第二部分阅读理解(共两节，满分40分》 第一节(共15小题:每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项《A、 B、 C和D)中。选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Doctor are known to be terrible pilots. They don't listen because they already know it all. I was lucky: ] became a pilot in 1970, almost ten years before I graduated from medical school. I didn't realize then, but becoming a pilot makes me a better surgeon. I loved flying. As I flew bigger, faster planes, and in worse weather. I learned about crew resource management (机组资源管理), or CRM, a new idea to make flying safer. It means that crew members should listen and speak up for a good result, regardless of positions. I first read about CRM in 1980. Not long after that, an attending doctor and I were flying in bad weather. The controller had us turn too late to get our landing ready. The attending doctor was flying; I was safety pilot He was so busy because of the bad turn, he had forgotten to put the landing gear (起落架) down. He was a better pilot - and my boss - so it felt unusual to speak up. But I had to: Our lives were in danger. I put aside my uneasiness and said, "We need to put the landing gear down now!" That was my first real lesson in the power of CRM, and I've used it in the operating room ever since. CRM requires that the pilot/surgeon encourage others to speak up. It further requires that when opinions are from the opposite, the doctor doesn't overreact, which might prevent fellow doctors from voicing opinions again. So when I'm in the operating room, I ask for ideas and help from others. Sometimes they're not willing to speak up. But I hope that if I continue to encourage them , someday someone will keep me from ”landing gear up”. 36.What dose the author say about doctors in general? A. They like flying by themselves. B. They are unwilling to take advice. C. They pretend to be good pilots. D. They are quick learners of CRM. 37.The author deepened his understanding of the power of CRM when_______. A. he saved the plane by speaking up B. he was in charge of a flying task C. his boss landed the plane too late D. his boss operated on a patient 38.In the last paragraph”landing gear up” probably means ______. A.following flying requirements. B.overreacting to different opinions. C.listening to what fellow doctors say D.making a mistake that may cost lives 39.Which of the following can be the best title for the text? A.CRM:A New Way to Make Flying Safe B.Flying Makes Me a Better Doctor C.The Making of a Good Pilot D.A Pilot-Tumed Doctor B In 1947 a group of famous people from the art world headed by an Austrian conductor decided to hold an intemational festival of music,dance and theatre in Edinburgh. The idea was to reunite Europe after the Second World War. At the same time, the “Fringe” appeared as a challenge to the official festival.Eight theatre groups turned up uninvited in 1947,in the belief that everyone should have the right to perform,and they did so in a public house disused for years. Soon,groups of studentsfirstly from Edinburgh University, and later from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge,Durham and Birmingham were making the journey to the Scottish capital each summer to perform theatre by little-known writers of plays in small church halls to the people of Edinburgh. Today the “Fringe”,once less recognized, has far outgrown the festival with around 1,500 performances of theatre,music and dance on every one of the 21 days it lasts. And yetas early as 1959,with only 19 theatre groups performing,some said it was getting too big. A paid administrator was first employed only in 1971, and today there are eight administrators working all year round and the number rises to 150 during August itself. In 2004 there were 200 places housing 1,695 shows by over 600 different groups from 50 different countries. More than 1,25 million tickets were sold. 40. Point was the purpose of Edinburgh Festival at he beginning? A. To bring Europe together again. B. To honor heroes of World War 11. C. To introduce young theatre groups. D. To attract great artists from Europe. 41. Why did some uninvited theatre groups come to Edinburgh in 1947? A. They owned a public house there. B. They came to take up a challenge. C. They thought they were also famous. D. They wanted to take part in the festival. 42. Who joined the "Fringe" after it appeared? A.they owned a public house there B. University students. C.人rusts from around the world. D. Performers of music and dance. 43. We may learn from the text that Edinburgh Festival. A. has become a non-official event B. has gone beyond an art festival C. gives shows all year round D. keeps growing rapidly C Given that many people's moods (情绪)are regulated by the chemical alate, it was probably only a matter of time before somebody made the chocolate shop similar to a drugstore of Chinese medicine. Looking like a setting from the film Charlie&the Chocolate Factory, Singapore's Chocolate Research Facility (CRF) has over 100 varieties of chocolates.its founder is Chris Lee who grew up at his parents' comer store with one handalmost always in the jar of sweets. If the CRF seems to be a smart idea, that's because Lee is not merely a seasoned salesperson but also head of a marketing department that has business relations with big names such as Levi's and Sony. That idea surely results in the imagination at work when it comes to making different flavored(味道)chocolates. The CRF's produce is "green". made within the country and divided into 10 lines, with the Alcohol Series being the most popular. The Exotic Series一with Sichuan pepper, red bean (豆).cheese and other flavors一also does well and is fun to taste. And for chocolate snobs，who think that they have a better knowledge of chocolate than others, the Connoisseur Series uses cocoa beans from Togo, Cuba, Venezuela , and Ghana, among others. 44. What is good about chocolate? A. It serves as a suitable gift. B. It works as an effective medicine. C. It helps improve the state of mind. D. It strengthens business relations. 45. Why is Chris Lee able to develop his idea of the CRF? A. He knows the importance of research. B. He learns form shops of similar types. C. He has the support of many big names D. He has a lot of marketing experience. 46. Which line of the CRF produce sells best? A. The Connoisseur Series. B. The Exotic Series. C. The Alcohol Series. D. The Sichuan Series. 47. The words "chocolate snobs" in Paragraph 3 probably refer to people who A. are particular about chocolate B. know little about cocoa beans C. look down upon others D. like to try new flavors D Low-Cost Gifts for Mother's Day Gift No. I Offer to be your mother's health friend. Promise to be there for any and all doctor's visits whether a disease or a regular medical check-up. Most mothers always say "no need," another set of eyes and ears is always a good idea at a doctor's visit. The best part ? This one is free. Gift No. 2 Help your mother organize all of her medical records, which include the test results and medical information. Put them all in one place. Be sure to make a list of all of her medicines and what times she takes them. "Having all this information in one place could end up saving your mother's life," Dr. Marie Savard said. Gift No. 3 Enough sleep is connected to general health conditions. "Buy your mother cotton sheets and comfortable pillows to encourage better sleep," Savard said. "We know that good sleep is very important to our health." Gift No. 4 Some gift companies such as Presents for Purpose allow you to pay it forward this Mother's Day by picking gifts in which 10 percent of the price you pay goes to a charity (慈善机构) Gift givers can choose from a wide variety of useful but inexpensive things -many of which are "green" - and then choose a meaningful charity from a list. When your mother gets the gift, she will be told that she has helped the chosen charity. 48. What are you advised to do for your mother at doctor's visits? A. Take notes. B. Be with her. C. Buy medicine. D. Give her gifts. 49. Where can you find a gift idea to improve your mother’s sleep? A. In Gift No. 1. B. In Gift No. 2. C. In Gift No. 3. D. In Gift No. 4. 50. Buying gifts from Presents for Purpose allows mothers to A. enjoy good sleep B. be well-organized C. bet extra support D. give others help 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分） 根据根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能坡入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多于选项。 Public Speaking Training ·Get a coach 51 ，so get help. Since there are about a billion companies out there all ready to offer you public speaking training and courses, here are some things to look for when deciding the training that's right for you. ·Focus on positives Any training you do to become more effective at public speaking should always focus on the positive aspects of what you already do well. Nothing can hurt confidence more than being told that you aren't doing well. , so good public speaking training should develop those instead of telling you what you shouldn't do. If you find a public speaking course that looks as though it's going to give you lots of dos and don'ts, walk away! Your brain is so full of what you're going to be talking about. 54 . As far as we're concerned, there are basically no hard and fast rules about public speaking. Your audience can be your friends. ·You are a special person not a clone Most importantly, good public speaking training should treat you as a special one, with your own personal habits. 55 . Your training course should help you bring out your personality, not try to turn you into someone you're not. A. You aren't like anybody else B. You already do lots of things well C. Turn your back on too many rules D. Check the rules about dos and don'ts E. Whatever the presentation, public speaking is tough F .The one thing you don't want is for them to fall asleep G. So trying to force a whole set of rules into it will just make things worse

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1.Please judge what the following statement is doing, descibing or evaluating?"Several studies reveal that the effectiveness and amount of peer CF provision could be positively influenced by training (Fujii et al., 2016; Sato & Ballinger, 2012; Sato &Lyster, 2012)."A Describing the results or achievements obtained in those studies.B Evaluating those studies.

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The price of rice on world markets has doubled and in the past two months alone has gone up 50 percent. The rising costs have triggered warnings of social chaos in the Philippines. Rising fuel and fertilizer costs, and natural disasters are the main reasons for the price increase. Cambodia and Vietnam have cut their rice exports, actions that analysts say threaten to push prices up even further in the coming months.U.S. and the World Food Program officials say they are searching for ways to cut transportation and other non-food costs. They say one way is to develop means of purchasing and processing food in the countries that receive the aid, rather than have to transport it from faraway places. The World Food Program recently launched an extraordinary emergency appeal for donor nations to increase their donations. Gaddi Vasquez, the U.S. ambassador to U.N. food and agriculture agencies told reporters the United States, the largest single donor to the World Food Program, has not yet decided if it will increase donations in the wake of rising food prices.1.What problem may be caused in the Philippines with the high price of rice?A) Social turmoil. B) Natural disasters.C) Increase of fuel costs.D) Shortage of fertilizer.2.How did Vietnam try to solve the rice problem?A) By cutting fertilizer costs.B) By reducing rice exports.C) By increasing rice imports.D) By encouraging rice planting.3.What was the reaction of the World Food Program towards rising food prices?A) It provided various ways of processing food.B) It imposed limits on rice imports and exports.C) It stopped transporting rice from faraway places.D) It asked donor nations to increase their donations.

Section B-|||-Directions,In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements atuched to it. Each-|||-stutemest contuims im/cm given in one of the paragraphs.Nicntily the paraguah from which the-|||-in lormation is derived.Y may choose a paragraph more than once. Each puragroph is marked with a-|||-lerter.Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.-|||-Why you shouldn`t try to be a merming pense-|||-A)We`ve all heard it before; to be savestul, get ost of bed early.After all, Apple CEO Tim Cook gets up at-|||-3.45am·Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionso at 3:30 a.m.and Richard Branson at 5:45 a.m.-and,as we know,-|||-"The early bird catches the worm."-|||-B Bat just because some saccessful people wake up early, doos that mean it`s a trait most of them share? And if the-|||-idea of having earcice, lianacd your day, caten brcakfast,visualized and done one task before 8 a.m.makes-|||-you want to roll over and hit snoome until next Saturday,are you really doomod to a less macoctid life? For about-|||-half of us,this isn`t really an issee.It`s estimated that some 50% of the pepulation isn`t really morning o evening-|||-oriested, but somewhere in the middle-|||-C)Roughly one in four of us.though,tend more toward bright-cyod early risers, and another one in four are might-|||-owla. For them the effects can go beyond falling aslcep in front of the TV at 10 p.m. or being chronically late-|||-for work. Research shows that morniag versus evening type show a classic left -brain seras right brain divisiong-|||-more analytical and a operative verwas more imaginative and indivitan-|||-D Numerous stadies have foond that morning people are more persistest, welf-directed and agreca ble. They set-|||-higher goals for themaclves, plan for the future more and have a better sense of well-being.And compared to-|||-night owls, they`re less likely to be depresees,drink or wnoke,-|||-D Althoegh morning types may achieve more cadkelly,night owls tend to perform better on measires of-|||-mernory,procesing speed and cognitive ability,even when they have to perform these tasks in the morning.-|||-Night-time people are also more open to new experiences and seek thern out more.They may be more creative-|||-(allbough not alway Aad contrary to the matim("haalthy,wealthy and wise"),one study showed that sight-|||-owls are as healthy and wise as morning typer and a little bit wealthier-|||-F)Still think the morning people sound more like CLO material? Don`t set your alarm for 5 a.m. just yet.As it turns-|||-ou,ovenbanding(物底修改)your sleep times may not have much effect,"If poople are left to their naturally-|||-preferred times, they feel much better,They say that they are much more pradactive. The mental capscity they-|||-have is much broader,"suys Oxford University biologat Katharim wwit,who studica chroutolildla (生物钟学)-|||-and sleep.On the other hand,she says, pushing people too far out of their natural preference can be harmful.-|||-When they wake early,for example,night owls are still prodaciage melatoni "Then you dansprit and push the-|||-body to be in the daytime mode.That can have lots of ngliv liplipsilyoul onesa Wulff says, like a-|||-different sensitivity to insulin and ghacose which can cause weight gain-|||--1) In niay ways,that makes sense,since research shows that our chronotype, ar internal clock, is mainly biological-|||-Researchers even have found that the dradan(生理节奏的)thythms of human cells in wiào (试管内)conclate-|||-with the thythms of the poople they were taken from. Up to 47%of it is inberited, which meuas if you want to-|||-know why you pop up at dawn each day (or never do),you should probably look at your parents. One genttie-|||-factor seems to be the length of the circadian cycle:humans avenuce a4.-bour dock, meaning everyone adjusts-|||-slightly cach day to a 24-hour thythm.But for night owls, the clock often ruts longer-meaning that, withour-|||-exicrmal cucs to change,they`ll fall asleep and get up later and later over time.-|||-10 Your prefureace does change as you age.Caildren tend toward morning, with a peak shift toward night around-|||-age 20 and a slight change hack toward morning at around age 50.But compured to your peers. you`ll probably-|||-always fall within the same rough part of the specthum (益围).-|||-D In our rush to figure out the `wecrets`of waccess we tend to forget a couple of things.First,not all high achicvers-|||-are carly risers,and not all carly riscrs are succeastud. Famous late risers include Box CEOO Aaron Levie iad-|||-Buatleed CBO lonah Peretti, pha creatives like James loyce Oertrude Stein and Oustave Flasbert-|||-D But more importantly.in a bhrase beloved by wadenis evowwhere orrdati isn`t causution. In other words.-|||-it`s not clear that waking up carly itself prowides the beacfit. Instead,it may be that most of us are expected to-|||-start work or school by 8 or 9 a.m.If you`re a morning persos,conbination of boloplal t from your-|||-hoomans to body tanpeatig will get you up and way ahead of your night owl peers.That means people who-|||-enjoy rising carly will be more in line with their workday and likerly to achicye more. For a night owl waking at-|||-7=m.her body still thinks she`s asloop and is acting arcordingly she`s gogry(FDG的)for much longer than-|||-a morning persom whe wakes sp at the same time-|||-K)Rescarchers also point ost that because cecing types often have to fanction when their bodies don`t wast to, it-|||-makes sense that they may have worme moods or lower life sarittection. It may alto mean that they`ve had to figare-|||-out how to be more imowative and cat cornen which may encourage their ercativity and cognitive skills.-|||-Becaue the cultural sterreotype is that peopl who go to bed and rise late are lazy,most people probably try to-|||-become morning people as much as they can. The only ones who don`t may inherently have more rebcllioss or-|||-indvidullitic, tall B shifting soneend thoosoro docan`t necesauadly chang these traits. A one recent-|||-study foand, even as people tried to become "morning` people,it didm`t make them have a better mood or life-|||-attiffichition, magesting traits are"imtrinsic components of the late chromotype."-|||-MO Other rescarch also has hinted that your sleep preference may be biologically "bundled"with other characteristios-|||-One recent study,for example, found that more visually creative people had more steep disturtunces,such as-|||-wating aecel times at might or imsamila. Apain, cornthti isn`t causation. But there may be a connection to-|||-geestize."There isa domen receptor gene that has beem previoully amociated with both increased creativity and-|||-also with insomna and sleep disturbunce,"one rescarcher says.-|||-36.Rescarch shows night owls tend to be more imaginative than early risers-|||-37.Evening types can proces information faster than morning types.-|||-38.Most people try their best to become morning people because they don`t want to be considered lazy--|||-39. Your parents`sleeping habits can have an important influence on yours.-|||-40.A morning person is likel to achieve more becauee his biologiaal thythm matches the rhythm of his workday.-|||-41.According to Wulff,if a night owl is forced to get up early for a period of time,he may gain weight.-|||-42. Rewcarchers have found that people who rise late are likely to be less satisfied with life.-|||-43.Only part of early risen are successful,and some famous high achievers are late risen-|||-44 Someone who is a night owl is more likely to ustfer from depression-|||-45.A20 -year-old man may sleep and rise later than a 53 year-old man

1. Simply put, when most ______ stay ______ from ______, it ______ ______ ______ for risk-takers.点击单词填入选中的空格individualsriskcompetitionmeanslessaway

Microplastics，or tiny particles （微粒） of plastic that can be as small as one-thousandth of a millimeter，are found everywhere：in the ocean，in the air，and even in our food.Scientists have even discovered them in human body tissues like the heart，liver，and kidneys.While there's no clear evidence （证据） yet that microplastics harm human health，researchers are concerned about their possible effects. Plastic is made from oil or other petroleum products and is used to create a wide range of things，from water bottles and car parts to children's toys and clothing.Over time，heat，weather，and even animal digestion break down plastic into smaller pieces，creating microplastics. Researchers are still trying to understand how much plastic we might be taking in or consuming through our food and drinks.Many studies have found traces （痕迹） of plastics in the human body.Tracey Woodruff，a researcher at the University of California，San Francisco，noted that microplastics have been discovered in almost all body tissues studied. In 2022，a World Health Organization report stated that there was no clear risk to human health from microplastics，based on the evidence available.However，since research on this topic is relatively new，the full impact of microplastics on human health remains vague.Some studies suggest that plastics can cause inflammation and other bodily changes，likely increasing the risk of heart attacks. To reduce exposure （接触） to microplastics，researchers suggest several steps.Remove your shoes before entering your home to prevent spreading microplastics indoors.Choose home-prepared foods，especially fresh fruits and vegetables.Avoid heating foods in plastic containers and choose metal or glass water bottles instead of plastic ones.These simple actions can help reduce your contact with these tiny，and harmful particles.（1）What is paragraph 2 mainly about？ ____ A．The rapid spread of microplastics.B．The forming process of microplastics.C．The benefits of plastics in various industries.D．The influence of plastics on the environment.（2）What does the underlined word "vague" in paragraph 4 probably mean？ ____ A．Uncertain.B．Obvious.C．Unchanged.D．Far-reaching.（3）What is recommended to reduce exposure to microplastics according to the text？ ____ A．Changing clothes after doing housework.B．Avoiding using plastic bags when shopping.C．Thinking twice before consuming processed foods.D．Replacing plastic containers with metal ones.（4）What's a suitable title for the text？ ____ A．Are microplastics harmful？B．Should microplastics be removed from our life？C．Joint effort is needed to deal with microplastics.D．Microplastics are becoming a tough problem.

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经过漫长的一天工作后，她决定在公园里散步，以恢复精神。 After a long day at work, she decided to take a ________ walk in the park to clear her mind. A. refreshB. refreshmentC. refreshingD. refreshed