【正文】 The British air strikes. B. The damage done by the Hood. C. Gunfire from the British warships. D. Luetjens’ decision to run for France. 本題答案： C 試題解析：最后一段第二句話 Why do men die earlier than woman? The latest research makes it known that the reason could be that men’ s hearts go into rapid decline when reach middle age. The largest study of the effects of aging on the heart has found that women’ s longevity may be linked to the fact that their hearts do not lose their pumping power with age. We have found that the power of the male heart falls by 2025 percent between 18 and 70 years of age, said the head of the study, David Goldspink of Livepool John Moores University in the UK. Within the heart there are millions of cells that enable it to beat. Between the age of 20 and 70, onethird of those cells die and are not replaced in men, said Goldspink. This is part of the ageing process. What surprises scientists is that the female heart sees very little loss of these cells. A healthy 70yearold woman’ s heart could perform almost as well as a 20yearold one’ s. This gender difference might just explain why women live longer than men, said Goldspink. They studied more than 250 healthy men and women between the ages of 18 to 80, focusing on healthy persons to remove the confusing influence of disease. The team has yet to find why aging takes a greater loss on the male heart, said Goldspink. The good news is that men can improve the health of their heart with regular exercise. Goldspink stressed that women also need regular exercise to prevent their leg muscles being smaller and weaker as they age. 11. The underlined word longevity in the second paragraph probably refers to _______. A. health B. long life C. ageing D. effect 本題答案： B 試題解析： longevity 長壽，長命 12. The text mainly talks about _____. A. men’ s heart cells B. women’ s ageing process C. the gender difference D. hearts and long life 本題答案： D 試題解析：本題考了本文的主要內容 13. According to the text, the UK scientists have known that _______. A. women have more cells than men when they are born B. women can replace the cells that enable the heart to beat C. the female heart loses few of the cells with age D. women never lose their pumping power with age 本題答案： C 試題解析：第五段第一句話 14. If you want to live longer, you should _________. A. enable your heart to beat much faster B. find out the reason for aging C. exercise regularly to keep your heart healthy D. prevent your cells from being lost 本題答案： C 試題解析：最后一段第一句話 15. We can know from the passage that ______. A. the reason why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart has been found out B. scientists are on the way to finding out why the male heart loses more of the cells C. the team has done something to prevent the male from suffering the greater loss D. women over 70 could lose more heart cells than those at the age of 20 本題答案： A 三、詞匯與語法 16. I don’ t know _________ to deal with such matter. A. what B. how C. which D. / 本題答案： B 17. During the future examinations you should avoid ________ such mistakes. A. make B. to make C. making D. made 本題答案： C 試題解析： avoid doing something 避免做某事 18. I ______ I were a bird. A. hope B. wish C. expect D. imagine 本題答案： B 試題解析： wish 后面的賓語從句用虛擬語氣 19. You should be ashamed ______ what you have done. A. to B. of C. by D. at 本題答案： B 試題解析： be ashamed of 由于?而感到羞恥 20. Don’ t laugh ____ people when they are ____ trouble. A. in? , at? B. at? , at? C. at? , in? D. on..., in? 本題答案： 四、完型填空 Scientists have studied consu