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MEGADIM, Israel (AP)-The worst forest fire in Israel's history on Thursday destroyed one of the country's few forested areas, killing at least 36 guards on their way to rescue prisoners there, destroying homes and forcing the evacuation (疏散) of thousands. The fire ran through the Carmel forest in Israel's Galilee, reaching the coastal city of Haifa, jumping from place to place in the forest. The fire broke out around midday and quickly spread and was still burning out of control as midnight approached. Investigators (调查者) supposed that the fire could have been set accidentally, or it might have been a criminal act, but pretty much ruled out (排除) some sort of attack by a Palestinian group. “This is a huge disaster，” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “The government is using all means to control the fire.” He said some countries such as Cyprus, Italy, Russia and Greece agreed to provide backup. Most of the dead were Prison Service guards racing through the fire toward a prison to evacuate the prisoners, most of them Palestinians. A tree fell across the road, blocking their bus. Some guards were burned alive inside, while others died as they tried to escape. Fourteen bodies were found near the burnt bus 10 hours after the fire started. The fire heavily damaged one of Israel's few large forests, made up of natural growth and planted areas, a favorite place for camping and a home for dozens of species of wildlife. Forestry workers tried to evacuate animals from the fire. The forest recovered slowly from a fire in 1989, but experts said Thursday's big fire was many times worse.

  1. 1.

    Some Prison Service guards died when they tried to ________.

    1. A.
      control the running prisoners
    2. B.
      put out the fierce forest fire
    3. C.
      get away from the burning bus
    4. D.
      save the guards trapped in the fire .
  2. 2.

    According to the investigators, which of the following might be the cause of the fire?

    1. A.
      Prisoners set the fire purposely.
    2. B.
      The fire broke out all by itself.
    3. C.
      A Palestinian group did it.
    4. D.
      The fire was started by accident.
  3. 3.

    We learn from the text that ________.

    1. A.
      all of the dead were Prison Service guards
    2. B.
      the forest once suffered a fire in the 1980s
    3. C.
      the animals didn't suffer from the fire
    4. D.
      the fire caused 50 deaths altogether .
  4. 4.

    The text is mainly about ________.

    1. A.
      the worst forest fire in Israel's history
    2. B.
      the actual cause of the worst ever forest fire
    3. C.
      the damage caused by the forest fire
    4. D.
      the government's efforts in controlling the fire
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1.根据文章第五段可知， 当他们试图想逃离燃烧着的公车时死了。
2.根据文章第三段第一句可知火灾源于意外。
3.根据文章最后一段可知 B 项正确。
4.根据文章最后一段可知这场火灾是以色列历史上最严重的一场森林大火。
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An old woman went suddenly blind. She promised a doctor a lot of money if he could make her see again. “If you fail”, she said, “ you will get nothing,” The doctor agreed with her.The doctor soon discovered what was wrong with her, but he decided not to cure her right away. Instead, each time he visited, he secretly took some of her things. When he had taken everything that he wanted, he cured her blindness and sent her a large bill. Now when the old woman could see again she noticed that all her things had gone and she refused to pay the bill. So the doctor took her before a judge.
“What the doctor says is true.” she said to the judge. “But I say I’m not cured, because I still
can’t see any of the things in my house.”
The old woman won her case and the doctor went away unhappily without getting his pay.

  1. 1.

    The doctor didn’t cure the old woman right away because __________.

    1. A.
      He didn’t know how to cure her       
    2. B.
      He wanted to get a lot of money
    3. C.
      He wanted to take the woman’s things         
    4. D.
      The woman refused to pay him
  2. 2.

    The woman was _______ .

    1. A.
      clever
    2. B.
      greedy
    3. C.
      cruel
    4. D.
      dishonest
  3. 3.

    The doctor was ________.

    1. A.
      honest
    2. B.
      a cheat
    3. C.
      a kind man
    4. D.
      ready to help others
  4. 4.

    The word “case” in the last paragraph means ______.

    1. A.
      a single example
    2. B.
      a particular situation
    3. C.
      a question to be decided in a court of law
    4. D.
      box
  5. 5.

    Which sentence is right according to the passage?

    1. A.
      The judge didn’t believe the old woman
    2. B.
      The doctor cured the woman’s blindness in a short time.
    3. C.
      The woman got back all her things taken by the doctor.
    4. D.
      The doctor failed to get his pay .

-It’s foolish of you to ________ such a person as him．

-I think he ________ God, so I trust him．


  1. A.
    believe; believe in
  2. B.
    believe in; believe in
  3. C.
    believe in; believe
  4. D.
    believe; believe

Are some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experiences? Strangely enough，the answer to both these questions is yes. To some extent（程度）our intelligence is given to us at birth，and special education can never make a genius(天才) out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of a person’s intelligence are fixed at birth, but whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts can be supported in a number of ways.
It is easy to say that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random from the population, it is likely that their degrees of intelligence will be completely different. If on the other hand we take two identical twins, they  will very likely be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters，parents and children，usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth.
Imagine that now we take two identical twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this indicates that environment as well as birth plays a part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with each other, but who are not related at all, are likely to have similar degrees of intelligence.

  1. 1.

    By using the example that two people closer in blood relationship are closer in intelligence that writer wants to prove    _    .

    1. A.
      intelligence can be developed by environment
    2. B.
      intelligence is given at birth
    3. C.
      intelligence can be developed by experience
    4. D.
      education plays an important part in the development of education
  2. 2.

    A child who lives in rich and varied surroundings turns out higher in intelligence because ________.

    1. A.
      his family is rich and therefore can afford to develop his intelligence
    2. B.
      he can break the limits of intelligence fixed at birth
    3. C.
      his family is rich and provides him with various healthy food
    4. D.
      these surroundings are likely to help him reach the limits of their intelligence
  3. 3.

    In the second paragraph “if we take two unrelated people at random from the population...” means “if we ____.”

    1. A.
      choose two persons who are relative
    2. B.
      take out two different persons
    3. C.
      choose two persons with different intelligence
    4. D.
      pick any two persons
  4. 4.

    The best title for this passage might be __________.        

    1. A.
      Birth and Environment
    2. B.
      Intelligence
    3. C.
      The Answer to a Question
    4. D.
      Intelligence and Education

I recently turned fifty,which is young for a tree,midlife for an elephant,and ancient for a sportsman.Fifty is a nice number for the states in the US or for a national speed limit,but it is not a number that I was prepared to have hung on me.Fifty is supposed to be my father’s age,but now I am stuck with this number and everything it means.
A few days ago,a friend tried to cheer me up by saying,“Fifty is what forty used to be.”He had made an inspirational point.Am I over the hill?People keep telling me that the hill has been moved,and I keep telling them that the high-jump bar has dropped from the six feet I once easily cleared to the four feet that is impossible for me now.
“You’re not getting older,you’re getting better,”says Dr.Joyce Brothers.This,however,is the kind of doctor who inspires a second opinion.
And so,as I approach the day when I cannot even jump over the tennis net,I am moved to share some thoughts on aging with you.I am moved to show how aging feels to me physically and mentally.Getting older,of course,is obviously a better change than the one that brings you eulogies(悼词).In fact,a poet named Robert Browning considered it the best change of all:
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be.
Whether or not Browning was right,most of my first fifty years have been golden ones,so I will settle for what is ahead being as good as what has gone by.I find myself moving toward what is ahead with a curious blend(混合)of both fighting and accepting my aging,hoping that the philosopher(哲学家)was right when he said.“Old is always fifteen years from now.”

  1. 1.

    The author seems to tell us in Paragraph 1 that         .

    1. A.
      time alone will tell
    2. B.
      time goes by quickly
    3. C.
      time will show what is right
    4. D.
      time makes one forget the past
  2. 2.

    When the author turned fifty,people around him         .

    1. A.
      tried to comfort him
    2. B.
      got inspirations from him
    3. C.
      were friendlier with him
    4. D.
      found him more talkative
  3. 3.

    The author considers his fifty years of life         .

    1. A.
      peaceful
    2. B.
      ordinary
    3. C.
      satisfactory
    4. D.
      regretful
  4. 4.

    We can infer from the passage that         .

    1. A.
      the old should lead a simple life
    2. B.
      the old should face the fact of aging
    3. C.
      the old should take more exercise
    4. D.
      the old should fill themselves with curiosity

After too long on the Net, even a phone call can be a shock. My boyfriend’s Liverpudlian accent suddenly becomes too difficult to understand after his clear words on screen; a secretary’s tone seems more rejecting than I’d imagined it would be. Time itself becomes fluid—hours become minutes, and alternately seconds stretch into days. Weekends, once a highlight of my week, are now just two ordinary days.
For the last three years, since I stopped working as a producer for Charlie Rose, I have done much of my work as a tele-commuter. I submit（提交） articles and edit them by E-mail and communicate with colleagues on Internet mailing lists. My boyfriend lives in England; so much of our relationship is computer-mediated.
If I desired, I could stay inside for weeks without wanting anything. I can order food, and manage my money, love and work. In fact, at times I have spent as long as three weeks alone at home, going out only to get mail and buy newspapers and groceries. I watched most of the blizzard(暴风雪) of ’96 on TV.
But after a while, life itself begins to feel unreal. I start to feel as though I’ve merged（融合） with my machines, taking data in, spitting them back out, just another node（波节） on the Net. Others on line report the same symptoms. We start to strongly dislike the outside forms of socializing. It’s like attending an A. A. meeting in a bar with everyone holding a half-sipped drink. We have become the Net opponents’ worst nightmare.
What first seemed like a luxury, crawling from bed to computer, not worrying about hair, and clothes and face, has become an avoidance（逃避），a lack of discipline. And once you start replacing real human contact with cyber interaction, coming back out of the cave can be quite difficult.
At times, I turn on the television and just leave it to chatter in the background, something that I’d never done previously. The voices of the programs relax me, but then I’m jarred by the commercials. I find myself sucked in by soap operas, or needing to keep up with the latest news and the weather. “Dateline”, “Frontline” , “Nightline,” CNN, every possible angle of every story over and over and over, even when they are of no possible use to me. Work moves from foreground to background.

  1. 1.

    Compared to the clear words of her boyfriend on screen, his accent becomes______.

    1. A.
      unreal
    2. B.
      unbearable
    3. C.
      misleading
    4. D.
      not understandable
  2. 2.

    The passage implies that the author and her boyfriend live in______.

    1. A.
      the same city
    2. B.
      the same country
    3. C.
      different countries
    4. D.
      different cities in England
  3. 3.

    What does the last paragraph mean?

    1. A.
      Having worked on the computer for too long, she became a bit strange.
    2. B.
      Sometimes TV programs give her comfort and even makes her forget her work.
    3. C.
      She watches TV a lot in order to keep up with the latest news and the weather.
    4. D.
      She turns on TV now and then in order to get some valuable information.
  4. 4.

    What is the author’s attitude to the computer?

    1. A.
      At first she likes it but later becomes tired of it.
    2. B.
      She likes it because it is very convenient.
    3. C.
      She dislikes it because TV is more attractive.
    4. D.
      She likes it because it provides an imaginary world.
  5. 5.

    The underlined phrase “coming back out of the cave” probably means______.

    1. A.
      going back to the dreaming world
    2. B.
      coming back home from the outside world
    3. C.
      bringing back direct human contact
    4. D.
      getting away from living a strange life

Against the supposition that forest fires in Alaska, Canada and Siberia warm the climate, scientists have discovered that cooling may occur in areas where burnt trees allow more snow to mirror more sunlight into space.
This finding suggests that taking steps to prevent northern forest fires to limit the release of greenhouse gases may warm the climate in northern regions. Usually large fires destroyed forests in these areas over the past decade. Scientists predict that with climate warming, fires may occur more frequently over the next several centuries as a result of a longer fire season. Sunlight taken in by the earth tends to cause warming, while heat mirrored back into space tends to cause cooling.
This is the first study to analyze all aspects of how northern fires influence climate. Earlier studies by other scientists have suggested that fire in northern regions speed up climate warming because greenhouse gases from burning trees and plants are released into the atmosphere and thus trap heat.
Scientists found that right after the fire, large amounts of greenhouse gases entered the atmosphere and caused warming. Ozone（臭氧） levels increased, and ash from the fire fell on far-off sea ice, darkening the surface and causing more radiation from the sun to be taken in. The following spring, however, the land within the area of the fire was brighter than before the fire, because fewer trees covered the ground. Snow on the ground mirrored more sunlight back into space, leading to cooling.
“We need to find out all possible ways to reduce the growth of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.” Scientists tracked the change in the amount of radiation entering and leaving the climate system as a result of the fire, and found a measurement closely related to the global air temperature. Typically, fire in northern regions occurs in the same area every 80 to 150 years. Scientists, however, found that when fire occurs more frequently, more radiation is lost from the earth and cooling results. Specifically, they determined when fire returns 20 years earlier than predicted, 0.5 watts per square meter of area burned are soaked up by the earth from greenhouse gases, but 0.9 watts per square meter will be sent back into space. The net effect is cooling. Watts are used to measure the rate at which energy is gained or lost from the earth.

  1. 1.

    According to the new findings, taking steps to prevent northern forest fires may __________.

    1. A.
      result in a warming climate
    2. B.
      cause the forest fires to occur more frequently
    3. C.
      lead to a longer fire season
    4. D.
      protect the forests and the environment there
  2. 2.

    The following are all the immediate effects after a forest fire EXCEPT __________.

    1. A.
      large amounts of greenhouse gases enter the atmosphere
    2. B.
      the levels of ozone which is a type of oxygen increase
    3. C.
      snow on the ground mirrors more sunlight back into space
    4. D.
      ashes from the fire fall on the ice surface and take in more radiation from the sun
  3. 3.

    Earlier studies about northern forest fires __________.

    1. A.
      analyze all aspects of how northern fires influence climate
    2. B.
      indicate that forest fires will pollute the atmosphere
    3. C.
      suggest that people should take measures to protect environment
    4. D.
      suggest that the fires will speed up climate warming
  4. 4.

    The underlined phrase “soak up” in the last paragraph most probably means __________.

    1. A.
      released
    2. B.
      absorbed
    3. C.
      created
    4. D.
      distributed
  5. 5.

    From the passage we can draw a conclusion that forest fires in Alaska, Canada and Siberia may __________.

    1. A.
      warm the climate as the supposition goes
    2. B.
      allow more snow to reflect more sunlight into space and thus cool the climate
    3. C.
      destroy large areas of forests and pollute the far-off sea ice
    4. D.
      help to gain more energy rather than release more energy

There is one difference between the sexes on which every expert and study agrees: men are more aggressive than women. It shows up in 2-year-olds. It continues through school days and persists into adulthood. It is even constant across cultures. And there is little doubt that it is rooted in biology.
If there's a woman’s trait(特点) which is the same as men’s aggressiveness, it's what social scientists refer to as the result of "education". Feminists have argued that the caring nature of women is not biological in origin, but rather has been forced into women by a society that wanted to keep them in the home. But the signs that it is at least partly inborn are too numerous to ignore. Just as tiny infant girls respond more readily to human faces, female toddlers(学步者) learn much faster than males how to pick up nonverbal cues（非言语暗示） from others. And grown women are far more skilful than men at interpreting facial expressions: A recent study by University of Pennsylvania brain researcher Ruben Gur showed that they easily read emotions such as anger, sadness and fear. The only such emotion men could pick up was disgust.
What difference do such differences make in the real world? Among other things, women appear to be somewhat less competitive--or at least competitive in different ways--than men. At the Harvard Law School, for instance, female students enter with qualities just as outstanding as those of their male peers. But they don' t qualify for the well-known Law Review in proper numbers, a fact some school officials owe to women' s discomfort in the incredibly competitive atmosphere.
Students of management styles have found fewer differences than they expected between men and women who reach leadership positions, perhaps because many successful women deliberately imitate men. But an analysis by Purdue social psychologist Alice Eagly of 166 studies of leadership style did find one difference: Men tend to be more “autocratic”-making decisions on their own--while women tend to consult colleagues more often.  Studies of behavior in small groups turn up even more differences. Men will typically dominate the discussion, says University of Toronto psychologist Kenneth Dion, spending more time talking and less time listening.

  1. 1.

    The passage mainly discusses__________.
              

    1. A.
      how sex differences are demonstrated in social relations
    2. B.
      how hormone determines sex differences
    3. C.
      why there are differences between males and females
    4. D.
      why men and women have different social roles
  2. 2.

    Which of the following is true of women's nurturing nature according to the passage?

    1. A.
      It is not inborn in any sense.
    2. B.
      It is inspired by women’s families.
    3. C.
      It is caused by social prejudice.
    4. D.
      It is partly biological in origin.
  3. 3.

    The Harvard Law School example in paragraph 3 suggests that_________.

    1. A.
      women are not as competitive as men
    2. B.
      law is not the fight profession for women
    3. C.
      women are as excellent as men when they are young
    4. D.
      academic qualities are not equal to performance
  4. 4.

    Which of the following statement is true according to paragraph 4?

    1. A.
      Men leaders should consult colleagues and subordinates more often.
    2. B.
      Female leaders' success is due to their imitating male leaders.
    3. C.
      Men and women are different in their leadership style.
    4. D.
      Decisiveness is an important quality for a successful politician.
  5. 5.

    It can be inferred from the passage that the writer_________.

    1. A.
      denies the difference sexes make in real life
    2. B.
      is prejudiced against men
    3. C.
      discourages women to be competitive
    4. D.
      treats sex difference objectively

----When will they come back? 

----I _____ don’t know.


  1. A.
    simply
  2. B.
    hopefully
  3. C.
    happen
  4. D.
    as well

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