单选题The day after the narrator’s father died, new life came into the family when .A the narrator returned home to liveB the neighbors came in to assist with the funeralC The narrator’s mother had a new babyD the narrator’s aunt moved in with them

Practice 1　　When it comes to food, America is not just the fattest country on earth but probably the most schizophrenic as well—home to the Big Mac and Weight Watchers, the super model and the couch potato.　　The love-hate relationship with food was examined in the aired documentary “Fat”, and if there is any comfort for the more than 90 million overweight Americans it’s that the rest of the world is also getting fatter.　　“There is an enormous pressure on people to be thin and to be physically fit but at the same time there is a tremendous pressure and inducement to eat,” Dr. Kelly Brownell, professor of psychology at Yale University and a participant in the program, said in an interview.　　“You’ll see a Baskin Robbins next to Weight Watchers. You’ll see a Family Circle magazine with a delicious chocolate on the cover beside a diet article,” said Brownell. “At the same time as we have record levels of obesity, we have record levels of eating disorders6 too,” he said.　　The desire to eat fatty food came from a primitive survival instinct to store enough energy in good times to ensure survival when food was scarce. But in a modem urban society, where fast food chains appear on almost every block, the instinct to eat fat has begun to work against us.　　The documentary claims that nowhere is the exposure to junk food more prevalent than in the United States, where the problem has been compounded by the increasingly sedentary modem lifestyle.　　It also says that members of Arizona’s Pima Indian tribe are the fattest people in the fattest country on earth. Until recently the tribe lived a simple life, but in 1984 when the tribe won a gaming license it joined the American mainstream. Today the tribe is plagued by obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease.　　Just 800 kms south in Mexico, another branch of the Pima tribe continues to live a traditional life and eats a traditional diet. These Pimas have none of the problems of their American counterparts, who are on average 27 kgs heavier.　　Part of the problem, according to Brownell, is the intense advertising of junk food in the United States. The average American child sees thousands of TV commercials each year, most of which advertise fast food, candy and soda.　　The food environment has become so “toxic” according to the documentary, that some US　schools even offer fast food such as McDonald’s and Burger King in school cafeterias.　　But junk food is also proliferating overseas, resulting in increasing rates of obesity in such　countries as China, where fast food restaurants have recently taken hold.　　Compounding the new-found availability of junk food is the changing opinion on what is the ideal body. These days thin are king.

The word “they” underlined in Paragraph 2 refers to.

The Danes believe that they are ______.

Practice 1中国旅游业　　新中国成立后特别是改革开放以来，中国政府高度重视旅游工作，旅游业持续快速发展，已经成为一个富有蓬勃活力和巨大潜力的新兴产业。目前，中国入境旅游人数和旅游外汇收入跃居世界前列，出境旅游人数迅速增加，已经成为旅游大国。　　中国是一个历史悠久的文明古国，也是一个充满时代生机的东方大国，拥有许多得天独厚的旅游资源。自然风光旖旎秀美，历史文化博大精深，56个民族风情浓郁，目前已被列入世界文化遗产地和世界自然遗产地(World Cultural and Natural Heritages sites)达29处。在改革开放的推动下，现代化建设突飞猛进，城乡面貌日新月异。古代中国的风采神韵与现代中国的蓬勃英姿交相辉映。这些都为发展国内外旅游创造了优越的条件。

The phrase “call-outs” in the passage is used to.

The indoor swimming pool seems to be a great deal more luxurious than necessary.

Practice 1　　私立学校并不一定比公立学校好，但上私立学校肯定比上公立学校贵。公立学校的办学经费用的是每一个公民纳税的钱，而私立学校却不是这样。家长如果想把自己的孩子送到私立学校去念书，他们就得自己付钱。　　即使家长有钱付学费，私立学校也不一定非得把孩子收下来。大部分的私立学校一般都只收学习成绩较好而又遵守纪律的学生。有的私立学校只收男生，而有的私立学校又只收女生。与公立学校相比，私立学校每个班的人数要少些，学生也能遵守课堂纪律。这样，学生在学校里就能学到更多的知识。　　公立学校不设宗教课程。所以，有些家长就把自己的孩子送到私立的教会学校去上学。这类教会学校一般都属于某个教派，在学校里，他们就给学生上自己教派的宗教课程。当然，其他学校教的所有的课程，教会学校也都得教。

The word “move” underlined in Paragraph 6 means to .

According to the passage, Wal-Mart is a .

The word “dissemination” underlined in Paragraph 4 means ______.

CNN did take the time to ______ viewers on how to donate to the Democratic National Committee via a website.

The word “agoraphobia” underlined in the last paragraph means phobia for.

He was tried for theft in a law court but was lucky enough to ______.

The author’s main purpose in writing the last paragraph of the passage was to ______.

Practice 3　　If I have called in the cuckoo to illustrate the ordinary man’s ignorance, it is not because I can speak with authority on that bird. It is simply because, passing the spring in a parish that seemed to have been invaded by all the cuckoos of Africa, I realized how exceedingly little I, or anybody else I met, knew about them. But your and my ignorance is not confined to cuckoos. It dabbles in all created things, from the sun and moon down to the names of the flowers. I once heard a clever lady asking whether the new moon always appears on the same day of the week. She added that perhaps it is better not to know, because, if one does not know when or in what part of the sky to expect it, its appearance is always a pleasant surprise. I fancy, however, the new moon always comes as a surprise even to those who are familiar with her time-tables. And it is the same with the coming-in of spring and the waves of the flowers. We are not the less delighted to find an early primrose because we are sufficiently learned in the services of the year to look for it in March or April rather than in October. We know, again, that the blossom precedes and not succeeds the fruit of the apple-tree, but this does not lessen our amazement at the beautiful holiday of a May orchard.　　At the same time there is, perhaps, a special pleasure in re-learning the names of many of the flowers every spring. It is like re-reading a book that one has almost forgotten. Montaigne tells us that he had so bad a memory that he could always read an old book as though he had never read it before. I have myself a capricious and leaking memory. I can read Hamlet itself and The Pickwick Papers as though they were the work of new authors and had come wet from the press, so much of them fades between one reading and another. There are occasions on which a memory of this kind is an affliction, especially if one has a passion for accuracy. But this is only when life has an object beyond entertainment. In respect of mere luxury, it may be doubted whether there is not as much to be said for a bad memory as for a good one. With a bad memory one can go on reading Plutarch and The Arabian Nights all one’s life. Little shreds and tags, it is probable, will stick even in the worst memory, just as a succession of sheep cannot leap through a gap in a hedge without leaving a few wisps of wool on the thorns. But the sheep themselves escape, and the great authors leap in the same way out of an idle memory and leave little enough behind.

Which of the following is NOT true of the treatment with more and more understanding of phobia?

The indoor swimming pool seems to be a great deal more luxurious than necessary.

The word “agoraphobia” underlined in the last paragraph means phobia for.

Which of the following statements is true?

It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

No one was absent from the meeting, was there?

Passage 2　　For centuries, the nature of the brain was shrouded in mystery. Aristotle is said to have  1 it was a cold sponge, whose main task was to  2 the blood. Later, Leonardo da Vinci  3 the brain as a curious void filled by three tiny bulbous structures  4 in a straight line.  5 the eyeball.　　Not all early theories were quite so misguided,  6 . From the first studies  7 language deficits, it was  8 that the brain played some direct part in language use. In 1836, an  9 French country doctor, Max Dax, claimed that, in forty aphasic patients he had seen,  10 of language ability always  11 with damage to the left half of the brain. Thirty years later, this claim was  12 proved by the French surgeon Paul Broca. He had studied aphasic  13 in patients who were found to have brain damage  14 the left frontal lobe. Broca was struck by the contrast with right hemisphere damage,  15 seemed to have little effect on speech. The area Broca isolated and the aphasia associated with it now  16 his name, “Broca’s Aphasia”.　　Ten years after Broca’s  17 , Karl Wernicke, a young researcher in Germany, made another startling  18 , which ultimately  19 him to propose not just a new language area but an overall theory of  20 language is handled in the brain.1. A. invented　　　B. imagined　　　　C. thought　　　　 D. speculated2. A. cool　　　　　B. warm　　　　　　C. filter　　　　　D. purify3. A. analyzed　　　B. arranged　　　　C. represented　　 D. disclosed4. A. paralleled　　B. arranged　　　　C. allocated　　　 D. dispatched5. A. above　　　　 B. under　　　　　 C. beneath　　　　 D. behind6. A. anyhow　　　　B. however　　　　 C. consequently 　 D. notwithstanding7. A. on　　　　　　B. to　　　　　　　C. at　　　　　　　D. with8. A. proposed　　　B. explored　　　　C. suspended　　　 D. suspected9. A. anonymous　　 B. eloquent　　　　C. obscure　　　　 D. intelligent10. A. defect　　　 B. loss　　　　　　C. failure　　　　 D. descent11. A. correlated　 B. cooperated　　　C. responded　　　 D. involved12. A. drastically　B. dramatically　　C. simultaneously　D. enthusiastically13. A. reactions　　B. reflections　　 C. phenomena　　　 D. symptoms14. A. to　　　　　 B. in　　　　　　　C. on　　　　　　　D. of15. A. it　　　　　 B. that　　　　　　C. which　　　　　 D. what16. A. flare　　　　B. wear　　　　　　C. share　　　　　 D. bear17. A. achievement　B. discovery　　　 C. research　　　　D. contribution18. A. hypothesis 　B. illustration　　C. breakthrough　　D. penetration19. A. set　　　　　B. bet　　　　　　 C. let　　　　　　 D. led20. A. how　　　　　B. where　　　　　 C. why　　　　　　 D. when

Practice 5扶贫开发　　二十一世纪中国扶贫开发面临的难点和比较突出的问题是：第一，虽然贫困人13的收入水平明显提高，但目前中国扶贫的标准是低水平的。第二，由于受自然条件恶劣、社会保障系统薄弱和自身综合能力差等因素的掣肘，目前已经解决温饱问题的贫困人口还存在很大的脆弱性，容易重新返回到贫困状态。第三，尽管扶贫开发已使广大农村贫困地区的贫穷落后状况明显改变，但贫困农户的基本生产生活条件还没有质的变化，贫困地区社会、经济、文化落后的状况还没有根本改观。第四，由于中国人口基数很大，在今后相当长的一个时期将面临就业压力，这必然会影响到贫困人口的就业，使很多本来能够奏效的扶贫措施难以发挥出应有的作用。第五，尚未解决温饱的贫困人口一般都生活在自然条件恶劣、社会发展程度低和社会服务水平差的地区，这些地区投入与产出效益的反差较大。

According to the passage, which of the following is true?