1、D individuals2.A confusedlyB cheerfullyC worriedly(D)D hopefully3.A sharedB forgotC attained(A)D rejected4.A relatedB closeC open(C)D devoted5.A accessB successionC right(C)D return6.A PresumablyB IncidentallyC Obviously(D)D Generally7.A uniqueB commonC particular(B)D typical8.A freedomB originC imp
2、act(A)D reform9.A thereforeB howeverC indeed(B)D moreover10.A withB aboutC among(C)D by11.A allowedB preachedC granted(A)D funded12.A SinceB IfC Unless(D)D While13.A asB forC under(A)D against14.A spreadB interferenceC exclusion(C)D influence15.A supportB cryC plea(B)D wish16.A urgedB intendedC expe
3、cted(D)D promised17.A controllingB formerC remaining(C)D original18.A slowerB fasterC easier(A)D tougher19.A createdB producedC contributed(B)D preferred20.A puzzled byB hostile toC pessimistic about(D)D unprepared forSection IIReading ComprehensionPart ARead the following four texts. Answer the que
4、stions below each text by choosing A, B, C, or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Text 1If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in 2006s World Cup tournament, you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk: elite soccer players are more likely to have been
5、 born in the earlier months of the year than in the later months. If you then examined the European national youth teams that feed the World Cup and professional ranks, you would find this strange phenomenon to be even more pronounced.What might account for this strange phenomenon? Here are a few gu
6、esses: a) certain astrological signs confer superior soccer skills; b) winter-born babies tend to have higher oxygen capacity, which increases soccer stamina; c) soccer-mad parents are more likely to conceive children in springtime, at the annual peak of soccer mania; d) none of the above.Anders Eri
7、csson, a 58-year-old psychology professor at Florida State University, says he believes strongly in “none of the above.” Ericsson grew up in Sweden, and studied nuclear engineering until he realized he would have more opportunity to conduct his own research if he switched to psychology. His first ex
8、periment, nearly 30 years ago, involved memory: training a person to hear and then repeat a random series of numbers. “With the first subject, after about 20 hours of training, his digit span had risen from 7 to 20,” Ericsson recalls. “He kept improving, and after about 200 hours of training he had
9、risen to over 80 numbers.”This success, coupled with later research showing that memory itself is not genetically determined, led Ericsson to conclude that the act of memorizing is more of a cognitive exercise than an intuitive one. In other words, whatever inborn differences two people may exhibit in their abilities to memorize, those differences are swamped by how well each person “encodes” the information. And the best way to learn how to encode information meaningf
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