There is an English saying, “Laughter is the best medicine.” Until recently, few people took the saying very seriously. Now, however, doctors have begun to study laughter and the effects it has on the human body. They have found facts that laughter really can improve people’s health.

  Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their heart rate, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. It increases blood pressure, the heart rate and the rate of breathing. it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach, and even the feet. If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial.

Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors produce pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programmes. The group which tolerated(忍受) the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny programme. The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce endorphins(內(nèi)啡肽) in the brain. These are natural chemicals which diminish both stress and pain.

There is also some fact to suggest that laughter helps the body’s immune （免疫的）system, that is , the system which fights infection. In an experiment, one group of students watched a funny video while another group of students served as the control group--- in other words, a group with which to compare the first group. Doctors checked the blood of the students in both groups and found that the people in the group that watched the video had an increase in the activity of their white blood cells, that is, the cells which fight infection.

As a result of these discoveries, some doctors and psychiatrists( 精神病醫(yī)生) in the United States now hold laughter clinics, in which they try to improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh.

They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing , making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.

It can be learnt from the passage that laughter can ______.

A. make people feel younger        B. change people’s habits

C. improve people’s health           D. make people love their lives

The underlined word “diminish” refers to _______.

A. test            B. reduce               C. stop           D. find

Smiling can produce____.

A. the same effects as laughter             B. more effects than laughter

C. less effects on the human body D. no effects on the human body

The main idea of this passage is that _____.

   A. there are several ways of studying the benefits of laughter.

   B. laughter and physical exercise have the same effects on human body.

   C. tests show that laughter can produce beneficial effects on human body.

   D. the doctors should learn how to make people laugh.

You cannot see any object unless light from that object gets into your eyes. Some of the things you see give off light of their own. The sun, the stars, a lighted lamp are examples that can be ssen by their own light. Such things are luminous. Most of the things you see are not giving off light of their own. They are simply reflecting light that falls on them from the sun or some other luminous bodies. Then moon , for example , does not give off any light of its own. It is non-luminous. You see it because sunlight falls on it and some of it reflects in your direction. So moonlight is only secondhand sunlight.

When you look at a book, it sends your eyes some of the light that falls on it, and you see the book. If light could be kept out from where you are so that there would be no light for the book to reflect, then you could not see the book even with your eyes wide open.

Light travels so fast that the time in which it travels from the book you are reading to your eyes is so short as if it took no time at all. Light reaches us form the moon , which is about 380,000 kilometers away, in only a little more than a second.

You can see the book because___________.

   A. your eyes are close to it .   B. it reflects light

   C. it has light of its own      D. your eyes can get to it

The word “ reflects”  means____________.

   A. throws back              B. takes back

   C. gives off                 D. sends out

    ___________ have light of their won.

   A. the sun and the moon     B. The stars and the earth

   C. The sun and the stars     D. The moon and the earth

閱讀下面的短文，然后按照要求寫一篇150左右的英語短文。

Insistence or Giving up

There is a battle in our daily life. Two forces are fighting with each other again and again. They never stop until you are buried in the earth. We called them insistence and giving up. They are like twins. One is angle, and the other is a demon..

As we all know, we want to pass the CET-4. So we get our own strategy. First of all, I am bound to master five thousand vocabularies. Second, I will write an article every week which is at least two hundred words. Then I will read at least two English articles, make more friends with foreigners for learning native English, and listening to some English news broadcast every day.

Nevertheless, according to my strategy, the first day, I should wake up at 6 a.m. to memorize at least twenty words. The alarm clock rings for me; I should get rid of my bed in order to study. Suddenly, “Giving up” came and whispered to me. “What about a five-minute prolong sleeping? How soft, comfortable this bed is! But Ms Insistence urged me, “Don’t listen to him; Come on, let’s carry out our plan.” Her voice is sweet, but not what I need.

Time flies! If we can’t seize every opportunity to appreciate time, Mr. Giving up will win all the time. Insistence of your plan, your dream may not be accomplished successfully, but giving up, you are sure to fail in life. (237w)

【寫作內(nèi)容】

 有些人做事有時(shí)候缺乏持之以恒的毅力。 請(qǐng)就“堅(jiān)持” 還是 “放棄”的話題發(fā)表你自己的看法，內(nèi)容要點(diǎn)包括：

1 以約30個(gè)詞概括閱讀材料的要點(diǎn)；

2 請(qǐng)選擇一個(gè)角度，用你自己或朋友的經(jīng)歷，以約120個(gè)詞談?wù)勛约旱挠^點(diǎn)， 內(nèi)容包括：

1） 持之以恒對(duì)工作和學(xué)習(xí)有什么意義；

2） 以成功或失敗的事例來說明持之以恒的重要性；

3） 你對(duì)大家的建議是什么。

【寫作要求】

在作文中可以使用自己的親身經(jīng)歷或虛構(gòu)的故事，也可以參照閱讀材料的內(nèi)容但不得直接引用原文中的句子；作文中不能出現(xiàn)真實(shí)姓名和學(xué)校名稱。

第二節(jié):完成句子:每空格填一個(gè)詞

71. .這張照片讓我想起我的童年。

 The picture _______________ me ____________ my childhood.

72. 考試作弊，必予追究。

If you cheat in the exam you'll never                                   it.

73. 他來不來對(duì)我都一樣。

   It    _________    _________      __________     me whether he comes or not.

74. 我打賭我們會(huì)贏那場足球賽。

   I    ___      _____        _____     that we would    _____    the football match.

75. 吉姆和莉莉結(jié)婚三年了。

 Jim __________  ____________  ____________  ___________ Lily for three years.

       Most of the audience wondered what idea a man who’s deaf from birth can have _____ music.

A. with                        B. in                                   C. of                                D. at

He hesitated for a moment before kicking the ball，otherwise he        a goal．

      A．had scored                                B．would score

      C．would have scored                       D．would be scoring

第二部分閱讀理解(共20小題；每小題2分，滿分40分)

    閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)A、B、C和D中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。

Each time I see a balloon, my mind flies back to a memory of when I was a six-year-old girl. It was a rainy Sunday and my father had recently died. I asked my mom if Dad had gone to heaven. "Yes, honey. Of course," she said.

    "Can we write him a letter?"

    She paused, the longest pause of my short life, and answered, "Yes."

    My heart jumped. "How? Does the mailman go there?" I asked.

    "No, but I have an idea." Mom drove to a party store and returned with a red balloon. I asked her what it was for.

    "Just wait, honey. You'll see." Mom told me to write my letter. Eagerly, I got my favorite pen, and poured out my six-year-old heart in the form of blue ink. I wrote about my day, what I learned at school, how Morn was doing, and even about what happened in a story I had read. For a few minutes it was as if Dad were still alive. I gave the letter to Mom. She read it over, and a smile crossed her face.

    She made a hole in the corner of the letter where she looped(纏繞) the balloon string. We went outside and she gave me the balloon. It was still raining.

    "Okay, on the count of three, let go. One, two, three."

   The balloon, carrying my letter, darted(猛沖) upward against the rain. We watched until it was swallowed by the mass of clouds.

   Later I realized, like the balloon, that Dad had never let his sickness get him down. He was strong. No matter what he suffered, he'd persevere, dart up, and finally transcend(超越) this cold world and his sick body. He rose into sky and became something beautiful. I watched until the balloon disappeared into the gray and white and I prayed that his strength was hereditary(遺傳的). I prayed to be a balloon.

56. When the girl asked her mother if they could write to her father, her mother ______.

   A. felt it hard to answer                        B. thought her a creative girl

C. believed it easy to do so                     D. found it easy to lie

57. When the girl was told that she could send a letter to her father, she ______.

   A. jumped with joy                            B. became excited

   C. started writing immediately            D. was worried that it couldn't be delivered

58. In the eyes of the author, what was the rain like?

A. An incurable disease.                      B. An unforgettable memory.

   C. The hard time her father had.                  D. The failures her father experienced.

59. What would be the best title for the passage?

    A. The strong red balloon                      B. An unforgettable experience

   C. Fly to paradise                            D . A great father

Wind is the movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure. In fact, wind exists because the sun unequally heats the surface of the Earth. As hot air rises, cooler air moves in to fill the gap. As long as the sun shines, the wind will blow. And as long as the wind blows, people will manage it to power their lives.

Ancient sailors used sails to capture the wind and explore the world. Farmers once used windmills to grind their grains and pump water. Today, more and more people are using wind turbines to make electricity from the breeze. Over the past decade, wind turbine use has increased at more than 25 percent a year. Still, it only provides a small part of the world's energy.

Most wind energy comes from turbines that can be as tall as a 20-story building and have three 200-foot-long (60-meter-long) blades. These devices look like giant airplane propellers(螺槳)on a stick. The wind spins the blades, which turn a shaft connected to a generator.

The biggest wind turbines generate enough electricity to supply about 600 U.S. homes. Wind farms have tens and sometimes hundreds of these turbines lined up together in particularly windy spots, like along a ridge. Smaller turbines set up in a backyard can produce enough electricity for a single home or small business.

Wind is a clean source of renewable energy that produces no air or water pollution. And since the wind is free, operational costs are nearly zero once a turbine is erected. Mass production and technology advances are making turbines cheaper, and many governments decrease tax to encourage wind-energy development.

Some people think wind turbines are ugly and complain about the noise the machines make. The slowly rotating blades(螺旋風(fēng)片) can also kill birds and bats, but not nearly as many as cars, power lines, and high-rise buildings do. The wind is also changeable: If it's not blowing, there's no electricity generated.

Nevertheless, the wind energy industry is increasing sharply. Globally, generation more than quadrupled(四倍) between 2000 and 2006. At the end of last year, global capacity was more than 70,000 megawatts. In the energy-hungry United States, a single megawatt is enough electricity to power about 250 homes. Germany has the most installed wind energy capacity, followed by Spain, the United States, India, and Denmark. Development is also fast growing in France and China.

Industry experts predict that if this pace of growth continues, by 2050 the answer to one third of the world's electricity needs will be found blowing in the wind

63. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

A. The rotating blades can kill as many birds as high-rise buildings do

B. Single families are not encouraged to build turbines.

C. The USA produces more wind power than any other country in the world.

D. The noise the turbines make may discourage people from building them.

64. The underlined word “generator” in the third paragraph probably means_______.

A. 電動(dòng)機(jī)                  B. 發(fā)電機(jī)                    C. 機(jī)翼                       D. 飛機(jī)引擎

65. If the USA wants to build wind turbines in an area with 30,000 homes, how many

should they build at least?

A. 50.                          B. 150.                         C. 250.                         D. 200.

66. All the following are the advantages of wind energy EXCEPT that_________.

       A. it is environmentally friendly                        B. it is free to build and operate

       C. the government supports it                                   D. the energy is clean and renewable

第Ⅱ卷 (非選擇題 兩部分 共35分)

第四部分 任務(wù)型閱讀 (共10小題；每小題1分，滿分10分)

請(qǐng)認(rèn)真閱讀下列短文，并根據(jù)所讀內(nèi)容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~。

注意：每空格1個(gè)單詞。

When Carla Fisher and her husband announced plans to travel the globe with their young daughters for a year, some friends called them crazy.

    Seven years later, with wonderful memories and a book documenting their world travel, the Fishers now seem like global trailblazers (先驅(qū)者).

    “It’s really encouraging to hear that many other people want to educate their kids in that manner,” said Fisher.

Some parents are trying to raise knowledgeable and open-minded “world citizens”. Others want to give their children the skills they’ll need to compete globally.

“There is a huge amount of interest in spending time abroad at all stages of life and increasingly, as a family with children,” said Maya Frost, author of “The New Global Student…”. She knows American families in every corner of the globe who have made that choice.

    “There’s so much more to education than school,” said Tessa Hill, who recently returned to her Houston-area home, after driving her family across North and Central America and Europe in a motor home for 13 months. “World travel is an education in people, cultures, language, travel skills, street smarts and in how lucky we are to live in the United States.”

    When Hill and her husband began considering extended global travel, their middle child, Charles, 13, was surprised. “My first reaction was ‘well, are we really going to do this?’” Charles said. “But it did sound like great fun.”

    Charles said missing his friends was the hardest part. He stayed in touch via e-mail and made some new friends along the way, playing soccer with kids in France and learning about rugby from youths in Ireland.

“I’d definitely recommend this to other kids,” Charles said. “It was such a great opportunity to see different countries and learn geography a different way.”

To make re-entry smoother, most school officials prefer that families work out an educational plan before they leave town.

“It sounds out-of-date, but it really opens up your mind and your eyes to the world,” said Robbin Goodman, 17, a senior student who spent his junior year skateboarding across Beijing, China, when he wasn’t studying Chinese history and other core subjects.

Had he not already taken a school-sponsored spring break trip with his mom to China in 2007, Robbin said he probably would not have been able to convince his parents to let him go alone for a year. “I knew I would learn Chinese and all that, but my goal was to have a great time,” Robbin said. 

“The biggest problem for those seriously considering going abroad is dealing with those who are against the idea,” said Frost.

“They gain the ability to take risks and to have confidence in themselves,” said Liz Pearlstein, founder of a global education consulting firm. “When we came home from London, my daughter, who had been painfully shy before we left, said ‘Mom, now I know there’s nothing I can’t do.’”

No one knows exactly how many American families are choosing the global education path,

but global education consultants say a growing number of parents are traveling for a year or more with their children.

Mike, you’ve got a “D” in physics. ________?

    —Well. I find the subject hard and I think I’ll drop it for History next term.

A. What if                 B. How come      C. Why not      D. So what