The Voice of America began during the World War Ⅱ. When Germany was broadcasting a radio program to get international   36 , American officials believed they should   37   the German broadcast with words that they thought were the facts of world events. The first VOA news report began with words in  38  . “The   39  may be good or bad, but we shall tell you the truth.” Within a week, other VOA   40_   were broadcasting in Italian, French and English.

After the World War Ⅱended in 1945, some Americans felt VOA’s   _41  had to be changed, _42  the Soviet Union became enemy of America. They wanted to  43  Soviet listeners. Then VOA began broadcasting in Russian.

In the early years VOA began adding something new to its broadcast that was  44  “ Music USA”. Another new idea came along in 1959.VOA knew that many listeners did not know  45   English to completely understand its   46   English broadcast. So VOA  _ 47       a simpler kind of English,   48   uses about 1,500 words and is spoken   49   of course, it is special English.

In the  50   of most VOA listeners, the most  51   program is the news report. News from around the world  52   into the VOA news rooms in Washington 24 hours a day. It comes from VOA reporters in      53   cities and also from other   54   like BBC.VOA writers and editors use these materials to  55  news reports, which are being broadcast in 43 languages.

36.A.business  

B.culture    

C.support       

D.information

37.A.reply     

B.answer    

C.join         

D.interrupt

38.A.same     

B.short      

C.English      

D.German

39.A.news     

B.problems   

C.effects       

D.opinions

40.A.stations   

B.news       

C.announcers   

D.officials

41.A.home     

B.position    

C.purpose      

D.results

42.A.if        

B.supposing   

C.considering   

D.in order that

43.A.reach     

B.satisfy    

C.attack       

D.support

44.A.known    

B.reported   

C.called       

D.printed

45.A.American  

B.British    

C.standard     

D.enough

46.A.normal    

B.fast       

C.good        

D.exact

47.A.invented   

B.discovered 

C.taught        

D.stopped

48.A.it          

B.who      

C.which        

D.that

49.A.slowly     

B.rapidly  

C.normally       

D.loudly

50.A.pleasure   

B.course    

C.opinion        

D.advice

51.A.difficult   

B.important 

C.various       

D.common

52.A.flies      

B.sends    

C.delivers       

D.pasts

53.A.all        

B.major    

C.American    

D.news

54.A.broadcasts  

B.forms     

C.newspapers   

D.countries

55.A.broadcast   

B.announce   

C.translate       

D.prepare

 

Seven loyal readers came to the Teens’ office two weeks ago. They had a wonderful day learning how to make a newspaper. But what   41   made them excited was that they had their say.

“What most impressed me was   42   I was saying something, I found all eyes were   43  me,” said Tang Shining, one of the students. Her friend, Li Chunbei agreed, and felt very glad that when she was talking, the editors nodded and even   44   notes.

Students were happy to see the editors listen to their   45  . You may often   46   about being neglected (忽略) by teachers and parents.   47   before complaining, please make sure that you have already spoken about your   48  .

Traditionally in China, teachers at school and parents were   49   the ones to tell teenagers what they should and shouldn’t do. The young are   50   to doing what they are told, rather than thinking by themselves. But then their ideas would be locked in their brain and not be   51  .

A girl wrote to Teens about her family story. She   52   to be very sad because her father seldom talked and played with her. After years of consideration, she   53   decided to write her father a letter, telling him about her sadness. To her   54  , the father   55  , saying that he didn’t realize his mistakes. From then on, he really   56  .

Sometimes, we need to let our   57   be heard, so others can understand our thoughts and feelings.

Don’t be afraid of being   58   for what you have done. You know it is your   59   to speak your mind. Even if your suggestions are denied (否定), at least you have tried your best. You will not be left with any   60  .

 

41. A. really

B. directly

C. completely

D. immediately

42. A. how

B. when

C. where

D. what

43. A. at

B. for

C. on

D. in

44. A. read

B. saw

C. copied

D. took

45. A. opinions

B. speeches

C. songs

D. articles

46. A. talk

B. complain

C. write

D. speak

47. A. And

B. So

C. But

D. Instead

48. A. pleasure

B. love

C. imagination

D. worry

49. A. seldom

B. never

C. always

D. sometimes

50. A. used

B. reduced

C. devoted

D. told

51. A. remember

B. used

C. touched

D. heard

52. A. used

B. pretended

C. seemed

D. had

53. A. sadly

B. suddenly

C. angrily

D. finally

54. A. sorrow

B. disappointment

C. surprise

D. joy

55. A. apologized

B. smiled

C. laughed

D. sighed

56. A. exchanged

B. changed

C. left

D. played

57. A. voices

B. decisions

C. suggestions

D. secrets

58. A. punished

B. blamed

C. beaten

D. fined

59. A. duty

B. task

C. right

D. pleasure

60. A. regret

B. sadness

C. trouble

D. difficulty

Nature responds to climate change. To understand it, we need to monitor key life cycle events-flowering, the appearance of leaves the first frog calls of the spring-all around the world. But scientists can’t be everywhere so they’re turning to non-scientists, sometimes called citizen scientists, for help.

A group of scientists and educators launched (发起) an organization last year called the National Phenology Network. “Phenology” is what scientists call the study of the timing of events in nature.

One of the group’s first efforts depends on scientists and non-scientists alike to collect data about plant flowering and leafing every year. The program, called Project BudBurst, collects life cycle data on different kinds of common plants from across the United States.

“People don ’t have to be plant experts-they just have to look around and see what’s in their neighbourhood,”says Jennifer Schwartz, an adviser with the project, “As we collect this data, we’ll be able to predict how plants and communities of plants and animals will respond as the climate changes.”

That data will help scientists predict not only how natural communities may change but also how these changes will affect people.

Scientists monitoring lilac (丁香) flowering in the western United States reported that in years when lilacs bloomed early before May 20th-wildfires later in the summer and fall are larger and more severe. Lilac blooming could serve as an alarm bell, Jennifer says.

Improved monitoring is an important step toward predicting how natural communities will respond to climate change.

“The best way for us to increase our knowledge of how plants and animals are responding to climate change is to increase the amount of data we have,” he says. “That ’s why we need citizen scientists to get as much information from as many places on as many species over as long a time period as we can.”

 

69. The National Phenology Network is launched to                .

A. research how nature makes response to climate change

B. keep a record of what is happening in nature

C. make a study of the first frog calls of the spring

D. judge what plants will die out in the future

70. The task of Project BudBurst is to                .

A. grow more plants to improve the climate

B. collect information about common plants

C. made citizens tell different plants

D. find out how many kinds of plants there are in America

71. By saying “Lilac blooming could serve as an alarm bell”, Jennifer meant             .

A. lilac flowers could made people feel anxious or afraid

B. lilacs could warn people of the danger of wildlife

C. the blooming of lilacs could predict the happening of wildfires

D. the flowers of lilacs could be used to wake people up

72. The main idea of this passage is              .

A. why we need to collect data about nature

B. when an alarm bell sounds for nature

C. what citizen scientists are in America

D. how nature responds to climate change

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