阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中(A、B、C和 D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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Most of us feel upset if we miss just one meal, and if we try to go without food for 12 hours we would really be uncomfortable. But there are some people who seem able to “fast” for very long periods.
Various records are claimed for long fast, but in most cases there is no medical proof and so the records are doubtful. One South African woman claimed that she lived for 102 days on nothinig but water and soda water.
There are great differences among living things in the ability to survive without food. For example , a tick（扁虱）, which lives on animals, may survive a whole year. Warm-blooded animals use up their stores of food in the body more quickly.
In fact, the smaller and more active the animal, the more quickly it uses up its reserves. A small bird starves to death in about five days, a dog in about twenty. In general, we can say that a warm-blooded creature will die when it has lost about half its normal weight.
This matter of weight is important. Man and other creatures live in a state of metabolic equiplibrium（新陈代谢的平衡）which means maintaining the body weight once a certain point has been reached. This regulation of body weight is done by thirst, hunger, and appetite.
When your blood lacks nutritional materials, this registers（记录）in the hunger center of the brain and you feel “hungry”. The body is crying out for any kind of fuel(food). And it is our appetite that sees to it hat we chooose a mixed diet, which is the kind the body needs.
1.According to this passage, a man will die _________.
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A．when a certain point in losing weight has been reached. |
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B．when his blood lacks nutritional material |
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C．when his normal weight is lost |
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D．when he goes without food for more than 12 hours |
2.The word “fast” in Paragraph 1 can best be replaced by ________.
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A．eat no food |
B．live merely on water and soda water |
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C．live on nothing |
D．remains alive for a long time without food |
3.A tick can survive much longer than a bird because ________.
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A．a tick lives on animals |
B．a tick is much smaller |
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C．a bird is more active |
D．both B and C |
4.A person feels hungry _________.
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A．if he doesn’t choose a mixed diet |
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B．because his body cries out for food |
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C．when soemthing is wrong with regulation of body weight |
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D．if there are not enough nutritional in his blood |
5.From the passage we can infer that the author ________.
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A．believes the South African woman very firmly |
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B．does not believe the South African woman at all |
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C．is not certain whether the South African woman’s claim was true. |
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D．is doubtful whether there was such a South African woman |
完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
—William Bennett
Thanksgiving Day was near. The first grade teacher gave her class a fun __36__ to draw a picture of something for which they were thankful.
Most of the class might be considered economically __37__, but still many would __38__ the holidays with turkeys and other traditional goodies of the season. These, the teacher thought, would be the __39__ of most of her students’ art. And they were.
__40__, Douglas made a different kind of picture. Douglas was a special kind of boy. He was the teacher’s true child of misery, __41__ and unhappy. As other children played at break, Douglas was likely to stand close by her side. One could only guess the pain Douglas felt __42__ those sad eyes.
Yes, his picture was different. When __43__ to draw a picture of something for which he was thankful, he drew a hand. Nothing else. Just a(n) __44__ hand.
His abstract image captured the __45__ of his classmates, whose hand could it be? One child guessed it was the hand of a farmer, because farmers __46__ turkeys. Another suggested a police officer, because the police protect and __47__ people. And so the discussion went ---- until the teacher __48__ forgot the young artist himself.
When the children had gone on to other tasks, she __49__ at Douglas’ desk, bent down, and asked him whose hand it was. The little boy looked away and __50__, “It’s yours, teacher.”
She __51__ the times she had taken his hand and walked with him here and there, __52__ she had other student. How often had she said, “Take your hand, Douglas, we’ll go outside.” Or, “Let me show you how to hold your pencil.” Or, “Let’s do this together.” Douglas was most thankful for his teacher’s hand.
Brushing __53__ a tear, she went on with her work.
The story speaks of __54__ thankfulness. It says something about teachers teaching and parents parenting and friends showing friendship, and how much it means to the Douglases of the world. They might not always say thanks, but they'll remember the hand that __55__.
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---- You’ll not be here tomorrow, will you?
---- _______, for I may go to meet my parents at the station.
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A．I soppose so. |
B．I suppose not |
C．It depends |
D．Of course. |
The people, ________ had been damaged by the flood, were given help by the Red Cross.
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A．all whose homes |
B．all of whose homes |
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C．all their homes |
D．all of their homes |
With the stress heavier, physicians are always ______ caution upon citizens in view of heart attack.
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A．declaring |
B．urging |
C．suggesting |
D．favouring |
If the work _____ by the end of this month is delayed,the team will be fined.
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A．to be finished |
B．is finished |
C．being finished |
D．finished |
