基础词汇：从所给选项中选出最佳选项。(20×2分)

1.leave          A. 回来      B. 离开      C.飞翔    

2.begin          A.开始       B.结束       C.中间

3.festival       A.假期       B.节日       C.周末     

4.daughter       A.儿子       B.老表       C.女儿

5.early          A.早的       B.晚的       C.迟的         

6.plane          A.飞机       B.船         C.汽车

7.life           A.生活       B.生产       C.死亡         

8.safe           A.危险       B.安全       C.正常

9.village        A.村庄       B.小屋       C.别墅      

10.dream         A.梦想       B.黑暗       C.明天

11.really        A.假的       B.真正地     C.现实    

12.carefully     A.粗心地     B.小心地     C.大方地

13.beach         A.海滩       B.大海       C.凳子       

14.foreign       A.国内的     B.国外的     C.乡村的

15.population    A.人民       B.民族       C.人口  

16.continue      A.终止       B.开始       C.继续

17 technology    A. 技术      B.效能       C.能量 

18.bring         A.带来       B.带走       C.拿回

19.noon          A.正午       B.下午       C.晚上        

20.arrive        A.出发       B.到达       C.中途

 

阅读理解

　　“Depend on yourself”is what nature says to every man. Parents can help you. Teachers can help you. But all these only help you to help yourself.

　　There have been many men in history. But many of them were very poor in childhood, and no uncles, aunts or friends to help them. Schools were few. They could not depend upon them for an education. They saw how it was and set to work with all their strength to know something. They worked their own way till they become well-known.

　　One of the most famous teachers in England used to tell his pupils,“I cannot make worthy men of you, but I can help make men of yourself.”

　　Some young men don't try their best to make themselves valuable to the human beings. They can never gain achievements unless they see their weak points and change their coarse(粗谷). They are nothing now, and will be nothing as long as they live, unless they accept the advice of their parents and teachers, and depend on their own efforts.

(1)According to the famous teacher in England, a teacher can ________.

[　　]

A．make his pupils worthy men

B．help his pupils find a way to be famous

C．help his pupils make themselves self-help and useful men

D．make his pupils men who are healthy and strong

(2)If young people depend on their own efforts ________.

[　　]

A．they are sure to be very famous in the world

B．they can be successful in their lives

C．they can live without their families

D．they no longer need any help

(3)From this article we can learn the writer ________.

[　　]

A．sings high praise for parents and teachers

B．is a man of strong character

C．speak highly of those who are struggling for success

D．feels it the most important of all to accept the advice of others.

(4)Which of the following titles fits this article best?

[　　]

A．What nature says to every man?

B．How to be famous?

C．Men must help each other

D．Depend on yourself

阅读理解

　　“Depend on yourself”is what nature says to every man. Parents can help you. Teachers can help you. But all these only help you to help yourself.

　　There have been many men in history. But many of them were very poor in childhood, and no uncles, aunts or friends to help them. Schools were few. They could not depend upon them for an education. They saw how it was and set to work with all their strength to know something. They worked their own way till they become well-known.

　　One of the most famous teachers in England used to tell his pupils,“I cannot make worthy men of you, but I can help make men of yourself.”

　　Some young men don't try their best to make themselves valuable to the human beings. They can never gain achievements unless they see their weak points and change their coarse(粗谷). They are nothing now, and will be nothing as long as they live, unless they accept the advice of their parents and teachers, and depend on their own efforts.

(1)According to the famous teacher in England, a teacher can ________.

[　　]

A．make his pupils worthy men

B．help his pupils find a way to be famous

C．help his pupils make themselves self-help and useful men

D．make his pupils men who are healthy and strong

(2)If young people depend on their own efforts ________.

[　　]

A．they are sure to be very famous in the world

B．they can be successful in their lives

C．they can live without their families

D．they no longer need any help

(3)From this article we can learn the writer ________.

[　　]

A．sings high praise for parents and teachers

B．is a man of strong character

C．speak highly of those who are struggling for success

D．feels it the most important of all to accept the advice of others.

(4)Which of the following titles fits this article best?

[　　]

A．What nature says to every man?

B．How to be famous?

C．Men must help each other

D．Depend on yourself

Don't blame genes for aging facial skin. A new study of twins suggests you can   1   those coarse(粗糙的) wrinkles, brown or pink spots, and dilated(膨胀的) blood vessels on too much time in the sun, smoking, and being overweight.

Because twins share genes, but may have  2  exposures to environmental factors, studying twins allows an, "opportunity to control for genetic susceptibility(敏感性)," Dr. Elma D. Baron, at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, and colleagues  3  in the latest issue of Archives of Dermatology.

Their analysis of environmental skin-damaging factors in 65 pairs of twins hints that skin aging is  4  more to environment and lifestyle than  5   factors.

But when it   6   skin cancer, the researchers say their findings support previous reports that   7  environment and genes affect skin cancer risk.

Baron's team   8   facial skin of 130 twins, 18 to 77 years old, who lived  9   in the northern Midwest and Eastern regions of the U.S. who were  10   the Twins Days Festival in Ohio in August 2002.

At this time, each of the twins also  11    reported how their skin burned or tanned  12    sunscreen(防晒霜), their weight, and their history of skin cancer, smoking, and alcohol drinking.

The study group   13   of 52 fraternal and 10 identical twin pairs, plus 3 pairs who were unsure of their twin status. Identical(同卵的) twins share all of their genes and fraternal twins share only about half.

From these data, the researchers  14  strong ties, outside of twin status, between smoking, older age, and being overweight, and having facial skin with evidence of environmental  15 

 16   contrast, sunscreen use and drinking alcohol appeared correlated with   17    skin damage.

Baron and colleagues say the current findings, which highlight ties between facial   18  and potentially avoidable  19   factors -- such as smoking, being overweight, and   20   overexposure to the sun's damaging rays -- may help motivate people to minimize these risky behaviors.

(    ) 1. A. blame                         B. owe                 C. take                 D. bring

(    ) 2. A. same                      B. different           C. similar             D. common

(    ) 3. A. explain                    B. confirm            C. declare             D. shout

(    ) 4. A. equal                             B. related              C. close               D. strict

(    ) 5. A. characteristic           B. personal           C. natural             D. genetic

(    ) 6. A. comes to                 B. talks of             C. refers to           D. gets to

(    ) 7. A. all                          B. neither             C. both                 D. either

(    ) 8. A. examined               B. checked            C. inspected          D. interviewed

(    ) 9. A. most                      B. usually             C. mostly              D. always

(    ) 10. A. joining                  B. representing      C. attending          D. remarking

(    ) 11. A. separately                  B. lonely              C. commonly               D. truly

(    ) 12. A. with                             B. on                    C. in                    D. without

(    ) 13. A. consisted                      B. made up         C. contained       D. included

(    ) 14. A. documented           B. recorded           C. reported           D. noted

(    ) 15. A. damage                 B. exploration       C. protection        D. material

(    ) 16. A. In                         B. By                   C. As                    D. At

(    ) 17. A. lesser                    B. more               C. no                    D. fewer

(    ) 18. A. look                             B. aging                      C. expression               D. wrinkle

(    ) 19. A. environmental               B. genetic             C. emotional        D. psychological

(    ) 20. A. protected                      B. planned            C. unprotected       D. prevented

CHICAGO （Reuters） - Smoking not only can wrinkle （起皱纹） the face and tarn it yellow—it can do the same to the whole body, researchers reported on Monday．
The study, published in the Archives of Dermatology, shows that smoking affects the skin all over the body—even skin protected from the sun．
"We examined non - facial skin that was protected from the sun, and found that the total number of packs of cigarettes smoked per day and the total years a person has smoked were linked with the amount of skin damage a person experienced," Dr．Yolanda Helfrich of the University of Michigan, who led the study, said in a statement．
"In participants older than 65 years, smokers had significantly more fine wrinkling than nonsmokers．Similar findings were seen in participants aged 45 to 65 years," Helfrich "s team added in their report．
The researchers tested 82 people, smokers and nonsmokers, taking pictures of the inner right arms． They ranged, in age from 22 to 91 and half were smokers．Independent judges decided how wrinkled each person' s skin was．
When skin is exposed to sunlight, notably the face, it becomes coarse, wrinkled and discolored with a pale yellow tint, Helfrich ' s team wrote．
Several previous studies have found that cigarette smoking contributes to premature（过早的）skin aging as measured by facial wrinkles, the study said, but little has been done to measure the aging of skin not exposed to light．
The report did not discuss die mechanism involved but previous research has found that cigarette smoke, among other things, causes blood vessels （血管） beneath the skin to constrict （紧缩）, reducing blood supply to the skin．
Smoking can also damage the connective tissue that supports both die skin and the internal organs,．
【小题1】When your skin is exposed to sunlight long, it-becomes all of the following but _____．

A．flexible

B．coarse

C．rough

D．discolored

【小题2】How wrinkled a person's skin is doesn't relate to _____．

A．the number of cigarettes a person smokes．

B．the kind and characteristics of skin

C．how long a person smokes

D．how long skin is under sunlight

【小题3】From the passage smoking results in skin aging mainly because _____.

A．it will lower blood supply to skin

B．it can make you feel tired

C．it can make skin come off

D．it can make blood run faster

【小题4】The main purpose of the passage is to _____．

A．inform people about the result of the study

B．advise people how to protect skin

C．warn people not to smoke again

D．introduce a new way of avoid skin aging