【正文】 ity we have, the more skilled we usually are at handling possible and actual conflicts. Usually it has to be relevant to us to do so, either because we think it is important or because there are incentives in our environment to encourage it. The key is that we have to want to bee flexible with our munication style. As Henry Ford said, “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right!”Questions 2734Reading passage 3 has eight sections AH.Choose the correct heading for each section from the list of headings below. Write the correct number ix in boxes 2734 on your answer sheet.List of headingsi Summarizing personality typesii Combined styles for workplaceiii Physical explanationiv A lively person who encouragesv Demanding and unsympathetic personalityvi Lazy and careless personalityvii The benefits of understanding munication stylesviii Cautious and caring ix Factual and analytical personalityx Selfassessment determines one’s temperament27 Section A28 Section B29 Section C30 Section D31 Section E32 Section F33 Section G34 Section HQuestions 3539Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 3？In boxes 3539 on your answer sheet writeTRUE if the statement agrees with the informationFALSE if the statement contradicts the informationNOT GIVEN if there is no information on this 35 It is believed that sanguine people dislike variety.36 Melancholic and phlegmatic people have similar characteristics.37 Managers often select their best employees according to personality types.38 It is possible to change one’s personality type.39 Workplace environment can affect which munication style is most effective.　　Question 40 Choose the correct letter A, B, C or DWrite your answers in box 40 on your answer sheet.The writer believes using selfassessment tools can A help to develop one’s personality.B help to understand colleagues’ behavior.C improve one’s relationship with the employer.D directly resolve conflicts.READING PASSAGE 3文章背景：野生動(dòng)物存在一種先天性的本領(lǐng)那就是生病后其本能可以讓其借助某些物質(zhì)到治病的效果。Phlegmatic是冷靜而具有分析性的性格，melancholic類型的人體貼而具有同情心。 Contents 1. Amateur naturalist 業(yè)余自然學(xué)家（P3）2. Communicating Styles and Conflict 交流的方式與沖突(P6)3. Health in the Wild 野生動(dòng)物自愈.(p10)4. The Rainmaker 人工造雨(P13)5. ShoemakerLevy 9 Collision with Jupiter 舒梅克彗星撞木星(P16)6. A second look at twin studies 雙胞胎研究(P19)7. Transit of Venus 金星凌日(P22)8. Placebo Effect—The Power of Nothing安慰劑效應(yīng)(P25)9. The origins of Laughter 笑的起源(P29)10. Rainwater Harvesting 雨水收集(P32)11. Serendipity:The Accidental Scientists科學(xué)偶然性(P36)12. Terminated! Dinosaur Era! 恐龍時(shí)代的終結(jié)(P40)13. TV ADDICTION 電視上癮(P43)14. EI nino and Seabirds 厄爾尼諾和水鳥(niǎo)(P46)15. The extinct grass in Britain 英國(guó)滅絕的某種草(P50)16. Education philosophy教育的哲學(xué)(P53)17. The secret of Yawn打哈欠的秘密(P57)18. consecutive and simultaneous translation交替?zhèn)髯g和同聲傳譯(P60)19. Numeracy: can animals tell numbers?動(dòng)物會(huì)數(shù)數(shù)么？(P63)20. Going nowhere fast(P66)21. The seedhunters種子收集者(P69)22. The conquest of Malaria in Italy意大利征服瘧疾(P72)78 I will persist until I succeed!READING PASSAGE 1You should spend about 20minutes on Questions 2740 which are based on Reading Passage 3 below.文章背景：業(yè)余自然學(xué)家主要講述的是有一些人，平時(shí)喜歡觀察自然界的植物生長(zhǎng)，養(yǎng)蜂過(guò)程，氣候變化，等等與大自然相關(guān)的變化并且做記錄得到一些數(shù)據(jù)，這種數(shù)據(jù)叫做“amateur data”. 本文主要介紹業(yè)余自然學(xué)家以及一些專業(yè)自然學(xué)家探討業(yè)余自然學(xué)家的數(shù)據(jù)是否能用，以及應(yīng)該如何使用這些自然學(xué)家的數(shù)據(jù)，其可信度有多少等問(wèn)題。Amateur NaturalistsFrom the results of an annual Alaskan betting contest to sightings of migratory birds, ecologists are using a wealth of unusual data to predict the impact of climate change.A Tim Sparks slides a small leatherbound notebook out of an envelope. The book’s yellowing pages contain beekeeping notes made between 1941and 1969 by the late Walter Coates of Kilworth, Leicestershire. He adds it to his growing pile of local journals, birdwatchers’ list and gardening diaries. “We’re uncovering about one major new record each month,” he says, “I still get surprised.” Around two centuries before Coates, Robert Marsham, a landowner from Norfolk in the east of England, began recording the life cycles of plants and animals on his estate when the first wood anemones flowered, the dates on which the oaks burst into leaf and the rooks began nesting. Successive Marshams continued piling these notes for 211 years.B Today, such records are being put to uses that their authors could not possibly have expected. These data sets, and others like them, are proving invaluable to ecologists interested in the timing of biological events, or phenology. By bining the records with climate data, researchers can reveal how, for example, changes in temperature affect the arrival of spring, allowing ecologists to make improved predictions about the impact of climate change. A small band of researchers is bing through hundreds of years of records taken by thousands of amateur naturalists. And more systematic projects have also started up, producing an overwhelming response. “The amount of interest is almost frightening,” says Sparks, a climate researcher at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Monks Wood, Cambridgeshire.C Sparks first became aware of the army of “closet phenologists”, as he describes them, when a retiring colleague gave him the Marsham records. He now spends much of his time following leads from one historical data set to another. As news of his quest spreads, people tip him off to other historical records, and more amateur phenologists e out of their closets. The British devotion to recording and collecting makes his job easier one man from Kent sent him 30 years’ worth of kitchen calendars, on which he has noted the date that his neighbour’s magnolia tree flowered.D Other researchers have unearthed data from equally odd sources. Rafe Sagarin, an ecologist at Stanford University in California, recently studied records of a betting contest