1 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. entertainment       B. security       C. probably       D. challenging          E. efficiently F. frequently                  G. tension                  H. typical                    I. profit                      J. pleasurable        K. claim

In some cities, workaholism(迷恋工作)is so common that people don't consider it unusual.

They accept the lifestyle as normal Government worker in Washington D.C, for example,     1     work sixty to seventy hours a week. They don't do this because they have to; they do it because they want to. Workaholism can be a serious problem. Because true workaholics would rather work than do anything else, they     2       have no idea of how to relax; that is, they might not enjoy movies, sports, or other types of     3     . Most of all, they hate to sit and do nothing. The lives of workaholics are usually stressful, and this     4    and worry can cause physical problems such as heart attacks and stomach disease. Besides,     5     workaholics don't pay much attention to their families. Their marriages may end in failure as they spend little time with their families.

Is workaholism always dangerous? Perhaps not. There are, certainly, people who work       6    under stress. Some studies show that many workaholics have great energy and interest in work. They feel work is so     7     that they are actually very happy. For most workaholics, work and entertainment are the same thing. Their jobs provide them with a challenge; this keeps them busy and creative.

Why do workaholics enjoy their jobs so much? There are several factors to work. Of course, it provides people with paycheck, and this is important. But it offers more than financial     8     .   It provides people with self-confidence; they have a feeling of satisfaction when they have produced a     9     piece of work and are able to say “I made it." Psychologists     10    that their work gives people an identity. After they take part in work, they get a sense of self and individualism.

2 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Former World’s Fattest Man Finds Love

He was once the world’s fattest man weighing in at an incredible 980 pounds and consuming 20,000 calories (卡路里) a day. But it seems that after losing 672 pounds following a surgery, it’s not just Paul Mason’s health that has a more promising     1    —his weight loss may have also promoted his love life.

Mr. Mason has only known his new girlfriend Rebecca for a month and the pair are yet to meet, but already   the 52-year old has     2     that Rebecca is the love of his life. The pair met online last month when Rebecca saw   a television     3     about Mr. Mason’s extreme fatness—the result of overeating when a previous relationship ended. She was so touched by his situation as to get in touch, keen to help Mr. Mason get the NHS (National Health Service) to pay for a second operation to     4     him of layers of extra skin.

Mr.   Mason said: “She didn’t really think of anything     5     at the beginning. It wasn’t until the second conversation that I realised there was more there than just friends. She felt the same and brought up the idea of us being boyfriend and girlfriend.”

Mr. Mason says that he doesn’t go for looks and finds Rebecca’s     6     attitude particularly attractive. “It is   her personality,   her     7     and passion that has made me fall for her. We share the same ideas and interests and she has made me look at life in a new way. For a long time I couldn’t really see light at the end of the tunnel, but since Rebecca’s been in my life I’ve got a whole new     8     of worth and excitement.”

Mr. Mason     9     to his incredible size by eating ten times the amount needed by a normal man due to a compulsive eating disorder. As his weight rose sharply he was left unable to stand or walk before finally becoming bed-ridden and being looked after full time by carers.

Firefighters had to knock down the front wall of his     10     home so they could use a fork lift truck to lift him out and put him into an ambulance when he needed an operation in 2002.

3 . Part B: Vocabulary 9%

We might be surprised at the progress made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a person’s knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. It is really extraordinary that after all years, educationists have still failed to devise something more     1     than examinations. For all the     2     that examinations test what you know, it is common knowledge that they more often do the exact     3    . They may be a good means of testing memory, or the knack of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person’s true ability.

As anxiety-makers, examinations are     4     to none. That is because so much depends on them. They are the     5     of success or failure in our society. Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. It doesn’t matter that you weren’t feeling very well, or that your mother died. Little things like that don’t     6    : the exam goes on. No one can bring out the     7     in him when he is in terror, or after a sleepless night, yet this is precisely what the examination system expects him to do. The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of fierce competition where success and failure are clearly     8     and measured. Can we wonder at the increasing number of “dropouts”: young people who are written off as     9     before they have started a career? Can we be surprised at the suicide rate among students?