第一部分 听力（ 共两节，满分30分）1-20题---略

第二部分 阅读理解 （共两节，满分40分）

第一节 （共15小题; 每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和 D ）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

My husband Ollie had retired from teaching and we were making plans to travel together to Florida. Then he was terribly ill and became very weak, hardly able to speak. Weeks passed and it became clear that Ollie was near death, but I prayed day and night that he could get better.

One of us was always in Ollie's hospital room--either me, or our grown children, Bruce and Karen. One day, in his broken and weak speech, Ollie told Bruce, “Go home. You should be with Gwen.” Gwen was Bruce's wife. They had been married for six years and lived hundreds of miles away. Gwen was about to have a baby. We felt an extra sadness, knowing Ollie would never see his first grandchild.

“I don't want to leave you, dad, ” Bruce said. Ollie repeated, “You should be with Gwen. ” Reluctantly, Bruce left. “When the baby comes, ”he promised Ollie, “you will be the first to know. ” A few days later, around 2 p. m., Ollie awoke from a sleep. He turned and looked at me. I sat close to hear his weak words. “The baby is coming now. It's a boy, ” he said. For a moment his eyes were filled with tears. Then he went back to sleep again. Not long after that, Karen ran into the room. “Bruce called, ” she said, a smile lighting her face. “Gwen gave birth to a healthy baby boy around two o' clock. ”

Ollie smiled; he had been the first to know. That night, Ollie died in his sleep.

22. Why did Ollie want Bruce to be with Gwen?

A. Ollie didn't want his son to be absent when his baby was born.

B. Ollie wanted Bruce to bring the baby along as soon as it was born.

C. Ollie thought it was too much trouble for Bruce to stay at hospital.

D. Ollie couldn't bear his son seeing him dying with a broken heart.

23. The underlined word in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to .

A. Disappointedly B. Immediately

C. Excitedly D. Unwillingly

24. What can we learn from the passage?

A. Ollie and his wife had planned to settle in Florida.

B. Ollie cared for his son more than his daughter.

C. Ollie died happy and in peace.

D. Ollie was sad about not being able to see his first grandchild.

B

Sorry to say, our brains naturally start slowing down at the cruelly young age of 30. It used to be thought that this couldn’t be helped, but new studies show that people of any age can train their brains to work faster. “Your brain is a learning machine ”, says University of California scientist Dr. Michael Merzenich. Given the right tools, we can train our brains to act like they did when were younger. All that’s required is the practice designed just for the purpose: a few exercises for the mind.

Merzenich has developed a computer---based training method to speed up the process in which the brain deals with information. Since much of the data we receive comes through speech, the Brain Fitness Program works with language and hearing to better speed and accuracy.

Over the course of training, the program starts asking you to distinguish sounds (between “dog” and “bog”, for example) at an increasingly faster speed. “It’s a bit like tennis instructor,” says Merzenich , “hitting balls at you faster and faster to keep you challenged. You may start out slow, but before long you’re pretty quick.”

The biggest finding in brain research in last ten years is that the brain at any age is highly plastic. If you ask your brain to learn, it will learn. And it may even speed up while in the process.

To keep your brain young and plastic you can do one of a million new activities that challenge and excite you: playing table tennis or bridge, doing crossword puzzles, learning a language...... “When it comes to preventing aging, you really do “do it or lose it”, says Barbara Sahakian, professor at Cambridge University.

25.Dr. Merzenich’s training method mainly depends on ________.

A. the information being dealt with B. computer languages

C. the activities one joins in D. speech training

27. What can we learn from the text?

A. Practice makes a quick mind

B. Brain research started ten years ago.

C. Dr. Merzenich is a scientist in computer

D. People used to believe nothing could stop the brain slowing down.

28. Which of the following agrees with the writer’s idea?

A. The training methods work better for the old

B. The training of the brain should start at an early age

C. People should use the brain to stop it from aging.

D. It’s necessary to take part in as many activities as possible.

C

During my high school years, the most important thing was what I was wearing to the Friday night dance and who I was taking. Although college was talked about, it was the least of my worries.? When I was graduating eighth grade and starting high school, my older brother was graduating twelfth grade and going onto college. For my graduation, he gave me a card in which he wrote, “Enjoy your four years…, they go by fast.” I remember not believing him then, but looking back…, he was right. Those four years shaped who I was as a person, pushed me to my limit and encouraged me to become an adult.? However, I was so completely absorbed in my junior and senior years of high school, that when someone spoke of college I brushed it off. I wasn't ready to leave my comfort zone of having all of my closest friends together and knowing what every single day was going to be like . Studying was something I did only AFTER I nailed my half-time dance performance. I knew my parents wanted me to go to college, so I told them I would go to community college and I didn’t worry about my SAT scores.? When my senior year passed and everyone graduated and went off to their own college ,I started to wish I had done the same. My friends were living away, meeting new people, discovering new places, and I was living at home and driving to and from class every day. It seemed exactly like high school. I hated it! I thought college was supposed to be different! Why didn’t I take more time to research colleges and do the same? I ended up loving college and wishing I had four years to enjoy the campus atmosphere instead of two.? My advice to anyone thinking about attending college is to think about it very seriously and look into all of your choices well ahead of time. Now I have graduated and I am working full time and I would do anything to go back to my high school days for a second chance! 29．Why didn’t the author worry about his SAT scores??

A．He had a gift for dance..



B．He wanted to go to community college



C．He was well prepared for the exam.



D．He believed his brother would help him.



30．When in high school, the author??????????.

A．buried himself in his study all the time



B．lived in the school except on holidays



C．enjoyed talking about future college life



D．drove to and from class every day



31．What did the author’s brother mean by “Enjoy your four years…, they go by fast.”?

A．He advised the author to value the years.



B．He encouraged the author to leave his comfort zone.



C．He wished the author to have more dance.



D．He suggested the author aim at a community college.



32．Talking of his high school years, the author feels???????.

A．Lonely

B． regretful

C．angry

D．pleased





D

Time and how we experience it have always puzzled us. Physicists have created fascinating theories, but their time is measured by a pendulum（钟摆）and is not psychological time, which leaps with little regard to the clock or calendar. As someone who understood the difference remarked, “When you sit with a nice girl for two hours it seems like a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove, a minute seems like two hours.”

Psychologists have long noticed that larger units of time, such as months and years, fly on swifter wings as we age. They also note that the more time is structured with schedules and appointments, the more rapidly it seems to pass．For example, a day at the office flies compared with a day at the beach. Since most of us spend fewer days at the beach and more at the office as we age, an increase in structured tune could well be to blame for why time seems to speed up as we grow older．

Expectation and familiarity also make time seem to flow more rapidly. Almost all of us have had the experience of driving somewhere we’ve never been before. Surrounded by unfamiliar scenery, with no real idea of when we’ll arrive, we experience the trip as lasting a long time. But the return trip, although exactly as long, seems to take far less time. The unfamiliarity of the journey has become routine. Thus taking a different route on occasion can often help slow the clock.

When days become as identical as beads（小珠子）on a string, they mix together, and even months become a single day. To fight this, try to find ways to interrupt the structure of your day—to stop time. Learning something new is one of the ways to slow the passage of time. One of the reasons the days of our youth seems so full and long is that these are the days of learning and discovery. For many of us, learning ends when we leave school, but this doesn’t have to be.

33. The quotation（引用语） in the first paragraph is used to indicate ______.

A. physical time is different from psychological time

B. time should not be measured by a pendulum

C. psychological time is quite puzzling

D. physical theory has nothing to do with the true sense of time

35. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. It gives various explanations about time.

B. It explains why time flies fast and how to slow it down psychologically.

C. It shows the different ideas of physicists and psychologists on time.

D. It describes how we experience time psychologically.

第二节(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

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