Most people think a person’s taste in food is so unique and random that it couldn’t possibly reveal anything about his/her character.

    But other subtle(奇妙的) things that people do can help us make up our mind about a person’s character. Should we really be so quick to dismiss what a person eats?

    Dr. Alan Hirsch is a US neurologist (神经科医生) who specializes in the treatment of people who lose their sense of smell or taste.

    In order to investigate the possible link between people’s choices of snack food and personality, Hirsch quizzed a sample of 19, 400 people. He made all participants undergo two well-known personality tests.

    These tests define each of the volunteers according to widely accepted personality categories. Hirsch could then check his own results against these in order to find interrelation between their choice of snack food and personality type.

    Hirsch also tested the volunteers on questionnaires designed to assess depression, because depressive illnesses are known to coincide with losses of sensation and preferences for certain foods.

    The volunteers were then tested on their preference for snack foods and the pleasure value they assigned to each food. Hirsch also quizzed married partners on their choices to find out how people with different food choices differed in their compatibility (兼容性) for each other.

    The study revealed surprising links between perfectionism and the urges to chew tortilla (玉米饼) chips and even a connection between introversion (内向) and the consumption of cream crackers.

    Dr. Hirsch used the same technique of testing for associations between different personality types and the flavors of ice cream people prefer.

    Finally, while some will feel this test provides a good assessment of their personality, others will disagree with the assessment.

56. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 means ________.

A. the author agrees with the opinion of most people

B. we should dismiss what a person eats

C. the author doesn’t agree with what most people said

D. everyone’s character is so unique and random

57. Dr. Alan Hirsch drew his conclusion by _______.

A. giving his participants tests

B. following his participants

C. offering his participants special food

D. treating his participants as patients

58. Dr. Alan Hirsch’s research proves that _______.

A. there are two well-known personality tests on earth

B. depressive illnesses coincide with losses of sensation

C. volunteers are eager to know their own characters

D. what one eats connects with one’s personality

59. The best title for the text should be _______.

A. Dr. Alan Hirsch

B. Flavor and Personality

C. An Interesting Research

D. Believe It or Not

The first Chinese Western-style adventure，Ke Ke Xi Li，a popular film，is based on a true story about a group of volunteers trying to protect endangered antelopes from poachers hunting them down．

    There were more than one million Tibetan antelope，or“Chiru”，in Ke Ke Xi Li before 1985，but the price of their fine wool rose with demand for pashmina shawls．Poachers crowded to the wilderness，called Hoh Xil in Mongol，and the number of Tibetan antelope fell to less than 20,000 in just a few years．From 1993 onwards，local Tibetan and Han people formed a volunteer team to protect the animals．They left their families to risk their lives battling against well-armed poachers in the wilderness．

    The movie starts with the death of a member of the team and shows them tracking the poachers．They find more than 1,000 antelope corpses（尸体）on the way and meet with a series of difficulties：broken down jeeps，running out of gasoline，shortage of food and mountain passes blocked by heavy snow．

    The volunteers defend the protected region of Ke Ke Xi Li in Tibet，however，many poachers are determined and will do whatever they can to get what they want，including killing the volunteers．The area is rough，the enemy is well hidden，and the air is thin…ultimately，several volunteers，including the team leader，Ritai，give their lives．

    After the volunteers’ death，China founded Hoh Xil Nature Reserve to protect Tibetan antelope and named a natural conservation station for the leader of the team．

1．According to the passage，the story Ke Ke Xi Li comes from______．

    A．a best-selling novel about the region，Ke Ke Xi Li，in Tibet

    B．a true story about a team of volunteers struggling with poachers to protect antelopes

    C．a news report about the rapid decrease in population of the endangered Tibetan antelopes

    D．a plan made by the government to protect the precious Tibetan antelopes

2．The major cause of the rapid decrease in population of the Tibetan antelopes is    that______．

    A．so many poachers came to Ke Ke Xi Li to hunt antelopes for money

    B．the volunteers didn’t perform their responsibilities to protect the antelopes

    C．the wool of antelopes is more valuable with the increasing demand for pashmina shawls

    D．the government hasn’t found a more effective way to protect the endangered antelopes

3．From Ke Ke Xi Li，we can know that the life of the volunteers protecting antelopes is______．

    A．tough and dangerous；they could be killed

    B．very interesting and meaningful

    C．not as bad as the film showed

    D．full of adventure and excitement

4．It can be inferred that the purpose of the director creating the film is to ______．

    A．show to the public the real life of the volunteers protecting antelopes

    B．record an operation of the volunteers to protect the endangered antelopes

    C．memorize the sacrifices of Ritai and other volunteers

    D．arouse the public and government’s attention to protect the endangered antelopes

B

What happens inside the skull of a soccer player when repeatedly heads a soccer ball? That question motivated a challenging new study of the brains of experienced players that has caused discussion and debate among soccer players, and some anxiety among those of us with soccer-playing children.

For the study, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York selected 34 adults, men and women. All of the volunteers had played soccer since childhood and now competed year-round in adult soccer leagues. Each filled out a detailed questionnaire developed especially for this study to determine how many times they had headed a soccer ball in the previous year, as well as whether they had experienced any known concussions (脑震荡) in the past.

Then the players completed computerized tests of their memory and other learning skills and had their brains scanned, using a complicated new M.R.I. technique which can find structural changes in the brain that can’t be seen during most scans.

According to the data they presented at Radiological Society of North America meeting last month, the researchers found that the players who had headed the ball more than about 1,100 times in the previous 12 months showed significant loss of white matter in parts of their brains involved with memory, attention and the processing of visual information, compared with players who had headed the ball fewer times.

This pattern of white matter loss is “similar to those seen in traumatic (外伤的) brain injury”, like that after a serious concussion, the researchers reported, even though only one of these players was reported to have ever experienced a concussion.

The players who had headed the ball about 1,100 times or more in the past year were also generally worse at recalling lists of words read to them, forgetting or fumbling the words far more often than players who had headed the ball less.

1.The passage is most probably a ________.

A．news report                           B．research report

C．story for soccer players                   D．text for doctors

2. In which way can researchers find the structural changes in the brain?

A．Computerized test                       B．Questionnaire

C．Scanning                              D．M.R.I. technique

3. From the passage we can conclude that frequent heading may have ________.

A．significant effect on brain                 B．little effect on one’s brain

C．nothing to do with the brain injury           D．one’s memory improved

4.What is likely to be the cause of memory loss?

A．Playing soccer frequently                 B．Tests of their memory

C．White matter loss                       D．Information processing

5.The underlined word “fumbling” is closest in meaning to ________?

A．remembering      B．misunderstanding   C．recalling          D．missing

Your cell phone holds secrets about you. Besides the names and numbers that you’ve programmed into it, traces of your DNA remain on it, according to a new study.

DNA is genetic material that appears in every cell. Like your fingerprint, your DNA is unique to you --- unless you have an identical twin. Scientists today usually analyze DNA in blood, saliva(唾液), or hair left behind at the scene of a crime. The results often help detectives identify criminals and their victims.

Meghan J. McFadden, a biologist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, heard about a crime in which the suspect bled onto a cell phone and later dropped the device. This made her wonder whether traces of DNA remained on cell phones --- even when no blood was involved. To find out, she and a colleague collected flip-style(翻盖式) phones from 10 volunteers. They collected invisible traces of the users from two parts of the phone: the outside, where the user holds it, and the speaker, which is placed at the user’s ear.  

The scientists scrubbed(meaning “cleaned”) the phones using a liquid mixture made mostly of alcohol. The aim of washing was to remove all detectable traces of DNA. The owners got their phones back for another week. Then the researchers collected the phones and repeated collecting traces on each phone once more. They discovered DNA that belonged to the phone’s owner on each of the phones.

Surprisingly, DNA showed up even in swabs that were taken immediately after the phones were cleaned. That suggests that washing won’t remove all traces of evidence from a criminal’s cell phone. So cell phones can now be added to the list of clues that can help a crime-scene investigation.

1.McFadden decided to find out whether people leave their DNA on their cell phones when she ____ .

2.The scientists allowed the volunteers to keep their cell phones for a week in order to____.

3.The last paragraph mainly tells us that cell phones ____ .

4.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

B

Advice to “sleep on it” could be well founded, scientists say. After a good night’s sleep a problem that couldn’t be solved the night before can often appear more manageable, although the evidence（证据）until now has been personal experience. But researchers at the University of Luebek in Germany have designed an experiment that shows a good night’s sleep can improve insight（洞察力）and problem-solving.

“If you have some newly-got memories in your brain, sleep acts on these memories and rebuild them, so that after sleep the insight into problem which you could not solve before increases,” said Dr Jan Born, a neuroscientist（神经病学专家）at the university. To test the theory, they taught volunteers two simple rules to help them turn some numbers into a new order．There was also a third，hidden rule，which could help them increase their speed in solving the problem．The researchers divided the volunteers into two groups：half were allowed to sleep after the training while the rest were forced to stay awake．Dr Jan Born and his team noticed that the group that had slept after the training were twice as likely to figure out the third rule as the other group．“Sleep helped，”Born said in a telephone interview．“The important thing is that you have to have a memory representation in your brain of the problem you want to solve and then you sleep，so it can act on the problem．”But Born admitted that he and his team don’t know how rebuilding of memories occurs or what governs it．Pierre Maquet and Perrine Ruby of the University of Liege in Belgium said the experimental evidence supports the suggestions that sleep can help develop creative thinking．Although the role of sleep in human creativity will still be a mystery，the research gives people good reason to fully respect their periods of sleep，they added．

60．The underlined phrase“sleep on it”in Paragraph 1 probably means_________．

A．to delay deciding something until the next day

B．to get as much sleep as possible

C．to go on sleeping without being disturbed

D．to sleep till after the time you usually get up in the morning

61．Jan Born and his team carried out the experiment through________．

A．comparison    B．interview        C．survey          D．imagination

62．It can be inferred from the passage that___________．

A．people should sleep so long as they have time

B．sleep is the only way to solve hard problems

C．people have various periods of sleep   D．people know how sleep rebuilds memories

63．What would be the best title for the passage?

A．How Sleep Works．               B．Sleep Helps Solve Problems．

C．No Evidence，But Well Founded．   D．Born’s Discovery on Sleep．