70. What can we know from the research?

A. Forgetfulness is rather troublesome.　　　　　　　　　　　　　

B. It’s important to feel in a good mood.

C. It’s memorable to experience a rainy day.　

D. Gloomy days are good for memorizing things.

PART FOUR 　WRITING (45 marks)

SECTION A (10 marks)

Directions: Read the following passage. Complete the diagram by using the information for the passage. Write NO MORE THAN 3 WORDS for each answer.

Since it was founded a year ago, the babysitting pool has become increasingly popular in the United States. More and more mothers have joined it and have benefited from it. What attracts them most is the idea that you pay your babysitter not in cash, but in paper cards. When you join the babysitting pool, you are given thirty cards, which are worth 30-minute babysitting time each. For each half an hour while you are gone, the babysitter gets paid one card.

There are rules regulating this service. You should not watch more than three kids at a time including your own. On big holidays, such as Christmas and Thanksgiving, the babysitter should be paid twice as much, which means two cards for every half an hour. When you leave the babysitting pool, you should return all the cards. If you are out of cards, you cannot use money instead. You should have to baby-sit for others to earn enough cards so that you will have them handy when you yourself need a babysitter.

The advantages this mutual-babysitting service has over other kinds of babysitting is that it keeps children in constant touch with one another, and makes life easier for the mothers. Since in most cases, the babysitter is the mother who watches other kids at her own home, it is still possible for her to do her own things while the kids play with each other. In fact most mother babysitters find that their own kids are less of a monster and easier to watch when they are around other playmates. Moreover, since the babysitting pool service does not involve money, it will not be a financial loss to the family.

In the past year, the babysitting pool has helped so many mothers with their work that they all think that it is indeed a good community service worth keeping.

SECTION B (10 marks)

Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart(购物手推车). They will, in a lifetime, push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will know-or even think to ask-who it was that invented them.

Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging(吃力地携带) groceries around in baskets they had to carry.

One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business.

On June 4, 1937, Goldman’s first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn’t wait to see them using his invention.

But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a long look, but hardly anybody would give them a try.

After a while, Goldman decided to ask customers why they weren’t using his carts. “Don’t you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?” one shopper replied.

But Goldman wasn’t beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try. To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony(假冒的)customers.

As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. But not only did more people come-those who came bought more. With larger, easier-to-handle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.

Today’s shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman’s original model. Perhaps that’s one reason Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937-before the coming of the shopping cart.

69. According to the research, on sunny days, people __________ .

　　　 A. will make careful judgments on others　　　　　　　　

B. tend to pay more attention to their surroundings

C. will have more confidence

　　　 D. will have a better recall

68. In the research, researchers play different music to __________ .

A. make customers become sadder or happier　　　　　　　 B. help customers choose what they want

C. promote customers to buy more goods　　　　　　　　　　 D. get customers to make a quick choice

67. The underlined word “flunked” in Paragraph2 may mean “__________ ”.

A. conducted　　　　 B. failed　　　　　　　　　　　 C. passed　　　　　　　　　　 D. understood

66. What’s the major function of Paragraph 1?

　　　 A. To attract readers’ interest.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

B. To introduce the theme of the whole passage.

C. To generalize the whole passage.　　　　

D. To describe a memorable experience.

65. What is the name of Dave Thomas's business?

A. Thomas's.　　　　 　　　 B. Wendy's.　　　　 C. Lorraine's.　　　　 D. Rex's.　

C

Next time you find yourself drenched (湿透) in an unexpected heavy rain, look on the bright side - it will be a memorable experience. While wet weather may make us feel gloomy, it sharpens the memory and improves our recall. But those who feel in a good mood because it’s a sunny day are able to remember less well, according to memory tests carried by Australian researchers.

Professor Joe Forgas, who led the research, said: “It seems strange but a little bit of sadness is a good thing. People performed much better on our memory test when the weather was unpleasant and they were in a slightly negative mood. On bright sunny days, when they were more likely to be happy, they flunked it.”

The tests were carried out on shoppers at a store in Sydney, where researchers randomly placed ten small objects on the check-out counter. On rainy days, sad music was played in the store. When it was bright and sunny, customers heard cheery music. This was done to further influence them towards negative or positive moods. After shopping, customers were asked how many of the objects they could remember. Their scores were three times higher when the weather was bad and they were feeling angry, compared with those tested on sunny days. The results were published in Journal of Experimental Psychology. A report on the findings said: “They point to a growing body of evidence that the way people think, the quality of their judgments and the accuracy of their memory are all significantly influenced by positive and negative moods.”

Professor Forgas said, “We found that weather-inducted negative mood improved memory accuracy. Shoppers in a negative mood showed better memory and higher discrimination ability.”

A worse mood helped to focus people’s attention on their surroundings and led to a more thorough and careful thinking style, while happiness increased confidence and forgetfulness.

Being happy tends to promote a thinking style that is less focused on our surroundings. In a positive mood we are less likely to make more snap (匆忙的) judgments about people we meet. Mild negative mood, in turn, tends to increase attention to our surroundings and produce a more careful, thorough thinking style.

Accurately remembering everyday scenes is a difficult task, yet such memories can be on importance in everyday life. Surprisingly, the influence of mood states on the accuracy of real-life memories is still poorly understood.

64. “He was just Joe Everybody." (in the last paragraph) means__________.

A. Dave was famous　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　 B. Dave was ordinary

C. Dave was showy　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　 D. Dave was shy　

63. Choose the right time order of the following events in Thomas's life.

a. graduated from high school　 　　b. started his own business　　 c. became a millionaire　　　　　　　 　　　 d. started a foundation　　　　　 e. met Harland Sanders

A. e, b, c, d, a,　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. a, e, c, b, d,　

　 　 C. e, c, b, d, a,　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. a, e, b, c, d,

62. What do we know about his childhood?

A. He lived a poor life.　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　 B. He had caring parents.

C. He stayed in one place.　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　 D. He didn't go to school.

61. What is the article mainly about?

A. The life of Dave Thomas.　　　　　　 　　　　 B. The dream of Dave Thomas.

C. The schooling of Dave Thomas.　　 　　　　 　　　 D. The growth of Dave Thomas's business.