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。有两项为多余选项。
 
 36   From 18－25, according to I．Q. scores；but you are wiser and more experienced with increasing age. You are smartest in your 20's; around 30, your memory begins to go down, particularly your ability to perform mathematical computations.  _37__ Your vocabulary at the age of 45, for example, is three times as great as when you graduated from college. At 60, your brain has almost four times as much information as it did at the age of 21.
38   You have the best physical sense of yourself from 15 to 24; the best professional sense from 40 to 49. Before the age of 24, we believe that our happiest years are yet to come；over 30，we believe that they are behind us. A National Health survey agrees: after the age of 30, we become more realistic and do not view happiness as a goal in itself. If we keep our health, achieve professional and emotional goals, happiness, we feel, will follow.
__39__ Generally between 30 and 39，but the peak (顶峰) varies with different professions(职业). Mosart wrote a symphony (交响曲)  and four sonatas by the age of 8, and Mendelssohn composed his best­known work A Midsummer Night's Dream at 17, but most of the great music was written by men between 33 and 39.
Though the peak in most fields comes early, most Nobel Prize winners did their top research in their late 20's and 30's—creative people continue to produce work with high quality(质量) throughout their lives  _40__
A. When are you most creative (创造性的)?
B. When are you happiest?
C. When are you smartest?
D. Do you know what I．Q. refers to?
E. But your I．Q. for other tasks goes up.
F. Creative people usually produce a lot of works.
G. For the “well­conditioned mind”， there is no upper limit..（限制）
 第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节）     
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，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 
Zigfried, a little mouse, blew his breath on the frosty window of the farmhouse and rubbed it to see the outside. Still nobody came. Maybe today, he thought   41  . It was only a few days before Christmas and he was watching for a miracle (奇迹).
This farmhouse had been  _42___too long. It needed a family. Zigfried’s  43  made a noise. He realized that he hadn’t eaten anything since yesterday. He jumped from the windowsill (窗沿), took a  44  from his home, and went next door to Farmer Mike’s.
Farmer Mike’s house had been a great place for the little mouse  45  the farmer married a wife who had a cat. Zigfried trembled  46   he thought of it. He looked around carefully as he 47  into the room where grain was stored and was quite  48  as he filled his bag with wheat. He was turning to leave when suddenly he  49  a hot breath about his ear. His heart beat  50  , and without thinking, he started to run and luckily  51  the cat’s paws (爪子).
The next afternoon Zigfried heard some good news: a  52  family would be moving into the farmhouse soon. Zigfried’s granny would arrive on Christmas Eve to  53  with him. He hoped that the family would come before his granny came. Before long, a car came  54  the road leading to the house, with butter sandwiches, cheese and chocolate.
Zigfried’s Christmas miracle did arrive!
The house came  55   the next few days. Zigfried  56  every single hour of them.  57 , the day before Christmas when he was drinking hot chocolate with a  58  smile at the door of his home, he heard the  59  of the children of the family about what they might get for Christmas. What? A cat? The  60  froze on his face; his mouth fell wide open. After a long while, he at last found his voice: “Hey! Whose Christmas miracle is this?”

41. A. carefully         B. excitedly        C. hopefully         D. proudly        
42. A. cathy            B. noisy           C. messy            D. empty           
43. A. mouth           B. nose            C. stomach          D. throat           
44. A. bag             B. stick            C. bowl             D. coat              
45. A. although         B. until            C. after          D. unless          
46. A. if              B. because          C. when            D. unless     
47. A. broke           B. marched         C. paced            D. stole             
48. A. curious         B. nervous          C. pitiful            D. illegal        
49. A. took            B. held            C. felt              D. drew            
50. A. strongly         B. likely          C. slowly            D. wildly           
51. A. escaped        B. seized           C. rubbed           D. caught     
52. A. close          B. happy           C. new             D. young          
53. A. celebrate       B. communicate     C. compete          D. control
54. A. across         B. from            C. off               D. up               
55. A. alive         B. loose             C. open             D. still              
56. A. counted       B. enjoyed          C. missed            D. wasted         
57. A. However      B. Instead          C. Moreover          D. Therefore     
58. A. embarrassed   B. forced           C. disappointed       D. satisfied        
59. A. introduction   B. discussion        C. revision           D.  reduction         
60. A. blood        B. smile            C. tears              D. sweat          
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