Nothing is more pleasing and romantic as flowers in the bedroom. Now, a new study says that the sweet smells of flowers in the bedroom can also lead to sweet dreams.

Researchers in Germany have carried out the study and have found that sleeping with flowers in the bedroom may encourage sweet dreams, a major finding they claim could help nightmare sufferers to and extent.

They came to the conclusion after an analysis of the sleep patterns of 15 female volunteers for a period of nearly 30 nights, a leading British newspaper reported on Monday.

The researchers pumped scents of rotten eggs, roses or no scent under their noses for nearly ten seconds while the women were in the Rapid Eye Movement period of sleep when a dream occurs.

The subjects were then woken up and asked to record their dreams. The smells had an effect on the emotions of the dreams but did not become part of the dream in that the women exposed to roses did not dream about roses the study found.

There was a correlation between the negative smells and negative emotional scores the sleepers reported from their dream.

According to the researchers, it’ll be interesting to study nightmare sufferers and if positive smells can actually influence the mood of their dreams as a form of treatment in the future.

The study has been presented at the 2008 American Academy of Otoblaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation Annual Meeting in Chicago.

What is the best title for the text?

A. A recent study on dreaming   B. Smells influence one’s dreams

C. Do you want to have a good dream?  D. Flowers in the bedroom lead to sweet dreams.

What is the right order of the events related to the experiment?

a. The female volunteers get to sleep.  b. The researchers wake up the sleeping women.

c. A particular smell is pumped under dreamers’ noses  d. The dreamers are asked to describe their dreams.

A. a, c, b, d     B. d, c, b, a    C. a, c, d, b    D, d, b, c, a

The underlined word “correlation” in paragraph 6 can be replaced by _______

A. combination  B. coincidence  C. connection  D. cooperation

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. People are very sensitive to smells at night.

B. The subjects were tested on when they dreamed

C. Pleasant smells get sleepers to dream of roses.

D. The experiment is designed to treat sleeplessness.

What is the future perspective（前景）of the study?

A. Sleeplessness can be cured in the near future.

B. Nightmare sufferers are likely to recover soon.

C. The finding can give hope to nightmare sufferers.

D. Roses will become more popular among patients.

I’m lying on my back in my grandfather’s orchard(果园)，looking up at the branches above me.It is one of the last days of summer.Already the days are shorter and the nights are cooler.Some kinds of apples are already ripe(成熟的).Others will be ready to pick soon.I think of my grandmother’s apple pie，and how I used to make it with her.She died last year，before the apple harvest，and I have not had her pie since.I really miss her.I hear bees busily humming about，visiting the late summer flowers.The gentle hum of their wings nearly sends me to sleep.

The sky is as blue as my grandfather’s eyes.Above me，big white clouds race across the sky like pieces of cotton blowing in the w ind.School starts in another week，and time seems to have slowed down.

“Sophie！”calls my  grandfather.“Is that you？”I stand up，take his hand，and tell him all about my day as we walk through the orchard.We talk about apples，and bees，and Grandma.He tells me that he misses her too.

He puts his rough，brown farmer’s hand around my shoulder and pulls me close.“You know，Sophie，”he says，“I spent the morning in the attic(阁楼)，and you’ll never guess what I found.It’s the recipe(烹饪法) for Grandma’s apple pie.I used to help her make it sometimes.I can’t do it all alone，but you used to help her too.Maybe between the two of us，we ca n work it out.Want to try？”

“But it won’t be the same without Grandma，” I tell him.

“That’s true，”he says，“but nothing_is_the_same_without_Grandma.Still，I don’t think that she would want us never to have another apple pie.What do you say？” I nod yes，and we walk towards home...towards an afternoon in the farmhouse kitchen，making Grandma’s famous apple pie.

1.We learn from the passage that Sophie　　　　.

A．likes to watch clouds in the attic

B．comes to the orchard after school

C．enjoys Grandma’s apple pie very much

D．picks many apples in the orchard

2.Sophie’s grandfather spent the morning in the attic______　　　.

A．looking for Grandma’s recipe for apple pie

B．helping Sophie’s grandmother make apple pie

C．trying to make apple pie all alone for Sophie

D．talking about apples，and bees，and Grandma with Sophie

3.The underlined part in the last paragraph shows

A．how much Sophie’s grandmother loved Sophie

B．how much Sophie’s grandfather likes apple pies

C．how much Sophie loves her grandfather’s orchard

D．how much Sophie’s grandfather misses Grandma

4.Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?

A．My grandfather’s orchard           B．My grandmother’s apple pie

C．A morning in the attic              D．The last days of summer

第四部分（词汇，语法和写作）

第一节：根据所给中文意思或首字母，用Unit1-3所学单词填空，使句子意思通顺，语法正确。（10分）

61 But he became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people e________ to cholera.

62 In two particular streets, the cholera outbreak was so ________（严重的） that more than 500 people died in ten days.

63 They had been given free beer and so had not drunk the water from the pump. It seemed that the water was to b_______.

64 His friends were enthusiastic and encouraged him to punish his ideas, but Copernicus was ________ (谨慎的).

65 It is a pity that the industrial cities built in the nineteenth century do not a________ visitors.

66 For historical ________ (建筑) you have to go to older but smaller towns built by the Romans.

67 There followed St Paul’s Cathedral built after the terrible fire of London in 1666. It looked s________ when first built!

68 I still cannot believe that I am taking up this prize that I won last year. I have to remind myself __________ (不断地) that I am really in AD3008.

69 At first my new surroundings were difficult to _______（忍受）

70 Nothing is wasted, and everything, even plastic bags, is r_______.

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Animation means making things which are lifeless come alive and move.

__1__ But not until this century have we managed to capture it, to record it, and in the case of animation, to reinterpret it and recreate it. __2__

In the world of cartoon animation, nothing is impossible. You can make the characters you create do exactly what you want them.

A famous early cartoon character was Felix, the Cat, created by Pat Sullivan in American in the early nineteen twenties. __3__ He could do all sorts of things no natural cat could do like taking off his tail, using it as a handle and then putting it back.

Most of the great early animators lived and worked in America, the home of the moving picture industry. __4__ Popeye, the Sailorman and his girl friend Olive Oyl were born at the Max Fleischer studios in 1933.

But to be an animator, you don't have to be a professional. __5__ All you have to do is draw directly on to blank film and then run a projector.

E. The moving picture industry really experienced a trough (低谷期), and then achieved the fabulous（难以置信的） success.

F. Felix, the lovely cat, makes our audience laugh all the time.

G. The famous Walt Disney cartoon characters came to life after 1928.

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Is there anything more important than health? I don’t think so. “Health is the greatest wealth(财富),” wise people say. You can’t be good at your studies or work well when you are ill.　　     

Speaking about health, I can’t help telling you a funny story.　　

An old gentleman came to see the doctor. The man was very ill. He told the doctor about his weakness, memory loss and serious problems with his heart and lungs. The doctor examined him and said there was no medicine for his disease.　   

He told his patient to go to a quiet place for a month and have a good rest. He also advised him to eat a lot of meat, drink two glasses of red wine every day and take long walks. In other words, the doctor advised him to follow the rule: “Eat at pleasure, drink with measure and enjoy life as it is.” The doctor also said that if the man wanted to be well again, he shouldn’t smoke more than one cigarette a day.　　

A month later the gentleman came into the doctor’s office. He looked cheerful and happy. He thanked the doctor and said that he had never felt a healthier man.　　

“But you know, doctor,” he said, “it’s not easy to begin smoking at my age.”

1.The writer thinks that 　　　　.

A.        health is more important than wealth

B. work is as important as studies

C. medicine is more important than pleasure

D. nothing is more important than money

2.. The doctor usually tells his patient what to do 　　　　.

A. without examining the patient

B. after he has examined the patient

C. if the patient doesn’t take medicine

D. unless the patient feels pain

3. The underlined part means “　　　　”.

A. he will be well again            B. he wasn’t a healthy man

C. he was feeling worse than before   D. he was feeling better than ever

4. From the last sentence of the passage, we learn the man 　　　　 before the doctor told him not to smoke more than one cigarette a day.

A. didn’t smoke                  B. has smoked so much

C. was a heavy smoker             D. began to learn to smoke