II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Nothing would have made me happier than knowing the International Olympic Committee has awarded the 2022 Winter Olympic Games to Beijing at its 128th ssion in Kuala Lumpur on Friday.
纪念九一八演讲稿 Fourteen years ago, I was covering the IOC’s 112th ssion in Moscow, (21)______ I witnesd Beijing’s successful bid for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, Seven years later, I covered the 2008 Olympic Games as an experienced journalist.雅思考试写作技巧
Indeed, Beijing got a facelift, in many aspects, as the 2008 Games’ host. As it becomes the first city ever (22)______ (host) both the Summer and Winter Olympics, I couldn’t help wondering (23)______ to expect from the Games this time. Here is my wish list:
Permanent blue skies
Efforts to address pollutions ahead of the 2008 Games dramatically improved the air quality in Beijing, at least for a while. I still remember how clear the sky was during the 2008 Paralympic Games that opened two weeks after the Olympic Games (24)______ (end). Sadly, pollution continued to haunt Beijing afterwards, (25)______ a large extent neutralizing（抵消）the 2008 efforts.
哪里有培训健身教练怎样吃才健康 Once again, expectations are high (26)______ staging the Winter Olympic Games will push Beijing to reduce pollution and improve the air quality more effectively.
Such efforts will not only be made in Beijing, but in neighboring Hebei province and Tianjin municipality as well, (27)______ suggested by a development action plan to integrate the three places. Hopefully, blue skies will become a regular feature even after the Games.
Better transportation
Although Beijing is the host city of the 2022 Winter Games, Chongli county of Zhangjiakou in Hebei will host some of the snow events. I was there once a couple of years ago for skiing, and I (28)______ ______ spend 10 long hours on a congested winding road in the mountains on my way back becau the highway was clod after heavy snow.
The experience stopped me from making another attempt to go skiing in Chongli, (29)______ I believe boasted the best facilities for winter sports in North China at that time. It is a pleasure to learn that a high-speed railway linking Beijing and Zhangjiakou is in the works. (30)______ (shorten) the travel time from an average 4 hours to 50 minutes.
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Section B
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When it comes to food coloring, why should we have to prove just exactly how and why the substance caus a negative effect on the people who consume it before we can __31__ it? If this were a necessary or meaningful food ingredient in any way, sure that would be a reasonable standard. But food coloring has no nutritional value. Why are we __32__ it?2013同等学力英语
Most likely becau it helps companies ll products. Pretty food pays off becau aesthetics（美学）in food does __33__. We have relied on __34__ cues for thousands of years to help us determine what is edible, nutritious, and safe to eat. Man has adapted to appreciating natural colors, including a variety of green, red, pink, orange, yellow, and purple produce. Colors __35__ that food is ripe or that it contains healthy compounds. Becau of that __36__ background, color is money for food manufacturers. Children are especially attracted to a variety of bright, vibrant colors and succumb to（屈从于）targeted marketing.
Food aesthetics can also affect how we look at taste. In one study, when subjects were
given sugar water in different __37__ of red, they reported that the deep red drinks tasted sweeter than the light red ones. We’ve been programed to expect certain things from certain colors. Another study showed people had a harder time __38__ drink flavors when the drinks did not have the expected colors. We expect what nature has taught us and even though our food system has changed dramatically in the past veral decades our expectations have yet to __39__ up. Food companies can instead u this knowledge to __40__ us and make their procesd products appear more delicious.
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Stress, in its simplest definition, is strain caud by some type of force. Today, the word stress is ud most often when discussing mental health. In this context, stress describes the condition that results from ongoing and __41__ physical, emotional, or environmental forces. Such forces may include too much work, a-tragic event, or air pollution. The forces may cau pain, tension, fear, __42__, or anxiety. The discomfort
s can disturb the body’s ability to maintain its normal internal balance. Some level of discomfort is, of cour, __43__. The occasional __44__ of pain or anxiety is not by itlf a symptom of a rious problem. When such distress is continuous---when the brain and the rest of the body cannot make the __45__ that return a person to his or her normal condition of balance---then we say that the person is suffering from __46__.
Although stress itlf is usually not considered a dia, studies suggest that it is linked to dia. A growing __47__ of rearch data connects the risk of heart dia, for instance, to stress within the workplace, the family, and other parts of __48__. Character traits---such as a tendency to worry, to strive for perfection, or to be __49__---also em to contribute to stress. It is __50__, however, whether stress itlf caus dia. People’s respons to stress sometimes put them at risk. __51__, a person might respond to stress by eating too much or smoking.
Rearch conducted in California ems to illustrate that men who report stress from their jobs are more likely than less-stresd men to have plaque（血小板）__52__ up in
the arteries that supply blood to the brain. High levels of this plaque increa a person’s chances of having a stroke. The same study, however, did not find any link between stress and arterial plaque in __53__. Dopers speculate that female hormones may operate in some __54__ way.
