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The Pentagon is in fact a city in itself. About 23,000 employees, both soldiers and other people, contribute to the planning of the defense of the country. These people arrive daily from Washington, D.C. and around over about 30 miles of highways, including express bus lanes(快车道) and one of the newest subway system in the country. They ride past 200 acres of grass land to park about 8,770 cars in 16 parking lots; climb 131 stairways or take 19 lifts to reach offices that occupy 3,705 square feet. While in the building, they tell time by 4,200 clocks, drink from 691 water taps, make use of 284 rest rooms, use up 4,500 cups of coffee, 1,700 pints of milk and 6,800 soft drinks prepared or served by a restaurant of 230 persons and distributed(分散于) in 1 dining room, 2 cafeterias, a snack bars, and an outdoor snack bar.

The building itself is an extraordinary structure. Built during the early years of World War II, it is still thought of as one of the most efficient buildings in the world. In spite of 17.5 miles of corridors(走廊) it takes only seven minutes to walk between any two points in the building.

60. Which of the following statements about the Pentagon is true?

A. Most Americans know about it.

B. It is now open to the public.

C. Around 23,000 workers contribute to its planning.

D. It is one of the world's tallest buildings.

61. Which of the following statements about the transportation of the Pentagon is NOT true?

A. It is easy to reach by subway. B. People can drive directly to it.

C. People can go there by bus. D. The parking lots cover 200 acres of land.

62. Why did the author write so many numbers in the second paragraph?

A. To show that he knew quite a lot about the Pentagon.

B. To show the vast size of the Pentagon.

C. To show it costs a lot of money to keep the Pentagon going.

D. To show that the Pentagon is a convenient place.

63. What do you know about the structure of the Pentagon?

A. All the offices are connected by the newest subway system.

B. The longest distance between two offices is 17.5 miles.

C. It takes no more than 7 minutes to walk from one place to another.

D. There are neither rest rooms nor snack bars in it.

【小题1】A

【小题2】D

【小题3】B

【小题4】C

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The Pentagon

五角大楼

美国号称世界头号军事大国，其武力干涉几乎渗透到全球，有人开玩笑说：“只要五角大楼打个喷嚏，整个地球都会震动。”五角大楼是什么? 让我们揭开它神秘的面纱，好好地认识一下这座建筑的运作职能吧。

The Pentagon，or the headquarters of the US Department of Defense，is one of the largest office buildings in the world，taking up a total land of 583 acres．The five-sided structure itself occupies an area of 29 acres．Each of its five outside wails is 921 feet long．It has three times the floor space as the Empire State Building or half again as much space as either of the New York's World Trade Center towers．

Working inside this huge building are over 25 000 employees，one half of them being civilians and the other half members of the U．S． armed forces．During the last year of the Second World War there were 37 000 people，both military and civilian，working inside the Pentagon．In the Korean and Vietnam War periods，31 000．The employees are scattered among hundreds of offices that occupy a floor space of 3705793 square feet．

While inside the building they tell time by 4 200 clocks，drink from 685 water fountains，utilize 280 rest rooms，consume 30 000 cups of coffee，6 000 tins of milk and 5 000 bottles of soft drinks of various kinds every day，with a total staff of 600 persons preparing and serving food and drinks to the Pentagon employees，daily．

Notes

Pentagon n．五边形；五角大楼　　 civilian n．平民

military n．军人　　　　　　　　 scatter v．分散

utilize v．利用；应用　　　　　　 consume v．消耗

Comprehension question

The building is called “the Pentagon ”because________．

A．it is the largest building in the world

B．it lies in the U．S．A．

C．it has five sides

D．it is a secret place

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　　Until recently the chances for criminal activity(犯罪活动)on the Internet have been low．However, business done on the Internet is growing rapidly, as people order books and other products and make money transactions(交易)．All this is a strong temptation(诱惑)for hackers．

　　Hackers are often young people who are deeply attractedby computers．They use them to prowl the Internet, looking for ways to break into computer systems(系统)run by banks, telephone companies and even government departments．They look for examples of credit cards(信用卡)and try to steal the numbers．

　　Recently in America, hackers have been caught testing the security(安全)system at the Pentagon, headquarter(总部)of the American Defence Department．But still the backers insist often for a dare “because it’s there” although with what success nobody really knows．

　　Hackers seldom admit to(享有)a successful break in．The first sign of a security breach(泄密)may be when a customer discovers fraudulent(欺骗)money transaction on a credit card account(账户), and it is hard to discover it．

　　“You just don’t give your credit card out to anybody, ”says Michael White, multimedia product manager for clear communications, “and in the same way you should regularly change your credit card entering number, you can defeat hackers by regularly changing your　Internet password(密码)．If you don’t, it’s like leaving the bank vault(金库)door wide open．”

　　The warning against hackers is out there, and the answer is obviously to choose tricky passwords and change them frequently and to watch who you pass your credit card details to．

(1)

We can learn from the text that hackers _________．
[　　]
A．	are computer fans and play tricks on people on the Internet
B．	steal only credit cards on the Internet
C．	are mostly young computer fans
D．	regularly attack the computer systems

(2)

“Prowl” used in the second paragraph means _________．
[　　]
A．	move quietly
B．	destroy
C．	get information
D．	rebuild

(3)

Hackers seldom admit to a successful break in because _________．
[　　]
A．	they are not easily caught by policemen
B．	they regularly change their Internet password
C．	it’s hard for them to get the information of the credit card account
D．	they can’t easily get the customers’ Internet passwords

The Pentagon(五角大楼), headquarters of the Department of Defense in US, is one of the world's largest office buildings. It is twice the size of the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, and has three times the floor space of the Empire State Building in New York. There are very few people throughout the United States who do not have some knowledge of the Pentagon. Many have followed news stories coming from this building. However, relatively few people have had the chance to visit it.
The Pentagon is in fact a city in itself. About 23,000 employees, both soldiers and other people, contribute to the planning of the defense of the country. These people arrive daily from Washington, D.C. and around over about 30 miles of highways, including express bus lanes(快车道) and one of the newest subway system in the country. They ride past 200 acres of grass land to park about 8,770 cars in 16 parking lots; climb 131 stairways or take 19 lifts to reach offices that occupy 3,705 square feet. While in the building, they tell time by 4,200 clocks, drink from 691 water taps, make use of 284 rest rooms, use up 4,500 cups of coffee, 1,700 pints of milk and 6,800 soft drinks prepared or served by a restaurant of 230 persons and distributed(分散于) in 1 dining room, 2 cafeterias, a snack bars, and an outdoor snack bar.
The building itself is an extraordinary structure. Built during the early years of World War II, it is still thought of as one of the most efficient buildings in the world. In spite of 17.5 miles of corridors(走廊) it takes only seven minutes to walk between any two points in the building.
60. Which of the following statements about the Pentagon is true?
A. Most Americans know about it.
B. It is now open to the public.
C. Around 23,000 workers contribute to its planning.
D. It is one of the world's tallest buildings.
61. Which of the following statements about the transportation of the Pentagon is NOT true?
A. It is easy to reach by subway.                    B. People can drive directly to it.
C. People can go there by bus.                           D. The parking lots cover 200 acres of land.
62. Why did the author write so many numbers in the second paragraph?
A. To show that he knew quite a lot about the Pentagon.
B. To show the vast size of the Pentagon.
C. To show it costs a lot of money to keep the Pentagon going.
D. To show that the Pentagon is a convenient place.
63. What do you know about the structure of the Pentagon?
A. All the offices are connected by the newest subway system.
B. The longest distance between two offices is 17.5 miles.
C. It takes no more than 7 minutes to walk from one place to another.
D. There are neither rest rooms nor snack bars in it.

Special trees that grow faster, fight pollution, produce better wood, and even sense chemical attacks are being planted by scientists in the US．

When 40 per cent of Hawaii's US$14 million-a-year papaya （木瓜）industry was destroyed by a virus five years ago, work began on creating genetically engineered（转基因的）trees．

Researchers successfully introduced seeds that were designed to resist the virus．Since then, more and more people have been testing genetically engineered trees．Some researchers put special bacteria into trees to help them grow faster and produce better wood．Others are trying to create trees that can clean polluted soil．Meanwhile fruit farmers are looking for trees that are strong enough to resist worms, and paper companies want trees that produce more wood and therefore more paper．

The Pentagon （五角大楼） even gave the researchers US$500,000 this year after they developed a pine tree that changes its colours if it senses a chemical attack．So far, the poplar, eucalyptus （杨树与桉树）, apple and coffee trees are among those being engineered．All this can be done today because we have a better understanding of tree genomes （基因组）．

However, some people fear that the genetically engineered trees will cause dangerous results．They are worried that the new trees will breed with natural species and change the balance of the forest environment．

“It could be destructive,” said Jim Diamond, an environmentalist. “Trees are what is left of our natural environment and home to many endangered species.”

But researchers insist that science could give nature a fighting chance against both natural and man-made dangers．They hope to answer the critics by stopping the new trees from breeding, so their effect on the environment can be controlled．

63．Which kind of tree is not the ones that scientists are planting in the US?

A．Trees that worms can't hurt．

B．Genetically engineered trees．

C．Trees that can resist wind better．

D．Trees that can protect themselves at a chemical attack．

64．What caused the American scientists to work on special trees?

A．Tree genomes are mapped out so scientists know how to improve trees．

B．Great numbers of trees have been lost due to attacks by viruses．

C．Researchers successfully introduced seeds designed to resist the virus．

D．They think science could give nature a fighting chance against both natural and man-made dangers．

65．Which of the following was probably the first kind of trees being engineered?

A．Papaya． B．Pine． C．Apple． D．Poplar．

66．Why did critics think engineered trees dangerous? Because ________．

A．these trees can destroy the balance of nature

B．everything except trees has been genetically engineered

C．trees are home to many endangered species

D．these trees may affect normal trees

She was born to wealth and power in a time when money and politics were left to the men. Later, as The Washington Post’s publisher, Katharine Graham became one of America’s most powerful women.

Despite a privileged background, Katharine had to deal, while growing up, with the high demands her mother placed on her children. Katharine’s love of journalism, which she shared with her father, led to her career after college at The Washington Post, the newspaper her father bought in 1933．At the Post, Katharine met Phil Graham, a young, charming lawyer who became her husband. When, in 1945, Katharine’s father chose Phil over her to take over his struggling paper, Katharine didn’t object and stayed at home as a wife and mother of four.

While Phil’s successful efforts to restore the Post to fame made the Grahams popular members of the Washington social scene, Katharine privately suffered great pain from her husband’s increasingly harmful behavior caused by severe depression. When Phil committed suicide, the 46-year-old Katharine found herself thrown into a new job, that of newspaper publisher. But determined to save the family paper for her children, Katharine rose to the challenge of running the Post, attending meetings in every department, working endlessly to prove herself to her critics, and becoming the toast of Washington.

In 1971, Katharine ordered the Post to print a copy of the Pentagon Papers, the top-secret documents revealing the truth about the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War. What’s more, her courageous decision and support for her journalists prepared the Post to break the most important political story in modern history: Watergate（水门事件）, one of the greatest scandals（丑闻）in American political history. Katharine managed to keep control over the most disorganized situation when it was reported, all the time insisting the news stories be accurate and fair. Watergate made the Washington Post an internationally known Paper and Katharine was considered as the most powerful woman in America.

1. Katharine Graham was born in a time when __________.

A. women were not permitted to achieve their goals

B. women were not given the chance to receive education

C. women did not have equal opportunities as men in some ways

D. women could not enter any field despite their privileged backgrounds

2. When her husband was chosen to take charge of the newspaper, Katharine Graham ______.

A. was strongly against the idea

B. was not happy to be rejected

C. didn’t believe her husband would do a good job

D. was willing to take her share of responsibility

3.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Katharine Graham was free to do whatever she liked in her early life.

B. When Katharine Graham first took over the Post, her critics doubted her ability.

C. Katharine Graham was successful in her career but suffered severe depression.

D. It was Katharine Graham’s husband who made the greatest contributions to the Post.

4. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. Ups and downs of The Washington Post

B. Katharine Graham's family life and career

C. Katharine Graham: from housewife to successful publisher

D. Katharine Graham: a woman who controlled American journalism

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