A man enters a store to buy milk. He walks out of the store with milk. That is all-milk. At the same time, a woman enters the same grocery store also to buy milk. She buys it. But she also buys chicken and lemons to make dinner that night. Then she remembers to buy food for her son to eat at school. She also gets a bottle of wine for drinks with friends and a birthday card for her husband’s niece. Then she gets coffee for breakfast, ice cream for dessert and remembers stamps to mail the bills. And don’t forget soap for the bathroom.

And that is the difference between the female and male brains simply explained in a grocery store.

Generally speaking, men do one thing at a time. Women do many. Now scientific research supports this theory about male and female brains. A recent study has confirmed what we have known all along—men and women think differently.

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania studied brain images of 949 people aged from eight to 22 years old. They found that male brains have more connections on one side of the brain, or hemisphere. In the female brains, they found more activity and connections between the right and left sides of the brain. The left side of the brain is known as the side of “reason.” The right hemisphere is known as the “creative” side.

Regina Verma is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She co-wrote the report. She says when women are asked to do something difficult they might use different parts of the brain. Men, she adds, generally use just one side of the brain. As a result, men generally deal directly with a problem. There is a strong connection between the “understanding” and the “action” parts of their brains. Women, however, might include other parts of the brain when solving a problem. Women take a less direct path to find a solution.

21．The author mentioned the shopping in Paragraph 1 to___________.

A. show women’s carefulness

B. prove men’s quick action

C. object to an opinion

D. bring up the topic to be discussed

22．The main idea of Paragraph 4 is that ___________.

A. women have two same brains on both sides

B. men have more complicated brains than women

C. different kinds of brain images have been studied

D. men’s structure of brain is different from women’s

23．What causes the difference between men’s and women’s behavior?

A. Watching things from different sides.

B. Having different attitudes towards life.

C. Using different parts of the brain to think.

D. Reacting at different speed to problems.

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        CANYOUIMAGINEHOWHARDITWOULDBETOREADSENTENCESLIKETHIS? Every one of us gets so used to punctuation marks that not many of us give them a second thought. Actually, the ancient Greeks wrote this way. The lack of punctuation marks probably didn’t bother good readers, though. As they read, they just put pauses where they fit best. Also at this time, sentences switched directions. A sentence read from left to right. The next one read right to left, and then left to right again, etc. The ancient Romans sometimes punctuated like this: They • put • something • that • can • separate • words • in • a • sentence. The word punctuation actually comes from this idea and the Latin word punctum, which means a dot.

When the 5^th century arrived, there were just two punctuation marks: spaces and points. The spaces separated words while the points showed pauses in reading. Then in the 13^th century, a printer named Aldus Manutius tried to standardize punctuation. He always used a period for a complete stop at the end of a sentence. He used a slash (/) to indicate a short pause. Over time, that slash was shortened and curled, and it became the modern comma (逗号).

Since that time, other marks have enlarged the punctuation family. The exclamation mark (感叹号) comes from the Latin word io. It means “exclamation of joy.” The question mark originally started out as the Latin word questio, meaning question. Eventually, scholars put it at the end of a sentence to show a question.

Punctuation even keeps changing nowadays. New marks are coming into existence, and old punctuation marks are used in new ways. Take for example the “interrobang”. This 1962 invention combines the question mark and exclamation mark for times when writers want both. For example, “She did what?” or “How much did you pay for that dress?” Obviously, the interrobang is not widely used or recognized yet, but its invention shows that English is not yet finished with its punctuation.

27．From the first paragraph, we can know that _______.

A. good readers had trouble reading without punctuation marks

B. a sentence always read from left to right in ancient Greece

C. ancient Greeks switched the direction of punctuation marks

D. the use of punctuation marks can date back to ancient times

28．The passage is developed _______.

A. by time            B. by space

C. by comparison      D. by importance

29．We can learn from the passage that _______.

A. ancient Romans didn’t use any punctuation marks

B. exclamation and question marks came from Latin

C. spaces and slashes were already used before the 5^th century

D. Aldus Manutius first started to use commas

30．What can be concluded from the last paragraph?

A. The combination of two marks will not work.

B. It takes time for people to accept new punctuation marks.

C. Old punctuation marks need to be standardized.

D. Punctuation marks are still changing today.

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Sat.-Sun.: 5:00am to 2:00am

Tickets

There are three types of ticket for travelling to and from the Airport: Single Journey, Round Trip and Same Day Return. Single Journey Ticket and Same Day Return Ticket are valid(有效的) on day of issue(发放). Round Trip Ticket is valid for 30 days from day of issue. You can also use the Octopus Card for the Airport Express. (The Octopus Card is an electronic store-value ticket and it can be used on most public transport. The fare will be deducted(扣除) from the stored value each time, so you do not have to carry heavy coins. The card is valid for three years after value has been added.)

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31．What is good about a Octopus Card?

A. It saves money for its users.

B. It is sold in every store.

C. Its validity is unlimited.

D. It avoids its users carrying coins.

32．What can you know about Airport Express?

A. Hong Kong Station is just 1 minute distance from the airport.

B. Single Journey Ticket is acceptable for 30 days.

C. Children are free of charge for tickets.

D. Passengers can surf the Internet on the Airport Express.

33．What is the main purpose of the passage?

A. To provide suggestions about the Airport Express.

B. To advertise the Octopus Card.

C. To inform readers of the Airport Express service.

D. To introduce the Airport Express schedule.

A Deed a Day

It was a busy day as usual. I was making sandwiches and balancing the phone between my shoulder and chin. The washing machine sounded as my husband walked in with our daughters. We had only about twenty minutes to eat  _________ we had to take the girls to their next activity. My husband seemed a bit   _________as dinner was not on the table.

That night, I had a heavy  _________ , thinking we were becoming taskmasters on an assembly line (流水线). We had become too  _________   in our own tasks and not very considerate towards those around us. We needed to do something to bring back some meaning into our lives. It needed to be something that would _________   our own agendas and energize us toward the common good.

I bought a notebook, named it “Our Deed Diary” and held a family meeting. I told my family I wanted us all to think about doing a    _________    for others every day. It could be for each other or for people outside our _________ . And we all needed to write it down in the notebook.

I thought one deed a day was too easy. However, it was actually _________   than it seemed because it had to be something   _________   what we had already done. Sending birthday cards to people we already sent cards to every year would not   _________   .

We had a rough    _________   . On some days, someone would forget to  _________   a good deed, while on other days, we would forget to write our good deeds in the diary. After a few weeks though, I found myself waking up in the morning trying to   _________   what good deed I could do for someone that day. My daughters began to rush to me after school to _________  me the good deed they had done.

Now, after a year, I am happy to say that it is making a(n) _________    in our lives. Instead of always    _________ what the day will bring for us, we think about what we can do for someone else.

Who would have thought that trying to do a simple kindness a day would be so _________I feel my daughters have felt inner joy that you can only  _________  by giving to someone else from your heart. The best thing is that you feel so great about doing something for someone else; you don't even look for or expect anything in  _________  . So, when someone does return the favor, it is an enormous and positive  _________.

34．A. though          B. unless         C. while           D. before

35．A. annoyed         B. puzzled        C. embarrassed     D. frightened

36．A. shoulder        B. stomach        C. heart           D. foot

37．A. interested      B. absorbed       C. confident       D. successful

38．A. repeat          B. relate         C. recall          D. refocus

39．A. kindness        B. task           C. job             D. copy

40．A. room            B. school         C. home            D. town

41．A. stranger        B. sweeter        C. harder          D. bigger

42．A. between         B. from           C. about           D. beyond

43．A. matter         B. count          C. last            D. happen

44．A. time           B. start          C. life            D. idea

45．A. praise         B. check          C. record          D. do

46．A. describe       B. decide         C. remember        D. explain

47．A. bring          B. teach          C. tell            D. offer

48．A. difference     B. choice         C. effort          D. fortune

49．A. forgetting     B. believing      C. knowing         D. wondering

50．A. tiring         B. moving         C. rewarding       D. surprising

51．A. experience     B. imagine        C. predict         D. exchange

52．A. silence        B. time           C. return          D. order

53．A. effect         B. attitude       C. bonus           D. contribution