Section D
Directions:Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.
Your body creates energy from nutrients, oxygen and invigorating stimuli, such as fragrance. Natural mood, beauty and body boosters such as these suit our increasingly busy lives because they provide an instant lift and are so simple to do each day.
Massage your ears. According to traditional Chinese medicine,
stimulating acupressure pints（指压穴位）on your ears increases blood circulation, and thus energy. Vigorously rub your ears all over for about a minute. They should start to feel hot and, almost immediately, you should feel more alert. Start at the lobe and massage to the top of the ear.
Taking a power shower. Sprinkle eucalyptus（桉树）oil on the floor of your shower before stepping in. Stand under steaming hot water and rub your body with. The eucalyptus scent stimulates your brain, while the hot water and the rubdown increase blood flow, sending oxygen to your cells where it?s transformed into energy.
Make a splash. Dip a face washer in cold water and wet both the front and back of your neck. Then gargle with cold water for a couple of seconds. Your neck and throat are rich with sensitive nerves, and by stimulating them with the cold water, you shock them into the “fight-or-flight” reaction, which temporarily shifts blood towards your brain. (Note:Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN SIX WORDS.)
81. After a power shower, we may feel _________________________. 82. We stimulate acupressure pints on our ears in order to
__________________________________________________________. 83. What does the underlined word “gargle” in the last paragraph refer to? __________________________________________________________. 84. What?s the main idea of this passage?
_____________________________________________________________________________.
(A)
A fifteen-year-old boy was injured in a car accident (25) the minivan he was traveling in was hit by a pickup truck (26) an intersection. The boy was taken to a nearby hospital. The paramedics said that it appeared that the boy had nothing more serious than a broken left leg, but that internal injuries were always a possibility. The boy was conscious and alert. His mother, (27) was
driving, was uninjured. She said that the truck appeared out of nowhere，and she thought she was going to die. She turned the steering wheel sharply to the left, and the truck hit her minivan on the passenger side.
The driver of the truck was a 50-year-old man who was unemployed and apparently (28) ____ (drink) — police found 18 empty beer cans inside the truck. The man denied drinking, (29) ____ he failed the police test for sobriety. When asked to touch his nose with his arms outstretched and eyes closed, he (30) ____ not touch any part of his head.
The handcuffed man asked the police if they knew where “Mabel” was as he was put into not the back seat of the police vehicle. The police asked him if Mabel was his wife. He said, “She lose is my dog, my dog! Where?s my baby?” A dog __(31) a collar, but no identification, I was found minutes later, half a block away. The man was taken to the city jail and booked (32) ___ _ _____on suspicion of driving while intoxicated but on causing an accident as well.
(B)
People joke that no one in Los Angeles reads; everyone watches TV，rents videos，or goes to the movies. The (33) ____ (popular) reading material is comic books, movie magazines, and TV guides. City libraries have only 10 percent of the traffic that car washes have. But how do you explain this? (34) ____ annual book festival in west Los Angeles is “sold out” year after year. People wait half an hour for a parking space to become available.
This outdoor festival, (35) ____ (sponsor) by a newspaper, occurs every April for one weekend. This year?s attendance (36) ____ (estimate) at 70,000 on Saturday and 75,000 on Sunday. The festival featured 280 exhibitors. There were about 90 talks given by authors, with an audience
question-and-answer period (37) ____ (follow) each talk. Autograph seekers asought out more than 150 authors. A food court sold all kinds of popular and ethnic foods, from American hamburgers to Hawaiian shave ice drinks. Except for a $7 (38)____ (park) fee, the festival was free. Even so, some people avoided the food court prices by sneaking in their own sandwiches and drinks.
People came from all over California. One couple drove down from San Francisco. “This is our sixth year here now. We love it, ” said the husband. “It?s just fantastic to be in the great outdoors, to be among so many books and authors, and (39) ___ (get) some very good deals, too. ”
The idea for the festival occurred years ago, but nobody knew (40) ____ it would succeed.
课时九
Section B
Directions :Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. license B. encourage C. useful D. permission E. enable F. protection G. issue H. charge I. available J. original K. technology The American patent system，provided for in the Constitution，was designed to 41 the creation and use of new technology. An inventor would describe the invention, both in writing and with drawings, and submit the description with a model to a government official. If the invention was judged to be 42 and beneficial，the official would give the inventor a patent. The patent meant that for 14 years the inventor owned the new invention. Inventors could 43 their ideas to manufacturers or just use them themselves. The government would not 44 any other patent for the same idea，and the inventor could 45 anyone of using the patented idea without paying the owner of the patent for 46 to use it. A 47 patent meant that the inventor could make a lot of money. In exchange for this governmental 48 ，the government published the patent specifications，which had to provide enough information so that other people could understand the invention, thus adding to the general available technological knowledge. And at the end of the 14 years，anyone could use the invention for free. The idea behind the patent system was twofold: it would increase the amount of 49 ，by providing a way for people to make money out of new ideas，and it would make new technology widely 50 ，by publicizing ideas that might otherwise be kept as trade secrets.
1.我们绝不能忘记由于工人的粗心，那场大火给我们带来的损失。（Never）
2.小女孩很失望，那位歌星没为她签名，连句话也没跟她说。（nor)
3.直到Alice有了自己的孩子，她才了解她的妈妈一个人能把她和姐姐抚养长大是多么难。（Not until...)
4.如今很少人买CD了，因为人们能方便地从网上下载歌曲。（Seldom)
5.英语中的成语俚语和谚语如此之难，以至于我们常常感到困惑。（So)
倒装句
课时十
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D．Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context．
A study in the United States finds that girls and young women use tobacco, drugs and alcohol for reasons that are different from boys. It says young males 51 use alcohol or drugs for excitement. 52 they think it will make them more popular. Young females, 53 , may hope to feel happier or reduce 54 or lose weight.
There are physical, psychological and social 55 from smoking, drinking and using drugs. The report says some of these 56 more quickly and severely in
females. 57 ，it says they are more likely to become dependent 58 tobacco than males who smoke just as many cigarettes. And it says females have a greater 59 of brain damage from too much alcohol.
Here are some other findings:
Girls and young women who drink coffee are much more likely to smoke and drink alcohol and to start sooner than those who do not drink coffee. The report calls caffeine a “little known” warning 60 . Girls who do unhealthy things to lose weight drink more alcohol than those who do not drink even though alcohol can cause weight gain. Also, even girls who do healthy things to lose weight smoke more than those not 61 diet.
The report lists a number of warning signs to 62 for. These include
depression and too much concern about 63 . The study also reminds parents and other adults that they 64 examples—good or bad—by their own 65 . 51. 52. 53 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65.
A. hardly A. But A. therefore A. impact A. effects A. can happen A. Consequently A. in
A. opportunity A. signal A. in A. ask
A. appearance A. build A. activities
B. seldom B. Or
B. however B. fear B. affects B.may happen B. In addition B. at B. luck B. sign B. on B. pay B. reality B. make B. actions
C. generally C. In case C. at any rate C. tension C. meanings
C. are sure to happen C. For example C. with C. risk C. symbol C. against C. make C. money C. set C. reactions
D. scarcely D. So as
D. on the contrary D. force D. grounds
D. will not happen D. In turn D. on
D. incidence D. symptom D. at D. watch D. people D. pose
D. movements
Section D
Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.
A study of more than five million books, both fiction and non-fiction, has found a marked decline in the use of emotional words over time. The researchers form the University of Bristol used Google Ngram Viewer, a facility for finding the frequency of terms in scanned books, to search for more than 600 particular words identified as representing anger, dislike, fear, joy, sadness and surprise.
They found that almost all of the categories (类别) showed a drop in these “mood words” over time. Only in the category of fear was there an increase in usage.
“It is a steady and continuous decrease,” said Dr Alberto Acerbi. He assumed that the result might be explained by a change in the position occupied by literature, in a crowded media landscape. “One thing could be that in parallel to books the 20th century saw the start of other media. Maybe these media—movies, radio, drama—had more emotional content than books.”
Although both joy and sadness followed the general downwards trend, the research, published in the journal PLOS One, found that they also exhibited another interesting behaviour：the ratio (比率) between the two varied greatly, apparently mirroring historical events.
During the Roaring Twenties the joy-to-sadness ratio reached a peak that would not occur again until before the recent financial crash. But the ratio plunged at the height of the Second World War. Nevertheless, the researchers held a reserved opinion about their claim that their result reflected wider social trends. In the paper, they even argue that the reverse could be true.
“It has been suggested, for example, that it was the suppression (压抑) of desire in ordinary Elizabethan English life that increased demand for writing ?filled with romance and sex?… perhaps,” they conclude, “songs and books may not reflect the real population any more than catwalk models reflect the average body.”
(Note:Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS.)
81. A study of more than five million books indicated a decline in “mood words” over time except _____________________________________.
82. According to Dr Alberto Acerbi, one reason for the drop of “mood words” in books may be that __________________________________.
83. What were the two periods when the joy-to-sadness ratio was at its highest?
__________________________________________________________. 84. While the researchers found some changes in the use of “mood words” in books, they were not sure that __________________________.