（2) This article has not been finished yet. If you were the author, you might do the following things EXCEPT________.

If you’ve ever been on a jury, you might have noticed that a funny thing happens the minute you get behind closed doors. Everybody starts talking about themselves. They say what they would have done if they had been the plaintiff or the defendant. Being on a jury reminds me why I can’t tolerate talk radio. We Americans seem to have lost the ability to talk about anything but our own experiences. We can’t seem to generalize without stereotyping or to consider evidence that goes against our own experience.

I heard a doctor on a radio show talking about a study that found that exercise reduces the incidence of Alzheimer’s. And caller after caller couldn’t wait to make essentially the opposite point: “Well, my grandmother never exercised and she lived to 95.” We are in an age summed up by the saying: “I experience, therefore I’m right.” Historically, the hallmarks of an uneducated person were the lack of ability to think critically, to use deductive reasoning to distinguish the personal from the universal. Now that seems an apt description of many Americans.

Passage 3

If you didn’t know any better, you might think that Star, Snuppy, CC and ANDi were just a bunch of interesting names. You’d only be half right. These creative names _1_ belong to a pig，a dog, a cat and a monkey that were among the first clones of their species. You’re likely already familiar with Dolly—the sheep that achieved near _2_ status as the first mammal to be cloned successfully using adult animal cells. But Dolly is not alone. The world&39;s first clone—a tadpole—was actually created as early as in 1952. And at least a dozen different species have been cloned since: everything from the common cow to the _3_ guar, a type of wild ox. Animal cloning has come a long way since that first tadpole more than 50 years ago. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration&39;s (FDA) declaration in early 2008 that food products _4_ from the clones of cows, pigs and goats are safe for human consumption _5_ an already growing interest in the process. Cloning may have _6_ uses besides its ability to help farmers _7_ breed quality burgers and bacon. Other potential uses _8_ the preservation of species, biomedical research, drug and organ production and even commercial ventures. It seems that finding out exactly how many cloned animals have been produced is almost as difficult as producing them in the first place. There’s no official _9_ of clones, and laboratories aren&39;t required to report every single tadpole or mouse they create. But armed with a bit of knowledge concerning animal cloning and its _10_, it’s likely to narrow down the contestants to a possible field.

A) inclusive

B) derived

C) applications

D) actually

E) additional

F) intensified

G) visualized

H) celebrity

I) include

J) typically

K) compromise

L) endangered

M) registry

N) duplicates

O) consistently

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Do you ever feel sick, confused, or very tired after a long plane ride? If you were fly-ing east to west or west to east, the problem could have been jet lag. (45) Jet lag happens when your body's time clock becomes confused. Crossing several time zones may make you feel very tired. You may become confused because you are tired. In fact, you may become so confused that you won't be able to do your work. You might get headaches and feel that you have problems eating and sleeping. These are all symptoms of jet lag.

However, if you feel tired after flying from north to south or south to north, you do not have jet lag. Maybe you feel tired from the tiredness and work of getting ready for the trip. You will feel better after you get some sleep. The symptoms that you feel during a flight, such as thirst and motion sickness, are not jet lag either. They are caused by the air pressure in the plane. When you travel north or south, you do not cross time zones. So you do not have true jet lag.

What is jet lag?

A．The tired and confused feeling that you get after flying.

B．Being unable to catch the plane.

C．Being too heavy to be on the plane.

D．Losing the clock in your body.

Here They Come

Most of the immigrants came because they were hungry—hungry for more bread and for better bread. America offered that. Europe was old; America was young. European soil had been farmed for many years; American soil was practically untouched. In Europe the land was in the hands of a few people, the upper classes; in America the land was available to all. In Europe it was difficult to get work; in America it was easy to get work. In Europe there were too many laborers looking for the few available jobs, so wages were low; in America there weren't enough laborers to fill the available jobs, so wages were high.

A bigger and better loaf of bread, then, attracted most of the inpouring hordes of people to America. But many came for other reasons. One was religious persecution. If you were a Catholic in a Protestant country, or a Protestant in another kind of Protestant country, or a Jew in almost any country, you were oftentimes made very uncomfortable. You might have difficulty in getting a job, or you might be laughed at, or have stones thrown at you, or you might even be murdered—just for having the wrong ( that is, different) religion. You learned about America where your religion didn't make so much difference, where you could be what you pleased, where there was room for Catholic, Protestant, Jew. To America, then!

Or perhaps you had the right religion but the wrong politics. Perhaps you thought a few people in your country had too much power, or that there should be no kings, or that the poor people paid too much taxes, or that the masses of people should have more to say about governing the country. Then, often times, your government thought you 'were too radical and tried to get hold of you to put you into prison, where your ideas might not upset the people. You didn't want to go to prison, so you had to leave the country to avoid being caught. Where to go under the circumstances? Some place where you could be a free man, where you weren't clapped into jail for talking. Probably you turned to the place Joseph de scribed in his letter to his brother. "Michael, this is a glorious country; you have liberty to do as you will. You can read what you wish, and write what you like, and talk as you have a mind to, and no one arrests you." Off to America!

For several hundred years America was advertised just as Lucky Strike cigarettes and Buick cars are advertised today. The wonders of America were told in books, pamphlets, newspapers, pictures, posters—and always this advice was given," Come to America." But why should anyone be interested in whether or not Patrick McCarthy or Hans Knobloch moved from his European home to America? There were two groups interested at different times, but for the same reason—business profits.

In the very beginning, over three hundred years ago, trading companies were organized which got huge tracts of land in America for nothing or almost nothing. That land, however, was valueless until people lived on it, until crops were produced, or animals killed for their furs. Then the trading company would step in, buy things from the settlers and sell things to company would step in, buy things from the settlers and sell things to them at a profits. The Dutch West India Company, the London Company, and several others were trading companies that gave away land in America with the idea of eventually making money on cargoes from the colonists. They wanted profitsneeded immigrants to get them advertised and people came.

In later years, from 1870 on, other groups interested in business profits tried to get people to come to America. The Cunard line, the White Star line, the North German Lloyed, and several others earned money only when people used their ships. They therefore sent advertisements to all parts of the world to get people to travel to America—in their ships. They sent not only advertisements, but also

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

Here They Come

Most of the immigrants came because they were hungry—hungry for more bread and for better bread. America offered that. Europe was old; America was young. European soil had been farmed for many years; American soil was practically untouched. In Europe the land was in the hands of a few people, the upper classes; in America the land was available to all. In Europe it was difficult to get work; in America it was easy to get work. In Europe there were too many laborers looking for the few available jobs, so wages were low; in America there weren't enough laborers to fill the available jobs, so wages were high.

A bigger and better loaf of bread, then, attracted most of the in pouring hordes of people to America. But many came for other reasons. One was religious persecution. If you were a Catholic in a Protestant country, or a Protestant in another kind of Protestant country, or a Jew in almost any country, you were oftentimes made very uncomfortable. You might have difficulty in getting a job, or you might be laughed at, or have stones thrown at you, or you might even be murdered—just for having the wrong(that is, different) religion. You learned about America where your religion didn't make so much difference, where you could be what you pleased, where there was room for Catholic, Protestant, Jew. To America, then!

Or perhaps you had the right religion but the wrong politics. Perhaps you thought a few people in your country had too much power, or that there should be no kings, or that the poor people paid too much taxes, or that the masses of people should have more to say about governing the country. Then, oftentimes, your government thought you were too radical and tried to get hold of you to put you into prison, where your ideas might not upset the people. You didn't want to go to prison, so you had to leave the country to avoid being caught. Where to go under the circumstances? Some place where you could be a free man, where you weren't clapped into jail for talking. Probably you turned to the place Joseph described in his letter to his brother. "Michael, this is a glorious country; you have liberty to do as you will. You can read what you wish, and write what you like, and talk as you have a mind to, and no one arrests you." Off to America!

For several hundred years America was advertised just as Lucky Strike cigarettes and Buick cars are advertised today. The wonders of America were told in books, pamphlets, newspapers, pictures, posters—and always this advice was given," Come to America." But why should anyone be interested in whether or not Patrick McCarthy or Hans Knobloch moved from his European home to America? There were two groups interested at different times, but for the same reason—business profits.

In the very beginning, over three hundred years ago, trading companies were organized which got huge tracts of land in America for nothing or almost nothing. That land, however, was valueless until people lived on it, until crops were produced, or animals killed for their furs. Then the trading company would step in, buy things from the settlers and sell things to company would step in, buy things from the settlers and sell things to them—at a profits. The Dutch West India Company, the London Company, and several others were trading companies that gave away land in America with the idea of eventually making money on cargoes from the colonists. They wanted profits—needed immigrants to get them—advertised—and people came.

In later years, from 1870 on, other groups interested in business profits tried to get people to come to America. The Cunard line, the White Star line, the North German Lloyed, and several others earned money only when people used their ships. They therefore sent advertisements to all parts of the world to get people to travel to America—in their ships. They sent not only advertisements, but also age

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

听力原文：M: Do you mind if I ask you how old you are?

W: Actually, I'd rather not say. But put it this way, I'm on the wrong side of 30.

M: Is that a. good age to be?

W: Um, yes, pretty good. But it's a lot older than 25, which is how old I feel.

M: What's life like when you're in your thirties?

W: Well, not very different from my twenties except that I'm seriously thinking of buying more expensive face creams, and wondering if they really work.

M: What do you think is the best age to be?

W: I think between 25 and 30 is a good age, because you've sorted out what you want and you know how to get it and you've got some experience of trying to get it. At that age, you don't think about the consequences of what you do, whereas when you're a bit older you do tend to worry about the consequences.

M: So do you wish you were still 25?

W: No, I'm happy at the age I am now. I mean I had a good time in my twenties, but I wouldn't necessarily want to relive them.

M: I see.

(20)

A．How she is able to look younger and more energetic than her age.

B．What is the best age of one's life and how she feels about her age.

C．How people in their 20s and 30s differ in their attitudes toward what to do with their lives.

D．Why people buy expensive face creams and if they really work.

Question 21 to 25 are based on the following passage. Like fingerprints, no two faces are exactly the same. Did you ever wonder how it is possible for us to recognize people? Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the characters that make one face different from another. Yet a very young child---even an animal, such as a bird ------ can learn to recognize faces. We all take this ability for granted.

We also tell two people apart by how they behave. A person’s personality means the ways in which he acts, speaks, thinks and feels that make him different from others.

Like the human face, human personality is very complex. But describing a person’s personality in words is somewhat easier than describing his face, if you were asked to describe what a “nice face” looks like, you would have a difficult time doing so. But if you were asked to describe a “nice person”, you might begin to think about someone who is kind, thoughtful, warm, and so on.

There are many words that can be used to describe how a person thinks, feels, and acts. Gordon Allport, a U.S. scientist who studies the human mind, found nearly 18,000 English words characterizing differences in human behavior. And many of us use these words to describe different types of people ---- bookworms (书呆子), fools, workaholics(工作狂).

21. According to the passage, a very young child can _______.

A. learn to recognize faces

B. describe how a person thinks

C. learn to recognize fingerprints

D. describe what a “nice person” is like

22. According to the passage, we can tell two people apart by ________.

A. their behavior

B. their names

C. their hands

D. their clothes

23. Describing a “nice face” _________.

A. is quite easy

B. is a difficult task

C. is not as difficult as describing a “nice person”

D. may remind you of someone who was kind, thoughtful and friendly

24. It can be concluded from the passage that _________.

A. a “nice person” is very complex

B. it’s hard to describe a “nice person”

C. a “nice person” is considerate and kind

D. when we tell one person from another, we often refer to their face

25. Which of the following statements is NOT true about Gordon Allport?

A. He describes himself as a bookworm.

B. He does research on the human mind.

C. He found about 18,000 English words to describe human behavior.

D. The words he found are being used by many people to describe a person.

If you were to begin a new job tomorrow, you would bring with you some basic strengths and weaknesses. Success or【67】in your work would depend, to a great【68】, on your ability to use your strengths and weaknesses to the best advantage.

【69】the utmost importance is your attitude. A person who begins a job【70】that he isn't going to like it or is sure that he is going to fail is【71】a weakness which can only【72】his success. On the other hand, a person who is【73】in his belief that he is probably as【74】of doing the work as anyone else and who is willing to make a cheerful【75】at it possesses a certain strength of purpose. The【76】are that he will do well.

Having the prerequisite (先决条件，前提) skills for a particular job is strength.【77】those skills is obviously a weakness. A bookkeeper who can't add【78】a carpenter who can't cut a straight line with a saw are hopeless【79】.

This book has been designed to help you capitalize (利用] ) on the strength and【80】the weakness that you bring to the job of learning. But you must first take stock of somewhere you stand now.【81】we get further along in the book, we'll be dealing in【82】with specific processes for developing and strengthening learning skills.【83】, to begin with, you should【84】to examine your present strengths and weaknesses in three areas that are【85】to your success or failure in school: your【86】, your reading and communication skills, and your study habits.

(68)

A．improvement

B．victory

C．failure

D．achievement