The study surveyed 500 families and found the main   problem people suffered was tiredness, followed by loneliness and anxiety.

How can we explain the popularity of neckties? For years, fashion historians have predicted that men would  45 wearing ties because they seemed to have little or no function. It may be that men to them because  ties As long as world and business. leaders continue to wear ties, the young businessmen will  46  them and ties will remain popular.  47 , neckties do have a different kind of appeal. Neckties cover the buttons of the shirt and emphasize the length of a man’s body. They also 48 color and adornment (装饰)to men’s clothing, which is often plain and serious.

Today, there are tens of thousands’ of designs of ties  49 . There are, ties for special  50 he. am for Valentine’s Day, fireworks for the Fourth of July, and Santa Claus for Christmas. There are ties that tell you about a man’s 51  pictures of tennis rackets, motorcycles, airplanes, fishing rods, or musical instruments, to name a few. There are even ties  for different occupations such as accountants, firefighter/s, and police officers. And 52 ties are becoming ever more popular. You can get ties covered with colorful frogs and bottles of beer.  53 you enjoy rock music, you can even find a tie in the shape of a guitar!

Funny or formal, wide or narrow, it’s  54 that ties are going to be around for a long time.

10.

Homework is work, not play. In contrast to what some might hope, students 55 finish their homework exclaiming that they had great fun. Nor is homework an activity that students choose to undertake. It is 56 by a teacher for students to complete on the teacher’s schedule, with the teacher’s requirements in mind． So to have the fight 57 Will be of great help. Homework means business and the student should expect to work on it seriously. As in the work place, careless efforts and lack of self-discipline are likely to make the  58 impression.

Teachers assign homework for  59 purposes. In some cases, teachers seek to review and solidify material being covered in class; homework is also designed to 60 student learning beyond class lessons. As students mature, teachers often assign homework nightly in several subjects. Homework is also used to prepare students to handle new work, 61 in the ease of summer reading. Increasingly, school reforms call for homework to take the form of course projects, thus increasing its 62 to “real-life” job-related activity.

Like jobs, homework can be appealing when its resources are well managed. Resources 63 sources of information—textbooks, of course, and increasingly, the Internet—but they also include a quiet space to work, materials and equipment such as calculators, paper or a computer, and others who cohabit (共面存在) in the homework environment. The external (外部的) resources needed for homework can be viewed as a kind of 64 . office for the child with features like those needed in the workplace.

Saturday 28 April, 2001: Dennis Tito was setting off on his holiday. Mr. Tito’s journey was  certainly unusual! So was the transport he chose, and the price of his trip.

The 60-year-old multi-millionaire from New York was sitting on board a Russian spaceship.  He was on a journey to the International Space Station. It might have been a routine trip for the  two astronauts who were traveling with him, but for him it was certainly no ordinary journey.  Dennis Tito was the first tourist ever in space, and he had paid the sum of $20 million to go there.  As the spacecraft left the earth’s atmosphere, Tito drank a glass of fruit juice to celebrate and  looked down at the earth’s blue-green surface. Two minutes later, he was sick. Luckily it was  only a minor problem. He soon recovered, and from then on enjoyed a smooth journey. When he  arrived at the space station, there was a big smile on his face. “A great trip!” he commented． “I  love space.”

For a long time space travel was something for heroes. But all this is going to change.  Companies like ProSpace are investing large amounts of money in space travel. They want space  and space travel to belong to the public, not just governments. There are other plans, like voyages  through space from one side of the world to the other. Maybe we will be able to depart from New  York at nine o’clock in the morning, and arrive an hour later-- in Tokyo! Such a schedule would  allow the business traveler to return to New York on the same day, and still have eight hours for a  meeting!

1.Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

2.According to the passage, Dennis Tito   .

3.Which of the following statements is tree according to the passage?

4.It can be expected from the passage that   .

1.According to the comments of the Physical Education teacher, Simon   .

2.Which of Simon’s subjects will attract the headmaster’s attention in future?

3.Which of the following statements best describes Simon?

Making fists is relaxing. It dictates the shape of the immediate future; it calms you down (it’s OK, it’s on a list somewhere) and it makes you feel good when you cross something off 0ist-making is standard practice in therapy for depression). It might even help you to get things done too. The more you have to do, the more you need a list and few people with high-powered jobs get by without them. Women always think they’re better at lists than men. Men tend to have Tasks which they assemble’ into Action Plans whereas women just have lists of Things To Do.

James Oliver, psychologist, has created his own “time management matrix (模式)”. He writes a list of things to do and then organizes them into categories: things that have to be done straight away, other things that it would be good to do today, things that are important but haven’t got to be done immediately and things that are less urgent but that he doesn’t want to forget. “Using categories to order the world is the way the human mind works,” he says. “After that, you should divide things into levels of importance.” But he also warns, “If people get too absorbed in making fists, it doesn’t work. They have too many categories and lose their ability to decide which is the most important.”

It’s all a question of what works best for you, whether it’s a tidy notebook, a packet of Post-it notes or the back of your hand． Having tried all these, student Kate Rollins relies on a computerized list, which is printed out each morning. “My electronic organizer has changed my life,” she says. “Up to now, I’ve always relied on my good memory, but now that I’m working and studying, I find I’ve got too much to keep in my head．”

So what are you waiting for? No, you’re not too busy to make today the first day of your upgraded time-managed life. In fact, there’s no better time titan the present to begin to take increased control of your work and life. So, get out your pencil and pen and make a list.

1.The main purpose of making lists is to   .

2.We can learn from the passage that   .

3.The word “categories” in paragraph 2 most probably has the same meaning as“   ”.

4.In this passage the author intends to   .

“Racism (种族歧视) is a grown-up disease,” declares the saying on Ruby Bridge’s website along with a photo of Mrs. Bridge today, a 6-year-old girl four decades ago. In the photo, she is walking up the steps of the William Frantz Public School in New Orleans, a little black girl accompanied by two officers who protect her on her way to school.

Her name then was Ruby Nell. It was Nov. 14, 1960. She was the first black child to enroll at this all-white elementary school according to the court order to desegregate in New Orleans schools. Her story is moving -- she was a very courageous child -- and remains a significant proof against intolerance (不宽容) of all kinds. Ruby’s photo brings out another powerful image on her website: Norman Rockwells symbolic painting for Look magazine on Jan. 14, 1964, “The Problem We All Live With.”

Rockwell was an illustrator of exceptional skill and charm. He produced a vast number of unforgettable images over a long career, many of them involving children. His American kids are innocent and appealing, but often, at the same time, decidedly naughty. His method was to photograph his models, and the resulting paintings were photographic． But it is revealing to see how the artist slightly changed facial expressions from photo to oil painting in order to make his paintings communicate with the viewer. Communication, even persuasion, lay at the back of his work; this was art for effect.

“The Problem We All Live With” belongs to Rockwell’s later work, when he began openly showing his strong belief in liberty. This is a highly persuasive image. Before he arrived at the final copy, one sketch (草图) shows the little girl closer to the two officers following her than to those in front. In the finished picture, the girl seems more determined, independent, and untouched． The unfriendly tomatoes thrown on the wall are behind her now, and she, is completely unaffected．

1.Ruby Nell was protected by officers on her way to school, because   .

2.According to the passage, “The Problem We All Live With” is a(n)     .

3.The word “desegregate” in paragraph 2 probably means“   ”.

4.The main topic of this passage is   .

Directions:  Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need．

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1.

The coloured part of the eye is called the iris. There are three basic eye colours-brown, blue and green. A few albino people have red or pink eyes, but these are very rare. Many people believe that blue eyes are more delicate than brown eyes. In fact they are just as tough as brown eyes, although they. are more sensitive to light.

2.

       We only see part of the eyeball, although the whole eye is as big as a table tennis ball. Light enters the eye through the pupil and passes through the lens. The lens focuses the light onto the retina at the back of the eye. The retina sends the signal to the brain along the optic nerve. The image on the retina is actually upside-down, but the brain corrects it. As we get older our eyesight becomes worse. This happens because the lens isn’t as flexible as when we are young and the eye muscles are weaker.

3.

       Our eyes are the most important of our five senses. We receive 80% of our information about the world through our eyes. We also send signals to other people with our eyes. Some eye signals are unconscious. When we look at something nice, our pupils get bigger. But when we don’t like something, they become smaller. We cry when we are unhappy and sometimes when we are very happy. But we can also control some eye signals. For example, we can wink at someone or raise an eyebrow. Sunglasses make someone appear mysterious or dangerous, because they hide that eyes and so we can’t see the signals.

4. 

       We find large eyes more attractive. Children have large eyes in proportion to their heads. Cartoon characters always have large eyes, too. We can’t actually change our eyes, but we can make them look bigger with make-up. Eye make-up isn’t new. Pictures in the Pyramids show that the ancient Egyptians both men and women-used it. False eyelashes can make eyelashes longer. Eye shadow on the eyelids can make the eyes look bigger and more dramatic．Glasses can also make eyes look bigger.

5.

       We do not normally look into someone’s eyes for long, especially when they are very close. Eye contact can be very threatening, so people only do it when they want to threaten someone. It is also very intimate. This is why lovers gaze into each other’s eyes. It’s also why people don’t look at each other in lifts.

Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.

1.前天我们订购了二十台洗衣机(order)

2.因为大雨,校运会将不得不推迟(put off)

3.为了您的家庭幸福,务必遵守交能规则。(Do...)

4.据报道这种野生植物含有丰富的维生素。(It...)

5.和园丁们一起工作让我们学到许多关于花卉的知识。(enable)

6.遇到困难的时候,我们需要的不是彼此的埋怨,而是相互帮助。(not...but)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1-15各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Several factors make a good newspaper story. First，  1   ，it must be new. But since TV can react to events so quickly, this is often a problem for    2  . They usually respond    3   it in one of three ways.

One by providing   4   detail, comment or background information.

One by finding a new   5  on the day’s major stories.

One by printing completely different stories which   6   doesn’t broadcast.

What else? Well—it also has to be   7  . People don’t want to read about    8   , everyday life. Because of this, many stories   9   some kind of conflict or danger. This is one reason why so much news seems to be   10  news , “ Plane lands safely—no-one hurt ”doesn’t sell newspapers. “Plane  11  —200 feared dead !” does .

Next, there’s human interest. People are interested in other   12   —particularly in the rich, famous and powerful. Stories about the private lives of pop singers, actors, models, politicians,   13  , all appear regularly in certain newspapers .

Finally, for many editors,   14   is an important factor, too. They prefer stories about people, places and events which their readers know. That’s   15   the stories in Tokyo’s newspapers are often very different from the stories printed in Paris, Cairo, New York or Buenos Aires.

1.A .gradually     B. extremely         C. obviously           D. precisely

2.A. newspapers    B. publications     C. reporters        D. broadcasters

3.A. with          B. on               C. of               D. to

4.A. extra         B. available       C. reliable          D. memorable

5.A. direction      B. look           C. angle           D. section

6.A. TV           B. internet          C. newspaper          D. radio

7.A. conventional   B. dramatic        C. professional     D. sensitive

8.A. common       B. usual            C. ordinary         D. special

9.A. urge         B. neglect          C. increase        D. involve

10.A. good        B. bad            C. exciting         D. informative

11.A. crashes      B. bumps          C. strikes          D. drops

12.A. places       B. people          C. things          D. news

13.A. in addition   B. in any case       C. for example     D. after all

14.A. personality   B. similarity        C. tolerance       D. familiarity

15.A. that                B. why             C. because D. what