The past fifty years or so have seen the gradual disappearing of animals from this earth, fishes from the sea, trees and plants from the land.

    Many factors result in this on pleasant phenomenon(現(xiàn)象). Among them, hunting is the main factor that endangers wild life. Some people kill wild life for sport. They take pleasure in collecting heads and hides. Yet others specialize in commercial hunting like killing whales.

    Apart from this, the rapidly growing human population threatens wild life on land, too. Towns expand and roads have to be built, so forests are burnt and trees are cut down. It seems that man needs every inch of land within his reach, so he moves on to the natural habitat of wild life. Tigers lions and leopards slowly die off without the food arm shelter that the forests provide.

    In addition, rapid urbanization (城市化) means industrial expansion. Very often, poisonous chemicals, industrial wastes and oil are dumped into the rivers and seas. Fish and birds are threatened.

    Man depends greatly on animals for survival. He needs their flesh, hides and furs. Thus, man cannot, to without wild life; or he himself would die out. The public should be made aware that it would be better to shoot the animals with a camera than with a gun. In this way, they can preserve and help wild life to continue living rather than to remove all signs of it.

    Man must learn to farm the sea as he does the land. He should control the amount and the frequency of his catch. Man also needs to build reserves, and to pass laws to stop the killing of animals, especially those that are already rare. To keep the present animal kingdom, the least that man can do is to clean the seas and to prevent pollution.

52. How many causes are mentioned that result in the unpleasant phenomenon?

   A. 2              B. 3                C. 4.               D. 5

53. The underlined word "habitat" probably means          .

   A. life            B. home             C. land              D. condition

54. The writer's purpose in writing the text is to          .

   A. call people's attention to the danger of wild life

   B. explain how important wild life is to human beings

   C. call people's attention to serious problems of pollution

   D. explain the relationship between wild life and human beings

55. It is implied that man           .

   A. should not hunt wildlife

   B. will disappear if wild life dies out

   C. needs land more than wild life does

   D. has little knowledge of sea fanning

    I promised Michael I wouldn’t mention this until the season was over．Now l think it's time．

    Early last season, I wrote a column about an art of kindness I had seen Jordan do to a disabled child outside the stadium．After it ran，I got a call from a marl in the western suburbs．He said，“I read what you wrote about Jordan．but I thought I should tell you another thing I saw．”

Here it comes, I thought. It always does. Write something nice about a person, and people call you up to say that the person is not so nice.

    A few weeks later Jordan and I were talking about something else before a game, and I brought up what the man had said. Was the man right? Had Jordan really been talking to those two boys in that poor and dirty .neighborhood?

    "Not two boys," Jordan said. "But four."

    And he named them. He said four names. And what did they talk about?

    "Everything,” Jordan said. "Anything. I’ve asked to see their grades so that I can check to see if they're paying attention to their study. If it turns out that one or two of them may need teaching, I make sure they get it."

    It's just one more part of Michael Jordan's life one more thing that no one knows about, and one more thing Jordan does fight for. The NBA season is over now, and those boys have their memories. So do J! When the expert reviewers begin to tuna against Jordan as they surely will, I'll think about those boys under the streetlight, waiting for the man they know to come. For someone they can depend on.

45. The writer wrote this story about Jordan and his young friends because _______

   A. he thought highly of Jordan's deeds

   B. he hated to see Jordan do something bad

   C. he believed it was time to help the disabled

   D. he felt sure he needn't keep the promise then

46. A man in the western suburbs made a call to_______

   A. know why Jordan stopped in a bad area

   B. get a chance to become famous himself

   C. let the writer know Jordan was not that nice

   D. offer an example to show how Jordan helped others

47. Jordan talked with the boys because he _______.                     

   A. needed their support

   B. had promised to do so

   C. liked to teach them to play basketball

    D. wanted to make sure they all studied well

48. The text implies that Jordan is _______.

   A. an excellent basketball player

   B. good at dealing with problems of life

   C. always ready to make friends with young people

   D. willing to do whatever he can for the good of society

Before 1900, many theories existed as to the cause of yellow fever (黃熱病). Some doctors were sure the disease was air-borne; others felt that it was spread from person to person. Dr. Carlos Finlay, a well-known Cuban doctor of that time, had long held the theory that it was caused by the bite of mosquitoes. But neither the public nor the doctors then accepted his idea.

  Walter Reed，all American doctor sent to study yellow fever in Cuba，went to talk with Finlay．Reed，after reading a lot on the subject，had begun to think that Dr．Finlay might be fight．Then Reed and his comrades set to work at once．Outside Havana，they set up a laboratory and began experiments to test the theory．The experiments were successful．Now we know：A period of about two weeks must pass before a mosquito，after feeding on a sick person，could infect(傳染) another person．The sick person had to have yellow fever a certain number of days before the mosquito biting him was able to carry the disease．

40．Before 1900,many people didn’t think yellow fever was spread_______．

  A．by air

  B．by dirty water

  C．by the bite of certain mosquitoes

  D．by getting in touch with the patient

41．Who first realized the actual cause?

  A．The public．    B．Finlay．    C．Reed．

42．Reed proved the theory_______．

  A．in his American lab

  B．by talking with Finlay

  C．in a kind of scientific Way

  D．by reading a lot of articles

43．One will come down with yellow fever if he has been bitten by_______.

  A．a(chǎn) mosquito

  B．a(chǎn)n infected mosquito

  C．a(chǎn) mosquito that has bitten the patient

  D．a(chǎn) mosquito that has bitten the patient for some days

44．What is the possible title for the passage?

  A．Fighting against yellow fever

  B．A doctor against yellow fever

  C．The actual cause of yellow fever

  D．Several theories on yellow fever

   One night in February 1962, John H. Glenn, Jr. flew over Australia. The man in the Mercury  (水星) capsule was alone, but friendly voices reached him by radio. Over the dark land 100 miles below, he saw sparkling lights. It marked the city of Perth, where people had turned on their lights as a greeting to him.

   In Friendship 7, Glenn radioed, "The lights show up very well. Thank everybody for turning them on." His capsule moved on to the east.

   "During his three orbits of the earth, Glenn could always reach one of the 18 tracking stations. Some of them were on ships at sea. Others were in the United States.

   Many of the stations had been built with the help of other countries. These countries allowed  Americans to bring in radio equipment and set it up. Without the help of such lands as Nigeria,  Zanzibar and Mexico, there would have been breaks in the worldwide radio network. John Glenn, Jr. was the first American to orbit the earth. For his flight, the tracking network covered 60,000  statute miles (法定英里). 500 men worked in the stations along the route. Since his flight, the  network has grown. Today, it covers more than 100,000 statute miles and has about 100 stations. One-third of these stations are outside the United States.

36. People in the city of Perth turned on lights to ________.

   A. greet Glenn

   B. see Friendship 7

   C. guide Glenn to land

   D. celebrate the date of Glenn's flight

37. During his flight Glenn could __

   A. reach the ships at sea

   B. visit the tracking stations

   C. see lights on the ground clearly

   D. get in touch with people on land

38. From the text we know that tracking stations have the duty to

   A. serve the worldwide radio network                     

   B. decide the direction of Friendship 7

   C. help flying ships move around the earth

   D. connect people on land with those at sea

39. How many tracking stations are there in the US?

   A. About 18.        B. About 35.          C. About 65.          D. About 100.

    American grade 3 student Linda Brown had to walk a long way through a railway yard to get to her school in Topeka, Kansas. There was another school closer to home-- 16   Linda was black and this school was  17  white children only. Then her  18  made a decision that ended in a court case which  19  US society forever.

    The decision was simple: Linda was to  20  in the nearby all-white school. After the school 21  her, Mr. Brown brought a charge against the local education department.

    The case made it all the 22  to the US Supreme Court. On May 17, 1954, the court  23 that "Separate educational facilities are unequal." This historic ruling ended racial segregation (種族隔離) by  24  black children to go to the same schools as white children, and this  25  equal treatment for blacks and whites.

    Thanks to the Brown ruling, from the late 1950s segregation was  26  on a much wider scale. Buses, beaches, jobs, housing, voting --black people had equal rights  27  white people in most areas of society. The ruling  28  helped improve rights for women and the disabled.

    Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton said: "Brown was the most important court decision in US  29 ." In other countries, these problems. 30  have been solved through violence, she added.

    To  31  the 50th anniversary of the Brown decision, a museum was opened at Linda Brown's old school.  32  get to walk through the "Tunnel of Courage", in  33  they are surrounded by photos of  34  crowds and barking dogs. This gives them a taste of the hardships that Brown  35 at the whites-only school.

What you said just now did         her a lot. She felt very sad.

  A. injure            B. damage            C. wound              D. hurt

If you want to change for a double room, you will have to pay ________ $11.

  A. other          B. more               C. each                D. another

--Do you mind if I open the window?

--_______ . I feel a bit cold.

  A. Of course not    B. I'd rather you didn't

  C. Go ahead          D. Please close it

--Have you finished your composition already?

--Yes. I ________ it in twenty minutes.

  A. am finishing       B. finished            C. wilt finish           D. finish

A decision has been made ________ the new school building be built next month.

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