or a favor. Everyone loves to show his ___46___ knowledge and authority on a subject, because it makes him feel honored and respected.
Try to use conflict as a tool, not a ___47___. The ___48___ of conflict in a relationship is natural and healthy. Damage only occurs when we react ___49___ to it. To learn more about the other person and find a solution that ___50___ both of you, relationships could become stronger and deeper.
Relationships break up quickly when others can’t ___51___ you, so say what you mean and ___52___ your word. Few things damage a friendship more severely than breaking a ___53___.
If people know more about the value of good relationships, they can achieve both personal satisfaction and ___54___ success. If you aren’t naturally ___55___ in this area, don’t worry. You can learn to improve them in your life and career. 36. A. communications B. Interactions C. Conversations D. chats 37. A. reliable
B. dependable
C. responsible C. guidelines C. likely C. announcers C. impress C. Plus C. display C. result C. taking C. practical C. device C. presence B. abnormally
D. blame D. explanation D. rarely D. lecturers D. make D. Otherwise D. growth D. influence D. bringing D. expert D. weapon D. assistance C. impolitely D.
38. A. descriptions B. advice 39. A. possibly 40. A. listeners 41. A. show 42. A. Therefore
B. probably B. speakers B. express B. However
43. A. performance B. appearance 44. A. effect 45. A. giving 46. A. useful 47. A. equipment 48. A. concept
B. bond B. getting B. unique B. facility B. absence
49. A. inappropriately illegally 50. A. serves 51. A. count in 52. A. stick in
B. affects B. count on B. stick to
C. influences C. figure out C. stick out
D. helps D. figure in D. stick by
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53. A. trust 54. A. private 55. A. great
B. comment B. total B. good
C. balance C. professional C. proper
D. remark D. wonderful D. gifted
三、阅读理解（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分）
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Below is information from a university website under the title of Examination.Ensure you are prepared for your exams by understanding the processes,
dates and support information relating to examinations. Please read the information under Examination Policies and Processes below, especially the Rules to be observed by candidates for examinations. Examination period
Semester 1, 2015 Monday 15 June — Saturday 27 June (inclusive) Semester 2, 2015 Monday 9 November — Saturday 21 November (inclusive) Important notice: special consideration
All students are reminded that submitting an unreal medical certificate or PPC with a special consideration application amounts to misconduct and carries severe fines and punishment.
Final personal exam timetables will be available from 4:00pm Thursday the 8th of October.
Rules to be observed by candidates for examinations (updated April 2012) You need to follow all instructions given by examination teachers.
1. You may take in pens, pencils, drawing instruments and small items of food such as sweets. These
items may be left on the desk during the examination. You may also bring in small valuables such as
wallets, purses, mobile phones and laptops which must be powered off, not just silent. These items
must be placed on the floor below the desk. Don’t leave money or valuables in bags. The University
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can accept no responsibility for the loss of students’ personal property. 2. Anything taken into an examination room must be made available for inspection by the examiner or other University staff.
3. The use of approved calculators may be permitted in examinations. The make and model of all calculators used by students in formally inspected examinations will be recorded. You are not permitted to share calculators, or pass them between each other in an examination. Mobile phones which have a calculator facility are not allowed. Use of a non-approved calculator may be regarded as misconduct. If you are unsure what functionality is permitted, make sure you check with your examiner that your calculator may be used in the examination.
4. No candidate may be admitted to an examination room after 30 minutes from the start of writing. No candidate who has entered an examination room and seen the examination paper may leave until 30 minutes has passed from the time writing started. No candidate may leave during the last ten minutes of any examination. 5. Smoking is not permitted in examination rooms. Students with disabilities, medical conditions or injuries
◇Students with a disability, including serious medical condition, or recent injury, which puts them at a disadvantage during examinations should contact Disability Services, Level 5, Jane Foss Russell Building, as soon as possible. Phone: +61 28627 8422 Fax: +61 28627 8482
If appropriate, special arrangements can be made to meet particular requirements. Serious illness, injury or misadventure — Special Consideration regarding assessments
Please read about Special Consideration.
◇Students who feel too ill to attempt an examination at the scheduled time should consult a medical practitioner after reading the Special Consideration section. ◇Students who fall ill during an examination will be asked by invigilators whether they wish to consult a doctor at the University Health Service. If this occurs the doctor will complete a Special Consideration form and forward it to the relevant
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examiner.
Misreading of the timetable is not accepted as a reason for failing to attend an exam. Past exam papers
You can view many past exam papers at the University Library website. 56.
According to the passage, you will be fined if you _______.
A. share or pass your calculator in an examination B. hand an unreal medical certificate to your school C. use a calculator that is not permitted by your examiner
D. leave the examination room 30 minutes before the end of the exam 57.
When you are in the exam room, you are supposed to _______.
A. submit your personal items to your examiner
B. ensure your mobile phones and laptops are quiet.C. pack your small valuables in your own bag
D. be prepared for any inspection by your examiner
B
You may be reading this while on a conference call, pushing your child on a swing --- or both. But is multitasking really a good idea, or does it make us do everything more slowly and less well than if we were concentrating on one task at a time? Psychologists cite convincing research that paying more attention to a task improves performance. Humans, they argue, are good at doing rapidly sequential tasks, rather than simultaneousones. My teenagers insists it is fine to revise while texting and watching YouTube --- but they are wrong. In 2009, a reaearch team from Stanford, led by Clifford Nass, compared heavy versus light media multitaskers in a series of test. Nass thought the heavier multitaskers would be better at organizing and storing information and have superior memories, but it turned out that the opposite was true. When the groups were shown layout of colored shapes and asked to remember their positions and ignore others, the multitaskers couldn’t do it. They were constantly distracted and their ability to switch between tasks, disregard irrelevant information and remember what they had seen was worse than the lighter multitaskers. A team led by David Strayer at the University of Utah looked at people who drive while using the phone and found that they were more than twice as likely to miss stop signs. In a later study, Strayer found that people who are most likely to multitask are those who think they are great at it. Seventy percent of the 310 students in his
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study thought they were above average at multitasking. People who multitasked the most had high levels of impulsive behavior and were generally the most ill-suited to attempt more than one job at a time.
Using a mobile, even hands-free. While driving delays the amount of time needed to brake in an emergency and halves the information that drivers are aware of. But Strayer found that people consistently overestimated how good they were at driving while on the phone.
Nass’s research led him to suggest that we should spend 20 minutes on one task and then switch to another, rather than flitting any faster between the two. Tests that measure the ability to remember shapes are less compelling than real-life multitasking research, but the evidence suggests that we cheat ourselves if we think we can do more than one thing well at the same time. Limited research suggests that women may be a tiny bit better at it, but few of us are naturals. Strayer’s research suggests that around 3% of the population are “supertaskers” who do better the more they do. The rest of us, however, should stick to one thing at a time. 58. Which of the following behavior may be the author show approval to?
A. Revising while texting and watching YouTube. B. Reading while pushing your kid on a swing.
C. Switching between TV and homework. D. Handling sequential items on the agenda. 59. What could be concluded from Nass experiment?
A. Heavy multitaskers were inadequate for such an experiment.
B. The results of the experiment contradicted their previous assumption. C. Irrelevant information made the multitaskers fail to remember the positions of colored shapes.
D. Multitasking was totally impossible in daily life.
60. According to Strayer, people who multitasked most generally __________. A. tend to be aggressive B. yielded more outcomes
C. had a false image of themselves D. overweighed those light multitaskers.
C
When a big boat, like a cruise ship, goes through the ocean, it often creates waves. This happens when the large engines on the back of the cruise ship cause the water on the ocean's surface move up and down violently. These waves move out from the boat in both directions. If you are captaining a smaller boat, you’d better steer - 10 -