a short dress in 20 years. If I had to wear a dress I would always wear super 37 ones and I would be so uneasy for the 38 time. It’s so hot in the summer. I’d 39 going to things like baseball games or any events outside. And if I had to, I’d still wear pants and 40 to death. Finally making that decision to have my leg cut off was the 41 thing I ever did. It’s totally changed my 42 . For the first time in my life, I am wearing shorts and short dresses. I’m so proud of it, and 43 for the new life it’s given me,” she said.
Her high-tech knee can be 44 by her smart phone and can be changed into different modes for activities like running and even tennis. “My husband said he has 45 such a big change in me, and he said it’s made me a much 46 person. I’m able to be so much more 47 with my daughter now,” said Wimberly. “Looking back at those photos of my ‘ugly’ leg, I have absolutely no 48 . In fact, I wish I had done it years ago, especially when I think about all that time I wasted 49 about that leg. I want to 50 those years I missed out on now that I can.” 31. A. amazed 32. A. adding 33. A. process 34. A. slowly 35. A. disturbed 36. A. cuts off 37. A. narrow 38. A. entire 39. A. avoid 40. A. starve 41. A. best
B. confused B. connecting B. aim
C. embarrassed C. leading C. pressure
D. panicked D. supplying D. damage D. carefully D. ruined D. sets off D. long D. first D. tolerate D. shake D. hardest D. mind D. anxious D. operated D. accepted D. stronger D. independent D. comprehension D. worrying
B. directly B. changed B. takes off B. fancy B. next B. prefer B. sweat B. worst
C. normally C. broken
C. shows off C. loose C. last
C. recommend C. scare C. easiest C. taste C. grateful C. analyzed C. ignored C. faster C. patient
42. A. belief 43. A. sorry
B. confidence B. dying B. replaced B. made B. smarter
44. A. charged 45. A. witnessed 46. A. purer 47. A. active 48. A. gains 49. A. dreaming
B. energetic B. regrets B. talking
C. comment C. consulting
50. A. make use of
B. make fun of
C. make up for
D. make way for
第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Growing Requirements for Freesia Plants Freesias are tender, brightly-flowered, easy-to-care-for bulbs（球茎）that can be grown in the garden, in planters, or as a house plant in a sunny, cool room. The plants flower over a long period. a. Freesias need full sun for most of the day. b. They should be planted in well-drained（排水良好的）soil otherwise their bulbs will rot（腐烂）. c. The freesia bulbs should be planted 5-6 cm deep and about6 cm apart. d. In warmer areas, the bulbs should be planted in late summer or early autumn so that they can establish a good root system and begin flowering in early spring and finish flowering before the summer heat sets in. e. In cooler regions, freesias should be planted in mid-spring, after all danger of frost has passed. f. When they reach a height of about 15 cm, freesias plants need a wooden stake（桩）to support them so they don’t fall over. g. They should be well-watered all through the growing season but the soil should be allowed to dry out slowly when flowering stops. h. After flowering, do not remove the leaves until they have died back naturally, to allow the bulbs to store energy for the following year. 51. People need to choose a proper time for planting freesias because ________. A. they’re garden plants B. they’re flowering plants C. their bulbs are easy to rot D. they can’t stand extreme weather
52. Which of the following is the right way to grow freesias? A. A wooden stake is a must after flowering.
B. They should be kept fairly wet until flowering stops.
C. The leaves should be taken away to save energy for the next year. D. They should be planted in late summer in cooler areas in case of frost.
B
Imagine a future where our streets are filled with ads 200m tall; where billboards（广告牌）change before our eyes to give us personalized messages and where Companies track our every move as we walk through a city, sending emails or messages to our phones with special offers as we near their shops.
In fact, all of these forms of advertising are already being tested. Let’s take the first of these ideas. Back in 1982, science fiction movie Blade Runner imagined a futuristic city where giant ads reached the full height of skyscrapers. And UK company Lightvert are now doing something very similar with one important difference.
Instead of making extremely large physical ads, their commercials, digital ads, are broadcast straight into consumers’ eyes. They do this by attaching a strip of reflective material onto a building and making an image fall onto it. This image then ‘bounces’ out into the world. When you pass directly in front of the image, you see it. It appears to be huge and suspended（悬浮的）in mid-air, but others can't see it-it's only visible from one location. Lightvert claims this form of advertising can “unlock” large amounts of “high-value advertising space”.
But not everyone is sold on the idea of living in a world of endless ads. In Moscow, for example, a new form of advertising targeting drivers has caused different opinions. Drivers approaching a particular digital billboard in the city are shown ads for a new kind of Jaguar car, but only if you are driving a different make of cars. Sensors（传感器）in the billboard can tell what kind of car you are driving, and send you an ad based on that information.
While this may seem invasive（侵入性）, it’s actually the safety aspect that has concerned some observers. Researchers in Sweden have shown that digital billboards attract our eyes for longer than other kinds. In fact, they distract us for over two seconds, a length of time which studies have proved to be dangerous on the roads.
Finally, we have “proximity marketing”, where shops can tell where you are on the high street and send personalized ads to your phone. Devicescape is one company testing the use of Wi-Fi as a means of tracking customers. Their technology could work anywhere, whether in “a supermarket, a concert hall, or a bus, “says Owen Geddes from their marketing team. What would customers see? “It could be a discount offer to use in the shop the person is visiting, or a piece of content such as a movie preview,” says Mr Geddes. 53. The passage is mainly developed by ________. A. listing figures
B. giving examples D. analyzing the causes
C. making comparisons
54. We can learn from paragraphs 2 and 3 that ________.
A. Lightvert is making giant physical ads B. digital ads of Lightvert are more space-saving C. Blade Runner is a science fiction movie set in 1982 D. only those who are target customers can see the digital ads 55. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Drivers of Jaguar car can see the Jaguar ads when getting close to a digital billboard. B. What actually worries some observers is living in a world of endless ads. C. Ads in the future tend to suit people’s particular needs or desires. D. All types of digital ads have already been put on the market.
C
Office desks at which you stand have become very popular in modern workplaces. Plenty of scientific studies suggest that sitting down for long periods is bad for one’s health, and that working standing up is thus better for you. But is it better for your work? A piece of research just published in Psychological Science by Yaniv Mama of Ariel University, in Israel, and his colleagues, suggests it might be.
Standing takes more effort than sitting and might therefore be expected to require more mental attention. The muscles involved in standing must be constantly monitored and adjusted constantly by the brain. Psychological experiments suggest that human beings are capable of only a certain amount of attention. Standing might thus be expected to reduce the amount of it available to be used elsewhere. A counter-theory（相反的理论）, though, is that standing creates mild stress—and experiments have also shown that, when people are under stress, their mental performance improves.
To distinguish between the two, Dr Mama put some volunteers through what is known as the Stroop test while they were standing or sitting. The Stroop test requires volunteers (in this case 50 university students) to state the printed colour of words that are themselves the names of colours. In some cases, the meaning of the word and the colour in which it is printed are the same. In others, they are different (e.g. the word ‘blue’ printed in yellow ink). Decades of experience have shown that it takes a volunteer longer to state the colour of the ink when it is different from the meaning of the word than it does when they are identical, and that the gap can be increased still further by imposing（强加）other mental demands at the same time.
The results showed that those who were standing when they took the test did significantly better at it than those who were sitting. The gap between the two scores (a. word colour and background colour identical; b. word colour and background colour different) of the standing volunteers was about 100 milliseconds. Between those sitting, it
