阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出最佳选项。

Depression is much higher amongst female bosses than male bosses，a new US survey finds.Dr Tetyana Pudrovska，the study's first author，explained：“Women with job authority－the ability to hire，fire，and influence pay－have greatly more symptoms of depression than women without this power.But men with job authority have fewer symptoms of depression than men without such power.”

The study followed 1，500 middle-aged women and 1，300 middle-aged men who all graduated from high schools in Wisconsin.The men and women were surveyed in 1993 and 2004 to look at the connection between how much authority they had at work and symptoms of depression.

The results showed that amongst men and women with lower levels of authority at work，women had slightly higher levels of depression.This is normal since overall women suffer from depression slightly more than men.Amongst men and women with higher levels of authority at work，however，it was women who had many more symptoms of depression than men.Men in authority actually had a 10% lower risk of depression，while authority increased the risk of women having depressive symptoms by 9%.

Dr Pudrovska continued：“What shocked us is that women with job authority in our study are advantaged in terms of most characteristics that are strong signs of positive mental health.These women have more education，higher incomes，better jobs，and higher levels of job satisfaction than women without job authority.Yet，they have worse mental health than lower－status(地位)women.”

The cause of this discrepancy is not known，but Dr Pudrovska says：“Years of social science research suggests that women in authority positions deal with interpersonal anxiety，negative social interactions，negative stereotypes，prejudice，social isolation(社会孤立)，as well as resistance(抵抗)from colleagues.Women in authority positions are viewed as lacking in the assertiveness(果断)and confidence of strong leaders.But when these women display such characteristics，they are judged negatively for being unfeminine(不像女性的)．This causes mental stress.”

Men，on the other hand，do not have to face these kinds of negative stereotypes about their abilities.

1.Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A．Female bosses get less stress from work than male bosses.

B．Female bosses get the same stress from work as male bosses.

C．Female bosses get the same stress from work as employees.

D．Female bosses get more stress from work than male bosses.

2.What conclusion can we draw from the passage?

A．The higher levels of authority，the fewer women suffer depression.

B．The higher levels of authority，the more women suffer depression.

C．The lower levels of authority，the more men suffer depression.

D．The lower levels of authority，the more women suffer depression.

3.What did Dr Pudrovska think of the results?

A．Exciting. B．Surprising.

C．Disappointing. D．Inspiring.

4.What does the underlined word“discrepancy”in Paragraph 5 mean?

A．Difference. B．Excellence.

C．Preference. D．Reference.

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出最佳选项。

Dear Harry，

You ask me whether you should spend the next three years at university，or get a job.I will give you three different answers.Take_your_pick.

Answer A．You are ambitious.Your sights are set on going to the top，in business or the government.In today's high-tech times，big companies cannot be managed by uneducated amateurs.Even the middle managers are at a disadvantage unless they get a university degree and an MBA.Same thing in government.

Anyway，you are too young to decide what you want to do for the rest of your life.If you spend the next few years at university，you will get to know the world—and yourself—before the time comes to choose your career.

Answer B．Stop wasting your time on academia(学术界)．Stop subjecting yourself to the boredom of textbooks and classrooms.Stop cramming for exams(应考)before you acquire a strong love for reading.

The lack of a college degree will only be a slight influence on your career.In Britain，you can still get to the top without a degree.What industry and the government need at the top is not experts but leaders.The character traits(性格特点)which make people scholars in their youth are not the traits which make them leaders in later life.You put up with education for 12 boring years.

Answer C．Don't judge the value of higher education in terms of careemanship.Judge it for what it is—a priceless opportunity to furnish your mind and enrich the quality of your life.My father was a failure in business，but he read Horace in the washroom until he died，poor but happy.

If you enjoy being a scholar，and like the company of scholars，go to a university.Who knows，you may end your days as a Regius Professor.And bear in mind that British universities are still the best in the world.You have a first-class mind.Stretch it.If you have the opportunity to go to a university，don't pass it up.You would never forgive yourself.

Tons of love，

David

1.What does the underlined sentence“Take your pick.”in Para 1 mean?

A．To choose what you want.

B．To cherish what you have.

C．To follow others' opinions.

D．To take action immediately.

2.What did the author think play a key part in high-tech times?

A．Ambition in careers.

B．Academic degrees.

C．Experience in business.

D．Experience in the government.

3.In the second answer the author mainly reminds Harry ________．

A．he should make use of time

B．he should learn in the classroom

C．what he should avoid at university

D．he should give up learning if he doesn't like it

4.According to the passage，the author's father might ____．

A．succeed in business

B．live a rich and happy life

C．enjoy reading in life

D．live a poor and miserable life

完形填空。

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Many years ago I was on a bicycle trip through some countryside.Suddenly，dark clouds ______ up overhead and rain began to fall，but ______ to relate，several hundred yards ahead of me the sun shone brilliantly.I rode as rapidly as I could. ______，I found it impossible to get into the clear.The ______ with their rain kept advancing faster than I could _______ forward.I continued this unequal ______ for an exhausting half hour，before realizing that I could not win my way to the bright area ahead of me.

Then it dawned on(使开始明白)me that I was ______ my strength，while paying no attention to the ______ for the sake of which I was making the trip.

The storm could not last forever and the discomfort was not ______．Indeed，there was much to look at that might otherwise have ______ me.I saw colours，lines and contours(轮廓)that would have appeared ______ under brilliant light.My anger at the rain was______ and my desire to escape it disappeared.It had ______ me with a new view and helped me understand that the sources of beauty and satisfaction may be found close at hand within the ______ of one's own sensibility(感受能力)．

It made me think，then and later，about other matters to which this incident was ______．It helped me realize that there is no ______ in fleeing from circumstances and conditions which cannot be ______，but I could bravely meet and often turned them to good ones.I know that half the battle is won if I can face trouble with ______，disappointment with spirit，and victory with humility(谦虚)．It has become ______ to me that danger is far from disaster，that defeat may be the forerunner of final victory，and that all achievements are fragile ______ based on enduring principles of moral conduct.

1.A．climbed B．piled C．picked D．went

2.A．strange B．skeptical C．optimistic D．constant

3.A．Therefore B．Moreover C．However D．Otherwise

4.A．winds B．sky C．sun D．clouds

5.A．race B．drive C．watch D．look

6.A．struggle B．contest C．trip D．power

7.A．gathering B．recovering C．saving D．wasting

8.A．landscape B．pleasure C．hurry D．feeling

9.A．adequate B．uncertain C．slight D．unbearable

10.A．interested B．pleased C．escaped D．found

11.A．beautifully B．slowly C．fortunately D．differently

12.A．great B．gone C．obvious D．hard

13.A．provided B．replaced C．compared D．equipped

14.A．range B．demand C．process D．contribution

15.A．devoted B．applied C．related D．adjusted

16.A．doubt B．way C．sense D．wonder

17.A．treated B．received C．understood D．avoided

18.A．hesitation B．courage C．difficulty D．ease

19.A．secret B．clearer C．stranger D．private

20.A．unless B．once C．when D．though

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Lionel Messi，1. player from the South American country Argentina，is one of the greatest soccer players alive today.At a young age，he 2.(move)to Spain and now plays 3.(profession)for the FC Barcelona.Messi started playing soccer at the age of 5 for a small soccer team 4.(own)by his father.Even as a young boy，he did very well.But when he was 11 years old，he found out he had a sickness which would prevent him from growing much 5.(tall)．There was a way to help him grow more，6.his parents did not have enough money to pay for his medical needs.So，they looked around for a soccer club 7. would be able to do this for them.The clubs in Argentina couldn't help him，but the famous FC Barcelona in Spain offered 8.(accept)Messi on the junior team and pay for the bills.The Messi family happily took the offer and moved to Spain.In the FC Barcelona，Messi was one of the best 9.(play)through his teen years. 10. his incredible talent，Messi has surprised the world.

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A.B.C和D项中，选出最佳选项。

Tony Morrison has won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. Tony Morrison is sixty-two years old. She was born in Lorain, Ohio. She is the daughter of farmers who moved to Ohio from the southern state of Alabama. She studied at Harvard University in Washington D.C. and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Her first success came in 1970 with the book called The Bluest Eye. It tells the story of a young black girl in a society where golden hair and blue eyes are considered beautiful. Her next book was called Sulla. It tells the story of two black girls and pain in their lives as they grow up in a small town in Ohio. Her book The Song of Solomon is about a black man who tries to forget his past as a slave and begin a new life. And Tar Baby explores the relationship of a black man and a black woman. In the story the writer argues that black men and women can not get along with each other until they join together to fight racial hatred(种族仇视).?

Miss Morrison won America’s highest prize for literature, the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her book Beloved. It is a powerful story of a slave woman who kills her baby daughter so she will not grow up to be a slave, too. Her latest book Jazz was published last year. It tells about the sad stories in the lives of a black man and woman who moved from a small town in the south to New York City. It took place in the 1920s,a time when Jazz music became popular in America.

Tony Morrison is a professor in literature at Princeton University in New Jersey. She says the most wonderful thing about winning the Nobel Prize is that it has finally been awarded to an African American writer. The prize is valued at more than 800,000 dollars. It will be awarded on Dec.10 in Stockholm in Sweden.

1.From the passage, we can see _________.

A. Morrison is the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize

B. The Bluest Eye tells the story of two black girls

C. the Blacks lived a hard life

D. Morrison studied at Cornell University and is now still working there

2.Morrison has been awarded the Nobel Prize perhaps because _________.

A. she is an important professor in literature

B. her books are widely read

C. what she has written attracted people’s attention to the Blacks’ life

D. she mostly writes about the black women

3.How many books she has written are mentioned in the passage?

A. Five. B. Six.

C. Seven. D. Eight.

4.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A. Morrison’s father once lived in Alabama.

B. When jazz was popular in the United States.

C. When her ancestors first came to the U.S.

D. When and where the Nobel Prize will be given to her.

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A.B.C和D项中，选出最佳选项。

“The first and best of victories is for a man to conquer himself; to be conquered by himself is, of all things, the most shameful,” says Plato. Self-control is at the root of all the advantages. Let a man give in to his impulses(冲动) and feelings, and from that moment he gives up his moral(道德) freedom.

A single angry word has lost many friends. When Socrates found in himself any temper or anger, he would check it by speaking low in order to control himself. If you are conscious of being angry, keep your mouth shut so that you can hold back rising anger. Many a person has dropped dead in great anger. Fits of anger bring fits of disease. “Whoever the gods would destroy they first make them mad.” “Keep cool,” says Webster, “anger is not argument.” “Be calm in arguing,” says George Herbert, “for fierceness(狂怒) makes error a fault.”

To be angry with a weak man is to prove that you are not strong yourself. “Anger,” says Pythagoras, “brings with folly and ends with regret.” You must measure the strength of a man by the power of the feelings he conquers, not by the power of those which conquer him.

Self-control is man’s last and greatest victory.

If a man lacks self-control he seems to lack everything. Without it he can have no patience, no power to govern himself; he can have no self-confidence, for he will always be controlled by his strongest feeling. If he lacks self-control, the very backbone and nerve of character are lacking also. (from www.nmet168.com)

1.What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. The importance of self-control.

B. How to conquer oneself?

C. The relation between a man’s moral freedom and his feelings.

D. A man should keep cool.

2.What’s the meaning of “whoever the gods would destroy they first make them mad”?

A. If you are mad, the gods will kill you.

B. If you lose your temper first, gods will kill you first.

C. If you can’t control yourself, you will be crazy.

D. If the gods want to kill you, they will make you mad first.

3.Which of the following is NOT true, according to passage?

A. The first and best of victories is for a man to conquer himself.

B. You will make a small mistake serious if you don’t keep cool.

C. You must measure a man’s strength by the power of the feelings which conquer him.

D. Anger brings with folly and ends with regret.

4.Which of the following can’t help you avoid anger, according to the passage?

A. Be calm in arguing.

B. Check your temper or anger by speaking low.

C. Keep your mouth shut.

D. Try to make the other angry first.

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A.B.C和D项中，选出最佳选项。

Itzhak Perlman was born in Tel Aviv, in what was then Palestine, in nineteen-forty five. Today he lives in New York City. But his music has made him a citizen of the world. He has played in almost every major city.

He has won many Grammy awards for his recordings. He has also won Emmy awards for his work on television.

Itzhak Perlman suffered from polio (脑灰质炎) at the age of four. The disease damaged his legs. He uses a wheelchair or walks with the aid of crutches on his arms.

But none of this stopped him from playing the violin. He began as a young child. He took his first lessons at the Music Academy of Tel Aviv. Very quickly, his teachers recognized that he had a special gift.

At thirteen he went to the United Sates to appear on television. His playing earned him the financial aid to attend the Juilliard School in New York.

In nineteen sixty-four Itzhak Perlman won the Leventritt Competition in that city. His international fame had begun.

His music is full of power and strength. It can be sad or joyful, loud or soft. But critics say it is not the music alone that makes his playing so special. They say he is able to communicate the joy he feels in playing, and the emotions that great music can deliver.

Anyone who has attended a performance by Itzhak Perlman will tell you that it is exciting to watch him play. His face changes as the music from his violin changes.

He looks sad when the music seems sad. He smiles and closes his eyes when the music is light and happy. He often looks dark and threatening when the music seems dark and threatening.

In nineteen-eighty six, President Ronald Reagan honored Itzhak Perlman with a Medal of Liberty. In two-thousand, President Bill Clinton awarded him the National Medal of Arts. Several major universities have awarded him honors. He continues to receive honors for his music.

1.According to the passage, we know Itzhak Perlman ___________.

A. is 60 years old today

B. was born in New York City

C. was a rich citizen of the world

D. has some achievement in music

2.Despite the disease, none of this stopped Itzhak Perlman and he_________.

A. took his first lessons at the Music Academy of New York

B. appear on television for the first time in New York

C. got the financial aid to continue his study of music

D. won the Leventritt Competition in his nineties

3.When the music seems dark，Itzhak Perlman often looks _______.

A. dark B. sad

C. happy D. light

4.We can infer from the passage Ronald Reagan must be president of __________.

A. Palestine B. Germany

C. the USA D. England

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A.B.C和D项中，选出最佳选项。

“America’s No.1 Health Problem.” So reads the headline of an article published by the American Institute of Stress that claims the biggest threat to health today is neither cancer nor AIDS. The report says: “It has been estimated（估计）that 75 to 90 percent of all visits to primary care physicians are for stress related problems.”

It is no exaggeration（夸张）to say that people today are being attacked by stress. According to the National Consumers League, “Work is the top source of stress for adults who have problems and stress in their lives (39%), followed by family (30%). Other sources include health (10%), concern about the economy (9%) and concern about international conflict and terrorism (4%).”

However, stress is hardly unique to the United States. A British survey in 2005 estimated that “over half a million individuals in Britain believed in 2004 that they were experiencing work-related stress at a level that was making them ill.” As a result of “work-related stress, depression or anxiety,” there are “an estimated thirteen and a half million reported lost working days per year in Britain.”

The picture is no less bleak in mainland Europe. According to the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, “work-related stress has been shown to affect millions of European workers across all types of employment sectors.” One survey revealed that there are “about 41 million workers affected by work-related stress each year.”

What about Asia? A report issued by a conference held in Tokyo concluded: “Job stress is a common concern among many countries in the world, both developing and industrialized countries.” The report observed that “several countries in East Asia, including China and Korea, have rapidly industrialized and economically grown. These countries now have a lot of concerns on job stress and its harmful effects on workers’ health.”

1.The author quoted “America’s No.1 Health Problem.” (Para. 1) in order to ______.

A. talk about health problems in America

B. introduce the topic of stress

C. emphasize the stress in America

D. tell readers something about American Institute of Stress

2.From the passage we can learn that .

A. both cancer and AIDS are not as serious as the threat of stress to health

B. stress is mainly from working and living pressure

C. Americans never care about international conflict and terrorism

D. people in mainland Europe are more optimistic than English people

3.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that ______.

A. Asian people are more willing to develop their countries

B. the rapid economic development is the main reason for stress

C. some people in Asian countries have health problems from employment stress

D. Asian countries have a better situation of stress than Europe

4.What’s the main subject of the passage?

A. Stress attacking health.

B. How to deal with stress.

C. A survey on working stress.

D. Health problems around the world.

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A.B.C和D项中，选出最佳选项。

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become certain.” Christopher Reeve

Recently, for the first time in 5 years I simply went out back, put my cane down, and started walking. I made it 42 yards.

Today I walked 5 miles.

My medical team had said this would be impossible. My brain could no longer send the signals for walking because those nerves in it had been destroyed. Though certainly unintentional, my doctors did take something very important away from me: hope.

A while back, a psychologist pal of mine urged me to try to help myself. I was angry. I said, “They’re four of Boston’s leading neurologists. They all said I’d never get any better.”

“They could have all been wrong.”

“They said there’s nothing I can do! No rehabilitation(复原). No physical therapy(治疗). I’m not putting any effort into trying to walk and then be miserable when I fail.”

“Trying is never failure.”

What made me finally try? The answer is simpler than I’d have ever imagined. That day I tried walking on my own, I had simply said to myself, “Why not?”

When I walk I have a Frankenstein-style gait. I get embarrassed so I explain. I met a gal who said, “Stop excusing yourself. Walk proud!” She’s just one of the many who’ve taught me that if I open my heart to acceptance, the world is filled with support teams.

One morning my husband, Bob, said there was a huge present for me in our driveway. He had researched “bicycles for disabled people.” It was a 300 pound cycle for two. The seats were side by side. He could pedal while I sat by him and enjoyed the outdoors again.

Um... did I mention it came assembled with a set of pedals for me too?

Now, hundreds of miles later, after exhaustive hours of pedaling along beautiful bike trails, I only wish that we owned stock in Bengay.

1.What’s the best title of this passage?

A. Having a tour

B. Realizing an Impossible dream

C. Walking with a cane

D. Suffering from disability

2.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. My doctor concluded that I can walk again.

B. My brain could no longer send signals.

C. They're four famous doctors in my medical team.

D. My medical team’s conclusion took my hope away.

3.The author didn’t want to try walking because _______.

A. her doctors said he couldn’t get any better

B. her friend’s words is unbelievable

C. she was miserable when he failed that time

D. trying is never failure

4.The bicycle Bob found can be _____.

A. a 150 pound cycle for one

B. a bicycle for disabled people

C. a huge present that he sent.

D. of the same size as a normal one.

With economy getting worse，we have reached the point ________ we have to cut down our daily expenses.

A．that B．which C．when D．where