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Ⅰ.单项选择(每小题1分，满分15分)
1. They find a good way to ____ for a new secretary.
A. approve B. advise C. assure D. advertise
2. She was so touched by his generosity that for a moment she was ____ for words.
A. in loss B. in a loss C. at loss D. at a loss
3. The mother didn’t know who ____ for the broken glass.
A. will blame B. to blame C. blamed D. blames
4. The football player reacted ____ the judge’s decision by with drawing
from the match.
A. on B. to C. against D. by
5. The soldier was ____ of running away when the enemy attacked.
A. scolded B. charged C. accused D. punished
6. The company launched a large advertising ____ for their new product.
A. camp B. campaign C. campus D. combat
7. ——May I go to play football with Mike this afternoon, Dad?
——No, you can’t go out ____ your work is being done.
A. as B. until C. before D. after
8. ____ we have finished the course, we shall start doing more revision
work.
A. For B. Now that C. By now D. Until
9. It’s high time that we students ____ even harder at our lessons as the
national entrance examination is coming nearer.
A. work B. will work C. worked D. have to work
10. ____ him not to do so, he wouldn’t have made such a serious
mistake.
A. Did I persuade B. If I persuade
C. If I should persuade D. Had I persuaded
11. ——Excuse me, can you tell me where the nearest bank is, please? ——____. Oh yes!It’s past the post office, next to a big market.
A. Mm, let me think B. Oh, I beg your pardon
C. You’re welcome D. What do you mean
12. We hope that as many people as possible ____ join us for the picnic
tomorrow.
A. need B. must C. should D. can
13. I used to earn ____ than a pound a week when I first started work.
A. less B. fewer C. a few D. a little
14. ——I think I’ll give Bob a ring.
——You ____. You haven’t been in touch with him for ages.
A. will B. may C. have to D. should
15. ——Andrew won’t like it, you know.
——____? I don’t care what Andrew thinks!
A. So what B. So where C. So why D. So how
Ⅱ.完形填空(每小题1.5分，满分30分)
Mr. and Mrs. Moore were invited to a Christmas party at a hotel one year. They __1__ their car outside and went in. Mr. Moore never got drunk before, so he was __2__ not to drink too much, __3__ his friends asked him to drink more __4__.
During the party, Mrs. Moore found that she had __5__ to bring her bag, so she asked her husband to go out to the __6__ and get it for her. He did so, but on his way back to the hotel gate, he heard a car horn __7__ near his own car. He thought someone __8__ be in need of help and went over to the car with the __9__. He found a __10__ sitting in the driving-seat and blowing the horn.
When Mr. Moore __11__ the party, he told several people about the bear, but of course they did not believe him and thought he was drunk. When he took them out of the hotel to __12__ that his story was __13__, he found that the car with bear in it had gone. There were so many __14__ about Mr. Moore’s black bear during the next week __15__ he at last put an advertisement in the newspaper: “If anyone saw a black bear blowing the horn in a car outside the Century Hotel __16__ the evening of Christmas Day, please tell…”
Two days after Mrs. Richard called him and said that she and her husband had left their pet bear in their car outside the Century Hotel for a few minutes that evening and __17__ maybe he had blown the horn.
Mrs. Richard did not __18__ to think there was anything __19__ about that. “Our bear like blowing car horns,” she said, “and we don’t __20__ when we are not driving the car.”
1. A. lay B. hid C. left D. stayed
2. A. polite B. careful C. glad D. afraid
3. A. until B. whether C. although D. unless
4. A. for ever B. once again C. just then D. all along
5. A. forgotten B. regretted C. remembered D. asked
6. A. hotel B. car C. home D. outside
7. A. blowing B. shouting C. knocking D. hitting
8. A. must B. might C. would D. should
9. A. noise B. voice C. cry D. shout
10. A. small black bear B. black small bear
C. bear small black D. small bear black
11. A. was sent to B. returned back to
C. got rid of D. got back to
12. A. show B. tell C. require D. promise
13. A. interesting B. correct C. true D. exciting
14. A. laughs B. shouts C. smiles D. sneers
15. A. what B. when C. where D. that
16. A. for B. at C. in D. on
17. A. that B. when C. where D. how
18. A. mean B. have C. know D. seem
19. A. strange B. good C. common D. terrible
20. A. agree B. like C. mind D. worry
Ⅲ.阅读理解(每小题2分，满分40分)
(A)
1
Restaurant Supervisor/Waiting Staff/Telephonist
The ideal candidates must have relevant experience gained in a high quality hotel. Please call Personnel on 071-722-7711, or send your CV to: Regents Part Hilton, Lodge Road, London. NW87
2
Use Your Language and Earn ￡450—￡1,200 P.W.
We are one of the largest business publishers in Europe and have limited positions for intelligent young people in our London advertisement sales office. Enquiries from German, Spanish and Eastern European speakers are especially welcome. Phone on 071-753-4300.
3
Planet Hollywood/London/Join the Stars!Food Servers
The biggest and busiest restaurant in London is seeking additional stars for its team of dedicated professionals. If you have experience in high volume restaurants and are looking for a challenge, then come on down for an interview.
Interview day is on Friday, 6th May, from 12 noon to 7 p.m.
Planet Hollywood is located at 13 Coventry Street, London. W1
4
Baby-sitter Wanted
For a 9-month-old artistic/prof, household
Notting Hill, 3 days per week
Some hours flexibility required
Knowledge: German/French, advantage not essential
1. The employer of the first advertisement is ____.
A. a park B. Regents Part Hilton
C. a telephone company D. a hotel
2. According to Advertisement 2, we can learn that ____.
A. only German and Eastern European speakers are needed
B. the job offers ￡450-￡1,200 per month
C. the job is open to people of all ages
D. you may call to get more information about the job
3. Those who are interested in Advertisement 3 should ____.
A. go to 13 Coventry Street for interviews
B. take interviews on 6th May from 7 a.m. to 12 noon
C. work in Hollywood in the USA
D. leave London for Planet Hollywood
4. In Advertisement 4 the baby-sitter must ____.
A. have 9 months’ working experience
B. speak German or French
C. accept flexible working hours
D. come from an artistic household
(B)
Apollo
For lovers of the arts, Apollo is a truly necessary magazine. Covering the ages and the great civilizations of the world, Apollo brings you well-illustrated yet academic articles by internationally famous scholars, as well as information on exhibitions and sales. Experience five monthly issues for as little as ￡5 each.
The Guardian Weekly
The Guardian Weekly gives you a global view with articles from four of the world’s most respected newspapers. Read the news from different views and draw your own conclusions on the stories shaping our world. Try it for 3 months for just ￡15.55. Plus get a free copy of The Guardian Year 2003.
New Internationalist
Full of excellent writing and photography, the NI covers one key subject each month, from Terrorism to Poverty to Climate Change. Reporters from around the globe provide you with a comprehensive world view. PLUS: masses of fresh reports and stories to keep you up-to-date on world affairs. 3 months free and free World Map.
The Week
The Week is the only weekly summary giving you the best of the British and foreign newspapers in just 35 pages. Designed to be read in just 1 hour, it provides you with everything you need and want to know. Try The Week now with 13 issues for just ￡13.75. If you decide it’s not for you, just tell us within the first 6 weeks and you can get your money back.
5. Which of the following magazines will probably provide you with
articles about music and paintings? ____.
A. Apollo B. The Week
C. New Internationalist D. The Guardian Weekly
6. It is possible that most of the readers of the four magazines are ____.
A. men B. women C. children D. grown-ups
7. Which of the following would you most probably read if you want to
get information from the world’s most popular newspapers? ____.
A. Apollo & The Week
B. Apollo & New Internationalist
C. The Guardian Weekly & The Week
D. The Guardian Weekly & New Internationalist
8. The purpose of writing these four texts is to ____.
A. tell the readers the latest news
B. get more readers to subscribe (订阅)
C. show the importance of the four magazines
D. introduce the four magazines to new readers
(C)
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
A CLASS OF THEIR OWN（57）
Name: Susan LaneAge: 22 Place: Reykjavik, Iceland, 1994.
Cost: $7,000 Organization: AFS
Experience:“I think it was a turning point in my life. I began to understand more about my own culture by experiencing another culture and seeing how other people live.”
Name: Sara SmallAge: 23 Place: Crivitz, Germany, 1996.
Cost: $8,000 Organization: EF Foundation
Experience:“I love the traveling and I made a lot of friends. I found the European school system to be hard but I am fluent now in German so it was worth it. I did miss my family and friends in Australia but I would love to do it again.”
Name: Leanne Smythe Age: 20 Place: Minnesota, America, 1994.
Cost: $6,000Organization: Southern Cross Culture Exchange
Experience:“I learnt how to be really responsible. It was great to be on my own and I got on really well with the family I was with. I will definitely go back one day.”
Name: David LinksAge: 16 Place: Stuttgart, Germany, 1996
Cost: $6,000Organization: Southern Cross Cultural Exchange
Experience:“I wanted to try something that was very different from Australia in culture. In Germany everything was different but I soon got settled. The family I was with were great and I really feel as though I have a second family.”
Name: Tom JenningsAge:21 Place: Conflans, France, 1995.
Cost: $7,000Organization:Southern Cross Cultural Exchange
Experience:“There were times when it was difficult but I liked it, experiencing a different culture. You just have to play each situation as it comes. If there is one thing you learn when you are on a student-exchange program it is how to take care of yourself.”
Name: Linda MarksAge: 19Place: Chonburi Province, Thailand, 1994
Cost: $3,500Organization: Rotary International
Experience:“It’s like a roller-coaster ride. There are lots of ups and downs, but you always come back for more. I had a few problems but there was always someone to turn to and that was great.”
9． The students who refer to both the good time and the bad time
include ____.
A． Susan Lane and Sara Small
B． Linda Marks and David Links
C． Tom Jennings and Linda Marks
D． Leanne Smythe and Tom Jennings
10． The writing above would probably be ____.
A． the records of students’ activities
B． the foreign students’ name cards
C． the notice about a visit to foreign countries
D． the advertisement from an international travel service
11． The student who values learning another language is ____.
A． Linda Marks B． Sara Small
C． Tom Jennings D． Leanne Smythe
12． How many students mention the culture difference they have
experienced? ____.
A． Three B． Four C． Five D． Six
(D)
Special Bridges Help Animals Cross the Road
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side.
Most people know this joke. But recently, some people have been much more worried about how the grizzly bear and mountain lion can cross the road.
“Millions of animals die each year on U.S. roads,” the Federal Highway Administration reports. In fact, only about 80 ocelots, an endangered wild cat, exist in the U.S. today. The main reason? Roadkill.
“Ecopassages” may help animals cross the road without being hit by cars. They are paths both over and under roads. “These ecopassages can be extremely useful, so that wildlife can avoid road accidents,” said Jodi Hilty of the Wildlife Protection Society.
But do animals actually use the ecopassages? The answer is “yes”. Paul Beier of Northern Arizona University found foot marks left by mountain lions on an ecopassage that went under a highway. This showed that the lions used the passage.
Builders of ecopassages try to make them look like a natural part of an area by planting trees on and around them. Animals seem to be catching on. Animals as different as salamanders and grizzly bears are using the bridges and underpasses.
The next time you visit a park or drive through an area with a lot of wildlife, look around. You might see an animal overpass!
13. The writer uses the example of “ocelots” to show that ____.
A. wild animals have become more dangerous
B. the driving conditions have improved greatly
C. the measure for protecting wildlife fails to work
D. an increasing number of animals are killed in road accidents
14. From the news story, we know an ecopassage is ____.
A. an underground path for cars
B. a fence built for the safety of the area
C. a bridge for animals to get over a river
D. a pass for animals to cross the road
15. When the writer says that animals seem “to be catching on”, he
means ____.
A. animals begin to realize the dangers on the road
B. animals begin to learn to use ecopassages
C. animals are crossing the road in groups
D. animals are increasing in number
16. The writer asks visitors and drivers to look around when traveling
because ____.
A. wild animals may attack cars
B. wild animals may jam the road
C. they may see wild animals in the park
D. they may see wild animals on ecopassages
(E)
WHEN Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, he could never have predicted what it would be able to do in the future. Now, 130 years later, it’s no surprise when someone takes out a cellphone to make a call while on the move.
But phones are no longer just used to make calls. Japan’s 90 million cellphone owners also use their machine’s modern technology and tiny screens (half the size of a business card) to play video games, send e-mails, read news, download music, store photos and surf the Internet. Since April, they’ve been able to use their cellphones to watch TV.
Following several months of test broadcasts, digital TV broadcasts for cellphones with special receivers began in Japan’s major cities. The special cellphones are hard to find because only a small number were put on sale. The excitement surrounding mobile TV means that the limited number of handsets quickly sold out.
Misogo Kado, a 37-year-old software designer from Yokohama, near Tokyo, bought one of the new cellphones earlier this month.
He is a big fan of the new technology.“You know how every cellphone now comes with a digital camera? In the same way, this is going to become a standard feature,” Kado said of the TV service. “It’s not something you have to pay for. If you’re buying a cellphone, you might as well get one with it.”
While the service is new for Japan, it is not the world’s first. South Korea and Britain have made TV available to their cellphone customers with the use of slightly different technology. The new service in Japan, however, is free.
Not only that, it uses broadcasting airwaves instead of an Internet connection. The images are sent through the air by TV towers, not satellites.
This terrestrial digital broadcast system means that more people will be able to use the service. Imagine what our phones will be able to do in another 130 years’ time!
17. What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10
words.)
18. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
We have great difficulty finding this special cellphones due to its
limited numbers in the market.
19. What’s the new functions of this special cellphones according to the
passage? (Please answer within 30 words.)
20. Translate the underlined sentence in the seventh paragraph into
Chinese.
Ⅳ.短文改错(每小题1分，满分10分)
Dear Editor,
Recently, our class have had heated discussion about whether1.____
the Beijing Zoo should be move out of the city. Some of my2.____
classmates are in favor of the move. They say large
crowds of tourist to the zoo will result 3.____
from traffic jams. They also say that once moved, animals will 4.____
have more space and good living conditions in the suburbs. 5.____
However, other students are against the idea, saying that 6.____
the Beijing Zoo, built in 1906, have a history of 102 years, and is 7.____
well-known at home and abroad. So it should remain at where it 8.____
is. What’s more, moving may cause the dead of some animals. 9.____
To move or not, this is a big decision which had to be 10.____
made by people in Beijing.
Yours,
Li Hua
Ⅴ.书面表达(满分25分)
Please write an article entitled “My Opinion on Advertisement” of about 120-150 words within 30 minutes.
Key(3)
1. They find a good way to ____ for a new secretary.
A. approve B. advise C. assure D. advertise
2. She was so touched by his generosity that for a moment she was ____ for words.
A. in loss B. in a loss C. at loss D. at a loss
3. The mother didn’t know who ____ for the broken glass.
A. will blame B. to blame C. blamed D. blames
4. The football player reacted ____ the judge’s decision by with drawing
from the match.
A. on B. to C. against D. by
5. The soldier was ____ of running away when the enemy attacked.
A. scolded B. charged C. accused D. punished
6. The company launched a large advertising ____ for their new product.
A. camp B. campaign C. campus D. combat
7. ——May I go to play football with Mike this afternoon, Dad?
——No, you can’t go out ____ your work is being done.
A. as B. until C. before D. after
8. ____ we have finished the course, we shall start doing more revision
work.
A. For B. Now that C. By now D. Until
9. It’s high time that we students ____ even harder at our lessons as the
national entrance examination is coming nearer.
A. work B. will work C. worked D. have to work
10. ____ him not to do so, he wouldn’t have made such a serious
mistake.
A. Did I persuade B. If I persuade
C. If I should persuade D. Had I persuaded
11. ——Excuse me, can you tell me where the nearest bank is, please? ——____. Oh yes!It’s past the post office, next to a big market.
A. Mm, let me think B. Oh, I beg your pardon
C. You’re welcome D. What do you mean
12. We hope that as many people as possible ____ join us for the picnic
tomorrow.
A. need B. must C. should D. can
13. I used to earn ____ than a pound a week when I first started work.
A. less B. fewer C. a few D. a little
14. ——I think I’ll give Bob a ring.
——You ____. You haven’t been in touch with him for ages.
A. will B. may C. have to D. should
15. ——Andrew won’t like it, you know.
——____? I don’t care what Andrew thinks!
A. So what B. So where C. So why D. So how
Ⅱ.完形填空(每小题1.5分，满分30分)
Mr. and Mrs. Moore were invited to a Christmas party at a hotel one year. They __1__ their car outside and went in. Mr. Moore never got drunk before, so he was __2__ not to drink too much, __3__ his friends asked him to drink more __4__.
During the party, Mrs. Moore found that she had __5__ to bring her bag, so she asked her husband to go out to the __6__ and get it for her. He did so, but on his way back to the hotel gate, he heard a car horn __7__ near his own car. He thought someone __8__ be in need of help and went over to the car with the __9__. He found a __10__ sitting in the driving-seat and blowing the horn.
When Mr. Moore __11__ the party, he told several people about the bear, but of course they did not believe him and thought he was drunk. When he took them out of the hotel to __12__ that his story was __13__, he found that the car with bear in it had gone. There were so many __14__ about Mr. Moore’s black bear during the next week __15__ he at last put an advertisement in the newspaper: “If anyone saw a black bear blowing the horn in a car outside the Century Hotel __16__ the evening of Christmas Day, please tell…”
Two days after Mrs. Richard called him and said that she and her husband had left their pet bear in their car outside the Century Hotel for a few minutes that evening and __17__ maybe he had blown the horn.
Mrs. Richard did not __18__ to think there was anything __19__ about that. “Our bear like blowing car horns,” she said, “and we don’t __20__ when we are not driving the car.”
1. A. lay B. hid C. left D. stayed
2. A. polite B. careful C. glad D. afraid
3. A. until B. whether C. although D. unless
4. A. for ever B. once again C. just then D. all along
5. A. forgotten B. regretted C. remembered D. asked
6. A. hotel B. car C. home D. outside
7. A. blowing B. shouting C. knocking D. hitting
8. A. must B. might C. would D. should
9. A. noise B. voice C. cry D. shout
10. A. small black bear B. black small bear
C. bear small black D. small bear black
11. A. was sent to B. returned back to
C. got rid of D. got back to
12. A. show B. tell C. require D. promise
13. A. interesting B. correct C. true D. exciting
14. A. laughs B. shouts C. smiles D. sneers
15. A. what B. when C. where D. that
16. A. for B. at C. in D. on
17. A. that B. when C. where D. how
18. A. mean B. have C. know D. seem
19. A. strange B. good C. common D. terrible
20. A. agree B. like C. mind D. worry
Ⅲ.阅读理解(每小题2分，满分40分)
(A)
1
Restaurant Supervisor/Waiting Staff/Telephonist
The ideal candidates must have relevant experience gained in a high quality hotel. Please call Personnel on 071-722-7711, or send your CV to: Regents Part Hilton, Lodge Road, London. NW87
2
Use Your Language and Earn ￡450—￡1,200 P.W.
We are one of the largest business publishers in Europe and have limited positions for intelligent young people in our London advertisement sales office. Enquiries from German, Spanish and Eastern European speakers are especially welcome. Phone on 071-753-4300.
3
Planet Hollywood/London/Join the Stars!Food Servers
The biggest and busiest restaurant in London is seeking additional stars for its team of dedicated professionals. If you have experience in high volume restaurants and are looking for a challenge, then come on down for an interview.
Interview day is on Friday, 6th May, from 12 noon to 7 p.m.
Planet Hollywood is located at 13 Coventry Street, London. W1
4
Baby-sitter Wanted
For a 9-month-old artistic/prof, household
Notting Hill, 3 days per week
Some hours flexibility required
Knowledge: German/French, advantage not essential
1. The employer of the first advertisement is ____.
A. a park B. Regents Part Hilton
C. a telephone company D. a hotel
2. According to Advertisement 2, we can learn that ____.
A. only German and Eastern European speakers are needed
B. the job offers ￡450-￡1,200 per month
C. the job is open to people of all ages
D. you may call to get more information about the job
3. Those who are interested in Advertisement 3 should ____.
A. go to 13 Coventry Street for interviews
B. take interviews on 6th May from 7 a.m. to 12 noon
C. work in Hollywood in the USA
D. leave London for Planet Hollywood
4. In Advertisement 4 the baby-sitter must ____.
A. have 9 months’ working experience
B. speak German or French
C. accept flexible working hours
D. come from an artistic household
(B)
Apollo
For lovers of the arts, Apollo is a truly necessary magazine. Covering the ages and the great civilizations of the world, Apollo brings you well-illustrated yet academic articles by internationally famous scholars, as well as information on exhibitions and sales. Experience five monthly issues for as little as ￡5 each.
The Guardian Weekly
The Guardian Weekly gives you a global view with articles from four of the world’s most respected newspapers. Read the news from different views and draw your own conclusions on the stories shaping our world. Try it for 3 months for just ￡15.55. Plus get a free copy of The Guardian Year 2003.
New Internationalist
Full of excellent writing and photography, the NI covers one key subject each month, from Terrorism to Poverty to Climate Change. Reporters from around the globe provide you with a comprehensive world view. PLUS: masses of fresh reports and stories to keep you up-to-date on world affairs. 3 months free and free World Map.
The Week
The Week is the only weekly summary giving you the best of the British and foreign newspapers in just 35 pages. Designed to be read in just 1 hour, it provides you with everything you need and want to know. Try The Week now with 13 issues for just ￡13.75. If you decide it’s not for you, just tell us within the first 6 weeks and you can get your money back.
5. Which of the following magazines will probably provide you with
articles about music and paintings? ____.
A. Apollo B. The Week
C. New Internationalist D. The Guardian Weekly
6. It is possible that most of the readers of the four magazines are ____.
A. men B. women C. children D. grown-ups
7. Which of the following would you most probably read if you want to
get information from the world’s most popular newspapers? ____.
A. Apollo & The Week
B. Apollo & New Internationalist
C. The Guardian Weekly & The Week
D. The Guardian Weekly & New Internationalist
8. The purpose of writing these four texts is to ____.
A. tell the readers the latest news
B. get more readers to subscribe (订阅)
C. show the importance of the four magazines
D. introduce the four magazines to new readers
(C)
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
A CLASS OF THEIR OWN（57）
Name: Susan LaneAge: 22 Place: Reykjavik, Iceland, 1994.
Cost: $7,000 Organization: AFS
Experience:“I think it was a turning point in my life. I began to understand more about my own culture by experiencing another culture and seeing how other people live.”
Name: Sara SmallAge: 23 Place: Crivitz, Germany, 1996.
Cost: $8,000 Organization: EF Foundation
Experience:“I love the traveling and I made a lot of friends. I found the European school system to be hard but I am fluent now in German so it was worth it. I did miss my family and friends in Australia but I would love to do it again.”
Name: Leanne Smythe Age: 20 Place: Minnesota, America, 1994.
Cost: $6,000Organization: Southern Cross Culture Exchange
Experience:“I learnt how to be really responsible. It was great to be on my own and I got on really well with the family I was with. I will definitely go back one day.”
Name: David LinksAge: 16 Place: Stuttgart, Germany, 1996
Cost: $6,000Organization: Southern Cross Cultural Exchange
Experience:“I wanted to try something that was very different from Australia in culture. In Germany everything was different but I soon got settled. The family I was with were great and I really feel as though I have a second family.”
Name: Tom JenningsAge:21 Place: Conflans, France, 1995.
Cost: $7,000Organization:Southern Cross Cultural Exchange
Experience:“There were times when it was difficult but I liked it, experiencing a different culture. You just have to play each situation as it comes. If there is one thing you learn when you are on a student-exchange program it is how to take care of yourself.”
Name: Linda MarksAge: 19Place: Chonburi Province, Thailand, 1994
Cost: $3,500Organization: Rotary International
Experience:“It’s like a roller-coaster ride. There are lots of ups and downs, but you always come back for more. I had a few problems but there was always someone to turn to and that was great.”
9． The students who refer to both the good time and the bad time
include ____.
A． Susan Lane and Sara Small
B． Linda Marks and David Links
C． Tom Jennings and Linda Marks
D． Leanne Smythe and Tom Jennings
10． The writing above would probably be ____.
A． the records of students’ activities
B． the foreign students’ name cards
C． the notice about a visit to foreign countries
D． the advertisement from an international travel service
11． The student who values learning another language is ____.
A． Linda Marks B． Sara Small
C． Tom Jennings D． Leanne Smythe
12． How many students mention the culture difference they have
experienced? ____.
A． Three B． Four C． Five D． Six
(D)
Special Bridges Help Animals Cross the Road
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side.
Most people know this joke. But recently, some people have been much more worried about how the grizzly bear and mountain lion can cross the road.
“Millions of animals die each year on U.S. roads,” the Federal Highway Administration reports. In fact, only about 80 ocelots, an endangered wild cat, exist in the U.S. today. The main reason? Roadkill.
“Ecopassages” may help animals cross the road without being hit by cars. They are paths both over and under roads. “These ecopassages can be extremely useful, so that wildlife can avoid road accidents,” said Jodi Hilty of the Wildlife Protection Society.
But do animals actually use the ecopassages? The answer is “yes”. Paul Beier of Northern Arizona University found foot marks left by mountain lions on an ecopassage that went under a highway. This showed that the lions used the passage.
Builders of ecopassages try to make them look like a natural part of an area by planting trees on and around them. Animals seem to be catching on. Animals as different as salamanders and grizzly bears are using the bridges and underpasses.
The next time you visit a park or drive through an area with a lot of wildlife, look around. You might see an animal overpass!
13. The writer uses the example of “ocelots” to show that ____.
A. wild animals have become more dangerous
B. the driving conditions have improved greatly
C. the measure for protecting wildlife fails to work
D. an increasing number of animals are killed in road accidents
14. From the news story, we know an ecopassage is ____.
A. an underground path for cars
B. a fence built for the safety of the area
C. a bridge for animals to get over a river
D. a pass for animals to cross the road
15. When the writer says that animals seem “to be catching on”, he
means ____.
A. animals begin to realize the dangers on the road
B. animals begin to learn to use ecopassages
C. animals are crossing the road in groups
D. animals are increasing in number
16. The writer asks visitors and drivers to look around when traveling
because ____.
A. wild animals may attack cars
B. wild animals may jam the road
C. they may see wild animals in the park
D. they may see wild animals on ecopassages
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WHEN Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, he could never have predicted what it would be able to do in the future. Now, 130 years later, it’s no surprise when someone takes out a cellphone to make a call while on the move.
But phones are no longer just used to make calls. Japan’s 90 million cellphone owners also use their machine’s modern technology and tiny screens (half the size of a business card) to play video games, send e-mails, read news, download music, store photos and surf the Internet. Since April, they’ve been able to use their cellphones to watch TV.
Following several months of test broadcasts, digital TV broadcasts for cellphones with special receivers began in Japan’s major cities. The special cellphones are hard to find because only a small number were put on sale. The excitement surrounding mobile TV means that the limited number of handsets quickly sold out.
Misogo Kado, a 37-year-old software designer from Yokohama, near Tokyo, bought one of the new cellphones earlier this month.
He is a big fan of the new technology.“You know how every cellphone now comes with a digital camera? In the same way, this is going to become a standard feature,” Kado said of the TV service. “It’s not something you have to pay for. If you’re buying a cellphone, you might as well get one with it.”
While the service is new for Japan, it is not the world’s first. South Korea and Britain have made TV available to their cellphone customers with the use of slightly different technology. The new service in Japan, however, is free.
Not only that, it uses broadcasting airwaves instead of an Internet connection. The images are sent through the air by TV towers, not satellites.
This terrestrial digital broadcast system means that more people will be able to use the service. Imagine what our phones will be able to do in another 130 years’ time!
17. What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10
words.)
18. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
We have great difficulty finding this special cellphones due to its
limited numbers in the market.
19. What’s the new functions of this special cellphones according to the
passage? (Please answer within 30 words.)
20. Translate the underlined sentence in the seventh paragraph into
Chinese.
Ⅳ.短文改错(每小题1分，满分10分)
Dear Editor,
Recently, our class have had heated discussion about whether1.____
the Beijing Zoo should be move out of the city. Some of my2.____
classmates are in favor of the move. They say large
crowds of tourist to the zoo will result 3.____
from traffic jams. They also say that once moved, animals will 4.____
have more space and good living conditions in the suburbs. 5.____
However, other students are against the idea, saying that 6.____
the Beijing Zoo, built in 1906, have a history of 102 years, and is 7.____
well-known at home and abroad. So it should remain at where it 8.____
is. What’s more, moving may cause the dead of some animals. 9.____
To move or not, this is a big decision which had to be 10.____
made by people in Beijing.
Yours,
Li Hua
Ⅴ.书面表达(满分25分)
Please write an article entitled “My Opinion on Advertisement” of about 120-150 words within 30 minutes.
Key(3)