Lady Gaga is so well-received a singer all over the world, and it is a great ______ for a reporter to have a face-to-face conversation with her.
A. advantage B. benefit C. drawback D. privilege
短文写作（共l题；满分30分）
请根据以下提示，结合你生活中的一个事例，用英语写一篇短文。
We all know that "Chances favor the prepared mind". Only if you are well prepared, will you be able to seize them.
注意： 1. 无须写标题，不得照抄英语提示语。
2. 除诗歌外，文体不限。
3. 文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称。
4. 词数不少于120词。
完成句子（共10小题；每小题2分, 满分20分）
阅读下列各小题, 根据汉语提示, 用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子, 并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。
1.“__________________ and get good grades, and you will find a high-paying job with great benefits,” my parents used to say.(study)
我的父母过去常说：“如果努力学习，取得好成绩，你就能找到高薪福利又好的工作。”
2.I _________________________ all the data yesterday but I was invited to the ball by my friends.(go)
我昨天就该检查所有的数据，但是我应朋友的邀请去参加舞会了。
3.With ______________________, the famous woman writer is determined to produce more excellent works to satisfy the needs of readers. (think)
这位知名女作家的作品得到了高度评价，她决心创作出更优秀的作品来满足读者的需求。
4.It is reported that the United States uses __________________as the whole of Europe. （as）
据报道，美国使用的能源是整个欧洲的两倍。
5.So______________________ his work that the old scientist always forgets to rest and eat. (absorb)
这位老科学家非常专注于自己的工作，以至于常常废寝忘食。
6.I don’t mind her criticizing me, but it is how she does it ________________. (object)
我不介意她批评我，我反对的是她批评我的方式。
7.When I came into the classroom, all the students were laughing. It was several minutes
___________________________ what was happening. (aware)
当我进入教室时，所有的学生都在笑。几分钟之后我才意识到所发生的一切。
8.Life is like a long race,________________________ others to go beyond ourselves. (compete)
生活就像一场长跑比赛，在比赛中，我们与别人竞争来超越自我。
9.The young man, who by then ____________________university decided to do some part-time jobs to pay for his education. (admit)
这个年轻人那时被大学录取了,为了交学费决定做兼职。
10.Why you couldn’t get through to him was ___________________ a zero in his telephone number.(leave)
你联络不到他是因为你漏掉了他号码中的一个零。
The research carried out by the University of Bari in Italy could help clarify hospitals who are charged with wasting money on art and decoration as it suggests a pleasant environment helps patients overcome 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 Lenoardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli. They were then asked to watch either the beautiful paintings, or the ugly paintings, or a blank panel while the team struck a short laser pulse at their hand, creating a sensation as if they had been hurt by a pin. The subjects rated the pain as being a third less intense while they were viewing the beautiful paintings, compared with when considering the ugly paintings or the blank panel.
Electrodes (电极) measuring the brain’s electrical activity also confirmed a reduced response to the pain when the subject looked at beautiful paintings. While distractions(娱乐), such as music, are known to reduce pain in hospital, 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 aesthetic(审美能力) 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 how a beautiful environment can reduce suffering.”
Pictures they liked included Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh and Botticellis’ Birth of Venus. Pictures they found ugly included works by Pablo Picasso, the Italian 20th century artist Anonino 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.According to the first paragraph, people didn’t approve_______________.
A. hospitals spend money on medical equipment
B. hospitals decorate their rooms with works of art
C. hospitals make their environment pleasant to patients
D. hospitals treat patients with works of art
2.How did the researchers make the research?
A. By asking the subjects to listen to music.
B. By requiring the subjects to draw paintings.
C. By ordering the subjects to choose which picture is beautiful and ugly.
D. By aching the subjects’ hands while they are watching paintings.
3.According to the research, when designing a hospital, we should consider its____________.
A. convenient facilities
B. functional operating room
C. pleasing environment
D. bright waiting room
4.The best title for the passage may be__________.
A. Patients Don’t Like Pictures
B. Arts Can Be Used As a Medicine
C. Ugly Patients Feel Less Pain
D. Beautiful Art Can Ease Pain
As the new semester begins, millions of college students across the country are trying hard to remember how best to write a paper or, more likely, how best to delay that paper.
Procrastination is the thief of time and a lot of students suffer from it. They can spend whole days in the library doing nothing but staring into space, eating snacks, surfing the Internet, watching videos and looking at other students sitting around them, who, most likely, are doing nothing either.
Paralyzed (使失去活力) by their habit to procrastinate, they write micro blogs about their fears, asking their online friends if they sometimes have the same issue. But this does nothing to break the spell (魔咒).
According to a recent report, 95 percent of us procrastinate at some point and 20 percent of the world’s population are always procrastinating. The figures are disappointing. Procrastinators are less wealthy, less healthy and less happy than those who don’t delay. Procrastinators like to find excuses to justify their behavior, but BBC columnist Rowan Pelling says they are all wrong.
Many procrastinators tell themselves they are perfectionists who work best under pressure. Pelling says this is nonsense, as work done at the last minute is more likely to have mistakes than work done on time. The behavior of procrastinators often makes them feel ashamed, inconveniences others and annoys loved ones.
Pelling also points out that procrastination feels particularly delinquent (过失的）in a society that thinks of speedy action as admirable, and, at times, even as a moral good.
Fortunately, social scientists have thrown their weight behind efforts to understand this behavioral mistake and offer strategies to control it. Piers Steel, a Canadian social scientist and author of The Procrastination Equation, believes human is “designed” to procrastinate. Nevertheless, he suggests a couple of good ways to get through the task at hand.
1.From the first two paragraphs we can learn that _________.
A. procrastination is beneficial to many students
B. many students are under great pressure in their study
C.many students have the habit of delaying finishing their tasks
D. lots of college students work hard to write good essays on time
2.Which behavior belongs to procrastination?
A. Never dream away the time.
B. Always complete the tasks ahead of time.
C. Never put off till tomorrow what should be done today.
D. Always wait to work until the “good mood” or “good time”.
3.According to the passage, which of the following statements is not true?
A. Procrastination makes people waste their time.
B. Procrastinators usually complete their tasks perfectly.
C. Speedy action is considered as a moral standard in the society.
D. Procrastination is common among people.
4.What is most likely to be discussed in the paragraph that follows?
A. Measures to deal with procrastination.
B. Approaches to handling the study pressures.
C. More examples to illustrate procrastination.
D. Introduction to the book The Procrastination Equation.
Well, parents, surprise! Lots of us are using Twitter and Facebook to find rides, and not just to school. It’s awkward to call a friend and ask for a ride, and half the time they’ll say, “Sorry, my car is full.” But with Twitter, you just tweet (贴子,留言) and look for other people heading the same way.
It may sound risky, but many teens stay within their own social circles to find rides, and don’t branch out beyond friends of friends when asking on Twitter. For me, I only rideshare with people I know, but to some young people, especially those taking longer trips, stranger danger is less of a concern.
The sharing economy got big during the recession（经济衰退）. It allows people to access more goods and services using technology, while also allowing them to share cost. And that technology, for me, is what the car was for my mom, a gateway to more freedom.
According to the researchers at the University of Michigan, 30 years ago, eight in ten American 18-year-olds had a driver’s license. Today it’s six in ten. So it’s not that surprising that on my 16th birthday I wasn’t rushing to get a license. All I wanted was an iPhone. Juliet Schor (Sociology professor at Boston College) knows people my age love being connected and for young people driving means they have to disconnect from their technology, and that’s a negative. So if they could sit in the passenger side and still be connected, that’s going to be a plus.
To me, another plus is ridesharing represents something much bigger than trying to save money. I see it as evidence that people still depend on each other. My generation shares their cars and apartments the way neighbors used to share cups of sugar. For the system to work, some of us still need our own cars. But until I get my own version of the silver Super Beetle, you can find me on Twitter.
1.The writer usually rideshares with _____.
A. anyone heading the same way B. people he knows
C. friends of friends D. strangers of his age
2.Fewer young people choose to ride by themselves because _____.
A. driving means offering free rides to others.
B. getting a driving license becomes more difficult.
C. driving one’s own cars causes a negative impression.
D. driving makes them disconnected from technology.
3.We can conclude from the passage that _____.
A. the writer rideshares just to save money
B. people under 18 are not allowed to drive
C. silver Super Beetle is the writer’s favorite
D. the older generation had to fight for freedom
4.Which is the best title for the passage?
A. Teens use Twitter to thumb rides.
B. Tips on reducing risks in ridesharing.
C. Car is no longer a gateway to freedom.
D. New generation knows how to save money.
