42. A. possible 43. A. spread 44. A. more or less 45. A. vision 46. A. compensate 47. A. hear about 48. A. mobile 49. A. level 50. A. burst 51. A. longer 52. A. practiced 53. A. informed 54. A. outside 55. A. dustpan
B. abrupt B. withdraw B. sooner or later B. viewpoint B. sacrifice B. worry about B. relevant B. temperature B. deposit B. shorter B. proven B. reminded B. inside B. broom
C. extra C. recover C. by and by C. attitude C. mend C. learn from C. solid C. heat C. explode C. wealthier C. inspected C. inspired C. public C. roof
D. inner D. expand D. up and down D. attention D. clarify D. hear from D. similar D. environment D. freeze D. simpler D. created D. required D. personal D. carpet
第三部分：阅读理解 (共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分)
请阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
56. According to the passage, when in recovery position, the casualty is _________________.
A. lying on his/her back
B. lying on one side of his/her body D. being given initial breaths or CPR
C. in a relatively severe situation
57. Which of the following is NOT correct when giving first aid?
A. Make sure of your own safety before helping the casualty.
B. Call for an ambulance immediately if the casualty has no breathing. C. Make sure casualty’s chest rises when giving initial breaths. D. After every15 compressions, there should be one initial breath.
B
Decades ago, scientists had a much more fixed conception of the brain. They believed that how it develops when you’re a kid more or less determines your brain structure for the rest of your life.
But now we know that’s not true. A landmark study in 2000 looked at grey matter in London taxi drivers. The drivers had more grey matter volume in the hippocampus, a little seahorse-shaped part of the brain that deals with memory. Here was real evidence of neuroplasticity, the ability of the brain to change and form new neural(神经的) connections. 58. What is the main theme of this passage?
A. Human brain structure can develop at any age.
B. A ripe old age is no excuse for quitting language learning.
C. There is little difference in the brain ability between the young and the old. D. Older people actually perform better in language learning than younger ones. A
A. Grey matter is of less importance to the brain than white matter. B. Learning another language can bring benefits to your cognitive ability. C. Your childhood will determine your brain structure for the rest of your life.
D. Metacognitive skills have no significant influence in young people’s language learning.
C
Celine is a housewife and lives in a rural district in Sub-Saharan Africa. Six years ago, she participated in the clinical trial for HIV which was running in her health district. When I first met Celine, a little over a year ago, she had gone for 18 months without any antiretroviral(抗后病毒的) treatment, and she was very ill. She told me that she stopped coming to the clinic when the trial ended because she had no money for the bus fare and was too ill to walk the 35-kilometer distance. During the clinical trial, she'd been given all her antiretroviral drugs, and her transportation costs had been covered by the research funds. All of these ended once the trial was completed, leaving Celine with no choices. She was unable to tell me the names of the drugs she'd received during the trial, or even what the trial had been about. Yet what puzzled me most was Celine had given her informed consent(同意) to be a part of this trial, yet she clearly did not understand the implications of being a participant or what would happen to her once the trial had been completed.
61. From the first paragraph, we know that Celine participated in the clinical trial __________.
A. against her will C. due to her poverty
A. political
B. at her personal expense for it D. without a basic knowledge of it
C. academic
59. What is the structure of the passage? 60. What can we infer from this article?
62. Developing countries are so attractive to HIV clinical trials due to ___________ reasons.
B. educational
D. charitable
63. What does the underlined word “ethical” most probably mean?
A. psychological
B. moral
C. physical
D. social
64. What might the following paragraph(s) after the last most probably talk about?
A. The solutions to guarantee the ethic of HIV clinical trials in developing countries. B. The steps of conducting research to find the cure for AIDS in developing countries. C. The efforts that should be made by the developing countries for ethical suitability. D. The measures to protect people in developing countries from being affected by AIDS.
D
The domestic cat is a contradiction. No other animal has developed such a close relationship with human, while at the same time demanding and getting such self-determining movement and action. The cat manages to remain a tame(驯化的) animal because of the process of its upbringing. By living both with other cats (its mother and brother and sisters) and with human (the family that has adopted it) during its babyhood, it is considered to belong to both species. It is like a child that grows up in a foreign country and as a consequence becomes bilingual(双语的). The young cat becomes bimental. It may be a cat physically but mentally it is both feline(猫科的) and human. Once it is fully adult, however, most of its responses are feline ones, and it has only one major reaction to its human owners. It treats them as pseudo(假的) parents.
65. The primary purpose of the passage is to __________________________________.
A. advocate dogs as making better pets than cats B. distinguish the different characteristics of dogs and cats
C. show the poor nature of dogs because of their loyalty characteristics D. emphasize the role that human plays in the personalities of domestic pets
66. According to the passage, the domestic cat is a contradiction because __________________.
A. it possesses the physical characteristics of both feline and human B. it can’t be tamed and will always keep its wild habits
C. it refuses to be dominated despite living comfortably with human D. although it plays the part of a pet, it really dominates human beings
67. The underlined sentences in the second paragraph are used to stress _________________. A. the disharmonious relationship between cats and human beings B. a difference between cats and dogs that emphasizes cats’ nature C. the ignorance of dogs, which makes them more loyal pets
D. the laziness of cats that keeps them from being pack animals A. less dependent
B. less creative
C. more successful
D. more out-going
68. The author suggests in the third paragraph that cat-lovers are ___________ than dog-lovers. 69. The fourth paragraph indicates that human females ______________________________.
A. preferred to raise domestic dogs to help with food-gathering B. developed independent roles that required less group behavior C. had to gather food because they were not strong enough to hunt D. were negatively affected by the division of labor of human societies
70. The underlined four sentences in the last paragraph provide ________________________. A. a summary of the points made earlier B. a reason for the statements made earlier C. an adjustment of the position taken earlier
D. an example of the main points made earlier
第四部分：任务型阅读 (共 10 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 10 分)
Feet of Clay
In 604 BC, the second year of his reign, Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream which left his spirit no rest and robbed him of his sleep. So he ordered that wise men of Babylon be called to interpret the dream for him.
They answered the king, “O king, live forever, tell to your servants your dream, and we will declare the interpretation.” The king said, “The thing is gone out of my mind. Unless you tell me the dream, and the meaning of it, you shall be put to death. But if you tell the dream, and the meaning of it, you shall receive of me rewards, and gifts, and great honour.”
Unluckily no one could fulfill the task. Hearing this, the king was in great anger, and commanded all the wise men of Babylon be put to death.
When Arioch, to whom the king had given orders to destroy the wise men of Babylon, told the matter to the Prophet(先知) Daniel, he immediately went in to the king and begged for the time to resolve the question.
After some mysterious praying, Daniel went to Arioch and said, “Destroy not the wise men of Babylon, bring me in before the king, and I will tell the solution to the king.”
The king said to Daniel, “Can you really tell me the dream that I saw, and the interpretation of it?” Daniel replied, “The secret that the king desires to know, none of the wise men, or the philosophers, can declare to the king. But there is a God in heaven that reveals mysteries, and He wants you to know what is going to happen”. “To me also,” Daniel added, “this secret is revealed, so I can reveal your dream.”
Then Daniel began, “You, O king, saw a great statue: this statue, which was great and high, stood before you, and the look was terrible. The head of this statue was of fine gold, but the breast and the arms of silver, and the belly and the thighs of brass(黄铜): And the legs of iron, the feet part of iron and part of clay. Then suddenly you saw a stone was cut out of a mountain without hands, and it struck the statue upon the feet that were of iron and of clay, and broke them