What happens inside the head of a soccer player who repeatedly heads a soccer ball? That question motivated a study of the brains of experienced players.
Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York selected 34 adults, men and women. All of the volunteers had played soccer since childhood and now competed year-round in adult soccer leagues. Each filled out a detailed questionnaire developed especially for this study to determine how many times they had headed a soccer ball in the previous year, as well as whether they had experienced any known concussions (脑震荡) in the past.
Then the players completed computerized tests of their memory and other learning skills and had their brains scanned, using a complex new M.R.I. technique which can find structural changes in the brain that can’t be seen during most scans.
According to the data they presented, the researchers found that the players who had headed the ball more than about 1,100 times in the previous 12months showed significant loss of white matter in parts of their brains involved with memory, attention and the processing of visual information, compared with players who had headed the ball less.
This pattern of white matter loss is “similar to those seen in traumatic (外伤的) brain injury”, like that after a serious concussion, the researchers reported, even though only one of these players was reported to have ever experienced a concussion.
The players who had headed the ball about 1,100 times or more in the past year were also generally worse at recalling lists of words read to them, forgetting or fumbling the words far more often than players who had headed the ball less.
1. Where do you think the text comes from?
A. Medicine instructions. B. A text for doctors.
C. A research report. D. A sports advertisement.
2.What do we know about the volunteers?
A. They had serious injury on the head.
B. They were adults who still played soccer.
C. They were all researchers about soccer.
D. They all had children who played soccer.
3. What was used to find the structural changes in the brains?
A. Advanced computers.
B. A new technique M. R. I.
C. Special questionnaires.
D. Learning skills.
4. We can conclude that frequent heading may have .
A. a significant effect on one’s brain
B. little effect on one’s brain
C. nothing to do with the brain
D. improvement in one’s brain
My dad loved pennies, especially those with wheat. Those were the pennies he grew up with in Iowa and he didn’t have many.
When I was a kid, Dad and I would go for walks together. We’d spy coins along the way. Whenever I picked up a penny, he'd ask, "Is it a wheat?" It always thrilled him when we found one of those special coins produced between 1909 and 1958, the year of my birth. He told me he often dreamed of finding coins. “I have that dream too!” I told him. It was our secret connection.
Dad died in 2002. One grey day, not long after his death, I was walking down Fifth Avenue and I found myself in front of the oldest church in Manhattan, which my father had been attending. I was greeted in warmly. The song was Dad's favorite, one we’d sung at his funeral.
After the service, I walked out, stepped onto the sidewalk—and there was a penny. I picked it up, and sure enough, it was a wheat, a 1944, a year my father was serving on a ship in the South Pacific. Then, wheat pennies began turning up on the sidewalks everywhere. I got most of the important years: his birth year, the war years, the year he met my mom, the year they got married. But, no 1958 penny-my year.
The next Sunday, after the service, I was walking up Fifth Avenue and spotted a penny in the middle of the street. It was a busy street, but I risked my safety and got it.
A wheat! There was my birthday.
I found 21 wheat pennies on the streets of Manhattan in the year after my father died, and I don't think that's a coincidence.
1.What is the best title for the text?
A. Pennies from Heaven
B. My loving Dad
C. My happy childhood
D. Days in New York
2.What do we know about Dad in the text?
A. Dad helped to build the old church.
B. Dad was once in the navy during the war.
C. Dad had enough money to spend as a kid.
D. Dad was greedy for he always looked for pennies.
3.How did the author find the penny with his year?
A. He searched hard and found it.
B. He dug in the street in order to get it.
C. He sang a religious song in order to find it.
D. He found it by chance but got it by trying hard.
4.What does the author mean by the last sentence?
A. Dad buried the pennies before passing away.
B. Our life is fixed and no one can change it.
C. The author thinks 21 pennies is a lot of money.
D. The pennies started for father’s love from heaven.
假如你是李华，你的美国好友Alice将近期来你所在的城市旅游。请给她写信，告诉她你愿意为她安排住宿及旅游行程。同时，委托她帮你买一个Coach牌子的小钱包，你打算将其作为生日礼物送给妈妈。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
Dear Alice,
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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有处错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线（\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1.毎处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
In recent years, there are more and more Confucius Instiutcs being built all over the world, that shows our Chinese culture has been become much more popular than ever. As one of the four ancient civilizations, China has long history and creates many splendid cultures. The ancient Chinese culture once had powerful influences in the world's civilization, especially in Japan, South Korean and other Asian country. The Chinese culture is slow accumulaled in the whole Chinese history, made it colorful and brilliant. If one want to know or study Chinese culture more deeply, he or she must spend much time. Therefore he or she can only get the tip of an iccberg.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Let's it explore expressions with the word “ bullet”. A bullet is 1. you shoot out of gun. That used to be the way to destcribe the speed of the auperhero 一Supennan— he is “ faster than a speeding bullet.” Now very fast truins 2. ( call) “bullet trains” . Bullets are not only known for their speed. They are also known for their ability to kill. 3. ,not all bullets are bud. A silver bullet is something that solves a difficult problem easily.
To ease the pain of a difficult situation, people are sometimes asked to bite the bullet. What is die origin of this expression? The story may go back to the American Civil War 4. even curlier. During the Civil War, pain-killing drugs were often hard 5. (find). So,doctors working on the battlefield 6. (give) their patients a piece of wood to squeeze or something soft to bite on. Many times the 7. ( near) thing was a lead bullet. Hollywood movies helped to keep this expression dive. In old westerm movies, more than one cowboy was seen biting a bullet 8. removing an arrow from his body. In moderm conversations, “9. (bite) the bullet" means to accept a difficult decision or situation.
If you want to perfeet your English, there is no silver bullet. You must10. ( simple)practice and study us much as you can.
阅读下面短文，从短文后各助所沧的四个选项（A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie.That Friday after work, I drove over to pick her up.
We went to a restaurant that, although not , was very nice and cozy. My mother took my arm she were the First Lady. During the dinner, we had an agreeable conversation – nothing but catching up on recent of each other’s life. We talked so much that we missed the .As we arrived at her house later, she said, “I’ll go out with you again, but only if you let me you.”I agreed.
“How was your ?” asked my wife when I got home. “Very nice. Far my wildest imagination” I answered.
A few days later, my mother died of a heart attack. It happened so that I didn?t have a chance to do anything for her. Some time , I received an envelope with a copy of a restaurant from the same place where mother and I had dined. An note said: “I paid this bill . I wasn’t sure that I be there; but I still paid for two plates – one for you and the other for your .You will never know what that night for me. I love you, son.”
At that moment, I the importance of saying in time: “I LOVE YOU” and to give time to our family. in life is more important than your family. Give them the time they , because these things cannot be till “some other time.”
1.A. grand B. comfortable C. shabby D. delicate
2.A. even if B. as though C. so that D. in case
3.A. unbelievable B. attractive C. interesting D. extraordinary
4.A. accidents B. events C. coincidences D. conditions
5.A. bus B. appointment C. movie D. time
6.A. accompany B. order C. satisfy D. invite
7.A. date B. dinner C. film D. mother
8.A. from B. beyond C. beneath D. out of
9.A. immediately B. abruptly C. absolutely D. awfully
10.A. before B. ago C. later D. after
11.A. receipt B. bill C. reception D. notice
12.A. extra B. additional C. attached D. approved
13.A. by chance B. on purpose C. for myself D. in advance
14.A. might B. should C. could D. would
15.A. son B. wife C. friend D. colleague
16.A. meant B. paid C. provided D. made
17.A. advocated B. appreciated C. admired D. applauded
18.A. Something B. Anything C. Everything D. Nothing
19.A. demand B. need C. deserve D. desire
20.A. put off B. called off C. taken off D. turned off
