name for their children.

“If a name can influence appearance, it can influence many other things. This research opens an important direction that may suggest how parents should consider better the names for their children,” said Zwebner, who recently had a baby herself.

“As parents, it was really difficult for us to name our 12-day-old daughter as we know the meanings of names.”

36. One of the purposes of the experiments is to

______.

A. give the students a chance to know each other

B. explain what influences our facial

appearances

C. find out different characteristics carried by different names

D. see if people can correctly guess a person’s name based only on a photo of a face 37. People could match the faces to the names more easily ______.

A. when they did a random guess B. when the faces are from other countries

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C. when the faces are from their own country

D. when they have more knowledge themselves

38. The underlined part “backed up” in Paragraph 6 most probably means “______”.

A. supported B. changed C. compared D. cancelled

39. Paragraph 6 and Paragraph 7 are mainly to show ______.

A. the results of changing names B. names have something to do with

appearances

C. the importance of cultural stereotypes carried by names

D. the importance of a hairstyle in guessing

different looks

40. According to Zwebner, we know that

______.

A. facial appearances may influence names B. we shouldn’t think of others just according to their names

C. a name may influence many things and

should be well chosen

D. we should pay less attention to the meanings of names and be ourselves 四、填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

A) 根据括号中所给的汉语写出单词，使句子意思完整正确，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为41—45的相应位置上。

41. Farmers in these small villages aren’t able

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非选择题 （共50分）

to pay their ▲ (账单) in time.

42. We all know Father’s Day falls on the

▲ (第三) Sunday of June every year. 43. It’s reported China’s second aircraft carrier will ▲

(进入) service by 2020.

44. “Double Eleven” has been considered a

special day for ▲ (单身的) men and

women in China.

45. Square dancing is becoming hot ▲

(在…中) Chinese citizens, but the loud music is terrible.

B) 根据句子意思，用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为46—50的相应位置上。

46. ▲ (read) as often as possible, and

you’ll find your life meaningful. 47. Mary believes she won’t live with her

parents when she can depend on ▲ (she).

48. Many ▲ (activity) are held in

different countries to celebrate “World City Day” every year.

49. The ▲ (week) talk show “Readers”

hosted by Dong Qing has become popular in China.

50. If the whole of our society keeps ▲

(try), we will have more and more blue skies with each passing year.

C) 根据短文内容，从下面方框中选择适当的单词或短语填空，使短文内容完整正确，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为51—55的相应位置

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上。

famous invention The history of the Lantern Festival is not certain, but people have been lighting lanterns for spiritual (精神的) purposes since before paper was invented. Lanterns 51 be made of cloth. But they probably were not bright or colorful then. With the 52 of paper, Chinese started to make colorful paper lanterns. The traditions and days of celebrating the Lantern Festival are different in different places of China. In Nanjing, the Confucius Temple and the Lantern Festival have been 53 in Chinese history. At this time of year, lots of people from different areas come to 54 . Now the lantern show has spread out to Ming Dynasty City Wall. Bright lights decorate the 600-year-old wall. There is also a light and firework show. There are 55 pretty paper lanterns

at the lantern market. The

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