within-shadows would make tiger stripes（条纹）look more attractive. Apart from an occasional noise from the elephant’s stomach, the forest was silent.
Gradually, the tension slipped from our bodies. The elephant seized a nearby branch and put it into its mouth. I reached forward and gently moved my hand over the elephant’s neck; there was a soft part, free of wrinkles and hairs, behind her ear.
This was my fourth time to sense the aura of the forest in Corbett, although I saw no tigers in the end. Located at the foot of the Himalayan mountains, Corbett is home to about 135 Bengal tigers, but the forest seemed to be guarding their whereabouts（出没处）, a silent reminder of their secrecy and rarity. Still, I was happy enough touching the elephant behind the ear. If I had so desperately wanted to see a tiger, I could have gone to a zoo. After all, spotting tigers merely confirms their beauty; tracking them can make you aware of something more.
小题1:Which of the following was a clear signal of alarm?
A．The elephant stopped.
B．A spotted deer called.
C．The elephant seized a branch.
D．The forest was silent for a while.
小题2:The author begins his account of the tour in the forest mainly by _______.
A．describing various sounds
B．comparing different animals
C．listing different activities
D．introducing various plants
小题3:What does the underlined part “to sense the aura” most probably mean?
A．To see the diversity.
B．To enjoy the scenery.
C．To feel the atmosphere.
D．To experience the freedom.
小题4:How does the author feel after several visits to Corbett?
A．Seeing a Bengal tiger is quite thrilling.
B．It is very time-consuming to travel in Corbett.
C．It is really worthwhile to study the animals in Corbett.
D．The process of finding Bengal tigers is most appealing.
Mark Twain said that "habit is habit, and not to be flung（扔） out the window by anyone, but coaxed(劝诱) downstairs a step at a time. " The chances of successfully changing negative behavior    when you make gradual changes that give you time to _   _ negative patterns for positive ones.
On any given day, countless numbers of us get out of bed and _   _ to begin to change a given behavior "today." Whether it be exercising more, drinking less, managing time      or some other change in a negative behavior, we start out with high       . In a short time, however, a vast majority of people fail and are soon doing    it was they thought they shouldn't be doing.
After considerable research, some researchers believe that behavior changes usually do not       if they start with the change itself.      , they believe that we must        a series of “stages” to adequately prepare ourselves for that       change. Once you have analyzed all the factors that       what you do ,you must decide which behavior-change technique will work best for you.
According to the psychologist Albert Ellis, most     problems and related behaviors arise from irrational (不理性的) statements that people make to      when events in their lives are different from what they would like them to be. For example, suppose after doing       on an exam, you say to yourself, “I can not believe I failed that easy exam. I am so stupid.”By changing this irrational “catastrophic” self-talk into rational,   statements about what is really going on, you can increase the       that positive behaviors will occur.
Positive self-talk might be     as follows: "I really didn't study enough for the exam. I just need to prepare for the next     ”.
Such self-talk will help you to recover quickly from      and take positive steps to correct the situation. Some other technique like purposefully      or stopping negative thoughts and refusing to dwell on (沉湎于) negative images can also spare you wasted energy, time and emotional resources and move on to positive changes.
小题1:
A．decline B．remainC．disappearD．improve
小题2:
A．substituteB．cancelC．find D．ignore
小题3:
A．refuseB．determineC．hesitate D．advocate
小题4:
A．moreB．betterC．worseD．less
小题5:
A．valuesB．requirementsC．expectationsD．levels
小题6:
A．whicheverB．howeverC．wherever D．whatever
小题7:
A．succeed B．failC．existD．fade
小题8:
A．NeverthelessB．OtherwiseC．InsteadD．Moreover
小题9:
A．look throughB．break throughC．go throughD．pull through
小题10:
A．initialB．temporaryC．instantD．eventual
小题11:
A．involveB．influenceC．explainD．adjust
小题12:
A．emotionalB．physicalC．technicalD．professional
小题13:
A．allB．othersC．someoneD．themselves
小题14:
A．poorly B．carefullyC．completelyD．slowly
小题15:
A．positiveB．ridiculousC．negative D．explicit
小题16:
A．danger B．awarenessC．amountD．probability
小题17:
A．writtenB．phrasedC．listedD．captioned
小题18:
A．researchB．testC．talk D．problem
小题19:
A．tirednessB．habitsC．disappointmentD．burdens
小题20:
A．recallingB．startingC．blocking D．holding

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