2 . For centuries, people have had a strong sense that it is absolutely beneficial to read fairy tales to children. However, the benefits might have been ____. Some researchers are reassessing this long-established belief and after years of surveys and observations, they are sending out the message: reading too much Cinderella to your daughter may ____ damage her in later life. A paper to be developed at the international congress of cognitive psychotherapy (认知心理疗法) suggests a link between the ____ of women abused (虐待) by their partners and early exposure to the wrong sort of fairy tales. It says girls who ____ Cinderella, Rapunzel and Beauty in Beauty and the Beast were more likely to stay in ____ relationships as adults.

The theory was developed by Susan Darker Smith, a psychotherapist at the University of Derby. She interviewed sixty-seven female abuse survivors and found that sixty-one ____severe abuse because they believed they could change their partners with patience and love. The same view was ____ by male survivors who had been abused as children. Hardly any of the women and men in a control group, who had not ____ abuse, thought they could change their partners in this way. These women and men said they would ____ a relationship rather than suffer the abuse from a partner. Ms. Darker Smith found that these abused women were much more likely to sympathize with Cinderella and other female characters who tended to obey instead of ____.

Although most girls heard the stories, damage appeared to be done to those who ____the characters as role models. “They believe if their love is strong enough they can change their partners’ ____,” she said. “____ in children to stories that emphasize the transformational qualities of love may make women believe they can change their partners.” For example, they might never have understood the obvious ____ in the story of Rapunzel, who remained locked in a high tower until rescued by a knight on a white horse, who broke the door down. “The question,” said Ms. Darker Smith, “is why she did not break the door by herself? After all, being ____ is a desirable characteristic that children should learn to possess from the early age and prevail in the life time. ”

1.

A．enhanced

B．overestimated

C．highlighted

D．justified

2.

A．physically

B．intellectually

C．academically

D．emotionally

3.

A．attitude

B．conflict

C．uncertainty

D．coincidence

4.

A．acted as

B．identified with

C．turned to

D．accounted for

5.

A．imaginary

B．deceiving

C．destructive

D．mysterious

6.

A．made up for

B．had control over

C．fell off into

D．put up with

7.

A．shared

B．disclosed

C．contrasted

D．argued

8.

A．exploded

B．challenged

C．undergone

D．blamed

9.

A．restore

B．leave

C．restrict

D．survive

10.

A．resisting

B．enduring

C．concealing

D．adapting

11.

A．excluded

B．revealed

C．imposed

D．adopted

12.

A．prejudice

B．fate

C．behavior

D．ignorance

13.

A．Overexposure

B．Contribution

C．Access

D．Commitment

14.

A．plot

B．conclusion

C．moral

D．weakness

15.

A．confident

B．independent

C．innocent

D．optimistic

3 . Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language study realized that signed languages are ______ —a speech of the hand. They offer a new way to probe how the brain generates and ______ language, and throw new light on an old scientific ______: whether language, ______ with grammar, is something that we are born with, or whether it is a ______ behavior. The current interest in sign language has roots in the ______ work of one rebel teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington, D. C., the world’s only liberal arts university for deaf people.

When Bill Stokoe went to Gallaudet to teach English, the school enrolled him in a course in signing. But Stokoe noticed something ______: among themselves, students signed differently from his classroom teacher.

Stokoe had been taught a sort of gestural ______, each movement of the hands representing a word in English. At the time, American Sign Language (ASL) was thought to be no more than a form of pidgin English (混杂英语). But Stokoe believed the “hand ______” his students used looked richer. He wondered: Might deaf people actually have a genuine language? And could that language be ______ any other on Earth? It was 1955, when even deaf people ___________ their signing as “substandard”. Stokoe’s idea was academic heresy – a belief contrary to what was generally accepted.

It is 37 years later. Stokoe—now devoting his time to writing and editing books and journals and to producing video materials on ASL and the deaf culture—is having lunch at a cafe near the Gallaudet campus and explaining how he started a(n) ______. For decades educators fought his idea that signed languages are natural languages ______ English, French and Japanese. They assumed language must be based on speech, the modulation (调节) of sound. But sign language is based on the movement of hands, the modulation of ______. “What I said,” Stokoe explains, “is that language is not mouth stuff(素材)—it’s ______ stuff.”

1.

A．unique

B．neutral

C．inexact

D．vague

2.

A．varies

B．applies

C．interrelates

D．understands

3.

A．argument

B．definition

C．conclusion

D．statement

4.

A．familiar

B．complete

C．changeable

D．comparative

5.

A．adopted

B．inherited

C．introduced

D．learned

6.

A．pioneering

B．concluding

C．proceeding

D．imitating

7.

A．casual

B．odd

C．witty

D．tricky

8.

A．clue

B．file

C．code

D．digit

9.

A．talk

B．gossip

C．clap

D．shake

10.

A．characteristic of

B．different from

C．equal to

D．worthy of

11.

A．contributed

B．signified

C．justified

D．dismissed

12.

A．evolution

B．procedure

C．revolution

D．presentation

13.

A．with

B．among

C．as

D．like

14.

A．space

B．rhythm

C．volume

D．rate

15.

A．culture

B．brain

C．muscle

D．heart

4 . The notion of building brand personality is promoted by Starbucks as a part of company culture to embed meaning in their products and thus attract more customers.

Starbucks literally changed the definition of “a good cup of coffee”. For Starbucks, the brand had three elements: coffee, ________ and stores. Strict control over the quality and processing of the beans ________ that the coffee would be of the highest possible quality. Outstanding store personnel were employed and trained in coffee knowledge and ________ service. Store design, atmosphere and aroma (浓香) all ________ the “Starbucks Experience”.

Almost all Starbucks stores were corporately owned and controlled. Starbucks prided itself on the “Starbucks Experience”, ________ coffee to provide a unique experience for its customers.

_____ those traditional coffee houses providing you with the grab-and-go service, Starbucks provides you with more than coffee. You get great people, first-rate music, a comfortable and upbeat meeting place, and ________ advice on brewing excellent coffee at home. At home you’re part of a family. At work you’re part of a company. And somewhere in between is a place where you can sit back and be yourself. That’s what a Starbucks store has been ________ to creating for its customers — a kind of “third place” where they can ________, reflect, read, chat or listen.

The green Starbucks logo is a mermaid that looks like the end of the double image of the sea. It was designed by Terry Heckler, who got the ________ from the wooden statue of the sea. Mermaid logo also ________ original and modern meanings: her face is very simple, but with modern abstract forms of packaging; the middle is black and white, the only color on the outside surrounded by a circle.

Starbucks makes the typical American culture gradually broken down into elements of ______: the visual warmth, hearing the way, smelling the aroma of coffee and so on. Just think, through the huge glass windows, watching the crowded streets, ________ sipping a coffee flavor, which is in line with the “Yapi”, the feeling of experience in the ________ life.

But the ________ of Starbucks is not about the coffee, although it’s great coffee. Coffee is only a carrier. Coffee consumption, to a great extent, is an emotional and cultural level of consumption.

1.

A．people

B．managers

C．customers

D．clients

2.

A．assured

B．promised

C．ensured

D．predicted

3.

A．emergency

B．environment

C．employment

D．customer

4.

A．consisted of

B．benefited from

C．contributed to

D．headed for

5.

A．going beyond

B．coming across

C．making up

D．depending on

6.

A．With regard to

B．In addition to

C．Compared with

D．In terms of

7.

A．general

B．reasonable

C．legal

D．fascinating

8.

A．committed

B．alerted

C．subjected

D．required

9.

A．negotiate

B．perform

C．conceal

D．escape

10.

A．imagination

B．inspiration

C．patent

D．philosophy

11.

A．creates

B．cultivates

C．credits

D．conveys

12.

A．brand

B．logo

C．possession

D．experience

13.

A．greedily

B．gently

C．persistently

D．indifferently

14.

A．busy

B．easy

C．miserable

D．energetic

15.

A．product

B．vision

C．essence

D．importance

5 . Many people tend to bring electronic products when travelling, including me. Last year I just ruined my summer vacation by bringing along a modern convenience: the iPad.

Instead of looking at nature, I _________ my e-mail. Instead of reading great novels, I stuck to reading _________ newspapers each morning. And that was the problem: I was acting _____I were still in the office. My body was on vacation but my _________ wasn’t.

So this year I made up my mind to try something _________: getting away from the Internet. I knew it wouldn’t be easy,   __________ I’m not good at self-control. But I was _________. I started by ___________ the iPad to my wife. Then, a stroke of luck: The mobile phone _________at our cabin was worse than in the past. I was trapped in a small circle and _________to carry out my plan. Largely _________from e-mail and my favorite newspaper websites, I had little way to     ___________ the world. I had no _________ but to do what I had planned to do all along: read books.

With determination and the strong support of my wife, I succeeded in my vacation struggle   _________   the Internet. I finally _________ that it was me, of course, not the iPad, that was the   _________.

I knew I had _________ when we passed a Starbucks and my wife asked if I wanted to stop to use the Wi-Fi. “Don’t need it,” I said.   __________, as we return to work, a test begins: Can I   _________   when I’m back at work? I had no intention of _________ my iPad completely. But I hope to resist the temptation (抵抗诱惑) to use it every five minutes.

1.

A．received

B．selected

C．checked

D．removed

2.

A．online

B．informal

C．local

D．traditional

3.

A．so that

B．as if

C．now that

D．even though

4.

A．opinion

B．identity

C．mind

D．curiosity

5.

A．attractive

B．logical

C．magical

D．different

6.

A．since

B．unless

C．though

D．so

7.

A．excited

B．shocked

C．determined

D．frightened

8.

A．showing

B．handing

C．sending

D．introducing

9.

A．quality

B．design

C．signal

D．technology

10.

A．concerned

B．continued

C．inspired

D．forced

11.

A．taken out

B．pulled down

C．cut off

D．carried away

12.

A．rely on

B．connect to

C．help with

D．look at

13.

A．method

B．goal

C．trick

D．choice

14.

A．against

B．for

C．on

D．to

15.

A．expected

B．realized

C．permitted

D．suggested

16.

A．puzzle

B．sign

C．evidence

D．problem

17.

A．won

B．forgotten

C．suffered

D．recovered

18.

A．Somehow

B．Anyway

C．However

D．Therefore

19.

A．survive

B．change

C．escape

D．continue

20.

A．taking apart

B．giving up

C．turning to

D．caring about

6 . At two, most children are happy to play with stuffed toys._______, for Freddie Bawden, life on the farm is not child’s play but a labour of_______.

Feddie likes nothing more than_______his working suit to join his father James and mother Kayleigh as they_______their animals. He helps feed the pigs, sheep and other animals._______his young age, Freddie takes his duties very_______. He also helps make up their feed and gives the animals water before sweeping up and laying down______hay.

Freddie even has two battery-powered_______of his own for carrying hay. Mr Bawden said, “He's really_______actually. It's good for him to______up around animals. It gets him outside a lot and he absolutely loves it really.”

Like most children, of course Freddie goes to_______one-and-a-half days a week, but he spends the rest of his time helping his parents, who also_______a dog training centre on the farm. The youngster helps to_______the dogs, as well as feed them and sweep the kennels (狗舍). He also likes to join in the special training sessions,_______toys for the dogs to_______after. Mr Bawden said some even_______better to Freddie than they did to their adult owners who may “overthink” things.

Mr Bawden______most two-year-olds are more likely to be found watching TV or playing with_______. But he said, “If he wants to come with me, he can. If he doesn’t, he doesn’t have to. He’s really healthy, fit and strong. He eats well and______well because he’s doing so much. He loves_______off, and he loves showing other people his pigs and sheep.”

1.

A．Therefore

B．Besides

C．However

D．Instead

2.

A．love

B．work

C．adventure

D．imagination

3.

A．focusing on

B．putting on

C．taking on

D．holding on

4.

A．look for

B．go through

C．come across

D．care for

5.

A．Owing to

B．Instead of

C．Despite

D．Apart from

6.

A．differently

B．jokingly

C．similarly

D．seriously

7.

A．fresh

B．strange

C．ordinary

D．local

8.

A．bricks

B．tractors

C．engines

D．helicopters

9.

A．stubborn

B．grateful

C．helpful

D．mean

10.

A．grow

B．stay

C．look

D．wind

11.

A．hospital

B．woods

C．nursery

D．parks

12.

A．destroy

B．desert

C．sell

D．run

13.

A．confuse

B．terrify

C．beat

D．walk

14.

A．creating

B．throwing

C．producing

D．finding

15.

A．feed

B．chase

C．exchange

D．swallow

16.

A．responded

B．returned

C．ignored

D．imitated

17.

A．denied

B．permitted

C．admitted

D．promised

18.

A．toys

B．animals

C．vegetables

D．neighbors

19.

A．dresses

B．reads

C．plays

D．sleeps

20.

A．laying

B．showing

C．paying

D．burning

7 . It is 27 years since my last conversation with my mother,who didn’t finish school like many of her contemporary girls. She often told me，“I never got my __ but one day you will. ”

Pointing to a tree or cow，she asked me to __ their English names after her. Feeling __ ,1 asked，“Mama，why do I have to learn these foreign __ ?”She held her pen right before my eyes. “Hold it firmly，”she __ me，“for this pen and the new foreign language will be your compass to ___around the world. ” Sadly, my mother died of breast cancer when I was six.

Turning seven.I __ 30 miles to live closer to my school. But“closer”is a___ term in Uganda，which means I had to get up as the ___sun rose and then ran 8.8 miles barefoot to __ Also,I needed to carry a stick to __ snakes and dogs. During the __ season,the   path to school was   __ daily and I'd swim with one hand，using the other hand to hold the   book bag on my __.

Research shows 70 percent of poor children don’t __ primary school in Uganda. Reasons for this high dropout rate(辍学率)includes the long __ some children must __ among many other reasons.

Fortunately，I’ve made it. Whenever I see the sun rise, I am reminded of the __ of my mother, who __ me to dream big and to use the __ of the pen to make my dream come true.

1.

A．degree

B．scholarship

C．recommendation

D．admission

2.

A．recite

B．use

C．repeat

D．guess

3.

A．anxious

B．cautious

C．disappointed

D．annoyed

4.

A．sentences

B．languages

C．phrases

D．texts

5.

A．encouraged

B．consulted

C．blamed

D．frightened

6.

A．look

B．turn

C．hang

D．sail

7.

A．traveled

B．drove

C．rode

D．climbed

8.

A．relative

B．real

C．simple

D．technical

9.

A．warm

B．early

C．bright

D．hot

10.

A．work

B．school

C．lessons

D．my mom

11.

A．seek for

B．make use of

C．look after

D．look out for

12.

A．hot

B．cold

C．rainy

D．dry

13.

A．damaged

B．repaired

C．blocked

D．flooded

14.

A．hand

B．head

C．arm

D．finger

15.

A．attend

B．enter

C．complete

D．continue

16.

A．lists

B．periods

C．distances

D．experiments

17.

A．measure

B．consider

C．judge

D．cover

18.

A．love

B．support

C．wisdom

D．kindness

19.

A．enabled

B．inspired

C．commanded

D．trained

20.

A．value

B．power

C．symbol

D．length

8 . The summer before the ninth grade, procrastination(拖延 )affected my life in a deep way. With only a few days until the start of school, I had_______just one of three homework tasks we were_______Instead of enjoying my last few moments of _______, I spent that time doing homework, which was an_______way to end the vacation.

Putting in 100 percent_______, I always started with strong_______at the beginning of each school year._______I struggled to maintain that energy as the weeks passed.

One night, my father and I were having a_______about college. He told me, " It doesn’t _______much whether you get into an Ivy League university or just a(n)____________college-what matters is how you get there and what you do to____________it". This really spoke to me, because it made me focus more on the____________of my work rather than the quantity.

Thanks to that conversation, I____________the way I went through life. I started to ____________ that trying my____________best is a thousand times better than simply doing something to get it done.

My effort began to____________in my first year of high school. I had never____________that my grades in some harder classes could be better than those in the easier ones I took last year.

Now I would rather work hard for something and enjoy the____________of success, than not try at all or give up halfway. Motivation can ____________become a habit if you repeat a(n)____________that helps you avoid procrastination.

1.

A．finished

B．shared

C．quitted

D．repeated

2.

A．passed

B．arranged

C．designed

D．showed

3.

A．pride

B．freedom

C．silence

D．surprise

4.

A．unpleasant

B．enjoyable

C．valuable

D．confusing

5.

A．trust

B．fund

C．effort

D．knowledge

6.

A．curiosity

B．misunderstanding

C．fear

D．motivation

7.

A．Otherwise

B．However

C．Therefore

D．Besides

8.

A．conversation

B．quarrel

C．discussion

D．break

9.

A．occur

B．work

C．matter

D．fail

10.

A．popular

B．famous

C．ordinary

D．new

11.

A．disturb

B．accomplish

C．attract

D．embarrass

12.

A．amount

B．comment

C．request

D．quality

13.

A．changed

B．refused

C．admitted

D．copied

14.

A．explain

B．doubt

C．believe

D．expect

15.

A．slight

B．sharp

C．steady

D．absolute

16.

A．fall behind

B．run out

C．break out

D．pay off

17.

A．worried

B．imagined

C．promise

D．questioned

18.

A．pleasure

B．effect

C．opinion

D．progress

19.

A．luckily

B．hardly

C．easily

D．silently

20.

A．test

B．idea

C．game

D．routine

9 . 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
It amazed me—every time I saw Joe, he was smiling. It didn’t _______ whether he had to stop at a stop light, or if he were the seventh person in_______ at the bank, and the service stopped just before he got there. Joe_______ smiled. It made me wonder why he seemed so _______every day.
Having observed Joe with other people, I _______ something else also. Joe asked people how they were doing, and really seemed to listen to their _________ If someone were hurting, he had _______for him and kind words, and offered to _______ in any way he could.
It made me think...What if I tried to smile more? A(n) _______ of sorts began when I went to the grocery store. I smiled as I went up and down the aisles...and people I didn’t even __________ smiled back at me. Some even __________! The little kid in the cart(购物车) who was giving his mother a __________ time saw me smile and ____________ talking...and, you guessed it. He made a shy little attempt at a smile. The man in the handicapped(残疾的) cart ____________ a person to reach something...I could get that for him. The smile even transferred over to him, and he ____________ me.
As I drove home, I was smiling. I ____________ what I had just learned, and when someone passed me and gave me a(n) ____________, I smiled at him. He looked puzzled.
Now I know a smile is a small thing, but what if we were all to try to smile a few more times each day? I couldn’t believe how __________ I felt. Nothing in my life had changed, __________ maybe it had. For what I learned was that such a small thing could __________ not only my spirits, but those around me as well.1.

A．work

B．happen

C．matter

D．last

2.

A．order

B．debt

C．hand

D．line

3.

A．always

B．eventually

C．immediately

D．still

4.

A．naughty

B．happy

C．active

D．humorous

5.

A．decided

B．judged

C．noticed

D．considered

6.

A．answers

B．complaints

C．excuses

D．comments

7.

A．guidance

B．respect

C．sympathy

D．protection

8.

A．perform

B．attempt

C．bother

D．help

9.

A．experiment

B．life

C．project

D．program

10.

A．meet

B．touch

C．know

D．contact

11.

A．glared

B．greeted

C．approached

D．escaped

12.

A．spare

B．long

C．hard

D．great

13.

A．stopped

B．tried

C．kept

D．enjoyed

14.

A．persuaded

B．accepted

C．supported

D．needed

15.

A．thanked

B．changed

C．encouraged

D．invited

16.

A．worried about

B．thought about

C．talked over

D．looked over

17.

A．gesture

B．address

C．call

D．ticket

18.

A．normal

B．great

C．reasonable

D．complicated

19.

A．so

B．for

C．but

D．till

20.

A．release

B．admire

C．display

D．lift