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阅读理解     The over55s who grew up watching blackandwhite programs and films are more likely to dream in
grey, research suggests.
     And the under25s who have watched color TV all their lives tend to have colorful adventures in_the
_land_of_nod.
     Research from the first half of the 20th century, especially in the 1930s and 1950s, suggested that
most dreams are in black and white.
     But results from tests in the 1960s and later suggested that up to 80 per cent of dreams contain some
colors.
     Since this period marked the transition  (过渡) from blackandwhite films and TV to widespread
Technicolor (彩色印片法), an obvious explanation was that television was influencing dreams, but
differences  between  the  studies  prevented  the researchers from drawing any firm conclusions.
     Later studies asked subjects  (实验对象)  to complete dream diaries immediately they woke up, but  
the  earlier  research  used  questionnaires completed in the middle of the day, so the subjects might have
simply forgotten color elements in their dreams and assumed they were grey.
     To solve the problem, psychologist Eva Murzyn asked 60 subjects, half of whom were under 25 and
half over 55, to answer a questionnaire on the color of their dreams and their childhood exposure (暴露)
to films and TV.
     The subjects then recorded different aspects of their dreams in a diary every morning.
     She found there was no significant difference between results drawn from the questionnaires and the
dream diaries.
     She then analyzed data to find out whether an early exposure to blackandwhite TV or films could still
have a lasting effect on her subjects"dreams,40 years later.
     Less than five per cent of the under25s"dreams were black and white.But the over55s who had access
to blackandwhite media in their younger days reported dreaming in black and white roughly a quarter of
the time.
     Murzyn said, "There could be a critical period in our childhood when watching films has a big
influence on the way dreams are formed." People"s attention might be heightened during the time they are
watching TV or films.

1. "this period" in  the fifth paragraph refers to________.

A. the 20th century  
B. the 1930s
C. the 1950s  
D. the 1960s and later

2. The underlined words "in the land of nod" in Paragraph 2 means________.

A. in the evening  
B. during travelling
C. in a dream world  
D. when they are thinking

3. Murzyn"s study was different from other studies because  ________.

A. more people of different ages were involved
B. both diaries and questionnaires were used
C. more advanced technology was used
D. subjects were given more time to record their dreams

4. From the passage, we can learn that________.

A. studies on the color of dreams have been going on for many years
B. the results of the previous studies on dreams couldn"t be trusted
C. older people are more likely to be influenced by TV viewing
D. the colors of TV sets are more likely to appear in viewers"dreams

5. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. The color of people"s dreams changes along with their ages.
B. TV  viewing has  different  influences  on different people.
C. Childhood TV viewing may determine the color of dreams.
D. Childhood TV  viewing  may  influence  a person"s later life.
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完形填空     When I was young, I belonged to a club that did community service work.There was one specific
event that was unusual for me.I spent three or four hours handing out warm dinner to the homeless out
in the streets.After that I went to a homeless shelter not far from the Bay Bridge.
     I was in high school and at the time my sister was too young to__1__.She wanted to help, __2__
she made four or five dozen chocolate chip cookies for me to__3__and hand out to people.When
getting to the homeless shelter__4__passed out the remaining meals.__5__, I began making sandwiches
and__6__them with the crowd.I had the containers with my__7__cookies in them and began to__8__,
offering them to anyone near me. I__9__an old gentleman and said, "Sir, would you like a cookie?" He
stopped and turned around, __10__and said, "What did you say?Did you call me sir?" I told him I
__11__, and his eyes__12__a little bit and he said, "No one has__13__called me sir." So he__14__.
It struck me.
     I explained I had been raised that__15__color and social status, everyone deserved respect.It
__16__me to think that just because he was homeless, no one__17__him the honor.It broke my heart,
and I__18__I just didn"t understand__19__no one ever called him sir?I had never thought that anyone
was below me because I wasn"t raised that way.Every__20__person deserves to be treated with dignity.
Years later, I still carry that memory and the lessons it taught me.Sometimes, what we take for granted
can really make a difference in someone"s life.
     How have you made a difference to others?How have others made a difference to you?
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(     )1. A. participate               
(     )2. A. however                  
(     )3. A. bring                    
(     )4. A. I                        
(     )5. A. First                    
(     )6. A. shared                   
(     )7. A. classmate"s             
(     )8. A. walk around               
(     )9. A. went                 
(     )10. A. looked at
                  me rightly        
(     )11. A. had                   
(     )12. A. watered               
(     )13. A. already               
(     )14. A. was completely
                  frightened  
(     )15. A. in spite of              
(     )16. A. strengthened              
(     )17. A. handed                      
(     )18. A. had no choice 
             but to cry    
(     )19. A. what                   
(     )20. A. single               
B. involve                      
B. but                          
B. fetch                        
B. you                          
B. Next                          
B. gave                          
 B. schoolmate"s              
B. knock around                  
B. came                          
B. stared at me
     with difficulty  
B. called                        
B. cried                        
B. ever                          
B. was not a little
     confused    
B. regardless of                
B. saddened                      
B. afforded                      
B. couldn"t help
     to cry        
B. when                          
B. poor                          
C. choose                     
C. yet                        
C. collect                   
C. she                        
C. Third                     
C. helped                    
  C. sister"s                
C. come around                
C. approached              
C. glared at me 
     in anger        
C. would                   
C. tore                     
C. still                   
C. was completely
    taken aback    
C. concerned about           
C. frightened                   
C. provided                    
C. had no right
     to cry          
C. whether                 
C. ordinary                
D. go                          
D. so                          
D. take                        
D. we                          
D. Finally                      
D. assisted                     
 D. family"s                  
D. stand around                
D. met                          
D. looked me
right in the eye  
D. do                          
D. dropped                      
D. yet                          
D. was not a bit
    surprised      
D. for fear of                  
D. pleased                      
D. supplied                    
D. couldn"t help
     but cry      
D. why                          
D. normal                     
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     My wife and I had just finished the 150mile trip home from our daughter"s college. It was the first
time in our lives that we would __1__ for any length of time. We wondered how other people had
__2__ it.
     Later in bed, I __3__ the time I started college. My father had driven me, too. My mother had to
stay home to keep the __4__from getting into the crops. I, the fourth in a line of brothers, was the first to
__5__ college.
     The truck was slow, and I was glad. I didn"t want to get to the city __6__. I shook hands with my
father in the truck and he didn"t say a word. But I knew he was going to make a little __7__. He finally
said, "I never went to college and __8__of your brothers did. I can"t say don"t do this or that, because
everything is __9__and I don"t know what is going to come up, but I think things will __10__. When
you get a job, be sure to be honest and work hard. " I knew that soon I would be __11__in the big
town and I would be __12__the life home.
     Then my father__13__the Bible (圣经) that he had read so often. I knew that he would miss it but
I must__14__it. He just said, "This can help you __15__you will let it."
     When I finished school I took the Bible __16__to my father. But he said he wanted me to __17__it.
     Now, too late, I remember. It would have been so __18__ to give it to my daughter when she got
out of the car. But I didn"t. My father could give me only a Bible, but I don"t really believe now that I
gave her half as __19__as my father gave me. So the next morning I__20__up the book and sent it to
her. I wrote a note. "This can help you." I said, "if you will let it."
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(     )1. A. worry          
(     )2. A. left          
(     )3. A. wasted        
(     )4. A. policemen      
(     )5. A. graduate from  
(     )6. A. very late      
(     )7. A. speech        
(     )8. A. some          
(     )9. A. impossible    
(     )10. A.  work out    
(     )11. A.  happy        
(     )12. A.  losing      
(     )13. A.  brought about
(     )14. A.  refuse      
(     )15. A.  if    
(     )16. A.  down    
(     )17. A.  keep  
(     )18. A.  popular  
(     )19. A.  much    
(     )20. A.  set  
B. separate    
B. stood      
B. spent      
B. workers    
B. go away to  
B. far away    
B. living      
B. one        
B. different  
B. die out    
B. alone      
B. spending    
B. brought out
B. mark        
B. unless      
B. up          
B. return      
B. strange    
B. many        
B. turned      
C. stay            
C. enjoyed        
C. remembered    
C. cattle          
C. be dismissed from
C. too soon          
C. promise          
C. none            
C. difficult        
C. hold out          
C. free              
C. missing          
C. brought up        
C. follow    
C. but    
C. back      
C. post      
C. ready    
C. far    
C. gave      
D. travel      
D. tried        
D. killed      
D. soldiers    
D. set up      
D. once again  
D. progress    
D. all          
D. favorite    
D. break out    
D. lost        
D. living      
D. brought down
D. take        
D. though      
D. away        
D. sell        
D. nice        
D. go od        
D. wrapped      
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      Every morning, before dropping her son off at school, my friend would stop on the way to work to
grab a quick breakfast.They tended to frequent the__1__restaurant every morning grabbing an egg
sandwich, juice, coffee for herself, milk for her son.
     One day she__2__an additional breakfast.When they had eaten and walked out of the door, she
stopped and said good morning to a__3__man who was sitting alone outside the restaurant and__4__
him the additional breakfast she had bought.He__5__her, grinning, telling her it was the first meal he had
in a great many days.She couldn"t help but feel__6__and was glad she finally took action.
     She told her son that she had__7__him every day that week outside the restaurant and that no one,
herself included, had__8__to offer him food, drink, comfort, etc.She further__9__that homelessness can
happen to anyone and the importance of service to others and__10__acts of kindness were.
     And so__11__her kindness tradition...each day thereafter she and her son__12__to buy and supply
the homeless gentleman with breakfast.The__13__was going on until they__14__several years later but
the lesson was__15__implanted (植入) in her son by then.
      She__16__as she told me that this kindness legacy__17__to her son, who remembered this
childhood tradition and lesson.Now a college graduate and__18__employed, her son stops every day at
Starbucks for his morning cup of coffee and purchases a__19__for a homeless person nearby before
commuting (上下班往返) to the__20__.
     What a great family legacy that he can pass along to his children as well...
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(     )1. A.small  
(     )2. A.received
(     )3. A.strong  
(     )4. A.handed  
(     )5. A.remembered  
(     )6. A.grateful  
(     )7. A.helped  
(     )8. A.agreed  
(     )9. A.shouted  
(     )10. A.what  
(     )11. A.ended  
(     )12. A.hesitated  
(     )13. A.moment  
(     )14. A.moved away  
(     )15. A.hardly  
(     )16. A.smil ed  
(     )17. A.came  
(     )18. A.regularly  
(     )19. A.chance  
(     )20. A.city  
B. same          
B. demanded      
B. kind          
B. bought        
B. thanked        
B. sorry          
B. seen          
B. refused        
B. replied        
B. which          
B. began          
B. hurried        
B. life          
B. got around    
B. firmly        
B. cheered        
B. occurred      
B. carefully      
B. tent          
B. office        
C. crowded  
C. expected  
C. homeless  
C. supplied  
C. respected
C. anxious  
C. disliked  
C. stopped  
C. argued  
C. how  
C. met    
C. continued  
C. practice  
C. turned down
C. happily  
C. sighed  
C. went  
C. entirely  
C. shirt  
C. house  
D. ordinary      
D. ordered      
D. sick          
D. provided      
D. paid          
D. good          
D. missed        
D. appeared      
D. explained    
D. where        
D. presented    
D. needed        
D. performance  
D. broke up      
D. slightly      
D. wondered      
D. belonged      
D. gainfully    
D. breakfast    
D.  school      
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      This happened years ago when I was a waitress, but I still remember this specific incident so vividly.
As the end of the night was__1__, ten minutes before our restaurant closed, a gentleman came in.I was
the__2__waitress who got to stay after closing to serve him his food.
      The customer was quite__3__with how his food was prepared.He sent his__4__back twice.When
it eventually arrived to his liking, he__5__some fresh coffee.Meanwhile, my manager and our cooks
were__6__me closely, as they wanted the last customer of the__7__to finally leave so that we could
__8__the shop and go home. At that time I was frustrated and tired.I also knew he would probably
not__9__very well, seeing his inexpensive meal.__10__, I tried to give him good service.
     Then in the last ten minutes, as I was refilling his coffee, I somehow__11__it on the table as well as
his plate.I apologized, but I was__12__to get him another plate of  food as everything was shut down in
the__13__.Knowing  his previous temperament  (性情), I had a certain__14__of how he might react.He
asked to speak to the manager.
     But he__15__shocked me at this point.Instead of__16__to my boss, he simply said, "This young
lady"s done a fine job.You need to keep her__17__as long as you can!" After  that he paid his bill and
left, and I eagerly went home.
      The next morning when I came to work and __18__my tips-you often don"t get it till the next day
__19__a customer charges it on a credit card-I was__20__that thecustomer had offered a $15 tip for
his $8 dinner.People are often much nicer than they look!
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(     )1. A. darkening  
(     )2. A. lucky  
(     )3. A. pleased  
(     )4. A. order    
(     )5. A. changed  
(     )6. A. following
(     )7. A. day    
(     )8. A. turn up  
(     )9. A. speak  
(     )10. A. Instead  
(     )11. A. spread    
(     )12. A. eager    
(     )13. A. kitchen  
(     )14. A. communication
(     )15. A. gradually  
(     )16. A. explaining
(     )17. A. off      
(     )18. A. held back  
(     )19. A. unless    
(     )20. A. convinced  
B. approaching  
B. first        
B. familiar      
B. bill          
B. sold          
B. checking      
B. time          
B. close up      
B. behave        
B. Besides      
B. left          
B. willing      
B. rain          
B. expectation  
B. frequently    
B. apologizing  
B. around        
B. brought up    
B. if            
B. learned      
C. leaving    
C. unlucky    
C. interested  
C. note      
C. needed    
C. watching  
C. place      
C. set off    
C. tip      
C. Otherwise  
C. spilled      
C. shameful    
C. line        
C. tradition
C. rudely      
C. attending
C. away      
C. picked up    
C. although    
C. told        
D. happening      
D. young          
D. dissatisfied  
D. mail          
D. threw          
D. helping        
D. room          
D. turn off      
D. eat            
D. However        
D. broke          
D. unable        
D. operation      
D. hesitation    
D. really        
D. complaining    
D. out            
D. looked for    
D. in case        
D. reminded      
阅读理解
     I"m a 21yearold boy, and this is my story.
     A month after I graduated from high school in 2004, I was coming home from swim practice and was
involved in a car accident.I was so seriously injured that I was in a coma (昏迷) for over two months at
Prince Georges Hospital.
      I died eight times during my coma and I couldn"t talk or communicate when I woke up.Walking was
never going to happen again due to all the extreme injuries.Just like my body, my dreams were shattered  (破灭). But I was not going to let my injuries stop me from living my dream.
      After 14 operations and 36 blood transfusions, I had to learn how to talk, eat, walk, shower, and live
independently again.When I was out of hospital, I still had to go to outpatient therapy (门诊治疗) in
Waldorf, Maryland.After spending a few months in a wheelchair, I took baby  steps to walk on my own.
It was a miracle (奇迹) that I  could walk again, but I wanted to prove that I could not  only walk, but
run.When it came true, I wanted to get  back in the pool again.After a few lung tests, I was able  to go in
the pool a little bit each week.After a few months  of swim training, I began my freshman year at St.Mary"s College of   Maryland and became a proud member of the swim team.
     By telling my story, I want to make a positive influence on the world.I am just trying to live each day
to the fullest and inspire other people to never give up on their dreams no matter how bad a situation is.I
remember when I was still in my hospital bed, I would have my mom and dad push me around in my
wheelchair to the other rooms to see the other patients and talk to them and their families.I wanted to let
them know that everything was going to be okay.Somehow, things would work out for the best.

1.When the car accident happened, the author________.

A. was a high school student
B. had finished his high school education
C. was a college student
D. was returning home from a swim competition

2. It can be inferred that the author________after he woke up from his coma.

A. was out of hospital
B. was in surprise
C. faced physical and mental challenges
D. was worried about his lung

3. What can we learn from the author"s recovery?

A. Attitude is everything.
B. Actions speak louder than words.
C. Everything happens for a reason.
D. A good beginning is half done.

4.What procedure did the author follow to full recovery?
a. ran
b. received membership of the swim team
c. trained for swim
d. baby walked
e. learnt to live all by himself

A. d, a, c, b, e  
B. e, d, a, c, b
C. d, a, b, c, e  
D. e, d, a, b, c

5. What does the author mainly want to show in the last paragraph?

A. His purpose of sharing his story.
B. His painful experiences.
C. His influence on others.
D. His great achievements.