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一、34题目Batteries Built by Viruses；文章What do chicken
pox,the common cold,…….These microbatteries may change the way we look at viruses.
1、According to the first paragraph,people try to答案C
stay away from viruses because they are causes of various diseases.
2、What is Belcher’s team doing at present?.答案CIt
is making batteries with viruses.
3、What expreion below is opposite in meaning to the
word “shrink” appearing in paragraph 5?.答案DExpand.
4、Which of the following is true of Belcher’s battery
mentioned in paragraph 6?答案DIt is a metallic disk with viruses inside it .
5、How tiny is one battery part?答案AIts width is one
tenth of a hair.
二、38题目Longer Lives for Wild Elephants文章Most
people think of zoos as safe places for animals,where struggles such as difficulty finding food and avoicing predators don’t exist…….not net producers,”Mason says.
1、According to the first two paragraphs,unlike other
zoo animals,zoo elephants答案D develop health problems.
2、Which of the following about the international
scientists’ research on the life spans of elephants is NOT true?答案B They kept detailed records of all the elephants in their care.
3、What do the scientist find in their research?答案C
Female zoo elephants live longer than their wild counterparts.
4、What are the poible causes of stre and obesity
Zoo-raised elephants generally suffer from?答案D Both B and C.
5、Which of the following does the author suggest in the
last paragraph?答案AIt may not be a wise policy to keep elephants in the zoo.
三、31题目Hurricane Katrina 文章A hurricane is a fiercely
powerful,rotating form of tropical storm that can be 124 to 1,240 miles in diameter……The cost of the damage may top $100 billion.
1、What is the eye of a hurricane?答案CA calm
central region of low preure between 12 to 60 miles in diameter.
2、Which of the following is NOT the “requirements”
mentioned in the second paragraph?答案A The tropical waters are warm and calm.
3、Which of the following is the best explanation of the
word “drive” in the third paragraph?答案CTo supply the motive force or power and cause to
function.
4、What does the warm air mentioned in the fourth
paragraph produce when it is rising from the sea surface?答案BLow preure.
5、What is NOT true of Hurricane Katrina according to
the last paragraph?答案DThe humanintarian crisis is as serious as that of the great depreion.
四、32题目Mind-reading Machine 文章 A team of
researchers in California has developed a way to predict what kinds of objects people are looking at by scanning what’s happening in their brains……their model would have predicted the volunteers were looking at apples.
1、What is responsible for proceing the information
sent by your eyes?答案CNeurons in the brain.
2、Which of the following statements is NOT meant by
the writer?答案DfMRI helps scientists to discover how the brain develops intelligently.
3、“Highlighting the areas of the brain at work”means答
案A“marking the parts of the brain that are proceing information”
4、What did the researchers experiment on?答案B Two volunteers.
5、Which of the following can be the best replacement
of the title?答案BYour Thoughts Can Be Scanned.
五、33题目Experts Call for Local and Regional Contol of
Sites for Radioactive Waste 文章The withdrawal of Nevada’s Yucca Mountain as a potential nuclear waste repository has reopened the debate over how and where to……who has analyzed safety aement criteria for the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
1、Which of the following words can best substitute the
word “withdrawal” in the first paragraph?答案B Canceling.
2、According to Rodney Ewing and Frand von Hippel,
where to locate nuclear facilities答案Bshould be approved by local people and states.
3、What is NOT true about the 1987 decision by
Congre concerning siting of nuclear waste disposal?答案DThe decision by Congre was accepted by local communities.
4、What does the author of the eay in the fourth
paragraph want to say?答案CEfforts should be made to develop nuclear disposal sites to suit the circumstances of the region.
5、What is meant by “regional approach” as mentioned
in the last paragraph?答案AWaste disposal sites are located close to reactors and in places suitable for the regional circumstances.
六、35题目Putting Plants to work 文章 Using the power of
the sun is nothing new……There’s a lot of flexibility in how you can use these organisms.”
1、What does the writer say about plants concerning
solar energy?答案CPlants have been using solar energy for billions of years.
2、Why do some scientists study how plants convert
sunlight carbon dioxide, and water into sugars and starches?答案BBecause they want green plants to become a new source of energy.
3、According to the fifth paragraph, under what
conditions are algae able to use solar energy to make hydrogen?答案BWhen there is no oxygen in the air.
4、Researchers have met with difficulties when trying to
make algae produce hydrogen efficiently.Which one of the following is one such difficulty?答案DIt is too slow for algae to produce hydrogen when the sulfate is removed.
5、What is NOT true of algae?答案CThey are cheap
to eat.
七、36题目 Listenig Device Provides Landslide Early
Warning 文章 A device that provides early warning of a landslide by monitoring vibrations in soil is being tested by UK researchers…… “Making systems that get warnings to those who need them can be difficult.”
1、What does “such natural disasters” in the first
paragraph refer to?答案DLandslides.
2、Which of the following statements is true of
landslides?答案DAll of the above.
3、Why do researchers develop a new device to monitor
signs of landsides?答案CBecause the common methods can cause false alarms.
4、Which of the following statements is NOT true of the
cevice, according to Paragraph 4?答案AIt is filled in with gravel.
5、According to context, what does the word “positives”
in the fifth paragraph mean?答案BEvidences.
八、37题目 “Don’t Drink Alone” Gets New Meaning 文章
In what may be bad news for bars and pubs, ……He speculates that the reason laryngeal risks were dramatically lower for all study participants traces to the tiue’s lower exposure to alcohol.
1、Researchers have found that the risk of cancer in the
mouth and neck is higher with people答案 Awho drink alconhol outside of meals.
2、Which of the following is NOT the conclusion made
by researchers about “drinking with meals”?答案 C It increases by 20 percent the poibility of cancer in all sites.
3、Approximately how many drinks do the lowest-intake
group average per day?答案 A3 drinks.
4、Which cancer risk is the lowest among all the four
kinds of cancer mentioned in the paage?答案 B Laryngeal cancer.
5、According to the last paragraph, tiue’s lower
exposure to alcohol答案 Dreduces the risk of laryngeal cancer.
九、39 题目Clone Farm 文章 Factory farming could soon
enter a new era of ma production……and it takes years to bread enough chickens to produce the billions of eggs that farmers need.
1、Which statement is the best description of the new era
of factory farming according to the first paragraph?答案CCloned chickens are bulk-produced with the same growth rate, weight and taste.
2、Which institution has offered $4.7 million to fund the
research?答案 A The US’s National Institute of Science and Technology.
3、In the third paragraph, by saying “Producers would
like the same meat quantity but to use reduced inputs to get there,” Mike Fitzgerald means that he wishes答案 D chickens could grow to the same weight but with le feed.
4、Which of the following statements about Ofigen and
Embrex is correct according to the fifth paragraph?答案 COrigen has joined hands with Embrex in producing cell-injecting machines.
5、The technology of freezing stem cells from different
strains of chicken can do all the following EXCEPT that答案 Afarmers can order certain strains of chicken only.
十、40 题目 Air Pollution Cloud Measured on Both Sides of
Pacific 文章 Scientists watched closely last spring as a haze of pollution, which had been tracked by satellite as it croed the Pacific Ocean,……we expect that sources in Europe will contribute le than Asian sources.”
1、The haze of pollution mentioned in the first paragraph
is a cloud答案 Dof desert dust and hydrocarbons.
2、One of the Price’s findings (Paragraph 2) about the
particles of the air is that答案 Dtheir ability to reflect light is much stronger.
3、What did Price not do during her research?答案 C She collected samples of pollutants on the Northwest coast for further tests.
4、According to the last paragraph, which of the
following statements about the two research teams is true?答案 AThe two research teams whose findings Price correlates hers with are based in Asia.
5、Which of the statements is closest in meaning to the
sentence “… , we expect that sources in Euroe will contribute le than Asian sources.”?答案 C Pollutants coming from Europe are not the main source of pollution in North America.
