1.III. Cloze ( 30 points)Mary Anning( 1799 - 1874) was a British fossil hunter who began finding 21 as a child, and soon supported herself and her very 22 family by finding and selling fossils.Very 23 is known about her life, but her father was a cabinet maker and he also 24 local fossils.Mary 25 on the southern coast of England, in a town called Lyme Regis. Its famous 26 by the sea contain 27 fossil layers that 28 from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods(the 29 of the dinosaurs, other bizarre reptiles, large insects, sea creatures, 30 mammals, and 31 life forms).Mary Anning 32 and prepared the first fossilized plesiosaur( an ocean-dwelling reptile) and the first Ichthyosaurus (an ocean-dwelling reptile that 33 like a dolphin). She found many other important fossils, including Pterodactylus (a flying reptile), sharks (and other fish), and so on. 34 with her brother Joseph, Mary supplied prepared fossil specimens to 35 museums, scientists, and private collections.24（）A.hunter B.find C.wanted D.collected

2.The environment affects the way people interact. To examine this conclusion, two researchers "decorated" three rooms. One room was refurnished to look ugly. The second room was intended to look average. The third room was designed to be beautiful. Individuals were then asked to sit in one of the three rooms and rate several pictures of people's faces. The results indicated that the environment has a significant effect on the way people rated the faces. Subjects in the beautiful room gave the pictures higher rates than did subjects in the ugly room. In addition, subjects in the ugly room found the task more unpleasant and boring than did subjects in the beautiful room.Subjects assigned to the ugly room attempted to leave sooner than did subjects assigned to the beautiful room. Color is one environmental factor that can affect your mood and even your ability to concentrate. One researcher concluded that the most pleasant colors, listed in order of preference, were blue, green, purple, red and yellow. The colors listed from most to least arousing were red, orange, yellow, violet, blue and green.Lighting also affects behavior. Elegant restaurants with dim lighting create a mood of intimacy (亲密) that encourages conversation. The bright lights of an office or a classroom, on the other hand,arouse and stimulate thinking.Room decoration, color, lighting, and even music and temperature all influence communication with others; but there is no all-purpose environment. The ideal environment depends on the taskt hat will be performed as well as on the needs and expectations of those present. The same environmental factors that encourage lively conversation and dancing at a New Year's Eve party cannot be expected to create a serene climate in which to study for final exams.Paragraph 1 shows that subjects in the ugly room tend to be __.

3. Jason made sharp comments on Mary’s idea，but he didn’t mean __________ her．

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What enables some people to get big creative breakthroughs while others only get small and non-creative breakdowns, blaming themselves and society? Are some people "gifted"? Are there other factors 21 work--factors that we have more control over than we think?While nobody can deny the 22 that some people seem to be blessed with particular creativity, research shows that anyone can 23 their chances of coming up with new and original ideas24 they would only engage themselves more in the process of 25 . It' s the old Thomas Edison thing about "discovery2699 percent perspiration (汗水) and 1 percent inspiration. "27 , the studies prove this:great creative breakthroughs usually happen only 28 intense periods of struggle. It is sustained effort towards a specific goal 29 eventually prepares for great creative insights.This kind of sustained effort does not always30 immediate results, a fact that not only separates the innovators (革新者) from non-innovators, but31 leads some people to conclude that it is just not . 32 for them. "Maybe I should have gone to medical school like my mother wanted," they wonder when the breakthrough is 33 to be found. Alas, one forgets during inevitable encounters34self-doubt,that the big surprise is never35 . Indeed,it can happen at any time and place.24.

5.There is a___（regular)rain in Sahara desert every year.

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I entered St.Thomas's Hospital as a medical student at the age of 18 and spent fiveyears there.I was an unsatisfactory student,for my heart was not in it.I had always wanted to be a writer,and in the evenings,after my tea.iwrote andread.Before long,1wrote a novel,called Liza of Lambeth,which I sent to apublisher and was accepted,Itappeared during my last year at the hospital and had something of a success.I felt I couldafford to give up medicine and make writing my profession:so,three days after I graduatedfrom the school of medicine,1 set out for Spain to write another book.Looking back now.and knowing the terrible difficulties of making a living by writing,I realize I was taking afearful risk.

The next ten years were very hard,and I earned an average of t100 a year.Then Ihad a bit of luck.The manager of the Court Theatre put on a play that failed.The nextplay he arranged to put on was not ready,and he was at his wit's end.He read a play ofmine and,though he did not much like it.he thought it might just run for the six weekstill the play he had in mind could be produced.It ran for fifteen months.Within a shortwhile,I had four plays running in London at the same time.Nothing of the kind had everhappened before.I was the talk of the town.3.The author gave up medicine because at that time（）

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Passage TwoThe great advance in rocker theory 40 years ago shows that liquid-fuel rockets were far superior in every respect to the skyrocket with its weak solid fuel. However, during the decade, large solid-fuel rockets with solid fuels about as powerful as liquid fuels have made their appearance, and it is a favorite layman ’s question to 19 inquire which one is ―better‖. The question is meaningless. One might as well ask whether a gasoline or a diesel engine is ―better‖. It all depends on the purpose, a liquid-fuel rocket is complicated, but has the advantage that it can be controlled beautifully. The burning of the rocket engine can be stopped completely: it can be reignited when desired. In addition, the thrust can be made to vary by adjusting the speed of the fuel pumps. A solid-fuel rocket, on the other hand, is rather simple in construction, though hard to build when a really at very short notice. A liquid-fuel rocket has to be fueled first and cannot be held in readiness for very long after it has been fueled. (82)However, once a solid-fuel rocket has been ignited, it will keep burning. It cannot be stopped and reignited whenever desired and its thrust cannot be varied. Because a solid-fuel rocket can be kept ready for a long time,most military employ solid fuels, but manned space-flight needs the fine adjustments that can only be provided by liquid fuels. It may be added that a liquid-fuel rocket is an expensive device; a large solid-fuel rocket is, by comparison, cheap. But the solid fuel, pound per pound, costs about 10 times as much as the liquid fuel. So you have, on the one hand, an expensive rocket with a cheap fuel and on the other hand a comparatively cheap rocket with an expensive fuel.The author feels that a comparison of liquid-fuel and solid-fuel rockets shows that _______.

8.III. Cloze ( 30 points)In Britain, people have different attitudes to the police. Most people generally 21 them and the job they do-although there are certain people who do not believe that the police 22 have the power that they do.What does a policeman actually do? It is not 23 job to describe. After all, a policeman has a number of jobs in one. A policeman often has to control traffic,either 24 foot in the center of a town, or in a police car on the roads, indeed, in Britain, he might be in the Traffic Police and spend all, or a lot of, hit time 25 up and down main roads and motorways. A traffic policeman has to help keep the traffic moving, stop 26 motorists and help when there is an accident.A policeman has to help keep the 27 , too. If there is a fight or some other disturbance, we 28 the police to come and restore order. And they often have to deal with situation at great risk to their own 29 .We expect the police to solve crimes, of course, so an ordinary policeman, even if he is not a detective, will often have to help 30 and arrest criminals.And 31 do we call when there is an emergency--an air crash, a fire, a road accident, or a robbery? We call the police. 32 a policeman has to be prepared to face any unpleasant emergency that may happen in the 33 world.The police do an absolutely necessary job, they do it 34 well and I support them, but I do not envy policeman. I do not think that I could 35 do the job of a policeman. （）A.hardly B.foreverC.ever D.never

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Passage Three

Eating an apple a day doesn' t keep the doctor away, but it does reduce the amount of trips you make to the drug store per year. That ' s according to a new study that investigates whether there' s any truth in the old saying.A team of researchers led by Dr Matthew Davis, of the University of Michigan School of Nursing,asked 8,399 participants to answer survey questions about diet and health. A total of 753 were apple eaters, consuming at least 149g of raw apple per day. The remaining 7,646 were classed as non-apple eaters. When both groups answered questions on trips to the doctor and trips to the drug store per year,the apple eaters were found to be 27% less likely to visit the druggist for drugs.Trips to the doctor were not significantly affected by apple consumption, though. "Evidence does not support that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. However, the small number of US adults who eat an apple a day does appear to use fewer prescription medications," the study concludes.Apple eaters were also found to be less likely to smoke and be more likely to have a higher educational attainment than non-apple eaters. While apples do not compete with oranges, they docontain some immune (免疫的) system-increasing vitamin C, which may be why apple-eaters visit the druggist less. With over 8mg of vitamin C per medium-sized fruit, an apple can provide roughly 14% your daily recommended intake.Previous studies have also linked apple consumption to a lower risk of Type 2 diabetes (二型糖尿病) ,improved lung function and a lower risk of colon (结肠) cancer.44. How many non-apple eaters answered survey questions in the research?

10.When several graduates apply for the same job, ______ is often given to whoever is better qualified for it.

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Nothing says “Happy Birthday!” like having a coin released in your honor by the United States

Mint(铸币局)，and 2009 has become an especially festive year as the Mint rolled out nine different

coins in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday.

Four pennies with new designs on the reverse side were issued stsrting February 12. The image of

a cabin represents his birthplace. Because Lincoln’s family was poor,and no one could have

predicted his later importance,the actual cabin is long gone.Therefore the design is based on the

“symbolic cabin” displayed at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site in Kentucky.

The other designs show Abraban taking a break to read a book, the young lawyer lincoln in front

of the Illinois state capitol and a Lincoln-free image of the half finished U.S.Capitol dome as it

looked during his time in office. These four coins-produced with today’s standard mix of 97.5

percent zinc and 2.5 percent copper-are intended for genernal circulation.

The Mint also relwased five collectible coins that sell for more than their face value . Special

editions of the four penny designs were produced with the metal content used in 1909:a mix of 95

percent copper and 5 percent tin and zinc . In addition, I the world of “bigger” money,2009has

brought the Lincoln Commemorative One-Dollar Coin-made up of 90 percent silver and 10 percent

copper-with an image that has a Gettysburg Address theme.

What does Paragraph 2 tell about the cabin on the coins?

12.Things are___worse than I thought.

13.Nobody should _____ the authority that people have placed on him.

14.The world's oceans have warmed 50 percent faster over the last 40 years than previously thought due to climate change, Australian and US climate researchers reported Wednesday．Higher ocean temperatures expand the volume of water, contributing to a rise in sea levels that is covering small island nations and threatening to destroy the low-lying, densely-populated low regions around the globe. 　　The study, published in the British journal Nature, adds to a growing scientific chorus of warnings about the pace and consequences rising oceans．It also serves as a corrective to a massive report issued last year by the Nobel-winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), according to the authors. 　　Rising sea levels are driven by two things: the thermal expansion of sea water, and additional water from melting sources of ice．Both processes are caused by global warming．The ice sheet that sits atop Greenland, for example, contains enough water to raise world ocean levels by seven meters, which would bury sea-level cities from Dhaka to Shanghai. 　　Trying to figure out how much each of these factors contributes to rising sea levels is critically important to understanding climate change, and forecasting future temperature rises, scientists say．But up to now, there has been a puzzling gap between the projections of computer-based climate models, and the observations of scientists gathering data from the oceans. 　　The new study, led by Catia Domingues of the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, is the first to reunite the models with observed data．Using new techniques to assess ocean temperatures to a depth of 700 meters from 1961 to 2003, it shows that thermal warming contributed to a 0.53 millimeter-per-year rise in sea levels rather than the 0.32 mm rise reported by the IPCC. [单选题] What happens when the ocean's temperature rises?

15.根据以下资料，回答16-30题。Every woman dreams of receiving a huge priceless diamond．Now space scientists __1__ that they have discovered the largest diamond in the universe．But it’s well 2_ the reach of the most loves truck men because it's 50 light years away, to be __3__．Measuring 2,500 miles across and weighing five million trillion pounds，the rock Was found on Valentine’ s Day __4__ in the core of a white dwarf star, and it has excited the _5__ world. “It’s the mother of all diamonds，”said Travis Metcalfe， __6__ led the team of researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre，“and you would need a jeweler’S loupe(专用放大镜)，the size of the Sun，to __7__ this diamond．” The largest diamond __8__ on earth was the 3，106-carat(克拉)Cullinan．It Was cut __9__ nine major stones，including the 530-carat Star of Africa，now a part of the Crown Jewels．Diamonds were __10__ discovered in India more than 2,800 years ago．The Ancient Romans __11__ that the stones were broken pieces of stars that had __12__ to earth．In Ancient Egypt，diamonds were used in funerals. In the Middle Ages，men __13__ them to symbolize their courage and strength．The __14__ of giving them as presents dates from 1477，__15__ Maximilian，the prince of Austria, gave a diamond ring to Mary of Burgundy．7A.measure,B.register,C.grade,D.weigh

16.Don't be___（patient)!You should listen to what he is saying first.

17.＂Hi,Jim.This is my brother WangTao.““___”

18.The traffic lights were red when the driver reached them．To the surprise of his passenger, the ear did not slow down．Unexpectedly the passenger was thrown forward in the vehicle as the driver put on his brakes at the last moment．The car stopped just in time. 　　"Sorry, I didn't notice the light．I thought it was green until I saw that it was the top light which was shining." 　　This strange story is quite true．About ten men in every hundred are color blind in some way; women are luckier-- only about one in two hundred suffers from color blindness. 　　In some cases, a man may not be able to see deep red．He may think that red, orange and yellow are all the same as green. 　　People often like one color more than others．Blue is the color of the sky and sea．Green makes us think of fields and trees．Red is the color of blood and makes some people think of danger．Black is the color of night．In the dark we cannot see what is around us so we are sometimes afraid of the unknown and do not like black as a color.[单选题] One is considered as a color blind man if __.

19.选出下面读音不同的选项()。

20.Passage FourDuring the summer session there will be a revised schedule of services for the university community. Specific changes for intercampus bus services, the cafeteria, and summer hours for the infirmary (医务室) and recreational and athletic facilities will be posted on the bulletin board outside of the cafeteria. Weekly movie and concert schedules which are in the process of being arranged will be posted each Wednesday outside of the cafeteria.Intercampus buses will leave the main hall every hour on the half hour and make all of the regular stops on their route around the campus. The cafeteria will serve breakfast, lunch, and early dinner from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m. during the week and from noon to 7 p. m. on weekends. The library will maintain regular hours during the week, but shorter hours on Saturdays and Sundays. The weekend hours are from noon to 7 p. m..All students who want to use the library borrowing services and the recreational, athletic,and entertainment facilities must have valid summer identification cards. This announcement will also appear in the next issue of the student newspaper. Which of the following is the main purpose of this announcement?