At any rate I did not succeed in making myself （understand) ______ by you.

At any rate I did not succeed _______ myself understood by you.

A. making

B. made

C. to make

D. in making

A．making

B．made

C．to make

D．in making

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.

听力原文：M: Excuse me. I'm having trouble hearing in the back of the room. Did you say that your teaching assistant would correct the final exams？

W: No, I said that he would collect them. I'll rate them myself. Any other thing I can be of help？

Q: What's the relationship between the two speakers？

(12)

A．Secretary and manager.

B．Student and professor.

C．Professor and assistant.

D．Customer and waitress.

回原有位置，以恢复文章原貌，并将所选答案的代码(指A、B、C、D、E、F、G、H、I、J、K或L)填在答题纸的相应位置上。

Mental Activities Help Save Memory

Doing mental activities is helpful. Reading books and writing at any age may save memory, a new (1) finds.

The study was conducted by some American neurologists (神经病学家). It (2) 294 people. They were given (3) on memory and thinking. They had the tests once a year for six years. They were also asked to talk about their mental activities during childhood, in their youth, during middle age and at their (4) age.

Some of those people did mental activities both (5) and late in life. They had a slower (6) of decline in memory than the others. The others (7) did such activities. Their rate of decline in memory was 48% (8) .

"Mental activities like reading and writing are great. They (9) bring benefits. We shouldn’t (10) their effects on our children, ourselves and our parents," said Robert Wilson, lead author of the study.

A. early

B. tests t

C. seldom

D. taught

E. faster

F. produce

G. study

H. Current

I. involved

J. neglec

K. rate

L. really

hour at a rate of $10 and time and ？ for any hours worked over 8 in a day. How much did Simon get paid？

A.$120.25

B.$160.75

C.$173.75

D.$180

E.$182.50

inward and think about how we can improve the way we live our lives. But as we embark on this annual ritual of introspection, we would do well to ask ourselves a simple question: Does it really do any good？

The poet Theodore Roethke had some insight into the matter: "Self-contemplation is a curse that makes an old confusion worse." As a psychologist, I think Roethke had a point, one that's supported by a growing body of controlled psychological studies.

In a study I conducted with Dolores Kraft, a clinical psychologist, and Dana Dunn, a social psychologist, people in one group were asked to list the reasons their relationship with a romantic partner was going the way it was, and then rate how satisfied they were with the relationship. People in another group were asked to rate their satisfaction without any analysis; they just gave their gut reactions.

It might seem that the people who thought about the specifics would be best at figuring out how they really felt, and that their satisfaction ratings would thus do the best job of predicting the outcome of their relationships.

In fact, we found the reverse. It was the people in the "gut feeling" group whose ratings predicted whether they were still dating their partner several months later. As for the navel gazers, their satisfaction ratings did not predict the outcome of their relationships at all. Rather, too much analysis can confuse people about how they really feel.

Self-reflection is especially problematic when we are feeling down. Research by Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, a clinical psychologist at Yale University, shows that when people are depressed, ruminating on their problems makes things worse.

For years it was believed that emergency workers like police officers and firefighters should undergo a debriefing process to focus on and relive their experiences; the idea was that this would make them feel better and prevent mental health problems down the road. But did it do any good？ In an extensive review of the research, a team led by Richard McNally, a clinical psychologist at Harvard, concluded that debriefing procedures have little benefit and might even hurt by interrupting the normal healing process. People often distract themselves from thinking about painful events right after they occur, and this may be better than mentally reliving the events.

According to the author, why do people tend to look inward at the end of a year？

A．They want to know if they get prepared for the future.

B．They consider it beneficial to their future lives.

C．They pay too much attention to their self-improvement.

D．They overemphasize their progress in the past year.

听力原文：Olga: Hi Ben! Hi Sally! Come in.

Ben: Hi Olga!

Sally: Hi Olga!

Olga: Did you have any problems getting some basic information for our project on fitness assessments？

Ben: I didn't. There's plenty of information available nowadays, because so many people are interested in keeping fit.

Sally: Yes, I got some useful information we can use from websites

and Ben got some stuff from fitness centres in the city. Q21

Olga: Great! I found some things in magazines and newspapers. I Q22

think we might find the biggest problem is that we have too

much information. Anyway, let's begin. Now, a fitness assessment Q23

is a series of measurements that can help determine

physical fitness. There are several standard tests in a fitness

assessment. Depending upon the assessor, other tests may be

added to achieve a greater picture of fitness.

Sally: Or lack of it! According to my information, the main tests in

a fitness assessment evaluate body mass index, resting heart

rate and blood pressure, and aerobic fitness. Additional tests

may evaluate body composition, lung capacity, flexibility and

strength.

Ben: What exactly does the body mass index tell us about a person's fitness？

Sally: Body mass index evaluates a person in terms of their height and weight to determine total body mass. It can show if a person's body mass measurement exceeds normal limits and thus indicates that weight loss would be a good idea.

Ben: So, it's a bit inexact, then？

Olga: Yes, it is. BMI alone is usually not thought to be the best measure

of physical fitness. Someone who is very muscular may Q24

have a higher BMI than is considered normal, because muscle

weighs more. A true measurement of a body's fat content in a

fitness assessment may be better obtained through something

called hydrostatic weighing, which assesses the body's composition Q25

more exactly.

Ben: Hydrostatic weighing？ I've never heard of it.

Olga: I don't have any more information on it. We can make a note of it and look it up later. Sally, you said there were other ways of evaluating fitness？ Sally: Er ... yes. A typical fitness assessment. will also evaluate heart

rate and blood pressure. Measuring resting heart rate is important

because it allows you to figure out what the safe levels of increasing

the heart rate are during aerobic exercise. The basic

formula for measuring safe maximum heart rate is 220 minus Q26

age, minus resting heart rate. This figure is multiplied by 0.9 Q27

and the resting heart rate is added back to get the maximum

heart rate at which one can safely exercise. Olga: However, it says here that determining appropriate maximum

heart rate in a fitness assessment should also take into account

blood pressure. A person with high blood pressure should be Q28

evaluated by a physician prior to proceeding with an exercise

programme.

Ben: Definitely! Another common test in a fitness assessment is

aerobic fitness. This looks at the heart rate and oxygen rate Q29

during a moderate workout that may last five to ten minutes.

Evaluations about the ability of the blood to oxy

听力原文：W: Mr. Glieberman, do you see any change in the high rate of broken marriages？

M: The divorce rate is beginning to level off and probably will begin to drop in the next year or two, though not significantly.

W: Why is it so？

M: The tightened economy has made it more difficult for troubled couples to handle all the costs associated with setting up separate households.

W: Is there any other reason？

M:Yes. I believe there is a comeback of thought after the turbulent 60s and 70s that the family does have value. In the midst of change and family disintegration, people seem to have a greater desire now to create stability in their lives.

W: What is the divorce rate now？

M: About one in three marriages ends in divorce, a ratio far higher than it was twenty years ago when the philosophy was "we will tough it out no matter what". Society demands that for appearance's sake we stay together. Divorce no longer carries much disgrace.

W: Could you give us an example？

M: Yes. There is no way, for example, that Ronald Reagan, a divorced man, could have been elected president in 1960. And there are countless other divorced politicians who, years ago, would have been voted out of office if they had even considered a divorce, let alone gotten one. The same was true in the corporate structure where divorced people rarely moved up the executive ladder. Now corporations welcome a divorced man.

W: Why？

M: Because they can shift him around the country without worrying about relocating his family or making certain that they are happy.

Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

19. Which word best describes Mr. Glieberman's prediction of the change in the divorce rate？

20. What do people nowadays desire to do concerning their marriage？

21. Why did some people choose not to divorce 20 years ago？

22. What do we know about a divorced man in a company years ago from the conversation？

(23)

A．Rise.

B．Fall.

C．V-shape.

D．Zigzag.

inward and think about how we can improve the way we live our lives. But as we embark on this annual ritual of introspection, we would do well to ask ourselves a simple question: Does it really do any good？

The poet Theodore Roethke had some insight into the matter: "Self-contemplation is a curse that makes an old confusion worse." As a psychologist, I think Roethke had a point, one that's supported by a growing body of controlled psychological studies.

In a study I conducted with Dolores Kraft, a clinical psychologist, and Dana Dunn, a social psychologist, people in one group were asked to list the reasons their relationship with a romantic partner was going the way it was, and then rate how satisfied they were with the relationship. People in another group were asked to rate their satisfaction without any analysis; they just gave their gut reactions.

It might seem that the people who thought about the specifics would be best at figuring out how they really felt, and that their satisfaction ratings would thus do the best job of predicting the outcome of their relationships.

In fact, we found the reverse. It was the people in the "gut feeling" group whose ratings predicted whether they were still dating their partner several months later. As for the navel gazers, their satisfaction ratings did not predict the outcome of their relationships at all. Rather, too much analysis can confuse people about how they really feel.

Self-reflection is especially problematic when we are feeling down. Research by Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, a clinical psychologist at Yale University, shows that when people are depressed, ruminating on their problems makes things worse.

For years it was believed that emergency workers like police officers and firefighters should undergo a debriefing process to focus on and relive their experiences; the idea was that this would make them feel better and prevent mental health problems down the road. But did it do any good？ In an extensive review of the research, a team led by Richard McNally, a clinical psychologist at Harvard, concluded that debriefing procedures have little benefit and might even hurt by interrupting the normal healing process. People often distract themselves from thinking about painful events right after they occur, and this may be better than mentally reliving the events.

According to the author, why do people tend to look inward at the end of a year？

A．They want to know if they get prepared for the future.

B．They consider it beneficial to their future lives.

C．They pay too much attention to their self-improvement.

D．They overemphasize their progress in the past year.

The author implies, but does not directly state, that ______.

A．cutting taxes will promote the economic development

B．excessive tax rate won't do any good to economic growth

C．Margaret Thatcher's predecessors were so stupid as to lose Britain's leading position in Europe

D．Margaret Thatcher did better than anyone else in tax cut