[填空题] Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
Electricity was born at the dawn of the last century. From then on, households have been inundated with a flood of home electric goods. What is the impact of this home electric goods revolution
It is argued here that the home electric goods revolution may liberate women from the home. And it is true that many households never hesitate a second to adopt this new technology or that, however, in fact many of the home electric goods which are advertised as liberating the modem woman tend to have the opposite effect, because they simply change the nature of work instead of eliminating it. Machines have a certain novelty value, like toys for adults. It is certainly less tiring to put clothes in a washing machine, but the time saved does not really amount to much the machine has to be watched, the clothes have to be carefully sorted out first, stains removed by hand, buttons pushed and water changed, clothes tak

[单项选择]Questions 15 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
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Sickness and starvation will be results of ______.
A. a nuclear war
B. nuclear weapons
C. a deficiency of food
D. a shortage of medicine

[单项选择]Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Most people think of lions as strictly African beasts, but only because they’ve been killed off almost everywhere else. Ten thousand years ago lions spanned vast sections of the globe. Now lions hold only a small fraction of their former habitat, and Asiatic lions, a subspecies that spit from African lions perhaps 100000 years ago, hang on to an almost impossibly small slice of their former territory.
India is the proud steward of these 300 or so lions, which live primarily in a 560-square-mile sanctuary(保护区). It took me a year and a half to get a permit to explore the entire Gir Forest—and no time at all to see why these lions became symbols of royalty and greatness. A tiger will hide in the forest unseen, but a lion stands its ground, curious and unafraid—lionhearted. Though they told me in subtle ways when I got too close, Gir’s lions allowed me unique glimpses into their lives during
A. the present sanctuary is not large enough
B. scientists want to do more research on them
C. they have killed many people
D. the forest is shrinking in size

[单项选择]Questions 14 to 16 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
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Why were Thorpe’s medals taken away from him
A. Because someone found out that Thorpe had been using drugs.
B. Because it was found out that Thorpe had once been an amateur athlete.
C. Because Thorpe’s fame began to decline after the Olympic Games.
D. Because it was found out that at one time Thorpe had been a professional athlet

[单项选择]Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothing. I could ever have imagined for me or my children. We are living in an environmental crisis, an air-pollution emergency of severity. What it really means is that just to breathe here is to play a dangerous game with your health.
As parents, what terrorizes us most are reports that children are at higher risk because they breathe more times per minute. What more can we do to protect them and ourselves Our pediatrician’s(儿科医师的) medical recommendation was simple：abandon the city permanently. We are foreigners and we are among the small minority that can afford to leave. We are here because of my husband’s work. We are fascinated by Mexico—its history and rich culture. We know that for us, this is a temporary danger. However, we cannot stand for much longer the fear we feel for our boys. We cannot stop them from br
A. Kids are in fewer dangers than grown-ups in Mexico City.
B. The author is a native Mexican.
C. The author’s husband is a pediatrician.
D. The Mexican history and culture appeal to the author.

[单项选择]Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
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How many workers would NOT be affected by the bad news
A. About 2,400.
B. About 5,000.
C. About 8,000.
D. About 12,000.

[单项选择]Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage. Atthe end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
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Why were the two large jets specially mentioned
A. To show the key role played by air traffic controllers.
B. To show the great responsibility shouldered by the pilots.
C. To give an example of air disasters.
D. To show that air travel is far safer than driving a car.

[单项选择]Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage ,you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
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What is the lowest temperature in the Antarctic
A. -78℃.
B. -98℃.
C. -88℃.
D. -68℃.

[单项选择] Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
No one should be forced to wear a uniform under any circumstances. Uniforms are demanding to the human spirit and totally unnecessary in a democratic society. Uniforms tell the world that the person who wears one has no value as an individual but only lives to function as a part of a whole. The individual in a uniform loses all self-worth.
There are those who say that wearing a uniform gives a person a sense of identification with a larger, more important concept. What could be more important than the individual himself If an organization is so weak that it must rely on cloth and buttons to inspire its members, that organization has no right to continue its existence. Others say that the practice of making persons wear uniforms, say in a school, eliminates all envy and competition in the matter of dress, such that a poor person who cannot afford good-quality clothing is not to be belittled by a wealthy per
A. Society.
B. Individual.
C. One’s image.
D. Dignity.

[单项选择] Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be giv en 20 seconds to answer the questions.
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What are the general reaction when people are watching movies
A. They are deeply involved and forget all the troubles and problems.
B. They feel everything on the screen is too romantic and familiar.
C. They are greatly stirred and want to fulfill their own dreams.
D. They are often moved to tears.

[填空题] Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Global warming refers to an increase in global surface temperature resulting from an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide, methane, and certain other trace gases in the atmosphere. These gases are (47) known as greenhouse gases because they (48) to the warming of the earth’s surface and lower atmosphere, a phenomenon called the greenhouse effect. Partly because the (49) of carbon dioxide is related to the essential use of the carbon based energy sources, the (50) of global warming incorporates a broad, scientific and political debate about its significance and consequences.
Today, as the results of the efforts of thousands of scientists over several decades who have studied climate and its (51) with the global land-ocean-atmosphere system, the scientific understanding of global warming is both more clear and complex. Scientists have obtained strong