He’s out there somewhere, an instant icon in the records of American conflict, the final big-game hunter. But a puzzle, too, his identity would be kept a secret for now, and maybe forever.

He is the unknown shooter. The nameless, faceless triggerman who put a bullet in the head of the world’s most notorious（臭名昭著的）terrorist, Bin Laden.

He’s likely between the ages of 26 and 33, says Marcinko, founder of the “SEALs Team 6” that many believe led the attack on Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. He’ll be old enough to have had time to hurdle the extra training tests required to join the counter-terrorism unit, yet young enough to stand the body-punishing harshness of the job. The shooter’s a man, it’s safe to say, because there are no women in the SEALs. And there’s a good chance he’s white, though the SEALs have stepped up efforts to increase the number of minorities in their ranks, Marcinko and Smith say.

He was probably a high school or college athlete, Smith says, a physical specimen who combines strength, speed and wisdom. “They call themselves ‘tactical athletes,’” says Smith, who works with many future SEALs in his Heroes of Tomorrow training program in Severna Park. “It’s getting very scientific.”

Marcinko puts it in more conventional terms: “He’ll be ripped,” says the author of the best-selling autobiography “Rogue Warrior.” “He’s got a lot of upper-body strength. Long arms. Thin waist. Flat stomach.”

On this point, Greitens departs a bit. “You can’t make a lot of physical assumptions,” says the author of “The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL.” There are SEALs who are 5 feet 4 and SEALs who are 6 feet 5, Greitens says. In his training group, he adds, there were college football boys who couldn’t hack it; those who survived were most often men in good shape, but they also had a willingness to show their concerns in favor of the mission.

The shooter’s probably not the crew-cut（平頭）, neatly shaven ideal we’ve come to expect from American fighting forces. “He’s bearded, rough-looking, like a street naughty boy,” Marcinko supposes. “You don’t want to stick out.” Marcinko calls it “modified grooming standards.”

His hands will be calloused（長老繭）, Smith says, or just rough enough,” as Marcinko puts it. And “he’s got frag in him somewhere,” Marcinko says, using the battlefield shorthand for “fragments” of bullets or explosive devices. This will not have been the shooter’s first adventure. Marcinko estimates that he might have made a dozen or more deployments（部署）, tours when he was likely to have dealt with quite a number of dangerous situations, getting ready any time for explosive devices or bullets.

1.Which of the following is most likely to be the title of the passage?

A. Who shot Bin Laden?                B. What do the SEALS do?

C. How can boys be SEALS?             D. What SEALS are like?

2.We can say for sure according to the passage that ___________.

A. the shooter will eventually be revealed in the Press

B. the writer is a person who is curious about the shooter

C. the writer is a detective who tries to arrest the shooter

D. the shooter is a strong man with a pair of rough hands

3.Which of the following are the names of writers mentioned in the passage?

   ①. Marcinko ②. Greitens ③. Smith ④. Abbottabad

   A. ①④             B. ③④            C. ②③            D. ①②

　　Ever since news of widespread food recalls caused by a carcinogenic dye broke, there has been confusion(混淆) over possible links to the country of the same name, but Sudan officials say there is no connection whatever.?

Sudan1 is a red industrial dye that has been found in some chilli powder, but was banned in food products across the European Union (EU) in July 2003.?

Since the ban was put in place, EU officials have been striving to remove some food products from the shelves. So far 580 products have been recalled.?

Last week Sudan's Embassy in the United Kingdom asked the Food Standards Agency (FSA) for clarification of the origin of the dye's name.?

Omaima Mahmoud Al Sharief, a press official at Sudan's Embassy in China, explained the purpose of the inquiry was to clear up any misunderstanding over links between the country and the poisonous dye.?

“We want to keep an eye on every detail and avoid any misunderstanding there,” she said. “Our embassy to Britain asked them how the dye got that name and whether the dye had something to do with our country. But they told us there was no relationship.”?

The FSA, an independent food security watchdog in Britain, received a letter from the Sudanese embassy last week.?

“They asked us why the dye is named Sudan, however, we also do not know how it got the name,” she said. “People found the dye in 1883 and gave it the name. Nobody knows the reason, and we cannot give any explanation before we find out.”?

Sudan dyes, which include Sudan?1 to 4,are red dyes used for colouring solvents(溶劑),oils, waxes, petrol, shoe and floor polishes. They are classified as carcinogens by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.?

What does the underlined word mean in Paragraph One??

A. Causing cancer.B. Having side effect.

C. Containing poison.D. Poisonous.

How did the Sudan?1 get its name??

A. The dye is often produced in Sudan.?

B. The dye has something to do with the country named Sudan.?

C. Nobody is sure of the origin of the name.?

D. Many foods produced in Sudan contain the dye.

We can infer from the passage that _______.?

A. the Sudan government is paying much attention to the food safety?

B. Sudan?1 is often used to be added to the food?

C. people didn't realize the danger of Sudan?1 until 2003?

D. many food shops will be closed down

Which of the following is the best title??

A. Keep away from Sudan?1

B. No Sudan?1 dye links to the country?

C. How Sudan?1 dye got its name

D. Pay attention to the food safety

Most people give little thought to the pens they write with, especially since the printers in modern homes and offices mean that very  【小題1】 things are hand written. All too often, people buy a pen based only on  【小題2】, and wonder why they are not satisfied  【小題3】 they begin to use it. However, buying a pen that you’ll enjoy is not  【小題4】 if you keep the following in mind.
First of all, a pen should fit comfortably in your hand and be  【小題5】  to use. The thickness of the pen is the most important characteristic  【小題6】 comfort. Having a small hand and thick fingers, you may be comfortable with a thin pen. If you have a  【小題7】 hand and thicker fingers, you may  【小題8】 a fatter pen. The length of a pen can 【小題9】 influence comfort. A pen that is too  【小題10】 can easily feel top-heavy and unstable.
Then, the writing point of the pen should  【小題11】 the ink to flow evenly（均勻地）while the pen remains in touch with the paper.  【小題12】 will make it possible for you to create a  【小題13】 line of writing. The point should also be sensitive enough to  【小題14】 ink from running when the pen is lifted. A point that does not block the    【小題15】   may leave drops of ink,  【小題16】 you pick the pen up and put it down again.
 【小題17】, the pen should make a thick, dark line. Fine-line pens may  【小題18】 bad handwriting, but fine lines do not command  【小題19】 next to printed text, as,  【小題20】 , a signature on a printed letter. A broader line, on the other hand, gives an impression of confidence and authority（權(quán)威）.

　　Why doesn’t the unemployment rate ever reach zero? Economists, who generally believe that supply tends to meet demand, have long thought about this question. Even in good times, i.e. not now, there are people who can’t find work. And even in bad times, i.e. now, there are job openings. With over 14 million people out of work and looking for a job, you would think every available job would be filled. But that’s not the case. Not now and not ever.
　　On Monday, the Nobel Prize committee awarded the prize for economics to the three scholars who have done the most to explain this phenomenon. Two of the winners are Americans, Peter Diamond of MIT and Dale Mortensen of Northwestern. The third winner is Christopher Pissarides, who teaches at the London School of Economics and was born on Cyprus.
　　Like most of economics, what they have found about why the jobless and ready-employers don’t find each other seems obvious. You have to find out there is job opening you are interested in. Employers need to get resumes （簡歷）. It takes a while for both employers and employees to make the decision that this is what they want. And these guys came up with a frame-work to study the problem of why people stay unemployed longer than they should and what can be done about it.
　　So what would today’s Nobel Prize winners do to solve the current problem of the unemployed? And does the awarding of the prize contribute to the politicians’ lowering joblessness?
　　Speaking from his north London home, Pissarides told The Associated Press the announcement came as “a complete surprise” though his work had already helped shape thinking on both sides of the Atlantic.
　　For example, the New Deal for Young People, a British government policy aimed at getting 18-24-year-olds back on the job market after long periods of unemployment, “is very much based on our work,” he said.
　　“One of the key things we found is that it is important to make sure that people do not stay unemployed too long so they don’t lose their feel for the labor force,” Pissarides told reporters in London. “The ways of dealing with this need not be expensive training – it could be as simple as providing work experience.”
【小題1】According to the writer, which is true about finding jobs?

Today, there’s hardly an aspect of our life that isn’t being upended by the tons of information available on the hundreds of millions of sites crowding the Internet, not to mention its ability to keep us in constant touch with each other via electronic mail. “If the automobile and aerospace technology had exploded at the same pace as computer and information technology,” says Microsoft, “a new car would cost about $ 2 and go 600 miles on a small quantity of gas. And you could buy a Boeing 747 for the cost of a pizza.”
Probably the biggest payoff, however, is the billions of dollars the Internet is saving companies in producing goods and serving for the needs of their customers. Nothing like it has been seen since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, when power-driven machines began producing more in a day than men could turn out in nearly a year. “We view the growth of the Internet and e-commerce as a global trend,” says Merrill Lynch, “along the lines of printing press, the telephone, the computer, and electricity.”
You would be hard pressed to name something that isn’t available on the Internet. Consider: books, health care, movie tickets, construction materials, baby clothes, stocks, cattle feed, music, electronics, antiques, tools, real estate, toys, autographs of famous people, wine and airline tickets. And even after you’ve moved on to your final resting place, there’s no reason those you love can’t keep in touch. A company called FinalThoughts.com offers a place for you to store “afterlife e-mails” you can send to Heaven with the help of a “guardian angel”.
Kids today are so computer literate that it in fact ensures the United States will remain the unchallenged leader in cyberspace for the foreseeable future. Nearly all children in families with incomes of more than $75,000 a year have home computers, according to a study by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Youngsters from ages 2 to 17 at all income levels have computers, with 52% of those connected to the Internet. Most kids use computers to play games (some for 30 hours or more a week), and many teenage girls think nothing of rushing home from school to have e-mail chats with friends they have just left.
What’s clear is that, whether we like it or not, the Internet is an ever growing part of our lives and there is no turning back. “The Internet is just 20% invented,” says cyber pioneer Jake Winebaum. “The last 80% is happening now.”
【小題1】What can we learn from the Microsoft’s remark?

A．There is a link between income and computer ownership.

B．Many American children don’t put computers to good use.

C．Studies show that boys are more computer literate than girls.

D．The U.S. will stay ahead in the information technology in years.