There is an English saying that “Laughter is the best medicine.” Until recently, few people took the saying seriously. Now however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it has on the human body. They have found that laughter can really 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 hearts, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. It increases blood pressure, makes the heart beat quicker and makes people breathe deeper; it also works on several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach, and even the feet. If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial.

Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effects of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group that tolerated（忍耐）the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program. The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemical in the brain which diminishes both stress and pain.

As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics, in which they help to improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh. They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.

1.According to the passage, the following statements are true except       .

2.The underlined word “diminishes” in the third paragraph means “     ”.

3.Some doctors hold laughter clinics because         .

4.According to the author, we should         .

5.The best title for this passage may be         .

In most of the time, I am devoted to my research in the lab with my friend Dave, who loves traveling very much. To make our life colorful and relax ourselves, in July, my friend and I are taking a camping trip. We will travel for four weeks and will tour the United States and part of Canada. We have decided to camp because it does not cost as much as vacationing (度假) in hotels.

We have to plan very carefully in advance. First, the car we are going to drive is very small, so we have decided to take only one small suitcase each and as few camping things as possible. We will take some medicine with us to prevent insects (昆虫) from hurting us, and also food for picnics. Second, there is a lot to see in the United States and Canada, so we have to decide on the direction (方向) we want to drive.

The date we are leaving is July 2, from which day we will have two months off.  We want to see and do many things on our camping tour. We want to climb in the mountains, visit famous caves, and swim in cool mountain rivers. We want to visit many cities and talk to many people, which I am sure can enrich our experience greatly. We also want to find a hotel room if it rains at night. We expect to have an exciting trip.

1. The two friends are going to take a camping trip ________.

2.Which of the following statements is possibly true?

3. We learn from the second paragraph that ________.

4. It is quite clear that ________.

5. If they are caught in the rain , they will ________.

He made a promise        he would not play computer games again at school.

Newly-developed materials for spaceships can _______ extreme weather conditions.

        his homework, my son went downstairs to play basketball. 

He couldn’t have his son ________telling him any lies.

It was a nice meal, _______a little expensive.

It ’s well-known that ________ information is very important to businessmen.

在即将进入高三之际，用英语简要叙述自己对高三英语学习的计划：

1. 确立目标、集中精力；

2.改进学习方法：例如上课认真听讲、不懂就问、认真完成作业等；

3.劳逸结合：提高学习效率、参加体育活动、充分休息等。

注意：1.可适当增减细节；

      2.字数120-150。

阅读下面的短文，并根据短文后的要求答题（请注意问题后的字数要求）。

[1] I was walking in the park with a friend recently, and his cell phone rang, interrupting our conversation. There we were, walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day. But I became invisible, absent from the conversation.

[2] The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent. Recently I was in a car with three friends. The driver told us to be quiet because he could not hear the person on the other end of his cell phone. There we were, four friends going down the highway, unable to talk to one another because of a tool designed to make communication easier.

[3]Why is it that the more connected we get, ________________________ ? Every advance in communications technology is a hurt to the closeness of human interaction (互动). With e-mail and instant messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone.

[4] More and more, l find myself hiding behind e-mail to do a job meant for conversation. Or being relieved that voice mail picked up because I didn’t really have time to talk. The industry devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier.

 [5] So I've put myself on technology restriction: no instant messaging with people who live near me, no cell-phoning in the presence of friends, no letting the voice mail pick up when I' m home.

1. What does the author say about communications technology according to the first two paragraphs? (within 15 words)

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2.Which sentences in the text is the closest in meaning to the following one?

However, I felt left out as if we were not conducting the conversation.

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3. Fill in the blanks in Paragraph 3 with proper words. (within 10 words)

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4. Does the author restrict (约束) his own activity to improving the situation? Give an example. How？(within 15 words)

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5. Translate the underlined sentences in Paragraph 4 into Chinese.

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