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The process of producing electricity may also give out CO₂, ______ you heat your house with electricity instead of charcoal.

A.
as long as
B.
as soon as
C.
as if
D.
even if

D
考查短语辨析。句意为：产生电的过程也会发出二氧化碳，即使你用电而不是用木炭加热你的屋子。故答案为D。

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There are two basic ways to see growth: one as a product, the other as a process. People have generally viewed personal growth as an external (外在的) result or a product that can easily be identified and measured．The worker who gets a rise, the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new language—all these examples of people who have measurable results to show for their efforts．

By contrast (对照) , the process of personal growth is much more difficult to determine, since it is a journey and not the specific signposts or landmarks along the way．The process is not the road itself, but the attitudes, feelings people have , and their caution or courage, as they meet with new experiences and unexpected difficulties．In this process, the journey never really ends；there are always new ways to experience the world, new ideas to try, new challenges to accept．

In order to grow, to travel new roads, people need to have a willingness to take risks, to face the unknown, and to accept the possibility that they may “fail” at first．How we see ourselves as we try a new way of being is necessary for our ability to grow．Do we see ourselves as quick and curious? If so, we tend to take more chances and be more open to unfamiliar experiences．Do we think we’re shy and indecisive? Then our sense of fear can cause us to hesitate, to move slowly, and we think we are slow to adapt change or that we’re not smart enough to deal with a new challenge．Then we are likely to take a more passive role or not try at all．

These feelings of insecurity and self-doubt are both unavoidable and necessary if we are to change and grow．If we protect ourselves too much, then we stop growing．We become trapped inside a shell of our own making．

1.In the author’s eye, one who views personal growth as a process would ______．

A．succeed in climbing up the social ladder

B．grow up from his own achievements

C．face difficulties and take up challenges

D．aim high and reach his goal each time

2.Which of the following can be viewed as the process of personal growing?

A．Our manager was always willing to accept new challenges．

B．Jane won the first prize in the speech competition．

C．Jerry picked up French during his stay in Paris．

D．Father’s salary rose from 5, 000 to 7,000．

3.For personal growth, the author is in favor of all the following EXCEPT _______．

A．being curious about more changes

B．being quick in self-adaptation

C．having an open mind to new experiences

D．staying away from failures and challenges

4.The best title for this passage should be ______．

A．Facing New Challenges B Growth—Product or Process

C．Two Basic Ways of Growth D Overcoming Internal Fear

Agence Rrance-Presse--- French doctors this week carried out the world’s first operation on a human in zero gravity, using a specially adapted aircraft to create conditions in space.

During a three-hour flight from Bordeaux in southwest France, the team of surgeons and anesthetists (麻醉师) successfully removed a benign tumor (良性瘤) from the forearm of a 46-year-old volunteer. The experiment was part of a program backed by the European Space Agency to develop techniques for performing robotic surgery aboard the International Space Station or at a future Moon base.

“Now we know that a human being can be operated on in space without too many difficulties,” says the team leader Dr. Dominique Martin.

Under normal ground conditions, the operation would be performed under a local anesthetic. Without gravity, the surgeon’s work is harder and the patient’s body reacts differently. Blood doesn’t pump in the same way.

The custom-designed Airbus 300 aircraft performed a series of parabolic swoops (抛物线飞行), each creating between 20 seconds of weightlessness. The process was repeated 32 times.

Fixed inside a custom-made operating block, three surgeons and two anesthetists worked during these periods, with their instruments held in place with magnets around the patient’s bed. The next part of the program is to carry out a remote-controlled operation using a robot controlled from the ground by satellite. This experiment should take place within a year, Martin says.

Anesthetist Dr. Laurent de Coninek says that zero-gravity surgery offers huge promise for space exploration, although it would at first be limited to treating simple injuries. Today more than 400 people have already traveled into space. The chances of injuries occurring during missions will become even greater and to bring a wounded person back to the earth for treatment is both risky for them and expensive.

67. What would be the best title for the test?

A. A Special Operation for Doctors B. First Operation on the Moon

C. World’s First Operation in Zero Gravity D. An Important Experiment for Doctors

68. What’s the purpose of the operation?

A. To have an experiment on space operation. B. To cure the patient.

C. To do it at the request of the patient. D. To reduce the danger of operation on earth.

69. It is difficult for doctors to do operations in space because________________.

A. the patient’s illness will be more serious B. the patient has no feeling about pain

C. the patient’s body reacts differently D. the patient’s flood will stop flowing

70. The last paragraph mainly wants to tell readers________________.

A. there are many people injured in space B. it is necessary to do the experiment

C. it is risky to travel in space D. there is no need to bring patients in space to the earth

We produce 500 billion of plastic bags in a year worldwide and they are thrown away polluting oceans, killing wildlife and getting dumped in landfills where they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. Researchers have been unsuccessfully looking for a solution.

The 16-year-old Canadian high school student, Daniel Burd, from Waterloo Collegiate Institute, has-discovered a way to make plastic bags degrade(降解) in as few as 3 months, a finding that won him first prize at the Canada Wide Science Fair, a ＄10,000 prize, a ＄20,000 scholarship, and a chance to revolutionize a major environmental issue.

Burd’s strategy was simple: Since plastic does eventually degrade, it must be eaten by microorganisms (微生物). If those microorganisms could be identified, we could put them to work eating the plastic much faster than under normal conditions.

With this goal in mind, he grounded plastic bags into a powder and concocted(调制) a solution of household chemicals, yeast(酵母) and tap water to encourage microbes growth. Then he added the plastic powder and let the microbes work their magic for 3 months. Finally, he tested the resulting bacterial culture on plastic bags, exposing one plastic sample to dead bacteria as a control. Sure enough, the plastic exposed to the live bacteria was 17% lighter than the control after six weeks.

The inputs are cheap, maintaining the required temperature takes little energy because microbes produce heat as they work, and the only outputs are water and tiny levels of carbon dioxide.

“Almost every week I have to do chores and when I open the closet door, I have piles of plastic bags falling on top of me. One day, I got tired of it and I wanted to know what other people are doing with these plastic bags. The answer: not much. So I decided to do something myself.” Said Daniel Burd.

1.Daniel Burd won first prize at the Canada Wide Science Fair because .

A. he found a new kind of microorganism

B. he contributed much to environmental protection

C. he found a way to degrade plastics in shorter time

D. he could encourage microbe growth in an easier way

2. Daniel Burd exposed one plastic sample to dead bacteria to .

A. make the live bacteria work better B. test how effective his method was

C. know which bacteria worked faster D. control the temperature in the process

Maintaining the required temperature takes little energy because .

A. plastics can get hot easily B. microbes can produce heat themselves

C. much carbon dioxide is produced D. the temperature can be controlled

4. Daniel Burd got his idea from .

A. his school textbook B. the failure of researchers

C. his everyday work D. the practice of other people

Who's in control of your life? Who's pulling your strings? For the majority of us, it's other people-society, colleagues, friends, family or our religious community. We learned this way of operating when we were very young, of course. We were brainwashed. We discovered that feeling important and feeling accepted was a nice experience and so we learned to do everything we could to make other people like us. As Oscar Wilde puts it, "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

So when people tell us how wonderful we are, it makes us feel good. We long for this, good feeling like a drug—we are addicted to it and seek it out wherever we can. Therefore, we are so eager for the approval (赞同) of others that we live unhappy and limited lives, failing to do the things we really want to. Just as drug addicts and alcoholics live worsened lives to keep getting their fix（一剂毒品）, we worsen our own existence to get our own constant fix of approval.

But, just as with any drug, there is a price to pay. The price of the approval drug is freedom—the freedom to be ourselves. The truth is that we cannot control what other people think. People have their own agenda, and they come with their own baggage and, in the end, they're more interested in themselves than in you. Furthermore, if we try to live by the opinions of others, we will build our life on sinking sand. Everyone has a different way of thinking, and people change their opinions all the time. The person who tries to please everyone will only end up getting exhausted (tired) and probably pleasing no one in the process.

So how can we take back control? I think there’s only one way make a conscious decision to stop caring what other people think. We should guide ourselves by means of a set of values—not values imposed from the outside by others, but innate values which come from within. If we are driven by these values and not by the changing opinions and value systems of others; we will live a more authentic, effective, purposeful and happy life.

1.What Oscar Wilde says implies that________.

A. most people have a variety of thoughts

B. we have thoughts similar to those of others

C. other people's thoughts are more important

D. most people's thoughts are controlled by others

2.What does the author try to argue in the third paragraph?

A. Changing opinions may cost us our freedom.

B. We may lose ourselves to please others.

C. We need to pay for what we want to get.

D. The price of taking the drug is freedom.

3. It can be concluded from the passage that_______.

A. it's better to do what we like

B. we shouldn't care what others think

C. we shouldn't change our own opinions

D. it's important to accept others' opinions

4.The author tries to persuade the readers to accept his arguments mainly by________.

A. analyzing causes and effects B. providing examples and facts

C. discussing questions D. making suggestions

第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

　　阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

　　I am a man who has been egoistic(以自我为中心的) and I have had a lack of respect for myself and others around me.I participated in various transformation workshops, 36 ,it made no differece.I remained 37 in my life.As a result,I became 38 from my family and reached rock 39 in my life.Having reached there,I resisted transforming myself.

　　After some time,I thought to myself: start believing in yourself and it will make a 40 in your life.I first started loing 41 and then all those around me.I started respecting myself and then others around me.My 42 increased.

　　Sangeeta is my workmate.She's transparent, 43 and respectful.She's very 44 and has a large family to support.In addition,her husband doesn't hold a regular job.In short,she's struggling in life.

　　On a cold winter morning,when she came to work,I found her 45 .I asked whether she had a pullover(毛线套衫). She didn't reply.I had my 46 .The next day when she came to work again,I gave her the money to buy a 47 for herself.The expression of 48 in her eyes was something that would remain with me for a long time.

　　A few weeks ago,she was 49 and didn't come to work.Instead,she sent her friend to do her work.The moment I 50 Sangeeta was sick,I gave 51 the money to buy medicines for her treatment. I took Sangeeta some time to recover 52 her illness.The first thing I 53 was whether she needed any more help of any kind. And she said,"Sir, you've done enough for me.I'm grateful to you."

　　That was the moment 54 I realized that I'm walking my path.Sometimes,I still fall down,but I get up and start walking again 55 I may have hurt myself in the process.

　　36.A.fortunately B.however C.gradually D.obviously

　　37.A.stuck B.engaged C.caught D.made

　　38.A.independent B.separated C.prevented D.locked

　　39.A.top B.turning C.bottom D.exit

　　40.A.progress B.deal C.decision D.difference

　　41.A.others B.life C.myself D.friends

　　42.A.self - worth B.self - control C.self - service D.self - defense

　　43.A.imaginative B.fascinating C.honest D.good - looking

　　44.A.poor B.healthy C.patient D.disappointed

　　45.A.exciting B.singing C.confusing D.shaking

　　46.A.idea B.promise C.performance D.answer

　　47.A.bike B.pullover C.ticket D.drink

　　48.A.thankfulness B.guilty C.pity D.shock

　　49.A.away B.ill C.late D.missing

　　50.A.puzzled B.considered C.realized D.admitted

　　51.A.her husband B.her family C.Sangeeta D.her friend

　　52.A.from B.of C.off D.for

　　53.A.looked into B.took down C.cared about D.called on

　　54.A.that B.which C.how D.when

　　55.A.as if B.even though C.so that D.if only

The process of producing electricity may also give out CO2, ______ you heat your house with electricity instead of charcoal.

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The process of producing electricity may also give out CO₂, ______ you heat your house with electricity instead of charcoal.