Werewolves (狼人) aren’t the only creatures(生物) affected by the moon’s cycles. A full moon slightly affects people’s sleep, reports a Swiss team of scientists. Even people’s sleep in a lab without windows experienced a small shortfall in sleep once a month.
To test the moon’s effect, 33 adult volunteers of both sexes and various ages spent several nights in a sleep lab. As they slept, researchers recorded their brain activity, eye movements and hormone (荷尔蒙) levels. On nights closer to a full moon, the subjects took an average of five minutes longer to fall asleep, and slept for 20 minutes less. In addition, brain activity decreased by 30 percent during the sleep stage that the brain normally uses to recover from its daylight work. And levels of hormone that help control sleep cycles dropped. On these nights, the sleepers complained of poor sleep quality even though they were unaware of the moon’s cycle. On the bright side, not a single participant turned into a werewolf.
The Swiss team doesn’t know how the moon affects sleep. The gravity (重力) of the moon causes ocean tides to rise and fall. But that force is too weak to affect sleep, Gajochen says. He believed some body’s biological clock may be tied to the moon cycles. There may be another explanation, says David Dinges. This sleep researcher at the University Of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia says that the body clock is very sensitive to light at night. Volunteer’s sleep could have been affected by exposure to extra moonlight before arriving at the lab.The writer mentioned “werewolves” in the first paragraph to ______.
| A．prove that the moon’s cycles exist |
| B．draw people’s attention to the report |
| C．introduce a similar creature to readers |
| D．warn people not to sleep alone in the lab |
What happened to the volunteers during the experiment on a full moon?
| A．They slept for about five minutes longer. |
| B．Their brains never recovered from their work. |
| C．They complained they were too tired to sleep. |
| D．Their brains were not so active as they were |
The last paragraph is developed mainly by ______.
| A．analyzing causes | B．explaining differences |
| C．making comparisons | D．following the time order |
The passage is mainly about ______.
| A．the sleeping problems caused by the moon’s cycles |
| B．the influence of the moon on human sleeping habits |
| C．the moon’s effect on sleeping and its possible reasons |
| D．the ways to improve sleep quality on a full moon night |
How to protect children web fans from unsuitable materials on-line while encouraging them to use the Internet has long been discussed in the US. For some time, the Internet seems like a forest, filled with danger for children. But forests have wonders as well as dangers, and with good guides, some education and a few precautions (预防措施), the wilds of the Internet can be safely navigated (航行). "Children have to be on-line. If we tell our children they can't have chances to the Internet, we're cutting them off from their future," said an expert.
Most children have started to use search engines. Many of them are great for finding lots of interesting Internet sites and they can also go to places where you might not want them to go. There are such engines made just for children. A certain software (软件) contains only sites that have been selected as safe. The most popular way to limit chances would be to use what is known as a "content screener (过滤器)". But this can't be wholly safe, and the best thing parents can do is to talk to their kids and let them know what is OK or not OK to see or do on the Internet. Another way is that mum or dad is nearby when the child is surfing the Internet.
A few other tips:
1) Don't put the PC in a child's room, but keep it in a place where mum or dad can keep an eye on things. That also makes the Internet more of a family activity.
2) Ask your child not to give on-line strangers personal information, especially like address and phone number.
3) Tell your children never to talk to anyone they meet on-line over the phone, send them anything, accept anything from them or agree to meet with them unless you'd like to.
56. What is the main subject about the passage?
A. Fighting against children on-line. B. Internet in America.
C. American children going on-line. D. Children's web sites.
57. What is the best way to protect children from improper material?
A. To talk to children and persuade them to tell right from wrong.
B. To be nearby when they are surfing the Internet.
C. To fix a content screener on the computer.
D. To buy some search engines for children.
58. Which of the following is right according to the passage?
A. Surfing the Internet is the best way of educating children.
B. Using a content screener is safe for stopping children having chances to the Internet.
C. Searching engines can stop children from reading materials unfit for them.
D. Children's not having chances to the Internet may have effect on (影响) their progress.
59. According to the passage, we can infer(推断) that _________.
A. the writer doesn't encourage children to surf the Internet
B. the Internet has a lot of harmful sites
C. the Internet is a forest full of danger
D. a child who is on-line is dangerous
60. What does the passage tell us most?
A. Education. B. Good guides. C. Precautions. D. Software.
第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，满分40分）
第一节：阅读下列三篇短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。（共15小题，满分30分）
Frank Woolworth was born in Rodman, New York., in 1852. His family were very poor farmers, and there was never enough to eat. Frank decided he did not want to be farmer. He took a short business course, and went to work as a salesman in a large city.
Woolworth realized he had a natural skill for showing goods to attract people’s interest, but he soon learned something more important. One day his boss told him to sell some odds and ends (小商品 ) for as much as he could get. Frank put all these things on one table with a sign which said FIVE CENTS EACH. People fought and pushed to buy the things and the table was soon cleared.
Soon afterwards, Woolworth opened his own store., selling goods at five and ten cents. But he had another lesson to learn before he became successful. That is, if you want to make money by selling low-price goods, you have to buy them in large quantities directly form the factories. Once, for example, Woolworth went to Germany and placed an order for knives. The order was so large that the factory had to keep running 24 hours a day for a whole year. In this way, the price of the knives was cut down by half.
By 1919, Woolworth had over 1000 stores in the US and Canada, and opened his first store in London. He made many millions and his name became famous throughout the world. He always run his business according to strict rules, of which the most important was: “ THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT.”
51. Frank took a short business course in order to ____________.
A. earn more money for his family B. learn something from a salesman
C. get away from the farm D. get enough to eat.
52. Frank sold the odds and ends quickly because _____________.
A. he knew how to get people to buy his goods. B. he cut down the price by half
C. he had put the goods on a table in a very nice way.
D. the sign he put on the table was well designed.
53. The price of the knives was cut down by half because ______________.
A. the factory workers worked 24 hours a day.
B. knives were ordered in large quantities directly from the factory.
C. the knives were made in Germany, where labour (劳动力) was cheap.
D. the knives were produced in one factory.
54. _____________ make Woolworth a world-famous man.
A. His business skills and his wealth. B. The low price of the goods he sold.
C. His trip to Germany and his huge order of knives.
D. His natural skill for showing things.
55. The belief that : “ The customer is always right” suggests that _______________.
A. whenever there is a quarrel between the customer and shop assistant, the customers are always right.
B. If you want to succeed, the rule is the only way.
C. stores must always follow the customer’s orders if they want to make more money.
D. stores should do their best to meet the customer’s needs if they want to be successful.
Fidenzio Salvatori is determined that the city of Toronto will have an outdoor marketplace for merchants (商人) from its immigrant community, complete with dancing and other forms of amusement from their native countrysides. “ Toronto is truly multicultural,” he said in a newspaper interview. “ It’s a city from many places, and a multicultural marketplace will help Torontonians to understand and appreciate the rich variety of cultural groups in our city.’
Salvatori, aged 23, will soon complete his studies at he Univers
ity of Toronto, He was eleven years old when he came to Canada from Italy with his parents. “ Most of Toronto’s immigrants are from lands where marketplace has always been part of daily life.” He said.
Salvatori has been interested in getting an open-air market for Toronto for the last three years. This year, with the help of two fellow students, he prepared a proposal o
n the subject and presented it to the city’s Executive Committee, asking for their support. The proposal pointed out Toronto’s rich variety of national groups, “ Whose customs include market shopping”.
Under a Canadian government program for multiculturalism, the three students have received two thousand dollars with which they will do a study to find out whether Toronto’s immigrant businessmen would support an open-air market. They hope the merchants will support the plan strongly. “ A study done earlier this year showed that 90 percent of shoppers would be in favor of it.” Salvatori said. “ At first it would be an experiment. But we think it will prove to be good business for the merchants, as well as a tourist attraction.”
71. What is Fidenzio Salvatori’s purpose of having an outdoor marketplace for Toronto?
A. To provide different forms of amusement.
B. To inspire its immigrant community.
C. To keep the cultural variety of the city.
D. To satisfy its immigrant merchants.
72. Fidenzio Salvatori, with two other students, has got two thousand dollars from the government _______________.
A. to make an experiment
B. to start a market
C. to perform a research
D. to operate a business
73. According to Salvatori, the marketplace may also help to improve Toronto’s ______________.
A. market management
B. community service
C. travel industry
D. city planning
74. What does the underlined sentence mean?
A. The merchants want the government to support the plan.
B. Most merchants agree to support the plan.
C. The plan is on most merchants’ side.
D. The plan is in the immigrants’ favour.
75. It can be inferred from the text the Canadian government supports____________.
A. the protection of different cultures
B. the plan of an open-air market
C. the request of merchants
D. the attitude of shoppers
There was once a captain who loved money so much that he cheated his sailors at the end of every voyage and took their wages.
On the last day of one voyage, the ship was in a small port. It was winter time, and the sea was very cold, so the captain said to his sailors, “ If one of you stays in the water during the whole night, I will giv
e him my ship. But if he comes out before the sun appears, I shall get his wages.(工资)”
The sailors had heard about the captain’ cheating, so they didn’t trust him. But then one of them, who thought that he was cleverer than the captain, said that he would do it. He got into the water and, though it was very cold, stayed in it. When it was nearly morning, some fishermen lit a fire on the shore abut half a mile away.
“ You are cheating,” the captain said to the sailor. “ The fire’s warming you.”
“ But it’s half a mile away.” Said the sailor.
“ A fire is fire,” answ
ered the captain.
“ Perhaps you think that you are clever because you have won my wages, but you can’t cook a chicken,” said the sailor.
“ I can’t,” answered the captain.
“ If you cook this chicken,” said the sailor, “ I shall work for you without wages for seven years, but if yo
u can’t, you will give me your ship.”
The captain agreed, took the chicken and said, “ Where’s the fire?”
“There it is,” answe
red the sailors, “ On the shore.”
“ ‘A fire’s fire’, you said,” answered the sailor. “ If it is enough to warm me in the water, it is enough to cook your chicken.”
66. The captain got the sailors’ wages ________________.
A. to buy a chicken for himself
B. and kept the money for future use
C. by cheating them
D. 
and said he would return the money soon.
67. Which of the following statement is true?
A. All the sailors refused to get into the water because it was too cold.
B. The captain knew that the fire the fishermen made was enough to warm the sailor in the water.
C. The captain succeeded in cheating the sailor.
D. It was the sailor who was clever.
68. The captain insisted that the fire was warming the sailor because he ___________.
A. didn’t want to lose the bet
B. didn’t believe the sailor’s success
C. wanted to keep his promise
D. wanted to show his cleverness
69. Which of the following statement is NOT true?
A. The sailor didn’t trust the captain.
B. In order to help the sailor in the water, the fishermen made a fire.
C. The Captain failed to cheat the sailor this time.
D. The sailor didn’t get out of the water befor
e the sun appeared.
70. What is the best title?
A. How A Captain Cheated His Sailor
B. How A Sailor Got A ship
C. A Brave Sailor
D. A Fire is Fire
Ⅲ阅读 (共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分)
第一节：阅读理解：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of food people need. They say that there are several kinds of food that people should eat every day. They are: (1) green and yellow vegetables of all kinds; 
(2) c
itrus （柑橘）fruits and tomatoes; (3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables ; (4) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs; (5) milk and foods made from milk; (6) bread or cereal (谷物), rice is also in this kind of foods; (7) butter or something like butter.
People in different countries and different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways. People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say 
that none of the differences is really important. It doesn’t matter whether foods are eaten raw or cooked, canned or frozen. It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon or at eleven o’clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day.
There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of peopl
e on earth. The first thin
g is to find some ways to feed the world’s population so that no one is hungry. The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kind of food to make them grow to be
strong and healthy.
61. According to the scientists, which of the following groups of food is the healthiest for your lunch?
A. chicken, apples, cereal , cabbages.
B. potatoes, carrots, rice, bread.
C. oranges, bananas, fish, tomatoes
D. beef, pork, fish , milk
62. It is important for people to eat __________.
A. three times a day
B. dinner at twelve o’clock
C. cooked food all the day
D. something from each of the seven kinds of food every day.
63. People in different count ries and different places of the world________________.
A. have the right kinds of food to eat
B. cook their food in the same way
C. have their meals at the same time
D. eat food in different ways.
64. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. People in some places don’t have enough to eat.
B. There are too many people in the world.
C. One of the problems is that no one is hungry.
D. The scientists are trying to make peopl
e grow to be strong and healthy.
65. If there is paragraph 4, what do you think is going to be talked about?
A. When people eat their lunch.
B. What to do with the two problems.
C. How to cook food in different ways.
D. Why people eat different kinds of food.
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