Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish gather by the thousands off an Alabama pirer. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes（沼泽）, never to be seen again.
Marine scientists studying the effects of the BP disaster（英国石油公司漏油事件）are seeing some strange phenomena. Fish and other wildlife seem to be fleeing the oil out in the Gulf and clustering in cleaner waters along the coast in a trend that some researchers see as a potentially troubling sign. The animals' presence close to shore means their usual habitat is badly polluted, and the crowding could result in mass die-offs as fish run out of oxygen. Also, the animals could easily be captured by their enemies.
The nearly two-month-old spill（漏油）has created an environmental disaster in US history as tens of millions of gallons have flown into the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. Scientists are seeing some unusual things as they try to understand the effects on thousands of species of marine life.
For nearly four hours Monday, a three-person crew with Greenpeace cruised past delicate islands and mangrove-dotted inlets in Barataria Bay off southern Louisiana. They saw dolphins by the dozen frolicking（嬉戏）in the oily sheen（光泽）and oil-tinged pelicans feeding their young. But they spotted no dead animals.
"I think part of the reason why we're not seeing more yet is that the impacts of this crisis are really just beginning," Greenpeace marine biologist John Hocevar said.
The counting of dead wildlife in the Gulf is more than an academic exercise; the deaths will help determine how much BP pays in damages.
1.What do the marine life react to the BP disaster?
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A．Birds crawl deep into caves. |
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B．Dolphins and sharks show up in deep water. |
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C．Tens of thousands of marine animals are found dead. |
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D．Sea creatures flee from oil spill, gathering near seashore. |
2.The environmental disaster was caused by .
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A．the damage of the Mexico Gulf ecosystem |
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B．the lack of environmental sense of BP |
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C．the nearly two-month-old oil spill |
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D．the crowding marine life |
3.What is John Hocevar’s attitude towards the disaster?
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A．Worried. |
B．Disappointed. |
C．Depressed. |
D．Neutral. |
4.From the passage, we can infer that .
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A．BP will pay much money according to the number of dead wildlife there |
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B．marine scientists have seen some strange phenomena |
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C．the disaster has little influence on dolphins |
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D．a three-person crew reached no conclusion |
5. The test is most probably a ______ .
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A．newspaper ad |
B．book review |
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C．science news report |
D．science fiction story |
There are many older people in the world and there will be many more. A little-known fact is that over 60 percent of the older people live in developing countries. According to the World Health Organization, by 2020 there will be 1 billion, with over 700 million living in developing countries.
It is a surprising fact that the population ageing is particularly rapid in developing countries. For example, it took France 115 years for the rate of older people to double from 7 percent to 14 percent. It is estimated to take China a mere 27 years to achieve this same increase.
What are the implications of these increased numbers of older folk? One of the biggest worries for governments is that the longer people live, the more likelihood there is for diseases and for disability. Attention is being paid to the need to keep people as healthy as possible, including during old age, to lessen the financial burden on the state.
Another significant problem is the need for the younger generations to understand and value the older people in their society. In some African countries, certainly in Asia, older people are respected and regarded as the ones with special knowledge. Yet traditions are fading away daily, which does not make sure the continued high regard of older people. As society changes, attitudes will change.
Much needs to be done to get rid of age discrimination in employment. Life-long learning programs need to be provided to enable older people to be active members in a country's development.
Social security policies need to be established to provide adequate income protection for older people. Both public and private schemes are vital in order to build a suitable safety net.
1.The rate of older people________.
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A．is bigger in developed countries than in developing countries |
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B．is one-seventh of the population in developing countries |
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C．will increase much faster in China than in France |
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D．will be sixty percent in developing countries by 2020 |
2.According to passage, which of the following are governments most worried about
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A．Thediseasesanddisabilityofolderpeople. |
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B．Thelongerlifeandgoodhealthofpeople. |
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C．Thelossoftaxesonolderpeople. |
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D．Theincreasingrespectforolderpeople. |
3. It is stated directly in the passage that older people should ________.
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A．be treated differently in different cultures |
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B．enjoy a similar lifestyle |
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C．be ignored as society changes |
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D．be valued by the yonger generations |
4.Which of the following measure is NOT mentioned to solve the population ageing problem?
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A．Getting rid of age discrimination in employment. |
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B．Supplying life-long learning programs to older people. |
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C．Making sure adequate income protection for older people. |
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D．Providing free health care for sick older people. |
5.The author concludes in the last paragraph that ________.
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A．governments have spent lots of time in solving the ageing problem |
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B．population ageing is a hard problem, but it needs to be solved urgently |
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C．people are too busy to solve the population ageing problem |
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D．much time and effort will be lost in solving the ageing problem |
Engineering students are supposed to be examples of practicality and rationality (理性), but when it comes to my college education I am an idealist and a fool. In high school I wanted to be an electrical engineer and, of course, any reasonable student with my aims would have chosen a college with a large engineering department, many famous professors and lots of good labs and research equipment. But that's not what I did.
I chose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts (文科) university that doesn't even offer a major in electrical engineering. Obviously, this was not a practical choice; I came here for more noble reasons. I wanted a broad education that would provide me with flexibility and a value system to guide me in my job. I wanted to open my eyes and expand my vision by communicating with people who weren't studying science or engineering. My parents, teachers and other adults praised me for such a wise choice. They told me I was wise and grown-up beyond my 18 years, and I believed them.
I headed off to the college and sure I was going to have an advantage over those students who went to big engineering "factories" where they didn't care if you had values or were flexible. I was going to be a complete engineer: technical expert and excellent humanist all in one.
Now I'm not so sure. Somewhere along the way my noble ideas crashed into reality, as all noble ideas finally do. After three years of struggling to balance math, physics and engineering courses with liberal-arts courses, I have learned there are reasons why few engineering students try to reconcile engineering with liberal-arts courses in college.
The reality that has blocked my path to become the typical successful student is that engineering and the liberal arts simply don't mix as easily as I supposed in high school. Individually they shape a person in very different ways. The struggle to reconcile the two fields of study is difficult.
1.Why did the author choose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts university?
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A．He intended to become an engineer and humanist. |
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B．He intended to be a reasonable student with noble ideals. |
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C．He wanted to be an example of practicality and rationality. |
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D．He wanted to communicate with liberal-arts students. |
2.According to the author, by communicating with people who study liberal arts, engineering students can ___________.
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A．become noble idealists |
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B．broaden their knowledge |
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C．find a better job in the future |
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D．balance engineering and liberal arts |
3. Which word below can replace the underlined word “reconcile”?
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A．confuse |
B．compare |
C．combine |
D．compete |
4.The underlined sentence in 1st paragraph means ___________.
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A．he has failed to achieve his ideal aims |
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B．he is not a practical and rational student |
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C．his choice of attending to a small liberal-arts university is reasonable |
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D．his idea of combining engineering with liberal - arts is noble and wise |
5. The author suggests in this passage that ___________.
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A．liberal-arts students are supported to take engineering courses |
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B．technical experts with a wide vision are expected in the society |
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C．successful engineering students are more welcomed in the society |
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D．engineering universities with liberal-arts courses are needed |
Few of us haven’t read Cinderella, the story of a young woman living in poverty who meets the prince of her dreams. Some might not want to admit it, but there is a hidden Cinderella in everyone’s heart—we all wish we could achieve recognition or success after a period of obscurity(默默无闻).
Mary Santiago has that secret dream, too. Her story is featured in Another Cinderella Story, a film set in a US high school.
Mary is shy but loves to dance. Compared with other girls, she is invisible. However, her world changes completely when a famous teenager pop singer, Joey Parker, appears.
Joey is everything the rest of the boys in her class are not—kind, handsome and desirable. Mary and Joey’s paths cross at a ball. They meet and fall in love with each other. But when Mary has to rush back home, she leaves behind her MP3 player, which becomes the only clue Joey has to find the girl of his dreams. Of course, there is a wicked(邪恶的) stepmother, who turns out to be Dominique Blatt and she takes in Mary after her dancer mother dies. Dominique treats Mary like a maid and does everything she can to make sure Mary doesn’t get into the top dance school. Her two daughters are equally determined to stop Joey falling for Mary, even if that means embarrassing her.
The story, though it mostly follows Cinderella, does add a few modern day twists to the classic fairy tale. Refreshingly, the film, unlike many high school films, does not focus on looks, although the actors are all beautiful. There is also a lot less materialism in Another Cinderella Story than in many similar movies.
“The movie takes the Cinderella fairytale as its jumping off point,” writes movie critic Amber Wilkinson. “The focus is firmly on following your dream.”
1.The first paragraph is mainly to ____________.
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A．build interest and lead us to Mary’s secret dream |
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B．remind us why Cinderella is popular all the years |
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C．inform us of the main topic of the whole passage |
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D．tell us how interesting the fairy tale Cinderella is |
2.In the movie, Mary Santiago is the main character who _____________.
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A．is brave in expressing her love |
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B．is attended badly by the stepmother |
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C．has a dream of meeting a prince |
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D．is embarrassed by the pop singer |
3. What can we infer from the passage?
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A．Joey is just like other boys in Mary’s class. |
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B．Mary’s mother influences her a lot in singing. |
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C．Not many people have a dream to be realized. |
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D．The MP3 player helps Joey in finding Mary. |
4.The passage is mainly about ___________.
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A．an introduction to a film |
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B．a review about a film |
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C．an essay about dreams |
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D．an advertisement of Cinderella |
5.According to the passage, Another Cinderella Story ________.
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A．follows Cinderella with nothing new |
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B．pays more attention to the looks of the actors |
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C．encourages young people to follow their dreams |
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D．focuses more on materialism than other films |
语法填空Alfred Nobel became a millionaire and changed the ways of mining，construction，and warfare as the inventor of dynamite（炸药）. On April 12，1888，Alfred's brother Ludwig died of heart attack. A major French newspaper mistook his brother ___1____ him and carried an article ____2_____(announce) the death of Alfred Nobel. “___3_ merchant of death is dead.”The article read. “Dr. Alfred Nobel，___4____ became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before，died yesterday. ”
Alfred put ___5____ the newspaper sadly. It was his brother rather than _6___ who had died and the French newspaper had made a mistake. All the same, Alfred felt uncomfortable. Was this the way the world was going to remember him? He did not like that idea at all. He wanted people to remember him as a man of peace.
He invented his dynamite at a perfect moment in time. Many countries were beginning to build roads through mountains and needed a safe, strong dynamite. His dynamite was developed for such peaceful uses. He also thought that ____7___ all countries had the same great weapons, they would see how impossible war was and that any country fighting a war ___8_(destroy). Therefore, there would be no more wars. Many people of his day also thought this way.
To make sure that he was remembered with love and respect. Nobel arranged in a will to give the __9__(large) part of his money to establish the Nobel prizes，which would be awarded to people who made great ___10___ (contribute) to the causes of peace，literature，and the sciences.
I take the firm position that parents do not owe their children a college education. If they can __1 it, they can certainly send them to the best universities. But they must not feel guilty if they can’t. If the children really want to go, they’ll find a 2 out. There are plenty of loans（货款）and scholarships for the bright and 3 ones who can’t afford to pay.
When children grow up and want to get married, their parents do not owe them a down payment on a house. They do not have the 4 to baby-sit their grandchildren. If they want to do it,it must be considered a(n) 5 not an obligation（责任，义务）.
Do parents owe their children anything? Yes,they owe them a great deal.
One of their obligations is to give their children personal 6 .A child who is constantly made to feel stupid and unworthy, constantly 7 to brighter brothers, sisters, or cousins will become so _8_ , so afraid of failing that he（or she）won’t try at all .Of course they should be __9__ corrected when they do wrong, but it’s often better to let children learn their mistakes by themselves in time.All our parents should do is to trust them, respect them, tolerate（宽容）them and give them chances to try and fail.They must learn to stand 10 .When criticisms（批评）are really needed,they should be 11 with praises,with a smile and a kiss.That is the way children learn.
Parents owe their children a set of solid values around which to build their lives.This means teaching them to 12 the rights and opinions of others;it means being respectful to elders,to teachers,and to the law.The best way to teach such values is by 13 .A child who is lied to will lie.A child who sees no laughter and no love in the home will have 14 laughing and loving.
No child asks to be 15 .If you bring a life into the world,you owe the child something.
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