64.　What would be the best title for this passage?

A. What’s Yoga?　　　 B. How I Do Yoga Poses　 C. The Benefits of Yoga　 D. The Varieties of Yoga

63. The author suggests that ________.

　A. we shouldn’t blame a person if he fails to act in emergencies

　B. a person must feel guilty if he fails to help

　C. people should be responsible for themselves in emergencies

D. when you are in trouble, people will help you anyway

答案：60-63　 BCDA

C

Babies are born yogis. Once we were all able to pull our toes up by our ears and laugh about it. Then we aged, got injured, and began carrying stress in our shoulders and back. In short, we lost our balance.

Yoga(瑜伽)is an ancient practice that helps create a sense of union in body, mind, and spirit. It brings us balance. I was seriously out of balance when I started practicing yoga in 1999. I had plantar fascitis(足底筋膜炎) in both feet, and my doctor had warned me against all the things I loved to do: walking, hiking, and playing tennis. I was desperate for exercise. Yoga became my salvation(拯救) and even enhanced my other fitness activities. I practice yoga at least twice a week, but I consider yoga to be part of my daily life because after a while you no longer just practice yoga-you love it.

Yoga becomes part of your physical life. Your body grows stronger, more toned, and more flexible as you move from one pose to the other. I spent a week in Mexico at a yoga retreat(静修), and it was the first vacation on which I lost weight. “Rather than building muscle, yoga builds muscle tone,” says Shakta Kaur Khalsa, author of the K.I.S.S. Guide to Yoga. “Because yoga helps maintain a balanced metabolism (新陈代谢), it also helps to regulate weight. Additionally, yoga stretches muscles lengthwise, causing fat to be removed around the cells.” I do yoga poses throughout the day. After hours at my computer, I stretch my stiff shoulders and arms. When I need a boost of energy, I do energizing poses. When I am feeling exhausted at the end of the day, I do restorative poses.

Yoga becomes part of your mental life. Yoga teaches you to focus on breathing while you hold the poses. This attention to breath is calming; it dissolves stress and anxiety. I use yogic breathing on the tennis courts, in the dentist’s chair, and in traffic jams. You should always leave a yoga practice feeling energized, not tired. If you feel tired after yoga, it means you spent the time “fighting” yourself, trying to force yourself into poses. In yoga, you “surrender” to the pose by letting go of the tension.

Yoga becomes part of your spiritual life. Yoga is practiced by people from all religions; it is not restricted to any religious group. Yoga teaches “right” living in how we deal with ourselves and others. As I work on a difficult pose, I learn patience, forgiveness, and the value of gentleness. Yoga advocates proper eating, but you don’t have to be a vegetarian to practice yoga.

62. The main reason why people fail to act when they stay together is that ________.

　 A. they are afraid of emergencies

　 B. they are not willing to get themselves involved

　 C. others will act if they themselves hesitate

D. they do not have any direct responsibility for those who need help

61. Which of the following is NOT true?

　A. When a person tries to help others, he must be clear that there is a real emergency.

　B. When a person tries to help others, he should know whether they are worth his help.

　C. A person must take the full responsibility for the safety of those in emergencies if he wants to help.

　D. A person with a heart attack needs the most.

60. The purpose of this passage is ________.

　 A. to explain why people fail to act in emergencies　 B. to explain when people will act in emergencies

　 C. to explain what people will do in emergencies　　 D. to explain how people feel in emergencies

59. If you want to write to someone in Edinburgh that lies in Scotland, you should write the address as ____.

　A. Edinburgh, England, Scotland　　 　　　 B. Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain

C. Scotland, Edinburgh, England 　　　　　　 D. Great Britain, Scotland, Edinburgh

答案：56-59 ABDB

B

Thirty- two people watched Kitty Genovese being killed right below their windows. She was their neighbor. Yet none of the 32 helped her. Not one even called the police. Was this in gunman cruelty? Was it lack of feeling about one’s fellowman?

　“Not so,”say scientists John Barley and Bib Fatane. These men went beyond the headlines to research into the reasons why people didn’t act. They found that a person has to go through two steps before he can help. First he has to notice that is an emergency(紧急情况). Suppose you see a middle-aged man fall to the side - walk. Is he having a heart attack? Is he in a coma(昏迷) from a headache? Or is he about to sleep off a drunk? Is the smoke coming into the room from a leak(漏洞)in the air conditioning? Is it “steam pipes”? Or is it really smoke from a fire? It’s not always easy to tell if you are faced with a real emergency. Second, and more important, the person faced with an emergency must feel personally responsible(负责任的). He must feel that he must help, or the person won’t get the help he needs.

　The researchers found that a lot depends on how many people are around. They had college students in to be “tested.” Some came alone. Some came with one or two others. And some came in large groups. The researchers started them off on the “tests.” Then they went into the next room. A curtain divided the “testing room” and the room into which they went. Soon the students heard a scream, the noise of bookshelves falling and a cry for help. All of this had been prerecorded on a tape recorder.

　Eight out of ten of the students taking the test alone acted to help. Of the students in pairs, only two out of ten helped. Of the students in groups, none helped.

　In other words, in a group, Americans often fail to act. They feel that others will act. They, themselves, needn’t. They do not feel any direct responsibility.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

　Are people bothered by situations where people are in trouble? Yes. Scientists found that the people were shocked, they sweated, and they had trembling hands. They felt the other person’s trouble. But they did not act. They were in a group. Their actions were shaped by the actions of those they were with.

58. Which of the following shows the right relationship (关系) between the British isles (BI), Britain (B) and England (E)?

　A. B>BI>E　　　　 B. BI>E>B　　　　　 C. E>B>BI　　　　　　　 D. BI>B>E

57. It is clear that the British isles refer to ____.

　A. Britain, England and the UK.　　　　 　B. the two main islands and thousands of small ones

　C. three countries and several islands 　　　D. Great Britain or the United Kingdom

56. According to the passage, we know that ____.

　A. Great Britain has the same meaning as Britain

　B. the United Kingdom has the same meaning as Britain or England

　C. all the names in the first paragraph have the same meaning

　D. all the names refer to England

70. What is Valencia famous for?

A. Its seaport　　 B. Its university　　 C. Its churches and museums　 D. Its parks and gardens

答案：67-70CCBD

江西省白鹭洲中学10-11学年高二上学期期中考试

A

Did anyone find the names of “Great Britain”, “the United Kingdom”, “England” and “the British commonwealth” which have the same meaning? Strictly speaking, these names all refer to something different. None of them are exactly the same as any of the others.

　The British isles refer to the main islands and several thousand small ones as well, which you can see on the map. Great Britain, or Britain, refers to the larger of the two main islands. But the word “Britain” is often used as a short form for the United Kingdom or you call it the UK.

Now as for England, it refers simply to the largest of the three countries on the island of Great Britain. The United Kingdom is the name of the state and the official name of the country, which many people popularly refer to England.

　Finally, the Britain commonwealth is the usual name for what is left of the British Empire. This change shows the weakening of British Empire and the rising of the national liberation movements throughout the world today.