题目内容
对话填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
Jack-J; Laura-L
J: I’d like to mail this box to Hong Kong. How much will it be, please?
L: Do you want to send it first class or second class?
J: How much is first class and how (76)l does it take?
L: It’s a light box. First class would cost $ 8.20. I(77)g it
will take about eight to ten days to arrive.
J: And second class?
L: Sending it second class would be (78) c ,
but it wouldn’t arrive (79)u about a month from now. You’ll pay $ 4.90 only.
J: Oh, I want it to arrive (80)e than that. I’ll mail it first class.
L: What’s in the box? I need to know in order to(81) c the form.
J:A(82)s of glasses.
Are there any other forms I need to fill out because it’s going to a foreign country?
L: Yes , one more. You have to write clearly what is in the box and the (83) v
J: Here it is.
L: You forgot to put a return address on this box. It’s not a post office rule,
but we usually (84)a people that all mail have a proper return address.
J: OK. I’ll do it right now. I’ll also buy ten 60-cent stamps.
L: Let’s see. The box and the stamps. Your (85)t bill comes to $ 14.20.
J: Thank you.
A new study shows one of the largest glaciers① in Greenland is becoming smaller and speeding to the sea faster than scientists expected. If it continues, Greenland itself could become much smaller during this century and global seas could rise as much as 3 feet.
The rates② of change that we’re noticing are much higher than expected. If these rates continue, it is not unlikely that Greenland could shrink③ by several tens of percent this century. However, it’s not known how quickly this coastal response of the Greenland ice sheet melting will have an effect on the vast inland ice.
Greenland is the world’s largest island, covering an area more than three times the size of Texas. Some 81 percent of it is covered by ice, and there are many glaciers. Glaciers are like slow-moving rivers of ice. Where a glacier meets the sea, its weight keeps it firmly resting on the bottom. A glacier’s front is the point where the water is deep enough that the glacier floats.
Since the 1970s, the front of Helheim stayed in the same place. Then it began melting rapidly, moving back 4.5 miles from 2001 through this past summer. It has also grown thinner, from top to bottom, by more than 130 feet since 2001. And over these past four years, its trip to the sea has sped up from about 70 feet per day to nearly 110.
The melting is driven by a warmer climate. Temperatures in Greenland have risen more than five degrees Fahrenheit in the last decade. Since most of Greenland’s ice is on land, seas will rise as the ice melts. If all Greenland’s ice sheet melted, oceans would be 15-20 feet higher. Nobody expects that to happen anytime soon.
Notes:
① glacier n. 冰川
② rate n. 比率
③ shrink v. 缩小
1. Which of the following about the glaciers is TRUE?
A. Glaciers only lie in Greenland. B. Water in glaciers is more than sea water.
C. Glaciers sometimes float on the water. D. Glaciers can increase the water level of lakes.
2. According to the text, we know that Greenland ______.
A. belongs to Canada B. is the largest island in North America
C. is all covered with glaciers D. is sinking under the sea level
3. Which of the following may be the result of the disappearing of Greenland glaciers?
A. the climate of the world will be warmer.
B. the glaciers in other area will be bigger.
C. It will be easy for explorers to visit the island.
D. Some coastal cities may be under the sea.
It’s not only rocket scientists and journalists who are following the course of “Shenzhou V”,or “Divine ship/vessel V”.There are also lexicographers,or dictionary compilers.The flight of the Spacecraft last week might help put some new words into orbit.?
One of them is a western media coinage used to refer to the Chinese astronauts.It s a combination of the Chinese pinyin “taikong”,meaning space,and the English “astronaut”,from classical Greek:“star sailor/navigator”,for people who was going into space as a career.
In the Reuters and AP reports of October 15,“taikonaut” was used as a proper noun.For example:The long March 2F rocket carrying “taikonaut” Yang Liwei lifted off into a clear blue sky over the Gobi desert at 9 am and entered its orbit 10 minutes later.?
A Long March 2F rocket called the Shenzhou V—“divine ship” in Chinese—carried a single “taikonaut” named Yang Liwei,38,following Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and American Alan Shepard in 1961.?
The word “taikonaut” is not a newly coined term.It first emerged in November,1999,when China launched its first unmanned “Shenzhou Ⅰ” spacecraft.?
At that lime,some English news media predicted that China would soon launch a manned space flight and created the word “taikonaut” for the Chinese astronauts.It was then borrowed by the Germans media.?
But it was left out of mainstream dictionaries,such as the Merriam—Webster Dictionary and Cambridge Advanced English ?
Learner’s Dictionary.?
However,the launch of the “Shenzhou V” will most likely help boost its status since there is already a word referring specifically to Russian astronauts in the dictionary entry.?
An astronaut of Russian (or the former Soviet Union)is called a “cosmonaut”,from the Russian “kosmonaut”.The word was derived from classical Greek:“kosmonaut” (universal)and “nautes”.One might argue that “cosmonaut” is a Russian variation on the earlier word “astronaut”.
On March 14,1995,US astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to ride into space on-board a Russian launch vehicle,arguably making him the first American cosmonaut.?
And if this trend of coinage continues,more English variations for astronaut will appear as more countries are able to send their own astronauts into outer space,what would Western journalists call an astronaut from India or Africa we’ll have to wait to see.?
66.Give the best title of the passage.(within 10 words)?
解析:主旨大意题。本文主要介绍了因为中国载人航天事业的发展而派生的一个新英语词汇“taikonaut”的由来。?
阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示; 2)首字母提示；3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词。所填单词要求意义准确、拼写正确。
There’s no doubt that the mobile phone plays a vital role in modern life.
It s 1. the distance between people by making it more convenient for us to keep in touch with our friends. However, are you 2. (意识到) that it can also b 3. us embarrassment and trouble? For example, it’s not unusual to notice someone shouting __4.____(喧哗吵闹) on the phone in public as if no one else was p 5. . As a matter of fact, everyone has undergone some similar experiences in ____6.__ the mobile phone just keeps r 7. over and over again on buses or at the cinema. While there are v 8. reasons for people to have their phones working all the time, it’s bad m 9. to interrupt others. So please shut off your mobile phones _10.___ a quiet or serious occasion. It’s a respect for others.
J: How much is first class and how (76)l does it take? 1.
L: It’s a light box. First class would cost $ 8.20. I(77)g it 2.
L: Sending it second class would be (78) c , 3.
but it wouldn’t arrive (79)u about a month from now. You’ll pay $ 4.90 only.4.
J: Oh, I want it to arrive (80)e than that. I’ll mail it first class. 5.
L: What’s in the box? I need to know in order to(81) c the form. 6.
J:A(82)s of glasses. 7.
L: Yes , one more. You have to write clearly what is in the box and the (83) v 8.
but we usually (84)a people that all mail have a proper return address. 9.
L: Let’s see. The box and the stamps. Your (85)t bill comes to $ 14.20. 10.
