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1、Science has a lot of uses. It can uncover laws of nature, cure diseases, make bombs, and help bridges to stand up. Indeed science is so good at what it does that there's always a temptation (诱惑) to drag it into problems where it may not be helpful. David Brooks, author of The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement, appears to be the latest in a long line of writers who have failed to resist the temptation.

Brooks gained fame for several books. His latest book The Social Animal, however, is more ambitious and serious than his earlier books. It is an attempt to deal with a set of weighty topics. The book focuses on big questions: What has science revealed about human nature? What are the sources of character? And why are some people happy and successful while others aren't?

To answer these questions, Brooks surveys a wide range of disciplines (学科). Considering this, you might expect the book to be a dry recitation of facts. But Brooks has structured his book in an unorthodox (非常规的), and perhaps unfortunate, way. Instead of introducing scientific theories, he tells a story, within which he tries to make his points, perhaps in order to keep the reader's attention.So as Harold and Erica, the hero and heroine in his story, live through childhood, we hear about the science of child development and as they begin to date we hear about the theory of sexual attraction. Brooks carries this through to the death of one of his characters.

On the whole,Brooks' story is acceptable if uninspired. As one would expect, his writing is mostly clear and, to be fair, some chapters stand out above the rest. I enjoyed, for instance, the chapter in which Harold discovers how to think on his own. While Harold and Erica are certainly not strong or memorable characters, the more serious problems with The Social Animal lie elsewhere. These problems partly involve Brooks' attempt to translate his tale into science.

2、A build-it-yourself solar still(蒸馏器) is one of the best ways to obtain drinking water in areas where the liquid is not readily available. Developed by two doctors in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, it's an excellent water collector. Unfortunately, you must carry the necessary equipment with you, since it's all but impossible to find natural substitutes. The only components required, though, are a 5＇×5＇ sheet of clear or slightly milky plastic, six feet of plastic tube, and a container— perhaps just a drinking cup — to catch the water. These pieces can be folded into a neat little pack and fastened on your belt.

To construct a working still, use a sharp stick or rock to dig a hole four feet across and three feet deep. Try to make the hole in a damp area to increase the water catcher's productivity. Place your cup in the deepest part of the hole. Then lay the tube in place so that one end rests all the way in the cup and the rest of the line runs up — and out — the side of the hole.

Next, cover the hole with the plastic sheet, securing the edges of the plastic with dirt and weighting the sheet's center down with a rock. The plastic should now form a cone(圆锥体) with 45-degree-angled sides. The low point of the sheet must be centered directly over, and no more than three inches above, the cup.

The solar still works by creating a greenhouse under the plastic. Ground water evaporates (蒸发) and collects on the sheet until small drops of water form, run down the material and fall off into the cup. When the container is full, you can suck the refreshment out through the tube, and won't have to break down the still every time you need a drink.

3、In our daily lives, we spend a lot more time typing on a keyboard than writing with pencil and pen, so does handwriting still offer anything useful?

Researchers tasked 42 adult volunteers with learning the Arabic letters from beginning: Some through writing it out on paper, some through typing it out on a keyboard, and some through watching and responding to video instructions. Those in the handwriting group not only learned the unfamiliar letters more quickly, but they were also better able to apply their new knowledge in other areas—by using the letters to make new words and to recognize words they hadn't seen before, for example.

The real question is: Are there other benefits to handwriting that have to do with reading and spelling and understanding?

While writing, typing, and visual learning were effective at teaching participants to recognize Arabic letters—learners made very few mistakes after six exercise sessions—on average, the writing group needed fewer sessions to get to a good standard.

Researchers then tested the groups to see how the learning could be generalized. In every follow-up test, using skills they hadn't been trained on, the writing group performed the best: naming letters, writing letters, spelling words, and reading words.

While 42 people isn't a huge sample size for a study of this type, the trends reported by the study indicate that pen and paper still have an important role to play in learning, even as digital formats (格式) have come to control our communications. And although adults were used in this particular experiment, the researchers say their findings should have relevance to children too. Several previous studies have also highlighted the advantages of copying as an aid to learning.

Today pupils in schools spend far less time than they used to on handwriting skills and practice, for obvious reasons—but based on what this study shows, it wouldn't be wise to put away the pens and pencils permanently. Because with writing, you're getting a stronger representation in your mind that lets you support other types of tasks that don't in any way involve handwriting.

4、My first shopping in a general store was in Miss Bee's when I spent the summer with my grandmother in New York.

"Go get them yourself" Miss Bee said, ignoring the shopping list held up before her nose. "I'm not your servant, so just get yourself a basket from that pile over there and start filing."

It took me three wall-to-wall searches before I found the first item on my list―a pork can be placed between boxes of cereal and bread. Next up was toilet paper, found under the daily newspaper, and Band-Ads, found next to the face cream. The store was a puzzle, but it held some surprises too. I found a new Superman comic behind the peanut butter.

I visited Miss Bee a couple of times a week that summer. Some times she short-charged me. Other times she overcharged or sold me an old newspaper instead of a current one. Going to the store was more like going into battle. I left my Grandma's house armed with my list—memorized to the letter—and marched into Miss Bee's like General Patton (巴顿将军) marching into North Africa.

All summer long she found ways to trip me up. No sooner had I learned how to pronounce bicarbonate of soda (小苏打) and memorized its location on the shelf than Miss Bee rearranged the shelves and made me hunt for it all over again. By summer's end, however, the shopping trip that had once taken me an hour was done in 15 minutes.

The morning I was to return to Brooklyn, I stopped into tell her that she was mean (刻薄的). To my amazement she laughed and said. "Well, I don't care! Each of us is put on this earth for a reason. I believe my job is to teach every child I meet ten life lessons to help them. Think what you will, but when you get older you'll be glad our paths crossed!"

I thought the idea was absurd until one day my daughter came to me with homework troubles.

"It's too hard," she said. "Could you finish my math problems for me?"

"If I do it for you, how will you ever learn to do it yourself?" I said.

Suddenly, I was back at that general store where I had learned the hard way totally up (结算) my bill along with the cashier. As my daughter went back to her homework, I wondered: Had Miss Bee really taught me something all those years ago? I took out some scrap paper and started writing.

5、The concept of an art museum is easy enough: that is about art. There are those rare museums focused largely or entirely on the work of just one person. Those senses can be all the richer when you know the museum is the artist's birthplace or onetime home. Here are four examples of such museums.

Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum

611 Massachusetts Ave., Arlington

781-641-0747

The name Cyrus E. Dallin (1861—1944) might not be familiar, but several of the sculptor's works are. His "Appeal to the Great Spirit", an example of the many sculptures Dallin made relating to Native Americans, stands in front of the Museum of Fine Arts. Born in Utah, he lived in Arlington (Texas) for the final four decades of his life.

Norman Rockwell Museum

9 Glendale Road, Stockbridge

413-298-4100, www.nrm.org

Rockwell (1894—1978) moved to Stockbridge in 1953. By then he was already America's best-known illustrator (插图画家). The museum, founded in 1969, moved into its present, Robert A.M. Stern-designed building in 1993. Its 998 paintings and drawings are the largest single collection of Rockwell's art.

Kids 6 and under FREE, adults $20, students with D: $10.

Edward Gorey House

8 Strawberry Lane, Yarmouth Port

508-362-3909

Edward Gorey (1925—2000) was an artist but, he was other things as well: author, playwright, set and costume designer. Gorey purchased this 18-century house in 1979 and lived there the rest of his life. The house currently serves as a museum celebrating Gorey's life and work. It's also known as the Elephant House. That's appropriate, in light of Gorey's passion for animal welfare.

Gilbert: Stuart Birthplace and Museum

815 Gibert Stuart Road, Saunderstown, R.I

401-294-3001

Gilbert Stuart (1755—1828) is responsible for what may well be the most familiar work of any American artist. His portrait (画像) of George Washington is the basis of the first president's image on the dollar bill. As one of the early Republic's most distinguished artists, Stuart painted more than a thousand portraits over the course of his career.

6、They asked the government to make ________ clear to the public ________ they did was right.

7、______ in the game, these children didn't feel hungry at all.

8、The movies were shown on the playground, with the audience ______ on chairs.

9、Finally he reached a lonely island ________ was completely cut off from the outside world.

10、We shouldn't just judge the vane of something just based on its ______ appearance.

11、She would settle in New York and ______ her dream of becoming an actress.

12、However, others feel this is a/ an ______ view which fails to realise how exploring space helps us.

13、Today, scientists design ______ to carry astronauts into space to make important discoveries.

14、______ refers to the fact of belonging to a particular race.

15、What started as a/an ______ area for Chinese immigrants then turned into a centre for Chinese culture.

16、Dr Lin Qiaozhi was more interested in ______ patients, publishing medical research on care for women and children, and training the new generation of doctors.

17、Dr Lin Qiaozhi said, "If they ______ me with that life, how could I refuse that trust, saying I'm cold, hungry, or tired?"

18、Naadam means "games" in Mongolian, and it is ______ by three events: horse racing, wrestling, and archery.

19、The harvest festival ______ a parade and a great feast with music, dancing, and sports.

20、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

In the year when her parents determined to go their separate ways, Alice initiated the allocation of a considerable span of her time to the Polka Café, a venue that surfaced as the exclusive location where she could truly immerse herself in rumination, and her mother seemed to manifest no dissent regarding her spending the bulk of the summer there.

Antecedent to the commencement of the summer season, two momentous occurrences had materialized. The primary occurrence, without doubt, was the egress of her father from their domestic abode, and the secondary one was the disintegration of her amicable bond with Sarah. Alice was incapable of precisely identifying how their relationship had degenerated to such a deplorable state. They had been involved in a vehement quarrel at school shortly subsequent to her parents' public announcement of their irrevocable decision to part.

On every occasion when her friends questioned the non - appearance of her father, who no longer served as her escort to school each morning, Alice would unfailingly proffer the untruth, "My father is preoccupied with business engagements elsewhere." She discontinued extending invitations to them for recreational gatherings at her residence and fabricated a plethora of pretexts to evade social interaction with any other individuals. "I am occupied with alternative arrangements," she would communicate to Sarah.

On a particular day, as they were proceeding homeward from school, Sarah accosted Alice in a somewhat irritated intonation, "Alice，what is the underlying issue? Why are you refraining from engaging in dialogue with me?" Alice simulated auditory impairment and persisted in her forward movement，entertaining no inclination to deliberate on the matter with Sarah at that juncture, or with anyone else for that matter.

"I am speaking with utter earnestness, Alice. My mother has divulged the pertinent details to me," Sarah further stated. "I am cognizant of the situation unfolding with your parents." This disclosure caused Alice to come to an abrupt standstill. In reality, their habitation was in a compact community where confidential matters were notoriously short – lived, yet Alice had cherished a feeble aspiration that the news would remain under wraps for a sufficient duration to enable her to ascertain the appropriate moment to broach the subject herself. She was overcome with feelings of mortification and emotional injury, yearning to reveal the information to Sarah in accordance with her own volition.

Consumed by a surge of fury, Alice launched a verbal assault. "How can you have the audacity to assert that you possess any knowledge!" she vehemently exclaimed. "You are an exceedingly despicable friend. I harbor no desire to engage in any form of verbal exchange with you ever again!"

注意：

（1）续写词数应为150左右；

（2）请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Now it was August, and Alice sat in the Polka Café, lost in thought.

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"I'm sorry too for having shouted at you," said Alice.

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