the experimental group spent three months meditating 10 to 12 hours a day. A control group also with no meditation experience meditated for 20 minutes a day over the same period. Both groups were then given the tests with two numbers in a group of letters. As both group looked for the numbers, their brain activity was recorded.
Everyone could catch the first number. But the brain recordings showed that the less experienced mediators tended to grasp the first number and hang onto it, so they missed the second number. Those with more experience gave less attention to the first number, as if letting it go, which led to an increased ability to grasp the second number. This shows that attention can change with practice.
Just ask Daniel Levision, who meditated for three months as part of the study. “I am a much better listener,” he said. “I do not get lost in my own personal reaction to what people are saying.”
32. The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 1 refers to . A. feelings B. minds C. people D. thoughts 33. Meditations manage their daily tasks better because they are given less pressure.
B. allocate their attention better. C. have more stimuli for life.
D. practice them more frequently.
A.
34. In the experiment, volunteers doing meditation for longer hours were more likely to catch both of the members .
B. were used to memorizing numbers in groups. C. usually ignored the first number observed. D. paid more attention to numbers than to letters. 35. The study proves that A. meditation improves one’s health. B. brain activity can be recorded. C. human attention can be trained.
D. mediators have a good sense of hearing.
A.
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，选项中有两项 为多余选项。
Here’s the situation. You’re sitting at the table listening to the conversation when your cell phone buzzes. There is something very important that wants your attention.
Maybe your phone buzzed for an email, text message, Facebook post or tweet. You don’t know unless you check your phone.
What can it hurt to check your phone?
A recent study of cell phone use by the Pew Research Center found that most US adults think checking your phone is rude in social situations.
The study found that only 5 percent of Americans felt that checking your cell phone during a meeting is acceptable. 36. 82 percent of all adults (not just cell owners) say that when people use their cell phones at social gatherings, it … occasionally hurts the conversation and atmosphere of the gathering. Americans think that when people focus on their phones instead of their companions, it hurts the group in which they are participating.
37.
They also don’t like others who talk too loudly or share private information in public when using their phones.
Antisocial or Social?
Using your phone can have both a social and antisocial effect. You are being social when you are using your phone to connect with others and plan social events. 38. Most people do not realize they are being antisocial when they are using their phone around others.
According to the study, “39. At the same time, those around the cell phone user may still experience that other person’s phone use as anti-social, even if that was not the explicit intention of the user.”
People might use their cell phones in social situations because they see others doing it: 86 percent of people surveyed said that someone else used a phone at the most recent social event they attended.
40. group.
That might be a photo, information, or to disengage from the
A. You may be antisocial when you use your phone in front of other people. B. 80 percent surveyed said they usually use their cell phones in public.
C. Only 12 percent approve of checking your cell phone during a family dinner. D. People may use their phones at social events to share something from the event. E. Most people use cell phones in social situations even though they believe it is rude. F antisocial itself is rarely a primary motivator. G. People can be offended when they feel ignored. 第三部分 英语知识运用 （共两节，满分 45）
第一节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（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。
Hidden passengers traveling in ships, trams, or even cars can be a terrible trouble — especially when they are insects. As for this, there is a great 41 between human beings and insects. The former 42 every possible effort to avoid being discovered, while the latter quickly 43 attention to themselves.
We can only show mercy to the 44 man who had to stop his car soon after 45 from a country village to drive to London. Hearing a strange noise from the 46 of the car, he naturally got out to 47 the wheels carefully, but he found nothing wrong, so he 48 his way. Again the noise began, 49 and became even louder. Quickly 50 his head, the man saw what appeared to be a great 51 cloud following the car. When he stopped at a village further on, he was told that a queen bee must be hidden in his car as there were thousands of bees 52 .
On learning this, the man drove away as quickly as possible. After an hour's 53 driving, he arrived safely in London, where he parked his car outside a 54 and went in-- It was not long 55 a customer who had seen him arrive 56 in to inform him that his car was 57 with bees. The poor driver was 58 that the best way should be to call a 59 . In a short time the man arrived. He found the unwelcome passenger hidden near the wheels at the back of the car. Very thankful to the driver for this 60 gift, the bee-keeper took the queen and her thousands of followers home in a large box.
41. A. connection B. difference C. D. similarity 42. A. do B. take C. make D. try 43. A. give B. keep C. pay D. draw 44. A. unfortunate B. careless C. unpleasant D. hopeless 45. A. passing by B. leaving out C. setting out D. getting up 46. A. front B. back C. left D. right 47. A. clean B. change C. test D. examine 48. A. drove B. continued C. pushed D. forced 49. A. normally B. gently C. actually D. 50. A. hiding B. turning C. shaking D. raising 51. A. black B. beautiful C. white D. colorful 52. A. below B. ahead C. nearby D. behind
58. A. advised B. required B. careful C. ordered D. 53. A. boring C. exciting D. hard 59. A. bee-keeper C. waiter D. 54. A. hotel B. policeman B. museum C. hospital D. school 60. A. unfamiliar C. unexpected C. until D. 55. A. when B. unknown B. after D. before
uncertain 第二节（共1 0 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分15 分） C. hurried 56. A. broke B. moved D. dropped
57. A. crowded B. covered C. filled D. equipped 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。 In Brooklyn, New York, over 20 first responders are studying Mandarin Chinese for
about two hours a week. It 61. (offer) by the Fire Department of New York’s Phoenix Society.
New York City is a diverse area. The U.S. Census Bureau recently 62. (report) that some New York neighborhood are made up 63. immigrants. (most) of
Some people have predicted that the Chinese community is 64. (like) to become New York’s largest immigrant group. They think the city will have the 65. (large) Chinese community outside of Asia.
Lily Cheung 66. (teach) Mandarin to the first responders now. she calls the first group taking the classes “amazing”. Cheung says she can see 67. (amaze)
progress they have made with this language, 68. is one of the hardest 69. (language) in the world.
She explains that these first responders work long hours. Some, she says, come to class right after working a night shift without 70. (rest) in between. “This is really a dedicated group,” she adds.
Cheung started teaching Mandarin when she was 11 years old. And she has her own method of teaching, something she calls the “Chinglish Way”. 第四部分 写作 （共两节 满分 35）
第一节 短文改错（10 分） 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 10 处语言错误，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.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改 10 处，多着（从第 11 处起）不计分。
NHS worker Kara Florish posted a message on social media after being handed a card.
She described the card, that blames overweight people for “wasting NHS money” as “hateful and fearful”. The card says one is from a group calling Overweight Haters Ltd.
Written on Facebook, Ms Florish said she was “small than the national average”, and was “not upset” by the card, so worried it could upset people struggling for confidence and eating disorders.
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