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At a recent class, yoga instructor Hagen taught several facial exercises designed to build up facial muscles.Some women practise moves including "The Lion" , showing the tongue hanging out and eyes rolled up.Hagen encourages class members to hold the position for 60 seconds, joking."You can do this any time.It really helps you get a seat on the train."

Hagen recently published a book—The Yoga Face: Remove Wrinkles (皱纹) with the Ultimate Natural Facelift.She developed a workshop using facial yoga because women wanted to look their best.

Facial muscles become weak and flabby (松驰的) and need regular exercise to reduce wrinkles.Besides "The Lion", other exercises include "Satchmo" .in which the cheeks are blown out Louis Armstrong-style, and "Marilyn", in which attractive kisses are blown to strengthen mouth muscles for full and firm lips.

Hagen recommends facial yoga for those wanting to find outer and inner beauty, saying, "The emotional aspect is just as important as the physiological (生理学的)."

But she doesn't rule out plastic surgery or Botox."I don' t rule it out for myself.One day I may feel like I need that.But regardless of that, maintaining elasticity (弹性的) is extremely important, especially if you have had Botox and plastic surgery," she said.

While making faces in front of strangers might frighten some, those who attended the class thought it the perfect way to fight against busy New York lifestyles." Working in New York is very stressful." Kathy Healey said, "It's a perfect way to end the week."

49.By saying, "It really helps you get a seat on the train".Hagen means that some passengers can       .

A.practise yoga with you                  B.help you do facial yoga

C.be frightened away                      D.notice your face

50.Some women are turning to facial yoga because they ______.

A.want to escape working stress           B.want to have a new lifestyle

C.can practise it anywhere                D.want to look best

51.Which of the following about facial yoga is TRUE?

A.It is designed for wealthy people.       B.It can be useful but harmful.

C.It can make you feel at ease.           D.It is popular in the world.

52.From the passage we can conclude that plastic surgery and Rotox ______.

A.help reduce wrinkles                  B.are good for women's health

C.will be replaced by facial yoga         D.are natural ways to keep young

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C

Almost every machine with moving parts has wheels, yet no one knows exactly when the first wheel was invented or what it was used for.We do know，however，that they existed over 5，500 years ago in ancient Asia.

The oldest known transport wheel was discovered in 2002 in Slovenia.It is over 5，100 years old.Evidence suggests that wheels for transport didn't become popular for a while, though.This could be because animals did a perfectly good job of carrying farming tools and humans around.

But it could also be because of a difficult situation.While wheels need to roll on smooth surfaces, roads with smooth surfaces weren't going to be constructed until there was plenty of demand for them.Eventually，road surfaces did become smoother, but this difficult situation appeared again a few centuries later.There had been no important changes in wheel and vehicle design before the arrival of modern road design.

In the mid-1700s，a Frenchman came up with a new design of road—a base layer (层)of large stones covered with  a thin layer of smaller stones.A Scotsman improved on this design in the 1820s and a strong，lasting road surface became a reality.At around the same time，metal hubs(the central part of a wheel) came into being，followed by the pneumatic tyre(充气轮胎) in 1846. Alloy wheels were invented in 1967, sixty years after the appearance of tarmacked roads(柏油路).As wheel design took off, vehicles got faster and faster.

64.What might explain why transport wheels didn't become popular for some time?

A.Few knew how to use transport wheels.

B.Humans carried farming tools just as well.

C.Animals were a good means of transport.

D.The existence of transport wheels was not known.

65.What do we know about road design from the passage?

A.It was easier than wheel design.

B.It improved after big changes in vehicle design.

C.It was promoted by fast-moving vehicles.

D.It provided conditions for wheel design to develop.

66.How is the last paragraph mainly developed?

A.By giving examples.

B.By making comparisons.

C.By following time order.

D.By making classifications.

67.What is the passage mainly about?

A.The beginning of road design.

B.The development of transport wheels.

C.The history of public transport.

D.The invention of fast-moving vehicles.

【要点综述】 本文介绍轮子的演进历史。

64.C　细节理解题。第二段最后一句说明wheels长期未能流行的缘由：动物长期以来充当交通工具。

65.D　推理判断题。短文最后一段说明路况的改良促进了车轮业的巨大发展。

66.C　篇章结构题。该段看似举例，但这些例子均是按时间由远及近而叙述的。

67.B　主旨大意题。该文主要介绍wheels由一般的发明物到广泛运用于交通的历史演进过程。

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D

Not all bodies of water are so evidently alive as the Atlantic Ocean, an S-shaped body of water covering 33 million square miles.The Atlantic has, in a sense, replaced the Mediterranean as the inland sea of Western civilization.Unlike real inland seas, which seem strangely still, the Atlantic is rich in oceanic liveliness.It is perhaps not surprising that its vitality has been much written about by ancient poets.

“Storm at Sea”， a short poem written around 700, is generally regarded as one of mankind's earliest artistic representations of the Atlantic.

When the wind is from the west

All the waves that cannot rest

To the east must thunder on

Where the bright tree of the sun

Is rooted in the ocean's breast.

As the poem suggests, the Atlantic is never dead and dull.It is an ocean that moves, impressively and endlessly.It makes all kinds of noise—it is forever thundering，boiling, crashing，and whistling.

It is easy to imagine the Atlantic trying to draw breath—perhaps not so noticeably out in mid-ocean，but where it meets land, its waters bathing up and down a sandy beach.It mimics(模仿)nearly perfectly the steady breathing of a living creature.It is filled with symbiotic existences，too; unimaginable quantities of creatures，little and large alike，mix within its depths in a kind of oceanic harmony, giving to the waters a feeling of heartbeat, a kind of sub-ocean vitality.And it has a psychology.It has personalities: sometimes peaceful and pleasant, on rare occasions rough and wild; always it is strong and striking.

68.Unlike real inland seas, the Atlantic Ocean is ________.

A.always energetic

B.lacking in liveliness

C.shaped like a square

D.favored by ancient poets

69.What is the purpose of using the poem “Storm at Sea” in the passage?

A.To describe the movement of the waves.

B.To show the strength of the storm.

C.To represent the power of the ocean.

D.To prove the vastness of the sea.

70.What does the underlined word “symbiotic” mean?

A.Living together.

B.Growing fast.

C.Moving harmoniously.

D.Breathing peacefully.

71.In the last paragraph, the Atlantic is compared to ________.

A.a beautiful and poetic place

B.a flesh and blood person

C.a wonderful world

D.a lovely animal

【要点综述】 该文既是对地理知识的陈列，也是对文学作品的铺陈。大西洋的壮美和静态的内海迥然不同，大西洋好比是一个富有生命力且有血有肉的人。

68.A 　细节理解和逻辑推理题。inland seas比较平静，而大西洋充满生命律动的浩瀚与同为西方文化摇篮的地中海形成鲜明的对比。

69.C　写作方法题。该诗句描写大西洋的壮美：当西风信然而至时，大西洋的波浪开始涌动，以雷霆万钧之势，凸显大西洋的磅礴气势。

70.A　词义推断题。作者先把大西洋比作生命的律动，然后又把她的其他禀赋铺陈于后，因此该词此处应该指“共生共存”。

71.B　写作方法题。该文通过诗词和拟人化的描写把大西洋比作有血有肉的人。