30. Which of the following may be concluded from the passage?
A. The experiment was performed at the University of Surrey in early 2013.
B. Body-clock genes are associated with heart disease, cancer and Type 2 diabetes.
C. Sleep restrictions may contribute to disease like diabetes, insomnia, and heart disease.
D. 7.5－8 hours’ sleep pattern makes little difference compared with 6.5－7 hours’ sleep
pattern.
31. Which of the following can be inferred from the findings of the sleep research?
A. When there is a sleep restriction, genes to do with cell repair and replacement function less.
B. In a sleep, several hundred genes change in the amount. The more changes, the worse results.
C. When genes are up regulated, they do good to health; when genes are down regulated , they do harm to health.
D. Eight hours of sleep a day can be beneficial to our health in that it looks after our genes.
D
When you meet someone for the first time, do you put across a good impression? And what do we mean by “good” in the context? According to Presence, a new book by Harvard Business School professor Amy Cuddy, people assess you on two main criteria when they first meet you: 1. Can I trust this person? 2. Can I respect this person?
Your level of trustworthiness, or warmth, is the most important factor in how people initially admire you, Cuddy says－yet many mistakenly believe that the second factor,characterised as competence, is more important.“From an evolutionary aspect,”Cuddy writes,“it is more important to our survival to know whether a person deserves our trust.”
While displaying competence is certainly beneficial, particularly in a work setting, Cuddy warns that focusing on winning people’s respect, while failing to win their trust, can backfire－a common problem for young professionals attempting to make a good impression early on in their careers.
“If someone you’re trying to influence doesn’t trust you, you’re not going to get very far”, Cuddy says, “A warm, trustworthy person who is also strong elicits(博得) admiration, but only after you’ve established trust does your strength become a gift rather than a threat.”
In Cuddy’s book she also explains some of the science that can help you spot a liar.
When a person is lying there is likely to be differences between what they are saying and what they are doing, she suggests.
“Lying is hard work,” she writes, “We’re telling one story while suppressing another, and most of us are experiencing psychological guilt about doing this, which we’re also trying suppress. We just don’t have the brainpower to manage it all without letting something go－without‘leaking’.”
“It’s about how well or poorly our multiple channels of communications－facial expressions, posture, movement, vocal qualities, speech－co-operate,”she adds.
“When we’re consciously looking for signs of cheat or truth, we pay too much attention to words and not enough to the external body language,” the professor adds. “Truth reveals itself more clearly through actions than it does through our words.
32. According to Amy Cuddy, which is most significant in putting across a good impression?
A. Level of knowledge. B. Level of reliability.
C. Level of competence. D. Level of flexibility.
33. What is the meaning of the underlined word “backfire” in the passage?
A. Cause something unpleasant to happen.
B. Add more fuel to make a bigger fire.
C. Have an unexpected and undesired effect.
D. Walk backwards and make a fire.
34. Which of the following is NOT true of Professor Cuddy’s concepts?
A. Trust is more important than respect to win a good impression in meeting people for the
first time.
B. Young people tend to win people’s respect instead of winning people’s trust early in their
careers.
C. How far away a person goes depends on whether he or she establishes trust among people
around.
D. Liars are unlikely to be identified in that their words match their actions well.
35. What can be learned according to the passage?
A. Some people tend to think displaying competence to gain respect makes a good
impression.
B. A liar always experiences a feeling of guilt when a lie is leaked.
C. When multiple channels of communication co-operate poorly, a liar can hardly be spotted.
D. Words and actions are equally significant in deciding whether a person is trustworthy.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
How to Improve Your Study Habits
Perhaps your are an average student with average intelligence. You do well enough in school, but you probably think you will never be a top student. 36 Yes, even students of average intelligence can be top students without additional work. Here are some tips for you:
1. Plan your time carefully. Make a list of your weekly tasks. Then make a schedule or chart of your time. Fill in committed time such as eating, sleeping, meetings, classes, etc. Then decide on good, regular times for studying. 37 It’s important to set aside time for relaxation, hobbies, and entertainment as well. Furthermore, it will enable you to plan your activities so that you have adequate time for both work and play.
2. Find a good place to study. Choose one place for your study area. It may be a desk or a chair at home or in the school library, but it should be comfortable, and it should not have distractions. When you begin to work, you should be able to concentrate on the subject.
3. 38 Listening to what the teacher says in class means less work later. Sit where you can see and hear well. Take notes to help you remember what the teacher says.
4. Study regularly. 39 Review important points mentioned in class as well as points you remain confused about. If you review your notes and textbook regularly, the material will become more meaningful and you will remember it longer. Regular review leads to improved performances on test.
5. Develop a good attitude about tests. The purpose of a test is to show what you have learned about a subject. The world won’t end if you don’t pass a test, so don’t worry excessively about a single test. Tests provide more than grades. 40
A. Be volunteer to raise questions.
B. Make good use of your time in class.
C. Go over your notes as soon as you can after class.
D. Those who make the best of their time study with more ease.
E. They also let you know what you need to spend more time studying on.
F. Of course, studying shouldn’t occupy all of the free time on the schedule.
G. This is not necessary the case, however. You can receive better grades if you want to.
第三部分 英语知识运用 (共两节，满分45分)
第一节 完形填空（共20题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将改题涂黑。
Our character, 41 , is a combination of our habits. “Sow a thought, harvest an action; sow an action, harvest a habit; sow a habit, harvest a character; sow a character, harvest a 42 ,” thesaying goes.
Habits are powerful factors in our lives. Because they are consistent, often unconscious 43 , they constantly, daily express our character and produce our effectiveness or ineffectiveness.
As Horace Mann, the great educator, once 44 it, “Habits are like a rope. We weave a string of it every day and soon it cannot be broken.” I personally do not agree with the last part of his 45 . I know habits can be learned and unlearned. But I also know it isn’t a(an) 46 fix. It involves a 47 and a faithful commitment.
Those of us who watched the lunar voyage of Apollo II were quite amazed as we saw the first men walk on the moon and return to earth. 48 to get there, those astronauts obviously had to break out of the huge gravity pull of the earth. 49 energy was spent in the first few minutes of 50 in the first few miles of travel, than was used over the next several days to travel half a million miles.
Habits, 51 ,have huge gravity pull more than most people realize or would 52 . Breaking deeply 53 habits such as delay, hesitation, impatience, criticalness, or selfishness that go against basic principles of human effectiveness 54 more than a little willpower and a few minor changes in our lives. “Lift off” 55 a great effort, but once we break out of the gravity pull, our freedom 56 a whole new dimension.
57 any natural force, gravity can work 58 us or against us. The gravity pull of some of our habits may 59 be keeping us from going where we want to go. But it is also gravity that pull that keeps our world together, that keeps the planets in their orbits and our universe in order. It is a powerful force, and if we use it effectively, we can use the gravity pull of habit to create the cooperation and 60 necessary to establish effectiveness in our lives.
41. A. basically B. theoretically C. naturally D. personally
42. A. success B.hope C. fate D. Moral
43. A. styles B. patterns C. methods D. ways
44. A. told B. put C. said D. thought
45. A. truth B. motto C. expression D. sentence
46. A. urgent B. slow C. quick D. convenient
47. A. process B. progress C. period D. devotion
48. A. but B. because C. as D. if
49. A. Much B. More C. Less D. Most
50. A. launching B. raising C. traveling D. lifting
51. A. however B. though C. too D. otherwise
52. A. say B. predict C. admit D. assume
53. A. rooted B. laid C. grown D. planted
54. A. calls on B. calls for C. calls off D. calls in
55. A. makes B. takes C. does D. brings
56. A. takes on B. carries on C. gives away D. turns out
57. A. As well as B. As for C. As with D. As like
58. A. on B. by C. around D. with
59. A.permanently B. instantly C. constantly D. presently
60. A. communication B. patience C. success D. Order
第II卷
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Almost everyone suffers from a headache 61 (occasional). But some people suffer from repeated, frequent headaches.
What is headache? What causes it? What can you done about a headache? What research is being done on headaches? The dictionary defines headache simply 62 “a pain in the head”. 63 most people mean by headache 64 (be) a pain that lasts several minutes or hours. It covers the whole head, or one side of it, or perhaps the front or the back of the head. To add to the confusion about a definition, some people call tight feeling in the head a headache.
A headache is important because 65 can be the first warning of a serious condition which probably could be controlled 66 discovered early. If a person 67 (remove) the warning, day after day, with a pain-killer, he may pass the point of easy control.
A headache is important also because it disturbs people, 68 (prevent) them from living a happy life. The 69 (employ) with a headache does less work. In a flash of temper he may upset his fellow 70 (guy) or customers, causing a direct or indirect loss to his organization. The mother with a headache suffers and disturbs the family. She upsets her husband and children.
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分35分)
第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Nowadays, mobile phones are become more and more popular in the middle school students. In my opinion, we can bring mobile phones to school. As we know, the 21st century is a modern age and full of informations. A mobile phone is one of the quicker tools for us to exchange messages. The mobile phone is a fashionable and useful invention, but we ought to make the best use of it. Suppose there’s sudden accident, it is more conveniently for us to dial for help immediately. There’re also some games in the mobile phone. We can relax us by playing them when we’re tired of our studies. In my opinion, It’s not wrong to follow after the fashion, but the most important thing is that to use the mobile phone in a right way.
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
假设你是李华，你校英文报“My Point of View”一栏拟刊登“家庭与孩子成长”有关的内容。现在很多家庭只有一个孩子，这样的环境对孩子的成长是否有利？如果一个家庭可以有两个孩子，那对孩子的成长又有什么样的利弊？请你就这个话题给校报编辑写一封信，谈谈你的看法。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头语已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Editor,
With the implementing of family planning policy, most families have only one child.
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Yours Sincerely,
Li Hua
