Do you know that men die earlier than women? The latest research makes it known that the reason could be that men’s hearts go into rapid decline when they reach middle age.

　　The largest study of the effects of ageing(变老) on the heart has found that women’s longevity may be linked to the fact that their hearts do not lose their pumping power with age.

　　“We have found that the power of the male heart falls by 20-25 percent between 18 and 70 years of age,” said the head of the study, David Goldspink of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK.

　　“Within the heart there are millions of cells that enable it to beat. Between the age of 20 and 70, one-third of those cells die and are not replaced in men,” said Goldspink. “This is part of the aging process.”

　　What surprises scientists is that the female heart sees very little loss of these cells. A healthy 70-year-old woman’s heart could perform almost as well as a 20-year-old one’s.

　　“This gender difference might just explain why women live longer than men,” said Goldspink. They studied more than 250 healthy men and women between the ages of 18 and 80, focusing on healthy persons to remove the confusing influence of disease. “The team has yet to find why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart,” said Goldspink.

　　The good news is that men can improve the health of their heart with regular exercise. Goldspink stressed that women also need regular exercise to prevent their leg muscles becoming smaller and weaker as they age.

1. The underlined word “longevity” in the second paragraph probably refers to “________”.

A．health            B．long life           C．ageing            D．effect

2. The text mainly talks about ________.

A．men’s heart cells                      B．women’s ageing process、

C．the gender difference                    D．hearts and long life

3.According to the text, the UK scientists have known that ________.

A．women have more cells than men when they are born

B．women can replace the cells that enable the heart to beat

C．the female heart loses few of the cells with age

D．women never lose their pumping power with age

4.If you want to live longer, you should ________.

A．enable your heart to beat much faster

B．find out the reason for ageing

C．exercise regularly to keep your heart healthy

D．prevent your cells from being lost

5.We can know from the passage that ________.

A．the reason why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart has been found out

B．scientists are on the way to finding out why the male heart loses more of the cells

C．the team has done something to prevent the male from suffering the greater loss

D．women over 70 could lose more heart cells than those at the age of 20

单词拼写（每小题1分，共10分）

1.These clothes are 100%______(纯的)cotton.

2.He was too young and ______(肤浅) to understand his parents’ love.

3.Without______(暂停)we jumped into the boat with the other whalers.

4.I have to prepare tomorrow’s lessons and do some______(文书工作).

5.Please call me before you buy a new______(数码的)camera.

6.The work took a whole ______(两周)。

7.Do you want to be an______ (宇航员)in the future?

8.He returned to his ______(祖国) after graduation.

9.The other day I was showing the boys the_______(每周的) experiment.

10.Last______(十二月)we went to the Great Wall.

短文改错（每小题1.5分，共15分）

下文中共有10处错误。在缺词处加一个漏字符号（Λ），并在其下面写出该加的词。把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

My father and I stayed at the South Lake Hotel for a week when we visit Beijing last month. It is in the downtown area, but it is easy to go to anywhere from the hotel by public transport.

We lived in a comfortably double-room with a big bath. What I liked best were the free high-speed Internet connection in the room. I checked my email messages every day. I also shared for my friends many photos taking in Beijing. The food was wonderful with reasonable prices, and we enjoyed several local dish.

It is such great hotel that I will recommend it to any friend of me who is going to Beijing.

书面表达 （满分30分）

在许多地方，家长开车接送孩子上下学已成为一个普遍现象，人们对此做法褒贬不一。请根据下表提示用英语写一篇短文，介绍人们不同的观点，并谈谈你对此事的看法。

注意：词数不少于100.

参考词汇：

In many places, it’s common for parents to drive their children to and from school, which causes a heated debate in society.

I can’t remember when exactly the Robinsons left city. I only remember it was    Monday.

A．the, the           B．a, the             C．the, a             D．a, a

If she     that Mary would come to see her, she would never have gone to the party.

A．had known        B．knew             C．knows            D．would know

I commanded that he      at once.

A．left              B．leaves            C．leave             D．to leave

Having retired from work, he is        with the welfare(福利) of the disabled.

A．associated         B．occupied          C．armed            D．abandoned

After the war, the American soldiers returned home,     .

A．safely and tiring                        B．safety and tiring

C．safe and tiring                          D．safe but tired