—Are you worried about his safety?

—Only         .

A.faithfully.                  B.broadly              C.slightly                     D.extremely

 Our family       made up of six people, and all       music.

A. is ; love        B. are ; love    C. is ; loves           D. are ; loves

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Charles and I used to hang out all the time, together with a few other guys, but he seemed too cool for us lately. We couldn’t understand the   36  _, and we didn’t ask him for an explanation.   37   , we decided to   38    him a lesson in the way he treated us.

Once we started giving Charles the   39    shoulder, almost everybody was taking no notice of him. He looked so   40   , especially at lunchtime when he sat alone in the cafeteria (自助餐廳). Now and then he nodded and said, “Hey!” when   41   passed his table, but all he got   42   return were mean looks and silence.

At first I was glad my plan had   43   , but Charles’ unhappiness made me upset. I only wanted him to know   44   it felt like to be blown off, but I hadn’t thought about how badly my “l(fā)esson” would   45   him.

During one lunch period, I   46   as Charles repeatedly glanced at his watch, obviously   47   the minutes until he could leave the cafeteria. I suddenly realized I had done wrong.

 “Hey! Man. I’m terribly sorry.” I called out.

Charles turned around   48  , clearly wanting to avoid eye contact.

 “Oh, so you are talking to me now?” he asked.

 “I’m so sorry,   49   I had thought that you wanted to end our friendship.” I said.

“What?” he nearly shouted, looking much   50  . “I’ve left you alone because I thought that was what you wanted.”

“Oh, my God! Why would I want   51  ?” I shouted , completely puzzled.

Clearly, we both had been   52    each other wrong.

At first Charles couldn’t accept my   53  . I knew he needed time to   54   all the hurt I’d caused him. But eventually, he did forgive me. We even started hanging out together   55  . And our friendship wasn’t destroyed at all.

36. A. situation       B. change             C. action                D. appearance

37. A. Besides        B. Therefore           C. Instead                D. Opposite

38. A. take                  B. teach               C. give                        D. attend

39. A. serious           B. friendly             C. warm                 D. cold

40. A. sad             B. angry               C. happy                D. high

41. A. nobody        B. anybody             C. they                        D. someone

42. A. at              B. in                  C. on                  D. by

43. A. helped          B. operated            C. worked               D. done

44. A. what             B. that                 C. as                   D. how

45. A. worry            B. touch               C. hurt                  D. disappointed

46. A. imagined         B. listened             C. recalled               D. watched

47. A. counting         B. guessing             C. waiting              D. checking

48. A. fast              B. slowly              C. finally               D. willingly

49. A. and               B. so                 C. thus                  D. but

50. A. interested        B. pleased             C. surprised              D. moved

51. A. one           B. those               C. that                  D. such

52. A. understanding    B. regarding           C. knowing             D. treating

53. A. explanation            B. attitude             C. suggestion                   D. apology

54. A. get through            B. get over            C. get across             D. get along

55. A. seldom        B. once               C. again                D. also

Developmentally, girls take the lead. They talk earlier, read earlier, and count earlier. In preschool, they score higher on IQ tests than their male fellows. They usually receive better grades in elementary school than boys, yet in public schools, far more gifted boys than gifted girls are identified by the fifth grade.

   Girls begin to go underground with their talents and abilities sometime between the fifth and ninth grades.

   Traditional teacher training has focused on the teaching to boys’ interests and behaviors, which is thought to help keep order in classrooms. Boys mainly express themselves by “acting out”, disturbing the classroom in a variety of ways while girls, on the contrary, mainly express themselves by “acting in”, becoming silent, withdrawn and non-participative. One way to control boys was to be sure that they were contributing --- therefore, teachers have traditionally called on boys more often than girls.

   Boys and girls come to very different conclusions about themselves, even when the data on which they base their decisions are the same. Research shows that boys are more willing to accept success and be praised for their accomplishments than girls are.

   Adults, even teachers, often have different expectations of boys and girls, especially in the area of mathematical achievement.

According to the passage, in elementary school, a schoolgirl        than a schoolboy.

   A. is better at sports                       B. gets higher grades

   C. is less talkative                            D. is more troublesome

Generally, a schoolmaster traditionally pays more attention to boys because        .

   A. they are more gifted than girls           B. they are not good at expressing themselves

   C. they are more likely to make trouble       D. they often bully girls in class

According to the passage, a traditional experienced teacher would        .

   A. have a girl as monitor of the class           B. scold boys for their bad behaviors

   C. call on girls from time to time            D. praise boys more frequently

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Health researchers have noticed that some groups of people are more consistently healthy than others, and wondered… Is it race? Income? Where you live? In the United States, these disagreements in health outcomes have been the focus of intense research for the past several decades.

Harvard University health policy researcher Ellen Meara says scholars have found some clues as to why some groups of people have more or less disease than others. She says one important factor in people’s health is the amount of education they have.

In her most recent paper, Meara looked at data from the United States census. Meara and her colleagues examined data from several decades.

“We looked at life expectancy（預測壽命）at age 25,” Meara says.

“How many additional years can you expect to live if you arrive at age 25 and your education has stopped at high school, or sooner? Versus how many years, can you expect to live if you’ve reached aged 25 and you’ve gone on to at least some college…”

Meara says they found that in 1990, a 25-year-old who only had some secondary school could expect to live for a total of 75 years. In 2000, a 25 year old with some secondary education could also expect to live to the age of 75.

In contrast, for a better educated 25-year-old, they could expect to live to the age of 80 in 1990. Someone with a similar education level in the year 2000, could expect to live to be more than 81 years, 81.6 years to be exact .

Meara says, not only do better-educated people live longer to begin with, but in the past ten years, more educated people has made gains in the length of their lives. Meanwhile, the life expectancy hasn’t changed for less educated people.

Some of these gains can be explained. Meara says researchers know that people who are more educated are more likely to quit smoking cigarettes, or not start at all, compared to people with less education.

“I think it’s a reminder not to be satisfactory,” Meara says. “Just because a population overall appears to be getting healthier, it doesn’t always mean that those advantages and successes that many people have enjoyed really extend into all parts of the population. And I think that's something to really pay attention to regardless of whether you live in the US or elsewhere.”

Meara points out that education can often determine income - people with more education frequently make more money. This makes them aware of health care, and purchase other resources and services that can keep them healthier. But the data on income do NOT show that people who make more money are automatically healthier.

______ Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow is ______ huge 400-ton aircraft without wings.

A. /, a            B. The, a      C. The, the     D. A, a

________one scientist has pointed out, children’s skulls are not fully developed.

A. That         B. As           C. Which            D. What

His music is            popular today as it ever was.

A. very           B. as            C. such        D. so

No one in the department but Tom and I        that the director is going to resign（辭職）.

A. knows            B. know               C. have known        D. am to know

—Here’s the key to my car. —Thanks, but I must know where you ______ it.

A. will park        B. park             C. had parked           D. parked