1 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词，或括号内单词的正确形式。

Paul Grisham returned home from his 13-month assignment in Antarctica in 1968,     1     his wallet didn’t. Grisham, 91, joined the Navy in 1948 as a weather technician before being shipped to the frozen continent    2     (work) as a meteorologist.

After five decades, Grisham was reunited with his wallet — which he forgot all about. Inside the wallet    3     (be) Grisham’s navy ID, driving license, a recipe, a tax with holding statement, and receipts for money orders sent to his wife. He was surprised by    4     young he looked at his old ID card that was put inside. “It brought back    5     (memory). Oh yeah, I had dark brown hair at that time,” the 91-year-old said    6     a laugh.

The recovered wallet    7     (find) by Stephen. Stephen saw the wallet in a shop and bought it. With the help of McKee’s organization, he saw    8     online post to help find the owner.     9     (lucky), Grisham and his wallet were together again. Grisham said that his time in Antarctica was “    10     (usual) and memorable.”   The temperature in the winter months would drop as low as -65 degrees.

2 . Norwood, a junior High School student, was driving three friends home in St. Petersburg, when another driver crashed into her from her left and made her car hit the tree. The impact jammed shut the driver’s side door, so Norwood climbed out the front window. Two of her friends managed to get out of the car unharmed, but her 16-year-old friend Zarria didn’t. She run back to the car only to find Zarria was just sitting there reactionless.

A lot of people started to gather around to see what was happening. Norwood started yelling, “Back up, back up, she needs space.” Norwood pulled Zarria out of the back seat, avoiding broken glass from the window. “That’s when I checked her pulse on her neck. I put my head against her chest, and I didn’t really hear nothing. So that’s when I just started doing CPR on her.” Norwood told the reporter. After the 30 compressions and two rescue breaths, Zarria regained consciousness. Ambulance quickly arrived and rushed her to the hospital to receive medical help.

When Miller, Norwood’s high school teacher, learned that Norwood saved a friend just   one day after completing CPR training, she was at a loss of words and so proud. Norwood participates in the school’s Athletic Lifestyle Management Academy (ALMA). The program prepares students for various careers in health science. “We do vital signs and they learn how to take blood pressure and check pulse.” Miller introduced. And another one of the skills learned is CPR. “There are two components, a hands-on skills component where they have to demonstrate that they’re able to do CPR well, and then there’s a written test component, showing that they remember that knowledge.”

Thanks to Norwood’s quick thinking, Zarria is recovering well. She also isn’t surprised by her friend’s actions. “She will always help any way she can, so I wasn’t really shocked about that.”

1. What happened to Norwood and her friends on their way home?

A．They lost their way.	B．They suffered a car accident.
C．They crashed into another car.	D．They were stuck in a traffic jam.

2. What did Norwood do first when finding Zarria reactionless?

A．To give her first aid.	B．To ask people for help.
C．To call ambulance at once.	D．To send her to hospital immediately.

3. What can we infer about the ALMA?

A．It normally lasts for one day.

B．It is for medical students only.

C．It focuses on both theory and practice.

D．It trains students to live a healthy lifestyle.

4. Which of the following can best describe Norwood?

A．Considerate and flexible.	B．Kind and ambitious.
C．Hardworking and clever.	D．Brave and calm.

3 . Every year a community in some part of the world is destroyed by flooding. Indeed, flooding can happen anywhere it rains.There is hope, however. Architects and civil engineers have developed promising technologies for flood control. And yes, engineering can be beautiful.

The Thames Barrier in England

The Thames Barrier is the second largest flood defence barrier in the world. Made of steel, water gates on the Thames Barrier are normally left open so ships can pass through. Then, as needed, the water gates shut to stop water flowing through and to keep the Thames River safe. The Thames Barrier   has 10 steel gates. The main gates stand as high as a 5-storey building.   Each main gate weighs 3,300 tonnes. The Thames Barrier gates were constructed between 1974 and 1984 and have been closed to prevent floods more than 100 times.

Red Sluice Gate in Japan

To protect areas on the coast and along Japan’s rapidly-flowing rivers, the nation’s engineers have developed a complex system of canals and flood-gate locks(水闸). Red Sluice Gate was designed in 1924 by a Japanese architect who also worked on the Panama Canal. It is powered by automated "water-drive" motors. Such motors don’t need electricity to run, so they aren’t affected by power failures that can occur during storms. It contributed greatly to preventing floods until 1982 when a new sluice gate was completed. The Red Sluice Gate was no longer used but remains an impressive sight.

The Hagestein Weir in the Netherlands

Completed in about 1960, the Hagestein Weir is one of three movable dams, along the Rhine River in the Netherlands. The Hagestein Weir has two enormous arched gates to control water and generate power. Spanning 54 meters, the gates are stored in the up position.   Dams and water barriers like Hagestein Weir have become models for water control engineers around the world.

MOSE in Venice

With its famous canals, Venice, Italy is a well-known watery city. Global warming threatens its very existence. Since the 1980s, officials have been pouring money into the MOSE project, a series of 78 barriers that can rise collectively or independently across the lagoon opening and curtail the rising waters of the Adriatic Sea.

1. What do we know about the Thames Barrier?

A．It is the largest water barrier in the world.

B．Its water gates are open at a normal time.

C．It took more than 10 years to construct.

D．Its ten water gates weigh 3,300 tonnes.

2. What is a special feature of Red Sluice Gate in Japan?

A．It is still in operation.

B．It still works with power cut.

C．It is the most impressive sight.

D．It was designed by an architect from Panama.

3. What is the common function of the 4 constructions?

A．To produce electricity.	B．To advance technology.
C．To promote tourism.	D．To control flood.

4 . In 1973, Mark Granovetter, a sociology professor at Stanford University, published a paper entitled The Strength of Weak Ties. It went on to become one of the most influential sociology papers of all time. Until then scholars had assumed that an individual’s well-being depended mainly on the quality of relationships with close friends and family. Granovetter showed that quantity matters, too. He categories a person’s social world as “strong ties” and “weak ties”. His central insight was that for new messages and ideas, weak ties are more important to us than strong ones. As Granovetter pointed out, the people whom we often talk to swim in the same pool of information as we do. We depend on acquaintances whom we see infrequently to bring us news of opportunities.

This was the idea behind the Pixar building, the design of which was made by Steve Jobs. The building has a large central hall through which all employees have to pass several times a day. Jobs wanted colleagues to run into each other, grab coffee and have a chat. He believed in the power of these seemingly random conversations to fire up creativity.

Encounters with weak ties can be good for our mental wellbeing, too. Gillian Sandstrom, a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Essex, investigated the extent to which people get happiness from weak-tie relationships. She found that on days when a participant had a greater number of casual interactions with weak ties — say, a neighbour, a member of yoga class – they experienced more happiness and a greater sense of belonging.

For all these reasons, we should continue to try and find ways to cultivate weak-tie relationships. Sandstrom adds that we can also engage in more weak-tie-style interactions with our strong ties. The goal is to let others know you are thinking of them without asking for a   great deal of time, energy or attention.

1. Why does Granovetter think weak ties are more important?

A．They are smaller in number.

B．They form same circle of friends.

C．They are sources of new information .

D．They are related to close friends and family.

2. Which of the following can be categorized as weak ties?

A．Neighbors.	B．Best friends.
C．Parents.	D．Husband or wife.

3. What is the function of the central hall in Pixar building?

A．It helps staff build friendship.

B．It allows staff to have a break.

C．It encourages staff to meet and chat.

D．It helps Jobs communicate with staff.

4. What does Sandstrom want to convey in the last paragraph?

A．We can develop weak ties into strong ties.

B．We should spend more time with strong ties.

C．We should balance weak ties with strong ties.

D．We can apply casual interactions to strong ties.

6 . It appears to fit with most people's experience: how Christmas seems to come around quicker every year? Questionnaires by psychologists have shown almost everyone feels time is passing faster now compared to when they were half or a quarter as old. Most strikingly, lots of experiment have shown that, when older people are asked to guess how long the time is, or to ‘reproduce’ the length of periods of time, they guess a shorter amount than younger people.

In 1877, Paul Janet suggested the proportional theory, where a child of 10 feels a year as I 10 of his whole life while a man of 50 as 1/50, so the subjective sense of the 50-year-old man is that: these are insignificant periods of time which gallop.

There are also biological theories. The speeding up of time is linked to how our metabolism (新陈代谢)gradually slows down as we grow olden Children's hearts beat faster than They breathe more quickly. With their blood flowing more quickly, their body clocks “cover” more time within the space of 24 hours than ours do as adults. On the other hand, older people are like clocks that run slower than normal, so that they lag behind, and cover less than 24 hours.

In the 1930s, the psychologist Hudson Hoagland found body temperature causes different perceptions of time. Once, when he looked after his ill wife, he noticed she complained he'd been away for a long time even if only away for a few moments. Therefore, Hoagland tested her perception of time at different temperatures, finding the higher her temperature, the more time seemed to slow down for her, and that raising a person's body temperature can slow down his sense of time passing by up to 20%.

Time doesn't necessarily have to speed up as we get older though. It depends on how live our lives, and how we relate to our experiences.

1. What do the questionnaires and experiments find?

A．Time now is shorter than before.

B．Aging makes people think slowly.

C．The old feel time flies faster than the young.

D．The old value time more than before.

2. What does the underlined word "gallop" in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Fly swiftly.	B．Pause briefly.
C．Move slowly.	D．Pass stably.

3. According to Hudson Hoagland, who may feel time go more slowly?

A．A kid with slower metabolism.	B．A child with low body temperature.
C．A grown-up feeling freezing.	D．An adult with a high fevel.

4. What is the best title for the passage?

A．How time flies!	B．To live a full life!
C．Why time passes at different speeds?	D．How to save more time?

7 . A boat floated peacefully on the crystal-blue water. “How fascinating! ” Antonio told to his friends, who shared a passion for diving. In the following diving, unfortunately, he was trapped with his friend, who shared the oxygen with Antonio but died afterwards. Antonio breathed hard on his mouthpiece, but there was nothing left.He started to scream and kept screaming until he had no voice. As hours passed and Antonio failed to surface, his other friends rushed for help.

Shortly the local divers came to rescue, but in vain. Years of experience told them, lost in the cave, one must be dead. They considered going back in but decided against it because of the incoming dark, the muddy water and the lack of help. Too risky.

Asked for help, Peter, a chief frogman, began to plan the next morning’s operations, knowing hurried preparation was deadly. He had narrow escapes from death. Each time, though, training and a cool head saved him. Suddenly, a thought struck him. "Who said he died? That guy may be alive!” The next morning, Peter was suited up. Before a dive, he prayed.

Antonio "dreamed” he was drowning. He forced himself awake but couldn't feel his body. He was too tired to feel scared. Entering the cave, Peter found Antonio. On touching him, a hand closed around his left wrist Peter knew the young man must be kept from panicking. Gently he passed his mouthpiece to Antonio. He heard Antonio take a couple of breaths before handing the mouthpiece back. Antonio was trying to share oxygen with him, Peter realized. How unbelievable was that, after 17 hours in this hole, his mind still stayed cool!

Antonio was treated in the nearest hospital. Doctors said he wouldn’t have survived more than another hour in the cave. When Peter finally climbed back into his car, he doubled up, sobbing. He felt he took part in a miracle. Somehow an unseen hand that had guided Antonio to a tiny air pocket in the cave guided him there too. Where he should have found death, he had met life.

1. How did Antonio feel in the cave?

A．Delighted.

B．Cautious.

C．Thrilled.

D．Scared.

2. Why did Peter decide not to operate immediately?

A．Because Antonio was believed to be dead.

B．Because the conditions were risky.

C．Because the hurried help couldn't help.

D．Because the local divers achieved nothing.

3. What can we infer from Paragraph 4?

A．Antonio didn't give in to the desperate situation.	B．Antonio had a dream of drowning.
C．Antonio longed to sleep tight.	D．Antonio pulled Peter down with him.

4. What made Peter deeply touched in the end?

A．Antonio’s injury.	B．Humans' desire to survive.
C．Peter's own kindness.	D．Antonio's friend's death.