Empathy
Last year, researchers from the University of Michigan reported that empathy, the ability to understand other people, among college students had dropped sharply over the past 10 years. ____ Today, people spend more time alone and are less likely to join groups and clubs.
Jennifer Freed, a co-director of a teen program, has another explanation. Turn on the TV, and you’re showered with news and reality shows full of people fighting, competing, and generally treating one another with no respect. ____
There are good reasons not to follow those bad examples. Humans are socially related by nature. ___ Researchers have also found that empathetic teenagers are more likely to have high self-respect. Besides, empathy can be a cure for loneliness, sadness, anxiety, and fear.
Empathy is also an indication of a good leader. In fact, Freed says, many top companies report that empathy is one of the most important things they look for in new managers. ____“Academics are important. But if you don’t have emotional (情感的) intelligence, you won’t be as successful in work or in your love life,” she says.
What’s the best way to up your EQ (情商)? For starters, let down your guard and really listen to others. ____
To really develop empathy, you’d better volunteer at a nursing home or a hospital, join a club or a team that has a diverse membership, have a “sharing circle” with your family, or spend time caring for pets at an animal shelter.
| A．Everyone is different, and levels of empathy differ from person to person. |
| B．That could be because so many people have replaced face time with screen time, the researchers said. |
| C．“One doesn’t develop empathy by having a lot of opinions and doing a lot of talking,” Freed says. |
| D．Humans learn by example—and most of the examples on it are anything but empathetic. |
E. Empathy is a matter of learning how to understand someone else—both what they think and how they feel.
F. Good social skills—including empathy—are a kind of “emotional intelligence” that will help you succeed in many areas of life.
G. Having relationships with other people is an important part of being human—and having empathy is decisive to those relationships.
第二节：补全对话（共5小题，满分5分）
根据对话情景和内容，从对话后所给的选项中选出能填入每一空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两个为多余选项。
Jack: Hi，Frank.
Frank: Hi, Jack.
Jack: 61
Frank: Yes. I have some books to read, but I can do it later.
Jack: I want you to do me a favor.
Frank: Go ahead. 62
Jack: Professor Smith is coming this afternoon. I am expected to meet him at the airport, but I have an important meeting to go to.
Frank: I can do it for you. 63
Jack: He’s about your age, in his early thirties. Tall and handsome.
Frank: 64.
Jack: Oh, about three o’clock. He is taking flight number 231 from Detroit. Thank you.
Frank: 65.
| A．See you this afternoon. |
| B．How can I recognize him？ |
| C．What do you want me to do? |
| D．Are you free this afternoon? |
E.When should I leave for the airport?
F.I am honored to meet the famous professor.
G.Are you going to the meeting this afternoon?
第二节摘录信息 （共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在文后第65至第69小题的空格里填上适当的单词或短语，并将答案转写到答题卡上。
注意：每空不超过3个单词。
FOR many young people, Halloween is the best day of the year. The holiday has a very interesting history.
It was first celebrated in Ireland and Scotland as a festival of the dead. Families invited their ancestors (祖先) into their homes but tried to keep bad spirits (精灵) out by wearing scary costumes (服装).
Now the holiday is a time for fun and excitement. Families carve (雕刻) scary or funny faces into pumpkins and put candles inside to make them into lanterns (灯笼). These are called jack-o''-lanterns.
Children dress up in costumes and walk around their neighborhoods collecting candy. They knock on doors and when a person opens the door, the children shout, “Trick or treat!”
Once, this meant that if the person at the door did not give the children a treat, they would play a mean (坏的) trick. But today, children usually do not play tricks. They are too busy getting as much candy as they can!
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It was first celebrated in Ireland and Scotland as a festival of 66. ____. Families 67. ____ their ancestors into their homes but tried to keep bad spirits out by wearing scary costumes. |
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Families put 68. ____ inside the pumpkins to make them into lanterns. Children dress up 69and walk around their neighborhoods collecting candy. |
第二节（共5小题，每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
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阅读选项A到F六则广告和第56至第60题中的个人情况说明，选出符合个人意向的最佳选项，选项中有一项是多余选项。
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We often hear that children wish they were grown-ups, and that old people wish they were young. __71__ The happiest people enjoy what each age gives them without wasting their time in useless regrets.
__72__ A child is fed, looked after and loved by all grown-ups like parents or grandparents. __73__ However, for older people they often lose their interest in those things.
On the other hand, a child may also have some pains with him. __74__ He is often told not to do something. He will certainly be shouted at for doing something wrong.
When a child grows up, he can no longer expect others to pay for his food, clothes and many other things. __75__ If he still spends most of his time playing as he used to in childhood, he will go hungry. If, however, he works hard and has no trouble, he can build up his own position in society with great happiness.
| A．What’s more, life is always giving new things to him. |
| B．He enjoys his life very much. |
| C．And if he wants to live comfortably, he has to work. |
| D．He is not so free to do what he wishes to do. |
E.Life is always sad for old people.
F.Each age has its own pleasures and its own pains.
G.Childhood is a time when there are few duties.
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