14．As we all know, it takes ten years to grow trees but a hundred to rear people, which means it will be ________ one becomes a useful person．

       A．before long     B．long after      C．after long      D．long before

Get up early,         you will be late!

      A. and             B. otherwise                  C. then            D. but

This new kind of chemicals will help keep the air, soil and water________ from pollution．

     A．free   B．empty          C．loose        D．short

30. I really feel like _______ a talk with Daniel about her lessons but don’t know how to pick it up.

     A. to have     B. having had    C. to having      D. having

Returning to my room, ________.

  A. my watch was missed                         B. I found my watch missing

  C. I found my watch disappearing              D. I found my watch losing

— Excuse me, Dad, but I’m going to the club to meet my friends in the football match.

— OK. ________.

A. Good luck B. Congratulations C. Have fun D. With pleasure

There is an English saying:“ laughter is the best medicine.” Until recently, few people took the saying seriously. Now, however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it has on the human body. They have found that laughter really can improve people’s health. 

Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their hearts, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter had similar effects to physical exercise. It increases blood pressure, the heart beating and breathing; it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach, and even the feet. If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial .

Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group that tolerated(忍耐)the pain for the longest time was the groups which listened to a funny program. The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemicals in the brain which  diminish  both stress and pain .

As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics, in which they help to improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh. They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.

Doctors have proved the following EXCEPT that   ____   .

A. smiling does good to health 

B. laughter can be tolerated

C. there is a way to reduce pain 

D. laughter can work the muscles in the feet 

.The main idea of the passage is          .

A. laughter and physical exercise have similar effects on the human body 

B. smile can produce the same effects as laughter 

C. pain can be reduced by laughter 

D. laughter is the best medicine 

The students who  ___  tolerated the pain for the longest time .

A .listened to different radio programs

B .slept in the room 

C. don’t have stress of pain 

D .listened to a funny program

The underlined word “diminish” is similar to   _____     .

A. test    B .stop     C. reduce    D. find 

Doctors hold laughter clinics _________. 

A .to give better condition to their patients 

B .in order to improve patients’ health 

C .to make patients smile   

D. to prove smile and laughter have the same effect

第一部分：语音知识（每题1分，共 5分 ）

1.  truth       A. salute         B. junk          C .unit         D. mushroom

2.  theme      A.. ancestor       B. Chinese       C. mineral      D. vegetable

3.  examine    A. exactly        B. experience     C. explain       D. except

4.  commercial   A. franc        B. cycle          C. Arabic       D. facial

5.  stomach     A. machine      B. peach         C. Christmas     D. cheek

    When I try to understand          that prevents so many Americans from being as happy as one might expect, it seems that there are two causes.

     A. why it does        B. what it does          C. what it is       D. why it is

She looked out of the window, s______ for her lost youth.