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D. Regina will damage her owner’s furniture
70. The pet sitter is advised to tell Regina ―good girl‖ ________. A. after Regina finds the ball B. after Regina drops the ball C. when Regina brings the ball back D. every time Regina goes after the ball
71. What are the three animals mentioned in the letter?
(C)
The requisite visit happened typically on every Saturday, when my child spirits were at their highest as it was sunny and could be most weakened by the narrow inner part of my grandmother’s house. My mother, accustomed to the bright, spacious farmhouse that was Grandma’s, seemed no less sensitive to the darkness. She would set her jaw and listened when Grandma described how many small illnesses appeared as she grew older and would check her watch—an hour being the minimum she expected herself to endure. Her barely contained impatience and my grandmother’s disabled age radiated out around me.
I would sit at the white and red metal table with the pull-out and built-in silverware drawer, cracking almonds(杏仁). This was the one good thing at Grandma’s house, the almonds, which she kept in a green glass bowl. I would lift the lid carefully and try to set it down on the metal table quietly, then attempt to crack the nuts without scattering the shell crumbs（碎屑）. It was not good to draw attention to myself at Grandma Carlson’s. Sounding angry, she would call to me in her long drawl(长调). When I failed to understand her, she would reach out to me with her trembling and wrinkled hand and shout, ―Here!‖ She would be offering some of her handmade candy, which tasted a little bitter.
There was this painful air in the dim house with its old furniture and its dark colours, an awareness that Grandma’s age scared her grandkids. I would long during the dutiful visit to get outside into the yard, where Grandma had transplanted a few flowers when she moved from the farm. But even the yard, with its overgrown hedges(篱笆) and rusted metal lawn chairs, seemed dull. When I came back inside, light and air bursting in with me, Grandma, her hair up, would rock a little and smile. I would lean then against my mother’s chair, Grandma’s fond eyes staring at me, and whisper out of the corner of my mouth, ―Mom, can we go?‖
72. From the overall context of the passage, it is most likely that the word requisite means ___________. A. essential B. recreational 73. My mother ___________.
A. owned a bright, spacious farmhouse
B. listened to grandma carefully and patiently
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A. Two cats and a dog.
B. A cat, a dog and a parrot.
C. Two dogs and an unspecified animal. D. A dog, a cat, and an unspecified animal.
C. happy D. expected
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C. described her small illnesses to me
D. would listen to grandma for at least one hour
74. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage? A. I would sit at the white and red metal table, cracking almonds. B. I would lift the lid quickly enough to set it down on the metal table. C. It was impolite to draw attention to myself at Grandma Carlson’s. D. Grandma had transplanted a few flowers in the yard.
75. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage? A. The Weekly Visit B. The Grandma’s Love C. A Family Reunion
(闵行)
(A)
London has become a cycle friendly zone after the launch of a new bike hire scheme. It has been designed to encourage more people to cycle in and around central London.
So how does it work？First you have to sign up to the scheme to be sent a key. The key will unlock one of the bikes，which are kept at docking stations in and around central London. You have to pay an access fee for the key and then you pay as you go for the length of time you use the bike.
Transport for London, which runs the scheme，are hoping to have 6,000 bikes and 400 docking stations in place by the end of the year. The new hire system is hoping to ease congestion (拥挤) in London and is expected to create up to 40,000 extra cycle trips a day into the city centre. London Mayor Boris Johnston launched the scheme and said London had been ―filled with thousands of gleaming machines that will transform the look and feel of our streets and become as commonplace on our roads as black cabs and red buses‖.
However，there have been a few problems since the scheme was launched last Friday. On the first day some people found they couldn’t dock their bike properly and their usage of the bike had not been registered. Transport for London did admit they had been expecting a few ―teething problems‖ and have said they wouldn’t charge for the first day as a ―gesture of goodwill‖. Some other people have criticized the lack of docking stations and locks for the bikes as well as the price it costs to hire the bicycles.
Despite the comments，the green-thinking London Mayor still seems very positive about things, saying, ―My campaign for the capital to become the greatest big cycling city in the world has taken a big pedal-powered push forwards.‖
65. London Mayor Boris Johnston launched the new bike scheme in order to ___________.
A. reduce the air pollution of the city B. encourage the citizens to take exercises C. deal with the city’s traffic problems D. increase employment opportunities 66. If you want to hire a bike, what would you do first?
A. Pay for the bike according to the time you use it. B. Pay for the key to a bike.
D. My joyful Saturdays
65. A 66.C 67. A 68.A
69. D 70. B 71. D 72. A 73.D 74. B 75. A
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C. Cycle in and around central London. D. Sign up as a member to get a key.
67. All the following are the problems of the scheme EXCEPT___________．
A. the high cost to hire a bike B. not charging for the first day of the scheme C. not registering their usage of the bikes D. docking the bikes properly
68. From the passage we can infer that __________.
A. the London Mayor is confident in the scheme
B. the scheme will be cancelled because of the problems C. all the citizens in London support the scheme D. the cycling revolution is not successful
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(B)
Sabina Caste Franco Rome October 16,2011—The U.N. World Food program says there are growing concerns over food insecurity in the developing world. Some of those concerns are discussed in a report to agree with the anniversary Sunday of World Food Day.
The theme for World Food Day 2011 is ―Food Prices — From Crisis to Stability‖. A ceremony to mark World Food Day will be held Monday at the headquarters of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. Rising food prices, weather emergencies and political instability are deepening the struggle of families trying to provide for their households in many developing nations. This year’s ―State of Food Insecurity in the World‖ report, published last week, focuses on the impact of food price volatility, confirming that high, unpredictable prices are likely to continue. The report highlighted how poor consumers, small farmers and countries dependent on imports, especially in Africa, have been deeply affected by the food and economic crises.
Gregory Barrow is with the World Food Program in Rome. ―If you look at the places where World Food program works particularly in developing countries, you see populations of people who might be spending 60, 70, 80 percent of their salaries on purchasing food for their families‖. Barrow added that if prices become changeful and generally start rising, even by a small amount, it means that many of these people are going to struggle to put nutritious food on their tables.
The report also showed that even short-term fluctuations (波动) in prices can have a long-term effect on development, and that cutting back on nutritious food in the first 1,000 days of a child’s life can affect mental and physical development and finally, future earning capacity. The United Nations has programs in place aimed at reducing the number of hungry people by one-half by 2015. But most observers agree this target is unlikely to be reached.
69. The U.N World Food program aims to __________.
A. hold a ceremony to mark World Food Day B. provide food for developing nations
C. show concerns over food insecurity in the developing world D. introduce the U.N Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome 70. The underlined word ―volatility‖ in paragraph 2 means __________.
A. supply B. instability C. quality D. control 71. According to the report, we can learn that __________.
A. people in Africa have been influenced by the food and economic crises B. the short-term change in prices has nothing to do with development C. food price changes have little effect on households
D. children’s development can be affected by the taking of nutritious food
(C)
In the past few decades, the popular belief in the area of organizational behaviour and organizational psychology has been that happy workers are better workers. However, new research at the University of Alberta shows that sad workers are more productive.
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Psychologist Dr. Robert Sinclair and his former PhD student Carrie Lavis recently conducted a series of four studies addressing the effects of experimentally induced (诱发的) happiness versus sadness on work productivity by asking the participants to build circuit boards (电路板). In the first study, sad people committed significantly fewer errors than did happy people (approximately half the number of errors) but there was no difference in the number of boards completed. Thus, sad people were more productive.
In similar studies Sinclair and Lavis found the same results along with evidence that happy people might not devote as much energy to the task in order to maintain their happy moods — they considered that task as something that might detract (减去) from their present feelings. Conversely, sad people appeared to be devoting energy to the task in order to divert themselves from their sad feelings. ―It is important to know that the moods were unrelated to the task,‖ said Sinclair. ―Unhappiness is coming from something else.‖
These findings are not surprising, said Sinclair, since there has been a growing body of literature in the area of social psychology demonstrating that sad moods lead to more calm lengthy intent consideration and, often, more thoughtful or accurate judgments.
In Sinclair’s following studies, when people believed that the task would make them feel good, they devoted more energy to the job. The bottom line, said Sinclair, is that it is important for organizations to take into account the emotions of their employees. It seems it could be beneficial to creating situations that lead people to believe that performing their jobs will cause them to feel good: this could cause increases in motivation and superior performance.
72. The new research done at the University of Alberta shows __________.
A. sadness leads to accurate judgments work
C. sad workers produce better 73.
A. to find out the influence of happiness vs. sadness on work B. to ask the subjects to build circuit boards
C. to prove that happy workers are better workers
D. to explore the ways how to produce happiness or sadness at work 74.
According to the third paragraph, the happy workers might not devote as much energy
to the task because __________.
A. they hate doing the same job for a long time B. they never feel sad
C. happiness diverts them from their task
D. they want to keep their happy moods
75. It is suggested in the last paragraph that __________.
A. increases in motivation and superior performance are important B. companies should take into consideration employees’ emotions
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B. sad workers are less engaged in their
D. happiness can make people do well
The purpose of the series of four studies conducted by Dr. Sinclair was __________.