At this rate, the forest will be completely _______________ within the next 30 years．

 A．damaged            B．ruined                 C．spoiled      D．destroyed

. He doesn’t like vegetables very much, and_______fruit, he never touches it.

       A. as for      B. as long as     C. as far as        D. as well as   

After a lot of weightlifting and 25 exhausting days training, a 52-year-old woman recently became the first female “gripman” on San Francisco’s historic cable cars.

Fannie Barnes passed her written test and completed a final run under the watchful eye of a supervisor, Municipal Railway spokesman Alan Siegel said.

Deep calluses(繭) are already forming at the base of her fingers and there is a hole in her glove. Two other women quit after a single day with injured muscles. “Now they’re going to have to change the word from gripman to grip person, just because of me,” Barnes said earlier, “I’m so excited.”

After almost a year of serious workouts, Barns can pull more than 61 kilos, only 23 kilos less than her body weight. And she’ll need the muscle, for this is no modern, push-button technology. Every time a car starts up again after making a stop, the gripman must haul back on a lever controlling a device that grips the cable, which runs continuously at 14 kilometers per hour. If the grip slips, so does the car. A second person operates the brakes.

In addition to having to throw her weight around on the job, she’s got to throw out some attitude to men who were hard to convince. The city employs 76 men in the job.

“A lot of men said mean things to me and didn’t want to help train me. But I would like to thank the guys who were against me because they gave me even more inspiration to do it.” she said.

Not all the men were against her. Many of the male colleagues yelled out support as she did her training runs. One of her biggest tests was drizzly December morning. She first went down the Hyde Street Hill, considered the most dangerous incline on the cable car routes. “I had to have the will and I had to believe I could do it,” she said. “It was scary, but as I started going down full grip and felt that I was in control, I knew I was on my way,” Barnes already is a pioneer of sorts. She started working as a cable car conductor six years ago, collecting fares and assisting on the back brake. She is one of only three women to have that job. But she said she always wanted the job up front on the car. (400)

What is unusual about Fannie Barnes getting a job as a gripman?

 A. She is the oldest one to work as a grpman.

 B. She is the first women to work as a gripman.

 C. She is the fattest women to work as a gripman.

 D. She is the most suitable one to work as a gripman.

What did the 52-year-old woman do when she first began working on the city’s cable car?

 A. As a gripman.    B. As a conductor.    C. As a brakeman.  D. As a supervisor.

It can be inferred from the passage that Fannie Barnes is ________.

A. strong and easy-going            B. strong-willed and self-confident

C. popular and humorous            D. considerate and quick-tempered

When we Americans shop at the grocery stores today, we don’t seem to be surprised at the sight of strawberries in the winter or perfect tomatoes from Holland. In the space of a generation, we’ve become accustomed to eating food that’s never grown roots in local soil. In fact, most produce(農(nóng)產(chǎn)品) grown in the United States travels an average of 1,500 miles before it gets sold.

Trucking, shipping and flying in food from around the country and the globe has a very bad effect on the environment and on public health. Take grapes for example. Every year, nearly 270 million pounds of grapes arrive in California, most of them shipped from Chile to the Port of Los Angeles. Their 5,900-mile journey in cargo ships and trucks gives off 7,000 tons of global warming pollution each year, and enough air pollution to cause dozens of asthma(哮喘) attacks and hundreds of missed school clays in California.

The way we eat has a great influence on the health of the planet. By choosing to eat lower on the food chain, and focusing on local and organic(有機(jī)的) produce, we can reduce global warming and air pollution, avoid poisonous chemicals, support local farmers and enjoy fresh, tasty food.

People are rediscovering the benefits of buying local food. How your food is grown, stored, transported, processed and cooked can all influence how it affects climate and the environment. Transportation-related influences are particularly important for imported foods. NRDC calculated the transportation influences of importing fresh produce and wine widely consumed in California. They directly compared the climate and air quality influenced by importing these foods instead of growing and consuming them in California. Their analysis shows that—all else being equal—locally grown foods are a better choice.

72. From the passage we can learn that most produce sold at the grocery stores in the US     .

A. is grown by local farmers                          B. is from foreign countries

C. comes from far away                              D. is out of season

73. What would be the effect of transportation of foods?

A. It pollutes the foods during the transportation.

B. It makes the cost of the foods much higher.

C. It makes the foods less fresh and tasteless.

D. It causes air pollution and global warming.

74. Which of the following may have a bad effect on the health of the planet?

A. Eating higher on the food chain.                 B. Eating locally grown foods.

C. Eating more organic produce.                    D. Eating fresh and tasty foods.

75. The main purpose of the passage is         .

A. to help the local farmers grow and sell their produce

B. to tell people that imported foods are less healthy

C. to warn people of the harmfulness of food transportation

D. to get local people to reject the imported foods

I wonder     we haven’t received her invitations yet. Her wedding is only two days away.

A. how        B. why           C. that           D. when

--Do you think there’s any possibility of the new educational programme     next year?

--Quite possible, according to some well-informed person.

A. carrying out      B. carried out  C. to be carried out D. being carried out

Word comes _____ free books will be given to ______come first in this book fair.

A. which,no matter who   B. that, anyone who    C.which,whoever      D.that,those who

_____ is commonly believed that the play was written by Shakespeare.

   A. It         B. That            C. What            D. As

第二節(jié):完成句子:每空格填一個(gè)詞

71. .這張照片讓我想起我的童年。

 The picture _______________ me ____________ my childhood.

72. 考試作弊，必予追究。

If you cheat in the exam you'll never                                   it.

73. 他來不來對(duì)我都一樣。

   It    _________    _________      __________     me whether he comes or not.

74. 我打賭我們會(huì)贏那場足球賽。

   I    ___      _____        _____     that we would    _____    the football match.

75. 吉姆和莉莉結(jié)婚三年了。

 Jim __________  ____________  ____________  ___________ Lily for three years.

Have you ever heard the story of the four-minute mile? Many years ago, people believed that it was impossible for a human being to run a mile in less than four minutes until Roger Banister proved it wrong in1954.

What happens if you put an animal in a pond? Any animal, big or small, will swim its way through. What happens when someone, who does not know how to swim, falls in deep waters? They drown. If an animal who has not learned swimming could escape by swimming, why not you? Because you believe you will drown while the animal does not.

Have you ever wondered why the letters are organized in a particular order on hour keyboard? You might have thought it is to increase the typing speed. Most people never question it. But the fact is that this system was developed to reduce the typing speed at a time when typewriter parts would jam if the operator typed too fast.

These three cases show the power of our beliefs. There is no other more powerful directing force in human behavior than belief. Your beliefs have the power to create and to destroy. A belief delivers a direct command to your nervous system.

I used a snake in my workshops for children to show them how unrealistic some of their beliefs are. Students of a school in India, said snakes were slippery, slimy (黏糊糊的) and poisonous. After doing an exercise for changing beliefs, they handled my snake and found it to be dry and clean. They also remembered that only three types of poisonous snakes exist in India.

Did this story end the way you thought? Review your beliefs now and find out which ones you need to change.

51. In the author’s opinion, if a person in deep water doesn’t know how to swim he will drown because _________.

A. he is afraid of water               B. he doesn’t want to live in the world

C. he hasn’t learned to swim before     D. he believes he will drown

52. The author thinks that the letters are organized in a particular order on your keyboard in order to _________.

A. reduce one’s typing speed          B. satisfy the operator

C. save more space                 D. increase one’s typing speed

53. The author’s experiment shows that __________.

 A. snakes in India aren’t poisonous       B. snakes can be caught easily

 C. snakes are slimy and poisonous      D. snakes are dry and clean

54. According to the passage, we know that ________.

  A. students from India have unrealistic beliefs on how to live a better life

  B. an animal who has not learned to swim will drown if you put it in a pond.

  C. Roger Banister was the first person who ran a mile in less than four minutes.

  D. most people don’t like the order the letters are arranged on your keyboard

55. The main idea of this passage should be that _______.

  A. beliefs make us seem stupid

  B. beliefs are very powerful

  C. changing your beliefs now if necessary

  D. people should always believe in themselves