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    Jackie Heinricher's love affair with bamboo started in her backyard. "As a child, I remember playing
among the golden bamboo my dad had planted, and when there was a slight wind, the bamboos sounded
really musical."
     A fisheries biologist, Heinricher, 47, planned to work in the salmon industry in Seattle, where she lived with her husband, Guy Thornburgh, but she found it too competitive. Then her garden gave her the idea
for a business: She'd planted 20 bamboo forests on their sevenacre farm.
     Heinricher started BooShoot Gardens in 1998. She realized early on what is just now beginning to be
known to the rest of the world. It can be used to make fishing poles, skateboards, buildings, furniture,
floors, and even clothing. An added bonus: Bamboo absorbs four times as much carbon dioxide as a
group of hardwood trees and releases 35 percent more oxygen.
     First she had to find a way to massproduce the plants-a tough task, since bamboo flowers create seed only once every 50 to 100 years. And dividing a bamboo plant frequently kills it.
     Heinricher appealed to Randy Burr, a tissue culture expert, to help her."People kept telling us we'd
never figure it out," says Heinricher."Others had worked on it for 27 years! I believed in what we were
doing, though, so I just kept going."
     She was right to feel a sense of urgency. Bamboo forests are being rapidly used up, and a United
Nations report showed that even though bamboo is highly renewable,_as many as half of the world's
species are threatened with dying out.Heinricher knew that bamboo could make a significant impact on
carbon emissions(排放)and world economies, but only if huge numbers could be produced. And that's
just what she and Burr figured out after nine years of experiments-a way to grow millions of plants. By
placing cuttings in test tubes with salts, vitamins, plant hormones, and seaweed gel, they got the plants to
grow and then raised them in soil in greenhouses.
     Not long after it, Burr's lab hit financial difficulties. Heinricher had no experience running a tissue
culture operation, but she wasn't prepared to quit. So she bought the lab.
     Today Heinricher heads up a profitable multimilliondollar company, working on species from all over
the world and selling them to wholesalers(批发商). "If you want to farm bamboo, it's hard to do without
the young plants, and that's what we have," she says proudly.

1. What was the main problem with planting bamboo widely?

A. They didn't have enough young bamboo.
B. They were short of money and experience.
C. They didn't have a big enough farm to do it.
D. They were not understood by other people.

2. What does Heinricher think of bamboo?

A. Fragile and affordable.
B. Productive and flexible.
C. Useful and earthfriendly.
D. Strong and profitable.

3. The underlined word "renewable" in Paragraph 6 probably means "________".

A. able to be replaced naturally
B. able to be raised difficultly
C. able to be shaped easily
D. able to be recycled conveniently

4. What do you learn from the passage?

A. Heinricher's love for bamboo led to her experiments in the lab.
B. Heinricher's determination helped her to succeed in her work.
C. Heinricher struggled to prevent bamboo from disappearing.
D. Heinricher finally succeeded in realizing her childhood dream.

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  Tom, Mike and Jack once lost their way in a forest. They came to a farmer's house and asked if they could stay in the house for the night.

  “Sure,”the farmer said“but I have room for only two of you in the house. The other one will have to sleep in the barn(马厩), with the animals. I'm afraid the smell is very bad out there.”

  “I'll sleep in the barn,”Tom said.

  But half an hour later a knock was heard on the house door, and there stood Tom, “I can't take the smell.”

  “All right,” said Mike“I'll sleep in the barn.” So he went off to the barn.

  In a while there was another knock on the door, “I can't take the smell, either.”

  “You two fools,” said Jack“I'll sleep in the barn.”

  Thirty minutes later came another knock. When they opened the door, they saw all the animals from the barn.

1.What did they do when they found they had lost their way?

[  ]

A.They stopped to have a good rest.

B.They came to a house and begged to be put up for the night.

C.They decided to help the farmer take care of his animals.

D.They made up their minds to get out of the forest before dawn.

2.What did the farmer do?

[  ]

A.He was too frightened to open the door.

B.He told them how to get out of the forest.

C.He promised to put them up for the night.

D.He went to his friend's to make room for them.

3.One of the boys had to sleep in the barn because ________

[  ]

A.he was very dirty.

B.he made a loud noise when he slept.

C.there wasn't enough room in the house.

D.there was only one room in the house.

4.Who was the first to go to the barn to sleep?

[  ]

A.Tom
B.Jack
C.Mike
D.The farmer

5.All the animals were at the door because ________.

[  ]

A.the farmer drove them out.

B.they wanted to go into the warm house.

C.Tom and Mike led them out.

D.Jack drove them out.


第三部分:阅读理解(共20小题,每小题2分,共40分)。
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PLACE: The Jazz Club   DATES:15—23 June
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TEL: 4668736
 
Scottish dancing is nice and easy to learn. The wonderful dance from England will be given.
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PRICE: RMB150     TIME: 7--10 p.m.
TEL: 4021877
 
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There are 12, 000 pieces on the show here. You can see the whole of Chinese history.
PLACE: Anhui Museum         DATES:30Mar.—30 June
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TEL: 4886888
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Your pen friend is coming from Australia to your city for a holiday. You send him this E-mail to tell his something about the hotels.
 
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C. 7 a.m. at the weekends    D. 7 p.m. every day
3. You can enjoy _____ at Jack Stein’s.
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第三部分 阅读理解(共25小题:第一节每小题2分第二节每小题1分,满分45分)

第一节: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,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

One day Mrs. Perry said to her husband, “Jack, there is a meeting of our ladies’ club at Mrs. Young’s house at lunch time today. And I want to go to it. I’ll leave you some food for your lunch. Is that all right?”

“Oh, yes,” her husband answered, “that’s quite all right. What are you going to leave for my lunch?”

“This tin of fish.” Mrs. Perry said. “And there are some cold boiled potatoes and some beans here, too.”

“Good,” Mr. Perry answered. “I’ll have a good lunch.”

So Mrs. Perry went to her meeting. All the ladies had lunch at Mrs. Young’s house , and at three o’clock she came home.

“Was your fish nice?” she asked.

“Yes, but my feet are hurting,” he answered.

“Why are they hurting?”

“Well, the words on the tin were ‘Open the tin and stand in hot water for five minutes.’”

41.Mrs. Perry left home some food for Jack’s lunch because     .

A.she didn’t cooking   B.Jack knew nothing about cooking

C.she wanted Jack to have a good time      D.she wanted to go to the meeting very much

42.Which of the following is not true?

A.Mrs. Perry arrived at Mrs. Young’s before lunch

B.Mr. Perry had a good lunch

C.Mrs. Perry wanted to test her husband

D.Mr. Perry liked fish

43.Jack had his feet hurt     .

A.when he was opening the tin   B.when he was helping himself to the fish

C.before he opened the tin  D.after he opened the tin

44.“Open the tin and stand in hot water for five minutes” means     .

A.you should open the tin and stand in hot water for 5 minutes

B.you should open the tin but not stand in hot water for 5 minutes

C.you should not open the tin but stand in hot water for 5 minutes

D.you should open the tin and let it stand in hot water for 5 minutes

 

第三部分阅读技能 (共三节,满分35分)

阅读理解(共12小题;每小题1.5分,满分18分)

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

TEENAGERS lead an exciting life in high school, making friends and dreaming about the future. However, as all young people know, teenagers have plenty of worries too.

Do you know what British teenagers worry about most? A survey by the UK's Department of Health shows that the top worries are losing weight (减肥) and fitting in (适应). Over 100,000 teenagers took part in the research.

Losing weight is a big concern among teenagers. This may be an effect of famous people with perfect bodies around them.

Adolescence is a physically and emotionally difficult time. Teenagers want to feel good about their bodies.

It's also important for them to be accepted. Many teenagers were picked on (作弄) in high school. “Who should I eat lunch with?” “Who should I hang out with?” “Will I be accepted?” These questions are troubling many UK teenagers, according to the survey.

It's interesting to see that family background has an effect on teenagers' worries. Teenagers from low-income families worried more about losing weight and bullying (欺凌弱小). Teenagers from higher income families were more likely to worry about fitting in and peer pressure (同辈压力).

49  According to the survey, British teenagers are most worried about ______.

A. fitting in and making money                      B. finding jobs and making friends

C. losing weight and being accepted                   D. making money and losing weight.

50.   Many teenagers are concerned about losing weight because ______.

A. they see thin famous people                              B. they care a lot about health

C. they don't have much money                                       D. they face problems in life

51.   The word “adolescence” in the fourth paragraph means ______.

A.幼儿期                          B.青春期                           C.青年期             D.老年期

52.   Suppose Jack is from a poor family; what do you think he may worry more about?

A. fitting in and losing weight                                B. fitting in and peer pressure

C. losing weight and bullying                                  D. losing weight and peer pressure

 

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