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Peter, may I ask you a favor?

________.

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A．I'm sorry, but why

B．Sure, what is it?

C．Yes, you could

D．I'd love to, and I'm busy

答案：B
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??Health, Wellness and the Politics of Food

9:00—9:45 a.m. Blue Tent

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Hosted by Denise Grady, science writer for The New York Times.

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??Sports Writing：For the Love of the Game

9:50—10:35 a.m. Blue Tent

Panelists：Christine Brennan, Ira Rosen, Joe Wallace and Joe Drape.

Hosted by William C.Rhoden, sports writer for The New York Times.

Whether catching that key moment of victory or defeat, or covering breaking news, sports writers are anything but audience. Listen as some professionals discuss the special experience in reporting of sports news.

??The Art of the Review

11:15—12:00 a.m. Green Tent

Panelists: John Freeman, Barry Gewen, David Orr, Celia McGee and Jennifer Schuessler.

Hosted by Sam Tanenhaus, editor for The New York Times Book Review.

How much of an effect does the book review have on book sales？Join this group of critics(评论家) as they discuss the reality of book review and bestseller lists, and how they choose books for review.

??New York Writers, New York Stories

3:00—3:45 p.m.Green Tent

Panelists: Cindy Adams, Richard Cohen, Ric Klass and Lauren Redniss.

Hosted by Clyde Haberman, columnist (专栏作家) for the City Section of The New York Times.

Join this inspiring group of New York－centric writers as they talk about why New York is a gold mine of ideas for their work.

If you are free in the afternoon, you can attend_______.

A. The Art of the Review

B. New York Writers, New York Stories

C. Health, Wellness and the Politics of Food

D. Sports Writing: For the Love of the Game

If you like sports writing, you will most probably _______.

A. go to Blue Tent at 11:15 a.m                   B. enjoy Jami Bernard’s talk

C. listen to Christine Brennan                D. attend the Art of the Review

Sam Tanenhaus is in charge of ________.

A. The Art of the Review

B. Health, Wellness and the Politics of Food

C. New York Writers, New York Stories

D. Sports Writing：For the Love of the Game

All the four activities above _______.

A. are about writing                                    B. will last 45 minutes each

C. can be attended freely                              D. will attract many readers

We can learn from the text that________.

A. sports writers are a type of audience

B. the New York Times is popular

C. Denise Grady will discuss politics

D. book reviews may affect book sales

A severely handicapped teenager who cannot walk,talk or hold a paintbrush has won a place at Oxford to study fine art.

Hero Joy Nightingale,16,who communicates through hand movements,is to be given assistants to paint and sculpt on her behalf.Her mother Pauline Reid “translated for” her daughter during interviews for the place at Magdalen College.

The teenager is the most severely handicapped student ever to be granted a place at Oxford.She suffers from “locked-in syndrome”,a profound apraxia caused by brain damage that renders her body useless and her voice mute.

She is unlikely ever to be able to walk,feed or care for herself but,thanks to the efforts of her mother,she can communicate.When Hero was four,Pauline devised a complicated system of hand gestures that equate to the alphabet.

A spokesperson for Oxford said,“The university welcomes applications from students with disabilities.In cases where students are profoundly disabled,there may be many issues that need to be carefully addressed before an individual can take up a place,such as establishing how the student can best be taught and examined.”

Hero,who suffers almost daily epileptic fits and has a hole in her heart,has not attended school since she was six.She has been taught at home by her mother and father,the pro-vice chancellor of Kent University.

Peter Giles,her art tutor until last year,said she has a genuine talent for art.“She is ferociously gifted.We would sit together and her mother would grab her daughter’s hand and then we would begin work,”he said.

Together,they built several modern sculptures from plaster and metal.“The instructions would take a while to decipher.But eventually,they would come,and eventually make sense.”

Hero’s classes will be held at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.

Hero communicates with others _________.

A.through common hand movements

B.by typing words on computer

C.through a complicated system of hand gestures devised by her mother

D.by drawing pictures on a board

According to the passage,how does Hero paint or sculpt?

A.She instructs her assistants to paint or sculpt through hand movements.

B.She gives instructions,and her mother paints or sculpts following her instructions.

C.She paints or sculpts with her own hands.

D.She gives instructions,her mother “translates” them,and her assistants paint or sculpt according to the “translations”.

From the story we can infer _________.

A.Oxford welcomes any handicapped student who is good at fine art

B.Hero has not attended school since she was six

C.Hero is gifted in fine art

D.Hero is a strong-minded girl who loves life very much

Which of the following is NOT true?

A.Hero is the most seriously handicapped student ever to be admitted to Oxford.

B.Oxford will admit a disabled student without any requirements.

C.Hero has been taught by her parents at home for10 years.

D.Hero is not able to walk,talk or hold a paintbrush.

Three years ago, five parrots were set free in a wild place of Arizona, thousands of miles from the Channel Islands in Jersey where they had been looked after by zookeepers. No evolutionary strategies informed them how to behave in this new landscape of mountainous pine forest unoccupied by their kind for 50 years. To the researchers’ surprise, they failed to make contact with a group of wild parrots imported from Mexico and set free at the same time. Within 24 hours the reintroducing ended in failure, and the poor birds were back in cages, on their way to the safety of the Arizona reintroduction programme.  

Ever since then, the programme has enjoyed great success, mainly because the birds now being set free are Mexican birds illegally caught in the wild, confiscated （没收） on arrival north of the border, and raised by their parents in the safety of the programme. The experience shows how little we know about the behaviour and psychology （心理） of parrots, as Peter Bennett, a bird researcher, points out: “Reintroducing species of high intelligence like parrots is a lot more difficult. People like parrots, always treating them as nothing more than pets or valuable ‘collectables’.”  

Now that many species of parrot are in immediate danger of dying out, biologists are working together to study the natural history and the behaviour of this family of birds. Last year was an important turning point: conservationists founded the World Parrot Trust, based at Hayle in Cornwall, to support research into both wild and caged birds.  

Research on parrots is vital for two reasons. First, as the Arizona programme showed, when reintroducing parrots to the wild, we need to be aware of what the birds must know if they are to survive in their natural home. We also need to learn more about the needs of parrots kept as pets, particularly as the Trust’s campaign does not attempt to discourage the practice, but rather urges people who buy parrots as pets to choose birds raised by humans.  

 

55. What do we know about the area where the five parrots were reintroduced?  

A. Its landscape is new to parrots of their kind.  

B. It used to be home to parrots of their kind.  

C. It is close to where they had been kept.  

D. Pine trees were planted to attract birds.  

 

56. The reintroducing experience three years ago shows that man-raised parrots  

A. can find their way back home in Jersey  

B. are unable to recognize their parents  

C. are unable to adapt to the wild  

D. can produce a new species  

 

57. Why are researches on parrots important according to the passage?  

A. The Trust shows great concern for the programme.  

B. We need to know more about how to preserve parrots.  

C. Many people are interested in collecting parrots.  

D. Parrots’ intelligence may some day benefit people.  

 

58. According to the passage, people are advised ______.  

A. to treat wild and caged parrots equally  

B. to set up comfortable homes for parrots  

C. not to keep wild parrots as pets  

D. not to let more parrots go to the wild  
— Do you know when Peter _____ May?
— Perhaps it will be five months before they _____.
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A. will marry with; get married
B. marries; get married
C. will marry; get married
D. marries; will get married

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