1、My conviction remains that if you want to make poverty history, you have to make corruption and bad leadership history.（   ） 单选题 2分

2、 “The discussions we had were candid and constructive, including a range of areas where we disagree,” Posner said.（  ） 单选题 2分

3、 I often fantasize about living in ways that are quite different from my actual life.（   ） 单选题 2分

4、The author suggests that by suppressing who one was meant and need to be, he is doing something entirely unnatural.（ ） 判断题 2分

5、 Life is like a duck doing below the waterline: It’s kicking and reaching, in a chaotic contrast to its seemingly effortless surface appearance.（ ） 判断题 2分

6、Without regular supplies of some hormones our capacity to behave would be seriously impaired; without others we would soon die. Tiny amounts of some hormones can modify moods and actions, our inclination to eat or drink, our aggressiveness or submissiveness, and our reproductive and parental behavior. And hormones do more than influence adult behavior; early in life they help to determine the development of bodily form and may even determine an individual’s behavioral capacities. Later in life the changing outputs of some endocrine glands and the body’s changing sensitivity to some hormones are essential aspects of the phenomena of aging. Communication within the body and the consequent integration of behavior were considered the exclusive province of the nervous system up to the beginning of the present century. The emergence of endocrinology as a separate discipline can probably be traced to the experiments of Bayliss and Starling on the hormone secretion. This substance is secreted from cells in the intestinal walls when food enters the stomach; it travels through the bloodstream and stimulates the pancreas to liberate pancreatic juice, which aids in digestion. By showing that special cells secret chemical agents that are conveyed by the bloodstream and regulate distant target organs or tissues. Bayliss and starling demonstrated that chemical integration could occur without participation of the nervous system. The term “hormone” was first used with reference to secretion. Starling derived the term from the Greek hormone, meaning “to excite or set in motion. The term “endocrine” was introduced shortly thereafter “Endocrine” is used to refer to glands that secret products into the bloodstream. The term “endocrine” contrasts with “exocrine”, which is applied to glands that secret their products though ducts to the site of action. Examples of exocrine glands are the tear glands, the sweat glands, and the pancreas, which secrets pancreatic juice through a duct into the intestine. Exocrine glands are also called duct glands, while endocrine glands are called ductless. What is the author’s main purpose in the passage?（ ） 单选题 2分

7、The passage supports which of the following conclusions?（ ） 单选题 2分

8、It can be inferred from the passage that before the Bayless and Starling experiments, most people believed that chemical integration occurred only （ ）. 单选题 2分

9、The word “liberate” could best be replaced by which of the following?（ ） 单选题 2分

10、According to the passage another term for exocrine glands is （ ）. 单选题 2分

11、But there is a whole other level of existence, distinct from what you do, that is the real, true, genuine sum and substance of who you are. 简答题 2分

12、What would you choose if you weren’t financially strapped, for example, living paycheck to paycheck, or didn’t have so many people depending on you? 简答题 2分

13、Certain animals have an intuitive awareness of quantities. They know without analysis the difference between a number of objects ands a smaller number. In his book The Natural History of Selbourne (1786), the naturalist Gilbert White tells how he surreptitiously removed one egg a day to make up plover’s nest, and how the mother laid another egg each day to make up for the missing one. He noted that other species of birds ignore the absence of a single egg but abandon their nest if more than one egg has been removed. It has also been noted by naturalist that a certain type of wasp always provides five-never four, never six-caterpillars for each of their eggs so that their young have something to eat when the eggs hatch. Research has also shown that both mice and pigeons can be taught to distinguish between odd and even numbers of food pieces. 　　These and similar accounts have led some people to infer that creatures other than human can actually count. They also point to dogs that have been taught to respond to numerical questions with the correct number of barks, or to horses that seem to solve arithmetic problem by stomping their hooves number of times. Animals respond to quantities only when they are connected to survive as a species-as in the case of the eggs-or survive as individuals -as in the case of food. There is on transfer to other situations or from concrete reality to the abstract notion of numbers. Animals can “count” only when the objects are present and only when the numbers involved are small-no more than seven or eight. In lab experiments, animals trained to count one kind of object were unable to count any other type. The objects, not the numbers, are what interest them. Animal’s admittedly remarkable achievements simply do not amount to evidence of counting, nor do they reveal more than innate instinct, refined by the genes of successive generations, or the results of clever, careful conditioning by trainers. What is the main idea of the passage? 简答题 2分

14、According to the information in the passage, what is LEAST likely to occur as a result of animal’s intuitive awareness of quantities? 简答题 2分

15、What is the purpose of the author refers to Gilbert’s book in paragraph 1. 简答题 2分

16、“The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that make all the difference in the world.” 简答题 2分