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听力原文：People born in the autumn live longer than those born in the spring and are less

听力原文： People born in the autumn live longer than those born in the spring and are less likely to fall chronically ill when they are older, according to an Austrian scientist.

Using census data for more than one million people in Austria, Denmark and Australia, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in the northern German town of Rostock found the month of birth was related to life expectancy over the age of 50. Seasonal differences in what mothers ate during pregnancy, and infections occurring at different times of the year could both have an impact on the health of a new-born baby and could influence its life expectancy in older age.

"A mother giving birth in spring spends the last phase of her pregnancy in winter, when she will eat less vitamins than in summer, ' said Gabriele Doblhammer, one of a team of scientists who carried out the research. "When she stops breast-feeding and starts giving her baby normal food, it's in the hot weeks of summer when babies are prone to infections of the digestive system. '

In Austria, adults born in autumn (October-December) lived about seven months longer than those born in spring (April-June), and in Denmark adults with birthdays in autumn outlived those born in spring by about four months. In the southern hemisphere, the picture was similar. Adults born in the Australian autumn—the European spring—lived about four months longer than those born in the Australian spring. The study focused on people born at the beginning of the 20th century, using death certificates and census data. Although nutrition at all times of the year has improved since then, the seasonal pattern persists, Doblhammer said.

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A．Those who were born in spring.

B．Those who were born in summer.

C．Those who were born in autumn.

D．Those who were born in winter.

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发布时间：2020-11-22

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听力原文：Recently the term "health" has come to have a wider meaning than it used to. It n

听力原文： Recently the term "health" has come to have a wider meaning than it used to. It no longer means just the absence of illness. Today, health means the well-being of your body, your mind and your relationships with other people. This new concept of health is closely related to another term--quality of life. Quality of life is the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life.

Why has the emphasis of health shifted from the absence of disease to a broader focus on the quality of a person's life？ One reason for this has to do with the length and conditions of life that people can now expect. Medical advances have made it possible for people today to live longer, healthier lives. Imagine for a moment that you were born in the year 1900；you could have expected on average to live until about the age of 47. In contrast, if you were born in the year 1999, you could expect to live to the age of 75 or be older.

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A．Different interpretations of the term “health.”

B．Improving the quality of life

C．The importance of health to quality living.

D．People's expectations of a long and healthy life.

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第2题

听力原文：For those of you who were born in the year of the pig, good luck and much success

听力原文： For those of you who were born in the year of the pig, good luck and much success! This is your year.

When talking to a Westerner, however, you've got to be a little careful when you talk about pigs. Chinese people view the pig as a smart and lucky animal. Western ideas tend to be a little more negative.

A pig in the West is seen as a dirty, lazy, and fat animal. If anyone ever called you a pig, you wouldn't be smiling. When a person doesn't like someone, sometimes he will call that person a pig.

If you ever meet a Westerner who was born in the year of the pig, don't say "Oh, you're a pig!" Most Westerners will be understanding. They will be sure that you made some kind of a mistake. However, don't take any chances. You might just offend someone who does not share your positive ideas about pigs.

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A．Because they worship pigs best of all.

B．Because they consider pigs as bad animals.

C．Because they aren't used to talking about pigs.

D．Because they don' t like the topic about pigs at all.

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第3题

听力原文：Are you afraid, to raise your hand in class, even when you know the answer？ If yo

听力原文： Are you afraid, to raise your hand in class, even when you know the answer？ If you are, most people would say that you are shy. If you feel shy, you are not alone. Nine out of ten people are at least a little shy. But however shy you are, scientific evidence seems to show that it isn't your fault. You may have been born that way.

How do psychologists measure shyness？ One way is by observation. They keep detailed records of people's actions—like how often these people speak to others, or how long it takes someone to say "Hello" to a stranger. Another way to measure shyness is to ask people questions. The test only takes about 10 minutes. It asks question like "Do you like going out a lot？" and "Do you have many friends？" People must answer either "Yes" or "No". These questions can predict how people actually behave in social situations. Suppose the test tells you that someone is shy. Chances are good that person will act shy.

When scientists measure shyness, they are really comparing degrees of shyness. In other words, when researchers say people are shy, they really mean they are more shy than others.

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A．Because many people don't know how to behave in social situations.

B．Because most people are shy by nature.

C．Nobody will laugh at you for being shy.

D．Shyness is difficult to overcome.

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第4题

听力原文：Few people can stand for the spirit of early America as much as Benjamin Franklin

听力原文： Few people can stand for the spirit of early America as much as Benjamin Franklin. He lived through almost the whole of the 18th century：he was born 6 years after the century began and died 10years before it ended．During this time，

he saw tile American colonies grow from tiny settlements into a nation, and he also contributed much to the new state. He was deeply interested in science and natural history and his experiments with electricity and lighting led directly to the invention of the lightening rod. He was also interested in improving the conditions of his fellow men. He was involved in a number of projects in his native Philadelphia, including the founding up of a library, a university, a philosophical society and a fire prevention service. He worked hard to enable the American colonies to gain independence from Britain. As ambassador to France, he encouraged the French to help George Washington. After the war, he attended the American constitutional congress. This was his last contribution for he died late that year. He is still fondly remembered by Americans as one of the creators of the United States.

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A．He set up the first university in America.

B．He was one of the earliest settlers in America.

C．He can best represent the spirit of early America.

D．He was the most distinguished diplomat in American history.

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第5题

听力原文：Are you afraid to raise your hand in class, even when you know the answer？ If you

听力原文： Are you afraid to raise your hand in class, even when you know the answer？ If you are, most people would say that you're shy.

If you feel shy, you're not alone. Nine out of ten people are at least a little shy. But however shy you are, evidence seems to show that it isn't your fault. You may have been born that way.

How do psychologists measure shyness？ One way is by observation. They keep detailed records of people's actions—like how often these people speak to others, or how long it takes someone to say hello to a stranger.

Another way to measure shyness is to ask people questions. The test only takes about 10 minutes. It asks questions like "Do you like going out a lot？" and "Do you have many friends？" people must answer either yes or no. These questions can predict how people actually behave in social situations.

Suppose the test tells you that someone is sky. Chances are good that that person will act shy.

When Scientists measure shyness ,they're ally comparing degrees of shyness. In other words, when researchers say people are shy, they really mean they are more shy than others.

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A．Because many people don't know how to behave in social situations.

B．Because most people are shy by nature.

C．Nobody will laugh at you for being shy.

D．Shyness is difficult to overcome.

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第6题

听力原文：Wilma Rudolph was called "the Black Pearl "and "the fastest woman in tile world".

听力原文： Wilma Rudolph was called "the Black Pearl "and "the fastest woman in tile world". In 1960 ,Wilma Rudolph became the first American woman to win three gold medals in one Olympics. She was an extraordinary American athlete.

(29) Wilma Rudolph was born in 1940, in Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee. She was born too early and only weighed two kilograms. Her left leg was damaged because of illnesses. When she was six years old, she began to wear metal leg braces because she could not use that leg. Since she was sick most of the time, her brothers and sisters all helped to take care of her. Soon, her family's attention and care showed results. By the time she was nine years old, she no longer needed her leg braces.

Wilma Rudolph went to her first Olympic Games when she was sixteen years old and still in high school. She competed in the nineteen fifty-six games in Melbourne, Australia. She was the youngest member of the United States team. (30) She won a bronze medal, in the sprint relay event.

(31) In 1960, Wilma Rudolph went to the Olympics again, this time in Rome, Italy. She won two gold medals—first place—in the one hundred meter and the two hundred meter races. (32) She set a new Olympic record of twenty-three point two seconds for the two hundred meter dash.

Her team also won the gold medal in the four hundred meter sprint relay event, setting a world record of forty-four point five seconds. These three gold medals made her one of the most popular athletes at the Rome games. These victories made people call her the "world's fastest woman".

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A．She was born in 1960.

B．She was born in 1940.

C．She was born in 1916.

D．She was born in 1956.

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第7题

听力原文：No one knows exactly how many disabled people there are in the world, but estimat

听力原文： No one knows exactly how many disabled people there are in the world, but estimates suggest the figure is over 450 million. The number of disabled people in India alone is probably more than double the total population of Canada.

In the United Kingdom, about one in ten people have some disability. Disability is not just something that happens to other people: as we get older, many of us will become less mobile, hard of hearing or have failing eyesight.

Disablement can take many forms and occur at any time of life. Some people are born with disabilities. Many others become disabled as they get older. There are many progressive disabling diseases. The longer time goes on, the worse they become. Some people are disabled in accidents. Many others may have a period of disability in the form. of a mental illness. All are affected by people's attitude towards them.

Disabled people face many physical barriers. Next time you go shopping imagine how you would manage if you could not get on to buses or trains. How would you cope if you could not hear the traffic？ But there are still other barriers: prejudice can be even harder to break down and ignorance inevitably represents by far the greatest barrier of all. It is almost impossible for the able-bodied to fully understand what the severely disabled go through, so it is important to draw attention to these barriers and show that it is the individual personality and their ability, not their disability, which counts.

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A．There are many disabled people in the world.

B．The number of disabled people in India is the greatest.

C．India has twice as many disabled people as in Canada.

D．It is impossible to get an exact figure of the world's disabled people.

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第8题

听力原文：Good morning, students. I hope you have been able to read the two books about spe

听力原文： Good morning, students. I hope you have been able to read the two books about speech and hearing problems that I put on the list. Today's lecture deals with the presence of the unusually large deaf population that existed on the Massachusetts island Martha's Vine-yard for about three centuries. From the settlement of the island in the 1640s to the 20th century, the people there, who were descended from only 25 or 30 original families, married mainly other residents of the island. They formed a highly inbred group, producing an excellent example of the genetic patterns for the inheritance of deafness. Indeed in the late 1800 one out of every 25 people in one village on the island was born deaf and the island as a whole had a deafness rate at least 17 times greater than that of the rest of the United States. Even Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the tele- phone and a prominent researcher into hearing loss, visited Martha's Vineyard to study the population. But because of the principles of genetics a deaf parent did not always have deaf children. In the 20th century, the local population has mixed the people off the island and the rate of deafness has fallen.

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A．A large number of its residents were deaf.

B．It was settled more than 300 years ago.

C．Each family living there had many children.

D．Alexander Graham Bell visited there.

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第9题

听力原文：We must admit that their job is not the most romantic one in the world. We often

听力原文： We must admit that their job is not the most romantic one in the world. We often take dustmen for granted. Perhaps because they usually come very early in the morning, before most people are up, we are inclined to forget that they exist. Our dustbins are emptied regularly, but we rarely stop to think about the men who do this. However, it is one of the most important jobs in the world, and when there are no dustmen to take away the rubbish the general public soon becomes aware that something is wrong.

Recently, the dustmen of England went on strike for higher wages. During the first few days it was regarded as a joke. For some reason, jokes have always been made about dustmen, and some people thought this strike was very amusing. But when the first two weeks had passed, and the dustbins were overflowing in nearly every backyard in the country, the joke did not seem so funny any more. As the strike continued, people could not bear the accumulation of rubbish around their dustbins, and they looked for other places in which to get rid of it. Even when the strike was over, and the wages dispute had been settled, it took several weeks for the country to get cleaned up completely, as so much rubbish bad accumulated. Perhaps now the English people appreciate the work of their dustmen rather more highly, and won't take them for granted any more.

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A．Because they are often early risers.

B．Because they often do their work unnoticed.

C．Because they were born to do their work.

D．Because people never stop to talk to them.

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第10题

听力原文：Were you the first or the last child in you family？ Or were you a middle or an on

听力原文： Were you the first or the last child in you family？ Or were you a middle or an only child？ Some people think it matters where you were born in your family. But there are different ideas about what birth order means. Some people say that oldest children are smart and strongwilled. They are very likely to be successful. The reason for this is simple: parents have a lot of time for their first child. They give him or her a lot of attention. So this child is likely to do well. An only child will succeed for the same reason. What happens to the other children in the family？ Middle children don't get so much attention, so they don't feel that important. If a family has many children, the middle one sometimes gets lost in the crowd. The youngest child, though, often gets special treatment. He or she is the baby. Often this child grows up to be funny and charming. Do you believe this idea of birth order too？ A recent study saw things quite differently. The study found that first children believed in family rules. They didn't take many chances in their lives. They usually followed orders. Rules didn't mean as much to later children in the family. They went out and followed their own ideas. They took chances and they often did better in life.

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A．They strongly believe in family rules.

B．They are very likely to succeed in life.

C．They tend to take responsibility for themselves.

D．They are in the habit of obeying their parents.

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