In our society, we must communicate with people. A great deal of communicating is performed on a person-to-person  36  by the simple means of speech. If we travel in buses, or buy things in shops, we are likely to have conversations  37  we give information or opinions, and sometimes have our views _38  by other members of society.  

Face-to-face contact is by no means the  39  form of communication and during the last two centuries the  40  of mass communication has become one of the major factors of contemporary society. Two things,  41  others, have caused the rapid growth of the communication  42 .  Firstly, inventiveness has led to  43  in printing, photography, radio and so on. Secondly, speed has revolutionized (变革) the transmission(传输) and  44  of communications so that local news often takes a back  45  to national news.  

No longer is the  46  of information limited to a privileged (有特权的) minority. Forty years ago people used to  47  into the cinema, but now far more people sit at home and turn on the TV to watch a programme channeled into millions of homes. Communication is no longer merely concerned  48_  the transmission of information. The modern communication industry influences the way people live in society and  49  their horizons by allowing  50  to information, education and entertainment. The printing, broadcasting and advertising industries are all  51  with informing, educating and entertaining.  

_52  a great deal of the material communicated by the mass media is very  53  to the individual and to the society of which he is a part, the vast modern network of communications is  54  to abuse. However, the mass media are with us for  55 , for worse, and there is no turning back.  

36. A. form 

B. basis

C. floor

D. ground  

37. A. while 

B. which 

C. that

D. where  

38. A. voiced 

B. expressed

C. challenged 

D. agreed  

39. A. existing

B. perfect 

C. only

D. unique  

40. A. art

B. device 

C. way 

D. trick  

41. A. below 

B. beyond

C. over

D. above  

42. A. ability

B. industry 

C. competence

D. system  

43. A. advances

B. advantages

C. benefits 

D. progresses  

44. A. exchange

B. practice

C. reception

D. means  

45. A. seat 

B. place

C. post

D. position  

46. A. direction 

B. possession 

C. control

D. management  

47. A. walk 

B. flood 

C. head

D. move  

48. A. with 

B. about 

C. toward

D. for  

49. A. enlarges 

B. brightens

C. lightens 

D. broadens  

50. A. approach 

B. opportunity

C. access 

D. freedom  

51. A. dealt

B. related 

C. targeted

D. involved  

52. A. Even if 

B. Unless 

C. Although 

D. If only  

53. A. valuable 

B. worthy

C. attached

D. previous  

54. A. possible 

B. likely 

C. closed

D. open  

55. A. ever 

B. better 

C. free 

D. each  

When people get bad toothaches, they often have to eat soft, easily chewed food. When lions get bad toothaches, they eat people? That' s the conclusion of a zoologist at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and a dentist who works on carnivores (食肉动物)., Lions don’t normally prey on people. Every once in a while, however, a lion will go on a human-eating diet. The most famous such tragedy happened in 1898, when two lions killed and ate 135 railway workers in Kenya.

Examining the preserved skulls (骷髅) of the two big cats, zoologist Bruce Patterson and dentist Ellis Neiburger found that both animals had been suffering from several dental and |aw problems. One lion had three missing teeth and a loose, unsteady lower canine that was probably useless. Canines are pointed teeth that hunting animals use for gripping and piercing prey(刺穿猎物)) .The two lions might have been so badly disabled that they couldn’t bite down forcefully, say the researchers. Consequently, the lions might have abandoned their normal, more difficult prey and turned to humans. "Humans are easy preys, " said Patterson. "We're very slow, we don’t hear very well, and we don* t see very well in the darkness. "

The research calls their idea the Infirmity Theory. It was inspired partly by the work of Jim Corbett, a tiger hunter in India in the 1930s. Corbett was regularly called in to hunt tigers that had been dining on Indian villagers. Time after time, Patterson discovered that the killer tigers were suffering from some ill-healthy conditions.

 

64. The original aim of the study is to look for ____.                               

A. ways of protecting wild animals           B. ways of treating toothaches of lions

C. when and where lions eat people          D. reasons for some lions eating people

65. The reason why lions don't normally prey on people is ____.

A. that they like wild preys better              B. they just hunt for prey at night,

C. that humans are difficult to catch          D. not mentioned in the passage

66. Jim Corbett' story is mentioned in the last paragraph to show that ____.

A. tigers have the same eating habits and preys as lions

B. carnivores hunt people mostly under ill-healthy conditions

C. tigers like hurting villagers while lions like railway workers     

D. wild animals swallow humans when they suffer from toothaches   .

67. The best title of the passage could be ____.

A. A Zoologist And a Dentist                     B. Why Do Some Wild Animals Eat People

C. A Discovery of the Skulls of Lions        D. How Can Health Influence Eating Habits

Do you want to work with people, animals or machines? Do you want to work indoors or outdoors, directly serve people in need or serve people  behind the scenes?  These are the typical questions that volunteer service agencies would ask.

Every year, thousands of people in the west offer volunteer service. Volunteering greatly strengthens the community because it helps the old, the young, the weak, the sick, the disabled and the injured to overcome difficulties.

Volunteers usually help in many different ways. They may give people advice, offer friendship to the young , drive the elderly to church, counsel kids against drugs, work as assistants in schools or nursing homes, raise funds, plant trees, help out in local libraries and do many other things. Volunteering can be a few hours a week or a few hours a month. Anybody who wants to serve people in need can become a volunteer.

The art of volunteering is a process of both giving and receiving. Volunteering allows volunteers to meet new people, make new friends and mix with people from all walks of life. Volunteering is an excellent way to experiment,practice and try out new techniques and skills,discover your individual talents and explore career choice. Being a volunteer will take individuals on a wonderful journey and help them learn many important things beyond their school learning.

 

56. What’s the best title of the passage?

       A. How To Be a Volunteer                               B. The Benefit of Being a Volunteer

       C. Volunteer Service in the West                      D. Who Can Be a Volunteer

57. Which of the following can best replace the underline words in the text?

       A.  directly                B. indirectly                C. publicly                  D. secretly

58. You can infer from the passage that to be a volunteer,          

       A. you need to get trained                               B. you can get something valuable

       C. you must be outgoing                                 D. you need to work very long

59. You are a student of thirteen. If you want to be a volunteer, you can do the following except     

       A. helping put in local libraries                          B. working as an assistant in schools

       C. offering friendship to the young                   D. driving the elderly to church

 

 

Global warming may or may not be the great environmental crisis of the 21st century, but regardless of whether it is or not, we won't do much about it, We will argue over it and may even, as a nation, make some fairly solemn-sounding commitments to avoid it, But the more dramatic and meaningful these commitments seem, the less likely they are to be observed.

An I Gore calls global warming an “inconvenient truth,” as if merely recognizing it could put us on a path to a solution. But the real truth is that we don't know enough to relieve global warming ,and without major technological breakthroughs, we can’t do much about it.

From 2003to 2050, the world’s population is projected to grow from 6.4 billon to 9.1 billion a 42% increase, If energy use per person and technology remain the same total energy use and greenhouse gas emissions(排放) (mainly, CO2)will be 42% higher in 2050. But that’s too low, because societies that grow richer use more energy, We need economic growth unless we condemn (使注定) the world’s poor to their present.

Poverty can freeze everyone else’s living standards. With modest growth, energy use and greenhouse emissions more than double by 2050, no government will adopt strict restrictions on economic growth and personal freedom(limits on electricity usage, driving and travel ) that might cut back global warming , Still , politicians want to show they’re “doing something “, Consider the Kyoto Protocol(京都议定书). It allowed countries that joined to punish those that didn’t But it hasn’t reduced CO2 emissions (up about 25% since 1990),and many signatories(签字国)didn’t adopt tough enough policies to hit their 2008-2012 targets.

The practical conclusion is that if global warming is a potential disaster, the only solution is new technology, only an aggressive research and development program might find ways of breaking our dependence on fossil fuels or dealing with it.

The trouble with the global warming debate is that it has become a moral problem when it’s really an engineering one. The inconvenient truth is that if we don’t solve the engineering problem. We’re helpless.

 

71 What is said about global warming in the first paragraph?

    A,It may not prove an environmental crisis at all.

    B.It is an issue requiting world wide commitments.

    C.Serious steps have been taken to avoid or stop it

    D,Very little will be done to bring it under control.

72.Greenhouse emissions will more hall double by 2050 because of              

  A  economic growth     

  B wasteful use of energy

  C  the widening gap between the rich and poor

  D  the rapid advances of science and technology

73. The author believes that , since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol,         

  A  politicians have started to do something to better the situation

  B few nations have adopted real tough measures to limit energy use

  C  reductions in energy consumption have greatly cut back global warming

  D  international cooperation have greatly cut back global warming

74.What is the message the author intends to convey?

  A Global warming is more of a moral issue than a practical one.

  B The final solution to global warming lies in new technology

  C The debate over global warming will lead to technological breakthroughs

  D People have to give up contain material comforts to stop global warming

75According to the author’s understanding,what is AlGore’s view on global warming?

    A It is a realty both people and politicians are unaware of

    B It is a phenomenon that causes us many inconveniences

    C It is a problem that can be solved once it is recognized.

    D It is an area we actually have little knowledge about.

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