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46. A. fled 47. A. surprise 48. A. protector 49. A. resist 50. A. educating 51. A. exploding 52. A. surprised 53. A. urge 54. A. admiration 55. A. family

B. stormed B. delight B. trainer B. describe B. envying B. reading B. disappointed B. shorten B. curiosity B. teaching

C. jogged C. shame C. friend C. reduce C. comforting C. arguing C. amused C. transform C. anxiety C. housework

D. floated D. fear D. owner D. forget D. quieting D. apologizing D. confused D. expand D. love D. performance

第三部分 阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

It was graduation day at Etihad Training Academy, where the national airline of the United Arab Emirates holds a seven-week training course for new flight attendants.

Despite her obvious pride, Ms. Fathi, a 22-year-old from Egypt, was amazed

to find herself here. “I never in my life thought I’d work abroad,” said Ms. Fathi, who was a university student in Cairo when she began noticing newspaper advertisements employing young Egyptians to work at airlines based in the Persian Gulf.

Twenty years ago, unmarried Arab women like Ms. Fathi, working outside their home countries, were rare. But just as young men from poor Arab nations poured into the oil-rich Persian Gulf states for jobs, more young women are doing so.

Flight attendants have become the public face of the new mobility for some young Arab women, just as they were the face of new freedoms for women in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. They have become a subject of social anxiety and fascination in much the same way.

For many families, allowing a daughter to work may call her virtue into question. Yet this culture is changing, said Musa Shteiwi, a sociologist at Jordan University in Amman. “We’re noticing more and more single women going to the gulf these days,” he said. “It’s still not exactly common, but over the last four or five years it’s become quite an observable phenomenon.”

Many of the young Arab women working in the Persian Gulf take delight in their status as pioneers, role models for their friends and younger female relatives. Young women brought up in a culture that highly values community, have learned to see themselves as individuals. The experience of living independently and working hard for high salaries has forever changed their beliefs about themselves, though it can also lead to a painful sense of separation from their home countries and their families.

—From New York Times (December 22, 2014)

56. It can be inferred from the passage that young Arab women _________. A. go to work abroad after American women’s example

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B. didn’t start to work abroad until the late 20th century C. are commonly used to living and working separately D. expect to take the same family responsibilities as men

57. According to the passage, the Arab women flight attendants can be described as _________. A. proud, homesick or independent C. mature, enthusiastic or energetic

B. honest, outstanding or optimistic D. painful, desperate or conservative

58. How do the public respond to young Arab women’s new mobility?

A. The public think highly of it. B. The public care very little about it. C. The public show both interest and anxiety. D. The public are strongly against it. 59. The author intends to tell the readers that __________. A. Arab women can hardly find any work B. flight attendants are badly needed in the gulf C. flight attendants lead quite a different life D. young Arab women’s values are changing

B

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60. You can learn how to ______ at the Australian Institute of Applied Sciences College of Natural Medicine. A. apply science to our life C. adjust one’s diet or breath

B. operate on various patients D. look after mentally-ill people

61. One of the reasons for your choice of going to the college is that _______. A. it is the oldest college of this type in Australia B. it offers more courses than any other college C. you may find the best art facilities there D. you will get accredited certificate or diploma

62. If you take the courses at home, you are more likely to _______. A. focus on your own interests C. get any help from instructors

B. adjust your study schedules

D. keep up with new techniques

C

Patients and doctors alike have long believed in the healing (治疗) power of humor. It is claimed that humor not only affects patients’ moods, but can actually help them recover faster.

Several studies seem to support this. Patients in better spirits are known to have higher immune cell counts. Some have even claimed to have healed themselves of serious illnesses by reading comics and watching comedies.

Despite all this, many researchers are not convinced. They point out the fact that many sufferings have been known to disappear naturally, with or without a daily dose of laughter. They also say that while optimism in general does seem to be related to better health, it is hard to tell which comes first.

Humor in times of stress, however, clearly makes us feel better. On one level, it takes our minds off our troubles and relaxes us. On another, it releases powerful endorphins, a chemical produced by your body that reduces pain.

There are cases where the appreciation of a good joke is indeed directly related to a person’s health. It can show, for example, whether a person has suffered damage to one particular area of the brain: the right frontal lobe (额叶).

Scientists confirmed this by having people read jokes and asking them to choose the funniest endings from a list. Subjects with normal brains usually chose endings that were based on a relatively complex synthesis (综合) of ideas. Subjects with specifically located brain damage, however, responded only to slapstick (闹剧) endings, which did not depend on a particular context. When pressed, the brain-damaged subjects saw the logic in the correct endings. They simply did not find them funny.

Of course, humor is largely an individual matter. Next time your friend does not get one of your jokes, there is no need to accuse him of being a lamebrain. However, you might suggest that he lighten up—for the health of it.

63. We can infer from the passage that ________.

A. all researchers have agreed on the healing power of humor B. people seldom accuse their friends of not understanding jokes C. the author holds a positive attitude to the healing power of humor

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D. reading comics will surely become a popular way of treating diseases 64. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Many researchers are not convinced of the healing power of humor. B. Patients in bad moods are known to have higher immune cell counts. C. Optimism in general does seem to be related to better health. D. People should try their best to cheer up for their good health.

65. Scientists had some people read jokes and asked them to choose the funniest endings from a list to confirm

that ________.

A. the brain-damaged people are different from those with normal brains B. a person with a normal brain usually responds to slapstick endings C. a person suffering certain brain damage doesn’t appreciate a good joke D. humor takes our minds off our troubles by releasing powerful endorphins 66. Which would be the best title for the passage? A. Which comes first, humor or health?

B. Humor can cure different illnesses

C. People need humor in times of stress D. Humor contributes to good health

D

The thing is, my luck’s always been ruined. Just look at my name: Jean. Not Jean Marie, or Jeanine, or Jeanette, or even Jeanne. Just Jean. Did you know in France, they name boys Jean? It’s French for John. And okay, I don’t live in France. But still, I’m basically a girl named John. If I lived in France, anyway.

This is the kind of luck I’ve had since before Mom even filled out my birth certificate. So it wasn’t any big surprise to me when the cab driver didn’t help me with my suitcase. I’d already had to tolerate arriving at the airport to find no one there to greet me, and then got no answer to my many phone calls, asking where my aunt and uncle were. Did they not want me after all? Had they changed their minds? Had they heard about my bad luck—all the way from Iowa—and decided they didn’t want any of it to rub off on them?

So when the cab driver, instead of getting out and helping me with my bags, just pushed a little button so that the trunk (汽车后备箱) popped open a few inches, it wasn’t the worst thing that had ever happened to me. It wasn’t even the worst thing that had happened to me that day.

According to my mom, most brownstones in New York City were originally single-family homes when they were built way back in the 1800s. But now they’ve been divided up into apartments, so that there’s one—or sometimes even two or more families—per floor.

Not Mom’s sister Evelyn’s brownstone, though. Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted Gardiner own all four floors of their brownstone. That’s practically one floor per person, since Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted only have three kids, my cousins Tory, Teddy, and Alice.

Back home, we just have two floors, but there are seven people living on them. And only one bathroom. Not that I’m complaining. Still, ever since my sister Courtney discovered blow-outs, it’s been pretty frightful at home.

But as tall as my aunt and uncle’s house was, it was really narrow—just three windows across. Still, it was a very pretty townhouse, painted gray. The door was a bright, cheerful yellow. There were yellow flower boxes along the base of each window, flower boxes from which bright red—and obviously newly planted, since it was

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