Would you eat a ready meal from the fridge rather than cook by yourself? Have you been doing Internet shopping rather than going to the stores? What can't you be bothered to do?

       A study into how lazy British people are has found more than half of the adults are so idle (懶散的) that they'd catch the lift rather than climb two flights of stairs.

       Just over 2000 people were quizzed by independent researchers at Nuffield Health, Britain's largest health center. The results were extremely surprising.

       About one in six people questioned said if their remote control was broken, they would continue watching the same channel rather than get up.

       More than one third of those questioned said they would not run to catch a bus. Worryingly, of the 654 respondents with children, 64% said they were often too tired to play with them.

       This led the report to conclude that it's no wonder that one in six children in the UK are classified as obese (very fat) before they start school.

       Dr Sarah Dauncey, medical director of Nuffield Health, said, “People need to get fitter, not just for their own sake, but for the sake of their families, friends and evidently their pets too.”

       “If we don't start to take control of this problem, a whole generation will become too unfit to perform even the most fundamental tasks.”

       And Scotland's largest city, Glasgow, was shamed as the most idle city in the UK, with 75% questioned admitting they do not get enough exercise, followed closely by Birmingham and Southampton, both with 67%.

       The results bring serious challenges for the National Health Service, where obesity-related illnesses such as heart disease and cancer have been on a steady increase for the past 40 years and are costing billions of pounds every year.

60．How many people questioned don't play with their children?

       A．1280.    B．More than 333.      C．654.     D．About 420.

61．The study leads us to believe that      .

       A．the pets in the UK will be in trouble if their owners keep their way of life

       B．Glasgow people feel ashamed because they don't get enough exercise

       C．British people are the laziest around the world

       D．five sixths of the British children are healthy

62．How does the author convince the readers?

       A．By presenting the results of a study.                  B．By providing answers to questions.

       C．By interviewing some experts.                            D．By telling a story.

63．What is the passage mainly about?

       A．A study of British people's laziness.                  B．A study of British people's lifestyles.

       C．The health service in the UK.                       D．The obesity problem in the UK.

第二節(jié)  （共5小題；每小題2分，共10分）

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。

The wife-carrying World Championship has been celebrated in a small town in central Finland since 1992. In 1992, the people of the town decided to restart some long-forgotten traditions.  71  He was said to only accept men as members of his gang who proved their worth in challenges. At that time, it was also a common practice to steal women from neighboring villages.

   72   A large number of competitors, people, and journalists from Finland to Canada attend the Wife-carrying World Championship every year.

   73    The Wife-carrying World Championship is held on a 253.3 meters long official track. The track has two dry obstacles and a water obstacle, about a meter deep. The wife to be carried may be your own, or your neighbor’s. The minimum weight of the wife to be carried is 49 kg. If she is less than 49kg. If she is less than 49kg, the wife will be given a heavy bag to carry. Each time a competitor drops his wife, that couple will be fined 15 seconds.  74 

Alongside with the Wife-carring World Championship, there is also a team competition. The distance is the same but three men in the team carry the wife in turns. At the exchange point the carrier has to drink official “wife-carrying drink.” Then he may continue the race.  75 

While the Wife-carrying World Championship is being held, there are bands playing music, a wife carrying dance and other forms of entertainment.”

       A．There are a few basic rules.

       B．People everywhere hold the event.

       C．A special prize is awarded to the team.

       D．Do you know how these traditions restarted?

       E．This event is becoming increasingly popular.

       F．The winner is the couple who complete the course in the shortest time.

       G．Back in the late 1800s, there was a robber called Rosvo-Ronkainen in that area.

Please turn down the music, _______our neighbors next door will be disturbed.

       A．a(chǎn)nd B．or     C．but    D．so

With the speedup of the railway, now you can get to your destination____by train.

       A．fast   B．faster C．fastest       D．the fastest

To shut your eyes to facts．a(chǎn)s many of you do,_______foolish．

A. is    B．a(chǎn)re    C．a(chǎn)re    D．were

 ______ millions of fans, Jay Chou is encouraging more and more young people to go in for music .

   A. To fascinate  B. Fascinating        C. Fascinated         D. Being fascinated

第二節(jié)  完形填空（共20小題；每小題1．5分，滿分30分）

    閱讀下面短文，從短文后所給各題的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

When I began my high school years, I was quite interested in biology. I read lots of books of my father’s about animals, and I was   36   much educated about such matters as a 16-year-old could be.

    One Sunday afternoon, I was   37  with friends about animals. I said the whale（鯨魚）was   __38  a mammal animal. They disagreed. Finally, I called a   39   over to help settle the matter. I knew I was  40  , so I was looking forward to the teacher  41   I was right. My friends were eager for an opposite answer. We asked her   42  the whale was a mammal. “No, the whale is a fish,” she said without a moment’s   43  .

You could have knocked me over with a feather. My   44   was hurt because I lost the argument, but that wasn’t the main reason I was too  45  to speak. I still knew I was right, which   __46  the teacher was wrong. Not only was she wrong,   47   she was completely ignorant（無知的） about something I thought was   48   knowledge. But she was a teacher who had taught a long time. Everyone   49   her and no one else thought she could be wrong.

__50  that, I hadn’t known grown-ups could be wrong. This   51  shaped the way I viewed people as I grew up.   52   I found anyone treated another person with too much respect and admiration, I thought——and still think——“   53   silly.” From that point on, I had no  54__ for authority（權威）. To earn my respect, you have to be smart or  55   . I’ll never respect you just because you happen to be in charge or have a degree.

36. A. as  B. so       C. too           D. very

37. A. meeting       B. working     C. arguing      D. staying

38. A. about    B. like          C. beside      D. above

39. A. professor     B. biologist     C. librarian     D. teacher

40. A. clever   B. fight        C. creative    D. silly

41. A. proving       B. finding       C. promising   D. hoping

42. A. how     B. why         C. if      D. when

43. A. doubt   B. silence       C. regret  D. hesitation

44. A. heart    B. mind   C. pride   D. feeling

45. A. foolish  B. anxious      C. serious       D. astonished

46. A. meant   B. suggested   C. admitted     D. concluded

47. A. and          B. but     C. for            D. or

48. A. special  B. normal       C. regular       D. common

49. A. pleased B. admired     C. believed     D. loved

50. A. Before  B. After   C. Until   D. Since

51. A. fairly    B. properly     C. nearly D. greatly

52. A. Whenever    B. Although    C. While D. Whether

53. A. I’m          B. that’s  C. he’s    D. you’re

54. A. idea      B. respect       C. choice D. question

55. A. energetic      B. patient       C. talented      D. diligent

　　People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows why they were painted there. Perhaps the painters thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories in pictures.

　　About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as kind of writing. They drew simple pictures of signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet.

　　The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting writing and pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are like modern comic strip stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic strip. But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary people could not understand it.

　　By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign, or letter, represented only one sound in their language. The Greeks developed this system and formed the letters of the Greek alphabet. The Romans copied the idea, and the Roman alphabet is now used all over the world.

　　These days，we can write down a story，or record information，without using pictures. But we still need pictures of all kinds：drawing，photographs，signs and diagrams. We find them everywhere：in books and newspapers，in the street，and on the walls of the places where we live and work. Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily，and they can make a story much more interesting.

59．Pictures of animals were painted on the walls of caves in France and Spain because_________.

A．the hunters wanted to see the pictures

B．the painters were animal lovers

C．the painters wanted to show imagination

D．the pictures were thought to be helpful

60．The Greek alphabet was simpler than the Egyptian system for all the following reasons EXCEPT that ______________.

A．the former was easy to write

B．there were fewer signs in the former

C．the former was easy to pronounce

D．each sign stood for only one sound

61．Which of the following statements is TRUE？

A．The Egyptian signs later became a particular alphabet.

B．The Egyptians liked to write comic strip stories.

C．The Roman alphabet was developed from the Egyptian one.

D．The Greeks copied their writing system from the Egyptians.

62．In the last paragraph，the author thinks that pictures ______________.

A．should be made comprehensible

B．should be made interesting

C．a(chǎn)re of much use in our life

D．have disappeared from our life

第三部分 閱讀理解（共20小題。 每小題2分，滿分40分）

　　閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

Drying food is a simple, low-cost way to keep food safe for eating. Drying removes water that small organisms use to break down food into other substances. Some of these substances may be poisonous to humans.

A device that uses the sun is a good way to dry food. There are several kinds of solar dryers. The easiest to build is called the direct dryer. The sun shines directly on the food being dried. The direct dryer is a box with holes in it so that air can enter and leave the box. It has a cover made of clear glass or plastic. When the sun shines into the box, heat is produced. The heat is trapped inside the box and cannot escape back through the cover. The heat dries the food.

The solar dryer works better if the sides of the box are black. This is because dark colors hold heat while light colors reflect it. One way to make the sides black is to use wood that has been blackened by fire.

If you use black paint instead, be sure the paint contains no lead. Lead is poisonous to people, especially children.

The box can be made of almost any material such as wood, concrete or sheet metal. The dryer should be two meters long, one meter wide and twenty-three to thirty centimeters deep. The sides and bottom should have additional material, called insulation, to keep the heat from escaping.

The surface on which the food is placed should permit air to enter from below and pass through to the food. A surface made of wires with small square openings works very well. You should use wire with the largest openings or squares that do not allow the food to fall through. Air that comes in from below the wire surface will also carry away water evaporated from the food as it dries.

A direct dryer will dry most vegetables in two-and-one-half to four hours at temperatures from forty-three to sixty-three degrees Celsius. Fruits take longer, from four to six hours at the same temperatures.

51.Solar food drying is fast, safe and low-cost. It is also healthy because nutrients such as vitamin C are kept in the food. Solar dried food also tastes and looks good.

51.In which way will the food be fried quickly?

A.Let the sun shine directly on the food.

B.Make the sides of the box black.

C.Make wood be the sides of the box.

D.The box must be made of blackened wood.

52.What does the underlined word “evaporate” in the 6th paragraph mean?

A. sink into   B. change into gas or steam    C. flow away    D. flow into

53.According to the text., which of the following statements is true?

A.Water in the food may cause poisonous substances.

B.The sun shines into the box and be trapped.

C.Dark colours hold heat better than light colours.

D.It takes longer for vegetable to be fried.

54.What’s the text mainly about?

A.the way to dry food.

B.Solar Food Dryers

C.The device that uses the sun

D.The way to keep food safe.

Many teens don't get enough sleep because they have too much homework, which______them up at night.

       A. makes       B. stays C. turns D. keeps