第二部分：阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2.5分，满分50分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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AWL is well known for its dictionaries and English language teaching materials. Some readers have written in to ask us for the latest information on high quality books on English, so here we introduce two texts that aim to improve spoken English fluency.

Let’s Speak (Beginner)

By Bev Dusuya, Naoko Ozeki and Kevin Bergman

ISBN: 962001359X

Speak Up (Pre Intermediate)

By Kev Kusuya, Nako Zeki

ISBN: 058222805O

“Teach the students about your culture and help them talk about their own.” How often are these worthy goals kept from being achieved by the limitations of your beginner level learners? Students at all levels want to talk about culture.

Topics include food, shopping, sports, fashion, the roles of men and women health, music and others.

These are all chosen from surveys of over 15,000 students about their own interests in cross cultural communication.

“Let’s Speak” and “Speak Up” share a special but excellent way that allows all students to take part in.

The series has questions which start thinking and help collect opinions about personal topics. Conversation practice is provided by using models of basic exchanges on the topic. Also, the cultural information presented in the series comes in the form of interesting, relevant facts and ideas from other countries through listening tasks and Culture Quiz exercises.

“Let’s Speak” is fit for entry level students of all ages. “Speak Up” provides for the needs of higher level beginners. Offering the same careful listening and speaking help, but with slightly more open ended discussion.

For any information about AWL’s books, please get in touch with the following address:

Beijing Addison Wesley Longman Information Center

Room 2306, FLTRY Beijing

19 Xi San Huan Beilu, Beijing 100081

Tel: (010) 68917488  (010) 68917788 ext 2306

Fax: (010) 68917499

E-mail: zrh@ public. Bat. Net. Cn

36. Which of the following is not mentioned about the two books in the passage?

A. Content.     B. Writer.      C. Price.      D. Book number.

37. The two books have in common everything except ______.

A. the same interesting topics

B. the same level of learners

C. proper ways to excite the learner to talk

D. right kinds of activities for cultural communication

38. What does “entry level” refer to in this passage?

A. Low level beginners.            　 B. Experts.

C. High level beginners.         　    D. Native speakers.

39. According to the passage, you can have at least ______ ways to be connected if you want to know something about (AWL’s) books.

A. two       B. three      　 　C. four             D. six

40. The passage is probably taken from the ______ section in a newspaper.

A. EDUCATION   B. NEWS          C. BOOKSHELF 　　　   D. OPINION

B

You watch a sad film and get caught up in your emotions. You cry your eyes out at the dramatic plot — you feel sad for the characters if they suffer, or happy for them when they are successful. It is only when the movie is over that you realize that what you were watching is not real.

But why couldn’t you accept that when you were so absorbed in the movie? It was reported in Science Daily this week that scientists at Case Western Reserve University, US, discovered that people simply cannot think emotionally and logically at the same time.

It has long been known that something different goes on in our brain when we use logic, rather than responding to something emotionally. Thinking logically is a step-by-step process, in which people make decisions through reasoning and find answers rationally. When we think emotionally, or empathize (有同感), we look at things from someone else’s point of view and try to feel their pain.

Now scientists have found that thinking logically and emotionally are like the two ends of a seesaw (跷跷板) — when we’re busy empathizing, the part of the brain used for cold, hard analysis is suppressed. And it’s also true the other way round.

To come to this conclusion, scientists gathered 45 people — men and women — to take brain scans as they solved different kinds of puzzles. Some of the puzzles were tough and involved math and physics and others were social problems that required participants to put themselves in other people’s shoes.

Scientists found that when participants were doing a math problem, the region in their brain that is associated with logical thinking lit up, and when asked to make emotional decisions, the region for emotional thinking lit up. But the most interesting part is that when asked to solve problems that required both logical and emotional responses, the participants always used one of the regions at a time while the other one went dark.

“Empathetic and analytic thinking are… mutually (相互之间地) exclusive (排斥的) in the brain,” said Anthony Jack, leader of the study. “You don’t have to favor one, but cycle efficiently between them, and employ the right network at the right time.”

However, people sometimes ended up using the wrong one. This explains why some people are good at solving complex math problems but have poor social skills. And why even the smartest people get taken in by fake but touching stories.

41. Why does the author mention watching movies at the beginning of the passage?

A. To show that we are easily moved by things that are not real.

B. To show that sometimes we only use emotional thinking.

C. To introduce the research based on this kind of experiences.

D. To prove emotional thinking is powerful.

42. Scientists at Case Western Reserve University, US, proved ______ through their recent tests.

A. logical thinking works differently from emotional thinking

B. logical thinking is much more efficient than emotional thinking

C. logical thinking and emotional thinking take turns to function independently

D. logical thinking and emotional thinking could work together

43. The underlined word “suppressed” in Paragraph 4 means ______.

A. starting to react actively

B. being completely damaged

C. to prevent something from working effectively

D. obtaining an opposite function

44. We can conclude from the last two paragraphs that ______.

A. people have to frequently switch between different types of thinking

B. adopting the wrong thinking mode could have bad results

C. people could only either have excellent logical thinking or emotional thinking

D. people who think logically could easily be controlled

45. What could be the best title for the passage?

A. Your Heart vs Your Mind                   B. Your Emotions

C. Logical Thinking               D. Movies and Feelings