46. What is the author's purpose of writing this passage?

A. To express how much she is attached to her home.

B. To declare how much she loves her first house.

C. To describe the state of her family.

D. To look back on her childhood.

E

Fear may be felt in the heart as well as in the head, according to a study that has found a link between the cycles of a beating heart and the chance of someone feeling fear.

Tests on healthy volunteers found that they were more likely to feel a sense of fear at the moment when their hearts are contracting(收缩) and pumping blood around their bodies, compared with the point when the heartbeat is relaxed. Scientists say the results suggest that the heart is able to influence how the brain responds to a fearful event, depending on which point it is at in its regular cycle of contraction and relaxation.

Sarah Garfinkel at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School said: "Our study shows for the first time that the way in which we deal with fear is different depending on when we see fearful pictures in relation to our heart."

The study tested 20 healthy volunteers on their reactions to fear as they were shown pictures of fearful faces. Dr Garfinkel said, "The study showed that fearful faces are better noticed when the heart is pumping than when it is relaxed. Thus our hearts can also affect what we see and what we don't see - and guide whether we see fear."

To further understand this relationship, the scientists also used a brain scanner(扫描仪) to show how the brain influences the way the heart changes a person's feeling of fear.

"We have found an important mechanism by which the heart and brain ‘speak’to each other to change our feelings and reduce fear," Dr Garfinkel said.

"We hope that by increasing our understanding about how fear is dealt with and ways that it could be reduced, we may be able to develop more successful treatments for anxiety disorders, and also for those for those who may be suffering from serious stress disorder."

47. What is the finding of the study?

A. One's heart affects how he feels fear.

B. fear is a result of one's relaxed heartbeat.

C. fear has something to do with one's health.

D. Ones fast heartbeats are likely to cause fear.

48. The study was carried out by analyzing _______.

A. volunteers' heartbeats when they saw terrible pictures

B. the time volunteers saw fearful pictures and their health conditions

C. volunteers' reactions to horrible pictures and data form their brain scans

D. different pictures shown to volunteers and their heart-brain communication

49. Which of the following is closest in meaning to "mechanism" in Paragraph 6?

A. Order.           B. system.          C. Machine.          D. Treatment.

50.This study may contribute to _______.

A. treating anxiety and stress better

B. explaining the cycle of fear and anxiety

C. finding the sky to the heart-brain communication

D. understanding different fears in our hearts and heads

第二节  根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项多余选项。(共5小题;每小题2分，共10分)

--James, can I have some black tea?

--Sure,    51

--Well, just a little, please.

--Two teaspoons?

--   52   I have gained some weight these days.

(Minutes later. )

--How nice it is!

--   53

--Yes, please. Do you mind me smoking here?

--   54   I don't want to have secondhand smoke. Would you like some cookies, instead?

Eating more and smoking less will do you good.

--   55

第II卷  (非选择题  共60分)

注意事项：

1. 必须0.5毫米黑色墨迹签字笔在答题卡上题目所指示的答题区域内作答。答在试题卷上无效。

2. 第II卷共计60分。

第三部分  写作(共三节，共60分)

第一节  阅读表达(共5小题;每小题2分，共10分)

阅读下面短文，并按照题目要求用英语问答问题(请注意问题后词数要求)。

A nurse of 78 this weekend celebrates 60 years of walking the wards - and she has no plans to retire.

Jackie Reid was 18 when she started work in 1953 - when the National Health Service(NHS) was just five years old - and is believed to be the oldest nurse in Britain.

The diabetes(糖尿病) specialist had to retire at 65 but returned as a nurse within two weeks and still does up to four seven-and-a-half hour shifts(轮班)each week.

Mrs Reid said: "Nursing is hard if you do it correctly but I love my job. Working for the NHS has been my life. I have no other hobbies because I have worked all my life.

Jackie has worked at a number of different hospitals--including one in Scotland.

Her specialist field has been diabetes for the past 40 years. She relrained after her 12-year-old daughter Michelle developed the disease. She currently works at Southend Hospital, Essex.

Over the last 60years she has treated tens of thousands of patients.

Jackie believes nursing should be protected from government cuts. She said: "There're lots of things I would say to the government. If you are going to get good care you have to have the resources(资源), you can't do it without enough money. They shouldn't need the cuts that there are in the NHS. It's hard now because there's a shortage of staff."

Jackie has lived alone in Grays, Essex, since her husband did three years ago.

The couple have two daughters Michelle, 50, and Karen, 54.

Jackie added: "My youngest daughter worried about me - she doesn't think I should work as much as I do. I constantly say 'don't worry about me, I'm fine', but she never believes me. I don't like the thought of giving it up and will try to keep going forever."

56. In which year was the NHS set up? (within 2 words)

57. What does Jackie think of nursing? (within 6 words)

58. when did Jackie retrain in the field of diabetes? (within 6 words)

59. What does Jackie wish the government to do? (within 7 words)

60. Why does Jackie's daughter worry about her? (within 8 words)

第二节  短文改错(共10小题;每小题1.5分，共15分)

下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的工方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加一个符号(^)，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. 每句不超过两个错误;

2. 每处错误及其修改均只限一词;

3. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Today we had a chemistry test. I found the test difficulty, but I tried hardly to do it. Suddenly Mary, my best friend, asking me to let her to copy my answers. After think for some time, I let her copy my answers. But after the test, all of us were called to the teacher's office. The teacher was angry because we had same answers in the tests. We were warned not to cheat again so she would need to see our parents. I was very upset. I didn't cheat. I was just helping a friend. Why does she punish me?

第三节  书面表达(共35分)

某中学生英文报近期开辟专栏，讨论学习习惯问题。请你结合自身学习实际，按以下提示，用英文为该专栏写一篇稿件。

1. 说明学习习惯与学习效果之间的关系;

2. 介绍一种好的学习习惯并提出养成该习惯的建议;

3. 描述自己在学习习惯方面存在的某个问题并给出改进措施。

注意：

1. 词数120左右，开头语已为你写好;

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯;

3. 文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称。

It's useful and necessary to discuss learning habits._______________________________________

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