Growing up in Philadelphia, Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was seven. His food-loving family had two kitchens, and he quickly learned what was the best way to bake his cakes. Lieberman improved his kitchen skills greatly during a year abroad before college, learning from a cook in Italy and studying local specialties（地方特色菜）in Germany, Spain and France. At Yale, he was known for throwing dinner parties, single-handedly frying and baking while mixing drinks for dozens of friends. Just for fun, he and some friends decided to tape a show named Campus Cuisine about his cooking. Lieberman was a real college student showing his classmates how to do things like make drinks out of dining-hall fruit. That helped the show become very popular among the students. They would stop Lieberman after classes to ask for his advice on cooking. Tapes of the show were passed around, with which his name went beyond the school and finally to the Food Network.
    Food Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television. He says Lieberman’s charisma is key.“Food TV isn’t about food anymore,” says Flay. “It’s about your personality（个性）and finding a way to keep people’s eyeballs on your show.”
    But Lieberman isn’t putting all his eggs in one basket. After taping the first season of the new show, Lieberman was back in his own small kitchen preparing sandwiches. An airline company（航空公司）was looking for someone to come up with a tasteful, inexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flights, Lieberman got the job.
21. We can learn from the text that Lieberman’s family ____.
   A. have relatives in Europe              B. love cooking at home
   C. often hold parties                    D. own a restaurant
22. The Food Network got to know Lieberman ____.
   A. at one of his parties            B. from his teachers 
   C. through his taped show                D. on a television program

23. What does the word “charisma” underlined in the text refer to?
A. A natural ability to attract others. 

B. A way to show one’s achievement.
C. Lieberman’s after-class interest. 

D. Lieberman’s fine cooking skill.

24. Why did the airline company give Lieberman the job?
A. He could prepare meals in a small kitchen. 
B. He was famous for his shows on Food TV.
C. He was good at using eggs to make sandwiches.
D. He could cook cheap, delicious and simple meals.

Women are friendly. But men are more competitive. Why? Researchers have found it's all down to the hormone oxytocin (荷尔蒙催生素). Although known as the love hormone, it affects the sexes differently.

"Women tend to be social in their behavior. They often share with others. But men tend to be competitive. They are trying to improve their social status," said Professor Ryan.

Generally, people believe that the hormone oxytocin is let out in our body in various social situations and our body creates a large amount of it during positive social interactions (互动) such as falling in love or giving birth.

But in a previous experiment Professor Ryan found that the hormone is also let out in our body during negative social interactions such as envy.

Further researches showed that in men the hormone oxytocin improves the ability to recognize competitive relationships, but in women it raises the ability to recognize friendship.

Professor Ryan's recent experiment used 62 men and women aged 20 to 37. Half of the participants（参与者）received oxytocin. The other half received placebo (安慰剂).

After a week, the two groups switched with participants. They went through the same procedure with the other material.

Following each treatment, they were shown some video pictures with different social interactions. Then they were asked to analyze the relationships by answering some questions. The questions were about telling friendship from competition. And their answers should be based on gestures, body language and facial expressions.

The results indicated that, after treatment with oxytocin, men's ability to correctly recognize competitive relationships improved, but in women it was the ability to correctly recognize friendship that got better.

Professor Ryan thus concluded: "Our experiment proves that the hormone oxytocin can raise people's abilities to better distinguish different social interactions. And the behavior differences between men and women are caused by biological factors (因素) that are mainly hormonal."

25. What causes men and women to behave differently according to the text?

A. Placebo.    B. Oxytocin.    C. The gesture.    D. The social status.

26. What can we learn from Professor Ryan's previous experiment?

A. Oxytocin affects our behavior in a different way.

B. Our body lets out oxytocin when we are deep in love.

C. Our body produces oxytocin when we feel unhappy about others' success.

D. Oxytocin improves our abilities to understand people's behavior differences.

27. Why did Professor Ryan conduct the recent experiment?

A. To test the effect of oxytocin on the ability to recognize social interactions.

B. To know the differences between friendship and competition.

C. To know people's different abilities to answer questions.

D. To test people's understanding of body language.

28. The author develops the text by______.

A. explaining people's behaviors

B. describing his own experiences

C. distinguishing sexual differences

D. discussing research experiments

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29. How long does the camp last every year?

  A. One week      B. One month      C. Six weeks     D. Five months

30. What can a child learn from the camp?

A. How to deal with people.            B. How to choose a strong team.

C. How to avoid physical problems.       D. How to stay interested in something.

31. What is the purpose of the text?

A. To describe the history of the camp.       

B. To compare the camp with other activities.

C. To tell parents about the benefits of outdoor activities.

D. To encourage parents to send their children to the camp.

  It’s nothing new that you can find many files or services you can download or use from the Internet. The question is : Is downloading legal or not? In most cases the answer is negative, because sharing and downloading are illegal. Of course, you can find files for legal downloading, but you have to pay for them.

  It seems innocent if you click on the download mark, but it isn’t. It should be compared with stealing in a store. Would you steal a magazine, an MP3 player or a car? Downloading from the Internet is a theft, and sharing files, once you have stolen them, only makes it worse. For example, if everybody only downloaded, movies wouldn’t make money and the studios wouldn’t invest millions of dollars to make new ones.

  Many people may think it better, easier and cheaper to do downloading. I think, that is the main reason why Internet users prefer sharing something to buying them. In the modern world we love convenience and what could be more convenient than getting music, films and games without having to leave your house? You don’t need to pay for what you get, there is no registration, and you don’t have to wait until shops open or the CD/DVD you want is posted to you. However, you could be in big trouble if you are caught. You could go to prison as a result of acting unlawfully, but so far only a tiny amount of people have been charged for downloading illegally. The majority of people who download illegally, and use the files for their personal use, will not get in trouble. And that’s why it’s important for people to understand what the long-term consequences are if they don’t want to pay for their music, films and TV. Will film and music companies still spend millions of pounds every year if they have no chance of making a profit? The answer is plainly “no”.

  Finally I would like to say that the Internet offers a lot of services for money, but people will always try to get them for free. To summarize my thoughts I’d like to highlight that illegal downloading is both unfair towards producers and dangerous for those who practise this kind of activity. You have to decide whether to buy or download.

32. Many people download files free from the Internet because_________.

A. They follow others’ examples to do such things.

B. They don’t think they may be charged by the producer.

C. They think everything on the Net can be shared by others.

D. They think it is legal, convenient and easy.

33. What can be inferred from Paragraph 2?

A. Downloading helps movies become more popular.

B. Downloading free files is as illegal as stealing.

C. Sharing files on the Internet is dangerous.

D. Sharing files on the Internet can make a profit.

34. What does the underlined word “highlight” in paragraph 4 mean?

A. Stress             B. Explain           C. Admit          D. Deny

35. What is the author’s purpose of writing this text?

A. He advises readers to download legal files.

B. He asks readers to limit the amount of free downloading.

C. He wants to make it clear that downloading for free is against the law.

D. He tells readers how to avoid being charged for downloading.

  Our peers usually have a great influence on our lives. However, when it comes to learning valuable lessons about life, we learn much more from older people than our peers.

  Unlike our peers, older people have a better understanding of life.  36  . So we can learn more from their seasoned knowledge. Many of my friends spend little time on their lessons and they just use their time to have fun. However, my uncle has taught me that if I focus on studying instead of playing all the time, my life will be more fulfilling(有成就的）later on.  37  .

  Also, older people can point us in the right direction and away from the mistakes they have already made. If we simply follow our peers, we will often run into similar problems.   38  . My brother tried out for the football team last year and did not make it. Many of his peers told him to give up on the sport forever. But my father helped him realize that giving up was not the answer. Then my brother practiced harder.  39  . In the end, older people can help us make the right decisions when we are in difficulties.

    40  . Older people have more life experience, and they can give us excellent advice.

A. People who are your age are called peers.

B. That’s because they have already been through it.

C. In short, we learn more from older people than our peers.

D. It’s human nature to learn from other people in your age group.

E. However, we can avoid them if we listen and learn from our elders.

F. This year, not only did he make the team, but he was also the captain.

G. Without his advice, I would not realize the importance of a good education.