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“NOW I just don't believe that." Surely all of us, at some point, have watched a movie and thought: It's simply badly researched, or, the makers must think we're idiots (白癡).

  Recently, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph ran a humorous piece on unconvincing(不讓人信服的) tech moments from some top movies. Let's see what all the fuss (激動) is about.

  Telegraph writer Tom Chiver's first example is from the end-of-the-world movie Independence Day, in which a character comes up with a virus capable of destroying Windows, the computer system the alien spacecraft uses. “It's a good thing they didn't have Norton Antivirus,” jokes Chivers.

  It's just one case of a movie that takes a lot of license with its science. Another one Chivers mentions is from Star Wars, where glowing beams (閃亮的光束) of light traveling through space look very impressive. The problem is that in space there are no air particles (粒子) for the light to reflect off. In reality, they'd be invisible, which wouldn't look so cool on the big screen.

  Chiver's second piece of Star Wars nonsense is the sound the fighters make in the movies: “the bellow (咆哮) of an elephant mixed with a car driving on a wet road”. But sound needs a medium (介質) to travel through, like air. In space, there wouldn't actually be any sound at all.

  Few people would deny that the mind-bending Matrix films make for great viewing, but for Chivers, the science in the movies is a little silly.

  He comments “…the film is based on the idea that humans are kept alive as electricity generator (發(fā)電機). This is not just unlikely – it's fundamentally impossible. They would need more energy to stay alive than they would produce. It's like saying you'll power your car with batteries, and keep the batteries charged by running a dynamo (發(fā)電機) from the wheels.”

  And finally: as Chivers points out, DNA is not replaceable. But this bit of elementary genetics (遺傳學) passed the makers of the 2002 Bond film Die Another Day by. In the film the villain (壞人) has “gene therapy (療法)” to change his appearance and his DNA, which is completely impossible.

71. The following are all movies mentioned in the article except _______.

A. Die Another Day.      B. Matrix                     C. Star War      D. Norton Antivirus

72. Chivers uses the car as an example to show that _______.

A. cars can’t be powered by batteries

B. humans consume more power that they could have made

C. the villain has “gene therapy” to change his appearance and his DNA

D. it would take so much power to keep humans alive by electricity generator that it’s hardly possible

73. Which of the following is a scientific fact?

   A. No virus can destroy Windows.

   B. Light can be reflected with the help of air particles.

   C. DNA is replaceable as long as there is enough energy.

   D. We can design a car powered with batteries which are charged from the wheels.

74. What kind of people Chivers may be?

A. Humorous.       B. Brave.        C. Sensitive.    D. Careless.

75. Chivers probably writes the article in order to _______.

A. persuade people not to watch some silly movies

B. criticize movie makers’ carelessness

C. provide readers with something to read for fun

D. educate the public on some basic scientific knowledge

第二部分 英語知識運用（共兩節(jié)，滿分50分）

第一節(jié) 語法和詞匯知識（共15小題；每小題1分，滿分15分）

從A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

All the teachers are _______ content with the students’ performances during the Drama Festival, which are _______ worth watching.

   A. very; quite          B. well; quite         C. well; well          D. quite; very

Cell phones _______ by more and more teens and many new functions _______ to them nowadays.

A. are using, have added                         B. is used, are adding

C. are being used, have been added         D. being used, were added 

It is usually warm in my hometown in March, but it ______ be rather cold sometimes.

  A. must           B. can              C. should            D. would

This old computer must have been of great use to _______ did the scientific research.

A. those           B. when           C. whoever          D. whomever

They look forward to ___ China once again.

A. visited     B. visit      C. visiting      D. visiting to

To answer correctly is more important than ___.

A. finishing quickly  B. you finish quickly  C. to finish quickly  D.a quickly finish

We’ve finished Lesson One.Now let’s go on __ Lesson Two.

A. learning   B.with learning   C. to learn    D. learn

He asked me whether I __ this novel before.

A. was reading   B.had read  C. have read   D. read 

They hoped they ___ leave here immediately.

A. will  B.shall   C. should   D. would