44. The main idea of this passage is that　　　 .

　 A. both jogging and dieting can improve your health

　 B. exercise and improved diet has raised the American’s life expectance

　 C. people, who jog and diet wisely, will be healthier than those who do not

　 D. diet and exercise harm rather than benefit health

43. What’s the best title for this passage?

A. Lover, Sweetheart or Partner　　 　　　　 B. How to Refer to the Person You Love

C. My Darling　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　 D. The Language of Love

B

Americans have never before exercised and dieted as eagerly as they are doing today. As a result ,they do not only look younger and slimmer, but feel better. Because of increased physical fitness, life expectance in the nation has risen to seventy-three years, with fewer people suffering from heart disease, the nation’s number one killer.

Jogging (慢跑), the easiest and cheapest way of improving the body, keeps over 30 million people of all ages on the run. For the price of a good pair of running shoes, anyone anywhere can join the race.

Dieting, too, has become a national pastime. Promoters of diets that eliminate eating one thing or another, such as fats or carbohydrates, promise as much as 20-pound weight losses within two weeks. Books describing such amazing diets always head up (居……之首) the best-seller lists because people who are overweight want to lose weight quickly and easily.

Nevertheless, jogging and dieting, carried to extremes, can be harmful. Many confused joggers overdo and finally suffer from ankle and foot damage. Dieting, fortunately, becomes only a temporary means for shedding a few pounds while the body lose the balanced nutrition (营养) it requires, so most dieters cannot keep on diets. Above all, common sense should be the keystone for any dieting and exercise plan.

42. “Language is slow to keep up with these developments.” (in last paragraph) How do you understand this sentence?

A. We first have the language, then name it.

B. After we do something we can name it.

C. Our world is developing too fast, so language can not express some new things.

D. When lovers get together, their language is not fast enough.

41. What does the sentence “Love is what makes the world go round.” mean?

A. Love is the first important thing for human beings.

B. Without love, we’ll not have our world today.

C. Everybody needs love if he wants to live in this world.

D. Love is much more important than food or money and so on.

60．What did Kramnik think of the Chess ?

　　　 A．It became more and more difficult after the Chess –playing machines were invented .

　　　 B．It’s more and more popular , with the computer developing .

　　　 C．Chess is an art , a science , a sport , etc .

　　　 D．Chess is a small world which is wide .

41~45 AABDC　　 46~50 BCBAD　　 51~55 AACCB　　 56~60 DDCBD

A

Love is what makes the world go round, or at least that’s what they say… If you love someone but you’re not married, how do you refer to that person? Do you feel comfortable describing someone as your “lover”, for example? A recent BBC English program asked a group of English speakers to give their opinion on using the word “lover” to describe the person they love?

“It just implies a fling (嘲讽), I think.”

“The word ‘lover’ you wouldn’t tend to use in conversations to your friends.”

“I don’t know. It’s sort of implies, maybe you’re not living together , or maybe you’re somebody’s mistress.”

“It makes me blush a bit, actually, if people say ‘lover’. I always think, I don’t think I really want to know that. ”

So each of those words “partner”, “boyfriend,” “girlfriend” may be used. Yet, a word we’ve heard, none of them is accepted by everybody. The words are either too formal or informal, not clear enough or too explicit. What about the word “relationship”?

Leonard Michaels of the University of Berkeley in California explained why he didn’t like it: The word is abstract, technical, cold. It suggests a distance between people when it’s used to describe, especially, a romantic connection. It has a formality(拘束) about it. It suggests that your connection to another person is in some important way limited, perhaps temporary. Also, it has tended of later to replace a lot of other words that are much nicer than “relationship”: words like “boyfriend”, “girlfriend”, “lover”, “beau”, “sweetheart”, “steady date”, so on and so forth. Professor Michael thinks the word “relationship” is too distant and formal. It’s not as warm and tender as “boyfriend”, “girlfriend” or “sweetheart” and it suggests a more temporary connection　　 than “steady date”.

So if you ‘re not married, finding the right word to describe that special person in your life is not easy. Although laws in Britain about people living together without being married have changed, language is slow to keep up with these developments. The more words we have to refer to the unmarried lover, the more we realize that language reflects the different attitudes that still exist in society.

4. Kramnik competed with Deep Leko of Hungary .

　　　 A．2 4 1 3 　　　　　　　　 B．2 1 3 4 　　　　　　　　 C．2 3 4 1 　　　　　　　　　 D．1 4 3 2

3. After the competing with Deep Ritz , Kramnik felt exhausted .

2. Chess-playing machines were not real .

1. Garry Kasparov was defeated by Deep Blue .

59．Put them in the right order .