C
    During the school year many parents take on the role of driver as they drive their children from one lesson to another. Understandably so. Many of us want our children to have a little taste of everything, from organized sports to music, dance and more. But we can overdo it, leaving our children feeling a little burnt out, and according to parent educator Diane Loisie, it’s their school work which suffers the most. “After school, if they’re busy in a number of sporting events, besides they need to do their homework, then the time they’ll feel sleepy is in the classroom. Your child needs free time. So if you’re filling up that after school time, then it’s during the day they’re going to be taking a break.”
    Professor Claire McDermott agrees that there’s a lot to be gained from sometimes putting those scheduled lessons and activities away. “Relaxing time is important for children. It’s time just to do the things they want to do. A child can go up to their room, or they can play around. It doesn’t look like productive time; parents certainly wouldn’t be saying ‘Wow, are they ever learning things now?’ But this relaxing time gives both the body and the brain just a wonderful chance to relax after a day. It helps a child prepare for sleep, but it also helps to understand the learning that’s gone on that day.”
    It’s hard to prevent signing our kids up for some activities and lessons. After all, many of us want our children to have a head start in life and the chance to join in great activities in the arts or sports is a part of that. However, Loisie feels that in the long run most children feel better with just a few key activities because it gives them an opportunity to master them. “When we get our children in too many activities because we want our children to experience everything, then what we’re doing is setting them up not to be good at one thing or gaining a skill.” So choose your children’s activities wisely. It may be one of the best things you’ve ever done for your kids… and for the family driver!
64. What is the biggest disadvantage for children to attend too many lessons after school?
A. They can get bored easily about everything.
B. They might have no time to do the homework.
C. They might not pay much attention to learning.
D. They cannot easily focus on learning during the day.
65. What should we think of children’s playing around aimlessly?
A. It is productive.   B. It is helpful. 
C. It is a bad habit.   D. It is a waste of time.
66. Why should parents limit the activities our children attend?
A. Because children have no time.  
B. Because children cannot learn many things.
C. Because children do not have enough sleep.
D. Because children cannot focus on too many activities.
67. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. Don’t be children’s drivers after school.
B. Choose activities for your children wisely.       
C. Make your children learn as much as possible.
D. Let children learn something from various subjects.
                                  D
    Everybody is happy as his pay rises. Yet pleasure at your own can disappear if you learn that a fellow worker has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he is known as being lazy, you might even be quite cross. Such behavior is regarded as “all too human”, with the underlying belief that other animals would not be able to have this finely developed sense of sadness. But a study by Sarah Brosnan of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey, as well.
The researchers studied the behaviors of some kind of female brown monkeys. They look smart. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food happily. Above all, like female human beings, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than males.
    Such characteristics make them perfect subjects for Doctor Brosnan’s study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens (奖券) for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for pieces of cucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in separate and connected rooms, so that each other could observe what the other is getting in return for its rock, they became quite different.
    In the world of monkeys，grapes are excellent goods (and much preferable to cucumbers). So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was not willing to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber. And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all, the other either shook her own token at the researcher, or refused to accept the cucumber. Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other room (without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to bring about dissatisfaction in a female monkey.
    The researches suggest that these monkeys, like humans, are guided by social senses. In the wild, they are co-operative and group-living. Such co-operation is likely to be firm only when each animal feels it is not being cheated. Feelings of anger when unfairly treated, it seems, are not the nature of human beings alone. Refusing a smaller reward completely makes these feelings clear to other animals of the group. However, whether such a sense of fairness developed independently in monkeys and humans, or whether it comes from the common roots that they had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.
68. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
A. Only monkeys and humans can have the sense of fairness in the world.
B. Women will show more dissatisfaction than men when unfairly treated.
C. In the wild, monkeys are never unhappy to share their food with each other.
D. Monkeys can exchange cucumbers for grapes, for grapes are more attractive.
69. The underlined statement “it is all too monkey” means that ________.
A. monkeys are also angry with lazy fellows
B. feeling bitter at unfairness is also monkey’s nature
C. monkeys, like humans, tend to be envious of each other
D. no animals other than monkeys can develop such feelings
70. Female monkeys of this kind are chosen for the research most probably because they are ___ .
A. more likely to weigh what they get
B. attentive to researchers’ instructions
C. nice in both appearance and behaviors
D. more ready to help others than their male companions
71. Which of the following conclusions is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Human beings' feelings of anger are developed from the monkeys.
B. In the research, male monkeys are less likely to exchange food with others.
C. Co-operation between monkeys stays firm before the realization of being cheated.
D. Only monkeys and humans have the sense of fairness which dates back to 35 million years ago.
72. What can we infer about the monkeys in Sarah’s study?
A. The monkeys can be trained to develop social senses.
B. They usually show their feelings openly as humans do.
C. The monkeys may show their satisfaction with equal treatment.
D. Co-operation among the monkeys remains effective in the wild.

第二节：简答题（共3小题 ，每小题2分，满分6分）
   阅读下列短文，根据各小题的具体要求，简要回答问题。
Most people agree that the direct, assertive(过分自信的) American personality is a virtue, but it sometimes surprises foreigners. In many cultures, respect for older people or those in positions of authority keeps others from expressing their true feelings. But in the U.S, children often argue with their parents, students may disagree with their teachers, and citizens may express opposition to the actions of the government. If the soup has a fly in it or the meat is too tough to chew, the diner can complain to the waiter, if the boss makes a mistake, an employee will politely point it out.
Some straight talk about the American character must include the admission that Americans have their faults. The extremely competitive nature of Americans is probably their worst fault. Of course, competition isn’t always bad. As a matter of fact, it promotes excellence by encouraging individuals and businesses to try to do their best. But the desire to get ahead of others sometimes causes people to do things that are unkind and even dishonest. Also, Americans admire what is practical, fast, efficient, and fresh. Sometimes they fail to understand and appreciate practices that have greater respect for more traditional, leisurely ways of doing things. On the other hand, people from other cultures may dislike the practical, challenging American lifestyle.
Despite culture differences, most foreigners give Americans credit for their virtues. Americans are generally viewed as friendly, adaptable, energetic, and kindhearted. Most newcomers to the U.S. like Americans, and the feeling is usually mutual. Perhaps the greatest American virtue is a deep interest in new ideas and new people. In a nation of immigrants, the foreigner does not remain an outsider for long.
73．Find in the passage a word closest in meaning to the underlined word immigrant.
__________________________________________
74.Why is the extremely competitive nature considered as one of American faults?
（不超过10个词）
__________________________________________
75. What does the passage mainly talks about? （不超过3个词）
__________________________________________

第II卷 书面表达（共两节，满分35分）
第一节：填空（ 共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读短文，根据所读内容在文后76-85的空格里填上适当的单词和短语。注意：每空不超过3个单词。  
    Voluntary (自发的) learning in organized courses by mature men and women is called adult education. Such education is offered to make people able to enlarge and interpret their experience
as adults. Adults may want to study something which they missed in earlier schooling, get new skills or job training, find out about new technological developments, seek better self-understanding, or develop new talents and skills.
     This kind of education may be in the form of self-study with proper guidance through the use of libraries, correspondence courses, or broadcasting. It may also be acquired collectively in schools and colleges, study groups, workshops, clubs, and professional associations.
    Modern adult education for large numbers of people started in the 18th and 19th centuries with the rise of the Industrial Revolution. Great economic and social changes were taking place: people were moving from rural areas to cities; new types of work were being created in an expanding factory system. These and other factors produced a need for further education and reeducation of adults.
    The earliest programs of organized adult education arose in Great Britain in the 1790s, with the founding of an adult school at Nottingham and a mechanics’ institute at Glasgow. The earliest adult education institution in the United States was founded by Benjamin Franklin and some friends in Philadelphia in 1727.
    People recognize that continued learning is necessary for most forms of employment today. For example, parts of the adult population in many countries find it necessary to take part in retraining programs at work or even to learn completely new jobs. Adult education programs are springing up constantly to meet these and other needs.
                  Title:       76     
 
第二节：书面表达（满分25分）
请根据下面提示，写一篇短文。词数不少于100字。
You are living in the Rose Residential Area (居住小区), which is newly-built and not very large. Yet, as the picture shows below, at the back of the residential area is a large empty space. People living here are always giving their ideas about how to use it.
Now you describe WHAT should be done with it and tell WHY as well.
 
［参考答案］
21-25 .BCABC  26-30.ADCBD   31-35.CACAC  36-40 ADBCB    41-45 CADBC
46-50 BADCA    51-55 ABDCD
56．A．作者意图题。作者一一列举了大学生活当中应该注意的事项，很明显是在建议当今的大学生要有目的，要有规划，更要充实，不要虚度大学生活。
57．C．事实细节题。从第一段可知，伴随着大学生活的开始，新思想开始出现，新挑战开始面临，新未来开始萌芽，故C项最符合题意。
58．B．词义推断题。综合第二段判断，作者指的some of us这类人属于已经很好地吸收了前人大学经验的人，因此他们肯定知道自己该做些什么，不该做什么，也正是对know-how的解释。
59．C．推理判断题。综合前两段可知，大学生应该知道在校园里要为什么而奋斗。A项与原文的意思相反，B项太片面了，D项加了“at least”太绝对化，均与题意不符。
60．C．事实细节题。第一段中提到：该建筑是为保护世界粮食免受核战争、气候变迁及其它可能性威胁而设计的。
61．D．事实细节题。第三段中提到：为储存长点时间，种子需要在极低的温度下储藏。
62．C．推理判断题。最后一段提到：挪威最早是在八十年代提出这个议案的。迄今已有二十年左右的历史了。
63．B．主旨概括题。文章主要讲述了如何通过建立“种子储存中心”来储存农作物的种子，故B项最合适。
64.D   65.B   66.D   67.B   68.B   69.B    70.A   71.C   72.C  
73．newcomer
74.Because it may sometimes urge people to do something bad.
文章第二段第五句话指出“But the desire to get ahead of others sometimes causes people... unkind and even dishonest”,也就是说，极端的竞争性有时会使人误入歧途
75.American characters
本文主要阐述了美国人的性格，作者在第二段第二句中提到“The extremely competitive nature... their worst fault”,以及第二段倒数第二句也提到“Sometimes they fail to understand and appreciate practices...”

76. Adult Education 77. Enlarge and interpret 
78. What to learn / Specific purpose
79. Review earlier education   
80. Understand oneself better / Seek better self-understanding
81. Ways to learn / Forms  
82. Co-operate with others / Study in groups / Study collectively
83. Social background / Reasons   84. In Great Britain  
85. Present situation
One possible version
Generally speaking, the Rose Residential Area is a comfortable place with the necessary facilities, including a primary school and parking lots. Yet it’s a pity that it lacks some green spaces. So in my opinion, we should build a garden there in the empty space at the back, with various trees and bushes, flowers and plants, and even fountains. Then we can build paths in the garden, on either side of which can be benches. And at one end of it, we can build a small playground, where we can do some sports.
By the time everything is done, we can spend time there enjoying much of nature. We can walk and play there to relax after a day’s work.
In addition, with the garden well planned and designed, we can also learn about plants and gardening.
I hope my dream will come true and we will surely have more perfect conditions and surroundings.