Ireland，Japan，China scientists share the 2015 Nobel Prize for medicine．William Campbell，Satoshi Omura and Tu Youyou jointly won the prize 1. their work against diseases，the award-giving body said on Monday．
Campbell 2.Ireland and Japanese Omura won half of the prize for a new drug，3. has helped the battle against river blindness，as well as showing 4.(power)effect against other diseases．
The Chinese scientist Tu Youyou also discovered artemisinin(青蒿素)，a drug that has 5.(sharp)reduced the death rates for patients 6.(suffer)from malaria(疟疾)．She is also the first Chinese citizen7.(win)the Nobel Prize for medicine．The prize winning is 8.honor for China’s science cause and traditional Chinese medicine．
“These two 9.(discover)provide humankind with a new way to fight these diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people annually．The award for Tu Youyou is the result of a major change in the way China performs scientific research. China 10.(spend)a lot of money on such research over the past years，”a member of the Nobel committee said．
As I rushed among the tables, suddenly, a _______asked if I could mind a child. I was quite ________but I could tell the man was quite desperate. So I had to make a __________ with him that if he wanted his son to stay and wait for him, he had to__________something in the shop.
This was quite_________ for the man to do; I could_________ he was quite poor by the_________he was dressed. It looked as if he had tried to come in his__________clothes. But they still looked a bit old and worn out __________he had often worn them, just to make himself look best. Looking down I could see his_________were also a bit torn and the heels were in a terrible state. I thought he was going for a job interview. In the end he bought a small box of_________for his little son and seated him down in the corner. I could tell the boy was feeling down and only could__________with a bit of cheering up.
Seeing that the kid sat there for quite a while, I was a bit__________as the poor little kid was sitting _______ his own. People watched him and some kids even came over to pick on him. I was_______to see one of them even knocked his cookies off the table．He quickly went and got them back without saying a word．I was hoping his father would_____________up and come back for his son's_________.
At closing time, the only person left was the little boy．After a while, the father finally came in with a tiresome look. I___________he didn't get any job. As they were leaving, I offered the kid a little cake, but the man rejected it. I___________he felt as if I had just abused him．Of course I didn't mean to．But I could understand why he felt like that．I only wished them good__________whatever happened.
The man opened the door to leave－father and son hand in hand.
1.A. sound B. voice C. noise D. tune
2.A. pleased B. frightened C. annoyed D. interested
3.A. date B. decision C. promise D. deal
4.A. do B. leave C. buy D. eat
5.A. easy B. hard C. natural D. possible
6.A. tell B. explain C. think D. prove
7.A. manner B. means C. method D. way
8.A. oldest B. poorest C. prettiest D. best
9.A. even though B. as if C. so that D. now that
10.A. socks B. gloves C. shoes D. pants
11.A. cookies B. sweets C. cigarettes D. cakes
12.A. laugh B. do C. speak D. help
13.A. relaxed B. nervous C. satisfied D. worried
14.A. on B. of C. by D. for
15.A. touched B. disappointed C. astonished D. excited
16.A. hurry B. give C. turn D. run
17.A. chance B. benefit C. future D. job
18.A. hoped B. imagined C. doubted D. guessed
19.A. assumed B. clarified C. confused D. ignored
20.A. night B. progress C. luck D. supper
Today it is common to see people who walk about with colored wires hanging from their ears wherever they go. They move about in their personal bubbles, sometimes unaware of what’s happening around them. 1. Outside life is shut out. So are you one of “them”?
For me, walking around in my own personal bubble is perfect. 2.What’s even better, wearing earphones seems to give a signal to people which says: “I’m not available for chatting at the moment!”
Suppose you’re at work and about to make an incredible breakthrough, but a colleague suddenly turns up. At this precise moment, the slightest disturbance would break your concentration. 3.Once again, those wires hanging from your ears would be sure to give that “Go away!” signal.
4.It’s probably part of the growing up stage when they just want to ignore their whole family. While their mothers give them lectures about why they should do their homework, they can just turn up the volume(声音) on their MP3 player, smile, and say “Yes, Mum.” Problem solved.
Pretty soon, not only will we have pretty colored wires hanging from our ears—but also our brains will be directly plugged into some new high-tech instrument. We’ll be in a virtual(虚拟) world, communicating with everyone else, or choosing not to, as we like. In this world, we will all be permanently plugged in. 5.and they are changing our social habits along the way.
In the end, there is a thin line between using technology as a tool for making life better and being a slave to it! It’s so strange—suddenly, I don’t feel like wearing my earphones anymore!
A. Listening to music through earphones is the perfect way to ignore such interruptions.
B. I also have wires hanging from my ears.
C. They walk around in their own spaces, with their personal “digital noise reduction systems.”
D. I don’t have to deal with the noise from the environment.
E. After all, I am listening to my favorite music and would rather not be disturbed.
F. Our instruments are changing quickly.
G. In the home situation, teenagers love these wires.
With around 100 students scheduled to be in that 9:00 am Monday morning lecture, it is no surprise that almost 20 people actually make it to the class and only 10 of them are still awake after the first 15 minutes; it is not even a surprise that most of them are still in their pajama’s(睡衣). Obviously, students are terrible at adjusting their sleep cycles to their daily schedule.
All human beings possess a body clock. Along with other alerting systems, this governs the sleep/wake cycle and is therefore one of the main processes which govern sleep behaviour. Typically, the preferred sleep/wake cycle is delayed in adolescents, which leads to many students not feeling sleepy until much later in the evenings. This typical sleep pattern is usually referred to as the “night owl” schedule of sleep.
This is opposed to the “early bird” schedule, and is a kind of disorder where the individual tends to stay up much past midnight. Such a person has great difficulty in waking up in the mornings. Research suggests that night owls feel most alert and function best in the evenings and at night. Research findings have shown that about 20 percent of people can be classified as “night owls” and only 10 percent can be classified as “early birds” ------ the other 70 percent are in the middle. Although this is clearly not true for all students, for the ones who are true night owls, this gives them an excellent excuse for missing their lectures which unfortunately fall before midday.
1.What does the author stress in Paragraph 1?
A. Many students are absent from class.
B. Students are very tired on Monday mornings.
C. Students do not adjust their sleep patterns well.
D. Students are not well prepared for class on Mondays.
2.Which of the following is true according to Paragraph 2?
A. Most students prefer to get up late in the morning.
B. Students don’t sleep well because of alerting systems.
C. One’s body clock governs the sleep/wake cycle independently.
D. Adolescents’ delayed sleep/wake cycle isn’t the preferred pattern.
3.Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word “classified”?
A. Criticized B. Grouped C. Organized D. Named
4.What does the text mainly talk about?
A. Functions of the body clock.
B. The “night owl” phenomenon.
C. Human beings’ sleep behaviour.
D. The school schedule of “early birds”.
Think about the last time you felt afraid. Was it a fear of height? Did you oversleep on a weekday and fear you’d get into trouble at the office? In any case, you know what it feels like to feel fear.
But one woman doesn’t the woman, code-named “UM”, gave her first-ever interview after years of being studied by a team of researchers. The woman is given a code name because the researchers want to protect her from anyone who would take advantage of her inability to feel afraid.
UM can’t tell you what fear is because she’s never experienced it. “I wonder what it’s like to actually be afraid of something,” she said. The formal name for the disease is Urbach-Wieth disease, which is characterized by a hoarse(粗哑的)voice，small bumps around the eyes, and calcium deposits(钙沉积的)in the brain.
In the case of UM，the disease has transformed the part of her brain that controls the human response to fear. In the interview, UM talks about an event in her life where she was held at knifepoint and gunpoint, “I was walking to the store，and I saw a man on a park bench．He said. “Come here，please,” so I went over to him. He grabbed me by the shirt，put a knife to my throat and told me he was going to cut me. I told him, “Go ahead and cut me,” I wasn’t afraid at all. And for some reason，he let me go.”
Doctors who have been studying UM’s condition for years have been trying different things that could strike fear into her. They finally figured something out—increasing UM’s carbon dioxide levels．Extra carbon dioxide concentration in the blood is known to cause fear and panic in health individuals. Increasing UM’s carbon dioxide levels did manage to give her a fright．
1.The text starts by_______.
A. challenging the reader
B. solving daily problems
C. listing situations
D. giving explanations
2.Why is the woman with Urbach-Wieth disease given a code name?
A. To tell her case from other patients
B. To respect her privacy
C. To meet the researchers’ demands
D. To ensure her safety
3.From UM’s case，we can know that Urbach-Wieth disease may________.
A. stop the brain from functioning normally
B. lead to a decrease in calcium deposits
C. stop the brain from responding quickly
D. lead to an increase in carbon dioxide
4.What will probably happen to UM from the last paragraph?
A. Dying of the Urbach-Wieth disease
B. Getting the sense of panic
C. Experiencing another danger
D. Speaking with a hoarse voice
For Canadians, backpacking Europe is a special ceremony signifying a new life stage. Unlike package tours, backpacking is a struggle, full of discovery and chance connections. It is about focusing on something different from our own lives and losing ourselves in a new world, if only for a moment.
Well, that's what backpacking Europe is supposed to do. That’s what it used to do before modern communications, social media, and commercial hostelling (旅社). Older Canadians would not recognize the Europe that they backpacked in the 1960s, 1970s and even the 1980s. Far from a rough adventure into foreign cultures, the European experience has been shattered in part by today's technology.
A few years ago, I took my then 60-year-old father on a backpacking trip across part of Europe and Turkey. As he is an experienced traveler and someone who possesses a strong sense of adventure, I decided that we'd travel on a budget, staying in hostel dorms. For him, backpacking through Europe in 1969 was about independence and struggle. But two things surprised him at the end of our journey. First was how technology-based backpacking had become: Young people were so directly connected to home that they were hardly away in any meaningful sense. Second, the lack of connections we made with locals. Instead of making us feel closer to a place, he found commercial hostelling actually made us more alienated (疏远的).
But there was some room for hope. While technology takes our attention away from the beauty and history before us, there were also ways in which it helped us to connect with our surroundings. Websites like Airbnb have made it easier to stay with enthusiastic locals. Couch Surfing helps organize meet-ups between locals and travelers. The online marketplace Dopios offers a chance to meet locals through enjoyable experiences like a personalized city tour.
Backpacking can never be the way it was for our parents’ generation. But doing a little study of history and culture before leaving, and bravely getting rid of any electronic devices while traveling, will help give young travelers a taste of the glory days.
1.The underlined word “shattered” in Paragraph 2 most probably means ________.
A. broadened B. relived C. ruined D. acquired
2.After the recent backpacking trip in Europe, the author’s father finds ________.
A. backpackers connect less with locals than before
B. young people dislike getting in touch with their family
C. a hostel is a nice place for travelers to meet each other
D. backpacking in Europe becomes more difficult than before
3.What’s the author’s attitude towards technology?
A. Negative. B. Objective. C. Uncertain. D. Uninterested.
4.The text mainly discusses the relationship between ________.
A. adventures and cultures B. technology and traveling
C. young people and their family D. Canadian travelers and Europeans
