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Competitors who wear red win more than those that are dressed in any other color, according to study in Germany.

   71   Experts believe that red could make individuals and teams feel more confident as well as being perceived by others as more aggressive.    72   . On the other hand, the results could suggest that the success of those teams has given those that wear the red color more confident.

The study, by German sports psychologists at the University of Munster, was reported in New Scientist magazine. They showed video recording of taekwondo matches to 42 experienced referees. One fighter wore blue and the other wore red. They then showed them the same recordings but digitally manipulated the clothing to exchange the colors. ___73    . “If one competitor is strong and the other is weak, it won’t change the outcome of the fight.” said Norbert Hagemann, who led the study,  “   74    ”

In 2004 scientists at Durham University also looked at how color influenced sporting competitiveness. They analyzed Olympic contest sports such as boxing, taekwondo, and freestyle wrestling and found that nearly 55% of which were won by the competitor in red.

“   75   ”said Robert Burton, one of the researchers.

A. Researchers found that those who wear red tops, jackets or clothing score 10 percent more in any competition than if they were in another color.

B. The findings could explain why Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal have been so successful.

C. But the closer the levels, the easier it is for the color to tip the scale.

D. It is the color of fire and is often associated with energy, danger, strength, power, and determination.

E. The fighters wearing red were given an average of 13 percent more points than when they wore blue.

F. The study shows that football shirts from worldwide teams such as Arsenal, Liverpool, sell successfully.

G. It is reasonable that wearing red makes individuals feel more confident, although this hasn’t yet been tested.

By the middle of the 19th century, newspapers were becoming the primary means of spreading and receiving information. The period between 1890 and 1920 is known as the “golden age” of print media.

Broadcast radio came onto the media scene in the 1920’s. Newspapers were forced to re-evaluate (重新评估) their role as society’s primary information provider. Like the new media technologies of today, the development of a low-cost, convenient media source produced results that radio would greatly affect the newspaper industry.

No sooner had newspapers adapted to radio than they were forced to re-evaluate themselves because of a new and more powerful medium: television. Between 1940 and 1990, newspaper sales in America dropped from one newspaper for every two adults to one for every three adults. Some newspapers, like USA Today, responded to the technological advancements by using color and the “short, quick and to the point” stories that are usually featured on television.

The technological revolution of today is creating new challenges and opportunities for traditional media. Never before has so much information been so accessible (可得到的) to so many. By the end of the 1990s, about 700 traditional media had websites; today there are thousands.

The amount and speed of information on the Internet is unparalleled, but it has not signalled the end of the newspaper’s existence （存在）. Newspapers in print remain a popular and powerful medium for the reporting and analysis of events that shape our lives. It is reported that one billion people in the world read a newspaper every day!

67. Radio had a great influence on the newspaper industry because _____.

A.   it was easier and cheaper to receive information by radio

B.    nobody supported the development of the newspaper industry

C.    newspapers were not a primary information provider any longer

D.    many people were too poor to buy newspapers in the early 20th century

68. USA Today is mentioned as an example to tell us _____.

A. it was a famous newspaper then

B. newspapers used some advantages of television

C. television was “short, quick and to the point”

D. television is a major means of media in the world

69. The underlined word “unparalleled” in the last paragraph means “_____”.

A. expected   B. considered   C. matchless  D. compared

70.  We can infer from this passage that _____.

A.   newspapers still play an important part in our life

B.     the “golden age” of print media refers to the 19th century

C.    radio took the place of newspapers completely in the 1920’s

D.    newspapers can never catch up with the modern means of media

    Erik wants to climb Mount Everest. He loves to climb， and there is no place greater for climbers than the top of 29,035 feet, the world's highest mountain.

    Erik is blind. He has been blind since age 13， when an eye disease robbed him of his sight. His new book， Touch the Top of the World: A blind Man‘s Journey to Climb Farther than the Eye Can See， describes his blindness and climbing. He is the first blind man to attempt Everest. The team reached the base camp at 17,800 feet last Wednesday and began its climb Saturday. If all goes well, Erik will reach the top on about May 15.

"I'm not just some broken blind guy," Erik, aged 32，said for hours before he left Los Angeles on Friday for Katmandu, Nepal. "1 put my life in my fellow climbers’ hands， and they put their lives in my hands. It's an honor to reach that state. "

    "I want to experience the sense of adventure. Blindness has nothing to do with that. But a message of the climb is that a blind person can join a team and climb the highest mountain in the world. "

    Erik has climbed the highest tops on four continents: North America's Mount McKmley， South America's Aconcagua， Africa's Kilimanjaro and Antarctica's Vinson Massif. He is an expert rock and ice climber， having scaled El Captain in Yosemite National Park. When he was 16, he attended a school that taught blind people to be independent. One day, a group went rock-climbing. "1 really liked it," Erik said, "You can solve problems. It is sense in your inner mind. People didn't think blind people could go out and become expert rock climbers.

63 . Erik expected the climb of Mount Everest to be      .

A. adventurous      B. Pleasant       C. exciting   D. dull

64.  The distance between the top of Mount Everest and the base camp was  probably_____   .

A. 8,458 feet              B. 11,235 feet

C. 17,800 feet            D. 29,035 feet

65.  Erik's words in paragraph 3 mean that he      .

A. shared complete dependence with his friends

B. felt it glad to reach the state in America

C. and his friends controlled each other

D. was saved by his fellow climbers

66.  What can we learn from the passage?

A. Hard work Leads to success.

B. Practice makes perfect.

C. Every advantage has its disadvantage.

D. Nothing is impossible.

Millions of American kids come home to or leave an empty house every day. However, parents are increasingly using an existing technology — home security （安全） systems — to keep an eye on their “home-alone” children. In the early days of home security, the systems were basically designed just to keep the bad guys out. Now, many parents are also using them to make their children safe when they are at home alone. Below are some simple rules for adults to teach their children:

★Every child should memorize his or her own full name and address, and home, work and cellphone numbers of each parent. Also keep this information posted next to the phone at home. If your child is too young to memorize the information, he or she may be too young to be home alone — for any time.

★Teach your child to observe things around him or her when he or she returns to the house. If a door or window is slightly open, the child has any reason to suspect (怀疑) someone has been in the house that shouldn’t be, have him or her call you, then wait at a safe house a neighbor offers.

★Warn your child never to answer the doorbell or telephone when they are home alone. Besides, set a rule that he or she must never play outside the house when no one else is at home.

★Be sure he or she knows how to disarm (解除) and arm your home security system. Program your control panel (控制板) to give you a message when your child enters or leaves the house, and arms or disarms the system. If your child forgets to rearm the system, you can call him or her with a personal reminder.

To learn more about home security systems that can help parents protect their “home-alone” children, visit www.ProtectAmerica.com.

60.  According to the passage, home security systems _____.

A. can help children all the time

B. are now used for protecting the children

C. were first designed to keep kids safe at home

D. are developed to spare parents more time for their work

61.  Home-alone children are advised to _____.

A. fight bravely with bad guys

B. memorize numbers they see

C. call the police when they are home alone

D. pay much attention when getting home alone

62.  Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Parents are taking less care of their children.

B. Children are easy to forget numbers recently.

C. Children and adults should work together to use the system.

D. People should know the dangers caused by their neighbors.

Cities need to put efforts to deal with pollution and clear the air.

Chinese cities will need to put efforts to clear up the sky when a new department to improve regional air quality is set up by 2015，according to the latest plan released by the State Council.

Besides the existing pollution control program for CO₂，regional emission caps(区域排放上限) for other certain chemicals will be established in the three key air polluting areas—the Yangtze River Delta，Pearl River Delta and the Beijing­-Tianjin­- Hebei region. Coal­-consumption caps will also be tried out in some areas，according to the plan.

The plan is aimed at dealing with regional air pollution—such as acid rain and smog—which have become increasingly obvious in China in recent years and caused a severe threat to people’s health，Zhang Lijun，vice­minister of environmental protection，said in an interview on Monday.

The air quality in a city affects the areas nearby because pollutants can travel in the sky，said Chai Fahe，vice-­director of Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences.

“So efforts to reduce air pollution in a single city，targeting a certain pollutant(污染物) will not be enough，” Chai said.

Zhang said the country’s major industrial districts—the Yangtze River Delta，Pearl River Delta and the Beijing­-Tianjin-­Hebei region—have recorded more than 100 misty days annually in recent years.

These three regions，home to at least 200 million people，occupy only 6.3 percent of the country’s area but consume 40 percent of the country’s coal and produce half of its steel，according to official figures.

Studies also show that the visibility(能见度) in eastern regions of China has dropped by 7 to 15 km compared to that in the early 1960s，as a result of air pollution.

Liaoning province，the Shandong Peninsula，Wuhan in Hubei province and its surrounding area，the Changsha­-Zhuzhou­-Xiangtan region in Hunan province，the Chengdu­-Chongqing region，and the western coast of the Taiwan Straits are also listed as areas to carry out such regional air pollution control programs，according to the plan.

The new plan also requires an improved air quality system，which will measure the pollution levels. “The current system，which only measures some major pollutants，cannot reflect the true picture.” said Chai.

56．It will not be enough to reduce air pollution in a single city because ________.

A．air pollution has been becoming more and more serious in recent years

B．air pollution like acid rain and smog is threatening people’s health

C．air pollutants in a city can travel in the sky and affect nearby areas

D．air pollutants stay in fixed places over the cities

57．Suppose the visibility in eastern regions of China was 130 km in the early 1960s，the visibility there nowadays is ________.

A．123 to 115 km                    B．137 to 145 km

C．123 to 145 km                    D．115 to 137 km

58．The main purpose of the passage is ________.

A．to inform readers of the damage caused by air pollution

B．to introduce the new plan to control air pollution

C．to provide official figures of air pollution levels

D．to point out the regions affected by air pollution

59．What does the underlined phrase “the true picture” in the last paragraph mean?

A．The major pollutants.               B．The key polluted areas.

C．The major polluted cities.        D．The pollution levels.

My classmate Jennifer and I graduated from an ordinary normal university last year. Like most of the students who had just stepped out of university, we had to     36    the first tough test ---- job hunting to    37     a passport to society. And the most    38    part was the job interview.

The    39    was very fierce. Dozens of my classmates, Jennifer   40   , sent our curriculum vitas to a key middle school for a teaching job, making the chance of success as low as 1 to 20.

Before the job interview, I    41   complete preparations, including a formal suit, a newly-done hair, a few    42   on job interviews, and even some ancient Chinese poems   43      I faced a learned interviewer. On that day everything went very   44   . I answered all the questions fluently. So I felt very    45   to get this job. Jennifer was still there waiting for her turn. I made a “V”    46    to her. She smiled at me, looking a little worried. I    47   she was not as eloquent(雄辩的) as I, though not worse than me in studies. I felt I had an advantage over her. However, a week later, all of us received letters of    48   . Another week later, guess what happened! She got the job!   49   congratulating her, I asked her how she got it. She said, “I did    50  . I just wrote them a note of thanks after receiving the letter of refusal.” Only then   51     I realize why all the applicants had received the same letters and that was also a part of the   52   .

Only a note of thanks, but that was what made all the difference. This experience   53  me a good lesson, that is,    54   excellent you are, you should never forget the   55   manners of saying “Thank you!”.

36. A. look through      B. go through        C. go on            D. live through

37. A. accept             B. allow        C. get                 D. permit

38. A. acceptable        B. ample           C. reliable          D. important

39. A. interview          B. contest         C. competition   D. post

40. A. included          B. including        C. containing    D. contained

41. A. took               B. made         C. had           D. put

42. A. advice         B. notices      C. tips           D. suggestion

43. A. provided that     B. in order that   C. in case        D. even if

44. A. well                 B. difficultly           C. actually        D. compulsorily

45. A. privileged         B. disappointed   C. worried       D. confident

46. A. sign                 B. signal          C. mark          D. form

47. A. told                  B. thought         C. suggested       D. advised

48. A. thanks           B. application         C. refusal                 D. acceptance

49. A. While               B. For             C. What                  D. Whether

50. A. something   B. nothing              C. anything  D. everything

51. A. did                  B. have                C. do               D. had

52. A. exams             B. problems                C. tests                    D. checks

53. A. taught              B. sent                      C. had                D. believed

54. A. whatever    B. still                      C. however          D. very

55. A. controversial     B. simple                  C. easy                     D. cool

 His acting career was _____ by a car accident that left him disabled.

A. cut down   B. cut off   C. cut out   D. cut up

 When you are in face of      failure, it is the most important to keep up   ____ good state of mind.

A. 不填, a   B. a, 不填  C. the, a  D.不填, the

 With the development of modern society, E-mail as well as telephones

______ an important part in daily communication.

A. have played     B. is playing      C. are playing   D. played

 They made a scientific approach ______ the subject.

A. at    B. in   C. of   D. to