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We humans spend about one-third of our lives asleep. This may sound like a lot of time, but it is not wasted. Sleep not only helps us stay healthy but it also helps our brains remember. Our brains need good sleep to remember what we do and learn during the other two thirds of our lives when we are awake.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that sleep helps improve brain performance by shrinking（收缩）synapses in the brain. A synapse is the area where cells pass messages to other cells.
Scientist Chiara Cirelli is a leader at the school 's Center for Sleep and Consciousness. She told the reporter that sleep is when the human brain mixes information it has learned while awake into its general collection of knowledge. Meanwhile, the brain forgets unimportant details. This forgetting is important. It makes space for new learning and new memories.
Cirelli said that the Centers research began with this hypothesis（假设）: We sleep so that our brain can repair and refresh itself, She said the idea seems simple and reasonable. However, testing and discovering how it works has been extremely difficult.
Synapses are only about 20-40 nanometers wide. The team began their study by measuring（测量） the size of the synapses to look for changes in these already tiny spaces between nerve cells. Cirelli says the process（过程） is difficult because \have to be done by hand.” The team had to wait until improvements in laboratory technology made it possible to see these tiny changes. A University of Wisconsin press release called the research a \” Many research specialists worked for four years to photograph, rebuild and study certain areas of a mouse brain. The report also said the scientists measured 6,920 synapses. Cirelli says they found that our synapses shrink as our brains clean themselves during sleep. We wake up refreshed and ready to fill those synapses with new information. The research findings are the result of years of hard work at the University of Wisconsin Madison. The researchers published their findings in the journal Science.
32. How does the brain help improve our memory while we are sleep? A. By not forgetting any learnt knowledge. B. By keeping learning new information. C. By repeating information learnt before.
D. By adding new knowledge to its old collection. 33. What is the fifth paragraph mainly about?
A. The size for the synapses. B. The preparations for the measuring work.
C. The difficulties in the measuring work. D. The result of the measuring work. 34. What can we infer about the research work?
A. The synapses were found bigger after a good night’s sleep. B. The researchers carried out their work with a human brain. C. The team began their research as soon as they decided to. D. The findings proved their hypothesis was right. 35. What is the result of the research?
A. Sleep helps us keep healthy. B. Sleep helps us learn better.
C. Sleep helps the brain shrink. D. Sleep takes one-third of our lifetime 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。
Best friend for a lifetime
The Year of the Dog will begin on Feb 16, according to the Chinese lunar calendar, Decorations about dogs will hang on doors or windows.
Dogs are man's best friend. 36 It means that dogs are loyal（忠实的）, and will stay with their owners through thick and thin.
Although dogs are seen as family members today, China and Western countries have different cultural beliefs about dogs. In Chinese, some words concerning dogs have negative meanings, such as \s mouth.\day\
38 Perhaps the most touching example is from the 8th century BC, in Greek poet Homer's The Odyssey. When Greek hero Odysseus finally returns home after 20 years away at war, only one person-sorry, animal- recognizes him; his dog, Argos, Argos is an old, sick dog, and is about to die; he is overjoyed to see his owner again after so many years.
39 For example, Dutch artist Breughel's painting The Hunters in the Snow（1565） first shows a detail of hunting dogs following closely behind hunters as they return from the hunt to their snow-covered farm.
Actually, people were close to dogs in a way that they weren't close to cows, pigs or even horses. Farmers worked closely with dogs. Even after science came to agriculture and dogs lost their traditional roles, the close relationship between man and dogs remained.
Nowadays in the West, a great many people keep dogs as family members. People feed them, and takes them on holidays, etc. 40 This loyalty is the beginning of the English saying, “A dog is man’ s best friend.”
A. In later centuries, the friendship between humans and dogs was a common subject for artists. B. Dogs are thought to be cute and lovely animals.
C. This shows the attitude toward dogs that many people around the world share. D. Therefore, a deep feeling has been developed day by day.
E. The dog-human relationship goes right back to the beginnings of Western civilization. F. In return, dogs are loyal in a way that friends sometimes aren't. G. But in English, the situation is different.
第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
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。
Learn the power of words
One day, one of my children told me, \are 41. They may hate me, but as a responsible father, I'm certain I’m doing a 42 job. There are three other words that I won't 43 in my house, however. Last week, I was watching my older son play with a paper airplane. After he 44 threw it into a wall and it came apart, his eyes 45 up with tears. \that he’ d started to actually believe it.
I knelt down next to him and made him look 47 my eyes. I told him that I never wanted to hear those words again, and that he needed to 48 himself. The 49 between your kid telling you they hate you and them saying they hate 50 is, five minutes later, they've already forgotten they \” Self-hate is much more 51, and for young people, it can influence the rest of their lives.
Kids who start to believe they hate themselves 52 the chance to make a possible friend, because they suppose they'll be 53 And as adults, they might 54 not to apply for that dream job because they think it won’t 55. I know this 56 I didn't have a high opinion of myself as a child, I found myself 57 in many aspects, and I'd hate to see my children 58 the same. Sometimes, words are just words. But some words can have the kind of 59 I'd very much like to avoid on my children. I don't fear strong language I fear language that makes us 60.
Great importance should be attached to speaking inspiring words. 41. A. sweet B. simple C. strange D. unpopular 42. A bad B. good C. special D. foolish 43. A. requite B. doubt C. allow D. believe 44. A happily B. surprisingly C. easily D. accidentally 45. A. rose B. flowed C. welled D. rolled 46. A. glad B. calm C. excited D. concerned 47. A. into B. after C. for D. up 48. A. ignore B. charge C. respect D. move 49. A. similarity B. result C. harm D. difference 50. A. themselves B. myself C. ourselves D. yourself 51. A. useful B. harmful C. meaningless D. hopeful 52. A. welcome B. create C. expect D. avoid 53. A. liked B. forgotten C. refused D. accepted 54. A. choose B. select C. hope D. wish 55. A. fail B. go C. move on D. work out 56. A. though B. because C. and D. so 57. A. struggling B. succeeding C. trying D. wandering 58. A. explore B. enjoy C. suffer D. share 59. A. mercy B. relief C. difficulty D. effect 60. A. strong B. relaxed C. weak D. proud
第Ⅱ卷
注意事项：
用0.5毫米黑色签字笔将答業写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。 第三部分 英语知识运用（共三节满分50分）
第二节单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
根据所给单词的首字母或汉语提示，在答题卷上写出空缺处单词的正确形式，每空一词。 61. Life is like a long race where we___（竞争）with others to go beyond ourselves. 62. We held a party on Christmas Eve in a hall___（装饰） with colorful balloons. 63. He___（更喜欢） shutting himself in and listening to music when he was sad. 64. One of his best___（品质） is honesty.
65. He is so stubborn that nobody can p___ him into changing his mind. 66. The husband and wife have different a___ to their children’s education. 67. After g___ from Oxford University, he set up his own company. 68. C___! You have passed the interview and got your dream job. 69. You look so f___. I must have met you somewhere before.
70. Jack has changed so much that I can hardly r___ him.
第三节单句语法填空（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下列各句，在空白处填人1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 71. The film brought the hours back to me ___ I was taken good care of in that village. 72. It was because of the heavy rain ___ the open-air celebration was put off. 73. It is said that the movie Youth is well worth ___ （see）. 74. Since your computer ___（repair） now, you can use mine.
75. I am grateful to my English teacher, with ___ help I have made great progress. 第四部分书面表达（共1节，满分25分）
假设你是李华，你的英国笔友Mike来信询问你的寒假计划。请根据以下提示回一封电子邮件：
1.读自己喜欢的书； 2.在社区做志愿者
3.与爷爷奶奶共度春节； 4.邀请他来华过春节 注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：社区 community春节 the Spring Festival Dear Mike,
Yours, Li Hua
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