Passage 1

Many studies suggest that our personalities remain fairly stable, even over the course of decades. Yet small but long-running study finds that traits related to dependability differgreatly between adolescence and late life The findings raise new questions and highlight the challenges in trying to track a person's defining characteristics over many years.

A.It is offensive during adolescence

B.It becomes split in middle age

C.It is lovable in late life

D.It remains stable

A.Their peers

B.Their teachers

C.Their families

D.Their neighbours

A.14

B.50

C.63

D.77

A.involved different participants

B.been conducted in the same place

C.focused on different personality traits

D.had the same people rate the participants

A.They need further study

B.They show great promise

C.They lack theoretical bases

D.They apply to six traits only

Passage 2

During World War II, many American women joined the armed forces and served side by side with the men.More than 200,000 women volunteered to serve in the armed forces.

A.Nursing the wounded

B.Dealing in weapons

C.Ferrying airplanes

D.Battling with guns

A.It sold planes to Britain

B.It trained pilots in Britain

C.It recruited 20,000 soldiers

D.It sent volunteers to Canada

A.More commanders

B.More weapons

C.More pilots

D.More nurses

A.They admired those combat pilots

B.They undertook dangerous missions

C.They shipped soldiers back to America

D.They had no time to sleep in their tasks

A.She was the first female pilot in the US

B.She was famous before World War Ⅱ

C.She was still in service after 1944

D.She was shot at during a task

Passage 3

Last week I returned to Amherst. It's been years since I was there, the time met Tom. I was hoping that Tom would show up again; I even looked for him, but he didn't appear. I remember he proudly represented New York City during the few minutes we spoke,so I suspect he'd moved back or maybe he was busy or he didn't know I was in town. I have a distinct memory of Tom in the signing line, saying nothing toanyone, intense. I assumed he was going to ask me to read a manuscript or help him find an agent, but instead he asked me about an incident in my book. Heasked, quietly, if it had happened to me.

A.She was signing books

B.She was busy moving house

C.She was looking for an agent

D.She was reading a manuscript

A.When it happened to the author

B.What drove the author to write it

C.Whether the author experienced it

D.How it affected the author's family

A.She gave a vague reply

B.She answered in detail

C.She remained silent

D.She smiled politely

A.Scared

B.Worried

C.Surprised

D.Disappointed

A.She has forgotten what happened to her

B.The occurrence in her book was real

C.Her life has been full of bitterness

D.Audre Lorde taught her to keep silence

Passage 4

Languages are considered endangered when their last fluent speakers reach old age and when children are no longer learning it as their primary tongue. UNESCO reveals that 18 of theworld's 2,464 officially “endangered” languages have just one living speaker. With the exception of just three, these are all based in the so-called“global south”. Economic, political, culturaland social power is held by those who speak the“majority languages” while those that don't are often marginalized and under pressure to shift towards learning a more“global” language.

A.Taken as less passionate

B.Treated as less important

C.Viewed as more civilized

D.Seen as more experienced

A.An endangered dialect of Mongolia

B.Her grandparents'experiences

C.Endangered wildlife

D.A Nigerian song

A.Leaving them alone

B.Having them recorded

C.Making them revitalized

D.Providing them with better environments

A.Teaching them

B.Documenting them

C.Making them primary languages

D.Analyzing the causes of endangerment

A.A branch office of UNESCO.

B.A language learning website.

C.A language research centre.

D.An ethnic tribe in Africa.

Passage 5

MGM's most promising young star in the early 1930s couldn't meet the heigh requirement for most of today's amusement park rides: Shirley Temple, coming into her own in starring roles at the tender age of 5, was almost immediately headhunted(物色) by bigger， more profitable studios. And Fox was definitely that. For the studio, that proved to be a power move against MGM, buying their young star out from under them.

A.in bad need of actresses of Shirley's age

B.in a lower rank than many other studios

C.preparing to buy 20th Century Pictures

D.doing a better business than MGM

A.While giving her a screen test

B.After seeing a series she acted in

C.After meeting her in a theatre lobby

D.While talking with some of her fans

A.On the Good Ship Lollipop

B.Stand Up and Cheer!

C.Frolics of Youth

D.Bright Eyes

A.In1935

B.In1934

C.In1933

D.In1930

A.It was a landmark decision

B.It was a good opportunity

C.It was an interim measure

D.It was a tremendous risk