第1部分：詞匯選項(xiàng)(第1～15題，每題1分，共15分)下面每個句子中均有1個詞或者短語有底橫線，請為每處底橫線部分確定1個意義最為接近的選項(xiàng)。
1、 She was close tosuccess.
A．fast
B．quick
C．near
D．tight
2、 The two girls look alike.
A．beautiful
B．similar
C．pretty
D．a(chǎn)ttractive
3、 The boy is intelligent.
A．Clever
B．naughty
C．difficult
D．a(chǎn)ctive
4、 Everybody was glad to see Mary back.
A．sorry
B．sad
C．a(chǎn)ngry
D．happy
5、 What is your goal of life?
A．plan
B．a(chǎn)im
C．a(chǎn)rrangement
D．idea
6、 Jack was dismissed.
A．fired
B．fined
C．exhausted
D．criticized
7、 John is crazy about pop music.
A．sorry
B．mad
C．concerned
D．worried
8、 It is the movement, notthe color, of objects that excites the bull.
A．frightens
B．scares
C．a(chǎn)rouses
D．confuses
9、 It is highly unlikely that she will arrive today.
A．probably
B．very
C．hardly
D．possibly
10、 I am feeling a lot more healthy than I was.
A．many
B．no
C．much
D．some
11、 Since ancient timespeople have found various ways to preserve meat.
A．eat
B．cook
C．freeze
D．keep
12、 We packed up the thingswe had accumulated (積累) over the last three years and left.
A．late
B．recent
C．past
D．final
13、 The expedition reachedthe summit at 10:30 that morning.
A．bottom of the mountain
B．foot of the mountain
C．top of the mountain
D．starting point
14、 There is alwaysexcitement at the Olympic Games when an athlete breaks a previous recordof performance.
A．beats
B．destroys
C．maintains
D．defends
15、 The president proposed that we should bring the meeting to a close.
A．stated
B．said
C．suggested
D．a(chǎn)nnounced
第2部分：閱讀判斷(第16～22題，每題1分，共7分)下面的短文后列出了7個句子，請根據(jù)短文的內(nèi)容對每個句子作出判斷：如果該句提供的是正確信息，請選擇A；如果該句提供的是錯誤信息，請選擇B；如果該句的信息文中沒有提及，請選擇C。
16、回答16-23題
Easy Learning
Students should be jealous. Not only do babies get to doze their days away, but they've also mastered the fine art of learning in their sleep.
By the time babies are a year old they can recognize a lot of sounds and even simple words. Marie Cheour at the University of Turku in Finland suspected that they might progress this fast because they learn language while they sleep as well as when they are awake.
To test the theory, Cheour and her colleagues studied 45 newborn babies in the first few days of their lives. They exposed all the infants to an hour of Finnish vowel sounds -- one that sounds like "oo", another like "ee" and a third boundary vowel peculiar to Finnish and similar languages that sounds like something in between. EEG recordings of the infants brains before and after the session showed that the newboms could not distinguish the sounds.
Fifteen of the babies then went back with their mothers, while the rest were split into two sleep-study groups. One group was exposed throughout their night-time sleeping hours to the same three vowels, while the others listened to other, easier-to-distinguish vowel sounds.
When tested in the morning, and again in the evening, the babies who'd heard the tricky boundary vowel all night showed brainwave activity indicating that they could now recognize this new sound. They could identify the sound even when its pitch was changed, while none of the other babies could pick up the boundary vowel at all.
Cheour doesn't know how babies accomplish this night-time learning, but she suspects that the special ability might indicate that unlike adults, babies don't "turn off" their cerebral cortex while they sleep. The skill probably fades in the course of the first year of life, she adds -- so forget the idea that you can pick up tricky French vowels as an adult just by slipping a language tape under your pillow. But while it may not help grown-ups, Cheour is hoping to use the sleeping hours to give remedial help to babies who are genetically at risk of language disorders.
Babies can learn language even in their sleep.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
17、 An infant can recognize a lot of vowels by the time he or she is a year old.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
18、 Finish vowels are easy to distinguish.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
19、 The three vowels mentioned in this article are all Finnish sounds.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
20、 The study shows that the infant's cerebral cortex is working while he is asleep.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
21、 If an adult wants to learn a language faster, he can put a language tape under his pillow.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
22、 Cheour's finding is worthless.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
第3部分：概括大意與完成句子(第23～30題，每題l分，共8分)下面的短文后有2項(xiàng)測試任務(wù)：(1)第23～26題要求從所給的6個選項(xiàng)中為指定段落每段選擇1個小標(biāo)題；(2)第27—30題要求從所給的6個選項(xiàng)中為每個句子確定一個選項(xiàng)。
23、回答23-31題
Understanding Autism
1. Autism (孤獨(dú)癥 ) is a life-long developmental disability that prevents individuals from properly understanding what they see, hear, and otherwise sense. This results in severe problems of social relationships, communication, and behavior. Individuals with autism have to painstakingly (費(fèi)力地) learn normal patterns of speech and communication, and appropriate ways to relate to people, objects, and events, in a similar manner to those who have had a stroke.
2. The cause of autism is still unknown. Some research suggests a physical problem affecting those parts of the brain that process language and information coming in from the senses.
There may be some imbalance of certain chemicals in the brain. Genetic (遺傳的) factors may sometimes be involved. Autism may indeed result from a combination of several "causes".
3. Most people with mental retardation (智力遲鈍) show relatively even skill development.
Individuals with autism, however, typically show uneven skill development, with deficits (欠缺) in certain areas -- most frequently in their ability to communicate and relate to others -- and distinct skills in other areas. It is important to distinguish autism from mental retardation or other disorders, since diagnostic (診斷的) confusion may lead to inappropriate and ineffective treatment techniques.
4. In general, individuals with autism perform best at jobs which are structured and involve a degree of repetition. Some people who have autism are working as artists, piano tuners, painters, farm workers, office workers, computer operators, dishwashers, assembly line workers, or employees of sheltered workshops or other sheltered work settings.
Paragraph 1___________
A．What causes autism?
B．How common is autism?
C．Does autism occur together with other disabilities?
D．What is Autism?
E．What kinds of jobs can individuals with autism do?
F．What is the difference between autism and mental retardation?
24、 Paragraph 2___________
A．What causes autism?
B．How common is autism?
C．Does autism occur together with other disabilities?
D．What is Autism?
E．What kinds of jobs can individuals with autism do?
F．What is the difference between autism and mental retardation?
25、 Paragraph 3___________
A．What causes autism?
B．How common is autism?
C．Does autism occur together with other disabilities?
D．What is Autism?
E．What kinds of jobs can individuals with autism do?
F．What is the difference between autism and mental retardation?
26、 Paragraph 4___________
A．What causes autism?
B．How common is autism?
C．Does autism occur together with other disabilities?
D．What is Autism?
E．What kinds of jobs can individuals with autism do?
F．What is the difference between autism and mental retardation?
27、 Individuals with autism are particularly weak at ___________
A．different techniques
B．social relationships and communication
C．language and information
D．several causes working together
E．a(chǎn) degree of repetition
F．skill development
28、 It is possible that autism happens as a result of ___________
A．different techniques
B．social relationships and communication
C．language and information
D．several causes working together
E．a(chǎn) degree of repetition
F．skill development
29、 Autism and mental retardation should be treated with ___________
A．different techniques
B．social relationships and communication
C．language and information
D．several causes working together
E．a(chǎn) degree of repetition
F．skill development
30、 A typical feature of people with autism is their uneven ___________
A．different techniques
B．social relationships and communication
C．language and information
D．several causes working together
E．a(chǎn) degree of repetition
F．skill development
第4部分：閱讀理解(第31～45題，每題3分，共45分)下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道題。請根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，為每題確定1個選項(xiàng)。
31、回答31-36題
Making Light of Sleep
All we have a clock located inside our brains. Similar to your bedside alarm clock, your internal clock runs on a 24-hour cycle. This cycle, called a circadian (晝夜節(jié)奏的，生理節(jié)奏的) rhythm, helps control when you wake, when you eat and when you sleep.
Somewhere around puberty (青春期), something happens in the timing of the biological clock. The clock pushes forward,, so adolescents (青少年的) and teenagers are unable to fall asleep as early as they used to. When your mother tells you it's time for bed, your body may be pushing you to stay up for several hours more. And the light coming from your computer screen or TV could be pushing you to stay up even later.
This shift is natural for teenagers. But staying up very late and sleeping late can get your body's clock out of sync with the cycle of light and dark. It can also make it hard to get out of bed in the morning and may bring other problems, too. Teenagers are put in a kind of a gray cloud when they don't get enough sleep, says Mary Carskadon, a sleep researcher at Brown University in Providence, RI7. It affects their mood and their ability to think and learn.
But just like your alarm clock, your internal clock can be reset. In fact, it automatically resets itself every day. How? By using the light it gets through your eyes.
Scientists have known for a long time that the light of day and the dark of night play important roles in setting our internal clocks. For years, researchers thought that the signals that synchronize the body's clock were handled through the same pathways that we use to see.
But recent discoveries show that the human eye has two separate light-sensing systems. One system allows us to see. The second system tells our body whether it's day or night.
The clock located inside our brains is similar to our bedside alarm clock because
A．it controls when we wake, when we eat and when we sleep
B．it has a cycle of 24 hours
C．it is a cycle also called circadian rhythm
D．it can alarm any time during 24 hours
32、 What is implied in the second paragraph?
A．Young children's biological clock has the same rhythm with that of the teenagers.
B．People after puberty begin to go to bed earlier due to the change of the biological clock.
C．Children before puberty tend to fall asleep earlier at night than adolescents.
D．Teenagers go to bed later than they used to due to the light from the computer screen.
33、 In the third paragraph the author wants to tell the reader that
A．it is natural for teenagers to stay up late and get up late
B．staying up late has a bad effect on teenagers' ability to think and learn
C．during puberty most teenagers experience a kind of gray cloud
D．it is hard for teenagers to get out of bed in the morning
34、 Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the fourth and fifth paragraphs?
A．Our biological clock resets itself automatically.
B．Light gets through our eyes and resets our biological clock.
C．Our internal clock as well as the alarm clock can be reset automatically.
D．Our internal clock, like the alarm clock, can be reset.
35、 According to the last two paragraphs, what did the previous researchers think about the human eye's light-sensing system?
A．The human eye had two light-sensing systems.
B．The human eye had one light-sensing system.
C．The human eye could sense the light of day more quickly than the dark of night.
D．The human eye could reset our internal clocks in accordance with the alarm clocks.
36、回答36-41題
Advertising
The appeal of advertising to buying motives can have both negative and positive effects. Consumers may be convinced to buy a product of poor quality or high price because of an advertisement. For example, some advertisers have appealed to people's desire for better fuel economy for their cars by advertising automotive products that improve gasoline mileage. Some of the products work. Others are worthless and a waste of consumers' money.
Sometimes advertising is intentionally misleading. A few years ago a brand of bread was offered to dieters (節(jié)食者) with the message that there were fewer calories (熱量單位, 大卡 ) in every slice. It turned out that the bread was not dietetic (適合節(jié)食的), but just regular bread. There were fewer calories because it was sliced very thin, but there were the same number of calories in every loaf.
On the positive side, emotional appeals may respond to a consumer's real concerns. Consider fire insurance. Fire insurance may be sold by appealing to fear of loss. But fear of loss is the real reason for fire insurance. The security of knowing that property is protected by insurance makes the purchase of fire insurance a worthwhile investment for most people. If consumers consider the quality of the insurance plans as well as the message in the ads, they will benefit from the advertising.
Each consumer must evaluate her or his own situation. Are the benefits of the product important enough to justify buying it? Advertising is intended to appeal to consumers, but it does not force them to buy the product. Consumers still control the final buying decision.
Advertising can persuade the consumer to buy worthless products by
A．stressing their high quality
B．convincing him of their low price
C．maintaining a balance between quality and price
D．a(chǎn)ppealing to his buying motives
37、 The reason why the bread advertisement is misleading is that
A．thin slices of bread could contain more calories
B．the loaf was cut into regular slices
C．the bread was not genuine bread
D．the total number of calories in the loaf remained the same
38、 The passage tells us that
A．sometimes advertisements really sell what the consumer needs
B．a(chǎn)dvertisements occasionally force consumers into buying things they don't need
C．the buying motives of consumers are controlled by advertisements
D．fire insurance is seldom a worthwhile investment
39、 It can be inferred, from the passage that a smart consumer should
A．think carefully about the benefits described in the advertisements
B．guard against the deceiving nature of advertisements
C．be familiar with various advertising strategies
D．a(chǎn)void buying products that have strong emotional appeal
40、 The passage is mainly about
A．how to make a wise buying decision
B．ways to protect the interests of the consumer
C．the positive and negative aspects of advertising
D．the function of advertisements in promoting sales
41、回答41-46題
Look After Your Voice
Often speakers at a meeting experience dry mouths and ask for a glass of water. You can solve the problem by activating the saliva in you mouth. First gently bite the edges of your tongue with your teeth. Or press your entire tongue to the bottom of your mouth and hold it there until the saliva flow. Or you can imagine that you are slicing a big juicy lemon and sucking the juice.
Before you begin your talk, be kind to your voice. Avoid milk or creamy drinks which coat your throat. Keep your throat wet by drinking a little sweetened warm tea or diluted fruit juice. If you sense that you are losing your voice, stop talking completely. Save your voice for your speech. You may feel foolish using paper to write notes, but the best thing you can do is to rest your voice. If you need to see a doctor, perhaps you can get some advice from a professional singer. In the meantime, do not even talk in a low voice.
What about drinking alcohol to wet your throat? I advise you not to touch alcohol before speaking. The problem with alcohol is that one drink gives you a little confidence. The second drink gives you even more confidence. Finally you will feel all-powerful and you will feel you can do everything, but in fact your brain and your mouth do not work together properly. Save the alcohol until after you finish speaking.
Perhaps you want to accept the advice, but you may wonder if you can ever change the habits of a life-time. Of course you can. Coethe, who lived before indoor skating rinks or swimming pools, said, "We learn to skate in the summer and swim in the winter. " Take this message to heart and give yourself time to develop your new habits. If you are willing to change, you will soon be able to say that you will never forget these techniques because they became a part of your body.
All the following are mentioned in the passage about how to solve the problem of dry mouths EXCEPT
A．to bite the edges of your tongue
B．to ask for a glass of water
C．to imagine you are having a sour fruit
D．to take cool milk
42、 What does the writer suggest when you feel you are losing your voice?
A．Rest your voice.
B．Drink some alcohol.
C．Ask a singer to teach you how to protect your voice.
D．Never go to see a doctor.
43、 What is the writer's advice about alcohol before you give a speech?
A．Drink a little of it to feel all-powerful.
B．Don't drink it.
C．Dilute it with water.
D．Drink it two hours before you make a speech.
44、 What did Goethe say about skating and swimming?
A．He said people could learn to skate when it was hot and swim when it was cold.
B．He said people could learn to skate and swim when it was hot.
C．He said people could learn to skate and swim when it was cold.
D．He said people could learn to skate when it was cold and swim when it was hot.
45、 Why does the writer cite Goethe' s advice?
A．To encourage one to go in for sports.
B．To tell that Goethe had a strong willpower.
C．To prove one can change one's habits.
D．To demonstrate Goethe was creative.
第5部分：補(bǔ)全短文(第46～50題，每題2分，共10分)閱讀下面的短文，每一篇中有5處空白，文章后面有6組文字，請根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容選擇5組文字，將其分別放回文章原有位置，以恢復(fù)文章原貌。
46、回答46-51題
What Makes Me theWeight I Am?
There'sno easy answer to this question. Your genetic makeup, the physical traits thatget passed down to you from your parents, pays a big part in determining yoursize and weight. (46) Butif your parents are small than average, you may want to rethink thatprofessional basketball career!
The samegoes for your body type. Have you ever heard someone say a person is big boned?It's a way of saying the person has a large frame, or skeleton. Big bonesusually weigh more than small bones. 47 .
Likeyour height or body type, your genes have to say about what your weight willbe. But that's only part of the story. Being overweight can run in someone'sfamily, but it may not be because of their genes. 48 And even though some kids gain weight moreeasily than others, when they eat right and exercise, most kids can be ahealthy and happy weight that's right for them, it's true -- the way you livecan change the way you look.
How muchyou weigh is a balance between the calories you eat and the calories youuse. 49 Ifyou spend your free time watching TV, your body won't use as many calories asit would if you played basketball, skated, or went for a walk. If you are inbalance, your weight will stay right for you as you know. But if you eat moreand exercise less, you may become overweight. 50 .
請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．That's why it's possible for two kids with thesame height, but different weights, to both be right weight.
B．If you eat more calories than your body needs touse, you will gain too much weight.
C．Poor eating and exercise habits also run infamilies and this may be the reason the members of a family are overweight.
D．However, many overweight people have difficultyreaching their healthy body weight.
E．On the other had, if you eat less and exercisemore, you may lose weight.
F．If both your parents are fat, there is a goodchance you' be fat.
47、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．That's why it's possible for two kids with thesame height, but different weights, to both be right weight.
B．If you eat more calories than your body needs touse, you will gain too much weight.
C．Poor eating and exercise habits also run infamilies and this may be the reason the members of a family are overweight.
D．However, many overweight people have difficultyreaching their healthy body weight.
E．On the other had, if you eat less and exercisemore, you may lose weight.
F．If both your parents are fat, there is a goodchance you' be fat.
48、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．That's why it's possible for two kids with thesame height, but different weights, to both be right weight.
B．If you eat more calories than your body needs touse, you will gain too much weight.
C．Poor eating and exercise habits also run infamilies and this may be the reason the members of a family are overweight.
D．However, many overweight people have difficultyreaching their healthy body weight.
E．On the other had, if you eat less and exercisemore, you may lose weight.
F．If both your parents are fat, there is a goodchance you' be fat.
49、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．That's why it's possible for two kids with thesame height, but different weights, to both be right weight.
B．If you eat more calories than your body needs touse, you will gain too much weight.
C．Poor eating and exercise habits also run infamilies and this may be the reason the members of a family are overweight.
D．However, many overweight people have difficultyreaching their healthy body weight.
E．On the other had, if you eat less and exercisemore, you may lose weight.
F．If both your parents are fat, there is a goodchance you' be fat.
50、請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．That's why it's possible for two kids with thesame height, but different weights, to both be right weight.
B．If you eat more calories than your body needs touse, you will gain too much weight.
C．Poor eating and exercise habits also run infamilies and this may be the reason the members of a family are overweight.
D．However, many overweight people have difficultyreaching their healthy body weight.
E．On the other had, if you eat less and exercisemore, you may lose weight.
F．If both your parents are fat, there is a goodchance you' be fat.
第6部分：完形填空(第51-65題，每題1分，共15分)下面的短文有15處空白，請根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容為每處空白確定1個選項(xiàng)。
51、回答{TSE}題
Man of FewWords
Everyone chases success, but not all of us want tobe famous.
South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee is ( 51 ) for keeping himself tohimself.
When the 63-year-old was named the 2003 NobelPrizewinner for literature earlier this month, reporters were warned that theywould find him "particularly difficult to ( 52 ) ".
Coetzeelives in Australia butspends part of the year teaching at the University of Chicago.He seemed (53) by the news he won the US $1.3 million prize."It came as a complete surprise. I wasn't even aware they were due to makethe announcement. " he said.
His (54) of privacy led to doubts as to whether Coetzeewill attend the prize-giving in Stockholm, Sweden, onDecember 10.
Butdespite being described as (55) to track down, the critics agree that hiswriting is easy to get to know.
Born in Cape Town, South Africa,to all English-speaking family, Coetzee (56) his breakthrough in 1980 with thenovel "Waiting for the Barbarians" He (57) his place among the world's leading writerswith two Booker prize victories, Britain's highest honour fornovels. He first (58) in 1983 for the "Life and Times of MichaelK" and his second title came in 1999 for "Disgrace".
A majortheme in his work is SouthAfrica's former apartheid system, whichdivided whites from blacks. (59) with the problems of violence, crime andracial division that still exist in the country, his books have enabledordinary people to understand apartheid (60) within.
"Ihave always been more interested in the past than the future," he said ina rare interview. "The past (61) its shadow over the present. I hope I havemade one or two people think (62) about whether they want to forget the pastcompletely. "
In factthis purity in his writing seems to be (63) in his personal life. Coetzee is a vegetarian,a cyclist rather than a motorist and doesn't drink alcohol.
But whathe has (64) to literature, culture and the people of South Africa isfar greater than the thing she has given up. "In looking at weakness andfailure in life," the Nobel prize judging panel said, "Coetzee'swork (65) the divine spark in man. "
請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．unhappy
B．well known
C．busy
D．worried
52、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．catch
B．come across
C．run into
D．bump into
53、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．influenced
B．a(chǎn)ffected
C．moved
D．shocked
54、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．like
B．devote
C．love
D．a(chǎn)ttract
55、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．difficult
B．easy
C．ready
D．eager
56、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．forced
B．caused
C．made
D．did
57、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．kept
B．listed
C．took
D．a(chǎn)rranged
58、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．received
B．obtained
C．won
D．had
59、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．Dealing
B．Handling
C．Solving
D．Removing
60、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．in
B．out
C．of
D．from
61、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．covers
B．puts
C．spreads
D．casts
62、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．once
B．twice
C．thrice
D．four times
63、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．written
B．hidden
C．mirrored
D．stricken
64、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．contributed
B．a(chǎn)dded
C．a(chǎn)ttributed
D．created
65、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．tells
B．says
C．informs
D．expresses
1、 She was close tosuccess.
A．fast
B．quick
C．near
D．tight
2、 The two girls look alike.
A．beautiful
B．similar
C．pretty
D．a(chǎn)ttractive
3、 The boy is intelligent.
A．Clever
B．naughty
C．difficult
D．a(chǎn)ctive
4、 Everybody was glad to see Mary back.
A．sorry
B．sad
C．a(chǎn)ngry
D．happy
5、 What is your goal of life?
A．plan
B．a(chǎn)im
C．a(chǎn)rrangement
D．idea
6、 Jack was dismissed.
A．fired
B．fined
C．exhausted
D．criticized
7、 John is crazy about pop music.
A．sorry
B．mad
C．concerned
D．worried
8、 It is the movement, notthe color, of objects that excites the bull.
A．frightens
B．scares
C．a(chǎn)rouses
D．confuses
9、 It is highly unlikely that she will arrive today.
A．probably
B．very
C．hardly
D．possibly
10、 I am feeling a lot more healthy than I was.
A．many
B．no
C．much
D．some
11、 Since ancient timespeople have found various ways to preserve meat.
A．eat
B．cook
C．freeze
D．keep
12、 We packed up the thingswe had accumulated (積累) over the last three years and left.
A．late
B．recent
C．past
D．final
13、 The expedition reachedthe summit at 10:30 that morning.
A．bottom of the mountain
B．foot of the mountain
C．top of the mountain
D．starting point
14、 There is alwaysexcitement at the Olympic Games when an athlete breaks a previous recordof performance.
A．beats
B．destroys
C．maintains
D．defends
15、 The president proposed that we should bring the meeting to a close.
A．stated
B．said
C．suggested
D．a(chǎn)nnounced
第2部分：閱讀判斷(第16～22題，每題1分，共7分)下面的短文后列出了7個句子，請根據(jù)短文的內(nèi)容對每個句子作出判斷：如果該句提供的是正確信息，請選擇A；如果該句提供的是錯誤信息，請選擇B；如果該句的信息文中沒有提及，請選擇C。
16、回答16-23題
Easy Learning
Students should be jealous. Not only do babies get to doze their days away, but they've also mastered the fine art of learning in their sleep.
By the time babies are a year old they can recognize a lot of sounds and even simple words. Marie Cheour at the University of Turku in Finland suspected that they might progress this fast because they learn language while they sleep as well as when they are awake.
To test the theory, Cheour and her colleagues studied 45 newborn babies in the first few days of their lives. They exposed all the infants to an hour of Finnish vowel sounds -- one that sounds like "oo", another like "ee" and a third boundary vowel peculiar to Finnish and similar languages that sounds like something in between. EEG recordings of the infants brains before and after the session showed that the newboms could not distinguish the sounds.
Fifteen of the babies then went back with their mothers, while the rest were split into two sleep-study groups. One group was exposed throughout their night-time sleeping hours to the same three vowels, while the others listened to other, easier-to-distinguish vowel sounds.
When tested in the morning, and again in the evening, the babies who'd heard the tricky boundary vowel all night showed brainwave activity indicating that they could now recognize this new sound. They could identify the sound even when its pitch was changed, while none of the other babies could pick up the boundary vowel at all.
Cheour doesn't know how babies accomplish this night-time learning, but she suspects that the special ability might indicate that unlike adults, babies don't "turn off" their cerebral cortex while they sleep. The skill probably fades in the course of the first year of life, she adds -- so forget the idea that you can pick up tricky French vowels as an adult just by slipping a language tape under your pillow. But while it may not help grown-ups, Cheour is hoping to use the sleeping hours to give remedial help to babies who are genetically at risk of language disorders.
Babies can learn language even in their sleep.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
17、 An infant can recognize a lot of vowels by the time he or she is a year old.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
18、 Finish vowels are easy to distinguish.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
19、 The three vowels mentioned in this article are all Finnish sounds.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
20、 The study shows that the infant's cerebral cortex is working while he is asleep.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
21、 If an adult wants to learn a language faster, he can put a language tape under his pillow.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
22、 Cheour's finding is worthless.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
第3部分：概括大意與完成句子(第23～30題，每題l分，共8分)下面的短文后有2項(xiàng)測試任務(wù)：(1)第23～26題要求從所給的6個選項(xiàng)中為指定段落每段選擇1個小標(biāo)題；(2)第27—30題要求從所給的6個選項(xiàng)中為每個句子確定一個選項(xiàng)。
23、回答23-31題
Understanding Autism
1. Autism (孤獨(dú)癥 ) is a life-long developmental disability that prevents individuals from properly understanding what they see, hear, and otherwise sense. This results in severe problems of social relationships, communication, and behavior. Individuals with autism have to painstakingly (費(fèi)力地) learn normal patterns of speech and communication, and appropriate ways to relate to people, objects, and events, in a similar manner to those who have had a stroke.
2. The cause of autism is still unknown. Some research suggests a physical problem affecting those parts of the brain that process language and information coming in from the senses.
There may be some imbalance of certain chemicals in the brain. Genetic (遺傳的) factors may sometimes be involved. Autism may indeed result from a combination of several "causes".
3. Most people with mental retardation (智力遲鈍) show relatively even skill development.
Individuals with autism, however, typically show uneven skill development, with deficits (欠缺) in certain areas -- most frequently in their ability to communicate and relate to others -- and distinct skills in other areas. It is important to distinguish autism from mental retardation or other disorders, since diagnostic (診斷的) confusion may lead to inappropriate and ineffective treatment techniques.
4. In general, individuals with autism perform best at jobs which are structured and involve a degree of repetition. Some people who have autism are working as artists, piano tuners, painters, farm workers, office workers, computer operators, dishwashers, assembly line workers, or employees of sheltered workshops or other sheltered work settings.
Paragraph 1___________
A．What causes autism?
B．How common is autism?
C．Does autism occur together with other disabilities?
D．What is Autism?
E．What kinds of jobs can individuals with autism do?
F．What is the difference between autism and mental retardation?
24、 Paragraph 2___________
A．What causes autism?
B．How common is autism?
C．Does autism occur together with other disabilities?
D．What is Autism?
E．What kinds of jobs can individuals with autism do?
F．What is the difference between autism and mental retardation?
25、 Paragraph 3___________
A．What causes autism?
B．How common is autism?
C．Does autism occur together with other disabilities?
D．What is Autism?
E．What kinds of jobs can individuals with autism do?
F．What is the difference between autism and mental retardation?
26、 Paragraph 4___________
A．What causes autism?
B．How common is autism?
C．Does autism occur together with other disabilities?
D．What is Autism?
E．What kinds of jobs can individuals with autism do?
F．What is the difference between autism and mental retardation?
27、 Individuals with autism are particularly weak at ___________
A．different techniques
B．social relationships and communication
C．language and information
D．several causes working together
E．a(chǎn) degree of repetition
F．skill development
28、 It is possible that autism happens as a result of ___________
A．different techniques
B．social relationships and communication
C．language and information
D．several causes working together
E．a(chǎn) degree of repetition
F．skill development
29、 Autism and mental retardation should be treated with ___________
A．different techniques
B．social relationships and communication
C．language and information
D．several causes working together
E．a(chǎn) degree of repetition
F．skill development
30、 A typical feature of people with autism is their uneven ___________
A．different techniques
B．social relationships and communication
C．language and information
D．several causes working together
E．a(chǎn) degree of repetition
F．skill development
第4部分：閱讀理解(第31～45題，每題3分，共45分)下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道題。請根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，為每題確定1個選項(xiàng)。
31、回答31-36題
Making Light of Sleep
All we have a clock located inside our brains. Similar to your bedside alarm clock, your internal clock runs on a 24-hour cycle. This cycle, called a circadian (晝夜節(jié)奏的，生理節(jié)奏的) rhythm, helps control when you wake, when you eat and when you sleep.
Somewhere around puberty (青春期), something happens in the timing of the biological clock. The clock pushes forward,, so adolescents (青少年的) and teenagers are unable to fall asleep as early as they used to. When your mother tells you it's time for bed, your body may be pushing you to stay up for several hours more. And the light coming from your computer screen or TV could be pushing you to stay up even later.
This shift is natural for teenagers. But staying up very late and sleeping late can get your body's clock out of sync with the cycle of light and dark. It can also make it hard to get out of bed in the morning and may bring other problems, too. Teenagers are put in a kind of a gray cloud when they don't get enough sleep, says Mary Carskadon, a sleep researcher at Brown University in Providence, RI7. It affects their mood and their ability to think and learn.
But just like your alarm clock, your internal clock can be reset. In fact, it automatically resets itself every day. How? By using the light it gets through your eyes.
Scientists have known for a long time that the light of day and the dark of night play important roles in setting our internal clocks. For years, researchers thought that the signals that synchronize the body's clock were handled through the same pathways that we use to see.
But recent discoveries show that the human eye has two separate light-sensing systems. One system allows us to see. The second system tells our body whether it's day or night.
The clock located inside our brains is similar to our bedside alarm clock because
A．it controls when we wake, when we eat and when we sleep
B．it has a cycle of 24 hours
C．it is a cycle also called circadian rhythm
D．it can alarm any time during 24 hours
32、 What is implied in the second paragraph?
A．Young children's biological clock has the same rhythm with that of the teenagers.
B．People after puberty begin to go to bed earlier due to the change of the biological clock.
C．Children before puberty tend to fall asleep earlier at night than adolescents.
D．Teenagers go to bed later than they used to due to the light from the computer screen.
33、 In the third paragraph the author wants to tell the reader that
A．it is natural for teenagers to stay up late and get up late
B．staying up late has a bad effect on teenagers' ability to think and learn
C．during puberty most teenagers experience a kind of gray cloud
D．it is hard for teenagers to get out of bed in the morning
34、 Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the fourth and fifth paragraphs?
A．Our biological clock resets itself automatically.
B．Light gets through our eyes and resets our biological clock.
C．Our internal clock as well as the alarm clock can be reset automatically.
D．Our internal clock, like the alarm clock, can be reset.
35、 According to the last two paragraphs, what did the previous researchers think about the human eye's light-sensing system?
A．The human eye had two light-sensing systems.
B．The human eye had one light-sensing system.
C．The human eye could sense the light of day more quickly than the dark of night.
D．The human eye could reset our internal clocks in accordance with the alarm clocks.
36、回答36-41題
Advertising
The appeal of advertising to buying motives can have both negative and positive effects. Consumers may be convinced to buy a product of poor quality or high price because of an advertisement. For example, some advertisers have appealed to people's desire for better fuel economy for their cars by advertising automotive products that improve gasoline mileage. Some of the products work. Others are worthless and a waste of consumers' money.
Sometimes advertising is intentionally misleading. A few years ago a brand of bread was offered to dieters (節(jié)食者) with the message that there were fewer calories (熱量單位, 大卡 ) in every slice. It turned out that the bread was not dietetic (適合節(jié)食的), but just regular bread. There were fewer calories because it was sliced very thin, but there were the same number of calories in every loaf.
On the positive side, emotional appeals may respond to a consumer's real concerns. Consider fire insurance. Fire insurance may be sold by appealing to fear of loss. But fear of loss is the real reason for fire insurance. The security of knowing that property is protected by insurance makes the purchase of fire insurance a worthwhile investment for most people. If consumers consider the quality of the insurance plans as well as the message in the ads, they will benefit from the advertising.
Each consumer must evaluate her or his own situation. Are the benefits of the product important enough to justify buying it? Advertising is intended to appeal to consumers, but it does not force them to buy the product. Consumers still control the final buying decision.
Advertising can persuade the consumer to buy worthless products by
A．stressing their high quality
B．convincing him of their low price
C．maintaining a balance between quality and price
D．a(chǎn)ppealing to his buying motives
37、 The reason why the bread advertisement is misleading is that
A．thin slices of bread could contain more calories
B．the loaf was cut into regular slices
C．the bread was not genuine bread
D．the total number of calories in the loaf remained the same
38、 The passage tells us that
A．sometimes advertisements really sell what the consumer needs
B．a(chǎn)dvertisements occasionally force consumers into buying things they don't need
C．the buying motives of consumers are controlled by advertisements
D．fire insurance is seldom a worthwhile investment
39、 It can be inferred, from the passage that a smart consumer should
A．think carefully about the benefits described in the advertisements
B．guard against the deceiving nature of advertisements
C．be familiar with various advertising strategies
D．a(chǎn)void buying products that have strong emotional appeal
40、 The passage is mainly about
A．how to make a wise buying decision
B．ways to protect the interests of the consumer
C．the positive and negative aspects of advertising
D．the function of advertisements in promoting sales
41、回答41-46題
Look After Your Voice
Often speakers at a meeting experience dry mouths and ask for a glass of water. You can solve the problem by activating the saliva in you mouth. First gently bite the edges of your tongue with your teeth. Or press your entire tongue to the bottom of your mouth and hold it there until the saliva flow. Or you can imagine that you are slicing a big juicy lemon and sucking the juice.
Before you begin your talk, be kind to your voice. Avoid milk or creamy drinks which coat your throat. Keep your throat wet by drinking a little sweetened warm tea or diluted fruit juice. If you sense that you are losing your voice, stop talking completely. Save your voice for your speech. You may feel foolish using paper to write notes, but the best thing you can do is to rest your voice. If you need to see a doctor, perhaps you can get some advice from a professional singer. In the meantime, do not even talk in a low voice.
What about drinking alcohol to wet your throat? I advise you not to touch alcohol before speaking. The problem with alcohol is that one drink gives you a little confidence. The second drink gives you even more confidence. Finally you will feel all-powerful and you will feel you can do everything, but in fact your brain and your mouth do not work together properly. Save the alcohol until after you finish speaking.
Perhaps you want to accept the advice, but you may wonder if you can ever change the habits of a life-time. Of course you can. Coethe, who lived before indoor skating rinks or swimming pools, said, "We learn to skate in the summer and swim in the winter. " Take this message to heart and give yourself time to develop your new habits. If you are willing to change, you will soon be able to say that you will never forget these techniques because they became a part of your body.
All the following are mentioned in the passage about how to solve the problem of dry mouths EXCEPT
A．to bite the edges of your tongue
B．to ask for a glass of water
C．to imagine you are having a sour fruit
D．to take cool milk
42、 What does the writer suggest when you feel you are losing your voice?
A．Rest your voice.
B．Drink some alcohol.
C．Ask a singer to teach you how to protect your voice.
D．Never go to see a doctor.
43、 What is the writer's advice about alcohol before you give a speech?
A．Drink a little of it to feel all-powerful.
B．Don't drink it.
C．Dilute it with water.
D．Drink it two hours before you make a speech.
44、 What did Goethe say about skating and swimming?
A．He said people could learn to skate when it was hot and swim when it was cold.
B．He said people could learn to skate and swim when it was hot.
C．He said people could learn to skate and swim when it was cold.
D．He said people could learn to skate when it was cold and swim when it was hot.
45、 Why does the writer cite Goethe' s advice?
A．To encourage one to go in for sports.
B．To tell that Goethe had a strong willpower.
C．To prove one can change one's habits.
D．To demonstrate Goethe was creative.
第5部分：補(bǔ)全短文(第46～50題，每題2分，共10分)閱讀下面的短文，每一篇中有5處空白，文章后面有6組文字，請根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容選擇5組文字，將其分別放回文章原有位置，以恢復(fù)文章原貌。
46、回答46-51題
What Makes Me theWeight I Am?
There'sno easy answer to this question. Your genetic makeup, the physical traits thatget passed down to you from your parents, pays a big part in determining yoursize and weight. (46) Butif your parents are small than average, you may want to rethink thatprofessional basketball career!
The samegoes for your body type. Have you ever heard someone say a person is big boned?It's a way of saying the person has a large frame, or skeleton. Big bonesusually weigh more than small bones. 47 .
Likeyour height or body type, your genes have to say about what your weight willbe. But that's only part of the story. Being overweight can run in someone'sfamily, but it may not be because of their genes. 48 And even though some kids gain weight moreeasily than others, when they eat right and exercise, most kids can be ahealthy and happy weight that's right for them, it's true -- the way you livecan change the way you look.
How muchyou weigh is a balance between the calories you eat and the calories youuse. 49 Ifyou spend your free time watching TV, your body won't use as many calories asit would if you played basketball, skated, or went for a walk. If you are inbalance, your weight will stay right for you as you know. But if you eat moreand exercise less, you may become overweight. 50 .
請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．That's why it's possible for two kids with thesame height, but different weights, to both be right weight.
B．If you eat more calories than your body needs touse, you will gain too much weight.
C．Poor eating and exercise habits also run infamilies and this may be the reason the members of a family are overweight.
D．However, many overweight people have difficultyreaching their healthy body weight.
E．On the other had, if you eat less and exercisemore, you may lose weight.
F．If both your parents are fat, there is a goodchance you' be fat.
47、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．That's why it's possible for two kids with thesame height, but different weights, to both be right weight.
B．If you eat more calories than your body needs touse, you will gain too much weight.
C．Poor eating and exercise habits also run infamilies and this may be the reason the members of a family are overweight.
D．However, many overweight people have difficultyreaching their healthy body weight.
E．On the other had, if you eat less and exercisemore, you may lose weight.
F．If both your parents are fat, there is a goodchance you' be fat.
48、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．That's why it's possible for two kids with thesame height, but different weights, to both be right weight.
B．If you eat more calories than your body needs touse, you will gain too much weight.
C．Poor eating and exercise habits also run infamilies and this may be the reason the members of a family are overweight.
D．However, many overweight people have difficultyreaching their healthy body weight.
E．On the other had, if you eat less and exercisemore, you may lose weight.
F．If both your parents are fat, there is a goodchance you' be fat.
49、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．That's why it's possible for two kids with thesame height, but different weights, to both be right weight.
B．If you eat more calories than your body needs touse, you will gain too much weight.
C．Poor eating and exercise habits also run infamilies and this may be the reason the members of a family are overweight.
D．However, many overweight people have difficultyreaching their healthy body weight.
E．On the other had, if you eat less and exercisemore, you may lose weight.
F．If both your parents are fat, there is a goodchance you' be fat.
50、請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．That's why it's possible for two kids with thesame height, but different weights, to both be right weight.
B．If you eat more calories than your body needs touse, you will gain too much weight.
C．Poor eating and exercise habits also run infamilies and this may be the reason the members of a family are overweight.
D．However, many overweight people have difficultyreaching their healthy body weight.
E．On the other had, if you eat less and exercisemore, you may lose weight.
F．If both your parents are fat, there is a goodchance you' be fat.
第6部分：完形填空(第51-65題，每題1分，共15分)下面的短文有15處空白，請根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容為每處空白確定1個選項(xiàng)。
51、回答{TSE}題
Man of FewWords
Everyone chases success, but not all of us want tobe famous.
South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee is ( 51 ) for keeping himself tohimself.
When the 63-year-old was named the 2003 NobelPrizewinner for literature earlier this month, reporters were warned that theywould find him "particularly difficult to ( 52 ) ".
Coetzeelives in Australia butspends part of the year teaching at the University of Chicago.He seemed (53) by the news he won the US $1.3 million prize."It came as a complete surprise. I wasn't even aware they were due to makethe announcement. " he said.
His (54) of privacy led to doubts as to whether Coetzeewill attend the prize-giving in Stockholm, Sweden, onDecember 10.
Butdespite being described as (55) to track down, the critics agree that hiswriting is easy to get to know.
Born in Cape Town, South Africa,to all English-speaking family, Coetzee (56) his breakthrough in 1980 with thenovel "Waiting for the Barbarians" He (57) his place among the world's leading writerswith two Booker prize victories, Britain's highest honour fornovels. He first (58) in 1983 for the "Life and Times of MichaelK" and his second title came in 1999 for "Disgrace".
A majortheme in his work is SouthAfrica's former apartheid system, whichdivided whites from blacks. (59) with the problems of violence, crime andracial division that still exist in the country, his books have enabledordinary people to understand apartheid (60) within.
"Ihave always been more interested in the past than the future," he said ina rare interview. "The past (61) its shadow over the present. I hope I havemade one or two people think (62) about whether they want to forget the pastcompletely. "
In factthis purity in his writing seems to be (63) in his personal life. Coetzee is a vegetarian,a cyclist rather than a motorist and doesn't drink alcohol.
But whathe has (64) to literature, culture and the people of South Africa isfar greater than the thing she has given up. "In looking at weakness andfailure in life," the Nobel prize judging panel said, "Coetzee'swork (65) the divine spark in man. "
請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．unhappy
B．well known
C．busy
D．worried
52、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．catch
B．come across
C．run into
D．bump into
53、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．influenced
B．a(chǎn)ffected
C．moved
D．shocked
54、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．like
B．devote
C．love
D．a(chǎn)ttract
55、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．difficult
B．easy
C．ready
D．eager
56、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．forced
B．caused
C．made
D．did
57、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．kept
B．listed
C．took
D．a(chǎn)rranged
58、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．received
B．obtained
C．won
D．had
59、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．Dealing
B．Handling
C．Solving
D．Removing
60、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．in
B．out
C．of
D．from
61、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．covers
B．puts
C．spreads
D．casts
62、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．once
B．twice
C．thrice
D．four times
63、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．written
B．hidden
C．mirrored
D．stricken
64、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．contributed
B．a(chǎn)dded
C．a(chǎn)ttributed
D．created
65、 請?jiān)诘赺___處填上正確答案。
A．tells
B．says
C．informs
D．expresses