1 . When I am about to go ______ a plane to go ______, I often think of a funny joke told by my dad.

A．abroad, aboard

B．board, broad

C．aboard, board

D．aboard, abroad

4 . 阅读下面短文，并根据短文后的要求答题(请注意问题后的字数要求)。

In a recent business magazine article, a president said, laughter in the workplace is a waste of time. This is a place to do business, not to laugh. Some researchers, however, disagree with his words. As scientists have learned more about the brain, they’ve discovered that smiles and laughter stimulate(刺激)the brain, which can help increase happiness and reduce pain.

Why do we need laughter in our lives? Laughter is a powerful tool for our health. In a number of studies, that were carried out, it was shown that people who are more humorous have stronger immune systems (免疫系统) while people who feel stressed have weaker immune systems. Humor can help make your immune systems stronger.

Here are some tips to add more humor to your life:

Laugh at yourself. Don’t take yourself too seriously. Have a positive attitude towards yourself and your worries will become lighter too.

Don’t worry when people laugh — just appreciate it. Be funny. Look for the humorous side of and otherwise difficult situation.

Prepare a first-aid laughter source. This could include books, cartoons, CDs or videos. Write down the amusing things that happen and save them for a sad day.

Be open to silly things. Humor is the child within yourself. Laugh with others for what they do, rather than what they are.

Research has shown that laughter is indeed the best medicine, so make time for humor now.

1. What is the best title for this passage?(No more than 8 words)
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2. List two suggestions that might help you add humor to your life according to the passage.(No more than 10 words)
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3. Find a sentence in the passage which can be replaced by the following one.
Scientists have found that smiles and laughter have an effect on the brains, and it can help increase happiness and reduce pain.
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4. Please explain the underlined word “stressed” in English.(No more than 4 words)
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5. According to the passage, why humor can help people be healthy?(No more than 15 words)
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5 . Give the Senate (参议院) some credit in shaping the current immigration reform bill, it has come up with one idea that almost everyone hates. That’s the plan to create a new class of “guest workers”— immigrants who would be allowed to work in the U.S. for three two-year stretches, at most, provided that they return home to say for a year after each visit. Conservatives dislike the plan because they believe that the guest workers won’t return home after their visas expire. Liberals dislike it because they believe the program will depress American wages and trap guest workers. The only supporters of the bill are businesses that rely heavily on immigrant labor, and they’re probably just looking out for themselves.

With the broader concern about the effect of illegal immigration, the hostility to the new plan is understandable. However imperfect, the guest-worker program is better than any politically feasible alternative. Opponents of immigration sometimes imply that adding workers to a work-force automatically brings wages down. But immigrants tend to work in different industries than native workers, and have different skills, and so they often end up complementing (补充) native workers rather than competing with them. That can make native workers more productive and therefore better off.

According to a recent study by the economists Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri, immigration actually boosted the wages of most American workers; its only negative effect was a small one, on the wages of workers without a high-school diploma And if by increasing the number of legal guest workers we reduced the number of undocumented workers, the economy would benefit even more.

Guest workers are also, paradoxically, less likely than illegal immigrants to become permanent residents. The U.S. already has a number of smaller and less plans routinely overstay their visas. One remarkable study found that after border enforcement was stepped up in 1993, the chance of an illegal immigrant returning to his homeland to stay fell by a third.

In fact, whatever benefits the guest-worker program brought to the U.S. economy or to particular businesses, the biggest winners would be the workers themselves. There are fear, if any, foreign-aid programs that do as much for people in developing countries as simply allowing them to work in U.S. legally. This program’s costs to American workers are insignificant, the gains for the guest workers are enormous, and the U.S. economy will benefit. This is that rare option which is both sensible and politically possible.

1. According to the passage the guest-worker program________.

A．allows immigrants to work in the U.S. for six continuous years

B．has aroused criticism from conservatives, liberals and the business world

C．will make local workers more productive as it brings fierce competition

D．is a sensible approach to resolving the illegal immigration problems

2. Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano & Giovanni Peri point out that immigration________.

A．is immune from negative effects

B．will root out undocumented laborers

C．has led to economic prosperity and social stability

D．has enhanced wages of most American workers

3. Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 4?

A．Illegal immigrants are more likely to stay permanently in the U.S. than guest worker

B．With stepped-up border control, illegal immigrants were more likely to stay in their homeland.

C．Workers in temporary-worker programs usually paid no attention to their visa direction.

D．Guest workers will not stay too long because of the enhanced border enforcement.

4. From the author’s analysis, who will probably NOT benefit from the guest workers’ bill?

A．The guest workers.	B．The native workers.
C．The illegal immigrants.	D．The businesses.

5. What is the author’s attitude towards guest workers’ plan?

A．Indifferent

B．Neutral

C．Favorable

D．Negative

6 . Nenad Sestan was working in his office one afternoon in 2019 when he heard his lab members whispering with excitement over a microscope. He realized something beyond their expectations was happening.

The researchers, at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, had found electrical activity in brains taken from dead pigs. With that shocking result, Sestan realized what had started as a side project to find ways to better preserve brain tissue for research had changed into a discovery that could redefine our understanding of life and death.

The excitement soon turned to concern, when the researchers thought they saw widespread, consistent electrical activity which can indicate consciousness. Sestan brought in a neurologist,   who determined the readout (信息读出) was actually an error, but the possibility had frightened them.

Sestan kept his cool and immediately did two things: he shut down the experiment and contacted the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), as well as Yale bioethicist (生物伦理学家). Over the next few months, experts discussed the potential ethical effects, such as whether the brains could become conscious and whether physicians needed to reconsider the definition of brain death.

They submitted the work to the “Nature”. But before the final paper was published: Sestan met sharp criticism from the press. Some even suggested the researchers were working on immortality (永生), or keeping a room full of living brains in jars. Neither he or his team wanted to discuss the results until the paper was out, but as their inboxes filled with concerns and anger from animal rights activists and futurists (未来主义者), Sestan became depressed. He felt all they could do, however, was to hold off on correcting public misunderstandings until the expert review process ended.

Since the paper was published in April, 2023, the team has been so busy with questions from the media and scientists that it hasn’t performed any further experiments. Sestan wants to focus on his original questions and explore how long the brains can be maintained and whether the technology can preserve other organs.

“We want to get outside opinion before we do anything.” Sestan says. “When you explore uncharted area, you have to be extremely thoughtful.”

1. What happened in the lab at Yale School of Medicine in 2019?

A．A better method was found to keep brain issue.

B．Researchers discovered how to redefine brain death.

C．Researchers achieved expected results of the experiment.

D．Brains from dead pigs were accidentally discovered alive.

2. Why did Nenad Sestan stop the experiment?

A．He needed assistance with the final paper.

B．He discovered a major mistake in the final result.

C．He was concerned about the related moral problems.

D．He was frightened by the possibility of failure in the future.

3. What was people’s reaction towards Nenad Sestan’s experiment?

A．Nobody wanted to discuss the final result in advance!

B．Some people supported the research on immortality.

C．The press was strongly opposed to the experiment.

D．The public took a positive attitude towards the experiment.

4. How could we best describe Nenad Sestan?

A．Responsible and reliable.	B．Professional and cautious
C．Helpful and creative.	D．Determined and inspiring.

5. What does the underlined word “uncharted” in the last paragraph mean?

A．Horrible.

B．Specific.

C．Developed.

D．Unknown.

10 . 尽管偶尔会为一些“蠢事”争吵，Alistair仍然觉得有个兄弟是一种优势。(despite;agree)(汉译英)