Each year more than 900,000 Americans suffer heart attacks, about 157,000 of them fatal (致命的). About half the deaths occur within an hour of the symptoms appearing, experts say. Because different people experience different symptoms, it’s important to be aware of all of them, doctors say.
Of course, knowing is not the same as doing. Although most of those who got the heart-attack symptoms right said they would call 911, other studies showed that only about half of the heart-attack victims went to hospital by ambulance, Rosamond, a heart disease expert noted.
Patients’ concerns about lack of health insurance, or other matters, may explain why so few go to hospital, said Rosamond, who was not involved in the new study. 61．What’s the topic of the passage?
A．People’s declining knowledge of heart-attack symptoms. B．The importance of knowing the heart attack warning signs. C．The seriousness of heart attacks.
D．Some of the symptoms of heart attacks.
62．We learn from the passage that American highly educated women ______.
A．suffer more chest pain from heart attacks
B．are better-informed of heart attack warning signs C．have heart attacks more often than men
D．having heart attacks all experience rather similar symptoms
63．Who is most likely to know the most about heart attack warning signs?
A．A white, college-educated man. B．A white, college-educated woman. C．A black, college-educated woman. D．A black high school boy. 64．Why don’t some people who get heart attacks call 911? A．Because they don’t trust doctors in the hospital.
B．Just because they are suffering too much to move. C．Partly because ambulances are not available to them.
D．Partly because they don’t have health insurance. 65．What do we learn from the passage? A. Patients with heart disease rarely suffer chest pain.
B．Dr. Jing Fang did the survey by herself.
C．West Virginia has the lowest heart-attack death rates.
D．A person having a heart attack may have one or more symptoms.
C
Poorer children would be offered the chance to attend lessons on Saturday to help catch up with their middle class peers (同龄人), the shadow schools secretary, Michael Gove, said today. The Conservatives would give English state schools the freedom to choose to have longer teaching hours and extra classes at the weekend, he told the Association of Teachers and Lecturers’ annual conference.
Gove said the move would help to close the achievement gap with richer children whose parents could afford extras such as tutoring and music lessons.?
He told delegates (代表) in Manchester: “For children who come from homes where parents don’t have the resources to provide additional stretch and cultural experiences, there are benefits in having those children in the learning environment, in school, for
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longer.”
“Parents would love to have schools starting earlier in some circumstances, and certainly going on later in the afternoon, given the reality of their working lives,‖ he said. He held up the example of Kipp (Knowledge is Power Program) schools in the US, which are often based in the poorest communities and open from 7:30 am to 5pm on weekdays, plus Saturdays.?
But it would be up to schools to decide to offer longer hours, Gove added.
Parents said Saturday classes could become a “badge of dishonor”if pupils were forced to go, while teachers raised concerns about their workload.
Margaret Morrissey, of Parents Outloud, said: ―I think the suggestion the government made about one-to-one teaching for these kids would be a more preferable way of improving these children’s performance. I’m just not sure whether taking away a child at weekends is actually going to make them cleverer in the week.”
The ATL’s general secretary, Mary Bousted, said: “If we want Saturday schools, then we need more teachers doing the extra hours, not the same teachers working longer.” 66．The program is intended for children____________.
A．who are from middle-class families B．whose parents can’t afford extra help C．who perform poorly academically
D．whose weekends are mostly unoccupied 67．“Additional stretch” in Paragraph 4 probably refers to_________. A．music lessons B．physical relaxation C．entertainment activities D．out-of-school improvement 68. Why did Gove mention Kipp schools in the US? A．To make a comparison.? B．To introduce a new program.? C．To seek supportive evidence.? is better.
D．To prove his program
69．What is Margaret Morrissey’s opinion about the new program? A．Favourable. B．Doubtful. C．Optimistic. D．Acceptable. 70．Which of the following is true?
A．Teachers may not like the program. B．Schools are trying to make profits.? C．The program is already under way. D．The program is popular with children.
D
The Diet Zone: A Dangerous Place
Diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet… We are surrounded by the word ―diet‖ everywhere we look and listen. We have so easily been attracted by the promise and potential of diet products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. We are paying for products that harm us psychologically and physically（身体上）.
Diet products significantly weaken us psychologically. On one level, we are not allowing our brain to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption of fatty, high-calorie, unhealthy foods. Diet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale（秤）instead. All we have to do is to swallow or recognize the word “diet” in food labels.
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On another level, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time we have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awareness that we don’t have to work to get results. Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance and struggle.
The danger of diet products lies not only in the psychological effects they have on us, but also in the physical harm that they cause. Diet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients(营养成分). Diet foods and diet pills contain zero calorie only because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonder products. Diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemical that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.
Now that we are aware of the effects that diet products have on us, it is time to seriously think about buying them. Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicals. Once we realize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, and therefore prevent the psychological harm that comes from using them.
71．From Paragraph 1, we learn that ________.
A．diet products fail to bring out people’s potential B．people have difficulty in choosing diet products C．diet products are misleading people
D．people are fed up with diet products
72．One psychological effect of diet products is that people tend to _____.
A．try out a variety of diet foods B．hesitate before they enjoy diet foods C．pay attention to their own eating habits D．watch their weight rather than their diet
73．In Paragraph 3, ―gain comes without pain‖ probably means ______.
A．losing weight is effortless C．diet products bring no pain
B．it costs a lot to lose weight
D．diet products are free from calories
74．Diet products indirectly harm people physically because such products ______. A．are over-consumed B．lack basic nutrients C．are short of chemicals D．provide too much energy 75．Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?
CP: Central Point P: Point Sp: Sub – point (次要点) C: Conclusion
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第Ⅱ卷（共45分）
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 阅读表达（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，并根据短文后的要求答题（请注意问题后的字数要求）。
If the sun has enough power to warm and light the whole earth, it must have enough power to do other things, too. Can we use the sun’s abundant energy to supply electricity, or at least to perform the functions which electricity or other types of power usually perform? The answer is yes.
For example, people have for many years been using the reflected heat of the sun to cook. Solar cookers have been built with several curved（弯曲）mirrors reflecting the sun and focusing its heat on the cooking component. This equipment can be used just like a gas or electric stove; it is more expensive to make but it does not need any fuel, and so costs nothing to use. Another possibility of using solar energy is in househeating. The form of energy we use most is electricity, and every day more is needed. But electricity has to be made, too, and to make it ____________ are required —oil, gas and nowadays even uranium（铀）.
The question which worries everyone today is: how long will these fuels last? Nobody knows it for sure, but most experts think it will soon be difficult to obtain sufficient electricity from these sources. It is possible that the sun can make a contribution here, too.
Solar power has already been used to produce terrific heat. In Southern France a solar furnace (huge stove) has been built, where temperatures reach more than 3,000℃. This furnace is only used for experiments at present, but could be used to produce strem for a power station.
76．What is the main idea of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)
_________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 77．Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
The sun can also make it possible for us to get a large quantity of electricity instead of from other fuels.
_________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 78．Please fill in the blank in the third paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete
the sentence. (Please answer within 10 words.)
_________________________________________________________________ 79．Which can last longer, the ordinary fuels or the solar energy? What shall we do to have
enough electricity? (Please answer within 30 words.)
_________________________________________________________________ 80．Translate the underlined sentence in the second paragraph into Chinese.
_________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 第二节 书面表达（满分30分）
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随着电脑普及率的提高，老师、家长和学生对字迹的重视程度降低了。据一项调查显示，有85.8%的中学生说自己的字迹不好看，而他们又不想改善字迹，其理由有很大差别。
请根据下图写一篇120~150词的英文短文，说明该现象并发表自己的看法。
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