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Ask Dr ? Jeffers	This month Dr. Jeffers is answering questions about the human brain and how it works.
Dear Dr. Jeffers, One of my colleagues, Felix Moeller, told me that scientists are learning to use computer to ‘read minds’. Is there any truth to this story/ —Jane Leon, New York, USA Dear Ms. Leon, Well, a lot of research is being conducted in this area, but so far, the brain scanning equipment and corresponding computer programs haven’t been able to actually read thoughts. In one experiment, test subjects（受试者）were connected to scanning equipment and shown two numbers on a screen. They were then asked to choose between adding or subtracting（减）the two numbers. Using this method, researchers were able to follow brain processes and make the correct assumptions（假设）70 percent of the time. It’s not quite mind reading, but it’s certainly a first step. —Dr. J.
Dear Dr. Jeffers, My three-year-old son loves it when I dig my fingers into his sides and tickle （胳肢）him until he laughs uncontrollably. The other day I noticed him trying to tickle himself but he couldn’t do it. Why not? —Glenn Lewis, Vancouver, Canada Dear Mr. Lewis, It’s because of how the brain works. The brain is trained to know what to pay attention to and what to ignore. It causes us to ignore physical feelings we expect to happen, but it causes a mild panic reaction when there is an unexpected feeling. For example, you don’t notice how your shoulder feels while you’re walking down the street. But if someone comes up behind you and touches you lightly on the shoulder, you may jump in fear. It’s that unexpected part that causes the tickle reaction. —Dr. J.

46. What can we learn from the answer to the first question?                          

A. Some equipment is able to read human minds.

B. Some progress has been made in mind reading.

C. Test subjects have been used to make decisions.

D. Computer programs can copy brain processes.

47. People laugh when tickled by others because the feeling is _______.                 

A. unexpected        B. expected        C. comfortable        D. uncomfortable

48. Who has got a little child according to the text?                                  

A. Ms. Leon          B. Mr. Lewis        C. Mr. Moeller        D. Dr. Jeffers

49. According to the text, Jeffers is probably _______.                               

A. a computer programmer                B. a test subject

C. a human brain expert                   D. a medical doctor

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Jiang Min, a beautiful policewoman, has a happy family    81．___________

before her hometown was struck by a unexpected disaster, a big 82．___________

earthquake which had never happened since 1976. Great to her  83．___________

sorrow, more than ten of her relatives lost their life in the disaster     84．___________

including her two-year-old daughter, her parents and grandparents.    85．___________

However, when telling the unhappy news, the strong woman even     86．___________

didn’t go to home to see what had happened. Instead she was     87．___________

determined to struggle the earthquake with others because she    88．___________

thought this her duty to rescue those who were trapped in the     89．___________

fallen houses. With a result, she was looked up to and considered      90．___________

the strongest policewoman in our country.

三．完形填空（共10小题，每小题2分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从26-35题所给的A.Ｂ.Ｃ和Ｄ四个选项中，选出最佳　

选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

It is commonly believed that school is where people go to get education. However，it has

been said that today children  26    their education to go to school. The __27 between schooling and education suggested by this is important.  

Education is 28 _, compared with schooling. Education knows no edges. It can take place

_29_, whether in the shower or on the job, whether in a kitchen or on a tractor. It includes both the __30___ learning that takes place in schools and the whole universe of learning out of class. 31 _the experience of schooling can be known in advance, and education quite often produces surprises. A chance talk with a _32_ may lead to a person to discover how 33  he knows of another country . People obtain (获得) education from 34  on. Education, then, is a very ___35__ and unlimited term. It is lifelong experience that starts long before the start of school, and one that should be a necessary part of one’s entire life.

26.A. impress     B.  interrupt    C. issue         D. incense

27.A. difference   B. importance    C. use          D. problem

28.A. unexpected  B. endless       C. countless      D. simple

29.A. anywhere   B. anywhere else  C. somewhere    D. somewhere else

30.A. part- time   B. public        C. standard      D. strict

31.A. If          B. Because      C. So           D. Though

32.A. neighbor    B. friend        C. foreigner      D. teacher

33.A. wonderful   B. well         C. greatly        D.  little

34.A. babies      B. grown –ups   C. women        D. men

35.A. long        B. broad        C. narrow        D. short

 

完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)

请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects (缺陷) that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things   31  !” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe   32  .

These comments may come from stories about us that have been   33   for years—often from   34   childhood. These stories may have no   35  in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life.” How did these expectations  36   my development? I was never   37   to work on cars or be around    38  . When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!

Six years later,   39  , I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree. One of my professors, Dr. Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. On the positive side, I   40   down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking.” On the   41   side, I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills.”

Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life   42   and told him about my   43   performance on the Army test. Bob then asked, “  44   is it that you can solve    45   mathematical problems, but you can’t solve simple mechanical problems?”

Suddenly I realized that I didn’t  46   from some sort of genetic defect. I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to  47 . At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been  48   my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true.   49  , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects, we can do well in almost   50   we choose.

1.A. away           B. off          C. up               D. down

2.A. them           B. myself       C. yourself             D. others 

3.A. said           B. spoken           C. spread           D. repeated 

4.A. as long as     B. as far back as  C. as well as  D. as much as 

5.A. basis              B. plot             C. cause        D. meaning 

6.A. lead           B. improve          C. affect           D. change 

7.A. encouraged         B. demanded         C. hoped            D. agreed 

8.A. means          B. tools        C. goods            D. hammers 

9.A. therefore          B. somehow      C. instead              D. however 

10.A. settled       B. turned       C. took             D. got 

11.A. passive       B. active       C. negative         D. subjective 

12.A. experiences  B. trips            C. roads            D. paths 

13.A. unexpected    B. poor         C. excellent            D. average 

14.A. When          B. What             C. How              D. Why 

15.A. complex       B. advanced         C. common           D. primary 

16.A. arise             B. separate         C. suffer           D. come 

17.A. believe       B. suspect          C. adopt            D. receive 

18.A. weakening         B. strengthening    C. abandoning  D. accepting 

19.A. As a result  B. At the same time  C. In addition      D. On the contrary 

20.A. anything B. something        C. nothing              D. all

 

Some time ago, two navy officers made a journey to the deepest point on the earth. The two men went down seven miles to the__1__of the Pacific Ocean inside a small steel ball to find out if there are any__2__of life.

They set out early so that the ball would come to the surface in the__3__and so be easily found by the mother ship. The divers began__4__at dawn and soon afterwards the ball__5__under the surface of the water.

__6__, the temperature dropped to freezing point and the men trembled inside the ball. They kept in touch with the mother ship by telephone__7__how they felt. At a depth of 3,000 feet, the telephone stopped working and they were quite cut__8__from the outside world. At 30,000 feet, the men were shocked by a sudden loud__9__- even the smallest hole in the ball would have__10__instant death. Luckily, it was only one of the outer windows__11__had broken.

Soon afterwards, the ball__12__the soft ocean floor, raising a big cloud of "dust" made__13__different kinds of small, dead sea animals. Here, powerful lights lit up the __14__water. The men were surprised to see fish swimming just above them, quite__15__ by the very large water pressure. But they did not__16__to leave lights on for long, as the great__17__from them made the water boil. Quite__18__, the telephone began working again and the weak__19__ clear voices of the officers were heard on the mother ship. After a__20__of thirty minutes the men began their journey up, arriving three hours later.

1. A. foot          B. base         C. bottom       D. tip

2. A. marks         B. signs        C. signals       D. messages

3. A. evening        B. night       C. secret        D. daytime

4. A. diving         B. rising       C. traveling      D. preparations

5. A. disappeared    B. floated       C. threw        D. flew

6. A. In time        B. On time      C. At times      D. At one time

7. A. guiding       B. realizing      C. describing     D. imagining

8. A. down         B. over         C. off           D. out

9. A. voice         B. noise         C. explosion     D. shout

10. resulted         B. suggested     C. meant        D. saved

11. A. where        B. that          C. which        D. whose

12. A. touched      B. visited        C. attacked      D. landed

13. A. of           B. from         C. up of         D. into

14. A. green        B. blue          C. dark         D. hot

15. A. unbelieved    B. unchanged    C. uncovered     D. untroubled

16. A. use          B. need         C. dare          D. think

17. A. light         B. heat         C. pressure       D. sound

18. A. unexpected    B. uncovered    C. unknown      D. uncontrolled

19. A. or           B. and          C. but           D. either

20. A. living        B. stay          C. rest          D. break