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Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

A professor of public health at UCLA says that pet ownership might provide a new form of health care. As far back as the 1790s, the elderly at a senior citizens’ home in England 1.(encourage) to spend time with farm animals. This helped patients’ mental state more than the cruel therapies 2. (use) on the mentally ill at the time. In recent years, scientist have finally begun to find proof 3. contact with animals can increase a sick person’s chance of survival and has been shown 4. (lower) heart rate, calm upset children, and get people to start a conversation.

Scientists think that animal companionship is beneficial 5. animals are accepting and attentive, and they don’t criticize or give orders. Animals have the unique ability to be more social. For example, visitors to nursing homes get more social responses from patients when they come with animal companions.

Not only do people seem 6.(anxious) when animals are nearby, but they may also live longer. Studies show that a year after heart surgery, survival rates for heart patients were higher for those with pets in their homes than those without pets. Elderly people with pets make fewer trips 7. doctors than those without animal companions, possibly because animals relieve loneliness. Staying with animals is believed to create a peaceful state of mind, 8.(result) in a favourable environment for everyone.

Research confirms that the findings concerning senior citizens can be applied to restless children. They are more easy-going when there are animals around with, with 9. company they tend to calm down more easily. They involve 10. in playing with animals and the presence of animals comforts them greatly.

 

1.were encouraged 2.used 3.that 4.to lower 5.because 6.less anxious 7.to 8.resulting 9.whose 10.themselves 【解析】 这是一篇说明文。加州大学洛杉矶分校的一位公共卫生教授说,养宠物可能提供一种新的医疗保健形式。近年来,科学家终于证明与动物接触可以增加病人的生存机会,并已被证明可以降低心率,安抚不安的孩子,并让人们开始交谈。并说明了动物陪伴不同人群给他们带来的益处。 1.考查动词时态语态。本句主语与谓语动词构成被动关系,且根据上文As far back as the 1790s可知应用一般过去时的被动语态,主语为the elderly“老年人”,谓语动词应用复数。故填were encouraged。 2.考查非谓语动词。分析句子结构可知use在句中应用非谓语动词形式,与逻辑主语therapies构成被动关系,故用过去分词。故填used。 3.考查连接词。句意:近年来,科学家终于开始找到证据,证明与动物接触可以增加病人的生存机会,并已被证明可以降低心率,安抚不安的孩子,并让人们开始交谈。此处为同位语从句,从句中不缺少成分,故用that引导。故填that。 4.考查非谓语动词。句意同上。分析句子结构可知lower在句中应用非谓语动词形式,且根据上文be shown to do表示“被证明……”后跟不定式。故填to lower。 5.考查连接词。句意:科学家认为动物的陪伴是有益的,因为动物会接受和专注,它们不会批评或发号施令。此处为原因状语从句,表示“因为”应用because。故填because。 6.考查比较级。句意:当动物在附近时,人们不仅看起来不那么焦虑,而且可能活得更久。结合后文but they may also live longer.以及句意表示“不那么焦虑”应用形容词比较级less anxious。故填less anxious。 7.考查介词。句意:与没有动物陪伴的老年人相比,有宠物的老年人去看医生的次数更少,这可能是因为动物可以缓解孤独感。表示“去……”短语为make a trip to。故填to。 8.考查非谓语动词。句意:人们认为和动物呆在一起可以创造平静的心境,给每个人都带来有利的环境。分析句子结构可知result在句中应用非谓语动词形式,与逻辑主语Staying with animals构成主动关系,故用现在分词。故填resulting。 9.考查定语从句。句意:有动物在身边时,他们会变得更随和,有动物作伴时,他们更容易冷静下来。此处为“介词+关系代词”结构定语从句修饰先行词animals,且先行词在从句中作定语,故用关系代词whose。故填whose。 10.考查代词。句意:他们参与到与动物的玩耍中,动物的存在让他们感到非常舒适。表示“某人参与……”短语为involve oneself in,此处指代上文they应用反身代词themselves。故填themselves。
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1.我很荣幸被邀请到这里来演讲。(honor)

2.无论谁犯错,都不能免于受批评。(spare,主语从句)

3.那位严格的老师尝试了许多新的教学方法来满足不同学生的需要。(meet)

 

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The Value of Tears

Tears can ruin make-up, bring conversation to a stop, and give you a runny nose. They can leave you embarrassed and without energy. However, crying is a fact of life ... and tears are very useful. Even when you’re not crying, your eyes produce tears. These create a film (薄膜) over the eye’s surface. 1.

Tears relieve stress, but we lend to fight them for all sorts of reasons. “People worry about showing their emotions. They’re afraid that once they lose control, they’ll never get it back,” explains psychologist Dorothy Rowe. “As children we were sometimes punished for shedding tears or expressing anger. As adults we still fear the consequences of showing emotions.”

Almost any emotion — good or bad, happy or sad — can cause tears. Crying is a way that we release built-up emotions. 2. It may explain why people who are afraid to cry often suffer more heart attacks than people cry more freely.

When some people become very stressed, however, they can’t cry. They may be feeling shock, anger, fear, or grief, but they repress the emotion. “Everyone has the need to cry,” says psychotherapist Vera Diamond. Sometime in therapy sessions, patients participate in crying exercise. 3. Diamond says it’s best to cry in safe, private places, like under the bed covers or in the car. That’s because many people get uncomfortable when others cry in front of them. In fact, they may be repressing their own need to cry.

In certain situations, such as at work, tears are not appropriate. 4. “But once you are safely behind closed doors, don’t just cry,” Diamond says, she suggests that you act out the whole situation again and be as noisy and angry as you like. It will help you feel better. “And,” she adds, “Once your tears have released the stress, you can begin to think of logical way to deal with the problem.”

Tears are a sign of our ability to feel. You should never be afraid to cry.

A.Tears help you when you feel you are ready to explode because of very strong feelings.

B.It is useful to reduce the nerve of our eyes and make them comfortable.

C.They practice crying so that they can get used to expressing emotion.

D.This film contains a substance that protects your eyes against infection.

E.They have brought a lot of benefits for treating patients.

F.It’s good to hold back tears during a tense business discussion.

 

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    How difficult change is depends a lot on your attitude towards it and your resistance to it. Your attitude to change can make the whole transformation process much easier.

Imagine change as a pair of shoes and this will help you understand change and how it works. I am sure that you have ever had a comfortable pair of shoes in your life. A pair of shoes is so comfortable that you really don’t want to get rid of them.

You know you need a new pair, and may even have them, but you don’t want to wear them because you are comfortable with your current pair. Besides, the new pair may hurt your feet, give you blisters(水疱)or be awkward to wear to start with. So, you resist the new shoes. However, you know that this new pair would be much better for your feet, and after the initial discomfort they would probably be even more comfortable, yet you still resist.

Do you know I’m doing this now? I’m wearing my comfortable shoes and they feel good. They have a hole in each heel, and the sole is starting to fall off, but I’m persisting in wearing them.

This describes change exactly; change of our habits, change of our thought patterns. We stick with the old patterns because they are comfortable. Yet once we get over the initial pain of the transformation, the new pattern will be comfortable and feel good until the time comes when we need another new pair of shoes.

1.Why do people prefer old shoes to new ones?

A.They have much emotion in the old ones.

B.They are more comfortable.

C.New shoes always harm the feet.

D.They look better than the new ones.

2.According to the passage, we know that people _______.

A.don’t realize the benefit of the new shoes very well

B.are positive and open - minded to accept new things

C.actually know the change will finally be good for them

D.don’t accept new patterns because they are not good

3.What can be inferred from the passage?

A.Once we form a habit, it’s difficult to change it.

B.Most people pay more attention to the future life.

C.One’s attitude to towards something is usually traditional.

D.The more often we change, the better our life will be.

 

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    As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing. In fact, half of the 6,000 - 7,000 language spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, an Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations - UNESCO and National Geographic among them -- have for many years been documenting dying languages an the cultures they reflect.

Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Center, Yale University,who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas, is following in that tradition. His recently published book, A grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture, grows out of his experience living, working, and raising a family in a village in Nepal.

Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalaya reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China. But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.

At the University of Cambridge, Turin discovered a wealth of important materials -- including photographs, films, tape recordings, and field notes -- which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.

Now, through the two organizations that he has rounded -- the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project -- Turin has started a campaign t make such documents, found in libraries and stores around the world, available not just to scholars but to the younger generations of communities from whom the materials were originally collected. Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet, Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.

1.Many scholars are making efforts to _______.

A.promote global languages

B.rescue disappearing languages

C.search for language communities

D.set up language research organizations

2.What does “that tradition” in Paragraph 3 refer to ?

A.Having full records of the languages.

B.Writing books on language teaching.

C.Telling stories about language users.

D.Living with the native speakers.

3.What is Turin’s book based on?

A.The cultural studies in India. B.The documents available at Yale.

C.His language research in Bhutan. D.His personal experience in Nepal.

4.Which of the following best describes Turin’s work?

A.Write and donate. B.Record and reward.

C.Collect, protect and reconnect. D.experiment and report

 

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    Dale Carnegie rose from the unknown of a Missouri farm to international fame because he found a way to fill a universal human need.

It was a need that he first ______ back in 1906 when young Dale was a junior at State Teachers College in Warrens burg. To get an ______, he was struggling against many difficulties. His family was poor. His dad couldn’t afford the ______ at college, so Dale had to ride horseback 12 miles to attend classes. Study had to be done ______ his farm - work routines. He withdrew from many school activities because he didn’t have the time or the ______. He tried for the football team, but the coach turned him down for being too ______. During this period Dale was slowly ______ an inferiority complex(自卑感),which his mother knew could ______ him from achieving his real potential. She suggested that Dale join the debating team, believing that ______ in speaking could give him the confidence and recognition that he needed.

Dale took his mother’s advice, tried desperately and after several attempts finally made it. This proved to be a______ point in his life. Speaking before groups did help him gain the ______ he needed. By the time Dale was senior, he had won every top honor in speech. Now other students were coming to him for coaching and they, ______, were winning contests.

Out of this early struggle to ______ his feelings of inferiority, Dale came to understand that the ability ______ an idea to an audience builds a person’s confidence. And, ______ it, Dale knew he could do anything he wanted to do -- and so could others.

1.A.admitted B.filled C.supplied D.recognized

2.A.assignment B.education C.advantage D.instruction

3.A.training B.board C.teaching D.equipment

4.A.between B.during C.over D.through

5.A.permits B.interest C.talent D.clothes

6.A.light B.flexible C.optimistic D.outgoing

7.A.gaining B.achieving C.developing D.obtaining

8.A.prevent B.practice C.patience D.potential

9.A.presence B.practice C.patience D.potential

10.A.key B.breaking C.basic D.turning

11.A.progress B.experience C.competence D.confidence

12.A.in return B.in brief C.in turn D.in fact

13.A.convey B.overcome C.understand D.build

14.A.express B.stress C.contribute D.repeat

15.A.besides B.beyond C.like D.with

 

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