Scientists say they now have proof to support the old-fashioned advice that it’s best to sleep on a problem.They say sleep strengthens the memory and helps the brain organize the masses of information we receive each day.
The lead researcher Bob Stickgold at the Harvard Medical School said, “Sleep helps us draw rules from our experiences.It’s like knowing the difference between dogs and cats even if it’s hard to explain.”
The US research team studied how well students remembered connections between words and symbols, reports New Scientist.They compared how the students performed if they had had a sleep between seeing the words and having the test, and if they had not slept.They found that people were better able to remember lists of related words after a night’s sleep than after the same time spent awake during the day.They also found it easier to remember themes that the words had in common.But they forgot around one in four more themes if they had been awake.
Prof.John Groeger, of Survey University’s Sleep Research Centre, said, “People have been trying for years to find out what the purpose of sleep is, as we know that only certain parts of it have a restorative (促使康复的)value.”
“We form and store huge numbers of experiences in the head every day, and sleep seems to be the way the brain deals with them all.”The phrase “to sleep on a problem” in Paragraph 1 most likely means “________”.
A.to pay full attention to a problem |
B.to wait until the next day for a decision |
C.to sleep to forget a problem |
D.to have difficulty in sleeping |
In the study by the US research team, students were asked to ________.
A.put together words of similar meanings |
B.remember words and their meanings |
C.show their knowledge of words |
D.make up lists of related words |
Which of the following may be easier to remember?
A.Themes learned right before the test. |
B.Rules from personal experiences. |
C.Words learned before a good sleep. |
D.Ideas stored together in the brain. |
What may be the importance of the research?
A.It shows that sleep may help us manage information. |
B.It helps find out the common themes of words. |
C.It tells us that more sleep can improve health. |
D.It proves the value of old-fashioned advice. |
D
Besides his famous speech “I Have a Dream”, Martin Luther King is still well known for his work of nonviolent movements for black people. In 1955, Martin Luther King won national recognition for his non-violent methods used in a bus boycott in Alabama. Under his guidance, this peaceful boycott changed the law which required black people to ride in the backs of buses. After his success, Dr. King used the same way in efforts to change other discriminatory laws.
Dr. King urged Blacks to use nonviolent sit-ins, marches, demonstrations, and freedom rides in their efforts to gain full freedom and equalities. Arrested for breaking discriminatory laws, Dr. King went to jails dozens of times. He became a symbol around the world for people to protest peacefully against unjust laws. In memory of his work for peaceful changes, Dr. King received the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, but his leadership was challenged as civil rights activists became more militant. In the late 1960s, he showed further opposition to the war in Vietnam and to economic discrimination. While planning a multiracial Poor People’s March for anti-poverty legislation, he was shot and killed in Tennessee.
68. What is the best title for the passage?
A. The nonviolent methods of Martin Luther King Jr.
B. Martin Luther King Jr.—Nobel Prize Winner
C. The need to change discriminatory laws
D. Martin Luther King Jr.—advocate (奋斗者) of Nonviolence
69. Which of the following is mentioned in the passage as a means by which Dr. King tried to turn his dream into realities?
A. Store boycott.
B. Congressional (国会的) debates.
C. Peaceful marches.
D. Visits to jails (监狱).
70. It can be inferred that Martin Luther King Jr. was considered by the militants as being too ____.
A. radical (激进的) B. cross C. neutral D. mild
C
It is naturally impossible for a well educated, intellectual(懂道理的),or brave man to make money-the chief of his thoughts; it is naturally impossible for him to make his dinner—the necessary object of him. All healthy—minded people like their dinner, but their dinner is not the main object of their lives. So all healthy—minded people like making money—but the main object of their lives is not money; it is something more important than money.
A good soldier for instance, mainly wished to do his fighting well. He is glad for his pay—very properly so, and justly complains when you keep him ten months without it; still his main aim of his life is to win battles, not to be paid for winning them.
As for doctors, they like fees, no doubt — ought to like them; yet if they are brave and well educated, the entire object(目标) of their lives is not fees. They, on the whole, wishes to cure me sick, and—they are good doctors, and the choices is fairly put to them—would rather cure their patients and lose their fees than kill him and get it. And so with all other brave and rightly trained men—their work is first, their fees second, very important always, but still second.
64. The text is mainly about ____.
A. money is not everything but no money is nothing
B. work is first but money is also important
C. work is the chief opinion of the good people’s lives
D. People like less work but more money
65. According to the text, it is ____ that a good solider will run away when a drowning man needs help but there is no money.
A. impossible B. possible C. clever D. foolish
66. The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph means ____
A. their patient B. their work C. the object of lives D. their money
67. If you are middle school teacher described in the text, what will you do if you are not paid for six months?
A. To quarrel with the headmaster
B. To go on teaching in this school
C. To give up the teaching in this school and find a teaching job in another school
D. To go on teaching after getting paid
B
PENRICE
COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Cornwall County Counicl
We Need Two
ASSISANT HEADTEACHERS
From January 2006
L13—17(£44,703—£49,314)
Penrice Community College is a highly regarded and successful 11-16 specialist languages college. Following the recent appointment of a new headteacher we’re restructuring the leadership team to create two new roles.
One post will involve leading teaching teams with responsibility for developing curricula(课程) and time-tabling.
The other post will be leading student based teams and responsibility for student learing outcomes and the removal of barriers to student success such as poor attendance or disaffection.
Penrice Community College is:
·A school with 1,350 wonderful students
·High achieving with results well above average
·Mentioned twice in HMCl’s outstanding schools list
·A British Council International School
·Situated in a beautiful part of mid-Cornwall
All enquires for information and application packs should be made to Danielle Eyres on 01726—72613 or at secretary@penricornmvall .sch.uk
Closing date for applications is Tuesday October 4th at noon. Interviews will be held on Monday 17th and Tuesday 18th October 2005.
60. The underlined word “restructuring’ probably means ________.
A. formally telling sb to do B. Joining the two parts together
C. rebuilding sth and making it work again D. extending the size of sth
61. The purpose of the above passage is to ________
A. introduce the advantages of a school
B. report the appointment of a new head teacher
C. call on more students to go to school
D. advertise for new assistant headteachers
62. The two new posts are required to do all the following EXCEPT ________.
A. stop students missing classes B. get students interested in learning
C. lead students-based teams D. arrange new curricula
63. HMCI is probably the name of ________.
A. an educational organizationB. a school leader
C. a political partyD. a news reporter
四、阅读:
ARobert Spring, a 19th century forger (伪造者), was so good at his profession that hs was able to make his living for 15 years by selling false signatures of famous Americans. Spring was born in England in 1838 and arrived in Philadelphia in 1858 to open a bookstore. At first he prospered(繁荣)by selling his small but genuine collection of early US autographs (亲笔签名). Discovering his ability at copying handwriting he began imitating the signatures of George Washington and Benjimin Franklin and writing them on the title pages of old books. To lessen the chance of detection (被发现). He sent his forgeries to England and Canada for sale, Forgers have a hard time selling products. A forger cannot approach a respectable buyer but must deal with people who don’t have much knowledge in the field. Forgers have many ways of making their works look real. For example, they buy old books and use the aged paper of the title page, and they can treat paper and ink with chemicals
In Spring’s time, right after the Civil War, Britain was still fond of the southern states, so Spring invented a respectable young lady known as Miss Fanny Jackson, the only daughter of General “Stonewall” Jackson. For several years Miss Fanny’s financial problems forced her to sell a great number of letters and manuscripts (手稿) belonging to her famous father. Spring had to work very hard to satisfy the demand. However, all this activity did not prevent Spring from dying in poverty, leaving sharp-eyed experts the difficult task of separating his forgeries from the originals.
56. Robert Spring spent 15 years ________.
A. running a bookstore in Philadelphia B. as owners of old books
C. selling real signatures of famous AmericansD. as a forger
57. Why did Spring sell his false autographs in England and Canada?
A. There was less chance that his forgeries would be discovered there.
B. The prices were much higher in England and Canada.
C. There was a greater demand there than in America
D. Britan was Spring’s birthplace.
58. After the Civil War there was a great demand in Britain for ________
A. Civil War battle plansB. southern manuscripts and letters
C. the signatures of George Washington and Ben Franklin D. southern money
59. Which of the following about Miss Fanny Jackson is TRUE?
A. She was Robert Spring’s customer.
B. She was an imaginary person created by Spring.
C. She was a little-known girl who sold her father’s papers to make money.
D. She was the only daughter of General Stonewall Jackson.
E
Everyone has heard of the San Andreas fault (断层), which constantly threatens California and the West Coast with earthquakes. But how many people know about the equally serious New Madrid fault in Missouri?
Between December of 1811 and February of 1812, three major earthquakes occurred, all centered around the town of New Madrid, Missouri, on the Mississippi River. Property damage was severe. Buildings in the area were almost destroyed. Whole forests fell at once, and huge cracks opened in the ground, allowing smell of sulfur (硫磺)to filter upward.
The Mississippi River itself completely changed character, developing sudden rapids and whirlpools. Several times it changed its course, and once, according to some observers, it actually appeared to run backwards. Few people were killed in the New Madrid earthquakes, probably simply because few people lived in the area in 1811; but the severity of the earthquakes are shown by the fact that the shock waves rang bells in church towers in Charleston, South Carolina, on the coast. Buildings shook in New York City, and clocks were stopped in Washington, D.C.
Scientists now know that America’s two major faults are essentially different. The San Andreas is a horizontal boundary between two major land masses that are slowly moving in opposite directions. California earthquakes result when the movement of these two masses suddenly lurches (倾斜) forward.
The New Madrid fault, on the other hand, is a vertical fault; a some point, possibly hundreds of millions of years ago, rock was pushed up toward the surface, probably by volcanoes under the surface. Suddenly, the volcanoes cooled and the rock collapsed, leaving huge cracks. Even now, the rock continues to settle downwards, and sudden sinking motions trigger (触发) earthquakes in the region. The fault itself, a large crack in this layer of rock, with dozens of other cracks that split off from it, extends from northeast Arkansas through Missouri and into southern lllinois.
Scientists who have studied the New Madrid fault say there have been numerous smaller quakes in the area since 1811; these smaller quakes indicate that larger ones are probably coming, but the scientists say have no method of predicting when a large earthquake will occur.
72. This passage is mainly about__________.
A. the New Madrid fault in Missouri
B. the San Andreas and the New Madrid faults
C. the causes of faults
D. current scientific knowledge about faults
73. The New Madrid fault is__________.
A. a horizontal fault
B. a vertical fault
C. a more serious fault than the San Andreas fault
D. responsible for forming the Mississippi River
74. We may conclude from the passage that__________.
A. it is probably as dangerous to live in Missouri as in California
B. the New Madrid fault will eventually develop a mountain range in Missouri
C. California will become an island in future
D. A big earthquake will occur to California soon
75. This passage implies that__________.
A. horizontal faults are more dangerous than vertical faults.
B. Vertical faults are more dangerous than horizontal faults
C. Earthquakes occur only around fault areas
D. California will break into pieces by an eventual earthquake