1、36. A. easy B. ready C. unwilling D. hard37. A. lead B. lend C. take D. earn38. A. look at B. pick up C. turn to D. learn from39. A. that B. since C. when D. while40. A. useless B. useful C. priceless D. clever41. A. getting B. making C. suffering D. facing42. A. on one hand B. on your own C. on the
2、 whole D. on all sides43. A. born B. tired C. satisfied D. covered44. A. enjoy B. step C. plan D. take45. A. assumption B. judgment C. condition D. fortune46. A. basing B. depending C. relying D. focusing47. A. research B. search C. resources D. activity48. A. poverty B. laziness C. fear D. diligenc
3、e49. A. used B. accustomed C. new D. old50. A. students B. brothers C. colleagues D. classmates51. A. owed B. paid C. gave D. held52. A. disaster B. progress C. failure D. success53. A. either B. another C. each D. others54. A. think B. remember C. realize D. recall55. A. payment B. dreams C. happin
4、ess D. business第2节:阅读理解 A Heres an idyllic(田园风光的) scene: a small village where the sun always shines, crops always grow and your friends drop by to sweep your yard to the sound of guitar music. Animals do what they are told, there is no disease, and lending folks a helping hand makes you richer and
5、wiser. Welcome to FarmVille current population 69m and rising fast.“It reminds me of my childhood,” says one player, Lia Curran, 37, a chemist from London. “Right now Im growing wheat and poinsettia, Ive got a small orchard, and Im keeping some chickens and some cows. I like having the animals. Its
6、comfortable.”Currans young animals, however, are nothing more than a collection of computer-controlled cartoons. FarmVille is an online computer game built into the social networking site Facebook and is described by its players as “addictive”. Launched last June by Zynga Game Network, FarmVille now
7、 has more players than Twiters entire user base or more than the population of the UK. The players are largely women over the age of 35.Jenny Glyn, 33, a London housewife, started playing in September. “I had a look at a friends farm and was hooked,” she says. “My first motivation was to overtake he
8、r, but I did that pretty quickly. Now theres something satisfying about growing crops.”FarmVille intellectually unites the worlds of social networking and gaming. Players are given a patch of ground with six fields, “cash”, a few seeds and a plough and have to build up wealth, skills and neighbors t
9、o create bigger, better, richer farms.Inviting your online friends to play means you earn more and get free gifts; you rise rapidly through the first levels but, once hooked, have to work harder and harder with no final level or goal in sight.“Its very moreish,” says Curran. She hasnt yet paid real-
10、world money to advance in the game, but her friends do. One buys extra virtual currency at the exchange rate of $240 (145) in FarmVille for $40 (24) in the real world.“Id expanded on FarmVille as much as I could, but I just wanted a pond and some bushes and trees around it,” says the woman, who is t
11、oo embarrassed to be named. “I didnt tell my husband Id paid real money because hed think Im mad. But then he did keep me waiting in the car outside our house while he harvested his raspberries.”Brian Dudley, chief executive at Broadway Lodge, an addiction treatment centre, warns that this sort of o
12、bsessive(令人着魔的) play can lead to an addiction as severe as gambling.56. What does Curran do in the passage? A. She is a player. B. She is a farmer who grows wheat and poinsettia. C. She is a chemist. D. She is a housewife who raises chickens and cows.57. By FarmVille, the writer means _. A. an addic
13、tive farm on which live 69 million farmers B. a London housewifes farm C. an online computer game built into the social networking site D. a farm on which people grow real crops and play as well58. In the last but one paragraph, the husband kept the woman waiting outside _. A. because he was angry a
14、t his wifes being mad about the farm B. because he himself was busy with his farm C. in order to punish his wife for her having paid real money D. so that his wife would wake up from her addiction to the farm59. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true? A. The population of the U
15、K is less than 69 million. B. This sort of obsessive play can cause very severe addiction. C. Once hooked, one has to make greater efforts to reach a higher level. D. Up till now, nobody has yet paid real-world money to advance in the play B A new study links heavy air pollution from coal burning to
16、 shorter lives in northern China.Researchers estimate that the half-billion people alive there in the 1990s will live an average of 5years less than their southern counterparts because they breathed dirtier air. China itself made the comparison possible: for decades, a now-discontinued government po
17、licy provided free coal for heating, but only in the colder north. Researchers found significant differences in both particulate pollution of the air and life expectancy in the two regions. While previous studies have found that pollution affects human health, the deeper and ultimately more importan
18、t question is the impact on life expectancy, said one of the researchers, Michael Greenstone, a professor of environmental economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.This study provides a unique setting to answer the life expectancy question because the (heating) policy dramatically changes
19、pollution concentrations(含量)Greenstone said in an email. Further, due to the low rates of migration in China in this period, we can know peoples exposure over long time periods, he said. The policy gave free coal for fuel boilers to heat homes and offices to cities north of the Huai Riv which divide
20、s China into north and south. It was in effect for much of the 1950-1980 period of central planning, and, though discontinued after 1980, it has left a legacy(遗留)in the north of heavy coal burning, which releases particulate pollutants into the air that can harm human health. Researchers found no ot
21、her government policies that treated Chinas north differently from the south. The researchers collected data for 90 cities, from 1981 to 2000, on the annual daily average concentration of total suspended(悬浮的)particulates. In China, those are considered to be particulates that are 100 micrometers or
22、less in diameter, sent out from sources including power stations, construction sites and vehicles. Among them, PM2.5 is of especially great health concern because it can go deep into the lungs. The researchers estimated the impact on life expectancies using death data from 1991-2000They found that i
23、n the north, the concentration of particulates was 184 micrograms per cubic meter一or 55 percent higher than in the south, and life expectancies were 5.5 years lower on average across all age ranges.60. The main idea of this passage is that A. research in China finds air pollution shortened life expe
24、ctancy B the government provided free coal for heating in North China C coal burning causes bad air quality across China D. a new study finds different particulates in South China61According to Greenstone,greatly contributed to the high pollution concentrations in North China. A. power stations B. c
25、onstruction sites C. the free heating policy D. gases from vehicles62It is implied in the passage that A. coal is no longer used for heating in North China B air quality was comparatively better in South China C. southerners burned coals for heating in the 1980s D people preferred to live in South C
26、hina after 198063The underlined word particulates most probably means A. dirty clouds B. particular smoke C. harmful dust D. dangerous bacteriaC Being honest are fundamental requirements if you want to grow spiritually and follow your true destination of personal development. Its not simply about being honest with people. Whi
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