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1．Millions of British people have  ditched the traditional"thank you"and took the place of it with the less formal（正式的）"cheers"，according to a survey．
Although the common person will say"thank you"nearly 5，000 times a year，one in three are more likely to add a"cheers"or"ta"where it's needed to show they are fashionable．
One in twenty now say"nice one"instead，while the younger are more likely to offer a"cool"than a"thank you"．
"Merci"，"fab"and even"gracias"were also listed as common expressions to use，as"much appreciated（感激）"．
One in twenty who took part in the survey of 2，000people by the Food Network UK for Thank You Day，which is marked on November 24，2011，said a formal"thank you"was now not often needed in everyday conversation．More than one in ten adults said they regularly（有规律地） won't say thank you if they are in a bad mood．Most people stated（陈述） that saying thank you was something that their parents trained them．A huge 70percent of those who are questioned will say thank you to a person's face without even meaning it，while one fifth avoid（避免）saying it when they know they should．
It seems our friends and family get the stress of our bad manners．Half of them admit （承认） they're not good at thanking those closest to them．Many of them explain that they don't say thank you because their family"already know I'm thankful"．
When spoken words won't do，it falls to a nice text to do the job for most people．
One third will still send a handwritten thank-you note---but 45percent admit it's been more than six months since they tried to send one．
A quarter of British people say"thank you"with food，with 23percent cooking a meal to show their appreciation to someone．Another 15percent make a cake．
It follows that 85 percent of people will be angry because of not getting the gratitude （感激）they feel they should receive．

34．Most of the people who took part in the survey say that they say"thank you"B．
A．when they are in good mood
B．completely out of habit
C．when they feel truly grateful
D．purely out of politeness
35．The underlined word"ditched"in Paragraph 1 means"A"．
A．gave up
B．used
C．shared
D．knew
36．It can be learned from the passage thatC．
A．different ways of expressing gratitude are all fashionable
B．people should avoid saying"thank you"nowadays
C．a thank-you note is still appreciated by most people
D．people in a bad mood never say"thank you"
37．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage？D
A．Most people express their gratitude to others by buying food for them．
B．About fifty percent of people try not to say thank you when they should．
C．Most people may feel natural when they fail to receive others'gratitude．
D．Many people think it unnecessary to say thanks to their family members．

20．It seems that there's a good reason why dogs are always seen as man's best friend．Scientists have found that dogs are the only animals that can read emotion（情感）in faces much like humans．The finding suggests that like an understanding friend，dogs can see if we are happy，sad，pleased or angry．
When humans look at a new face，their eyes usually look across the left，falling on the right hand side of the person's face first．A possible reason for this is that the right side of the human face is better at expressing emotions．
Scientists have now shown that pet dogs also have"left gaze bias（左视偏好）"，but only when looking at human faces．No other animal has been known to do like this before．Dr．Kun Guo with his team showed 17dogs the pictures of human，dog and monkey faces as well as something else．The dogs'eyes and heads show a strong left gaze bias when the animals see human faces．But this did not happen when they were shown other pictures，including those of dogs．
Guo suggests that over thousands of years living with humans，dogs may have developed the left gaze bias as a way to guess our emotions．
"Recent studies show that the right side of our faces can express emotions better than the left．If true，then it makes sense for dogs and humans to see the right hand side of a face first．"

31．Why are dogs seen as man's best friend according to the passage？B
A．Because dogs are the closest animals to humans．
B．Because dogs can read the emotions in humans'faces easily．
C．Because dogs can understand us better when we feel sad．
D．Because dogs are good at expressing emotions．
32．The dogs'left gaze bias helps themA．
A．get along well with humans
B．express emotions quickly
C．have more understanding friends
D．remember more new faces
33．The passage mainly wants to tell us thatD．
A．dogs have been man's best friends for thousands of years
B．humans have a"left gaze bias"
C．the"left gaze bias"works on all animals
D．dogs can read emotions the same as humans．

19．Three rich ladies met every day by the river．They sat there and talked the whole day．Once the three ladies quarreled（争吵）．One of them said．"Look，how white and beautiful my hands are!"Another one said，"My hands are more beautiful．"The third one said，"Mine are the most beautiful ones．"An old beggar（乞丐） woman came up to them．"Beautiful ladies，"she said，"I'm hungry．Please give me something to eat．"
But the three ladies gave her nothing．They only asked，"Tell me，old woman，which one of us has the most beautiful hands？"
A peasant（农民）woman was also sitting by the river．She was poor and her hands were rough（粗糙的） because of hard work．The old woman came up to her and said，"I'm hungry．Please give me something to eat．"The peasant woman took out her only cake she had and gave her a half．
The old woman ate it and drank some water．Then she took the peasant woman by the hand，brought her before the rich ladies and said，"Now，I shall tell you whose hands are the most beautiful．The hands of the poor peasant woman are rough because of work，but they give us food； they are far more beautiful than your hands which have never done anything．"

25．The three ladiesB．
A．had a quarrel every day
B．were rich but unkind
C．had a talk about their hands every day
D．lived by the side of the river
26．The old woman asked for something to eat，A．
A．but none of the three rich ladies gave anything to her
B．but only one of the three ladies gave her half a cake
C．because she wanted to know whose hands were beautiful
D．because she wanted to know which lady was the richest
27．The peasant woman's hands were not so white as the three ladies'A．
A．because of the hard work she had done
B．but she was stronger than any of them
C．so she didn't quarrel with the three ladies
D．but she was more beautiful than any of them．

18．Be yourself
We wish that we could be better at sports or more attractive．We wish we had nicer clothes or more money．Everyone likes to feel that he or she is special．（15）D，many of us grow up believing that we're not special at all．We believe we are not good enough just as we are．
Most parents want us to be the best we can be．Very often，they compare （比较）us to （16）B．By doing this，they try to encourage us to do better．They （17）C well，but the message we often get is that we're not good enough．We begin to believe that the only way we can be special is （18）Cbeing better than someone else，but we are often disappointed（失望）． There will always be someone out there who is better than we are at （19）A．Plenty of people around may not be as smart as we are，but they are better at sports．Or they may not be as good-looking，but they have more money．It is （20）B for us to be better than everyone else all the time．
We all want the things that we believe will make us better people．But very often we don't realize that we already have （21）Aus the very things that we want．These things make us （22）C others．When we are growing up，（23）C sometimes forget to tell us that we are special，that we are good enough．Maybe no one told them when they were growing up．（24）B，it's up to us to remind them from time to time that each of us，in our own way，is special．What we are is enough．

15．A．Again	B．Next	C．Otherwise	D．However
16．A．other	B．others	C．another	D．the others
17．A．believe	B．work	C．mean	D．show
18．A．to	B．on	C．by	D．in
19．A．something	B．anything	C．everything	D．nothing
20．A．helpful	B．impossible	C．necessary	D．important
21．A．inside	B．among	C．around	D．for
22．A．worse than	B．better than	C．different from	D．the same as
23．A．friends	B．scientists	C．parents	D．doctors
24．A．Also	B．Anyway	C．Although	D．After all．

17．With the development of science and technology，our daily life is becoming more colorful and more convenient （便利）．

An Underwater Hotel
It looks like a spaceship but it is actually a picture of an underwater hotel．A company plans to build in the sea which is about 18metres below the surface（表面）．The whole building is underwater and you can get to it by swimming and diving．

Google Glass
Google Glass is a pair of glasses with a battery（电池）hidden inside the frame（边框）．It can perform many of the same tasks as smart phones．The glass has a hidden camera and a tiny screen．It is designed to take hands-free photos or videos of anything people are doing．

A New Kind of Shirt
Hate washing clothes？You're going to love this kind of shirt made by an American clothing company，Wool & Prince．This shirt can be worn for 100straight days without washing!The Wool & Prince shirt never needs ironing（熨烫）．

The Digital（数字） Library
Can you imagine walking into a library and finding all books have turned into computers？The first bookless public library is planned to open in San Antonio，Texas．Computers will take the place of books soon．

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Our daily life is improving all the time．We are living a colorful and convenient （便利） life（56）becauseof science and technology，such as the underwater hotel，Google Glass，the Wool & Prince shirt and the digital library．An Underwater Hotel will be （57）built in the sea．You can only get to it by swimming and diving．You needn't use your （58）hand（s） when you take photos or video with Google Glass．In the digital Library，you can read books on the （59）computer（s）．Among them，most people like the Wool & Prince shirts best，which don't need （60）washingafter people wear them for a long time．

16．A linguist，who studies languages，is always listening，never off-duty．I invited a group of friends to my house，telling them that I was going to record their speech．I said I was interested in their regional accents （地方口音），and it would take only a few minutes to record it．Afterwards，one evening，three people came to my house and were shown into my sitting-room．In front of each chair there was a microphone （麦克风） at head height，connected to a recorder in the middle of the floor．They sat down rather nervously．I explained that all I wanted was for them to count from one to twenty，then we could relax and have a drink．
I turned on the recorder and they each in turn counted from one to twenty in their best accents．When it was over，I turned the recorder off and brought round the drinks．The rest of the evening was spent in complete relaxation．I talked and joked with them freely and left them  for a telephone call which lasted some time．
You know，of course，the microphones were not connected to the recorder in the middle of the room at all but to another one in the bedroom．My friends，having seen the recorder before them turned off，paid no more attention to the microphones a few inches from their mouths，thus giving excellent sound quality （质量）．It meant that I was able to get a piece of natural talk．
I should add，perhaps，that I did tell my friends what had happened to them after the recording was over，and asked them whether it should be destroyed．None of them wanted to-but for some years after that，it always seemed that when it came to buying drinks，I paid for them．Linguistic research can be a very expensive business．

33．The underlined word"linguist"in Paragraph 1 probably means"B"．
A．people who learn to speak languages．
B．people who do research on languages．
C．people who speak languages．
D．people who develop languages．
34．The recording which the writer was able to make wasA．
A．natural．
B．beautiful
C．unclear．
D．nervous．
35．When the writer told his friends what he had done，theyB．
A．wanted him to destroy recordgs
B．didn't seem to mind much
C．seemed to have no response （反应）
D．made him buy them more drinks．

15．There was a boy in India who was sent by his parents to a boarding school．Before being sent away this boy was the （16）D student in his class．But the boy（17）C when he attended the boarding school．His grades started（18）B．He hated being in a group．He was（19）C all the time．And sometimes he even felt like killing himself．All of this because he felt that no one loved him．
His parents started worrying about the boy．So his father decided to travel（20）Dthe boarding school and talk with him．
They sat on the bank of the lake near the school．The father started asking him some questions about his classes，teachers and sports．After some time his dad said，"Do you know，son，（21）D I am here today？"
The boy answered back，"to check my （22）C？"
"No，no"his dad replied，"I am here to tell you that you are the most important person for me．I want to see you happy．I don't care about grades．I care about you．I care about
your （23）C．YOU ARE MY CARE．"
These words caused the boy's eyes to fill with tears．He hugged his dad．They didn't say anything to each other for a long time．
Now the boy knew there was someone on this Earth who cared about him （24）D．He
（25）B the world to someone．And today this young man is in college at the top of his class and no one has ever seen him sad!

16．A．richest	B．prettiest	C．laziest	D．brightest
17．A．improved	B．died	C．changed	D．lost
18．A．rising	B．dropping	C．climbing	D．throwing
19．A．worried	B．careless	C．lonely	D．busy
20．A．around	B．from	C．in	D．to
21．A．when	B．where	C．how	D．why
22．A．homework	B．subjects	C．grades	D．need
23．A．sadness	B．kindness	C．happiness	D．darkness
24．A．safely	B．successfully	C．widely	D．deeply
25．A．meant	B．owned	C．moved	D．left．

14．The Internet is full of false information．It is important for us all to stay away from being fooled by such information．Here are three examples of Internet hoaxes（欺骗）．
On his website，a man has asked for gifts of money to（75）B the l ife of a pretty little rabbit named Toby that he rescued under his house．A cat must have attacked the rabbit，the man said，so he took it in．He gave Toby Ioving care and nursed him back to good（76）A．However，the greedy man also said if he didn't receive enough money．he would eat poor little Toby．（Don't worry，though．Remember，it's just a hoax!．
While the streets of New Orleans were still suffering a flood after a terrible hurricane （飓风．，a（77）C e-mail was sent around the Internet．It included a photograph of a huge crocodile（鳄鱼．over five meters long．According to the message，it had been swimming around the flooded city eating people．It was later（78）Dthat the photographs of the crocodile were of one that was caught in the Congo years before．
The following e-mail hoax takes in many people．It says that a large company will pay you to send their e-mail to as many people as possible．For every person that you send the e-mail to．It promises you will（79）Areceive 5.00； if he goes on to send it to someone else．you'll get 3.00； and for every third person that receives it，you will be paid 1.00．To make the lie even more believable，the sender says that（80）Che thought it was a hoax．but the company soon sent him 800.00．

75．A．miss	B．save	C．compare	D．damage
76．A．health	B．service	C．medicine	D．education
77．A．pleasant	B．precious	C．frightening	D．hardworking
78．A．organized	B．invented	C．praised	D．discovered
79．A．certainly	B．hardly	C．possibly	D．mainly
80．A．in time	B．in return	C．at flrst	D．at present．

12．

Many animals have special skills that make them perfect for certain jobs-even better than humans!
Take a train ride in Japan and you may meet Tama，a cute，friendly stationmaster，who just happens to be a cat!This ll-year～old cat works in exchange for cat food at Wakayama Electric Railway's Kishi station．She has her own office，and there's even a Tama train!When Tama was"hired （雇用）"in 2007，the station was losing money，but today，thanks to Tama，it's a popular tourist attraction．
In the 1950s，US Navy （海军） officials got a great idea．Why not train dolphins to do some special work humans can't do？Today，dolphins are trained to find underwater mines （水雷） so that the Navy officials can make the mines disabled before they explode （爆炸）．Dolphins are well fit for the job for many reasons，but the best of all，they're too small to set off the mines so they're never in danger．
Most squirrels are happy to collect nuts，and run after each other up and down trees．Not Twiggy!She prefers water skiing．Twiggy comes from a team of water-skiing squirrels，whose owner trained them to ski behind a toy boat．Today，Twiggy t．ravels around the United States putting on shows and even appearing on TV．It's all in a day's work for this squirrel!

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56．How long has Tama been the stationmaster？B
A．For 5 years．
B．For 8 years．
C．For 10 years．
D．For 11 years．
57．Why are dolphins trained to find underwater mines？C
A．They are quite good at swimming in the sea．
B．They are so smart that they're never in danger．
C．They are small enough not to set off the mines．
D．They can understand the officials'orders easily．
58．What is Twiggy's job？C
A．Collecting nuts．
B．Running after others．
C．Performing water skiing．
D．Traveling around the world．
59．What can we learn from this passage？A
A．Many people come to the station to visit Tama in Japan．
B．Twiggy was born good at skiing，which made her different．
C．Dolphins were first trained to find the mines in the 19th century．
D．Tama happened to meet a cat，the friendly stationmaster，in Japan．
60．What do these animals have in common？C
A．They all can make money．
B．They are all from America．
C．They all can do special work．
D．They are all popular around the world．

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