4、Last Sept.11 was an important day too. After unknown gunmen attacked aid workers from the Nobel Prize-winning Medicines sans Frontiers at a roadblock on that day, most of the international aid groups helping Darfur’s 6 million people stopped using the roads. On Dec.18, unknown gunmen attacked the southern town of GereidA．More than 70 aid workers then pulled out of the refugee (難民) camp there—Darfur’s largest, with 130,000 people—leaving only 10 Red Cross employees behind． Yet at the time no one said what had really caused the sudden pullbacks.

Damaging has become surprisingly common in Darfur, where 200,000 Africans have been killed and a third of the population have been sent fleeing into camps in three years of war. But the attacks on international aid workers suggested a dramatic and dangerous start—to attack on purpose those helping to keep Darfur’s millions of refugee alive. A dozen people from foreign NGOs (non-governmental organizations) have been killed in just the past six months, more than previous years. There are about 14,000 aid workers in Darfur now, the majority of them Sudanese, working for foreign NGOs and U.N. agencies and delivering $1 billion a year in aid. Just a few more terrible attacks could throw that into jeopardy. Last week 14 U.N. offices working in Darfur made a clear warning that “the humanitarian (人道主義) organization cannot possibly make certain the survival of the population in Darfur if aid workers don’t feel safe.”

1．What made Sept. 11 an important day according to the passage?

A．Two World Trade Center buildings were destroyed in the USA.

B．International aid groups stopped their help to Darfur.

C．A fight happened between the international aid workers and some unknown gunmen in Darfur.

D．International aid workers were attacked in Darfur.

2．Which of the following shows a picture of Darfur?

A．Darfur has been in war since the last Sept. 11.

B．Many people in Darfur are homeless because of the war.

C．Darfur will not get help from organizations including the UN.

D．International aid groups have never been attacked before.

3．The underlined word “jeopardy” in the last paragraph most probably means __________.

A．light                 B．practice                  C．danger                D． effect

4．Which of the following can be the title of the passage?

A．People in Darfur                                  B．International Aid Groups in Danger

C．War in Darfur                                      D．International Aid to Darfur

3、Mike Ingram had been a guard on the Ohio State football team in the late 1950s. I believe he may have been captain in his senior year. He is a tough-looking guy, a hero in Columbus, a brave fighter in a red-and-gray uniform.

One holiday season Jack and I had been at the F & R Lazarus department store downtown, and we saw, carrying a tall pile of boxes, someone who clearly was working in the Lazarus stockroom (倉(cāng)庫(kù)). It was Mike Ingram, post-Ohio State football player.

We stared—how could we help it? And Mike Ingram stopped in his track, looked right back at us, and said, with bite in his tone:” Yeah, it’s me.” Meaning: Go ahead and stare if you must.

Couldn’t really blame him. There was nothing wrong with what he was doing--- he was earning some money in the stockroom. But he was out in the world now, he wasn’t where he had been when everything was bathed in sunlight ; he was in Ohio Stadium, hearing the supporting shouts from 78,000 people who loved him and his teammates. He had moved past that first of life’s roles, as everyone does. It was his misfortune to have been famous very early; there must have been dozens and dozens of men in their twenties working in the Lazarus stockroom that holiday season, but Mike Ingram was the one sure to attract curious passers, because he was no longer who he was supposed to be.

1．When the writer met him in Lazarus, Mike was a __________.

A．salesman              B．manager            C．laborer                D．customer

2．By saying “how could we help it?” the writer means that __________.

A．he and his friend just can’t force themselves not to look at Mike

B．he wonders whether he and his friend can help Mike

C．he and his friend can’t stop looking at each other

D．he and his friend can do nothing to stop Mike carrying the boxes

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

A．Mike used to be very popular when he played in the Ohio State football team.

B．Many other people would stare at Mike like the writer when they run into him.

C．Working as an ordinary worker, according to the writer, is Mike’s misfortune.

D．Some people accept what life gives them.

4．We can infer from the passage that when Mike was stared at, he looked __________.

A．nice                     B．worried               C．shy                     D． unhappy

2、Not even Dan Brown and his Da Vinci code-breakers (密碼破譯者) dared deal with the mystery of Mona Lisa’s smile. But Nicu Sebe, a computer expert at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, did． He used ‘emotion recognition’ software to process the famous painting and found Mona Lisa happy (83 per cent) and slightly disgusted (厭煩的) (9 per cent).

Faces show emotions. Psychology, computer science, and engineering researchers are joining forces to teach machines to read expressions. If they succeed, your computer may one day “read” your mood． Machines equipped with emotional skills could also be used in teaching, gaming, mind-reading, etc.

“Mind Reader”, a system developed by Rosalind Picard at MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the US, uses input from a video camera to do real-time analysis of facial expressions. It reports on whether you seem “interested” or “agreeable” or if you’re “confused”. The system can help people recognize others’ emotions. Picard says this means we could teach a machine to be as sensitive as a human. In fact, a machine can be even smarter than people since it can tell if a person is lying or just “performing” by analyzing one’s facial movements.

Jeffrey Cohn, a psychologist at the University of Pittsburgh, uses the Facial Action Coding System to recognize human emotions. The system sorts more than 40 action units (AUS) of the face to tell people’s real emotions. He studied a videotape of a criminal who said to be sad about the murder of several family members and tried to pin the blame on someone else. But Cohn saw no real sadness in the woman’s face.

Sadness is a group of AUS that is difficult to do at the same time. You have to pull down the corners of your lips while bringing your eyebrows together and raising them. What the woman did was raise her cheeks to make a lip curl (撇嘴). Her brows stayed smooth.

1．The best title of this passage is “_________”.

     A．The emotion on your face                     B．Look at your face

       C．Your face tells a story                          D．Telling a lie

2．The missing sentence “This means, even though your mouth lies, your face doesn’t, and the machine will know it all.” should be put at the end of __________.

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

3．How many facial emotion analyses are mentioned in this passage?

   A．Four.                    B．Three.                 C．Two.                      D．One.

4．The underlined word “it” refers to __________.

   A．MIT                                                     B．the video camera

   C．one’s face emotion                       D．the real-time analysis

1、1．____ ____ ____ ____ ____（在1845年的秋天）, we ____ ____ ____ （出發(fā)）our journey across the continent.

2．Our bond ____ ____ ____ （追溯到，起始于）the time when we were both poor and ____ ____ ____ _____（樂(lè)于如此）

3．And, perhaps most puzzling of all, how were we able to ____ ____ ____（搞懂…的意思）what we heard and ____ the mistakes and errors ____（區(qū)分） “good” language?

4．Language experts have different answers. Some believe that we ____ ____ ____（具備）a special ability to learn language and that our brain ____ ____ ____（使自己適應(yīng)） the language we hear around us.

5．Chinese government is also working together with other countries and international organizations to ____ ____ ____ ____（提供便捷簡(jiǎn)單的方式）hospitals and clinics for low-income families ____ ____ ____. （生活在貧困中的）

26、Our government is determined to solve those problems that farmers are most _________about.

A. worrying                    B. concerning                C. worry                 D. concerned

25、She _______ a lot of suffering when she was ill.

A. went through             B. went by                  C. went after              D. went against

23、—Oh, life is so boring!

—Please don’t think so. I suppose you’ve come to the point         a change is needed.

A．where           B．when         C．which            D．a(chǎn)s

22、If you could go         you wanted to go in the world, where would you go?

A．whatever         B．wherever          C．whichever          D．whenever