7、It is hard to predict how science is going to turn out , and if it is really good science, it is impossible to predict. If the things to be found are actually new, they must be unknown in advance You cannot make choices on this matter. You either have science or you don't and if you have it you have to accept the surprising and disturbing pieces of information, along with the neat and useful bits.

The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we don’t know enough about nature. Indeed, I regard this as the major discovery of the past hundred years of biology. It is, in its way, a clear piece of news. It would have amazed the brightest minds of the 18th century to be told by any of us how little we know and how strange seems the way ahead . In earlier times, they either pretended to understand how things worked or simply made up stones to give answers. Now that we have begun exploring seriously, we are catching sight of how huge the questions are, and how far from being answered. Because of this, we are sorry. It is not so bad being ignorant     if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance, the worst spots and here and there the not-so-bad spots, but no true light at the end of the tunnel nor even any tunnels that can yet be trusted.

But we are making a beginning, and there ought to he some satisfaction. There are probably no questions we can think up that can’t he answered, sooner or later. Within our limits, we should be able to work our way through to all our answers, if we keep at it long enough, arid pay attention.

51. According to the writer, really good science_____________.

A. would surprise the brightest minds of the 18th  century.

B. will help people to make the right choice in advance.

C. will produced results which can be predicted

D. will bring about disturbing results

52. It can be inferred from the passage that scientists of the 18th century _________.

A. thought that they knew a great deal and could deal with most problems of science

B. knew that they were ignorant and wanted to know more about nature

C. were afraid of facing up to the realities of  scientific research.

D. did more harm than good in man’s understanding nature

53 .Which of he following is NOT mentioned about scientists in earlier times?

   A. They falsely declared to know all about nature.

   B. They did not believe in results from scientific observation.

   C. They paid little attention to the problems they didn’t understand.

   D. They invented false rules to explain things they didn’t understand.

54.What is the writer’s attitude towards science?

A. He is sorry because of the ignorance of scientists

B. He is delighted because of the latest scientific findings

C. He is doubtful because of the great difficulties in scientific research.

D. He is confident though he knows well the great difficulties in scientific research.

55. The writer believes that sooner or later__________.

A. man can’t deal with all the problems he can find because of the limits of human knowledge

B. man can find solutions to whatever questions concerning nature he can think up.

C. questions concerning nature are outside the field of scientific research

D. man can think up all the questions and answer them all

6、A "blogger" is a person who writes on an Internet computer Web site called a "blog". The word "blog" is a short way of saying Web log, or personal Web site. Anyone can start a blog, and they can write about anything they like.

There are millions of blogs on the Internet today. They provide news, information and ideas in many people who read them. They contain links to other Web sites. And they provide a place for people to write about their ideas and react to the ideas of others.

A research company called Perscus has studied more than 300 Web logs . It says that blogs are most popular with teenage girls. They use them to let their friends know what is happening in their lives. The study also says that more than 100,000 bloggers stopped taking part in the activity after a year.

However, some people develop serious blogs to present political and other ideas. For example,the Republican and Democratic parties in the southern state of Kentucky recently started their own blogs . And American companies are beginning to use blogs to advertise their products.

At the same time, some long-standing blogs have ended last week, blogging leader Dave Winer closed his free blog service "weblogs. com". He says the site became too costly to continue . He started the blog four years ago. And thousands of people had written on it. They are now upset because they did not know that the site was closing.

One blog that is still going strong is called Rebecca' s Pocket. Rebecca Blood created the Web-site in 1999. She wrote about the history of blogs on the site. That article led to a book called "The Weblog Handbook". It has been translated into four languages so far.

Ms. Blood says Rebecea's Pocket gets about 30,000 visitors a month. She writes about anything and everything--politics, culture and movies. She recently provided medical advice. And she wrote about how to prevent people from stealing money from on -line bank accounts.

46. The author wrote this passage mainly to _________.

    A. introduce an Internet computer Web site called "blog"

    B. introduce a short way of saying Weblog

    C. tell readers about blogs     

    D. tell readers how to write blogs

47. From the passage we can learn that blogs cover almost everything EXCEPT ______.

    A. different ideas                        B. medical advice

    C. advertisements                       D. account passwords

48. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

    A. Politicians don' t use blogs at all.

    B. A lot of bloggers no longer write or read blogs.

    C. Among school children, fewer boys like to use blogs.

    D. People have 5 language versions of  "The Weblog Handbook" to read.

49. Dave Winer closed his "weblogs. com" because __________.

    A. more than 100,000 bloggers stopped taking part in the activity

    B. American companies used blogs to advertise their products

    C. people stole money from on -line bank accounts

    D. He couldn’t afford the increasing money needed to run the blogs

50. The reason why Rebecca' s Pocket is still going strong is that ______.

    A. it was created by a woman     

    B. it is about the history of blogs

    C. it provides useful information and advice

    D. it has editions in at least four different languages

5、Years after throwing a bottle-up note into a lake for a class project and just one year after his death, a man’s childhood message was found and returned to his mother.

   Eleven years ago, a then 10-year-old boy, Joshua Baker, wrote the message, folded and put it in an empty container, his mother, Maggie Holbrook said. He died last February in a motor vehicle accident in California. He had recently returned after a serving in the Middle East as a US marine.

  “ I think he was just letting us know he was Ok and keep doing what we are doing ,” Holbrook said.

   The message surfaced in White Lake in late April, just days after the 11^th anniversary of its being thrown into the lake. It was found by one of Baker’s closest friends, Steve Lieder, she said. Lieder and two friends were chatting near the lake when Lieder looked down and saw the bottle. He broke it open and found the note inside.

  “My name is Joshua Baker. I am 10. If you find this, put it on the news. The date is 4/16/95.”

  They immediately took it to Holbrook, who said she is now having the note preserved and will display it in her home.

  She can remember when her son wrote the message for the school project. She said she always wondered why he didn’t put it in the nearby Wolf River, which has a much stronger current（水流）.

  “I still remember the day he wrote it,” Holbrook said. “ I couldn’t understand why he threw it in the lake. No one would never see it again. Now I know.”

41. What was Joshua Baker when he died in motor vehicle accident in California?
A. An official            B. A soldier           C. A worker          D. A teacher

42. Who found the bottle according to the passage?

A. Joshua Baker’s mother                             B. A fisherman

C. Joshua Baker’s friend                               D. Joshua Baker’s mother’s friend

43. What does the underlined sentence mean?

A. The mother believes his son is still living with her in the house.

B. The mother thinks his son will come to see her one day

C. The mother thinks it’s foolish to throw the note in the lake

D. The mother thinks the bottle is her son’s gift only left to her after his death

44. Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage?

A. The man threw the bottle into the lake without any purpose.

B. The man didn’t put the bottle into the nearby river because it had a strong current.

C. Not until recently did his mother understand why he put the bottle into the lake instead of the nearby river.

D. The man made the bottle-up note so as to let his parents know he was OK.

45. The best title for this passage would be ____.

A. A man’s Bottle Message Found After His Death

B. A Ridiculous and Unbelivable Bottle Message

C. A Strange Bottle-up Note Appearing In a Lake

D. An Important Childhood Message 11 Years After His Death

4、A visit to a doctor’s office costs from fifteen to fifty dollars. It is _31_ impossible for people to pay for the medical care they need. Many people in the United States think that doctors are overpaid. Most doctors, however, 32(agree). They say that they  33  (require) to study medicine for a long time. Tuition for many years of medical education costs a lot of money. Doctors say that it is  34  for most medical students to borrow money from bank to pay their tuition. Because their money must be repaid to  35  bank, young doctors need to receive a lot of money for their work. So, they charge(收費) people high prices  36  medical care.

 37  , it is possible that the high cost of medical care in America is unnecessary.  38  high tuition is one  39  of high costs,  40  way to lower costs would be to have medical schools that are free or have low tuition.

3、Have you ever heard the old saying, "Never judge a book by its cover"? This is a good rule to 21  when trying to judge the intelligence(智力 ) of others .Some people have   22   that shine only in certain situations .A young people with an unusual   23   in writing may find himself  24   in the presence of a pretty girl when he speaks .He may not be able to find the right words . But don't make mistake of thinking him   25  , with a pen and a paper, he can express himself better than anybody.

    26   people may fool you into overestimating (過高估計) their intelligence by   27   a good front. A student who listens   28   and takes notes in class is sure to make a favorable impression on his teachers. But when it comes to exams, he may score near the   29   of the class.

  It all boils down to this: you can't judge someone by appearance. The only way to determine (測定) a person's intelligence is to get to know him. Then you can see how he reacts (反應(yīng)) to different situations. The more situation you see, the better your judgment is   30   to be. So take your time. Don't judge a book by its cover.

2、 上周，我們以“誰是你的偶像”為題，在2600名學(xué)生中進(jìn)行了一次調(diào)查(survey)。以下是調(diào)查數(shù)據(jù)：

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根據(jù)以上數(shù)據(jù)，寫一篇短文，包括以下內(nèi)容：

1．調(diào)查時間、調(diào)查問題以及調(diào)查對象；

2．男女生在以明星為偶像方面的差異； 

3．“父母”在男女生偶像中的排序差異； 

4．男女生在以偉人為偶像方面的異同； 

5．你的偶像及理由。 

[寫作要求]

1．只能使用5個句子表達(dá)全部內(nèi)容； 

2．文中不能出現(xiàn)真實姓名和學(xué)校名稱。

[評分標(biāo)準(zhǔn)]

句子結(jié)構(gòu)準(zhǔn)確，信息內(nèi)容完整，篇章結(jié)構(gòu)連貫。

1、I was on my way to the Taiyetos Mountains. The sun was setting when my car   31  (break) down near a remote and poor village. Cursing my misfortune, I was wondering where I was going to spend the night when I realized that the villagers who had gathered around me were arguing as to 32  should have the honor of receiving me  33 a guest in their house. Finally, I accepted the offer of an old woman who lived alone in a little house. While she was getting me   34   (settle) into a tiny but clean room, the head of the village was tying up his horse to my car to pull it to   35   small town some 20 kilometers away   36   there was a garage.

   I had noticed three hens running free in my hostess's courtyard and that night one of them ended up in a dish on my table.    37   villagers brought me goat's cheese and hone. We drank together and talked   38    (merry) till far into the night.

    When the time came for me to say goodbye to my friends in the village, I wanted to reward the old woman   39   the trouble I had caused   40   .

8、    Every year more people recognize that it is wrong to kill wildlife for “sport.” Progress in this direction is slow because shooting is not a sport for watching, and only those few who take part realize the cruelty and destruction.

   The number of gunners, however, grows rapidly. Children too young to develop proper judgments through independent thought are led along way away by their gunning parents. They are subjected to advertisements of gun producers who describe shooting as good for their health and guncarrying as a way of putting redder blood in the veins (血管). They are persuaded by gunner magazines with stories honoring the chase and the kill. In school they view motion pictures which are supposedly meant to teach them how to deal with arms safely but which are actually designed to stimulate (刺激) a desire to own a gun. Wildlife is disappearing because of shooting and because of the loss of wildland habitat (棲息地). Habitat loss will continue with our increasing population, but can we slow the loss of wildlife caused by shooting? There doesn't seem to be any chance if the serious condition of our birds is not improved.

     Wildlife belongs to everyone and not to the gunners alone. Although most people do not shoot, they seem to forgive shooting for sport because they know little or nothing about it. The only answer, then, is to bring the truth about sport shooting to the great majority of people.

     Now, it is time to realize that animals have the same right to life as we do and that there is nothing fair or right about a person with a gun shooting the harmless and beautiful creatures. The gunners like to describe what they do as character-building, but we know that to wound an animal and watch it go through the agony of dying can make nobody happy. If, as they would have you believe, gun-carrying and killing improve human-character, then perhaps we should encourage war.

72. According to the text, most people do not seem to be against hunting because___________.

      A. they have little knowledge of it          B. it helps to build human character

      C. it is too costly to stop killing wildlife     D. they want to keep wildlife under control

73. The underlined word "agony" in the last paragraph probably means______________.

     A. form            B. Condition           C. pain                     D. sadness

74. According to the text, the films children watch at school actually__________.

     A. teach them how to deal with guns safely                B. praise hunting as character-building

   C. describe hunting as an exercise                                D. encourage them to have guns of their own

75. It can be inferred from the text that the author seems to_____________.

      A. blame the majority of people                B. worry about the existence of wildlife

      C. be in favour of war                             D. be in support of character-building

7、Since many of you are planning to study at college or university in this country, you may be curious to know what you usually do in a typical week, how you can get along with your fellow students, and so on. These are the questions I want to discuss with you today.

First, let’s talk about what your weekly schedule will look like. No matter what your major may be, you can expect to spend between four and six hours a week for each class attending lectures. Lectures are usually in very large rooms because some courses such as introduction to sociology or economics often have as many as two or three hundred students, especially at large universities. In lectures, it’s very important for you to take notes on what the professor says because the information in a lecture is often different from the information in your textbooks. Also, you can expect to have exam questions based on the lectures. So it isn’t enough to just read your text books; you have to attend lectures as well. In a typical week, you will also have a couple of hours of discussion for every class you take. The discussion section is a small group meeting usually with fewer than thirty students where you can ask questions about the lectures, the reading, and the homework. In large universities, graduate students, called teaching assistants, usually direct discussion sections.

If your major is chemistry, or physics, or another science, you’ll also have to spend several hours a week in the lab, or laboratory, doing experiments. This means that science majors spend more time in the classroom than non-science majors do. On the other hand, people who major in subjects like literature or history usually have to read and write more than science majors do.

44. The main purpose of this text is ____.

A. to help the students to learn about university life

B. to persuade the students to attend lectures

C. to encourage the students to take part in discussions

D. to advise the students to choose proper majors

45. We can learn from the passage that university professors _____.

A. spend about 5 hours on lectures each week

B. must join the students in the discussion sections

C. prefer to use textbooks in their lectures

D. require the students to read beyond the textbooks

46. A discussion section does NOT include ____.

A. working under the guidance of university professors

B. talking over what the students have read about the courses

C. discussing the problems related to the students’ homework

D. raising questions about what a professor has said in a lecture

47. According to the author, science majors ____.

A. have to work harder than non-science majors

B. spend less time on their studies than non-science majors

C. consider experiments more important than discussions

D. read and write less than non-science majors         

6、Besides giving off gases and dusts into the air, humans produce waste that is poured on the environment. Often, this waste produced by major industries and people is harmful to both nature and human life.

One of the main causes of the large amount of dangerous waste is that people do not realize how large a problem it is. Because it can be simply removed and sent to a landfill(廢渣填埋場),the problem is often believed to end there. In addition, industries have often shown an unwillingness to find ways to deal with dangerous waste because of the related expenses. Many industries and governments build simple landfills to store waste, and often just pour waste chemicals into nearby bodies of water. Often, chemicals used for industrial production cause dangerous forms of waste.The amount of these chemicals has increased greatly in the past, but it is often difficult and expensive to get rid of these chemicals or to store them in a way safe to human life and the environment.

Every year, major health problems result from dangerous waste. Sadly, it is often only after someone has died or become seriously ill that governments will take measures to reduce levels of harmful waste.

Some governments have realized how serious the dangerous waste problem is and are now trying to settle this problem. They are also trying to limit the amount of waste industries are allowed to produce.

Not  only governments but ordinary people as well must work together to solve the problem. They can choose not to buy those products which require the production of dangerous waste, and produce less harmful waste themselves. Many scientists think that waste production can be cut. The waste can be reduced by at least one third using existing technologies and methods.

72. What would be the best title for the text?

A. Measures of Reducing Dangerous Waste

B. Danger of Harmful Waste to Mankind

C. Dangerous Waste and Water Pollution

D. Environmental Protection

73.According to the text, people       .

A. do not produce harmful waste in their daily life

B. do not know where to place the dangerous waste

C. are not clear about how serious the dangerous  waste problem is

D. are not sure about where harmful waste ends

74.What troubles industries most in dealing with the dangerous waste problem?

A. How to get government support.

B. How to increase their production.

C. How to store harmful waste.

D. How to cut down the related costs.

75. What can be inferred from the passage?

A. The polluting industries are not allowed to sell their products.

B. Present technologies have settled the harmful waste problem.

C. Everyone should obey the government rules for the problem.

D. To solve the problem requires the efforts of the whole society.