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Mars( 火星) appears to be flowing with small streams of salty water, at least in the summer, scientists reported Monday."It suggests that.it would be possible for there to be life today on Mars," NASA's science mission chief, John Grunsfeld, said at a news conference on September 28, 2015.

The streams are about 12 to 15 feet wide and 300 feet or more long, scientists said."What we're dealing with is wet soil.thin layers of wet soil, not standing water," said Aifred McEwen of the University of Arizona at Tueson ! the principal scientist for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's high-resolution imaging experiment.

Because liquid water is essential to life, the findings could have major implications for the possibility of Martian life.The researchers said further exploration is needed to determine whether microscopic life exists on the planet.

The presence of liquid water could also make life easier for astronauts visiting or

living on Mars.Water could be used for drinking and for creating oxygen and rocket

fuel.NASA's goal is to send humans there in the 2030s.

The evidence of flowing water consists largely of dark, narrow streaks(条痕) on

the surface that tend to appear and grow during the warmest Martian months and fade

the rest of the year.

Mars is extremely cold even in summer, and the streaks are in places where the

temperature is as low as minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit.But salt can lower the freezing point of water and melt ice.

The source of the water is a mystery.Scientists noted it could be melting

ice.It could be an underground aquifer, which is rock or sand that can hold water.It is possibly water vapor from the thin Martian atmosphere, Or it may be a combination Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars exploration program, said the only definitive way for now to determine whether there's life on Mars is to collect rocks and soil for analysis on Earth - something a U.S.lander set for lift-off in 2020 will do.

1.What would be the best title for the text? '

A.Streams of Water Spotted on Mars

B.Astronauts will Land on Mars

C.NASA's Mars Exploration Program

D.A Breakthrough in the Exploration of Mars

2.According to John Grunsfeld, there seems to be on Mars.

A.salty water

B.standing water

C.rocket fuel

D.human beings

3.Scientists are uncertain about the of the water on Mars.

A.state

B.source

C.temperature

D.taste

4.What matters to the existence of liquid water on Mars?

A.The distance from the sun.

B.The favorable climate.

C.The gravity of the earth

D.The salt in it.

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Health of the most of important thing in the world. Nothing is more important than health. If one takes away our money, houses, cars or even our clothes, we can still survive. 1. That is why we always try to eat in a healthy way and exercise regularly.

How can we keep healthy? In order to eat healthily, I usually avoid eating food high in fat, like French fries or cookies, which are junk foods. 2. Besides, I only eat little meat.

3. Taking exercise every day helps us build a strong body. Regular exercise is an important part of keeping me healthy.

What’s more, I think friends are an important part of one’s health.__ 4.__ I always feel better when I am with friends than when I am alone. When I am with my friends, I always laugh. Laughing is also an important part of health. It is good to stay with my friends.

By eating properly and exercising regularly, I can keep my body at a proper weight and keep healthy. By spending time with my friends, I can keep my mind as well as my body happy. These things sound easy to do, but not many people can manage them.__ 5.___

A. Many studies show that people with a narrow(狭窄) range of social contacts(社会交往) often get sick.

B. There are some people who like staying alone, but they keep healthy

C. On the other hand(另一方面), doing exercise is very important.

D. But if our health was taken away, is its certain that we would surely die.

E. I think a strong will is necessary if we want to keep healthy.

F. I eat a lot of vegetables and fresh fruit which are full of vitamins

G. Some people appear fat because they often eat too much.

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

When I was eighteen, I couldn’t wait to get my first job, which meant I made the first step toward adulthood.

But it was difficult to get a work permit.One ork permits.Although I had night blindness, my vision was clearer during the day, which helped me walk by myself.Then the doctor began the .He looked into my eyes with a bright light.“I suggest your parents take you to an eye specialist,” he said, “I you have a retinal(视网膜) disease.If you do, you’ll never a day in your life…”

My parents did take me to specialists.After much time and money spent seeking an result, it was determined that I had an eye disease that slowly a person of sight.But still, during daylight, I could walk without .I could read, but not for hours.My eyes began to and words slipped off the page when I read more than a few pages.However, no matter how tired my eyes became, I never gave up reading.I knew the of great writers as well as the most popular music stars.Their words were powerful, which me to try writing.Soon writing brought me a lot of each time I completed a paper.

Then an important phone call from an editor changed my life.An article I appeared in a local newspaper.The newspaper, to my , continued to print my work.Next, a book series published several of my essays.I got interested in writing and up with each acceptance.On the pages, readers never knew of my blindness I chose to present it.For me, finding my voice through writing gave me the pride and satisfaction I so many years ago.Now, I have numerous essays and articles in

Should I be thanking that misguided doctor? By falsely predicting that I could never work a day, he fueled my into success.He set the bar too and focused on what I wouldn’t be able to do.Yet I proved what I could do.

1.A.station B.company C.clinic D.lab

2.A.silently B.proudly C.suddenly D.easily

3.A.operation B.treatment C.examination D.argument

4.A.suspect B.acknowledge C.confirm D.advocate

5.A.rest B.work C.live D.sleep

6.A.urgent B.obvious C.accurate D.ordinary

7.A.reminds B.robs C.warns D.informs

8.A.assistance B.medicine C.allowance D.balance

9.A.dance B.shine C.widen D.tear

10.A.houses B.habits C.names D.addresses

11.A.asked B.permitted C.forced D.encouraged

12.A.pleasure B.worry C.trouble D.stress

13.A.admitted B.penned C.wanted D.described

14.A.shame B.admiration C.delight D.disappointment

15.A.gave B.lit C.came D.put

16.A.although B.after C.since D.unless

17.A.feared B.sought C.brought D.rejected

18.A.mind B.use C.time D.print

19.A.imagination B.personality C.motivation D.responsibility

20.A.low B.far C.long D.close

阅读理解。阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。

F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24, 1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St. Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton. University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.

His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary: “My own happiness in the past often approached such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary.”

This side of paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. Encouraged by its success, Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel the Beautiful and Damned (1922), a collection of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quick brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published another collection of short stories All the Sad Young Men.

However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda affected his writing. During the 1920s he tried to reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The Love of the Last Tycoon in 1940. While his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol. Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.

1.How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage?

A. 5 B. 6 C. 7 D. 8

2.Which of the following is the correct order to describe Fitzgerald’s life according to the passage?

a. He became addicted to drinking.

b. He studied at St. Paul Academy.

c. He published his first novel This Side of Paradise.

d. The Great Gatsby won high praise.

e. He failed to reorder his life.

f. He joined the army and met Zelda.

A. f-c-e-a-b-d B. b-e-a-f-c-d

C. f-d-e-c-b-a D. b-f-c-d-e-a

3.We can infer from the passage that Fitzgerald .

A. had made some money when he met Zelda in Alabama.

B. was well educated and well off before he served in the army

C. would have completed more works if his wife hadn’t broken down

D. helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital

4.The passage is probably followed by a concluding paragraph about .

A. Zelda’s personal life

B. Zelda’s illness and treatment

C. Fitzgerald’s friendship with Graham

D. Fitzgerald’s contributions to the literary world

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A man was working on his motorcycle in his yard.Suddenly it started to move.The man,still holding the hand lebars,was dragged through the glass doors,along with the motorcycle,and was thrown onto the floor inside the house.The wife ran in and found her husband lying on the floor,cut and bleeding.She ran to call an ambulance (救护车).

The ambulance arrived and they took the man to the hospital.The wife picked up the motorcycle and pushed it outside.There was gas all over the floor,so the wife got some paper towels,cleaned the gas with them,and threw them in the toilet.After he was treated,the man returned home.Not long after that he went to the bathroom,sat down on the toilet and smoked a cigarette.Sitting there,he finished the cigarette and threw it into the toilet.The wife,who was in the kitchen,heard the loud explosion (爆炸声) and her husband screaming.

She ran into the bathroom,and there she found her husband lying on the floor!His trousers had been blown away and his buttocks and other parts of his body were covered with burns!The wife again ran to the phone to call an ambulance.The same people came!While they were carrying the husband down the stairs to the street,one of the men asked the wife how the husband had burned himself.She told them and they started laughing very hard.One of them fell and the husband fell,too.The poor husband fell down the remaining stairs and broke his arm.

1.What most probably made the motorcycle start moving?

A.The man himself started it to see if it was working.

B.His wife did it for him to check if there was something working.

C.The motorcycle started by itself.

D.The man started the motorcycle without knowing it.

2.What did the wife do after the first accident?

A.She did nothing except calling the policemen.

B.She cleaned the gas with paper towels and threw them into the toilet.

C.She took the motorcycle and pushed it into the room.

D.She took her hushand to the hospital.

3.What do we know about the gas that caused the explosion?

A.The gas was from the motorcycle and could easily cause an explosion.

B.The gas was of poor quality.

C.The gas made the hushand suffer 4 accidents in a day.

D.The gas should have burned the wife.

4.The passage is most likely to be found in________

A.a survey B.a textbook

C.a report D.a book of funny stories

5.Which is the best title for this passage?

A.What a Bad Day for the Husband and Wife

B.A Man’s Worst Day

C.A Man Had Three Accidents in One Day

D.A Wife Burned Her Husband and Broke His Arms

The poaching,or illegal killing,of rhinos(犀牛) in South Africa is growing worse each year.The government recently reported that a record number of rhinos were poached in 2014,a year which had more rhino killings in South Africa than ever before.

The World Wildlife Fund,or WWF,says about 20,000 rhinos live in South Africa.That is more than 80 percent of the rhinos in the world.Edna Molewa,South Africa’s environmental issues minister,says,“During 2014,we are sad to say this,1,215 rhinos were killed.This is a rise in the number of poached rhinos from 1004 in 2013 and indeed very worrying.”

The animals are hunted for their horns(犀牛角).Many people in Asia believe the horn has curing power,which drives poachers,at all costs,mad for more horns.But there is no scientific evidence for this belief.The horn is made of keratin.That is the same thing as human hair, fingernails and toenails.

Ms.Mo1ewa said 386 suspected poachers were arrested last year,an increase from the year before.But rhino protection workers say poachers often go unpunished after arrest.South Africa’s legal system is ineffective.Ms.Molewa said more needs to be done and South Africa is taking strong measures to protect rhinos.The efforts include moving some of the animals to secret places in neighboring countries.“Now approximately 100 rhinos have been moved to neighboring states in the SADC region during 2014 and 200 more rhinos will be moved this year”Molewa said.

Jo Shaw,the rhino program manager at the WWF,said,“we’re talking about a loss of a hundred rhinos a month.Or more than three a day.We really need to see effective action not just at a national level but internationally.”She says officials should find the criminal groups responsible for the poaching and punish them.Government officials are to meet in Botswana in March at the Inter-governmental Conference on Illegal Wildlife Trade.

1.What do we know about rhinos?

A.Half of the rhinos live in South Africa.

B.Less than 1,000 rhinos were killed in 2013.

C.The killing reached the highest point in 2014.

D.There are only 20,000 rhinos left in the world.

2.What is the main reason for people to hunt rhinos?

A.To get more keratin.

B.To protect the farmland.

C.To use them for decoration.

D.To make money from horns.

3.Jo Shaw thinks that_________.

A.many criminal groups are well organized

B.new laws are needed to punish the killers

C.rhino protection needs international cooperation

D.conferences about protecting rhinos are to be held every year

4.What can we infer from the text?

A.Rhino protection has a long way to go.

B.No one would like to buy horns in the future.

C.The illegal killing of rhinos will soon disappear.

D.Rhinos living in South Africa will move to other countries.

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The opening and closing of doors are the most significant actions of man’s life. What a lies in doors!

No man knows what awaits him when he opens a door. the most familiar room, where the clock ticks and the hearth glows red at dusk may harbor .The worker may actually have called and the leaking pipe. The cook may have been ill and demanded her passport.

There are many kinds of doors. Revolving doors for hotels, shops and public buildings. There are many the busy, bustling ways of modern life. Can you William Shakespeare or Charles Dickens skipping through a door? There are double doors, sliding doors, stage doors and glass doors. The and mystery of a door lies in its quality of being hidden. A glass door is not a door at all, but a window. The meaning of a door is to what lies inside; to keep the heart in suspense.

Also, there are many ways of opening doors. There is the cheery of elbow with which the waiter opens the kitchen door. There is the sympathetic and awful of the dentist’s maid who opens the door into the operating room and, without speaking, that the doctor is ready for you.

The opening of doors has in it some flavor of the , some sense of moving into a new moment. Even in , the opening of a door may bring relief. But the closing of doors could be , A door closed brings to an end. And there are degrees of sadness in the closing of doors. A door slammed is a confession of weakness. A door shut may often be the most tragic gesture in life.

The opening and closing of doors is a part of the serious fluency of life. Life will not stay and let us alone. We are opening doors with hope, closing them with despair. Life not much longer than a pipe of tobacco, and destiny knocks us out like the ashes.

1.A. mystery B. relief C. scenery D. pleasure

2.A. So B. Still C. Even D. Also

3.A. wishes B. puzzles C. surprises D. changes

4.A. checked B. fixed C. wrapped D. removed

5.A. essential to B. different from C. consistent with D. typical of

6.A. imagine B. suggest C. catch D. notice

7.A. stage B. sliding C. glass D. revolving

8.A. symbol B. miracle C. sign D. mark

9.A. busy B. hide C. discover D. exhibit

10.A. knock B. bump C. push D. touch

11.A. silence B. noise C. voice D. peace

12.A.announce B. admits C. implies D. expects

13.A. darkness B. certainty C. possibility D. unknown

14.A.vain B. hope C. sadness D. happiness

15.A.easy B. terrible C. dull D. interesting

16.A. nothing B. everything C. anything D. something

17.A. heavily B. hurriedly C. gently D. firmly

18.A.still B. calm C. silent D. simple

19.A.naturally B. continually C. obviously D. possibly

20.A.measures B. matches C. reaches D. lasts

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