It looked just like another aircraft
from the outside. The pilot told his young passengers that it was built in 1964.
But appearances were deceptive, and the 13 students from Europe and the USA who
boarded the aircraft were in for the flight of their lives.
Inside, the area that normally had seats had become a long white tunnel.
Heavily padded(填塞) from floor to ceiling, it looked a bit strange. There were
almost no windows, but lights along the padded walls illuminated it. Most of the
seats had been taken out, apart from a few at the back, where the young
scientists quickly took their places with a look of fear.
For 12
months, science students from across the continents had competed to win a place
on the flight at the invitation of the European Space Agency. The challenge had
been to suggest imaginative experiments to be conducte
A. It had no seats.
B. It was painted white.
C. It had no windows.
D. The outside was misleading.
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It looked just like another aircraft
from the outside. The pilot told his young passengers that it was built in 1964.
But appearances were deceptive, and the 13 students from Europe and the USA who
boarded the aircraft were in for the flight of their lives.
Inside, the area that normally had seats had become a long white tunnel.
Heavily padded(填塞) from floor to ceiling, it looked a bit strange. There were
almost no windows, but lights along the padded walls illuminated it. Most of the
seats had been taken out, apart from a few at the back, where the young
scientists quickly took their places with a look of fear.
For 12
months, science students from across the continents had competed to win a place
on the flight at the invitation of the European Space Agency. The challenge had
been to suggest imaginative experiments to be conducte
A. sick
B. keen
C. nervous
D. impatient
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Like all quintessentially British
things, gardening is a pastime that has long been in decline. From a high point
of ￡5 billion in 2001, spending on plants, tools and garden furniture has fallen
every year since then, to around ~3 billion in 2008．The arrival of economic
recession only deepened the gloom: to credit-crunched consumers, shrubs and
hanging baskets seemed obvious candidates for cuts.
Yet
the latest figures from the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) suggest a
bumper year for garden-related expenditure is in the making. Sales volumes were
up by 21% in March and 28% in April compared with the same months a year
earlier. This was not the result of deep discounting, a strategy that many other
retailers have been adopting. The value of garden goods sold was 37% higher in
March and 42% higher in April than a year earlier,
A. Garden-related expenditure this year is more or less the same as that of last year.
B. Many retailers are offering deep discounts.
C. Prices of garden goods tend to remain stable in recent years.
D. Due to the status quo of economy, garden goods are not promised a bright future.
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Like street comer prophets proclaiming
that tile end is near, scientists who study the earth’s atmosphere have been
issuing predictions of impending doom for the past few years without offering
any concrete proof. So far even the experts have had to admit that no solid
evidence has emerged that this is anything but a natural phenomenon. And the
uncertainty has given skeptics-especially Gingrichian politicians--plenty of
ammunition to argue against taking the difficult, expensive steps required to
stave off a largely hypothetical calamity.
Until now, A draft
report currently circulating on the Internet asserts that the global temperature
rise can now be blamed, at least in part, on human activity. Statements like
this have been made before by individual researchers-who have been criticized
for going too far beyond the scientific conse
A. they think it is anything but a natural phenomenon
B. the efforts may turn to be too difficult and expensive
C. they think the predicted disaster is only hypothetical
D. some scientists have gone too far beyond the scientific consensus
[填空题]Modern office workers are just like fighter pilots in that both need to monitor data of great complexity.
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Like every dog, every disease now seems
to have its day. World Tuberculosis (infections disease in which growths appear
on the lungs) Day is on Saturday March 24th.
Tuberculosis was
once terribly fashionable. Dying of "consumption" seems to have been a favorite
activity of garret-dwelling 19th-century artists, h has, however, been neglected
of late. Researchers in the field never tire of pointing out that TB kills a lot
of people. According to figures released earlier this week by the World Health
Organization, 1.6 million people died of the disease in 2005, compared with
about 3m for AIDS and l m for malaria. But it receives only a fraction of the
research budget devoted to AIDS. America’s National Institutes of Health,
for example, spends 20 times as much on AIDS as on TB. Nevertheless, everyone
seems to getting in on the TB-da
A. the US government is reluctant to spend millions of dollars for Tuberculosis.
B. the death rate of AIDS is higher ,than that of Tuberculosis.
C. the officials did not pay much attention to the research of Tuberculosis in the past.
D. compared with AIDS, Tuberculosis can be cured effectively.
[填空题]Passage Twelve
Just like children, deer often cross British roads to get to the other side. But the cost is the deer’s life. At night, (1) cars hit and kill the animals. Now foresters are using natural animal (2) to prevent dangerous crossings.
In England, the British Forestry Commission has (3) thousands of glowing red "wolf eyes" along woodland roads. The eyes are actually reflectors (反射镜), (4) bars like the red reflectors on your bike. The ten-centimeter long bars are fixed on top of posts, with only these signs directed towards the woods rather than the roads.
When cars speed by, light rays from car headlights reflect offthe reflectors’ shining surface and (5) into the woods. Deer are instantly (6) by the wolf eyes-even though wolves haven’t (7) deer in Britain or even lived there for a hundred years!
Scientists think the glowing light (8) the "eye sh
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