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1、relaxingadj.令人轻松的v.放松； 休息(relax 的 ing 形式)； 1. Try to keep a balance between work and relaxation. 尽量保持工作与休闲均衡。 2. I go hill-walking for relaxation. 我要是想活动活动，就到山上走走。(A)Even today there are a great many wrong ideas about food. Some of them are very widespread.One such idea is that fish is the best brai
2、n food. Fish is good brain food (25) _ _ it is good muscle food and skin food and bone food. But no one has been able to prove that fish is any (26)_ (good) for the brain than many other kinds of food.Another such idea is that you (27)_ not drink water with meals. Washing food down with water as a s
3、ubstitute (28)_ chewing is not a good idea, but some water with meals has been found to be helpful. It makes the digestive juices flow more freely and helps to digest the food.Many of the ideas which scientists tell us (29)_ (have) no foundation have to do with mixtures of foods. A few years ago the
4、 belief became general that orange juice and milk should never be drunk at the same meal. The reason given was (30)_ the acid in the orange juice would make the milk curdle (凝结) and become indigestible. As a matter of fact, milk always meets in the stomach a digestive juice which curdles (31)_; the
5、curdling of the milk is the first step in its digestion. A similar wrong idea is that fish and ice cream when (32)_(eat) at the same meal form a poisonous combination. (B) Its one of our common beliefs that mice are afraid of cats. Scientists have long known that (33) _ _ a mouse has never seen a ca
6、t before, it is still able to detect chemical signals released from it and run away in fear. This has always been thought to be something that is hard- wired into a mouses brain. But recently Wendy Ingram, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, (34)_(challenge) this common sen
7、se. She has found a way to “cure” mice of their inborn fear of cats by infecting them with a parasite, reported the science journal Nature. The parasite, called Toxoplasma gondii, might sound unfamiliar to you, but the (35)_(shock) fact is that up to one-third of people around the world are infected
8、 by it. This parasite can cause different diseases among humans, (36)_ pregnant women it is linked to blindness and the death of unborn babies. However, the parasites effects on mice are unique. Ingram and her team measured how mice reacted to a cats urine (尿) before and (37)_ it was infected by the
9、 parasite. They noted that normal mice stayed far away from the urine (38)_ mice that were infected with the parasite walked freely around the test area. But thats not all. The parasite was found to be more powerful than originally (39)_ (think) even after researchers cured the mice of the infection
10、, they no longer reacted with fear to a cats smell, which could indicate that the infection has caused a permanent change in mices brains.Why does a parasite change a mouses brain instead of making it sick like it does to humans? The answer lies in evolution. Toxoplasma gondii can only reproduce ins
11、ide a cat. So the parasite had to develop a way of tricking the mice into getting eaten more easily thus (40)_ (help) itself go inside a cat by taking away mices sense of alarm.Section B Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note t
12、hat there is one word more than you need. (* 友情提示：本友情提示：本 题共十个空，请按题号填涂题共十个空，请按题号填涂)A. frowned B. negative C. national D. appreciation E. effectiveF. tendency G. approach H. ranked I. enhanced J. unpopular K.namedWhat are the things that first come to your mind when you think of the UK? Are they nons
13、top rain, polite manners, boring food and tea drinking?Some of the UKs (41)_ stereotypes are true, a new survey has found. For example, British people do have a(an) (42) _ to drink lots of tea.The research polled 1,402 foreigners living in the UK on their opinions about the British way of life. Unsu
14、rprisingly, the majority of them, almost 70 percent, said they enjoyed living in the country good manners, especially UK peoples extraordinary ability to queue, are the main reasons for foreigners (43)_. More than one-third said they liked British peoples restrained (44)_ to emotion.However, there a
15、re aspects of British culture that are (45)_ upon. The heavy alcohol drinking culture (46)_ as the least favorite trait, followed by the British sense of humor and the countrys bad weather.It may not be too hard to understand why heavy drinking and bad weather are (47)_, but whats wrong with the British sense of humor?British humor is known for being dry and satirical (讽刺的), so it is generally more (48) _. When it comes to making the British laugh, there is nothing more (49)_ than a socially inappropriate joke, noted the BBC. “Britons ar
