Listening

Part 1

Dawn talks about her job .

1.Listen to the tape and answer the following questions.

1)Which country do you think she works in?

2)What work is she doing right now?

3)What work is doing in the building?

2.Which of the following sentences are true(T)and which are false( F)?

1)Our fish farm is a short way from the nearest market .

(  )

2)When the fish are big enough, we put them in cages in the sea.

(  )

3)We have a new machine for smoking the fish.

(  )

4)They get higher prices for their smoked fish.

(  )

3.Listen to the tape again and complete the sentence.

When the ________ have grown to the right size, we ________ them, them, freeze(冷冻)them or ________ them.

Part 2

Listen to the passage and fill in the gaps.

China is a large country of agriculture. As you know, there are more than 800 million 1 in China. China started to 2 the science of agriculture much earlier 3 other countries in the world. 4 the people in Europe and America were trying to 5 wild animals and birds for food, farmers in China were 6 the science of agriculture. For example, Jia Sixie, 7 lived in the Northern Wei period (386~534AD), 8 one of the farming pioneers. After he finished his work in the government, he 9 home and spent his time on research into agriculture . He 10 information, did experiments and learnt 11 the experiences of farmers. He wrote a book called Qi Min Yao Shu. The book, 12 has 110,000 characters, is about both farming and gardening. This book is 13 to be an important summary of the knowledge of farming.

Part 3

A guide is showing the milu deer at the research centre in Beijing' to two foreign visitors .

1.Listen to the tape and write down the information.

1)Number of milu deer in the world :________.

2)Height(高度): ________.

3)Difference between males(公的)and females(母的):

A.Males ________.

B.Females ________.

4). Weight ________.

5). Diet ________.

6). What do they look like? ________.

2.Complete these sentences.

1)This kind of deer ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ parks and zoos.

2)Very difficult! They can ________ you from ________ ________ ________ away.

3)How can you ________ the ________ ________ a milu deer and other deer?

    Tony Wrench and his wife Faith, wearing the traditional woolly jacket, have set up their home in the shadows of Preseli Mountains.

    They built the house in the winter of 1997 with the dream of living what they call“low-impact lives”. Their dream is to get close to nature, have little pollution and prove they can change the world. But their action was stopped almost a year later by the local government. Eventually, a new rule about environment protection was brought and the government encouraged the couple to carry on their “low-impact lives”.

    The completed house is built around a frame of 200 firs(冷杉木)and made entirely of natural materials, in a style that is part-native American, part-ancient Celt. Mr. Wrench said this house was more like a sort of large basket.  The most expensive part of the building was the rubber (橡胶 ) pond-liner for the roof at £650—all in it cost a grand total of£3, 000, the labor being supplied by the couple and a few good friends. The idea is to try to make the most of the natural resources around them, reducing their impact as much as possible on the environment.

    Electricity is generated from three solar panels on the roof and a small windmill. Food is mostly home-grown (自产的) and they even make their own wine from a vine(藤)on the roof. Drinking water comes from the mountain stream and hot water is more or less on-tap through a back-boiler system fixed up to the back of the fire by the old whisky barrel(桶).

    Waste is dealt with by being rotted, which in turn provides fertilizer for the corns and vegetables etc. . They are by no means tired of life; on the contrary they like it. Mr. Wrench in particular likes nothing better than a nice hot bath. They wait for enough wind to charge the laptop so they can watch a DVD in the evening.

    Their life is not a challenge of existence; they say—just an attempt to keep their footsteps on the planet as light as possible.

55. What can we know from the passage?

A. Mr. Wrench planned to run a wine factory when he was young.

B. Mr. Wrench and Faith love their house and have been in it for twenty years.

C. Mr. Wrench and Faith’s behavior once was forbidden by the local government.

D. Mr. Wrench and Faith can’t watch TV in their house because there’s no electricity.

56. From the text we learn that the couple’s house______.

A. cost them 3, 650 pounds in all

B. is only made of about 200 firs

C. is not strong enough to resist the wind

D. was built by them and some of their friends

57. The food that the couple eat is mostly______.

A. produced by themselves

B. bought from a supermarket

C. offered by the government

D. grown on the roof of their house

58. According to the passage, the waste is______.

A. dealt with to help crops grow better

B. thrown away

C. buried deeply

D. sold to other farmers

阅读理解。
                                                  Yuan Longping, China's Most Famous"Farmer"
     It says every scientist cherishes a childhood dream indicating his or her future success, but for Yuan
Longping, dubbed (授予称号) as "father of hybrid rice", the dream is that he cultivates rice as plump as peanuts, and farmers can relax in the cool shadow of big rice plants.
     Yuan,71,won a 5 million yuan State Supreme Science and Technology Award today, known as the Nobel
Prize in China, for his outstanding achievements in breeding high yield-Hybrid rice, which has substantially
increased China's grain output.
     Yuan came up with the idea of hybridizing rice for the first time in the world in 1960s.Since then,50
percent of China's total rice cultivation fields have grown such rice, which added some 300 billion kilograms to
the country's grain output.
      Furrows (皱纹) grown on his sunburnt face, a slim figure and coiled-up trousers legs would confuse
foreign reporters who came to interview the most famous scientist in China, who would rather be called "a
farmer". Indeed, like many Chinese farmers, Yuan in his 70s and has devoted most of his life growing rice in
paddy fields, but unlike those farmers, he reaps the seed from experimental fields only for hybridizing rice.
     The urbanite-turned-farmer graduated from Southwest Agriculture College in 1953 has his name related to
the world's most advanced agricultural technology. Four minor planets, a listed seed company's and a science
college in China were named after him, which were the first time that a Chinese scientist's name is valued for its intellectual assets.
     By lending his name to the Longping High-tech, a seed company, Yuan obtained a 5 per cent stake, or 2.5
million shares worth 2 million yuan, in the firm. However, Yuan said his research requires the lifestyle of a
farmer, or rather a migrating farmer, as he has conducted extensive research related to the cultivation of new
strains of hybrid rice"Super Hybrid Rice" in some 10 provinces.
     In the year 1999,more than 300 billion kilograms of grain were increased from about 240 million hectares
(公顷) of hybrid rice, which signified the success of his research. And this made Yuan firmly believe that
China can surely feed her 1.2 billion population with her limited cultivated land.
     The "Super Rice" yields are 30 percent higher than those of common rice. The record yield of 17 055
kilograms per hectare was registered in Yongsheng County in Yunnan in 1999.But even after that achievement
Yuan won't take a break. He has a dream, more realistic than that of his young age, that popularizing new
strains of grain with higher yields around the world, can eliminate starvation on earth.
      The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has vowed to get involved in the work of spreading the
coverage of Yuan's high-yield hybrid rice, which it considers the best way to increase the world's grain output.
     The FAO's 1991 statistics show that 20 percent of the world's rice output was yielded from 10 percent of
the world's rice fields, which grow hybrid rice."If the new strain was sown in the rest of the rice acreage, the
present grain output around the world can be more than doubled. This can be a solution to the grain shortage,"
the unselfish scientist.
     In 1980,Yuan went to the United States at the invitation of the International Rice Research Institute to share
his knowledge about the cultivation technology of hybrid rice. He was also employed in 1991 as the chief
consultant of FAO to bring his research methods to other countries. With the help of Chinese scientists, the
acreage (面积) of hybrid rice in Viet Nam and India increased to 200 000 hectares and 150 000 hectares in
1999, respectively.
     The rice research costs time to prove its value. At the age of 43,Yuan cultivated the world's first hybrid
rice. At that time the country's grain yield was about 4500 kilogram per hectare."The natural disaster and policy miscarriage further deteriorated starvation in China by then," Yuan recalled tearfully.
     This is his motivation to stimulate his research. Largely due to his scientific progress, China's total rice
output rose from 5.69 billion tons in 1950 to 19.47 billion tons last year. The growth rate of rice output far
exceeded the population growth speed.
     Some people estimate Yuan's actual fortune might amount to more than 100 million ?yuan? (12 million
U.S.dollars),making him one of the richest people in China. But he doesn't know for sure himself, for he seems
not to care about his own assets than the rice harvest. Some people asked him to move the focus of his
research from improving amounts of hybrid rice to the quality and taste, which would be easier to do. But, the
stubborn academician (学者) insisted that the amount of hybrid rice's per unit yield still outweighs the quality,
for his foremost task is to improve the grain reserve in developing countries.

YUAN LONGPING
【个性思考】 Why do you think Yuan Longping can achieve so much?   
  In my view___________________________________________________________________________ .

Vincent Van Gogh was an important painter of the 19th century. He was born in Holland, but he lived much of his life in France. He was a very emotional man, and there was much suffering in his life. His style of painting was very different from classical art. He painted pictures of sunny, hot regions of France. He looked for interesting shapes and exciting colours. He liked to work freely and quickly.

There is a fast movement in many of his paintings. Sometimes the trees look like fire. The sun, the moon, and stars move rapidly in the sky. He also painted pictures of people.

Like his life, his art was always unusual and very emotional.

Paul Gauguin was another 19-century painter. He was French and a friend of Van Gogh. Before he became an artist, Gauguin had been a businessman for many years. He made a lot of money, and he likes to buy modern paintings.

At the age of 354, Gauguin decided to become a painter himself. Gauguin wanted to discover more important things about man. He went to a different part of France to live with the farmers. He painted pictures of French country people there. Two years later he went to live in a small place in the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from France. He wanted to learn about the simple life there. His most famous and interesting paintings were painted at that time.

 

41. Van Gogh’s style of painting was ____.

   A. similar to classical art                     B. different from classical art

   C. better than classical art                   D. worse than classical art

42. What kind of person was Van Gogh?

   A. emotional        B. classical         C. modern        D. happy

43. Paul Gauguin became a painter _____.

   A. all his life                                      B. at the age of thirty-five      

   C. at the age of nineteen                     D. at an early age

44. How long did Gauguin live with the French farmers?

   A. Two years      B. Thirty-five     C. All his life      D. We can’t find it from the passage

45. Gauguin painted many pictures of ____.

   A. country people     B. the sun     C. trees              D. landscape

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