阅读下面短文,掌握其大意.然后从1—15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

       Carmen’s mother Maria had just survived a serious heart attack. But without a heart transplant(移植)her life was in constant   1    

       Both the mother and daughter knew that the chances were very small: finding a donor heart that   2      Maria’s blood type could take years. However, Carmen was determined to save her mother. She kept   3    hospitals all over the country.

       Days stretched out. By Christmas, Maria had trouble   4  from one end of the room to the other. Carmen lost all hope. She fell into a   5     of the hospital, crying.

“Are you okay?” a man asked.

Carmen sobbed as she told the stranger her story. This middle-aged man was named Frank, whose wife, Cheryl, a tender and devoted mother of four lovely children, had been in hospital with a brain disease and wouldn’t   6    it through the night. Suddenly, an idea came to Frank’s mind. He knew Cheryl had always wanted to   7     something from herself. Could her   8  go to Carmen’s mother?

After reviewing the data, doctors   9     Frank that his wife’s heart was by some miracle a perfect fit for Carmen’s mother. They were able to   10     the transplant.

That cold night, when Cheryl was   11    dead, Frank came to knock at Maria’s door. She was   12   for Frank’s family as she had been doing every day recently. Though Maria had never met Frank before, they both felt a strange bond as they hugged and cried.

On New Year’s Eve, Carmen attended Cheryl’s   13  with Frank’s family, who were singing their favorite song “My heart will go on.”

One day later, on New Year’s Day, Maria   14  with Cheryl’s heart. Yes, Cheryl’s loving heart would go on, for it was   15  in another loving mother’s chest.

A. change              B. danger               C. disorder                   D. pain

A. matched         B. replaced               C. controlled            D. cooperated

A. finding                  B. phoning                   C. touring                     D. interrupting

A. rolling                 B. running                    C. walking                   D. jumping

A. corner                  B. bed                         C. man                        D. nurse

A. put                      B. support                    C. pass                         D. make 

A. save                   B. recycle                     C. donate                      D. separate

A. heart                         B. brain                        C. husband                   D. spirit

A. informed             B. warned                    C. congratulated           D. reminded

A. give up                   B. carry out                 C. search after              D. put off

A. noticed                   B. predicted                  C. found                      D. declared

A. praying          B. begging            C. decorating           D. singing

A. funeral            B. operation                  C. performance             D. anniversary

A. passed away         B. woke up                  C. left behind                D. dressed up

A. active          B. alive               C. necessary                D. changeable

  第二节:读写任务(共1小题;满分 25分)

        阅读下面的短文 .然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文.

          We all know the story of "The tortoise and the hare". The hare lost because he was overconfident. So slow??-and-steady wins the race.but did you know the tortoise and hare raced three more times? Afrer his loss the hare challenged the tortoise to a second race and this time was without stopping from start to finsh. There was no doubt that he won. The lesson this time was

  that fast-and-consistent beats slow-and-steady.then the tortoise challenged the hare to  a third race. over a slightly different route. The hare ran at top speed until he reachcd a broad river.Although the finishing line was just a kilometre past the river the hare had no way of croasing and once more the slow-and-steady swimming tortoise came out on tup.

            The hare and the tortoise. by this time, had become good friends. They realized they could perfom better together than separately. So they decided to have one more race. But this time they would work as a team.  They started off. and this time the hare carried the tortoise till the  riverbank. There. the tortoise took over and swam across the river with the hare on his hack. On the opposite bank. the hare again camed the tortoise and they reached the finishing line togeLhcr. much more quickly than chey had been able to alone They both felt a greater sense of

Satisfaction than they'd felt earlier.                                        

  [写作内窖]

    1.以约30个词概括这段短文的内容;

    2(1)以约120个词就第四次龟兔赛跑的寓意发表个人观点。内容包括:

    (1)如何利用自身优势:

    (2)如何发挥团队精神。

  [写作要求】

    1.在作文中可使用自己的亲身经历或虚构的故事,也可以参照阅读材料的内容,但不

  得直接引用原文中的句子:

    2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

  [评分标准]

    概括准确,语言规范,内容合适,篇章连贯。

Motherhood may make women smarter and may help prevent dementia(痴呆) in old age by bathing the brain in protective hormones(荷尔蒙) , U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.

Tests on rats show that those who raise two or more litters of pups do considerably better in tests of memory and skills than rats who have no babies, and their brains show changes that suggest they may be protected against diseases such as Alzheimer’s(早老痴呆症). University of Richmond psychology professor Craig Kinsley believes his findings will translate into humans.

“Our research shows that the hormones of pregnancy(怀孕) are protecting the brain, including estrogen(雌激素), which we know has many neuroprotective (保护神经的) effects,” Kinsley said.  

“It’s rat data but humans are mammals just like these animals are mammals,” he added in a telephone interview. “They go through pregnancy and hormonal changes.”

Kinsley said he hoped public health officials and researchers will look to see if having had children protects a woman from Alzheimer’s and other forms of age-related brain decline.

“When people think about pregnancy, they think about what happens to babies and the mother from the neck down,” said Kinsley, who presented his findings to the annual meeting of the Society of Neuroscience in Orlando, Florida.

“They do not realize that hormones are washing on the brain. If you look at female animals who have never gone through pregnancy, they act differently toward young. But if she goes through pregnancy, she will sacrifice her life for her infant—that is a great change in her behavior that showed in genetic changes to the brain.”

51. How do scientists know “Motherhood may make women smarter”?      

A. They know it by experimenting on rats.    B. Many women say so.

C. Some researchers have told them.         D. They know it through their own experience.

52. What does the phrase “litters of pups” mean in the second paragraph?

A. Old rats.    B. Animals.    C. Baby rats.          D. Grown-up rats.

53. What can protect the brain of a woman according to the passage?       

A. Estrogen.                            B. Taking care of children.  

C. More exercise.                     D. The hormones of pregnancy.

54. “It’s rat data but humans are mammals just like these animals are mammals.” What does the sentence suggest?         

A. The experiments on the rats are much the same on humans.

B. The experiments on the rats are very important for animals.

C. The experiments on the rats have nothing to do with humans.

D. The experiments on the rats are much the same on other animals.

55. Which title is the best for this passage?        

A. Do You Want to Be Smarter?           B. An Important Study

C. Mysterious Hormones                D. Motherhood Makes Women Smarter

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