第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项

A “Panda Express” plane carrying Mei Lan, three, and Tai Shan, four, landed in Chengdu, where the   36   will join China’s panda – breeding programme.

The pandas were   37  while the two sets of parents were borrowed from China to US zoos. Lent pandas and their young babies must eventually   38   to China.

They both will experience a period of   39   to help themselves deal with the change of language and   40  . Zoo – keepers have advertised for an English – Chinese   41   to teach Mei Lan the Sichuan dialect so that she can understand basic   42  . In Chengdu, mei Lan, from Zoo Atlanta, and Tai Shan, a male from Washington, will have their high – fibre US diet   43   with steamed bread and bamboo shoots.

Since the days of the Cold War China has   44   lent pandas as goodwill gestures, giving rise to the term “panda diplomacy (外交)”. Tai Shan’s   45   will remain at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington and,   46  , will return to China at the end of their 10 – year loan.

Animal keeper Nicole Meese, who held Tai Shan as a baby, traveled with the animals on the “Panda Express” to China. “Mei Lan was a little   47  , but basically they were both OK,” she said. “I’m going to   48   him terribly.”

She has   49   Tai Shan to understand   50   and prepared a booklet of hand signals to help his new   51   at the Bifengzia Breeding Base in Ya’an, Sichuan.

She was the first baby panda born at Zoo Atlanta, bringing thousands more   52   to the zoo and to its webcam online. And she is expected to stay a media   53  in China: people are being asked to   54   potential mates (配偶) via a website. Superman Kobe and Young Yong, or Doubly Brave, are among the   55  . Experts will also add to more into the choice.

36．A．hosts         B．guests           C．couple          D．pair

37．A．exchanged           B．purchased     C．born          D．raised

38．A．return           B．reflect          C．appeal          D．explain

39．A．recovery       B．adjustment       C．hardships      D．growth

40．A．creature clock  B．climate         C．character       D．food

41．A．school          B．dictionary     C．interpreter     D．teacher

42．A．attitudes       B．commands       C．conditions     D．knowledge

43．A．replaced       B．recycled        C．compared      D．combined

44．A．offered         B．created         C．displayed      D．borrowed

45．A．roommates       B．acquaintances   C．keepers         D．parents

46．A．otherwise      B．therefore       C．too            D．anyway

47．A．curious         B．lonely           C．desperate      D．nervous

48．A．mourn          B．tolerate         C．miss          D．pity

49．A．guaranteed       B．trained         C．expected       D．advised

50．A．gestures        B．movements      C．functions      D．pictures

51．A．colleagues     B．keepers         C．researchers       D．owners

52．A．pandas          B．visitors         C．reporters       D．dollars

53．A．problem       B．phenomenon    C．task           D．star

54．A．suggest         B．select         C．match           D．accuse

55．A．electors        B．partners        C．candidates     D．Employers

                                   B

In the course of working my way through school, I took many jobs I would rather forget. But none of these jobs was as dreadful as my job in an apple plant. The work was hard, the pay was poor; What’s more, the working conditions were terrible.

First of all, the job made huge demands on my strength. For ten hours a night, I took boxes that rolled down a metal track and piled them onto a truck. Each box contained twelve heavy bottles of apple juice. I once figured out that I was lifting an average of twelve tons of apple juice every night.

I would not have minded the difficulty of the work so much if the pay had not been so poor. I was paid the lowest wage of that time—two dollars an hour. Because of the low pay, I felt eager to get as much as possible. I usually worked twelve hours a night but did receive a low pay.

But even more than the low pay, what made me unhappy was the working conditions. During work I was limited to two ten-minute breaks and an unpaid half hour for lunch. Most of my time was spent outside loading trucks with those heavy boxes in near-zero-degree temperatures. The steel floors of the trucks were like ice, which made my feet feel like stone. And after the production line shut down at night and most people left, I had to spend two hours alone cleaning the floor.

I stayed on the job for five months, all the while hating the difficulty of the work, the poor money, and the conditions under which I worked. By the time I left, I was determined never to go back there again.

60. Why did the writer have to take many jobs at the time?

  A. to pay for his schooling                     B. to save for his future

  C. to contribute to charities                     D. to gain some experience

61. The following facts describe the terrible working conditions of the plant EXCEPT ________.

  A. loading boxes in the freezing cold                  B. having limited time for breaks

  C. working and studying at the same time     D. getting no pay for lunch time

62. What is the subject discussed in the text?

  A. The writer’s unhappy school life.              

  B. The writer’s eagerness to earn money.^

  C. The writer’s experience as a full-time worker.

  D. The writer’s hard work in an apple plant.

63. How is the text organized?

  A. Topic-Argument-Explanation             

  B. Opinion-Discussion-Description

  C. Main idea-Comparison-Supporting examples

  D. Introduction-Supporting examples-Conclusion

I was advised to arrange for insurance _____ I needed medical treatment.

A. although B. incase C. so that D. if only

The man went into the room, _____ rather strange.

A. to look B. looking C. looked D. and looking

Why not trust and use David? He is still as strong as____ in the team.

A. somebody else B. everybody else

C. anybody else D. nobody else

_____ your help, we have _____.

A. Thanks to, finished B. Thanks to, ended

C. Thanks for, finished D. Thanks for, completed

--They all agree _____ George. Has the project been passed?

--Who _____ George can make the final decision?

A. except; expect B. except; besides

C. but; but D. besides; but

A team of researchers in California has developed a way to predict what kinds of objects people are looking at by scanning what’s happening in their brains.

When you look at something, your eyes send a signal about that object to your brain. Different regions of the brain process the information your eyes send. Cells in your brain called neurons(神经元) are responsible for this processing.

　　The fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging功能性磁共振造影) brain scans could generally match electrical activity in the brain to the basic shape of a picture that someone was looking at.

　　Like cells anywhere else in your body, active neurons use oxygen. Blood brings oxygen to the neurons, and the more active a neuron is, the more oxygen it will consume. The more active a region of the brain, the more active its neurons, and in turn, the more blood will travel to that region. And by using fMRI, scientists can visualize which parts of the brain receive more oxygen- rich blood--and therefore, which parts are working to process information.

　　An fMRI machine is a device that scans the brain and measures changes in blood flow to the brain. The technology shows researchers how brain activity changes when a person thinks, looks at something, or carries out an activity like speaking or reading. By highlighting the areas of the brain at work when a person looks at different images, fMRI may help scientists determine specific patterns of brain activity associated with different kinds of images.

　　The California researchers tested brain activity by having two volunteers view hundreds of pictures of everyday objects, like people, animals, and fruits. The scientists used an fMRI machine to record the volunteers' brain activity with each photograph they looked at. Different objects caused different regions of the volunteers' brains to light up on the scan, indicating activity. The scientists used this information to build a model to predict how the brain might respond to any image the eyes see.

In a second test, the scientists asked the volunteers to look at 120 new pictures. Like before, their brains were scanned every time they looked at a new image. This time, the scientists used their model to match the fMRI scans to the image. For example, if a scan in the second test showed the same pattern of brain activity that was strongly, related to pictures of apples in the first test, their model would have predicted the volunteers were looking at apples.

　　 51. What is responsible for processing the information sent by your eyes?

　　A A small region of the brain.

　　B The central part of the brain.

　　C Neurons in the brain.

　　D Oxygen-rich blood.

　　52. Which of the following statements is NOT meant by the writer?

　　A Cells in your brain are called neurons.

　　B The more oxygen a neuron consumes, the more blood it needs.

　　C fMRI helps scientists to discover which parts of the brain process information.

　　D fMRI helps scientists to discover how the brain develops intelligently.

53. "Highlighting the areas of the brain at work" means

　　A "marking the parts of the brain that are processing information"

　　B "giving light to the parts of the brain that are processing information"

　　C "putting the parts of the brain to work"

　　D "stopping the parts of the brain from working"

　　54. What did the researchers experiment on?

　　A Animals, objects, and fruits.

　　B Two volunteers.

　　C fMRI machines.

　　D Thousands of pictures.

55.What is the best title for the passage?

A Mind-reading Machine

B A Technological Dream

C Device that can Help You Calculate

D The Recent Development in Science and Technology

信息匹配（共4小题；每小题2分，满分8分）

阅读下列畅销书的封面及基本信息，匹配相关的书名。

_________ the car after drinking alcohol, there wouldn’t have been the accident.

A. Had he not driven                   B. Hadn’t he driven   

C. If he didn’t drive                    D. If he doesn’t