[单项选择] Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
From Boston to Los Angeles, from New York City to Chicago to Dallas, museums are either planning, building, or wrapping up wholesale expansion programs. These programs already have radically altered facades and floor plans or are expected to do so in the not-too- distant future.
In New York City alone, six major institutions have spread up and out into the air space and neighborhoods around them or are preparing to do so.
The reasons for this confluence of activity are complex, but one factor is a consideration everywhere — space. With collections expanding, with the needs and functions of museums changing, empty space has become a very precious commodity.
Probably nowhere in the country is this more true than at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which has needed additional space for decades and which received its last significant facelift ten years ago. Because of the space crunch, the Art Muse
A. its largest paintings
B. a portion of its paintings
C. paintings by American artists
D. paintings it wants to sell

[单项选择]Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the passage.

Why were the fishermen frightened of the squid
A. Because of its smell.
B. Because of its eyes.
C. Because of its size.
D. Because of its behavior.

[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.
When you are driving a few hours north of Portland, you will travel through ______.
A. Maine’s Oxford, Franklin and New York
B. Maine’s Oxford, Franklin and Somerset counties
C. small towns, rivers and cool lakes
D. Maine’s Oxford, France and north of Portland

[填空题] Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
The Olympic games (often referred to simply as The Olympics or The Games) is an international multi-sport event subdivided into summer and winter sporting events. The (47) Olympic Games began in 776 BC in Olympia, Greece, and was celebrated until AD 393. There are many myths and (48) of the origin of the ancient Olympic Games. The most popular one describes that Hercules was the creator of the Olympic Games, and built the Olympic stadium and surrounding buildings to (49) his father Zeus. The date of the Olympic Games’ beginning based on the count years in Olympiads is reconstructed as 776 BC, although scholars’ opinions differ between dates as early as 884 BC and as late as 704 BC. From then on, the games became much more important throughout ancient Greece, (50) their peak in the sixth and seventh century BC.
Interest in (51) the Olympic Games was fir

[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.
Which is the TRUE statement about the collector
A. The collector is made of several kinds of sheets.
B. The collector is placed on the water.
C. The collector is made of corrugated sheets.
D. Not mentioned in the passag

[单项选择] Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
Darwin’s great work, The Origin of Species, is now generally accepted as one of the most important books ever written. But when it first came out in 1859, it was both derided and bitterly condemned by scientists and laymen.
Much of opposition to The Origin of Species arose from Darwin’s claim that all living creatures, including man, are somehow related. Many people were outraged by the suggestion that man shared a common ancestor with animals such as apes and monkeys. They attacked Darwin for saying that man had descended from the apes.
But Darwin never actually said this. He believed that modern men and modern apes have both descended from the same ancestor. But at some time in pre-history, millions of years ago, men and apes began to develop separately, and ever since have continued to take on different characteristics. Today, more than 90 years after Darwin’s death, this is the opinion which scie
A. A creature which can live on the land.
B. A creature which can live in the water.
C. A creature which can live both on the land and in the water.
D. An animal which can crawl

[单项选择] Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
The most pressing nuclear energy issue is the disposal of nuclear waste. Even if all the reactors in existence were completely safe to operate, there would still be unsolved issue of what to do with the waste from generating electricity by means of nuclear energy. Those who claim that they feel comfortable with nuclear energy are, none the less, concerned about waste disposal methods. Seven states, including California, have put the building of nuclear plants on hold until legislators are convinced that there is a safe way to dispose of the radioactive waste from the plants.
In the meantime, pools of liquid waste and piles of solid waste from private industry and governmental bomb production grow. Since 1962, the volume of radioactive waste produced by the nuclear power industry has amounted to about 4,300 cubic meters. By the end of the twentieth century, if production continues at the same rate, there wil
A. the uranium that is taken from a mine
B. the ponds that hold liquid radioactive wastes
C. solid wastes that result from the mining of uranium
D. dangerous radon gas that escapes from uranium mines