单项选择题

　　1、 We cannot go on quarrelling like this.

　　A.choose

　　B.prepare

　　C.continue

　　D.advise

　　2、 The game requires us to find out two simple but effective ways to solve this problem.

　　A.efficient

　　B.clever

　　C.stupid

　　D.easy

　　3、阅读材料，回答题：

　　What is Chinese New Year?

　　In many parts of Asia, nations follow the lunar calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar used by the rest of the world. __________ (46) Many nations including Vietnam and KoreaceleB.rate the lunar New Year with festivals and special foods. The Chinese, however, have turned the cele- bration into an art forrn:a15 day festival called the Spring Festival in China, although it is known to the rest of the world as Chinese New Year.

　　__________ (47) which is considered to be aparticularly auspicious day. Children are givenhongbao, lucky red envelopes full of money, and households exchange visits and gifts. Most cele-brants at Chinese New Year wear red, which is alucky color, and also refrain from reflecting onthe past year and uttering unlucky words, as it is believed that the first day of the new year willdetermine your fortune in the months to come.

　　Chinese New Year continues with 15 days of celebration and auspicious days, including aday to welcome the god of wealth, aday to celebrate farming and produce, and days to celebratefriends and family. Friendships and family relationships are avery important part of Chinese NewYear, __________(48) Numerous lucky foods are served throughout the Chinese New Year festi-val, and after all that rich dining, the 13th day of the festival is set aside for eating rice and B.ittergreens to cleanse the palate.

　　On the 15th day, the Chinese New Year celebration culminates with the Lantern Festival,which is traditionally held at night. During the Lantern Festival, hundreds of citizens flood thestreet with lanterns representing wealth, animals, historical figures, plants, and avariety of otherthings. __________ (49) The Lantern Festival ends with aburst of fireworks to celebrate the up-coming year while celebrants eat special round dumplings to celebrate unity.

　　In Vietnam, the new year festival is known as Tet Nguyen Dan, and is celebrated for sevendays. Much like Chinese New Year, Tet is believed to be an especially auspicious period in Viet-nam which will establish the fortunes of celebrants for the coming year.(50) In Korea,the one day festival is known as Sol-nal, and is atime to reflect on ancestors and family.

　　A.and agreat deal of food and dinner invitations are exchanged as part of this tradition.

　　B.The lanterns are paraded through towns and cities throughout China, Taiwan, and partsof the world with large Chinese communities.

　　C.As A.result, the year starts on adifferent day, usually in January or February by the Gre-gorian calendar.

　　D.Chinese New Year is the most important festival in Chinese culture.

　　E.Chinese New Year begins on the first day of the first moon of the year.

　　F.Special foods are eaten and gifts are exchanged.

　　回答(46)题

　　4、 He notofoed his friends that his address had changeD.

　　A.informed

　　B.observed

　　C. mocked

　　D. misled

　　5、 根据以下材料回答题：

　　Continue to Protect or Destroy Ecosystem

　　Biosphere Ⅱ was a spectacular failure. The gleaming glass-and-concrete habitat sprawling across the desert in Oracle, Arizona, was supposed to support eight human "biospherians" for two years. But the seal has to be broken before the experiment ended in 1993. Oxygen had fallen to levels normally seen at an elevation of 1 7,500 feet. Nitrous oxide had risen to the point where it threatened to cause brain damage. The fresh water supply became contaminated, and vines smothered ( 厚厚地覆盖 ) food plants. Insect pollinators (传授花粉的生物) and many other species became extinct. By the end, Biosphere Ⅱ was overrun with swarms of ants and cockroaches.

　　Scientists who gathered recently to review the Biosphere Ⅱ experiment reached a disturbing conclusion: "No one yet knows how to engineer systems that provide humans with the life-supporting services that natural ecosystems produce for free."

　　The problem is that these ecosystems are undergoing wrenching changes. Water and air quality, while improving in some regions, are deteriorating in many others. Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere arc climbing. The world's population could reach 10 billion by 2050. And famed Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson says the current rate of species losses puts us "in the midst of one of the great extinction spasms ( 突然进发 ) of geological history." All of which makes many ecologists wonder whether humans too will soon become extinct. It's an incredibly important but incredibly difficult question. If we continue on this course, we're heading for a world in which we will have to engineer services we've always received for free from nature. That's why the failure of Biosphere Ⅱ was so disturbing: it proves that we don't yet know how to do that.

　　The Biosphere Ⅱ experience demonstrated that maintaining human life is a tricky proposition-especially if we can no longer rely on the services provided by natural ecosystems. If we are currently living through a mass extinction, as Wilson believes, we should consider the past. In the great Permian extinction 245 million years ago, 96 percent of species perished. Eventually, the Earth was repopulated with a rich collection of new species, but it took 100 million years. "That should give pause to anyone who believes that what Homo sapiens ( 现代人 ) destroys, nature will redeem," Wilson says. "Maybe so, but not within any length of time that has meaning for contemporary humanity."

　　The seal of the Biosphere Ⅱ had to be broken before the experiment ended because__________

　　A.the bad climate of the desert made the human biospherians ill

　　B.the poisonous air caused brain damage of the human biospherians

　　C.the ecosystems in it became so bad that the human biospherians can't live

　　D.the human biospherians were defeated by swarms of ants and cockroaches

　　6、 根据以下材料回答题：

　　The Development of Personality

　　Personality is to large extent inherent. A-type parents usually bring A-type offspring. But the environment must also have a profound effect, since if competition is important to the parents, it is likely to become a major factor in the lives of their children.

　　One place where children soak up ( 浸泡 ) A characteristics is school, which is, by its very nature, a highly competitive institution. Too many schools adopt the "win at all costs" moral standard and measure their success by sporting achievements. The current passion for making children compete against their classmates or against the clock produces a two-layer system, in which competitive A-types seem in some way better than their B-type fellows. Being too keen to win can have dangerous consequences: Remember that Philippines, the first marathon runner, dropped dead seconds after saying, "Rejoice, We conquer!"

　　By far the worst form of competition in schools is the disproportionate emphasis on examinations. It is a rare school that allows pupils to concentrate on those things they do well. The merits of competition by examination are somewhat questionable, but competition in the certain knowledge of failure is positively

　　harmful.

　　Obviously, it is neither practical nor desirable that all A youngsters change into B's. The world needs types, and schools have an important duty to try to fit a child's personality to hide possible future employment. It is top management.

　　If the preoccupation of schools with academic work was lessened, more time might be spent teaching children surer values. Perhaps selection for the caring professions, especially medicine, could be made less by good grades in chemistry and more by such considerations as sensitivity and sympathy. It is surely a mistake to choose our doctors exclusively form A-type stock. B's are important and should be encouraged.

　　In line 2, Para. 2 the word "institution" refers to__________

　　A.establishment

　　B.social custom

　　C.law

　　D.school

　　7、 It took US. a long time to mend the house.

　　A.build

　　B.destroy

　　C.design

　　D.repair

　　8、 I don't quite follow what she is saying

　　A.believe

　　B.understand

　　C.explain

　　D.accept

　　9、

　　Musical Training Can Improve Communication Skills

　　根据以下内容回答题:

　　American scientists say musical training seems to improve communication skills and language retardation( 延迟 ) . They found that developing musical skills involves the 51 process in the brain as learning how to speak. The scientists believe that could 52children with learning disabilities.

　　Nina Krauss is a neurobiologist at Northwestern University in Illinois. She says musical training 53 .putting together different kinds of information, such as hearing music, looking at musical notes, touching an instrument and watching other musicians. This 54 is not much different from learning how to speak. Both involve different senses.

　　She further explains musical training and learning to 55 each make us think about what we are doing. She says speech and music 56 through a structure of the nervous system called the brain stem. The brain stem 57 our ability to hear. Until recently, experts have thought the brain stem could not be developed or changed. 58 Professor Krauss and her team found that musical training can improve a person's brain stem activity.

　　The study involved individuals with different levels of musical 59 . They were asked to wear an electrical device that measures 60 activity. The individuals wore the electrode while they watched a video of someone speaking and a person playing a musical instrument-the cello ( 大提琴 ) . Professor Krauss says cellos have sound qualities similar 61 some of the sounds that are important with speech. The study found that the more years of training people had, the more 62 they were to the sound and rhythm of the music. Those who were involved in musical activities were the same people in whom the 63 of sensory events was the strongest. It shows the importance of musical training to children with learning 64 . She says using music to improve listening skills could mean they 65 sentences and understand facial expressions better.

　　A.unique

　　B.different

　　C.strange

　　D.same

　　10、

　　Eye-tracker Lets You Drag and Drop Files with a Glance

　　根据以下材料回答题：

　　Bored of using a mouse? Soon you'll be able to change stuff on your computer screen-and then move it directly onto your smart phone or tablet (平板电脑 ) -with nothing more than a glance.

　　A system called EyeDrop uses a head-mounted eye tracker that simultaneously records your field of view so it knows where you are looking on the screen. Gazing at an object-a photo, say-and then pressing a key, selects that object. It can then be moved from the screen to a tablet or smart phone just by glancing at the second device, as long as the two are connected wirelessly.

　　"The beauty of using gaze to support this is that our eyes naturally focus on content that we want to acquire," says Jayson Turner, who developed the system with colleagues at Lancaster University, UK.

　　Turner believes EyeDrop would be useful to transfer an interactive map or contact information from a public display to your smartphone or for sharing photos.

　　A button needs to be used to select the object you are looking at otherwise you end up with the "Midas touch" ( 点石成金 ) effect, whereby everything you look at gets selected by your gaze, says Turner. "Imagine if your mouse clicked on everything it pointed at," he says.

　　Christian Holz, a researcher in human-computer interaction at Yahoo Labs in Sunnyvale, California, says the system is a nice take on getting round this fundamental problem of using gaze-tracking to interact. "Eye Drop solves this in a slick ( 灵巧的 ) way by combining it with input on the touch devices we carry with us most of the time anyway and using touch input as a clutching mechanism," he says. "This now allows users to seamlessly (无缝的 ) interact across devices far and close in a very natural manner."

　　While current eye-trackers are rather bulky, mainstream consumer devices are not too far away. Swedish firm Tobii is developing gaze-tracking technology that can be installed in laptops and tablets and is expected to be available to buy next year. And the Google Glass headset is expected to include eye-tracking in the future.

　　Turner says he has also looked at how content can be cut and pasted or drag-and-dropped using a mix of gaze and taps on a touch screen. The system was presented at the Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia in Sweden, last week.

　　The eye-tracker technology enables us to__________

　　A.change our computer screen

　　B.move an object from screen with a glance

　　C.focus on anything that interests us

　　D.get a smartphone connected wirelessly

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