Looking for a low-cost path to self-knowledge? A way to mine your subconscious（潜意识的）

for clues to your motivations, desires and fears? No need to have years of treatment or analysis．Just look to your dreams．“You can ignore your dreams, but you are really doing harm to yourself,” says Lauri Quinn Loewenberg．“If so, you’re letting red flags pass you by, letting great ideas pass you by．”

Some sleep researchers believe dreams are more directly related to our moods and emotions

and can serve as tools to self-understanding．Dreams occur during the REM (rapid eye movement) cycles of sleep each night．For adults, that means about every 90 minutes．The first period of REM sleep may be short, 5 to 10 minutes, followed by longer periods, finally reaching an hour or more in the fourth or fifth period．When people are dreaming, brain scans show a lot of activities．The brain is online during

dreams．The experiences you have during the day are connected during dream sleep．People we know or experiences we’ve had at different times in our lives may be different in the same dream．

AmyBeth Gilstrap has had the same recurring（循环）dream that annoyed her since Hurricane

Katrina drove her and her daughter and friends out of New Orleans．Ms．Gilstrap says, “It is always spies．My job is to get people to some place．” She’s certain the dream is related to her effort in the hurricane to help several families leave．Sometimes her cats also are part of that dream．That’s because she went back into New Orleans, before it was allowed, to rescue her cats．

Today, through brain scans scientists have known that the parts of the brain that control

emotions and long-term memories are active during REM sleep．

72．The passage is mainly to tell readers ______．

      A．dreams are mainly caused by hard work    

       B．dreams can offer us key to self-knowledge

      C．dreams are only activities of our brains     

       D．how dreams help us solve our problems

73．According to the words from Lauri Quinn Loewenberg, ______．

      A．dreams can make you feel badly ill        

       B．you often have red flags in your dreams

      C．dreams will make your life colorful        

       D．you may get great help from your dreams

74．When you are dreaming at night,         .

       A．your eyes will not move during the time

       B．your dream is connected with your work in the day

       C．the dream will generally last about 5 to 10 minutes

       D．the longer dream should be in the later part of the sleep

75．The underlined word “It” in Paragraph 3 refers to       .

       A．Mrs. Gilstrap’s dream     B．Mr. Gilstrap’s job

       C．Hurricane Katrina           D．New Orleans

---I went to the hot spring and enjoyed myself

    ---________．You looked tired last time I saw you．

       A．I had hoped so B．Thanks     C．I’m glad you did     D．That sounds a good idea

Toyota Motor President Akio Toyoda on Monday apologized to Chinese consumers , who ________ the world's biggest auto market , over the company's massive global recall.

A. make up   B. bring up    C. put down    D. set down

 ---I can’t recite the poem.

   ---Well, you are supposed _____ it many times yesterday evening.

        A. to read      B. to have read      C. reading      D. having read

Students who pass the test will be  ______to the next grade, as has been announced.

A. possessed        B. promoted      C. proposed        D. allowed

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

Nothing can better illustrate the failure of education in this country than the contrast between millions of college graduates finding it hard to get a proper job every year and the lack of workers in the more industrialized regions.

According to news from Dongguan (东莞), one of the __50__ manufacturing centers in the Pearl River Delta (珠江三角洲) region in South China, “over 90 percent” factories have said they are finding __51__ difficult to employ people from the second half of 2009, when the __52__ began picking up and overseas orders restarted pouring in. Running to full capacity seems a dream that the factories had__53__. 

An awkward reality is that only few, __54__, of the new college graduates could really fill the vacancies because the trainings they have received are entirely __55__ from the demands of the jobs. Nor will Chinese cities have enough workforce if they pursue a development model other than export-based manufacturing.

The __56__ for that is simple: The knowledge about management graduates gather is totally out of step with reality, __57__ of them can hardly express themselves in English or compose an email message properly, and __58__ handle even paper work in a law service with the legal knowledge they have.

I __59__ some college teachers, whom I went to college with, that the amount of time an average college student spends on studies today is less than half of what we __60__ in the late 1970s when proper college education was recovered after the “cultural revolution” (1966-76).

“They (the administrations) have enrolled so many students just to __61__ from their parents (tuition and other charges)”, one of the teachers said embarrassedly. “It's a nationwide phenomenon, you know.”

It is hard to believe that a country should not __62__ education so seriously when there are no longer as many young people as before and view its opportunities only in terms of immediate financial gains, which greatly affects the quality of education. __63__, vocational education faces a double threat: frequent ups and downs in the business cycle and that of a flooding of cheap college certificates.

It is __64__ in a country with rapid development in many fields to see little reform and progress in its education system. When colleges are reduced to money-making machines, they cannot help a society create enough workers, thinkers and leaders.

50. A. necessary                   B. key                          C. new                         D. remote

51. A. this                           B. that                         C. it                             D. as

52. A. economy                    B. country                    C. city                          D. industry

53. A. in the near future        B. at present time          C. from time to time      D. in the long past

54. A. and some                   B. but none                   C. if any                       D. because such

55. A. different                    B. same                        C. opposite                   D. similar

56. A. result                         B. method                    C. reason                      D. expectation

57. A. some                         B. most                        C. few                          D. all

58. A. can                            B. must                        C. can’t                        D. mustn’t

59. A. took from                  B. picked out                C. caught sight of          D. learned from

60. A. spent                         B. cost                         C. wasted                            D. detected

61. A. cost money                B. make money             C. create money            D. deal with

62. A. put                                   B. set                           C. make                       D. take

63. A. Although                   B. Besides                    C. However                  D. Therefore

64. A. common                    B. likely                       C. worthwhile               D. surprising

Section D

Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.

When it comes to finding their way back home, mice are definitely in the first place. In fact, they find their way around in much the same way we do!

Recently scientists at Oxford University found that wood mice have a rare ability. They actually create a type of “road sign” to tell themselves which way to go. Until now, most people did not think animals could do this.

Wood mice live in large open fields. One part of the field looks much like the next. Scientists wondered how wood mice kept from getting lost without landmarks. How did they remember where they hid their food? By studying a group of these mice, researchers learned that these clever mice pile seeds, leaves and other materials at places they want to remember.

What is truly remarkable is that these markers are visual. Wood mice have large eyes. They rely on their vision to fine their way. House mice, by contrast, follow their own smell to get back to their nests. However, leaving a small trail in an open field could be very dangerous. Enemies might use it to track down the little mice. Wood mice do not have to worry about this. Other animals do not know what their markers mean.

Researchers wanted to learn more about this unusual behavior. To do so, they needed to study the mice more closely. They decided to place a group of mice inside a box and film their activity. They also put some small plastic discs and a small amount of food in the box. Soon the mice began moving the discs. They used them to hide food. They also shifted them from place to place as they moved farther and farther away from their nesting area.

Researchers believe this new information may change how people think about these little creatures, and one of the first steps in realizing that mice are not as silly as we probably originally thought. One thing seems certain that these remarkable road signs will be a focus of scientific research for some time to come.

(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS.)

81. How are wood mice different from house mice?

_____________________________________________________________________________

82. The rare ability wood mice have is _______________________.

_____________________________________________________________________________

83. Researchers found when wood mice moved farther and farther away from their nesting place, they _____________________________________________________________________________

84. Why do scientists study wood mice?

_____________________________________________________________________________

(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS.)

---It’s the office! So you _____ know eating is not allowed here.

---Oh, sorry.

       A. may                 B. will                         C. must                        D. need

.They were __________ to produce carbon,nitrogen,water and other gases.

A.in time          B.at a time     C.at one time        D.on time

 I can hardly ______ very loud noise while I am studying.

  A. put up with      B. get rid of          C. have efforts on     D. keep away from