Before selecting the curtain for your newly-decorated house，it’s important to know what colors look great _________the wall paper．

on                         B．with                       C．in                           D．Against

29．— How do you Chinese celebrate Mid-Autumn Day?

— Well，it depends．For me，I usually sit in the yard，________the full moon with my family．

      A．a(chǎn)ppreciating    B．a(chǎn)dmiring              C．a(chǎn)ppreciated             D．to admire

31. To keep safe _______ an earthquake, you should remain at a spot in your room where nothing may fall on you.

   A. in search of       B. in advance of       C. in terms of         D. in case of

Now the world’s attention ______ the stocking markets, as they have great influence in the world’s economy.

   A. is fixing on            B. has fixed on          C. is being fixed on         D. had been fixed on

 —Sorry indeed, I ________ to your birthday party if …

—Forget it. I know you were out on business.

must come          B. would come           C. must have come        D. would have come

第二部分 閱讀理解（共20小題，每小題2分，滿分40分）

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Being the boss might mean more money and challenging work but it can also cause damage to physical and mental well-being, according to a Canadian study.

For years studies have shown people in lower-status jobs generally have higher rates of heart disease and other illnesses and die earlier than those in higher-status positions while job authority has shown no relationship with workers’ health.

But University of Toronto researchers, using data from 1,800 US workers, found the health of people in higher positions is affected by work as they are more likely to report conflicts with co-workers and say work disturbs their home life.

However, the positive aspects of having a power position at work, such as higher status, more pay and greater independence, seemed to cancel out the negative aspects when it came to people’s physical and psychological health.

These latest findings, reported in the journal Social Science & Medicine, suggest that the advantages and disadvantages authority positions basically cancel each other out, giving the general impression that job authority has no health effects.

For the study, the researchers surveyed participants about various aspects of their work, life and well-being. Job authority was judged based on whether a person managed other employees and had power over hiring, firing and pay.

Physical health complaints included problems like headaches, body aches, heartburn and tiredness. Psychological complaints included sleep problems, difficulty concentrating and feelings of sadness, worry and anxiety.

“This isn’t to suggest that having authority is ‘bad’—in fact, we show it has benefits ... but it is important to identify the negative sides and deal with them.” researcher Scott Schieman said.  

Schieman said conflicts with co-workers or involvement of work into home life may destroy at physical and mental well-being by creating stress.

“These are key stressors that can tax individuals’ ability to function effectively,” Schieman said.

56. Work will have a negative effect on job authority’s health probably because __________.

A. they are not fit for their work

   B. they have power over hiring and pay

   C. they are faced with severe competition

   D. they don’t get on well with their co-workers

57. Most people don’t see that bosses have health effects because __________.

   A. their health problems are not serious enough to see

   B. they have enough money to keep themselves healthy

   C. their problems are quite different from those of workers  

   D. the advantages and disadvantages of their status work against each other

58. From the passage we can infer that the study aims to _________.

  A. warn people not to be a boss for ever

  B. remind the boss to deal with the bad effects of their work

  C. show that having authority is harmful to one’s health

  D. prove that being a boss can benefit a lot 

59. The best title for this passage might be ________.

  A. Lower-status can affect health                    B. Authority can affect health

  C. Positive aspects of a power position            D. Disadvantages of being a boss

We are just getting older and older with each New Year. Vigor and wisdom

are draining, and bit by bit we are moving away from the amazement of youth.

 Yet neither fear nor anxiety helps retain youth. Instead, a few living habits

help maintain.

●Laugh to your heart's content as much as you can. Laughter helps reduce

pressure and improve your immune system, which makes people look 8 years younger.

●Keep an eye on your blood pressure. Those with a blood pressure of 115/75mmHg look 2.5 years younger than those above 160/90mmHg.

●Quit smoking and avoid passive smoking. This can take 8 years off your appearance.

●Spare some time for exercises each day. Exercises need not be tiring. A 20 minute walk every day makes people look 5 years younger.

●Keep learning and absorb something new each day. Speak the same language as the young people. Learning something every day makes people look 2.5 years younger.

●Keep other pressures under control. Too much pressure makes people look 30 years older. If they are good at networking and manage to keep pressure under control, they will look 30 years younger.

●Secure high quality medical care insurance and do whole body check regularly. For those contracted with chronicle diseases, proper treatment and qualification of the diseases makes people look 12 years younger than what they would without proper treatment.

63. The passage is mainly about _________.

A. the important of retaining youth    B. some tips helping people retain youth

C. moving away from the amazement of youth

D. the connections between the health and the age

64. The underlined sentence “This can take 8 years off your appearance.” means _________.

A. Smoking and passive smoking can make you look 8 years younger

B. Smoking and passive smoking can make you die 8 years ahead

C. Giving up smoking and avoiding passive smoking can make you live 8 years longer

D. Giving up smoking and avoiding passive smoking can make you look 8 years younger

65. According to the passage, we can know that _________.

A. exercises properly every day helps people retain youth

B. if you want to be 30 years younger you must keep other pressures under control

C. doing whole body check regularly can make people look younger

D. fear and anxiety are a part of our life, which help people realize the importance of keeping youth

第三部分 任務型閱讀（滿分10分）

Romantic novelists rarely fail to include in their writings that special moment when two strangers look into each other's eyes across a crowded room and feel the tingle of desire. Now these writings have now been validated（證實）by science, for experts have discovered that eye-to-eye contact in fact leads to a burst of activity in the reward center of the brain.

Neuroscientists at University College London asked eight female and eight male volunteers to look at photos of the faces of 40 different people who were either looking at the camera or gazing to one side.

While the volunteers looked at the pictures, they were given a scan with functional magnetic resonance imaging（磁性共振成影儀器）, which measures increased blood flows to the various parts of the brain and thus provides a "map" of cerebral activity（大腦活動）.

The volunteers were then asked to rate the attractiveness of each face, and their score was matched against the scan.

The result: when volunteer had direct eye contact with the face, there was an increase of activity in the ventral striatum（腹面紋狀體）, a central part of the brain that anticipates reward or pleasure. But if the eyes did not meet, there was no activity in that brain area at all. The activity increase occurred regardless of the gender of the face in direct eye contact.

However, there was a bigger-than-usual increase if the person giving the eye was found to be attractive. Activity in the ventral striatum surged. But if the cute person gazed to one side, the ventral striatum remained dormant, apparently disappointed that the stranger was clearly not interested.

Interestingly, the ventral striatum also perked up if a plug-ugly person gazed to one side, rather than looked at the volunteer right in the eyes.

第一部分 語言知識運用

第一節(jié)    單項填空（共15小題，每小題1分，滿分15分）

 . —What do you think about _________ dress in the shop window?

—Oh, it’s beautiful. Linda will be pleased if she can have it as _________ birthday present.

a; a            B. the; a            C. a; the             D. the; the

 —Mr. Wang is a man of few words, but quick in mind.   —______, you know.

A. A single flower does not make a spring

B. A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

C. A still tongue makes a wise head     

D. A great talker is a great liar