A. He played in the Beijing Olympic opening ceremony last summer. B. He plays so well and has a good international image.
C. He is the first Chinese pianist to play with the world’s top orchestras. D. He has as many as 5 billions fans all over the world.
65. The underlined word “debut” in the second paragraph probably means____. A. first class B. first plan C. first performance D. first choice 66. Which of the following statements about Lang is true? A. He has 36 million Chinese students in China. B. He is touring China and giving many concerts. C. He is trying to export Chinese music to the west. D. He only played traditional Chinese classics. 67. From the last paragraph we can infer _____. A. Lang didn’t like his father when he was little B. he was happy to practice the piano everyday C. he injured his right hand on purpose six years ago D. his father played an important role in his childhood
D
If you want to stay young, sit down and have a good think. This is the research finding of a team of Japanese doctors, who say that most of our brains are not getting enough exercise and, as a result, we are growing old unnecessarily soon.
Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why quite healthy in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a rather early age, and how the speed of getting old could be slowed down.
With a team of researchers at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different ages with different jobs. Computer technology helped the researchers to get most exact measurements of the volume of the front and side parts of the brain, which have something to do with intellect and feelings, and decide the human character. As we all know, the back part of the brain, which controls task like eating and breathing, does not contract（收缩）with age.
Contraction of front and side parts—as cells die off—was seen in some people in their thirties, but it was still not found in some sixty and seventy-year-olds.
Matsuzawa concluded from his tests that there is a simple way to prevent the contraction—using the head.
The findings show that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns. “Those with least possibility,” says Matsuzawa, “are lawyers, followed by university professors and doctors. White collar workers doing the same work day after day in government offices are, however, as possible to have contracting brains as the farm worker, bus driver and shop assistant.”
68. The team of doctors wanted to find out _____. A. which kind of people are the cleverest. B. how to make people live much longer.
C. the size and volume of certain people’s brains D. at what point people grow mentally old. 69. Their research findings are based on _____. A. an examination of farmers in northern Japan B. examining the brain volumes of different people C. tests given on a thousand old people D. using computer technology
70. The doctors’ tests show that _____ A. Our brains contract as we grow older. B. One part of the brain does not contract.
C. Some people’s brains have contracted earlier than others’. D. Sixty-year-olds have better brains than thirty-year-olds. 71. The most possible conclusion of the passage is that _____. A. it is better to live in the town. B. most of us take more exercise. C. the brain contracts if it is not used.
D. the more one uses his brain, the sooner he becomes old.
E
C.O.P.D(慢性障碍性肺病) blocks air flow through the lungs. It makes breathing difficult. The leading cause of C.O.P.D. is cigarette smoking. Experts at the National Institutes of
Health in the United States say there is no cure to the damage to the lungs.
Dawn Demeo is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. She said, “By 2020, C.O.P.D. may be the third leading cause of death across the world.”
C.O.P.D. is a new name for emphysema（肺气肿） and chronic bronchitis（慢性支气管炎）. These are the two most common forms of the disease. Many people with C.O.P.D. have both of them. And Doctor Demeo says more women than men now die from the disease.
She is the lead author of a study by a team from Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the University of Bergen in Norway. The new study adds to findings that women may be more at risk than men from the damaging effects of smoking.
The team examined results from a Norwegian study of 954 people with C.O.P.D. Inga-Cecilie Soerheim co-wrote the team’s findings. Doctor Soerheim says they show that women suffered the same level of C.O.P.D.as men. But the female smokers were younger and had smoked a lot less.
The team also looked at two groups among the people in the study. These were people under the age of 60 and those who had smoked for less than 20 years. In both cases, women had more serious C.O.P.D. and a greater loss of lung function (功能）than men.
72. Which of the following statements about C.O.P.D is NOT true ______. A. It is likely that cigarette smoking causes C.O.P.D. B. C.O.P.D. makes it quite difficult for a person to breathe.
C. Many people with C.O.P.D. have either emphysema or chronic bronchitis. D. C.O.P. D will be one of the most life-threatening diseases across the world. 73. It can be known from the study that_____. A. female smokers die faster than male ones.
B. women suffering the same level of C.O.P.D as men were much older and weaker. C. women are more likely to suffer from the damaging effects of smoking than men. D. in the group of people under the age of 60, men suffered more from C.O.P.D than women. 74. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage? A .Smoking Kills
B. Smoking Triggers Diseases C. The Leading Causes of C.O.P.D.
D. Women Suffers More from C.O.P.D. than Men
75. In which part of a newspaper would you most probably read this passage? A. Health report B. Science. C .Education D. Business report
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第四部分 写作(共两节，满分35分)
第一节 完成句子（共5小题；每小题2分, 每空一分，满分10分。） 76 你没有必要给那些人捐好多款。
You don’t _____ ____donate a lot of money to those people. 77 这只小昆虫的眼睛盯着白菜。
The tiny insect’s eyes are ____ _____the cabbage. 78 学生正在为期末考试做准备。
The students are_____ _______the final examination. 79 他学得很快，而且所学的全都记得。
He learns quickly, and _____ ______, he remembers what he has learnt. 80他一生致力于促进世界和平。
He_____ ______ to promoting world peace.
第二节 书面表达（满分25分） 第二节：书面表达（满分25分）
进入高三以后，越来越多的学生觉得自己的学习任务重，时间紧，因而他们在课间十分钟休息时间里，也在看书做题。请你以A Ten-minute Break为题，用英语写一篇短文，针对这一现象谈谈自己的看法和做法。 注意：1.词数120左右；
2.短文中不能出现本人相关信息。
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第四部分：写作（共两节）
第一节 完成句子（共5小题; 每小题2分，每空一分，满分10分） 76 77 78 79 80_______________ _______________ 第二节：书面表达（满分25分）
进入高三以后，越来越多的学生觉得自己的学习任务较重，时间很紧，因而他们在课间十分钟休息时间里，也在看书做题。请你以A Ten-minute Break为题，用英语写一篇短文，针对这一现象谈谈自己的看法和做法。 注意：1.词数120左右；
2.短文中不能出现本人相关信息。
A Ten-minute Break