Some of the drivers were ______ by the police because of their good behavior in the traffic accident.

A. examined                B. questioned           C. praised             D. punished

Bad habits, ______ formed(形成), are difficult to give up.

A. and                  B. once                C. for                     D. but

These natural parks are very important for preserving many animals, which would ______ run the risk of becoming extinct(灭绝的)．

A. otherwise             B. other than            C. therefore            D. in another way

The girl didn’t know who ______ for the broken vase.

A. will be blamed         B. blamed             C. was to blame      D. blames

______ with the size of the whole earth, the highest mountain does not seem high at all.

A. When compared　 　　         B. While comparing

C. Compare                               D. Comparing

书面表达

请你根据下面这幅漫画用英语写一篇短文。短文内容应该包括以下三方面：

1．描述这幅漫画的内容；

2．是否同意他们的教育方式，并陈述理由；

3．对家庭教育提出建议。

注意：1．词数120左右；

2．作文中不得提及考生所在学校和本人姓名。

参考词汇：溺爱spoil v.

As can be seen in the cartoon, the young couple educate their child in different ways.

词组填空：

根据句意选出合适的动词或词组, 用其适当的形式完成句子 (共10小题；每小题 1分, 满分10分)

tend; get into; appoint; glance through; result in; go up;

abuse; exchange; try out; adopt

1.　　　　 The young man always enjoys ________ new ways of doing things.

2.　　　　 Prices of vegetables in that area __________ 50 per cent since it was badly hit by floods.

3.　　　　 Team meetings are a great chance for its members _______ their ideas on how to win games.

4.　　　　 Your carelessness in driving will only ________ an regretful accident.

5.　　　　 The kind granny decided to had the little boy _____ as his other family members lost their lives in the terrible earthquake.

6.　　　　 She was the first woman ____________ president of that country.

7.　　　　 The mayor was accused of _________ his power to offer jobs to his relatives instead of those who were qualified.

8.　　　　 The medical team was kept busy _______ the wounded with the lack of doctors.

9.　　　　 Don’t let children _______ bad habits which might be difficult to get rid of.

10．Every morning he usually _______the newspaper before leaving for work.

根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Empathy

Last year, researchers from the University of Michigan reported that empathy, the ability to understand other people, among college students had dropped sharply over the past 10 years. __71__ Today, people spend more time alone and are less likely to join groups and clubs.

Jennifer Freed, a co-director of a teen program, has another explanation. Turn on the TV, and you’re showered with news and reality shows full of people fighting, competing, and generally treating one another with no respect. __72__

There are good reasons not to follow those bad examples. Humans are socially related by nature. __73__ Researchers have also found that empathetic teenagers are more likely to have high self-respect. Besides, empathy can be a cure for loneliness, sadness, anxiety, and fear.

Empathy is also an indication of a good leader. In fact, Freed says, many top companies report that empathy is one of the most important things they look for in new managers. __74__ “Academics are important. But if you don’t have emotional (情感的) intelligence, you won’t be as successful in work or in your love life,” she says.

What’s the best way to up your EQ (情商）? For starters, let down your guard and really listen to others. __75__

To really develop empathy, you’d better volunteer at a nursing home or a hospital, join a club or a team that has a diverse membership, have a “sharing circle” with your family, or spend time caring for pets at an animal shelter.

A.Everyone is different, and levels of empathy differ from person to person.

B.That could be because so many people have replaced face time with screen time, the researchers said.

C.“One doesn’t develop empathy by having a lot of opinions and doing a lot of talking,” Freed says.

D． Humans learn by example—and most of the examples on it are anything but empathetic.

E.Empathy is a matter of learning how to understand someone else—both what they think and how they feel.

F.Good social skills—including empathy—are a kind of “emotional intelligence” that will help you succeed in many areas of life.

G.Having relationships with other people is an important part of being human—and having empathy is decisive to those relationships

Decision-making under Stress

A new review based on a research shows that acute stress affects the way the brain considers the advantages and disadvantages, causing it to focus on pleasure and ignore the possible negative (负面的) consequences of a decision.

The research suggests that stress may change the way people make choices in predictable ways.

“Stress affects how people learn,” says Professor Mara Mather. “People learn better about positive than negative outcomes under stress.”

For example, two recent studies looked at how people learned to connect images(影像) with either rewards or punishments. In one experiment, some of the participants were first stressed by having to give a speech and do difficult math problems in front of an audience; in the other, some were stressed by having to keep their hands in ice water. In both cases, the stressed participants remembered the rewarded material more accurately and the punished material less accurately than those who hadn’t gone through the stress.

This phenomenon is likely not surprising to anyone who has tried to resist eating cookies or smoking a cigarette while under stress –at those moments, only the pleasure associated with such activities comes to mind. But the findings further suggest that stress may bring about a double effect. Not only are rewarding experiences remembered better, but negative consequences are also easily recalled.

The research also found that stress appears to affect decision-making differently in men and women. While both men and women tend to focus on rewards and less on consequences under stress, their responses to risk turn out to be different.

Men who had been stressed by the cold-water task tended to take more risks in the experiment while women responded in the opposite way. In stressful situations in which risk-taking can pay off big, men may tend to do better, when caution weighs more, however, women will win.

This tendency to slow down and become more cautious when decisions are risky might also help explain why women are less likely to become addicted than men: they may more often avoid making the risky choices that eventually harden into addiction.

68. We can learn from the passage that people under pressure tend to ______.

       A. keep rewards better in their memory

       B. recall consequences more effortlessly

       C. make risky decisions more frequently

       D. learn a subject more effectively

69. According to the research, stress affects people most probably in their ______.

       A. ways of making choices                        B. preference for pleasure

       C. tolerance of punishments                       D. responses to suggestions

70.   The research has proved that in a stressful situation, ______.

       A. women find it easier to fall into certain habits

       B. men have a greater tendency to slow down

       C. women focus more on outcomes

       D. men are more likely to take risks

   What makes a gift special? Is it the price you see on the gift receipt? Or is it the lookon the recipie nt’s face when they receive it that determines the true value? What gift is worth the most?

This Christmas I was debating what to give my father. My dad is a hard person to buy for because he never wants anything. I pulled out my phone to read a text message from my mom saying that we were leaving for Christmas shopping for him when I came across a message on my phone that I had locked. The message was from my father. My eyes fell on a photo of a flower taken in Wyoming, and underneath a poem by William Blake. The flower, a lone dandelion（蒲公英） standing against the bright blue sky, inspired me. My dad had been reciting those words to me since I was a kid. That may even be the reason why I love writing. I decided that those words would be my gift to my father.I called back. I told my mom to go without me and that I already created my gift. I sent the photo of the cream-colored flower to my computer and typed the poem on top of it. As I was arranging the details another poem came to mind. The poem was written by Edgar Allan Poe; my dad recited it as much as he did the other. I typed that out as well and searched online for a background to the words of it. The poem was focused around dreaming, and after searching I found the perfect picture. The image was painted with blues and greens and purples, twisting together to create the theme and wonder of a dream. As I watched both passing through the printer, the white paper coloring with words that shaped my childhood, I felt that this was a gift that my father would truly appreciate.

Christmas soon arrived. The minute I saw the look on my dad’s face as he unwrapped

those swirling black letters carefully placed in a cheap frame, I knew I had given the perfect gift.

65. The underlined word “it ” in Paragraph 3 refers to a poem by _______.

A. the father

B. the author

C. William Blake

D. Edgar Allan Poe

66. The author made the gift by _______.

A. searching for the poems online

B. drawing the background by hand

C. painting the letters in three colors

D. matching the words with pictures

67. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A. To show how to design images for gifts.

B. To suggest making gifts from one’s heart.

C. To explain how computers help create gifts.

D. To describe the gifts the author has received.