1 . 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

2 . 听下面一段独白,回答以下小题
1.

A．Sisters.	B．Classmates.
C．Relatives.	D．Pen friends.

2.

A．The club encouraged its members to make friends.

B．Making a long-distance call at that time was costly.

C．Writing to each other helped to improve school work.

D．Instant communication wasn’t available for average people.

3.

A．Maggie and Tessa had met before.

B．Maggie’s long blond hair was eye-catching.

C．Tessa called Maggie with a cellphone.

D．Maggie’s grandchildren spotted Tessa.

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

Tasting a Biker’s Life

For most of my life I knew nothing about motorcycles. I believed that motorcycle riders were tough and leather-wearing loners. They seemed     1     (look) for trouble all the time, using the roar of a motorcycle engine to frighten others off.

Then, on a warm May evening outside my house, my cousin came and showed me his new motorcycle. Never had a real motorcycle    2     (present) in front of me by a close family member. “It’s beautiful, isn’t it?” he asked. But I didn’t really understand what I was looking at.

It wasn’t until August     3     I was able to actually ride on the motorcycle with him. I prepared     4     oversized leather jacket for myself.     5     (fill) with nervous energy, I held on tightly to my cousin. Soon the bike carried us onto the top of the hill,     6     we stopped to watch the sun set over the city below. I realized that was the most relaxing moment for me in months.

Since then, my prejudices about motorcycle bikers     7     (start) to shift. On the back of a motorcycle,     8     (place) all your trust in someone to get you safely home is a way to remind you of the love they have for you. Later, whenever my cousin was gone on a Saturday ride, I would try on his leathers and look in the mirror, wondering if I was     9     a biker myself.

Maybe the most important lesson, though, is that you really can’t judge a man by his appearance,     10     much leather he wears. Motorcycle bikers are not scary, or mean, or unapproachable. They’re adults who remember the freedom of riding their first bicycle, and are continuously seeking to recreate the experience.

4 . Alex Elman runs a big business — something hard to imagine after she lost her sight in her twenties. But Elman says that losing her sight helped her focus on finding success.

Elman's father planted a hillside vineyard in western Massachusetts in 1981. It's where Elman fled during the darkest period of her life. When she was 27 years old, she went blind due to complications from Juvenile diabetes (青少年糖尿病)17 years ago. She recalled, "I hid in my home. I hid in the place, to me, that was the safest place in the world."

Elman is now the founder of Alex Elman Wines, a growing collection of organic wines from all around the world: Chianti from Italy, Torrontes from Argentina. Elman doesn't work alone. Her assistant, a guide dog named Hanley, is something of a wine taster, and quite a beggar. Hanley travels to all of the wineries that Elman does, from South America to Europe.

At first, Elman resisted the idea of a seeing-eye dog. Now it's hard to imagine her life, or her business, without him. She said, "When someone tells me something is organic and I don't really believe it because I taste something funny on it, I'll put it in front of his face and if he likes the wine, he'll actually go in and sniff it. If it's not right, he'll turn his head away ... He gets in the dirt with me. He scratches around. He makes sure that we see earthworms and butterflies. That's how we know that the soil is actually organic, that there are no chemicals."

Elman told CBS News she believes the loss of her vision was a gift. She said, "It allowed me to pay attention to what I thought was important and also to be able to teach people that the broken hang nail is not a big deal, you know what I mean? Don't sweat the small stuff. Don't sweat the big stuff either."

1. From Para.2, we know that Elman _____.

A．got through her hard days in the vineyard

B．liked playing hide-and-seek during her childhood

C．suffered from juvenile diabetes from 27 years old

D．lost her sight while helping with farm work in 1981

2. Hanley is described as "quite a beggar" because _____.

A．it is a guide dog	B．it is capable of drinking
C．it wins permission to be with Elman	D．it travels all over the world

3. Whenever Elman couldn't judge the wine exactly, she would _____.

A．make Hanley drink it	B．turn to Hanley for advice
C．order Hanley to head away	D．have another taste herself

4. According to the passage, which of the following will Elman most probably agree with?

A．There is no royal road to success.

B．A single tree does not make a forest.

C．The eye is blind if the mind is absent.

D．When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

5 . Sometimes when she felt bored, she would pick up one of the numerous biographies（传记）about herself and begin to note in. "I never did that" or "simply not true" she would write roughly in the margins at the sides of pages. Since journalists, biographers and more recently even "bloggers" had been writing about her since the day she was born, there was plenty of material to edit. Not that her notes or corrections were ever shared with the authors. Lately, however, she even seemed to have lost her appetite for correctness. Did it matter anymore if things were not right?

She knew that sitting alone chewing away on downbeat thoughts would not get her anywhere and would leave those around her confused and upset, should they ever catch her out. After all she was the decisive one, always on top of her game. A printed timetable for the following day lay on the table. A full day of openings and presentations, of smiling and nodding and flowers.

Shaking herself out of her gray mood, she stepped over towards the computer where a sudden burst of energy gave her an idea. The screen flashed up in front of her but instead of clicking on the familiar icons which would lead her to the emails Randolph considered she needed to read, she simply went to visit Mr. Google and began her search for train timetable.

A dish heaped with multi-coloured jellies and plenty of ice cream, served by a white-gloved train waiter with a perfect moustache. So many years had passed but she still remembered the jelly dissolving on her tongue in small but delicious mouthfuls. Each spoonful had to be lifted delicately to her mouth under the watched eye of her grandmother, who was a stickler for good manners. It was unlikely that they served jelly on the trains these days, what with all the concern about childhood fatness, but even a Spartan menu could not kill the romance of a train journey. As the timetable for Line-burst line flashed in front of her, she remembered that the Mayor of Alwoy would be expecting her to make a short, predictable speech at the opening of the now bridge.

1. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

A．The main character is probably a journalist writing blogs about royal members.

B．The main character is always busy editing plenty of material about herself.

C．The authors probably had chances to get the notes or correctness from the main character.

D．Randolph is probably an assistant or a secretary to the main character.

2. Why does the main character recall the time she ate jellies and ice cream?

A．She wishes that she were still a child so that she could eat jellies and ice cream.

B．She is reminded of these foods because the thought of a train journey reminds her of them.

C．She wishes she still knew where the handsome train waiter was

D．Today's children aren't allowed to eat the same things that she ate as a child.

3. A "Sparten menu" (paragraph 4) would most likely ________________________.

A．have mainly low fat, healthy foods	B．be suitable for a romantic dinner
C．include a range of sweets, but no jelly	D．include foods which are easy to transport

4. What is most likely to happen next in this passage?

A．The main character will practise her speech for greeting the Mayor of Alwoy.

B．The main character will decide to take a rail journey.

C．Randolph will send some emails to the main character.

D．The main character will update her blog on the internet.

6 . Directions: Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

Life on a Ship

We three children were very excited when we walked up the gangway (舷梯) of the British flagship China Star and saw officers, crew and staff rushing around. A Chinese housekeeper led the way and helped Uncle Jean and Aunt Reine with our luggage. Victor, Claudine and I lagged behind. The housekeeper was tall and thin and towered over everyone.       1     As we followed him down a narrow corridor towards our cabins, Victor whispered to me, “One thing about having no hair at all on your head, you always look neat!”

Though I was still feeling nervous and tongue-tied because it had only been three days since Aunt Reine took me out of St. Joseph’s, I laughed out loud. That was the effect Victor had on people.     2     “Boys to the right and girls to the left,” said Uncle Jean. Our two cabins were directly opposite each other. Inside, everything was neat, bare and clean. While Aunt Reine, Claudine and I were unpacking, there was a knock on the door.

Victor stood there, wearing a bright-red and orange life-jacket. “Why are you wearing that?” Claudine protested. “Our ship hasn’t even sailed yet!” “In case the China Star starts going down. Then you’ll really be sorry you’re not wearing one yourself. Here! Let me show you something!”     3     Our cabin was below deck. Outside we could see nothing but deep dark water.

Claudine became alarmed. “Mama, how often does a ship sink?” she asked. Before Aunt Reine had time to reply, Victor quipped with a straight face, “Only once!” Aunt Reine and I could not help laughing in spite of ourselves. But then Victor did something my brothers would never have done. He took off his life-jacket, slipped it on his sister and showed her how to adjust the straps.     4     At night, our housekeeper brought in a tiny roll-out bed because there were three of us.

A．Once Victor hid in a lifeboat for half an hour while we searched everywhere.

B．His head was completely hairless, and he was obviously unsteady.

C．He and Claudine made me feel at ease as soon as I met them.

D．There were only two narrow twin beds in our cabin, each covered with dark blue sheets.

E．He parted the curtain and looked out of the round window of the ship.

F．He jumped out as we passed below him, scaring and delighting us at the same time.

7 . The Right Thing

“Hi, Mrs. Grady,” said Mark when their neighbor opened her door. “Would you like us to shovel your sidewalk and driveway?” Shoveling was Jamie’s idea, a way to earn enough money for the new Ocean Kingdom video game that came out the next day .Mrs. Grady was happy, “That would be wonderful, boys. I think the job is getting to be too much for me.

“It will cost 10 dollars,” Jamie said.” If that’s OK “, Mark added.

“Oh dear, ”Mrs. Grady said disappointedly, “I haven’t been able to get to the bank. I can offer homemade cookies, but I realize that’s not what you had in mind.”

Mark was going to say that Mrs. Grady could pay them another time, but Jamie cut him off. “We’ll come back later.”

Mrs. Grady doesn’t look like the person who’d come to his rescue last summer when Mr. Dunn’s collie, Goldie had just wanted to play, but Mark didn’t feel comfortable around big dogs. He wanted to call for help, but his tongue seemed locked behind his teeth. Then Mrs. Grady’s front door had flown open. She must have seen him from across the street. “Hold on, Mark. I’m coming!” “Goldie” she’d called. As soon as Goldie had turned her head, Mrs. Grady had slipped between Mark and the dog. She wasn’t much taller than Mark, but she’d stood firm as a rock in front of him. “Goldie, go home!” Then she’d swept her broom to hurry the dog along. “ Get!” Goldie had obeyed.

When Mark showed thanks to Mrs. Grady, Mrs. Grady laughed. “It was nothing. Good neighbors watch out for each other, don’t they? ”

And now Mrs. Grady needed Mark as much as he’d needed her last summer. He smiled and waved at Mrs. Grady, then his shovel deep into the snow.

“Hey!” Jamie shouted. “What are you doing?” Mark couldn’t explain about Goldie and watching out for neighbors.” I like Mrs. Grady’s cookies,” he said.

1. Why did Jamie and Mark plan to clear the snow for Mrs. Grady at first?

A．To help the lady	B．To do volunteer work
C．To earn pocket money	D．To visit New Kingdom

2. Mrs. Grady couldn’t pay them most probably because     .

A．she didn’t have enough cash	B．she couldn’t find the bank
C．she thought it was worthless	D．she couldn’t afford it

3. According to the story, which of the following word cannot be used to describe Mrs. Grady?

A．Positive

B．Helpful

C．Hopeful

D．Brave

4. Which of the following proverb can best summarize the story?

A．A clear conscience	B．Kindness is repaid with kindness
C．A penny saved is a penny earned	D．Actions speak louder than work

8 . 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 given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

My father was born in a small town in the United States. He wasn’t sure     1    he wanted from life, but something told him to get out and begin a new adventure. He began that adventure travelling to cities in the US, before going on to Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and the Philippines. He took his wife and three daughters with him and went     2     the road took him．

It’s easy to feel lonely when you’re on the road. As my mother said repeatedly, “We made lots of new friends on our trip, most of     3     were mechanics, since we often spent hours in repair shops.” But that was better than sitting by the roadside while waiting for the engine     4     (cool) when it was 40℃ outside.

    5     (get) along sometimes seemed impossible. There were always a lot of arguments, especially among us back-seat passengers about who had to sit in the middle.       6     it was hard, we did learn a lot about forgiveness. When we were travelling in the Philippines, we drove to Quezon City one day. It     7     have been a one-hour drive but was nearly three, due to bad roads and worse traffic. “Did you put our suitcases in the car?” My father asked my mother as we arrived in Quezon City. From the back seat, we saw her slowly turn toward my father. “No,” she said, “I thought you did.” That was how a 7-hour car trip turned into a 16-hour car trip, which was mostly spent     8     silence. On occasions like that, we had to learn to let go of our anger because we     9     (stick) in a rolling box with the same people for the rest of the journey. Though I sometimes felt like opening the car door and pushing one of my sisters out, I kept my feelings to myself. This is why road trips were like mobile universities to us. We earned our degrees in how to get along with other people just by travelling in that old car. And if we were somehow given     10     second chance at life, we would do it all over again.

9 . Directions: Complete the following passages by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. overnight 　　　B. flash 　　　C. share 　　　D. enormous　　　 E. endured　　　 F. rise G. lengthy 　　　H. places　　　 I. pursue 　　　J. reflected 　　　K. plentiful

Robert Frost had aimed to be a poet since he was a teenager. But the American literary icon would not publish his first book of poetry until he was 39, and his best works would not follow until he was well into middle and old age. “Young people are good at discovering. They have a     1     here and there. It is like the stars coming out in the early evening,” he     2     at age 63, but “it is later in the dark of life that you see forms, patterns”

Frost’s     3     journey to fame during the dark of life, however, is far from the road less taken. Despite science society and silicon valley’s common belief that creativity, innovation and excellence are the near-exclusive province of the young, a surprising number of late bloomers mark the records of human history — women and men who     4     years of hardship, failure and missed opportunities before making an impact in the later stages of life. And once you move past the impressive stare of history’s Mozart-like geniuses, you find that late bloomers are quite     5    : in fact, there are many more roads to becoming an old master than a young prodigy.

Sometimes you don’t discover your passion in life until you’ve done some other things first. Sometimes you don’t get the opportunity to make the most of your experiences until relatively late in life. Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald’s, didn’t start building his business empire until he was 53 years old. Until that point, the former Red Cross ambulance driver was a traveling salesman, peddling milk shake machines and paper cups. “I was a(n)     6     success all right,” Kroc wrote in his autobiography, “but 30 years is a long, long night.”

Sometimes, instead of opportunities, life     7     obstacles on the road to success. It wasn’t until Laura Ingalls Wilder turned 65 that her epic Little House on the Prairie series was published. By then, she had already devoted decades to being a farm wife and mother, schoolteacher, loan officer and newspaper columnist, and she had endured more than her fair     8     of hardship, from droughts to house fires. Another influential writer, Miguel de Cervantes, wrote Don Quixote in his late 50s after an eventful life in which he spent years behind bars and as a captive of Barbary pirates.

Therefore, unlike the youthful genius, whose rocket-fast     9     impresses as well as depresses the rest of the world, the late bloomer demonstrates what is possible as people     10     their own versions of full bloom.

10 . 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 given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

The Shop Where It’s OK to Be Different

When Angela Makey knew her autistic (患自闭症的) son Adam wanted to open a comic shop, she laughed out loud. She knew he’d been keen on comics since childhood. But how would he   deal with   customers   and suppliers   and   all the   other jobs     1     are necessary for running a business?

At that time, Adam was looking for a job. He had a degree in philosophy and had learned to live independently, but there didn’t seem to be any suitable jobs for him. The family     2     (hope) he and his younger brother Guy, also with autism, could find work that matched their strengths: reliability, punctuality and attention to detail. But there were no available opportunities.

So the “laughable” comic shop idea began to grow on Angela. Eventually, she   used   her savings   to   buy   a shop   in   Cambridgeshire,   and   seven years   ago Niche Comics     3     (bear).

Like many autistic people, Adam loves comics for their world of rich detail and visual expression. He developed an interest in Marvel comic heroes on TV     4     he was seven years old. “They are a reminder     5     it’s OK not to be like everyone else,” Adam said. He’s now 30, and comics and their heroes are still part of his life.

In the comic shop, the brothers share their encyclopedic (渊博的) knowledge of comics with customers.   The brothers act   as guides   in this universe,     6     (introduce) customers to new comics.

The shop attracts   many   autistic customers. And being autistic     7     turns out to be a big help for the brothers to deal with customers. They are good at     8     (spot) the customers’ needs and feelings. “Maybe it’s the tone of the voice, the motion of a hand — small details that most people won’t pick up on — that I might have insight (深刻理解) into,” says Guy. Of course, the majority of customers who come to the shop are not autistic. Now the brothers get a steady stream of customers who are, both male and female,     9     young children to retired people. Once the shop had established itself, the brothers also began reaching out to people with autism beyond the shop.

Seven years on, Angela is glad she took the risk of   helping her   sons     10     (create) their dream shop. “This shop has a soul,” the mother says proudly.