第二节 （共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为
多余选项。
Information Overload
In modern society, if we’re trying to make a decision, we often have so much information that we get confused, and we dont know what to do. This state is known as information overload. 36 It can cause stress, frustration and reduced productivity. But what can we do in the face of information overload?
• Plan for only one time each day to check e-mail, social messaging sites, chat rooms, etc. Dont allow yourself to check multiple times, unless you truly are waiting for an important e-mail. 37 And that eats up your valuable time before getting away.
• If you are suffering from too many electronic interruptions during the weekday, ask people to call or text you during work hours only if its really an emergency. 38
• Remind yourself that its okay to not know everything. In fact, its impossible to keep up with the pace of the information superhighway. The sooner you accept that, the happier youll be. 39 It is good to fall behind on the information that really isnt worth your attention.
• 40 Set aside a regular time each week where you and other family members do not use any kind of electronic media technologies, including television. It could be something you do every weekend, or perhaps an hour or two every evening.
A. Just catch up with the happiest moment.
B. Know whats worth knowing and what isnt.
C. Almost everyone suffers from it to some degree.
D. Spend time with your family free from electronic products.
E. We need to find some effective ways to process the information.
F. Each time you go online, you run the risk of being addicted to it.
G. Otherwise they and you end up stealing time from your employer.
第三部分 英语知识运用 （共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30 分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Most 7-year-old girls are playing Barbie and jumping rope. Though Sailor Gutzler may have enjoyed those 41 , she was also an active participant in 42 activities with her father. He was a pilot and he taught her 43 skills. She actually used these 44 when her familys twin-engine plane 45 upside down in rural
Sailor had broken bones, but when she couldnt 47 her father, mother, sister or cousin after the crash, she 48 herself from the remains, lit a stick on the burning wing of the plane and walked 49 for a mile through the cold darkness of the wooded
Sailor 51 the nearest house, hoping to get help for her 52 . She told the woman who answered the 53 that shed been in a（n） 54 and that her parents were dead.
Though the temperature was 5℃ below zero, Sailor was wearing clothing meant for the
55
Though her father had been 57 since he was 16 and was a flight 58 for more than 4,000 hours, disaster still struck. He had made the same exact 59 many times but still, the weather won. 60 , hed taught his daughter what to do and she did it.
41. A. ropes B. sports C. activities D. dolls
42. A. outdoor B. social C. school D. daily
43. A. repair B. flight C. communication D. survival
44. A. skills B. tricks C. thoughts D. activities
45. A. flew B. landed C. swung D. appeared
46. A. around B. home C. abroad D. everywhere
47. A. wake up B. struggle for C. call out to D. get contact with
48. A. hid B. supported C. pulled D. protected
49. A. fast B. steadily C. heavily D. endlessly
50. A. countryside B. tunnel C. wonderland D. desert
51. A. got ready for B. went on for C. made it to D. looked forward to
52. A. fear B. loss C. plane D. family
53. A. question B. request C. girl D. door
54. A. crash B. attack C. holiday D. dilemma
55. A. remote B. warm C. rainy D. famous
56. A. Actually B. Besides C. Finally D. Still
57. A. practicing B. flying C. studying D. fighting
58. A. agent B. planner C. steward D. instructor
59. A. decision B. trip C. mistake D. plan
60. A. Previously B. Accidentally C. Fortunately D. Amazingly
第 II 卷
第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节 满分45）
第二节 （共10小题；每小题1.5 分，满15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1个适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。
A balanced diet means the nutrition of three meals in a day should be balanced, and breakfast is very important to achieve that goal. Skipping breakfast 61 （cause） damage to health, apart from reducing work performance. 62 （study） have showed that if a person does not eat breakfast 63 （regular）, he or she will be 64 a higher risk of various diseases.
However, many people do not eat breakfast. A recent survey shows that 8.6 percent of people do not eat breakfast every day. The situation is even 65 （bad） in poverty-stricken areas.
While most people are used to 66 （eat） breakfast, the quality of their meal is in question. About 25 percent of people do not eat a homemade breakfast, 67 more than 80 percent of people do not consume a healthy breakfast.
Children, women, and people living in poverty-stricken areas are most likely to be affected 68 it comes to eating unhealthy breakfasts. However, old people 69
（age） above 60 tend to have healthy breakfast, because this group, mostly retired, have time and 70 （patient） to cook breakfast themselves.