第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项多余选项。
There is an English saying, “Laughter is the best medicine.”51 Now, however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it has on the human body. They have found that laughter really can improve people’s health.
Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their heart, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. 52 It increases blood pressure, the heart beating and breathing; it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach, and even the feet. If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial.
53 In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programmes. The group that tolerated (忍受)the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program. 54
In this way55 they help to improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh. They have found that even if their patients do not really fell like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.
| A．The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemicals in the brain which diminish both stress and pain. |
| B．Until recently, few people took the saying seriously. |
| C．Laughter and physical exercise have similar effects on the human body. |
| D．It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. |
E. As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics.
F. Laughter could produce a kind of chemical.
G. Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body.
根据课文内容填空（每小题0.5分, 满分8分）
The amber which was ________ had a beautiful yellow-brown colour like honey. The ________
of the room was in the ________
style popular in those days. It was also a treasure ________
with gold and jewels, which took the country's best artists about ten years to make.
As a ________ of fact, every country wants the opportunity. It’s a great responsibility but also a great ________
to be chosen. There’s as much competition among countries to _______
the Olympics as to win Olympic medals.
Anyhow, my ________ is to provide humans with a life of high ________
. I am now truly filled with happiness that I am a ________
friend and helper of the human race!
Wild plants and animals have to look after themselves. They need food, a good ________and________
. If their habitat is threatened or they cannot find enough food, their numbers may __________
.
However, after a year or so, in which they became more __________about their work, the Monkees started to play and sing their own songs like a real band. Then they ________
their own records and started __________
and playing their own music.
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Have you ever listened to young children talking on the playground? They are always boasting（自夸）. They say things like, “My dad’s car is bigger _____ your dad’s,” and “My mom is smarter than yours.”
There were three little boys, Harry, Ted and Gavin, _____were always boasting. Gavin was the worst. Everything about his family was always the best. ___
___ the others said, he could always go on better. One day ___
__ they were walking to school, Harry said, “My father had a bath twice ___
__ week,” Ted spoke next. “That’s nothing,” he said. “That is dirty. My father has a bath every day, sometimes twice.” Ted looked at Gavin. Now it was __
___ turn. But this time Ted thought, “I’m going to win.” Gavin didn’t know what to say. He couldn’t say that his father had a bath three times a day. That was silly. He walked on ___
___ silence. Both Ted __
__ Harry smiled. They were sure that for once they___
___ (beat) Gavin. They reached the school gates. Still Gavin said nothing. “We’ve won,” Ted said to Harry, but he spoke too soon. On the way home, Gavin said, “My Dad is ___
__ clean that he doesn’t have to bathe at all.”
按课文内容填空 （共10题；每小题1分, 满分10分）
<M2 U3>
... I have also been put into robots and used to make mobile phones as well as help with . ... Anyhow, my goal is to provide humans with a life
. I am now truly
that I am
and helper of the human race!
<New Headway>
you have very few responsibilities. ...This means you have plenty of free time to do whatever you want -- watch TV; play on the computer; go out with friends; play sports, or
. ... All in all,
is an exciting, action-packed time in life.
However, for every plus . You usually have to ask your parents if you can do things, from going shopping in town to
or going to a party. Finally, although there are often cheaper prices for children, things are still expensive and parents are not always
pocket money. ...
默写（共10空格；每空格1分，每空格不限填一词，满分10分）
NCE Lesson 4
These days, people who often receive far more money than people who work in offices. People who work in offices are frequently
‘white collar workers’ for the simple reason that they usually wear a collar and tie to go to work.
, that a great many people are often willing to
for the privilege of becoming white-collar workers. This can
curious situations, as it did in the case of Alfred Bloggs who worked as a dustman for the Ellesmere Corporation.
Unit 4
However, the attitudes of scientists towards this rise are completely different.
On the one hand, Dr. Foster thinks that any trend in which the temperature increases by 5 degrees would . She says, “We can’t predict the climate well enough to know
, but it could be very serious.” Others who agree with her think there may be
in the sea level, .... On the other hand, there are those, like George Hambley, who
this view and believe that we should not worry about high levels of carbon dioxide in the air. They predict that any warming will be mild with few bad
.
用以下这些单词(celebrated, show , jokes ,broke ,honest, attach, form , humorous , performances ,based)填空 ，使文章合理通顺，每空一词。
Have you ever wanted to be part of a band as a famous singer or musician? To be , a lot of people
great importance to becoming rich and famous. Most musicians often meet and
a band because they like to write and play their own music. They may give
in pubs or clubs, for which they are paid in cash. However, there was one band that started in a different way. It was called the Monkees and began as a TV
___. The musicians were to play
on each other as well as play music, most of which was
loosely on “The Beatles”. And the Monkees’ performances were
enough to be copied by other groups. After a year or so, they started to play and sing their own songs like a real band. Though the band
up in about 1970, they reunited in the mid-1980s. They produced a new record in 1996, with which they
their former time as a real band.
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