He chose to do administrative（行政 ) work in order to （)a position of power.

More and more students want to study in "hot" majors. Being a 【M1】______

result, many students want to give up their interests and study in

these spaces such as foreign languages, international business and 【M2】______

law, etc.

Fewer and fewer students choose scientific majors, such as

maths, physics and biology, and art majors, or history, Chinese and 【M3】______

philosophy.

Quiet a few students can study in these "hot" majors, because 【M4】______

the number of these "hot" majors is limited.

If one had no interest in his work or study, how can he do 【M5】______

well？ I learned this from one of my classmates. He is from the

countryside. His parents are farmers. 5hough he likes biology', he chose

"international business". He wants to live a life which is different

from which of his parents. 【M6】______

In the end, he found he was interested in doing business. He 【M7】______

Found all the subjects to be rare. Maybe this would' t have happened 【M8】______

if he had chosen his major according to his own interests. 【M9】______

Choosing a major in university do not decide one's whole life. 【M10】______

Majors which are not "hot" today may become the "hot" major of tomorrow.

【M1】

Keeping the mind 36 with tasks-no matter how meaningless-staves off(赶走) negative emotions, the study found. However, the bad news is that humans seem hard-wired (天生的) to be lazy in order to save energy, according to Professor Christopher Hsee, a behavioral scientist at Chicago University. In a study 98 students were asked to complete two surveys. After they had completed the first they were made to wait 15 minutes to receive the next one. They were given a choice of either handing in the first 37 nearby or at a more distant location they had to walk to. Whichever option they chose, they received a chocolate bar. Two- thirds (68 per cent) chose the lazy 38 . Those who had taken the walk reported feeling happier than those who bad stayed 39 Prof Hsee 40 keeping busy helped keep people happy. He said the findings, reported in the journal Psychological Science, had policy 41 "Governments may increase the happiness of idle citizens by having them build bridges that are 42 useless," he proposed. At the individual Ievel, he advised, "Get up and do something. Anything. Even if there really is no point to what you are doing, you will feel better for it. " He 43 , "Incidentally, thinking deeply or engaging in self-reflection 44 as keeping busy, too. You do not need to be running around--you just need to be 45 , either physically or mentally. " A． study B． added C． thought D． option E． engaged F． especially G． increased H． implications I． survey J． solutions K． occupied L． concluded M． counts N． put O． actually 第36空答案为（）。

听力原文：W: Do you like to run？

M: Yeah, when the police are chasing me.

W: Fast like Clement？

M: Who？

W: Kerron Clement. He just broke the world record in the 400 meters. Did you know that he's only 19 years old？ Did you see it on the news？

M: I heard a bit about it.

W: Okay. Well, let's look at the rest. This Florida sophomore ran the 400 meters in 44.57 seconds at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. He broke the mark of 44.63 seconds set by Michael Johnson in 1995.

M: Hey，I'm fast. I could beat him any day.

W: Yeah, only if there is a $20 bill blowing in the wind in front of you. Let's go back to the story now. Clement is from Trinidad and Tobago and moved to the United States when he was 13. He was a highly desirable athlete at La Porte High School in Texas. Big sports schools like Louisiana State University, Texas and Tennessee were after him. He chose Florida and wasted no time in making his mark. He won the NCAA championship in the 400 meter hurdles and then won the world junior championship in the same event. At the junior championships, Clement competed for the United States after earning his U.S. citizenship last summer. He probably could have gone to the Olympics for Trinidad and Tobago last year, but preferred to become an American. Why do you think he wanted to become an American？

M: Probably America is his new home and it has better 1iving conditions than back home.

W: Yeah, something like that. He said he loves competition and he wants to train with the best in the world, the Americans.

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A．To confirm that the man is capable of beating Clement.

B．To show how sincere he is.

C．To give an example of how to run fast.

D．To make a joke about the man's comment.

r who, old and ugly, fancied the merchant's beautiful daughter. He said he would cancel the merchant's debt if he could have the girl instead.

Both the merchant and his daughter were horrified. So the cunning money-lender proposed they let chance decide the matter. He told them he would put a black pebble and a white pebble into an empty money-bag and then the girl would have to pick out of the pebbles. If she chose the black pebble, she would become his wife and her father's debt would be cancelled. If she chose the white one, she would stay with her father and the debt would be cancelled. But if she refuses to pick out a pebble, her father would be thrown into jail.

Reluctantly the merchant agreed. They were standing on a pebble-strewn path as they talked and the money-lender stooped to pick up the two pebbles. The girl, sharp-eyed with fright, noticed that he picked up two black pebbles and put them into the money-bag.

What would you do if you were the unfortunate girl？ If you had to advise her what would you advise her to do？

What type of thinking would you use to solve the problem？ You may believe that careful logical analysis must solve the problem if there is a solution. This type of thinking is straight-forward vertical thinking. The other type of thinking is lateral thinking.

Vertical thinkers are not usually of much help to a girl in this situation. The way they analyze it, there are three possibilities:

1. The gift should refuse to take a pebble.

2. The girl should show that there are two black pebbles in the bag and expose the money-lender as a cheat.

3. The girl should take a black pebble and sacrifice herself to save her father from prison.

None of these suggestions is very helpful, for if the girl doesn't take a pebble her father goes to prison, and if she does take a pebble, she has to marry the money-lender.

The girl in the story put her hand into the bag and took out a pebble. Without looking she fumbled and let it fall to the path and immediately, it lost among the others. The girl apologized for her clumsiness and suggested that the money-lender look at the remaining pebble in the bag and then they could tell the color of the pebble she has chosen. And the money lender dare not admit his dishonesty. The girl had changed an impossible situation into an extremely advantageous one.

This story shows the difference between vertical thinking and lateral thinking. Vertical thinkers take very reasonable view of a situation and proceed logically and carefully worked it out. Lateral thinkers tend to explore all the different ways of looking at something, rather than accepting the most promising and proceeding from that.

The author begins this article with ______.

A．an amusing anecdote

B．a well-known fable

C．an illustrative story

D．an enlightening folk-tale

A．She doubts he makes much money now.

B．She's surprised that he chose that company.

C．She doesn't know when her classes started.

D．She wonders why he's kept his job.

A．Because he himself chose to be single all his life.

B．Because he had a prejudice against women.

C．Because he could not bear the roman between couples.

D．Because single men were better soldiers compared with married ones.

A．She doesn't know when his classes begin.

B．She's surprised that he chose that company.

C．She doubts he makes much money now.

D．She wonders why he's not returned to school.

Travis Patterson chose to work as an administrative assistant because the job______.

A．offered excellent promotion prospects

B．paid him a relatively good starting salary

C．had much to do with his major psychology

D．helped pay his tuition in graduate school

听力原文：M: Come in．Rose．Coffee？

W: Thank you．Jack．

M: How about the visit by the delegation from Poland？

W: Well．I still don't get it．Do we know when they are coming？

M: We offered them 3 choices．The end of March,the middle of April and the beginning of May．

W: Yeah．

M: And they chose the earliest one,which is good because we are rather busy in May．

W: True. But we do need definite dates of their coming and how many are coming. There were six of them last time. Did they say eight this time？ My assistant needs to make a firm booking for their accommodations now. Otherwise it will be very difficult to find a hotel.

M: You are right. They said six to eight originally, but we got an E-mail this morning, saying it is going to he seven. Now we've got the definite number, we can make all the other bookings for them.

W: Good. That gives us eight weeks until they come.

M: Right. Here are my suggestions for their schedule. They will be with the university for five days. On the first day, I think they should visit our campus. The second day we can show them around the downtown. This will give them a general picture of the changes in today's China. And the last three days are for discussion and seminars.

W: OK. Do we need to invite some other famous professors from other universities？

M: That's a good idea. But no more than five are needed.

W: Right. I will arrange that.

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A．At the end of March.

B．In the middle of April.

C．At the beginning of May.

D．At the end of May.

A．Many of them found it difficult to exercise on a plane.

B．Many of them were concerned with their well-being.

C．Not many of them chose to do what she did.

D．Not many of them understood the program.

What did the researchers do to participants in the experiments？

A．They put on a magic performance to the participants.

B．They diverted the participants' attention and disrupted their choosing.

C．They changed the things participants chose without their noticing.

D．They added confusion to the two options the participants faced.