1. C。语义理解题。从第 1 段最后一句话Hitoshi Sakamoto, an anthropology (人类学) student at Temple University in Tokyo reports similar experiences 可以明显看出 Doreen Sykora 和 Hitoshi Sakamoto 都患有考试焦虑症。

3. What’s the purpose of some special university student-help courses?

　A. To help students to reduce test anxiety.　　

　B. To show a stress level experienced by students.

　C. To learn more knowledge about test anxiety.

　D. To have a better understanding of test anxiety.

[答案与解析]有些大学生患有考试焦虑症，不过现在好了，这些大学开设了特殊的课程来帮助他们缓解这种考试焦虑症。

2. The phrase “blank out” in Paragraph 1 refers to “_______.”

A. lose interest in the exam　　　　 　 B. refuse to take the exam

C. get an extra paper　　　　　　 　　　 D. be unable to think clearly

1. What is the similarity between Doreen Sykora and Hitoshi Sakamoto?

A. They are students from the same university.

B. They failed in all the examinations.

C. They both had experiences of test anxiety.

D. They both had the same poor studying habits.

1. The underlined word in the second paragraph means_________. 　 A. natural　　 B. great　C. obvious　D. absolute 2. According to the passage, which of the following can Not be typed into the same category? 　 A. cloud　 B. sheep　C. trees　D. goose 3. Which of the following statements is true according the article? 　 A. Men do better than women when it comes to learning English. 　 B. Women stand out at remembering people’s names. 　 C. Men excel at typing as many words in a particular category as possible in the given time. 　 D. Women excel at dealing mathematic problems. 4. 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 5. The author aims to tell us that __________. 　 A. women’s minds perform better than men’s 　 B. men’s minds decline more with age 　 C. everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older 　 D. a survey on human’s mind decline was done recently

4. A　 词义猜测题。该词指代的意思从前一句Maybe we screen it out because …可以确定。

2. C　 细节理解题。从第三、四段可知，人和动物都能感觉到Rayleigh waves. 3. D　 细节理解题。从最后一段第四句可知。

1. D　 细节理解题。从第二、三段可知，动物能提前感知到危险临近，逃到安全地方去。

4. What does the underlined word "that" in the last sentence refer to？

　　 A. Screening out the information.

　　 B. There being so much going on before our eyes and in our ears.

　　 C. Having a lot of things on our minds.

　　 D. Paying attention to the information.

　　 「解析」

3. When a tsunami hits， it is possible that ＿＿＿＿

　　 A. we can't feel the infrasound so we can't be informed of the danger

　　 B. we can feel Rayleigh waves as well as infrasound so we are able to escape the danger like animals

　　 C. we were so busy with things on our minds that we feel neither infrasound nor Rayleigh waves

　　 D. we think nothing of the information of its coming even though we can also get it