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）第Ⅰ卷第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

AAccording to “Evening Peak News” of Voice of China, Chinese netizens (网民) havesummed up top 10 network buzzword (网络用语) of 2014. Here are some of them.1.Rich and Bitch(任性)Have you noticed that so many people claimed themselves “rich and bitch” in friends circle and Weibo. The buzzword originates from a real event: In April, Mr. Liu spent 1760 yuan online buying a health care product. Soon after, he got calls from a stranger who persuaded him to buy other matched medicines. In the following four months, Mr. Liu sent a total of 540,000 yuan to the swindler(骗子). He said that he had already found himselfcheated(被欺骗) when he was fooled out of 70,000 yuan. “I just wanted to see how much could they take f rom me!”2.It’s so beautiful that I’m too scared to open itThis is another joke in which unsightly(难看的) things are intended to be good-looking.The buzzword comes from a sentence of Jolin’s song “Prague Square”(布拉格广场), which was extended to describe strange thing. For example, when you see a very shocking picture, you can use this sentence to express the visual or psychological impact.3.It is to be cherished (珍惜)On March 31, 2014, Ma Yili responded to Wen Zhang’s cheating on Sina Weibo. It reads as follows: “Being in love is easy, being married is not. It is to be cherished.” Soon manyInternet users began to make sentences with this pattern. For example, “Eat ing is easy, losing weight is not. It is to be cherished.”1.Why did Mr. Liu pay the money although he had found himself cheatedA.He wanted to buy the medicines.B.He wanted to see how much could the swindler take form him.C.He did not know they are swindlers.D.He has too much money.2.When you see a terrifying picture, which sentence can you use to express your feelingA. Rich and bitch.B. It is to be cherished.C. It’s so beautiful that I’m too scared to open it.D. None of the above.3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passagework buzzwords all come from songs.B.“Rich and bitch” is often used to describe the rich.C.“It is to be cherished” was first said by Wen Zhang.D.Mr. Liu was totally fooled out of 70,000 yuan.BRobert and Peter study in the same university. They do everything together and help each other. But theyoften play jokes on each other.The school year was over last month and they decided to travel through the country in America. They drove a car and could stop wherever they were interested in and started whenever they wanted. Of course they enjoyed themselves. It was very hot one day and they were both hungry and thirsty. They stopped in front of a restaurant by the road. They came in, sat down at a table and ordered some dishes. Robert looked around and found there was a small bowl on the table. He thought there was some ice cream in it and took a spoonful of it and put it into his mouth. Immediately he knew it was mustard (芥末), but it was too late. Tears randown his face, but he pretended nothing had happened. The other young man, seeing his friend crying, asked, "What are you crying about, Robert" "I'm thinking of my father who was hanged(上吊) twenty years ago," he answered. After a while Peter made the same mistake. Tears ran down his cheeks, too. And his friend asked him why."I wonder why your father hadn't been hanged before he got married”4. Robert and Peter went to travel____________.A. by busB. on footC. by carD. by air5. Robert took a spoonful of mustard because ___________.A. it was freeB. he liked mustardC. he thought it was ice-creamD. it was delicious6. Robert didn’t tell Peter the true reason why he cried because ____________.A. he didn’t know his friend hated mustardB. he wanted Peter to make the same mistake as heC. he thought his friend knew what it wasD. he thought his friend was interested in it7. What did Peter’s last words meanA. Robert’s father was hanged before he got married.B. His friend Robert shouldn’t be born and he wouldn’t be cheate d.C. It was fine to play a joke on a friend.D. He must give Robert a lesson.CRice is an important part of many people's diets. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health have published a report about rice. It shows that eating white rice increases the risk of diabetes(糖尿病). However, eating brown rice(糙米) reduces the risk of the disease.The World Health Organization says more than two hundred twenty million people worldwide have diabetes. Diabetes results when the body cannot effectively use the sugar it produces.The men and women who took part in the study were asked about their diet and day-to-day activities, as well as any pre-existing(已存在的) diseases. The study found that the people who ate five or more servings of white rice per week had a seventeen percent increased risk of developing diabetes. But those who ate two or more servings of brown rice a week had an eleven percent reduced risk of getting the disease.Brown rice is the grain in its natural form. White rice results after it has been refined(精加工). This involves removing the outer cover, including the husk(壳), bran (糠) and germ. Only the inner white kernel(谷粒) is left. White rice is often enriched to replace some nutrients lost during the refining process.Qi Sun is the leading writer of the report. He says the outer parts of brown rice slow down the work of the body's digestive enzymes (酶) into starch (淀粉). This means that the release of sugar into the bloodstream is slower after eating brown rice compared to white rice.Doctor Sun says less refined grains have more nutritional value than refined grains. He says replacing white rice with whole grains like whole wheat or barley could result in a thirty-six percent lower chance of developing diabetes. However, brown rice does not last as long as white rice because of the oil-rich layer of bran. This makes it less usable in poor communities8. According to the Harvard School of Public Health, _____________.A. eating white rice reduces the risk of diabetes.B. eating brown rice increases the risk of diabetes.C. eating brown rice reduces the risk of diabetes.D. people eat more brown rice than white rice.9. From , we can know __________.A. the amount of brown rice people ate.B. the rapid growth of the risk of diabetes.C. the amount of white rice people ate.D. brown rice can reduce the risk of disease.10. Para. 4 is mainly to tell us___________.A. what white rice is like.B. what is lost during the refining process.C. it's complex to refine white rice.D. the difference between brown rice and white rice.11. According to the text, what does the author suggest we should doA. Replace white rice with brown rice.B. Eat two or more servings of brown rice a week.C. Do research to find the exact reason.D. Eat white rice in poor areas for diabetes.DEye contact is a nonverbal technique that helps the speaker "sell" his or her ideas to an audience. Besides its persuasive powers, eye contact helps hold listener interest. A successful speaker must maintain eye contact with an audience. To have a good relation with listeners, a speaker should maintain direct eye contact for at least 75 percent of the time. Some speakers focus exclusively on their notes. Others gaze over the heads of their listeners. Both are likely to lose audiences' interest and esteem. People who maintain eye contact while speaking, whether from a podium (演讲台) or from across the table, are "regarded not only as exceptionally welldisposed by their target but also as more believable and earnest".To show the potency of eye contact in daily life, we have only to consider how passers- by behave when their glances happen to meet on the street. At one extreme are those people who feel obliged to smile when they make eye contact. At the other extreme are those who feel awkward and immediately look away. To make eye contact, it seems, is to make a certain link with someone. Eye contact with an audience also lets a speaker know and monitor the listeners. It is, in fact, essential for analyzing an audience during a speech. Visual cues (暗示)from audience members can indicate that a speech is dragging, that the speaker is dwelling on a particular point for too long, or that a particular point requires further explanation. As we have pointed out, visual feedback from listeners should play an important role in shaping a speech as it is delivered.12. This passage is mainly talking about __________.A. the importance of eye contactB. the importance of nonverbal techniquesC. successful speech deliveryD. an effective way to gain visual feedback13. According to the passage, a good speaker must__________.A. “sell” his or her ideas to an audienceB. maintain direct eye contact with listenersC. be very persuasive and believableD. be exceptionally well-disposed14. The word "target" in the last sentence of the first paragraph can best be replaced by ______.A"followers" B"goal" C"audience" D"destination"15. In daily life, when the glances of two passers-by happen to meet, these two persons willinevitably ______.A.smile to each otherB.feel awkward and look away immediatelyC.try to make a conversation with each otherD. both A and B.第二节（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。