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　　My father made a deal with me that he would match whatever I could come up with to buy my fir st car．From the time I wa s a saver．My allowance, back in tho se day s, wa s twenty five cent s a week．I grew up on a farm near a small town called Ventura．In tho se day s the area wa s mo stly agricultural．The climate wa s and still i s a s clo se to perfect a s you could get．I earned some of my money picking one crop or another．When I wa s about ten, a school friend' s family owned walnut orchard s(果園)and it wa s harve st time．She told me we could earn five dollar s for every bag of walnut s we picked．I certainly learned about picking walnut s that day．Not surprisingly, that wa s my fir st and la st time a s a walnut picker．

　　In 1960 my grandmother pa s sed away．She left me 100 share s of AT＆T．One hundred share s of stock don't seem like much today but back then tho se share s paid me＄240 per year in dividend s(利息)．That wa s huge for a kid my age．

　　By the time I wa s seventeen．I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and I knew exactly that I wanted．Ithink my father wa s somewhat suri sed when I announced I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and wa s ready to buy my new car．I'll never forget the evening my father said, “Let' s go see about that car”．I wa s so excited．

　　My father could have ea sily ju st given me the car but he alway s in si sted that hi s children work for what they got．Thi s wa s not a bad thing．I learned self-reliance．Self-reliance i s equal to freedom．Now that I think about it I need to be thanking my father．

(1)

Which one of the following s didn't belong to the saving of ＄1, 300?

[　　]

A．

Weekly allowance．

B．

Her earning s by picking crop s．

C．

Share s left by grandma．

D．

Money earned from selling share s．

(2)

The underlined part in the second paragraph probably meant ________．

[　　]

A．

she didn't have the chance of picking walnut s

B．

enough money had been earned for her car

C．

the work wa s too hard for children like her

D．

she had no time to do that again for some rea son

(3)

We can know from the pa s sage the author got her car at the age of ________．

[　　]

A．

16

B．

17

C．

18

D．

19

(4)

The purpo se of the author' s father doing like that wa s to ________．

[　　]

A．

give the author freedom

B．

be unwilling to buy the author a car

C．

teach the author to learn self－reliance

D．

give the author a big surpri se

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聽力(共兩節(jié)，滿分30分)

第一節(jié)　聽下面5段對(duì)話。每段對(duì)話后有一個(gè)小題，從題中所給的A、B、C三個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)。聽完每段對(duì)話后，你都有10秒鐘的時(shí)間來回答有關(guān)小題和閱讀下一題。每段對(duì)話僅讀一遍。

1．What i s Jack' s occupation now?

A．A secretary．

B．A noveli st．

C．A new spaperman．

2．Where doe s thi s conver sation mo st likely take place?

A．In a lab．

B．In a clinic．

C．In a dining hall．

3．How old i s Jane?

A．19．

B．27．

C．35．

4．How often doe s the man go to vi sit hi s teacher?

A．At lea st once a year．

B．Once every two year s．

C．Twice a month．

5．How did the woman feel about the Engli sh program?

A．It' s intere sting．

B．It' s difficult．

C．It' s important．

第二節(jié)(共15小題：每小題15分，滿分22.5分)

請(qǐng)聽下面5段對(duì)話。每段對(duì)話后有幾個(gè)小題，從題中所給出的A、B、C三個(gè)選項(xiàng)種選出最佳選項(xiàng)。聽每段對(duì)話前，你將有時(shí)間閱讀各個(gè)小題，每小題5秒鐘；聽完后，各小題給出5秒鐘的作答時(shí)間。每段對(duì)話讀兩遍。

聽第6段材料，回答第6、7題．

6．How doe s the man seem to feel after thi s job interview?

A．Anxiou s．

B．Hopeful．

C．De sperate．

7．How many interviewee s were able to go to the second interview?

A．4．

B．12．

C．16．

聽第7段材料，回答第8、9題。

8．How much will the man pay?

A．15 yuan．

B．55 yuan．

C．50 yuan．

9．How long doe s the Cheaper way take?

A．At lea st two week s．

B．At lea st ten day s．

C．It' s lea st ten week s．

聽第8段材料，回答第10至12題。

10．Why doe s the man refu se the fir st flat?

A．It' s too smal1．

B．It' s too expen sive．

C．It' s not on the top floor．

11．Why doe s the woman let the man look at the second flat fir st?

A．He i s clean and quiet．

B．He i s kind and polite．

C．He i s poor and hone st．

12．How much will the man pay before moving in?

A．＄100．

B．＄50．

C．＄30．

聽第9段材料，回答第13至16題。

13．What i s Tom doing?

A．Li stening to Engli sh song s．

B．Surfing the Internet．

C．Preparing for a te st．

14．How doe s the woman find studying Engli sh?

A．Intere sting．

B．Boring．

C．Difficult．

15．What doe s the woman sugge st the man do?

A．Play more game s online．

B．Talk with friend s online more often．

C．Learn We stern culture online．

16．What will the woman do next?

A．Go to school．

B．Take an exam．

C．Review le s son s．

聽第10段材料，回答第17至20題。

17．Who i s the speaker talking to?

A．People showing intere st in the theater．

B．People working in the building．

C．People vi siting the univer sity．

18．What i s the video showing today?

A．The teacher s of the univer sity．

B．The hi story of the theater．

C．The building s in the city．

19．How soon will people meet again?

A．In an hour and a half．

B．In half an hour．

C．In an hour．

20．What i s the purpo se of the speaker' s talk?

A．To tell people the rule s they should follow．

B．To give people a brief introduction．

C．To show people the direction．

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根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)為選項(xiàng)．

Ea sy Way s to Keep Your Brain Sharp

　　Everyone i s forgetful, but a s we age, we start to feel like our brain s are slowing down a bit-and that can be a very annoying thing．　　1　　 Read on for some technique s worth trying．

　　1．　　2　　

　　People who regularly made plan s and looked forward to upcoming event s had a 50 percent reduced chance of Alzheimer' s di sea se(老年性癡呆癥)， according to a recent study．　　3　　 Something a s simple a s setting a goal to have a weekly coffee date with a friend will do．There' s evidence that people who have a purpo se in life or who are working on long or short-term goal s appear to do better．In other word s, keep your brain looking forward．

　　2．Go for a walk．

　　Mildly rai sed glucose(葡萄糖)level s can harm the area of the brain that help s you form memorie s and phy sical activity can help get blood glucose down to normal level s．In fact, exerci se produce s chemical s that are good for your brain．　　4　　

　　3．Learn something new．

　　Take a Spani sh cla s s online, join a drawing club, or learn to play card s．A study found that mental stimulation limit s the weakening effect s of aging on memory and the mind．But the be st thing for your brain i s when you learn something new and are phy sically active at the same time．　　5　　 Or you can ju st go dancing with your friend s．

A．Focu s on the future．

B．Thi s can be e specially harmful to the aged．

C．It should be something like learning gardening．

D．So take a few minute s each day to do some reading．

E．But don't worry if our schedule i sn't filled with life－changing event s．

F．Luckily, re search show s there i s a lot you can do to avoid tho se moment s．

G．In other word s, when you take care of your body, you take care of your brain．

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　　Two year s ago, Wendy Ha snip, 47，experienced a brain injury that left her speechle s s for two week s．When she finally recovered, she found her self talking with what seemed to be a French accent．“I phoned a friend the other day, and she spent the fir st ten minute s laughing, ” Ha snip said at the time, “while I have nothing again st the French．”

　　Ha snip suffered from foreign accent syndrome(外國口音綜合癥), a rare condition in which people find them selve s speaking their own language like someone from a foreign country．The condition u sually occur s in people who have experienced a head injury or a stroke-a sudden lo s s of con sciou sne s s, sen sation, or movement cau sed by a blocked or broken blood ve s selin the brain．

　　The condition wa s fir st identified during the Second World War in a Norwegian woman who se head wa s injured during an attack by the German military．The woman recovered but wa s left with a German-sounding accent, to the horror of fellow villager s who avoided her after that．

　　Re searcher s have di scovered that the combined effect of the damage to several part s of the brain make s victim s lengthen certain syllable, mi spronounce sound s, and change the normal pitch(音高)of their voice．Tho se change s in speech add up to what sound s like a foreign accent．

　　Another re searcher, a phonetician, say s victim s of the syndrome don't acquire a true foreign accent．Their strangely changed speech only re semble s the foreign accent with which it ha s a few sound s in common．

　　When an Engli sh woman named Annie recently developed foreign accent syndrome after a stroke, she spoke with what seemed to be a Scotti sh accent．However, Annie' s Scotti sh coworker s said she didn't sound at all like a Scot．

(1)

According to the pa s sage, people ________ may have foreign accent syndrome．

[　　]

A．

who se parent ha s experienced a head injury

B．

who have lived in a foreign country for a long time

C．

who have lo st their con sciou sne s s owing to a stroke

D．

who have learned foreign language from their coworker s

(2)

If a per son suffer s foreign accent syndrome, ________．

[　　]

A．

hi s coworker s will be afraid of him and avoid contacting with him

B．

he ha s more chance of suffering stroke again

C．

he will speak a fluent foreign language like native speaker s

D．

hi s speech only ha s a few sound s in common with the foreign accent

(3)

Writing thi s pa s sage, the writer' s main purpo se i s to ________．

[　　]

A．

introduce foreign accent syndrome and some related information

B．

warn people not to be at the ri sk of experiencing a stroke

C．

make it clear that foreign accent syndrome can be cured

D．

tell a story of an injured woman during the Second World War

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