thought. Most people don' t find it difficult to eat and read the newspaper at the same time. However, when two or more attention-requiring tasks are attempted at one time, people sometimes make mistakes.
We often don't remember things as well when we're trying to manage several details at the same time. Without mental focus, we may not pay enough attention to new information coming in, so it never makes it into our memory stores. That is one of the main reasons we forget people's names—even sometimes right after they have introduced themselves. Multitasking can also affect our relationships. If someone checks their e-mail while on the phone with a friend, they may come off as absent-minded or disinterested. It can also cause that person to miss or overlook key information being passed on to them. 49. Why are some mental aerobic exercises designed to engage people in multitasking? A. To make them more productive. B. To reduce their stress and anxiety.
C. To develop their communication Skills. D. To help them perform daily tasks more easily.
50. According to Paragraph 2, why may a person suddenly forget who he has called? A. He may have his prefrontal cortex temporarily damaged. B. He is probably interrupted by another task.
C. He is probably not very familiar with the person he has called. D. He may need a rest between dialing and speaking. 51. People tend to make mistakes when .
A. they perform several challenging tasks at a time B. new messages are processed one after another C. their relationships with others are affected D. the tasks require little thought
52. What is the main idea of the passage? A. Multitasking has become a way of life.
B. Multitasking often leads to efficiency decline. C. Multitasking exercises need to be improved.
D. Multitasking enables people to remember things better.
【语篇解读】本篇文章是一篇调查报告。讲的是任务多样化使得我们有生活压力，工作效率下降。 49. 答案A
【解析】根据文章的第一段的第四句“although?”可知应选A。 50. 答案B
【解析】细节判断题。根据文章第二段的倒数第二句“what probably occurred is that?”可推知选的是B。 51. 答案A
【解析】推理判断题。根据文章的第三段的最后一句“however, two or more attention ?”可推知应选的是A。 52. 答案B
【解析】主旨大意题。 本文讲的是一篇调查报告。讲的是任务多样化使得我们有生活压力，工作效率下降。故选的是B。
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My family and I lived across the street from Southway Park since I was four years old. Then just last year the city put a chain link fence around the park and started bulldozing (用推土机推平) the trees and grass to make way for a new apartment complex. When I saw the fence and bulldozers, I asked myself, “Why don't they just leave it alone?”
Looking back, I think what sentenced the park to oblivion (被遗忘) was the drought (旱灾) we had about four years ago. Up until then, Southway Park was a nice green park with plenty of trees and a public swimming pool. My friends and I rollerskated on the sidewalks, climbed the trees, and swam in the pool all the years I was growing up. The park was almost like my own yard. Then the summer I was fifteen the drought came and things changed.
There had been almost no rain at all that year. The city stopped watering the park grass. Within a few weeks I found myself living across the street from a huge brown desert. Leaves fell off the park trees, and pretty soon the trees started dying, too. Next, the park swimming pool was closed. The city cut down on the work force that kept the park, and pretty soon it just got too ugly and dirty to enjoy anymore. As the drought lasted into the fall, the park got worse every month. The rubbish piled up or blew across the brown grass. Soon the only people in the park were beggars and other people down on their luck. People said drugs were being sold or traded there now. The park had gotten scary, and my mother told us kids not to go there anymore. The drought finally ended and things seemed to get back to normal, that is, everything but the park. It had gotten into such bad shape that the city just let it stay that way. Then about six months ago I heard that the city was going to “redevelop” certain worn-out areas of the city. It turned out that the city had planned to get rid of the park, sell the land and let someone build rows of apartment buildings on it. The chain-link fencing and the bulldozers did their work. Now we live across the street from six rows of apartment buildings. Each of them is three units high and stretches a block in each direction. The neighborhood has changed without the park. The streets I used to play in are jammed with cars now. Things will never be the same again. Sometimes I wonder, though, what changes another drought would make in the way things are today.
53. How did the writer feel when he saw the fence and bulldozers.'? A．Scared. B. Confused. C. Upset. D. Curious. 54. Why was the writer told not to go to the park by his mother?
A．It was being rebuilt. B. It was dangerous.
C. It became crowded. D. It had turned into a desert. 55. According to the writer, what eventually brought about the disappearance of the park?
A. The drought. B. The crime.
C. The beggars and the rubbish. D. The decisions of the city. 56. The last sentence of the passage implies that if another drought came, . A. the situation would be much worse
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B. people would have to desert their homes C. the city would be fully prepared in advance
D. the city would have to redevelop the neighborhood
【语篇解读】本篇文章是一篇夹叙夹议的文章，讲的是政府把我小时候住的地方推平了，让作者感到困惑。 53. 答案B
【解析】推理判断题。从整篇文章来看，作者对政府这种做法感到困惑。 故选的是B。 54. 答案B
【解析】推理判断题。从整篇文章可以知道，作者对政府的做法困惑不解，如果再有干旱，还是无人过问的话，情况和原来的一样，甚至更糟。 故最佳答案应选的是A。
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I needed to buy a digital camera, one that was simply good at taking good snaps (快照), maybe occasionally for magazines. Being the cautious type, I fancied a reliable brand. So I went on the net, spent 15 minutes reading product reviews on good websites, wrote down the names of three top recommendations and headed for my nearest big friendly camera store. There in the cupboard was one of the cameras on my list. And it was on special offer. Oh joy. I pointed at it and asked an assistant, “Can I have one of those?” He looked perturbed (不安).“Do you want to try it first?\said. It didn't quite sound like a question. \nothing wrong with it?\This made him look a bit insulted and I started to feel bad. \no. But you should try it,\he said encouragingly.\Compare it with the others. \
I looked across at the others: shelves of similar cameras placed along the wall, offering a wide range of slightly different prices and discounts, with each company selling a range of models based around the same basic box. With so many models to choose from, it seemed that I would have to spend hours weighing X against Y, always trying to take Z and possibly H into account at the same time. But when I had finished, I would still have only the same two certainties that I had entered the store with: first, soon after I carried my new camera out of the shop, it would be worth half what I paid for it; and second, my wonderful camera would very quickly be replaced by a new model. But something in the human soul whispers that you can beat these traps by making the right choice, the clever choice, the wise choice. In the end, I agreed to try the model I had chosen. The assistant seemed a sincere man. So I let him take out my chosen camera from the cupboard, show how it took excellent pictures of my fellow
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shoppers... and when he started to introduce the special features, I interrupted to ask whether I needed to buy a carry-case and a memory card as well.
Why do we think that new options (选择) still offer us anything new? Perhaps it is because they offer an opportunity to avoid facing the fact that our real choices in this culture are far more limited than we would like to imagine. 57. The shop assistant insisted that the writer should __ .
A. try the camera to see if there was anything wrong with it B. compare the camera he had chosen with the others C. get more information about different companies D. trust him and stop asking questions
58. What does the writer mean by \(Paragraph 2) ?
A. He should get a 50% discount.
B. The price of the camera was unreasonably high. C. The quality of the camera was not good. D. The camera would soon fall in value.
59. The writer decided to try the model he had chosen because he __ . A. knew very little about it
B. didn't trust the shop assistant
C. wanted to make sure the one he chose would be the best
D. had a special interest in taking pictures of his fellow shoppers 60. It can be inferred from the passage that in the writer's opinion, __ A. people waste too much money on cameras
B. cameras have become an important part of our daily life
C. we don't actually need so many choices when buying a product D. famous companies care more about profit than quality
【文章大意】本篇文章是一篇记叙文。文章讲的是作者想买一个照相机。在营业员细节判断题的要求下进行比较最后选了自己认为最好的照相机。
第二节：Peter，Helen，Catherine，Elizabeth和Levin想根据各自在环保方面的兴趣(61—65)进行案例研究。阅读下面某杂志的专题报道摘要(A、B、C、D、E和F)，选出适合他们研究的最佳案例，并在答题纸上将相应选项的标号涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。 61. Peter: Reducing plastic and other wastes through DTY
62. Helen : Making use of the heavy traffic to produce electricity
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63. Catherine: Building a community without private cars
64. Elizabeth: Building houses with recycled materials and energy-efficiency systems
65. Levin: Developing a new type of urban car which bums less gas
61.F【解析】F段讲的是通过自己动手做来减少塑料和废物的产生。和Peter的一致。 62. E【解析】E段利用拥挤的交通来发电。和Helen的一致。
63. A【解析】A段建立一个没有私家车的社会团体。和Catherin的一致。
65. C【解析】C段用能循环的材料和有效的能源来建房子。和Elixnbeth的一致。 65. D【解析】D段发展一种能节省燃烧气体的新型的城市车和Levin的一致。
A B Vauban Denmark We know cars are terrible polluters, During the period of gas shortage in but would you give yours up? Vauban, a the early, 70s, Denmark decided to become community in southwestem Germany, did self-sufficient ( 自足). So they began a just that, and its 5,000 citizens are few projects making smart investments doing fine. Most streets are free of along the way. vehicles, and there are generous green On the island of Samsoe, local spaces and good public-transport links, families, fishermen and farmers bought including fast buses and bicycle paths. wind turbines (涡轮机],) to produce their When,, people must drive, they can turn own energy. Within seven years these to car-sharing clubs. All the citizens turbines were completely paid for. And had the chance to plan their own city,\can you believe just one of wind turbines says Andreas Delleke, an energy expert, produces enough electricity for 600 \households? C Trey Parker and Matt Stone Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park, have built a sustainable (可持续的) castle with outer siding and inner flooring of recycled wood, recycled carpeting, high-efficiency boiler systems. \think more and more today, people are willing to make a statement about the Earth and how they want to proteet it,\Michael Rath, home designer and builder says. \high-end homes in this valley, this is entirely consistent with what they cost. \D P-NUT Who doesn't love the name P-NUT- short for Personal-Neo Urban Transport? It's Honda's latest attempt to create a tiny footprint for a new urban vehicle. This little P-NUT is unique. With a central driving position, the car is designed to move in tight settings. The l 1-foot micro car will seat three with two rear-seat passengers behind the driver. \P-NUT conce, pt explores the packaging and design potential for a vehicle designed for the city lifestyle,\said Dave Marek, a Honda design Spokesman. F Coffee 15
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