温馨提示：手机用户请点击下方“原网页”或“电脑版”进行查看本文，效果最佳！
C
September is an exciting month in every college freshman’s life. For many, it’s the first time that they’ve left home to live in a new environment. But after the hustle and bustle（喧嚣）of a few weeks, excitement gives way to a less enjoyable emotion— homesickness.
Homesickness manifests（显露）itself in many ways. You may miss mum’s cooking, your pets, or even your old bed. All this becomes a fond memory of the past. Homesickness can be a bitter feeling for many students, especially when faced with the challenges of settling into an unfamiliar environment.
But remember, you’re not alone. According to a recent BBC article, 70 percent of British college students experience homesickness. In this increasingly globalized world in which people migrate to faraway places for a relationship, education or work, homesickness is a feeling shared by many adults.
Homesickness can have similar symptoms to depression and in extreme cases it can develop into a panic attack. As for the term, homesickness or nostalgia wasn’t invented until the 17th century. It was considered a disorder by a Swiss physician, who attributed soldiers’ mental and physical discomfort to their longing to return home, “nostos” from Greek, and the accompanying pain, “algos”.
Studies in recent years, however, have shown that nostalgia may have some benefits to our mental health. After a decade of surveys and researches, Constantine Sedikides, a US social psychologist, found that nostalgia is what makes us human. He explains that nostalgia can resist loneliness, boredom and anxiety. Therefore, it’s necessary for college students to learn some ways to overcome the uncomfortable feeling.
8. From the first two paragraphs, we can infer that _____________.
A. homesickness means a fond memory of the past
B. only a few students will experience homesickness
C. homesickness is an enjoyable emotion among freshmen
D. college freshmen usually suffer from homesickness after weeks
9. According to the passage, we can know that _____________.
A. homesickness may cause mental diseases       
B. homesickness is a feeling only shared by adults
C. homesickness won’t do any good to our health   
D. homesickness is also called nostalgia in Switzerland
10. The attitude of Sedikides towards homesickness is _____________.
A. negative      B. supportive      C. doubtful      D. critical
11. What is the best title for the passage?
A. Let’s accept homesickness                  B. How to fit in with the college life
C. A harmful emotion—homesickness           D. The disadvantages of homesickness
D
A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.
    A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.
    There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two - headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl -friend.
    No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.
12. The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is _______.
A . repeated without any change B. treated as a joke
C. made some changes by the parent  D. set in the present
13. According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is _______.
A. in a realistic setting  B. heard for the first time
C. repeated too often  D. told in a different way
14.The advantage claimed for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it _______.
A. makes them less fearful                       
B. develops their power of memory
C. makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of
D. encourages them not to have strange beliefs
15. One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _______.
A. they are full of absurd imagination  
B. they just make up the stories which are far from the truth
C. they are not interesting     
 D. they make teachers of history difficult to teach
第二节 （共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）
  根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。（选 E 涂AB，选 F 涂CD，选G涂AC）
 
Q & A
Question: I have recently got a senior position within my company．One of my new tasks is to made monthly progress reports on my department in front of other senior officials. During my first meeting, I presented and then opened the floor to questions．   16     My first reaction was to answer defensively．Later, I realized that I shouldn’t have felt that way．But how can I keep cool and effectively answer questions in this type of settings?
Answer: Congratulations on your new position! Presenting in front of your peers （同事）is a hard task in itself and it becomes much more difficult when a question-and-answer period is required! Question-and-answer periods are a great way to clarify the message and strengthen key points．   17   
●   18   
When a person is asking a question, show interest and a desire to understand the question by listening and asking for clarification．
● Buy time
When facing a hard question, most people can’t give an answer immediately．Buy time by repeating the question in your own words．   19    These techniques allow you to quickly organize your thoughts as well as to make sure you will be correctly answering the question．
● Suggest a private meeting.
A one-to-one meeting is a calmer setting than speaking in front of your peers．   20   
 
A．Show your true interest．
B．Restate the question with respect．
C．Some ideas can be quite concrete．
D．There were many difficult questions．
E．It can also be more effective in exchanging ideas．
F．You may also ask for clarification on the question．
G．Here are some ideas that can help prepare for your next meeting．
  高考英语模拟试题库  http://www.17xuexiba.com/yy/