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According to the latest research, getting enough sleep is _____to maintaining good health and reducing stress.

A. practical??????? ???? B. contradictory????????????? ???????? C. essential????????????? ?? ????????????? D. alternative

Life is stressful, and complaining may be considered by many as an extension of being________normal.

A. urgently? ?????????? B. absolutely???? ?????? C. casually?????????? D. clumsily

In the bubble years, lending standards slipped ______,allowing ????????????? many people to put far too much of their income into paying for their housing.

A. delicately????????????? B. dynamically????????????? ?? C. deliberately????? ? D. dramatically

It is necessary to explain your theory _____, otherwise the????????????? audience won't make sense of what you are trying to get across.

A. on purpose????????????? B. at length????????????? C. at random????????? D.????????????? on average

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The other night as I was leaving my son's room. I noticed a hockey puck(冰球)sitting on his desk. It ??? me not only of an exciting hockey game he and I had ??? several years ago. but of a life lesson he had learned ?? .

During spring vacation from school,a friend gave us two ??? to a New York Rangers hockey game at Madison Square Garden. My son was very ??? because he is an avid Rangers fan,so we attended it.

The roar of the crowd was right from the moment the puck was ??? dropped. When the Rangers ??? first, the crowd cheered. My son got caught up in the moment and ??? joined in the crowd. When the Rangers scored a second time, it seemed as if the building would ??? from the noise. Three young men ??? in the row in front of us, probably in their early 20s, caught my ??? as my son sang along with the crowd. They smiled at us. We were all one happy and excited hockey ??? .

For my son, the victory was exciting. But that is not what he remembers about that night, ??? that's not his primary recollection. After the winning goal had been scored,the losing team's goalkeeper ??? the hockey puck out of the net behind him, and ? it into the crowd. One of the three young men before us caught the puck and, ??? in one motion after catching it, threw it back to my son.

My son looked at the puck as if he had been given a golden ?? . "Why did that man give me the puck?"? I explained to my son that the man had given him the puck be­cause he knew how ??? it would make him to have a souvenir from the game, and not just any souvenir, but the puck that had been the ?? goal in a shootout. It was obvi­ous that he knew it would ??? more to my son than it would to him.

1.A. warned????????????? ?????????? B. informed??? ????? C. cheated???? ?????? D. reminded

2.A. missed????????????? ?????????? B. played?????? ???? C. attended???? ????? D. undertaken

3.A. as usual????????????? ?????????? B. as well??????????? C. as a rule ????????? D. as a consequence

4.A. fans????????????? ?????????????? B. nets??? ????????? C. tickets?????? ????? D. pucks

5.A. excited????????????? ???????????? B. surprised????????????? ????????? C. disappointed??????? D. inspired

6.A. visibly????????????? ????????????? B. incredibly????????????? ???????? C. reliably??????????? D. availably

7.A. scored????????????? B. won????????????? C. defeated??????????? D. ranked

8.A. unfortunately???????? B. blindly?????????? C. amazingly????????????? ??????? D.enthusiastically

9.A. explore????????????? ????????????? B. pour????????????? ???????????? C. fill????????????? ??????????????? D. explode

10.A. sitting????????????? ????????????? B. looking????????????? ?????????? C. taking????????????? ???????????? D. lying

11.A. hand????????????? ?????????????? B. shoulder????????????? ????????? C. eye????????????? ?????????????? D. head

12.A. team????????????? ?????????????? B. crowd????????????? ??????????? C. coach????????????? ???????????? D. family

13.A. at times????????????? ???????????? B. at most????????????? C. at least????????????? D. at last

14.A. picked????????????? B. chose????????????? C. got????????????? D. kept

15.A. divided ??????????? B. threw????????????? C. turned????????????? D. changed

16.A. even if????????????? ????????????? B. as if????????????? ???????????? C. until????????????? ?????????????? D. unless

17.A. goal????????????? ?????? ???????? B. medal ????????????? ???????? C. treasure????????????? ??????????? D. target

18.A. happy????????????? ????????????? B. curious????????????? ?????????? C. sorrowful????????????? ????????? D. horrible

19.A. losing????????????? ????????????? B. winning????????????? ????????? C. catching????????????? ??????????? D. remembering

20.A. strike????????????? ????????????? B. touch????????????? ??????????? C. direct????????????? ????????????? D. mean

It's time to remind myself what I love about life here in California,USA, to remember what I desperately miss when I go home.

Real radio

In the USA there are so many radio stations that those iPod tuner things don’t work at all. There is, simply, no dead air. It took me a while to discover the USA's many pub­lic radio stations, which don't broadcast any advertisements. KCRW is my favorites station, for its blend of indie music and current affairs. But I also listen to KJAZZ and KPCC. But before you feel jealous — it’s all online. My favorites: American life Snap Judgement and Henry Rollins live every Saturday night. Take listen online for free News? Well, there's not a lot of news from South Africa, and when it is, it's bad and full of fear, so I ignore it. But I care about any place I live in, and that includes the USA. And on public radio, the USA is covered in depth, from the perspective of individual stories rather than statistics.

The festivals

I’m jealously watching tweets and Facebook boasts and reviews from SXSW — seems like half the people I used to work with in South Africa are there,meeting Grumpy Cat and watching bands they’ve always wanted to see live. It’s great to know that these 1000s of festivals are so close, and that one day,if film school schedule ever allows me to leave campus for more than a few days, I can go to one or two of them. I have already ex­changed my much loved Ford Mustang for a bigger, less sexy car — a car spacious enough to sleep in — so that next year I can be there, not just dream of it.

The famous people

When I go back to SA, I'm often asked if I’ve spotted any famous people. It's awkward for me. I feel the the same way about it as I feel when an American asks me if there are lions in the streets. Except yes, I have. No,not lions. I have met some famous people. I chatted to RJ Mitte from Breaking Bad outside a dub in West Hollywood. Many of my professors are famous directors. The problem is, once you meet these famous people, they're just people, FFS. This feels disappointing at first, like you're missing a Jesus mo­ment of some sort. But if you think about it, it's inspiring. What it means, is that I, litlle me (right now, also "just a person") could be a famous just-a-person person one day, and get to make all the films I just dream of now.

1.The underlined sentence "There is,simply, no dead air." probably means____.

A. there is no useless radio programmes in the USA

B. there is no useful radio programmes in the USA

C. there is no polluted air in the USA

D. there is no advertisements from the radio programmes in the USA

2.There are so many festivals that_____.

A. I often leave campus for more than few days

B. I often attend some of them in person

C. I bought a bigger Ford? Mustang

D. I can share many reviews and performances online with my friends in South Africa

3.The author thinks the famous people in the USA _____.

A. are just Like lions????????????? ???????????? B. are well-known but ordinary

C. are disappointing????????????? D. are inspiring

4.The author is most likely to be _____.

A. a director in America????????????? ?????????? B. a professor in South Africa

C. a student in America????????????? ???????? D. an actor in South Africa

Researchers conducting a study of hospital stays for over two hundred and eighty six thousand older folks found something interesting in their data.

The number of hospitalizations for heart disease and stroke went down significantly among a certain group of people at a certain time of year. What folks, and what time of year, you ask? Flu season and the lucky people were the ones who got flu shots(流感疫苗).

It’s generally recommended that people over fifty get their flu shots every year. Influenza(流行性感冒) is no small thing. it’s responsible for around thirty six thousand deaths a year in the U. S. alone. Getting the shots also cuts down on the chances of get­ting pneumonia(肺炎), which is especially dangerous in seniors.

But what wasn’t known was that there seems to be an added benefit to getting a flu shots in terms of warding off heart problems. The data,in fact, are quite strong in suggesting this is the case.

In this study, flu shots cut clown the number of hospitalizations for heart disease by nineteen percent. Stroke went down sixteen percent one season and a whopping twenty-three percent a second season.These are big results.

So what's the connection between getting a flu shot and having a stronger heart? It isn’t yet known.

Researchers speculate that the flu virus itself may do damage to blood vessels(血管), possibly making clots(血塊)more likely. Blood clots in the heart can cause heart attacks, and blood clots in the brain can cause strokes.

Whatever the specific details are, there's one more good reason to follow your doctor’ s advice and get that annual flu shot.

1.According to the study, the number of hospitalizations for heart disease and stroke went down significanntly among the ones who _____.

A. got flu shots after they were ill?????????????

B. got flu shots before they were ill

C. got flu shots at the flu season????????????? ???? ?????????????

D. got flu shots whenever convenient

2.The benefits of getting flu shots can be listed except that_____.

A. it can cut down on the chances of getting????????????? pneumonia

B. it can cut down the number of hospitalizations for heart disease

C. it can kill the flu virus

D. if can make blood clots

3.The underlined phrase "warding off" probably means_______.

A. keeping away????????? ? ????????????? B. dealing with??? ???? C. setting off????????????? ? ????????? D.????????????? picking up

4.According to the passage, we'd better ______.

A. work out to fight against influenza??? ??????? B. get flu shot every year

C. follow our doctor's all advice????????????? ???????? ?????? D. protect our blood vessels

Many people believe that teaching children music makes them smarter, better able to learn new things. But the organizers of a new study say there's no scientific evidence that early musical training affects the intelligence of young people.

An estimated 80 percent of American adults think music lessons improve children's abilily to learn or their performance in school. They say that the satisfaction for learning to play a new song helps a child express creativity.

Researchers at Harvard University, however, have found that there's one thing musi­cal training does not do. They say it does not make children more intelligent. Samuel Mehr is a graduate student at Harvard's School of Education. He said it is wrong to think that learning to play a musical instrument improves a child's intellectual development. He says the evidence comes from studies that measured the mental ability of two groups of 4-year-olds and their parents. One group attended music class, the other went to a class that places importance on the visual arts—arts that can be seen.

"The evidence there is 'no'. We found no evidence for any advantage on any of these tests for the kids participating in these music clases," said Mehr.Samuel Mehr says researchers have carried out many studies in an effort to learn whether musical training can make children smarter. He says the results have been mixed. He says only one study seems to show a small percentage increase in IQ, intellectual scores among students after one year of music lessons. He does not believe that IQ is a good measure of child's intelligence. He says researchers in his study compared how well children in the musical training group did on mental processing tasks or projects, then the results were compared to those of children who did not take lessons. There was no evidence that the musical training group did much better on the mental tasks than the other group.

The researchers comfirmed the results with a larger group of children and their par­ents.Mr Mehr says music lessons may not offer children a fast easy way to gain entry to the best schools later of their life. But he says the training is still important for cultural reasons. In his words, "We teach music because music is important for us."

1.According to the new study, musical training______.

A. makes children smarter????????????????????????

B. helps a child express creativity

C. does not make children more intelligent??????????

D. improve children's ability to learn in school

2.Samuel Mehr may agree that______.

A. the children who attended music class are smarter than those who attended arts class

B. IQ is a good measure of a child's intelligence

C. we needn't to teach children music

D. music training is still important for cultural reasons

3.In order to confirm his view, Samuel Mehr______.

A. conducted more than one research

B. interviewed many American adults

C. taught two groups of 4-yetr-olds music and arts

D. offered children a fast way to be admitted to the best schools

4.The artical may be taken from a report about _____.

A. health????????????? B. education????????????? C. ????????????? culture????????????? D.economy

The world's largest solar thermal plant(太陽熱能發(fā)電站)is set to begin producing power in the United States by the end of the year. Wind and energy from the sun are generally considered clean, unlike energy from coal-burning power stations. However, environmentalists now worry that too much solar power development could harm the local environment.

A California company — BrightSource Energy is building a huge solar power plant in the Mojave desert, about 60 kilometers southwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. The plant is known as the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. Joe Desmond works for the company. "This is actually one of the highest concentrations of sunlight in the world, out here in Ivanpah." explained Desmond. BrightSource Energy will deploy 170,000 specially de­signed mirrors to direct solar energy towards boilers on top of three power towers. The steam produced in the boilers will drive turbine (渦輪) to make electricity. Joe Desmond says the steam can reach temperatures of more than 260 degrees Celsius. "We can store the sun's thermal energy in the form of molten salt, so we can produce electricity even when the sun goes down. There is a lot of interest in concentrating solar power around the globe in environmnents where you have lots of sun, such as China, South Africa, the Mid­dle East, North Africa, explained Desmond.

Environmentalists generally support the idea of solar power, however, many are concerned about the effect of power plants on sensitive environment. Lisa Belenky is a lawyer with the Center for Biological Diversity, a private group. She says environmentalists are specifically worried about the effect of the Ivanpah Solar Project on the sensitive plant and animal life in that part of Mojave desert. "Even though the desert seems big, when you start cutting it up, it can really affect how the species and the animals and the plants are able to survive in the long run,"said Lisa Belenky. BrightSource Energy has already spent more than $ 50 million to move endangered desert tortoises away from the power plant. but Lisa Belenky says this is not the answer. "We should be reusing areas that have a1ready been disturbed, like old mining sites, for example...either on homes, on businesses, parking lots." said Belenky.

There have also been reports of birds dying at the Ivanpah Plant and others like it.

Some birds die after colliding with solar equipment which the animals mistake for water. Other birds were killed or suffered burns after flying through the intense heat at the solar thermal plant. As solar projects increase, environmentalists and developers are considering what to do to reduce bird death.

1.Why is the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System being built in the desert?

A. Because the temperature is extremely high in the desert.??

B. Because there is no life in the desert.

C. Because there is much salt in the desert.?????????????

D. Because sunlight is highly focused in the desert.

2.Why can the plant make electricity at night?

A. Because the sun's thermal energy can be stored in the form of steam.

B. Because the sun's thermal energy can be stored in the form of molten salt.

C. Because the sun'ss thermal energy can be stored through mirrors

D. Because the sun's thermal energy can be stored in the boilers.

3.According to Lisa Belenky, in order to reduce the effect,_____.

A. we should move all the plants and animals away from the solar plant

B. we should guide the bird not to hit the solar plant

C we should build the solar plant in disturbed areas

D. we should build the solar plant in the desert

4.The author’s attitude towards the solar projects is _____.

A. supportive????????????? B. critical????????????? ??? ??????? C. indifferent????????????? ?????????? D. cautious

It's going to be a chaotic(混亂的)day. How do I know? It’s Monday. OK, joking. But, I do predict that today will be filled with the normal last-minute tasks, fire drills, and unforeseen events. So, how do you keep yourself from being swept away in the stream of chaos? How do you remain calm while others are rushing and panicking? There's a problem… Panic! When things don't go as planned, how do you react? Are you the calm one who works to fix things? Or the one running around like Chicken Little screaming that the sky falling? Getting upset or alarmed can seem like natural reactions to a problem.

Here are a few tips to kelp you remain calm in the face of the storm:

? Don't Panic? You are better able to find a solution if you????????????? aren't panicking. If you can keep your head when others are losing theirs, you will be able to make a dear decision in the chaos.

? There Aren't Many True Emergenaes ? My time as a Naval Officer taught me a­bout true emergencies. In the military, when there is a problem, people can get hurt or die. This is not usually the case when the office copier or email server goes down. Keep things in perspective. There are very few true emergencies in life.

? Avoid the "Fight or Flight" ? When you are stressed, your body will want to go into "fight or flight." Your body was designed to keep you safe from danger, but its natu­ral reflexes aren't always the best solution against a project gone away. Keep your emotions in check and ensure that your physical reflexes don’t make bad decisions for you.

? Head Into The Problem??? While everyone else is running away, true leaders walk into a problem. Sticking your head in the sand only makes things worse. Instead of trying to ignore the situition, get to the heart of the issue as soon as possible. Only then can you address it

How Will You React? When you find yourself ready to lose it, take a step back. Ask, "In this truly an emergcncy?" Keep your head when others are losing theirs. And you'll find that you are that much closer to a solution.

1.The author writes the first paragraph in order to______.

A. describe a chaotic day???? B. advocate a way of life?? C. introduce a topic?? D. make a joke

2.In order to make a wiser decision in the chaos, you should _____.

A. low your head????????????? ????? B. keep your head?????? C. shake your head????????????? ??????? D. stick your head

3.The example of the author's time as a Naval Officer is used to illustrate_____.

A. there are seldom true emergencies in life?????

B. there are many true emergencies in life

C. some emergencies are really urgent?????????

D. some emergencies can't be predicted

4.What would the best title for the passage?

A. Fight or Flight????????????? ?????????????????????????

B.True emergencies

C. Less Talking, More Doing?????????????

D. Keep calm in the face of the storm