All the scientific evidence ___ that increasing use of chemicals in farming ____ damaging our health.

A. show; are                 B. shows; are

C. shows; is                 D. show; is

As the light turned green, I stood for a moment, not _____ and asked myself what I was going to do.

A. moved                            B. being moved

C. to move                   D. moving

I suggest you not be too ____ about what you eat, or you are likely to develop an unbalanced diet.

A. proud                       B. particular

C. confused                  D. considerate

_______ basic first-aid techniques will help you respond quickly to emergencies.

A. Known                     B. Having known

C. Knowing                  D. Being known

你校同学进行了一场有关高考英语听力测试的讨论。讨论的主题是：高考英语测试中的听力部分该不该取消？请你根据下表中的提示写一篇短文，介绍讨论的情况。

注意：1．文章的起始句已给出。

2．词数：120-150（不包括已给的起始句）。

3．参考词汇：取消—cancel；途径，渠道：channels ； 国际合作—international cooperation；加强：strengthen

       The students of our school had a discussion about whether listening test in the National Matriculation English Test should be kept or canceled.

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阅读下面短文，请根据短文后的要求进行答题。（请注意问题后的字数要求）

Have you ever heard of exploding Easter eggs? Cascarones are eggshells（蛋壳） filled with confetti (五彩纸屑) and topped with tissue paper they’re colorful, but watch out! A friend might break a cascaron over your head, showering you with rainbow-colored confetti!

Cascarones may have come from China, where the eggshells were filled with talcum powder (爽身粉) and given as gifts. Marco polo brought them to Italy in the late thirteenth century. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these eggs were used at European weddings and dances.

Empress Carlota, wife of Emperor Maximilian, introduced the eggs to Mexico during her husband’s rule from 1864 to 1867. The talcum powder became perfume（香料，香水）, and the eggs were called cascarones, from the Spanish words for “shell”, cascara, and “to crack or burst”, cascara.

Cascarones symbolize new life and a new season. The egg represents creation, and the tissue paper, cut in many spring colors, represent multicolored flowers in green grass. When a cascarone ___________ over people’s heads, the “gate of heaven” is opened, showering people with good fortune.

In the late 1960s and early 170s, cascarones appeared in the United States with the growing Mexican-American population. Children’s author and artist Carme Lomas Garza wrote in her book In MY Family, “On Easter Sunday, we would sneak up on our brothers, break the cascarones on their heads, and rub the confetti into their hair. However, no one would feel annoyed. Instead, we found a lot of fun.”

Today you can find cascarones at most festivals. They are also popular at school fairs, art shows, and other festive gatherings in the United States. Cascarones may have changed forms and functions as they traveled the world, but they’re guaranteed to bring you a good time.

76. What does the word “they” refer to (in the last line)? ( one word)

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77. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words.

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78. List the traveling route of cascarones. (no more than 5 words)

___________—___________ —___________—____________

79. How did Carmen Lomas Garza feel about her experiences with cascarones?(no more than 3 words)

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80. What’s the author’s purpose of writing Paragraph 4? (no more than 10 words)

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Take control of your health by learning these four numbers. They’ll help with everything from losing weight to protecting your heart.

Your daily calorie needs

This is not technically a measurement, but it can have a huge influence on your health. Most women need 2,000 calories a day for good health, and men generally need about 2,550. One way to work out your daily calorie needs is to multiply (乘以) your weight in pounds by 13 to 15, depending on your activity level. But roughly, that’s 300 to 400 calories for breakfast, 500 to 600 for lunch, and 600 to 700 for dinner. Trying to lose weight? Eat about 500 calories less.

Your waist size

Waist size is one of the best ways to measure whether your weight is affecting your heart health. When body fat is packed into your abdomen (腹部),your risk of heart attack increases. For women, health risk begins to rise when your waist is more than 35 inches. For men, risk increases with a measurement when your waist is over 40 inches.

 Your blood pressure

Blood pressure rises and falls normally during the day. When it remains high, you have high blood pressure and this carries a higher risk or heart disease and stroke.

A reading of 140/90 mm Hg or more is considered high, and if it’s between 120/80 and 139/89, you may still be at risk and should be taking steps to prevent the development of high blood pressure.

Your morning pulse rate

Your pulse rate is the number of times your heart beats in one minute. A normal resting pulse rate is 60 to 90 beats per minute. People who are fit tend to have lower resting pulse rates because their heart muscles are in good shape. But if you don’t exercise regularly and your heart rate is lower than the normal range, tell your doctor—it could be a sign of heart disease.

71. How can you control daily calories if you decide to lose weight?

      A. Eating around 2,000—2, 500 calories

      B. Having fewer than 500 calories.

      C. Cutting down about 500 calories from amount.

      D. Taking in a little fewer calories than the total amount

72. When your waist size becomes larger than the figures given in the text, ________.

      A. you are surely unhealthy                     B. you should try to reduce your waist

      C. you should go on a strict diet              D. the chance of heart disease rises

73. What should you do if your blood pressure is 128/83 mm Hg?

      A. Take measures to stop it going high.           B. Leave it as it is as there was no risk.

      C. Measure the blood pressure regularly.  D. Go to see a doctor for advice.

74. Which of the following is true of a resting pulse rate?

      A. The slower it is, the healthier.           B. The more exercise you do, the slower it is.

     C. Don’t worry if it is lower than normal.   D. Regular exercise can make it slower.

75. What might be the best title of this text?

      A. Healthy living style              

B. The secrets of your body

      C. What are your body functions          

D. Healthy numbers you need to know

People use their mouths for many things. They eat, talk, shout and sing. They smile and they kiss. In the English language, there are many expressions using the word “mouth”.

For example, if you say bad things about a person, the person might protest (抗议) and say “Do not bad mouth me.” Sometimes, people say something to a friend or family member that they later regret because it hurts that person. Or they tell the person something they were not supposed to tell. The speaker might say:” I really put my foot in my mouth this time.” If this should happen, the speaker might feel down in the mouth. In other words, he might feel sad for saying the wrong thing.

Another situation is when someone falsely claims another person said something. The other person might protest：“I did not say that. Do not put words in my mouth.”

Some people have lots of money because they were born into a very rich family. There is an expression for this, too. You might say such a person “was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.” This rich person is the opposite of a person who lives from hand to mouth. This person is very poor and only has enough money for the most important things in life, like food.

Patents might sometimes keep a child off sweet food as a form of punishment for saying bad things. For example, if a child says things she should not say to her parents, she might be described as a mouthy child. The parents might even tell the child to stop mouthing off.

But enough of all this talk. I have been running my mouth long enough.

66. When will a person probably say “do not bad mouth me”?

      A. When he feels down.                           B. When someone says bad things about him

C. When he is regretful                          D. When someone makes him angry

67. What will the person say if he feels sorry for what he has said?

      A. Do not bad mouth me.                        B. Stop mouthing off

      C. Do not put words in my mouth.                D. I really put my foot in my mouth this time.

68. If a person lives from hand to mouth, it means that ________.

      A. he is hard-working                       B. he is poor

     C. he has lots of money                            D. he has enough to eat

69. By saying “I have been running my mouth long enough”, the speaker means “________”.

      A. I have run a long way                                B. I have learned a lot   

      C. I have talked too much                               D. I have had enough

70. What is mainly talked about in the text?

      A. Expressions about the word “mouth”.          B. Functions of the organ “mouth”.

      C. Opinions about “mouthy people”.                    D. Meanings of the word “mouth.

         When you tidy your messy bedroom, it gets a lot easier to find things. Dreams may work the same way for a messy brain, helping you learn by organizing memories and ideas.

         To test how much dreams can help learning, Robert Stickgold had some students play a   shape-fitting game called Tetris(饿罗斯方块)  for a few hours and then go to sleep. Soon they   were dreaming of falling Tetris shapes. Interestingly, the worst Tetris players had the most Tetris  dreams and improved their game the most. Similar tests have shown the same results for all kinds of skills.

         As we dream, many important tasks are getting done. The brain decides what to keep and   what to forget. It is connecting new experiences to older learning. In fact, the brain is learning all night long.

        Another important task of dreams may be to help us deal with emotions(情绪). At night, emotions are in the driver's seat. People who have had an upsetting experience often dream about it afterward. Often the dream event changes somehow—another way the brain tries to make the memory less upset. So if your best friend moves away, you might dream that you're the one who's moving. In fact, dreams have a proven power to improve mood, and people who dream about what's bothering them usually feel better sooner than those who don't.

        Everybody dreams for a couple of hours every night—in the course of your life, you'll spend about 25 years asleep and 6 years dreaming. There's probably no single answer to the question why we dream, but there doesn't have to be. One dream might help you remember your math facts, while another might lead to a new invention, or give you a fun, crazy story to tell your friends. It's all in a night's work for our busy, mysterious brains.

 61. Robert Stickgold's test shows that________.

     A. games are useful for memory                    B. tasks can only be settled through dreams

     C. players stop learning in dreams              D. dreams can help improve skills

62. We can learn from Paragraph 4 that_______ .

     A. dreams can get rid of sufferings            B. one may be less upset after a dream    

C. only drivers can deal with emotions          D. dreams can copy what one experienced

63. Which of the following does the author probably agree with?

     A. Dreaming does harm to one's mood.

     B. Dreaming affects the quality of sleep.

     C. It's easy to find out the secrets of dreaming.

     D. It's not so important to know the cause of dreaming.

64. What does the text focus on?

     A. The benefits of dreams.                           B. Dreams and emotions.

     C.  Dreams and memories.                              D. The patterns of dreams.

65. In which part of a magazine can this text be found?

     A. Entertainment.      B. Tourism.           C. Science.             D. Advertisement.

        Last weekend marked one of the nicest days so far this spring. It was warm with a tiny wind, the sun streamed through lightweight sweaters to warm the skin; the male choir (教堂的唱诗班) was warming up, and the students were moving around the lawn (草坪) behind the huge crowd of six-thousand-plus observers.

With all of the parents, sisters, brothers, grandparents, aunts and uncles, the state university was a center of activity. My nephew was going to receive his bachelor's degree. Who would have guessed that four years would go by so quickly?

As the crowd of freshly polished candidates wandered, joked, hugged and chatted behind the bleachers(看台), I heard several cell phones ring. There were several casual conversations going on with the accompanying giggles （咯咯的笑） of the not-quite-mature students, but then one conversation in particular caught my attention:

"Yes, Grandma, I'm really graduating. I can't believe it, either! I never thought I'd be here today, you know? Really! Like, I know it! Yes, it's a very special day. Oh, what did the doctor say? He did? I know, Gran… I know you wanted to come… It's okay… No, really, please don't cry…It's a very happy day, you know?

"Hold on, we're lining up okay, all set… yes, the center aisle (过道)… the grass is awesome! Smells really good, too… Oh wow, they've got like a million balloons they're going to release! Yes, Kelly's here… Okay, I'll give her your love… here we go! Gran, I'm graduating!

"Love you, too, Gran. I'm so glad you could be here with me!"

And somehow, my initial(最初的) dislike at the use of cell phones and the casual conservations during such a serious occasion left me. For these little representatives of modern technology had joined a young woman and her fond Gran to share a very special moment in time.

56. Where did the story take place?

      A. At an open-air theater.          B. At a traditional festival.

      C. At a graduation ceremony            D. At an important sports game.

57. How did the author feel at first about the students casual conversations?

      A. Curious            B. Annoyed      C. Surprised                   D. Excited

58. It can be inferred that at the time the young woman’s grandmother ________.

      A. had an illness                          B. stayed with Kelly   

C. passed away                        D. appeared pretty calm

59. What impressed the author greatly?

A. The youthful energy of the students.

B. The cheerful atmosphere on the lawn.

 C. The development of modern technology     

D. The love between granddaughter and grandma.

60. The young woman was _________at the time.

      A. talking to her grandma face to face        B. giving a speech      

C. chatting with her grandma on the phone         D. introducing her grandma to others