We still don’t understand the influence of the mind’s power over the body, nor do we understand why there should be such power. All we can say for certain is that the mind does have power over the body in very many different ways.

         If a man is told that he is at the North Pole and he believes what he is told, he’ll show physical signs which suggest that his body is reacting as though he were at the North Pole. He’ll go pale and shiver. When the film Lawrence of Arabia was shown, cinema managers around the world reported that the sales of ice cream rocketed. The endless desert scenes had made the moviegoers feel uncomfortably hot.

         Hypnotists use the power of the mind over the body in order to use their influence. The hypnotist must only convince the patient that something is true, and the patient will act accordingly. If he convinces the patient that his arms are as heavy as lead, then the patient will be unable to lift his arms. If he convinces the patient that a piece of ice is a hot iron and he then touches the patient’s skin with the ice, a blister（水泡）will develop. The body will react to the suggestion and not to the reality, and signs of a real burn will appear.

1 From the passage, we can imagine that people watching a film about the North Pole would probably want __________.

         A. an ice cream                  B. a cold shower      C. a hot drink            D. a hot iron

2. A hypnotist is supposed to be able to control __________.

         A. patients’ bodies               B. people’s minds

         C. patients’ diseases                 D. people’s movements

3. The phrase “the reality” refers to __________.

         A. a real burn   B. a hot iron  C. the touch of ice   D. the body’s reaction

4. A good title for this passage would be __________.

         A. Mind and Body                  B. Physical Signs

         C. Research on Mind                 D. The Power of the Mind

Jamie Oliver has been invited by Gordon Brown to prepare a banquet at No．10 for President Barack Obama and other leaders of the G20, offering a cut-price menu to reflect times when trade and industry are far from prosperous and the rate of employment is decreasing.

Downing Street sources say Oliver, the well-known chef, will cook using "honest high-street products" and avoid expensive or "fancy" ingredients.

The prime minister is trying to avoid a repeat of the embarrassment last year when he sat down to an 18-course banquet at a Japanese summit to discuss world food shortages．

Obama, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and other leaders will be served by apprentices （学徒） from Fifteen, the London restaurant Oliver founded to help train young people in poverty in order to make a living by mastering a skill.

Brown wants the dinner to reflect the emphasis of the London summit, which he hopes will lead to an agreement to lift the world out of recession．"To be invited to cook for such an important group of people, who are trying to solve some of the world's major problems, is really a privilege," said Oliver.

"I'm hoping the menu I'm working on will show British food and produce is some of the best in the world, but also show we have pioneered a high-quality apprentice scheme at Fifteen London that is giving young people a skill to be proud of."

The chef has not yet finalized me menu, but is expected to draw inspiration from his latest book, Jamie's Ministry of Food, which has budget recipes for beef and ale stew （啤酒炖菜） and "impressive" chocolate fudge cake. (286 words)

1.What can we learn about Oliver from the text?

       A．He is a well-known American cook．

       B．He is invited to attend the G20 summit．

       C．He has founded the Fifteen London．

       D．He is one of the apprentices serving leaders of the G20.

2.The menu of the banquet for the leaders of the G20 is supposed to ____．

       A．include all delicious British food

       B．use inexpensive produce with special characteristics

       C．be rich, varied and of high quality

       D．imitate the menu of last Japanese summit

3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?

       A．Oliver is honored to be invited to cook for the G20 leaders.

       B．Altogether three presidents are mentioned in the text．

       C．President Barack Obama offers the cut-price menu．

       D．The menu for the G20 dinner banquet has been decided．

4.What is the Fifteen London?

       A．an apartment in London．                    B．a luxurious restaurant in London．

       C．a restaurant as well as a training center．        D．a famous avenue.

Smart job-seekers need to rid themselves of several standard myths about interviewing before they start looking for a job. What follows is a list of some of these untruths and some tips to help you do your best at your next interview.

       Myth 1: The aim of interviewing is to obtain (means “get”) a job offer.

       Only half true. The real aim of an interview is to obtain the job you want. That often means rejecting job offers you don’t want! So before you please an employer, be sure you want the job.

       Myth 2: Always please the interviewer

       Not true. Try to please yourself. Of course, don’t be hostile—nobody wants to hire someone disagreeable. But there is plainly a muddle ground between being too ingratiating（逢迎）and being hostile.

       Myth 3: Try to control the interview

       Nobody “controls” an interview. When someone tries to control us, we resent（憎恨）it. When we try to control others, they resent us. Remember you can’t control what an employer thinks of you, just as he can’t control what you think of him. So he is ready to give and take when being interviewed; never control the interview.

       Myth 4: Never interrupt the interviewer

       Study the style of the effective conversationalists: they interrupt and are interrupted! An exciting conversation always makes us feel free—free to interrupt, to disagree, to agree enthusiastically. Just hang loose. Try being yourself for a change. Employers will either like or dislike you, but at least you’ll have made an impression. Leaving an employer indifferent（冷漠的）is the worst impression you can make.

To be your natural self in a job interview will__________.

A. make your interviewer angry                  B. please your interviewer

       C. leave an impression on the interviewer    D. leave the interviewer indifferent to you

     For job seekers, efforts to control the interview are likely to __________.

       A. affect the interviewer’s opinion of them

       B. lead to the offer of a job

       C. enable them to express themselves fully

       D. help to create a favorable image of themselves

The most important thing to keep in mind when being interviewed for a job is to _________.

       A. try to obtain the job                              B. reject the job first

       C. qualify yourself for the job                           D. see if it is a job you want

The right attitude to a job interviewer is to be _________.

       A. obedient                   B. hostile               C. pleasing                   D. agreeable

     “hang loose” in last paragraph means to _________.

       A. stay calm and relaxed                                   B. become weak and passive

       C. take charge                                           D. sit back comfortably

The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, pain free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain.

　　As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment（承担的义务）, self - improvement.

　　Ask a bachelor（单身汉） why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.

　　Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three - day vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.

　　Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.

1.According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because ____________ .

　　A. he is reluctant to take on family responsibilities

　　B. he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single

　　C. he finds more fun in dating than in marriage

　　D. he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement

2.Raising children, in the author’s opinion is ____________ .

A. a moral duty                         

B. a thankless job

C. a rewarding task                      

D. a source of inevitable pain

3.From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes stems from ____________ .

A. hatred　　                              

B. misunderstanding　　　　

C. prejudice　　　　                       

D. ignorance

4.To understand what true happiness is one must ____________ .

　　A. have as much fun as possible during one’s lifetime

　　B. make every effort to liberate oneself from pain

　　C. put up with pain under all circumstances

　　D. be able to distinguish happiness from fun

5.What is the author trying to tell us?

A. Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain．

B. One must know how to attain happiness.

C. It is important to make commitments.    　　

D. It is pain that leads to happiness.

完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

When a person is curious about something, it means he is interested in it and wishes to know something about it. There is   16   wrong with curiosity in itself. Whether it is good or bad   17  on what people are curious about.

   Curiosity  18  can be foolish or wrong. Some people with nothing to do are  19  of curiosity about what their neighbors are doing. They have a strong wish to know what they are   20  home or taking outside, or why they have come home so  21  or late. To be interested in these things is silly because it is none of their 22   to know what their neighbors do or are doing. Such curiosity is not only foolish but also 23  . For most probably, it may lead to a small talk  24  often brings harm, loss of honor or disrespect to others, and thus  25  their feelings.

  On the other hand, there is a  26  curiosity- the curiosity of wise men, who  27  at all the great things and try to find out all they  28  learn about them. Columbus could  29  have found America if he had not been  30 . James Walt would not have made the steam engine  31   his curiosity about the rising of the kettle lid. All the  32  in human history have been made as a  33  of curiosity, 34   the clever curiosity is never about unimportant things which have  35  or nothing to do with the happiness of the public.

1.A. anything           B. everything           C. nothing      D. something

2. A. keeps             B. puts             C. takes            D. depends

3. A. always                B. sometimes            C. unusually        D. seldom

4. A. full              B. certain              C. proud            D. careful

5.A. taking             B. bringing         C. going            D. coming

6. A. quickly               B. hurriedly            C. early            D. happily

7.A. business           B. task             C. duty         D. work

8. A. instructive           B. useful               C. harmful      D. proper

9. A. who               B. which                C. when         D. where

10.A. hurts             B. injures              C. breaks           D. destroys

11.A. terrible              B. sudden           C. strange      D. clever

12. A. expect               B. like             C. wonder       D. doubt

13.A. need              B. must             C. may          D. can

14. A. never                B. certainly            C. surely           D. probably

15.A. famous                B. careful              C. curious      D. hard

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

17. A. products         B. goods                C. discoveries      D. machines

18. A. profit               B. product          C. fruit            D. result

19. A. but                  B. however          C. so           D. or

20.A. little                B. few              C. some         D. any