When did you last see a polar bear(北极熊）? On a trip to a zoo,perhaps? If you had

题型：不详难度：来源：

When did you last see a polar bear(北极熊）? On a trip to a zoo,perhaps? If you had attended a winter activity in New York a few years ago, you would have seen a whole polar bear club. These "Polar Bears" are people who meet frequ

ently in the winter to swim in freezing cold water. That day, the air temperature was 3℃, and the water temperature was a little higher. The members of the Polar Bear Club at Coney Island, New York are usually about the age of 60. Members must satisfy two requirements. First, they must get along well with everyone else in the group; this is very important because there are so many different kinds of people in the club. Polar Bears must also agree to swim outdoors at least twice a month from November through February.
Doctors don"t agree about the medical effects of cold-winter swimming. Some are worried about the dangers of a condition in which the body"s temperature drops so low that finally the heart stops. Other doctors, however, point out that th

ere is more danger of a heart attack during summer swimming because the difference between the air temperature and water temperature is much greater in summer than in winter.
The Polar Bears themselves are satisfied with the benefits of cold-water swimming. They say that their favorite form of exercise is very good for the circulatory system(循环系统）because it forces the blood to move fast to keep the body warm. Cold-water swimmers usually turn bright red after a few minutes in the water. A person who turns blue probably has a very poor circulatory system and should not try cold-water swimming.
　　The main benefits of cold-water swimming are probably mental.The Polar Bears love to swim all year round; they find it fun and relaxing. As one 70-year-old woman says,"When I go into water, I pour my troubles into the ocean and let them float away."
小题1:The members of the Polar Bear Club must meet the following requirements except that_____.

A．they must swim outdoors at least 8 times in the four cold months

B．they must reach the age of 60

C．they should

be easy to make friends with

D．they must agree to swim outdoors from November through February

小题2:According to the passage, some doctors believe it is true that_____.

A．Polar Bears are bears swimming in freezing water

B．cold

-water swimming can make the body temperature dangerously high

C．you are healthy if cold-water swimming turns your skin color blue

D．cold-water swimming causes more heart attacks in summer than in winter

小题3:The Polar Bears like to swim year-round, for_____.

A．it is an easy way to keep the body warm in winter	B．they can remain young
C．they find it enjoyable and interesting	D．they might meet fewer troubles in life

小题4:The passage is mainly about_____.

A．the requirements of the Polar Bear Club

B．a group of cold-water-swimming livers

C．the Polar Bears" life in New York

D．doctors" ideas about cold-water swimming

答案

小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:C
小题4:B

解析

略

举一反三

Fifty–eight percent of the teachers interviewed in the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) questionnaire had come across copying among their pupils. Gill Bullen from Itchen College in Southampton, for example, said, "Pieces handed in by two students were identical and significantly better than either of them could have done. Not only that, the essays handed in didn"t quite answer the title question I had set". A teacher from Leeds said, "I had one piece of work so bravely cut and pasted that it still contained ads from the web page."
Connie Robinson from Stockton Riverside College said, "With less able students it is easy to spot copying as the writing style changes in the middle of the assignment, but with more able students it is sometimes necessary for tutors to carry out Internet research to identify the source of the copy."
Mary Bousted, general secretary of the ATL, said," Teachers are struggling under a mountain of cut-and-pasting to spot whether work was the student"s own or copy." She called for policies to stop copying, and asked for help from exam boards and the government in providing resources and techniques to detect cheats.
But there was another side. "I have found once students clearly understand what copying is, its consequences and how to reference correctly so they can draw on published works, copying becomes less of a problem," said Diana Baker from Emmanuel College, Durham.
"I think the majority of students who engage in copying do it more out of ignorance than the desire to cheat. They really want to succeed on their own."
53. The passage mainly wants to tell us ____________.

A. the benefits of the Internet for students

B. web copying is a serious problem in the UK

C. the ways to find web copying for teachers

D. how we can use the Internet to do homework

54. The underlined word “identical” (Paragraph 1) probably means ____________.

A. excellent

B. contrasting

C. the same

D. complex

55. What is TRUE according to Connie Robinson?

A. It’s not easy to find the less able students copy from the Internet

B. It’s difficult to find whether the more able students have copied.

C. The less able student will not change their writing style when copying.

D. The more able students needn’t copy from the Internet.

56. What’s the writer’s attitude towards “copying”?

A. The writer doesn’t tell us.	B. The writer feels angry about it.
C. The writer thinks it doesn’t matter.	D. The writer approves of it.

题型：不详难度：| 查看答案

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Since my family were not going to be helpful, I decided I would look for one job by myself and not tell them about it till I"d got one.
I had seen an agency advertised in a local newspaper. I rushed out of the   21_   in search of it. I was wildly excited, and as    22_ as if I were going on the stage. Finding the    23_ quite easily, I ran breathlessly through a door which said " Enter without knocking, if you please. "
The simple atmosphere of the office    24_ me. The woman looked carefully at me   25_ through her glasses, and then    26_ me in a low voice. I answered softly. All of a sudden I started to feel rather   27_ . She wondered why I was looking for this sort of   28_ . I felt even more helpless when she told me that it would be   29 to get a job without    30_ . I wondered whether I ought to leave,   31_   the telephone on her desk rang. I heard her say:
“   32_ , I"ve got someone in the   33_ at this very moment who might    34_   . " She wrote down a   35_   . and held it out to me, saying: "Ring up this lady. She wants a    36   immediately. In fact, you would have to start tomorrow by cooking a dinner for ten people."
"Oh yes, " said I——   37_   having cooked for more than four in my life. I   38_ her again and again, and rushed out to the   39_ telephone box. I collected my thoughts, took a deep breath, and rang the number. I said confidently that I was just what she was looking for.
I spent the next few hours   40_   cook books.
21． A．bed        B．house      C．agency      D．office
22． A．proud       B．please        C．nervous     D．worried
23． A．family       B．door      C．place        D．stage
24． A．calmed       B．excited       C．frightened    D．disturbed
25． A．as usual      B．for a while   C．in a minute   D．once again
26． A．advised      B．examined     C．informed    D．questioned
27． A．encouraged   B．dissatisfied   C．hopeless     D．pleased
28． A．place        B．job            C．advice       D．help
29． A．difficult      B．helpless       C．possible      D．unusual
30． A．ability       B．experience     C．knowledge   D．study
31． A. after      B．since       C．until         D．when
32． A． Above all   B．As a matter of fact   C．As a result   D．In spite of that
33． A． family     B．house        C．office        D．restaurant
34． A． hire       B． accept      C．suit          D．offer
35． A． letter      B．name    C．note        D．number
36． A． cook       B．help      C．teacher      D．secretary
37． A． almost      B．never        C．nearly       D．really
38． A． answered    B．promised     C．thanked     D．told
39． A. outside    B． local       C．closest       D．nearest
40． A． burrowing   B．buying         C．reading      D．lending

题型：不详难度：| 查看答案

.Life gets noisier every day and very few people can be free from noise of some sort or another. It doesn"t matter where you live--in the middle of a modern city, or a faraway village--the chances are that you" 11 be disturbed by jet planes, transistor radios, oil - powered engines, etc. We seem to be getting used to noise, too. Some people feel quite lonely without background music while they" re working.
Scientific tests have shown that total silence can be a very frightening experience for a human being. However, some people enjoy listening to pop music which is very loud, and this can do harm to their eardrums(耳鼓). The noise level in some discos is far above the usual safety level for heavy industrial areas.
One recent report about noise and concentration(专心) suggested that although a lot of people say that any noise disturbs their concentration, what really influences their ability to concentrate is a change in the level of noise. It goes on to say that a background noise which doesn"t change too much(music, for example) may even help people to concentrate.
56. According to this passage, the noise pollution __
A. has become the worst in the countryside B. has become better in big cities
C. has spread from cities to villages      D. has been controlled in modern cities
57. What does background music refer to?
A. Music played while people are working.
B. Music played in the backyard.
C. Noise that continues while you" re listening to other noises.
D. Music used to help people to concentrate.
58. Some people have their hearing harmed __
A. while listening to pop music

    B. in complete silence
C. when speaking loudly                  D. while watching TV
59. Which of the following isn"t included among the things causing noise?
A. trucks           B. motorcycles   C. electric engines   D. jet planes
60. Scientists have discovered that what prevents people from concentrating on something is
A. all kinds of noise                   B. great changes in the level of noise
C. background noise                  D. popular music

题型：不详难度：| 查看答案

An important factor that plays a part in susceptibility （易受影响） to colds is age．A study done by the University of Michigan School of Public Health indicated the fact that seems to hold true for the general population．Babies are the group suffering most from colds, averaging more than six colds in their first years．Boys have more colds than girls up to age three．After the age of three, girls are more susceptible than boys, and teenage girls average three colds a year to boy"s two．
The general frequency of colds continues to decline into adults．Elderly people who are in good health have as few as one or two colds annually．One exception is found among people in their twenties, especially women, who show a rise in cold infections（感染）, because people to this age group are most likely to have young children．Adults who delay having children until their thirties and forties experience the same sudden increase in cold infections．
The study also found that economics （经济状况） plays an important role．As income increases, the frequency at which colds are reported in the family decreases．Families with the lowest income suffer about a third more colds than families at the upper end．Lower income generally forces people to live in closer quarters than those typically occupied by wealthier people, and crowding increases the opportunities for the cold virus to travel from person to person．Low income may also influence diet．The degree to which poor nutrition affects susceptibility to colds is not yet clearly proved, but an inadequate diet is suspected of lowering resistance generally．
68. What factors cause people to catch colds easily?
A. Age and pregnancy． B. Health and pregnancy．
C. Health and economics． D. Age and economics．
69. Why does the lowest income lead to the rapid spread of colds?
A. Because poor people can"t afford to go to see a doctor．
B. Because balanced diet has definitely affected poor people．
C. Because people with the lowest income have limited living space．
D. Because cold virus don"t have opportunities to travel in poor families．
70. How does the study prove that age plays a part in susceptibility to colds?
A. Using comparison． B. Using graphs．
C. Using description． D. Using argument．
71. What can you learn from the passage?
A. Families with the lowest income suffer less colds than rich families．
B. The general frequency of colds are likely to increase among the poor．
C. Women in their twenties are most likely to avoid cold infections．
D. The general frequency of colds continue to rise into the adults．

题型：不详难度：| 查看答案

完形填空 (共10小题; 每小题2分, 满分20分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21-30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项, 并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。
Children find meanings in their old family tales.
When Stephen Guyer’s three children were growing up, he told them stories about how his grandfather, a banker,    21   all in the 1930s, but did not lose sight of what he valued most. In one of the darkest times when his strong-minded grandfather was nearly   22    , he loaded his family into the car and   23    them to see family members in Canada with a   24   ,“There are more important things in life than money. ”
The 25   took on a new meaning recently when Mr. Guyer downsized to a   26    house from a more expensive and comfortable one. He was   27   that his children, a daughter, 15, and twins, 22, would be upset. To his surprise, they weren’t. Instead, their reaction echoed（共鸣）their great-grandfather’s. What they   28    was how warm the people were in the house.K   Many parents are finding family stories have surprising power to help children through hard times. Storytelling experts say the phenomenon reflects a growing  29     in telling tales, evidenced by a rise in a storytelling events and festivals.
A university   30    of 65 families with children aged from 14 to 16 found kids’ ability to retell parents’ stories was linked to a lower rate of anger and anxiety.
21. A. missed       B. lost           C. forgot        D. ignored
22. A. friendless           B. worthless          C. penniless D. homeless
23. A. fetched      B. allowed  C. expected D. took
24. A. hope           B. promise  C. suggestion        D. belief
25. A. tale            B. agreement      C. arrangement            D. report
26. A. large           B. small        C. new          D. grand

27. A. surprised    B. annoyed   C. disappointed    D. worried
28. A. talked about      B. cared about      C. wrote about     D. heard about
29. A. argument   B. skill           C. interest    D. anxiety
30. A. study          B. design      C. committee     D. staff

题型：不详难度：| 查看答案