Taking a picture of your tongue with a mobile phone could soon instantly tell you how healthy you are. Researchers believe the images can reveal important information about a patient’s health and even give them early warning of serious illness.

A team at the University of Missouri is developing a system that can analyze pictures using a 5,000-year-old Chinese principle, which is based on the flow and balance of positive and negative energies in the body, and uses the tongue as a key to learning about a person’s physical health, or “zheng” according to Chinese medicine.

“Within a year, our goal is to create an application for smart phones that will allow anyone to take a photo of their tongue and learn the status of their zheng,” said Dong Xu, chair of MU’s Computer Science Department in the College of Engineering and the co-author of the latest study.

The software analyzes images based on the tongue’s color and coating to distinguish between tongues showing signs of “hot” or “cold” zheng. Shades of red and yellow are associated with hot zheng, whereas a white coating on the tongue is a sign of cold zheng.

“Hot and cold zheng doesn’t refer directly to body temperature,” said Xu, “Rather, it refers to a series of symptoms associated with the state of the body as a whole.”

For the study, 263 gastritis(胃炎) patients and 48 healthy volunteers had their tongues analyzed. The gastritis patients were classified by whether they showed infection by a certain bacteria as well as the intensity of their gastritis symptoms. In addition, most of the gastritis patients had been previously classified with either hot or cold zheng. This allowed the researchers to test the accuracy of the software’s analysis.

“Our software is able to classify people based on their zheng status. And as we continue to work on the software we hope to improve its ability,” said another co-author Ye Duan, “Eventually everyone will be able to use this tool at home using webcams or smart phone applications, which will allow them to monitor their zheng and get an early warning about possible ailments.”

1. The software mentioned in the passage is based on ________.

A. the latest development of smart phones

B. a traditional Chinese medical principle

C. the changes in one’s flow and energy

D. symptoms related with the state of the body

2.According to Chinese medicine, zheng refers to ________.

A. one’s body temperature B. the physical health of a person

C. the possible disease of a person D. the color and coating of one’s tongue

3.The study led by Dong Xu proves _________.

A. the effect of the software

B. the software’s great prospect

C. the advancement of smart phones

D. the greatness of Chinese medicine

4.The underlined word “ailments” can be replaced by _________.

A. analysis B. effects C. illnesses D. applications

5.It can be inferred from the passage that _________.

A. the software still needs improvement

B. the subjects in the study are all gastritis

C. the software has been in market for a year

D. the subjects in the study are classified by age

阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。

首先请阅读下面六件产品的简介。

A. Bio Pac Dish Soap

Bio Pac Dish Soap, with aloe and tea tree oil, has a fresh smell. It contributes a lot to green cleaning, for it is made of natural ingredients. What’s more, the company gives 10 percent of its profits to wilderness protection.

B. Dish Soap—Mint Sage, 16 oz

An all-natural dishwashing soap that has long-lasting bubbles cleans without the harsh ingredients in it that can irritate sensitive skin. This unique dish soap contains natural borax and the fragrance of flowers that work together to make things clean.

C. Method Dish Soap

Method Dish Soap works safely when used to wash dishes. It is concentrated, so a little goes a long way. You just need to lift and squeeze it to get a small amount of the soap from the bottle. The soap comes in various fruit fragrances, such as orange and green apple.

D. Life Tree Dish Soap

A few drops of Life Tree Dish Soap will do a nice job on dishes. It comes in a smaller bottle than other dish soaps. Life Tree does not use animal ingredients. So if you’re looking for a really environmentally friendly dish soap, look at Life Tree.

E. Seventh Generation Dish Soap

Seventh Generation Dish Soap cleans as well as any other soap. Also, it’s very environmentally friendly. The product is gentle on hands. For those who are sensitive to certain fragrances, like flowers and fruit, Seventh Generation is a great choice.

F. Citrus Fresh Dish Soap  

Pleasantly fresh and cheap, the wonderful formula of the soap delivers extraordinary cleaning power to handle even the most difficult jobs. But with extras of aloe, calendula and other natural skin softeners, it actually helps prevent skin dryness.

以下顾客打算选购一款dish soap。根据他们的个人情况，请选出符合他们需要的产品。

1.Kate serves as a kitchen steward of a fancy restaurant, in charge of cleaning large quantities of oily dishes every day. It is, by all means, an ideal choice for her if it features super cleaning power and meanwhile can keep the hands soft, but not dry.

2.Mary works as a regional representative of a major company. She is keen on trying something new; she is sensitive to certain flower and fruit fragrant scents. She needs a kind of dish soap with no harm to her skin.

3. Anna is a full-time housewife who always manages to live within her means. For example, she prefers to choose the dish soap that holds out for very long. Besides, the soap with the fragrance of flowers or fruit is much more to her taste.
4.Susan runs a hotel somewhere in the countryside. She’s planning to buy an eco-friendly dish soap with the natural fragrance of aloe. If the producer cares about nature protection, she will put more trust in this brand.

5.Jane has just moved in a fully furnished apartment. But the cupboard in the kitchen is relatively smaller. Thus, she will have no other alternative but to purchase a dish soap in a smaller bottle. Furthermore, she is an environmental activist.

最近中国多个地区出现雾霾天气，某中学高三（3）班就此话题组织了一次班会活动，假设你是该班的通讯员，请根据以下信息写一篇英文报道给学校刊物。

【写作要求】

只能用5个句子表达全部内容。文章开头已给出，不计入总句数。

【评分标准】

句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章连贯。

As the atmospheric pollution worsens and the air quality declines, smog has occurred in many parts of China.

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阅读下面短文，然后按要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

The officials in the White House and CIA (中央情报局)are rejecting Edward Snowden's beg for mercy. “Mr. Snowden has been against the U.S. law,” White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer said on Sunday about the former systems analyst who has turned fugitive (逃亡者) in Russia. “He should return to the US and face the justice and judgment, and there is no possibility for mercy and forgiveness.”

However, many people support Snowden and a sociology professor Svallfors in Sweden has recommended Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize for his “heroic effort at great personal cost” disclosing the spying conducted by the National Security Agency of United States. He wrote, “Because of his bravery, Snowden helped to make the world a little bit better and safer”.

It may be too late for Snowden to receive the award this year, but the nomination should be taken seriously by the Nobel Prize committee for next year’s prize. If Snowden is awarded the prize in 2014, he would be the youngest Nobel Peace Winner in the history of the prize.

【写作内容】

1.以约30词概括上文的主要内容。

2.以约120词发表你对“Information Security”的看法，内容包括：

(1)简述信息安全的重要性；

(2)请举例说明信息安全事故的危害；

(3)谈谈如何维护信息安全。

【写作要求】

1.作文中可以使用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，语篇连贯。

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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。

I have been blessed with the opportunity in my life. It took the near-death experience of my dad to make me realize that my purpose in life is to others. My dad suffered from leukemia(白血病) in 1998. the pain and treatment that he put up with inspired me to be a more kind and person. I realized life is just too and it was time for me to make some changes — do the things in life that I wanted to do without making why I couldn’t do them.

My dad a bone marrow transplant(骨髓移植) operation, and after that he was able to reuse his own “cleaned” marrow, so a donor(捐献者) was not needed. That was excellent because donors who are a match are hard to come by. That me to become a bone marrow donor and hopefully help someone else one day. I also money for the cancer patients. Yet, I was not satisfied with just that. I had to do more, I blood every other month and seek opportunities to do other acts of kindness daily. The opportunity, some days, presents itself very and some days I have to seek it out. Either way, it comes.

I would like to one of my favorite quotes（名言）with you all:

“In an average lifetime, a person about sixty-five thousand miles. That’s two and half times around the world. I wonder your steps will take you. I wonder how you’ll use the rest of the you’re given.”

I want to use my miles to create foot prints of love in this world.

1.A. adviseB. ask C. help D. understand

2.A. Suffering B. Watching C. Discovering D. Bringing

3.A. stronger B. independent C. giving D. receiving

4.A. short B. wonderful C. dangerous D. boring

5.A. efforts B. promises C. excuses D. plans

6.A. refused B. had C. learned D. stopped

7.A. expression B. knowledge C. news D. sense

8.A. forced B. inspired C. allowed D. expected

9.A. raised B. kept C. paid D. hid

10.A. check B. test C. donate D. sell

11.A. secretly B. clearly C. peacefully D. wildly

12.A. share B. divide C. record D. repeat

13.A. conveys B. owns C. measures D. walks

14.A. where B. why C. when D. if

15.A. materials B. miles C. world D. wealth

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用口号中词语的正确形式填空。

There once lived a boy named Woo Sing, 1. father brought home a mirror. Woo Sing had never seen one before. So when he saw it for the first time, he didn’t understand 2. it was, but thought he saw 3. boy, which made him very happy, for he thought the boy had come to play with him. He spoke to the stranger in a very friendly way, but received no reply. He laughed and waved at the boy, who did exactly 4. same thing. Then he thought, “I’ll go closer. It may be that he doesn’t hear me”. But when he began to walk, the other boy imitated（模仿）him. Woo Sing stopped 5. (think) about these strange actions, saying to himself, “This boy is fooling me. He does everything that I do;” and the more he thought about it, the 6. (angry) he became and soon he noticed the boy became angry too. So Woo Sing 7. (strike) the boy in the glass, but he only hurt his own hand and went 8. (cry) to his father, who said, “The boy you saw was 9. image. This should teach you an important lesson, my son. You should never show your anger to others. Now remember that in real life when you strike 10. cause you’ll hurt yourself most of all.”

Recently, professor of philosophy（哲学）in the United States has written a book called Money and the Meaning of Life. He has discovered that how we deal with money in our daily life has more meaning than we usually think. One of the exercises he asked his students to do is to keep a record of every penny they spend for a week. From the way they spend their money, they can see what they really value in life.

He says our relations with others often become clearly defined（清晰的）when money enters the picture. You might have wonderful relationship with somebody and you think that you are very good friends. But you will know him only when you ask him to lend some money. If he does, it brings something to the relationship that seems stronger than ever before or it can suddenly weaken the relationship if he doesn’t. This person may say that he has a certain feeling, but if it is not carried out in the money world, there is something less real about it.

Since money is so important to us, we consider those who possess a lot of it to be very important. The author interviewed some millionaires in researching his book.

Question: What is the most surprising thing you have discovered about being rich, because you are a self-made man?

Answer: The most surprising thing is how people give me so much respect. I am nothing. I don’t know much. All I am is rich.

People just have an idea of making more and more money, but what is it for? How much do I need for any given purposes in my life? In his book, the professor uncovered an important need in modern society: to bring back the idea that money is an instrument rather than the end. Money plays an important role in the material world, but expecting money to give happiness may be missing the meaning of life.

1.According to the first paragraph, people have not realized ______.

A. how important money is in their daily life

B. how one spends money shows what is important to him

C. that money is more important than their philosophy of life

D. that their understanding of life is more important than money

2.The author seems to believe that asking your friend to lend you some money ________.

A. is a good way to test your friendship

B. will do harm to your friendship

C. will strengthen your friendship

D. is a good way to break off your friendship

3.What does the American professor of philosophy want to explain in his book?

A. Money is an end． B. Money is a means．

C. Money is everything． D. Money is unimportant

4.The underlined phrase “enter the picture” in the second paragraph can be replaced by “_________”.

A. is used upB. is spent on pictures

C. is paid in the right wayD. is paid attention to

5.What can we learn about the millionaire from his answer in the interview?

A. He doesn’t feel that he is well educated.

B. He doesn’t think he is a very important person.

C. He doesn’t consider himself to be very successful.

D. He doesn’t think that being rich deserves so much attention.

Going green is something that affects every single one of us. Whether by recycling those plastic water bottles, or by cutting down on electricity in your home, the importance of going green on a personal level is extremely important. But, when you’re a millionaire NBA basketball star, how do you help out the environment?

Yao Ming is a basketball player that plays for the Houston Rockets and has spoken out against hunting of sharks for fins, a delicious food in his native China. He is also the United Nations’ Environmental champion. His goal is to raise awareness of climate change and energy-saving. “I will work with young people across the world and try to inspire them to plant trees, harvest rainwater and to become environmental champions in their own communities.”

The Philadelphia Eagles, a professional American football team, are really doing their part to give back to the community. The Eagles Go Green page has a “Green Energy Calculator” and according to the web site fans have saved $ 73,674.90 a year and saved 666,320 pounds of CO2 per year. Also, the Eagles have set up a “Stop global warming virtual march（虚拟游行）on Washington”, a march across America for one year, through the Internet with a goal to bring fans together and to urge leaders to deal with the serious problem of global warming now.

Bob Burnquist, a Brazilian skateboarder, is a member of Action Sports Environmental Coalition and founder of a program that gets organic foods and farming into schools for healthy lunch programs. Bob also has a huge homegrown organic farm where he hosted a gathering in celebration of Earth Day.

Kelly Slater is a surfer and eight-time champion, but he also supports saving the coral reefs world wide. He has founded the Kelly Slater Invitational Competition which raises funds and awareness for Reef Check, which is able to get its message out to a large group of guests including professional surfers, film and music stars, and other famous people.

1.According to the passage, Yao Ming wants to ________.

A. help the Houston Rockets win the NBA championship

B. ask the United Nations to protect sharks in China

C. encourage young people to care about the environment

D. train more young people to become players of NBA

2.What have the Philadelphia Eagles done to help out the environment?

A. They have called on fans to do things to reduce global warming.

B. They have marched on Washington to bring fans together.

C. They have saved $ 73,674.90 for solving global warming.

D. They have reduced CO2 emission by 666,320 pounds per year.

3.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the last two paragraphs?

A. Bob Burnquist created Earth Day.

B. Bob Burnquist eats only organic foods.

C. Kelly Slater donated a lot of money.

D. Kelly Slater held a competition.

4.The best title for the passage would probably be _________.

A. Highly Competitive Athletes

B. Environment-friendly Athletes

C. World-famous Athletes

D. Millionaire Athletes

5.What can we learn from the passage?

A. Only famous people need to care about environmental problems.

B. America is the country that takes best care of environment.

C. Environmental problems have a common effect on everyone of us.

D. Yao Ming’s goals to raise people’s awareness of environment are mainly about climate change and air pollution.

When a magazine for high school students asked its readers what life would be like in twenty years, they said: Machines would be run by solar power. Buildings would rotate（旋转）so they could follow the sun to take maximum advantage of its light and heat. Walls would “give light” and “change color with the push of a button.” Food would be replaced by pills. School would be taught by electrical impulse（电脉冲）while we sleep. Cars would have radar（雷达）. Does this sound like the year 2000? Actually, this article was written in 1958 and the question was, “what will life be like in 1978?

The future is much too important to simply guess about, the way the high school students did, so experts are regularly asked to predict accuately. By carefully studying the present, skilled businessmen, scientists, and politicians are supposedly able to figure out in advance what will happen. But can they? One expert on Cities wrote: Cities of the future would not be crowded, but would have space for farms and fields. People would travel to work in “airbuses”, large all-weather helicopters carrying up to 200 passengers. When a person left the airbus station he could drive a coin-operated car equipped with radar. The radar equipment of cars would make traffic accidents “almost unheard of”. Does that sound familiar? If the expert had been accurate it would, because he was writing in 1957. His subject was “The city of 1982”.

If the professionals sometimes sound like high school students, it’s probably because future study is still a new field. But economic forecasting, or predicting what the economy will do, has been around for a long time. It should be accuate, and generally it is. But there have been some big mistakes in the field, too. In early 1929, most forecasters saw an excellent future for the stock market. In October of that year, the stock market had its worst losses ever, ruining thousands of investors who had put their faith in financial foreseers.

One forecaster knew that predictions about the future would always be subject to significant error. In 1957, H.J. Rand of the Rad corporation was asked about the year 2000, “Only one thing is certain,” he answered. “Children born today will have reached the age of 43.”

1.How many examples does the author offer to describe the future life?

A. Three B. Four C. Five D. Six

2.The high school students’ answers to “What would life be like in 1978?” sound __________.

A. accurate B. imaginative C. correct D. foolish

3.In the second paragraph, the writer gives examples to show _________.

A. predicting about the future can be done in a humorous way

B. no predictions are based on careful research

C. experts are always better than others in figuring out what the future will be like

D. forecasting the future is not an easy job even for experts in this field

4.From the third paragraph we can learn that _________.

A. economy forecasting is rather a new field

B. experts began economy forecasting in 1929

C. the predictions about economic situation caused the investors to lose lots of money

D. good, accurate forecasting helped the stock market overcome the difficulties

5.H.J.Rand’s prediction about the year 2000 shows that ________.

A. it is easy to figure out in advance what will happen

B. it is difficult to figure out in advance what will happen

C. only professionals can figure out in advance what will happen

D. very few professionals figure out in advance what will happen

I remember my mother as a strong woman. She came to America when she was 12—old enough to remember her language, she achieved scores and grades high enough to be admitted to Duke University. With a degree in computer science, she finally became the manager of a company in New York. My mother could give fluent speeches, say “wolves” correctly.

It was my mother who always stressed the importance of language. From the time I was born, I was read to. I would fall asleep to the sounds of my parents’ voices, whether it was my dad’s softly accented, or my mother’s clear English. The flow of language was unbroken, and whether in Chinese or English, the stream of communication flowed through our house.

One October morning in sixth grade, after my mother had left to catch the train to the city, I left the house for the bus stop. I was surprised when I saw our car, the door hanging open. As I drew closer, I saw my mother lying on the ground.

In the hospital, it was hard to believe that the lady who lay before me was my mom. My mother could not remember my name. As the leaves changed colors, it became clear that the stroke had created a wall between my mother’s mind and mouth: her mind was not any less clear, but the words she spoke were not what she meant.

The battle my mother faced taught me the importance of language. Without it, identity does not exist; relationships cannot be formed; stories cannot be told; directions cannot be given, and knowing anything about anyone is impossible. Without language, communication cannot take place. Without language, one cannot express the beauty of a sunset or the kindness of a stranger. The world would pass us by in silence.

1. From where might the author’s mom come to America?

A. ChinaB. EnglandC. RussiaD. Canada

2.From the second paragraph, we can know ________.

A. the author was taught to read since she was born

B. the author’s father spoke English poorly

C. the author couldn’t fall asleep without being read to

D. the author’s parents taught her language by talking a lot

3.According to the last two paragraphs, the author’s mom was unable to _______.

A. think clearlyB. express herself well

C. speakD. open her mouth

4.The underlined word “stroke” in the 4th paragraph most probably refers to ______.

A. an accidentB. a hitC. an illness D. a robbery

5.This passage is mainly about _________.

A. a strong mother

B. the importance of language

C. a family disaster

D. the significance of teaching language