When we ___ a foreign language, we’d respect its ____, or we can’t really learn it well.

  A. speak; idioms B. study; ways C. learn; customs D. master; manners

The cat ____ Mimi belongs to _____.

  A. named; the Green’s      B. named; the Greens

  C. named by Green    D. whose name was; the Greens

___ youngest though she is, she is ____ wisest.

  A. the; the   B. /; /    C. /; the    D. The; /

Crusoe had to stay in cave, ___ go out, even for food.

  A. daring not to    B. not daring to       C. not daring     D. daring not

   Will it matter if you don't take your breakfast? Recently a test was given in the United States. Those tested included people of different ages, from 12 to 83. During the experi??ment, these people were given all kinds of breakfasts, and sometimes they got no breakfast at all. Special tests were set up to see how well their bodies worked when they had eaten a certain kind of breakfast. The results show that if a person eats a proper breakfast, he or she will work with better effect than if he or she has no breakfast. This fact appears to be especially true if a person works with his brains. If a student eats fruit, eggs, bread and milk before going to school, he will learn more quickly and listen with more attention to class.

Opposite to what many people believe, if you don't eat breakfast, you will not lose weight. This is because people become so hungry at noon that they eat too much for lunch, and end up gaining weight instead of losing. You will probably lose more weight if you reduce your other meals.

60. During the test, those who were tested were given ________.

A. no breakfast at all            B. very rich breakfast

C. little food for breakfast        D. different breakfast or none

61. The results of the test show that ________.

A. breakfast has great effect on work and studies

B. breakfast has little to do with a person s work

C. a person will work better if he has a simple breakfast

D. those working with brains should have much for breakfast

62. The passage mentions that many people believe that if you don't eat breakfast, you will _________.

A. lose weight     B. not lose weight      

C. be healthier            D. gain a lot of weight

63. According to the passage, if a student does not eat breakfast, ___________.

A. he will fall ill                       B. he will fail to listen to his teacher

C. he will not make progress in his study   D. his mind will work more slowly

   Over the last 70 years, researchers have been studying happy and unhappy people and finally found out ten factors that make a difference. Our feelings of well-being at any moment are determined to a certain degree by genes. However, of all the factors, wealth and age are the top two.

    Money can buy a degree of happiness. But once you can afford to feed, clothe and house yourself, each extra dollar makes less and less difference.

    Researchers find that, on average, wealthier people are happier. But the link between money and happiness is complex. In the past half-century, average income has sharply increased in developed countries, yet happiness levels have remained almost the same. Once your basic needs are met, money only seems to increase happiness if you have more than your friends, neighbors and colleagues.

“Dollars buy status, and status makes people feel better,” conclude some experts, which helps explain why people who can seek status in other ways—scientists or actors, for example—may happily accept relatively poorly-paid jobs.

In a research, Professor Alex Michalos found that the people whose desires—not just for money, but for friends, family, job, health—rose furthest beyond what they already had, tended to be less happy than those who felt a smaller gap (差距). Indeed, the size of the gap predicted happiness about five times better than income alone. “The gap measures just blow away the only measures of income.” says Michalos.

         Another factor that has to do with happiness is age. Old age may not be so bad. “Given all the problems of aging, how could the elderly be more satisfied? ” asks Protessor Laura Carstensen.

         In one survey, Carstensen interviewed 184 people between the ages of 18 and 94, and asked them to fill out an emotions questionnaire. She found that old people reported positive emotions just as often as young people, but negative emotions much less often.

Why are old people happier? Some scientists suggest older people may expect life to be harder and learn to live with it, or they’re more realistic abour their goals, only setting ones that they know they can achieve. But Carstensen thinks that with time running out, older people have learned to focus on things that make them happy and let go of those that don’t.

         “People realize not only what they have, but also that what they have cannot last forever,” she says. “A goodbye kiss to a husband or wife at the age of 85, for example, may bring far more complex emotional responses than a similar kiss to a boy or girl friend at the age of 20.”

53. According to the passage, the feeling of happiness        .

A. is determined partly by genes                   B. increases gradually with age

C. has little to do with wealth                   D. is measured by desires

54. Some actors would like to accept poorly-paid jobs because the jobs      .

A. make them feel much better                     B. provide chances to make friends

C. improve their social position                 D. satisfy their professional interests

55. Aged people are more likely to feel happy because they are more       .

A. optimistic              B. successful             C. practical                D. emotional

56. Professor Alex Michalos found that people feel less happy if         .

A. the gap between reality and desire is bigger

B. they have a stronger desire for friendship

C. their income is below their expectation

D. the hope for good health is greater    

语音知识（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

从每小题的A B C D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

1. public                      A. argue                     B. custom                  C. popular                  D. busy

2. nation                     A. labor                       B. camera                 C. village                    D. natural

3. southern                A. encourage            B. soup                       C. pronounce            D. youth

4. excellent                A. extreme                B. explain                       C. extra                      D. express

5. honest                    A. horrible                  B. honor                        C. holiday                       D. hotel

You’re _______ a lie. More than one man has known about it.

A．speaking       B．talking                    C．saying                     D．telling

.It is often said that an American starts speech with a joke, __ a Japanese has an apology to make.

  A. as    B. when   C. which   D. while

. Our country has a ____ history of 4000 years.

  A. recording  B. recorded  C. record  D. records