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第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
    阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
It’s nearly exam time, so check out some of the best free apps（应用程序）around to help you manage the stress of exams and ensure you are studying effectively over the coming weeks.
Exam Countdown
    This app can help to remind you how many days, hours, and minutes you have until your exam. This can help to motivate you to hit the books before it’s too late.
    Block The Internet
    Are you constantly checking Facebook when you should be writing an essay? Or perhaps are you distracted （使分心）by a battle in League of Legends? Download this app to get rid of online distractions by temporarily blocking Internet sites on your mobile. Simply add the websites you want to block and the period of time to block them for. Guarantee to get yourself focused on that assignment.
CBT-i Coach
    The US Department of Veterans （老兵）Affairs developed the app, CBT-i Coach, to assist with insomnia （失眠）and help people who would like to improve their sleeping habits. It provides several key parts: information about sleep and insomnia, strategies for improving sleep, relaxation skills and a helpful sleep diary.
    Yoga（瑜伽）
    Yoga has great health benefits both for the mind and body and will help you to perform at your best while at university. Download a yoga app and have your own personal yoga instructor in your living room. You can choose from short or long workouts and have a qualified instructor teaching you how to do each pose（姿势）. Choose from a variety of yoga routines and watch the instructional videos. Go on, stretch out those sore muscles.
21. Which app is the most useful for a student addicted to video games?
A. Yoga.         B. CBT-i Coach.      C. Exam Countdown.  D. Block The Internet.
22. What do we know about CBT-i Coach from this article?
    A. It helps to build up stronger muscles.
    B. It helps students to manage their study time.
    C. It monitors and improves people’s sleeping quality.
    D. It is used to treat soldiers with sleeping difficulties.
23. What does the author mainly intend to tell us in this passage?
    A. Some apps to help students better prepare for exams.
    B. The influence of our study habits on our exam results.
    C. Several tips on how to throw off anxiety before exams.
    D. Details of some apps to help to improve learning skills.
B
I can still remember it as if it happened yesterday. I was a college freshman and had stayed up most of the night before laughing and talking with friends. Now just before my first class of the day my eyelids were feeling heavier and heavier and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a pillow. A few minutes’ nap time before class couldn’t hurt, I thought.
Boom! I lifted my head immediately and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my heart beating quickly trying to find the cause of the noise. My young professor was looking back at me with a mischievous, boyish smile on his face. He had intentionally dropped the pile of textbooks he was carrying onto Ms desk. “Good morning !” he said, still smiling. “I’m glad to see everyone is awake. Now let’s get started.”
For the next hour I wasn’t sleepy at all. It wasn’t from the shock of my professor’s textbook alarm clock either. Instead, it was from the attractive discussion he led. With knowledge and good humor, he made the material come alive. His insights were full of both wisdom and loving kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy that he taught with were contagious（有感染力的）. I left the classroom not only wide awake, but a little smarter and a little better as well.
I learned something far more important than not sleeping in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life, do it well, do it with joy, and make it an expression of your love. What a glorious place this world would be if all of us did our work joyously and well ! What a beautiful world we could create if every doctor, teacher, musician, cook, waitress, poet, miner, farmer, and laborer made their work an expression of their love ! Don’t sleepwalk your way through life then. Wake up! Let your love fill your work and your soul. Life is too short not to live it well.
24. What did the author want to do just before his first class of the day?
A. Talk with his friends.                B. Take a short sleep.
    C. Get his eyes examined.              D. Stay away from the class.
25. The underlined word “mischievous” in Paragraph 2 probably means “________”.
    A. naughty        B. tricky           C. sensitive          D. dishonest
26. What else did the author learn that day?
    A. Students should not sleep in class but respect their teachers.
    B. Everyone should love his job and sleepwalk his way through life.
    C. Life is too limited to make your work an expression of your love.
    D. People from all walks of life should do their jobs with wisdom and love.
27. What can be inferred from this passage?
    A. The professor often kept his students sharp by using a textbook alarm.
    B. The author was attracted by the professor’s great wisdom and enthusiasm.
    C. The author left the two-hour period not only wide awake, but a little smarter.
    D. Though the author was frightened awake, he was not clear-headed in the class.
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