1 . The fourth round of heavy smog to hit Beijing in four weeks has sent more people to the hospital with respiratory（呼吸的） illnesses and led to calls for laws to control the pollution.
Pan Shiyi, a celebrity real estate developer said he is planning to propose (提案) a Clean Air Act to the local government. As a representative to the Beijing Municipal People's Congress, he started an online survey at 9:20 a.m. Within three hours, more than 25,000 web users, or 99 percent of total respondents（应答者）, welcomed his proposal on Sina Weibo, China's Twitter.
They have good reasons to stand alongside Pan. The latest round of haze（雾霾）reduced visibility to under 500 meters in many parts of the city. The smog has also led to a great increase in respiratory illnesses, particularly among children and the elderly. Anxious parents and doctors almost all blame the smoggy air for the illnesses. Though most schoolchildren are home for the winter holidays, the bad air can easily move indoors. Besides, ordinary medical masks fail to provide adequate protection, so some people have turned to gas masks and respirators（呼吸器）.
The causes of the scary smog are rather mysterious, though experts blame excessive emissions and the mountains around Beijing that trap pollution in winter, unless there is adequate wind to clear it away. Some critics have pointed fingers at China’s top two oil firms, China National Petroleum Corp and China Petrochemical Corporation, saying the companies’ outdated production technologies produce large quantities of substandard, high-polluting gas fuel.
Meanwhile, concerned Beijingers have moved their brainstorming sessions to cyberspace. If Pan’s proposal for a Clean Air Act is adopted, netizens say the new law should include items providing for “car-free days” in times of smog, higher standards for vehicle fuel, stricter restrictions on industrial and exhaust gas emissions, and more effective protection for the public.
Beijing is not the only city that has ever lost the blue sky. Five days of thick fog caused thousands of deaths in Britain in December 1952, urging the government to pass the first Clean Air Act in 1956, which introduced smokeless zones and cleaner fuels to reduce pollution. That may provide some experience for Beijing to refer to.
1. What can we learn from the passage?

A．People are clear about the causes of the smoggy weather.

B．Children staying indoors will not get respiratory illnesses.

C．Smog is worse for people with lower resistance to diseases.

D．Masks can give people protection against the smoggy weather.

2. Britain is mentioned in the last paragraph to ______.

A．suggest Beijing should learn from other countries

B．let people know many places have this problem

C．tell people the situation in Britain is worse

D．call on the government to pass Britain’s Clean Air Act

3. What’s the best title for this passage？

A．The Use of Gas masks and Respirators

B．Beijingers Call for Clean Air Act

C．Effective Protection for Blue Sky

D．The Mysterious Causes of the Scary Smog

2 . 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。
What is a dream?
For centuries，people have wondered about the strange places that they seem to visit in their sleep.    1    However，they have been valued as necessary to a person’s health and happiness.
Historically people thought dreams contained messages from God. It was only in the twentieth century that people started to study dreams scientifically believing that they tell about a person’s character.    2    He believed that dreams allow a person to express fantasies or fears，which would be socially unacceptable in real life.
The second theory to become popular was Carl Jung’s compensation theory. Jung，a former student of Freud，said that the purpose of a dream is not to hide something，but rather to communicate it to the dreamer.    3    Thus，people who think too highly of themselves may dream about failing；those who think too little of themselves dream of being heroes.
Using more recent research，William Domhoff from the University of California found that dreaming is a mental skill that needs time to develop in humans.    4    Until they reach age five，they can not express very well what their dreams are about. Once people become adults，there is little or no change in their dreams. The dreams of men and women differ. For instance，the characters that appear in the dreams of men are often other men，and often involve physical aggression.
The meaning of dreams continues to be difficult to understand.    5    If you dream that a loved one is going to die，do not panic. The dream may have meaning，but it does not mean that your loved one is going to die.

A．Dreams make up for what is lacking in waking life.

B．However，people should not take their dreams as reality.

C．Dreams have been considered as meaningless nighttime journeys.

D．It gives scientists chances to better understand human mind.

E．Children do not dream as much as adults.

F．They think their mind is trying to tell them something.

G．First，there was Sigmund Freud’s theory.

3 . How the iron of tomorrow (the first Self Clean Iron)can change your lifestyle today?
General Electric introduces the iron of tomorrow. The iron can clean itself, inside where irons get dirty. Because it cleans itself each and every time you empty it.
How? With a push of a magic blue button.
The magic blue button
The first thing you’ll notice that’s different about this iron is the blue button on the side. It’s marked “Self Clean”. Push this blue button, and you can wash out loose mineral deposits that remain and block up inside. Push this button, and you’ve made life a lot easier.
Less chance of brown spots
Sure, Self Cleaning Iron is going to cut down on brown spots. (Those ugly spots that happen on nice, cleanly pressed clothes.) Because a Self Cleaning Iron becomes clean each time you press that magic blue button.
Steams much longer
Common sense tells you that if you’ve an iron that blocks less often it has to stay younger for a long period of time. In other words, it steams much longer. That’s another joy of owning General Electric’s Self Cleaning Iron.
What does it mean to you
Today you are doing so much more than just running a house and running after the kids.
You’re working. You’re going to school. It’s all part of your lifestyle. The iron can change that lifestyle. By giving you less trouble before you iron. If we can make it easier for you to be a better wife, a better mother, a better housemaker, we want to. The new Self Cleaning Iron is another one of Home-Makers from General Electric.
Lifestyle.
We’re with yours.
GENERAL ELECTRIC
1. This passage is ______.

A．an introduction to General Electric

B．an operating instruction of Self Cleaning Iron

C．an advertisement of Self Cleaning Iron

D．a description of the change of lifestyle

2. This iron can clean itself by ______.

A．empting itself

B．washing out mineral deposits

C．blocking up mineral deposits

D．giving off more steam

3. According to the passage, what is most likely to attract the customers?

A．It is made by General Electric.

B．The iron will not produce mineral deposits.

C．There will be fewer brown spots on pressed clothes.

D．Their clothes will be cleaned at the same time.

4. Self Cleaning Iron can help change your lifestyle because ______.

A．you can run your house better

B．you don’t have to run after the kids

C．you can use it while you are working

D．we want you to be a better housemaker

4 . Ask someone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recycling．Recycling in the home is very important of course．However, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need．We are dealing with the results of ___________in the greenest way possible, but it would be far better if we did not need to bring so much material home in the first place．
The total amount of packaging has increased by 12% between 1999 and 2005．It now makes up a third of a typical household’s waste in the UK．In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with plastic and cardboard．
Too much packaging is doing serious damage to the environment．The UK, for example, is running out of it for burying this unnecessary waste．If such packaging is burnt, it gives off greenhouse gases which go on to cause the greenhouse effect．Recycling helps, but the process itself uses energy．The solution is not to produce such items in the first place．Food waste is a serious problem, too．Too many supermarkets encourage customers to buy more than they need．However, few of them are coming round to the idea that this cannot continue, encouraging customers to reuse their plastic bags, for example．
But this is not just about supermarkets．It is about all of us．We have learned to associate packaging with quality．We have learned to think that something unpackaged is of poor quality．This is especially true of food．But it is also applied to a wide range of consumer products, which often have far more packaging than necessary．
There are signs of hope．As more of us recycle, we are beginning to realize just how much unnecessary materials are collected．We need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture, but we have a mountain to climb．
1. What does the underlined phrase “that over-consumption” refer to?

A．Using too much packaging．

B．Recycling too many wastes．

C．Making more products than necessary．

D．Having more material than is needed．

2. The author uses figures in Paragraph 2 to show ___________．

A．the tendency of cutting household waste

B．the increase of packaging recycling

C．the rapid growth of supermarkets

D．the fact of packaging overuse

3. According to the text, recycling ___________．

A．helps control the greenhouse effect

B．means burning packaging for energy

C．is the solution to gas shortage

D．leads to a waste of land

4. What can be inferred from Paragraph 4?

A．Unpackaged products are of bad quality．

B．Supermarkets care more about packaging．

C．It is improper to judge quality by packaging．

D．Other products are better packaged than food．

5. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．Fighting wastefulness is difficult．

B．Needless material is mostly recycled．

C．People like collecting recyclable wastes．

D．The author is proud of their consumer culture．

5 . Recently I spoke to some of my students about what they wanted to do after they graduated, and what kind of job prospects they thought they had.
Given that I teach students who are training to be doctors, I was surprised to find that most thought that they would not be able to get the jobs they wanted without “outside help”. “What kind of help is that?” I asked, expecting them to tell me that they would need a relative or family friend to help them out.
“Surgery(外科手术)”, one replied. I was pretty alarmed by that response. It seems that the graduates of today are increasingly willing to go under the knife to get ahead of others when it comes to getting a job. One girl told me that she was considering surgery to increase her height. “They break your legs, put in special extending screws, and slowly expand the gap between the two ends of the bone as it regrows, you can get at least 5cm taller!”
At that point, I was shocked. I am short, I can’t deny that, but I don’t think I would put myself through months of agony(痛苦) just to be a few centimeters taller. I don’t even bother to wear shoes with thick soles, as I’m not trying to hide the fact that I am just not tall!
It seems to me that there is a trend toward wanting “perfection”, and that is an ideal that just does not exist in reality.
No one is born perfect, yet magazines, TV shows and movies present images of thin, tall, beautiful people as being the norm. Advertisements for slimming aids, beauty treatments and cosmetic surgery clinics fill the pages of newspapers, further creating an idea that “perfection” is a requirement, and that it must be purchased, no matter what the cost. In my opinion, skills, rather than appearance, should determine how successful a person is in his chosen career.
1. We can know from the passage that the author works as ________.

A．a doctor

B．a model

C．a teacher

D．a reporter

2. Many graduates today turn to cosmetic surgery to ________.

A．marry a better man\woman	B．become a model
C．get an advantage over others in job-hunt	D．attract more admirers

3. According to the passage, the author believes that ________.

A．everyone should purchase perfection, whatever the cost

B．it’s right for graduates to ask for others to help them out in hunting for jobs

C．it is one’s appearance instead of skills that really matters in one’s career

D．media are to blame for misleading young people in their seeking for surgery

4. What does the author think of his height?

A．He hates to be called a short man.

B．He tries to increase his height through surgery.

C．He just accepts it as it is.

D．He always wears shoes with thick soles to hide the fact.

5. The best title for the passage should be “________”.

A．Young Graduates Have Higher Expectation

B．Young Graduates Look to Surgery for Better Jobs

C．Young Graduates’ Opinion About Cosmetic Surgery

D．Young Graduates Face a Different Situation in Job-hunt

6 . A programmer and an engineer are sitting next to each other on a long flight from Los Angeles to New York. The programmer leans over to the engineer and asks if he would like to play a fun game. The engineer just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines and rolls over to the window to catch a few winks.
The programmer persists and explains that the game is really easy and has a lot of fun. He explains, “I ask you a question, and if you don’t know the answer, you pay me $5. Then you ask me a question, and if I don’t know the answer, I’ll pay you $5.” Again, the engineer politely refuses and tries to get to sleep.
The programmer, now somewhat agitated, says, “OK, if you don’t know the answer you pay me $5, and if I don’t know the answer, I’ll pay you $50!” This catches the engineer’s attention, and he sees no end to this torment(折磨) unless he plays, so he agrees to the game.
The programmer asks the first question. “What’s the distance from the earth to the moon?” The engineer doesn’t say a word, but reaches into his wallet, pulls out a five dollar bill and hands it to the programmer. Now, it’s the engineer’s turn. He asks the programmer, “What goes up a hill with three legs, and comes down on four?” The programmer looks up at him with a puzzled look. He takes out his laptop computer and searches all of his references. After about an hour, he wakes the engineer and hands him $50. The engineer politely takes the $50 and turns away to try to get back to sleep. The programmer, more than a little miffed, shakes the engineer and asks, “Well, so what’s the answer?” Without a word, the engineer reaches into his wallet, hands the programmer $5, and turns away and goes back to sleep.
1. What’s the best title for the passage?

A．A Boring Conversation	B．A Fun Game
C．A Trick During The Flight	D．A Question Without Answer

2. What’s the meaning of the underlined work “agitated”?

A．Angry.

B．Excited.

C．Surprised.

D．Curious.

3. What kind of person is the programmer according to what he said?

A．Confident.

B．Selfish.

C．Greedy.

D．Generous.

4. What can we infer according to the last sentence?

A．The engineer has little money with him.

B．Actually the engineer doesn’t know the answer, either.

C．The engineer is bored with programmer.

D．The engineer beats the programmer at last.

5. Which is NOT true according to the passage?

A．In the beginning the engineer is not interested in the game.

B．The engineer is too sleepy to want to play the game.

C．At last the engineer gains $45 from the programmer.

D．Nobody knows the answer to the engineer’s question.

7 . Our brains work in complex and strange ways.There are some people who can calculate the day of the week for any given date in 40,000 years, but who cannot add two plus two.Others can perform complex classical piano pieces after hearing them once, but they cannot read or write.

Dr.J.Langdon Down first described this condition in 1887.He called these people idiot savants.An idiot savant is a person who has significant mental impairment （损伤）, such as in autism ( 孤独症，自闭症) or retardation.At the same time, the person also exhibits some extraordinary skills, which are unusual for most people.The skills of the savant may vary from being exceptionally gifted in music or in mathematics, or having a photographic memory.

One of the first descriptions of a human who could calculate quickly was written in 1789 by Dr.Benjamin Rush, an American doctor.His patient, Thomas Fuller, was brought to Virginia as a slave in1724.It took Thomas only 90 seconds to work out that a man who has lived 70 years, 17 days, and 12 hours has lived 2,210,500,800 seconds.Despite this ability, he died in 1790 without ever learning to read or write.

Another idiot savant slave became famous as a pianist in the 1860s.Blind Tom had a vocabulary of only 100 words, but he played 5 ,000 musical pieces beautifully.

In the excellent movie Rain Man, made in 1988 and available on video cassette, Dustin Hoffman plays an idiot savant who amazes his brother played by Tom Cruise, with his ability to perform complex calculations very rapidly.

Today we more clearly recognize that the idiot savant is special because of brain impairment.Yet not all brain impairment leads to savant skills.Some studies have shown that people who have purposeful interruption of the left side of the brain can develop idiot savant skills.However few people wish to participate in such experiments.There are many excellent reasons for not undergoing unnecessary experimentation on one’s brain. The term idiot savant is outdated and inappropriate.Virtually all savants have a high degree of intelligence and are thus not idiots.

1. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．Idiot savants have areas of outstanding abilities.

B．Human Beings have complicated thinking process.

C．The brains of the idiot savants are partly impaired.

D．The reasons why people have wonderful skills vary.

2. Which of the following can be done by Dustin Hoffman?

A．He can play wonderful pieces of classical music.

B．He can guess out exactly the length of a man’s life.

C．He can memorize the contents of the pictures fast.

D．He can count matches dropped on the floor quickly.

3. What can you infer from the passage?

A．Idiot savants have real talents for art and math.

B．Dr.Down is the first person who found idiot savants.

C．Few people wish to risk becoming savants by brain operations.

D．Intentional left brain impairments will surely lead to idiot savants.

4. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．brain impairment is a kind of incurable disease

B．the idiot savant may result from the purposeful interruption of the brain

C．experiments on one’s brain are harmful

D．idiot savants are actually very clever in certain fields

8 . Not too long ago, an incident that happened at Walt Disney touched me greatly. A guest _______ out of our Polynesian Village resort(度假胜地) at Walt Disney was asked how she _______ her visit. She told the front-desk clerk she had had a(n) _______ vacation, but was heartbroken about _______ several rolls of Kodak color film(柯达胶卷) she had not yet _______. At that moment she was particularly _______ over the loss of the pictures she had shot at our Polynesian Luau, _______ this was a memory she especially treasured.

Now, please understand that we have no written service rules _______ lost photos in the park. _______, the clerk at the front desk ________   Disney’s idea of caring for our ________. She asked the woman to leave her a couple rolls of ________ film, promising she would try her best to make up for her loss.

Two weeks later the guest received a ________ at her home. In it were photos of all the actors of our show, ________ signed by each performer. There were also ________ of the public procession (游行队伍) and fireworks in the park, taken by the front-desk clerk in her own ________ after work. I happened to know this ________ because this guest wrote us a letter. She said that ________ in her life had she received such good service from any business.

Excellent ________ does not come from policy(政策性的) handbooks. It comes from people who ________ —and from a culture that encourages and models that attitude.

1.

A．working

B．checking

C．trying

D．staying

2.

A．expected

B．realized

C．paid

D．enjoyed

3.

A．disappointing

B．wonderful

C．uncomfortable

D．important

4.

A．taking

B．dropping

C．losing

D．breaking

5.

A．developed

B．taken

C．washed

D．produced

6.

A．silly

B．nervous

C．calm

D．sad

7.

A．when

B．where

C．as

D．which

8.

A．covering

B．finding

C．making

D．keeping

9.

A．Excitedly

B．Fortunately

C．Therefore

D．Quietly

10.

A．understood

B．reminded

C．trusted

D．discovered

11.

A．workers

B．guests

C．managers

D．clerks

12.

A．printed

B．shot

C．unused

D．recorded

13.

A．film

B．card

C．camera

D．packet

14.

A．frequently

B．personally

C．alone

D．actually

15.

A．rules

B．pictures

C．handbooks

D．performances

16.

A．case

B．work

C．time

D．position

17.

A．story

B．place

C．photo

D．show

18.

A．only

B．almost

C．never

D．nearly

19.

A．advice

B．experience

C．quality

D．service

20.

A．care

B．serve

C．like

D．know

9 . Discover

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Self

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1. Which of the following magazines is published monthly?

A．Discover

B．Self

C．InStyle

D．Wired

2. Which two magazines are published by the same publisher?

A．Wired and InStyle

B．Discover and InStyle

C．Self and Discover

D．Self and Wired

3. Which magazine offers the biggest price cut?

A．InStyle

B．Wired

C．Discover

D．Self

4. The “Style Lab” in Self provides readers with articles which _____.

A．offer advice to ordinary women on clothes

B．show how a woman can become famous

C．introduce places with the best food

D．discuss ways of training models

5. Those who are interested in management and the use of high technology would probably choose _____.

A．InStyle

B．Self

C．Wired

D．Discover

10 . 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21-40各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. These things come to represent, in fact, what I call __21__and love.
I don’t remember my father ever getting into a swimming tool. But he did __22__the water. Any kind of __23__ride seemed to give him pleasure. __24__he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.
But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father did. I liked being __25__the water, moving through it, __26__it all around me. I was not a strong __27__, or one who learned to swim early, for I had my __28__. But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father’s office and __29__those summer days with my father, who __30__ come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the __31__person not in swimsuit.
After swimming, I would go __32__ his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me __33__anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk __34__ he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn’t be playing with his _35__. But my father always __36__and said easily, “Oh, no, it’s __37__.” Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get __38__ an ice cream…
A poet once said, “We look at life once, in childhood,; the rest is __39__.” And I think it is not only what we “look at once, in childhood” that determines our memories, but __40__, in that childhood, look at us.1.

A．desire

B．joy

C．anger

D．worry

2.

A．avoid

B．refuse

C．praise

D．love

3.

A．boat

B．bus

C．train

D．bike

4.

A．But

B．Then

C．And

D．Still

5.

A．on

B．off

C．by

D．in

6.

A．having

B．leaving

C．making

D．getting

7.

A．swimmer

B．rider

C．walker

D．runner

8.

A．hopes

B．faiths

C．rights

D．fears

9.

A．spending

B．saving

C．wasting

D．ruining

10.

A．should

B．would

C．had to

D．ought to

11.

A．next

B．only

C．other

D．last

12.

A．away from

B．out of

C．by

D．inside

13.

A．put up

B．break down

C．play with

D．work out

14.

A．the moment

B．the first time

C．while

D．before

15.

A．fishing net

B．office things

C．wooden chair

D．lab equipment

16.

A．stood up

B．set out

C．showed up

D．turned out

17.

A．fine

B．strange

C．terrible

D．funny

18.

A．the student

B．the assistant

C．myself

D．himself

19.

A．memory

B．wealth

C．experience

D．practice

20.

A．which

B．who

C．what

D．whose