【题目】Every art lover has a dream---to buy an old painting at a low price and later discover that it’s worth millions. 1 But this dream can become a nightmare if it turns out that the painting is stolen.

The following true story happened in London. An art collector was walking around an outdoor market in the East End when he saw two interesting paintings.2 He decided to buy them after they got the price down to 145 pounds. The art collector knew it was a good deal, but he wasn’t sure how much his paintings were really worth.

He decided to take the paintings to the Sorheby’s, a famous auction house.3 They were painted by two of England greatest painters Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds. They had been stolen from Lincoln’s Inn, a famous historical building in London and were worth about two million pounds.

4 Experts at Sotheby’s were convinced that he was an art thief and called the police. Within minutes the police arrived. They arrested the frightened man and took him to the police station. After hours of questioning, the police realized that they had made a mistake and let the man go.

The art collector returned them immediately because he was worried about his good name.5 So the stolen paintings are now back at Lincoln’s Inn.

A. Nothing is more exciting.

B. At this point the art collector was in trouble.

C. An auction house is a place where things are sold to whoever offers the most.

D. Although he wasn’t an art expert, he saw that they were old.

E. Obviously, he did not want to be associated with stolen works.

F. The art experts who saw the paintings recognized them immediately.

G. He recognized that they were stolen works worth great value.

【题目】Humans are much worse at estimating risk than we think we are. While we overestimate the risk of rare but disastrous occurrences, such as being attacked by a shark, many of us seriously underestimate the risk of behaviors that reduce our lifespan (寿命), such as smoking.

In fact, there are two types of risks — acute and chronic. Acute risks are those that may kill you immediately, such as a car accident.

Chronic risks don’t kill you immediately but rob you of your life a little at a time. If you choose to eat an unhealthy diet, for instance, you may appear to be getting away with this, but you risk developing illnesses in future that may shorten your life.

The problem is we value things much less when they occur in the future. Distant events are abstract — we don’t know how and when they might affect us -~ so we care less about them.

Take smoking for example. It is just about the worst choice you can make for your health. Every two cigarettes that you smoke takes 30 minutes off your lifespan.

In contrast, eating vegetables is clearly very good for you, with each serve increasing your lifespan by two hours. This is a massive health gain and clearly should be a strong motivator for you to eat healthily.

Drinking coffee is also good for you, though with limited health gains. Each cup of coffee (assuming you drink reasonably), is associated with approximately a ten-minute gain in your lifespan.

Even drinking alcohol may add to your lifespan, with each serve adding 30 minutes to the length of your life. But this health gain is only true for the first drink; following drinks shorten lifespan. Alcohol also causes an acute risk when consumed in excess. Too much drinking gives you a 25 in one million chance of sudden death.

We shouldn’t be too nervous about exposure to risks. Life is all about making decisions about risks and rewards, and we all have a different starting point for what we consider acceptable risks to take. Even if we don’t always make the healthiest decisions, at least we can make ones that are fully informed.

1Which of the following belongs to acute risks?

A. Eating junk food every day.

B. Being hit in a plane crash.

C. Staying up late every night.

D. Being too much overweight.

2Why do people often ignore chronic risks?

A. They can often get away with them.

B. They can rid themselves of their side effects.

C. They don’t reduce their lifespan.

D. They will not cause immediate death.

3Which habit will shorten your lifespan?

A. Eating vegetables every day.

B. Smoking only one cigarette a day.

C. Drinking a cup of coffee every day.

D. Drinking alcohol reasonably.

4What does the underlined phrase “in excess” in the 8th paragraph mean?

A. At random.

B. In need.

C. More than enough.

D. Ahead of time.

【题目】Some people love eating food right after it is cooked. I prefer food just taken out from the freezer. Fruit, candies, nuts, chocolate, cake with buttercream frosting(糖霜), even peas, all of them taste delicious when frozen. In fact, I often eat them that way.

I was a kid when I picked up the habit. In my family, lots of things were thrown into the freezer — finally, two freezers — to prevent them from going bad. Among them were some of the candies my sisters and I had collected on Halloween.

If we eat when they are still warm, we’ll find ourselves taking the cookies more than we should. It’s better if we can put them into the freezer and wait. That way we’ll eat less and enjoy them more because they are hard and chewing becomes a slower, more patient effort. That’s the point about frozen buttercream frosting. Put it in your mouth at room temperature, and it’s gone very quickly. But when it’s frozen, you can enjoy the taste much longer as it melts(融化) in your mouth.

The freezer treats a lot of fruit kindly. Take frozen grapes for example, I keep a bowl of grapes in my freezer. They become a little icy, and somehow their sweetness is improved. They are perfect and healthy dessert(点心). This is the same with oranges, apples, bananas…You might think bananas would get superhard when frozen. Wrong! They become cool, creamy and sweet. If you have wisely covered some or all of the bananas with melted chocolate before putting them into the freeze, they will have a double taste.

As long as you aren’t eating anything that truly has to be hot, go ahead and experiment.

1What is the passage intended to tell us?

A. Fruit should be frozen before one eats it.

B. Frozen food is better than hot food.

C. The author prefers frozen food.

D. Hot food is not healthy.

2The author began to enjoy frozen food when he _____________.

A. was young B. learned cooking

C. got married D. got a fever

3Why does the author NOT advise us to take hot cookies?

A. Because they need more time to prepare.

B. Because the taste is not good when they are hot.

C. Because they are too delicious to avoid our overeating.

D. Because we may eat them quickly and enjoy them less.

4What does the underlined word "it" in the third paragraph refer to?

A. The taste. B. Buttercream.

C. The cookie. D. Frozen buttercream frosting.

【题目】Located on the University of Melbourne’s Hawthorn campus, Hawthorn-Melbourne is one of Australia’s largest and longest established English language schools.

You can study English with Hawthorn-Melbourne if you want to:

enter Australian universities or colleges.

get ready for an IELTS test.

expand your career options or prepare for employment.

open up new travel opportunities and experience Australia.

Hawthorn is a safe and peaceful residential suburb surrounded by nature, with plenty of shops, cafes, banks, sporting facilities and parks. All of our students can use the student rest areas and kitchen areas, as well as all of our group learning spaces, entertaining and social facilities.

NOTE: No international student shall stay for the night outside our school.

Some distinctive learning places for you:

Library

In the library, there are abundant learning resources and quiet study areas for our students.

Resources such as DVDs, newspapers, magazines and audio for listening practice.

Monday to Thursday 8:00am to 5:30pm

Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm

Computer Labs

Computer labs support foreign language characters—but only English during class time.

We provide campus WiFi free of charge for all of our students.

Monday to Friday 8:00am to 6:00pm

Saturday 9:00am to 6:00pm

Independent Learning Center

Students have 1 hour of independent learning each day.

ILC time is an opportunity to practice and improve the language skills that you learn in class.

Monday to Thursday 8:00am to 5:30pm

Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm

Lecture Theater

In the lecture theater, public lectures of various topics will be given to students.

Qualified professors or excellent students are invited to be lecturers.

Monday to Thursday 8:00am to 10:30am

Friday 8:00am to 10:00am

Welcome to OUR SCHOOL!

Call at: 041-3436-215

E-mail: Hawthom-Melboume@yahoo.com

1What help can Hawthorn-Melbourne offer learners?

A. Entering a Confucius college.

B. Expanding their career options.

C. Preparing for a TOEFL test.

D. Evaluating their learning ability.

2What can students do in Hawthorn-Melbourne?

A. Study at any group learning space.

B. Apply for a job in the kitchen areas.

C. Do listening practice in the computer labs.

D. Stay in a local family for the night.

3Which learning place can you go to on Saturday morning?

A. Library.

B. Computer Labs.

C. Independent Learning Center.

D. Lecture Theater.

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