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[单项选择]Questions 15 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
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Which of the following statements is NOT true
A. The ship described in this article was crossing the Arctic Ocean.
B. The men, women, and children on the boat were very frightened.
C. The hole in the boat opened into the engine room.
D. The captain’s arm was in the icy water for an hour.
[单项选择]Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Most people think of lions as strictly African beasts, but only because they’ve been killed off almost everywhere else. Ten thousand years ago lions spanned vast sections of the globe. Now lions hold only a small fraction of their former habitat, and Asiatic lions, a subspecies that spit from African lions perhaps 100000 years ago, hang on to an almost impossibly small slice of their former territory.
India is the proud steward of these 300 or so lions, which live primarily in a 560-square-mile sanctuary(保护区). It took me a year and a half to get a permit to explore the entire Gir Forest—and no time at all to see why these lions became symbols of royalty and greatness. A tiger will hide in the forest unseen, but a lion stands its ground, curious and unafraid—lionhearted. Though they told me in subtle ways when I got too close, Gir’s lions allowed me unique glimpses into their lives during
A. the present sanctuary is not large enough
B. scientists want to do more research on them
C. they have killed many people
D. the forest is shrinking in size
[单项选择]Questions 14 to 16 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
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Why were Thorpe’s medals taken away from him
A. Because someone found out that Thorpe had been using drugs.
B. Because it was found out that Thorpe had once been an amateur athlete.
C. Because Thorpe’s fame began to decline after the Olympic Games.
D. Because it was found out that at one time Thorpe had been a professional athlet
[单项选择] Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following passage.
At the end of the passage, you will be giv en 20 seconds to answer the
questions.
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What are the general reaction when people are watching movies
A. They are deeply involved and forget all the troubles and problems.
B. They feel everything on the screen is too romantic and familiar.
C. They are greatly stirred and want to fulfill their own dreams.
D. They are often moved to tears.
[单项选择] Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
No one should be forced to wear a uniform under any circumstances. Uniforms are demanding to the human spirit and totally unnecessary in a democratic society. Uniforms tell the world that the person who wears one has no value as an individual but only lives to function as a part of a whole. The individual in a uniform loses all self-worth.
There are those who say that wearing a uniform gives a person a sense of identification with a larger, more important concept. What could be more important than the individual himself If an organization is so weak that it must rely on cloth and buttons to inspire its members, that organization has no right to continue its existence. Others say that the practice of making persons wear uniforms, say in a school, eliminates all envy and competition in the matter of dress, such that a poor person who cannot afford good-quality clothing is not to be belittled by a wealthy per
A. importance
B. meaning
C. self-value
D. pride
[单项选择] Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Protests at the use of animals in research have taken a new and fearful character in Britain with the attempted murder of two British scientists by the terrorist technique of the pre-planted car-bomb.
The research community will rightly be alarmed at these development, which have two objectives: to arouse public attention and to frighten people working in research with animals. The first need is that everything should be done to identify those responsible for the crimes and to put them on trial. The Defence Research Society has taken the practical step of offering a reward of 10,000 pounds for information leading to those responsible, but past experience is not encouraging. People are unlikely to be tempted by such offers. The professional police will similarly be confronted by the usual problem of finding a needle in a haystack.
That is why the intellectual community in Britain and elsewhere must ac
A. find out the criminals and punish them
B. find out the criminals and put them in front of the judge
C. call the police and put safeguards around the scientists
D. call for the people to fight against the criminals
[单项选择]Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will he given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
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After the conquest of Normans, French had become the main language of ______.
A. the actors
B. the engineers
C. the governors
D. the doctors
[填空题] Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Global warming refers to an increase in global surface temperature resulting from an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide, methane, and certain other trace gases in the atmosphere. These gases are (47) known as greenhouse gases because they (48) to the warming of the earth’s surface and lower atmosphere, a phenomenon called the greenhouse effect. Partly because the (49) of carbon dioxide is related to the essential use of the carbon based energy sources, the (50) of global warming incorporates a broad, scientific and political debate about its significance and consequences.
Today, as the results of the efforts of thousands of scientists over several decades who have studied climate and its (51) with the global land-ocean-atmosphere system, the scientific understanding of global warming is both more clear and complex. Scientists have obtained strong
[单项选择]Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
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During the Middle Ages, what happened to the umbrella
A. It appeared again in Italy.
B. People hardly used it.
C. It became a symbol of honor and authority again.
D. It appeared in France and later on in Englan
[单项选择]Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
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According to the passage, which statement is CORRECT
A. The elephant is the biggest animal In the world.
B. Female and male elephants live together all life long.
C. The elephant has a good memory.
D. The male elephant often has lots of male friends.
