56. The writer asked his friends to count from one to twenty because he _______________________.
　　A. wanted to record how they pronounced numbers in their own regional accents
　　B. had to check if the recorder was working
　　C. wanted to them to believe that was all he would record
　　D. wanted to discover who had the best pronunciation
　　57. The writer connected the microphones to ___________________________.
　　A. a recorder in his bedroom        B. his friends’ heads
　　B. a recorder in his front room       D. his friends’ mouths
　　58. The writer left them in the middle of the evening because_______________________.
　　A. he had to make a telephone call
　　B. the phone rang in the bebroom
　　C. he wanted the others to have a talk without him
　　D. he liked to stay with them and didn’t stop talking until the phone rang
　　59. The writer managed to get as ________ a piece of talk as it would be possible to find.
　　A. natural        B. clear        C. excellent        D. expensive
　　60. The last sentence of the passage shows______________________________.
　　A. you will pay much money if you want to do some linguistic research work
　　B. his friends always made him buy them drinks in return
　　C. the writer’s kindness and humour
　　D. linguistic research is a kind of business
　　（C）
　　If you want to stay young, sit down and have a think. This is the research findings of a team of
　　Japanese doctors, who say that most of our brains are not getting enough exercise, and as a result,
　　we are growing old unnecessarily soon.
　　Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why quite healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reasons at a rather early age, and how the speed of getting old could be slowed down.
　　With a team of resaerchers at Tokyo National Unversity, he set about measuring brain sizes of a thousand people of different ages with different jobs.
　　Computer technology helped the researchers to get most exact measurement of the sizes of the front and side parts of the brain, which have something to do with thinking and feeling, and decide
　　the human character. As we all know, the back of the brain, which controls tasks like eating and breathing, does not contract (萎缩) with age.
　　Contraction of front and side parts, as cells die off, was seen in some people in their thirties, but it was still not found in some sixty and seventy-year-olds.
　　Matsuzawa concluded from his tests that there is a simple way to prevent the contraction—using the head.
　　The findings show that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns. Those with least possobility, says Matsuzawa, are lawyers, followed by university professors and doctors. White collar workers doing the same work day after day in government offices are, however, as possible to have contracting brains as the farm workers, bus drivers and shop assistants.
　　61. The team of doctors wanted to find out_________________________.
　　A. at what point people grow mentally old
　　B. how to make people live longer
　　C. the size of certain people’s brain
　　D. which people are the most clever
　　62. Their research findings are based on ___________________________.
　　A. an examination of farmers in northern Japan
　　B. tests given on a thousand old people
　　C. examining the brain sizes of different people
　　D. using computer technologies
　　63. The doctors’ tests show that______________________.
　　A. our brain contract as we grow older
　　B. one part of the brain does not contract
　　C. sixty-year-olds have betterbrains than thirty-year-olds
　　D. some people’s brains have contracted earlier than other people’s
　　64. According to the article, ___________ are growing mentally old earlier.
　　A. engineers      B. office clerks      C. professors      D. researchers
　　65. The most possible conclusion of the article is that _____________________.
　　A. most of us should take more exercise
　　B. the brain contracts if it is not used
　　C. it’s better to live in the towns
　　D. the more one uses his brain, the sooner he becomes old
Ⅷ. 任务型阅读（共5小题；每小题1 分，满分5 分）
　　阅读以下5段语言材料，然后从A、B、C、D和E中，选出符合他们描述的最佳选项。
　　66.     Lucy has lost her job. However, she isn’t sad. She thinks she can have all day and all night to enjoy her life and have fun. And she learns something new while waiting for her next job.
　　67.     Lim has fun going on a trip on his bike with his friends for holidays. He never worries about time. Whenever he is tired, he stops to rest and have a picnic.
　　68.     Tom is the only child in his family, who has worked for just a year or two. He is well-educated but self-centered. He is always in fashion.
　　69.     Sue is outgoing and warm-hearted. She is a volunteer. On weekends, she goes to the Old
　　People’s Home and clean the parks. She said, “I’m glad to help people. It’s good for my health.”
　　70.     David is a businessman in shorts, T-shirts and sandals. He doesn’t like to work in his home or office. He always works where he is pleased with his iPad.
　　A. Strawberry Generation.
　　They look smart. They are soft and get hurt easily. It seems that they can't take much pressure.
　　B. Funemployed.
　　They are unemployed and using the free time to have fun and explore new areas in their lives while they wait for their next job opportunity.
　　C. Digital nomad.
　　They use technology, particularly wireless networking, to work without requiring an office or other fixed address.
　　D. Slow travelers.
　　They prefer to travel more gently, by train, bus, cargo ship, even bicycle rather than travel by plane. They enjoy the experience of a stress-free journey..
　　E. LOHAS.
　　They are optimistic, understanding, caring about environment and health, and doing good and as well as feeling good.
　

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