第一部分:词汇选项(第1~15题,每题1分,共15分)
下面每个句子中均有1个词或者短语有括号,请为每处括号部分确定1个意义最为接近的选项。
1.He shifted his position a little in order to alleviate the pain in his leg.
A.control
B. easy
C. experience
D. suffer
2.Our aim was to update the health service, and we succeeded.
A.offer
B. provide
C. modernize
D. fund
3.She moves from one exotic location to another.
A.unusual
B. familiar
C. similar
D. proper
4.Nothing would induce me to vote for him again.
A.teach
B. help
C. discourage
D. attract
5.The photographs evoked strong memories of our holiday in France.
A.refreshed
B. stored
C. blocked
D. erased
6.The weather was crisp and clear and you could see the mountains fifty miles away.
A.hot
B. heavy
C. fresh
D. windy
7.Every week the magazine presents the profile of a well-known sports personality.
A.success
B. description
C. evidence
D. plan
8.Her comments about men are utterly ridiculous completely.
A. slightly
B. completely
C. partly
D. faintly
9.The walls are made of hollow concrete blocks.
A . big
B. empty
C. long
D. now
10. We almost ran into a Rolls-Royce that pulled out in front of us without signaling.
A. overtook
B. hit
C. passed
D. found
11. When I heard the noise in the next room, I couldn’t resist having a peep look.
A.chance
B. visit
C. look
D. try
12. He has been granted asylum in France.
A. power
B. relief
C. protection
D. license
13. He was weary of the constant battle between them.
A. fond
B. tired
C. proud
D. afraid
14. Newborn babies can discriminate between a man’s and a woman`s voice.
A. treat
B. distinguish
C. express
D. analyzes
15. All the flats in the building had the same layout arrangement.
A. color
B. size
C. function
D. arrangement
【参考答案】:
alleviate—ease
update—modernize
exotic—unusual
induce—attract
evoked—refreshed
crisp—fresh
profile—description
utterly—completely
hollow—empty
ran into—hit
peep—look
asylum—protection
weary—tired
discriminate—distinguish
layout—arrangement
第二部分:阅读判断(第16~22题,每题1分,共7分)
下面的短文后列出了7个句子,请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断;如果该句提供的是正确信息,请选择A;如果该句提供的是错误信息,请选择B;如果该句的信息文中没有提及,请选择C。
The Mind-Body Connections
Norman Cousins was a famous American magazine editor. In 1964, he returned from an overseas trip and then became very ill. In the hospital, he had terrible pain and couldn’t move his body. Doctors told him he had a serious disease called ankylosing spondylitis(强直性脊柱炎)and said he had only 1 chance in 500 of surviving. They gave him powerful drugs, but his condition only got worse.
Cousins had read about a theory that negative emotions can harm your health. He believed that positive emotions were good for one’s health, and he decided to try an experiment. He would fill his days with good feelings and laughter and see if that might improve his condition.
He left the hospital and moved into a hotel room. There, he got a large supply of funny TV programs and copies of old Marx Brothers movies and cartoons. He also hired a nurse to read funny stories to him. His plan was to spend the whole day laughing and thinking about happy things. On his first night in the hotel, Cousins found that laughing at the movies helped his body produce chemicals that reduced pain. For the first time in weeks, he could sleep comfortably for a few hours. Every time the pain came back, he watched another funny movie and laughed until he felt better.
Over time, Cousins was able to measure changes in his body with blood tests. He found that the harmful chemicals in his body decreased at least 5 percent every time he watched a funny movie. After a short time, he was able to stop taking all of his medications. Finally his condition improved so much that he could go back to work.
Cousins later wrote a book about how laughter and happiness helped him to survive a deadly illness. Many people didn’t believe his story and said that his doctors were wrong about his disease. But since then, research has found that emotions do have a strong effect on physical health, and experiments found that laughter can help to reduce pain. Scientists today are working to understand the ways that our minds affect our bodies.
16. Norman Gousins became ill while he was traveling in another country.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
【答案】:B
17. Doctors told Cousins that he would probably die from his disease.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
【答案】:A
18. Drugs helped to stop the pain of Cousins’s disease.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
【答案】:B
19. Cousins started watching movies because he was bored.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
【答案】:B
20. Cousins spent a lot of time laughing every day.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
【答案】:A
21. Movies were better than funny stories for stopping pain.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
【答案】:C
22. When Cousins wrote his book, everyone agreed with him.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
【答案】:B