The stress of daily life has given rise to a new phenomenon ─ sleep texting. People with this condition send text messages while asleep to their friends and family ─ completely ___(50)___ that they are doing it.

Sleep specialist Dr David Cunnington, of Melbourne Sleep Disorder Centre in Australia, said patients had reported ___(51)___ of sleep texting ─ and he has advised people to leave their  ___(52)___ outside the bedroom.

He said: “We have had patients who have reported sending text messages to their friends and family while asleep. It is one of those things that happens, but it is very ___(53)___, and certainly not a common trend.”

___(54)___, there are no studies into sleep texting — but a ___(55)___ phenomenon, sleep emailing, was studied in 2008.

Researchers at the University of Toledo reported the case of a woman, 44, who would ___(56)___ emails while sound asleep. She had no recollection(记忆) of sending the emails when awake.  

Dr Cunnington said cases of sleep emailing were more common, and were likely to have a more ___(57)___ effect on the lives of sufferers.

He said: “Emails can be sent to work colleagues and have much more serious ___(58)___, whereas text messages are more likely to be ___(59)___ sent to a friend or family member, so people aren't as likely to complain of a problem.”

Dr Cunnington described sleep texting as the ___(60)___ of people having too much to do during waking life. He explained: 'People are doing so much during a normal day that it can mean that they feel like they're "on call" even at night.

“___(61)___ it's so easy to receive emails constantly, and get notifications(通知) from smartphones（智能电话）, it becomes more difficult for us to ___(62)___ our waking and sleeping lives.”

Dr Cunnington said people ___(63)___ to get a quality night's sleep must realize that the key point is that people need to ___(64)___ their sleep, and make an effort to switch off at night.

50.A. conscious               B. unaware                 C. secure                      D. grateful

51.A. missions                 B. intervals                   C. courses                    D. incidents

52.A. mobile phones        B. personal computers   C. unfinished work        D. sleeping pills

53.A. true                       B. common                   C. obvious                    D. rare

54.A. Fortunately             B. Adequately         C. Unsurprisingly         D. Unbelievably

55.A. similar                   B. strange                     C. present                     D. unique

56.A. recall                     B. overlook                   C. compose                  D. recover

57.A. generous                B. internal       C. harmful                   D. positive

58.A. consequences         B. preparations              C. significance             D. symptoms

59.A. accidentally            B. purposefully              C. unreasonably            D. unwillingly

60.A. temper                   B. result                       C. excuse                            D. loss

61.A. Because                 B. Although                   C. Just as                            D. So

62.A. combine                 B. satisfy                      C. describe                   D. separate

63.A. appointing              B. struggling                C. carrying                   D. affording

64.A. recognize               B. ignore         C. restore                           D. respect

The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became infuriated(愤怒的) when the child tried to decorate a box to put under the Christmas tree. Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift to her father the next morning and said, "This is for you, Daddy."

The man was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction, but his anger flared again when he found out the box was empty. He yelled at her, stating, "Don't you know, when you give someone a present, there is supposed to be something inside? " The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and cried, "Oh, Daddy, it's not empty at all. I blew kisses into the box. They're all for you, Daddy."

The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little girl, and he begged for her forgiveness.

Only a short time later, an accident took the life of the child. It is also told that her father kept that gold box by his bed for many years and, whenever he was discouraged, he would take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.

In a very real sense, each one of us, as humans beings, have been given a gold container filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children, family members, friends, and God. There is simply no other possession, anyone could hold, more precious than this.

56. The 3-year-old girl was punished by her father for ________.

　　A. wasting gold                       B. wasting wrapping paper

　　C. putting the box under the Christmas tree   D. bringing the gift to her father

57. What's inside the box according to the little girl?

　　A. nothing B. air 　　C. kisses D. gold wrapping paper

58. The father remembered the love of his daughter by ________.

　　A. kissing the gold box. B. putting gold into the box.

　　C. taking out an imaginary kiss from the box. D. keeping the little girl's ash box by his bed.

59. Choose the best title for the passage.

   A. The kisses in the box.     B. A girl and his father

   C. A love story             D. The box under the Christmas tree.

Studies show that laughter is something that makes you feel calm or relaxed for both physical and psychological wounds though it may seem futile to laugh in the face of pain and fear.

When Dan Rather interviewed comedian Bill Cosby just one week after his son, Ennis, was killed, Cosby said, “I think it is time for me to tell people that we have to laugh. You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.”

Call it a flashlight for dark times: laughter just seems to adjust attitude better than anything else. Inspirational speaker Steve Rizzo recalls a TV interview with an injured firefighter a few days after 9.11．The man had fallen more than 30 stories in one of the towers and had broken a leg. Everyone was crying, and the reporter asked, “How is it that you’ve come out of this alive?” He looked at her and without missing a beat, said, “Look, lady, I’m from New York and I’m a firefighter; that’ all you need to know.”

“Everyone laughed and though the laughter was only a couple of seconds,” says Rizzo. “Sometimes that’s all you need to catch your second breath. Laughter gives you that couple of seconds. You’re sending a message to your brain, and the message is: If you can still laugh even a little among the pain, you are going to be OK.”

Of course, there is a difference between laughing off a serious situation and laughing off the fear that results. The firefighter was doing the latter, states Rizzo, the author of Becoming a Humorous Being, and so should we. “If there is anything we have learnt from 9.11, it’s how precious life really is,” she says. “We have to send a message that our spirit won’t die. One important thing that unites us is our ability to laugh.”  

60．The writer uses the examples of the comedian and the firefighter to show              .

    A．laughter is a good way to get rid of pain and fear

    B．laughter is the best way to cure psychological wounds

    C．it is your attitude that decides whether you can survive the pain or not

    D．laughing off a serious situation is different from laughing off the fear that results

61．We can infer from the passage that Steve Rizzo is                        .

    A．a reporter B．a soldier      C．a firefighter     D．a doctor

62．The underlined word futile in the first paragraph means                .

    A．hopeless             B．useless      

    C．careless             D．worthless                  

63．From the passage, we can know that Americans are                 .

    A．really inspired after 9.11                     B．hardly united after 9.11

    C．nearly surprised by 9.11              D．greatly hurt by 9.11

Some futurologists have assumed that the vast upsurge(剧增)of women in the workforce may portend a rejection of marriage. Many women, according to this hypothesis, would rather work than marry. The converse(反面)of this concern is that the prospects of becoming a multi-paycheck household could encourage marriage. In the past, only the earnings and financial prospects of the man counted in the marriage decision. Now, however, the earning ability of a woman can make her more attractive as a marriage partner. Data show that economic downturns tend to putting off marriage because the parties cannot afford to establish a family or are concerned about rainy days ahead. As the economy comes to life, the number of marriages also rises.

The increase in divorce rates follows to the increase in women working outside the home. Yet, it may be wrong to jump to any simple cause-and-effect conclusions. The impact of a wife’s work on divorce is no less cloudy than its impact on marriage decisions. The realization that she can be a good provider may increase the chances that a working wife will choose divorce over an unsatisfactory marriage. But the reverse is equally plausible(似是而非的). Tensions grounded in financial problems often play a key role in ending a marriage. By raising a family’s standard of living, a working wife may strengthen her family’s financial and emotional stability.

Psychological factors also should be considered. For example, a wife blocked from a career outside the home may feel caged in the house. She may view her only choice as seeking a divorce. On the other hand, if she can find fulfillment through work outside the home, work and marriage can go together to create a stronger and more stable union.

Also, a major part of women’s inequality in marriage has been due to the fact that, in most cases, men have remained the main breadwinners. A working wife may rob a husband of being the master of the house. Depending upon how the couple reacts to these new conditions, it could create a stronger equal partnership or it could create new insecurities.

64．The word “portend” (Line 2, Para.1) is closest in meaning to“_____”.

A．defy                 B．signal                C．suffer from       D．result from

65．It is said in the passage that when the economy slides_____.

    A．men would choose working women as their marriage partners

B．more women would get married to seek financial security

    C．even working women would worry about their marriages

D．more people would prefer to remain single for the time being

66．One reason why women with no career may seek a divorce is that_____.

A．they feel that they have been robbed of their freedom

B．they are afraid of being bossed around by their husbands

C．they feel that their partners fail to live up to their expectations

D．they tend to suspect their husbands? loyalty to their marriage

67．Which of the following statements can best summarize the authors view in the passage?

A．The stability of marriage and the divorce rate may reflect the economic situation of the country．

B．Even when economically independent, most women have to struggle for real equality in marriage.

C．In order to secure their marriage women should work outside the home and remain

independent

D．The impact of the growing female workforce on marriage varies from case to case.

The income gap between China's rural and urban residents(居民) has continued to widen during the past few years in spite of rapidly rising rural incomes, Agricultural Minister Sun Zhengcai said here on Wednesday.

The income ratio(比率) between urban and rural residents was 3.28:1 in 2006, against 3.23:1 in 2003, said Sun in his report on the promotion of building a new countryside in 2007. Sun also said the net income of rural residents in different regions also varied widely. The income gap is only one of several problems in rural areas, according to Sun's report. While listing the achievements in rural areas in recent years, Sun believed that rural development still followed behind urban development.

"We have bigger pressure to ensure the supply of major agricultural products such as grain," he said. "China's urbanization(都市化) has been speeded up and more rural residents have gone to urban areas," he said.

"In this case, more agricultural producers become farm produce consumers, which created more pressure for supply," he said.

Another problem facing China's agricultural development is inadequate application of science and technology.

"Only 30 percent of scient ific and technological achievements have been applied to agricultural production, which is 40 percentage points lower than developed countries," he said.

Despite increased government spending in rural areas, the infrastructure(基础下部组织) is still poor and easily hit by disasters.

According to Sun, the government spent 431.8 billion yuan ($59.15 billion) on agriculture, rural areas and farmers this year, an increase of 80.1 billion yuan over the previous year.

China set aside 11.38 billion yuan to promote a new rural cooperative medical care system and 27.98 billion yuan to support the new compulsory education mechanism in rural area to ensure that all citizens shared the fruits of China's reform and opening-up, Sun said.

68．Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?

A．Because of the rapidly rising rural incomes, the income gap between China's rural and urban residents will disappear this year.

B．The net income of rural residents in different regions is the same.

C．The government has taken measures to develop the economy in the rural areas.

D．Beca use of the rapidly rising rural incomes, the supply of major agricultural products is enough.

69．Can you infer the meaning of the underlined words in paragraph 5?

A．be made full use of         B．be made little use of 

C．be not made full use of     D．be made good use of

70． How much is spent on agriculture, rural areas and farmers the previous year?

A．431.8 billion yuan      B．511.9 billion yuan

C．351.7 billion yuan      D．80.1 billion yuan

71． Which is NOT the problem in rural areas?

A．The income gap       

B．The inadequate application of science and technology

C．The supply of major agricultural products

D．China's urbanization