It doesn’t matter________you turn right or left at the crossing—both roads lead to the park.????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? (2012·天津，9)

A．whether? B．how

C．if? D．when

阅读下面的短文，然后从每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳选项，并将答题卡上的相应选项涂黑。

My daughter’s 7^th birthday was April 22. As it was Monday, we preferred to celebrate it ___11___, i.e. on Saturday, April 20. This was easier for me as I’m ___12___ on Saturdays. On Friday the entire family was busy packing the ___13___ and putting funny pins on them. I promised my little princess that I would wake her up early in the morning and give out the presents to her ___14___.

I woke up at 07:30. After I took a bath, I planned to wake her up. But as I came out from the ___15___, I realized that an earthquake struck. I ___16___ to wake my husband up and asked him to carry our daughter and ran out of our house. We were ___17___ our house moving from side to side from outside. It lasted for just 3 minutes, but tiles(瓦片) came down, and some narrow gaps appeared on the ___18___.

Nevertheless, as we had planned, I went to my daughter’s school at 9:00, but no one was there except the teacher who ___19___ us to get back to our house as ___20___ might come soon. I was shocked, and drove my car home. On the way home I heard a police cry out loud, “Stay ___21___, no tsunami, it’s only issue!”

Arriving at my house, I was wondering about the presents: to whom we should ___22___? After some discussion, we decided to give them to the children in ___23___. Entering the hospital, I was shocked to find thousands of people bleeding and lying outside the rooms. A boy came up with a ___24___ on his head. He stared at me with his questioning eyes as if he wanted to say, “Could I have one?” ___25___ I handed over one present to him. I can’t ever forget his shining eyes when he received the gift!

1.A．earlier      B．later    C．better D．quicker

2.A．busy        B．free       C．sick     D．slow

3.A．presents  B．bricks C．bags    D．medicine

4.A．teachers  B．patients      C．classmates       D．doctors

5.A．house       B．bedroom     C．hospital       D．bathroom

6.A．decided   B．promised   C．screamed    D．stared

7.A．watching  B．leaving         C．entering      D．striking

8.A．ceiling      B．car          C．window      D．wall

9.A．drove       B．warned        C．taught D．preferred

10.A．earthquake    B．tsunami       C．police D．students

11.A．busy       B．awake C．alarmed       D．calm

12.A．move     B．deliver         C．drive   D．pack

13.A．hospital B．school          C．car      D．office

14.A．present B．tile      C．bandage      D．question

15.A．Unwillingly  B．Quickly         C．Easily  D．Sadly

No one________ be more generous；he has a heart of gold.(2013·天津，9)

A．could? B．must

C．dare? D．need

 (07·天津)

Roberta appeared on the stage. She took a deep breath and began to   16  .  Now she was Portia, a strong–willed   17   in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. The theater was filled with people. She was speaking with a power she had never before experienced, the words flowing   18   form her.

19  , Roberta had never acted in her life before the audition (选拔试演). She   20  being in front of other people. She was very   21   at school. She had never thought she was good enough at anything to   22   much attention. She stayed mostly to herself, making   23  friends. She had excellent grades,   24   she always thought that something was missing.

Two weeks before the audition, Robertsa’s mother had heard about it and   25   her to join in.

“I can’t think of anyone else better suited to   26   the part. Remember all the plays you used to act out for us?”

Her mother wouldn’t let the   27   drop. “You’re just a little scared (害怕) .Everyone gets scared. You know you   28   do it. The trick is to look past the   29   to find the love of what you’re doing.’’

So Roberta had made an appointment (预约) with the head of the Drama Club. She had read the play and found herself excited by the   30   of speaking such rich words. In secret she practiced Portia’s part,   31   the lines by repeating them over and over. It wasn’t hard; she   32   every minute of it. Every time she spoke the words, she had a new   33   of the lines, as if Shakespeare had written Portia on many levels.

On the day of the audition, she   34   two of  Portia’s famous speeches for the auditors. When she had finished, the head of the Drama Club announced the   35   was hers. 

16.   A. sing             B. dance                      C. speak                  D. report

17.   A. member                 B. actress          C. player                    D. character

18.   A. weakly          B. rapidly          C. smoothly               D. slowly

19.   A. At first          B. In fact            C. After all                  D. In all

20.   A. hated             B. enjoyed           C. appreciated          D. regretted

21.   A. honest            B. shy               C. polite                 D. patient  

22.   A. avoid            B. focus           C. pay                    D. attract

23. A. few               B. a few           C. several                 D. many

24. A. or                  B. so                C. for                        D. but

25. A. forced          B. requested       C. encouraged            D. reminded

26. A. accept           B. play               C. offer                     D. learn

27. A. role             B. matter              C. interest                    D. grade

28. A. can                B. must                C. may                     D. should

29. A. anger              B. pain              C. sadness                  D. fear

30. A. purpose          B. way              C. idea                      D. importance

31. A. memorizing       B. organizing       C. checking                 D. improving

32. A. disliked          B. loved                C. expected                D. bore

33. A. consideration    B. description      C. selection                 D. understanding

34. A. practiced       B. planned          C. performed                      D. delivered  

35.   A. part               B. play              C. speech                         D. position  

 (07·天津D篇)

In meditation(冥想)，people sit quietly and focus their attention on their breath .As they breathe in and out ,they attend to their feelings .As thoughts go through their minds. they let them go. Breathe. Let go. Breathe. Let go.

According to a recent study at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, three months of training in this kind of meditation causes a market change in how the brain allocates(分配) attention. It appears that the ability to let go thoughts that come into mind frees the brain to attend to more rapidly changing things and events in the outside world. Expert mediators are better than other people at catching such fast-changing stimuli( 刺激),like facial expressions.

The study provides evidence for changes in the workings of the brain with mental training. People can learn and improve abilities of all sorts with practice. everything from driving to playing the piano. The study has shown that meditation is good for the brain ,It appears to reduce pressure and promote a sense of well-being.

In an experiment ,17 volunteers with no meditation experience in the experimental group spent three months meditating 10 to 12 hours a day .A control group also with no meditation experience meditated for 20 minutes a day over the same period .Both groups were then given the tests with two numbers in a group of letters. As both group looked for the numbers ,their brain activity was recorded.

Everyone could catch the first number .But the brain  recordings showed that the less experienced mediators tended to grasp the first number and hang onto it ,so they missed the second number .Those with more experience gave less attention to the first number .as if letting it go ,which led to an increased ability to grasp the second number ,This shows that attention can change with practice.

Just ask Daniel Levision, who meditated for three months as part of the study .”I am a much better listener,” he said. “I do not get lost in my own personal reaction to what people are saying.”

48.   The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 1 refers to ________.

A. feelings              B. minds               C. people                    D. thoughts

49.   Meditations manage their daily tasks better because they ________.

A. are given less pressure                        B. allocate their attention better

C. have more stimuli for life                           D. practice them more frequently

50. In the experiment ,volunteers doing meditation for longer hours ________.

A. were more likely to catch both of the members

     B. were used to memorizing numbers in groups

     C. usually ignored the first number observed

     D. paid more attention to numbers than to letters

51. The study proves that ________.

   A. meditation improves one’s health

   B. brain activity can be recorded

   C. human attention can be trained

   D. mediators have a good sense of hearing