[单项选择]Some crossing points will be established, enabling vehicles to get across the route when there is not race traffic in the______.
A. vicinity
B. verge
C. proximity
D. velocity

[单项选择]Compared with Overhead bridges, zebra crossing is ______.


A. much safer
B. more convenient
C. more efficient
D. more popular

[单项选择]Which of the following is NOT affected by crossing time zones


A. Meal patterns.
B. Sleep.
C. Powers of concentration.
D. Schedul

[单项选择]What do old people think of crossing the overhead bridges


A. They like the idea of building overhead bridges.
B. They have no difficulty using overhead bridges.
C. They think the overhead bridges are too expensive to build.
D. They find overhead bridges somewhat inconvenient to use.

[单项选择]Some researchers have undertaken some psychological studies which prove that many children develop fears of ______ dangers.
A. imagination
B. imaginary
C. imaginable
D. imaginative

[单项选择]In what year was Baltimore established


A. 1729.
B. 1750.
C. 1776.
D. 1788.

[简答题]There is some impertinence as well as some foolhardiness in the way in which we buy animals for so much gold and silver and call them ours. One cannot help wondering what the silent critic on the hearthrug thinks of our strange conventions-the mystic. Persian, whose ancestors were worshipped as gods whilst we, their masters and mistresses, groveled in caves and painted our bodies blue. She has a vast heritage of experience, which seems to brood in her eyes, too solemn and too subtle for expression; she smiles, I often think, at our late-born civilization, and remembers the rise and fall of dynasties. There is something, too, profane in the familiarity, half contemptuous, with which we treat our animals. We deliberately transplant a little bit of simple wild life, and make it grow up beside ours, which is neither simple nor wild. You may often see in a dog’s eyes a sudden look of the primitive animal, as though he were once more a wild dog hunting in the solitary places of his youth. Ho

[单项选择]Windstorms have recently established a record which meteorologists hope will not be equaled for many years ______ .


A. that will come
B. that are coming
C. to come
D. coming

[单项选择]Beethoven established himself as the greatest composer ______.


A. with his powerful middle-period works
B. when his first three piano concertos were finished
C. around 1802
D. around 1795

[单项选择] Researchers have established that when people are mentally engaged, biochemical changes occur in the brain that allow it to act more effectively areas such as attention and memory. This is true regardless of age. People will be alert and receptive if they are faced with information that gets them to think about things they are interested in. And someone with a history of doing more rather than less will go into old age more cognitively sound than someone who has not had an active mind. Many experts are so convinced of the benefits of challenging the brain that they are putting the theory to work in their own lives." The idea is not necessarily to learn to memorize enormous amounts of information," says James Fazard, associate director of the National Institute on Aging." Most of us don’’ t need that kind of skill. Such specific training is of less interest than being able to maintain mental alertness." Fozard and others say they challenge their brains with different mental s
A. whose minds are alert and receptive
B. who are highly intelligent
C. who can remember large amounts of information
D. who are good at recognizing different sounds

[填空题]Previous research has established the lupine wolf as the________of the modern canine, but when and where humans first domesticated the former into the latter remains unclear.
A. A．competitor
B．ally
C．scion
D．prey
E．progenitor

[单项选择]Be careful when ______ the road.
[A] crossing [B] to cross [C] cross

[简答题]Part B
The passage below summarizes the main points of the passage. Read the summary and then select the best word or phrase from the box blow, according to the passage. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.