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　　A new study reported in a medical magazine concludes that even smokers who reach their 70s are likely to live longer if they stop smoking. Researchers say that they have got some of the strongest evidence(证据)that it's never too late to stop smoking.

　　The study was based on a five - year follow - up of 7, 178 people over the age of 65 who lived in Boston, New Haven and Washington counties. The report showed former smokers ran about the same risk (危险) of death from heart disease as those who never smoked. Women who stopped smoking faced about the same cancer - death risk as those who never smoked, but men who gave up smoking still had a 50% higher risk. The men's extra(额外) risk of cancer largely disappeared if they had not smoked for more than 20 years.

　　The discovery does not agree with the widely-known belief that by the time smokers reach old age, their habit has already hurt them, and those who continue to live healthily are probably immune (免疫) to the dangers of cigarettes.

1．The conclusion of the new study is that ________.

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A．it's useless for young people to stop smoking

B．smokers over the age of 70 are expected to live longer

C．it's late to stop smoking when one is getting old

D．one can plan to give up smoking at any age for his health

2．The researchers have got their research results after ________.

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A．they spent 5 years in hospitals and labs

B．they kept on making medical examination of smokers over 5 years

C．they kept on medically examining many old people in cities, towns and villages for a period of 5 years

D．they kept on following smokers and non - smokers over the age of 65 for 5 yeas

3．A former smoker is a person who ________.

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A．smokes a lot

B．used to smoke

C．smokes once in a while

D．is going to give up smoking

4．Which of the following statements is NOT true?

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A．Those who stop smoking are facing the same risk of death from cancer as non - smokers.

B．Those who stop smoking are facing the same risk of death from heart trouble as non - smokers .

C．Women who stop smoking face about the same cancer- death risk as nonsmokers.

D．Men who stop smoking face about the same cancer - death risk as men who gave up smoking 20 years ago.

5．Which of the following is with the same meaning as the sentence “the discovery does not agree with the widely - known belief ”?

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A．The discovery is in accordance with the widely -known belief.

B．The discovery is against the widely - known facts.

C．The discovery is different from the widely- known belief.

D．The discovery objects to the widely - known facts.

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　　Kidnappers(绑架者) are rarely interested in animals, but they recently took considerable interest in Mrs. Eleanor Ramsay's cat . Mrs. Eleanor Ramsay, a very wealthy old lady, has shared a flat with her cat, Rastus, for a great many years. Rastus leads an orderly life. He usually takes a short walk in the evenings and is always home by seven o'clock. One evening, however, he failed to arrive. Mrs . Eleanor Ramsay got very worried . She looked everywhere for him but could not find him.

　　Three days after Rastus' disappearance .Mrs . Eleanor Ramsay received an anonymous( = nameless) letter. The writer stated that Rastus was in safe hands and would be returned immediately if Mrs. Eleanor Ramsay paid a ransom( = sum of money) of ￡1000. Mrs. Eleanor Ramsay was instructed to place the money in a cardboard box and to leave it out side her door. At first, she decided to go to the police, but fearing that she would never see Rastus again, the letter had made that quite clear. She changed her mind. She drew ￡1000 from her bank and followed the kidnapper's instructions. The next morning, the box had disappeared but Mrs. Ramsay was sure that kidnapper would keep his word. Sure enough, Rastus arrived punctually at seven o'clock that evening . He looked very well, though he was rather thirsty, for he drank half a bottle of milk. The police were greatly surprised when Mrs. Ramsay told them what she had done. She explained that Rastus was very dear to her. Considering the amount she said, he was dear in more ways than one!

1．Some kidnappers took considerable interest in Mrs. Ramsay's cat because ________.

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A．Mrs. Ramsay could and would pay a lot to get her only companion back

B．Mrs. Ramsay clearly loved her cat to have kept him so long

C．Rastus was an orderly cat and would be easy to look after if kidnapped

D．Mrs. Ramsay missed her cat whenever he was not back home on time

2．On what conditions did the kidnapper promise the safe return of Rastus?

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A．His name was not to be revealed and he wanted a ransom of ￡ 1000.

B．Mrs. Ramsay was not to inform the police and had to pay ￡ 1000.

C．Mrs. Ramsay had to leave her flat until the box with the money had gone.

D．Mrs. Ramsay was to draw ￡ 1000 from her bank and follow his instructions.

3．How was Rastus dear to Mrs. Ramsay in more ways than one?

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A．She was very fond of him and it had cost her a lot to get him back.

B．Besides the high ransom paid for him he drank a lot of milk

C．He was so dear that she had not dared tell the police of the kidnapping.

D．He was very valuable and she valued him greatly.

4．Mrs. Eleanor Ramsay is a very wealthy lady who ________ a flat with her cat Rastus, for a great many years.

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5．She searched for him but could not find him ________

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　　Millions of words have been written about young people in the United States . There are reasons for this great interest in the ideas , feelings and actions of youth. Today there are about seven million Americans in college and universities . Young persons under twenty-five make up nearly half of the American population. Many of these will be in power in the US. Naturally their ideas are important to everyone in the country , and it is necessary for older people to understand what they think and feel .

　　College students today have strong opinions about right and wrong .They are deeply interested in making a better life for all people especially for those who have not been given a fair before now. They see much that is wrong in the lives of their parents . It is hard for them to see what is right and good in the older ways. As a result there is often trouble in American families .

1．Nearly half of the population of America are young people ________ years old.

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2．What the young people think and feel are important to all the American people because ________.

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A．they are mostly correct and fair

B．a number of them will manage the country as leaders

C．they are something new and strong

D．they stand for the modem force

3．The thoughts and feelings of the young persons should be necessarily understood by ________.

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A．everyone in the country

B．the older people

C．college students only

D．leaders in the US

4．The students at colleges pay special attention to the people________

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A．who keep their life in the older ways

B．who enjoy a tearful life

C．Who are unfairly treated before

D．Who have strong opinions about the society

5．Which of the following is correct ?

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A．We've talked much about the young American people.

B．The young people in America interest millions of people.

C．The young people in the US are making a better life for themselves.

D．people have written many books and articles about the young people in America

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　　Mr Hill lived outside the city and worked in a hospital. His medical skill was good and he got a lot of money. His wife always thought a few women loved him and she made him give all his pay to her. He was angry with her at it but had to do as she said. So he bought a safe and hid some money in it .Of course his wife didn't know about it.

　　One Sunday morning Mr and Mrs Hill decided to go to see her friend. Suddenly their car broke down at the crossing of the road and the railway while a train was coming towards them. Mrs Hill was afraid and asked her husband to leave the car at once. But he refused.

　　“My car is worth six thousand pounds, ”called out the man. “I can't leave it on the rails.”

　　The train was coming nearer and nearer, The woman had to run away. But her husband was still trying to start it. When the car was going to hit , he shouted, “The key to the safe is in my bedroom, under the bedclothes. You can easily find it if I am hit to death!”

　　In the time of danger the train braked. (刹车) .To his joy, it didn't hit his car. But he wasn't happy.

　　“Oh, dear, ”Mr Hill said to himself, “I've made a mess(一团糟) of the thing ! It seems that I have to look for another place to hide the key !”

1．Mr Hill was a________.

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2．Mrs Hill was afraid ________., so she made her husband give all his pay to her.

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A．Mr Hill sent some presents to other women he loved

B．Mr Hill spent some money on his clothes

C．Mr Hill bought something for his parents

D．Mr Hill lost some money in the hospital

3．The word “safe”in the story means ________.

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4．Mr Hill refused to leave the car on the rails because ________.

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A．he was sure he could start it

B．he was sure the train would brake

C．he wasn't afraid of death at all

D．it cost six thousand pounds

5．When the train was coming nearer to him. Mr Hill hoped ________.

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A．someone could help him to start the car

B．his wife could help him to push the car away

C．something would be wrong with the train

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　　Some teachers want to keep boys and girls apart, but not all do. 70 years ago a mixed class of Dutch teenagers had to play a sport together. Their schoolmaster didn't think any of the usual sports was right for them. He wanted to find a sport that was as good for one sex as for the other. During a visit to Sweden he saw some children playing a game together. This gave him an idea for a new sport. He called it “korfball”, from the Dutch word for basket, “korf” . Korfball is an entirely different game from basketball.

　　The sport is played like this. The pitch is the size of a small foot ball field. It has three divisions, which are called attack, center and defence. Each team has 12 players, four in each division. The number of men and women. is always the same. The ball is a size 5 football . The goal is a basket three meters above the ground at each end of the pitch. When a player has the ball he is not allowed to run. He must throw the ball, not kick it. The ball must always go to a center player between defence and attack. Men are only allowed to mark men, and women mark women. The sport is simple, and excellent for mixed schools. Korfball is now played in 10 countries, and it is a pity that the sport is not better known. When someone says he plays korfball the usual answer is, “What did you say you play?”

1．The schoolmaster was looking for a sport for boys and girls because ________.

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A．he had an idea for a new sport

B．he didn't like the usual sports

C．he had a mixed class for sport at the same time

D．he thought that each sex was as strong as the other

2．Korfball began when a Dutch schoolmaster ________.

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A．saw a mixed group playing the game together

B．couldn't keep his boys and girls together

C．discovered what the word “Korf”meant

D．saw some Swedish children playing the game

3．The total number of players in a korlball game is ________.

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4．The word “mark”in the passage means

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5．According to the author, it is ________that the game hasn't spread to other countries.

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阅读理解

　　You need to write a letter now and then. To be known by another person-to meet and talk freely on the page----to be close despite (尽管)distance. To express the music of your souls.

　　The first step in writing a letter is to forget guilt (负罪感) of not writing. You don't “owe” anybody a letter. Letters are a gift. Sit for a few minutes with the paper in front of you, and let your friend come to mind. Remember the last time you saw each other and how your friend looked and what you said and what was perhaps unsaid between. When your friend becomes real to you, start to write.

　　Write the solution (称呼) - Dear you - and take a deep breath and plunge in (投入). A simple sentence will do, followed by another. As if you were talking to us. Don't think about grammar, don't worry about form, just give us your news. When you come to the end of one paragraph, just start a new one.

　　Don't tear up the paper and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Whatever is in your mind, let it find a way to the page. When you come to the end write “Yours ever” or “Hugs and kisses”.

　　You'd better get everything ready in a drawer (抽屉) , such as envelopes , address books and so on, so you can write fast when the pen is hot.

1．Writing letters is said to be a way to ________ .

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A．shorten the distance between friends

B．make friends in different places

C．express yourself to others

D．smooth away the guilt he owed to his friends

2．You can see from between the lines of the second paragraph________ .

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A．getting rid of the guilt is very important before writing a letter

B．many people have to write letters because of feeling guilty of not writing

C．letters are an expression of feeling guilty

D．letter writers are usually feeling guilty

3．________ is the first step.

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A．Thinking of the past days and meeting with your friends

B．Preparing some envelopes and papers in the drawer

C．Thinking what your friends are

D．Thinking what to begin with

4．In writing a letter ________ the key to the writing of letters.

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A．letting your thoughts flow on is

B．thinking of long sentences and fine forms is

C．solutions , not grammar are

D．careful arrangements of your thoughts are

5．Getting everything ready beforehand (事先)________ .

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A．is the first important thing in writing a letter

B．is said to be of great help for you to write very fast

C．will be troublesome during the course of writing

D．will not break your thoughts

阅读理解

　　Ask three people to look out the same window at a busy street corner and tell you what they see. Chances that you will receive three different answers. Each person sees the same scene, but each perceives (感知)something different about it.

　　Perceiving goes on in our minds. Of the three people who look out the window. One may say that he sees a policeman giving a motorist a ticket. Another may say that he sees a rush-hour traffic jam (拥挤) at the crossing. The third may tell you that he sees a woman trying to cross the street with four children in tow (牵着). For perception is the mind's explanation of what the senses-in this case our eyes-tell us.

　　Many psychologists (心理学家) today are working to try to determine just how a person experiences or perceives the world around him. Using a scientific method, these psychologists set up experiments in which they can control all of the factors. By measuring and charting(用图表示) the results of many experiments, they are trying to find out what makes different people perceive totally different things about the same scene.

1．Seeing and perceiving are ________ .

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A．the same action

B．two separate actions

C．two actions carried on entirely by the eyes

D．several actions that take place at different times

2．Perceiving is an action that takes place________ .

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A．in our eyes

B．only when we think very hard

C．only under the direction of a psychologist

D．in every person's mind

3．People perceive different things about the same scene because ________ .

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4．Psychologist study perception by ________ .

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A．setting up many experiments

B．asking each other what they see

C．looking out of windows

D．studying people's eyes

5．The best title of this passage is ________ .

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A．How We See

B．Learning About Our Minds Through Science

C．What Psychologists Perceive

D．How to Become an Experimental Psychologist

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　　Elizabeth lived on the side of a valley. One winter, there was a big flood and a lot of houses down below hers were washed away. When the water had disappeared and the other houses were standing there with no roofs and no walls and all covered with mud, her house was still quite all right.

　　Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had six children, but she took in one of the families that lost everything in the flood and she shared her home with them until it was possible for them to build their house again.

　　Elizabeth's friend was very puzzled when she saw her do this. The friend of hers couldn't understand why she wanted to give herself so much more work and trouble when she already had so many children to support.

　　“Well , ” Elizabeth explained to her friend. “at the end of the First World War , a woman in the town where I then lived in Germany found herself very poor, because her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of children, as I have now. The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won't be able to have much for all of us. Now I'll go and get it. ’She came back with a little girl who was even poorer than they and who had no mother as well as no father. ‘Here's our present,’she said to the children. The children were very excited and happy to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl , and she grew up as their sister. I was that Christmas present. ”

1．Elizabeth lived ________ .

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2．Her house was not flooded. because it lay ________ .

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3．Elizabeth's friend was puzzled by her deed because she ________ .

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A．thought Elizabeth was very foolish

B．could not understand why Elizabeth wanted so much trouble

C．thought Elizabeth was old and ill

D．thought Elizabeth's house was quite small

4．The woman in the town where Elizabeth lived in Germany was very poor, because________ .

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A．her husband had been put into prison

B．her money had been stolen

C．her husband had been killed in the First World War and she had a lot of children to support

D．she was out of work

5．The Christmas present that woman brought for her children was________ .

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　　I was on the move by sunrise the next morning. There was one place I knew better than any of them the river valley, because I'd examined it carefully for days.

I kept moving north, hour after hour, all through the day. After a night's sleep I started out again, and at two o'clock the next afternoon I reached the large lake.

I knew what I was going to do caused plenty of trouble! I had to get Howard to come out into the open.

　　Howard's camp was at the north end of the lake. I could hear no sounds of work; he had probably told most of the men to stop working and look for me. He must want to find me very much.

　　I waited until dark, then I looked for the food store. It was easy to find. I took some of tins of food and put them into my bag. Already an idea had come to me.

1．The story you just read is probably about ________ .

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2．The writer knew the river valley very well because________ .

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A．he lived there long

B．he had heard of it before

C．he had studied it carefully for days

D．he saw it before

3．There was a large lake in the ________ of the river valley.

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4．“I could hear no sounds of work. ” This sentence means ________ .

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A．the writer was deaf

B．there were no sounds of work

C．there were no people there

D．none of Howard's men was working

5．What do you think the writer came to the food store for?

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A．He wanted to take some tins of food.

B．Because it was dark.

C．He didn't know where to hide.

D．He tried to hide himself in the store.

阅读理解

　　The Atlantic Ocean (大西洋) is one of the oceans that separate the Old World from the New. For centuries it kept the Americas from being discovered by the people of Europe.

　　The Atlantic Ocean is only half as big as the Pacific, but it is still very large. It is more than 4000 miles (6400km) wide where Columbus crossed it. Even at the narrowest it is about 2000 miles wide.

　　Two things make the Atlantic Ocean rather unusual. For so large an ocean it has very few islands. Also , it is the world's saltiest ocean.

　　There is so much water in the Atlantic that it is hard to imagine how much there is. But suppose no more rain fell into it and no more water was brought to it by rivers. It would take the ocean about 4000 years to dry up. In most places the water is a little more than two miles deep, but in some places it is much deeper. The deepest spot measures 30 246 feet----almost six miles.

　　Ocean currents (洋流) are sometimes called “rivers in the sea ”. One of these “rivers ” in the Atlantic is called the Gulf Stream (墨西哥湾流). It is a current of warm water. Another is the Labrador Current----cold water coming down from the Arctic (北冰洋). Ocean currents affects(影响)the weather of the land near which they flow.

　　The Atlantic supplies much food for the people on its shores. There are a lot of fishing areas there.

　　Today the Atlantic is a great highway (交通干线). It is not, however, always a smooth and safe one. We now have such fast ways of travelling that this big ocean seems to have grown smaller. Columbus sailed for more than two months to cross it. A fast modern steamship can make the trip in less than four days. Planes fly from New York to London in only eight hours and from South America to Africa in four!

1．The Pacific is ________ as large as the Atlantic.

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2．The Atlantic is well-known for ________ .

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3．The weather of the lands near the ocean currents has ________ to do with the currents in temperature.

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4．Columbus crossed the Atlantic in more than two months, that's to say, he sailed ________ kilometres a day.

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5．If Jomolangma Peak (珠穆朗玛峰) were put in the deepest spot in the Atlantic , then we could ________ above the water.

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