fridge, your cat will return to its food bowl for that midnight snack, too. According to the study, this explains why “human and cat overweight rates often seem to match. ”So. if you felt guilty about leaving your precious kitty at home while you go to work, now you call feel even worse：You fife making your cat fat!
There’s no word if drinking green tea and making sure you go to Yoga will benefit your cat, but based on the study. it sounds like sticking to a healthy eating and sleeping schedule is best for both of you.
There’s a lot we can learn from our cats in return. “When they sit on our laps softly purring with rhythmic breathing and half-closed eyes. the sense of peace and calm that comes over us is like a private 1esson in inner meditation. ”Brant said. Sure. But cats don’t have to sit in rush hour traffic for an hour a day or worry about their in-laws. They’re probably pretty good at remaining calm.
So, according to science。even though we assumed that cats were not close to us all these years, it turns out they fife in fact learning from us and looking up to us. Scary, huh? 53. According to the passage. which of the following is NOT true?
A. Cats can copy humans’ schedule. B. Humans can learn from cats in some way. C. Cats are smart and have fl long memory D. Green tea and Yoga can benefit cats. 54. What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 5 refer to? A. Humans’ keeping searching the fridge. B. Cats’ going to their owners for food.
C. Cats’ copying humans’ habit of looking for food. D. Humans’ leaving cats home while working. 55. What can we learn from our cats?
A. To remain calm. B. To be able to copy. C. To stay proud. D. To look up to friends. 56. The best title for the passage could be .
A. Your Cat Can Bring You Pleasure B. You Are Copying Your Cat
C. You Can Make Your Cat Social D. Your Cat Is Copying Your Habit
D
Why Laughter Matters
Although most people believe that laughter is one of the nature’s great treatments for a whole range of mental and physical diseases, it is still a serious scientific subject that researchers are trying to figure out.
“Laughter above all else is a social thing,” says Baltimore neuroscientist, Robert Provine, who has studied laughter for decades. “All laughter groups laugh ‘ha-ha-ha’ basically the same way. Whether you speak Mandarin, French or English, everyone will understand laughter. There is a pattern generator(发生器) in our brain that produces this sound.”
Laughing is our first way of communicating. Babies laugh long before they speak. No one teaches them how to laugh. They just do. People may laugh at a prank(恶作剧) on April Fools’ day. But surprisingly, only 10 to 15 percent of laughter is the result of someone making a joke. Laughter is mostly about social responses rather to a joke. Deaf people laugh without hearing and people on cell phones laugh without seeing, showing that laughter isn’t dependent on single sense but on social interactions.
And laughter is not just a people thing. Chimps tickle(挠痒) each other and even laugh when another chimp pretends to tickle them.
Jaak Panksepp, a Bowling Green University Psychology professor, studies rats that laugh when he tickles them. It turns out rats love to be tickled—they return again and again to the hands of researchers tickling them.
By studying rats, scientists can figure out what’s going on in the brain during laughter. Northwestern University biomedical engineering professor, Jeffrey Burgdorf has found that
laughter in rats produces a chemical that acts as an antidepressant(抗抑郁药). He thinks the same thing probably happens in humans, too. This would give doctors a new chemical target to develop drugs that can fight depression.
Even so, laughter itself has not been proved to be the best medicine, experts said. Margaret Stuber, a professor at University of California, studied whether laugher helped patients. She found that distraction(分心) and mood improvement helped, but she could not find a benefit of laughter alone.
“No study has shown that laughter produces a direct health benefit,” Provine said, largely because it’s hard to separate laughter from just feeling good. But he thinks it doesn’t really matter: “Isn’t the fact that laughter feels good when you do it enough?” 57. The most important finding of Robert Provine’s research is that ______. A. laughter makes a person feel good B. laughter depends on different senses C. laughter is a quality people are born with
D. laughter is a social response shared by all creatures
58. According to the passage, scientists studied rats in order to find ______. A. if they can laugh B. if they like laughing
C. what laughter in rats produces D. how rats react while being tickled 59. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Patients will recover if they laugh enough.
B. Laughter is a means of communication as well as language.
C. A new medicine has been developed based on the laughter research. D. Scientists can know what is happening in a human brain when he laughs. 60. Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?
A. P1 P2 CP B. CP P3 P1 Sp C C. P1 CP P2 D. Sp2 Sp1 P2 P3 Sp C CP P1 P2 Sp2 Sp1 C C
CP: Central point P: Point Sp: Sub-point(次要点) C: Conclusion 第二节 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
根据短文内容，从下框的A～F选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余项。
A. Establish your independence as early as possible. B. Remember that your mind is yours alone. C. Learn to work with your parents. D. Identify your fear factor.
E. Learn how to avoid being controlled by anger. F. Ask yourself if your parent is a perfectionist. 61. Often a controlling parent is a perfectionist, driving you always to be the best you can and getting angry or upset over grades that are less perfect, no matter how hard you work for them, or finding faults with tasks you take on around the home. There is nothing wrong with doing a job right, but it seems like no matter how hard you work on it, it’s never perfect. In other words, do you ever just receive praise from that parent, or is it always justified with a “but?”or “except?”. 62. It can only be controlled if you allow it to be. Controlling behaviors are eventually the controller’s attempt to meet his or her own needs. If the controlling parent demands good grades, don’t do poorly. You are the strong one when you find ways to meet his or her needs and yours, without allowing them to get into your mind. They can force you to pretend to be something you are not, but they can’t change who you actually are 63. Most controlling parents are simply afraid that you will fail without their intervention because they feel it necessary to involve themselves in your life. If you can discover what seems to calm your parents, you will make your own life much easier. For example, if a note from your teacher telling them you haven’t turned in the homework will put you into trouble, do turn in the homework. It’s pretty simple but really—do what your parents want you to do, and they will be less intrusive in your life.. 64. Some parents control their family with anger. They really lose their temper, lose all self-control, and the result is no discussion. People are afraid to voice an opinion contrary to the angry parents because they fear what will happen. This is how anger is used to control you. If you can talk to the parents, ask for the 3-minute-rule approach. Using this approach allows everyone to be heard and also provides some “cooling off” time, which can help manage conflicts. 65.
If you are very smart, you will study hard in school and give yourself lots of opinions for change. Even if you go to school locally, it’s suggested that you try to live in the dormitories, or any place other than your parents’ home. Get a job and help with your own living expenses. The sooner you get out from under the shadow of a controlling parent, the sooner the parent will recognize you “Declaration of Independence”.
第三部分：写作(共三节，满分55分)
第一节 单词拼写(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分) 根据下列各句句意和空白之后的汉语提示词，在横线上写出对应单词的正确、完整形式，每空只写一词。
66.The better I know him, the more I (钦佩，佩服)him.
67.He is mentally ill and can’t be (对?负责)for his actions.
68. The bus was so full that one more passenger could not have ________ (挤) in. 69. The survey team carried out over 200 ________ (面试) with retired people. 70. A home does not consist in the quality of its architecture and ________ (装饰).
71. We’re ________ (扩大) the production scale to produce more and better computers. 72. I turned round looking at the man and the woman ________ (生气地).
73. He bought her a diamond ring on their tenth wedding ________ (周年纪念). 74. If you ________ (犹豫) too long, you will miss the opportunity.
75. This maybe a sign that people are increasingly getting their movies off the ________ (因特网).
第二节 短文改错(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分) 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线(\\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线(__)，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 注意：1.每处错误及修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
The winter holiday is coming, which made me excited. I have been looking forward at relaxing myself. I’d like to go skating, climb mountains and see several movie. I think I can play the basketball with my classmates. How a wonderful time I’ll have during the winter holiday! However, my parents think different. They don’t want me go out. They are afraid I’ll be knocked down by a truck, fallen off a tree, or fight with others. Besides, they are afraid I will lose my way. I hate being treated like a bird keeping in a cage. To get more freedom, so I will try to persuade them.
第三节 书面表达(满分30分)
现在,学生的零花钱越来越多,但是乱花钱现象很严重。下面是你应某晚报教育在线栏目之约针对学生的零用钱(pocket money)的消费方向,对你市某中学的高中和初中的部分学生进行问卷调查所得出数据。请你用英文写一篇调查报告,反映调查结果,并呼吁中学生应树立正确的消费观。
注意:1、书信中不必一一列举具体数字，只要抓住主要问题和数据说明的问题即可; 2、开头已给出，不计入总词数； 3、词数120左右。
Dear Editor,
Recently a survey has been carried out to find out how middle school students spend their pocket money.
参考答案： 语音知识： DACDB 补全对话： ECAFD
单项选择：
DAABC ACACB CBADC 完型填空：
DDACD ABACD ABBDC ABCCB 阅读理解： DDA DADB DCAD ACBD
大意匹配： FBCEA
单词拼写：
admire; responsible; squeezed; interviews; decoration; enlarging; angrily; anniversary; hesitate; Internet 短文改错：
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书面表达：
Possible Version： Dear Editor,
Recently a survey has been carried out to find out how middle school students spend their pocket money.
In this survey, both junior students and senior students spend most their money on books , snacks and playing games , still some money goes to clothes , banks , sports , and so on. The survey shows that about 44% of seniors prefer books to snacks (37% )and playing games (31% ). On the other hand, only 32% of juniors spend their pocket money buying books, while over a half buy snacks and 44% spend in playing games. Both seniors and juniors would not waste too much money on clothes or put it in banks.
I think a lot of snacks will not only make us put on weight but also do harm to our health. In addition , if we play games without limit, we ' 11 lose much precious time , which results in low grades. Furthermore, the money is hard-earned. I hope we students value our money as well as our time.