1.There Pictures from outer space now show us how much land has changed on earth．These images are taken by Landsat 7, a government satellite．The satellites have been used for 27 years．They reveal the clear-cutting of forests in the northwestern part of the United States．Pictures show the loss of rain forests in South America. 　　NASA's Darrel Williams speaks about the Landsat 7 Project．He said that an eruption caused trees to burn up in a large forest．Fifteen years later, pinkish images from space show that the trees and plant life are growing again．Williams says that clear-cut areas easily show up in the pictures．He wants Americans to look at how much land is being cleared of forests in our country. 　　Satellites have provided other information about changes on earth．In the past ten years, more than four miles have shrunk from glaciers in Alaska．Landsat 7 received these computer images of Glacier Bay in Alaska. 　　Hurricanes Floyd and Irene have damaged the coastline in North Carolina．Runoff from farms and silt have gone into the．ocean according to satellite images．Loss of trees and forests have caused hotter summers in southern cities such as Atlanta, Georgia. The Landsat 7 images are like pictures in a photo album．Instead of pictures of the family, the album shows changes around the globe in the past 25 years. 　　A new satellite, Terra, is going to be launched by NASA soon．It will be more advanced than Landsat 7 and will take important global pictures．Ocean temperatures and energy loss will be provided by Terra daily.21 NASA can tell that vegetation is growing back because of __.

2.根据以下材料，回答40-43题 How men first learned to invent words is unknown；in other words，the origin of language is amystery．All we really know is that men，unlike animals，somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings，actions and things，so that they could communicate with each other；and that later they agreed upon certain signs，called letters，which could be combined to representthose sounds and which could be written down．Those sounds，whether spoken，or written in letters，we call words． The power of words，then，lies in their associations—the things they bring up before ourminds．Words become filled with meaning for us by experience；and the longer We live，the morecertain words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past；and the more we read and learn，themore the number of words that mean something to us increases． Great writers are those who not oily have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in wordswhich appeal powerfully to our minds and emotions．This charming and telling use of words is whatwe call literary(文字的)style．AboVe all，the real poet is a master of Words．He can convey hismeaning in words which sing like music，and which by their position and association can move mento tears．We should therefore learn to choose our words carefully and use them accuratel3r，or they willmake our speech silly and rude．The origin of language．

3.The boy ’s pale face and lack of appetite aroused the teacher ’s _________.

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5.Mr. Smith receivers the order that he ( ) the documents to the new product meetingfor further discussion.

6.根据以下材料，回答36-39题 Men have traveled ever since they first appeared on the earth． In primitive times they did not travel for pleasure but to find new placeS where their herds couldfeed，or to escape from hostile neighbors，or to find mole favorable climates．They traveled on foot．Theirjoumeys were long，tiring，and often dangerous．They protected themselves with simple weapons，such aswooden sticks oi-stone clubs，and by lighting fires at night and，above all，by keeping together． Being intelligent and creative，they soon discovered easier ways of traveling．They rode on thebacks of their domesticated animals；they hoHowed out tree trunks and，by using bits of wood aspaddles．were able to travel across water． Later they traveled，not from necessity，but for the joy and excitement of seeing and experiencingnew things．This is still the main reason why we travel today. Traveling，of course，has now become a highly organized business．There are cars and splendid roads，express trains，huge ships and jet airliners，all of which provide us with comforts and security．·r11lis sounds wonderfm．But there are difficulties．If you want to go abroad，you need a passport and avisa，ticket，luggage，and a hundred of other things．If you lose any of them，your journey maybe mined．Which of the following statements is NOT true??

7.Passage ThreeIf women are mercilessly exploited (剥削) year after year, they are only themselves to blame. Because they tremble at the thought of beihg seen in public in clothes that are out of fashion, they are always taken advantage of by the designers and the big stores. Clothes which have been worn only a few times have to be put aside because of the change of fashion. When you come to think of it, only a woman is capable of standing in front of a wardrobe (衣柜) packed full of clothes and announcing sadly that she has nothing to wear.Changing fashions are nothing more than the intentional creation of waste. Many women spend vast sums of money each year to replace clothes that have hardly been worn. Women who cannot afford to throw away clothing in this way, waste hours of their time altering the dresses they have. Skirts are lengthened or shortened;necklines are lowered or raised, and so on.No one can claim that the fashion industry contributes anything really important to society. Fashion designers are rarely concerned with vital things like warmth, comfort and durability (耐用). They are only interested in outward appearance and they take advantage of the fact that women will put up with any amount of discomfort, as long as they look right. There can hardly be a man who hasn't at some time in his life smiled at the sight of a woman shaking in a thin dress on a winter day, delicately picking her way through deep snow in high-heeled shoes.When comparing men and women in the matter of fashion the conclusions to be drawn are obvious. Do the constantly changing fashion of women's clothes, one wonders, reflect basic qualities of inconstancy and instability? Men are too clever to let themselves be treated by fashion designers. Do their unchanging styles of dress reflect basic qualities of stabililty and feasibility?That's for you to decide. The writer would be less critical if fashion designers placed more stress on the__________of clothing.

8.Sometimes I scratch my head when I read about the government' s efforts to improve schools:newstandards and tests to be applied, strict teacher evaluations, and threats of school closures and joblosses. They frighten the school employees, not to mention the students. Instead of making peopleunable to solve problems or try new ideas--which is what fear does to us--research on schoolreform strongly suggests that policy-makers should encourage school leaders to take a morehumane approach. In their study on the reform efforts of twelve Chicago public schools, Bryk andSchneider found that enabling positive social relationships between the adults was the key tosuccessful school improvement and that trust was at the heart of those relationships.Trust in schools comes down to one thing:psychological safety or safety to speak one's mind,todiscuss with openness and honesty what is and isn' t working,to make collective decisions.Yet this kind of safety doesn' t come easily to schools. According to Bryk and Schneider, the adultsin school rely on each other to do their jobs correctly and with integrity (正直). The challeage isthat our expectations are very diverse based on our unique backgrounds.At one school where I taught, each teacher had different expectations about how much effortteachers should put into their work--a big difference between the teachers who left af~the last belland those who worked into the evening. And when expectations are uncoasci or unspoken, itbecomes impossible for others to live up to them.We also make assumptions about the intentions behind a person' s behavior. As we allImam,assumptions are often wrong. For example, parents and teachers my think the principal tamlparticular decision based on his career advancement rather than hat" s best for the studeata. don'tfeel psychologically safe to question our assumptions and e~aecmtiatm, trust itiea am the windowand our relationships suffer.According to Paragraph 1,why does the author scratch his head?

9.Passage ThreeIf women are mercilessly exploited (剥削) year after year, they are only themselves to blame. Because they tremble at the thought of beihg seen in public in clothes that are out of fashion, they are always taken advantage of by the designers and the big stores. Clothes which have been worn only a few times have to be put aside because of the change of fashion. When you come to think of it, only a woman is capable of standing in front of a wardrobe (衣柜) packed full of clothes and announcing sadly that she has nothing to wear.Changing fashions are nothing more than the intentional creation of waste. Many women spend vast sums of money each year to replace clothes that have hardly been worn. Women who cannot afford to throw away clothing in this way, waste hours of their time altering the dresses they have. Skirts are lengthened or shortened;necklines are lowered or raised, and so on.No one can claim that the fashion industry contributes anything really important to society. Fashion designers are rarely concerned with vital things like warmth, comfort and durability (耐用). They are only interested in outward appearance and they take advantage of the fact that women will put up with any amount of discomfort, as long as they look right. There can hardly be a man who hasn't at some time in his life smiled at the sight of a woman shaking in a thin dress on a winter day, delicately picking her way through deep snow in high-heeled shoes.When comparing men and women in the matter of fashion the conclusions to be drawn are obvious. Do the constantly changing fashion of women's clothes, one wonders, reflect basic qualities of inconstancy and instability? Men are too clever to let themselves be treated by fashion designers. Do their unchanging styles of dress reflect basic qualities of stabililty and feasibility?That's for you to decide. According to the passage,which of the following statements is TRUE?

10.It ’s important to locate industries in area where rich raw materials are _____.

11.He is so wise a man that all the people _______.

12.England is not a big country: from north to south and from east to west it is only about three hundred miles across．But for a small country it has a surprising range of climate．People who have never visited England or who have visited only one part of it often makes the mistake of thinking that it is a cold and wet country．Except for the summer months of June to September, this is probably true of the north of England and the Midlands．In the south, however, the climate is much more pleasant．One result is that when people retire from the job in the north, they often prefer to move down to the south. 　　Perhaps the warmest part of the country is the southwest, which consists of (is made up of) the counties of Devon and Cornwall, where palm trees, bamboo and many semitropical plants grow well．Flowers and vegetables ripen as much as a month earlier than those elsewhere．Farmers in the areas gain a higher price for their vegetables and flowers because they are ready earlier．In winter there may be several feet of snow in other parts of England but there will probably be no snow at all in the southwest．This may be one of the reasons why the southwest is one of England's most popular holiday areas.[单选题] In the north of England and the Midland,

13.Then, in 1966, a man name Sherman Poppen ____ two skis together for his kids on Christmasday.填入____处的最佳答案是()。

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In the last 500 years,nothing about people-not their clothes,ideas or languages-has changed as much as what they eat,The original chocolate drink was made from theseeds of the cocoa tree by South American Indians.The Spanishintroduced it to the rest ofthe world.And although it was very expensive,it quickly became fashionable.In London.shops where chocolate drinks were served became important meeting places.Some still exist today.

The potato is also from the New World.round 1500,the Spanish brought it fromPeru to Europe,where it was soon widely grown.Ireland became so dependent on it thatthousands of Irish people starved when the crop failed during thePotato Famineof 1845－1846,and thousands more were forced to emigrate toAmerica.There are many otherfoods that have traveled from South America to the Old World.But some others went inthe opposite direction.Brazil is now the world's largest grower of coffee,and coffee is animportant crop in Columbia and other South American countries.But it is native to Ethiopia.It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400s.

According to an Arabic legend,coffee was discovered by a goatherd namedKaldi.Henoticed that his goats were attracted to the red berries on a coffee bush,He tried one andexperienced thewide-awakefeeling that one-third of the world's population now startsthe day with.3.Thousands of Irish people starved during the“Potato Famine“because（）

15.She was so _____in her job that she didn't hear anybody knocking at the door.

16.My uncle has never been to a foreign country.___?

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Last Friday,after doing all the family shopping in the town.I wanted to have a restbefore catching the train.I1 a newspaper and some chocolate and2into the station coffee shop.It was a cheap self-service place with long tables to3at.I put myheavy bag down on the floor,4the newspaper and the chocolate on the table and thenwent to get a cup of coffee.

When I came back with the coffee.there was someone5in the next seat.6

was a boy,with dark glasses and old clothes,and7bright red at the front.He had

started to cat my chocolate!Naturally,I was rather uneasy about him.but I didn't want to have any8.I justread the newspaper,tasted my coffee and took a bit of chocolate.The boy looked at me in9.Then he took a10piece of my chocolate.I could hardly believe it.Still I didn'tsay anything to him.When he took a third piece,I felt more angry than uneasy.Ithought,"Well,I shall have the last piece,"And I got it.The boy gave me a strange look,then11up.As he left,he shouted out.

＂There's something.12with that woman!”Everyone looked at me,13I didn't

Want to quarrel with the boy,so I kept quiet.I did not realize that I had14a mistakeuntil I finished my coffee and was ready to15.My face turned red when I saw my unopened chocolate under the newspaper.The chocolate that I had been eating was the boy's!15.单选

18.We lost two superstars in 1977.Neither man’s admirers have been able to understand thesuccees of the other one.And this tells us something of the difference between the generationsthat the two singers represent.There were similarities between Bing Crosby and Elvis Presley.Both reached fame whileyoung and because very rich.Although neither one had any musical education，both developedtheir own musical styles。which were at first criticized by the Critics and later studied as newforms in the art of popular son9.Both man had successful movie careers despite a total lack ofacting ability.Both were creations of the microphone.which made it possible for signers with weakvoices to be heard beyond the third row.With Bing the microphone was usually hidden，butElvis brought it to the stage.The difference between the men reflects the changing values in American ife.Crosby’smusic was soothing( 令 人 舒 畅 的);Presley's was disturbin9.Crosby was singing to wartimeAmerica.His audiences had all the disturbances they could handle in their private lives.theydid not want to buy more at the record shop and the movie theater.Crosby’s admirers always said how“relaxed”and“natural”he was.When Presley beganhis career，the whole country had become relaxed and easygoin9.Its young people，who hadno rftemory of troubled times.found it borin9.They were hungry for excitement.Theywelcomed Elvis，who was certainly not the kind of young man their parents would admire.Presley was loud and valgar(粗俗的)-and he was bringing something new and exciting.It is probably too simple to explain each man in terms of changes in the economic and politicalsituation.Something in the culture was also changing.What is most likely to be discussed if the passage continues?

19.Different things usually stand for different feelings.Red,for example,is the coloroffire,heat,blood and life,People say red is an exciting and active color.Theyassociate(使发生联系）red with a strong feeling like1 .Red is used for signs of 2 .suchSTOP signs and fire engines.Orange is the bright.warm color of3 in autumn.Peoplesay orange is a 4 color.They associate orange withhappiness.Yellow is the color of 5.People say it is a cheerful color.They associate yellow too,with happiness.Greenis the cool color of grass in6 .People say it is a refreshing color.In general,people7 two groups of colors:warm colors and cool colors.The warm colors are red,orangeand 8.Where there are warm color and a lot of light.people usually want to be 9.Those who like to be with10 like red.The cool colors are11 and blue.Where there are these colors,people are usually worried.Some scientists say that timeseems to12 more slowly in a room with warm colors.They suggest that a warm coloris a good13for a living room or a14 .People who are having a rest or are eatingdo not want time to pass quickly.15 colors are better for some offices if the peopleworking there want time to pass quickly.11.

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Passage FiveAn interesting project called Blue Zones is recording the lifestyle secrets of the communities with the highest, hest concentrations of centenariansin the world.The people in the five regions in Europe, Latin America,Asia and the US that live to be 100 have a lot going for them. Genes probably play a small role, but these folks also have strong social ties ,tightly-knit families and lots of opportunities to exercise.As we were examining the dietary secrets of the Blue Zones, as described in author Dan Buettner" s latest book, The Blue Zones Solution, we were struck by how essential tea drinking is in these regions. In fact, Buettner' s Blue Zones Beverage Rule--a kind of guideline summarized from his 15 or so years of studying these places--is:" Drink coffee for breakfast, tea in the afternoon, wine at 5 p. tm"Science has plenty to say about the healthful virtues of green tea. Researchers are most enthusi- astic almt the components in green tea, as well as foods like cocoa. Why might they help so many Okina~vans in Japan break 1007 Some components in green tea can lower the risk of stroke,heart disease attd several cancers. One review study also found that drinking green tea can slightly improve metabolism (新陈代谢).If you find yourself on the island of Ikaria, the Greek Blue Zone in the middle of the Aegean, you won't be offered any tea made with tea leaves. Instead, Ikarians typically make their daily cup of tea with just one fresh herb that they have picked themselves that day--either rosemary, wild sage,oregano,nmrjotmn,mint or dandelion,all plants that may have anti-inflammatory (消炎的) properties,which may help lower blood pressure. This could explain Ikaria' s very low dementia (痴呆) rate,since high blood pressure is a risk factor for the disease.54. What may the tea Ikarians drink daily help?