One
You must have been troubled by when to say \"I love you\" because it is one of the greatest puzzles in our life.
What if you say it first and your partner doesn’ t love you back? or if they do say. it but you don’t feel they mean it? Being the first to declare your love can be nerver racking(紧张）and risky and can leave you feeling as vulnerable as a turtle with no shell. But is the person who says it first really in a position of weakness? Doesn’ t it pay to hold back, play it cool and wait until the other half has shown their hand fast?
A really good relationship should be about being fair and being equal,\" says psychologist Sidney Crown. \"But love is seldom equal. \" All. relationships go through power struggles but, he says, if a love imbalance continues for years, the rot will set in. \"That feeling of ’ I’ ve always loved you more’ may be subverted(颠覆，破坏) for a time, but it never goes away completely and it often emerges in squabbling(大声争吵). \" In love, at least, the silent, withholding type is not always the most powerful. \"The strongest one in a relationship is often the person who feels confident enough to talk about their feelings,\" says educational psychologist Ingrid Collins. Psychosexual therapist Paula Hall agrees. \"The one with the upper hand is often the person who takes the initiative. In fact, the person who says ’ I love you’ first may also be the one who says ’ I’ m bored with you’ first. \" Hall believes that much depends on how \"I love you\" is said and the motivation of the person saying it. \"Is it said when they’ re drunk? Is it said.
before their partner files off on holiday, and what it really means is ’ Please don’ t be unfaithful to me’ ? By saying ’ I love you’, they really saying’ Do you love me?’ If so, wouldn’t it just be more honest to say mat.Collins agrees that intention is everything. \"It’s not what is said, but how it’ s said. What it comes down to is the sincerity of the speaker.”
51. What is the main idea of this passage?
[ A ] The importance of \"I love you\"
[ B ] The meaning of \"I love you\"
[ C ] The time of saying \"I love you\".
[ D ] The place of saying. \"I love you\"
52. In the first sentence the author means that
[ A ] it is easy to say \"I love you\"
[ B ] it is hard to say \"I love you\"
[ C ] we have many troubles in our life
[ D ] people usually do not know when to say \"I love you\"
53. According to the expert, a good relationship should be
[ A ] fair and equal
[ B ] fair and kind
[ C ] powerful and equal
[ D] confident and fair
54. In the third paragraph, the phrase \"with the upper hand\" means
[ A ] being low in spirit
[ B ] having only one hand
[ C ] being active
[ D ] being passive
55. What is the most important for you to consider when somebody say \"I love you\"to you?
[ A ] The intention.
[ B ] The place.
[ C ] The time.
[ D ] The determination.
Text 2 参考译文
你一定曾经为何时说“我爱你”而烦恼过，因为这是我们生活中的一大难题。
如果你先说“我爱你”而对方却不回应，或者对方也这么说但你觉得他或她并非当真，那该怎么办?如你先说爱一个人，会让人紧张，而且也很冒险，它会让你觉得像没了硬壳的海龟那样容易受到伤害。但先说出口的人真的是处于劣势吗?隐而不宣，冷静地等待，让对方采取主动会更好吗?
“真正良好的两性关系应该是合理平等的”，心理学家悉德尼•克朗说，“但爱情很少是平等的。”所有的两性关系都会有权力的斗争，但是，他说，如果爱情失去平衡，那么数年之后就会开始出现问题。“‘我对你的爱更多’的情况暂时不再继续，但这种感觉却不会消失，且常常会在争吵中出现。”至少在爱情上，沉默含蓄的那种类型并不总是最强有力的。“两性关系中最强大的一方常常是感觉自信能说出自己的感受的人。”教育心理学家因格瑞•柯林斯说。性心理治疗学家波拉•霍尔赞同说，“占上风的常常是采取主动的人。实际上，先说‘我爱你’的人往往也是先说‘我讨厌你’的人。”霍尔认为，很大程度上取决于说“我爱你”的方式和说话人的动机。“他们是在喝醉时说的吗?是在对方乘飞机渡假前说的吗?而其真正的含义是‘请一定要对我忠诚’?是不是表面上说：‘我爱你’，而真正想说的却是‘你爱我吗?’如果这样，直截了当地说不是更诚实吗?”考林也认为你的动机决定一切。“重要的不在于说话内容而在于说话的方式。归根到底是说话人的真诚。”
答案及解析
51．C【解析】这篇文章主要讲述的是说“我爱你”的时机，是采取主动还是处于被动，以及说话者的动机。
52．D【解析】“You must have been troubled by when to say ‘I love you’ because it is one of the greatest puzzles in our life．”也就是说人们为何时说“我爱你”而烦恼。
53．A【解析】见第三段的“A really good relationship should be about being fair and being equal”。
54．C【解析】此题是词义解析，意思是“占了上风”。
55．A【解析】从第三段末考林的话语中可以分析出来是你的动机决定一切。“重要的不在于说话内容而在于说话的方式。归根到底是说话人的真诚。”
Two
Going shopping seems easy but actually it takes a lot of learning, especially in American. In the fact, many Americans who are not so well-off often shop at “sales” or at special stores that sell things at low prices, which you may find interesting. In American, the important rule of dressing is that one should change his\\her clothes every day. For example, in an American college, neither professors nor students are seen in the same clothes two days in a row. So you may find it
necessary to buy more clothes than China. While you are shopping in the States, you will discover that prices range considerablely from time to time. The purchase of used, second-hand clothing, furniture, or other household articles may be an excellent way of saving money. Most second-hand clothes are often pretty good quality. If you are going to settle down in the states and want some furniture, you may go to a “loan closet”, where furniture rents at low costs, or you may also go to a “furniture exchange” place in the community.
Sheets, blankets and other bedclothes go on sale in most communities twice a year. Advertisements for “white sales”, that is, sales on bed linen, towels, ets., often appear in January, as well as in May, June or July. Once or twice every season, there will be “garage sales”, where you can get almost anything, from a yacht to a pair of shoes, at low prices. Prices at “discount stores” and “thrift shops” are also as low as you can imagine.
56. Shopping in the United States .
A. seems easy for Americans.
B. require some learning.
C. is very easy for foreigners.
D. is only for “well-off” people.
57. Americans change their clothes daily, because .
A. clothes are sold at low prices.
B. people take it as a rule.
C. they enjoy doing so.
D. everyone is very “well-off”.
58. People shopping in American will discover .
A. American goods are excellent.
B. most clothes come from China.
C. prices vary much sometimes.
D. used clothes are of poor quality.
59. A person who needs furniture can .
A. exchange their goods for furniture.
B. settle in a place that has furniture.
C. get some free of charge.
D. rent some at low cost.
60. At a “white sale”, one can buy .
A. almost anything.
B. sheets, cooking, utensils, ect.
C. bed linen, towels, ect.
D. shoes at low prices.
去购物似乎很容易，但实际上需要，特别是在美国的学习很多。事实上，许多美国人谁不那么富裕的时候店“销售”，或在该低的价格出售，你可能会发现有趣的事情特别的店。在美国，修整重要的规则是，一要改变他/她的衣服每天。例如，在美国大学，无论是教授，也不是在连续两天的同样的衣服出现的学生。所以，你可能认为有必要购买更多的衣服比你在中国有。当你在美国购物，你会发现，价格范围相当不时。所用的，二手衣物，家具或其他家庭用品可能是省钱的好办法购买。大多数二手衣服是不错的质量。如果你要在美国定居下来，并希望一些家具，你可以到一个“贷款的衣橱”，凡在低成本，家具租金或者您也可以到“家具交流”的社会地位。
床单，毛毯，床上用品和其他走在大多数社区每年两次出售。 “”的白色销售广告，即在床单，毛巾等，经常出现在1月的销售，以及在5月，6月或7月。每个赛季一次或两次，将有“车库销售”，在那里你可以得到几乎任何东西，从游艇到一双鞋子在低价格。
在“打折店”和价格“旧货店”也能像你想像的低。
Three
Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important discovery: giving-away makes life so much more exciting. You need not worry if you lack money. This is how I experimented with giving-away. If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store flashes to me, I step in and make the suggestion to the storekeeper. One discovery I made about giving-away is that it is almost impossible to give away anything in this world without getting something back, though the return often comes in an unexpected form. One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important special delivery letter to my home, though it was addressed to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of appreciation. More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a new business I was starting. I was told at the window that there were no boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long waiting list. As I was about to leave, the postmaster appeared in the doorway. He had overheard our conversation. “Wasn’t it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home?” I said yes. “Well, you certainly are going to have a box in this post office if we have to make one for you. You don’t know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get nothing but complaints.”
像大多数人，我长大看待生命是一个过程获得。直到我在30月底，我作出这一重要发现：给予，距离使我们的生活如此更令人兴奋的。您不必担心如果缺乏资金。这是我尝
试让-消失。如果一个主意，可以改善窗口显示一个闪烁附近商店给我，我的步骤，并提出上述建议的仓库保管员。一发现我付出，离开是，它几乎是不可能放弃任何在这个世界上，没有得到回报，尽管返回往往在一个意想不到的形式。一个星期天上午，当地邮局作了重要特别的递送信件到我家里，但给我在我的办公室。我写了一份说明邮政的赞赏。一年多后，我需要一个后Office中的一个新的业务，我开始。我被告知的窗口，没有框的左边，我的名字将不得不在很长的等候名单。当我正准备离开，邮政出现在门口。他听到我们的交谈。 “是不是你，我们该信中写道：一年前为客户提供一份特别的递送到您的家？ ”我说是的。 “嘿，你肯定将会有一个盒子在这个邮政局如果我们要取得一个适合您。你不知道什么样的信，这意味着给我们。我们通常会只是投诉。
题目的答案：ACBCD，题目不祥。
Four
As a kid, Kacey Long would dream of becoming a professional woman. While studying human resources management successfully at university. Long decide to change her look. So, at 19,she decided to get her breasts enlarged, “I was all about doing anything I could to improve myself,” she says.
With that decision, Long joined thousands of young patients who are surgically altering their appearance each year. Teenagers even younger than Long are having breasts enlarged, noses and ears reshaped and skin changed.
In 2003, almost 336,000 American teens 18 or younger had some kind of cosmetic (美容) surgery or procedure, a 50% increase over 2002.
Patient-safety advisers believe that many of the teens having surgery are unnecessarily putting themselves at risk of injury or even death. Teens are at the greatest risk of making a decision they will regret as Long did. Long had her breasts enlarged to size D, felt sick and weak within months after the $4,500-cost plastic surgery, and had her breast fillings removed two years later. She is still suffering from the long, painful recoveries. “I wish I had never done it,” says Long. She is just one of those thousands who are actually risking their future beauty by going under the knife when they are still growing.
30. Which of the following is true about Kacey Long?
A) She had a successful breast surgery
B) She had a regretful breast surgery
C) She studied cosmetic surgery at university.
D) She had become a professional woman.
31. When Long decided to have her breasts enlarged, she_________.
A) knew what risking she was taking
B) was actually risking her future beauty
C) had tried several times to change her look
D) knew all about the effect of breast surgery
32. The number of the American teens having cosmetic surgery_______.
A) had an increasing of 224,000 in the year 2003
B) was about 224,000 in 2002 but doubled in 2003
C) amounted to approximately 224,000 in 2002
D) amounted to approximately 168.000 in 2002
33. When Long says “I wish I had never done it,” she expresses her _______.
A) regretfulness for her decision to have the breast surgery
B) regretfulness for having paid $4,500 for the surgery
C) satisfaction with the removal of the breast fillings
D) satisfaction with her good shape after the surgery
34. The author of the passage uses Long’s case to _________.
A) stop the American teenagers from having painful surgery
B) call our attention to the American teenagers’ health
C) express sympathy towards the American teenagers
D) inform the teenagers of the danger of the cosmetic surgery
B B C A D
Five
There was one thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with factories and heavy automobile traffic. At present, we realize that although these are the areas with the worst air pollution, the problem is literally worldwide. On several occasions over the past decade, a heavy cloud of air pollution has covered the east of the United States and brought health warnings in rural areas away from any major concentration of manufacturing and automobile traffic. In fact, the very climate of the entire earth may be infected by air pollution. Some scientists consider that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the air resulting from the burning of fossil fuels （coal and oil） is creating a “greenhouse effect”— conserving heat reflected from the earth and raising the world's average temperature. If this view is correct and the world's temperature is raised only a few degrees, much of the polar ice cap will melt and cities such as New York, Boston, Miami, and New Orleans will be in water.
Another view, less widely held, is that increasing particular matter in the
atmosphere is blocking sunlight and lowering the earth's temperature — a result that would be equally disastrous. A drop of just a few degrees could create something close to a new ice age, and would mane agriculture difficult or impossible in many of our top farming areas. Today we do not know for sure that either of these conditions will happen （though one recent government report drafted by experts in the field concluded that the greenhouse effect is very possible） Perhaps, if we are lucky enough, the two tendencies will offset each other and the world's temperature will stay about the same as it is now. Driven by economic profits, people neglect the damage on our environment caused by the “advanced civilization”. Maybe the air pollution is the price the human beings have to pay for their development. But is it really worthwhile?
56. As pointed out at the beginning of the passage, people used to think that air pollution _______.
[ A ] cause widespread damage in the countryside
[ B ] affected the entire eastern half of the United States
[ C ] had damaged effect on health
[ D ] existed merely in urban and industries areas
57. As to the greenhouse effect, the author __________.
[ A ] share the same view with the scientist.
[ B ] is uncertain of its occurrence
[ C ] rejects it as being ungrounded
[ D ] thinks that it will destroy the world soon
58. The word “offset” in the second paragraph could be replaced by _________.
[ A] slip into [ B ] make up for
[ C ] set up [ D ] catch up with
59. It can be concluded that ____________.
[ A ] raising the world's temperature only a few degrees would not do much harm to life on earth.
[ B] lowering the world's temperature merely a few degrees would lead major farming areas to disaster.
[C] almost no temperature variations have occurred over the past decade.
[D] the world's temperature will remain constant in the years to come.
60. This passage is primarily about __________.
[A]the greenhouse effect……
[ B ] the burning of fossil fuels……
[C] the potential effect of air pollution.
[ D] the likelihood of a new ice age.
56. D 由第一段第一句话可推知。
57. B 第一段最后一句“If this view is correct ——”表明作者只是引用这种现象并不确定其正确性。
58. B offset补偿, make up for弥补, set up建立, catch up with赶上
59. B 根据第二段第二句话“A drop of just a few degrees ——”可推知。
60. C 文章是在讨论大气污染给人类带来的潜在影响。
Six
Europe’s Gypsies, Are They a Nation
The striving of countries in Central Europe to enter the European Union may
offer an unprecedented chance to the continent’s Gypsies (or Roman) to be recognized as a nation, albeit one without a defined territory. And if they were to achieve that they might even seek some kind of formal place—at least a total population outnumbers that of many of the Union’s present and future countries. Some experts put the figure at 4m-plus; some proponents of Gypsy rights go as high as 15m.
Unlike Jews, Gypsies have had no known ancestral land to hark back to. Though their language is related to Hindi, their territorial origins are misty. Romanian peasants held them to be born on the moon. Other Europeans (wrongly) thought them migrant Egyptians, hence the derivative Gypsy. Most probably they were itinerant metal workers and entertainers who drifted west from India in the 7th century.
However, since communism in Central Europe collapsed a decade ago, the notion of Romanestan as a landless nation founded on Gypsy culture has gained ground. The International Romany Union, which says it stands for 10m Gypsies in more than 30 countries, is fostering the idea of “self-rallying”. It is trying to promote a standard and written form of the language; it waves a Gypsy flag (green with a wheel) when it lobbies in such places as the United Bations; and in July it held a congress in Prague, The Czech capital. Where President Vaclav Havel said that Gypsies in his own country and elsewhere should have a better deal.
At the congress a Slovak-born lawyer, Emil Scuka, was elected president of the International Tomany Union. Later this month a group of elected Gypsy politicians,
including members of parliament, mayors and local councilors from all over Europe (OSCE), to discuss how to persuade more Gypsies to get involved in politics.
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The International Romany Union is probably the most representative of the outfits that speak for Gypsies, but that is not saying a lot. Of the several hundred delegates who gathered at its congress, few were democratically elected; oddly, none came from Hungary, whose Gypsies are perhaps the world’s best organized, with some 450 Gypsy bodies advising local councils there. The union did, however, announce its ambition to set up a parliament, but how it would actually be elected was left undecided.
So far, the European Commission is wary of encouraging Gypsies to present themselves as a nation. The might, it is feared, open a Pandora’s box already containing Basques, Corsicans and other awkward peoples. Besides, acknowledging Gypsies as a nation might backfire, just when several countries, particularly Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, are beginning to treat them better, in order to qualify for EU membership. “The EU’s whole premise is to overcome differences, not to highlight them,” says a nervous Eurocrat.
But the idea that the Gypsies should win some kind of special recognition as Europe’s largest continent wide minority, and one with a terrible history of persecution, is catching on . Gypsies have suffered many pogroms over the
centuries. In Romania, the country that still has the largest number of them (more than 1m), in the 19th century they were actually enslaved. Hitler tried to wipe them out, along with the Jews.
“Gypsies deserve some space within European structures,” says Jan Marinus Wiersma, a Dutchman in the European Parliament who suggests that one of the current commissioners should be responsible for Gypsy affairs. Some prominent Gypsies say they should be more directly represented, perhaps with a quota in the European Parliament. That, they argue, might give them a boost. There are moves afoot to help them to get money for, among other things, a Gypsy university.
One big snag is that Europe’s Gypsies are, in fact, extremely heterogeneous. They belong to many different, and often antagonistic, clans and tribes, with no common language or religion, Their self-proclaimed leaders have often proved quarrelsome and corrupt. Still, says, Dimitrina Petrova, head of the European Roma Rights Center in Budapest, Gypsies’ shared experience of suffering entitles them to talk of one nation; their potential unity, she says, stems from “being regarded as sub-human by most majorities in Europe.”
And they have begun to be a bit more pragmatic. In Slovakia and Bulgaria, for instance, Gypsy political parties are trying to form electoral blocks that could win seats in parliament. In Macedonia, a Gypsy party already has some—and even runs a municipality. Nicholas Gheorge, an expert on Gypsy affairs at the OSCE, reckons that, spread over Central Europe, there are now about 20 Gypsy MPS and mayors, 400-odd local councilors, and a growing number of businessmen and intellectuals.
That is far from saying that they have the people or the cash to forge a nation. But, with the Gypsy question on the EU’s agenda in Central Europe, they are making ground.
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1. The Best Title of this passage is
A. Gypsies Want to Form a Nation. B. Are They a Nation.
C. EU Is Afraid of Their Growth. C. They Are a Tribe
2. Where are the most probable Gypsy territory origins?
A. Most probably they drifted west from India in the 7th century.
B. They are scattered everywhere in the world.
C. Probably, they stemmed from Central Europe.
D. They probably came from the International Romany Union.
3. What does the International Romany lobby for?
A. It lobbies for a demand to be accepted by such international organizations as EU and UN.
B. It lobbies for a post in any international Romany Union.
C. It lobbies for the right as a nation.
D. It lobbies for a place in such international organizations as the EU or UN.
4. Why is the Europe Commission wary of encouraging Gypsies to present themselves as a
nation?
A. It may open a Pandora’s Box.
B. Encouragement may lead to some unexpected results.
C. It fears that the Basgnes, Corsicans and other nations seeking separation may raise the same
demand.
D. Gyspsies’ demand may highlight the difference in the EU.
5. The big problem lies in the fact that
A. Gypsies belong to different and antagonistic clans and tribes without a common language or
religion.
B. Their leaders prove corrupt.
C. Their potential unity stems from “being regarded as sub-human”.
D. They are a bit more pragmatic.
1—5 BADCA
Seven
Baekeland and Hartmann report that the “short sleepers” had been more or less average in their sleep needs until the men were in their teens. But at about age 15 or so, the men voluntarily began cutting down their nightly sleep time because of pressures from school, work, and other activities. These men tended to view their nightly periods of unconsciousness as bothersome interruptions in their daily routines.
In general, these “short sleeps” appeared ambitious, active, energetic, cheerful, conformist(不动摇) in their opinions, and very sure about their career choices. They often held several jobs at once, or workers full-or part-time while going to school. And many of them had a strong urge to appear “normal” or “acceptable” to their friends and associates.
When asked to recall their dreams, the “short sleepers” did poorly. More
than this, they seemed to prefer not remembering. In similar fashion, their usual way of dealing with psychological problems was to deny that the problem existed, and then to keep busy in the hope that the trouble would go away.
The sleep patterns of the “short sleepers” were similar to, but less extreme than, sleep patterns shown by many mental patients categorized as manic(疯人).
The “long sleepers” were quite different indeed. Baekeland and Hartmann report that these young men had been lengthy sleeps since childhood. They seemed to enjoy their sleep, protected it, and were quite concerned when they were occasionally deprived of their desired 9 hours of nightly bed rest. They tended to recall their dreams much better than did the “short sleepers.”
Many of the “long sleepers” were shy, anxious, introverted (内向), inhibited (压抑), passive, mildly depressed, and unsure of themselves (particularly in social situations). Several openly states that sleep was an escape from their daily problems.
1. According to the report,______.
A) many short sleepers need less sleep by nature
B) many short sleepers are obliged to reduce their nightly sleep time because they are busy with their work
C) long sleepers sleep a longer period of time during the day
D) many long sleepers preserve their sleeping habit formed during their childhood
2. Many “short sleepers” are likely to hold the view that _____.
A) sleep is a withdrawal from the reality
B) sleep interferes with their sound judgement
C) sleep is the least expensive item on their routine program
D) sleep is the best way to deal with psychological troubles
3. It is stated in the third paragraph that short sleepers _____.
A) are ideally vigorous even under the pressures of life
B) often neglect the consequences of inadequate sleep
C) do not know how to relax properly
D) are more unlikely to run into mental problems
4. When sometimes they cannot enjoy adequate sleep, the long sleepers
might ____.
A) appear disturbed
B) become energetic
C) feel dissatisfied
D) be extremely depressed
5. Which of the following is Not included in the passage?
A) If one sleeps inadequately, his performance suffers and his memory is weakened
B) The sleep patterns of short sleepers are exactly the sane as those shown by many mental patients
C) Long and short sleepers differ in their attitudes towards sleep
D) Short sleepers would be better off with more rest
【答案及详解】
答案：DCBAB
贝克尔和哈特曼报道说，“睡眠少的人”在未进入少年期之前，其正常睡眠时间大致与所需要的时间差不多。但到了15岁左右，由于学校、工作或其它 活动的地压力，他们就故意地减少了夜间睡眠的时间。这些人持有这样的观点：夜间睡眠是一件令人讨厌的事情，打断了日常事务。
总的说来，这些“睡眠少的人”表现得雄心勃勃、积极活跃、精力充沛、无意识乐观豁达、立场坚定，对自己职业的选择胸有成竹。他们往往同时从事几 项工作，或者一边上学读书，一边从事专职或兼职工作。其中许多人有强烈愿望，想在朋友和熟人面前表现得“正常”或“合群”。
当让他们回忆梦境时，“睡眠少的人”回忆不起什么来。更有甚者，他们似乎情愿什么都记不住。类似的情况是他们通常处理心理问题的方式：不承认问 题的存在，希望只要忙忙碌碌，麻烦总会过去的。
“睡眠少的人”的睡眠模式与被划入疯子之类精神病患者的睡眠模式十分相似，只不过没有那么严重而已。
“睡眠多的人”情形则大不相同。贝克尔和哈特曼报道说，这些年轻人从小的，有抱负的睡眠就一直很长。他们好像注重睡眠，不让睡眠受打搅。偶尔没 有所需的9个小时夜间卧床休息，他们便会十分不安。他们比“睡眠少的人”要更能回忆得起梦的内容。许多“睡眠多的人”腼腆、焦躁、内向、压抑、消极和稍微 有点儿沮丧，尤其在社交场合缺乏自信。好几个人坦言，睡眠是摆脱每天烦恼的一种方式。
Eight
Disraeli was as wonderful a letter-writer as he was a novelist. His letters
show that his capability to observe was matched only by his ability to describe, and they are made more lively by his overdeveloped sense of self-dramatization（戏剧化的自我表现）as well as by his permanent sense of the greatness of his own fate. He goes through these pages like some beautiful bird of paradise, spreading his multicolored feathers and never passing long enough to become boring.
As early as 1830, when only 26, he is found advising Benjamin Austin to
carefully keep his letters for his descendents（后代）. Fortunately Austin and others followed his advice. As a result over 10,000 letters in his own hand have survived, quite apart from dictated letters. Disraeli rarely kept a diary, and poured his thoughts, desires and reflections into his correspondence.
What treasures there lie in store! We leave him in 1837 with his longed-for
election to Parliament, but ahead seemingly appear the high peaks of his career with the twin mountains of his two premierships （首相职位）and his friendship with the Queen. Lord Esher maintained that the letters between Disraeli and Queen Victoria had largely been destroyed, but this was not so. A new, bright and searching light will eventually shine on that extraordinary political and romantic relationship.
1. This passage appears to be written by_________ .
A) a friend of Disraeli's
B) a neighbor of Disraeli's
C) a literary critic
D) an autobiographer（自传作者）
2．\"… his capacity to observe was matched only by his ability to describe …\" means _________ .
A) he was as accomplished an observer as he was a descriptive writer
B) his capacity to observe could not be compared with his ability to describe
C) his capacity to observe is greater than his ability to describe
D) his ability to observe is greater than his capacity to describe
3．During his lifetime Disraeli pursued the career of _______ .
A) a letter-writer
B) a politician
C) a novelist
D) a correspondent
4． Even as a young man Disraeli realized that one day his letters would be _______ .
A) out-dated
B) well-connected
C) destroyed
D) widely read
5． Disraeli's two premierships and his friendship with the Queen are described as being ________ .
A) difficult to conquer
B) unconquerable obstacles
C) peaks of success
D) impossible challenges
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Ten
Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it\"s painful? This might be called
laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily
energy cycle.
During the hours when you labor through your work, you may say that you\"re \"hot\".
That\"s true. The time of day when you feel most energetic (精力充沛) is when your cycle of
body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes before noon. For others it
comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such
familiar sayings as: \"Get up, John! You\"re late for work again!\" The possible explanation to
the trouble is that John is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening,
Much family
quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which
cycle each member of the family has.
You can\"t change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit
can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. If your energy is low in the morning but you have an
important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This won\"t change your cycle,
but you\"ll work better at your low point.
Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. When you get up, sit on the edge of the
bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean
clothes by laying them out the night before. Whenever possible, do routine work in the
afternoon and save tasks requiring more energy or concentration for your sharper hours.
41. According to the new findings of Dr. Kleitman, if a person finds getting up early a
problem, most probably_______.
A. he is a lazy person
B. he refuses to follow his own energy cycle
C. he is not sure when his energy is low
D. he is at his energy peak in the afternoon or evening
42. Which of the following may lead to family quarrels according to the passage?
A. Unawareness of energy cycles.
B. Familiar saying.
C. A change in a family member\"s energy cycle.
D. Attempts to control the energy cycle of other family members.
43. If one wants to work more efficiently at his low point in the morning, he should______.
A. change his energy cycle
B. overcome his laziness
C. get up earlier than usual
D. go to bed earlier
44. You are advised to act slow when you rise in the morning because it will______.
A. help to keep your energy for the day\"s work
B. help you to control your mood early in the day
C. enable you to concentrate on your routine work
D. keep your energy cycle under control all day
45. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. Getting off to work with a minimum effort helps save one\"s energy.
B. Dr. Kleitman explains why people reach their peak at different hours of day.
C. Habit helps one adapt to his own energy cycle.
D. Children have energy cycles, too.
42.D 42.A 43.C 44.A 45.B
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