¡¡¡¡JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Nov£®10£A 14-year-old boy was arrested today after the rotten body of an 8-year-old girl who was his neighbor was found hidden in his bedroom£®She had been stabbed and beaten£®
¡¡¡¡The boy, Joshua Earl Patrick Philips, admitted and was charged with murder in the death of the girl, Maddie Clifton, who disappeared on Nov£®3, Sheriff Nat Glover said£®
¡¡¡¡Joshua, who has no criminal record, would not be eligible(ºÏ¸ñµÄ)for the death punishment because of his age£®Detectives discovered a knife and a baseball bat believed to be the weapons used to kill the girl, the Sheriff said£®
¡¡¡¡The girl had been stabbed at least nine times and was struck in the head, Sheriff Glover said at a news conference£®The authorities did not say whether she has been attacked sexually, nor did they give motive for the attack£®
¡¡¡¡The boy's mother, Melissa Philips, grew suspicious after the police searched her home on Monday and detected an odor(strange smell), the Sheriff said£®This morning she pulled aside the frame of the bed, saw a child's feet and called an officer, he said£®
¡¡¡¡Maddie's body was found under a sheet of wood supporting the frame of the water bed, which was filled, Sheriff Glover said, adding, ¡°He put her under the bed and taped her up in it£®¡±
¡¡¡¡Investigators believe the third-grader was killed in the boy's house shortly after she disappeared last Tuesday, touching off a widespread search£®
¡¡¡¡On Friday, Maddie's parents, Steve and Sheila Clifton, made an earnest request for her return£®
¡¡¡¡The boy's house, like others in the neighborhood, had been searched three times£®During the third search on Monday, the mother had at first said she thought the odor came from family pets£®
¡¡¡¡Hundreds of volunteers had sent thousands of leaflets with Maddie's picture since she disappeared that evening, about 30 minutes after she went out to play with friends£®
¡¡¡¡The girl's house is one of the well-kept, single-family homes in the older working-class of Jacksonville£®Yellow ribbons(Ë¿´ø)still hung from the trees this morning£®
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Which of the following statement is not fit for the report?
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After the girl disappeared, the police searched on a large scale(´ó¹æÄ£µØ)£®
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Quite a lot of people handed out lots of papers to look for the girl£®
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The girl's parents are still waiting for their girl to come home safely on Friday morning£®
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The police searched the boy's house and found the girl's body by a strange smell£®
(2)
It can be inferred(ÍƶÏ)from the report that ________£®
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the girl was killed in the boy's home
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the girl was stabbed many times and struck by a baseball bat
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it is the first time that the boy has been charged
¡¡¡¡Suppose we built a robot(»úÆ÷ÈË)to explore the planet Mars£®We provide the robot with seeing detectors(̽²âÆ÷)to keep it away from danger£®It is powered entirely by the sun£®Should we program the robot to be equally active at all times?No£®The robot would be using up energy at a time when it was not receiving any£®So we would probably program it to stop its activity at night and to wake up at dawn the next morning£®
¡¡¡¡According to the evolutionary(½ø»¯µÄ)theory of sleep, evolution equipped us with a regular pattern of sleeping and waking for the same reason£®The theory does not deny(·ñÈÏ)that sleep provides some important restorative functions(»Ö¸´¹¦ÄÜ)£®It merely says that evolution has programmed us to perform those functions at a time when activity would be inefficient and possibly dangerous£®However, sleep protects us only from the sort of trouble we might walk into; it does not protect us from trouble that comes looking for us£®So we sleep well when we are in a familiar, safe place, but we sleep lightly, if at all, when we fear that bears will nose into the tent£®
¡¡¡¡The evolutionary theory explains the differences in sleep among creatures£®Why do eats, for instance, sleep so much, while horses sleep so little?Surely cats do not need five times as much repair and restoration as horses do£®But cats can afford to have long periods of inactivity because they spend little time eating and are unlikely to be attacked while they sleep£®Horses must spend almost all their waking hours eating, because what they eat is very low in energy value£®Moreover, they cannot afford to sleep too long or too deeply, because their survival(Éú´æ)depends on their ability to run away from attackers£®
(1)
The author uses the example of the robot in space exploration to tell us ________£®
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the differences between robots and men
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the reason why men need to sleep
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about the need for robots to save power
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about the danger of men working at night
(2)
Evolution has programmed man to sleep at night chiefly to help him ________£®
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keep up a regular pattern of life
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prevent trouble that comes looking for him
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avoid danger and inefficient labour
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restore his bodily functions
(3)
According to the author, we cannot sleep well when we ________£®
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are worrying about our safety
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are overworked
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are in a tent
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are away from home
(4)
Cats sleep much more than horses do partly because cats ________£®
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need more time for restoration
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are unlikely to be attackers
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axe more active than homes when they are awake
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spend less time eating to get enough energy
(5)
Which of the following is the main idea of the passage?
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Evolution has equipped all creatures with a regular pattern of sleeping and waking£®
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The study of sleep is an important part of the evolutionary theory£®
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Sleeping patterns must be taken into consideration in the designing of robots£®
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The sleeping pattern of a living creature is determined by the food it eats£®
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¡¡¡¡Several years ago, my parents, my wife, my son and I ate at one of those restaurants where the menu is written on a blackboard£®After a wonderful dinner, the waiter set the check in the middle of the table£®That¡¯s when it happened£ºmy father did not reach for the check£®
¡¡¡¡Conversation continued£®Finally I realized that I should pick up the check!After hundreds of restaurant meals with my parents, after a lifetime of thinking of my father as the one with dollars, it had all changed£®I reached for the check, and my view of myself suddenly changed£®I was an adult£®I was no longer a kid£®
¡¡¡¡Some people mark off(Çø·Ö)their lives in years, I measure mine in small events£®I didn¡¯t become a young man at a particular age, like 16, but rather when a kid who wandered in the streets called me ¡°mister£®¡± These events in my life are called ¡°milestones¡±(Àï³Ì±®)
¡¡¡¡There have been other milestones£®The cops(policemen)of my youth always seemed big, even huge, and of course they were older than I was£®Then one day they were suddenly realized that all the football players in the game I was watching were younger than I was£®They were just big kids£®With that milestone gone was the dream that someday, maybe I, too, could be a football player£®Without ever having reached the hill, I was over it£®
¡¡¡¡I never thought that I would fall asleep in front of the TV set as my father did£®Now it¡¯s what I do best£®I never thought that I would go to the beach and not swim, yet I spent all of August at the shore and never once went into the ocean£®I never thought that I would appreciate opera, but now the combination of voice and orchestra attract me£®I never thought that I would prefer to stay home in the evenings, but now I find myself passing up parties£®I used to think that people who watched birds were strange, but this summer I fond myself watching them, and maybe I¡¯ll get a book on the subject£®I feel a strong desire for a religious belief that I never thought I¡¯d want, feel close to my ancestors(×æÏÈ)long gone, and echo my father in arguments with my son£®I still lose¡
¡¡¡¡One day I bought a house£®One day£what a day!¨CI became a father, and not too long after that I picked up the check for my own father£®I thought then it was a milestone for me£®One day, when I was a little older, I realized it was one for him, too, another milestone£®
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The tone established in the passage is one of ________£®
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sad regret
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amusement
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happiness
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deep feeling
(2)
The author mentions the event in the restaurant because ________£®
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that was one of his milestone
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he paid the bill but he didn¡¯t want to
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he became a father with dollars
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that was the last restaurant meal with his parents
(3)
¡°Then they were suddenly neither£®¡± Suggests that ________£®
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suddenly they became older than I was
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suddenly I knew that they was neither bigger nor older than I was
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suddenly I realized that I made mistake
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suddenly I found myself no longer a kid
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Which of the following best expresses the author¡¯s thinking?
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One day is worth two tomorrow
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To save time is to length life
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When an opportunity is lost, it never comes back to you
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Time and tide wait for no man
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¡¡¡¡Our boat floated on, between walls of forest too thick to allow us a view of the land we were passing through, though we knew from the map that our river must from time to time be passing through chains of hills which crossed the jungle plains£®Nowhere did we find a place where we could have landed£ºwhere the jungle did not actually spread right down into the river, banks of soft mud prevented us going ashore£®In any case, what would we have sailed by landing?The country was full of snakes and other dangerous creatures, and the jungle was so thick that one would be able to advance only slowly, cutting one¡¯s way with knives the whole way£®So we stayed in the boat, hoping we reached the sea, a friendly fisherman would pick us up and take us to civilization£®
¡¡¡¡We lived on fish, caught with home-made net of string(we had no hooks), and fruits and nuts we could pick up out of the water£®As we had no fire, we had to eat everything, including the fish, raw I had never tasted raw fish before, and I must say I did not much enjoy the experience; perhaps sea fish which do not live in the mud are less tasteless£®After eating my raw fish, I lay back and dreamed of such things as fried chicken and rice, and ice-cream£®In the never-ending damp heat of the jungle, ice-cream was a particularly frequent dream£®
¡¡¡¡As for water, there was a choice£ºwe could drink the muddy river water, or die of thirst£®We drank the water£®Men who had just escaped what had appeared to be certain death lose all worries about such small things as diseases caused by dirty water£®In fact, none of us suffered from any illness as a result£®
¡¡¡¡One day we passed another village, but fortunately nobody saw us£®We did not wish to risk being taken prisoners a second time£ºwe might not be so lucky to escape in a stolen boat again£®
(1)
What they could see in the boat was only ________£®
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high wall
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villagers from time to time
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vast land
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heavy woods
(2)
They couldn¡¯t land because ________£®
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the mud on the shore was too soft
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the forest was too thick to let them go through
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they could not find the mark on the map
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they could not find anyone to lead them out of the forest£®
(3)
The passage infers that the forest was ________£®
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rich of fruits and animals to be served as food
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not very thick as they could advance slowly by cutting the branches
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full of various dangerous beings
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full of ancient trees
(4)
The most proper title for this passage might be ________£®
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afraid. A person with a green thumb