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Psychologist George Spilich and workmates at Washington College in Chestertown， Maryland， decided to find out whether， as many smokers say， smoking helps them to “think and concentrate”. Spilich put young non-smokers， active smokers and smokers deprived （被剝奪） of cigarettes through many tests.

In the first test， each subject sat before a computer screen and pressed a key as soon as he or she recognized a target letter among a group of 96 letters. In this simple test， active smokers， deprived smokers and non-smokers performed equally well.

The next test was more complex， requiring all to look quickly at orders of 20 same letters and respond to the immediate one of the letters transformed into a different one. Non-smokers were faster， but under the encouragement of nicotine， active smokers were faster than deprived smokers.

In the third test of short-term memory， non-smokers made the fewest errors， but deprived smokers committed fewer errors than active smokers.

The fourth test required people to read a passage， and then answer questions about it. Non-smokers remembered 19 percent more of the most important information than active smokers， and deprived smokers bested those who had smoked a cigarette just before testing. Active smokers were not only likely to have poorer memories but also had trouble picking important information from unimportant details （細(xì)節(jié)）.

“As our tests became more complex，” Spilich concludes， “non-smokers performed greatly better than smokers.” He predicts， “Smokers might perform well enough at many jobs—until they got complex. A smoking airline pilot could fly well enough if no problems appeared， but if something went wrong， smoking might damage his mental capacity （容量）.”

1. Whats the purpose of George Spilichs experiment？

A. To show how smoking damages peoples mental capacity.

B. To prove that smoking affects peoples regular performance.

C. To find out whether smoking helps peoples short-term memory.

D. To test whether smoking has a positive effect on the mental capacity of smokers.

2. George Spilichs experiment was conducted in such a way as to ___ .

A. check the effectiveness of nicotine on smokers

B. register the immediate responses of the subjects

C. put the subjects through increasingly complex tests

D. force the subjects to pick major information from details

3. The underlined word “bested” in Paragraph 5 most probably means “___”.

A. lost B. beat

C. hated D. caught

4. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that ___ .

A. no airline pilots smoke during flights

B. smoking in urgent cases causes mental illness

C. smokers should not expect to become airline pilots

D. smokers may prove unable to deal with urgent cases

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1. The police said that the bomb might ____ at any time.

2. The ____ was caused by an escape of gas.

3. A（n） ____ line is the shortest distance between two points.

4. The gas was ____ from a small hole in the glass bottle.

5. The clouds ____ away and the stars shone very brightly in the sky.

6. After his vacation he was in fine condition both ____ and mentally.

7. The ____ of the explosion were buried last week.

8. This area has become a（n） ____ ground for Giant Pandas.

句子翻譯

1. 你喝醉后，要想走直線是不可能的。

2. 小孩子們總是在想著怎樣逃離父母的掌控。

3. 蒂娜是以準(zhǔn)時(shí)出名的，所以我們不知道她這次遲到的原因。

4. 幾個(gè)部門經(jīng)理發(fā)言支持我的新建議。

單項(xiàng)選擇

1. They have attached a ___ of conditions ___ the agreement.

A. number； in B. amount； to

C. number； to D. amount； in

2. As we all know， not less than sixty percent of the earths surface ___ covered by water.

A. is B. are

C. was D. were

3. — Do you know the boy besides Tom？

— Im not sure but he seems to ___ me at last months meeting.

A. being introduced to B. be introduced with

C. have been introduced to D. be introduced to

4. ___ blood if you can and many lives will be saved.

A. Giving B. Given

C. Give D. To give

5. — I finally managed to finish the hard project.

— ___ .

A. Well done B. Bad luck

C. Take it easy D. Good luck

6. He is my husband， and I will love and ___ him no matter what happens and what he does.

A. forbid B. abandon

C. support D. refuse

7. — How does your company deal with the problems between

managers and their employees？

— The key ___ the problem is to make the two sides ___

effectively with each other.

A to solve； communicate

B. to solving； communicate

C. to solve； to communicate

D. to solving； to communicate

8. You must feel very angry while having something important to do at once when the telephone keeps ___ nonstop ___ you answer.

A. ringing； until B. ring； until

C. ringing； when D. ring； before

9. As young workers in the society， we should listen more to the advice of the people around and then make us walk ___ a right direction.

A. on B. in

C. beyond D. off

10. Fortunately， no one was hurt when the unexpected bomb ___ .

A. escaped B. cleared

C. happened D. exploded