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The “Monday morning feeling” could be a crushing pain in the chest which leaves y

ou sweating and gasping for breath. Recent research from Germany and Italy shows that heart attacks are more common on Monday mornings and doctors blame the stress of returning to work after the weekend break.

  　The risk of having a heart attack on any given day should be one in seven, but a six-year study helped by researchers at the Free University of Berlin of more than 2600 Germans showed that the average person had a 20 percent high chance of having a heart attack on a Monday than on any other day.

 　 Working Germans are particularly not protected against attack, with a 33 percent higher risk at the beginning of the working week. Non-workers, by comparison, appear to be no more at risk on a Monday than any other day.

  　A study of 11000 Italians proved 8 a.m. on a Monday morning as the most stressful time for the heart, and both studies showed that Sunday is the least stressful day, with fewer heart attacks in both countries.

  　The findings could lead to a better understanding of what is the immediate cause of heart attacks, according to Dr Stefan Willich of the Free University. “We know a lot about long-term risk factors such as smoking and cholesterol (胆固醇) but we don’t know what actually causes heart attacks, so we can’t give clear advice on how to prevent them,” he said.

  　Monday mornings have a double helping of stress for the working body as it makes rapid change from sleep to activity, and from the relaxing weekend to the pressures of work.

  　“When people get up, their blood pressure and heart rate go up and there are hormonal (内分泌) changes in their bodies,” Willich explained. “ All these things can have an unfavorable effect in the blood system and increase the risk of a clot (血凝块) in the arteries (动脉) which will cause a heart attack.

 　 “When people return to work after a weekend off, the pace of their life changes. They have a higher workload, more stress, more anger and more physical activity,” said Willich.

72．Monday morning feeling, as this passage shows, _________.

A．is not so serious as people thought

B．is harmful to working people in developed countries

C．is the first killer in Germany and Italy

D．is created by researchers in Germany and Italy

73．To protect people from heat attacking, doctors have paid much attention to __________-.

A．people’s working time      B．people’s living place

C．people’s diet and life style   D．people’s nationalities

74．It can be learned from the passage that heart attack has nothing to do with __________.

A．blood pressure     B．heart rate       C．hormonal changes     D．blood group

75．If the researchers give us some advice to avoid Monday morning feeling, what might it be?

A．Stop working on Monday  　　　       B．Create a pleasant working environment

C．Get up late on Monday morning　 D．Do to work with a doctor

Dear Earthmen,

I have enjoyed my stay on your interesting unusual planet. I think I understand the life on earth now and I would like to give you my impressions.

First of all you live in boxes. Every morning you leave your big boxes and get into smaller boxes on wheels. All these small boxes race around and around, and finally stop to rest. You then leave these boxes on wheels and go to very large tall boxes.

After testing all days you get back in your little boxes and return to your big boxes. There you sit and stare at tiny glowing boxes with moving pictures on the front.

Only one thing puzzles me. One day, I went to a football game. A bunch of angry boys fought over a little round ball. Everyone yelled for them to stop but they kept on fighting. They were angry, I suppose, about being cooped up（被关起来）in boxes all day.

Thank you earthmen for this chance to get to know you.

Gratefully,

The man from the Mars（火星）

1. The small boxes on wheels are ________.

2. The tiny glowing boxes with moving pictures on the front are ______.

3. In the football game ________.

A. the players were very angry because there was only one ball on the playground

B. the players were very angry because everyone yelled at them

C. the man from the Mars saw fighting among the angry boys

D. the man from the Mars saw a close match

4. The best title of this passage is ______.

5. The man from the Mars thinks _______.

A. it is interesting to live on our unusual planet

B. there are so many boxes on the earth

C. the tiny glowing boxes are moving pictures

D. the angry boys are too foolish to fight over a little round ball

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第二部分:阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)

第一节　阅读下面短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A car needs gas to run and your body also needs food to work for you. Eating the right kind of food is very important. It can help your body grow strong to take care of what you eat.

There are four main food groups altogether. The dairy group has food like milk, cheese and sour milk. The other three groups are the meat and fish group, the fruit and vegetable group, and the bread and rice group. Each meal should have at least one food from all four main groups. With all these food together, you will be given enough energy during the day.

It is easy to get into bad eating habits. You may eat your breakfast in a hurry to get to school on time. Or you may not have time for a good lunch. It may seem easy to finish your supper with fish and chips all the time. But you will find yourself tired in these days and you can not think quickly.

Watching what you eat will help keep your body healthy and strong. It is also good to take some exercise. It will help you eat more if you take a walk or play games in the open air. Having a good eating habit with some exercise is the key to your health.

41. Which of the following diets do you think is the best one?

Eggs, tomatoes and chicken.  

B. Milk, bread, cabbages and beef.

Corn, fish, cream and pork.   

D. Rice, beancurd（豆腐）, apples, fish and chicken.

42. Which of the following is a good eating-habit?

A. Going to school without any breakfast

B. Eating fish and chips for supper all the time..

C. Having at least one food from all four groups each meal.

D. Having different food from all four food groups.

43. In this passage the writer mainly tells us that _____.

A. every person needs food to grow well

B taking exercise can keep your body strong

C. the right kind of food with exercise will keep you healthy

D. enough energy helps people think more quickly

44. The best title for this passage is _____.

A. The Four Food Groups            B. A Healthy Diet

C. Your Body And Food                D. Food And Your Health

第二节：读写任务（共1小题，满分25分）

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

“Depend on yourself”is what nature says to everyone. Parents can help you. Teachers can help you. Others still can help you. But all these only help you to help yourself.

There have been great men in history. But many of them were very poor in childhoods and no uncles, aunts or friends to help them. Schools were few and not very good. They could not depend upon them for an education. They saw how it was, and set to work with all their strength to know something. They worked their own way up to fame.

One of the most famous teachers in England used to tell his pupils. “I can not make worthy men of you but I can help you make men of yourself.”

But some young men tend to totally depend on others to help them out. They can never achieve much unless they see their weak points and change their course. They are nothing now, and will be nothing as long as they live, unless they accept the advice of their parents and teachers and depend on their own honest efforts.

［写作内容］

1）以约30词概括短文的要点；

2）然后以约120词就“一切靠自己”的主题发表看法，并包括以下要点：

a）表达你的论点；

b）陈述你的理由；

c）概括你的论点：应该如何依靠自己。

［写作要求］

可以使用实例或其它论述方法支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子。

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