根据汉语意思完成下列句子，每空一词 。

1、人们认为如此多的事故由粗心引起，因此有必要改掉我们开车时打电话的习惯。

It is believed that so many accidents have _____ _____ carelessness, so it is necessary to _____ ourselves _____ the habit of making telephone calls while driving.

2、和西方人相比，中国人应该提高环保意识。

_____ _____westerners, we Chinese should raise the awareness of protecting the environment.

3、汽车有固定的路线，它们在沿途不同的站点上下客。       

    They _____ _____ and _____ _____ people at different stops on the route.

4、研究显示有些将过多时间用于上网的学生已经辍学，他们往往会脱离周围的人和世界。

The study shows that some students, who spend too much time on the Internet, have _____ _____ and tend to _____ _____ the people and the world around them.

5、在完成了一项为期三个月的工程后，她累坏了；为了放松一下，她已决定今年去法国度假。

She was _____ _____ after a three-month-long project and has _____ _____ France for her holiday this year for relaxation.

6、有时，非得用法语打电话，我感到很讨厌。

I hate _____ _____ I have to speak in French on the phone.

根据句意和括号内的汉语提示,写出下列各句中所缺单词，共10 分;每小题1分.满分10分)

1.She doesn’t know how to ______________(举止得体)in public.

2.When we were young, we often sat in the ____________阴凉处)of a big tree, listening to an old grandpa telling us stories.

3.The patient was ______________(观察)over a period of several months.

4.He is a much loved and highly ______________(尊敬)teacher.

5.The star left the hotel surrounded by _____________(人群) of journalists.

6.She’s very ________________(谦虚)about her success.

7.The United States _______________(出口)soybeans.

8.It is to be _____________(遗憾) that so many young people leave school without qualication.  

9.There is still much to discuss, we shall ___________(所以)，return to this item at our next meeting.

10.Do you have your milk _________________( 递送) ?

 

In the early 1950s, researchers found that people scored lower on intelligence tests if they spoke more than one language. Research in the sixties found the opposite. Bilingual people scored higher than monolinguals, people who speak only one language. So which is it?

Researchers presented their newest studies last month at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The latest evidence shows that being bilingual does not necessarily make people smarter. But researcher Ellen Bialystok says it probably does make you better at certain skills.

Ellen Bialystok said, “Imagine driving down the highway. There’re many things that could capture your attention and you really need to be able to monitor all of them. Why would bilingualism make you any better at that?”

And the answer, she says, is that bilingual people are often better at controlling their attention — a function called the executive control system.

Ms. Bialystok is a psychology professor at York University in Toronto, Canada. She says the best method to measure the executive control system is called the Stroop Test. A person is shown words in different colors. The person has to ignore the word but say the color. The problem is that the words are all names of colors.

Ellen Bialystok said, “So you would have the word blue written in red, but you have to say red. But blue is so salient(显著的), it’s just lighting up all these circuits(电路) in your brain, and you really want to say blue. So you need a mechanism(机制) to override that so that you can say red. That’s the executive control system.”

Her work shows that bilingual people continually practice this function. They have to, because both languages are active in their brain at the same time. They need to suppress(抑制) one to be able to speak in the other.

This mental exercise might help in other ways, too. Researchers say bilingual children are better able to separate a word from its meaning, and more likely to have friends from different cultures. Bilingual adults are often four to five years later than others in developing dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.

1.What’s the best title of the text?

A. Bilingual People, Smarter

B. Monolingual People, Smarter

C. Bilingual People, Longer Lives

D. Bilingual People, Better at Some Skills 

2.The underlined word “override” in Paragraph 6 probably means ____.

A. pay attention to         B. take no notice of   

C. take an interest in      D. take care of

3.In the Stroop Test, supposing you have the word yellow written in white, you will have to say ____.

A. white       B. yellow        C. blue          D. red

4.Which group of people can most likely pass the Stroop Test?

A. People who can speak only Chinese.      

B. People who can speak only Japanese.

C. People who can speak more than one language.

D. People who can speak only English.

5.Which of the following statements is FALSE according to the text?

A. A bilingual child is better at separating a word from its meaning.

B. A bilingual child can more easily make friends with a foreign child.

C. Bilingual people are more able to monitor several things at the same time.

D. It’s not possible for bilingual people to develop Alzheimer’s disease.

 

填空（共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）：

阅读下面的短文，在标有序号的空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中单词的正确形式，并将序号及相应答案写在答题纸上。

Around the world young people are spending unbelievable sums of money to listen to rock music. Forbes Magazine claims that at least fifty rock stars have an __1__ of between two million and six million dollars per year.

Some observers think the customers are buying more than music. According to one theory, rock music has a special appeal because no real training is needed to produce it. There is __2__ gap between the audience and the performers. Every boy and girl in the audience thinks,” I could sing __3__ that.” So rock has become a new kind of religion, a new form of worship. Young people are glad to worship a rock star because it is a way of worshipping __4__.

Luck is a key word for explaining the success of many. In 1972 one of the luckiest was Don McLean, who wrote and sang “American Pie”. Like most performers, McLean __5__ his own music, so he earns additional money. Records provide only part of a star’s income. Around the world young listeners soon want to see the star in movies, on television, and __6__ person.

__7__ do the rock stars use their money? What do they do when the money starts pouring in like water? Most of the young stars just throw the money around. England’s Elton John bought himself a $5,000 pair of eyeglasses that light up and spell E-L-T-O-N. He also bought himself __8__ cars, “one for each foot”.

In the end the rock star’s life is unrewarding. After two or three years fame and fortune are gone. __9__(leave) with his memories and his tax problems, the lonely ex-performer spends his __10__ (remain) years trying to impress strangers. New stars have arrived to take his place.

 

Leave a camera on a mountaintop, and chances are, you'll never see it again. But 24-year-old Paul Bellis, a university student from Wales, believed that most people were better than that, and set up a creative experiment to test out his theory.

"I was speaking to a friend who said you can't trust anyone, anywhere these days," Bellis told the Daily Mail. "I didn't want to believe that so I set up this experiment to find out what might happen and prove you can trust people."

Billis decided to do an experiment by hiking up a mountain called Snowdonia, taking a photo, and leaving his camera behind. He also attached a note to the camera, asking other hikers to take photos of themselves and then leave the camera there until the roll of film (胶卷) was empty. He also included his address, in case someone would be nice enough to return the camera to his home after the roll of film was finished.

Four days later, Bellis got a visit from a Snowdonia park manager, who came to return his camera. After Bellis got the film developed, he saw that his fellow hikers and followed his instructions. Thirty people had each taken photos of themselves at the mountain. From viewing the collection, it was clear that all the hikers had enjoyed the experiment.

As for the park manager, Brian, "I found the camera and thought it had been lost until I saw the note," he said. "I was passing his home and just dropped it off. I' m glad that the photos came out very well."

1.The underlined word "that" in Paragraph 2 refers to __________.

A．the Daily Mail

B．Bellis' theory

C．the idea that Bellis would do the experiment

D．the opinion that we shouldn't trust people

2.What can we know from the note Bellis attached to his camera?

A．The camera wasn't a missing one.

B．The roll of film had been used up.

C．Bellis was very kind to other hikers.

D．Bellis asked others to take pictures of him.

3.Brian returned the camera directly because __________.

A．he wanted to be trusted by others

B．Bellis' home was on his way

C．Bellis asked him to do so

D．he wanted to have a look at the photos

4. The experiment Bellis turned out to be __________.

A．unsuccessful

B．disappointing

C．encouraging

D．surprising