The golden autumn light provided the ________ for the painting.A. productionB. sidelineC. epitaphD. inspiration

On Feb. 15, 2011, an instant survey was carried out among 18 overseas postgraduate students: 11 students were male and seven were female. The purpose of the survey was to discover the views of the students on a number of matters of personal concern. The survey was conducted by means of a questionnaire given to the students to complete. There were five questions. The first question concerned favorite color, and the second, favorite number. The next three questions were all concerned with aspects of marriage. Number three looked at the ideal age to get married. Number four examined the qualities looked for in a partner. And number five asked about the ideal number of children. The main findings were as follows. Blue was the most popular color. This was followed by green and purple. There was no real significance in the choice of lucky number. About one third of the students said that they had none. 61 percent of the students selected the age group 26-30 years as ideal for marriage followed by 21-25 years. In looking at the most important qualities in an ideal partner, some respondents wanted the person to be intelligent, others chose natural, still others indicated attractive and honest. The ideal number of children was two followed by three. It is not easy to reach any definite conclusion based upon such a small sample of students from such widely different backgrounds. However, it is clear that the majority favor 26-30 as the ideal age to get married to an intelligent partner and have two children. 1.How many male and female students were involved in this instant survey?A) 11 male students and seven female students.B) Seven male students and 11 female students.C) 18 male students and 11 female students.D) Seven male students and 18 female students.2.Which question was concerned with the ideal age of getting married?A) Question number five.B) Question number four.C) Question number three. D) Question number two.3.What general conclusion can be obtained from the instant survey?A) Most people favor 26-30 as the ideal age to get married to an attractive partner.B) Most people favor 21-25 as the ideal age to get married to an attractive partner.C) Most people favor 26-30 as the ideal age to get married to an intelligent partner.D) Most people favor 21-25 as the ideal age to get married to an intelligent partner.4.Why is it difficult to reach any definite conclusion from the survey?A) There are not equal numbers of males and females.B) The survey was based upon a very small sample.C) The questionnaire doesn’t include enough questions.D) The students didn’t give exact answers to the questions.

If you want to stay young, sit down and have a good think. This is the research finding of a team of Japanese doctors, who say that most of our brains are not getting enough exercise—and as a result, we are aging unnecessarily soon. Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwise healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a relatively early age, and how the process of aging could be slowed down. With a team of colleagues at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different ages and varying occupations. Computer technology enabled the researchers to obtain precise measurements of the volume of the front and side sections of the brain, which relate to intellect (智能) and emotion, and determine the human character. (The rear section of the brain, which controls functions like eating and breathing, does not contract with age, and one can continue living without intellectual or emotional faculties.) Contraction of front and side parts—as cells die off—was observed in some subjects in their thirties, but it was still not evident in some sixty- and seventy-year-olds. Matsuzawa concluded from his tests that there is a simple remedy to the contraction normally associated with age—using the head. The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns. Those least at risk, says Matsuzawa, are lawyers, followed by university professors and doctors. White collar workers doing routine work in government offices are, however, as likely to have shrinking brains as the farm worker, bus driver and shop assistant. Matsuzawa’s findings show that thinking can prevent the brain from shrinking. Blood must circulate properly in the head to supply the fresh oxygen the brain cells need. “The best way to maintain good blood circulation is through using the brain,” he says, “Think hard and engage in conversation. Don’t rely on pocket calculators.” 小题1:The team of doctors wanted to find out ________. why certain people age sooner than others B. how to make people live longer C. the size of certain people’s brains D. which people are most intelligent 小题2:On what are their research findings based? A survey of farmers in northern Japan. B. Tests performed on a thousand old people. C. The study of brain volumes of different people D. The latest development of computer technology. 小题3:The word “subjects” in Paragraph 5 means ________. something to be considered B. branches of knowledge studied C. persons chosen to be studied in an experiment D. any member of a state except the supreme ruler. 小题4:According to the passage, which people seem to age slower than the others? A．Lawyers. B．Farmers. C．Clerks. D．Shop assistants.

An eagle tried to fly away with a terrified boy at a popular wildlife show in central Australia.A crowd of frightened onlookers watched the enormous bird latch its claws on to the screaming boy’s head during a show at Alice Springs Desert Park.The boy—believed to be between six and eight years old—escaped with a “superficial” injury to his face.Christine O’Connell from Horsham in Victoria State was visiting the park with her husband on 6 July when the attack occurred.“A fellow who was sitting closer said the little boy kept running his zipper up and down,” said Mrs. O’Connell, who caught the attack on her camera.Distracted by the noise, the eagle grabbed the boy’s green hoodie and attempted to lift him away before park staff moved in.The attack left the boy crying and bleeding, but his injuries were not severe.1.What is the news mainly about?A) An eagle carrying off a terrified boy.B) A boy being saved by many people.C) A boy being attacked at Springs Desert Park.D) A woman catching an attack on her camera.2.What do we learn about the boy from the news?A) His camera saved him from the eagle.B) His injuries in the face were serious.C) He was attacked by an eagle on June 6.D) He might be between six and eight years old.

Fill in the blanks with words or phrases from the box below . Change the form where necessary . awkward,blog, cable ,capture , craft ,crash, emotional, nest, solo, be obsessed with, but then, by one’s side, for once, in the form of, run through ,settle down, in total . 1 Accidentally the whole incident was ____ by a young American photographer . 0 . Those who had been kidnapped ( 绑架 ) described how they were scared and in physical and ___ pain . 1 It was not long before help arrived ___ ten police officers.

What does the author think of the problems facing human beings?A) They pose a serious challenge to future human existence.B) They can be solved sooner or later with human ingenuity.C) Their solutions need joint efforts of the public and privatesectors.D) They can only be solved by people with optimism andambition.________（the Chinese garden）是经过三千多年演变而成的独具一格的________（landscape）。它既包括为皇室成员享乐而建造的大型花园，也包括学者、商人和卸任的政府官员为摆脱嘈杂的外部世界而建造的私家花园。这些花园构成了一种意在表达人与自然之间应有的和稭关系的微缩景观。典型的中国园林四周有围墙，园内有池塘、________（rockwork）、树木、花草以及各种各样由蜿蜒的小路和走廊连接的建筑。漫步在花园中，人们可以看到一系列精心设计的景观犹如山水画________（scroll）一般展现在面前。2013年12月大学英语六级考试真题（第2套）Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay about the impact of the information explosion by referring to the saying “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” You can give examples to illustrate your point and then explain what you can do to avoid being distracted by irrelevant information. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Section AQuestions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.Quite often, educators tell families of children who are learning English as a second language to speak only English, and not their native language, at home. Although these educators may have good36 ,their advice to families is misguided, and it 37 from misunderstandings about the process of language acquisition. Educators may fear that children hearing two languages will become 38 confused and thus their language development will be 39 ;this concern is not documented in the literature. Children are capable of learning more than one language, whether 40 or sequentially(依次地). In fact, most children outside of the United States are expected to become bilingual or even, in many cases, multilingual. Globally, knowing more than one language is viewed as an 41 and even a necessity in many areas.It is also of concern that the misguided advice that students should speak only English is given primarily to poor families with limited educational opportunities, not to wealthier families who have many educational advantages. Since children from poor families often are 42 as at-risk for academic failure, teachers believe that advising families to speak English only is appropriate. Teachers consider learning two languages to be too 43 for children from poor families, believing that the children are already burdened by their home situations.If families do not know English or have limited English skills themselves, how can they communicate in English? Advising non-English-speaking families to speak only English is 44 to telling them not to communicate with or interact with their children. Moreover, the 45message is that the family's native language is not important or valued.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。A) assetB) delayedC) deviatesD) equivalentE) identifiedF) intentionsG) objectH) overwhelmingI) permanentlyJ) prevalentK) simultaneouslyL) stemsM) successivelyN) underlyingO) visualizingSection BA)Jack White, the former frontman of the White Stripes and an influential figure among fellow musicians, likes to make things difficult for himself. He uses cheap guitars that won’t stay in shape or in tune. When performing, he positions his instruments in a way that is deliberately inconvenient, so that switching from guitar to organ mid-song involves a mad dash across the stage. Why? Because he’s on the run from what he describes as a disease that preys on every artist: “ease of use”. When making music gets too easy, says White, it becomes harder to make it sing.B)It’s an odd thought. Why would anyone make their work more difficult than it already is? Yet we know that difficulty can pay unexpected dividends. In 1966, soon after the Beatles had finished work on “Rubber Soul”, Paul McCartney looked into the possibility of going to America to record their next album. The equipment in American studios was more advanced than anything in Britain, which had led the Beatles’ great rivals, the Rolling Stones, to make their latest album, “Aftermath”, in Los Angeles. McCartney found that EMI’s (百代唱片) contractual clauses made it prohibitively expensive to follow suit, and the Beatles had to make do with the primitive technology of Abbey Road.C)Lucky for us. Over the next two years they made their most groundbreaking work, turning the recording studio into a magical instrument of its own. Precisely because they were working with old-fashioned machines, George Martin and his team of engineers were forced to apply every ounce of their creativity to solve the problems posed to them by Lennon and McCartney. Songs like “Tomorrow Never Knows”, “Strawberry Fields Forever”, and “A Day in the Life” featured revolutionary sound effects that dazzled and mystified Martin’s American counterparts.D)Sometimes it’s only when a difficulty is removed that we realise what it was doing for us. For more than two decades, starting in the 1960s, the poet Ted Hughes sat on the judging panel of an annual poetry competition for British schoolchildren. During the 1980s he noticed an increasing number of long poems among the submissions, with some running to 70 or 80 pages. These poems were verbally inventive and fluent, but also “strangely boring”. After making inquiries Hughes discovered that they were being composed on computers, then just finding their way into British homes.E)You might have thought any tool which enables a writer to get words on to the page would be an advantage. But there may be a cost to such facility. In an interview with the Paris Review Hughes speculated that when a person puts pen to paper, “you meet the terrible resistance of what happened your first year at it, when you couldn’t write at all”. As the brain attempts to force the unsteady hand to do its bidding, the tension between the two results in a more compressed, psychologically denser expression. Remove that resistance and you are more likely to produce a 70-page ramble (不着边际的长篇大论).F)Our brains respond better to difficulty than we imagine. In schools, teachers and pupils alike often assume that if a concept has been easy to learn, then the lesson has been successful. But numerous studies have now found that when classroom material is made harder to absorb, pupils retain more of it over the long term, and understand it on a deeper level.G)As a poet, Ted Hughes had an acute sensitivity to the way in which constraints on self-expression, like the disciplines of metre and rhyme (韵律), spur creative thought. What applies to poets and musicians also applies to our daily lives. We tend to equate（等同于）happiness with freedom, but, as the psychotherapist and writer Adam Phillips has observed, without obstacles to our desires it’s harder to know what we want, or where we’re heading. He tells the story of a patient, a first-time mother who complained that her young son was always clinging to her, wrapping himself around her legs wherever she went. She never had a moment to herself, she said, because her son was “always in the way”. When Phillips asked her where she would go if he wasn’t in the way, she replied cheerfully, “Oh, I wouldn’t know where I was!”H)Take another common obstacle: lack of money. People often assume that more money will make them happier. But economists who study the relationship between money and happiness have consistently found that, above a certain income, the two do not reliably correlate. Despite the ease with which the rich can acquire almost anything they desire, they are just as likely to be unhappy as the middle classes. In this regard at least, F. Scott Fitzgerald was wrong.I)Indeed, ease of acquisition is the problem. The novelist Edward St Aubyn has a narrator remark of the very rich that,“not having to consider affordability, their desires rambled on like unstoppable bores, relentless (持续不断的) and whimsical（反复无常的）at the same time.” When Boston College, a private research university, wanted a better feel for its potential donors, it asked the psychologist Robert Kenny to investigate the mindset of the super-rich. He surveyed 165 households, most of which had a net worth of 25m or more. He found that many of his subjects were confused by the infinite options their money presented them with. They found it hard to know what to want, creating a kind of existential bafflement. One of them put it like this: “You know, Bob, you can just buy so much stuff, and when you get to the point where you can just buy so much stuff, now what are you going to do?”J)The internet makes information billionaires out of all of us, and the architects of our online experiences are catching on to the need to make things creatively difficult. Twitter’s huge success is rooted in the simple but profound insight that in a medium with infinite space for self-expression, the most interesting thing we can do is restrict ourselves to 140 characters. The music service This Is My Jam helps people navigate the tens of millions of tracks now available instantly via Spotify and iTunes. Users pick their favourite song of the week to share with others. They only get to choose one. The service was only launched this year, but by the end of September 650,000 jams had been chosen. Its co-founder Matt Ogle explains its raison d’être (存在的理由) like this: “In an age of endless choice, we were missing a way to say: ‘This. This is the one you should listen to’.”K)Today’s world offers more opportunity than ever to follow the advice of the Walker Brothers and make it easy on ourselves. Compared with a hundred years ago, our lives are less tightly bound by social norms and physical constraints. Technology has cut out much of life’s donkeywork, and we have more freedoms than ever: we can wear what we like and communicate with hundreds of friends at once at the click of a mouse. Obstacles are everywhere disappearing. Few of us wish to turn the clock back, but perhaps we need to remind ourselves how useful the right obstacles can be. Sometimes, the best route to fulfilment is the path of more resistance.

It’s an ordinary day. You may be entirely relaxed, settling down to watch some TV. Suddenly you begin to feel scared. Everything around you is becoming unreal. Your heart is racing, your head spinning, your handsshaking. An overwhelming sense of despair and pain hits you like a wave. What on earth is going on?If you have ever had an experience like this, it’s possible that you were having a “panic attack”. Some people experience panic attacks in tense situations, such as before giving a speech. For others it comes completely unexpectedly. But a panic attack is a very real condition, and not at all the same thing as just getting upset and confused. So what causes it?Panic attacks begin in the oldest parts of our brain. Before we had evolved rational thought, we still needed to be able to survive in the world. The ability to either fight or flee from a dangerous situation is perhaps the most basic behavior required of any animal.Panic attacks occur when the body systems responsible for dealing with dangerous situations kick in at the wrong time. There is no danger in relaxing on your couch, and no real danger in giving a speech. But in some people, the “fight or flight” responses can be provoked accidentally. Heart rate increases, breathing becomes shallow, and adrenaline shoots to your arms. These are useful responses to have, if you really are in danger. For people who experience a panic attack, though, they can be both confusing and terrifying.Several different therapies now exist for panic attacks, ranging from a set of anti-anxiety medicines to behavior modification. So take heart—there’s no need to panic.New words:adrenaline n.肾上腺素1.When are people likely to experience a “panic attack” according to the speaker?A) When they are scared by someone.B) Right before they give a speech.C) When they feel upset at something.D) Right before they are attacked.2.What basic ability do we have to survive a dangerous situation?A) The ability to sense tense situations.B) The ability to either fight or flee.C) The ability to behave yourself.D) The ability to avoid confusion.3.Why do panic attacks occur while no real danger exists?A) Because the “fight or flight” responses kick in at the wrong time.B) Because heart rate increases and breathing becomes shallow.C) Because you feel that you are really in dangerous situations.D) Because you feel confused and scared from the situations.4.How could one deal with a “panic attack” according to the speaker?A) By taking anti-depression medication.B) By staying away from panic attacks.C) By taking heart for your situation and no worry.D) By keeping your heart rate down.

A ) achievement B ) compensation C ) contrast D ) contributing E ) depressing F ) employment G ) instantly H ) lower l ) maintain J ) released K ) remain L ) response M ) significantly N ) slimmer O ) tightened UK households are cutting back on spending at the fastest rate since 1980 . This is _26_ to the worst economic slowdown in three decades .Figures from the Office for National Statistics ( ONS ) showed consumer spending felt by 1.2 % in the first three months of the year . People spent less on housing, household goods and services ,while those who went on holiday abroad also spent _27_ less . Consumers _28_ their belts in the face of job losses, pay cuts or freezes and sharply reduced city bonuses . The figures showed employees' _ 29 _ falling by 1.1 % in the quarter, the targets fall since records began in 1955 . Wages and salaries declined, with lower bonus payments in the financial sector than normal, while _30_ also fell . The data was _ 31 as part of the ONS'S latest assessment of the UK economy, which confirmed that gross domestic product ( SDP ) shrank by 1.9 % in the first quarter, its sharpest decline since 1979 . GDP stood 4.1 % _ 32 than a year ago, the biggest annual fail since 1980." The breakdown ( 分 析 ) of first - quarter GDP gives a pretty _ 33 _ picture of weakness right across the economy in the earth year ," said Jonathan Loynes of Capital Economics . "With key components like household spending and investment set to fall considerably further in _ 34 _ to the weakness in the housing market, the labor market and bank lending , we _ 35 _ unconvinced that recent green shoots ( 经济复苏迹象 ) will translate it to a return to decent growth next year ."

阅读下面短文,根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。-|||-Writing 1-|||-[2018·11月浙江卷]-|||-It`s a really good idea to visit colleges before you apply because their websites can all start to look and sound the-|||-same.Nothing will give you the sense of what it will actually be like to live on a college campus(校园) like visiting-|||-and seeing for yourself the dorms,classrooms and athletic equipment and,of course,the students.It seems a little-|||-crazy once senior year hits to find the time to visit college campuses,and it can also be pricey if the schools you are-|||-applying to happen to be more than a car ride away.But keep in mind that you are making a decision about the next-|||-four years of your life,and do all the research you can to make sure you are making the right one.-|||-There`s no excuse not to visit the schools in your local area.In fact,a lot of college applications even ask if you-|||-have visited campus,and obviously,if you live across the country that won`t be as much of a possibility,but if you live-|||-nearby,go check it out!-|||-If campus visits aren`t going to happen before you apply,at the very least you should find some time between-|||-applying and getting your acceptance letters to visit the schools you`d like to attend.It can save you a lot of heartache-|||-if you rule out now the things that you don`t like about certain campuses, things that you wouldn`t know unless you-|||-actually visit.-|||-Now,if time and money are making it impossible,then check out the online college fairs at College WeekLive.-|||-It`s a chance to chat online with admissions officers,students,and college counselors(顾问),and it won`t cost you a-|||-penny!You can register for its online college fair at While visiting an online college fair can`t-|||-take the place of an actual campus visit,it can be a very useful tool that along with all your other research will help you-|||-make an informed decision about which colleges or universities you`d like to attend.阅读下面短文,根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。-|||-Writing 1-|||-[2018·11月浙江卷]-|||-It`s a really good idea to visit colleges before you apply because their websites can all start to look and sound the-|||-same.Nothing will give you the sense of what it will actually be like to live on a college campus(校园) like visiting-|||-and seeing for yourself the dorms,classrooms and athletic equipment and,of course,the students.It seems a little-|||-crazy once senior year hits to find the time to visit college campuses,and it can also be pricey if the schools you are-|||-applying to happen to be more than a car ride away.But keep in mind that you are making a decision about the next-|||-four years of your life,and do all the research you can to make sure you are making the right one.-|||-There`s no excuse not to visit the schools in your local area.In fact,a lot of college applications even ask if you-|||-have visited campus,and obviously,if you live across the country that won`t be as much of a possibility,but if you live-|||-nearby,go check it out!-|||-If campus visits aren`t going to happen before you apply,at the very least you should find some time between-|||-applying and getting your acceptance letters to visit the schools you`d like to attend.It can save you a lot of heartache-|||-if you rule out now the things that you don`t like about certain campuses, things that you wouldn`t know unless you-|||-actually visit.-|||-Now,if time and money are making it impossible,then check out the online college fairs at College WeekLive.-|||-It`s a chance to chat online with admissions officers,students,and college counselors(顾问),and it won`t cost you a-|||-penny!You can register for its online college fair at While visiting an online college fair can`t-|||-take the place of an actual campus visit,it can be a very useful tool that along with all your other research will help you-|||-make an informed decision about which colleges or universities you`d like to attend.阅读下面短文,根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。-|||-Writing 1-|||-[2018·11月浙江卷]-|||-It`s a really good idea to visit colleges before you apply because their websites can all start to look and sound the-|||-same.Nothing will give you the sense of what it will actually be like to live on a college campus(校园) like visiting-|||-and seeing for yourself the dorms,classrooms and athletic equipment and,of course,the students.It seems a little-|||-crazy once senior year hits to find the time to visit college campuses,and it can also be pricey if the schools you are-|||-applying to happen to be more than a car ride away.But keep in mind that you are making a decision about the next-|||-four years of your life,and do all the research you can to make sure you are making the right one.-|||-There`s no excuse not to visit the schools in your local area.In fact,a lot of college applications even ask if you-|||-have visited campus,and obviously,if you live across the country that won`t be as much of a possibility,but if you live-|||-nearby,go check it out!-|||-If campus visits aren`t going to happen before you apply,at the very least you should find some time between-|||-applying and getting your acceptance letters to visit the schools you`d like to attend.It can save you a lot of heartache-|||-if you rule out now the things that you don`t like about certain campuses, things that you wouldn`t know unless you-|||-actually visit.-|||-Now,if time and money are making it impossible,then check out the online college fairs at College WeekLive.-|||-It`s a chance to chat online with admissions officers,students,and college counselors(顾问),and it won`t cost you a-|||-penny!You can register for its online college fair at While visiting an online college fair can`t-|||-take the place of an actual campus visit,it can be a very useful tool that along with all your other research will help you-|||-make an informed decision about which colleges or universities you`d like to attend.阅读下面短文,根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。-|||-Writing 1-|||-[2018·11月浙江卷]-|||-It`s a really good idea to visit colleges before you apply because their websites can all start to look and sound the-|||-same.Nothing will give you the sense of what it will actually be like to live on a college campus(校园) like visiting-|||-and seeing for yourself the dorms,classrooms and athletic equipment and,of course,the students.It seems a little-|||-crazy once senior year hits to find the time to visit college campuses,and it can also be pricey if the schools you are-|||-applying to happen to be more than a car ride away.But keep in mind that you are making a decision about the next-|||-four years of your life,and do all the research you can to make sure you are making the right one.-|||-There`s no excuse not to visit the schools in your local area.In fact,a lot of college applications even ask if you-|||-have visited campus,and obviously,if you live across the country that won`t be as much of a possibility,but if you live-|||-nearby,go check it out!-|||-If campus visits aren`t going to happen before you apply,at the very least you should find some time between-|||-applying and getting your acceptance letters to visit the schools you`d like to attend.It can save you a lot of heartache-|||-if you rule out now the things that you don`t like about certain campuses, things that you wouldn`t know unless you-|||-actually visit.-|||-Now,if time and money are making it impossible,then check out the online college fairs at College WeekLive.-|||-It`s a chance to chat online with admissions officers,students,and college counselors(顾问),and it won`t cost you a-|||-penny!You can register for its online college fair at While visiting an online college fair can`t-|||-take the place of an actual campus visit,it can be a very useful tool that along with all your other research will help you-|||-make an informed decision about which colleges or universities you`d like to attend.

Section B-|||-Directions: In this section,you will hear two passages.At the end of each passage,you will hear three or four-|||-questions.Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must-|||-choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on-|||-Answer Sheet l with a single line through the centre.-|||-Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.-|||-9.A)It helps employees to reduce their stress. B)It prevents employees from feeling bored.-|||-C)It strengthens harmony among employees. D) It helps employees to view things positively.-|||-10.A)Weekends are conducive to reducing stress. B)Humor is vital to interpersonal relationships.-|||-C)All workers experience some emotional stress. D)Humor can help workers excel at routine tasks.-|||-11.A)Smash the toys to release their bottled-u up resentments.-|||-B)Take the boss doll apart as long as they reassemble it.-|||-C)Design and install stress-reducing gadgets.-|||-D)Strike at the boss doll as hard as they like.-|||-Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.-|||-12.A)The recent finding of a changed gene in obese mice.-|||-B)A breakthrough in understanding gene modification-|||-C)A newly discovered way for people to lose weight.-|||-D) The self-repairing ability of a gene in obese mice.-|||-13.A)It renders an organism unable to fight diseases.-|||-B)It prevents the mice`s fatty tissues from growing.-|||-C)It helps organisms adapt to environmental changes.-|||-D)It renders mice unable to sense when to stop eating.-|||-14.A)Human beings have more obesity genes than most mice do.-|||-B)Half of a person`s total weight variation can be controlled.-|||-C)People are born with a tendency to have a certain weight.-|||-D)The function of the obesity genes is yet to be explored.-|||-15.A)The worsening of natural environment. B)The abundant provision of rich foods.-|||-C)The accelerated pace of present-day life. D)The adverse impact of the food industry.Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear aquestion, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. Questions 9 to 11 are based onthepassage you have just heard. 9. A) It helps employees to reduce their stress. B) It prevents employees from feeling bored. C) It strengthens harmony among employees. D) It helps employees to view things positively. 10.A) Weekends are conducive to reducing stress.B) Humor is vital to interpersonal relationships. C) All workers experience some emotional stress. D) Humor can help workers excel at routine tasks. 11. A) Smash the toys to release their bottled-up resentments. B) Take the boss doll apart as long as they reassemble it. C) Design and install stress-reducing gadgets. D) Strike at the boss doll as hard as they like. Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard. 12. A) The recent finding of a changed gene in obese mice. B) A breakthrough in understanding gene modification. C) A newly discovered way for people to lose weight. D) The self-repairing ability of a gene in obese mice. 13. A) It re nders an organism unable to fight diseases. B) It prevents the mice's fatty tissues from growing. C) It helps organisms adapt to environmental changes. D) It renders mice unable to sense when to stop eating. 14.A) Human beings have more obesity genes than most mice do. B) Half of a person's total weight variation can be controlled. C) People are born with a tendency to have a certain weight. D) The function of the obesity genes is yet to be explored. 15. A) The worsening of natural environment. B) The abundant provision of rich foods. C) The accelerated pace of present-day life. D) The adverse impact of the food industry.