Stress：Good or Bad？
Stress used to be an almost unknown word，but now that we are used to talking about it，I have found that people are beginning to get stressed about being stressed．
In recent years，stress（33） （regard） as a cause of a whole range of medical problems，from high blood pressure to mental illness．But like so many other things，it is only too much stress（34） does you harm．It is time you considered that if there were no stress in your life，you would achieve a little．If you are stuck at home with no stress，then your level of performance will be low．Up to a certain point，the more stress you are under，the （35） （good） your performance will be．Beyond a certain point，though，further stress will only lead to exhaustion，illness and finally a breakdown．You can tell when you are over the top and on the downward slope，by asking yourself （36） number of questions．Do you，for instance，feel that too much is being expected of （37） ，and yet find it impossible to say no？Do you find yourself getting impatient or （38） （annoy） with people over unimportant things？…If the answer to all those questions is yes，you had better（39） （control ） your stress，as you probably are under more stress than is good for you．
To some extent you can control the amount of stress in your life．Doctors have worked out a chart showing how much stress is involved in various events．Getting married is 50，pregnancy 40，moving house 20，Christmas 12，etc．If the total stress in your life is over 150，you are twice as likely （40） （get）ill．
B
A(n) (81) ___________writer about 2,000 years ago called Pausanias came on a(n) (82) ___________journey to find out about the present-day Olympic Games. He interviewed a(n) (83) ___________named Li Yan. He learned that there were two main (84) ___________of Games—the Winter and Summer Olympics, and that both were held four years on a regular (85) ___________.Anyone who has reached an agreed standard for their event can be admitted as (86) ___________.To Pausanias’s surprise, women are playing a very important role in many games. Every country wants to (87) ___________the Olympic Games, and it is a great (88) ___________but also a great honour to be chosen. Li Yan told him that the Chinese were very (89) ___________because the 2008 Olympic Games would be held in Beijing. Pausanias was happy to know the (90) ___________of the Olympics—“Swifter, Higher and Stronger” and he felt very interested in it.
第四部分：写作（共四节，满分45分）
第一节：根据课文内容将下面短文补充完整，单词的首字母已经为你写出(注意:在答卷上要写出所填单词的首字母及其它字母的正确形式，否则不给分)。
A
The Amber Room, which was considered one of the (71) ___________of the world, had an (72) ___________history. The room was designed in the (73) ___________style and (74) ___________with gold and jewels.
In 1716, Frederick William I, to whom the Amber Room (75) __________, gave it to Peter the Great. So it became part of the Czar’s winter palace in St Petersburg and served as a small (76) ___________hall for important visitors.
Later, Catherine II had it (77) ___________to a palace outside St Petersburg and told her artists to add more details to it. But in 1914, when Russia and Germany were at (78), ___________the Nazi army entered the summer palace, (79) ___________some treasures secretly. After that, what happened to the Amber Room remains a (80) ___________.
Recently, a new Amber Room has been built at the summer palace by the Russians and Germans.
第三节：语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在答卷标号为41~50的相应位置。
Long ago the Emperor decided to hold a swimming race between 13 different animals. The order in which they finished would decide the order of their 41 (appear) in the Chinese calendar. All the animals lined up on the river bank and 42 (give) the task of getting to the opposite shore. The cat wondered how he would get across 43 he was afraid of water. The ox worried how he would cross 44 his poor eyesight. The calculating rat suggested that he and the cat 45 (jump) onto the ox's back and guide him across. The ox, steady and hard-working, did not notice the two animals on his back. In the meanwhile, the rat ran behind the unsuspecting cat and pushed 46 into the water. As the ox came ashore, the rat jumped off and finished the race first. 47 the rat got the first year 48 (name) after him and the ox got the second year. 49 the lazy pig reached the finish line in 12th place the race was over and he was awarded the final place on the calendar. From that day the cat, 50 never finished and lost his place on the calendar, became the enemy of the rat.
第二节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卷标号为31-40的相应位置上。
The most influential book in my life
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller is the most influential book in my life. It __31__ (fill) with courage, struggle and faith throughout. Helen Keller was once in deep despair in her __32__ (child), but finally she decided to overcome her physical defects and live happily. Furthermore, she showed great patience, ___33___ (do) well in her long and hard learning period.
I have learned, above all, three lessons from her story. First, she taught me that often the road to success is to face hardships ___34____ (brave). Maybe you are born under an ill star yet you can stand a better chance ___35___ others. It is therefore important that you screw up your courage ____36____courage is needed. Second, the impairment of part of her senses did not prevent ___37___ from learning. On the contrary, she ___38___ (make) continual efforts to go deeper into the realm of knowledge her fortitude had thus helped her overcome many handicaps. ___39___, she advised that we should make the most of our sense-organs as if we ___40___ (lose) them soon because this way we would observe the world more carefully than ever before.
第二节 语法填空(共10题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题纸标号为31－40的相应位置上。
As a blind boy, I now had the key to all languages, __31__ I was eager to use it. Children __32__ can hear learn languages without any particular effort. __33__ hear other people speak, and enjoy trying to make the same sounds. The __34__ child must learn languages in a slow and often painful way. __35__ even though the learning may be slow and painful, the result is wonderful. We advance gradually from merely __36__ (name) objects to understanding the thought in a line of Shakespeare.
At first, when my teacher told me about a new thing, I asked very __37__ questions. My ideas were not clear, and I didn’t know many. But as my knowledge of things __38__ (grow) and I learned more and more words, I could ask more questions, and I would return again and again __39__ the same subject, eager for more information. Sometimes a new word make me remember an experience I had had __40__ (early) and I finally come to understand that the most effective way to learn a language well is to use it as much as possible.
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