4．•Round the world tickets （RTWs）
These usually last a year and let you go to several destinations．There may be some restrictions．（限制） on where you can go by air so it's important to check out the terms and conditions of each deal and decide which one suits you best．A typical RTW for （usually） less than￡1，000 would be：
London-Toronto-Honolulu-Fiji-Sydney-Hong Kong-London．You can get a preset RTW or make one up to yourself-this can be cheaper in some cases．
•Multi-stopover tickets
If you don't want to go around the globe but want to see several different places，multi-stopover tickets can let you make several stopovers （中途停留）．For instance，your route could be：
London-Singapore-Sydney-Bombay-London．Or it could be a lot more complicated with lots of flights within Australia for instance．
•Open jaw tickets
If you want to go to one destination by ah-and then travel overland and come back by another destination by air，you can buy an open jaw ticket．For instance，your route could be；
    London-Cairo-Nairobi-London （Traveling between Cairo and Nairobi by land）
•Air passes
If you want to travel around within one country or even one area you can buy air passes to cover one of the following：the USA，Africa，Australia，India，the Far East，the Caribbean，South America and the Pacific．In some cases you may have to buy the air pass before you get to the country or area you want to travel in．
Short air passes last a week．Longer ones can last up to 2 months．Costs vary but start￡150．Ask your travel agent for details．
•Spur legs
Spur legs let you go off on a detour （迂回路） on your way to your final destination．For example you might visit China on your way to Australia．
49．Mr．Brown retired last month and wants to travel around the world； he most probably buysA．
    A．Round the world tickets         B．Multi-stopover tickets
    C．Open jaw tickets                D．Air passes
50．Open jaw tickets suit those who want toC．
    A．go to several destinations in different countries．
    B．visit several different places and make several stopovers
    C．go to one place and then travel by land and then return by plane
    D．go off on a detour on their way to their final destinations
51．What kind of ticket may you buy if you want to travel to Japan．passing by Beijing？D
    A．Open jaw tickets．         B．Round the world tickets．
    C．Air passes                 D．Spur legs．
52．If you want to travel in one country for a short time，the air ticket will cost youB．
    A．more than￡1，000                   B．no less than￡150
    C．less than￡150                     D．a(chǎn)bout￡1，000．

3．LOS ANGELES？"The Artist"won in 5 categories of the 84th Annual Academy Awards Sunday night including Best Picture，Best Director and Best Actor．
The film also got the Oscar statuettes for Costume Design and Original Score． It is the first time a mostly"silent film to win best picture since"Wings"won at the first Oscar ceremony in 1929．And it is also the first black-and-white movie to win best picture since"Schindler's List"in 1994．
The film beat out"The Descendants"，"Hugo"，"The Help"，"Moneyball"，"War Horse"，"Extremely Loud &Incredibly Close"，"Midnisht in Paris"and"The Tree of Life"to be the Best Picture．
Additionally，it is the first time in Academy Awards history that a French actor and a French filmmaker took the top acting and directing awards．
Michel Hazanavicius won the Best Director and Jean Dujardin，who plays the silent film star Georse Valentin won the award for Best Actor．
The film also won awards of the Producers Guild of America，the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and best motion picture musical or comedy from the Golden Globes．
    It was nominated in 10 categories of the Academy Awards．
41．Which of the following awards didn't The Artist win at the 84th Oscar ceremony in 2012？A
    A．The Best Foreign Language Film．
    B．The Best Costume Design．
    C．The Best Director．
    D．The Best Original Score．
42．Awon the Best Picture at the first Oscar ceremony．
    A．Wings                           B．Schindler's List
    C．The Tree of Life                D．Midnight in Paris
43．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage？C
    A．Wings is a black-and-white film．
    B．Schindler's List won the Best Feature．
    C．The Artist won the award of the British Academy of Film．
    D．Schindler's List beat out The Descendants to be the Best Picture．
44．What can we infer from the passage？C
    A．The Artist won many other awards besides the Oscar Awards．
    B．French films seldom won Oscar Awards．
    C．The Oscar Awards is probably the most influential award in the film industry．
    D．Any film has to win other awards before winning the Oscar Awards．

2．Although cats may be one of the most popular pets today，little is known about how and when humans and cats set up their close relationship．
The earliest evidence for human-cat interaction dates back to prehistoric Cyprus（史前塞浦路斯），where the remains of a wild cat and a human-dated 9，500years old-were found buried together．
A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has confirmed the first direct evidence of a human-domestic cat relationship among Chinese farmers 5，300years ago．Researchers studied the bones of cats，dogs，deer and other animals unearthed in an excavation （挖掘） near a village in Central China．By using some ways，scientists showed that the cats were living on a mostly millet（黍）-based diet，just like the domesticated dogs and pigs from the site．
"The most reasonable explanation for a high consumption of millet-based food is that the cats had formed a stable and mutual relationship with humans and could easily feed on rodents （嚙齒動物） around human villages，find leftover food or even have been fed by people intentionally，"said Hu Yaowu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing，whose research focuses on the relationship between humans and domesticated animals．
"It is very interesting for us to find the consumption of millet-based foods by the cats，since this kind of evidence had long been missing．"Hu explains．Since cats usually eat meat，such a diet would be unexpected，unless the cats were being fed by people，the study argues．The researchers also found that one of the cats survived to reach old age，implying that it had a safe place to live and enough to eat．
Why the farmers wanted to keep cats nearby or make them"pets"could be answered by other evidence．Chinese archaeologists found some storage containers were specifically designed to keep out rodents-a vermin （害獸） that cats could certainly have helped with．
The simplified theory is that rats were attracted to the food of farmers，and so were harmful to farmers．Cats were attracted to the rats，and so farmers formed a mutually beneficial relationship with cats，taking care of them in return for pest control．

66．The evidence found in the remains dating back to prehistoric Cyprus meansB．
A．human made cats pets as early as 9，500years ago
B．human interacted with cats very early
C．cats didn't appear until prehistoric Cyprus
D．when cats became domesticated
67．Apart from cats，Hu Yaowu and his teams may also studyC．
A．the preventions of pests from grains         
B．the history of Chinese farming
C．the dogs and pigs                        
D．the ways to keep pets
68．Which of the following is NOT the evidence of Chinese farms'keeping cats？A．
A．Cats didn't feed on meat．
B．The cats consumed large amounts of millet-based foods．
C．One of the cats survived to reach old age．
D．Some storage containers were specifically designed to keep out rodents．
69．What are the reasons for farmers to keep cats？D．
A．Helping keep other domesticated animals
B．Not letting cats eat food．
C．Supplying meat for human
D．Helping reduce the amount of pests．
70．In which part of a newspaper would be the passage most probably appearC．
A．Entertainment                           B．Environment
C．Human and Science                      D．Life and fashion．

1．The rays of the sunlight shone on my grandmother's face．For just a moment she closed her eyes  as if  （41）D the sunlight to warm her entire body．When one's （42）_   is approaching its end． I （43）C that all the bitterness and the boring moments will become meaningless．
My grandmother opened her eyes  （44）C，saying，"Don't live your life without living it．I worked too hard.1 （45）B  many things because I was trying to make a （46）A tomorrow for my family．What good is a tomorrow if you  （47）B missing today？"
She closed her eyes once more as if allowing what she said to marinate （浸泡）  within me．I realized that she was  （48）C her life as if she were a bystander．I knew that when my grandmother spoke those words to me，she was feeling （49）D．Though we cannot change the past，we can （50）C the future．
As a college graduate，I knew my grandmother was showing me yet another  （51）D  tool to add to my defense against this sometimes harsh world．
That night，I slept the soundest sleep I ever had．A sense of （52）A fell over me that I hadn't felt in along while． My （53）A，cares and concerns seemed weightless and were （54）B  by the words of my grandmother："Don't live your life without living it．"
I was （55）Dwoken out of a sound sleep by my mother．Before she muttered the words through sobs and  （56）C，I knew why she was  （57）Cme．
Later that morning as I sat at the kitchen table，a single tear ran down my face．Through the window，a ray of sunlight （58）B me inside out．I knew it was a hug from my grandmother．And I knew that for the rest of my life her（59）B would reverberate （回響） in my thoughts．She had given me the best （60）A I had ever had．

41．A．persuading	B．ordering	C．encouraging	D．a(chǎn)llowing
42．A．treatment	B．life	C．course	D．term
43．A．remember	B．joke	C．imagine	D．suggest
44．A．carefully	B．finally	C．slowly	D．instantly
45．A．learned	B．missed	C．gained	D．broke
46．A．better	B．clearer	C．busier	D．longer
47．A．consider	B．keep	C．mind	D．a(chǎn)void
48．A．ending	B．changing	C．reviewing	D．standing
49．A．happy	B．a(chǎn)nger	C．sympathy	D．regret
50．A．face	B．have	C．influence	D．judge
51．A．heavy	B．new	C．expensive	D．valuable
52．A．peace	B．duty	C．beauty	D．right
53．A．worries	B satisfactions	C．dangers	D．surprises
54．A．sorted	B．replaced	C．recorded	D．a(chǎn)ttracted
55．A．quickly	B．luckily	C．regularly	D．suddenly
56．A．a(chǎn)stonishments	B．blames	C．tears	D．complaints
57．A．comforting	B．teaching	C．leaving	D．saving
58．A．turned	B．warmed	C．moved	D．dried
59．A．promises	B．words	C．congratulations	D．descriptions
60．A．a(chǎn)dvice	B．method	C．lecture	D．chance．

20．When I was in the 8th grade in Ohio，a girl named Helen in my class had a terrible（41）D．
As she was running to the bus in order not to miss it，she slipped on ice an（42）Bunder the rear wheels of the bus．She（43）Athe accident but was paralyzed from the waist down．I went to see her，in my 13-year-old mind（44）Dshe wouldn't live normally from then on．
（45）Cthe years，I moved and didn't think much about Helen after that．Three years ago，in Florida，my oldest son was hit by a car while riding his bike，causing a terrible brain injury．While I was（46）Dmy son，a lady who said she was the hospital's social worker called．It was a particularly（47）Bday．I burst into tears for no reasons and（48）D．
A short time later，a beautiful woman，in a wheelchair，（49）Binto my son's room with a box of tissues．After 16 years，I still（50）AHelen．She smiled，handed me the tissues and hugged me．I told her who I was，and after we both（51）Che shock of that，she began to tell me about her life since we last saw each other．She married，had children and got her degree so that she could（52）Dthe path for those（53）Bthan her．She told me that if there was（54）Ashe could give me，it would be（55）C．
 Looking at this wonderful，（56）Cperson，I felt small．But I also felt the first hope I had since learning that my son was hurt．From this person（57）DI thought would have no（58）Aof life，I learned that where there is life，there is hope．My son miraculously （奇跡般地）（59）Band we moved back north，but I owe Helen a（60）Athat I can never repay．

41．A．wound	B．incident	C．coincidence	D．a(chǎn)ccident
42．A．felt	B．fell	C．stepped	D．walked
43．A．survived	B．escaped	C．missed	D．lived
44．A．remembering	B．deciding	C．doubting	D．thinking
45．A．For	B．With	C．Over	D．In
46．A．searching for	B．taking care	C．putting away	D．looking after
47．A．tiring	B．trying	C．disappointing	D．a(chǎn)mazing
48．A．ran off	B．ran up	C．rang up	D．rang off
49．A．walked	B．rolled	C．marched	D．entered
50．A．recognized	B．knew	C．remembered	D．considered
51．A．gave up	B．broke down	C．got through	D．looked into
52．A．block	B．find	C．make	D．smooth
53．A．more fortunate	B．less fortunate	C．fortunate	D．unfortunate
54．A．a(chǎn)nything	B．something	C．everything	D．nothing
55．A．money	B．encouragement	C．hope	D．strength
56．A．blessing	B．hoping	C．giving	D．receiving
57．A．whom	B．which	C．what	D．that
58．A．quality	B．quantity	C．value	D．virtue
59．A．cured	B．recovered	C．treated	D．failed
60．A．debt	B．loan	C．life	D．hope

19．The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out．
----Thomas Macaulay
About thirty years ago，I was studying in a public school in New York．One day，Mrs Nanette O'Neill gave a maths（41）C to our class．When the papers were （42）Ashe discovered that twelve boys had made exactly the（43）Bmistakes throughout the test．
There is nothing really new about（44）Din exams．Perhaps that was（45）C Mrs O'Neill  didn't even say a word about it．She only asked the twelve boys to （46）Aafter class．I was one of the twelve．
Mrs O'Neill asked（47）Cquestions，and she didn't（48）D us either．Instead，she wrote on the blackboard the（49）Awords by Thomas Macaulay．She then ordered us to copy these words into our exercise-books one hundred times．
I don't know about the other eleven boys．Speaking for（50）DI can say：it was the most important single（51）Cof my life．Thirty years after being  introduced to Macaulay's words，they（52）A seem to me the best yardstick （準(zhǔn)繩），because they give us a （53）D to measure ourselves rather than others．
（54）Bof us are asked to make （55）Cdecisions about nations going to war or armies going to battle．But all of us are called（56）Adaily to make a great many personal decisions．Should the wallet，（57）Bin the street，be put into a pocket or （58）C to the policeman？Should the（59）Bchange received at the store be forgotten or （60）D？Nobody will know except you．But you have to live with yourself，and it is always better to live with someone you respect．

41．A．paper	B．question	C．test	D．problem
42．A．marked	B．completed	C．examined	D．a(chǎn)nswered
43．A．easy	B．same	C．funny	D．serious
44．A．lying	B．discussing	C．guessing	D．cheating
45．A．because	B．when	C．why	D．how
46．A．remain	B．a(chǎn)pologize	C．come	D．leave
47．A．many	B．certain	C．no	D．more
48．A．excuse	B．reject	C．help	D．scold
49．A．a(chǎn)bove	B．common	C．following	D．unusual
50．A．herself	B．ourselves	C．themselves	D．myself
51．A．chance	B．incident	C．lesson	D．memory
52．A．still	B．even	C．a(chǎn)lways	D．a(chǎn)lmost
53．A．reason	B．sentence	C．choice	D．way
54．A．All	B．Few	C．Some	D．None
55．A．quick	B．wise	C．great	D．personal
56．A．upon	B．out	C．for	D．up
57．A．finding	B．found	C．find	D．founded
58．A．turned up	B．turned on	C．turned over	D．turned back
59．A．small	B．extra	C．some	D．necessary
60．A．paid	B．remembered	C．shared	D．returned

18．[1]William Butler Yeats，a most famous Irish writer，was born in Dublin on June 13，1865．His childhood lacked the harmony （和睦） that was typical of a happy family．Later，Yeats shocked his family by saying that he remembered"little of childhood but its pain"．In fact，he inherited （繼承） excellent taste in art from his family-both his father and his brother were painters．But he finally settled on literature，particularly drama and poetry．
[2]Yeats had strong faith in coming of new artistic movements．He set himself the fresh task in founding an Irish national theatre in the late 1890s．His early theatrical experiments，however，were not received favorably at the beginning． He didn't lose heart，and finally enjoyed success in his poetical drama．
[3]Compared with his dramatic works，Yeats's poems attract much admiring notice．The subject matter includes love，nature，history，time and aging．Though Yeats generally relied on very traditional forms，he brought modern sensibility to them．As his literary life progressed，his poetry grew finer and richer，which led him to worldwide recognition．
[4]He had not enjoyed a major public life since winning the Nobel Prize in 1923．Yet，he continued writing almost to the end of his life．______________，he would probably now be valued as a minor （不重要的） poet，for there is no other example in literary history of a poet who produces his greatest works between the ages of 50 and 75．After Yeats's Death in 1939，W．H．Auden wrote，among others，the following lines：
        Earth，receive an honored guest：
        William Yeats is laid to rest．
        Let the Irish vessel （船） lie
        Emptied of its poetry．
76．What does the first paragraph mainly tell us？（no more than 9 words ）Brief introduction to his childhood．
77．Explain the underlined sentence in paragraph 2．（ no more than 10 words）His theatrical ideas were not well received at first．
78．What does the underlined word"them"in paragraph 3 refer to？（ no more than 3 words）traditional forms
79．Fill in the blanks in the last paragraph with proper words （no more than 10 words）Had Yeats stopped writing at age 58．
80．What can you learn from Yeats as a writer？（no more than 8 words）To succeed，we need faith，persistence．．

17．[1]How we look and how we appear to others probably worries us more when are in our teens or early twenties than at any other time in our life．Few of us are content to accept ourselves as we are，and few are brave enough to ignore the trends of fashion．
[2]Most fashion magazines or TV advertisements try to persuade us that we should dress in a certain way or behave in a certain manner．If we do，they tell us，we will be able to meet new people with confidence and deal with every situation confidently and without embarrassment．Changing fashion，of course，does not apply just to dress．A barber today does not cut a boy's hair in the same way as he used to，and girls do not make up in the same way as their mothers and grandmothers did．The advertisers show us the latest fashionable styles and we are constantly under pressure to follow the fashion in case our friends think we are odd or dull．
[3]What causes fashions to change？Sometimes convenience or practical necessity or just the fancy of an influential person can establish a fashion．Take hats，for example．In cold climates，early buildings were cold inside，so people wore hats indoors as well as outside．In recent times，the late President Kennedy caused a depression in the American hat industry by not wearing hats：more American men followed his example．
[4]There is also a cyclical pattern in fashion．In the 1920s in Europe and America，short skirts became fashionable．After World War Two，they dropped to ankle length．Then they got shorter and shorter and the miniskirt was in fashion．After a few more years，skirts became longer again．
[5]Today，society is much freer and easier than it used to be．It is no longer necessary to dress like everyone else．Within reason，you can dress as you like or do your hair the way you like instead of the way you should because it is the fashion．The popularity of jeans and the"untidy"look seems to be a reaction against the increasingly expensive fashion of the top fashion houses．
76．What do the fashion magazines or TV advertisements claim to bring to us？
（no more than 2words
77．Why does the writer take President Kennedy as an example？（no more than 14 words）To show the fancy of an influential person can establish a fashion
78．What does the writer try to explain by talking about short skirts？（no more than 8 words）There is a cyclical pattern in fashion                                                                
79．Why are jeans so popular according to the writer？（no more than 10 words）Because it's a reaction against the increasingly expensive fashion                                               
80．According to the passage，how can the fashion in modern society be best described？（ one word）Free．

16．[1]In ancient Greece，there was a great philosopher named Socrates． One day one fellow met him and said，"Do you know what I just heard about your friend？"
[2]"        ，"Socrates replied．"Before telling me anything I'd like you to pass a little test． It's called the Triple Filter Test（三重過濾測試）．
[3]"Triple filter？"
[4]"That's right，"Socrates continued．"Before you talk to me about my friend，it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you're going to say． The first filter is Truth． Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true？"
[5]"No，"the man said，"actually I just heard about it and…"
[6]"All right，"said Socrates．"So you don？t know if it's true or not． Now let's try the second filter，the filter of Goodness． Is what you are about to tell me about my friend something good？"
[7]"No，on the contrary…"
[8]‘‘So，"Socrates continued，"you want to tell me something bad about him，but you're not certain it's true．You may still pass the test though，because there's one filter left，the filter of Usefulness．Is what you want to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me？"
[9]"No，not really．"
[10]"Well，"concluded Socrates，"if what you want to tell me is neither true nor good nor even useful，why tell it to me at all？"
    LESSON：
[11]You can always participate in loose talks when you feel bored． But when it comes to your friends it's not worth it． Always avoid talking behind the back about your near and dear friends．
76．What's the best title of the passage？（ no more than 3 words）Socrates'Test
77．Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words． （ no more than 4 words）
Just a minute．
78．What does the underlined word"it"in Paragraph 5 refer to？（ no more than 10 words）What the fellow had just heard about Socrates'friend．
79．List the three components of the Triple Filter Test． （ no more than 3 words）
Truth．Goodness．Usefulness
80．What message was Socrates trying to send to the fellow？（no more than 11 words）
Do not tell me anything bad about my friend．

15．Children are always taught not to argue with adults for generations． However，new research shows that young teenagers who are taught to argue（36）Aare more likely to resist peer pressure to use drugs and alcohol later in（37）C．
"It turns out that what goes on in the（38）Bis actually a training ground for teens in terms of how to（39）Dagreements with other people，"said Joseph Allen，the lead author of the study． He added that teens should learn they can be taken（40）Bthough discussions with their parents．
      Sometimes，it can be unnatural for parents to（41）Ctheir teens to argue with them． But learningeffective argumentation（42）Acan help teenagers learn to become more （43）Dand how to protectthemselves．
    The study observed 150 13-year-old engaging in arguments，and then （44）Athe same participants three years later about（45）Bwith drugs and alcohol．
    At 13，the teenagers were（46）Csummarizing disagreements between themselves and their mothers．The recordings were then replayed for the mothers to hear．
    The（47）Abetween them would go on to be discussed． The topic would（48）Dfrom household rules to grades to monthly allowances．Once the discussion was （49）Bagain，researchers filmed the teens and their mothers for eight minutes．Teenagers who displayed confidence and used reasons to（50）Ctheir statements were more likely to have refused drugs or alcohol．
    Allen recommended parents should teach their children how to effectively（51）Dtheir thoughts and emotions during conflicts，which in turn teaches children to stand up to （52）Binfluence outside of the home．（53）Atheir viewpoints don't line up，the teens are going to be able take those skills into other environments． Parents should also teach by examples and（54）Cgood discussion practices for their children．
"If they're able to learn how to be confident and persuasive with their（55）B，they'll be able to do the same with peers，"Allen said．

36．A． effectively	B． cleverly	C． actively	D．emotionally
37．A． babyhood	B． childhood	C． adolescence	D．neighborhood
38．A． office	B． family	C． school	D．house
39．A．link	B． share	C． change	D．reach
40．A． properly	B． seriously	C． correctly	D．carefully
41．A． admit	B． forbid	C． allow	D．stop
42．A． skills	B． purposes	C． reasons	D．results
43．A． trustful	B． legal	C． humorous	D．confident
44．A． researched	B． advised	C． persuaded	D．warned
45．A． satisfactions	B． experiences	C． intentions	D．desires
46．A． tracked	B． kept	C． recorded	D．considered
47．A． disagreements	B． discussions	C． debates	D．a(chǎn)greements
48．A． shift	B． move	C． turn	D．range
49．A． raised	B． started	C． prevented	D．continued
50．A． present	B． stress	C． support	D．tell
51．A． prove	B．list	C． develop	D．express
52．A． fierce	B． negative	C． positive	D．cruel
53．A． Even if	B． As long as	C． As soon as	D．In case
54．A． conclude	B． hang	C． show	D．lead
55．A． classmates	B． parents	C． relatives	D．friends
55．A．classmates	B．parents	C．relatives	D．friends