第3部分：概括大意与完成句子(第23～30题，每题1分，共8分)
下面的短文后有2项测试任务：(1)第23～26题要求从所给的6个选项中为第3～6段每段选择1个最佳标题;(2)第27～30题要求从所给的6个选项中为每个句子确定1个最佳选项。
The Magic Io Personal Digital Pen
Check out the io Personal Digital Pen launched by Logitech: It’s a magic pen that can store everything you write and transfer it to your computer. And you don’t have to lug a hand-held device along with you for it to work.
Logitech’s technology works like this: The pen writes normally, using normal ballpoint pen ink. But while you are writing, a tiny camera inside the pen is also taking 100 snapshots per second of what you are doing, mapping your writing via a patchwork of minute dots printed on the paper. All this information-the movement of your pen on the paper，basically—is then stored digitally inside the pen, whether you are writing notes or drawing complex diagrams. You can store up to 40 pages worth of doodles in the pen’s memory. As far as you are concerned, you are just using a normal pen.
It is only when you drop the pen into its PC-connected cradle that the fun begins. Special software on your PC will figure out what you have done, and begin to download any documents you have written since the last time it was there. Depending on whether you have ticked certain boxes on the special notepad, it can also tell whether the document is destined to be an e-mail, a “to do” task, or a diagram to be inserted into a word-processing document. Once the documents are downlonded you can view them, print them out or convert them to other formats.
The io Personal Digital Pen is a neat and simple solution to the problem of storing, sharing and retrieving handwritten notes, as well as for handling diagrams, pictures and other non-text doodling. You don’t have to carry a laptop along with you. All you have to do is just whip out the pen and the special paper and you are off.
It is a great product because it does not force you to work differently-walking around with a screen strapped to your arm, or carrying with you extra bits and pieces. The pen is light and works like a normal pen if you need it to, while the special notepads look and feel like notepads. The only strange looks will be from people who are curious why you are writing with a cigar.
The io Personal Digital Pen also has potential elsewhere. FedEx, for example, is introducing a version of the pen so that cutomers can fill out forms by hand-instead of punching letters into cumbersome devices. Once that data is digital more or less anything can be done with it-transferring it wirelessly to a central computer, for example, or via a hand-phone. Doctors could transmit their prescriptions direct to pharmacies, reducing fraud; policemen could send their reports back to the station, reducing paperwork.
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24. Paragraph 3_____
25. Paragraph 5_____
26. Paragraph 6_____
A. A Friendly and Convenient Device
B. Ways to Download the Stored Information
C. Examples of Other Potential Applications of the Io Pen
D. Customers’ Passion for the Io Pen
E. FedEx the First User of the Io Pen
F. Working Principle of the Io Personal Digital Pen
27. There is no need to learn how to use the io Personal Digital Pen because_____.
28. If you want to download what you have done with the magic pen,_____.
29.The magic pen is particularly convenient when you work away from home or office because .
30. No matter what you write or draw, .
A. you don’t have to carry your laptop along
B. the information will be shown digitally on the pen
C. FedEx has special software to store your information
D. it works like an ordinary pen
E. you simply place the pen into its computer-connected cradle
F. the movement of your pen is recorded digitally inside the pen
第4部分：阅读理解(第31～45题，每题3分，共45分)
下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题。请根据短文内容，为每题确定1个最佳选项。
第一篇
Sleep Lets Brain File Memories
To sleep. Perchance to file? Findings published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences further support the theory that the brain organizes and stows memories formed during the day while the rest of the body is catching zzz’s.
Gyorgy Buzsaki of Rutgers University and his colleagues analyzed the brain waves of sleeping rats and mice. Specifically, they examined the electrical activity emanating from6 the somatosensory neocortex (an area that processes sensory information) and the hippocampus, which is a center for learning and memory. The scientists found that oscillations in brain waves from the two regions appear to be intertwined. So-called sleep spindles (bursts of activity from the neocortex) were followed tens of milliseconds later by beats in the hippocampus known as ripples. The team posits that this interplay between the two brain regions is a key step in memory consolidation. A second study, also published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, links age-associated memory decline to high glucose levels.
Previous research had shown that individuals with diabetes suffer from increased memory problems. In the new work, Antonio Convit of New York University School of Medicine and his collaborators studied 30 people whose average age was 69 to investigate whether sugar levels, which tend to increase with age, affect memory in healthy people as well. The scientists administered recall tests, brain scans and glucose tolerance tests, which measure how quickly sugar is absorbed from the blood by the body’s tissues. Subjects with the poorest memory recollection, the team discovered, also displayed the poorest glucose tolerance. In addition, their brain scans showed more hippocampus shrinkage than those of subjects better able to absorb blood sugar.
“Our study suggests that this impairment may contribute to the memory deficits that occur as people age.” Convit says. “And it raises the intriguing possibility that improving glucose tolerance could reverse some age-associated problems in cognition.” Exercise and weight control can help keep glucose levels in check, so there may be one more reason to go to the gym.
31. Which of the following statements is nearest in meaning to the sentence “To sleep. Perchance to file?”?
A. Does brain arrange memories in useful order during sleep?
B. Does brain have memories when one is sleeping?
C. Does brain remember files after one falls asleep?
D. Does brain work on files in sleep?
32. What is the result of the experiment with rats and mice carried out at Rutgers University?
A. The electrical activity is emanating from the somatosensory neocortex.
B. Oscillations in brain waves are from hippocampus.
C. Somatosensory neocortex and hippocampus work together in memory consolidation.
D. Somatosensory neocortex plays it primary role in memory consolidation.
33. What is the relation of memory to glucose tolerance, as is indicated by a research mentioned in paragraph 4?
A. People with poor memory have high glucose tolerance.
B. People with good memory have low glucose tolerance.
C. Memory level has nothing to do with glucose tolerance.
D. The poorer the memory, the poorer glucose tolerance.
34. In what way is memory related to hippocampus shrinkage?
A. There is no relation between memory and hippocampus shrinkage.
B. The more hippocampus shrinks, the poorer one’s memory.
C. The more hippocampus shrinks, the better one’s memory.
D. The less hippocampus shrinks, the poorer one’s memory.
35. According to the last paragraph, what is the ultimate reason for going to the gym?
A. To prevent hippocampus shrinkage.
B. To control weight.
C. To exercise.
D. To control glucose levels.
