Researchers at the University of Kansas say that people can accurately judge 90 percent of a stranger’s personality simply by looking at the person’s shoes.

“Shoes convey a thin but useful slice of information about their wearers,” the authors wrote in the new study published in the Journal of Research in Personality. “Shoes serve a practical purpose, and also serve as nonverbal indications with symbolic messages. People tend to pay attention to the shoes they and others wear.”

Medical Daily notes that the number of detailed personality traits detected in the study include a person’s general age, their gender, income, political affiliation(派别), and other personality characteristics, including someone’s emotional stability.

Lead researcher Omri Gillath said the judgments were based on the style, cost, color and condition of someone’s shoes. In the study, 63 University of Kansas students looked at pictures showing 208 different pairs of shoes worn by the study’s participants. Volunteers in the study were photographed in their most commonly worn shoes, and then filled out a personality questionnaire.

So, what do your shoes say about your personality?

Some of the results were expected: People with higher incomes most commonly wore expensive shoes, and flashier footwear was typically worn by extroverts(外向者).

However, some of the more specific results are interesting. For example, “practical and functional” shoes were generally worn by more “agreeable” people, while ankle boots were more closely aligned with “aggressive” personalities.

The strangest of all may be that those who wore “uncomfortable looking” shoes tend to have “calm” personalities.

And if you have several pairs of new shoes or take exceptional care of them, you may suffer from “attachment anxiety”, spending a large amount of time worrying about what other people think of your appearance. There was even a political calculation in the mix with more liberal types wearing “shabbier and less expensive” shoes.

The researchers noted that some people will choose shoe styles to mask their actual personality traits, but researchers noted that volunteers were also likely to be unaware that their footwear choices were revealing deep insights into their personalities.

1.We can infer from Paragraph 2 that___________.

A. shoes are vital to their wearers

B. a practical purpose is to wear shoes

C. people want to buy new shoes they pay attention to

D. shoes may give away their wearers’ information

2.Which of the following is NOT true according to the text?

A. People with high incomes probably wear expensive shoes.

B. Ankle boots are closely aligned with “aggressive” personalities．

C. People wearing “uncomfortable looking” shoes tend to be calm

D. People who wear practical and functional shoes may be hard to deal with

3.The underlined word “attachment anxiety”, probably means ___________.

A. Attached happiness to one’s personality.

B. Feeling always worried about everything.

C. Often feeling worried about his or her appearance.

D. Wasting an inordinate amount of time.

4.Which might be the best title for the passage?

A. Bad Shoes, Bad Personality.

B. People Are What They Wear.

C. How To Choose Suitable Shoes

D. Shoes Reflect A Person’s Personalities.

For 40 years, people in London have been happy to see parakeets (马尾鹦鹉) in their parks. The shocking green body and long tail have brought a bright color to the parks, which have attracted a lot of people.

However, the parakeets are no longer welcome. They will push out local birds from trees to build their own nests, and will also take most of the food in the parks, such as seeds, fruit and nuts.

Sometimes by accident, plants and animals are carried to new places. They are transported by trains, ships or even planes. Often, animals like fishes get transported in the water containers of ships. When these ships reach new places and pump out the water from their tanks, these animals will start a new life in a new place.

Sometimes people take plants and animals from one part of the world to the other to solve a problem. But it will create a bigger problem. Years ago, the farmers of northern Australia brought the toads (蟾蜍) from South America to their farms. They thought they would kill the beetles that harm the sugarcane crops. But the toad has done much more. It is now killing Australia’s native animals, such as snakes, water birds and so on.

1.People get interested in parakeets mainly because of ____.

A. their appearance B. their singing

C. their behavior D. their living environment

2.How do the parakeets affect the local birds?

A. They sometimes kill the local birds.

B. They destroy trees which the local birds live in.

C. They take the local birds’ nests and food.

D. They have attracted much of people’s attention.

3.What is the third paragraph mainly talking about?

A. How animals and plants come to new lands.

B. How a new animal affects the local animals.

C. Why some plants are introduced to a new place.

D. The role of ships in transporting animals and plants.

4.What can we learn about the toads?

A. They didn’t kill the beetles at all.

B. They were brought to Australia by accident.

C. They have ruined the sugarcane crops.

D. They have created a larger problem in Australia.

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

●Does failure really exist?

If you believe you have failed, then you have．If you believe you don’t have the ability to succeed, then you don’t．__1.__ The moment you decide to give up or stop working toward your goals, failure is born．

● _2.__

Most people give themselves an out without even realizing it．They are willing to work hard on reaching their goals, but only until the going gets too rough or their energy dies down． Don’t do that! __3.__Never quit, never admit failure, and never lose heart.

●Don’t believe in a clear finish line for goals．

It’s a good idea to set a general timeline, but remember that something will be beyond your control．_4.___If you lock yourself into a given timeline, you might make yourself feel like a failure! Instead, get a general idea of when you’d like your goal to be completed． Then take it one day at a time and focus on making progress instead of reaching the finish line in as little time as possible．

●Be sure that you don’t see difficulties as failures．

Difficulties mean only one thing: it’s not time for your goal to be completed yet．That’s it! It doesn’t mean you failed; it doesn’t mean you’re weak; it doesn’t mean you’ll never achieve your goals．_5._ You’ve got to keep moving forward and find a way over, around, or through the difficulties．

A． Never give up on yourself．

B． Failure only exists in your own mind!

C． That’s exactly how failure makes us feel．

D． It simply means you have not done enough yet．

E． You can never say exactly when your goal will be reached．

F． Instead, make up your mind to make your goal happen, no matter what!

G． Work hard towards your goal, and you will be likely to get good results.

完形填空

Two-year-old Christopher Merrett has such severe food allergies that even the smell can send him into potentially deadly shock．

Mrs．Merrett said she first _________ something was wrong with her son when she stopped _________ him with breast milk at six months old and _________ onto cows’ milk.

She said her son spent three weeks in _________after sitting in a supermarket trolley which had tiny traces of _________ in it．She said，“It looked _________ ．We put him there and with minutes his feet and hands had _________ blue and we knew there was something extraordinarily_________ ．We realized then he must have put his _________ in his mouth after touching the trolley and it must have _________ had some sort of milk product on it.”

Mrs．Merrett said．“We cannot have _________ when he is in the house as his allergy is_________ just by the smell．I remember going to Pizza Hut for my daughter’s birthday and Christopher coughed the moment we got in there _________ it is only now that I realize it is because he was allergic．”

Mrs．Merrett，who took time off her job to _________ her son，and her husband Michael，47，have spent hours _________ ingredients labels(成分标签)and carrying out _________ research on the Internet trying to find specialist food their son can eat，so the son does not _________ out on treats and candies．

Because Christopher’s allergies are so _________ that the couple has prepared an entire cupboard for his food．He also has his own shelf in the fridge and oven．

Little Christopher was taken out of nursery school when he was given cheese _________ and ended up in hospital．His _________ now worries about what could happen when he eventually goes to schoo1．

1.A．heard B．admitted C．realized D．forgot

2.A．feeding B．supplying． C．treating D．presenting

3.A．developed B．moved C．continued D．queued

4.A．market B．school C．kindergarten D．hospital

5.A．water B．milk C．juice D．cheese

6.A．dirty B．rough C．clean D．smooth

7.A．remained B．1eft C．painted D．gone

8.A．wrong B．sensitive C．important D．strange

9.A．feet B．fingers C．toys D．medicine

10.A．nowadays B．presently C．previously D．afterwards

11.A．pizza B．pancakes C．noodles D．chicken

12.A．1eft out B．kicked off C．turned in D．broken into

13.A．when B．or C．but D．while

14.A．attend to B．worry about C．appeal to D．take over

15.A．writing B．explaining C．dictating D．reading

16.A．heart-touching B．painstaking C．easygoing D．peace-loving

17.A．miss B．make C．sell D．give

18.A．slight B．severe C．specific D．simple

19.A．after all B．on purpose C．by accident D．in fact

20.A．teacher B．babysitter C．friend D．mother

语法填空

Every country shares things _1.__common: we value family and laughter, cherish food and health, and celebrate large __2.____ (festival) and traditions. Yet within the similar things we share, there are unique parts of each country. One characteristic that is famous of British people_3.__(be) their sense of humor, particularly self-mockery (自嘲). This is a type of humor that criticizes and undervalues oneself. For example, a fat person may joke: “I am on a new sea food diet. If I see food, I eat it.” This is 4.__well-known self-mockery joke. It’s difficult why self-mockery_5.___ (tie) to the British people. But every nation’s sense of humor comes from its culture and history. It could come from another British characteristic, modesty, __6.___ (mean) not talking openly about your skills. This seems to be something that is similar with people in China, _7.___modesty plays a big part in daily life. It also acts as a defense of our self-respect by playing down our skills, this can _8._(less) the chance of people criticizing us. Another possible reason is_9.___the British people do not take themselves too_10.__ (serious).

短文改错

该文中共有十处错误,每句中最多有两处,错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧), 并在此符号下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用斜线（ ＼）划掉。修改：在错的词下划一横线, 并在该词下面写出修改后的词。注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2、只允许修改十处, 多者(从第11处起) 不计分。

I have a good friend whom name is Rose. Last month, she lent one of my favorite book. Yesterday I asked her to return the book back to me. To my surprising, she said she had already given the book to me. I search my desk and school bag, but I didn’t find one. I became very angry about her and shouted at her, she left the classroom with tears in her eyes. However, when I came home last night. I was surprised to find my book lie under my pillow. Now I regret quarrelling with her. I am afraid I will lose friend. What should I do?

书面表达

假设你校举办看图征文活动，题目为“How to protect your eyesight”。请你用英语写一篇短文，指出图中所反映的现象，并从阅读时间，光线，眼保健操及睡眠等方面，谈谈保护眼睛的具体做法．

注意：

1．词数100-120字；

2．可适当加入细节，以便行文连贯。

3．参考词汇：近视-----near-sighted 眼保健操------eye exercise

How to protect our eyesight

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Below is a passage adapted from the network edition of China Daily.

Event

Voices

Aftermath(余波)

1.This passage is focused on Li Yang’s .

A．microblog article B．domestic violence

C．English-teaching career D．international marriage

2.Zhangxiaomei holds the view that .

A．laws should be passed to protect women and children

B．crazy personality accounts for violence and ill temper

C．overcoming background gap is necessary for marriage

D．Li is wrong to have his students worship him as an idol

3.Who thinks that character plays the most important role in one’s life?

A．@Xuemanzi B．@Sikaozhe

C．@ykxin D．@Zhangxiaomei

4.According to Wang Xingjuan, .

A．people of higher education won’t easily lose temper

B．people under stress tend to have domestic violence

C．people in lower social status often beat their wives

D．people with senior jobs seldom have family trouble

When Charles Stratton was five, he stopped growing．His mother took him to see the famous showman, P．T．Barnum．Mr.．Barnum thought a small person would be the perfect addition to his show．He hired Charles' parents along with him, and they traveled the world together.

He gave the two-foot-tall Charles a name, General Tom Thumb． He taught Tom how to sing, dance, act and tell jokes．When he felt Tom was ready to perform on stage, he made up ads．To stir up great interest, he said that Tom was eleven years old and had come from England.

During the show, Tom fought battles pretendedly with tall people．He also danced upon a wooden plate held by a person who was eight feet tall．Tom's act was very popular and brought in a lot of money．By the time Tom was an adult, he had grown very rich．He had become a billionaire at the age of twenty five.

Fortunately for Tom, Mr.．Barnum added more little people to his show, and Tom became lucky in love as well．One of the little people was Lavinia Warren, a schoolteacher．Tom was able to win her love, and they married.

The ceremony and reception were the talk of the town．They were attended by many rich and famous people and by about 2000 guests．Crowds filled the streets of New York to have a look at their tiny wedding marriage．The couple even met with President Abraham Lincoln on their honeymoon just before going to live in Tom's house in Connecticut.

Their wedding, which took place during the Civil War, provided a welcome escape from the sad problems of war．Not willing to let this bit of sunshine fade, communities throughout the country sponsored "Tom Thumb" weddings．In these weddings, small boys and girls, all dressed up, went through marriage ceremony for fun.

1.The underlined words "talk of the town" means________.

A． it was in the newspaper

B． it was the most popular topic

C． people spread bad rumors about it

D． it was discussed in a city meeting

2.Which one of the following statements is true according to the text?

A． Charles mother took him to see the famous showman because he stopped growing.

B． Tom had to fight with others during the show.

C． Tom’s wedding ceremony helped people cheer up in a dark time.

D． Tom and his mother came from England.

3.What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

A． Weddings always make people feel full of sunshine.

B． People are always disappointed during war time.

C． Entertainment can serve an important purpose.

D． People should be married when they are small children.

Researchers at the University of Kansas say that people can accurately judge 90 percent of a stranger’s personality simply by looking at the person’s shoes.

“Shoes convey a thin but useful slice of information about their wearers,” the authors wrote in the new study published in the Journal of Research in Personality. “Shoes serve a practical purpose, and also serve as nonverbal indications with symbolic messages. People tend to pay attention to the shoes they and others wear.”

Medical Daily notes that the number of detailed personality traits detected in the study include a person’s general age, their gender, income, political affiliation(派别), and other personality characteristics, including someone’s emotional stability.

Lead researcher Omri Gillath said the judgments were based on the style, cost, color and condition of someone’s shoes. In the study, 63 University of Kansas students looked at pictures showing 208 different pairs of shoes worn by the study’s participants. Volunteers in the study were photographed in their most commonly worn shoes, and then filled out a personality questionnaire.

So, what do your shoes say about your personality?

Some of the results were expected: People with higher incomes most commonly wore expensive shoes, and flashier footwear was typically worn by extroverts(外向者).

However, some of the more specific results are interesting. For example, “practical and functional” shoes were generally worn by more “agreeable” people, while ankle boots were more closely aligned with “aggressive” personalities.

The strangest of all may be that those who wore “uncomfortable looking” shoes tend to have “calm” personalities.

And if you have several pairs of new shoes or take exceptional care of them, you may suffer from “attachment anxiety”, spending a large amount of time worrying about what other people think of your appearance. There was even a political calculation in the mix with more liberal types wearing “shabbier and less expensive” shoes.

The researchers noted that some people will choose shoe styles to mask their actual personality traits, but researchers noted that volunteers were also likely to be unaware that their footwear choices were revealing deep insights into their personalities.

1.We can infer from Paragraph 2 that___________.

A. shoes are vital to their wearers

B. a practical purpose is to wear shoes

C. people want to buy new shoes they pay attention to

D. shoes may give away their wearers’ information

2.Which of the following is NOT true according to the text?

A. People with high incomes probably wear expensive shoes.

B. Ankle boots are closely aligned with “aggressive” personalities．

C. People wearing “uncomfortable looking” shoes tend to be calm

D. People who wear practical and functional shoes may be hard to deal with

3.The underlined word “attachment anxiety”, probably means ___________.

A. Attached happiness to one’s personality.

B. Feeling always worried about everything.

C. Often feeling worried about his or her appearance.

D. Wasting an inordinate amount of time.

4.Which might be the best title for the passage?

A. Bad Shoes, Bad Personality.

B. People Are What They Wear.

C. How To Choose Suitable Shoes

D. Shoes Reflect A Person’s Personalities.