第一部分：詞匯選項
下面共有15個句子，每個句子中均有1個詞或短語劃有底橫線，請從每個句子后面所給的4個選項中選擇1個與劃線部分意義最相近的詞或短語。
1.There was an inclination to treat geography as a less important subject.
A.point
B.tendency
C.result
D.finding
答案：B
2.New secretaries came and went with monotonous regularity.
A.amazing
B.depressing
C.predictable
D.dull
答案：D
3.The committee was asked to render a report on the housing situation.
A.furnish
B.copy
C.publish
D.summarize
答案：A
4.The group does not advocate the use of violence.
A.limit
B.regulate
C.oppose
D.support
答案：D
5.The original experiment cannot be exactly duplicated.
A.reproduced
B.invented
C.designed
D.reported
答案：A
6.The department deferred the decision for six months.
A.put off
B.arrived at
C.abode by
D.protested against
答案：A
7.The symptoms of the disease manifested themselves ten days later.
A.eased
B.appeared
C.improved
D.relieved
答案：B
8.That uniform makes the guards look absurd.
A.serious
B.ridiculous
C.beautiful
D.impressive
答案：B
9.Some of the larger birds can remain stationary in the air for several minutes.
A.silent
B.motionless
C.seated
D.true
答案：B
10.The country was torn apart by strife.
A.poverty
B.war
C.conflict
D.economy
答案：C
11.She felt that she had done her good deed for the day.
A.act
B.homework
C.justice
D.model
答案：A
12.A person’s wealth is often in inverse proportion to their happiness.
A.equal
B.certain
C.large
D.opposite
答案：D
13.His professional career spanned 16 years.
A.sincere
B.changed
C.moved
D.lasted
答案：D
14.His stomach felt hollow with fear.
A.sincere
B.respectful
C.terrible
D.empty
答案：D
15.This was disaster on a cosmic scale.
A.modest
B.huge
C.commercial
D.national
答案：B 第二部分：閱讀判斷
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When Our Words Collide
“Wanna buy a body?” That was the opening line of more than a few phone calls I got from freelance(自由職業(yè))photographers when I was a photo editor at U.S. News. Like many in the mainstream press, I wanted to separate the world of photographers into “them”, who trade in picture of bodies or chase celebrities, and “us”, the serious news people. But after 16 years in that role. I came to wonder whether the two worlds were easily distinguishable.
Working in the reputable world of journalism, I assigned photographers to cover other people’s nightmares. I justified invading moments of grief, under the guise(借口) of the reader’s right to know. I didn’t ask photographers to trespass(冒犯) or to stalk(跟蹤), but I didn’t have to: I worked with pros(同行) who did what others did: talking their way into situations or shooting from behind police lines to get pictures I was after. And I wasn’t alone.
In the aftermath of a car crash or some other hideous incident when ordinary people are hurt or killed, you rarely see photographers pushing past rescue workers to capture the blood and gore(血雨腥風(fēng)). But you are likely to see the local newspaper and television photographers on the scene - and fast.
How can we justify our behavior? Journalists are taught to separate doing the job from worrying about the consequence of publishing what they record. Repeatedly, they are reminded of a news-business dictum(格言): leave your conscience in the office. You get the picture of the footage: the decision whether to print or air it comes later. A victim may lie bleeding, unconscious, or dead: your job is to record the image. You put away your emotions and document the scene.
We act this way partly because we know that the pictures can have important meaning. Photographs can change deplorable(凄慘的) situations by mobilizing public outrage or increase public understanding.
However, disastrous events often bring out the worst in photographers and photo editors. In the first minutes and hours after a disaster occurs, photo agencies buy pictures. Often an agency buys a picture from a local newspaper or an amateur photographer and put it up for bid by major magazines. The most keenly sought “exclusives” command tens of thousands of dollars through bidding contests.
Many people believe that journalists need to change the way they do things, and it’s our pictures that annoy people the most. Readers may not believe, as we do, that there is a distinction between sober-minded “us” and sleazy(低級庸俗的) “them”. In too many cases, by our choices of images as well as how we get them, we prove our readers right.
16. The writer never get an offer for a photograph of a dead person.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
答案：C
17. The writer was a photographer sixteen years ago.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
答案：B
18. The writer believes that shooting people’s nightmares is justifiable.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
答案：B
19. News photographers are usually a problem for rescue workers at an accident.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
答案：B
20. Journalists aren’t supposed to think about whether they are doing the right thing.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
答案：A
21. Editors sometimes have to pay a lot of money for exclusive pictures.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
答案：A
22. Many people say that they are annoyed by the U.S. News pictures.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
答案：A 第三部分：概括大意與完成句子
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The Storyteller
1.Steven Spielberg has always had one goal: to tell as many great stories to as many people as will listen.And that’s what he has always been about.The son of a computer scientist and a pianist, Spielberg spent his early childhood in New Jersey and, later, Arizona.From the very beginning, his fertile imagination filled his young mind with images that would later inspire his filmmaking.
2.Even decades later, Spielberg says he has clear memories of his earliest years, which are the origins of some of his biggest hits.He believes that E.T.is the result of the difficult years leading up to his parent’s 1966 divorce, “It is really about a young boy who was in search of some stability in his life.”“He was scared of just about everything,” recalls his mother, Leah Adler.“When trees brushed against the house, he would head into my bed.And that’s just the kind of scary stuff he would put in films like Poltergeist.”
3.Spielberg was 11 when he first got his hands on his dad’s movie camera and began shooting short flicks about flying saucers and World War ΙΙ battles.Spielberg’s talent for scary storytelling enabled him to make friends.On Boy Scout camping trips, when night fell, Spielberg became the center of attention.“Steven would start telling his ghost stories,” says Richard Y.Hoffman Jr., leader of Troop 294, “and everyone would suddenly get quiet so that they could all hear it.”
4. Spielberg moved to California with his father and went to high school there, but his grades were so bad that he barely graduated.Both UCLA and USC film schools rejected him, so he entered California State University at Long Beach because it was close to Hollywood.Spielberg was determined to make movies, and he managed to get an unpaid, non-credit internship(實(shí)習(xí))in Hollywood.Soon he was given a contract, and he dropped out of college.He never looked back.
5. Now, many years later, Spielberg is still telling stories with as much passion as the kid in the tent.Ask him where he gets his ideas, Spielberg shrugs.“The process for me is mostly intuitive (憑直覺的),” he says.“There are films that I feel I need to make, for a variety of reasons, for personal reasons, for reasons that I want to have fun, that the subject matter is cool, that I think my kids will like it.And sometimes I just think that it will make a lot of money, like the sequel(續(xù)集) to Jurassic Park.”
A.Getting into the movie business
B.Inspirations for his movies
C.An aim of life
D.Telling stories to make friends
E.The trouble of making movies
F.A funny man
23.Paragraph 1___C___
24.Paragraph 2___B___
25.Paragraph 3___D___
26.Paragraph 4___A___
A.making children laugh
B.almost everything
C.a lot of money
D.his childhood memories
E.telling scary stories
F.a number of reasons
27.Some of Spielberg’s most successful movies came from ____D___
28.When Spielberg was a boy, he used to be scared of ____B_____
29.Spielberg is very good at _____E____
30.Spielberg says he makes movies for ____F____ 第四部分：閱讀理解。
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第一篇 The National Trust
The National Trust in Britain plays an increasingly important part in the preservation for public enjoyment of the best that is left unspoiled of the British countryside. Although the Trust has received practical and moral support from the Government, it is not a rich government department. It is a voluntary association of people who care for the unspoiled countryside and historic buildings of Britain. It is a charity which depends for its existence on voluntary support from members of the public. Its primary duty is to protect places of great natural beauty and places of historical interest.
The attention of the public was the first drawn to the dangers threatening the great old houses and the castles of Britain by the death of the Lord Lothian, who left his great seventeenth-century house to the Trust together with the 4500-acre park and estate surrounding it. This gift attracted wide publicity and started the Trust’s “Country House Scheme” Under this scheme, with the help of the Government and the general public, the Trust has been able to save and make accessible to the public about 150 of these oil houses. Lats year, about 1.75 million people paid to visit these historic houses, usually at a very small charge.
In addition to country houses and open spaces, the Trust now owns some examples of ancient wind and water mills, nature reserves, 540 farms and nearly 2500 cottages or small village houses, as well as some complete villages. In these villages no one is allowed to build, develop or disturb the old village environment in any way and all the houses are maintained in their original 16th century style. Over 4,000 acres of coastline , woodland, and hill country are protected by the Trust and no development or disturbances of any kind are permitted. The public has free access to these areas and is only asked to respect the peace, beauty and wildlife.
Over the past 80 years the Trust has become a big and important organization and an essential and respected part of national life. It helps to preserve all that and of historical significance not only for future generations of Britons but also for the millions of tourists who each year invade Britain in search of a great historic and cultural heritage.
31. The National Trust is a
A. Government agency depending on voluntary services.
B. Non-profit organization depending on voluntary services.
C. Government department but is not rich.
D. Private organization supported by the government.
答案：B
32. The National Trust is dedicated to
A. Preserving the best public enjoyment.
B. Providing the public with free access to historic buildings.
C. Offering better services to visitors home and abroad.
D. Protecting the unspoiled countryside and historic buildings.
答案：D
33. We can infer from Paragraph 2 that Lord Lothian
A. Donated all his money to the Trust.
B. Started the “Country House Scheme”.
C. Saved many old country bouses in Britain.
答案：D
34. All the following can be inferred from the passage EXCEPT
A. The Trust is more interested in protecting the 16th century houses.
B. Many people came to visit the historic houses saved by the Trust.
C. Visitors can get free access to some places owned by the Trust.
D. The Trust has a story which is longer than 80 years.
35. The word “invade” in Paragraph 4 is closet in meaning to
A. Come in without permission.
B. Enter with invitation.
C. Visit in large numbers.
D. Appear all of a sudden.
答案：C
第二篇 A New Strategy to Overcome Breast Cancer
Post-menopausal(絕經(jīng)后)women who walk for an hour a day can cut their chance of breast cancer significantly, a study has suggested. The report, which followed 73,000 women for 17 years, found walking for at least seven hours a week lowered the risk of the disease. The American Cancer Society team said this was the first time reduced risk was specifically linked to walking. UK experts said it was more evidence that lifestyle influenced cancer risk.
A recent poll for the charity Ramblers a quarter of adults walk for no more than an hour a week,but being active is known to reduce the risk of a number of cancers. This study, published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers&Prevention, followed 73.615 women out of 97,785 aged 50-74 who had been recruited by the American Cancer Society between 1992 and 1993,so it could monitor the incidence of cancer in the group.
They were asked to complete questionnaires on their health and on how much time they were active and participating in activities such as walking, swimming and aerobics(有氧運(yùn)動)and how much time they spent sitting watching television or reading. They completed the same questionnaires at two-year intervals between 1997 and 2009. Of the women,47% said walking was their only recreational activity. Those who walked for at least seven hours per week had a 14% lower risk of breast cancer compared to those who walked three or fewer hours per week.
Dr. Alpa Patel, a senior epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, Georgia, who led the study, said:”Given that more than 60% of women report some daily walking, promoting walking as a healthy leisure-time activity could be an effective strategy for increasing physical activity amongst post-menopausal women. We were pleased to find that without any other recreational activity, just walking one hour a day was associated with a lower risk of breast cancer in these women.””More strenuous(緊張的)and longer activities lowered the risk even more.”
Baroness Delyth Morgan, chief executive of Breast Cancer Campaign, said:”This study adds further evidence that our lifestyle choices can play a part in influencing the risk of breast cancer and even small changes incorporate into our normal day-to-day activity can make a difference.”
She added:”We know that the best weapon to overcoming breast cancer is the ability to stop it occurring in the first place. The challenge now is how we turn these findings into action and identify other sustainable lifestyle changes that will help us prevent breast cancer.”
36. All of the following factors relating to cancer risk were mentioned in the EXCEPT________
A. breathing exercise
B. regular walking
C. recreational activity
D. lifestyle choices
答案：A
37. It can be inferred from Dr. Alpa Patel’s study that____.
A. women have fewer chances of physical activity
B. daily walking could cut the chance of breast cancer
C. leisure-time activity is not associated with cancer risk
D. walking is not recommended for women with breast cancer
答案：B
38. Dr. Alpa Patel was_____.
A. chief editor of Cancer Epidemiology.
B. chair of the American Cancer Society.
C. head of the survey study.
D. chief executive of Breast Cancer Campaign.
答案：B
39. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A. Most women take walking as their only recreational activity.
B. Walking was the only recreational activity for about half of the women.
C. The study aims to track the health conditions of its subjects.
D. Irregular walking increased the risk of breast cancer in post-menopausal women
答案：C
40. The word “sustainable” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to .
A. affordable
B. available
C. persistent
D. continuable
答案：D
第三篇 How We Form First Impression
We all have first impression of someone we just met. But why? Why do we form an opinion about someone without really knowing anything about him or her - aside perhaps from a few remarks or readily observable traits?
The answer is related to how your brain allows you to be aware of the world. Your brain is so sensitive in picking up facial traits. Even very minor difference in how a person’s eyes, ears, nose, or mouth are placed in relation to each other makes you see him or her as different. In fact, your brain continuously processes incoming sensory information - the sights and sounds of your world. These incoming signals are compared against a host of “memories” stored in the brain areas called the cortex(皮質(zhì)) system to determine what these new signals “mean”.
If you see someone you know and like at school, your brain says “familiar and safe”. If you see someone new, it says, “new and potentially threatening”. Then your brain starts to match features of this strangers with other “known” memories. The more unfamiliar the characteristics, the more your brain may say, “This is new, I don’t like this person” Or else, “I’m intrigued(好奇的)”. Or your brain may perceive a new face but familiar clothes, ethnicity, gestures - like your other friends; so your brain says: “I like this person”. But these preliminary impressions can be dead wrong.
When we stereotype people, we use a less mature form of thinking (not unlike the immature thinking of a very young child) that makes simplistic and categorical impressions of others. Rather than learn about the depth and breadth of people - their history, interest, values, strengths, and true character - we categorize them as jocks(騙子), peeks(反常的人), or freaks(怪人).
However, if we resist initial stereotypical impressions, we have a chance to be aware of what a person is truly like. If we spend time with a person, hear about his or her life, hopes, dreams, and become aware of our cortex, which allow us to be humane.
41.Our first impression of someone new is influenced by his or her.
A.past experience.
B.character.
C.facial features.
D.hobbies.
答案：C
42.If you meet a stranger with familiar gestures, your brain is most likely to say
A. “He is familiar and safe.”
B. “He is new and potentially threatening.”
C. “I like this person.”
D. “This is new, I don’t like this person.”
答案：C
43.The word “preliminary” in Paragraph 3 is closet in meaning to
A.simplistic.
B.stereotypical.
C.initial
D.categorical
答案：C
44.Our thinking is not mature enough when we stereotype people because
A.we neglect their depth and breadth.
B.they are not all jocks, peeks, or freaks.
C.our thinking is similar to that of a very young child.
D.our judgment is always wrong.
答案：A
45.Which of the following statements best expresses the main idea of the passage?
A.One’s physical appearance can influence our first impression.
B.Our first impression is influenced by the sensitivity of our brain.
C.Stereotypical impressions can be dead wrong.
D.We should adopt mature thinking when getting to know people.
答案：B 第五部分：補(bǔ)全短文
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Wrongly Convicted Man and His Accuser Tell Their Story
NEW YORK,NY, January 5,2010. St.Martin’s Press has announced the release of the paperback edition of Picking Cotton, a remarkable true story of what novelist John Grisham calls an “account of violence, rage, redemption(救贖)，and, ultimately forgiveness.”
The story began in 1987, in Burlington, North Carolina, with the rape of a young while college student named Jennifer Thompson. During her ordeal, Thompson swore to herself that she would never forget the face of her rapist, a man who climbed through the window of her apartment and assaulted her brutally.________(46) When the police asked her if she could identify the assailant(襲擊者)from a book of mug shots, she picked one that she was sure was correct, and later she identified the same man in a lineup.
Based on her convincing eyewitness testimony, a 22-year-old black man named Ronald Cotton was sentenced to prison for two life terms. Cotton’s lawyer appealed the decision, and by the time of the appeals hearing, evidence had come to light suggesting that the real rapist might have been a man who looked very like Cotton, an imprisoned criminal named Bobby Poole._______ (47) Jennifer Thompson looked at both men face to face, and once again said that Ronald Cotton was the one who raped her.
Eleven years later, DNA evidence completely exonerated(證明……清白)Cotton and just as unequivocally(明確地) convicted Poole, who confessed to the crime. ________(48) “The man I was so sure I had never seen in my life was the man who was inches from my throat, who raped me, who hurt me, who took my spirit away, who robbed me of my soul,” she wrote. “And the man I had identified so surely on so many occasions was absolutely innocent.”
_______ (49) Remarkably both were able to put this tragedy behind them, overcome the racial barrier that divided them, and write a book, which they have subtitled “Our memoir of injustice and redemption.”
Nevertheless, Thompson says, she still lives “with constant pain that my profound mistake cost him so dearly______ (50)”
A. Thompson was shocked and devastated.
B. Another trial was held.
C. I cannot begin to imagine what would have happened had my mistaken identification occurred in a capital case.
D. During the attack, she made an effort to memorize every detail of his face , looking for scars , tattoos (紋身) or other identifying marks.Jennifer E. Many criminals are sent to prison on the basis of accurate testimony by eyewitnesses.
F. Thompson decided to meet Cotton and apologize to him personally.
答案：46. E 47. A 48.C 49.D 50.B 第六部分：完形填空
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Obesity(肥胖) Causes Global Warming
The list of ills attributable to obesity keeps growing: Last week, obese people were accused of causing global warming.
This (51)comes from Sheldon Jacobson of the University of Illinois, US, and a doctoral student, Laura McLay. Their study (52) how much extra gasoline is needed to haul fat Americans around. The answer, they say, is a billion gallons of gas per year. ________(53)
There has been (54) for taxes on junk food2 in recent years. US economist Martin Schmidt suggests a tax on fast food (55)to people’s cars. "We tax cigarettes partly because of their health cost," Schmidt said. "Similarly, leading a lazy life style will end up costing taxpayers more."
US political scientist Eric Oliver said his first instinct was to laugh at these gas and fast food arguments. But such (56) are getting attention.
At the US Obesity Society's annual meeting, one person (57) obesity with car accident deaths, and another correlated obesity with suicides. No one asked whether there was really a cause-and-effect relationship. "The funny thing was that everyone took it (59)." Oliver said.
In a 1960s study, children were (60) drawings of children with disabilities and without them, and a drawing of an obese child. They were asked (61) they would want for a friend? The obese child was picked last.
Three researchers recently repeated the study (62) college students. Once again, (63) no one, not even obese people, liked the obese person. "Obesity was stigmatized." the researchers said.
But, researchers say, getting (64) is not like quitting smoking. People struggle to stop smoking, and, in the end, many succeed. Obesity is different. Science has shown that they have limited personal control over their weight Genes also (65) a part.
51.A. study B. project C. experiment D. conclusion
52.A. doubts B. reports C. calculates D. reviews
53.A. turns B. means C. says D. costs
54.A. calls B. cries C. sounds D. noises
55.A. delivered B. paid C. spent D. collected
56.A. up B. in C. with D. by
57.A. answers B. talks C. claims D. laughs
58.A. mixed B. correlated C. contacted D. Involved
59.A. seriously B. well C. hard D. greatly
60.A. bought B. captured C. shown D. made
61.A. what B. where C. why D. which
62.A. seeing B. helping C. using D. surveying
63.A. about B. as C. almost D. like
64.A. critical B. tall C. thin D. confident
65.A. decide B. play C. produce D. use
答案：
D C B A B
A C B A C
D C C C B
下面共有15個句子，每個句子中均有1個詞或短語劃有底橫線，請從每個句子后面所給的4個選項中選擇1個與劃線部分意義最相近的詞或短語。
1.There was an inclination to treat geography as a less important subject.
A.point
B.tendency
C.result
D.finding
答案：B
2.New secretaries came and went with monotonous regularity.
A.amazing
B.depressing
C.predictable
D.dull
答案：D
3.The committee was asked to render a report on the housing situation.
A.furnish
B.copy
C.publish
D.summarize
答案：A
4.The group does not advocate the use of violence.
A.limit
B.regulate
C.oppose
D.support
答案：D
5.The original experiment cannot be exactly duplicated.
A.reproduced
B.invented
C.designed
D.reported
答案：A
6.The department deferred the decision for six months.
A.put off
B.arrived at
C.abode by
D.protested against
答案：A
7.The symptoms of the disease manifested themselves ten days later.
A.eased
B.appeared
C.improved
D.relieved
答案：B
8.That uniform makes the guards look absurd.
A.serious
B.ridiculous
C.beautiful
D.impressive
答案：B
9.Some of the larger birds can remain stationary in the air for several minutes.
A.silent
B.motionless
C.seated
D.true
答案：B
10.The country was torn apart by strife.
A.poverty
B.war
C.conflict
D.economy
答案：C
11.She felt that she had done her good deed for the day.
A.act
B.homework
C.justice
D.model
答案：A
12.A person’s wealth is often in inverse proportion to their happiness.
A.equal
B.certain
C.large
D.opposite
答案：D
13.His professional career spanned 16 years.
A.sincere
B.changed
C.moved
D.lasted
答案：D
14.His stomach felt hollow with fear.
A.sincere
B.respectful
C.terrible
D.empty
答案：D
15.This was disaster on a cosmic scale.
A.modest
B.huge
C.commercial
D.national
答案：B 第二部分：閱讀判斷
下面的短文后列出了7個句子，請根據(jù)短文的內(nèi)容對每個句子做出判斷：如果該句提供的是正確信息，請選擇A;如果該句提供的是錯誤信息，請選擇B;如果該句的信息文中沒有提及，請選擇C。
When Our Words Collide
“Wanna buy a body?” That was the opening line of more than a few phone calls I got from freelance(自由職業(yè))photographers when I was a photo editor at U.S. News. Like many in the mainstream press, I wanted to separate the world of photographers into “them”, who trade in picture of bodies or chase celebrities, and “us”, the serious news people. But after 16 years in that role. I came to wonder whether the two worlds were easily distinguishable.
Working in the reputable world of journalism, I assigned photographers to cover other people’s nightmares. I justified invading moments of grief, under the guise(借口) of the reader’s right to know. I didn’t ask photographers to trespass(冒犯) or to stalk(跟蹤), but I didn’t have to: I worked with pros(同行) who did what others did: talking their way into situations or shooting from behind police lines to get pictures I was after. And I wasn’t alone.
In the aftermath of a car crash or some other hideous incident when ordinary people are hurt or killed, you rarely see photographers pushing past rescue workers to capture the blood and gore(血雨腥風(fēng)). But you are likely to see the local newspaper and television photographers on the scene - and fast.
How can we justify our behavior? Journalists are taught to separate doing the job from worrying about the consequence of publishing what they record. Repeatedly, they are reminded of a news-business dictum(格言): leave your conscience in the office. You get the picture of the footage: the decision whether to print or air it comes later. A victim may lie bleeding, unconscious, or dead: your job is to record the image. You put away your emotions and document the scene.
We act this way partly because we know that the pictures can have important meaning. Photographs can change deplorable(凄慘的) situations by mobilizing public outrage or increase public understanding.
However, disastrous events often bring out the worst in photographers and photo editors. In the first minutes and hours after a disaster occurs, photo agencies buy pictures. Often an agency buys a picture from a local newspaper or an amateur photographer and put it up for bid by major magazines. The most keenly sought “exclusives” command tens of thousands of dollars through bidding contests.
Many people believe that journalists need to change the way they do things, and it’s our pictures that annoy people the most. Readers may not believe, as we do, that there is a distinction between sober-minded “us” and sleazy(低級庸俗的) “them”. In too many cases, by our choices of images as well as how we get them, we prove our readers right.
16. The writer never get an offer for a photograph of a dead person.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
答案：C
17. The writer was a photographer sixteen years ago.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
答案：B
18. The writer believes that shooting people’s nightmares is justifiable.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
答案：B
19. News photographers are usually a problem for rescue workers at an accident.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
答案：B
20. Journalists aren’t supposed to think about whether they are doing the right thing.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
答案：A
21. Editors sometimes have to pay a lot of money for exclusive pictures.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
答案：A
22. Many people say that they are annoyed by the U.S. News pictures.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
答案：A 第三部分：概括大意與完成句子
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The Storyteller
1.Steven Spielberg has always had one goal: to tell as many great stories to as many people as will listen.And that’s what he has always been about.The son of a computer scientist and a pianist, Spielberg spent his early childhood in New Jersey and, later, Arizona.From the very beginning, his fertile imagination filled his young mind with images that would later inspire his filmmaking.
2.Even decades later, Spielberg says he has clear memories of his earliest years, which are the origins of some of his biggest hits.He believes that E.T.is the result of the difficult years leading up to his parent’s 1966 divorce, “It is really about a young boy who was in search of some stability in his life.”“He was scared of just about everything,” recalls his mother, Leah Adler.“When trees brushed against the house, he would head into my bed.And that’s just the kind of scary stuff he would put in films like Poltergeist.”
3.Spielberg was 11 when he first got his hands on his dad’s movie camera and began shooting short flicks about flying saucers and World War ΙΙ battles.Spielberg’s talent for scary storytelling enabled him to make friends.On Boy Scout camping trips, when night fell, Spielberg became the center of attention.“Steven would start telling his ghost stories,” says Richard Y.Hoffman Jr., leader of Troop 294, “and everyone would suddenly get quiet so that they could all hear it.”
4. Spielberg moved to California with his father and went to high school there, but his grades were so bad that he barely graduated.Both UCLA and USC film schools rejected him, so he entered California State University at Long Beach because it was close to Hollywood.Spielberg was determined to make movies, and he managed to get an unpaid, non-credit internship(實(shí)習(xí))in Hollywood.Soon he was given a contract, and he dropped out of college.He never looked back.
5. Now, many years later, Spielberg is still telling stories with as much passion as the kid in the tent.Ask him where he gets his ideas, Spielberg shrugs.“The process for me is mostly intuitive (憑直覺的),” he says.“There are films that I feel I need to make, for a variety of reasons, for personal reasons, for reasons that I want to have fun, that the subject matter is cool, that I think my kids will like it.And sometimes I just think that it will make a lot of money, like the sequel(續(xù)集) to Jurassic Park.”
A.Getting into the movie business
B.Inspirations for his movies
C.An aim of life
D.Telling stories to make friends
E.The trouble of making movies
F.A funny man
23.Paragraph 1___C___
24.Paragraph 2___B___
25.Paragraph 3___D___
26.Paragraph 4___A___
A.making children laugh
B.almost everything
C.a lot of money
D.his childhood memories
E.telling scary stories
F.a number of reasons
27.Some of Spielberg’s most successful movies came from ____D___
28.When Spielberg was a boy, he used to be scared of ____B_____
29.Spielberg is very good at _____E____
30.Spielberg says he makes movies for ____F____ 第四部分：閱讀理解。
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第一篇 The National Trust
The National Trust in Britain plays an increasingly important part in the preservation for public enjoyment of the best that is left unspoiled of the British countryside. Although the Trust has received practical and moral support from the Government, it is not a rich government department. It is a voluntary association of people who care for the unspoiled countryside and historic buildings of Britain. It is a charity which depends for its existence on voluntary support from members of the public. Its primary duty is to protect places of great natural beauty and places of historical interest.
The attention of the public was the first drawn to the dangers threatening the great old houses and the castles of Britain by the death of the Lord Lothian, who left his great seventeenth-century house to the Trust together with the 4500-acre park and estate surrounding it. This gift attracted wide publicity and started the Trust’s “Country House Scheme” Under this scheme, with the help of the Government and the general public, the Trust has been able to save and make accessible to the public about 150 of these oil houses. Lats year, about 1.75 million people paid to visit these historic houses, usually at a very small charge.
In addition to country houses and open spaces, the Trust now owns some examples of ancient wind and water mills, nature reserves, 540 farms and nearly 2500 cottages or small village houses, as well as some complete villages. In these villages no one is allowed to build, develop or disturb the old village environment in any way and all the houses are maintained in their original 16th century style. Over 4,000 acres of coastline , woodland, and hill country are protected by the Trust and no development or disturbances of any kind are permitted. The public has free access to these areas and is only asked to respect the peace, beauty and wildlife.
Over the past 80 years the Trust has become a big and important organization and an essential and respected part of national life. It helps to preserve all that and of historical significance not only for future generations of Britons but also for the millions of tourists who each year invade Britain in search of a great historic and cultural heritage.
31. The National Trust is a
A. Government agency depending on voluntary services.
B. Non-profit organization depending on voluntary services.
C. Government department but is not rich.
D. Private organization supported by the government.
答案：B
32. The National Trust is dedicated to
A. Preserving the best public enjoyment.
B. Providing the public with free access to historic buildings.
C. Offering better services to visitors home and abroad.
D. Protecting the unspoiled countryside and historic buildings.
答案：D
33. We can infer from Paragraph 2 that Lord Lothian
A. Donated all his money to the Trust.
B. Started the “Country House Scheme”.
C. Saved many old country bouses in Britain.
答案：D
34. All the following can be inferred from the passage EXCEPT
A. The Trust is more interested in protecting the 16th century houses.
B. Many people came to visit the historic houses saved by the Trust.
C. Visitors can get free access to some places owned by the Trust.
D. The Trust has a story which is longer than 80 years.
35. The word “invade” in Paragraph 4 is closet in meaning to
A. Come in without permission.
B. Enter with invitation.
C. Visit in large numbers.
D. Appear all of a sudden.
答案：C
第二篇 A New Strategy to Overcome Breast Cancer
Post-menopausal(絕經(jīng)后)women who walk for an hour a day can cut their chance of breast cancer significantly, a study has suggested. The report, which followed 73,000 women for 17 years, found walking for at least seven hours a week lowered the risk of the disease. The American Cancer Society team said this was the first time reduced risk was specifically linked to walking. UK experts said it was more evidence that lifestyle influenced cancer risk.
A recent poll for the charity Ramblers a quarter of adults walk for no more than an hour a week,but being active is known to reduce the risk of a number of cancers. This study, published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers&Prevention, followed 73.615 women out of 97,785 aged 50-74 who had been recruited by the American Cancer Society between 1992 and 1993,so it could monitor the incidence of cancer in the group.
They were asked to complete questionnaires on their health and on how much time they were active and participating in activities such as walking, swimming and aerobics(有氧運(yùn)動)and how much time they spent sitting watching television or reading. They completed the same questionnaires at two-year intervals between 1997 and 2009. Of the women,47% said walking was their only recreational activity. Those who walked for at least seven hours per week had a 14% lower risk of breast cancer compared to those who walked three or fewer hours per week.
Dr. Alpa Patel, a senior epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, Georgia, who led the study, said:”Given that more than 60% of women report some daily walking, promoting walking as a healthy leisure-time activity could be an effective strategy for increasing physical activity amongst post-menopausal women. We were pleased to find that without any other recreational activity, just walking one hour a day was associated with a lower risk of breast cancer in these women.””More strenuous(緊張的)and longer activities lowered the risk even more.”
Baroness Delyth Morgan, chief executive of Breast Cancer Campaign, said:”This study adds further evidence that our lifestyle choices can play a part in influencing the risk of breast cancer and even small changes incorporate into our normal day-to-day activity can make a difference.”
She added:”We know that the best weapon to overcoming breast cancer is the ability to stop it occurring in the first place. The challenge now is how we turn these findings into action and identify other sustainable lifestyle changes that will help us prevent breast cancer.”
36. All of the following factors relating to cancer risk were mentioned in the EXCEPT________
A. breathing exercise
B. regular walking
C. recreational activity
D. lifestyle choices
答案：A
37. It can be inferred from Dr. Alpa Patel’s study that____.
A. women have fewer chances of physical activity
B. daily walking could cut the chance of breast cancer
C. leisure-time activity is not associated with cancer risk
D. walking is not recommended for women with breast cancer
答案：B
38. Dr. Alpa Patel was_____.
A. chief editor of Cancer Epidemiology.
B. chair of the American Cancer Society.
C. head of the survey study.
D. chief executive of Breast Cancer Campaign.
答案：B
39. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A. Most women take walking as their only recreational activity.
B. Walking was the only recreational activity for about half of the women.
C. The study aims to track the health conditions of its subjects.
D. Irregular walking increased the risk of breast cancer in post-menopausal women
答案：C
40. The word “sustainable” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to .
A. affordable
B. available
C. persistent
D. continuable
答案：D
第三篇 How We Form First Impression
We all have first impression of someone we just met. But why? Why do we form an opinion about someone without really knowing anything about him or her - aside perhaps from a few remarks or readily observable traits?
The answer is related to how your brain allows you to be aware of the world. Your brain is so sensitive in picking up facial traits. Even very minor difference in how a person’s eyes, ears, nose, or mouth are placed in relation to each other makes you see him or her as different. In fact, your brain continuously processes incoming sensory information - the sights and sounds of your world. These incoming signals are compared against a host of “memories” stored in the brain areas called the cortex(皮質(zhì)) system to determine what these new signals “mean”.
If you see someone you know and like at school, your brain says “familiar and safe”. If you see someone new, it says, “new and potentially threatening”. Then your brain starts to match features of this strangers with other “known” memories. The more unfamiliar the characteristics, the more your brain may say, “This is new, I don’t like this person” Or else, “I’m intrigued(好奇的)”. Or your brain may perceive a new face but familiar clothes, ethnicity, gestures - like your other friends; so your brain says: “I like this person”. But these preliminary impressions can be dead wrong.
When we stereotype people, we use a less mature form of thinking (not unlike the immature thinking of a very young child) that makes simplistic and categorical impressions of others. Rather than learn about the depth and breadth of people - their history, interest, values, strengths, and true character - we categorize them as jocks(騙子), peeks(反常的人), or freaks(怪人).
However, if we resist initial stereotypical impressions, we have a chance to be aware of what a person is truly like. If we spend time with a person, hear about his or her life, hopes, dreams, and become aware of our cortex, which allow us to be humane.
41.Our first impression of someone new is influenced by his or her.
A.past experience.
B.character.
C.facial features.
D.hobbies.
答案：C
42.If you meet a stranger with familiar gestures, your brain is most likely to say
A. “He is familiar and safe.”
B. “He is new and potentially threatening.”
C. “I like this person.”
D. “This is new, I don’t like this person.”
答案：C
43.The word “preliminary” in Paragraph 3 is closet in meaning to
A.simplistic.
B.stereotypical.
C.initial
D.categorical
答案：C
44.Our thinking is not mature enough when we stereotype people because
A.we neglect their depth and breadth.
B.they are not all jocks, peeks, or freaks.
C.our thinking is similar to that of a very young child.
D.our judgment is always wrong.
答案：A
45.Which of the following statements best expresses the main idea of the passage?
A.One’s physical appearance can influence our first impression.
B.Our first impression is influenced by the sensitivity of our brain.
C.Stereotypical impressions can be dead wrong.
D.We should adopt mature thinking when getting to know people.
答案：B 第五部分：補(bǔ)全短文
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Wrongly Convicted Man and His Accuser Tell Their Story
NEW YORK,NY, January 5,2010. St.Martin’s Press has announced the release of the paperback edition of Picking Cotton, a remarkable true story of what novelist John Grisham calls an “account of violence, rage, redemption(救贖)，and, ultimately forgiveness.”
The story began in 1987, in Burlington, North Carolina, with the rape of a young while college student named Jennifer Thompson. During her ordeal, Thompson swore to herself that she would never forget the face of her rapist, a man who climbed through the window of her apartment and assaulted her brutally.________(46) When the police asked her if she could identify the assailant(襲擊者)from a book of mug shots, she picked one that she was sure was correct, and later she identified the same man in a lineup.
Based on her convincing eyewitness testimony, a 22-year-old black man named Ronald Cotton was sentenced to prison for two life terms. Cotton’s lawyer appealed the decision, and by the time of the appeals hearing, evidence had come to light suggesting that the real rapist might have been a man who looked very like Cotton, an imprisoned criminal named Bobby Poole._______ (47) Jennifer Thompson looked at both men face to face, and once again said that Ronald Cotton was the one who raped her.
Eleven years later, DNA evidence completely exonerated(證明……清白)Cotton and just as unequivocally(明確地) convicted Poole, who confessed to the crime. ________(48) “The man I was so sure I had never seen in my life was the man who was inches from my throat, who raped me, who hurt me, who took my spirit away, who robbed me of my soul,” she wrote. “And the man I had identified so surely on so many occasions was absolutely innocent.”
_______ (49) Remarkably both were able to put this tragedy behind them, overcome the racial barrier that divided them, and write a book, which they have subtitled “Our memoir of injustice and redemption.”
Nevertheless, Thompson says, she still lives “with constant pain that my profound mistake cost him so dearly______ (50)”
A. Thompson was shocked and devastated.
B. Another trial was held.
C. I cannot begin to imagine what would have happened had my mistaken identification occurred in a capital case.
D. During the attack, she made an effort to memorize every detail of his face , looking for scars , tattoos (紋身) or other identifying marks.Jennifer E. Many criminals are sent to prison on the basis of accurate testimony by eyewitnesses.
F. Thompson decided to meet Cotton and apologize to him personally.
答案：46. E 47. A 48.C 49.D 50.B 第六部分：完形填空
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Obesity(肥胖) Causes Global Warming
The list of ills attributable to obesity keeps growing: Last week, obese people were accused of causing global warming.
This (51)comes from Sheldon Jacobson of the University of Illinois, US, and a doctoral student, Laura McLay. Their study (52) how much extra gasoline is needed to haul fat Americans around. The answer, they say, is a billion gallons of gas per year. ________(53)
There has been (54) for taxes on junk food2 in recent years. US economist Martin Schmidt suggests a tax on fast food (55)to people’s cars. "We tax cigarettes partly because of their health cost," Schmidt said. "Similarly, leading a lazy life style will end up costing taxpayers more."
US political scientist Eric Oliver said his first instinct was to laugh at these gas and fast food arguments. But such (56) are getting attention.
At the US Obesity Society's annual meeting, one person (57) obesity with car accident deaths, and another correlated obesity with suicides. No one asked whether there was really a cause-and-effect relationship. "The funny thing was that everyone took it (59)." Oliver said.
In a 1960s study, children were (60) drawings of children with disabilities and without them, and a drawing of an obese child. They were asked (61) they would want for a friend? The obese child was picked last.
Three researchers recently repeated the study (62) college students. Once again, (63) no one, not even obese people, liked the obese person. "Obesity was stigmatized." the researchers said.
But, researchers say, getting (64) is not like quitting smoking. People struggle to stop smoking, and, in the end, many succeed. Obesity is different. Science has shown that they have limited personal control over their weight Genes also (65) a part.
51.A. study B. project C. experiment D. conclusion
52.A. doubts B. reports C. calculates D. reviews
53.A. turns B. means C. says D. costs
54.A. calls B. cries C. sounds D. noises
55.A. delivered B. paid C. spent D. collected
56.A. up B. in C. with D. by
57.A. answers B. talks C. claims D. laughs
58.A. mixed B. correlated C. contacted D. Involved
59.A. seriously B. well C. hard D. greatly
60.A. bought B. captured C. shown D. made
61.A. what B. where C. why D. which
62.A. seeing B. helping C. using D. surveying
63.A. about B. as C. almost D. like
64.A. critical B. tall C. thin D. confident
65.A. decide B. play C. produce D. use
答案：
D C B A B
A C B A C
D C C C B