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What’s in a name? Letters offer clues to one’s future decisions, apparently. Previous studies have suggested that maybe a person’s monogram __1__ his life choices — where he works, whom he marries or where he lives — because of “implied self-esteem (自负),” or the temptation of positive self-associations. For instance, a person named Fred might be attracted to the __2__ of living in Fresno, working for Forever 21 or driving a Ford F-150.
Now a new study by professor Uri takes another look at the so-called name-letter effect and __3__ other explanations for the phenomenon. He analyzed records of political donations in the U.S. during the 2004 campaign — which included donors’ names and employers — and found that the name of a person’s workplace more closely related to the first three letters of a person’s name than with just the first letter. But he suggests that the reason for the association isn’t implied self-esteem, but perhaps something __4__ the opposite.
Duyck, one of the researchers whose previous work __5__ the name-letter effect, isn’t so quick to abandon the implied self-esteem theory. He pointed out that the sample group Uri studied may have biased the results: Uri analyzed the name-letter effect in a sample of people who donated money to political __6__. Still, Duyck notes that Uri’s theories are credible, and that even while some people may __7__ the same name of companies, employees may be tending to those companies because they start with the same letter as their names. In the end, whatever the explanation for the name-letter effect, no one really disputes that self-esteem is __8__ on some level. But the true importance of the effect is up for debate. “I can’t imagine people don’t like their own letter more than other letters,” says Uri, “but the differences it makes in really __9__ decisions are probably slim.”
课文填空（共10 小题；每小题 0.5 分，满分5分）
根据所学课文在68-77的空格里填上所缺的单词，并将答案转写到答题卡上。
As you know, the UN 68the lives of people everywhere. The organization is involved in peacekeeping 69to help end some of the world’s horrible conflicts. Watch any TV report 70places where there is a war, and you 71s
ee soldiers wearing berets…
I have visited many countries in Africa. Recently, I was fortunate enough to travel to South Africa, where I met some women who have 72themselves into a group. They 73one rand (approximately 1.35 yuan) per day from each other and add it to a 74of money the government gives them. With this, the women have enough money to buy 75materials to make basket. They then sell these at the market. With luck their group will be able to expand and maybe set up a shop. This group was set up by UNIFEM, the United Nations 76Fund for Women. There are lots of such programmes and funds under the 77of the UN, and these have helped millions of people across the world.
第二节短语填空（从下列短语中选出一个合适的并用其适当形式填入每个句子中，使其句意完整，共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
66． the sun does great harm to your skin so you should avoid doing so in daily life.
67．Nowadays plastics many conventional materials.
68．A terrible earthquake struck Wenchuan in Sichuan Province in 2008, many injuries and deaths.
69．With the development of science and technology, the young generation surfing the Internet and playing computer games, which has a bad influence on their study.
70．With the victim himattempted murder, the man was thrown into great depression.
71．It is unlikely for him to his boss, who is strict and mean, his innocence.
72．Super Junior, a band made up of 13 handsome boys, both boys and girls in the school.
73．Some scientific researches provide further support for the idea that even small differences in lifestyle may health in the population.
74．Look at the expression on his face! He must great difficulty in yesterday’s knowledge contest.
75． the car which was speeding, the traffic police decided to ask his colleagues to search for it.
第二节语法填空（共10小题，每题2分，共20分）
仔细阅读下面短文，短文中有10个空格。请按照语境以及括号里的具体要求完成语法填空、词形变化等。答案填写在答题卡标号为16—25的对应位置。
The holiday’s upon us. After months of study, you have some time to yourself. So, why not read a book? Well, some people will say, ‘Why trouble with books? We have the Internet and 16 media that offer a lot more 17 (colour) programs. Books are history!”
But don’t be fooled. There’s still a lot to be said for reading and reading as widely as possible.
One clear reason is that a well-chosen book is a wonderful collection 18 words and expressions, so long as you have a good dictionary, of course. Believe me, it’s far easier to get new English words and expressions from a book or article 19 it is from the TV or the Internet.
But an even more important point is 20 books give you something that modern media simply can not: The webpage is always full of pictures and the text is often designed to make it as easy to read as possible.
Though “easy” may be welcome, 21 (luck) it’s of little use for any long-time development of reading skills and the general language level. For that, there’s still no substitute(替代品) for a book.
But perhaps the best single reason is that simply 22 (choose) what you read and doing it by yourself 23 (mean) that it’s something you do by and for yourself. You can choose what you want to read. It’s hard work, 24 while you are reading, you’ll find that what once 25 (seem) like a duty is now a pleasure.
第五节：课文填空（共1篇，10空格；满分10分）
根据课文内容和首字母提示，填入恰当的词，使文章完整。
Not long ago there was a girl called Daisy. One day she woke up and found a flying carpet by her bed, which took Daisy to Tibet of China to see antelopes. The antelope told her that they lived a sad life, because they were killed for the fur that was taken from under their s _______(61). Every year thousands of antelopes are killed and now they are becoming e______________(62) species.
Daisy was very sad and then she asked the carpet to bring her to some place where the animals were well protected. Next minute she was in Zimbabwe. Daisy first saw an excited elephant. It asked Daisy to take its picture. In Zimbabwe, Daisy knew the people began to realize the i __________(63) of animals, especially the g________(64), and they decided to help. They allowed t(65) to hunt only a certain number of animals if they were willing to pay the farmers.
The carpet rose again and almost at once they were in a t________(66) rain forest. A monkey watched her as it r_______(67) itself. The monkey said the millipede contained a p_________(68)drug which could affect m ______(69). And the monkey told Daisy to take care of the rain forest. Daisy was a _______(70). Later, the carpet flew Daisy home and Daisy found it was only a dream, but she learned a lot from her experience.
第二节语法填空 (共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填人一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为3l~40的相应位置上。
Scientists have found “significant” amounts of water in a crater (火山口) at the moon’s south pole, a major 31 (discover) that will dramatically revise the description of the moon 32a dead world and likely make it a more attractive destination for future human space missions.
“The moon is alive,” declared Anthony Colaprete, the chief scientist for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission, 31 used a rocket on Oct. 9 to punch a hole about 100 feet across in the moon’s surface, and then measured about 25 gallons of water in the form of vapor and ice. 31that’s not enough to swim in, it could indicate sufficient water in permanently shaded craters at the poles for future astronauts to live off the land.
NASA’s plans, currently under review by the Obama administration, call for 31 return to the moon at the end of the next decade, and 31(construct) of a lunar base in which astronauts could live and work for months at a time.
The presence of large quantities of water would make that plan more 31 (practice), since water could be used for drinking, breathing and even making rocket fuel. 31, a resource-rich moon could also serve as the perfect low-gravity launch-pad (发射台) for missions that would carry astronauts and 31 families elsewhere in the solar system, 31(realize) the dreams of generations of science-fiction writers.