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When I enrolled at Pepperdine University in 1974, my mother exercised her parental right to express her worry at my departure．I responded with typical teenage indifference and ignorance．“Mom , I’m only an hour away．What’s the bit deal?” “You just wait until you have one of your own,” she cried ．“Then you’ll know what I’m feeling．” It has been a little more than a month since my daughter Devin moved into her dorm at Occidental college, and life as I know it has come to an end．Or that’s what it feels like．Mom, you were right．
The nest’s empty loneliness is almost unbearable．Why does it hurt so bad? Science has an answer: We are social mammals who experience deep attachment to our fellow friends and family, an evolutionary throwback to our Paleolithic（旧石器时代的）hunter-gatherer days of living in small bands．Bonding unified the group, aiding survival in harsh climates and against unforgiving enemies．Attachment between parents and offspring assured that there is no one better equipped to look after the future survival of your genes than yourself．
The empty-nest syndrome is real, but there is good news for this and all forms of loss and grief．According to Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert, we are not very good at forecasting our unhappiness．Most of us think that we would be miserable for a very long time．Gilbert calls this the durability bias, an emotional misunderstanding．
The durability bias and the failure to recognize the power of our emotional immune systems lead us to overestimate how depressed we will feel and for how long, and to underestimate how quickly we will get rid of it and feel better．
For me, taking the long view helps．How long? Deep time．Evolutionary time, in which 6,895 days represent a mere 0．000000005% of the 3．5 billion year history of life on Earth．
Each of us parents makes one small contribution to the evolutionary importance of life’s continuity from one generation to the next without a single gap, an unbroken link over the eons（永久）。
57．What message does the author want to express by telling us her experience in the first paragraph?
A．The empty-nest syndrome is really hard for old parents to bear．
B．All people should learn to love their parents no matter how old they are．
C．A person will not understand his parents´ love until he has his own child．
D．The love parents give to children is selfless and should be respected．
58．According to Daniel Gilbert, the empty-nest syndrome is¬¬¬¬ ．
A．caused by our emotional misunderstanding
B．not a real problem but in our imagination
C．the result of overestimating our happiness
D．from our emotional immune systems
59．The author gets herself out of the empty-nest syndrome by holding a positive idea that ．
A．she can go to see her daughter regularly when she misses her
B．her daughter will one day come back to her after graduation
C．her daughter will understand her when she has her own children
D．the departure from her daughter is much shorter than the history of life on Earth
60．What kind of role do parents play in the human history, according to the last paragraph?
A．They cultivate talents for the development of history．
B．They help keep the life’s continuity without a broken link．
C．They accelerate the evolutionary pace of the human beings．
D．They point a right way for the next generation to develop themselves．
第二节 根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑，选项中有两项多余选项。（共5 小题；每小题2 分，满分10 分）
— How come Thomas is always so full of energy?
— 61
— What does it mean?
— 62 And he just has a total of 4 hours of sleep each day．
— Where did he get that strange idea?
— He read from a book by a famous expert which said it was the best way for human beings． 63
— How many hours do you sleep a day?
— 64 I once tried to follow Thomas’ example, but it didn’t work for me．
— If I sleep during the day, 65
— Not everybody is Thomas, I think．
A．I can be energetic．
B．And he believed it!
C．He has a strange but highly effective way of sleeping．
D．I can’t believe how he does so．
E．I need at least six hours ．
F．I can never wake up．
G．He takes a short sleep for an hour every six hours．
第三部分 写作（共两节，满分50分）
第一节：短文改错（共10小题；每小题1．5分，满分15分）
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边的横线上画一个勾（∨）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：
此行多一个词：把多余的词作斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。
此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意：原行没有错的不要改。
Nearly a week passed after the girl was able to explain
what happened to her．One afternoon she set out from the
coast in a small boat and was caught in a storm．Towards
evening, the boat struck a rock but the girl jumped into the
sea．Then she swam to the shore after spend the whole night
in the water．During that time she covered the distance of eight
miles．Early in next morning, she saw a light ahead．She knew
she was near the shore．In arriving at the shore, she struggled
towards the light she had seen．That was that she remembered．
When she woke up a day later, she found her in hospital．
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第二节：书面表达（满分35分）
近来部分学生抄袭作业的现象较为普遍。假如你是高三学生李华，请你针对此不良现象，根据以下提示，用英语给校长写信反映此情况。
1、 抄袭作业的主要原因
2、 你给该部分同学的建议
3、 你给学校的建议
4、 你对此现象的看法
注意：1．词数：100左右。
2．信的开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数：
Dear Headmaster,
I’m Li Hua in Senior Three．I’ m writing to tell you something bad among us students．
I’m looking forward to your reply．
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
参考答案
单项选择：
1 —5 BCADC 6—10 DABCA 11—15 DDDBC 16—20 BACAC
完形填空：
21—25 DACBB 26—30 ACADD 31—35 BBCAD 36—40 DBCAC
阅读理解：
41—44 DACC 45—48 CBAD 49—52 DBDC
53—56 BDBC 57—60 CADB
补全对话：
61—65 CGBEF
短文改错：
66．after→before 67．what后加had 68．√ 69．but→and
70．spend→spending 71．第二个the→a 72．去掉in 73．In→On／Upon
74．that→what／all／everything 或在that 前加all／everything 75．her→herself
书面表达：
One possible version:
Dear Headmaster,
I’m Li Hua in Senior Three．I’ m writing to tell you something bad among us students．Recently, it’s very common for some students to copy others’ homework．On one hand, we have to do too much homework, some of which is too difficult for us．On the other hand, some students copy others’ homework both to finish the assignments and please their teachers．
Here I have some suggestions．To students, they should make full use of their time to work hard and do their homework honestly．Besides ,when meeting with difficulties, they can turn to their teachers for help; to school, could you ask teachers to give us students less homework and leave us more time to go over the books?
Personally, copying is a bad behavior．Effective measures should be taken to prevent it．（118words）
I’m looking forward to your reply．
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
