61. The underlined word “encrypted” in the last section probably means “________”.

A. analysed  B. stored     C. collected   D. protected

62. It can be inferred from the advertisement that _______.

A. smoking is completely forbidden in the hotel

B. every room follows the same hotel policies

C. policies may be in your favor if you book 6 rooms

D. an extra bed can be provided for you free of charge

C

A study now lends support to the idea that meal-time distractions (分散注意) can mask the clues that we really have eaten quite enough. Moreover, it finds, the caloric fallout of not paying attention to what we’re eating doesn’t necessarily end when a meal is over.

Rose Cooper from England, and her colleagues gathered 22 men and an equal number of women for an experiment. Each person dined alone, continuously receiving nine small shares of food items. These ranged from cheese twists and potato chips to carrots, cherry tomatoes and sandwiches or sausage rolls.

Because the goal was to test the potential impacts of distraction on fullness, the researchers randomly assigned half of the participants to eat in front of a computer—and to gain as many wins as possible at the “card” game. Everyone else was told to focus on the sensory qualities of their meal.

According to their instructions, the participants ate all of the food given to them. Yet people who played a computer game during lunch found their meal less filling than the mindful eaters had. Game players also swallow down twice as many cookies, almost an hour later, when they were allowed all the dessert they wanted (in the name of a taste test). The British scientists present their findings in the February American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

The real question is why distracted eating should impact snacking. It appears, the scientists say, that memory plays some tricky role in how we register what we eat and the degree to which it satisfies.

Interestingly, eight years ago, Britta Barkeling of Huddinge University in Stockholm and her colleagues reported somewhat related findings. Their 18 overweight subjects had no choice other than to get rid of everything but lunch, on one day—because they were blindfolded. Compared to a day when they could view what they were dining on, these people consumed only three quarters as many calories. Yet even hours afterward, they reported being no less full than on the day they had been able to see their plates.

Of course dining in the dark isn’t practical. And sometimes what we eat doesn’t really invite our absolute attention. But there is certainly a growing mountain of data indicating that mindless eating is a waste of resources, a risk to our waistlines—and a costly threat to health.

63. Rose Cooper and her colleagues did the experiment in order to _______.

A. show that all the people enjoy snacks

B. prove that playing computer games is harmful while dining

C. find possible effects of distraction on fullness

D. test the impacts of eating snacks on different people

64. Which is the most effective way to concentrate on your food when dining?

A. Viewing your food.      B. Blindfolding your eyes.

C. Playing computer games.     D. Eating by oneself.

65. The reason why distracted eating influences snacking may be that ________.

A. you eat less in that case     B. you are cheated by your memory

C. you have consumed more calories     D. you digest what you’ve eaten faster

66. We can conclude from the passage that ________.

A. distracted eating may damage your health

B. eating snacks will make you feel full

C. Britta became famous because of the experiment

D. playing is more important than what we eat

D

Bobby Qualls was shopping when he received a text message: Fire on Beechmont, one-story house, child trapped inside. “I was picking out gifts for the family our engine house adopted for Christmas,” remembers Qualls, who has been fighting fires in Memphis for 24 years. “I had this sinking feeling as I got in my car and headed over.”

The last time Qualls had been on Beechmont Street was to install smoke detectors (感应器) at the Bateman-Tubbs home. He’d been on a secret task to see if they needed extra help during the holidays. There he discovered that the four Bateman-Tubbs children were sleeping on bare mattresses (床垫), and he found two of the boys playing outside in 30-degree weather with no shoes or coats.

Qualls learned that Leonard Tubbs was doing his best to make ends meet laying floors while Kimberly Bateman stayed home with the kids.

“When Bobby told me his team wanted to be Secret Santas and buy my kids toys, at first I thought we didn’t need any help,” Bateman recalls. “It really touched me. I told him what the kids really needed was warm clothes.”

That’s exactly what Qualls was shopping for on December 9, 2010: winter jackets for Christopher, seven; JoJo, four; Madison, one; and two-month-old Charles. While driving over to Beechmont Street, he dialed Bateman’s cell phone. She answered on the first ring, screaming, “The house is on fire—JoJo’s trapped inside!”

By the time Qualls reached the house, the family had gotten out, but their home was severely damaged. His coworkers had found JoJo hiding under a pile of clothes in a back bedroom. He had stopped breathing and had been given CPR and rushed to the hospital. Qualls learned that JoJo was now on life support and might not make it through the night. He rushed to the hospital with Lt. Mark Eskew, who placed a stuffed teddy bear in a firefighter’s suit on JoJo’s bed.

“I just kept praying my little boy would open his eyes,” Bateman recalls. “There was nothing else I could do. They were pumping black and thick liquid out of his lungs and stomach for days.”

After a few days, though, JoJo regained consciousness, and the tubes were taken out of his throat. While he began to slowly recover, the local newspaper and TV stations got hold of the story, and the Secret Santa Plan of Qualls and his fellow firefighters snowballed. Before long, the fire station was overflowing with boxes of toys, food, towels, and clothes. People called, wanting to donate furniture and appliances (电器) too. By December 23, Bateman and Tubbs had moved their kids into a new rental home. By Christmas Eve, JoJo was ready to leave the hospital, and the firefighters were ready to deliver the family their very own Christmas miracle.

“These guys aren’t just firefighters,” says Bateman, “they’re our guardian angels. If they hadn’t installed a smoke detector that first day they came to our house, we wouldn’t have known when the fire started. Then they went the extra ten miles to give us a Christmas.”

67. What did Qualls do after he received a text message?

A. He drove to the burning house.   B. He hurried to the fire station.

C. He went to pick out gifts.    D. He went shopping in Beechmont.

68. Who saved JoJo out of the burning house?

A. Bobby Qualls. B. Leonard Tubbs.   C. Kimberly Bateman.  D. Firefighters.

69. We can infer from the reading that _______.

A. JoJo is a naughty child     B. smoke detectors are very useful

C. Tubbs’ home is filled with gifts   D. the fire was caused by the bare mattress

70. The purpose of this story is to _______.

A. encourage people to install smoke detectors

B. advise people to take good care of their children

C. ask people to give gifts to the firemen

D. praise the firemen for their good deeds

第Ⅱ卷 (两部分 共35分)

第四部分 任务型阅读 (共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)

请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

注意：每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。

Going soy is the way to go green

In 1829, U.S. farmers grew soybeans (大豆) for the first time. In the late 1800s, lots of farmers began to grow soybeans as food for cattle. In 1904, at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, George Washington Carver began studying the soybean. His discoveries changed the way people thought about the soybean. No longer was it just a crop for cattle; it provided valuable protein and oil. Now soybean oil is the most popular source for an alternative fuel.

Fueling diesel (柴油) engines with vegetable oil started with the inventor Rudolf Diesel. When Diesel showed his engine at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris, it was running only on peanut oil, a kind of biodiesel. According to the United Soybean Board, biodiesel is a fuel made from vegetable oils or animal fats.

However, over the next 100 years, diesel fuel was made largely from petroleum (石油). Interest was renewed in biodiesel in the mid-1970s when the energy shortage occurred, and gas prices surged upward throughout the United States. In spite of these conditions, commercial production did not take place until much later. In 1999, The National Biodiesel Board reported that 500,000 gallons per day were produced. In 2000, production increased to 6.7 million gallons per day.

With the continual rising costs of petroleum products in the new century, major corporations and the United States government have looked to new markets. Farmers are encouraged to grow soybeans in their fields, as the demand for soybean fuel increases. They can now get several gallons of fuel per acre of soybean.

Biodiesel is created by removing a thick liquid called glycerin from soybean oil. It is registered with the US Environmental Protection Agency as a pure fuel, which is known as B100, or as a fuel additive, which is called B20, a mixture of 20 percent soy and 80 percent petroleum-based diesel.

There are many benefits of soybean fuel.

Studies have shown that biodiesel from vegetable oil reduces petroleum consumption when used in place of petroleum diesel.

In addition, the use of biodiesel reduces CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere. This is due to the fact that growing soybeans consumes nearly four times as much CO2 as the amount of CO2 produced from biodiesel waste gases.

If you ever want to take a ride in a car or bus powered by soybeans, you can. The Agriculture Research Center (ARS ) National Visitor Center bus, which is used for Beltsville, Maryland farm tours, is running on biodiesel fuel.

ARS scientists are conducting biodiesel fuel research, and they are trying to find ways to make fuel from vegetable oils, animal fats, and used restaurant oils.

Biodiesel fuel costs more than regular diesel fuel. However, the price may drop if people use it more. We can look to the future with the hope that clean fuel sources will continue to be widespread in the United States and even around the world.

第五部分 书面表达 (满分25分)

现在中学生中存在一些学习和生活上的心理问题。请你根据对下面两幅照片的理解用英语写一篇题为How to Be Mentally Healthy的短文。

你的短文应包含以下内容：

1.这两幅照片想要告诉我们什么?

2.你认为在学习和生活中有哪些心理问题?

3.你觉得如何做才能解决这些心理问题?

注意：

1.可参照图及文章开头所给提示，作必要的发挥想象。

2.词数150 左右。标题和开头已写好，不计入总词数。

3.作文中不得提及考生所在学校和本人姓名。

How to Be Mentally Healthy

Many of us students now have some mental problems, which worry us much and even have bad effects on both our studies and lives.

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