詞匯選項(xiàng)(第1~15題，每題1分，共15分)
1.Patricia stared at the other girls with resentment.
A.anger B.doubt C.love D.surprise
2.The document was compiled by the Department of Health.
A.written B.printed C.attached D.sent
3.He's spent years cultivating a knowledge of art.
A.sharing B.using C.denying D.developing
4.We've seen a marked shift in our approach to the social issues.
A.clear B.regular C.quick D.great
5.Her father was a quiet man with graceful manners.
A.polite B.similar C.usual D.bad
6.I want to provide my boys with a decent education.
A.good B.special C.private D.general
7.In the process，the light energy converts to heat energy.
A.changes B.reduces C.leaves D.drops
8.Many cities have restricted smoking in public places.
A.limited B.allowed C.stopped D.kept
9. What are my chances of promotion if I stay here?
A.retirement B.advertisement C.advancement D.replacement
10.If we leave now，we should miss the traffic.
A.direct B.stop C.mix D.avoid
11.There was a profound silence after his remark.
A.proud B.short C.sudden D.deep
12.I enjoyed the play it had a clever plot and funny dialogues.
A.long B.boring C.original D.humorous
13.The thief was finally captured two miles away from the village.
A.caught B.killed C.found D.jailed
14.Such a database would be extremely costly to set up.
A.transfer B.destroy C.establish D.update
15.The two banks have announced plans to merge next year.
A.combine B.sell C.close D.break
參考答案：
1.A 2.A 3.D 4.A 5.A
6.A 7. A 8. A 9. C 10.D
11.D 12.D 13.A 14.C 15.A 閱讀判斷(第16～22題，每題1分，共7分)
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New Product Will Save Lives
Drinking water that looks clean may still contain bugs(蟲子) ,which can cause illness. A small company called Genera Technologies has produced a testing method in three stages, which shows whether water is safe. The new test shows if water needs chemicals added to it, to destroy anything harmful. It was invented by scientist Dr. Adrian Parton, who started Genera five years ago. He and his employees have developed the test together with a British water company.
Andy Headland, Genera's marketing director, recently presented the test at a conference in the USA and forecast good American sales for it. Genera has already sold 11 of its tests at $ 42,500 a time in the UK and has a further four on order. It expects to sell another 25 tests before the end of March. The company says it is the only test in the UK to be approved by the government. Genera was formed five years ago and until October last year had only five employees;it now employs 14. Mr.Headland believes that the company should make around $19 million by the end of the year in the UK alone.
16 Genera Technologies has developed a method that determines whether water is clean.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
17 Before he set up Genera, Dr Parton had worked for a British water company.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
18 The new product has been a commercial success in the USA.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
19 Each of the tests costs $42,500.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
20 Genera Technologies orders 25 more tests before the end of the year.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
21 The British government is helping Dr Parton to sell the tests abroad.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
22 Genera has increased the number of its employees recently.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
16 A 17 C 18 B 19 A 20 B 21 C 22 A 概括大意與完成句子(第23～30題，每題1分，共8分)
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Alaska
1 In 1868 Americans welcomed Alaska into the Union as the 49th state, symbolizing a change of attitude from that held in 1867 ,when the peninsula was purchased from Russia. Then, most Americans had little interest in 1,500,000 square kilometers “of icebergs and polar bears”—beyond Canada's western borders, far from the settled areas of the United States.
2 In those sections of the state which lie above the Arctic Circle, Alaska still is a land of icebergs and polar bears. Ice masses lie buried in the earth, which is permanently frozen to a depth of 90 or more meters. From early May until early August, the midnight sun never sets on this flat, treeless region, but the sun cannot melt the icy soil more than two-thirds of a meter down.
3 Alaska is America's largest state, but only about 325,000 people live there. According to estimates, 800,000 hectares of its land area are fit for plowing but only about 640,000 hectares are being cultivated.
4 Arctic Alaska has been the home of Eskimos for countless centuries. It is believed that the Eskimos moved there from Mongolia or Siberia, probably crossing Bering Strait, named for Vitus Bering, the Danish sea captain who discovered Alaska on his voyage for Russia in 1741. The Eskimos are the state's earliest known inhabitants. Russian fur traders established settlements but, by the time Alaska was sold to the United States, most of the traders had departed.
5 In 1896 gold was discovered near the Klondike River in Canada just across the Alaskan border. Thousands of Americans rushed to the region on their way to Klondike; some never returned. Alaska was never completely cut off again, although even today transportation is a major problem. There are only two motor routes from the U. S. mainland, and within the state, every town has its own airfield. Planes fly passengers, mail and freight to the most distant villages.
6 The gold that changed life so suddenly for Alaska was soon ended, and although many stories about mining camps have become part of American literature, the gold from Alaskan earth contributed less to economic progress than the fish from Alaskan waters. The fish caught in a single year range in value from $ 80 million to $ 90 million. Fur-bearing animals are plentiful in the forests and streams, and valuable fur seals inhabit the waters. After fishing, the state's chief industry is lumber and the production of wood pulp. In recent years, Alaska's single most important resource has become oil. The state also has large deposits of coal, copper, gold and other minerals.
23 Paragraph 3 _________
24 Paragraph 4 _________
25 Paragraph 5 _________
26 Paragraph 6 _________ A Rich resources of the state
B Connections with the outside world
C Transportation problem
D The natives of the land
E Cold climate
F Land and population
27 For as long as three months of a year, the sun _________on the ice-covered land of Alaska.
28 According to statistics, _________of the total area of Alaska has been used for farming.
29 Alaska was originally part of Russia, but was bought _________
30 Gold did not bring to Alaska as much wealth _________ A as fish does
B because of its rich natural resources
C by the United States in the 19th century
D shines day and night
E only a very small percentage
F a limited amount of the gold found there 閱讀理解(每題3分，共45分)
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Newspapers often tell us of floods in some parts of the United States.
Nearly every year on the great central drainages heavy rains and melting snow cause the waters to pour out the mountains and plains, to turn brooks into torrents, and to swell quiet streams into wild uncontrolled rivers. From Cairo to New Orleans, and from Pittsburgh to Paducah, the cry "River rising!" is a familiar yet fearful voice. . . When the rivers sometimes become too high or too swift to be controlled communities are flooded, families flee from their homes, croplands are washed out, and transportation comes to a halt. Hunger, disease, and death follow the wild waters.
Although given less publicity, the agricultural damage done by the many smaller, more frequent floods usually far exceeds the losses caused by the very grand ones. In the Central States, ditches and drains cause the flows from spring rains and melting snow to run far more rapidly than in the days before white men settled on the land. Once, excess spring flood waters emptied into lakes and swampy lands, there to be detained for slow release into stream and rivers. Now, systematic drainage has actually eliminated these natural reservoirs.
In the more rolling sections of the East, spring runoff was formerly absorbed and held temporarily in the porous soils beneath the unbroken expanse of forest. When large areas were converted to farm use, removal of the forest and the practice of up-and-down hill plowing deprived the soils of much of their ability to catch and store water.
The effects of eliminating the natural forest cover are shown in the gullied farm lands and widened stream channels found in some densely settled areas. Partly because the stream channels are more or less filled with material washed down from the uplands, and partly because storm runoff has increased, the channels are today no longer able to carry all the flow from heavy rains. This explains why the streams overtop banks far more often than in the days before settlement.
31. The best title for the selection would be______.
A. River Rising! River Rising!
B. Forests and Floods
C. Flooding in the U. S.
D. The Results of Flooding
32. All of the following cause floods EXCEPT______.
A. heavy rain
B. melting snow
C. increasing storm runoff
D. porous soil
33. The author states that______.
A. lakes and swamps once acted like natural reservoirs
B. up-and-down hill plowing catches and stores water
C. stream channels are the best carriers of water
D. floods are easily prevented and controlled
34. According to the selection, streams overtop their banks partly because______.
A. material from higher land is washed into them
B. ditches and drains lead into them
C. rivers become too swift
D. snow melts more rapidly nowadays
35. The floods which are given most publicity______.
A. cause no damage
B. cause the most damage
C. cause less agricultural damage than the many smaller, more frequent floods
D. far exceed the smaller, more frequent floods in agricultural loss
Mobile Phone and Diseases
A study by scientists in Finland has found that mobile phone radiation can cause changes in human cells that might affect the brain, the leader of the research team said.
But Darius Leszczynski, who headed the 2-year study and will present findings next week at a conference in Quebec(魁北克), said more research was needed to determine the seriousness of the changes and their impact on the brain or the body.
The study at Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority found that exposure to radiation from mobile phones can cause increased activity in hundreds of proteins in human cells grown in a laboratory, he said.
“We know that there is some biological response. We can detect it with our very sensitive approaches, but we do not know whether it can have any physiological effects on the human brain or human body,” Leszczynski said.
Nonetheless the study, the initial findings of which were published last month in the scientific journal Differentiation, raises new questions about whether mobile phone radiation can weaken the brain's protective shield against harmful substances.
The study focused on changes in cells that line blood vessels and on whether such changes could weaken the functioning of the blood-brain barrier, which prevents potentially harmful substances from entering the brain from the bloodstream, Leszczynski said.
The study found that a protein called hsp27 linked to the functioning of the blood-brain barrier showed increased activity due to irradiation and pointed to a possibility that such activity could make the shield more permeable(能透過的), he said.
“Increased protein activity might cause cells to shrink—not the blood vessels but the cells themselves—and then tiny gaps could appear between those cells through which some molecules could pass. ” he said.
Leszczynski declined to speculate on what kind of health risks that could pose, but said a French study indicated that headache, fatigue and sleep disorders could result.
“These are not life-threatening problems but can cause a lot of discomfort,” he said, adding that a Swedish group had also suggested a possible link with Alzheimer's disease.
“Where the truth is do not know,” he said.
Leszczynski said that he, his wife and children use mobile phones, and he said that he did not think his study suggested any need for new restrictions on mobile phone use.
36 According to Leszczynski, how does mobile phone affect one's health? _________
A Mobile phone radiation can increase protein activities and such activities can make the protective shield more permeable.
B Mobile phone radiation can shrink the blood vessels and prevent blood from flowing smoothly.
C Mobile phone radiation will bring stress to people exposed to it.
D Mobile phone radiation kills blood cells at a rapid speed.
37 What's the result of the French study? _________
A The harm of mobile phone radiation is life-threatening.
B Mobile phone may affect one's normal way of thinking.
C Sleep disorders could result from mobile phone radiation.
D A protein called hsp27 is killed by mobile phone radiation.
38 What kind of disease is not caused by the use of mobile phone? _________
A Fatigue.
B Headache.
C Alzheimer's disease.
D Tuberculosis.
39 According to the passage, what would be the future of the use of mobile phone? _________
A People will be forbidden to use mobile phone.
B People dare not use mobile phone because of its radiation.
C People will continue to use mobile phone.
D There will be new restrictions on the use of mobile phone.
40 Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? _________
A The research in Finland found that mobile phone radiation will affect one's brain.
B Mobile phone radiation can cause increased activity in hundreds of protein in human cells.
C Increased protein activity might cause cells to shrink.
D Lszczynski forbid his wife and children to use mobile phone after his research.
Electronic Mail (E-mail)
During the past few years, scientists the world over have suddenly found themselves productively engaged in task they once spent their lives avoiding-writing, any kind of writing, but particularly letter writing. Encouraged by electronic mail's surprisingly high speed, convenience and economy, people who never before touched the stuff are regularly, skillfully, even cheerfully tapping out a great deal of correspondence.
Electronic networks, woven into the fabric of scientific communication these days, are the route to colleagues in distant countries, shared data, bulletin boards and electronic journals. Anyone with a personal computer, a modem and the software to link computers over telephone lines can sign on. An estimated five million scientists have done so with more joining every day, most of them communicating through a bundle of interconnected domestic and foreign routes known collectively as the Internet, or net.
E-mail is starting to edge out the fax, the telephone, overnight mail, and of course, land mail. It shrinks time and distance between scientific collaborators, in part because it is conveniently asynchronous (writers can type while their colleagues across time zones sleep; their message will be waiting). If it is not yet speeding discoveries, it is certainly accelerating communication.
Jeremy Bernstei, the physicist and science writer, once called E-mail the physicist's umbilical cord. Lately other people, too, have been discovering its connective virtues. Physicists are using it; college students are using it, everybody is using it, and as a sign that it has come of age, the New Yorker has celebrated its liberating presence with a cartoon-an appreciative dog seated at a keyboard, saying happily, “On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.”
41 The reasons given below about the popularity of E-mail can be found in the passage EXCEPT __________.
A direct and reliable
B time-saving in delivery
C money-saving
D available at any time
42 How is the Internet or net explained in the passage? __________
A Electronic routes used to read home and international journals.
B Electronic routes used to fax or correspond overnight.
C Electronic routes waiting for correspondence while one is sleeping.
D Electronic routes connected among millions of users, home and abroad.
43 What does the sentence “If it is not yet speeding discoveries, it is certainly accelerating communication” most probably mean? __________
A The quick speed of correspondence may have ill-effects on discoveries.
B Although it does not speed up correspondence, it helps make discoveries.
C It quickens mutual communication even if it does not accelerate discoveries.
D It shrinks time for communication and accelerates discoveries.
44 What does the sentence “On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.”imply in the last paragraph? __________
A Even dogs are interested in the computer.
B E-mail has become very popular.
C Dogs are liberated from their usual duties.
D E-mail deprives dogs of their owners' love.
45 What will happen to fax, land mail, overnight mail, etc. according to the writer? __________
A Their functions cannot be replaced by E-mail.
B They will co-exist with E-mail for a long time.
C Less and less people will use them.
D They will play a supplementary function to E-mail.
31. C 3 2. D 3 3. A 3 4. A 35. C
36A 37C 38D 39C 40D
41 A 42 D 43 C 44 B 45 C 補(bǔ)全短文(第46～50題，每題2分，共10分)
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Conservation or Wasted Effort?
The black robin (旅鶇) is one of the world's rarest birds. It is a small, wild bird, and it lives only on the island of Little Mangere, off the coast of New Zealand. In 1967 there were about fifty black robins there; in 1977 there were fewer than ten.46
Energetic steps are being taken to preserve the black robin. 47 The idea is to buy an-other island nearby as a special home, a “reserve”, for threatened wild life, including black robins. The organizers say that Little Mangere should then be restocked (重新準(zhǔn)備) with the robin's food. Thousands of the required plants are at present being cultivated in New Zealand.
Is all this concern a waste of human effort? 48 Are we losing our sense of what is reasonable and what is unreasonable?
In the earth's long, long past hundreds of kinds of creatures have evolved, risen to a degree of success and died out. In the long, long future there will be many new and different forms of life. Those creatures that adapt themselves successfully to what the earth offers will survive for a long time.49 This is nature's proven method of operation.
The rule of selection “the survival of the fittest” is the one by which human beings have themselves arrived on the scene. We, being one of the most adaptable creatures the earth has yet produced, may last longer than most, 50 You may take it as another rule that when, at last, human beings show signs of dying out, no other creature will extend a paw (爪) to postpone our departure. On the contrary, we will be hurried out.
Life seems to have grown too tough for black robins. I leave you to judge whether we should try to do anything about it.
A Some creatures, certain small animals, insects and birds, will almost certainly outlast (比……長(zhǎng)久)man, for they seem even more adaptable.
B Those that fail to meet the challenges will disappear early.
C Detailed studies are going on, and a public appeal for money has been made.
D Both represent orders in the classification of life.
E Is it any business of ours whether the black robin survives or dies out?
F These are the only black robins left in the world.
46 F 47 C 48 E 49 B 50 A 完型填空(第51～65題，每題1分，共15分)
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China to Help Europe Develop GPS Rival
China is to contribute to a new global satellite navigation system being developed by European nations. The Galileo satellite system ____51____ a more accurate civilian alternative to the Global Positioning System(GPS), operated by the US military. China will provide 230m Euros (USD259m) in ____52____ and will cooperate with technical, manufacturing and market development. “China will help Galileo to ____53____ the major world infrastructure for the growing market for location services,” said Loyola de Palacio, EU transport commissioner. A new center that will coordinate co-operation was also announced____ 54____ the European Commission, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology not long____ 55 ____The China-Europe Global Navigation Satellite System Technical Training and Cooperation Center will be ____56____ at Beijing University. China has a substantial satellite launch industry and could potentially help launch the Galileo satellites.
The US has claimed that Galileo could interfere ____57____ the US ability to downgrade the GPS service during military conflicts. European officials say this is unfounded and counter that US opposition ____58____ the commercial challenge Galileo would present to GPS. Galileo will be precise to within a meter, while the civilian GPS service is accurate to around 10 meters.
The Galileo satellite constellation will ____59____ 27 operational and three reserve satellites orbiting the Earth at an altitude of 23,600km. The satellites will be strung along three medium-Earth orbits at 56 degrees inclination to the equator and will provide global coverage. The system should be operational by 2008 and the entire project is expected to ____60____ around 3.2 billion Euros (USD3.6 billion).
The European Commission has said Galileo will primarily be used for transportation technology, scientific research, land management and disaster monitoring.
Galileo will provide two signals: a standard civilian one and in encrypted, wide-band signal ____61____ the Public Regulated Service (PRS). This second signal is designed to withstand localized jamming and will be used by police and military services in Europe. European Commission ____62____ have said China will not be given access to the PRS.
The first Galileo satellite is scheduled to launch late in 2004. Clocks on board ____63____ will be synchronized through 20 ground sensors stations, two command centers and 15 uplink stations.
Receivers on the ground will use time signals from the satellites to precisely calculate their ____64____ A “search and rescue” function will also ____65____ distress signals be relayed through the constellation of satellites.
51A offer B offered C will offer D has offered
52A funding B providing C paying D charging
53A build B use C become D do
54A in B at C on D by
55A before B ago C after D later
56A found B produced C positioned D located
57A with B for C about D above
58A results in B gives rise to C is due to D causes
59A be made from B consist of C consist in D be consisted of
60A spend B gain C give D cost
61A offered B called C used D turned
62A officials B countries C organization D agreement
63A satellite B the satellite C the satellites D satellites
64A speed B direction C distance D location
65A send B let C allow D transmit
51 C 52 A 53 C 54 D 55 B
56 D 57 A 58 C 59 B 60 D
61 B 62 A 63 B 64 D 65 B
1.Patricia stared at the other girls with resentment.
A.anger B.doubt C.love D.surprise
2.The document was compiled by the Department of Health.
A.written B.printed C.attached D.sent
3.He's spent years cultivating a knowledge of art.
A.sharing B.using C.denying D.developing
4.We've seen a marked shift in our approach to the social issues.
A.clear B.regular C.quick D.great
5.Her father was a quiet man with graceful manners.
A.polite B.similar C.usual D.bad
6.I want to provide my boys with a decent education.
A.good B.special C.private D.general
7.In the process，the light energy converts to heat energy.
A.changes B.reduces C.leaves D.drops
8.Many cities have restricted smoking in public places.
A.limited B.allowed C.stopped D.kept
9. What are my chances of promotion if I stay here?
A.retirement B.advertisement C.advancement D.replacement
10.If we leave now，we should miss the traffic.
A.direct B.stop C.mix D.avoid
11.There was a profound silence after his remark.
A.proud B.short C.sudden D.deep
12.I enjoyed the play it had a clever plot and funny dialogues.
A.long B.boring C.original D.humorous
13.The thief was finally captured two miles away from the village.
A.caught B.killed C.found D.jailed
14.Such a database would be extremely costly to set up.
A.transfer B.destroy C.establish D.update
15.The two banks have announced plans to merge next year.
A.combine B.sell C.close D.break
參考答案：
1.A 2.A 3.D 4.A 5.A
6.A 7. A 8. A 9. C 10.D
11.D 12.D 13.A 14.C 15.A 閱讀判斷(第16～22題，每題1分，共7分)
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New Product Will Save Lives
Drinking water that looks clean may still contain bugs(蟲子) ,which can cause illness. A small company called Genera Technologies has produced a testing method in three stages, which shows whether water is safe. The new test shows if water needs chemicals added to it, to destroy anything harmful. It was invented by scientist Dr. Adrian Parton, who started Genera five years ago. He and his employees have developed the test together with a British water company.
Andy Headland, Genera's marketing director, recently presented the test at a conference in the USA and forecast good American sales for it. Genera has already sold 11 of its tests at $ 42,500 a time in the UK and has a further four on order. It expects to sell another 25 tests before the end of March. The company says it is the only test in the UK to be approved by the government. Genera was formed five years ago and until October last year had only five employees;it now employs 14. Mr.Headland believes that the company should make around $19 million by the end of the year in the UK alone.
16 Genera Technologies has developed a method that determines whether water is clean.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
17 Before he set up Genera, Dr Parton had worked for a British water company.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
18 The new product has been a commercial success in the USA.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
19 Each of the tests costs $42,500.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
20 Genera Technologies orders 25 more tests before the end of the year.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
21 The British government is helping Dr Parton to sell the tests abroad.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
22 Genera has increased the number of its employees recently.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
16 A 17 C 18 B 19 A 20 B 21 C 22 A 概括大意與完成句子(第23～30題，每題1分，共8分)
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Alaska
1 In 1868 Americans welcomed Alaska into the Union as the 49th state, symbolizing a change of attitude from that held in 1867 ,when the peninsula was purchased from Russia. Then, most Americans had little interest in 1,500,000 square kilometers “of icebergs and polar bears”—beyond Canada's western borders, far from the settled areas of the United States.
2 In those sections of the state which lie above the Arctic Circle, Alaska still is a land of icebergs and polar bears. Ice masses lie buried in the earth, which is permanently frozen to a depth of 90 or more meters. From early May until early August, the midnight sun never sets on this flat, treeless region, but the sun cannot melt the icy soil more than two-thirds of a meter down.
3 Alaska is America's largest state, but only about 325,000 people live there. According to estimates, 800,000 hectares of its land area are fit for plowing but only about 640,000 hectares are being cultivated.
4 Arctic Alaska has been the home of Eskimos for countless centuries. It is believed that the Eskimos moved there from Mongolia or Siberia, probably crossing Bering Strait, named for Vitus Bering, the Danish sea captain who discovered Alaska on his voyage for Russia in 1741. The Eskimos are the state's earliest known inhabitants. Russian fur traders established settlements but, by the time Alaska was sold to the United States, most of the traders had departed.
5 In 1896 gold was discovered near the Klondike River in Canada just across the Alaskan border. Thousands of Americans rushed to the region on their way to Klondike; some never returned. Alaska was never completely cut off again, although even today transportation is a major problem. There are only two motor routes from the U. S. mainland, and within the state, every town has its own airfield. Planes fly passengers, mail and freight to the most distant villages.
6 The gold that changed life so suddenly for Alaska was soon ended, and although many stories about mining camps have become part of American literature, the gold from Alaskan earth contributed less to economic progress than the fish from Alaskan waters. The fish caught in a single year range in value from $ 80 million to $ 90 million. Fur-bearing animals are plentiful in the forests and streams, and valuable fur seals inhabit the waters. After fishing, the state's chief industry is lumber and the production of wood pulp. In recent years, Alaska's single most important resource has become oil. The state also has large deposits of coal, copper, gold and other minerals.
23 Paragraph 3 _________
24 Paragraph 4 _________
25 Paragraph 5 _________
26 Paragraph 6 _________ A Rich resources of the state
B Connections with the outside world
C Transportation problem
D The natives of the land
E Cold climate
F Land and population
27 For as long as three months of a year, the sun _________on the ice-covered land of Alaska.
28 According to statistics, _________of the total area of Alaska has been used for farming.
29 Alaska was originally part of Russia, but was bought _________
30 Gold did not bring to Alaska as much wealth _________ A as fish does
B because of its rich natural resources
C by the United States in the 19th century
D shines day and night
E only a very small percentage
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Newspapers often tell us of floods in some parts of the United States.
Nearly every year on the great central drainages heavy rains and melting snow cause the waters to pour out the mountains and plains, to turn brooks into torrents, and to swell quiet streams into wild uncontrolled rivers. From Cairo to New Orleans, and from Pittsburgh to Paducah, the cry "River rising!" is a familiar yet fearful voice. . . When the rivers sometimes become too high or too swift to be controlled communities are flooded, families flee from their homes, croplands are washed out, and transportation comes to a halt. Hunger, disease, and death follow the wild waters.
Although given less publicity, the agricultural damage done by the many smaller, more frequent floods usually far exceeds the losses caused by the very grand ones. In the Central States, ditches and drains cause the flows from spring rains and melting snow to run far more rapidly than in the days before white men settled on the land. Once, excess spring flood waters emptied into lakes and swampy lands, there to be detained for slow release into stream and rivers. Now, systematic drainage has actually eliminated these natural reservoirs.
In the more rolling sections of the East, spring runoff was formerly absorbed and held temporarily in the porous soils beneath the unbroken expanse of forest. When large areas were converted to farm use, removal of the forest and the practice of up-and-down hill plowing deprived the soils of much of their ability to catch and store water.
The effects of eliminating the natural forest cover are shown in the gullied farm lands and widened stream channels found in some densely settled areas. Partly because the stream channels are more or less filled with material washed down from the uplands, and partly because storm runoff has increased, the channels are today no longer able to carry all the flow from heavy rains. This explains why the streams overtop banks far more often than in the days before settlement.
31. The best title for the selection would be______.
A. River Rising! River Rising!
B. Forests and Floods
C. Flooding in the U. S.
D. The Results of Flooding
32. All of the following cause floods EXCEPT______.
A. heavy rain
B. melting snow
C. increasing storm runoff
D. porous soil
33. The author states that______.
A. lakes and swamps once acted like natural reservoirs
B. up-and-down hill plowing catches and stores water
C. stream channels are the best carriers of water
D. floods are easily prevented and controlled
34. According to the selection, streams overtop their banks partly because______.
A. material from higher land is washed into them
B. ditches and drains lead into them
C. rivers become too swift
D. snow melts more rapidly nowadays
35. The floods which are given most publicity______.
A. cause no damage
B. cause the most damage
C. cause less agricultural damage than the many smaller, more frequent floods
D. far exceed the smaller, more frequent floods in agricultural loss
Mobile Phone and Diseases
A study by scientists in Finland has found that mobile phone radiation can cause changes in human cells that might affect the brain, the leader of the research team said.
But Darius Leszczynski, who headed the 2-year study and will present findings next week at a conference in Quebec(魁北克), said more research was needed to determine the seriousness of the changes and their impact on the brain or the body.
The study at Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority found that exposure to radiation from mobile phones can cause increased activity in hundreds of proteins in human cells grown in a laboratory, he said.
“We know that there is some biological response. We can detect it with our very sensitive approaches, but we do not know whether it can have any physiological effects on the human brain or human body,” Leszczynski said.
Nonetheless the study, the initial findings of which were published last month in the scientific journal Differentiation, raises new questions about whether mobile phone radiation can weaken the brain's protective shield against harmful substances.
The study focused on changes in cells that line blood vessels and on whether such changes could weaken the functioning of the blood-brain barrier, which prevents potentially harmful substances from entering the brain from the bloodstream, Leszczynski said.
The study found that a protein called hsp27 linked to the functioning of the blood-brain barrier showed increased activity due to irradiation and pointed to a possibility that such activity could make the shield more permeable(能透過的), he said.
“Increased protein activity might cause cells to shrink—not the blood vessels but the cells themselves—and then tiny gaps could appear between those cells through which some molecules could pass. ” he said.
Leszczynski declined to speculate on what kind of health risks that could pose, but said a French study indicated that headache, fatigue and sleep disorders could result.
“These are not life-threatening problems but can cause a lot of discomfort,” he said, adding that a Swedish group had also suggested a possible link with Alzheimer's disease.
“Where the truth is do not know,” he said.
Leszczynski said that he, his wife and children use mobile phones, and he said that he did not think his study suggested any need for new restrictions on mobile phone use.
36 According to Leszczynski, how does mobile phone affect one's health? _________
A Mobile phone radiation can increase protein activities and such activities can make the protective shield more permeable.
B Mobile phone radiation can shrink the blood vessels and prevent blood from flowing smoothly.
C Mobile phone radiation will bring stress to people exposed to it.
D Mobile phone radiation kills blood cells at a rapid speed.
37 What's the result of the French study? _________
A The harm of mobile phone radiation is life-threatening.
B Mobile phone may affect one's normal way of thinking.
C Sleep disorders could result from mobile phone radiation.
D A protein called hsp27 is killed by mobile phone radiation.
38 What kind of disease is not caused by the use of mobile phone? _________
A Fatigue.
B Headache.
C Alzheimer's disease.
D Tuberculosis.
39 According to the passage, what would be the future of the use of mobile phone? _________
A People will be forbidden to use mobile phone.
B People dare not use mobile phone because of its radiation.
C People will continue to use mobile phone.
D There will be new restrictions on the use of mobile phone.
40 Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? _________
A The research in Finland found that mobile phone radiation will affect one's brain.
B Mobile phone radiation can cause increased activity in hundreds of protein in human cells.
C Increased protein activity might cause cells to shrink.
D Lszczynski forbid his wife and children to use mobile phone after his research.
Electronic Mail (E-mail)
During the past few years, scientists the world over have suddenly found themselves productively engaged in task they once spent their lives avoiding-writing, any kind of writing, but particularly letter writing. Encouraged by electronic mail's surprisingly high speed, convenience and economy, people who never before touched the stuff are regularly, skillfully, even cheerfully tapping out a great deal of correspondence.
Electronic networks, woven into the fabric of scientific communication these days, are the route to colleagues in distant countries, shared data, bulletin boards and electronic journals. Anyone with a personal computer, a modem and the software to link computers over telephone lines can sign on. An estimated five million scientists have done so with more joining every day, most of them communicating through a bundle of interconnected domestic and foreign routes known collectively as the Internet, or net.
E-mail is starting to edge out the fax, the telephone, overnight mail, and of course, land mail. It shrinks time and distance between scientific collaborators, in part because it is conveniently asynchronous (writers can type while their colleagues across time zones sleep; their message will be waiting). If it is not yet speeding discoveries, it is certainly accelerating communication.
Jeremy Bernstei, the physicist and science writer, once called E-mail the physicist's umbilical cord. Lately other people, too, have been discovering its connective virtues. Physicists are using it; college students are using it, everybody is using it, and as a sign that it has come of age, the New Yorker has celebrated its liberating presence with a cartoon-an appreciative dog seated at a keyboard, saying happily, “On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.”
41 The reasons given below about the popularity of E-mail can be found in the passage EXCEPT __________.
A direct and reliable
B time-saving in delivery
C money-saving
D available at any time
42 How is the Internet or net explained in the passage? __________
A Electronic routes used to read home and international journals.
B Electronic routes used to fax or correspond overnight.
C Electronic routes waiting for correspondence while one is sleeping.
D Electronic routes connected among millions of users, home and abroad.
43 What does the sentence “If it is not yet speeding discoveries, it is certainly accelerating communication” most probably mean? __________
A The quick speed of correspondence may have ill-effects on discoveries.
B Although it does not speed up correspondence, it helps make discoveries.
C It quickens mutual communication even if it does not accelerate discoveries.
D It shrinks time for communication and accelerates discoveries.
44 What does the sentence “On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.”imply in the last paragraph? __________
A Even dogs are interested in the computer.
B E-mail has become very popular.
C Dogs are liberated from their usual duties.
D E-mail deprives dogs of their owners' love.
45 What will happen to fax, land mail, overnight mail, etc. according to the writer? __________
A Their functions cannot be replaced by E-mail.
B They will co-exist with E-mail for a long time.
C Less and less people will use them.
D They will play a supplementary function to E-mail.
31. C 3 2. D 3 3. A 3 4. A 35. C
36A 37C 38D 39C 40D
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Conservation or Wasted Effort?
The black robin (旅鶇) is one of the world's rarest birds. It is a small, wild bird, and it lives only on the island of Little Mangere, off the coast of New Zealand. In 1967 there were about fifty black robins there; in 1977 there were fewer than ten.46
Energetic steps are being taken to preserve the black robin. 47 The idea is to buy an-other island nearby as a special home, a “reserve”, for threatened wild life, including black robins. The organizers say that Little Mangere should then be restocked (重新準(zhǔn)備) with the robin's food. Thousands of the required plants are at present being cultivated in New Zealand.
Is all this concern a waste of human effort? 48 Are we losing our sense of what is reasonable and what is unreasonable?
In the earth's long, long past hundreds of kinds of creatures have evolved, risen to a degree of success and died out. In the long, long future there will be many new and different forms of life. Those creatures that adapt themselves successfully to what the earth offers will survive for a long time.49 This is nature's proven method of operation.
The rule of selection “the survival of the fittest” is the one by which human beings have themselves arrived on the scene. We, being one of the most adaptable creatures the earth has yet produced, may last longer than most, 50 You may take it as another rule that when, at last, human beings show signs of dying out, no other creature will extend a paw (爪) to postpone our departure. On the contrary, we will be hurried out.
Life seems to have grown too tough for black robins. I leave you to judge whether we should try to do anything about it.
A Some creatures, certain small animals, insects and birds, will almost certainly outlast (比……長(zhǎng)久)man, for they seem even more adaptable.
B Those that fail to meet the challenges will disappear early.
C Detailed studies are going on, and a public appeal for money has been made.
D Both represent orders in the classification of life.
E Is it any business of ours whether the black robin survives or dies out?
F These are the only black robins left in the world.
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China to Help Europe Develop GPS Rival
China is to contribute to a new global satellite navigation system being developed by European nations. The Galileo satellite system ____51____ a more accurate civilian alternative to the Global Positioning System(GPS), operated by the US military. China will provide 230m Euros (USD259m) in ____52____ and will cooperate with technical, manufacturing and market development. “China will help Galileo to ____53____ the major world infrastructure for the growing market for location services,” said Loyola de Palacio, EU transport commissioner. A new center that will coordinate co-operation was also announced____ 54____ the European Commission, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology not long____ 55 ____The China-Europe Global Navigation Satellite System Technical Training and Cooperation Center will be ____56____ at Beijing University. China has a substantial satellite launch industry and could potentially help launch the Galileo satellites.
The US has claimed that Galileo could interfere ____57____ the US ability to downgrade the GPS service during military conflicts. European officials say this is unfounded and counter that US opposition ____58____ the commercial challenge Galileo would present to GPS. Galileo will be precise to within a meter, while the civilian GPS service is accurate to around 10 meters.
The Galileo satellite constellation will ____59____ 27 operational and three reserve satellites orbiting the Earth at an altitude of 23,600km. The satellites will be strung along three medium-Earth orbits at 56 degrees inclination to the equator and will provide global coverage. The system should be operational by 2008 and the entire project is expected to ____60____ around 3.2 billion Euros (USD3.6 billion).
The European Commission has said Galileo will primarily be used for transportation technology, scientific research, land management and disaster monitoring.
Galileo will provide two signals: a standard civilian one and in encrypted, wide-band signal ____61____ the Public Regulated Service (PRS). This second signal is designed to withstand localized jamming and will be used by police and military services in Europe. European Commission ____62____ have said China will not be given access to the PRS.
The first Galileo satellite is scheduled to launch late in 2004. Clocks on board ____63____ will be synchronized through 20 ground sensors stations, two command centers and 15 uplink stations.
Receivers on the ground will use time signals from the satellites to precisely calculate their ____64____ A “search and rescue” function will also ____65____ distress signals be relayed through the constellation of satellites.
51A offer B offered C will offer D has offered
52A funding B providing C paying D charging
53A build B use C become D do
54A in B at C on D by
55A before B ago C after D later
56A found B produced C positioned D located
57A with B for C about D above
58A results in B gives rise to C is due to D causes
59A be made from B consist of C consist in D be consisted of
60A spend B gain C give D cost
61A offered B called C used D turned
62A officials B countries C organization D agreement
63A satellite B the satellite C the satellites D satellites
64A speed B direction C distance D location
65A send B let C allow D transmit
51 C 52 A 53 C 54 D 55 B
56 D 57 A 58 C 59 B 60 D
61 B 62 A 63 B 64 D 65 B