【题目】—What do you want to do next? We have half an hour before the basketball game starts.

—__________. Whatever you want to do is fine with me.

A. It just depends

B. It's up to you

C. All right

D. Glad to hear that

【题目】(2012·湖北) The furniture, with its modern style and bright colors, suits modern houses and their gardens, but looks __________ in the garden of a traditional home.

A. out of question

B. out of order

C. out of sight

D. out of place

【题目】

So were you in what you were doing that I dared not make any sound when I came in.

A. curious

B. concerned

C. absorbed

D. focusing

【题目】Those who have __________ floods and sandstorms knows the importance of environmental protection.

A. gone over

B. gone through

C. got through

D. got over

【题目】The ______(主要的) subjects in senior high schools are Chinese, English and 【解析】mathematics.

【题目】The research carried out by the University of Bari in Italy could help prove hospitals who are accused of wasting money on art and decoration as it suggests a pleasant environment helps patients ease discomfort and pain.

A team headed by Professor Marina de Tommaso at the Neurophysiopathology Pain Unit asked a group of men and women to pick the 20 paintings they considered most ugly and most beautiful from a selection of 300 works by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli. They were then asked to look at either the beautiful paintings, or the ugly painting, or a blank panel while the team zapped(照射) a short laser pulse at their hand, creating a sensation as if they had been stuck by a pin. The subjects rated the pain as being a third less intense while they were viewing the beautiful paintings, compared with when looking at the ugly paintings or the blank panel. Electrodes measuring the brain's electrical activity also confirmed a reduced response to the pain when the subject looked at beautiful paintings.

While distractions, such as music, are known to reduce pain in hospital patients, Prof de Tommaso says this is the first result to show that beauty plays a part.

The findings, reported in New Scientist, also go a long way to show that beautiful surroundings could aid the healing process.

"Hospitals have been designed to be functional, but we think that their artistic aspects should be taken into account too," said the neurologist. "Beauty obviously offers a distraction that ugly paintings do not. But at least there is no suggestion that ugly surroundings make the pain worse. " "I think these results show that more research is needed into the field how a beautiful environment can alleviate suffering."

Pictures they liked included Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh and Botticelli’s Birth of Venus. Pictures they found ugly included works by Pablo Picasso, the Italian 20th century artist Anonio Bueno and Columbian Fernando Botero. "These people were not art experts so some of the pictures they found ugly would be considered masterpieces by the art world," said Prof de Tommaso.

【1】 The underlined word "alleviate" in the fifth paragraph probably means "__________"

A. cure

B. ease

C. improve

D. kill

【2】 How many artists have been mentioned in the passage?

A. 4.

B. 5.

C. 6.

D. 7.

【3】 Which of the following is TURE about the view of Prof de Tommaso's?

A. Beautiful surroundings could help to heal sufferings completely.

B. Hospitals must take their artistic aspects into consideration first.

C. Ugly surroundings will surely make the pain worse.

D. Both music and beauty can reduce pain in hospital patients.

【4】 From the last paragraph, we know that __________.

A. some artists' paintings were beautiful, so they were masterpieces

B. only art experts could judge they were masterpieces or not, though ugly

C. the artists mentioned above were not really art masters

D. some of them were art masters, while others were not

【5】 Which of the following is the suitable title for the passage?

A. Beautiful Surroundings can Ease Pain.

B. Ugly Paintings could be Masterpieces.

C. More Research should be Done in the Field.

D. Latest Environmental Research.

【题目】With all eyes me, I felt very uneasy.

A. focusing

B. focusing on

C. focused

D. focused on

【题目】【1】 ring off __________________________________________________

【2】 search for __________________________________________________

【3】 in case __________________________________________________

【4】 distinguish A from B_____________________________________________

【5】 set out (to do) __________________________________________________

【6】 dive into __________________________________________________

【7】 call up __________________________________________________

【8】 回复电话 __________________________________________________

【9】 次序颠倒，发生故障 ______________________________________________

【10】 设法联系上；通过；完成 __________________________________________

【11】 偶尔，有时 __________________________________________________

【12】 给……打电话 __________________________________________________

【13】 不挂断，稍等 __________________________________________________

【题目】Even if you don’t look up the new words while reading, you still

can quite well.

A. pick up

B. get on

C. turn out

D. move off

【题目】

_____________ graduate from