第二部分:语言知识及应用 (共两节,满分45分)

第一节  完形填空 (共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)

Many years ago, I owned a service station and roadhouse on the main road between Melbourne and Adelaide.

One very cold, wet night at about 3:30 a.m., there was a   11   on the front door of our house. A young man, wet from head to toe, explained that he had    12   out of petrol about 30 km up the road. He had left his pregnant(怀孕的) wife and his two children   13   at the car and said that he would hitchhike(搭便车) back.

Once I had filled a can with petrol, I took him back to his car where his two-year-old and four-year-old children were both   14   , saying that they were cold. Once the car had started, I suggested that he   15   me back.

Before leaving, I had turned the heater   16   in the roadhouse, so that when we went in, it was nice and   17   .While the little ones played and ran around ,I prepared bread and butter for the children, and hot chocolate for the   18   .

It was about 5 a.m. before they left .The young fellow asked me how much he   19   me and I told him that the petrol pump(加油泵) had shown $15.He offered to pay “call-out fee”, but I wouldn’t accept it.

About a month later, I received a   20    from Interstate, a large bus company that we had been trying to   21   to stop off at our roadhouse for a long time. It   22   out that the young fellow I had helped was its general manager, the most   23   person in the company.

In his letter, he thanked me again and    24   me that, from then on, all their buses would stop at my service station. In this   25   , a little bit of kindness was rewarded with a huge amount of benefits.

11. A.kick              B. hit                    C. beat                         D. knock

12. A.driven          B. used                  C. come                       D. run

13. A.away            B. behind                  C. over                         D. out

14. A.sleeping        B. crying            C. quarrelling            D. fighting

15. A.allow            B. ring                  C. lead                         D. follow

16. A.on                B. off                    C. in                                D. over

17. A.neat              B. hot                   C. warm                       D. attractive

18. A.drivers          B. guests            C. customers                 D. adults

19. A.gave             B. paid                  C. owed                       D. offered

20. A.call                     B. letter                 C. check                       D. notice

21. A.get               B. force                 C. require                         D. hope

22. A.pointed         B. turned            C. worked                 D. found

23. A.generous              B. successful       C. serious                      D. powerful

24. A.praised         B. persuaded          C. informed                  D. convinced

25. A.lesson           B. business            C. aspect               D. Case

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    LONDON: What could possibly be wrong with planting trees? The benefits are obvious; they  firm the soil, soak up (摄取) extra water and take carbon dioxide (二氧化碳) our of the atmosphere.

However, it now turns out that planting trees could add to global warming.

Tree roots do a great job of keeping soil firmly on the ground and out of the wind’s power. The problem is that some of those dust clouds play an important part in soaking up carbon dioxide.

Huge dust storms blow out over the oceans from dry parts of North Africa and central Asia. Tons of dust are lifted and left as a thin film over the ocean surface. The dust fuels oceanic life.

Dust from China is carried east and left in the Pacific Ocean. If a tree-planting programme there is successful and the dust supply reduced, the net result may be that less carbon dioxide gets locked away in the ocean.

Andy Ridgwell, an environmental scientist from the University of East Anglia, has spent the past few years studying dust and says his work “shows clearly that the complexity of the system and the importance of not tinkering(粗劣地修补) with it without understanding the results. For this reason the need is to focus(集中) on cutting carbon dioxide giving off rather than monkeying (瞎弄) about with the land surface.”

An American scientist, Robert Jackson, has shown that when native grassland areas are invaded(侵入) by trees, carbon is lost from the soil. “We are studying why the soil carbon disappears, but one theory is that trees do a lot more of their growing above ground compared to grasses, so less carbon goes directly into the soil from trees, ” says Jackson.

In wet areas of the world, the gain from trees absorbing carbon dioxide above ground seems to be outweighed(超过) by the loss of carbon from the soil below ground. Countries that plan to combat global warming by planting trees may have to think again.

Solutions to environmental problems are often more complex than they first appear, and understanding the Earth’s climate is a very great challenge.

63.People usually hold the opinion that       .

       A.huge dust storms can destroy carbon dioxide

       B.huge dust storms can destroy the oceans on the earth

       C.huge dust storms can’t do anything beneficial for man

       D.planting trees is the only way to control huge dust storms

64.Andy Ridgwell, the environmental scientist, believes that       .

       A.dust plays a more important part than trees

       B.trees should’t have been planted in dry places

       C.carbon dioxide is harmful to everything on the earth

       D.environmental problems are more complex than expected

65.Robert Jackson’s experiment proves that         .

       A.grassland areas should be covered by forests

       B.trees hold more carbon than grasses

       C.carbon can turn grass into dust

       D.less carbon can make trees grow faster

66.The underlined word “combat” in the last paragraph means      .

       A.learn about      B.fight against     C.live with   D.give up

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