【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 al illness, who hadn‘t spoken for years, first stroked and played with a visiting dog and then started talking to , around 4,500 dogs and 50 cats and their volunteer owners are at work in the UK bringing fort and pleasure to over 100,000 people in are many other ―working dogs‖.There are guard dogs, police dogs, hunting dogs and dogs for the people benefit the case of Alan Smythe, who has to visit hospital every things are difficult for him because he is in a his life has altered dramatically since he got a god, Tess, from the charity ―Dogs for the Disabled‖.―She helps me to get dressed, and she brings me my socks and fetches the newspaper from the shop, and she passes me the phone when it feel so much better ‘s like having a really good es with me to , she saved my am a diabetic and one day my blood sugar level dropped, and when I was going into a a she went next door and she alerted my gave me an insulin injection.‖ of the following statement is TRUE according to the passage? B the dogs are allowed into the hospitals to visit the some special dogs can help the patients feel and nurses doubt if pets can bring fort to the and nurses are aware pets will bring benefits to all the are particularly beneficial to the following EXCEPT with mental illness elderly people who live alone elderly people who have to live apart from their pets first sentence of suggests and playing with a pet makes people nervous and anxious can make people bee quiet and attentive feel unfortable when they touch and play with a pet feel relaxed and hopeful when they touch and play with a pet dog helps Alan do the following EXCEPT helps her get dressed acpanies her to the hospital gets the newspaper for her picks up the phone for her sentence ―when I was going to a ma‖ means that I got hungry I felt asleep I became unconscious I fell down on the floor 短文理解 2 A funny thing happened on the way to the munication revolution: we stopped talking to each was walking in the park with a friend recently, and his mobile phone rang, interrupting our we were, walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day and – poof!I was cut off as if I had bee absent from the part was filled with people talking on their cell were passing people without looking at them, saying hello, noticing their babies or stopping to pat their seems that the limitless electronic voice is preferred to human telephone used to connect you to the it makes people feel I was in a car with three driver hushed the rest of us because he could not hear the person on the other end of his cell we were, four friends driving down the high way, unable to talk to each other because of the small thing designed to make munication is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in munications technology is a setback to the closeness of human and instant message over the Internet, we can now municate without seeing or talking to one voice mail, you can make entire conversations without ever reaching my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her As almost every contact between human beings gets automatic, the emotional distance index goes gas at the station? Why say goodmorning to the assistant when you can swipe your credit card at the pump and save yourself the bother of human contact? Making a deposit at the bank? Why talk to the clerk who lives in the neighborhood when you can put your card into the ATM? More and more, I find myself hiding behind to do a job meant for conversation or being relieved that voice mail picked up because I didn‘t really have time to technology devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me own a mobile phone, an ATM card, a voic telephone, and an them up isn‘t a are great for what they are intended to ‘s their unintended results that make me good is all this geewhiz technology if there is no one in the room to hear you crying out ―Gee whiz‖? author‘s experience of walking in a park with a friend recently made him feel to the author, human contact in a park means at each other and saying hello when passing their babies and stopping to pat their dogs on the mobile phone and getting connected with the other people A and B to the author, the more connected we get in munications technology, the ___ __C__ we automatic disconnected are the examples the author gives to explain his idea that every advance in munications technology is a setback to the closeness of human interaction?D and instant message over the Internet, we can now municate without seeing or talking to one voice mail, you can make entire conversations without ever reaching his mom has a question, he just leaves the answer on her of the above is the unintended result of munication technology, according to the author? B makes munication easier and conversation possible everywhere/ actually creates a distance between people instead of bringing them makes every contact between human beings automatic and makes people feel makes human contacts limitless with electronic voices 、閱讀下列短文，并根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容判斷其后的句子是正確（T），錯誤（F），還是文字中沒有涉及相關(guān)信息（NG）。（每題2分，共10分）短文理解3 The ancient Olympic Games were part of a religious festival in honour of the Greek god Zeus, the father of all Greek gods and festival and games were held in Olympia, a religious athletes came to Olympia from all parts of the Greek world, from as far as Spain in the west and Turkey in the ancient Olympic Games began in the year 766 BC when Koroibos, a cook from the city of Elis, won a 200metrelong took place for a period of 617 years until the last games were held in AD the ancient games, athletes received prizes worth large amounts of fact the word ―athlete‖ is an ancient Greek word, meaning ―one who petes for a prize‖.Although women did not pete in the games, there was a separate festival held at the same time in honour of Hera, wife of this festival unmarried girls peted in foot ma