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BThe word “day” has two meanings. When we talk about the number of days in a year, we are using “day” to mean 24 hours. But when we talk about day and night, we are using “day” to mean the time between sunrise and sunset. Since the earth looks like a ball
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The word “day” has two meanings. When we talk about the number of days in a year, we are using “day” to mean 24 hours. But when we talk about day and night, we are using “day” to mean the time between sunrise and sunset. Since the earth looks like a ball, the sun can shine on only half of it at a time. Always one half of the earth is having day and the other half night. A place is moved from day into night and from night into day over and over by the spinning(旋转) of the earth. At the equator(赤道) day and night are sometimes the same length. They are each twelve hours long. The sun rises at 6 in the morning and sets at 6 in the evening. For six months the North Pole is tilted(倾斜) toward the sun. In those months the Northern Hemisphere(半球) gets more hours of sunlight than the Southern Hemisphere. Days are longer than nights. South of the equator nights are longer than days. For the other six months the North Pole is tilted away from the sun. Then the Southern Hemisphere gets more sunlight. Days are longer than night. North of the equator nights are longer than days. Winter is the season of long nights. Summer is the season of long days.
56. When the Western Hemisphere is having day, the Eastern Hemisphere is having ______.
A.both day and night B.day C.neither day nor night D.night
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第1题：
E
Sunday is more like Monday than it used to be, Places of business that used to keep daytime “business hours” are now open late into the night. And on the Internet, the hour of the day and the day of the week have become irrelevant (不相关的).A half century ago in the United States, most people experienced strong and precise dividing lines between days of rest and days of work, school time and summer time. Today the boundaries still exist, but they seem not clear.
The law in almost all states used to require stores to close on Sunday; in most, it no longer does, It used to keep the schools open in all seasons except summer, in most, it still does. And whether the work week should strengthen its legal limits, or whether it should become more “flexible,” is often debated. How should we, as a society, organize our time? Should we go even further in relaxing the boundaries of time until we live in a world in which every minute is much like every other?
These are not easy questions even to ask. Part of the difficulty is that we rarely recognize the “law of time” even when we meet it face to face. We know as children that we have to attend school a certain number of hours, a certain number of days, a certain number of years – but unless we meet the truant officer (学监) ,we may well think that we should go to school due to social custom and parents’ demand rather than to the law. As adults we are familiar with “extra pay for overtime working,” but less familiar with the fact that what constitutes(构成) “overtime” is a matter of legal definition. When we turn the clock forward to start daylight – saving time, have we ever thought to ourselves: “Here is the law in action”? As we shall see, there is a lot of law that has great influence on how organize and use time: compulsory education law, overtime law, and daylight – saving law- as well as law about Sunday closing, holidays, being late to work, time zones, and so on. Once we begin to look for it, we will have no trouble finding a law of time to examine and assess.
67. By saying” Sunday is more like Monday than it used to be,” the writer means that __________.
A. work time is equal to rest time
B. many people have a day off on Monday,
C. it is hard for people to decide when to rest
D. the line between work time and rest time is unclear
正确答案：D
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第2题：
What is the 'biggest city in the world? That is, (21) city has the largest population? This seems like (22) question to answer, but actually it isn't.
It's actually rather difficult to say which cities (23) the largest. There are two reasons for this difficulty. First of all, it isn't easy to determine a city's boundaries, that is, where a city ends. Nowadays, nearly all cities have a large (24) area around them. So when we talk about the population of a city, we often mean the population of the whole metropolitan area around the city. That means that it's difficult to determine what the population of a city is because it's difficult to define what a city is.
The second reason that it is difficult to 25 the population of different cities is this: it is almost impossible to get (26) about the population of all cities for the same year. For example, we might get an estimate of New York's population in 1979 and an (27) of Mexico City's population in 1981. So we real ly can't compare the numbers because the information is for (28) different years. And the population of cities changes rather quickly, especially in some cases. For example, the population of Jakarta, Indonesia, may increase by 5% each year, so the population figure will change rather quickly.
So we can say that these are our two (29) for comparing the populations of cities: one, it's difficult to determine the (30) of a city, and two, it is difficult to get accurate information.
21. A. what
B. which
C. where
D. how
正确答案：B首先判断此处缺少的是一个定语。参考上文及该句中that is这一短语可知，此处应填which一词。
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第3题：
When we talk about “parts of speech”, we know that a describing word we use to describe a noun is a/an ______; a word that can be used instead of a noun is a/an _______; a word used in front of a countable or uncountable noun is a/an ___________.
A、pronoun, article, adjective
B、article, adjective, pronoun
C、adjective, article, pronoun
D、adjective, pronoun, article
参考答案：D
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第4题：
We’ll leave our school in________.A.two year and a half
B.two years and a half
C.two and half a years
D.two and half a year
参考答案：B
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第5题：
A
I have two friends． They are Tom and Jim． We go to school at seven o'clock． We go home at five in the afternoon． We go to bed at about nine thirty．
I have a clock． I put it on the desk． Tom has an old watch and Jim has a new watch． Well， what's the time now? It-s about four twenty-five． It's time to play games． We go to bed at 9：30．
( )31．I have _______．
A． an old watch
B． two friends
C． a clock
D． Both B and C
正确答案：D
31.D【解析】根据第一段第一句和第二段第一句可得知。 -
第6题：
When we talk about the element of the teaching aims “ABCD”, what does the “C” refer to?A.content
B.capacity
C.condition
D.competence答案：C解析：本题考查教学设计中的教学目标。
教学设计中提倡用行为目标对学生通过学习后行为及能力的变化进行描述。行为目标的编写方法也叫ABCD模式，即对象（audience）、行为（behavior）、条件（condition）、和标准（degree），也叫行为主体、行为动词、行为条件、表现程度。综上，C选项正确。
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第7题：
Which of the following italicized parts is a subject clause?A．We are quite certain that we will get there in time.
B．He has to face the fact that there will, be no pay rise this year.
C．She said that she had seen the man earlier that morning.
D．It's sheer luck that the miners are still alive after ten days.答案：D解析：考查主语从句。A项是一个表语从旬，是一个主系表的结构，B项是一个同位语从句。that引导的同位语从句补充说明先行阋的内容，C项是一个宾语从句，that引导的宾语从句作谓语动词said的宾语，只有D项是一个主语从句，it是一个形式主语，真正的主语是后面的that从句部分。故选D。 -
第8题：
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第二篇
A Four-day Week
Fancy a three-day weekend一not just once in a while but week in week out? You may think your bosses would never agree to it,but the evidence suggests that employers,employees and the environment all benefit.
The four-day week comes in two flavors.One option is to switch from five 8-hour days to four 10-hour days,meaning overall hours and salaries stay the same.Two years age,the state of Utah moved all of its employees,apart from the emergency services,to working 4/10,as it has become known.The hope was that by shutting down buildings for an extra day each week,energy bills would be cut by up to a fifth.
The full results of this experiment won't be published until October,but an ongoing survey of 100 buildings suggests energy consumption has fallen by around 13 percent. The survey also found that 70 percent of employees prefer the 4/10 arrangement,and that people look fewer days off sick.
The second form of the four-day week is to work the same number of hours per day for four days only,with a 20 percent pay cut. With the recession hutting revenues , accountancy（会计工作） company KPMG announced in February that it was offering its 11,000 U.K. employees the option of a four-day week to avoid job losses.So far 85 percent of employees have applied to join the scheme, and 800 now do a four-day week.
Not everyone will like the idea of working longer days or taking a pay cut in exchange for a 3-day weekend,but it appears most do.According to Rex Facer at Brigham Young University in Provo,Utah,it was the crash of 1929 that led to the five-day week.During the next big financial crisis in the 1970s,there was much talk of moving to a four-day week,but for a variety of reasons that didn't pan out."Things are different now,"says Facer."I wouldn't be surprised if we could get 50 percent or more of the workforce working four-day weeks in the next few years."What do we learn about the second form of the four-day week?
A:It was first applied in the accountancy company KPMG.
B:It was adopted by KPMG in order not to lay off workers.
C:It came into existence when recession his revenues.
D:It is embraced by more employees compared with the first form.答案：B解析：本题是细节考查题。题干是：扰他州进行四天工作制实验，其目的是什么？选A的依据是第二段最后一句："The hope was that by shutting down buildings for an extra day each week, energy bills would be cut by up to a fifth.”该州期望通过每周让办公大楼多关闭 1天的方式，削减高达1乃的能源费用。选项A的意思是降低能源的消耗，与原文相符。
本题是细节考查题。题干是：一个正在进行的调查显示_____。选C的依据是第三段第二句：."The survey also found that 70 percent of employees prefer the 4/10 arrangement, and that people look fewer days off sick.”这项调研还发现，70％的雇员更喜欢4天10'J、时工作制，而且雇员请病假的天数也减少了。选项C的意思是大部分员工赞同4天10小时工作制，与原文相符。
本题是细节考查题。题干是：我们对于四天工作制第二种版本的认识是什么？ 选B的依据是第四段第二句："With the recession hutting revenues, accountancy company KPMG announced in February that it was offering its 11,000 U .K.employees the option of a four-day week to avoid job losses.”毕马威会计师事务所（KPMG）在2月份宣布向其1.1万名英国员工提供4天工作制的选择，以避免裁员。选项B的意思是毕马威会计师事务所采用这一工作制是为了避免裁员，与原文相符。
本题是细节考查题。题干是：从短文中可以推理出什么？ 选B的依据是最后一段第二句："it was the crash of 1929 that led to the five-day week.”正是1929年的经济危机导致了五天工作制的诞生。选项B的意思是5天工作制是1929年经济危机的结果，与原文相符。
本题是细节推理题。题干是：费瑟说：“但现在情况不同了，”是想暗示什么？选C的依据是最后一段第一句："Not everyone will like the idea of working longer days or taking a pay cut in exchange for a 3-day weekend, but it appears most do.”不是每个人都喜欢通过延长每天工作时间或减少薪水来换得3天周末，但似乎大多数人还是喜欢的。most do及最后一句的wouldn't be surprise…均表明，与20世纪70年底啊的情况不同，现在实行4天工作制的可能性非常大。选项C的意思是4天工作制很有可能普及，与原文相符。 -
第9题：
Text 3 Scientists have found that although we are prone to snap overreactions,if we take a moment and think about how we are likely to react,we can reduce or even eliminate the negative effects of our quick,hardwired responses.Snap decisions can be important defense mechanisms;if we are judging whether someone is dangerous,our brains and bodies are hardwired to react very quickly,within milliseconds.But we need more time to assess other factors.To accurately tell whether someone is sociable,studies show,we need at least a minute,preferably five.It takes a while to judge complex aspects of personality,like neuroticism or openmindedness.But snap decisions in reaction to rapid stimuli aren't exclusive to the interpersonal realm.Psychologists at the University of Toronto found that viewing a fastfood logo for just a few milliseconds primes us to read 20 percent faster,even though reading has little to do with eating.We unconsciously associate fast food with speed and impatience and carry those impulses into whatever else we're doing.Subjects exposed to fastfood flashes also tend to think a musical piece lasts too long.Yet we can reverse such influences.If we know we will overreact to consumer products or housing options when we see a happy face（one reason good sales representatives and real estate agents are always smiling）,we can take a moment before buying.If we know female job screeners are more likely to reject attractive female applicants,we can help screeners understand their biases—or hire outside screeners.John Gottman,the marriage expert,explains that we quickly“thin slice”information reliably only after we ground such snap reactions in“thick sliced”longterm study.When Dr.Gottman really wants to assess whether a couple will stay together,he invites them to his island retreat for a much longer evaluation;two days,not two seconds.Our ability to mute our hardwired reactions by pausing is what differentiates us from animals:doges can think about the future only intermittently or for a few minutes.But historically we have spent about 12 percent of our days contemplating the longer term.Although technology might change the way we react,it hasn't changed our nature.We still have the imaginative capacity to rise above temptation and reverse the highspeed trend.
John Gottman says that reliable snap reactions are based on_____A.critical assessment
B.“thin sliced”study
C.sensible explanation
D.adequate information答案：D解析：细节题【命题思路】本题主要考查考生对于段落具体信息的把握和理解，并且能够识别出选项信息和原文信息的关键词发生的同义替换，排除偷换概念以及无中生有等干扰选项。【直击答案】由题干关键信息“John Gottman”定位到全文倒数第二段。第一句John Gottman,the marriage expert，explains that we quickly‘thin slice’information reliably only after we ground such snap reactions in“thick sliced”longterm study.正是答案所在处。其中“ground”是题干中“base on”的同义置换，“longterm study”（长期的研究）与D项“adequate information”相互呼应。由此可判断出D项adequate information（足够的信息）是正确答案。【排除干扰】A项“批判性评估”，属于无中生有；B项“薄片研究”错在逻辑混乱，原文意思是在“薄片研究”基础上形成“厚片研究”，所以依靠的应是“厚片研究”，故排除此项。C项表达“合理的解释”，也属于无中生有，原文并没有提及，也不能从文章中总结出相关信息，故排除。 -
第10题：
This song often（）us of the days when we worked together in the countryside.
Aremembers
Breminds
Creflects
Dmemorizes
B
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第11题：
单选题We employ about seven hundred full-time people. But we（）causal staff when we need them.Acheck in
Btaken in
Ccheck out
Dtake on
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第12题：
单选题Emily: ______ ? Scott: Yes, it certainly is Emily: About time too –after all that rain we had. Scott: Yes, I know. That’s why we went away this year.AIs there anything I can do for you?
BIs it suitable for you to go?
CIs it a sunny day today?
DIsn’t this weather fantastic?
正确答案： D解析：
根据Emily的第二句话，可知对话内容与天气有关，故排除A和B选项；根据Scott的第一次回答“是，当然是了”可推测出问话为反义疑问句，而不是询问今天的天气状况如何，故选择D项。 -
第13题：
None of us called the police when the two cars collided, ____?
A didn’t we B don’t we C did we D do we
正确答案：C
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第14题：
Honey, would you like to have a talk with me?().
A. Talk with you? What for?
B. I'm not interested in the talk.
C. About the situations we are having these days.
参考答案：C
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第15题：
We _____ rather talk about football or the weather or what we had for lunch.
A: will
B: should
C: would
D: could
参考答案：C
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第16题：
We should not talk about other people’s ______ life.
A、private
B、individual
C、own
D、specific
参考答案：A
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第17题：
Passage Four
"Cool" is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit cold. As the world has changed, the word has had many different meanings.
"Cool" can be used to express feelings of interest in almost anything. When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say, "It's cool. ' You may think, "He's so cool," when you see your favorite football player.
We all maximize (扩大) the meaning of "cool". You can use it instead of many words such as "new" or "surprising". Here's an interesting story we can use to show the way the word is used. A teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall (瀑布) they had visited. On one student's paper was just the one sentence, "It's so cool." Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt.
But the story also shows a scarcity of words. Without "cool", some people have no words to show the same meaning. So it is quite important to keep some credibility (可信性). Can you think of many other words that make your life as colorful as the word "cool"? I can. And I think they are also very cool.
46. We know that the word "cool" has had______.
A. only one meaning
B. no meanings
C. the same meaning
D. many different meanings
正确答案：D46．答案为D 从短文第一段As the world has changed，the word has had many different meanings可知cool有很多不同的意思，D为正确选项。
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第18题：
When we talk about the element of the teaching aims “ABCD”, what does the “C” refer to?A. content
B.capacity
C. condition
D.competence答案：C解析：本题考查教学设计中的教学目标。
教学设计中提倡用行为目标对学生通过学习后行为及能力的变化进行描述。行为目标的编写方法也叫ABCD模式，即对象（audience）、行为（behavior）、条件（condition）、和标准（degree），也叫行为主体、行为动词、行为条件、表现程度。综上，C选项正确。
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第19题：
Research findings show we spend about two hours dreaming every night,no matter what we（ ）during the day.A.should have done
B.would have done
C.may have done
D.must have done答案：C解析：该题考查情态动词用法。本题包含宾语从句，从句的谓语动词为陈述句语气，因此可将表示虚拟语气的A、B选项排除,must have done表示对过去肯定推测不合题意，故答案为C。 -
第20题：
Text 3 Scientists have found that although we are prone to snap overreactions,if we take a moment and think about how we are likely to react,we can reduce or even eliminate the negative effects of our quick,hardwired responses.Snap decisions can be important defense mechanisms;if we are judging whether someone is dangerous,our brains and bodies are hardwired to react very quickly,within milliseconds.But we need more time to assess other factors.To accurately tell whether someone is sociable,studies show,we need at least a minute,preferably five.It takes a while to judge complex aspects of personality,like neuroticism or openmindedness.But snap decisions in reaction to rapid stimuli aren't exclusive to the interpersonal realm.Psychologists at the University of Toronto found that viewing a fastfood logo for just a few milliseconds primes us to read 20 percent faster,even though reading has little to do with eating.We unconsciously associate fast food with speed and impatience and carry those impulses into whatever else we're doing.Subjects exposed to fastfood flashes also tend to think a musical piece lasts too long.Yet we can reverse such influences.If we know we will overreact to consumer products or housing options when we see a happy face（one reason good sales representatives and real estate agents are always smiling）,we can take a moment before buying.If we know female job screeners are more likely to reject attractive female applicants,we can help screeners understand their biases—or hire outside screeners.John Gottman,the marriage expert,explains that we quickly“thin slice”information reliably only after we ground such snap reactions in“thick sliced”longterm study.When Dr.Gottman really wants to assess whether a couple will stay together,he invites them to his island retreat for a much longer evaluation;two days,not two seconds.Our ability to mute our hardwired reactions by pausing is what differentiates us from animals:doges can think about the future only intermittently or for a few minutes.But historically we have spent about 12 percent of our days contemplating the longer term.Although technology might change the way we react,it hasn't changed our nature.We still have the imaginative capacity to rise above temptation and reverse the highspeed trend.
To reverse the negative influences of snap decisions,we should_____A.trust our first impression
B.do as people usually do
C.think before we act
D.ask for expert advice答案：C解析：细节题【命题思路】本题主要考查考生对于段落具体信息的把握和理解，了解要扭转快速决定带来的影响，我们应采取的措施，并且能够识别出选项信息和原文信息的关键词发生的同义替换，排除偷换概念以及无中生有等的干扰选项。【直击答案】根据题干关键词“reverse the negative influences”定位到第四段。第四段主要通过两个例子：“consumer products or housing options”和“female job screeners”，说明我们应该怎样克服负面影响。即可说明我们应该在行动之前先思考来消除负面影响，因此选择答案C项。【排除干扰】A项“相信我们的第一印象”；B项“按照人们通常所做的去做”；D项“寻求专业建议”均属于无中生有，故排除。 -
第21题：
We employ about seven hundred full-time people. But we（）causal staff when we need them.
A check in
B taken in
C check out
D take on
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第22题：
单选题We（）every day when we were children.Aused to swim
Bused to swimming
Cuse to swim
Duse to swimming
正确答案： B解析： 暂无解析 -
第23题：
单选题The word which best describes the tone of the poem When We Two Parted is _____.Asentimental
Bironic
Cparadoxical
Drealistic
正确答案： D解析：
《当我们俩分手时》是一首由乔治·戈登·拜伦创作的诗歌，这首诗主要回忆了作者与爱人分别的情景和感受以及后来的心情。故选A。