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 I like getting up very early in summer. The morning air is so good ___ .

A. to be breathed       B. to breathe       C. breathing      D. being breathed

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While the young people were celebrating the festival, the big fire______at the hall.

A. broke out          B. broke down    C. broke into          D. broke up

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.---Who ________ it be that is knocking at the door?

---It________ be Mother, but I’m not sure.

  A. can; must          B. can; may           C. must; can   D. may; must

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 A new supermarket ______ here. They hope to finish it next month.

       A. will build                B. is built             C. has been built    D. is being built

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Sadness is unpleasant, and in a society where personal happiness is prized above all else, there is little tolerance for falling in despair. Especially now we’ve got drugs for getting rid of sad feelings — whether it’s after losing a job, the break-up of a relationship or the death of a loved one. So it’s no surprise that more and more people are taking them.

But is this really such a good idea? A growing number of voices from the world of mental health research are saying it isn’t. They fear that the increasing tendency to treat normal sadness as a disease is playing fast and loose (行为轻率). Sadness, they argue, serves a useful purpose—and if we lose it, we lose out. Yet many psychiatrists (精神病医生) insist not. Sadness has a nasty habit of turning into depression(抑郁), they warn. Even when people are sad for good reason, they should take drugs to make themselves feel better.

So who is right? Is sadness something we cannot live without or something horrible never to touch?

There are lots of ideas about why feeling sad should become part of human life. It may be a self-protection strategy, as other primates (灵长类) also show signs of sadness. A losing monkey that doesn’t show sadness after it loses a fight may be seen as continuing to challenge the winning monkey — and that could result in death.

In humans sadness has a further function: we may display sadness as a form of communication. By acting sad, we tell other community members that we need support.

Then there is the idea that creativity is connected to dark moods. There are plenty of great artists, writers and musicians who have suffered from depression or disorder. Scientists found that people with signs of depression performed better at a creative task, and negative moods make people think deeply over the unhappy experience, which allows creative processes to come to the front. There is also evidence that too much happiness can be bad for your career. A doctor found that people who scored 8 out of 10 on a happiness test were more successful in income and education than 9s or 10s. The happiest people lose their willingness to make changes to their lives that may benefit them.

53. The underlined word “this ” refers to ________.

   A. taking medicine   B. falling in despair              C. losing a job              D. feeling sad

54. The author believes sadness is ________.

   A. a good thing for people’s health             B. something horrible never to touch

C. a necessary function of humans’       D. always to be treated as depression

55. Some animals show their sadness in order to ________.

   A. cheat their enemy                                 B. protect themselves 

C. comfort the loser                                D. challenge the winner

56. We can infer from the last paragraph that ________.

  A. people with great creativity tend to be happier   

B. unhappy experiences contribute to a greater career

C. too much happiness can be bad for your career

D. the happiest people are the most successful ones

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_______ not like Jim to be late for class. He is always on time.

A. Here’s          B. That’s                 C. It’s                    D. There’s

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－Excuse me，I want to have my hair cut，but I can’t find a barber-shop．

    －There’s________at the comer of the street．Just go straight．

A it        B．some        C．the one     D one

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Beijing plans to build huge free or low-cost parking lots beyond the Fourth and Fifth Ring Roads to encourage more car owners to take buses or subways to the downtown area.

The plan is just one of the many measures the city plans to take to reduce its traffic jams. Low or no parking fees would be used as economic leverage（杠杆作用）to reduce growing parking demands from urban areas.

Car owners living in the suburbs will be encouraged to park their cars beyond the Fourth and Fifth Ring Roads and take buses or subways to the downtown area. Statistics show that nearly one quarter of the city’s traffic flow is concentrated in the 62-square-kilometre downtown area within the Second Ring Road, which makes up only 12 percent of the city’s total area.

The Beijing Traffic Management Bureau receives between 400 and 500 calls reporting traffic jams every day and more than 90 percent of the roads are filled to capacity during rush hour every morning and evening. Part of the problem is the lack of easy links between bus routes, subways and cars.

According to the communication commission, half of the city’s investment in transportation will go towards public transit（公共交通）construction in the next few years, making a jump from the current only 20 percent. Moreover, Beijing plans to change its layout（布局）by building new city centers, such as at Yizhuang, Tongzhou, Shunyi and Changping, in a bid to reduce the traffic flow to the downtown.

The current layout of Beijing-expanded ring roads around the same center of the Forbidden City, is seen as the root cause of the endless traffic jams. The downtown area is crowded with three business centers and one financial centre, as well as nearly 400 government organs and institutions.

Traffic experts say building more urban centers around Beijing may reduce the number of residents living in the suburbs and traveling long distances to work downtown every day, thus reducing traffic flow.

40. In the coming years, if a man beyond the Fourth Ring Road goes to work in the

downtown of Beijing, he is encouraged to _______.

A. take buses or subways             

B. take a taxi

C. drive the car quickly        

D. park his car in a place which asks for no fees

41. According to this passage, when more and more people drive to work in rush hour in Beijing, it is likely to ________.

A. save time                                             B. cause traffic jams

C. cause traffic accidents                            D. reduce air pollution

42. The aim in building new city centers is to ________.

A. make it convenient for people to go shopping

B. develop its local resources

C. reduce the traffic flow to the downtown

D. solve the problem of more laid-off workers

43. The passage suggests the author _________.

A. is tired of driving to work

B. finds it costs less to take subways than to drive

C. is for the plan to reduce Beijing’s traffic congestion（拥挤）

D. has benefited a lot by driving to the downtown every day

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V． 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分）

Bad Temper

     There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

__71__ Over the next few weeks , as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled (缩小)down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

__72__ He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. __73__and the boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

__74__He said, You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. __75__ It won’t matter how many times you say I’m sorry the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.

A.The boy cried.

B.The first day, the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence.

C.You can put a knife in a man and draw it out.

D.Finally the day came when the boy didn’t lost his temper at all.

E.The days passed.

F.The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.

G.The father looked sad.

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---How long are you going to stay in the country?

   --- It’s hard to say. ______.

   A. I don’t want to go there      B. It all depends

   C. It doesn’t matter            D. That’s nothing