1 . 我强烈要求你雇用一位导游，这是详细了解故宫的好方式。（汉译英）
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2 . New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that “stressed poetry”, the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was already in use in the 2nd century CE, 300 years earlier than previously thought. It has been found sculpted on twenty precious stones and as a graffito (雕画) in Cartagena, Spain.

In its shortest version, the nameless four-line poem reads “They say what they like; let them say it; I dont care.” Other versions extend with “Go on, love me; it does you good.” The poem, unparalleled (绝无仅有的) so far in the classical world, consists of lines of 4 syllables (音节), with a strong accent on the first and a weaker on the third. This allows it to come into the rhythms of numerous pop and rock songs. So it became popular across the eastern Roman Empire and survives.

By comparing all of the known examples for the first time, Cambridges Professor Tim Whitmarsh noticed that the poem used a different form of rhythm to that usually found in ancient Greek poetry. As well as showing signs of the long and short syllables characteristic of traditional “quantitative” poem, this text employed stressed and unstressed syllables. The new study, published in The Cambridge Classical Journal, also suggests that this poem could represent a “missing link” between the lost world of ancient Mediterranean oral poetry and song, and the more modern forms that we know today. A lot of popular poetry in ancient Greek takes a similar form to traditional high poetics. This poem, on the other hand, points to a distinct and rich culture, primarily oral.

1. Where was the “stressed poetry” discovered?

A．In Greece.	B．In Spain.
C．In Britain.	D．In Mediterranean.

2. What does “it” in paragraph 2 refer to?

A．A syllable.	B．A strong accent.
C．The four-line poem.	D．The content of the poem.

3. What can be learned from the last paragraph?

A．A missing link between poems was found finally.

B．A lot of popular poetry in ancient Greek was then popular in the world.

C．The stressed and unstressed syllables distinguished the poem from others.

D．The ancient Mediterranean oral poetry and song was older than the poem.

4. Whats the best title for the text?

A．Ancient Greek “pop culture” discovery rewrites the history of poetry and song

B．The unparalleled poem made ancient Greek culture more attractive

C．Ancient Greek poetry lay the foundation of modern culture

D．Four syllables are still popular in modern poetry and song

3 . 我们几乎就要签合同了，可就在这时对方那些家伙又出了难题，说他们得加价。
We’d almost signed the contract when the other guys________________and said they wanted more money.

4 . Being a social butterfly just might change your brain: In people with a large network of friends and excellent social skills, certain brain regions are bigger and _______ connected than in people with fewer friends, a new study finds.

The research suggests a _______ between social interactions and brain structure. “We’re interested in how your brain is able to allow you to _______ the right way in complex social environments,” Mary Ann Noonan said, a neuroscientist (神经学家) at Oxford University. Studies in monkeys have shown that brain areas involved in face processing and in predicting the _______ of others are larger in animals living in large social groups than in ones living in smaller groups.

To investigate these brain _______ in humans, Noonan and her colleagues found 18 participants for a structural brain-imaging study. They asked people how many _______ they had experienced in the past month, in order to determine the size of their social networks. As was the case in monkeys, some brain areas were _______ and better connected in people with larger social networks. “These different brain regions are all singing _______ songs,” Noonan said. “ _______ areas are all singing the same song, and when they’re connected better, they’re singing more harmoniously with each other.”

The researchers also tested whether the size of a person’s social network was connected with ________ in white-matter pathways, the nerve fibers (纤维) that connect different brain regions. ________ , they found that white-matter pathways were better connected in people with bigger social networks. “The nerves were more like a Los Angeles freeway than a ________ road,” Noonan said.

The researchers couldn’t say whether social interaction ________ these changes in brain structure and connectivity, or whether the brain determined how social someone was. In the case of the monkeys, the researchers asked and wrote down the size of the animals’ social network, so they ________ that social-group size was causing the brain differences. It can be inferred that a similar process takes place in human brains, but to prove the ________ , long-term studies are needed, Noonan told Live Science.

1.

A．better

B．more directly

C．less closely

D．worse

2.

A．conflict

B．similarity

C．link

D．contrast

3.

A．tell

B．show

C．ask

D．find

4.

A．intentions

B．preferences

C．behaviors

D．habits

5.

A．structures

B．highlights

C．differences

D．origins

6.

A．academic difficulties

B．social interactions

C．personal problems

D．career advances

7.

A．removed

B．adapted

C．replaced

D．enlarged

8.

A．joyful

B．familiar

C．inspirational

D．distinct

9.

A．Networked

B．Remote

C．Respective

D．Functional

10.

A．positions

B．changes

C．roles

D．compositions

11.

A．However

B．Again

C．Therefore

D．Rather

12.

A．urban

B．smooth

C．twisty

D．country

13.

A．minimized

B．drove

C．eliminated

D．demonstrated

14.

A．assumed

B．rejected

C．concluded

D．announced

15.

A．causality

B．feasibility

C．productivity

D．effectiveness

5 . The Importance of Handwriting is Becoming Better Understood

As primary-school pupils and PhD hopefuls return for a new school year, many will study with reliance on computers to take notes and write papers.     1    University professors complain of rampant distractions in classrooms, with students reading and messaging instead of listening to lectures.

    2     Studies have found that writing on paper can improve everything from recalling a random series of words to imparting a better conceptual grasp of complicated ideas.

The benefits of using a pen or pencil lie in how the motor and sensory memory of putting words on paper reinforces that material. The arrangement of squiggles (涂鸦) on a page feeds into visual memory.     3    

One of the best-demonstrated advantages of writing by hand seems to be in superior note-taking.When primary-school pupils and PhD hopefuls take notes, handwriting forces students to synthesise (合成) ideas into their own words. This aids conceptual understanding at the moment of writing.     4    

Many studies have confirmed handwriting’s benefits, and policymakers have taken note. Though America’s “Common Core” curriculum from 2010 does not require handwriting instruction past first grade (roughly age six), about half the states since then have required more teaching of it, thanks to campaigning by researchers and handwriting supporters.     5     England’s national curriculum already prescribes teaching the rudiments of cursive by age seven.

A．However, note-taking by hand takes longer time.

B．One solution to the complaints may be handwriting.

C．A line of research shows the benefits of computers replacing handwriting.

D．Some parents are disturbed that their children are playing games on laptops in class.

E．And those taking notes by hand also perform better on tests when they review notes.

F．In Sweden there is a push for more handwriting and printed books and fewer devices.

G．People might remember a word they wrote down in class as being at the bottom-left on a page.

6 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Educating Psyche(心灵)

Educating Psyche by Bernie Neville is a book which looks at radical new approaches to learning, describing the effects of emotion, imagination and unconsciousness on learning. One theory discussed in the book is    1    (propose)by George Lozanov, which focuses on the power of suggestion.

Lozanov’s instructional technique is based on the evidence that the connections made in the brain through unconscious processing are more durable than    2    made through conscious processing. Besides the laboratory evidence for this, we know from our experience that we often remember what we have perceived peripherally, long after we    3    (forget)what we set out to learn. If we think of a book we studied months or years ago, we    4    (find)it easier to recall minor details—the colour, the typeface, the table at the library where we sat while studying it—than the content on which we were concentrating. Even if these details are a bit elusive, they come back readily in hypnosis or    5    we relive the event imaginatively, as in psychodrama. The details of the content of the lecture, on the other hand, seem    6    (go)forever. This phenomenon can be partly attributed to the common counterproductive approach to study,     7    it also simply reflects the way the brain functions. Lozanov therefore made indirect instruction(suggestion)central to his teaching system. In suggestopedia(暗示教学法), as he called his method, consciousness    8    (shift)away from the curriculum to focus on something minor. The curriculum then is dealt with by the reserved capacity of the brain.

The suggestopedic approach to foreign language learning provides a good illustration.     9    suggestopedia has gained some notoriety through success in the teaching of modern languages, few teachers are able to emulate the spectacular results of Lozanov. We    10    , perhaps, attribute ordinary results to an inadequate “suggestion“ effect. The students have not developed the appropriate mind set. They are often not motivated to learn through this method. They do not have enough “faith”. They do not see it as “real teaching”.

7 . Driverless Automobiles-The Car That Parks Itself

Autonomous vehicles are arriving piecemeal, as more and more driving tasks are taken out of human hands. CARS that need no driver are just around the corner according to Google, which has been testing vehicles bristling with aerials and cameras on public roads in America. But Google does not make cars, so it will be up to firms that do to bring the _________ to market. And carmakers are a conservative bunch. Still, slowly and _________ the autonomous car will arrive, with the help of an increasing number of automated driving aids.

Volvo recently _________ one such feature: a car that really does park itself. Some cars already have systems that assist with parking, but these are not completely autonomous. They can _________ an empty parallel-parking space and steer into it while the driver uses the brake. The Volvo system, however, lets the driver get out and use a smartphone application to _________ the vehicle to park, then sends a message to the driver to inform him where it is. The driver can collect the car _________ or use his phone to call it back to where he dropped it off. Autonomous parking could thus be provided at places like shopping centres and airports, which are controlled areas in which automated vehicles can be _________ more easily than on open highways.

In the past, _________ for doing this have relied on car parks being fitted with buried guide wires that a vehicle can follow to an empty bay. That, _________, creates a chicken-and-egg problem: car-park operators will not invest in such infrastructure until there is a(an)__________ number of suitably equipped cars on the road. Drivers, conversely, will not want to buy self-parking cars if there is nowhere to use them. This means, as Mikael Thor, a Volvo safety engineer working on the project, __________, that for autonomous parking to work most of the technology will have to be in the car itself.

The Volvo test car, which looks like a(an) __________ car, therefore uses on-board GPS mapping, cameras with image-recognition software, and radar sensors to find its own way around a car park and __________ pedestrians and non-autonomous vehicles. Mr. Thor says the system is five to ten years from commercial deployment. If it proves a success then infrastructure might __________ it.

Driverless cars would also need to communicate with one another, to __________ safety. That, too, is coming. A number of carmakers are developing wireless networking systems through which vehicles can exchange data, such as their speed, their steering angle and even their weight, to forewarn anti-collision systems and safety devices if an accident looks likely.

1.

A．benefit

B．technology

C．reality

D．priority

2.

A．steadily

B．suddenly

C．surprisingly

D．necessarily

3.

A．delivered

B．transported

C．demonstrated

D．eliminated

4.

A．appoint

B．purchase

C．exchange

D．identify

5.

A．expect

B．instruct

C．advise

D．forbid

6.

A．in person

B．in advance

C．in general

D．in all

7.

A．forced

B．possessed

C．launched

D．managed

8.

A．prices

B．locations

C．designs

D．figures

9.

A．besides

B．though

C．likewise

D．furthermore

10.

A．limited

B．different

C．unsustainable

D．sufficient

11.

A．observes

B．experiences

C．suspects

D．assumes

12.

A．unique

B．original

C．imaginary

D．normal

13.

A．appoint

B．avoid

C．appreciate

D．advocate

14.

A．object to

B．stick to

C．adapt to

D．apply to

15.

A．escape

B．exclude

C．enhance

D．engage

8 . 【例】My mother was putting her groceries into shopping bags when a stranger came up to her.
【仿】在开车去伦敦的时候我突然发现我走错了路。（汉译英）

9 . Use the words in the box to complete the following excerpt from a student’s speech.

commit            bounce around            rather than            come to a conclusion          define in common            radium            had a great influence on

Probably everyone dreams of having a great career, but first let’s     1    what this means. When thinking about what makes a career great, many ideas may    2     in your head, such as the desire for money, power, or fame. Different people might have different opinions about this, but wouldn’t it be kind of greedy to focus on money and fame     3    on something more meaningful? Please close your eyes and think of someone professional and successful. It could be a famous entrepreneur, a great leader, a scientist or an artist, or a teacher who     4    you. My choice would be Marie Curie, who discovered     5    . For me, she is great not just because she was world-famous, but because she made great contributions to mankind. Being a female scientist was much less common in her time, but in spite of this she devoted her life to her career. So I    6     that if you want a great career, you need to     7    yourself to something meaningful. I believe all great careers have this    8    .

10 . 句型公式: The reason why +定语从句 + is / was that + 表语从句
The biggest reason ______________ he loves China, however, ______________ he enjoys being with Chinese people.   
然而，他喜欢中国的最大原因是他喜欢与中国人待在一起。（根据汉语提示完成句子）