we all know that eveyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older, but men’s minds decline more than women’s, according to the results of a worldwide survey.

General differences seem to be inherent in male and female brains: men are better at maintaining and dealing with mental images ( useful in mathematical reasoning and spatial (空间的)skills), while women tend to excel (擅长) at recalling information from their brain’s files. Many studies have looked for a connection between sex and the amount of mental decline people experience as they age, but the results have been mixed. Some studies found more age-related decline in men than in women, while others saw the opposite or even no relationship at all between sex and mental decline. Those results could be improper because the studies involved older people, and women live longer than men: The men testd are the survivors, “ so they’re the ones that may not have shown such cognitive （认知的）decline,” said study team leader Elizabeth of the University of Warwick in English.

People surveyed completed four tasks that tested sex-related cognitive skills: matching an object to its rotated (旋转的) form, matching lines shown from the same angle, typing as many words in a particular category as possible in the given time, e.g. “ object usually colored gray”, and recalling the location of objects in a line drawing. The first two were tasks at which men usually excel; the latter are typically dominated by women. Within each age group studied, men and woen performed better in their separate categories on average. And though performance declined with age for both genders, women showed obviously less decline than men overall.

64.The underlined word “ inherent” in the second paragraph means ________.

A. natural     B. great      C. exact        D. absolute

65. According to the passage, which of the following can Not be typed into the same category?

A. Cloud     B. Sheep   C. Tree      D. Goose

66. Which of the following statements is Ture according to the passage?

A. Men do better than women when it comes to learning English.

B. Women stand out at remembering people’s names.

C. Men excell at typing as many words in a particular category as possible in the given time.

D. Women excel at dealing mathematic problem.

67. One important factor that affects the correctness of the results is that _______.

A. the old men tested may not have shown such cognitive decline.

B. people surveyed are all old.

C. people taking part in this test came from all over the world.

D. women live longer than men.

There was a sweet, wonder-filled little girl who was hurt over and over again. She  36  that she was so bad that others just couldn’t be  37  to her.

She asked many wise people to help her  38  why she was so bad that even her mother hurt her, and why she was unable to be  39  so that others wouldn’t hurt her. So she was on a  40  that she thought was to help her be “better”, but she carried a big  41  with her everywhere she went.  42  was all the hurt she had experienced. During the trip she willingly  43  what the wise people said about forgiving（宽恕）.

After 50 years, she decided to  44  the bag up and just see what happened. When she looked inside it was filled with bits of paper. Once they had  45  on then, detailing the hurt. But as time went on, the words  46  slowly. She had been carrying this bag that held nothing  47  the image（印象）of something that once was.

The little girl had now become an almost-old woman. She  48  the silliness of carrying that bag around. She started  49  and dancing and she felt free!

She was able to see that her  50  loved her child, but was  51  that her little girl felt unloved. By throwing away the bag of paper and forgiving those who  52  her, she looked in the mirror and said, “I am clever, interesting and kind.” But most  53  , she was able to say “I am lovable.”  54  it took many years, she was finally open to bringing  55  into her life.

She finally saw the sweet, wonder-filled little girl that she had always been.

A. decided                        B. considered                C. promised           D. hoped           

A. bad                       B. sorry                        C. thankful            D. nice           

A. guess                            B. understand                C. expect               D. invent          

A. better                           B. worse                       C. angrier                     D. harder           

A. holiday                         B. date                         C. trip                   D. path           

A. bowl                                B. basket                      C. bag                   D. purse          

A. Beneath                        B. Above                      C. Outside             D. Inside          

A. agreed with                   B. fought against           C. gave up      D. suffered from          

A. pick                           B. open                        C. put                   D. break          

A. pictures                      B. memories                 C. words               D. dreams          

A. disappeared         B. appeared                    C. showed             D. changed          

A. and                                B. with                         C. among                     D. but          

A. refused                       B. forgot                      C. realized             D. preferred          

A. crying                        B. laughing                   C. shouting            D. worrying           

A. daughter                         B. mother                            C. teacher              D. friend          

A. sad                          B. happy                      C. excited              D. hopeful          

A. liked                          B. hurt                         C. educated            D. ignored          

A. surprisingly                 B. terribly                    C. nervously          D. importantly          

A. Although                    B. If                                   C. Because             D. So          

A. trouble                       B. love              C. money               D. future          

Shirley, a real book lover, often brings home many books to read _____ the library

1. A.
   in
2. B.
   for
3. C.
   by
4. D.
   from

The first reality TV show in the world was called Expedition Robinson and it was shown in Sweden in 1997. Half the population of the country watched the final event and a new kind of TV program was born. Two years later in Holland , the first series of Big Brother was filmed. Again, it was a great success and the final program was watched by 15 million people. Now more than 20 countries around the world have Big Brother or Expedition Robinson on their TV screens. The ordinary people who take part in the programs are known by millions of people in their own countries and reality TV has become big, big business.

  For the TV producers, reality TV is a dream come true because many of the programs cost nothing to make. At some point, the television viewers are asked to telephone the program to vote or to apply to take part in the show. It is the cost of these telephone calls that pays for the shows. One of the most popular shows is Pop Idol. In the show a group of attractive young people are made into pop stars. TV viewers vote for their favorite person on the show. The winner makes a record and millions of copies of the record are sold. His or her pictures are published on the covers of magazines or on the front pages of newspapers, and then, they are quickly forgotten.

   But not everyone is happy about reality TV. In Portugal, two TV channels got into trouble because they showed too much of the personal lives of the people in the shows. In France, reality TV is called “rubbish TV” and the TV studios of Big Brother were attacked three times in one week. In Greece, Big Brother was described as “ against human rights and civilization”.

Those who take part in the reality TV shows are usually _____.

  A. common people     B. pop TV stars   C. attractive people    D. famous film stars  

Who would pay for the cost of the reality TV shows according to the passage?

  A. TV producers who make reality TV shows

  B. TV actors who take part in reality TV shows.

  C. TV viewers who telephone reality TV shows

  D. TV companies which broadcast reality TV shows 

It can be concluded from the passage that ______.

 A. everyone is happy about reality TV.

 B. reality TV will do well in many countries.

 C. all the people in Europe are in favor of reality TV

 D. reality TV will not be broadcast in any countries.

Every year, ____ graduates take pan in TOEFL for further education abroad.

A. too much B. several scores  C. many a   D. scores of