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Part A
Directions: Read the following three texts. Answer the questions on each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
If you want to stay young, sit down and have a good think. This is the research finding of a team of Japanese doctors, who say that most of our brains are not getting enough exercise and as a result, we are aging unnecessarily soon.
Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwise healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a relatively early age and how the process of aging could be slowed down.
With a team of colleagues at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different ages and varying occupations.
Computer technology enabled the researchers to obtain precise measurements of the volume of the front and side sections of the brain, which relate to intellect and emotion, and determine the human character. The rear section of the brain, which controls functions like eating and breathing, does not contract with age, and one can continue living without intellectual on emotional faculties (功能). Contraction of front and side parts—as cells die off—was observed in some subjects in their thirties, but it was still not evident in sixty - and seventy - year - old.
Matsuzaswa concluded from his tests that there is a simple remedy to the contraction normally associated with age—using the head. The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brain begins sooner in. people in the country than in the towns. Those least at risk, says Matsuzawa, are lawyers, followed, by university professors and doctors. White collar workers doing routine work in government offices are, however, as likely to have shrinking brains as the farm worker, bus driver and shop assistant.
Matsuzawa's findings show that thinking can prevent the brain from thinking.
Blood must circulate properly in the head to supply the fresh oxygen the brain cells needed. "The best way to maintain good blood circulation is through using the brain." he says, "Think hard and engage in conversation. Don't rely on pocket calculators."
The team of doctors wanted to find out
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听力原文：M: What are you going to do after you graduate from college？
W: I' m not sure. I may be a teacher. But I want to do more than just teaching, maybe practice law. How about you？
M: I don't have any plans yet. Things change all so quickly. I'd rather wait and see.
What will the man probably do after he graduates from college？
Eighty years【C6】______, Chaplin is still here. In a 1995 worldwide survey of film critics, Chaplin was voted【C7】______greatest actor in the movie history. He was the first,【C8】______the last, person to control【C9】______aspect of the filmmaking process--【C10】______his own studio and producing, directing, writing and editing the movies he starred in. In the first few decades of the 20th century,【C11】______weekly movie-going was the national【C12】______, Chaplin more or less helped【C13】______an industry into an art. In 1916,his【C14】______year in films, his salary of $10, 000 a week made him the highest-paid actor --【C15】______the highest-paid person- in the world.【C16】______1920, the Chaplin craze, accompanied by a flood of Chaplin dances, songs, dolls, comic books and cocktails, was【C17】______everywhere. Filmmaker Mack Sennett thought【C18】______"just the greatest artist who ever lived. "Other early admirers【C19】______George Bernard Shaw, Marcel Proust, and Sigmund Freud.【C20】______1981 to 1987, IBM used the Tramp as the logo to advertise its venture into personal computers.
【C1】
听力原文：W: What are you reading, Paul？
M: Oh, it's a book about naval engineering.
W: Why are you reading on Friday evening？
M: Because I've got to write an essay this weekend.
W: What are you going to do when you've qualified？
M: I don't know. I'd like to get a job abroad, I think. What are you going to do when your year at Weston is over？
W: l'm going to spend a few weeks touring Britain, then I'm going back to Canada, I suppose.
M: What is John going to do？
W: I think he's going to open a branch of" pretty feet"in London.
M: What is he doing in Italy？
W: He's seeing some designers here. He's coming back tomorrow. By the way, what are you and Sue doing on Saturday evening？
M: I don't know yet. Why？
W: Well, I thought we could cook another of our suppers and invite John and Sue.
M: Oh, no! Not Potato Salad again! Sorry, Barbara, but I really have to read this book.
When does the conversation take place？
听力原文：M: We'll go for an outing tomorrow. Would you like to join us？
W: I'd like to, but I think it's going to rain. The temperature is dropping.
M: You can't be right. The weather forecast says fine weather for tomorrow.
W: I hope so. But I won't take the risk. Thanks for asking.
M: Ok, then we'll go without you.
Why doesn't the woman want to go for an outing？
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