As beautiful movie about pain, struggle, hope and love, Slumdog Millionaire swept the ceremony with eight awards, including prize for best pictures.
A．a; the B．a; a C．the; a D．the; the
Twenty boats left Tianjin, for the east at high speed.
A. to set sail B. to set sails C. setting sail D. setting sails
从A、B、C、D中找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项。
1.certificate A. decade B. athletic C. accurate D. ambassador
2.helmet A. centimeter B. emperor C. refer D. edit
3.enthusiastic A. skilful B. various C. Asian D. terms
4.chairman A. moustache B. exchange C. machine D. character
5.blank A. conclude B. triangle C. quantity D. origin
以“Lessons from License”为题，根据以下四幅图，叙述一个年轻人参加驾照考试、获得证书等经历，并谈两点自己的看法。开头已为你写出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：
1.peek at 偷看 2.bandage v. 用绷带包扎
词数120左右
Lessons from License
A young man wanted to get a driving license. But he didn’t study the traffic, regulations seriously.
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：每行只有一个错误，请按下列情况改正：
该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。
该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
该行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意：请在答题卡上作答。
Dear Jianhua,
I’m very glad to have received a letter you sent me two 1.
weeks ago. I had been thinking about the question you asked 2.
me. In my opinion, you should go back here after you finish 3.
your studies in abroad. For one reason, what you are studying 4.
is badly needed nowadays in China. That will be quite easy 5.
for you to find a good job. As a matter of fact, I know a little 6.
big companies in our city hopes to hire people like you. For 7.
another reasons, I think it will be much more convenient for 8.
you to look your parents as they are getting old, so I think it’s 9.
a good idea for you to return back. So what are you waiting for? 10.
Best wishes,
Minghua
The research carried out by the University of Bari in Italy could help prove hospitals who are accused of wasting money on art and decoration as it suggests a pleasant environment helps patients ease discomfort and pain.
A team headed by Professor Marina de Tommaso at the Neurophysiopathology Pain Unit asked a group of men and women to pick the 20 paintings they considered most ugly and most beautiful from a selection of 300 works by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli. They were then asked to look at either the beautiful paintings, or the ugly painting, or a blank panel while the team zapped(照射) a short laser pulse at their hand, creating a sensation as if they had been stuck by a pin. The subjects rated the pain as being a third less intense while they were viewing the beautiful paintings, compared with when looking at the ugly paintings or the blank panel. Electrodes measuring the brain's electrical activity also confirmed a reduced response to the pain when the subject looked at beautiful paintings.
While distractions, such as music, are known to reduce pain in hospital patients, Prof de Tommaso says this is the first result to show that beauty plays a part.
The findings, reported in New Scientist, also go a long way to show that beautiful surroundings could aid the healing process.
"Hospitals have been designed to be functional, but we think that their artistic aspects should be taken into account too," said the neurologist. "Beauty obviously offers a distraction that ugly paintings do not. But at least there is no suggestion that ugly surroundings make the pain worse. " "I think these results show that more research is needed into the field how a beautiful environment can alleviate suffering."
Pictures they liked included Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh and Botticelli’s Birth of Venus. Pictures they found ugly included works by Pablo Picasso, the Italian 20th century artist Anonio Bueno and Columbian Fernando Botero. "These people were not art experts so some of the pictures they found ugly would be considered masterpieces by the art world," said Prof de Tommaso.
1.The underlined word “alleviate” in the fifth paragraph probably means “_________”.
A. cure B. ease C. improve D. kill
2.How many artists have been mentioned in the passage?
A. 4. B. 5. C. 6. D. 7.
3.Which of the following is TURE about the view of Prof de Tommaso’s?
A. Beautiful surroundings could help to heal sufferings completely .
B. Hospitals must take their artistic aspects into consideration first.
C. Ugly surroundings will surely make the pain worse.
D. Both music and beauty can reduce pain in hospital patients.
4.Which of the following is the suitable title for the passage?
A. Beautiful surroundings can ease pain.
B. Ugly paintings could be masterpieces.
C. More research should be done in the field.
D. Latest environmental research.
