7、We all know that everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older, but men's minds decline more than women's, according to the results of a worldwide survey.

General differences seem to be inherent in male and female brains: Men are better at maintaining and dealing with mental images （useful in mathematical reasoning and spatial skills）, while women tend to excel at（擅長于） recalling information from their brain's files. Many studies have looked for a connection between sex and the amount of mental decline （衰退） people experience as they age, but the results have been mixed.

Some studies found more age-related decline in men than in women, while others saw the opposite or even no relationship at all between sex and mental decline.

Those results could be improper because the studies involved older people, and women live longer than men: The men tested are the survivors, "so they're the ones that may not have shown such cognitive（認(rèn)知的） decline," said study team leader Elizabeth of the University of Warwick in England.

Scientists surveyed completed four tasks that tested sex-related cognitive skills: matching an object to its rotated form, matching lines shown from the same angle, typing as many words in a particular category （范疇） as possible in the given time, e.g. "object usually colored gray", and recalling the location of objects in a line drawing. The first two were tasks at which men are usually good; the latter are typically dominated by women. Within each age group studied, men and women performed better in their separate categories on average. And though performance declined with age for both genders, women showed obviously less decline than men overall.

1．The underlined word in the second paragraph means________.

A．natural           B．great                C．obvious              D．a(chǎn)bsolute

2．According to the passage, which of the following can Not be typed into the same category?

A．cloud                 B．sheep                  C．trees                  D．goose

3．Which of the following statements is true according the article?

A．Men do better than women when it comes to learning English.

B．Women stand out at remembering people’s names.

C．Women do well in dealing mathematic problems.

D．Men excel at typing as many words as possible in the given time.

4．One important factor that affects the correctness of the results is that ________.

A．women live longer than men

B．people surveyed are all old

C．the old men tested may not have shown such cognitive decline

D．people taking part in this test came from all over the world

5．The author aims to tell us that _________.

A．women’s minds perform better than men’s

B．men’s minds decline more with age

C．everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older

D．a(chǎn) survey on human’s mind decline was done recently

6、Most young people enjoy some form of physical activity. It may be walking, cycling, or swimming, or in winter, skating or skiing. It may be a game of some form ---- football, basketball, hockey, golf or tennis. It may be mountaineering.

       Those who have a passion for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risks in high mountains? This astonishment is caused, probably, by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to which men give their leisure.

      Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man-made rules, as others, as there are for such games as golf and football. There are, of course, rules of different kind which it would be dangerous to ignore, but it is this freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering attractive to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods.

       If we compare mountaineering and other more familiar sports, we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a “team game”. We should be mistaken in this. There are, it is true, no “matches” between “teams” of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face linked by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is obviously teamwork.

       The mountain climber knows that he may have to fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than man. He has to fight the forces of nature. His sport requires high mental and physical qualities.

       A mountain climber continues to improve in skill year after year. A skier is probably past his best by the age of thirty. But it is not unusual for men of fifty or sixty to climb the highest mountains in the Alps. They may take more time than younger men, but they perhaps climb with more skill and less waste of effort, and they certainly experience equal enjoyment.

1. What movements are popular among people in winter in the passage?

A．Soccer and golf.                                  B．Skiing and skating.

C．Cycling and hockey.                             D．Mountaineering.

2. The underlined word “passion”（Para．2） could best be replaced by ________.

A．strong emotion        B．depression        C．feeling                    D．a(chǎn)stonishment

3. Mountaineering is a sport, not a game because ________.

A．it has man-made rules

B．it is too dangerous for climbers

C．it can’t bring people joy and leisure

D．it is free for climbers to use their own methods

4. A mountain climber must be strong both mentally and physically because _______.

A．there are no regular man-made rules for him to follow

B．there is no teamwork and he has to depend on himself

C．his component is not one or several people but the powerful nature

D．mountaineering requires the skills practiced year after year

5. We know from the passage that _______.

A．mountaineering has no appeal to people

B．physical quality is more important than mental one for climbers

C．it is possible for an old man of fifty or sixty to climb the Alps

D．a(chǎn) mountain climber would pass his best by the age of thirty

5、The Untied Nations was formed on October 24, 1945, when the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China and France and a majority of other member countries signed the Charter（憲章） of the United Nations. The name “United Nations” was actually created by US President Franklin Roosevelt in the 1942 Declaration of United Nations.

Purposes

      The Charter of the United Nations is the document that guides the organization. It describes the organization’s purposes, principles, membership and composition.

       According to Article I of the Charter, the purposes of the United Nations are:

?                      to maintain international peace and security…;

?                      to develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;

?                      to achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedom for all…

?                      to be a center for harmonizing（協(xié)調(diào)） the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.

Composition

The UN is made up of several units, or bodies. The main bodies of the UN are: the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Secretariatat, the International Court of Justice, the Economic and Social Council, and the Trusteeship Council.

The body with which most people are familiar is the General Assembly. This is the picture you often see of the United Nations, a large body of delegates, similar to a congress, voting on a resolution. There are currently 192 member nations in the UN, and each has one vote in the Assembly. Some important questions that come before the General Assembly, like possible actions to maintain peace or admission of new members, require a two-thirds vote for passage.

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the United Nations’ purposes mentioned in this passage?

A．To harmonize the actions of nations              B．To help nations strengthen their power

C．To fight for human freedom.                        D．To fight for human rights.

2. If the General Assembly wants to admit a new member, it requires at least the agreement of ________ countries.

A．120                        B．128                        C．150                        D．192

3. What is the meaning of the underlined word “Composition” in the text?

A．A piece of music.                                        B．A short text.

C．Different parts of an organization.                D．The nations in an organization.

4. Which part of the United Nations performs the function of deciding actions to maintain peace?

A．The General Assembly.                                B．The Security Council.

C．The Secretariat.                                                 D．The International Court of Justice.

5. What will probably be introduced next in this passage?

A．The Security Council.

B．UN calendar of events.

C．The actions that the United Nations has ever taken.

D．Some famous people in the United Nations.

4、The common cold is the world’s most widespread illness, which is plagues（疫�。� that flesh receives.

The most widespread fallacy（謬誤） of all is that colds caused by cold．They are not. They are caused by viruses passing on from person to person. You catch a cold by coming into contact, directly or indirectly, with someone who already has one. If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated arctic regions explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes.

During the First World War soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches（戰(zhàn)壕）, cold and wet, showed no increased tendency to catch colds.

In the Second World War prisoners at the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp（集中營）, naked and starving, were astonished to find that they seldom had colds. At the Common Cold Research Unit in England, volunteers took part in Experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be with cold water, and then stood about dripping wet in drafty room. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.

If, then, cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds, why are they more frequent in the winter？Despite the most pains-taking research, no one has yet found the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on.

No one has yet found a cure for the cold．There are drugs and pain suppressors（止痛片） such as aspirin, but all they do is relieve the symptoms（癥狀）.

1. The writer offered _______ examples to support his argument.

A．4                           B．5                           C．6                           D．3

2. Which of the following does not agree with the chosen passage?

A．The Eskimos do not suffer from colds all the time.

B．Colds are not caused by cold．

C．People suffer from colds just because they like to stay indoors.

D．A person may catch a cold by touching someone who already has one.

3. Arctic explorers may catch colds when _______.

A．they are working in the isolated arctic regions

B．they are writing reports in terribly cold weather

C．they are free from work in the isolated arctic regions

D．they are coming into touch again with the outside world

4. Volunteers taking part in the experiments in the Common Cold Research Unit ______.

A．suffered a lot                                                   B．never caught colds

C．often caught colds                                     D．became very strong

5. The passage mainly discusses _______.

A．the experiments on the common cold

B．the cures about the common cold

C．the reason and the way people catch colds

D．the continued spread of common colds

2、假定你是李華，你的英國朋友Jill將于今年9月來廣東讀大學(xué)。他寫信向你咨詢外國人如何在中國考取小汽車駕駛執(zhí)照的問題。

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Dear Jill,

       Glad to receive your letter of April 15. Now I will tell you how to apply for a driving license here in China.

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       I am looking forward to meeting you in China.

                                                                                                                       Love,

                                                                                                                       Li Hua