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[单项选择]Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
Now, listen to the passage.
This article is mainly about
A. the weight of a whale’s brain.
B. the brains of geniuses.
C. the size of a person’s brain and his intelligence.
D. the intelligence of the elephant.
[填空题]Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
That experiences influence subsequent behaviour is evidence of an obvious but nevertheless remarkable activity called remembering. Learning could not occur without the function popularly named memory. Constant practice has such an effect on memory as to lead to skillful performance on the piano, to recitation of a poem, and even to reading and. understanding these words. So-called intelligent behaviour demands memory, remembering being a primary requirement for reasoning. The ability to solve any problem or even to recognize that a problem exists depends on memory. Typically, the decision to cross a street is based on remembering many earlier experiences.
Practice (or review) tends to build and maintain memory for a task or for any learned material. Over a period of no practice what has been learned tends to be forgotten; and the adaptive consequences may not seem obvious. Yet, dramatic instances of sud
[单项选择]Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Researchers have recently found a connection between diseases and stressful situations. To test this theory, psychologists are trying to find a link between the brain and the immune system.
Our bodies are likely to get various diseases and it depends on how well our immune system works. Biologists used to think that the immune system was a separate, independent part of our bodies. Recently, however, they have found that our brain can affect our immune system. This discovery indicates that there may be a connection between emotional factors, such as stress or depression, and illness.
Although many doctors in the past suspected a connection between emotional factor and disease, they had no proof. Scientists have only recently discovered how the brain and the immune system function. Before this, no one could see a link between them. As a result, medical science never seriously considered the idea tha
A. used to be unconnected with the brain
B. causes a lot of stress to people
C. can be affected by emotional factors
D. functions independently
[单项选择]Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Before the 1850s the United States had a number of small colleges, most of them dating from colonial days. They were small, church-connected institutions whose primary concern was to shape the moral character of their students.
Throughout Europe, institutions of higher learning had developed, bearing the ancient name of university. In Germany a different kind of university had developed. The German university was concerned primarily with creating and spreading knowledge, not morals. Between mid-century and the end of the 1800s, more than nine thousand young Americans, dissatisfied with their training at home, went to Germany for advanced study. Some of them returned to become presidents of Venerable(受人尊敬的) colleges— Harvard, Yale, Columbia—and transform them into modern universities. The new presidents broke all ties with the churches and brought in a new kind of faculty.
Professors were hi
A. discuss moral issues
B. study the classics, rhetoric, and music
C. study overseas
D. work more independently
[单项选择] Questions 11 to 14 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the passage.
How many universities were there in Britain in the year of 19607
A. More than 40.
B. Less than 18.
C. More than 20.
D. Less than 40.
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Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
Approximately how old was Emily Dickinson when she died（ ）.
A. In her twenties.
B. In her thirties.
C. In her fifties.
D. In her eighties.
[填空题]Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Language barriers present a variety of challenges for children of any age. In Houston alone, bilingual education programs have helped many grade-school students (47) the trials that accompany not being able to speak English.
In the past, such vital curriculum was not always readily (48) for children who needed it. One person who experienced the (49) of school life without a bilingual program was UH education professor Yolanda Padr6n.
As a child, Padr6n and her family moved from Cuba to the United States. Settling in Landover, Mass., she was placed into elementary school, but had no working (50) of English. With that, she found herself at a (51) disadvantage.
"When I came here, I was in the fifth grade, but because I didn’t speak English, they put me back a year," she said. "We lived there for about six months before we moved to Houston. When I came h
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Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
All of the following acts are producing for the market EXCEPT（ ）.
A. working in a bank.
B. looking after the other’s babies.
C. attending a night school.
D. growing beans for sale.
