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A.worry　　　　　 B.prevent?　　　　　　 C.trouble　　　　　 D.disappoint

The old temple needs ______, but I doubt whether it is worthy ______.

A. being preserved; being repaired　 B. to be preserved; of repairing

C. preserving; of being repaired　　 D. to preserve; to be repaired

The big snow caused great ________ to the people living in the south of China, ________ some of them homeless.

A. destroy; left　　 B. damage; leaving　　　 C. ruin; having left 　 D. wound; leaving

Stella was disappointed to find her new plan　　　 and fell into great depression.

A．put away　　　 B．carried out C．turned down D．left out

For almost two months Dominic York, a 23-year-old hairdresser, wandered about hospitals all night, wearing a white coat and pretending he was a doctor. Yesterday he proudly claimed in court that despite his complete lack of medical experience or qualifications, he had saved several people’s lives. He had even been allowed to assist a surgeon during an emergency operation on a patient who was about to die on something she had swallowed.

　“I watched one of those TV dramas about a hospital and suddenly I felt like playing one of the roles myself. So I put on a white jacket and a stethoscope(聽(tīng)診器)and walked around one of the biggest hospital in London. At first I just watched. Once you learn how doctors talk to patients, nurses and others doctors, it’s easy to take people in,” he said.

　One of the patients he treated was Laura Kennan. She had been knocked down by a car and fainted. When she came to in hospital, York was standing over her.

　“He looked very professional. He told me his name was Doctor Simon. Then he gave me some sort of injection,” she said. And then he suddenly cleared off when a nurse asked who he was. She didn’t think there was anything wrong. “I would never have realized he was a fake if a policewoman hadn’t showed me his photograph a week later. When the policewoman told me who he really was, I could hardly believe my ears.”

　 Judge Raymond Adams told York that he was “shocked and horrified” that he got away with his deceiving for so long, and then sentenced him to eighteen months in a special prison for criminal with mental disorders.

“I can only hope that this will not lead to further problems. After all, you will have considerable opportunity to study the behaviour of the psychiatrists(精神科醫(yī)生)who will look after you while you are there. If you try to persuade people that you yourself are a psychiatrist after you are set free, I shall make sure that you are given a much longer sentence.” Judge Adams warned York.

1. York was proud of the fact that ___________.

A. a surgeon let him watch an operation.

B. he could perform some duties of a doctor

C. he had cheated doctors for so long

D. people thought he could become a real doctor

2. York learned how to behave like a doctor by __________.

A. watching other doctors work　　　　 B. talking to doctors and nurses

C. getting some training and experience　　 D. observing doctors while he was a patient

3. Why was Laura Kennan in hospital?

A. She had swallowed something and almost died.

B. She had to have and emergency operation.

C. She had been injured in a road accident.

D. She had lost consciousness while driving.

4. The judge’s remark implied that York would be more severely punished if he _________.

A. pretended to be a psychiatrist　　 B. tried to get away from prison

C. was proud of what he had done　　 D. studied the behaviour of the psychiatrist

The twin brothers are so alike,they have many ______.

The customer bargained with the shopkeeper for a long time, and finally they agreed ___________ the price.　

A. to　　　　　 B. with　　　　 C. on　　　　　　 D. at

He apologized ________ late.

A. to his teacher to arrive　 B. to his teacher for arriving

C. at his teacher to arrive　 D. at his teacher for arriving

If you want to stay young, sit down and have a good think. This is the research finding of a team of Japanese doctors, who say that most of our brains are not getting enough exercise and, as a result, we are growing old unnecessarily soon.

　 Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why quite healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a rather early age, and how the speed of getting old could be slowed down.

　 With a team of researchers at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different ages with different jobs.

　 Computer technology helped the researchers to get most exact measurements of the volume of the front and side part of the brain, which have something to do with intellect and feelings, and decide the human character. As we all know, the back part of the brain, which controls tasks like eating and breathing, does not contract with age.

　 Contraction of front and side parts—as cells die off—was seen in some people in their thirties but it was still not found in some sixty and seventy-year-old.

　 Matsuzawa concluded from his test that there is a simple way to prevent the contraction using the head.

　 The findings show that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns. Those with least possibility, says Matsuzawa, are lawyers, followed by university professors and doctors. White-collar workers doing the same work day after day in government offices are, however, as possible to have contraction brains as the farm workers, bus drivers and shop assistants.

1．What did the team of doctors want to find out?

A．How to make people live longer.

B．How to slow down the speed of getting old.

　 C．The size of certain people’s brain.　 　　

D．Which people are the most clever.

2．What are their research findings based on?

　 A．An examination of farmers in northern Japan.

　 B．Tests given on a thousand old people.

　 C．Using computer technology.

　 D．Examining the brain volumes of different people.

3．Which of the following are growing old earlier than people who live in the cities according to the passage.

　 A．Farmers. 　 B．Office clerks. 　　　　　　 C．Shop assistants. 　 D．Bus drivers.

4．What’s the most possible conclusion of the passage?

　 A．Most of us should take more exercise.

　 B．It’s better to live in the town.

　 C．The brain contracts if it is not used. 　　

D．The more one uses his brain, the sooner he becomes older.