My father did buy the CD, ________ he actually doesn’t appreciate the music in it at all.

A. so B. because C. while D. or

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The professor’s house，big and untidy，stood alone at one end of a huge garden.The place was totally uncared for, quite and overgrown with all sorts of useless things. I my way through bushes and tall weeds to the front door and rang the bell.

I was glad that I had found him. In twenty minutes he me right on all the that had puzzled me. I was on the of leaving when I looked out of his study window and said, “You’re very fond of gardening, I see.”

“No, I’m not,” he said. “ , I love this garden, though. It’s I always wanted it to be. I never touch it at all.”

“It could be made lovely. It a pity to let all this ground go to waste. But perhaps you don’t that way?” said I.

“I don’t. I lived here when I was a child, and I had of gardening then. It was my father’s hobby，you see. Unfortunately, he wasn’t enough to do it himself. My brother and I did all of it between us year after year. There was one right way and many wrong ways. Each blade (叶片) of grass was an enemy to be by hand, not just cut off. I’ve spent a good part of life at work here.”

“I see. You took a dislike to it, and now you’re getting even!”

“I dislike it. Then, of course, I didn’t understand the it had. It used to me. It appeared in my dreams—a mistake here, something not quite straight here, the enemy showing its head in a place I was to have cleaned. The work was too much. It seemed endless. The size of the place was itself a fight to a boy.”

“And now it’s yours，you’re just letting it go to...”

“ ?” he said. “No，I don’t agree with that. This garden and I are now the best friends. I like it grow its own way. I make no demands on it. I never disturb it, and it never disturbs me. It has at last, and so have I.”

“But the path is over grown. It’s inconvenient for you，isn’t it?”

“That’s part of my ,” he laughed. “You can go out the back way. The weeds are shorter there because they don’t get the sun.”

1.A. wild B. crazy C. large D. nice

2.A. lost B. felt C. took D. made

3.A. let B. put C. taught D. explained

4.A. gardening B. plants C. problems D. solution

5.A. time B. point C. permission D. request

6.A. Even if B. So C. As though D. Even so

7.A. as B. where C. why D. whether

8.A. seems B. is C. proves D. sounds

9.A. recognize B. sense C. see D. know

10.A. fond B. short C. free D. enough

11.A. interested B. fit C. content D. demanding

12.A. fought against B. cleared up C. rooted out D. cut down

13.A. effect B. reason C. cause D. result

14.A. astonish B. shock C. worry D. disappoint

15.A. thought B. supposed C. ordered D. expected

16.A. Sell B. Develop C. Ruin D.Grow

17.A. noticing B. attending C. watering D. watching

18.A. on B. in C. with D. of

19.A. freedom B. time C. sunlight D. space

20.A. life B. pleasure C. job D. research

Here are some of the world’s most impressive subways．

1. Which one can provide the riders some wonderful decorations at the stations?

A. The Tokyo Metro and Toei Lines B. The Moscow Metro

C. The London Metro D. The Hong Kong MTR

2.We can learn from the passage that Shanghai Metro ________．

A. carries the most people each day

B. is the world’s largest

C. may be larger than the Chicago “L” in the future

D. is the busiest in the world

3.How many subways carry more than 5 million people per day?

A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5

Some people would go through anything just to achieve their dream. Kasia Siwosz is proof. For the final year student on the university women’s tennis team, the road to Berkeley, University of California was met with poor advice and misinformation from her home country and two unsuccessful stops along the way that fell short of expectations.

Born in Poland, Siwosz began playing tennis at seven years old and developed the skills that helped her earn a top-50 ranking among the ITF Junior division (国际网球联会青少年赛).. Siwosz wanted to do more with her life than just play tennis, which led her to seek chances that would also allow her to obtain a top education. While most who grow up in the U.S. are naturally accustomed to the American tradition of collegiate sports, such a custom is not as familiar in a country like Poland. “There’s no collegiate sports in Poland and no culture of sports and academic study there. You can only do one, not both,” Siwosz said.

Her desire to have a quality education led her to America to follow her dream. While Siwosz was talented enough to begin her collegiate tennis career, she could only attend community college because she missed the deadline to apply to four-year schools, mainly due to misinformation provided in her home country of Poland.

When she had earned all her credits and was able to transfer, Siwosz made the decision to attend Baylor in Texas. Her friends from Poland put in a good word for the university, saying that it was a good fit because there were many international players at Baylor. “I thought it would be a good idea, but it really wasn’t what I thought it would be,” Siwosz said. “I wasn’t happy at Baylor. The level of tennis was high, but the academic standards were no match and I just wanted more.”

After one year at Baylor, Siwosz’s luck finally began to change when she made the decision to transfer to Berkeley, which was due in large part to Lee, a former Berkeley student. Lee, who is a keen tennis player himself, met Siwosz four years ago in Texas. “I knew she was unhappy there,” he said. “I saw the opportunity for her to come here.” Siwosz visited Lee in Berkeley. “I ended up loving this place and this school,” Siwosz said. “I came here a lot over the summer, I gave it a shot and I ended up with a Berkeley education and a spot on one of the best college tennis teams in the country.”

1.What does “two unsuccessful stops” (Paragraph 1) refer to?

A. Poland and the U.S.

B. Baylor and Berkeley.

C. The ITF Junior division and the Berkeley tennis team.

D. The community college and Baylor.

2.Why did Siwosz want to leave her homeland for America?

A. Poland had no culture of sports.

B. Berkeley had always been her dream university.

C. She wanted to play tennis and have a good education.

D. She wanted to improve her tennis skills and get a higher ranking.

3.What is the main idea of the passage?

A. How Siwosz realized her dream.

B. How Siwosz left Poland.

C. How Siwosz became a top tennis player.

D. How Siwosz transferred from Baylor to Berkeley.

Psychology has a new application in the field of medicine. Many doctors, together with their patients, are looking for alternative methods of treatment of physical problems. In large hospitals, modern therapy seems to focus on the physical disease. Patients may feel they are treated like broken machines. Some doctors have recognized this as a problem. They are now using psychological therapy, in which the patient is working with the doctors against the disease with the help of medicine. The patient does not wait for the medicine and treatment to cure him or her, but instead the patient joins in the fight.

The doctor knows that a disease affects a patient's body physically. The body of the patient changes because of the disease. He is not only physically affected, but also has an emotional response to the disease. Because his mind is affected, his attitude and behavior change. The medical treatment might cure the patient's physical problems, but the patient's mind must fight the emotional ones. For example, the studies of one doctor, Carl Simonton, M. D., have shown that a typical cancer patient has predictable attitudes. She typically feels depressed, upset, and angry. Her constant depression makes her acts unfriendly toward her family, friends, doctors, and nurses. Such attitudes and behaviors prevent recovery. Therefore, a doctor's treatment must help the patient change that. Simonton's method emphasizes treatment of the “whole” patient.

The attitude of a cancer patient receiving radiation therapy, an X-ray treatment, can become more positive. The physician who is following Simonton's psychological treatment plan suggests that the patient imagine that he or she can see the tumor in the body. In the mental picture, the patient "sees" a powerful beam of radiation like a million bullets of energy. The patient imagines the beam hitting the tumor cells and causing them to shrink. For another cancer patient, Dr. Simonton asks him to imagine the medicine going from the stomach into the bloodstream and to the cancer cells. The patient imagines that the medicine is like an army fighting the diseased cells and sees the cancer cells gradually dying and his blood carry away the dead cells. Both the medical therapy and the patient's positive attitude fight the disease.

Doctors are not certain why this mental therapy works. However, this use of psychology does help some patients because their attitudes about themselves change. They become more confident because they use the power within their own minds to help stop the disease.

Another application of using the mind to help cure disease is the use of suggestion therapy. At first, the doctor helps the patient to concentrate deeply. The patient thinks only about one thing. He becomes so unaware of other things around him that he is asleep, or rather in a trance（催眠状态）. Then the physician makes “a suggestion” to the patient about the medical problem. The patient's mind responds to the suggestion even after the patient is no longer in the trance. In this way, the patient uses his mind to help his body respond to treatment.

Doctors have learned that this use of psychology is helpful for both adults and children. For example, physicians have used suggestion to help adults deal with the strong pain of some disease. Furthermore, sometimes the adult patient worries about her illness so much that the anxiety keeps her from getting well. The right suggestions may help the patient to stop being anxious. Such treatment may help the patient with a chronic（慢性的）diseases. Asthma （哮喘） is an example of a chronic disorder. Asthma is a disease that causes the patient to have difficulty in breathing. The patient starts to cough and sometimes has to fight to get the air that he or she needs. Psychology can help relieve the symptoms of this disorder. After suggestion therapy, the asthma patient breathes more easily.

Physicians have learned that the psychological method is very useful in treating children. Children respond quickly to the treatment because they are fascinated by it. For example, Dr. Basil R. Collison has worked with 121 asthmatic children in Sydney, Australia, and had good results. Twenty-five of the children had Excellent results. They were able to breathe more easily, and they did not need medication. Another forty-three were also helped. The symptoms of the asthma occurred less frequently, and when they did, they were not as strong. Most of the children also felt better about themselves. Doctors have also used suggestion to change habits like nail-biting, thumb-sucking, and sleep-related problems.

Many professional medical groups have accepted the medical use of psychology and that psychology has important applications in medicine.

1. What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. How suggestion therapy benefits adults and children.

B. How modern therapy focuses on the disease.

C. Responses from the medical world.

D. How to use the mind against disease.

2.What can we learn from the studies of Carl Simonton, M. D.?

A. The medical treatment can cure the patient's mental disease.

B. The treatment of a patient by treating the body and the mind is necessary.

C. The mental treatment is more important than medical treatment.

D. Few patients have emotional response to the disease.

3.The use of psychological therapy is helpful to some patients in that .

A. the medical effect is better with psychological therapy than without it

B. the patients can see a powerful beam of radiation hitting their tumor cells

C. the patients' attitudes towards themselves have changed

D. the patients are easy to accept the methods the doctors use to treat them

4.It can be learned from the passage that suggestion therapy cannot be used to .

A. help adults deal with the strong pain of some diseases

B. help the patients with chronic diseases

C. help change some bad habits

D. help cure patients of insomnia

5.According to the passage, which of the following remains unknown so far?

A. The value of mental therapy.

B. The effectiveness of suggestion therapy.

C. The working principle of suggestion therapy.

D. The importance of psychology in medical treatment.

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Everyone knows about straight-A students. We see them frequently in TV sitcoms (情景喜剧) and in movies. The kids at the top of the class get there by mastering a few basic techniques that others can learn in an easy way. Thus it is necessary for you to learn the secrets of becoming straight-A students.

Among the students we interviewed, study times are a matter of personal preference. Some work late at night when it is quiet ,whereas others awake early. And there are still others who decide to study as soon as they come home from school when the work is fresh in their minds. All of them agree, however, on the need for study time.“Whatever I was doing, I would find some time every day for studying,” says a top student from New Jersey.

Being organized is another habit they share in common. McCray, an outstanding student interviewed, runs track, plays football and is in a band . “I was so busy; I couldn’t waste time looking for a pencil or missing paper. I kept everything right where I could put my hands on it,” he says. Some students maintain two folders —one for the day’s assignment, another for papers completed and graded. However, some students have another system, filing the day’s papers in color-coded folders by subject.

The top students also take good notes while reading the text assignment. In fact, David Cieri, another top student interviewed,uses “my homemade” system in which he draws a line down the center of a notebook, writes notes from the text on one side and those from the lecture delivered by his teacher on the other. Then. He is able to review both aspects of the assignment at once .

Just before the bell rings, most students close their books, put away papers, whisper to friends and get ready to rush out. But the top students use the few minutes to write a two-or three-sentence summary of the lesson’s important points, which he or she scans before the next day’s class.

You can become a straight-A student by following the above secrets.

The value-packed, all-inclusive sight-seeing package that combines the best of Sydney’s harbor, city, bay and beach highlights.

A SydneyPass gives you unlimited and flexible travel on the Explorer Buses: the ‘red’ Sydney Explorer shows you around our exciting city sights while the ‘blue’ Bondi Explorer visits Sydney Harbour bays and famous beaches. Take to the water on one of three magnificent daily harbor cruises (游船). You can also travel free on regular Sydney Buses, Sydney Ferries or CityRail services (limited area), so you can go to every corner of this beautiful city.

Imagine browsing at Darling Harbour, tasting the famous seafood at Watsons Bay or enjoying the city lights on an evening ferry cruise. The possibilities and plans are endless with a SydneyPass. Wherever you decide to go, remember that bookings are not required on any of our services so tickets are treated on a first in, first seated basis.

SydneyPasses are available for 3, 5 or 7 days for use over a 7-calendar-day period. With a 3 or 5-day pass you choose on which days out of the 7 you want to use it. All SydneyPasses include a free Airport Express inward trip before starting your 3, 5 or 7 days, and the return trip is valid for 2 months from the first day your ticket was used.

SydneyPass Fares

*A child is defined as anyone from the ages of 4 years to under 16 years. Children under 4 years travel free.

**A family is defined as 2 adults and any number of children from 4 to under 16 years of age from the same family.

1.A SydneyPass doesn’t offer unlimited rides on ________.

A. the Explorer Buses B. the harbor cruises

C. regular Sydney Buses D. CityRail services

2.With a SydneyPass, a traveller can ________.

A. save fares from and to the airport

B. take the Sydney Explorer to beaches

C. enjoy the famous seafood for free

D. reserve seats easily in a restaurant

3.If 5-day tickets were to be recommended to a mother who travelled with her colleague and her children, aged 3, 6 and 10, what would the lowest cost be?

A. $225. B. $300. C. $360. D. $420.

Wild weather, unexpected coral reefs and dangerous sea creatures… these are the nightmares (噩梦) you can imagine a teenager on a solo voyage (独自旅行) around the world might suffer from. But for Laura Dekker, sailing around the globe seems less a price to be paid than a prize to be treasured.

As the 19-year-old Dutch sailor said in Maidentrip, a documentary released last year about her experience of becoming the youngest person to sail around the world alone in 2012, “I was born on a boat. I lived my first five years at sea. And ever since, all I have wanted is to return to that life.”

With her yacht Guppy, Dekker began her journey at 14 and sailed 50,004 kilometers in 519 days.

The flying fish keeping her company, the dolphins following in her wake and the warm days spent on deck playing the flute as she watched another unforgettable sunset were enough to make others jealous.

But these didn’t always go well. There were terrible moments in which Dekker feared death. On one occasion, a whale almost turned Guppy over. Another time, she battled extreme winds and Guppy surfed down 8-meter-high waves.

Out on the open sea alone, she also got used to living without a fridge, a flushing toilet, and a hot shower.

“As a human being you don’t need much,” she told Stuff.co.nz. “ They might make life more comfortable, but you really don’t need them to be happy.”

In fact, her outlook on life was shaped by the trip. “I wanted the storms. I wanted the calms. I wanted to feel loneliness,” she told The New York Times. “And now I know all these things. It’s the end of the dream I had as a child, and it’s the beginning of my life as a sailor.”

1.According to the text, in which year did Dekker begin her journey of 50,004 kilometers at sea?

A. In 2012 B. In 2010

C. In 2009 D. In 2011

2.The method the author uses to develop Paragraph 5 is ________.

A. offering analyses B. providing explanations

C. giving examples D. making comparisons

3.Which of the following can best describe the girl Laura Dekker? _________.

A. Modest and optimistic B. Patient and strong

C. Brave and generous D. Brave and determined

4. How did Laura Dekker think of her life on the sea?

A. It was so dangerous and almost ruined her.

B. It made her experience happiness and better understand life.

C. It is the sailing on the sea that made her well known.

D. It brought her great happiness and much comfort.

Modern smart phones are fast becoming the must-have item. But what’s in store for the next generation of smart phones?

Tired of carrying around that heavy wallet? Soon you won’t need to! The next generation of smart phones will have NFC technology, which lets you pay for things with your smart phones. All you do is enter your credit card information into your phone. Then, when you are in a shop that allows NFC payments, you just wave your phone over a special instrument at the checkout. The purchase is instantly charged to your credit card.

Ever seen someone wearing something and wished you knew where to get it? Soon it will be easy with PicCommerce, new technology that uses image-recognition software. Here’s how it works. If you see something you like, simply take a photo of it with your smart phone. Then, your phone will send the image to a special server, which will respond with information about where you can buy it and how much it will cost.

Sick of your smart phone battery going flat? With so many applications draining (消耗) the battery, the latest phones need to be charged every day. But next generation smart phones will come with built-in chips that can connect to an antenna (天线) in your home. And as long as your phone is within range of the antenna, you will be able to charge your smartphone wirelessly, even if it is in your pocket.

Worried about getting your smart phones wet in the rain? A company called Hz0 has invented WaterBlock, new technology that makes your phone completely waterproof. And it’s so effective that your phone will even work underwater.

Fed up with carrying a heavy phone around? Soon, you will be able to get a PaperPhone! “Flexible phones are the future,” said scientist Roel Vertegaal. So, what are the benefits of flexible phones? Well, it means that instead of carrying your phone in your pocket, you could wear it wrapped around your wrist, for example.

Of course, there is just the problem: with so much new smart phone technology around, you will soon need to buy a new phone!

1.To pay with your smart phone, you need to ________.

A. go to a bank

B. store money in the phone

C. buy a special instrument

D. have a credit card

2. We can learn from the 4th paragraph that the next generation of smart phones ________.

A. will have chips instead of batteries

B. may consume less power

C. will be charged easily

D. needn’t be charged frequently

3.Which feature of future smart phones does Paragraph 6 show?

A. They will be cheaper. B. They will be easier to operate.

C. They will be smaller. D. They will be easier to carry.

4.What can be the best title for the text?

A. The Future of Smart phones

B. Basic Functions of Smart phones

C. Advantages of Modern Smart phones

D. The Development of Phone Technology

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Many people think of guys as being carefree when it comes to their appearance. But in fact, a lot of guys spend plenty of time in front of the mirror. They care just as much as girls do about their body image.

Body image is a person's opinions and feelings about his or her own body and physical appearance. 1. You appreciate your body for its capabilities and accept its imperfections.

2. Here are some ideas.

Recognize your strengths. Different body types are good for different things. What does your body do well? Maybe your speed, strength, or coordination makes you better than others at a certain sport. That may be basketball, table tennis, mountain biking, dancing, or even running. Or perhaps you have non-sports skills, like drawing, painting, singing, playing a musical instrument, writing, or acting. 3.

Exercise regularly. Exercise can help you look well and feel good about yourself. Good physiques (体形) don’t just happen. 4. A healthy habit can be as simple as exercising 20 minutes to 1 hour three days a week. Working out can also lift your spirits.

Respect your body! Practicing good habits regular showering; taking care of your teeth, hair, and skin; wearing clean clothes, and so on can help you build a positive body image.

5. Your body is just one part of who you are. Your talent for comedy a quick wisdom and all the other things make you unique. So try not to let small imperfections take over.

A. Having a positive body image means feeling satisfied with the way you look.

B. The good news is that self-image and body image can be changed.

C. Use this as an opportunity to discover what you’re good at.

D. Just explore talents that you feel good about.

E. They take hard work, regular workouts, and a healthy diet.

F. Be yourself.

G. So, what can you do to develop a positive body image?