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—The earthquake has killed over two thousand people in Yushu.

—________.

A. OK     B. Certainly    C. I agree       D. That’s the case

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第二节 完型填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

Once upon a time，a man punished his 5-year-old daughter for  31  up the family's only roll of expensive gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became even more  32  when on Christmas Eve，he saw that the child had pasted the gold paper so as to  33  a shoe box to put under the Christmas tree.

    Nevertheless, the next morning the little girl, filled with excitement, brought the gift box to her father and said, “This is for you，Daddy!”Hearing this，the father was  34 by his earlier conversation. But when he opened it, he found it was  35  and again his anger expanded. “Don’t you know, young lady,” he said   36 ,“when you give someone a present there’s supposed to be something inside the package !”

    The little girl looked up at him  37  tears rolling from her eyes and said: “Daddy, it’s not empty. I blew kisses into it until it was all full.”

The father was deeply moved. He  38  on his knees and put his arms around his precious little girl. He begged her to  39   him .

    An accident  40  the life of the child only a short time later and  41  is told that the father kept that little gold box by his bed for all the years of his life. And  42  he was discouraged or faced difficult problems he  43   open the box，take out an imaginary kiss, and  44  the love of this beautiful child who had put it there.

    In a very real sense, each of us as human beings have been given an unseen golden box 45   with unconditional 1ove and kisses from our children, family, friends and God.                   

36. A. doing       B. cutting           C. tearing               D. using

37. A. worried           B. shocked      C. bored          D. terrified

38. A. paint        B. tie          C. decorate         D. hang

39. A. bothered      B. moved           C. embarrassed       D. annoyed

40. A. empty       B. ugly        C. overfilled       D. expensive

41. A. politely     B. angrily           C. thoughtfully      D. eagerly

42. A. in          B. down     C. with            D. for

43. A. 1ay          B. fell         C. rose            D. went

44. A. punish      B. blame     C. forgive           D. beat

45. A. took         B. risked     C. cost            D. destroyed

46. A. this          B. it         C. she             D. he

47. A. whichever    B. whatever    C. wherever        D. whenever

48. A. could        B. should     C. would         D. might

49. A. imagine           B. remember   C. miss            D. find

50. A. put         B. carried           C. covered          D. filled

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Some couples spend every waking minute together. Others fill their hours with personal hobbies,outside interests and even part-time jobs, just to keep their distance from each other! "There should beprivate time and couple time," suggests Dr. Stephen Treat at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia."You don't want your latter years to turn into a process where two people unite as one. If you hold tootightly to your partner, it's going to cause resentment and anger. If you're completely separate, you'llboth be lonely and disconnected. You need balance. So you have to talk about how vou'll achieve that."

The right baiance? It's different for every couple. "Having a conversation about time can be difficult,but it's important for both partners to process those feelings out loud," Dr. Treat says. "You should notbe accusing and act as a judge - ask the difficult questions, but do it in a loving way. You could saysomething like, 'How are we going to be as individuals and how are we going to be as a couple?' "

   Barbara and Chris Christensen have achieved the balance that works for them. In addition to daily

routines that keep them close - including about 10 minutes for a daily check-in and about a half hourof relaxation time - they each maintain separate interests and friendships.

 "We have found that we need time apart," Barbara says. "I have a group of women friends that Ihave known for the last 30 years. We have dinner out once a month. We women also have parties and weekend or weeklong vacations as a group at a beach or somewhere. Chris, a former fighter pilot, has

many aviation-oriented(航空的) groups and friends and also a penny-ante poker-playing  (玩扑克)

group of our friends. I may be with him during the poker night, but I don't play, and the wives usually

watch a cchick flick' DVD or something while the poker group has an evening of fun. We have found itimportant to have separate time as well as together time."

61. The author writes the passage to _              .

A. offer some suggestions on how to spend the time afier retirement

B. advise couples to develop their separate hobbies

C. warn couples not to be accusing of each other

D. give people some advice on how to entertain themselves after retirement

62. Dr. Stephen suggests that              after retirement.

A. couples stay together all the time

B. couples express their feelings in a loving way

C. couples be separate

D. wives make many friends

63.1t can be inferred that

A, many couples are faced with problems after retirement

B. America has a large population of retired people

C,. most people join various sociai groups after retirement

D. playing poker is a popular activity among retired people

64. Barbara and lier friends do the following except

A. having dinner regularly

B. holding parties

C. having weekly vacations at the beach

D. having fun playing poker

65. The second paragraph is mainlv intended to

A. warn the husband not to act as ajudge

B. suggest couples have discussions about difficulties

C. suggest how to keep the correct balance

D. require couples to be considerate

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第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）     

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There is an English saying, "  71  ". Until recently, few people took the saying seriously. Now, however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it had on human body.   72  .

    Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their hearts, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise.   73   it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach, and even the feet. If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial.

    Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group that tolerated(忍耐) the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program.    74  

      75   They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.

A. Laughter can make one’s life longer.

B. As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics, in which they help to improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh.

C. The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemicals in the brain which diminish both stress and pain.

D. Laughter is the best medicine

E. They have found that laughter really can improve people's health

F. It increases blood pressure, the heart beating and breathing;

G. Although laughter can help cure the disease, doctors still can not put this theory into clinic practice.

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We made our monitor _______ of our football team.

    A. a head     B. head     C. the head     D. heads

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 It was a pity that the great writer died _____ his work unfinished.

  A. for                   B. with                   C. from             D. of

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The last time we had great fun together was _________we were flying kites in Xinghai Square, which will be remembered forever.

A. when      B. in which      C. what     D. which

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Men will ________ all the natural resources if they continue consuming them like that.

    A. run out           B. wipe out             C. drop out            D. hold out

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The idea of traveling abroad really__________a lot of Chinese people. That’s why every year witnesses more people applying for passports.

       A．takes to    B．caters to    C．attends to  D．appeals to

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______ I had done it I knew I had made a mistake.

Hardly  B. Directly  C. Mostly  D. Nearly