[填空题]Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
To call something "marginal" means it is not very good. Farmers have their own way to (47) marginal land: It is the last to be planted under good conditions, and has the (48) to be avoided under poor conditions. Low (49) soil is not the only reason land could be considered marginal. It might be in an area where rainfall is (50) or where a hillside might rise too steeply(陡峭地).
There are uses for marginal land, however. Most often it is used as grassland. Grasses provide excellent (51) for grazing (吃草) animals like cattle, sheep and goats. Grass seed can be bought from a foreign supplier or (52) grasses can be used. However, using marginal land for grazing is not a simple issue. There is a (53) of overgrazing. Cattle can damage the crops by eating down to the roots. Also, the weight of the animals crushes the soft and can make

[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.
Now listen to the passage.
What kind of man would you say John Milton was
A. He was well-known in the world.
B. He was very strange.
C. He was clever and hard working.
D. He was quick at Latin and poems.

[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.
What is the problem of brown rice
A. It has much lower production.
B. It has less starch than white rice.
C. It is shorter in releasing sugar than white rice.
D. It is less available to people in poor countries.

[单项选择]Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you wilt be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
Which was one of the results of the increased use of machinery on farms
A. Intensifying the competition between farmers.
B. Reducing the financial burden of the farmers.
C. Raising the production of specialized crops.
D. Realizing the independence of farmers’ life on weather.

[填空题]Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
Last year, our nation’s capital passed the murder-a-day mark, and the number of homicides is now up some 50 percent from that level. More than half of these killings are drug-related. In 1988 New York City had its most violent year ever, with 1896 homicides. Many of these in volved drugs. Such homicides are also a problem in Detroit, Baltimore, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Phoenix and scores of other cities where drug gangs war against one another and use violence to spread their deadly trade. In Bankhead Courts, and Atlanta housing project, drug-related crime has reached the point where mail carriers have had to depend on increased police patrols at delivery, time. What is happening around us unfolds a vivid picture that the links between drug use and crime are clearly established. According to authoritative governmental study, around three-quarters of crack and heroin users claim they commit crime to feed their habit. I

[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.
Now, listen to the passage.
What is the most effective way to reduce tobacco use according to the WHO’s report
A. Monitoring tobacco use and prevention policies.
B. Protecting people by establishing smoke-free areas.
C. Enforcing bans on tobacco advertising.
D. Raising taxes on tobacco.

[单项选择]Questions 23 to 26 are based on the following passage．
　 American money can be quite confusing．The bills or paper money are all of the same color and size．One has to look carefully to he sure he is giving out a $1 bill and not a$10 bill，for example．Furthermore，new bills stick together easily，Be sure this does not happen to you．Coins are also confusing．This is partly because some of them have two names，partly because the size does not indicate the value．The ten．cent coin is smaller than the five—cent coin，for example．In addition，all coins are silver—colored except the penny(one cent)which is brown color or copper-colored．
　 One cent，or a penny，is the coin of smallest value，equal to 1/100 of a dollar．It is useful for some parking meters and some sales taxes but a penny does not buy very much! Five pennies are equal to one nickel．A coin of ten cents，the smallest in size of all the coins，is one of the most useful．It is used for pay-phones，buying newspapers from coi
A. three.
B. Four．
C. Five．
D. Six．

[单项选择] Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Some families in America and elsewhere have started buying child friendly mobile phones outfitted with GPS (Global Positioning System) technology.
These phones and their related tracking services allow parents to pinpoint the location of their children with ease. Parents agree to pick up the phone bill in return for the reassurance of knowing where their children are; children are prepared to put up with the watching if they are allowed to have a phone.
Mobile operators in America are now launching tracking services. Under a federal decree known as E911, they had to upgrade their networks to ensure that anyone dialing the 911 emergency number could be located to within 100 metres. Some operators opted for triangulation technology, which determines the location of the handset by comparing the signals received by different base stations. But Verizon and Sprint chose to adopt the more expensive but more
A. The prospect of tracking services.
B. Mobile phones with GPS functions.
C. The application of location services.
D. The dominating tracking systems.

[单项选择] Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
BRITAIN’S universities are in an awful spin. Top universities were overwhelmed by the 24% of A-level applicants with indistinguishable straight As newer ones are beating the byways for bodies.
Curiously, both images of education—the weeping willows of Cambridge and the futuristic architecture of UEL—are cherished by the government. Ministers want to see half of all young people in universities by 2010 (numbers have stalled at 42%), without letting go of the world-class quality of its top institutions.
Many argue that the two goals are incompatible without spending a lot more money. Re searchers scrabble for funds, and students complain of large classes and reduced teaching time. To help solve the problem, the government agreed in 2004 to let universities increase tuition fees.
Though low, the fees have introduced a market into higher education. Universities can offer cut-price tuition, althoug
A. They are confident of changing it.
B. They are much disturbed by it.
C. They find it natural in the market.
D. They cherish it with a nostalgic mood.

[单项选择]Questions 19 to 22 are based on the following passage．
Last summer 1 went through a training program and became a literacy volunteer(扫盲志愿者)．the training I received，though excellent，did not tell me how it was to work with a real student，however。When I began to discover what other people’s lives were like because they could not read，I realized the true importance of reading．
My first student Jane was a 44-year-old single mother of three．In the first lesson，I found out she walked two miles to the nearest supermarket twice a week because she didn’t know which bus to take．When I told her 1 would get her a bus schedule。she told me it would not help because she could not read it．She said she also had difficulty once she got to the supermarket because she couldn’t always remember what she needed. Since she did not know words，she could not write out a shopping list．Also，she could only recognize items by their labels．As a result，if the product had a different label，she
A. She remembered the names of the goods．
B. She asked others to take her to the right place．
C. She managed to find the goods by familiar labels．
D. She knew where the goods were in the supermarket．