15．Serious head and neck injuries happen most often in athleteswhoplay contact sports like football．——青夏教育精英家教网—

8．Mosquitoes have an extraordinary ability to target humans far away and fly straight to their unprotected skin．Regrettably，mosquitoes can do more than cause an itchy（发痒的）wound．Some mosquitoes spread several serious diseases，including Dengue，yellow fever and malaria．
Over one million people worldwide die from these diseases each year．New research now shows how mosquitoes choose who to bite．
Mosquitoes need blood to survive．They are attracted to human skin and breath．They smell the carbon dioxide gas，which all mammals breathe out．This gas is the main way for mosquitoes to know that a warm-blooded creature is nearby．
But mosquitoes also use their eyes and sense of touch．Michael Dickinson is a professor at the California Institute of Technology．His research shows how these small insects，with even smaller brains，use three senses to find a blood meal．
Michael Dickinson's team used plumes-a material that rises into the air of carbon dioxide gas into a wind tunnel．They then used cameras to record the mosquitoes．The insects followed the plume．
Then，the scientists placed dark objects on the lighter colored floor and walls of the tunnel．Mr．Dickinson said，at first，the mosquitoes showed no interest in the objects at all．"What was quite striking and quite surprising is that the mosquitoes fly back and forth for hours．These are hungry females and they completely ignore the objects on the floor and wall of the tunnel．But the moment they get a hit of CO2，they change their behavior quite obviously and now would become attracted to these little visual blobs （斑点）．"
This suggested to the researchers that a mosquito's sense of smell is more important in the search for food．Once mosquitoes catch a smell of a human or animal，they also follow visual signals．
32．What do mosquitoes mainly use to find their targets？A
A．Sense of smell
B．Sense of touch
C．Sense of sight
D．Smart brains
33．The first response of the mosquitoes to the objects in the experiment isC．
A．to fly to the dark ones
B．to catch and stick to them
C．to take no notice of them
D．to attach themselves to them
34．How can we avoid being attacked by mosquitoes according to the text？D
A．Don't let them see us．
B．Use dark objects to stop them．
C．Make them fly back and forth for hours．
D．Attract them to objects full of carbon dioxide gas．
35．What can be the best title for the text？C
A．How Do Mosquitoes Survive？
B．Why Do Mosquitoes Need Blood？
C．How Do Mosquitoes Choose to Bite You？
D．Why Do Mosquitoes Attack the Human Being？

7．A drunken burglar in the Orrell Park area of Liverpool，ended up leaping out of a window after a 10-year-old girl asked him to prove he was a superhero．
The drunken thief who pretended he was Superman to stop a child raising the alarm has been caught after he leapt from the apartment building in his pants to make the girl convinced．
Thief Ethan Adamson，25，told police that he had broken into a fifth-floor flat after a drinking party，believing it was empty．
But he was horrified when the owner's 10-year-old daughter woke up while he was there．
From his hospital bed，the thief told reporters，"To keep her quiet，I told her I was really Superman and I'd soon be flying off back to my secret headquarters．"
"She called my bluff （向…摊牌） and told me，‘If you're Superman，show me you can fly or I'll scream'．
"I had no choice so I stripped to my pants to look more like a superhero and went to the window．I saw another roof below and I thought I could make it but it turned out to be a lot further down than thought．I know it doesn't make sense but it did to me when I was drunk．"
Police later found him on the roof in just his yellow pants，covered in cuts and bruises（淤青） after a neighbor heard his cries of pain．
He now faces seven years behind bars for burglary．
Police spokesman Frank Armado said，"He was in quite a serious state and couldn't move until we got up there using ladders．He was treated for his injuries and we got him some fresh clothes，before taking him to hospital where he is being kept under guard until he is well enough to be arrested．"
29．What does the underlined part in the passage mean？A
A．I could land safely on the roof．
B．I could make the girl trust me．
C．I could prove I was a superhero．
D．I could make a successful escape．
30．What's the right order of the event？C
a．Ethan Adamson told reporters of the burglary．
b．The 10-year-old girl called Ethan Adamson's bluff．
c．Ethan Adamson attended a drinking party．
d．Ethan Adamson leapt out of a window．
A．cabd
B．dbca
C．cbda
D．dcab
31．What is the author's purpose of writing the passage？A
A．To report on a joking burglary．
B．To call our attention to the burglary．
C．To explain how the burglar was caught．
D．To look back on an adventure story．

6．It's hard to find Alice Munro in the media．Even after she won the 2013Nobel Prize in Literature，the Canadian writer just appeared for a quick interview and then dropped out of sight．On Dec 29，she still didn't seek the spotlight（聚光灯）when she was named one of the five Women of the Year by the Financial Times．
In Munro's eyes，ordinary lives always hide larger dramas．So she records what we casually think of as the everyday actions of normal people．She often focuses on life in her hometown，a small village in Ontario which she is most familiar with．She writes about the ordinary things in the village-fox forming，trees filled in the Ontario wilderness，poor country alcohol and long last illnesses．Above all，she talks about girls and women who have seemingly ordinary lives but struggle against daily misfortune．
She has a special talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary．These are ordinary people，ordinary stories，but she has the magic．Her precise language，depth of detail and the logic of her storytelling have made her stories inviting．
Runaway，one of Munro's representative works，is a good example of her writing style．One of the stories centers on the life of an ordinary woman Carla，who lives in a small Canadian town with her husband Clark．The story slowly forms a picture of Carla，trapped in a bad marriage，her unhappiness building into desperation until she decided to flee．The story of Carla is a story of the power and betrayals of love．It is about lost children and lots of chances that we can all find in life，There is pain beneath the surface，like a needle in the heart．
Since she published her first collection of short stories in 1968，Munro has won many awards，with the Nobel Prize being her biggest honor．On Oct 10，2013，the Nobel Prize committee named Munro the"master of the contemporary short story"．
25．We learn from Paragraph 1that Alice MunroB
A．didn't get on well with the media
B．remained modest though very successful
C．didn't value the title of Women of the Year
D．was surprised at winning the Nobel Prize
26．What makes Alice Munro's stories fascinating according to the text？A
A．Her writing techniques
B．The complicated plots
C．The humorous language
D．Her rich imagination
27．In her representative work Runaway，CarlaD
A．leads a happy life with Clark
B．is a faithful wife to her husband
C．loses all hopes for a better life
D．tries to run away from her husband
28．What is the text mainly about？C
A．Alice Munro and her hometown
B．The awards Alice Munro won
C．Alice Munro and her writing style
D．Alice Munro's literary life．

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