第二部分：阅读判断(第16～22题，每题1分，共7分)
阅读下面这篇短文，短文后列出7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断。如果该句提供的是正确信息，请在答题卡上把A涂黑；如果该句提供的是错误信息，请在答题卡上把B涂黑；如果该句的信息在文章中没有提及，请在答题卡上把C涂黑。

A Dolphin and an Astronomer

One day in 1963, a dolphin named Elvar and a famous astronomer, Carl Sagan, were playing a little game. The astronomer was visiting an institute which was looking into the way dolphins communicate with each other. Sagan was standing on the edge of one of the tanks where several of these friendly, highly intelligent creatures were kept. Elvar had just swum up alongside him and had turned on his back.
The dolphin wanted Sagan to scratch his stomach again, as the astronomer had done twice before. Elvar looked up at Sagan, waiting. Then, after a minute or so, the dolphin leapt up through the water and made a sound just like the word "more". The astonished astronomer went to the director of the institute and told him about the incident. “Oh, yes. That’s one of the words he knows,” the director said, showing no surprise at a11.
Dolphins have bigger brain in proportion to their body size than humans have, and it has been known for a long time that they can make a number of sounds. What is more, these sounds seem to have different functions, such as warning each other of danger. Sound travels much faster and much further in water than it does in air. That is why the parts of the brain that deal with sound are much better developed in dolphin than in humans. But can it be said that dolphins have a “language” in the real sense of the word? Scientists don’t agree on this.
A language is not just a collection of sounds, or even words. A language has a structure and what we call a grammar. The structure and grammar of a language help to give it meaning. For example, the two questions “Who loves Mary?” and “Who does Mary love?” mean very different things. If you stop to think about it, you will see that this difference doesn’t come from the words in the question but from the difference in structure. That is why the question “can dolphins speak?” Can’t be answered until we find out if dolphins not only make sounds, but also arrange them in a grammatical order which affects their meaning.
16. The astronomer was not interested in the way dolphins communicate with each other.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
17. The dolphin leapt up into the air because Sagan was too near the water.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
18 Parts of the dolphin’s brain are particularly well developed to handle different kinds of sound.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
19. Dolphins are the most useful animals to humans.
A Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
20. Dolphins travel faster in water than any other animals.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
21. Some scientists believe that dolphins have a language of their own.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
22. Sounds can be called a language only when they have a structure and a grammar.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned

第三部分：概括大意与完成句子(第23～30题，每题1分，共8分)
阅读下面这篇短文，短文后有2项测试任务：(1)第23～26题要求从所给的6个选项中为第2～5段每段选择1个正确的小标题；(2)第27～30题要求从所给的6个选项中选择4个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。请将答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。

The Weight Experiment

Nicola Waiters has been taking part in experiments in Scotland to discover why humans gain and lose weight. Being locked in a small room called a "caioriineier" (热量测试室) is one way to find out.
1. The signs above the two rooms read simply “Chamber One” and “Chamber Two”. These are the calorimeters: 4m by 2m white-walled rooms where human volunteers are locked up in the name of science. Outside these rooms another sign reads, "Please do not enter work in progress" and in front of the rooms advanced machinery registers (记录) every move the volunteers make. Each day, meals measured to the last gram axe passed through a hole in the wall of the calorimeter to the resident volunteer.
2. Nicola Walters is one of the twenty volunteers who, over the past eight months, have spent varying periods inside the calorimeter. Tall and slim, Nicola does not have a weight problem, but thought the strict diet might help with her training and fitness program.
A．self-employed community dance worker, she was able to fit the experiment in around her work. She saw an advert (广告) for volunteers at her gym and as she is interested in the whole area of diet and exercise, she thought she would help out.
3. The experiment on Nicola involved her spending one day on a fixed diet at home and the next in the room. This sequence (次序) was repeated four times over six weeks. She arrived at the calorimeter at 8:30 a.m. on each of the four mornings and from then on everything she ate or drank was carefully measured. Her every move was noted too, bet daily exercise routine timed to the last second. At regular intervals, after eating, she filled in forms about how hungry she felt and samples were taken for analysis.
4. The scientists help volunteers impose (确立) a kind of order on the long days they face in the room. “The first time, I only took one video and a book, but It was OK because I watched TV the rest of the time,” says Nicola. And twice a day she used the exercise bike. She pedaled (踩踏板) for half an hour, watched by researchers to make sure she didn't go too fast.
5. It seems that some foods encourage you to eat more, while others satisfy you quickly. Volunteers are already showing that high-fat diets are less likely to make you feel full, Believing that they may now know what encourages people to overeat, the researchers are about to start testing a high-protein weight-loss diet. Volunteers are required and Nicola has signed up for further sessions.
23. Paragraph 1_______
24. Paragraph 2_______
25. Paragraph 3_______
26. Paragraph 4_______
A．What does the calorimeter look like inside?
B．What program was designed for the experiments?
C．What is a calorimeter?
D．What is the first impression?
E．How do the volunteers kill the time?
F．Why did Nicola join in the experiments?
27. The machinery outside the calorimeters records everything_______.
28. Nicola Walters had time for the experiments
29. Volunteers have to get prepared for the time in the calorimeter
30. The experiments show that high-fat diets_______
A．the volunteers do
B．because she does not have a weight problem
C．because the life there can be very boring
D．make people overeat
E．because she was her own boss
F．after passing a high-protein test

　

第四部分：阅读理解(第31～45题，每题3分，共45分)
下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每题后面有4个选项。请仔细阅读短文并根据短文回答其后面的问题，从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。

Recycling Around the World

Recycling is one of the best environmental success stories of the late 20th century. But we could do more. People must not see recycling as fashionable, but essential.
The Japanese are very good at recycling because they live in a crowded country. They do not have much space. They do not want to share their limited space with rubbish. But even so, Tokyo area alone is estimated to have three million tons of leftover rubbish at present.
In 1996, the United States recycled and composted (制成肥料)57 million tons of waste (27% of the nation's solid waste). This is 57 million tons of waste which did not go into landfills and incinerators (焚化炉). In doing this,7,000 rubbish collection programmes and recycling centers helped the authorities.
In Rockford, a city in Illinois, US, its officials choose one house each week and check its garbage (废物). If the garbage does not contain any newspapers or aluminium (铝) cans, then the resident of the house gets a prize of at least $1,000.
In Japan, certain cities give children weekly supplies of tissue paper and toilet paper in exchange for a weekly collection of newspapers.
In one year Britain recycles:
1 out of every 3 newspapers.
1 out of every 4 glass bottles and jars (罐子).
1 out of every 4 items of clothing.
1 out of every 3 aluminium drink cans.
In 1999, Hong Kong transported 1.3 million tons of waste to mainland China for recycling. Around 535,000 tons of waste were recycled in Hong Kong itself.
Over half the things we throw away could be recycled. That means we could recycle 10 times as much as we do now.
However, recycling needs a lot of organization and special equipment. Also, there is not much use for some recycled material.
31. Which of the following is NOT true of the Japanese?
A．They live in a crowded country.
B．They have recycled all their waste.
C．They are very good at recycling.
D．They have to share their limited space with rubbish
32. How much waste did the US recycle in 1996?
A．1.3 million tons.
B．27 million tons.
C．57 million tons.
D．53 million tons.
33. Where can people get a big prize for contributing to recycling?
A．Rockford.
B．Tokyo.
C．Hong Kong.
D．London.
34. In Japan, the newspapers collected by children
A．are given to poor people.
B．are used as reading materials.
C．are used as prizes.
D．are recycled.
35. Which of the following is NOT true of Britain?
A．It recycles 1 out of every 3 newspapers each year.
B．It recycles 1 out of every 4 glass bottles and jars each year
C．It recycles 1 out of every 3 aluminium cans each year.
D．It recycles 1 out of every 4 items of clothing each year.

Superconductor Ceramic(陶瓷)

An underground revolution begins this winter, with the flip(轻击)of a switch,30,000 homes in one part of Detroit will soon become the first in the country to receive electricity transmitted by ice-cold high performance cables. Other American cities are expected to follow Detroit’s example in the years ahead, which could conserve enormous amounts of power.
The new electrical cables at the Frisbie power station in Detroit are revolutionary because they are made of superconductors. A superconductor is a material that transmits-electricity with little or no resistance. Resistance is the degree to which a substance resists electric current. All common electrical conductors have a certain amount of electrical resistance. They convert at least some of the electrical energy passing through them into waste heat. Superconductors don' t No one understands how superconductivity works. It just does.
Making superconductors isn't easy. A superconductor material has to be cooled to an extremely low temperature to lose its resistance. The first superconductors, made more than 50 years ago, had to be cooled to-263 degrees Celsius before they lost their resistance. Newer superconducting materials lose their resistance at-143 degrees Celsius.
The superconductors cable installed at the Frisbie station is made of a ceramic material that contains copper, oxygen, bismuth(铋), strontium(锶),and calcium (钙). A ceramic is a hard. strong compound made from clay or minerals. The superconducting ceramic has been fashioned into a tape that is wrapped lengthwise around a long tube filled with liquid nitrogen. Liquid nitrogen is superconductors and lowers the temperature of the ceramic tape to the point where it conveys electricity with zero resistance.
The United States loses an enormous amount of electricity each year to resistance.’ Because cooled superconductors have no resistance, they waste much less power. Other cities are watching the Frisbie experiment in the hope that they might switch to superconducting cable and conserve power, too.
36. What is the benefit of the revolution mentioned in the first paragraph?
A．With a flip of swish, electricity can be transmitted.
B．Other American cities can benefit from the high performance cables.
C．Great amounts of power can be conserved.
D．Detroit will first receive electricity transmitted by the new electrical cables
37. Compared to common electrical conductors, superconductors
A．have little or no electrical resistance.
B．Can be used for along time.
C．are not energy-efficient.
D．can be made easily.
38. At what temperature does the superconducting ceramic lose its resistance?
A．-143 degree Celsius.
B．-263 degree Celsius.
C．As long as it is ice-cold.
D．Absolute zero.
39. What element enables the ceramic tape to lower its temperature?
A．Copper.
B．Liquid nitrogen..
C．Clay.
D．Calcium.
40. According to the last paragraph, which of the following statements is NOTtrue?
A．Other cities hope they Can also conserve power.
B．Other cities hope they Can use superconducting cables soon.
C．Superconductors waste less power because of their low resistance.
D．The Fribie experiment is not successful.

Sunspots

It's not surprising that sunspots (太阳黑子) were observed by ancient astronomers (天文学家). The largest sunspots on the sun can be seen without a telescope. It was not until the invention of the telescope (望远镜) in the early 17th century, however, that systematic studies of sunspots could be undertaken. The great astronomer Galileo was among the first to make telescopic observations of sunspots.
Sunspots are regions of extremely strong magnetic fields (磁场) found on the sun's surface. A sunspot has a dark central core known as the umbra. The umbra is surrounded by a dark ring called the penumbra. where the magnetic field spreads outward. Sunspots appear dark because they are giving off less radiation. They are cooler than the rest of the sun's surface.
Sunspots are frequently observed in pairs or in paired groups. The members of a spot pair are identified as the leading spot and the following spot. They are identified by their position In the pair In terms of the direction in which the sun rotates (旋转).
The number of sunspots at any one time varies. A large spot group may consist of as many as 10 groups and 300 spots across the sun. The number of spots changes in a fairly regular pattern called the sunspot cycle. The largest number occurs about every 11 years. At sunspot minimum, there are at most just a few small spots.
The average lifetime of an individual spot group is roughly one solar rotation, which is about 25 days. The most persistent large spots, however, can survive for two to three months.
41. Careful observations and systematic studies of sunspots
A．were made by ancient astronomers.
B．started in the early 17th century.
C．were made by Galileo only.
D．could be made without a telescope.
42. Sunspots are cooler than the rest of the sun's surface because
A．they produce less energy.
B．they are buried in the sun.
C．they are far away from magnetic fields.
D．they are close to magnetic fields.
43. The leading spot and the following spot are the names of
A．two large sunspots.
B．a large spot and a small spot.
C．the two spots in a spot pair.
D．the central core and the ring around it.
44. If an intense sunspot activity had occurred in 1857, the next one would have been in
A.1858.
B.1862.
C.1865.
D.1868.
45. In the last paragraph the word "persistent" means
A．important.
B．effective.
C．enduring.
D．visible.

第五部分：补全短文(第46～50题，每题2分，共10分)
阅读下面的短文，文章中有5处空白，文章后面有6组文字，请根据文章的内容选择5组文字，将其分别放回文章原有位置，以恢复文章原貌。请将答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。

How Did She Conquer the Americans?

African-American talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is the world's most powerful celebrity, according to Forbes magazine.______ (46)
Winfrey, 51, draws 30 million viewers weekly in the United States. Her talk show reaches 112 countries. She earned US$225 million over the past 12 months to rank second in celebrity riches.
The annual Forbes list gives most weight to annual earnings.______ (47)
“After 21 years, her exciting chat show still rules the airwaves. It created new celebrities and hundreds of millions of dollars in profits,” the magazine said.
Winfrey is most popular with her popular talk show “The Oprah Winfrey
Show". She can always attract the superstars and let them open up to her intimate interviewing style.
Last month, American actor Tom Cruise, 42, surprised fans when he celebrated his new romance with 26-year-old actress Katie Holmes. He jumped up and down, shouting "I'm in love." Only a few years ago, Cruise and his ex-wife Nicole Kidman appeared separately on the same show telling the news of their divorce______ (48)
Winfrey's approach appears to be simple. She is in pursuit of self-improvement and self-empowerment (自强). This has proved to be just what people, especially women, want.
Winfrey often talks about her personal secrets on her show. That pulls in viewers. For example, she revealed that she had been sexually abused as a child, and has spoken freely of her struggle with her weight.
Winfrey was born in a poor family in Mississippi in 1954______(49) At the age of 19, she became the youngest person and the first African-American woman to anchor (主持) a news programme.
Her success has not just been on the screen. Her media group includes a women's TV network and websites for women.
Winfrey's work has extended to social change.______ (50)
She testified before the US Senate to establish a national database of dangerous child abusers. President Bill Clinton later signed "Oprah Bill” into law.
A．But it also looks at the celebrity's presence on the Internet and in the media
B．In 1991, she did a lot of work for the National Child Protection Act.
C．She was not a very successful woman
D．She began broadcasting while still at high school
E．It placed Winfrey at the top of its annual ranking of the 100 people last week.
F．The couple had been tight-lipped about their break-up.

第六部分：完型填空(第51～65题，每题1分，共15分)
阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出了4个选项，请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案，涂在答题卡相应的位置上。

Migrant(移民)Workers

In the past twenty years, there has been all increasing tendency for workers to move from one country to another. While some countries have restricted(限制)most ______(51) to local people, others have attracted and welcomed migrant workers. This is particularly the case in the Middle East, ______ (52) increased Oil incomes have enabled many countries to call in outsiders to improve local facilities(设施). Thus the Middle East has attracted oil-workers______(53)the U.S.
A．and Europe. It has also brought in workers from many other countries, ______(54)South Korea and Japan.
In view of the difficult living and working ______(55)in the Middle East, it is not surprising that the pay is high to attract suitable workers. Many engineers and technicians can______(56) at least twice as much money in the Middle East as they care in their own country, and this is a major______(57).
Sometimes a disadvantage has a compensating(补偿)advantage. For example, the______(58) living conditions often lead to increased friendship when workers have to______(59)on each other for safety and comfort. In a similar way, many migrant workers can save large sums of money partly because of the______(60)of entertainment(娱乐) facilities. The work is often complex and full of problems but this merely presents greater challenge to engineers who prefer to find solutions to problems rather than do______ (61) work in their home country.
One major problem which_______ (62) migrant workers in the Middle East is that their jobs are temporary ones. They are nearly always on______ (63), so it is not easy for them to plan ahead with great confidence. This is to be______ (64) since no country welcomes a large number of foreign workers as permanent residents. In any______ (65), migrant workers accept this disadvantage, along with others, because of the considerable financial benefits which they receive.
51.
A．acts
B．jobs
C．activities
D．user
52.
A．which
B．what
C．who
D．where
53
A．from
B．with
C．in
D．about
54
A．opposing
B．limiting
C．including
D．asking
55
A．role
B．conditions
C．difficulty
D．event
56
A．earn
B．borrow
C．offer
D．cast
57
A．advance
B．difficulty
C．event
B．attraction
58
A．necessary
B．possible
C．difficult
D．good
59
A．depend
B．look
C．base
D．go
60
A．range
B．lack
C．price
D．number
61
A．routine
B．causal
C．additional
D．interesting
62.
A．invites
B．affects
C．needs
D．hates
63.
A．investment
B．strike
C．contract
D．duty
64.
A．suggested
B．reported
C．argued
D．expected
65.
A．time
B．attempt
C．way
D．case

【参考答案】
第一部分：词汇选项(第1～15题，每题1分，共15分)
1. D　2. D　3. B　4. D　5. D　6. C　7. D　8. B　9. B　10. C
11. B　12. D　13. B　14.A　15.A
第二部分：阅读判断(第16～22题，每题1分，共7分)
16. B　17. B　18.A　19. C　20. C　21. A　22.A
第三部分：概括大意与完成句子(第23～30题，每题l分，共8分)
23.C　24.F　25.B　26.E　27.A　28.E　29.C　30.D
第四部分：阅读理解(第31～45题，每题3分，共45分)
31.D　32.A　33.C　34.B　35.D　36.C　37.A　38.A　39.B　40.D
41. B　42.A　43. C　44. D　45.C
第五部分：补全短文(第46～50题，每题2分，共10分)
46.E 　47.A　 48.F 　49.D 　50.B
第六部分：完形填空(第51～65题，每题1分，共15分)
51.B　52.D　53.A　54.C　55.B　56.A　57.B　58.C　59.A　60.B
61.A　62.B　63.C　64.D　65 D