The iPhone 4S is Apple's first major hardware on the market ______ the Oct．5 death of co-founder Steve Jobs．

       A．for                B．to                           C．from                D．since

Don't bother me．I am listening to the birds ______．

       A．singing          B．sing                  C．to sing         D．sung

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What Makes Anxiety Happen?

Well, because we can't outlaw tests, we might as well figure out how to ease test anxiety. Anxiety is a feeling a person gets when he or she expects something stressful to happen.

______71_____ A kid might think, “What if I forget everything I know?” or “What if the test is too hard?” Too many thoughts like these don't leave much room in your mind to concentrate on remembering the answers to the test questions.

People with test anxiety can also feel stressed out by the physical reaction and think things like “What if I throw up?” or “Oh no, my hands are shaking.”

These thoughts can get the person even more upset, making the anxiety even stronger. Now, the person feels worse and is even more distracted and unable to concentrate.

What Can You Do?

You might be reading this article and saying, “Hey! That sounds just like me!” If so, we’re glad you recognize that this happens to you. ______72_____ Here are some ways to do that;

☆Ask for help

Talk to your mom or dad, your teacher, or your school guidance counselor (辅导员). Just talking to someone about test anxiety can make you feel better. Describe what happens to you when you're taking a test and these people can help you figure out some solutions. For instance, learning study skills can boost your test-day confidence.

☆______73_____

Pay attention in class. Do your homework.

☆Expect the best

______74_____ Say to yourself, “I studied and I'm ready to do my best.”

☆Block bad thoughts

Watch out for any negative messages (“I'm no good at taking tests” or “I'm going to freak out if I get a bad grade”). These thoughts can make anxiety worse and make it harder for you to do well in the test.

☆Accept mistakes

Everyone makes mistakes and be more forgiving of your own mistakes, especially if you prepared for the test and are set to do your best.

☆Take care of yourself

You'll feel your best if you get enough playtime, sleep, and nutritious food. This is important all the time, but be extra-sure you get all three the day before a test.

☆Breathe better

Did you know that breathing exercises can help calm you down? (Just try not to take in too much air because it might make you feel dizzy.) Here is how to do it. ______75_____ Do this two to four times and you just might breathe easier the next time you're taking a test!

A. Breathe in slowly and deeply through your nose, and then breathe out slowly through your mouth.

B. Be prepared

C. Take food and nutrition into consideration.

D. Once you have prepared, think positively.

E. Focusing on the bad things that could happen can make a kid feel more worried.

F. He might often think about what would happen to him.    

G. Now you can start taking steps to lessen your test anxiety.

In the early days of nuclear power, the United States make money on it. But today opponents (反对者) have so complicated its development that no nuclear plants have been ordered or built here in 12 years.

The greatest fear of nuclear power opponents has always been a reactor “meltdown”. Today, the chances of a meltdown that would threaten U.S. public health are very little. But to even further reduce the possibility, engineers are testing new reactors that rely not on human judgment to shut them down but on the laws of nature. Now General Electric is already building two advanced reactors in Japan. But don't expect them even on U.S. shores unless things change in Washington.

The procedure for licensing nuclear power plants is a bad dream. Any time during, or even after, construction, an objection by any group or individual can bring everything to a stop while the matter is investigated or taken to court. Meanwhile, the builder must add nice–but–not–necessary improvements, some of which force him to knock down walls and start over. In every case when a plant has been opposed, the Nuclear Regulation Commission has ultimately granted a license to construct or operate. But the victory often costs so much that the utility ends up abandoning the plant anyway.

A case in point is the Shoreham plant on New York's Long Island. Shoreham was a virtual twin to the Millstone plant in Connecticut, both ordered in the mid-60s. Millstone, completed for ＄101 million, has been generating electricity for two decades. Shoreham, however, was singled out by antinuclear activists who, by sending in endless protests, drove the cost over $5 billion and delayed its use for many years.

Shoreham finally won its operation license. But the plant has never produced a watt power. Governor Mario Cuomo, an opponent of a Shoreham start-up, used his power to force New York’s public-utilities commission to accept the following settlement: the power company could pass the cost of Shoreham along to its consumers only if it agreed not to operate the plant. Today, a perfectly good facility, capable of servicing hundreds of thousands of homes, sits rusting.

67. The author’s attitude toward the development of nuclear power is ____.

A. negative           B. neutral                     C. positive                   D. questioning

68. What has made the procedure for licensing nuclear power plants a bad dream?

A. The inefficiency of the Nuclear Regulation Commission.

B. The enormous cost of construction and operation.

C. The length of time it takes to make investigations.

D. The objection of the opponents of nuclear power.

69. It can be inferred from Paragraph 2 that ____.

A. there are not enough safety measures in the U.S. for running new nuclear power plants

B. it is not technical difficulties that prevent the building of nuclear power plants in the U.S.

C. there are already more nuclear power plants than necessary in the U.S.

D. the American government will not allow Japanese nuclear reactors to be installed in the U.S.

70. Governor Mario Cuomo’s chief intention in proposing the settlement was to ____.

A. stop the Shoreham plant from going into operation

B. urge the power company to further increase its power supply

C. permit the Shoreham plant to operate under certain conditions

D. help the power company to solve its financial problems

Studies of the effect that makes many of us slumber or feel sleepy during the Queen’s Speech on Christmas Day have revealed that changes may be required in Britain’s drink drive legislation.

    Dr James Horne, director of the Sleep Research Laboratory at Southborough University, is investigating post-lunch sleepiness. “We humans are designed to sleep twice a day, once at night and a short nap after lunch, but in this part of the world we tend to repress that.”

    It is a remnant of the same primeval programming that makes all animals in the bush rest in the hot afternoon sun to conserve energy.

    "Hot environments make it worse and many cultures living near the equator", says Dr Horne, “have conceded (=given in) to the inevitable, where the afternoon siesta is the way of life."

    In this study Dr Horne has been investigating the role of alcohol. “The theory is that if you are more sleepy after lunch then it figures that alcohol will be more potent after lunch. One would figure then that a pint of beer at lunchtime has more effect than in the evening, when people are more alert. Indeed, we find that it has about twice the effect."

    This has more sinister (险恶的) implications. “If people take alcohol up to the legal driving limit, their performance is seriously impaired after lunch." He said.

    It seems that alcohol interacts with the circadian rhythm of sleep to cause afternoon sleepiness, so that one pint at lunch time is equivalent, in effect, to a quart in the evening.

    "For this reason, most drivers ought not to drink at all at lunchtime and the legal blood alcohol limit is no guide to ‘safe’ driving here,” said Dr Horne.

    For those who wish to enjoy the Queen’s speech, Dr Horne recommends mild exercise, a splash of cold air or cold water on the face, or a cup of coffee. Otherwise, take a catnap. But this should be less than 15 minutes, otherwise, sleep really sets in and one can wake up feeling very groggy (头昏眼花的) and far sleepier than to begin with.

63. It is implied that British people ________.

   A. like to take a short nap after lunch            B. don’t take a short nap after lunch

   C. don’t feel sleepy after lunch                   D. like to sleep twice a day

64. All animals in the bush rest in the hot afternoon sun to ________.

A. save energy                                          B. stay healthy

   C. avoid feeling hungry                             D. gain strength

65. Most drivers ought not to drink at all at lunch time because ________.

   A. alcohol will be less potent after lunch

   B. a pint of beer at lunchtime is equivalent to a quart in the evening

   C. people are more alert at lunchtime

   D. it is not legal to drink at lunchtime

66. According to the passage, if you sleep more than 15 minutes after lunch ________.

   A. you will be refreshed                            B. you will be waken up

   C. you will feel far sleepier                           D. you will take a cat nap

Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family roundtable at dinnertime and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn’t very organized, but everyone was recognized, and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member.

We listened to each other and the interest was not put–on; it was real. Our family was a unit and we supported each other, and nurtured each other, and liked each other, and ---- we were even willing to admit ---- we loved each other.

Today, the family roundtable has moved to the local fast–food restaurant and talk is not easy, much less encouraged.

Grandma, who used to live upstairs, is now the voice on long distance, and the working parent is far too beaten down each day to spend evening relaxation time listening to the sandbox experience of an eager four–year–old.

So family conversation is as extinct as my old toys and parental questions such as “What have you been doing, Bobby?” have been replaced by “I'm busy, go watch television.”

And watch TV they do; count them by the millions.

But it’s usually not children’s television that children watch. Saturday morning, the children’s hour, amounts to only about 8 percent of their weekly viewing.

Where are they to be found? Watching adult television, of course, from the Match Game in the morning, to the afternoon at General Hospital, from the muggings and battles on the evening news right through the family hour and past into Starsky and Hutch. That’s where you find our kids, over five million of them, at 10 p.m., not fewer than a million until after midnight! All of this is done with parental permission.

Television, used well, can provide enriching experiences for our young people, but we must use it with some sense. When the carpet is clean, we turn off the vacuum cleaner. When the dishes are clean, the dishwasher turns itself off.

Not so the television, which is on from the sun in the morning to the moon at night and beyond!

Parents must exercise some control and show some concern about the cultural influence on the child when a program not intended for that child is viewed. Parents need to intervene (干涉) . Nonintervention may be a wise policy in international affairs, but the results of parental nonintervention will not be wise at all.

60. The Working parent is not willing to listen to her (his) four–year–old child talking about his sandbox games because she (he) is ____.

A. boring              B. very tired                 C. busy                       D. angry

61. According to the writer, the responsibility for the kid’s watching adult television and watching it for a long time should be undertaken by ____.

A. the television stations                            B. the society 

C. TV programs                                       D. their parents

62. If we use television with some ____ television can provide our young people with much knowledge.

A. instruction of experts                            B. judgment of our own

C. direction of engineers                           D. indication of teachers

I have had just about enough of being treated like a second–class citizen, simply because I happen to be that put–upon member of society ---- a customer. The more I go into shops and hotels, banks and post offices, railway stations, airports and the like, the more I'm convinced that things are being run solely to suit the firm, the system, or the union. There seems to be a harmful new motto for so–called “service” organizations ---- Staff Before Service.

How often, for example, have you queued for what seems like hours at the post office or the supermarket because there weren’t enough staff on duty to man all the service grilles (栅门) of checkout counters? Surely in these days of high unemployment it must be possible to recruit cashiers and counter staff. Yet supermarkets, hinting darkly at higher prices, claim that enshrouding all their cash registers at any one time would increase overheads. And the Post Office says we cannot expect all their service grilles to be occupied “at times when demand is low.”

It’s the same with hotels. Because waiters and kitchen staff must finish when it suits them, dining rooms close earlier or menu choice is curtailed. As for us guests, we just have to put up with it. There’s also the nonsense of so many so friendly hotel night porters having been dismissed in the interests of “efficiency” and replaced by coin guzzling machines. Not to mention the coldness of the tea–making kit in your room: a kettle with an assortment of teabags, plastic milk cartons and lump sugar. Who wants to wake up to a raw teabag? I don't, especially when I am paying for “service”.

56. The writer feels that nowadays a customer is ____.

A. one who is well served                         B. unworthy of proper consideration

C. classified by society as inferior              D. the victim of modern service

57. In the writer’s opinion, the quality of service is changing because ____.

A. the customer’s demands have changed

B. the organizations receive more consideration than the customers

C. the customers’ needs have increased

D. the staff are less considerate than their employers

58. According to the writer, long queues at counters are caused by ____.

A. difficulties in recruiting staff                  B. inadequate staffing arrangements

C. staff being made lazy                            D. lack of co–operation between the staff

59. The disappearance of old–style hotel porters can be attributed to the fact that ____.

A. few people are willing to do this type of work

B. machines are more reliable than human beings

C. the personal touch is less appreciated nowadays

D. automation has provided cheaper alternatives

Seeing an Exhibition

Last week I went to an exhibition at the Tale Gallery in London. I'm not really a great __36__ lover but I'd read some __37__ reviews of the exhibition in both Time Out and the Sunday Times which made me very keen to see it. I __38__ some time before it was due to __39__ but there were already plenty of people waiting __40__ for the doors to open. Most of the people waiting were young; __41__ in fact there didn't seem to be any middle-aged people there __42__. All of them were waiting __43__ and I __44__ them in the queue. In the end we were allowed to enter. Now, I must be __45__ and say that the exhibition was disappointing to me. Although I spent a lot of time looking __46__ at each picture, I had some difficulty in understanding what the __47__ was getting at. Finally, as I was looking rather stupidly at one of the paintings and trying to__48__ if it was the right way up or not, an old gentleman came up behind me and started to __49__ the whole thing to me. He __50__ answered all of my questions and we talked for over an hour. Then he said he had an appointment and had to go, __51__ we shook hands and said goodbye. I went round the gallery once more and I found that I now __52__ everything much better and some of the paintings seemed really __53__. It was __54__ as I was leaving the gallery that I __55__ the gentleman I had been talking to was the artist himself.

36.A. book                   B. sport                       C. science                    D. art
37.A. bad                     B. good                       C. real                         D. poor
38.A. left                     B. arrived                     C. got                          D. reached
39.A. serve                  B. open                        C. close                       D. shut
40.A. outside                B. inside                      C. in                            D. out
41.A. or                       B. but                          C. so                           D. and
42.A. at all                   B. above all                  C. all over                    D. all along
43.A. patiently              B. restlessly                 C. angrily                     D. impatiently
44.A. took                   B. joined                      C. brought                   D. carried
45.A. pleased                      B. honest                     C. glad                        D. afraid
46.A. carefully             B. excitedly                  C. completely               D. warmly
47.A. writer                 B. actor                       C. designer                  D. artist
48.A. decide                B. demand                   C. require                    D. order
49.A. smile                  B. explain                     C. express                   D. suggest
50.A. mainly                B. friendly                    C. kindly                      D. easily
51.A. so                             B. however                  C. but                          D. and
52.A. saw                    B. drew                       C. knew                             D. thought
53.A. foolish                B. beautiful                  C. funny                      D. proper
54.A. just                     B. last                          C. always                    D. rather
55.A. looked out           B. found out                 C. brought out              D. pointed out