Jack decided to buy himself an iPhone 4 _______ it means standing in line all night waiting.

A. so that                           B. as if                       C. even though                   D. however

Some years ago, a Miami woman walking through an office building noticed two men standing together. Several minutes after her leaving, the men murdered a person working in the building. The police determined that the woman was the only witness and could possibly describe them. However, her memory of the men proved disappointingly unclear. Several days later, psychologist Ronald Fisher was brought in to obtain a more complete account from the woman. His interview produced a breakthrough—the woman reported a clear picture of one of the suspects. The important information enabled the police to arrest the suspect and close the case.

The police asked Fisher for help because of his rich knowledge in cognitive interview, a kind of memory-rebuilding process. Memory researchers have found that people trying to remember a past event often only recall(回憶) part of the relevant information. Human memory is selective and it is often distorted by stress. But a person’s accurate recall of an event or understanding of a question can be improved using specific interviewing techniques. The “cognitive interview” was developed in the late 1990s. It encourages the witness to take an active role in recalling information rather than giving answers only to someone else’s questions. The witness first describes what happened in his or her own words, with no interviewer interruptions. The interviewer then goes further with specific techniques, such as having the witness tell the details of what happened from different perspectives (角度).

The cognitive interview focuses on guiding witnesses through four general recalling techniques: thinking about physical surroundings and personal feelings that existed at the time of past events; reporting everything that comes to mind about those events, no matter how broken it is; retelling events in a variety of time orders, such as from beginning to end, end to beginning, forward or backward; and adopting different perspectives while recalling events.

Experiments with police detectives trained in this demanding interview method find that they obtain nearly 50% more information from witnesses than before training, while error rates remain about the same. It is proved that cognitive interviews are quite important tools in improving the accuracy and completeness of witness testimony (證詞). 

The purpose of the passage is to ______.

A. give an account of a murder case

B. introduce an idea of cognitive interview

C. prove Fisher was an expert in cognitive interview

D. help a witness to recall information in a cognitive interview

What is required to recall in a cognitive interview for a witness?

A. The exact time at which a murder took place.

B. The information about the event in the time order.

C. The important things that come to his or her mind.

D. The surroundings and feelings at the time of the event.

The key point in a cognitive interview is that ______.

A. the witness is encouraged to take part in recalling information

B. the interviewer should interrupt the witness from time to time

C. the interview should take place outside the police station

D. the witness should recall details at the scene of the event

______ bad weather stops me, I jog every day.

A. Although                 B. If                   C. Unless               D. When

The old couple has ____ a lot since their only son was killed in an accident two years ago.

       A. looked through  B. gone through     C. got through              D. passed through

The temperature of the sun is over 5000 degrees Fahrenheit at the surface, but it rises to perhaps more than 16 million degrees at the center．The sun is so much hotter than die earth that matter can exist only as a gas, except at the core．In the core of the sun, the pressures are so great against the gases that, despite the high temperature, there may be a small solid core．However, no one really knows, since the center of the sun can never be directly observed．

Solar astronomers do know that the sun is divided into five layers or zones．Starting at the outside and going down into the sun, the zones are the corona, chromosphere, photosphere, convection zone and finally the core．The first three zones are regarded as the sun's atmosphere．

But since the sun has no solid surface, it is hard to tell where the atmosphere ends and the main

body of the sun begins．

The sun's outermost layer begins about 10000 miles above the visible surface and goes outward for mllions of miles．This is the only part of the sun that can be seen during an eclipse（日食） such as the one in February 1979．At any other time, the corona can be seen only when special instruments are used on cameras and telescopes to shut out the glare of the sun's rays．

The corona is a brilliant, pearly white, filmy light, about as bright as the full moon．Its beautiful rays are a sensational sight during an eclipse．The corona's rays flash out in a brilliant fan that has wispy spikelike（一束束穗狀） rays near the sun's north and south poles．The corona is thickest at the sun's equator．

The corona rays are made up of gases streaming outward at tremendous speeds sad reaching a temperature of more than 2 million degrees Fahrenheit．The rays of gas thin out as they reach the space around the planets．By the time the sun's corona rays reach the Earth, they are weak and invisible．

Matter on the aim can exist only in fee form of gas because of the sun's ___．

     A．size        B．．a(chǎn)ge            C．location       D．temperature

All of the following are parts of the sun's atmosphere EXCEPT the ___．

     A．corona            B．chromosphere C．photosphere     D．core

According to the passage, as the corona ra5,'s reach -die plaasts, they become ___．

     A．hotter         B．clearer        C．thinner          D．stronger

Which of 'die following do the paragraphs following the passage most likely discuss?

     A．The remaining layers of the sun．

     B．The evolution of the sun to its present form．

     C．The eclipse of February 1979．

     D．All the above．

短文改錯(cuò) （每小題1分，共10小題，滿分10分）

Like most of my schoolmates, I have either brothers nor       _________

sisters — in other words, I am a only child. My parents             __________

love me dearly of course and will do all they can make sure           _________

that I get a good education. They did not want me to do            __________

any work at home; they want me to devote all my time to          __________

my studies so that I’ll get good marks in all my subject. We              _________

may be one family and live under the same roof, and we do              __________

not seem to get much time to talk about together. It looks          __________

as if my parents regard me as a visitor and a guest. Do they              _________

really understand their own daughter? What things are in           _________

other homes, I wonder. 

Most people are familiar with the idea that all matter in the universe ________ atoms.

       A. makes up   B. makes up of       C. consists in  D. consists of

一So you like the book your father gave you?

一Very much．It’s exactly         I wanted．

       A．the one          B．that       C．which      D．／

Whom do you want to have_______ the living conditions of migrant workers?

       A．improve                B．to improve             

       C．improving               D．improved

What is Math Anxiety?

Math anxiety or fear of math is actually quite common. Math anxiety is quite   36  to stage-fright. Why does someone suffer   37  ? Fear of something going wrong in front of a crowd? Fear of   38  the lines? Fear of being judged   39  ? Fear of going completely blank? Math anxiety conjures(使現(xiàn)出) up fear of some type. The fear that one won't be able to do the   40  or the fear that it's too hard or the fear of failure which often stems(起因于) from having a lack of  41  . For the most part, math anxiety is the   42  about doing the math right, our minds draw a   43  and we think we'll fail and of course the more frustrated and anxious our minds become, the  44  the chance for drawing blanks. Added pressure of having time limits on math tests and exams also cause the levels of anxiety to grow for many students.

Where Does Math Anxiety Come From?

Usually math anxiety stems(起源于) from   45  experiences in mathematics. Typically math phobias(恐慌癥) have had math presented in such a fashion that it led to limited understanding. Unfortunately, math anxiety is often   46  poor teaching and poor experiences in math which typically leads to math  47  . Many of the students I've encountered with math anxiety have demonstrated an over reliance on procedures in math as opposed to actually understanding the math. When one tries to memorize procedures, rules and routines without much   48  , the math is quickly forgotten and   49  soon sets in. Think about your experiences with one concept — the division of fractions(分?jǐn)?shù)). You probably learned about reciprocals(倒數(shù)) and inverses. In other words, ‘It’s not yours to reason why, just invert(反轉(zhuǎn)) and multiply(乘)’. Well, you memorized the rule and it   50  . Why does it work? Do you really understand why it works? Did anyone ever use pizzas or math manipulative(巧妙處理的) to show you why it works? If   51  , you simply memorized the procedure and that was that. Think of math as memorizing all the procedures —   52  if you forget a few? Therefore, with this type of strategy, a good  53  will help, but, what if you don’t have a good memory. Understanding the math is critical. Once students   54  they can do the math, the whole notion of math anxiety can be overcome. Teachers and parents have an important   55  to ensure students understand the math being presented to them.

A. different                   B. similar             C. far                          D. familiar

A. speech                  B. performance     C. threatens                  D. stage-fright

A. understanding        B. memorizing      C. forgetting                D. reading

A. poorly                  B. crazily              C. well                        D. publicly

A. Chinese             B. math                C. English                   D. physics

A. wish                     B. conscience        C. determination           D. confidence

A. fear                      B. joy                   C. pleasure                   D. doubt

A .failure                  B. choice              C. blank                             D. death

A. further                  B. greater             C. less                         D. smaller

A. unpleasant           B. unfair               C. pleasant                   D. successful

A. because               B. thanks to          C. resulting in              D. due to

A. fear                    B. anxiety             C. failure                     D. misunderstanding

A. forgetting            B. use                   C. understanding          D. knowledge

A. panic                  B. excitement        C. disappointment         D. encouragement

A. opens                  B. works               C. starts                       D. runs

A. so                    B. possible            C. not                          D. any

A. Where                B. Why                C. When                      D. What

A. memory              B. method             C. brain                       D. body

A. fill                     B. realize              C. confirm                   D. recognize

A. task                    B. aim                  C. appointment             D. role